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May 2, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 2, 2016, Monday, Hour #3
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No, man, it was Nirvana yesterday.
I hit my first 300-yard drive yesterday.
315 yards.
Now it was wind-aided.
I had a pretty good wind behind me.
It was a 370-yard hole.
And I had 55 yards in my second shot.
And I flushed it.
I mean, I hit it on a screw as it was the sweetest feeling thing.
Just one of those magic moments.
I mean, the rest of the day it didn't matter how I played.
I just, I went to bed thinking about it last night.
I went to bed.
Okay, well, what did I do?
How do I find out what I did and I can replicate it?
But I could have told you all this in the first hour, too, and then in a stick to the issues crowd would have been all over me.
Anyway, welcome back, folks.
It's great to have you with us as always.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address.
So let's go back to this Hillary Clinton because one thing that I think we have to point out before we actually start dissecting this off the reservation comment.
She's dealt with all kinds of men who have been off the reservation.
There's one thing that we know for sure.
Now, some of you, I I bet even some of you in the audience who are women are you might be offended at this.
But only if you take it personally, and I would caution you not to.
This is specific about Hillary and not women.
It's specifically about her.
Off the reservation, maybe, but one thing we know is that Hillary Clinton has never been off of her husband's coattails.
In fact, Hillary Clinton has never gotten a job, a position, that wasn't due to Bill, that was not due to her husband.
I mean, she marries Bill.
She knowingly gives up on her own life and career path and decides to hitch up with Clinton for whatever reasons.
But among those, we know that she intended to follow everywhere he went and take over at various stages.
And to make his career hers.
And then as he cheats and goes off that reservation, she stands by him, thereby indebting herself to him and the Democrat Party for as long as she lives.
By not leaving, by not even blaming him, by trying to blame the vast right-wing conspiracy.
She makes sure that Clinton's reputation holds.
She makes sure that Clinton doesn't have to resign through all of the women.
I don't care.
From from Jennifer Flowers to Kathleen Willie to uh Juanita Broderick, Monica Lewinsky, all of them.
Hillary is in there.
She's the insurance policy, then she happily signed it.
She did everything she could to ensure that Bill Clinton was never going anywhere but up.
So she moves to Arkansas.
It's the last thing somebody goes to Vassar wants to do, or Smith or Wellesley or she's the last thing you want to go to.
Arkansas for crying out loud.
I said, Go to Mississippi.
That's like going to Slave Central.
You don't know, what the hell is this?
But she did it.
She sucked it up and she went down there.
And she got a gig at the Arkansas Law School.
Well, yeah, her husband's going to be the future governor.
Well, how else was the governor?
And then she gets hired to the Rose Law Firm when he became attorney general.
You think that would have happened otherwise.
She made partner at Rose Lawrence when Clinton was elected governor.
And on and on and on it goes.
One of the reasons Hillary went to Arkansas, people forget that she could not pass the bar exam in the District of Columbia.
Probably because it was discriminatory.
Probably because it was biased against women.
Probably because all these uh, you know, social things constructed to make it tougher and tougher for women in her world.
That's what feminists of her era believed.
She had been fired from the Watergate Committee because she wanted to deny Richard Nixon due process during the hearings.
So the Democrats on the Watergate Committee got rid of her.
She literally has never been off of Bill Clinton's coattails.
And by the same token, Bill Clinton has never been off the reservation when it comes to advancing her career.
They're glued together.
They're inexorably tied.
So when she comes out and starts talking about how she's dealt with all these men that have gone off the reservation, it's entirely possible that she was not referring to being cheated on.
It could 100% of the people that hear it probably going to think that.
But it's entirely possible that she was referring to all of these men that she's had to deal with as a feminist, all these rakish chauvinists, know it all, telling off-colored jokes in her what whatever offensive male behavior she's had to put up with.
All of these men going off the reservation.
She had to deal with them all.
College, the Rose Law Firm, state government in Arkansas, federal government.
She's activist first lady.
Here she's given health care as a payback for all the things that she has enabled Bill to do.
So they, I mean, he his testicles been in the lockbox ever since they got to Arkansas.
That's the point.
So she wants health care when they get to Washington, she gets health care.
She botched that.
And of course, that was all a men's fault.
She had to deal with all those men in the congressional committees.
And all especially those rascally Republican guys would show her no respect.
