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May 2, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 2, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, just a few, just a very, very few words about the White House correspondence dinner, and then we'll get on the Indiana primary and the Republican and Democrat presidential campaigns.
Great to have you here, folks.
Another week, busy broadcast excellence right here and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Now, did you see where at the White House correspondence dinner, Obama thanked, you know, while telling them what a job they have, they've got to speak truth to power, not his words, but he said, you, you got to keep us honest up here.
You people in the press, you have to work really, really hard to keep us under.
Some such self-serving diatribe.
And then he thanked the press for working side by side with him.
Actually, the full quote was, it has been an honor and a privilege to work side by side with you to strengthen our democracy.
I think the teleprompter said strengthen our Democratic Party.
But he caught himself there and actually changed to help our Democrat Party to strengthen our democracy.
But did you see the Politico ran a story last week, and I missed it?
Ashamed to admit this.
It's not any big surprise.
Well, no, no, no, it's a surprise.
I missed it, but it's not a surprise what the story says.
Washington Free Beacon discovered and the Politico published a little poll that the Politico took on reporters last week.
And just a minor little detail here.
Not a single member of the 72 reporters in the White House Press Corps is a Republican.
Not a single one, not even from so-called conservative or Republican sites.
Not a single, 72 reporters in the White House Press Corps, and according to a poll of them, not a one of them in the White House press corps is a Republican.
Now, clearly, folks, that's not an accident.
I mean, the law of averages says that there'd be one or two that would skate by that would sneak in there somehow.
But for all 72, and the proper way to say it is not a single Republican, it's more powerful to say not a single Republican in all 72 than to say all 72 are Democrats, because that probably wouldn't surprise people as much as when you pointed out the other way.
But what are the odds of something like that?
I mean, that cannot be an accident.
I mean, they don't even want to risk any words of dissent coming from the White House propaganda.
It's why I've called it the state control media since the first day of this regime.
Now to Larry Wilmore.
I have to, I have to tell you something here, folks.
Forget the jokes.
It's the way that this guy closed out his gig at the White House Press Corps.
He said something that nobody else can quote.
He said something.
I mean, if I tried to say what he said, even if I let everybody know I was quoting it, I get a big doo-doo.
You know it as well as I do.
Don't sit there and tell me I wouldn't.
No, I'm not going to play it.
That's the whole point.
I'm not going to play it.
I couldn't say it, and I'm not going to play it.
The office of the presidency, I've been concerned about this since actually back during the Bush years, but more focused here with Obama, the occupant.
The office of the presidency has been devalued now to the point of moral, ethical, and legal bankruptcy.
And it was just epitomized by the way a comedian with a tiny, tiny audience addressed the president of the United States, and the president, smiling, laughingly accepted it.
Saying something that nobody else can say, saying something that I couldn't say.
Nobody else in polite society or anywhere else in the media could say it without all hell raining down on them.
And in some cases, there would be serious efforts to have whoever said it, even if quoting it, removed from his position in broadcasting.
Yo, Barry, you did it.
You my slang N-word.
And there's Obama laughing.
People say, well, Obama's got to do that.
That's a classy move for Obama to make.
Stop and think about this for a second.
Stop and think.
You know, we're told certain people can use the word, but we are also told that it's never really acceptable and it shouldn't happen.
And there shouldn't be people who can get away with it because of who they are and what their socioeconomic backgrounds are.
And of course, that's not true.
There are different rules for different people.
And the bigger the minority or the greater the perceived victim status, the more leeway people have in behaving in uncivilized or reprobate ways, which is kind of odd.
But nevertheless, the way it is.
Now, the reason why this is such a big deal to me is, I want to go back to 2008 and remind you that a lot of people who were not Democrats and who were not African American voted nevertheless for Barack Obama.
And they didn't do it for policy-specific reasons.
They didn't do it even really for political reasons when you get right down to it.
I'm sure you know people, I do, white people, Democrats and Republicans, who voted for Obama hoping that they're doing so and announcing publicly that they've done so, i.e.
first African-American presidential candidate, white people in drugs voting for him.
