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April 29, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 29, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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You know this Hillary Clinton business, we've we've joked about it today, but she's got this.
She's got this card.
You know, Trump's out there accusing her of playing the uh the women card.
Like some people play the race card, she plays the women card.
And what he means by that is whenever she gets trouble, she's I'm just the damsel in distress.
I'm just your average American woman being abused and made fun of and mistreated by the patriarchal male society of America.
That's what playing the woman card means.
So Hillary and her crew decided to have a little fun with that, and they produced a credit card-sized card, that's a little pink thing that says official woman's card, and they're not selling them for a dollar.
It's a it's a quasi fundraising effort, probably just a make you know, break-even effort on it, actually.
But here's I've been thinking about it.
I've been watching and studying, which I always do, I continue to.
I've been studying the reaction of millennial aged women on cable news shows all day.
And whenever they have these millennial women on, they're also on with uh women from the Hillary camp who are of Hillary's generation.
And it's remarkable the difference.
All of these women that are Hillary's age, her generation, that have her basic uh style, uh you know, the various things about their appearance that are in common, that's as far as I'm gonna go.
They have a definite feminist attitude about these cards as though they are the most brilliant thing that ever done, and they're a slam dunk, and that women are gonna love this because these Hillary-aged women from her campaign and and elsewhere,
all have this monolithic view of women as it relates to to feminism, and they all believe that every woman that matters is just like them.
Old uh not taken seriously, used, taken advantage of whatever feminists think of men.
They're brutes, they are predators, whatever it is.
They believe that all women have basically come to accept that definition of what life is like as a woman today.
But these young women, these millennial-age women, some of them are Trump supporters, some of them are cruise supports, some of them are not, some of them are just uh news babes.
And I tell you, when you when you're looking at these 30 and 35 of maybe even younger women, they are they're laughing at this card like it's the most ridiculous thing they've ever seen.
And and to every one of them has said that it embarrasses them that anybody thinks that they would want one of these cards, because they don't all agree on everything.
They don't think alike, and they don't they don't like being typecast as monolithic in their thinking when it comes to uh female and feminist issues.
And it has it's just another thing that than I am I'm recording here in my in my mind, putting it away for a rainy day.
Uh all these assumptions that certain people in the media of a certain age are making about Hillary Clinton and her invincibility.
And particularly when it comes to women.
I think they're they're wrong in their application of this, and I think they're taking a whole lot for granted.
I think they are they're so uh self-focused, the Hillary-age women and Hillary are so self-focused, so self-oriented and so monolithic themselves in their own cohort, that there's a little bit of arrogance too, and they are just not aware.
I mean, I really think they're out of touch.
I think that they're out of touch with younger women.
I maybe it's not the best analogy, but here's one analogy I can make.
The Republicans slash Newt Gingrich conservatives win the House in 1994, first time in 40 years.
And they made the mistake of assuming that the whole country had gone conservative, and that's why they won.
And so they began to act as though they were in the majority, which meant they didn't have to explain anything that they were doing, because everybody had already given it stamp of approval by voting for them.
When in fact, that's not why they were elected primarily.
They were elected primarily because people were fed up with Democrat scandals, wanted a change, they liked the contract with America, but it wasn't solely an embrace of conservatism.
And I think in the same token, Hillary and her band here of the Madeline Albright types.
You know who these women are.
Uh Democrat matrons have failed to understand that they are not Gloria Steinem to the younger generation of women today.
Like Gloria Steinem was to them.
They are not Gloria Steinem.
They are not leaders.
They are they are not seen as role models.
Uh I don't think these young millennial babes want to grow up and be Hillary, for example.
I think I know they do.
She's the most cheated on woman in America.
I know they don't want to grow up and be Hillary.
But I'm just, my point is that all of this so-called unity of of ideology that exists, and how the millennials are all liberal and they're all leftist and they all vote Democrat.
That could manifest, that could be, but I just don't think that Hillary Clinton is the godmother of everybody, and that all women in this country look up to her as some sort of leader uh breaking down barriers showing the way, and when Hillary's offended, they're all offended.