And then Secretary of State, she had to deal with all of these career men who dared to thwart her or disagree with her or stand up to her.
So in her view, it's entirely possible in the way Hillary Clinton looks at the world and looks at her life and looks at her career, that she's had to pretty much vanquish a veritable army of men who have stood in her way.
And don't forget the feminist angle in all this.
Men versus women is a war in Hillary Clinton's liberal Democrat feminist generation.
That's men, men were people you had to constantly be at war with and battle.
The male characters, then let's go to the vast right-wing conspiracy.
All of the male characters there that she's had to put up with and deal with me, the Mr. Big of the vast right-wing conspiracy.
Of course, I remain unvanquished.
Uh to her great fury, but she has vanquished a lot of other people.
But old Bill himself, he has never been off the reservation when it comes to her career.
She took care of that from the get-go with that testicle lockbox and a couple of other things.
Now then, this off-the-reservation comment, Trump's saying that that was offensive to him.
And I think what he's talking about here is, well, who lives on reservations?
Native Americans.
The original owners of this land, the people who were at one with this land when white European settlers came here and basically took it away from them.
And here's here's here's Hillary talking about all these guys off the reservation.
Is that what she thinks of Native Americans?
They ought to be on the reservation all the time.
We got a place for them to live, keep them under reservation out of sight, unless they want to donate to a Democrat.
We'll put up with them for a while.
But other than that, they're off the reservation.
That's what Trump was thinking, in terms of it being an offensive remark.
Because who lives on reservations?
And don't just give me this figure of speech stuff.
Yeah, they don't allow Republicans to get away.
What do you mean?
It's a figure of speech, everybody.
Well, we're going to start holding Hillary to all these kind of things, too, and every other Democrat that They try to glue these kinds of supposed acts of misbehavior to uh to us.
You know, in addition to this, Hillary Clinton, she that interview that she did with Jake Tapper on CNN, that's where all this came to light.
This off-the-reservation comment, CNN played an advanced clip of this on Friday prior to the actual interviewing airing on the Jake Tapper show at 4 o'clock on Friday afternoon of CNN.
And that Citizens United, you know, the Democrats hate that.
You know why they hate that?
Is because that Supreme Court decision allows anybody to donate to anybody in politics, including corporations.
The hypocritical thing about this is that the Democrats own corporate America.
The Democrats are propped up by Wall Street money, and they are corporations.
What the Democrats don't like is when corporations give money to Republicans because corporations have a lot of money.
And Hillary Clinton was asked about Citizens United.
And if you remember, Citizens United, Dave Bossy will tell you this, he runs Citizens United, and it was all about they made a uh movie, essentially, about Hillary Clinton.
And Hillary tried to get it blocked.
And she failed.
And the Supreme Court said, you can't stop people from running this movie.
Who do you think you are?
Well, they didn't say that, but but that was the effect of the decision.
So she said, when Jake Tapper asked her about this, she said, I really respect the important point of getting money out of politics.
Now come on.
There couldn't be a greater hypocritical statement.
I know Democrats do not get held to any hypocrisy, and it never hurts them, but still, I really respect the important point of money.
This is a woman with her husband who runs this crime family foundation, for all intents and purposes, where people all over the world have made advance payments on policy paybacks in case she is elected president.
There's no other reason to donate millions of dollars to the Clintons.
Bill's nothing now.
Terms of elective office, she's Secretary of State when this is happening.
Why in the you must be expecting some payback, some quid pro quo for it?
Ditto with the banks, giving her a quarter of a million dollars to come give a 20-minute speech.
And here she is talking about getting the money out of politics.
Well, here's why.
She said, remember, Citizens United was an attack on me.
So I take it very personally.
And even before Senator Sanders got into the campaign, way back in April last year, I said we're going to reverse Citizens United.
And if we can't get the Supreme Court to do what I think would be the right thing, then I will lead a constitutional amendment.
Now, Citizens United, as I said, did involve a movie critical of her.
The Supreme Court decision in Citizens United essentially held that the federal government could not constitutionally bar the movie from being shown, regardless whether an election campaign was in progress.
So she wants that overturned.
And if she succeeded, it would mean you couldn't criticize her.
If they succeed in getting Citizens United overturned, or either by Supreme Court decision or constitutional amendment, she's saying she wants to make it illegal to be able to criticize her in a movie, in a book, or in a pamphlet.
