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May 18, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
31:41
May 18, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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It looks like Mitt Romney has dropped the effort to recruit an independent Trump challenger.
I know that means Bill Crystal has an onboard.
Romney has given up the ghost, doesn't think it's possible.
You know what I find intriguing?
That Trump is going to have a powwow with Dr. Kissinger.
I would love to be in the room to listen to that conversation.
Donald Trump and Henry Kissinger.
Greetings, welcome back, El Rushbo here.
As usual, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations.
The phone number is 800-282-2882.
If you want to be with us on the phone, if you want to send an email, I check them during the break.
It's El Rushbo at EIBnet.com.
Folks, we get my spam filter alone.
I shouldn't give these numbers out.
It's just going to encourage more.
I've got one of great spam filters, and I may have the best, the greatest spam filter that's ever been written.
Let me just check it right.
41,000 spam emails since Sunday midnight.
What is this, Wednesday?
That's in addition to the real, the real emails that get through.
But what I do, I scan subject lines during the program.
That's where I usually find whatever it is that's, I'm sure, I shudder to think what I miss.
But nobody else has access to my account.
You people think, well, I've got an army of people.
Ha!
Nobody has access to my financials.
I don't have a manager of anything.
Do everything myself.
I've never given it up.
Nobody else accesses any email account of mine.
So I don't have a staff to rely on it to search it and find things for me.
It's all me, and I do it during a commercial break.
But the point is, if you have an intriguing subject line and it happens during the program, I check it other times too, but intensely check it during the program.
You might get it spotted.
I might notice it.
But the volume is, it's incomprehensible.
Look, I haven't touched the audio soundbite roster today, and I want to get into it.
But finally answer the guy's question about with so much being bogus today, with so much buzz and PR and spend and what's real, what isn't.
How do you spot it?
Where do you go?
All I can do is tell you what I do.
And I've gotten, I've arrived at a point here where this has been my life.
I'm 65 years old now.
So I don't need to learn.
I just need to remember the things that have guided me.
I don't have to learn anymore how the media operates, for example.
I know how they substitute narrative for spin.
I know what their objectives are.
I know that they're not media.
But I have to consult it all because that's what show prep is.
Some of it, I mean, there is some in the media that is real.
Like poll results is real news.
The poll itself, dicey.
You have to rely on your instincts.
What you really have to guard, what I really have to guard against is falling prey to everyday media tricks.
Everybody does it, including me.
And I am the head honcho of warning people what to look for.
And even I get seduced by some media stuff.
So I know how difficult it is.
What I usually rely on is, take the New York Times, for example.
I don't read it because I know what's going to be in it.
I know what the columnists, both conservative and liberal, are going to say issue by issue, generally.
I know what the front page coverage of any news story is likely to be.
I know how it's been trending at the New York Times for years.
It's been trending in a direction anti-America.
For the longest time, America has become the problem in the world.
And everything about America related to its founding specifically.
And if I may get bold, if you really want to know where the drive-by media is today, white traditional America is the root of all that's wrong.
White Christian America is the root of all that's wrong.
So if that's your foundational understanding, then you can read anything in the New York Times and understand it.
Take this Trump piece, the hit piece on Trump that they ran on Sunday by these two reporters.
It was classic.
The moment I read the story, I knew what the objective was.
The only thing that surprised me about the story is why now and not August or September.
The next thing I said is, is this, I mean, they put a lot of time and a lot of money and a lot of energy into this story.
We had two primary reporters, but they're out there digging deep.
And like Dr. Krauthammer, I said, is this it?
Because I knew there wasn't one word of that that was going to bother a single Trump supporter.
And in fact, much of it was going to buttress support for Trump.
Because the story portrayed Trump, once again, as a real guy, as a standard, ordinary, average American guy.
But to modern liberals, understand something, to modern leftists and liberals, the pajama boys, the metrosexuals, the feminized male population today that's epitomized with the Democrat Party.
White traditional maleness is the problem with the country.
It's predatory.
It's brutal.
It's obscenely spoken.
Traditional white American males are truck drivers, construction workers, and they wolf whistle at women and they're dirty and they're filthy and they cuss and they don't care about anything but themselves, but they are patriotic, which makes them also a problem because they're America first no matter what.
