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May 19, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 19, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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Well, they found some wreckage already of the Airbus A320 Egypt Air flight that blown out of the sky today.
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I can I can't remember if I mentioned this on the program last week or if I was talking to some people over the weekend about this.
I think it was the golf course.
I don't think I've mentioned this here yet.
If I have, forgive me if you've remembered it.
It's uh it might be somewhat redundant, but not much.
But I was telling these guys uh still a lot of people I know.
I I I know some moderate Republican guys.
I know some Republican guys from the get rid of the social issues crowd.
They're good guys, they're just in their wives nag them about it and stuff.
Just as soon not have to deal with it.
And they were worried about, wow my gosh, what's this convention?
I say, you guys haven't seen anything yet.
You the thing that nobody is ex is expecting Trump is going to put together a show like nobody has ever seen at a Republican convention.
Instinctively, he's gonna put together a sh he's gonna take advantage.
He knows that because it's his convention that the media is gonna be forced to cover it much more than they otherwise would.
And it's gonna be one of the biggest extravaganzas, and it's it's gonna present a different picture of from what the Republican Party uh usually presents to people.
Usual Republican conventions all take place on the defense.
A usual Republican convention is designed to show the audience that they are not what the media says about them, that they're not what Democrats say about them.
And Trump doesn't have an ounce of that in his being.
He doesn't have he has no shame about who he is, he doesn't feel like he's got to prove himself to anybody, doesn't feel like he's gotta answer critics all day long.
It's gonna be one thing it's gonna be a show.
It's gonna be extravaganzas, be total offense if you want to look at it that way.
And it it's gonna blow the roof.
It's unlike any convention that anybody's ever seen the Republican Party put on, and I the reason I bring this up is because somebody's done a story about this.
I thought I had this here at the top of the stack.
Here it is, political.
Donald Trump's gold-plated convention, the celebrity billionaire is revamping everything about the GOP's dog and pony show.
Now to give you an idea what I'm talking about, I want you to listen to the way politico writes about the Republican Party here.
Donald Trump has shoved just about every tradition in modern presidential politics out the window.
And now he is preparing to trash one more tradition, the dog and pony show known as the Republican National Convention.
Have you ever heard the Democrat Convention referred to by anybody in the media as a dog and pony show?
Obviously not.
I mean, even by political standards, this is a bizarre open.
They are angry that Trump is going to trash the GOP's usual dog and pony show.
Maybe they don't realize that dog and pony is a contemptuous expression.
Of course they do.
And you compare you what do you think the Democrat convention is going to be with Hillary Clinton?
They're going to have to give Crazy Bernie some space.
If they don't, there's going to be a riot.
There may be a riot anyway at that convention, which will be its own attraction, by the way, one they don't want.
But the politico says from speaking slots to prime time moments reserved for himself.
The TV celebrity and Manhattan billionaire is dealing directly in the details of his coronation as Republican nominee to maximize the drama and spectacle of the party's four-night convention.
How scandalous.
Could you believe this?
The nominee is going to be in charge of his own convention.
Why, whoever let that happen?
And Trump plans to create news events, too.
Really?
At a Republican convention?
The politico is angry that Trump is going to create news events.
Listen to this paragraph.
Trump plans to create news events too, not just lineup speeches by up and coming members of the party.
He's toying with unveiling a running mate at the convention rather than before.
He's even considering whether to announce his would-be cabinet.
One Trump campaign source told Politico, quote, announcing the vice presidential nominee before the convention is like announcing the winner of celebrity apprentice before the final show is on the air.
Do you think one of Trump's sources actually said that?
That could be one of these manufactured things.
I I don't.
I doubt that a Trump aide compared announcing his VP to announcing the winner of celebrity apprentice.
But I guess it's possible.
Whereas the vice presidential nominee traditionally speaks on the third night of the convention, and the presidential nominee takes a stage on the fourth and final night, Trump is considering a scenario that puts him on stage all four nights, reaching millions of potential voters and driving ratings according to one source.
And then Politico reluctantly admits the convention will be the ultimate draw for the TV networks.
And they hate that.
Hillary Clinton all four nights of the Democrat convention would be a snoozer.
Hillary Clinton, all four nights at Democrat convention would drive audience away.