I don't think it's that way at all.
And I don't think she realizes it yet.
I don't uh she may not either.
But I want to play the sound bite again here.
It's from an interview she did with Jake Tapper that has not aired yet.
Jake Tapper shows at four o'clock this afternoon, but they are releasing excerpts to hype the Jake Tapper show this afternoon, and this is one of the bites, and this has to be heard again to be believed.
Jake Tapper says Donald Trump has had some rather personal and pointed tweets, meaning about you, Hillary.
Have you learned anything from watching the way Republicans have dealt with Trump in the primaries?
That will inform you, guide you in how to deal with such an unconventional candidate as Trump.
Well, you know, remember, I um I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation and the way they behave and how they speak.
I'm not going to deal with their temper tantrums or their bullying or their efforts to try to provoke me.
He can say whatever he wants to say about me.
I could really care less.
That's not true.
She's going to care.
That's what the cards are all about.
She does care.
She's offended.
This is the point.
Hillary and her cohort female age, they're offended.
That they've spent their lives being offended.
That's how they've gotten where they've gotten by being offended, victimized, agitated, enraged, members of a minority or what have you.
But I think this is profound.
I have said this kind of admission.
I have had a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak.
What is she telling us as she goes on to say I'm not going to deal with their temper tantrums or their bullying?
Is she telling us what's gone on between her and Bill?
Because we always thought it was Hillary throwing the ashtrays in the White House, right?
Now she's potentially conveying here that Bill's had temper tantrums and I mean stop.
She says she has a lot of experience dealing with men.
She's only been married to one guy, men who sometimes get off the reservation.
I think I think she's been betrayed by a whole lot of guys.
I just my personal opinion, and this is kind of a reveal here.
When you get right down to it, she's saying she has a lot of experience dealing with guys like Trump because she'd been married to Bill Clinton.
That's what she's saying.
Being married to Bill Clinton is what has prepared her for Trump, right?
And when you get right down to it, that sums up her experience.
That is it.
And that's another reason why millennials are, wait a minute, why are you so eminently qualified?
Everybody's being told how qualified Hillary is, how wonderful Hillary is, how great Hillary.
And millennial women are saying, for what?
They are just learning about the Hillary and Bill Clinton era of the 90s.
They didn't live through it.
Remember, folks, these young women and men too.
They didn't live through the era where the media, like Carol Castell, Bill's naughtiness.
It was so cute.
He was accused of rape one day by Vanita Broderick, and he had the interns, and he's uh serial philandis.
He's just naughty.
They didn't live through the media era of cover-up.
They didn't live through the media era of trying to spike the story.
They didn't live through the media era of trying to say it was no big deal.
It's just sex, it's nobody's business.
They didn't live through Clinton openly lying to the nation about it.
As they come to learn about it, their take on this is not going to be in any way sympathetic to Hillary.
They're gonna say, what the hell did you put up with this for?
We wouldn't.
We don't.
So all of this is to say is to advise that don't buy even half of the conventional wisdom the media is gonna tell you about the invincibility of Hillary Clinton because how universally respected and adored and appreciated, and because it isn't the case.
Back to the audio sound bites here.
Uh Jamie Gangell, who uh I have been interviewed by Jamie Gangell on occasions.
She's good.
She's hard-hitting, but she's fair, she's good, and she was she interviewed um Jeb.
She got Jeb to speak.
At first time Jeb's spoken up since he got out of the race, essentially a couple months ago.
It was an Aaron Burnett out front, special correspondent, Jamie Gang.
You know her husband is Daniel Silva, the great novelist.
Yeah, Daniel Silva is uh is her husband.
Anyway, she interviews Jeb, and I think they're in Florida, and how many bites do we have?
She's got a couple of them.
She says in talking to establishment republic.
That's if she begins her question and Jeb interrupts her.
She says, in starting in in talking to establishing Republicans.
Who are the establishment republicans?
Really?
I mean, it's interesting.
It's an interesting concept.
Who has the power?
I assume the establishment means the power brokers, right?