Those people that did so happily told everybody they did.
And they did, hoping that their statement and action would end the racial strife.
That might have been a little bit delusional, but there still was that hope.
There was that desire.
It's still a desire that is held by many.
The racial strife in this country is getting worse.
And a lot of people want it to get better.
A lot of people want it to end.
Sadly, some people don't.
But I'm not talking about them right now.
The people that do want it to end, you realize, in addition, and I'm probably on a little bit of a plank saying what I'm going to say next here.
So those of you at Media Matters, turn up your volume.
Those of you at NBC, ABC, CBS, turn up your volume a little bit.
Make sure you get this on the first pass.
Some of the white people that voted Barack Hussein Obama in 2008 did so because they hoped that their statement and their action would indicate, would tell everybody in America that they have no racial problems, that they are not racist.
They do not oppose a man running for president because he's black.
They were desperate for that message to be heard because they wanted it to have meaning.
They wanted however millions of them there are, their vote was an expression of hope and desire that we could get past the racial divisions which are literally tearing the culture apart.
Not just the racial divisions, but they are a component.
And there are also, as I've had them tell me this, there are also some people, white people that voted for Obama, hoping that his election would serve as an inspiration to minorities all over the country to do better,
to seek better things, to, I don't know what would, but, and they were hoping that the election of Barack Obama would improve things, the life circumstances of African Americans and other minorities.
And that's why they did it.
They didn't do it because they're liberal Democrats.
They didn't do it because they hate Republicans.
They did it almost on social grounds.
So much desire to end the racial strife that there was so much hope in the election of an African American president to do a number of things.
A, to inspire minorities all over the country to say of America, look, if we can do this, we have overcome practically every element of our past that you think negatively defines us.
It was a big statement.
And then the other component was this desire that the election of Obama would actually improve the life circumstances, the economic, the cultural, the life circumstances of African Americans and minorities, and not by expanding the welfare state, by, in fact, just the opposite.
And there is distress all over this country that that has not.
In fact, not only has it not happened, it's gotten worse.
You cannot go to even Obama's hometown of Chicago and conclude anything other than it has gotten worse in the last seven and a half years.
I'm not even assigning a blame to Obama.
I'm just telling that you look at the timeline, his election president seven and a half years later, and look at the murder rate in Chicago.
In Kansas City, they had a funeral for another three-year-old kid shot, black kid shot, three-year-old baby.
Stuff doesn't even make the news.
And you get the left wing protesting and rioting, Donald Trump events, and literally trying to stop him from getting into a convention in California and speaking, and there's no news about it.
But remember, all of the news when the Tea Party supposedly was engaging in racism.
And they were the most peaceful bunch of political activists you've ever seen, and yet they were accused constantly daily of riots and protests when they weren't doing it.
And it was all accused to be racially motivated.
So not only has life not improved for African Americans, not one thing that so many people voted for Obama for, not one thing has actually come to pass.
It's one of the big disappointments a lot of people have.
And I think crossing the T and dotting the I is this Larry Wilmore wrap-up to the White House correspondence dinner.
Yo, Barry, you did it.
How's that advancing anything?
I know there are going to be some of you, Rush, you need to lighten up.
You're taking all this way, way too.
It's just a joke.
It's just a comedy routine.
No, folks, it's more than that.
It's indicative that there isn't much respect for the office of the presidency.
Remember, these guys in the media are Obama's buddies.
These are his friends doing this.
This, to me, was just a huge, huge hit on the integrity and the moral force and authority that has been lost by this White House.
Now, I know it's a little late for this.
I mean, look at Larry Wilmore not doing this would not change the moral authority of this White House long ago vanished, but this was just another indication here of how things have not gotten better in any of the ways people hoped.
I mean, the economy for everybody is bad.
Don't misunderstand.
The economy, the job circumstance, the circumstances for everybody, day-to-day life, there's more and more misery, more and more unhappiness, more and more anxiety, more and more fear.
But you look at the unemployment rate in the African American, you look at the unemployment rate in African-American teenagers, you look at the murder rate, African-Americans, the black on black crime, you look at that, and there's nobody anywhere that can statistically or any other way tell you that things have gotten better.