And that's a problem.
Because in the view of the New York Times, America is the problem.
America is not the solution.
And traditional white male Christendom, if you really look, I mean, that's the root of all problems today that Obama and the Democrats are trying to transform out of.
Every victim in this country happens to be victimized by white Christians, predominantly men.
That is where you find, if you trace back to the founding, that is where you will find the tentacles of all of the evil, the discrimination, the unfairness, the lack of civil rights, all of the stuff that the left finds abhorrent.
That's where it is.
And Trump fits that definition to a T. He is bullish.
He's loud.
He's outspoken.
And all of that means he's inconsiderate.
He uses people.
He's powerful.
He steps on people and sweeps others that don't please him out of his way.
He's not accommodating.
I mean, that's the caricature.
So they write a story.
Well, they actually conceive the story and then proceed to write it.
They don't research it, report it, and then write it.
They get their concept, they get their narrative, and then they go out and try to find the evidence.
And when they don't, they have to manufacture it or use half quotes or what have you.
But nevertheless, the story on Trump is actually no different than painting by dots, you know, color by dots.
Fill in the blanks based on what their own biases are and what their preconceptions are of the people they find to be the problem.
So Trump magically automatically is going to fall into or fit into that profile.
In fact, that's one of the reasons why he's successful, you see, because traditional white male Christians are livid that the people they have subjugated, subordinated, and victimized are rising up and taking their world away from them.
The New York Times applauds that, celebrates that, thinks it's justice, social or otherwise.
Trump becomes the epitome of that.
Any Republican presidential nominee would be to one degree or another.
But they can't get away with it anymore and for substantive reasons.
20 years ago, 20, no, 25 years ago, the Times can get away with that.
The Times could have destroyed Trump with that story 25 years ago.
They could have made it very problematic if all of this were happening 25 years ago.
But they can't get away with it today.
They can't get away with out and out lies or fraud or out-of-context quotes or misrepresentation.
Just like Dan Rather and the boys didn't get away with the forged documents about George Bush and the National Guard.
Now, they still get away with some stuff.
Don't misunderstand.
They have some misses, but they have some hits too.
Generally, their successes are against people who haven't the slightest idea how to fight back, haven't the slightest idea how to rebut, or don't have the desire to, and just let it happen and trust that the readers will understand the truth.
They will trust that the readers will read the story and remember things they read about the subject four years ago that don't quite fit with this.
And you can't rely on the readers to figure something out because the attention span happens to be two minutes after they've read the story.
And then they're on to something else.
That's why you have to hit back pretty quickly and immediately if that is your policy of doing so.
And it is Trump's.
Trump told Megan Kelly last, I guess she had a special on TV last night or something.
Trump told her last night that if he perceives himself to be wounded, he is going to react immediately to unwound himself.
If he gets shot, he's going to go to the hospital.
He's got the bullet taken out, gets sewn up, and get back out as soon as he can.
He's going to get rid of the wound.
He's not going to let it sit there and fester.
He's not going to take it, especially when it's a croc.
But the point is, how do you spot this?
In my case, the New York Times, I just, I wait to be proven that I'm wrong in believing that most of what I'm getting there is just agenda-driven drivel.
CNN, same thing.
MSNBC, same thing.
I just know, I know that they're not news.
I know that they're not media.
They're not telling me things I don't know as an objective.
They may tell me things I don't know, but that's not what their purpose is.
Their purpose is to promote some and destroy others.
Sometimes it's subtle, sometimes it's flat out direct in your face.
But I do it every day.
For people that don't, it becomes even more problematic.
And there's something also, this happens to everybody, including me.
If it's published anywhere, if it's written down and published in a mass media way, which could be the most obscure website in the world, somebody can send you some of the most ridiculous stuff.
I'll give you, do not believe any mass emailings you get that have been circulating the internet.
One out of 25 of them may be true.
24 out of 25 are going to be bogus, made-up, abject lies, but they're seductive because it's written.
It looks like people have researched it.
But the written word, there's something, the published written word, there's something that automatically grants it truth and credibility, as opposed to, say, the spoken word, radio or TV, doesn't matter, or just casual conversation.
Somebody can tell you something that they know for absolute fact is true.
You tell them.
You know absolute fact is true.
