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May 5, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 5, 2016, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
A view is expressed by the host on this program, documented to be almost always right, 99.8% of the time.
Fastest week in media.
Here we are already a Thursday.
It's great to have you here.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, is 800-282. 2882.
And if you want to send an email, it's lrushbow at eibnet.com.
Okay, let me review some of the things coming up on the program today.
And again, as I said yesterday, you know, these are major, major tune-in days.
Of course, each and every day here at the EIB network is a major, major tune-in day, given it's the most listened to program in the country.
But on days like yesterday and today, the tune-in factor is even greater.
And for those of you tuning in here who may not tune in every day, warning, you're going to get hooked.
Second point, it's impossible to say everything that I'm going to say or want to say in the opening segment of the program.
So if you don't hear what you're primarily interested in talked about in the first segment, hang in there.
It'll happen.
And that's why I want to review just a little bit, not everything that's on tap here today.
Nate Silver, the polling guru, particularly of people on the left, he's their Bible.
This guy supposedly has established a reputation as the greatest pollster on earth, the greatest predictor of polls, the greatest analyst of polls, the greatest applicable percentage of polls guy.
And he admits that they got the Republican primary wrong.
They got it wrong state by state by state.
And the reason this is relevant, we're looking forward to the future, is people, these pollsters are having trouble polling Trump.
They're having trouble polling the Trump support base because they're applying templates and narratives and playbooks and blueprints that normally you plug an everyday ordinary politician into.
And it's not working with Trump.
And kudos to Silver.
I mean, this is not a criticism.
Kudos to him for admitting it.
I ran into a story last night that started to make my heart beating a little quicker.
You remember during the discussions of the Iranian nuclear deal?
And this is going back now.
This may be even before the end of last year.
But I distinctly remember making a point.
So many people go, what in the world are we doing?
Why are we doing this?
And why are so many people in favor?
And I said, the reason we're doing this is the lobbyists.
Why are the Republicans helping this?
Remember the Corker bill that was actually designed to make it look like the Republicans were opposing it, but it actually facilitated the Iranian nuke deal being done.
And I'm peppered with questions here from people.
What's going on?
And I said, the donors are driving this.
He said, what do you mean, the donors?
And I said, there's an example.
Boeing wants to be able to bid with Iran on replacing their domestic airline fleet.
And they're going to use the $150 billion that we're going to unfreeze as part of lifting sanctions.
They're going to use part of that to fund terrorism, of course, but they're going to use it to rebuild some of their national airline and domestic airlines and whatever else they want to use it for.
And I remember distinctly making the point that Boeing was donating a lot of money to Republicans in order to get them to vote.
Well, lo and behold, this finally has made the mainstream media.
And it happened during the day yesterday.
Should the government stop Boeing from selling airplanes to Iran?
It's too late for that.
I can't believe that people are just now discovering this.
This is from theHill.com.
A trio of House lawmakers is pressing the Boeing company to refrain from selling aircraft or parts or related services to Iran, citing Iran's links to terror financing.
In a letter to Boeing's chief executive officer, Dennis Muhlenberg this week, the three Republicans in Illinois blasted Boeing for reportedly considering a business.
They just figured this out.
No, folks, this is not ninja.
I see.
I told you so.
Here's some Republicans who don't even know what happened.
We knew this at the end of last year, or whatever this came up.
Whenever did the nuke deal get done, Snowden, was that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because Edmund Party came.
So right there it is.
So we'll have details on that.
Humana, another major American health enterprise exiting Obamacare exchanges.
Can't afford to stay in despite the mandate that every American have coverage.
There aren't enough customers.
Go figure.
Van Jones on CNN kind of let the cat out of the bag.
He's worried Trump is going to get enough of the black vote.
He says, look, the Democrats need 90 to 92% of black vote to win.
If Trump goes in or gets 10% of it, we're cooked.
He said it yesterday on CNN.
And he also intimated that in order for Democrats to continue to get 90% of the black vote, they've got to stay on the welfare rolls.