I remember I was in um I was in San Francisco for the Democrat convention in 1984.
What?
Oh, what what what a miserable place?
Not San Francisco, the convention.
That was where Mario the Pious gave his great speech about the poor and the downtrodden.
He was contrasting what he thought the real America was compared to Reagan's Shining City on a hill, and he basically described a country that was nothing more than a homeless camp.
And then the Reverend also gave a stem winder.
And they were just in tears, and they were just it was it was totally devoted to misery and suffering.
And there was Tip O'Neill, you know, the Speaker of the House is traditionally the chairman of the convention of both parties.
And so Tip O'Neill was up there in the in the skybox at the convention, and he had the grand suite at the Fairmont Hotel.
And then Tip O'Neill goes to the stage and starts talking about the upcoming Republican convention, where they're going to be arriving in limousines and mink coats drinking champagne, which is exactly what the Democrats were doing at their convention.
Well, anyway, on the night that Walter F. Mondal was nominated.
They had a hotel, they had a camera in the Mondal hotel suite, and the entire Mondal family looked squeezed on a giant sofa in there.
And when the convention officially nominated Mondo, he looked at his wife, or one of his daughters, it might have been Eleanor, who, by the way, is a frequent visitor to the Bill Clinton White House.
And he said, let's go over there.
Let's go over to the hall.
And the family went, oh.
Because it was tough.
I mean, with a nominee to go, it means traffic nightmares.
So Mondal broke tradition and went to the convention the night he was nominated.
In tradition, a nominee doesn't show up till the fourth night.
That's always been true.
So the political writing here, Trump's going to be part of this thing every night in prime time.
Folks, I'm telling you, you have no idea what this is going to be.
I don't know either.
I'm just telling you.
Um, intelligence guided by experience, this is going to be an over the top combination of things.
It's going to have all the elements of a political convention, but it's going to have obviously a lot more.
Trump is going to is going to try to win every state.
Trump is going to go for a 50-state landslide.
He's not going to be constrained into thinking he can't win here, can't win there because the electoral map.
And he's going to use this convention as one of the many elements of his reach out.
But it's it's going to be I I don't know how many celebrities on it.
I mean, thinking.
No.
No.
No, no, no.
I won't no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
He won't ask me.
No, no, no.
You don't need media people at these things.
He's got a but I don't think he should overload it with with uh celebrity types, and not many of those that are republicans.
If he could talk the ones who are into showing up, the I mean the Republican Hollywood celebrities, if they're popular people, if you can show them that that might.
But I don't mean it's going to be a barn burner in terms of the way people describe these things as big-time celebrity, A-list, red carpet kind of stuff.
I mean, it's going to be an entertainment.
The content is going to be an entertaining show built around the purpose of nominating Trump for the Republican.
This is a huge deal.
Think of it personally for him, what this is in terms of a life achievement.
It's a huge deal.
And it's going to be all that much huger with him behind it.
Nobody has any idea what's coming.
I don't know a thing.
I'm just predicting here.
The media know too, and they're worried silly about it.
Because they know that there's nothing on the Democrat side that can compete with it.
They'd have to bring out Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky and a bed to come close to what the Republican convention is going to draw.
And there's no way they would do that.
Maybe not a bed, maybe just a bathroom with the door closed.
You know, recreate it.
But of course, it would never happen.
What are you laughing at?
I'm just trying to give you a point of comparison here of how the Democrats don't have this, and they are considered the party close to all these A-list Hollywood celebrity beebopers and partiers and so forth.
I mean, how much of Leo DiCaprio preaching about the environment do you want to watch?
Even if he does have a bottle of Jack Daniels in his hand.
Sorry, that's Snoozerville.
Plus with Hillary Clinton being the s the final attraction, the big star of the show, night for Hillary Clinton's acceptance speech.
And I don't please.
So it's it's it's gonna be big.
And here's a story from a seething CNN.
How Donald Trump turned the tables on the New York Times.
Oh man, I'm telling you they are seething in the drive-by media.
Donald Trump woke up Monday staring down the barrel of a terrible newsweek.
A scathing New York Times report about his unsettling treatment of women was the talk of the morning shows.
And it looked set to dominate the news cycle for days.
But by the time the morning shows were over, Trump had muddied the narrative.
