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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 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 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 says, I'm just a 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.
It's a little pink thing that says official woman's card.
And they're out selling them for a dollar.
It's a quasi-fundraising effort, probably just a make, 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 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 style, the various things about their appearance that are in common.
That's as far as I'm going to go.
They have a definite feminist attitude about these cards as though they are the most brilliant thing ever done.
And they're a slam dunk.
And that women are going to love this.
Because these Hillary-aged women from her campaign and elsewhere all have this monolithic view of women as it relates to feminism.
And they all believe that every woman that matters is just like them.
Old, 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-aged women, some of them are Trump supporters.
Some of them are crew supporters.
Some of them are not.
Some of them are just news babes.
And I tell you, when you're looking at these 30 and 35, maybe even younger women, they are, they're laughing at this card like it's the most ridiculous thing they've ever seen.
And 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 like being typecast as monolithic in their thinking when it comes to female and feminist issues.
And it has it's just another thing that I'm recording here in my mind, putting it away for a rainy day.
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 wrong in their application of this, and I think they're taking a whole lot for granted.
I think they're so 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.
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.
They made the mistake of assuming that the whole country had gone conservative, and that 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 at the same token, Hillary and her band here of the Madeline Albright types, you know who these women are, the Hillary Clinton age 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 not seen as role models.
I don't think these young millennial babes want to grow up and be Hillary, for example.
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 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, 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.
She may not either.
But I want to play this sound bite again here.
It's from an interview she did with Jake Tapper that has not aired yet.
Jake Tapper shows at 4 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 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.
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?
And she goes on to say, I'm not going to deal with their temper tantrums or their bullying.
Is she telling us what's going 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.
But I mean, 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 she's been betrayed by a whole lot of guys.
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 millennial women are saying, wait a minute, why are you so eminently qualified?
Everybody's being told how qualified Hillary is, how wonderful Hillary is, how great Hillary is.
And the 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 Costello, Bill's naughtiness, he's so cute.
He was accused of rape one day by Juanita Broderick, and he had the interns, and he's serial philanthropists.
He's 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 going to 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 going to tell you about the invincibility of Hillary Clinton because how universally respected and adored and appreciated, because it isn't the case.
Back to the audio sound bites here.
Jamie Gangell, who I have been interviewed by Jamie Gangell on occasion.
She's good.
She's hard-hitting, but she's fair.
She's good.
And she interviewed Jeb.
She got Jeb to speak.
The first time Jeb's spoken up since he got out of a race, essentially a couple months ago.
It was an Erin Burnett out front, special correspondent, Jamie Gangell.
Do you know who her husband is?
Daniel Silva, the great novelist.
Yeah, Daniel Silva is her husband.
Anyway, she interviews Jeb, and I think they're in Florida.
And how many bites do we have here?
She's got a couple of them.
She says, in talking to establishment Republicans, she begins her question and Jeb interrupts her.
She says, in talking to establishment Republicans...
Who are the establishment Republicans?
I'm...
They.
Really, I mean, 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 fiefdoms.
We have tribal leaders, maybe.
There is no secret squirrel establishment that I'm aware of.
Rush Limbaugh has as much power as Reince Priebus.
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 you 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 is 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.
The media people far more powerful than even the Chamber.
of Commerce.
Now, that's just you know why they may think that they look okay.
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 of them.
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 do 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, they'ren't frustrated.
And why haven't they not?
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 got 2%.
What do you mean I'm the establishment?
I'm 5%, whatever it was.
And then she said, so let me put it this way.
Talking to old political pros in the Republican Party, I found two camps.
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, and they think 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.
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 on, welcome back.
El Rushbo, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Sumi.
Is that how you pronounce Sumi in Orlando?
As we head back to the phones, welcome.
Great to have you here.
Hey, that's Summy.
Sonny, I'm sorry about that.
Yeah.
I'll get straight to the point.
Do you like pies?
Do I like pie?
Yeah.
You mean like the number pie or pies that you bake and eat?
What kind you eat?
Well, I'm not really.
I mean, I'm a cake and cookie guy, I guess, if you had to, if I had to specify.
Why?
Don't tell me that you make pies and you sell pies and you oh, no, not exactly, actually.
I'm at an event in Orlando that I've been volunteering out the past few years.
This year, I'm competing in it.
Oh, you are a pie maker and you're in a pie contest.
Yeah.
Yeah, in fact, tomorrow it's going to have a 200-pound pie for people to have.
What kind of pie?
Don't know.
It's just a brief explanation on the brochure.
But, yeah, something I'd really like to do over the last few years.
Really?
Well, how can I help?
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 Florida, this is a pretty worthwhile thing to go.
There are also classes, a learning center about PI.
Many people from like Food Network are there.
Really?
It's that big an event?
The Food Network's sending a crew?
Well, a representative at least.
Yeah, they're prep night.
Tonight's prep night, and then tomorrow they're making a bit.
And so it's I've got just a few seconds.
Where in Orlando is this pie convention?
It's Caribbe Royale Resort.
It's just outside Walt Disney World.
Just outside.
Well, I mean, Disney World is Orlando.
So basically.
Sure, yeah.
Yeah, just okay.
Well, that's good.
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.
Summy, he said it's summy.
He said it's summy.
Okay, we had a quick timeout, my friend.
Scotty Nell Hughes will be with us when we get back.
By the way, folks, we have an alternate Analysis, alternate explanation of Hillary Clinton's comments about having experience with men who've went off the reservation.
That has nothing to do with Bill.
This alternative explanation has got nothing to do with being cheated on by Bill.
I'll explain it in not too long a time.