You tell them, and they'll still demand what's your source.
And it'll have to be a source they can go read.
This is something that journalism professors and journalists have known for years, which is why they're so upset what's happening to newspaper business.
It used to be a gold mine for opinion manipulation.
The written word.
They've got some soundbites and bobshit.
You know, maybe have some actual demonstrations of what I'm talking about in the soundbite roster today.
If I get to it, and I will.
And one of the ways is to shut up now, do an obscene profit break.
We'll come back with a soundbite.
Sit tight.
Let me grab a quick call here on TSA because we've talked about that today.
This is Todd in Asheville, North Carolina.
Todd, great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Miga Ditto's Rush.
It's been an honor listening to you since Gulf War 1.
Well, thank you very much.
Appreciate that.
Hey, my young college-age conservative, conservative prodigal son reminded me that on every passenger's airline ticket, there's a TSA fee, and it's very large.
TSA collected $3.5 billion last year in fees.
And so as the passenger census grows, we should the revenue to the TSA.
Oh, so you're reacting to the point that some of this might be staged in order to get even more money come budget time.
Yes, because they're collecting money based on passenger census, and it's a lot of money.
Of course it is.
Look, let me go back to my original comment on this.
Folks, this is outrageous.
What is happening at various airports?
Three hours now.
You have to show up early Chicago O'Hare on a domestic flight.
And three hours is not the half of it.
What you have to go through in that line.
If there's ever a classic illustration of government inefficiency, inability, ineptness, incompetence, have no business doing this.
This is it.
Health care is another.
The age-old question, why does this not demonstrate to people that there are better ways?
Why does, and the answers to that, folks, are multiple.
Well, look at how capitalism has been destroyed.
I mean, in terms of its image.
Look at how capitalism in terms of education, school, college, high school, whatever, has been constantly attacked.
Government is never attacked that way.
Government is always, at least they're trying.
Their intentions are done.
At least they're trying to help people.
The fact that it never works, it's horrible, it doesn't seem to, you can sit there and warn people about how inefficient, how horrible, how rotten things are going to be when it actually happens.
It doesn't change people's minds about government involvement in their lives.
It's the most amazing thing.
He's reacting to a statement I made earlier that there are some theories that all this worsening circumstances at TSA encounters at airports is on purpose, that the regime is doing this on purpose to anger people, to demand that this get fixed.
And the government, we need more money.
We need to hire more staff.
We need to do this.
We need to get bigger.
We'll do it.
Do it.
We don't want to stand in line three hours.
We don't want to be probed and we don't want to be everything else you're doing to us.
And Ergo government grows.
Doesn't get any better, doesn't get any more efficient.
The very people who break something are then looked to to fix it.
One amazing contradictions of my life.
Let me get a sound light in here.
This involves me.
This is Todd Starnes, Fox Business Network, Risk and Reward Geirdre Bolton speaking to him.
She says, Did you call Facebook and say what's going on?
What's the problem?
Why was I blocked?
He had to run in with Facebook.
They were denying his blog or some such thing, his news feed.
And here's what he said.
The story really isn't me as much as it is all the other conservatives out there who don't have the power of Fox News to do a story.
There are so many people out there that contact me through email and through other social networking devices saying, you know what, Facebook has come after us.
We can't do a thing about it.
And that's what this is really all about.
Facebook cracking down on conservatives and also Christians.
So it seems to be a pattern with these folks because as we've known through our investigations, they have plenty of websites that are vile and disgusting that attack conservatives, folks like Donald Trump and Sarah Palin on Rushland Baugh.
Yeah, and nothing happens to those sites.
Those sites are, I mean, it's full speed ahead.
No algorithm ever cancels those websites.
And it's becoming an even bigger deal now as Zuckerberg at FakeBook is out there denying that any of this happens.
But he's going to have a sit-down with some supposed movement conservatives here to address their issues.
But there's no question this happens.
And it's going to keep happening, by the way.
There's nothing that's going to change it.
Look at this headline.
Obama spending millions of tax dollars on summer jobs for refugees.
Not for your teenager.
Not for African-American teenagers with a 25 to 45% unemployment rate.
No.
A new report reveals that Obama is throwing the weight of the federal government behind a program to secure summer jobs for hundreds of refugees brought into the U.S. by Obama's refugee program guided by the United Nations.