And now the New York Times, too, was on the defensive.
Now you notice here, folks, how CNN calls Trump defending himself, muddying the narrative.
Now, what was this New York Times story?
The New York Times story was a bunch of people misquoted and taken out of context, making allegations about Trump as a boar and a braggart and a sex fiend and what have you.
When in truth, all it was was a story that attempted to be critical of a guy who likes to hang around pretty women.
As Dr. Gnadhem has said, If that's all they've got, you might as well start planning the inauguration right now.
If the best they've got is to try to destroy Trump by accusing him of liking to hang around pretty women.
That's really controversial stuff, isn't it?
So for the umpteenth time this campaign cycle, Trump seemingly succeeded in shifting scrutiny away from himself and back onto the media by muddying the narrative.
The nerve of the guy trying to defend himself, muddying the narrative.
Nobody's supposed to have any control over the narrative but the journalists.
See, that's the rules of the game.
The journalists get to define the narrative.
The journalists get to write it.
The journalists get to maintain it.
The journalists get to protect it.
Trump coming in and muddying it.
Not fair.
And CNN is seething when they write for the umpteenth time this campaign cycle.
Trump seemingly succeeded in shifting scrutiny away from himself back on the media.
Why shouldn't he?
Why shouldn't scrutiny be on the media?
See, they think that they are above scrutiny.
They're journalists.
You don't get to investigate them.
They do the investigating.
As CNN writes here, Trump succeeds in shifting scrutiny away from himself and back onto the media by capitalizing on any listen to this.
This is incredible.
How does Trump do it?
How does he how does he take control of the narrative?
CNN says, quote He does so by capitalizing on any uncertainty in the reporting and then aggressively calling attention to it.
What wait a minute now.
Trump capitalizes on any uncertainty in the report.
You mean you mean the New York Times reported things that may not have been true?
The New York Times reported things that might not have been certain, and Trump had the gall to attack it.
You mean the media can be uncertain and inconclusive and even wrong, and we're just supposed to sit there and eat it?
Well yeah, that's the way the average Republican deals with it.
Eat the uncertainty, swallow the uncertainty, and deal with it.
Trump capitalizes on it.
And you see, this is what CNN calls capitalizing on any uncertainty in the reporting by pointing out that the person highlighted in the New York Times refutes everything that they reportedly said.
That's all capitalizing on the uncertainty is Trump went out and found him and said, Hey, you know what?
I didn't say that.
They lied about what I said.
So CNN admits that there's uncertainty in the reporting, and Trump exploited it and it makes Trump the bad guy.
Yeah.
Trump was watching.
Here's I got to take a break, but how he really did it comes next.
And it is a lesson.
This is exactly why what I hoped people would pick up from Trump's campaign back in the primers because this is exactly how you beat these people.
Back in just a second.
So how did Trump do it?
Well, he was watching.
Trump was watching these morning shows talk about this bogus New York Times story.
He went to great lengths to alert others to the interview.
He even called CNN's New Day Control Room to personally make sure the producers had seen it.
For the producers, the call was surreal.
Presidential candidates don't call television control rooms.
But Trump is known to act like a TV producer and his own publicist.
So CNN's reporting on the New York Times story and Trump watching and getting it all wrong, and he calls them.
Anybody else would do that?
Puts them on the spot, just challenges them at the moment they're doing it.
He doesn't have a surrogate doing it.
He does it himself.
So it's surreal, CNN says for A presidential candidate to try to defend himself by calling the media's attention to statements that are incorrect.
Some might say it's about time a Republican stood up to the drive-by media.
Some might say it's another reason to get behind this campaign.
And others would say no.
There's um there's a yeah, also from the politico.
Poll.
Voters want an independent to run against Clinton and Trump.
Did you know that?
Yeah, let me tell you about it.
Either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is likely to be elected president, but voters are yearning for another option.
You know why?
Because there's a poll.
The results of a data targeting.
That's Capital D, Capital T, data targeting poll released yesterday.
Well, who who is data targeting?
Well, I looked them up.
They are an outfit run by a Republican strategist named Joel Serby.
And it turns out that Joel Serby is working with Bill Kristol and others to recruit a third party candidate.
So they went out and they did a poll.