They have got to remain dependent.
It's amazing.
They've got to remain dependent on government.
They've got to be resentful.
They have to continue to hear how rotten they'll be treated if the Republicans win.
The Justice Department, the Justice Department has challenged North Carolina.
They've sent a letter to the governor saying you will not enforce the law that your legislature just passed on the bathrooms.
You will not.
I have to put up, pardon me, wrong way to put it.
I have to listen to people worry about whether Trump's going to become a dictator while we're living in the early stages of one.
The Justice Department's taking over every local police department they can, and now they're instructing with intimidating letters governors warning them, you better not.
Title VII Civil Rights Act.
It's apparently a violation of Title VII Civil Rights Act to put signs on restrooms.
Now, the Civil Rights Act 1964, I challenge anybody, go read it.
I know you're not going to.
I'll tell you.
There's nothing in it about transgenders.
There's nothing in it about bathrooms.
There's not a single syllable.
There's not a preposition.
There's not a vowel.
There's nothing in the Civil Rights Act, Title VII or anywhere else, has anything to do with bathrooms, signs, transgender, gender orientation, anything of the sort.
But this is the regime.
Details coming up.
North Carolina lawmakers have reacted to it.
Another sharp rise in homelessness in Los Angeles.
California for some more draconian anti-smoking laws and taxes.
And the mayor of Cupertino, California.
Apple pays $9.2 million in taxes every year to Cupertino, California.
And the mayor says it's not enough.
They can't keep the buses running.
They can't keep the streets clean.
They can't keep the infrastructure running.
Apple should pay $100 million.
Just give the city of Cupertino, it's 60,000 people.
Give the city $100 million just because they have it.
I mean, they've got it.
They're rich.
Mayor says he tried to get into Apple's headquarters.
He drove over there.
They wouldn't let him in.
He didn't have an appointment.
Security wouldn't let him in.
So he went back to his office, fuming, has now let the world know that Apple isn't paying enough.
And they're paying an effective tax rate of 2.3%, which is the law.
They pay 2.3%, not on their big cash pot of $200 million because it's all overseas.
So their tax bill is $9.2 million.
It's Cupertino, $9.2 million, not enough.
So those are the things that really have nothing to do with the campaign.
We're loaded as well on the campaign.
Chris Matthews did not know his mic was open on PMS NBC.
Did you hear about this?
Donald Trump wins the Indiana primary.
The cameras are trained at Trump Tower, the headquarters on the podium, waiting for the Trump entourage to arrive at the podium for Trump to make his acceptance.
And all the people, MSNBC, and the commentator desk are sitting there watching this.
And Chris Matthews, none of the mic's live yet because they're not on the air, but he's waiting for commercial break.
And Melania Trump walks in with her husband.
And apparently, Matthews got another thrill up his leg because he started oogling and ogling and going, oh my God, oh my God, would you look at the way she walks?
oh, my God, I could look at that all day.
And he didn't know the mic was open.
Nothing's going to happen, of course.
But I just wanted to let you know about that.
Story in Reuters today.
Let me do the headline here.
Trump's deportation plan could slice 2% off the United States gross domestic product.
Now, wait a minute, let that sink in.
Stop for just a second.
Think about it.
Trump's deportation.
Who would be deportated or deported if this happens?
Illegal immigrants.
Where do they live?
They live in the shadows.
They are so deeply in the shadows, we can't find them.
Whenever it's discussed, a possibility of deporting them, their advocates on the left screech.
It's not realistic, they say.
You can't find them.
They're in the shadows.
They're never going to come forward.
If you tell them you're going to deport them, you can't find them.
So we can't find them.
They're lurking deep in the shadows.
Yet, somehow, somebody from the American Action Forum, it's a conservative think tank, went out there and determined that if Trump deports those he claims he's going to deport, it would cream the GDP by 2%.
That is how much the, whatever the number is, illegal immigrants are contributing to the U.S. economy, even though we can't find them.
But the point is, they're studying it.
I thought it was never going to happen.
I thought Trump will never do it.