And I'm just wanting to remind you why so many people voted for Obama, hoping that his election would mean so much.
It would be so momentous.
It would serve such a great purpose.
And there has been this realization that we haven't even gotten close.
Now, of course, there are reasons for it.
Obama never intended any of that.
That's not what Obama viewed his election to be president.
I mean, can anybody actually look at the plight of minorities in America and say that we have either a president or Democrat Party actually focused on them?
The best you can do is say, well, at least they're trying.
At least they have good intentions.
You Republicans just don't care.
It always amazes me.
How good intentions, failure after failure after failure.
Good and failed, designed failure after design failure after design failure somehow can be forgotten or erased simply by assuming, well, at least they've tried.
I mean, here's Obama refusing to denounce.
And I don't know how many in the press corps have either.
I don't know.
There may be some that have.
Yeah, Juan Williams did.
Juan Williams got this right.
I don't know about too many others.
But Obama didn't denounce this.
He smiled and accepted it and even applauded it.
Just please, can we spare me this talk that Trump doesn't have the integrity to be president after watching what happened at the White House correspondence?
Anybody want to tell me Ted Cruz poses a threat to the country if he's elected president?
He doesn't have the integrity.
He doesn't have this.
He's too godlike.
He's too sanctimonious.
Trump is too whatever.
Can we spare all that?
Because, folks, there isn't the slightest chance that anything other than Obama is going to be an improvement.
And we will be back.
And you know, there's another aspect to what Larry Wilmore did.
Stop and thinking is here you are at the White House correspondence dinner.
And never forget politics is showbiz for the ugly, which is why they have to import a bunch of Hollywood people there to make the place telegenic.
Otherwise, nobody wants to watch it.
They'd as soon listen to it on the radio.
So you bring in all these Hollywood types, and you get, for the most part, aside from very few media people and guests, the whole room is the Democrat Party and the American left.
And they're all celebrating.
I don't know what Mitch Obama's last correspondence dinner.
It signifies last time that he'll party with the press and so on.
What did this comedian do?
Really B-list, C-list comedian.
What did he do?
He reduced something that's genuinely historic in our country.
Something nobody ever thought would happen.
Well, very few really thought it would ever happen in their lifetimes.
An African American elected to the presidency of the United States.
And after seven and a half years, we have a community organizer whose mentor was Jeremiah freaking Wright, a president who has opened our borders even more, slandered the police,
flim-flammed unaffordable health insurance, attacked one successful American economic enterprise after another, doubled the national debt, politicized the IRS with impunity against his political enemies,
weaponized the EPA, has destroyed the coal business, and put out of work many American Democrat union mine worker employees, and serves as a puppet master for the Department of Justice.
And whatever accomplishments you think that you can fill in that list of things too.
And it was all reduced by a comedy central comedian.
It was all reduced to what?
Barack Obama's legacy is what?
After seven and a half years.
Yo, Barry, you did it.
You my end slang word.
After seven and a half, if I were Barack Hussein Obama and Michelle Mybel, I would be livid if I took what I did in life seriously to have it all reduced in a tribute.
That was the tribute portion of the Comedy Act.
Yo, Barry, you did it.
You my.
Seven and a half years, and that's what it's all meant.
Really?
So the former Defense Secretary Bob Gates out there saying that world leaders are concerned about a potential Trump presidency.
It's my whole point.
And they're not worried about what Obama's already done.
Who in the world would not be concerned about our foreign policy to date?
We have created a fire in the Middle East.
We've participated in tearing down every alliance that we've ever had.
There is our foreign policy, Benghazi foreign policy, Libya, Hillary's fingerprints are all over.
By the way, what's Hillary's legacy going to be?
What is her legacy?
She's got a legacy too, a single legacy.
She's married to Bill Clinton.
That's it.
That's what she's known for, whether she wants to believe it's other things.
And apparently, after the White House correspondence dinner, Obama's legacy, he's black.
Now, I don't know the Obamas, but I can tell by watching them they take themselves very seriously.