Well, in the Republican Party, we have thiefdoms.
We have tribal leaders, maybe.
There is no secret squirrel establishment that I'm aware of.
Russ Limbaugh has as much power as Rines Preebus.
There are people in the media that have enormous power.
And you know, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce may have some power, but it pales by comparison to many others.
The establishment is definitely I think we need to redefine what that is.
Is that not interesting?
Not because he mentioned me.
Is that not here is a guy who everybody thinks is the establishment and was the preferred and chosen vehicle for the establishment to regain the White House, who's now questioning the very existence of this establishment?
There is no secret squirrel society.
Don't believe what you've heard about skull and bones?
Don't believe what you've heard about the New World Order?
Immediate people far more powerful than even the Chamber of Commerce?
and Now that's just you know why they may think that they that look, okay.
What other no no, no, no.
Why would he say specifically that there are media people?
He says here.
You know the Chamber of Commerce may have some power, but it pales by comparison to many others.
Well, looked at it one way from his standpoint, you might be able to understand what he's saying because what's the chamber want?
What all these guys want?
They want amnesty, and they haven't been able to get it yet.
So they may be sitting there, damn it, damn it, frustrated.
And why haven't they done it?
I said, Who are they blaming?
So yeah.
So they Jeb is saying there's no establishment.
I don't know who it is.
You guys keep talking about me and the establishment.
I'm I got two percent.
What do you mean I'm the establishment?
I'm five percent, whatever it was.
And then she said, so let me let me put it this way.
Talking to old political pros in the Republican Party.
I found two camps.
You know, one camp getting around Trump, and they think he may have a chance of winning beating Hillary.
The other camp is called lose with Cruz.
It stopped Trump, but they don't think Cruz can win anything.
Maybe it's better for the party to lose the White House in November and put itself back together at it and win with one of these two guys.
Let's form a third camp, which is to pick the person who can win the nomination.
And there's only two people that can win the nomination right now in my mind, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
Pick the one that has the higher probability of beating Hillary Clinton.
And that's Ted Cruz.
If Donald Trump is the nominee, should the Republican Party will you rally around him?
I am hopeful that he won't be the nominee.
She tried.
She tried for a full minute to get him to admit that he would support Trump and he wouldn't do it.
We'll be back after this.
Right now, welcome back.
El Rushbow, having more fun than a human being.
Should be allowed to have Sumi, is that how you pronounce Sue me in uh in Orlando as we head back to the phones?
Welcome.
Great to have you here.
Hey, that's uh Tummy.
Sonny, I'm sorry about that.
Yeah.
Um I'll get straight to straight to the point.
Do you like pies?
Do I like pie?
Yeah.
You mean uh like the number pie or pies that you bake and eat?
Well, um not really.
I mean, I'm a I'm a cake and cookie guy, I guess if you had to if I had to specify.
Why do you don't tell me that you make pies and you sell pies and you oh uh no, not exactly, actually.
Um I'm at an event in Orlando that's um that I've been volunteering out the past few years.
This year I'm uh competing in it.
Oh, you are you you you are a pie maker and you're in a pie contest.
Yeah.
Yeah, in fact, tomorrow there's It's going to have a 200 pound pie for uh for people to have.
What kind of pie?
Don't know.
It's just uh just a brief uh explanation on uh the brochure.
But uh yeah, so uh something I'd uh really uh like uh to do over the last few years.
Really?
Well, how can I help?
Uh you're in Orlando at the pie contest, and there's a big 200 pound job coming up.
How can I help?
Oh, well, anyone who happens to be in the uh in Florida, this is uh pretty worthwhile thing to go.
There are also uh classes, um um uh uh learning center about uh pie, many people from like uh food network are there.
Really?
It's that big an event, the food networks uh sending a crew.
Well, uh a representative at least.
Yeah, that's uh too.
I think tonight's a prep night.
Uh tonight's prep night, and then tomorrow they're baking the bit.
And so it's w well uh I've got just a few seconds.
Where in Orlando is this pie convention?
Uh it's uh Caribbean Royale Resort.