I thought Trump's lying to his supporters.
He's not going to deport anybody.
Well, maybe, maybe not.
We'll only know after we wait and see if he gets elected.
But some people are going ahead and running the numbers anyway, not taking the chance that he doesn't mean it.
They're actually assuming that he does, and they're running in numbers.
Donald Trump's vow to round up and deport all of America's undocumented immigrants, if he is elected president, could shrink the U.S. economy by around 2%, according to a study to be released today by conservative think tank, the American Action Forum.
The research adds to concerns about the Republican nominees' policy proposals, which range from tearing up international trade agreements to building a wall along the U.S. borders.
Speaking of that, speaking of that, let's go back in time to the audio sound device.
My fingers are crossed that it's going to work today.
We're going to start with Vicente Fox, February 25th, 2016, on Fusion TV.
This is the highly acclaimed program Amedica with Jorge Ramos.
And Jorge Ramos says, please respond to Donald Trump saying he plans to build a wall on the United States-Mexican border.
I'm not going to pay for that wall.
He should pay for it.
He's got the money.
Are you afraid that he's going to be the next president of the United States?
What would that mean for McDonald?
Or democracy cannot take us to crazy people that doesn't know what's going on in the world today.
It worries me this last caucus in Nevada.
44% of Hispanics.
I'd like to know who those Hispanics are because they're followers of a false prophet.
As a former Mexican president Vicente Fox says, I am not paying for that effing wall.
What it might be children listening.
You know, I pause.
I mean, John Kerry can get away with that.
Anyway, he's not paying for the wall.
Trump should pay for the wall.
Trump's got the money.
And then Jorge Ramos, you're afraid that he's going to be elected?
None.
No chance.
None at all.
Okay, that was February 25th.
Yesterday at Breitbart News, former Mexican president Vicente Fox was the guest.
And they were discussing Trump being offended by Fox's cursing.
Trump said, that's bad.
You don't say that when he heard that Vicente Fox had dropped the F-bomb.
Trump said, you don't talk that way.
That's shameful.
Former world leader talking about that offends me.
So Trump was asked what he thinks about it.
And then Vicente Fox was asked by Breitbart what he thinks of what Trump said.
Yes, I'm humble enough.
As leaders should be compassionate leaders.
If I offended you, I'm sorry.
So Vicente Fox apologizes to the Trumpster.
Don't misunderstand what the apology is for.
The apology is for using the F-bomb.
The apology is not anything to do with the wall or immigration.
Although some might extrapolate and think that it is.
So then, here's magnanimity.
Here is graciousness.
Here is.
This is the kind of behavior that many in the GOP think defines proper political behavior in the world today.
Grace, humility, kindness, and so forth.
Vicente Fox, yes, I am humble enough, as leaders should be, compassionate leaders.
If I offended you, I am sorry.
So last night, Bill O'Reilly was talking to Trump.
You got any message for Vicente Fox?
Going to be in the show later?
Yeah, get your money ready because you're going to pay for the wall.
We will take a break and be right back.
Do not go away.
Now, the conventional wisdom on Trump, there are two kinds.
The two competing theories are Trump's toast already.
Trump doesn't have a prayer.
Trump is going to have an array of negative ads launched against him, the like of which he's never seen.
The Clintons have money.
They have opposition research.
And no matter how good Trump is, and no matter how good he is at ad living and reacting, he hasn't the slightest idea.
He's never, ever faced whatever the Clintons are going to throw at him and what the Democrats are going to throw.
The other school of thought is vice versa.
Hillary doesn't know what she's dealing with.
Hillary has never had a deal with what she's going to be faced with.
Hillary has never been vetted.
Hillary has always been just there by acclaim.
And it's producing some surprising in terms of analysts.
Mark Halperin, who is, you'd have to say, a steady leftist, both inside the media and out, was on a Today show today.
And he's asked, what do you think is going to happen here?
Everybody that's involved is being asked what they think.
But Halperin, he's studious, used to be the ABC, been involved in presidential debates, now has his own show in Bloomberg.