Michelle Mybel Obama takes herself very seriously.
I guarantee you that the last thing they want their legacy to be, they were black.
I mean, first black elected historical.
Yeah, but not just that they were black.
Because if that's the legacy, it's failed.
Because if the point was to inspire to improve, that has not happened.
And it's happened very few, actually.
Anyway, I got a note from somebody who was at the White House correspondence dinner.
You know, I have said over the course of the recent years, I have warned everybody that Barack Obama is not leaving Washington when his term is complete, that he's going to stay.
And I've had people, friends of mine, the conservative media, I can't find that, Rush.
Are you making it up?
I said, no, no, I've heard that.
Well, where did you hear it?
I said, well, I don't know.
I've heard it.
I wouldn't say it.
Well, I thought you were predicting.
Well, I am predicting it based on the fact that I heard it.
I think I actually heard it from somebody.
It was in a news story out in Southern California.
Obama's out in Palm Springs one weekend and stories about he's house hunting out there for his post-presidential mansion or whatever.
And in the story, somebody involved in the search for a piece of property mentioned the fact that Obama was going to be staying in Washington in the immediate days after it was just a throwaway line.
And I started putting things together.
I said, no, no, of course he's going.
No, absolutely he's going to, particularly if the Republican candidate ends up being elected.
Well, I get this note from one of my friends who's been doubting me on this all these years because he hadn't been able to find independent confirmation of it.
He said, he rushed just an FYI.
You know, you've often said that Obama has no intention of leaving Washington.
I have to say, you know, I've been pestering you.
I've never heard him say that.
But last night, I was at the White House correspondence dinner and he said explicitly that he is staying in Washington after his term.
He tied it to his daughter's haskruel status that they have a couple years to go, and he doesn't want to uproot them to wherever the Barack Obama Library for Social Justice is going to be built.
But he said that he's going to be in D.C. for two years.
Damn right.
Don't doubt me, folks.
When my instincts are on a roll about the left, do not doubt me.
No need to rehash why he's going to stay.
You've heard me say that over and over again.
And when you look, let's say the next president takes your either Trump or Hillary, and Obama's still in town.
Who do you think, President Hillary or ex-President Obama, who do you think the media is going to be closer to?
Obama.
And if the next President Trump accrues, who do you think the media is going to be closer to?
Obama.
I'm just telling you that if anything happens, either no matter which party wins the White House, if anything happens that, and Hillary's running against the Obama presidency, lest anybody forget, he's running against a bad economy.
She's running against all kinds of bad things.
One of the most noteworthy aspects of the Democrat Party campaign, you would think that they have not been in power the last seven and a half years if you listen to her talk about the problems the country has.
Well, now you just watch anybody that does anything that leads to any part of the Obama agenda becoming unraveled, you're going to hear him on TV.
You're going to see him on TV.
He's going to be ripping it.
He's going to be criticizing.
He's going to be calling it racism.
He's going to be throwing the race card down for him.
Go get Larry Wilmore out here to characterize what the next president is doing to his slang and word.
You watch.
It is going to happen.
Have you seen the polling data out of Indiana?
It's crazy.
It's screwy.
And I have a way to fix this, folks.
I've been thinking about this.
Here's one story.
NBC, Donald Trump leads Cruz by 15 points in Indiana.
Donald Trump holds a 15-point lead over Ted Cruz in the potentially decisive Indiana primary, according to the results from a UNBC News Wall Street Journal Marist poll.
Trump gets 49%, Cruz at 34, John Kasich at 13.
Well, that's not the next poll, the next story.
New poll finds Cruz with double-digit lead in Indiana.
Ted Cruz leads Donald Trump by double digits in a new poll of Indiana, which hosts, and this one's in thehill.com, NBC Newsfirst, TheHill.com, both highly accredited left-wing news organizations, as highly accredited as ESPN has become.
The Texas senator leads Trump 45 to 29.
Over here, it's 49 to 34.
Trump.
NBC, 4934.
Trump.
In this poll, it is 45-29 Cruz.