It's just outside uh Walt Disney World.
This is not so well Disney World is Orlando, so it's so basically okay.
Well, I'm that's good.
Um I'm sure we have pie aficionados driving around Florida, maybe monitoring people's cell calls, want to take a break.
I appreciate the call there.
Um summy.
He said it's summy.
He said it's summy.
Okay, we the quick time out, my friend, Scotty Nell Hughes will be with us when we get back.
By the way, folks, we have an alternate um analysis, alternate explanation of Hillary Clinton's comments about having experience with men who've uh went off the reservation.
That has nothing to do with Bill.
This alternative explanation's got nothing to do with with being cheated on by Bill.
It's I'll explain it um uh in not too long a time.
Also, New York Post reporting that Will Farrell has pulled out of that Reagan movie.
Uh uh word got out that he was going to star as Ronald Reagan with Alzheimer's in his second term as president.
And uh Michael Reagan and Patty Reagan both wrote exc just scoriating letters about this.
And it was really just spicable.
It's a typical despicable Hollywood way of thinking, but apparently Will Farrell uh has pulled out of it.
We now welcome to the program Scotty Nell Hughes, who is uh one of the national spokesmen for the Donald Trump campaign.
Scotty, welcome to the program.
It's great to have you here.
Thank you for having me, and it's such an honor to actually be one-on-one with you, Rush.
And I want to thank you for everything you do for this country and you've been doing for this country.
As I have to say, you've been a mentor of mine probably since the first day you went on airwaves, and I've been raised right.
I've been an EIB graduate since the day you you went on the air.
Well, I appreciate that.
And I want to tell people why you should you you heard me uh characterize the the sound bites we played with you and and Congressman Barr today, and you think that I uh misinterpreted the point you were trying to make.
And I don't want that to be the case.
So if I got it wrong, please correct me.
Tell me what I what I misunderstood.
Well, very rarely, Rush, do you ever get anything wrong?
And I don't necessarily think you you got things wrong.
It was a very short sound bite, but one of those last few minutes of a segment that I was able to get in.
But here was the point that I was really trying to make with Bob, and I have a lot of respect for him.
The people of Georgia went to the polls on election day and they elected they voted for a president.
And they people just the general mindset, someone who might not be into politics, thought they were actually getting to vote for the Republican representative for that nomination.
They didn't realize they were voting for a delegate spot.
But either way, so they voted for a delegate spot that was supposed to be a Trump delegate flight.
They voted for Mr. Trump in Georgia.
Ted Cruz came in third.
Marco Rubio came in second.
When they went to the state convention, and this is where the idea that the rules are rigged, they're not beat it.
The Cruz campaign, I've never said that the cruise is broke rules.
I said that the rules are rigged to keep those, the politicians in power and to keep the outsiders out.
And so what happened at these state conventions or these district conventions is people like Bob are a known Ted Cruz surrogate was elected in a slot That a Trump person should a Trump a Trump ally should have failed.
Well, but wait, no, no, no, that that's not the way the rules are set up.
The way it works is when the primary takes place, people vote for the candidate, and then the primary's over, and in Georgia, uh the delegate selection is according to the delegate vote, not delegate selection.
The delegate vote at the convention is determined by who wins the popular vote.
Then at the convention, it's a free-for-all.
Any candidate can go in there and try to get as many delegates in that convention as he wants.
On the first ballot, Bob Barr, even though he's for Cruz, has to vote Trump.
He can't do anything else.
Absolutely.
But where Georgia went to the polls to think they went to the polls thinking that they were going to vote for somebody that their delegate who went to the National Convention to represent the state of Georgia were going to be the the uh allies of Donald Trump were going to be supporters of Donald Trump.
I'm not saying the rules were broken.
I'm saying that the Cruz campaign definitely has always they're much more organized on the ground, especially in Georgia.
They know that.
Wait a minute.
Let me make sure I understand.
D do you think, therefore, that because Mr. Trump won the Georgia primary, that he should get the vote of every Georgia delegate on every ballot at the By the percentage.
I I mean, isn't that kind of how the it was set up?