And lo and behold, they got results that said a significant number of Americans want a third party candidate.
Because they know that so many Republicans are susceptible to poll results.
I mean, they're still out there.
You gotta give them credit.
You're still flailing away out there at this.
Yeah.
Yeah, Romney cashed in his chips on that.
He's uh he's out of that.
Uh here's Rosser in Atlanta, 17 years old.
Great to have you on the program, Rosser.
How are you?
Hey, Russ, how are you?
Good, thank you.
Uh I just want to say I'm a big fan.
My dad got me into you um a long time ago, so I've been listening ever since.
That's great.
I appreciate it.
Uh well, the point I want to talk about is uh regards Trump and his comments on libel law with freedom of the press.
But um if you have time, I'd also like to make an additional point I thought of.
Sure, have at it about social justice.
Okay, thank you.
Um, I've noticed that a lot of pundits and media people are attacking Trump for being anti-free press and for saying that he wants stronger libel laws.
And personally, I really agree with Trump on this particular issue.
Um, no one knows better than you that there's a huge number of sites and media people out there that really don't care at all about news.
They're more interested in just destroying people's lives.
Um buzzfeed.
So personally, I have no issue with there being um some potential consequences for just outright lying.
Um, so you know, here's what Trump is talking about with the libel laws.
Uh the UK, it's much different than the United States.
In the United States, if you are a public figure, you can't do diddly spot.
You just have to take it.
You have to eat it, you have to take it.
If you want to fight it, then it's hello discovery, and they go get every aspect of your life that they haven't yet discovered, and they plaster that all over the place.
It's impossible to defend yourself.
You just have to s you have to swallow it.
You have to accept that that's the price you pay for being famous or well known or what have you if you end up being a media target.
And Trump's point is that he's sick and tired of being lied about and he wants recourse.
And of course, it's got the media, you know, they're fighting this on First Amendment grounds and all kinds of stuff.
It's got them very alarmed.
Well, yeah, and I've noticed that if they can't find something uh some dirt to plaster about you, they'll make something up if they can't find anything.
Really?
I wasn't aware of that.
Uh so my second my second point is uh about social justice.
I mean, I've got plenty of experience with that, you know.
I actually went to a private school for a long time and got plenty of that.
Um but I think that it's kind of interesting that I don't hear a lot of people talking about who's really losing in this campaign.
Uh like I've noticed that the social justice culture is currently kind of crashing.
And they're not just losing, they're losing with the full support of the PACs, they've got the media, you know, the billionaires, the Zuckerberg of the world, the politicians, and academia, all that combined, and they're still losing.
How do you how are you defining losing?
Well, uh you look at um the language policing and the political correctness and the safe spaces and trigger warnings and microaggressions and you know racist trees, what you were talking about earlier.
And people look at all this and they just think it's crap.
And that's why they're supporting Trump.
That's why I'm supporting Trump.
Well, okay, but but but on these campuses, they're not losing.
They are succeeding.
They are they're getting all they shut down the University of Missouri on a lie, on a total lie.
You know what's been discovered about the University of Missouri roster?
The University of Missouri has had a statute since 1949 that prohibits students from pitching tents on campus and sleeping overnight.
It dates back to assuring parents that their kids would be safely housed.
All the University of Missouri would have had to do was tell this butler kid, get your ass off the quadrangle.
You're not permitted to stay here, get back in the dorm, and they would have been totally within their bounds to do it.
Instead, they allowed the prof the the chancellor to be canned and railroaded out of town on a false charge, black lives matter, a bunch of crap that never happened.
They're not losing.
Well, I I think that you're you're right that it's so strong right now, they've never been this strong.
But if they break this time, they I think they really did break in the 80s when they were treated into academia, black University of Missouri.
But if they break now, it's over for them for a long time because they'd be breaking at the peak.
Well, let me tell you something.
I I hope you're right, and I you're you're seventeen, and I hope you just keep on.
And I hope you're able to attract a whole lot of people to to uh uh join you in the way you're thinking about this.
Because we need this kind of optimism and positive outlook with it.
A lot of people are are are at their wit's end over this.
They don't understand it's goes so far beyond political correctness now.
And a lot of people are writing about it.
It's one of these things I've had here, I set aside, didn't have a chance to get to it yesterday nor today.