Many of these refugees happen to be from Somalia.
There is another story out of Minnesota where the U.S. infection rate for tuberculosis is about 4%.
But some refugees that are being brought in from around the world are upping that Minnesota to 28% now.
28% of these are refugee arrivals who are testing positive for TB.
And you think, well, what will wait till Obama finds out about that?
No, no, no.
No, no, folks.
That's not wait till Obama finds out about that.
That's mission accomplished.
Remember the root of all evil, as seen by Obama, white male Christians.
It's not opinion.
If you just follow what Obama and all these leftist Democrats say, look at every grievance they've got, trace it back to its origin, and you'll find one group of people they blame for it all.
And they founded the country, and they ran the country, and they did it for themselves, and they set it up to discriminate against everybody else.
And it's time they got paid back.
To the audio soundbite roster, Bob Schieffer worrying on CBS this morning that crazy Bernie will go third party.
Charlie Rose said, do you hear more and more people talk that you think this Bernie and Hillary thing, maybe Hillary and Obama, Trump, it's going to be a close race.
What do you think about all this, Bob?
Yes, I do.
And, you know, after seeing what we saw over the weekend in Las Vegas with Bernie Sanders people, and they're still turning out by the thousands as they did yesterday in California, I'm beginning to wonder, is he going to mount a third-party run if he doesn't get the nomination?
Is there going to be a movement among his people to say, hey, we're not giving up and we're going to find another way to do this?
He's not a Democrat.
This is the first time he's ever sought office as a Democrat.
Oh, come on, Bob.
See, this is, what do you mean he's not a Democrat?
He's a Democrat.
He's seeking the Democrat nomination.
What do you mean he's not a Democrat?
This is the first time he's, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's a socialist.
He's an independent.
He's a Democrat.
He's running for the Democrat nomination.
He's seen as a more pure and better Democrat than Hillary by a bunch of his wacko support.
Sorry, by a bunch of his supporters.
See, this is classic.
This guy is so bad, we can't even have him thought of as a Democrat.
He's not even a Democrat.
He's an outsider.
So they're worried crazy Bernie's going to go third party.
And so Nora O'Donnell says, well, wait, is Trump really turning out new voters, Bob?
Is it just a group that already looks to the Republican Party?
I am beginning to think that Trump could conceivably win.
She is having a very, very difficult time.
Trump's problem is going to be it is very difficult for anybody with the demographics of the electorate as it is today to win when you basically appeal to white people.
There just aren't enough white people to do that anymore.
I don't know.
I see white people everywhere.
I've seen white people everywhere I go.
And I like white people, Bob.
When you say there's not enough to win, really?
We've made this point before that he's got to find a way to broaden his appeal.
But I think it's possible.
I didn't think it was possible before, and now I do.
You know, I can't remember the TV show, but this almost exact conversation happened between two characters.
And it was a black female CEO somewhere, and somebody's telling her about all the success.
And this black CEO said, I don't know, Fred.
All I see is white people out there.
Oh, it was scandal.
And it was Carrie Washington as what's her name, Olivia Pope.
I don't know.
There are a lot of white people out there.
Here's Gail King.
I don't know, Bob.
I see white people everywhere, everywhere I go.
And I like white people.
I like white people.
But I see white people everywhere.
And of course, Bob said, we'll gloss over that.
Of course, Gail Gail's not a racist.
Of course not.
She's one of us.
She can't be a racist.
serious point here.
Trump has to broaden his appeal.
He can't just white people.
See, these people make my point.
By the way, for me, of course he's got more than white support.
He's got African Americans.
There's two babes that do the videos, and they've got a big group.
He's got Hispanics.
You know, this Taco Bowl is another thing.
People just don't get it.
I actually saw somebody criticize you.
Trump said, I love Hispanics while eating from a Taco Bowl.
All right.
And I actually saw somebody say that.
I got to get this.
What's my memory on this?
That's like somebody.
Oh, I. Oh, he's like somebody eating a watermelon.
That's right.
Jeb Bush is like somebody eating a watermelon saying, I love black people.
Or eating fried chicken saying, I love black people.
I say, you don't get it.
Trump's putting everybody on.
Did you see the excrement eating grin on his face?