Now, she's not going to come out and say it that way, because very few people would embrace it.
As long as she casts Citizens United as a bunch of right-wing corporate money.
Well, then she's going to have all kinds of people on her side with it.
Let's take a brief time out.
We'll come back.
I got more of your phone calls to come of the Ted Cruz sound bites of the day, so sit tight.
More coming up.
Okay, now this just happened.
Not long ago, it was this afternoon in Marion, Indiana, during a campaign event, Ted Cruz uh is confronted by Trumpists.
And uh we have three sound bites.
It says two sound bites, I'm sorry, here.
And you this this this little exchange, at least two bites, could serve as a microcosm for this entire primary.
Let's see what we get here.
Again, it's Marion, Indiana.
Cruz and an unidentified Trump supporter have the following exchange.
Here's the first of two bites.
What do you like about Donald?
Everything.
Give me one.
The wall.
Okay, the wall.
That's the main thing.
Immigration.
Hold on a second.
Now do you know on the wall?
That Donald told the New York Times editorial.
Again, Lion Ted.
Were you able to make that out?
Okay, I wasn't.
If I didn't have a transcript, I would not know what just happened.
So let me.
I have to.
You really could hear this.
You heard Lion Ted.
Oh, you heard Lion Ted.
That's all you wanted here, right?
That's that does it for you.
Okay, here's what here's what it was.
Cruz says to the Trumpist, what do you like about Donald?
And the Trumpist says everything.
Cruz says, give me one.
Trumpist says the wall.
Cruz, okay, the wall.
That's the main thing, says the Trumpist.
Immigration.
Then another guy says, Ted's.
Then Cruz interrupts that guy and says, all right, hold on a second.
Then an unidentified woman, another Trumpist says, Hillary Clinton.
It's chaos in there.
Cruz says, you know, on the wall, he's talking back to the first guy now.
You know, on the wall, do you know that Donald told the New York Times editorial board that he's not gonna build a wall and he's not gonna deport anybody?
And the Trumpists said, you're lying!
You lying Ted!
So here's Cruz.
He's got the facts on his side in this.
That was part of Trump's New York Times that hadn't been released.
Well, what wait a second?
Wait a second.
It hasn't been released, but don't forget.
A bunch of New York Times people have written about it.
They know what Trump said in the editorial board meeting, and they are they that nobody will authorize the release of the tape of the meeting.
There have been two Times columnists.
I think one was Modo, I'm not sure.
Maybe three, who have written.
If you know how to connect the dots, they've heard the tape, they know what Trump has said, and there's uh references to the fact that that Trump told them at the New York Times that he's not going to deport anybody, he's not going to build a wall.
Um and that the columns written about this have been in of the nature of what if people learned this.
And you could tell the reporters at the Times, who had privy to the tape had heard it, were trying.
Remember when this all happened, they were accused of leaking.
Trump accused them of leaking.
Cruz demanded it that Trump release it.
Trump wouldn't do it.
The New York Times won't.
And because Trump won't, the Times can't, so people at the Times have been trying to get it out there in disguised ways.
You remember all this.
Okay, so that's the first bite.
And then it it continues here with the Trump and the same unidentified Trumpist.
Cruz begins this bite saying, Well, no, sir, you know, actually, and then the guy interrupts him.
Well, sir, take down ISIS.
Civilized people don't just scream and yell at each other.
I'm not yelling at you.
How do you know the body?
Let me tell you.
The New York Times recorded the whole thing.
Oh, I did.
All right, so I think that kind of sums up this whole campaign.
That's exactly how it's being perceived out there.
On the one hand, you have Ted Cruz, who is a straight and arrow, straight down the middle, brilliant guy.
He is lined up with the facts.
He's got the evidence, and he's up against the Trumpists who believe he's a liar.
Because of Lion Ted.
He holds up dead Bible.
He waves the Bible around.
And then he lied.
Lion Ted!
Lion did!
I talked to Tara!
And he's lying.
And his supporters all think that's.
So here's Cruz.
No, no, no, sir.
Donald's words were caught on tape.
Do you know the New York Times recorded the whole thing publicly recorded?
And the Trump, how about your mistress's lying, Ted?
How about your mist?
And Cruz, oh, that's a total lie.
Okay, okay, Lion Ted.
Doesn't that not?
Epitoma, not epitomized.
Doesn't that kind of uh it it what's the word I'm looking for?