Also, New York Post reporting that Will Farrell has pulled out of that Reagan movie.
Word got out that he was going to star as Ronald Reagan with Alzheimer's in his second term as president.
And Michael Reagan and Patty Reagan both wrote just excoriating letters about this.
And it was really despicable.
It's a typical, despicable Hollywood way of thinking, but apparently Will Farrell has pulled out of it.
We now welcome to the program Scotty Nell Hughes, who is 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 went on the air.
Well, I appreciate that.
And I want to tell people why you heard me characterize the sound bites we played with you and Congressman Barr today.
And you think that I 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 misunderstood.
Well, very rarely, Rush, do you ever get anything wrong?
And I don't necessarily think you got things wrong.
It was a very short soundbite.
It was 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, is that the people of Georgia went to the polls on Election Day and they elected, they voted for 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 slot.
But either way, so they voted for a delegate slot that was supposed to be a Trump delegate slot.
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 beating.
The Cruz campaign, I've never said that the Cruzes broke rules.
I said that the rules are rigged to keep those, the politicians, in powers and to keep the outsiders out.
And so what happened at these state conventions or at these district conventions is people like Bob Barr, a known Ted Cruz surrogate, was elected in a slot that a Trump person should, a Trump ally should have filled.
But wait, no, no, no, 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 is over.
And in Georgia, 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.
Georgia went to the polls to sing.
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 allies of Donald Trump.
We're 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.
Let me make sure I understand.
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 convention?
By the percentage, I mean, isn't that kind of how 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 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 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 not, that's, I, 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.
Do you understand why people become disenfranchised and why they don't like the political party?
I cannot because of that.
Yeah, because they even though this is what happens for 150 years, it's never been seen before because it's never gotten to this point.
We usually have a nominee by now.
And so all this stuff, there never are second and third ballots.
Well, the nominee is chosen long before the convention ever starts.
And so people don't even see this.
And you're right.
And then you look at the people of Georgia.
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 big super SEC primaries.
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 liked 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 elucidated for a minute, he has to vote for Trump, even though he doesn't want to.
Okay, so then here we go to the second and third ballot.
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.
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're right.
You're right on that point, Rush.
You're absolutely right.
The ground game for convention, 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.
Isn't that funny that Kyle Apple will think that the people, 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.
You do.
You've got 200.
You've got 200 unbound.
They're not called super, but you've got 200 unbound on the first ballot.
That kind of count that way.
But I mean, you're seeing this an example and example.
And here's what really 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 candidate.
And they wanted that spot that they're their candidate won't.
Look, I understand that.
But I don't mean to interrupt, but my time is dwindling here, and I've got newfangled commercial breaks coming.
What about New York?
Trump gets 60% of the vote and almost 90% of the delegates.
How is that fair?
Well, because that's just, 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 100% Trump delegates.
Who's to say that the ground game in New York might not, you know, they're favorable to Cruz again?
This is the thing that we're seeing in Louisiana.
We saw it yesterday in Tennessee, where we were literally the chairman of the rules committee that's been put on there is actually 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 I understand the frustration.
But in that case, there ought not even be state conventions.
The delegates ought to be chosen by just what a number pick a number of people from the state to go and every ballot vote the way the people voted in the primary.
And in that way, you'd never have a second ballot.
You'd never have a contested convention.
You couldn't, because if whoever wins the popular vote by virtue of all these state primaries wins every ballot, that would be the outcome of what you're suggesting happen here.
And 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.
You're going to win the first ballot exactly as the rules say.
And you're going to have a chance at whining and dying.
By the way, these conventions are delegates that Cruz has supposedly gotten pledged to him.
They can change their minds.
All Mr. Trump has to go in there and razzle and dazzle him 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 until it's over.
And I'm sure you guys know all that.
So everybody's dazzled with the way you've been running things here, Scotty.
And I appreciate that you wanted to come here 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, have a great weekend.
I hope you have.
Are you having fun doing this?
It has its perks sometimes, and sometimes it has its low points like today.
But it's going to get better.
We're going to make American grapes again, Roger.
Wait a minute.
What was the low point?
Don't 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 to say that.
Oh, now you just ruined my weekend.
I'm never anybody's low point.
Oh, well.
I promise to do better.
I promise to do this.
Scotty Nell Hughes of the Trump campaign.
The more we talk, the more I'm learning how people think about this.
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've got people who think that you're right about this.
Here is Bea.
She's 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, Grish Review and the Brave Pilgrims, and I loved it.
It was one of my favorite books.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
When did you read it?
I just finished it a couple of nights ago, and it was like, it was the best.
Wow.
Well, you know, do you have the others?
No, I don't, but I want to get them soon.
Well, you know, The Brave Pilgrims, I'm so glad you read that because it's so important.
The Pilgrims and their arrival set the stage for the founding of this country and the values 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 you under.
You know what?
I would like to send you the other four books, Beau.
Thank you.
I would.
I would.
In fact, I'm going to put together a whole Rush Revere and Liberty gift package for you.
And we'll send that out.
If you'll just give my Mr. Snirdley 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 really appreciate that you like the book.
I really do.
And I hope you like the others.
There's a bunch more, and I hope you like them just as much.
I learned so much about U.S. history, and they're just really great books.
Well, thank you so much.
She's why we do it, folks.
Exactly why we do it.
Makes it all worthwhile, too.
Thank you again, Bea.
We will be back.
Don't go away.
Sit tight, folks.
Sit tight.
We are going to have somebody from the cruise campaign on the program Monday.
It's all done.
Everything's cool.
Fear not.
I knew.
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