You know, it's we the people rush.
It's not we the politicians.
And I mean, like I said, the rules were followed.
There's no doubt.
I'm not saying that the rules weren't followed, but I'm that doesn't make the rules right.
And it doesn't mean necessarily that right in this case, you know, the Cruz campaign went in there.
They were organized.
They were actually said they were actually organized to make sure that they had their people were the ones that filled those delegate slots that were meant to be for Trump as a representative of what the people of Georgia voted for.
Well, but see, that's that's not that's I uh that's not what the primary determines is the primary does not determine that the delegates are personally for whoever wins the primary.
That's the delegates then get chosen an entirely different process, and you're right.
I mean, it's totally political inside baseball how it happens.
But do you understand why people become disenfranchised and why they don't like the political because of that?
Yeah, because they th even though this is what happens for 150 years, it's never been seen before because it's it's never gotten to this point.
We usually have a nominee by now.
So all this stuff, there never are second and third ballots.
With a nominees chosen long before the convention ever starts, and so people don't even see this.
And so there's and and you're right, and then you look at the people of Georgia, and and when Georgia was voting, we didn't have Donald Trump overwhelmingly the winner at that point.
I mean, it was a part of the the big super SEC primaries.
Right.
There was still Ted Cruz had a chance.
He was expected to go through the South and win.
And he didn't.
He didn't win a single state.
He came in third, and many of them like Georgia.
Right.
And on the first ballot, Cruz is sunk in Georgia.
There's no way that the way people voted in Georgia can be subverted on the first ballot at the convention.
Even Bob Barr, as you elusive from elucidated for him that he has to vote for Trump even though he doesn't want to.
Okay.
So then here we go to the second and third balloters.
I still am optimistic that we're not going after me, especially considering the momentum there is today.
But here's the thing about that.
The people that at that convention, those are people that are a part of the Georgia Republican Party or a part of that.
They're inside politicians.
Exactly.
They could be somebody's grandmother, they could be somebody's donor.
They could be somebody's best friend.
It's always been that way.
Exactly.
It's who can ever motivate it.
So the politicians have made these rules to keep the politicians in power and not necessarily let the people's voice be heard.
But Scotty, nobody kept your campaign out of that state convention.
You could have gone in there and done exactly what Cruz did and aced him out on the second, third ballot.
You could you're right.
You're you're right on that point, Rush.
You're absolutely right.
The ground game for this is you know, gosh forbid that we actually thought that the people's voice was going to be honored when it came to these areas.
I know.
And that funny that Cal Apple will think that the people, um, especially on the Republican side.
I mean, we don't have super delegates like the Democrats have, but it's examples like this, and it's not a good thing.
Well, but you do you do.
You've got two hundred you've got two hundred unbound, they're not called super called super, but you got you got two hundred unbound uh the on the first ballot that uh that kind of count that way.
But I mean you're seeing this an example and Example, and and here's what really the the problem that I have as someone who's been a part of the grassroots, as you've raised me to be listening to Talk Radio, is you have folks who put their heart and soul into putting out yard signs, making phone calls for their candidates.
And they wanted that thought that they're they their candidate won rightfully.
Look, I understand that.
But I don't mean to interrupt, but I'm my time is dwindling here, and I've got a newfangled commercial breaks coming.
What about what about New York?
Trump gets 60% of the vote, and almost 90% of the delegates.
How is that fair?
Well, because it that's just it I agree.
Once again, it was how the rules were written.
But that's not to say that those delegates now when they go into their individual little state conventions, as we're finding out, are going to be a hundred percent Trump delegate.
Who's to say that the ground game in Tor in New York might not, you know, they're favorable to cruise again.
This is the thing that we're seeing in Louisiana.
We saw it yesterday in Tennessee, where we were literally the chairman of uh the rules committee that's been put on there is actually uh a cruise supporter, yet Trump overwhelmingly won Tennessee.
It's just the game it's playing, but the game doesn't necessarily mean it's right.
It doesn't necessarily mean that it's helping the people or representing the people rush.
That's the frustration.