Uh not caricatures.
It it it summarizes anyway, in a nutshell, these two bites show us the difference in the two campaigns.
And the Trumpists, they're not interested in what anybody has to say about Trump.
Don't care.
They showed up.
They showed up.
This is the mistake, by the way.
If I could offer counsel here, I made it myself.
When you're being interviewed by the media, they don't care what you think.
They're not there to learn, they're not there to be taught, they're not there to learn what you think.
They're learned, they're there to discredit you.
And the Trump people said they're not there to hear anything that they may not know about Trump.
That's not why they're there.
And so, but Ted's trying to persuade them.
He's treating them as uh is respectful to them.
He's trying to give them facts as he knows it.
But that's not what it's about.
It's the biggest problem conservatives have in dealing with opponents is that the facts are never what any of this is about.
And we will be back.
One one more similar soundbite here.
Ted Cruz, you might have heard about this.
This was in LaPort, Indiana yesterday, at another campaign event.
Cruz was interrupted by a brat kid who started yelling at Cruz.
A ten-year-old or some such thing, who started yelling at Cruz and eventually, you suck to Cruz.
And this is how that sounded.
Apparently, there's a young man who's having some problems.
Thank you, son.
You know, I appreciate your sharing your views.
You know, one of the things that hopefully someone has told you is that children should actually speak with respect.
Imagine what a different world it would be if someone had told Donald Trump that years ago.
You know, in my household, when a child behaves that way, they get a spanking.
Okay.
This sound bite once again offers a classic opportunity to illustrate massive generational changes that have taken place in this country.
Let's go back to the top.
Cruz starts out by he hears the kid out there and he says, apparently there's a young man who's having some problems.
Then you hear the kid saying, Yeah, you suck.
And Cruz, I mean, he's got a crowd of adults around here.
What does he do with this?
So his instincts kick in, and he says, Thank you, son.
You know, I appreciate your sharing your views.
That's what you have to do in politics.
You have to you have to praise and compliment the reprobates.
And then he said, you know, one of the things that hopefully someone's told you is that children should actually speak with respect.
Now this crowd cheered, but I guarantee you in much of America, when they heard Cruz say that, they started laughing at him, and they started ridiculing him on social media.
What world do you live in, Ted?
Where children respect adults?
Is that what you what are children to be seen and not heard, Ted?
Is that what you think?
Just get them out of the way.
We don't want any kids around, and when the kids speak up, it's only with a position and the permission of the adults, Ted.
Is that what you that's the kind of thing circulated on the on social media?
Because kids are precious today.
And whatever they say is right, we can't damage them.
They're poor self-esteem.
So if a kid is out this way, we must praise little Johnny for what?
Having the courage to speak his mind and so forth.
There's no such thing anymore as a kid being impolite or rude.
Well, in certain sectors, segments of the country.
There's accommodation, there's understanding.
There's in even some cases praise.
Hey, isn't it cute what little Johnny said that Ted Cruz told him you suck?
And it's Great little Johnny.
And give him an extra ice cream cone on the way home.
Um it is considered fashionably old fashioned to sit here and think that children must respect their elders.
That's such an antiquated period.
What do you mean children should respect their elders?
How many parents, how many adults do you respect?
Why should their kids respect them?
They're reprobates, they're losers.
Why should the kids respect?
We are in a massive, massive generational evolution in shift here.
And this bite illustrates.
Here's Ted Cruz responding as an adult would in the 1960s.
Now, as I say his crowd, because they're Ted Cruz, but they cheered, they understood exactly what he's talking about.
But Cruz is being vilified for this.
He's not your son, Ted Cruz.
You don't get to tell him how to behave.
You don't get that's what's wrong with you, conservatives.
You want to tell everybody how to behave.
It's all out there.
It's all over the social media.
And the PS there is in soft resistance when Cruz said that in his day, his dad came spanking for misbehaving like that.
Now they're out there ripping Cruz for supporting corporal punishment of children because Cruz would spank the kid.
Here's the way I compare this.
The way I analyze and look at these things.
My my my dad took my brother and I in 1964 over the river to Illinois, because there was Barry Goldwater was going through in one of these little whistle stops in the train.
And he was going to stop wherever it was some some little train station about a half hour from where we lived, and he was just going to stop there for like five or ten minutes from the back of the train waving, you know, gold gold water going.