This is what he said.
People who say it's impossible, I think, are the same people who underestimate him for running for the nomination.
You've got two unpopular candidates here, one an experienced politician.
In a normal year, that'd be an advantage.
We're not in a normal year.
Donald Trump will run against Hillary Clinton the way he did against Jeb Bush and say, business as usual won't work.
Hillary Clinton will say, this guy is not acceptable to be president.
The basic message as a Democrats is that don't underestimate Trump.
Which takes us to Nate Silver of the 538 website.
Nate Silver used to be the New York Times.
And believe it or not, Nate Silver, during the 2012 campaign, Romney and Obama, Nate Silver, because there was a lot of polling data that showed Romney was going to win by five or six points.
And there was panic all over the fruited plane in leftist enclaves.
But Nate Silver never bought it, and he was their link to sanity.
But he admits that they got it wrong on the Republican side, which is going to cause unease in a lot of places.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program, we'll be getting your phone calls in a moment.
I forgot, folks, we forgot John Kasich gave his farewell address yesterday as he retired from the presidential campaign.
I meant to do this in the opening moments of today's excursion into broadcast excellence.
It just slipped my mind.
And for that, for all of you Kasich voters and supporters, I apologize.
Farewell addresses are always meaningful.
They're always poignant.
And Governor Kasich delivered his yesterday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio.
We have just a portion of his farewell address.
Frankly, I was so humbled by the fact that they came and they loved me.
They encouraged me.
The people of our country changed me.
They changed me with the stories of their lives.
Okay, so there, I mean, it wasn't the entire farewell address.
We just picked the meat, if you will, of the thing, where Governor Kasich is humbled by the fact that they came and they loved him.
They loved me.
They really loved me out there.
And they encouraged me because they loved me.
People of our country changed me.
They changed me with the stories of their lives and how much they love me.
I didn't see it.
Was there any confetti?
Did anybody see this?
There was no confetti?
Well, Nate Silver.
Here's how this began.
This is the Business Insider.
September 2015.
Writer and statistic.
This is not a rip, folks.
Don't anybody call Nate Silver and say that Limbaugh was ragging.
I'm not.
Far, far, far from it.
2015 September, writer and statistician Nate Silver urged people to calm down about the possibility of Donald Trump winning the nomination.
Two months later, November 2015, Nate Silver wrote that the media should stop freaking out about Donald Trump's polls and that Trump's odds were higher than zero, but considerably less than 20% winning a nomination.
Six months later, Ted Cruz had dropped out of the race.
But before John Kasich had done so, Nate Silver wrote, Donald Trump is going to win the Republican nomination.
Other than being early skeptics of Jeb Bush, we basically got the Republican race wrong, Silver wrote.
It's easy to cringe at how in August, for instance, Silver outlined the six stages of doom that he foresaw for Trump in the coming months, and how in December he updated the post to note that the most difficult hurdles between Trump and the nomination are still yet to come.
This site, 538 and Silver, look, they're like anybody else that takes what they do very seriously.
They pride themselves on their approach, and they claim it's unique.
They don't actually, you know, everybody does polls and deals with results.
What they do, as best I understand it, is they take all of the polling data and they run numbers with algorithms and stuff, and they come up with relative percentages that candidate X will win the nomination and percentages that candidate X will not.
And those percentages fluctuate as the polling changes.
And it is that technique that Silver has really hit home run after home run after home run on in presidential elections, but did not get this right.
And so it opens up a possibility of people, is there a Trump effect in the polls?
Meaning, are there people going to vote for Trump that won't say so?
Just like the Wilder effect, are there people that say they will vote for an African American, but actually don't end up doing it?
So everybody's kind of discombobulated about this.
Because remember, polling data and news organizations and professional politicians, it's gospel.
They live and die by it.
They don't even look at polling data as a reflection of public opinion.
It is, but that's not how they use it.
They use it to actually make news.
And they use it to try to shape public opinion, not reflect it.