Well, but on I understand the frost, but in that case, um there ought not even be state conventions.
The delegates ought to be chosen by net just what a number pick a number of people from the state to go and every ballot vote the way this the people voted in the primary, and in that you'd never have a second ballot.
You would never have it, you'd never have a contested convention.
You couldn't, because if you know whoever wins the popular vote by virtue of all these state primaries wins every ballot, that would be the the outcome of what you're suggesting happened here.
And the uh there are all kinds of reasons why the system has been set up the way it is, and one of them is state sovereignty.
The states have the right to choose the way the party is run in their own states.
And they are fiefdoms, you're right.
Look, you guys are running against the Republican Party.
Everybody understands that.
And you've done a damn good job of it.
Everybody understands that too.
But I just don't think people are being deprived of the Democrat process here, and you do.
Um you're gonna win the first ballot exactly as the rules say, and you're gonna have a chance at whining and dying.
It's by the way, these conventions are delegates that cruise has supposedly gotten pledged to him, they can change their minds.
All Mr. Trump has to go in there and is uh razzle and dazzle them somehow.
I mean, nothing happens until it happens, and all this is just projection until the convention actually comes, starts, and all this stuff begins to happen.
It isn't over till it's over, and uh I'm sure you guys know all that.
So everybody's everybody dazzled with the way you've been running things here, Scotty, and I appreciate that you wanted to come here and and make sure that I understood what you were talking about.
I'm glad that we were able to get hold of you for you to be able to do that, but I do have to go.
Thanks.
Look at have it have a great weekend.
I hope you have uh are you having fun doing this?
Uh it has its perks sometimes, and sometimes it has its low points like today.
But it's gonna get better.
We're gonna make America we're gonna make American grapes again, Roger.
Wait a minute.
What was the low point?
No, tell me I was the low point today.
No, no.
You are my low point when your mentor, your professor of conservatism is the first one to scold you.
I have I mean that's that's what I'm saying.
Oh, now you're just ruined my weekend.
I'm never anybody's low point.
Oh well.
I promise to do better.
I promise to do it.
Scotty Nell Hughes of the Trump campaign.
The more we talk, the more I I I'm learning how people think about this.
I by the way, Scotty, people on the other side of the glass here are nodding their heads as you're going through all this.
So you you've got people who think that you're um right about this.
We she 11 years old, Bea in Sacramento, California, my adopted hometown.
So nice to have you with us today.
How are you?
Good.
How are you?
I'm great now that you've called.
Thanks much.
So I read your book, Grace Review and the Brave Pilgrims, and I loved it.
It was one of my favorite books.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
When did when did you read it?
Um, I just finished it a couple of nights ago, and it it was like it was the best.
Wow.
Well, uh, you know, there are do you have the others?
No, I don't, but I want to get them soon.
Well, you know, the Brave Pilgrims, I'm I'm so glad you read that because it's it's so important.
That that the the pilgrims and their rival set the stage for the founding of this country and the values that that were part of the founding.
And I am so you are the exact person that that book was written for.
Somebody your age, and I can't tell you how happy you have made me that you like it and that that you under You know what I would like to send you the other four books, Beya.
Really, thank you.
I would, I would.
In fact, I'm gonna I'm gonna put together a whole Rush Revere and Liberty gift package for you.
And we'll send that out.
If you'll just give my uh Mr. Snergley here, give him your address.
Don't hang up, give your address, and we'll FedEx some things out to you pretty soon, hopefully next week, including the books and even the audio version, so you can listen to them sometime if you want.
But I I really appreciate that you uh you like the book.
I really do.
And I hope you like the others.
I there there's a bunch more, and I I hope you like them just as much.
I learned so much about U.S. history, and it was they're just really great books.
Well, thank you so much.
It's this that she's why we do it, folks.
Exactly why we do it.
Makes it all worthwhile too.
Thank you again, Maya.
We will be back.
Don't go away.
Sit tight, folks, sit tight.
We are going to have uh somebody from the cruise campaign on the program Monday.
It's all done.
Everything's cool.
Fear not.
I knew.
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