It was going to be historic just to be able to see it.
Presidential campaign, 13-year-old.
I'll guarantee you that if at that thing some little kid had said to go, yeah, you suck, everybody would have turned on the kid.
The parents would have been embarrassed and would have tried to find somebody to apologize to.
Today, when it happens, there is some of that still, but there's all kinds of other stuff too, like praising the kid, excusing the kid.
Social media finds people, hey, we can't damage.
He's too young to be told no, he's too young.
It's like outcome-based education.
Two plus two is five until they figure out it isn't.
But you don't dare tell them because it might give them a complex.
Might make them feel stupid because they don't already know.
So it makes teaching impossible.
And it's it's you know.
If if uh if some little ten-year-old kid has stood up and said to Trump, yeah, you suck, what do you think Trump's reaction?
We'd only guess, but what do you think Trump's reaction would be?
Trump would probably launch into a diatribe about but a bunch of worthless parents that kid obviously has.
I'm just guessing or some some such thing.
But uh Cruz resorted to how it was and the reasonable way to raise kids to be polite, be respectful of adults, uh, behave themselves and manners and all this.
And clearly that is considered old-fashioned, just out of fashion.
We don't do it that way anymore.
And those kind of people are out mocking Cruz on social media today.
Anyway, got to take a break, folks.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Here's uh here's Mark, Western New York.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Mr. Limbaugh, what an honor it is to speak to the leader of the conservative movement, sir, and uh my my professor and the political system for the last 15 years.
I'm very well educated.
Thank you very much.
Well, thank you, sir.
Very nice of you to say, I appreciate that.
Uh I got one statement, and then I got one quick question.
Sure.
Uh my statement is since uh Obama has been such a a destructive force to our American culture and pride.
Uh I think he's done one great thing, and he is awoken, the silent majority, sir.
Just like it was a wolf when uh Carter lost in a landslide defeat to Reagan.
I I feel that this next election, uh Hillary will go down in a landslide defeat to either Cruz or Trump.
Um I have no doubt about it, sir.
Well, my question to you is, if you don't mind, sir.
My question is to you, do you think Ted Cruz would be more uh greater for this country is if he were our president or our next Supreme Court justice.
You're asking a value question.
Would good Cruz be more greater of greater value as a Supreme Court justice or President of the United States?
Well, uh gee, that's a that's a good question, actually.
I think either one and the country would benefit tremendously.
On the court, Chris would be there for the rest of his life.
And there wouldn't be anything wrong with that.
President, four years, eight years, whatever it, whatever it turns out to be.
But either one of those options, you know, in this uh I I wouldn't rule anyone out.
I mean I wouldn't uh and I know it's a trick question.
As host for 16 years, as you pointed out, I'm I I recognize all the tricks that callers try to get me to pinpoint what I don't want to say otherwise, so you can say, hey, hey, you see what Rush actually said there.
But I'm just gonna answer you, I think either one of those options would be fabulous.
I really do.
You know, about the silent majority thing that you brought up, Mark.
Um, it's not so silent right now.
I mean, it is raucous.
It is loud and it is obviously large.
You said you think that Obama's responsible for awakening it.
I don't look, folks, I think that's totally true.
If I if I may briefly go back to the thing I opened the program with today, which was the White House Correspondence Dinner.
If you look at why Obama was voted for by a lot of white people, there was so it had nothing to do with with policy, it had nothing to do with hope and change or any of that.
It was all race.
It was people so hoping that the election of an African American would put a dent in the racial strife and and start to heal because of what it would demonstrate.
I mean, how can anybody think this is a racist country after a black man's elected?
And in association with addition to that, there was hope that Obama would actually improve life for American minorities.
I'm sure a lot of the white people that voted for him were desperately hoping that would happen.
And I don't mean by expanding the welfare state.
I don't I don't mean by expanding government services, but literally genuinely improving life circumstances for minorities.
Um because the fact is that most Americans desperately want that to happen.
And they were hoping that Obama would provide the leadership, the inspiration, and it's been just the exact opposite.
It has gotten worse.
We have become more divided.
And that's another reason why this silent majority is that it's an abject failure and rejection of so many people's hopes when they voted for the guy.
Okay, folks, that's it.
Just as my voice is giving out for the day, we are out of time.
But be patient.
It all resumes tomorrow.
Back here in 21 hours.
Thanks so much for being with us.
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