He's got the fork poised over the taco bowl.
He says, I love Hispanics.
And everybody, oh my God, having the vapors.
He's being racist.
He's being, oh, no.
No, he's laughing at everybody.
And the people that are supposed to be offended by this are laughing too.
That's what everybody is missing.
The media will come along and not find the people laughing at it.
They'll go out and find the righteously offended, the righteously indignant, which is easy to manufacture.
But I just continue to marvel at how, after even all this time, so many people still don't get how Trump is doing what he's doing.
Anyway, Rick Perry, Washington examiner here just this afternoon, Rick Perry predicted during a private phone call today that Trump could carry 35 to 37 states in November.
Perry was talking to donors during a conference call hosted by a pro-Trump PAC called a Great America PAC.
And Rick Perry said, you know, the more time I spend with him, the more I talk with him, the more I see how he has analyzed this country properly at this point in time, I feel very comfortable that we're going to win.
I think we have a potential to win overwhelmingly.
I'm talking 35, 36, 37 state victory.
Just a powerful win in November.
Rick Perry said he doubts that Trump will select a running mate simply to carry swing states like Ohio or Florida because Rick Perry says, look, Trump doesn't need that.
He can carry those states himself.
And here's picking a vice president based on winning a swing state.
That's such old school thinking.
That's that old playbook that everybody wants to try to plug Trump into, and that's not the way he's going to look at this.
Trump may even say, I don't even need a vice president to win.
I'm going to win this by myself.
I'm going to win this on my own.
I pick a vice president here that's going to continually make me look good by having people scared to death this vice president could become me or some other such ego thing for laughs.
Anyway, I'm up against it here, folks, but I want you to hear the Ivanka Trump-Nora O'Donnell soundbites coming right up after this.
Okay.
Nora O'Donnell brought in Ivanka Trump, the daughter, to discuss whether or not her father gropes women, as the New York Times hit piece on Sunday said.
Now, keep in mind when you listen to this, she would never ask Chelsea Clinton even one of these questions.
She would never ask Chelsea Clinton about Monica Lewinsky or Bill Clinton's multiple affairs or any of the alleged rape by Juanita Brad.
She wouldn't even go there, but she's got such contempt for Ivanka.
Question.
It says, many of the women interviewed reveal unwelcome romantic advances, unending commentary on their female form, a shrewd reliance on ambitious women, and unsettling workplace conduct.
Is there unending commentary on the female form with your father?
Does he always objectify the way women look?
No, no.
And again, this is an article that is widely being discredited.
The lead person who was interviewed for the story and that the story opens up with was all over the news yesterday saying that they manipulated what she was saying.
Don't find it that meaningful to comment on this particular story because I think the facts are starting to speak for themselves.
So, next, you know, Nora O'Donnell couldn't even form, she, she, just keep in mind, these questions would never be asked of Chelsea Clinton.
Here's Nora O'Donnell next.
There's another woman who is quoted in the article that says that Donald Trump groped her at a, you know, at a meeting, at a business meeting.
Yeah, well, look, I'm not in every interaction my father has, but he's not a groper.
It's not who he is.
He has total respect for women.
He was promoting women in development and construction at a time when it was unheard of.
That's true, and the woman involved has admitted so.
But here's the final bite.
He has called women crazy.
He's called them crooked.
That's what he calls Hillary Clinton.
He's even used the word bimbo.
I mean, do you ever look at those tweets and say, Dad, you know, tone it down a bit?
I've certainly thought that certain things should be toned down, but not necessarily in relation to that.
When I think about myself as a feminist, it's important that women are treated equally.
And he treats women and men equally.
Well, the other side of the story.
He treats women and men equally.
Got to take a break.
We'll be back and continue in just a sec.
Well, that's it.
Folks, sadly, we're out of busy broadcast moments for today, but there's always tomorrow.
We're never really finished here.
Now, I'm going to separate all the stuff I didn't get to and I'm going to put over here.
So have it ready to go for tomorrow.
Always in the event nothing happens between now and then.
Of course, that's silly because a lot will.
But some of it's juicy and good, and I'm hell-bent on getting to it.
I appreciate your patience, and I'm glad you're here each and every day.
I look forward to it.
And we'll get back together tomorrow if you'll consent to being here.
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