This poll taken by the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics.
Yeah, you have people in the Trumpsters on the other side of glass are looking at me.
What?
Who?
Never heard of this.
Local, highly reputed Indiana pollster.
4529.
Kasich is in at 13%.
13% are undecided.
And there's a third poll, and it's an American research group, ARG, and this poll is routinely mocked and laughed at and made fun of every time they publish it.
The ARG poll had Cruz winning.
No, was it Trump winning Wisconsin by eight?
I think five or eight ARG.
And everybody says, this is a joke.
Look at that sample, they said.
So we've got three polls here.
American Research Group.
This one has Trump at 41, Cruz at 32.
So that's a nine-point lead.
So three polls here.
How do we resolve this?
I have an idea, folks.
To bring attention to the pseudo-science of these polls, they tell us it's scientific, right?
And you know how many people believe these.
I mean, the media gobbles this stuff up.
They use polls now as news.
They use polls to make news.
They use polls to shape public opinion.
Polls used to be thought of as a reflection of public opinion.
That's not how they're used anymore.
Polls have become news stories and they are used to shape public opinion.
So here's my idea.
Go ahead, pollsters, do what you do.
But then, after the results are known, any poll that was outside the margin of error wrong will be forced to pay $50,000 per point they got wrong to the favorite charity of the candidates they missed on.
So in my example here, Cruz, let's let's use Cruz leads Trump 4529 in Indiana.
That's that's a 14, 16-point lead, okay?
What is the margin of error?
Five points.
Margin of five points.
So let's say Trump wins this 40 to 30.
This company would owe to Cruz's charity five points times whatever the price per point is, $25,000 or $50,000.
Let's put some money behind this.
Let's put some risk and loss potential in this.
I mean, how else are we going to test the integrity of these things?
I mean, this is all over the board here.
You have three different polls in Indiana, one of them local, two of them national.
Well, firms are national, one's local.
You've got a huge disparity.
All three of these cannot be right.
So rather than go through the samples and the crosstabs and looking at this and that, let's just put a little money on the line here.
And for every point over the margin of error that a poll gets it wrong, they must donate, pick your number, $10,000, $25,000, $50,000 per point outside the margin of error in their poll that they got wrong to the candidate who they said was going to win but lost.
You think that wouldn't shape it up pretty soon?
Now, I'm choosing these numbers $25,000, $50,000 arbitrarily.
If some of you polls are, we're on a shoestring butcher.
I don't know.
You're all big corporations to me.
And I'm going to think of you like Liberal Democrats do.
You've got piles and piles of cash out there just waiting to be spent.
It's the way they look at you.
So I think I'll choose to look at you that way today.
You're a bunch of cheap skates.
You've got all that money hanging around.
You've got all that stash back there.
And you're spending it, you're not spending it, you're hoarding it for yourselves, and the campaign's over with.
Put some of it on the line.
And if these little polling companies can't afford that, do something $10,000 a point.
I think it's a great idea.
It makes all kinds of sense.
How many polls?
And it's we in the 2012 race, some of the polling was atrociously bad.
Some got it right, though, but some of it was atrociously bad.
And my idea is to just find a financial penalty as an incentive to do better.
What could go wrong?
I was right.
It was the ARG poll in Wisconsin that had Trump winning by 10.
And Cruz actually won the state big.
They threw the ARG poll out.
I mean, for all intents and purposes, the media did.
In days up to the leading up to the Wisconsin primary, people looked at ARG and they started cracking jokes about it and so forth.
So they had Trump 42, Cruz 32, and Kasich 23.
And ARG, they got that Wisconsin wrong.
They've got Trump leading by nine in this poll.
But then again, over to you at NBC with Trump leading by 15, which everybody for Trump wants to believe.
And you've got the local Indiana poll, which has Cruz leading by 16.
Mike Downs.
I've heard of Mike Downs.
You haven't heard of Mike Downs.
You've heard of Mike Downs.
I've heard of Mike Downs because I'm a powerful, influential member of the media, and I've been to Indiana.
I've been to Colts games in Indiana.