And when it becomes unreliable, they feel blind and naked of sorts and don't know how to overcome it.
So it's just another small little tidbit of information you have to throw into the mix here.
Because you have a genuine outsider who did not have a polling unit himself and did not have a campaign manager per se, did not have a speech writer, did not have policy position people and this sort of stuff.
It was a bare minimum campaign in that regard.
And here's another thing, too, folks.
And this goes to the whole idea that the establishment class simply doesn't understand and it has no ability to see current circumstances the way people not in the establishment see it.
It's the old saw that many Americans think this nation is in crisis, serious with not much time left crisis.
But inside the Beltway, there is no such thinking whatsoever.
And when people inside the Beltway are told that there are people who think this way, they poo-poo it.
They mock it.
They reject it rather than study it.
Rather than try to learn what they automatically claim it's not legitimate.
It's crazy.
What do you mean, crisis?
Because where they live, everything's fine.
Their jobs are fine and they're getting richer.
Their schools are good.
They don't have to live with pockets of homeless people or illegal immigrants.
They don't live in high crime areas.
They don't have health care concerns or any of the sort.
Their economic concerns are much, much fewer and less than the day-to-day economic concerns of average ordinary Americans.
And so there's this disconnect in that regard, and it's big, and it all gets factored in as these people make judgments on who can win and who can't and who can resonate with people and who doesn't.
And if you go through, people, I find it amazing that there are still, and I do, I really do find it amazing to one degree or another, there are still educated, intelligent people who cannot yet understand why what has happened has happened.
And it really isn't hard looking from our perspective, looking at Washington from our perspective.
We don't see anything working.
And not only do we not see anything working, we see what they're doing harming and being counterproductive.
They have no ability to see it in that way, the people inside the beltway, because their life experience isn't reflecting any of that.
But you want to go down a little bit of a list of things.
You have 94 million Americans not working.
You have wages, what people earn, essentially stagnant, while the cost of living and mandated government expenses like health care are skyrocketing.
The very idea that the government's mandating, requiring you to buy health insurance, we are in freefall in our foreign policy in the military.
We've had a bunch of wars that people now don't quite understand what the purpose was.
They supported them at the outset.
I mean, they're really gung-ho, all-in form at the outset, but they are not questioning everything.
Then you have the trade deals, which have been popularized in this campaign, the state of education.
The whole institution of marriage has been turned upside down and thrown in people's faces and crammed down their throats.
And the same thing is happening with transgender issues in bathrooms now.
Just every tradition that people relied on, every institution that people relied on, is under assault and nobody's defending them.
The institutions, nobody's defending it.
And so there is a quite recognizable sense of panic.
And somebody came along and was able to give voice to it and make a lot of people understand, think, realize that this person, i.e.
Trump, recognizes and is going to do something about it.
It isn't hard to understand, but if you're from the old saw political school of thought where you examine things in the traditional blueprint or playbook way, you'll miss it.
You won't see it.
So I think that describes largely where a lot of people are.
Not everybody, of course.
I mean, the Never Trump movement's still there.
And you have, we'll treat them to you as the program unfolds, all kinds of major, big Republican donors.
I can't do it.
I just can't give my money to Trump.
The Koch brothers are thinking of going with Hillary, for example, which really surprises me.
I mean, they are libertarians, and that just blows me away that the Koch brothers would be all in for Hillary.
But everybody's noses are still out of joint in a lot of ways.
And we'll see how people are feeling and thinking a week from now, two weeks from now.
And then you have something like this.
In reversal, Trump expresses openness to raising the minimum wage.
And you got people who go, see, see, I told you, I told you he was lying to you.
I told you he's a lib.
I told you he's a Democrat.
And this is just the beginning.
You wait and see what else he changes his mind on.
In a reversal, Donald Trump expressed openness to raising the minimum wage during an interview yesterday.
And what he said, you have to, I'm looking at that.
I'm looking at that.
I'm very different from most Republicans, Trump told CNN.
I'm very different from most Republicans.
You have to have something you can live on.
And you can't live on $15.