But I it because it's long.
It's uh it's detailed.
Uh it's two actual pieces, Victor Davis Hansen and David French, both at National Review, trying to figure out how did all this happen where you have college kids at uh you see somewhere in Southern California that three months after Ben Shapiro himself, not much older than a college student now, goes out and makes a speech.
Three months later, the kids at that campus who weren't even at the speech need therapy to deal with the trauma of having realized that he spoke on campus.
And the and the university is is is granting this these therapy sessions.
It's absurd.
And so people how is this happening?
What why why have why are we raising a generation of wuss smart asses?
And the theories abound, but one of the most frequent theories is that it goes back to the parents, that at some point in the past, parents felt the need to be friends with their kids and to have their kids respect them rather than raise them to deal with life circumstances to toughen them up to teach them how to deal with adversity.
The objective be became to remove any potential adversity and get rid of any possibility of adversity.
And it's been disastrous.
And uh I you got people my age reminiscing on how our parents raised us, and it's laughed at and smirked at and so forth.
Um, Roger Ailes tells a story.
Uh imagine this today.
Roger Ailes tells the story, not just to me, that that when he turned 18, his dad came to him and said, So where are you gonna go?
And Roger says, Well, what do you mean?
Well, you're eighteen, you can't live here anymore unless you unless you want to pay for your room and board.
Roger grew up in Ohio.
When you're eighteen, you're on your own.
Go out and make your way in the world, son.
That's what I prepared you for.
That's the way I've raised you.
Can you imagine what would happen to a parent Who did that today?
They'd be hauled in for child abuse, they would have been, and some of you may think that's extreme anyway, but it's it's it's it's an interesting uh story.
It's it's it it may be uh a little out there, but it's not uncommon in the sense that that's how parents raised kids because the parents came from hard scrabble tough times.
They knew what it took.
And the objective of being a parent was to prepare the child to deal with whatever life may throw it.
That obviously isn't happening in many cases.
It hit now in Rosser's case, it actually is happening.
Apparently, you you know, you're you you haven't been raised as a wuss.
Uh not everybody is, but it it it's definitely a societal unique occurrence that differs greatly from much of our country's past in terms of the theories of child rearing.
And then you take leftists and put them in charge of schools, where the kids are under the control of uh teachers and administrators, much more than even their parents.
And we're have we we we have a bunch of uh young people being raised that are going to be totally ill-equipped if they ever get out of school to deal with what life is really like, because you're not going to be treated, they're not going to be accommodated this way.
We hope maybe it's going to be the other way, and maybe these kids are gonna end up running businesses where the same kind of practices are going to be permitted that have been going on at campus.
Anyway, Rosser, I appreciate the call, and I I hope you uh keep on stay in touch, and we'll be back after this.
It was Cal State Los Angeles' school that Ben Shapiro spoke at that I haven't able to remember.
Cal State.
Uh Los Angeles, I think, is where Shapiro spoke, and and the students three months uh later had panic attack.
Anyway, folks, here's uh Peter in Washington.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hey Rush, it's it's awesome being here.
I'm uh a relatively new uh listener and a first-time caller.
Great to have you here.
If I would have known about those vignettes in between, I would have called a lot sooner.
Anyway, uh I've I've worked a long time in IT, and I think that anybody claiming that it it it's impossible to uh not have bias in an algorithm isn't paying attention to a very basic fact, and that is that if Facebook were to maintain absolute counts of the word you the words used in everybody's post, and then use that to build an index into what's trending.
They would have a very unbiased index.
Okay, all right.
That's but that's just a that would be a record of of of of what people are researching, but an algorithm is uh uh is something they set up anticipating, don't they?
Well, uh if you look at the news feed uh on the right, if you're logged into fake book, I think the the intended inference is that this is what people are talking about most right now.
Right, right.
Look, hey, hey, Peter, I'm I misjudged.
I thought I had a minute longer than I can get his phone number.
I don't have time to ask anything.
Well, we'll talk to him tomorrow, open line Friday, because I want to dig into this with somebody knows about it.
Sadly, my friends, out of busy broadcast moments once again for today, but no big deal back here tomorrow.
Twenty one hours, it'll be open line Friday.
Peter give you his number to call us uh back Go, cool.
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