I played golf at a number of courses.
I'm in Fort Wayne.
I'm in a Fuzzy Zellers course.
Where else have I been in Indiana?
There's a couple other places.
But I've been there enough to have heard about it.
You can sit there and poo-poo it all you want.
But we'll just see.
Let's go to the phones here.
We've got a guy from Coronado, California, who is actually at the Trump rally in Costa Mesa, which is where all the riot is.
This is Bob.
Bob, great to have you.
I'm glad you got through today.
How are you?
Oh, good.
Thank you.
I was just going to give you my observations from both inside the rally and outside the rally.
Inside, it was electrifying.
I've been to many NFL playoff games and so forth.
This was beyond anything I've seen.
Oh, come on, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob.
Now, wait a second.
You're comparing a Trump rally to the NFL playoff game?
I'm telling you, this guy, when you know what you said before, is it doesn't matter what somebody tells, what somebody says to you when you meet them, it's how they make you feel.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, he has that mastered.
And, you know, and I'll admit it, I'm a Trumpster, but, you know, he does an amazing job of saying some kind of off-the-wall stuff.
You know, we kind of look at each other and smile, you know, like, wow.
No, I know.
Don't misunderstand.
I know they're electric.
I know they're huge.
I know they're exciting.
And people lined up for, in some cases, miles to get into these things.
And it's been the case throughout the campaign.
I'm not denying that.
And by the way, the phrase is an old actor's instruction.
And it is that nobody will remember what you say, but everybody will remember how you make them feel.
And that is, I think, very close to what's happening here with Trump.
And what it means is that they'll love what you say when they hear it, but it's not that memorable unless it's profound.
And you can't be profound for an hour and a half.
Nobody can.
But the way you feel about it, like you, I guess we're being honest, is as big a deal as an NFL playoff game to you.
Yes.
The other thing I wanted to just mention is outside the rally.
I was there pretty early, so I saw some of the bad guys lining up.
And, you know, I kind of wanted to observe some of that.
But, you know, this isn't like a college, you know, an eco-rally or something where you see some ponytail professors and people that are peaceful but kind of crazy.
These are some, these appeared to me, and of course I'm profiling, but they look like bad guys.
And I'm telling you, it looked more like a prison yard than it did like a college campus.
You know, that might be profiling, but to call them bad guys in that trope.
But that's who they were.
They're kind of running around carrying the Mexican flag.
I think they're bought and paid for by people like George Soros and other donors to the Democrat Party.
I don't think, and same thing up in San Francisco.
You know, Trump had to walk into the back of a hotel where the convention was being held to make a speech.
You know, and the protesters were out front, and they thought they had succeeded in intimidating Trump, keeping him away, because his caravan turned around and left and went some other direction.
Trump got out and just walked in the back.
He had his phalanx of Secret Service.
He just walked in.
Same thing at the airport.
They had to do that to get him to his airplane.
He just walked in fearlessly, unafraid.
But the protesters were livid.
They thought they'd succeeded in keeping him out.
This is who they are.
Now, that is genuine and real.
This is what the Tea Party was accused of being back in 2010, 2011, 2012.
That's who these people really are.
In fact, the LA Times had a story.
They were worried about the unintended consequences of all the Mexican flags of the anti-Trump protest.
Hundreds of demonstrators filled the street outside the Orange County Amphitheater, Costa Mesa, where Trump held a rally on Thursday night, stomping on cars, hurling rocks at motorists, and forcefully declaring their opposition to Trump.
17 people arrested.
Traffic came to a halt as protesters walked in the roadway, some waving Mexican flags.
And the LA Times goes on to wring their hands over that.
Ooh, that could backfire.
Because that means the Times likes Trump being protested.
Hey, wait a minute.
All those Mexican flags and the prison yard look to this, that's going to probably end up helping Trump.
They're all worried about it.
And we had our eyewitness, Bob and Coronado.
We have to take a break.
We'll do that and be right back and continue.
Okay.
No doubt more hell is going to be raised when I share with you the convention delegate news that happened over the weekend in Arizona and other places and everything else coming up.
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