You can't live on $12.
You have to have something you can live on.
But what I'm really looking to do is get people great jobs so that they make much more money than that, meaning the minimum, much more money than $15 an hour.
The federal minimum right now is $7.25.
But labor groups have been pushing for it to be raised to 15.
Now, back in November, in one of the primary debates, Trump voiced opposition to raising the minimum wage.
He said, quote, I hate to say it, but we have to leave it the way it is.
Why would he hate to say it?
Well, because this is a Republican debate.
He knows what he better say as a Republican.
But now.
But then on the other hand of this, there's a story in the New York Times today, which is kind of surprising in itself, of what Trump's plans are for his first day, second day, first hundred days.
And as you go through it, I think there's a lot in it that people are going to like if they believe it.
See, that's always going to come down to that.
But you getting any second thoughts here, Mr. Sterdley, here on this minimum wage being raised?
You shook your head.
And let me guess why.
You shook your head.
Why would he say it?
Why would he come out and say it?
Just shut up.
Trump does not shut up.
And if he changes his mind publicly, he's going to change his mind publicly.
You know what I ran across?
I ran across a Donald Trump Playboy interview 1990.
1990.
Because, you know, I have digital copies of the Playboy interviews for the articles.
Anyway, it's fascinating.
If you read this Playboy interview from 1990 that Trump did, it's really consistent with what he says today about issues.
It's really, really consistent.
Things he talked about then, trade deals, Japan and China kicking our butts.
We can't go on this way.
There's nothing in that Playboy interview.
Everything that he's talked about is in there.
The only thing they ask him, you sound like you got a guy, you may be running for.
No, no, no, I would never run for president.
But if I did, I'd run as a Democrat.
I'd probably have to run as a Democrat if I ran for president.
That's what he said in Playboy Interview 1990, back after this.
All right, here it is.
It's in the politico.
Republican donors want nothing to do with Donald Trump in interviews with more than a dozen GOP funders.
Not one of them yesterday would commit to donating to Trump.
Others went even further in expressing their discontent.
Representatives of Charles and David Koch warned that the Koch brothers could sit out the presidential campaign entirely or even back Hillary Clinton.
What?
You don't think that's going to happen?
No, but I got with people saying, that's never going to happen.
Koch brothers, I don't know what you're doing.
Koch brothers are never going to support Hill.
Okay, well, I just, if you want to throw out what Politico says, feel free.
Up to you.
Here's Christopher in Lynchburg, Virginia, as we get started on the phones.
Great to have you.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
I appreciate what you do.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate that.
My question really is actually kind of about Chris Matthews and Melania Trump.
This morning, I actually saw an article in the Washington Post basically bashing Melania Trump for being attractive and being a model.
And I was just curious as to how you saw this, if you maybe thought the media was going to start taking an angle to kind of tie that over to Trump and somehow that, you know, he's a misogynist because he's got an attractive wife or she was a model or and just kind of the media's hypocrisy, I guess, on that issue.
My experience with wives of conservatives and wives of Republicans and the Democrat Party and the media is that usually, there are exceptions, but usually the media and the Democrats will do everything they can to diminish the wife, to diminish the woman.
They will imply that she is brain dead or that she's a gold digger or that she is stupid and dumb and is just following around as arm candy.
And whatever accomplishments any Republican or conservative candidate's wife has will be ignored.
Or even worse, they'll do stories that say she wouldn't have had anything if it weren't for her husband.
Her husband set her up.
They will do everything they can to diminish.
They do.
I mean, there's nothing new.
And it's quite the opposite with Democrat wives.
In fact, what I just said that they will do to Republican wives is exactly what Hillary Clinton has done.
She has attached herself to a man, followed him around everywhere, and tried to take over at various stages.
But they don't show them any respect, very little whatsoever.
It's all part of the demeaning and destroying campaign of the candidate, is what it's about.
The Washington Post referred to Melania Trump a couple days ago as, quote, a professional, pretty person.
Quote, a professional, pretty person.
It's what.
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