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May 20, 2016, Friday, Hour #3

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	Hi folks and welcome back.
	It is great to have you here on the fastest three hours in media.
	It is the Rush Limbaugh program for the EIB network here on Friday.
	Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
	It's open live Friday.
	One big exciting broadcast hour remains.
	We are available at 800-282-2882 and the email address, lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
	Donald Trump soon to address annual convention of National Rifle Association.
	I've done that.
	I addressed the made me one of the most beautiful long rifles you've ever seen.
	Somebody custom made the thing for me.
	I was speechless and dumbfounded.
	I was so speechless and dumbfounded.
	They presented it to me on stage.
	I was so speechless and dumbfounded.
	Some thought that I didn't appreciate it.
	But yeah, Wayne Lapierre and the guy, they were great.
	It was a little confusing.
	It was very early on in the early days of the EIB network.
	And as I think back, I don't think it was one of my best because I was confused as to what was expected.
	I had an entourage of people traveling with me for this speech that only were with me because this was the NRA.
	And I wasn't sure what they were expecting.
	My views on guns are just me to be me.
	And so I showed up with my view on guns and actually prepared a speech rather than just wing it, which is what I usually do.
	And I just wasn't all that pleased with it.
	They were great.
	It's like, I'll give you an example.
	In the very early days of the program, there were a number of different organizations around the country that had come in with speech requests.
	And one of them was, what was it called?
	It wasn't the Economic Club of Detroit.
	It must be the Detroit Advertisers Club or some such thing.
	Anyway, we had a couple of salespeople at the time, the EIB network, who told me this would be an excellent opportunity to do a sales pitch, to go out and tell these people, try to overcome some of the obstacles.
	I said, I don't think that's what you need to do that.
	You need to get up there.
	So I had salespeople trying to tell me what I should talk about.
	And during the cocktail hour before it started, I've got one of my salespeople standing next to me that's advising me to do this.
	And I asked a guy, what are you expecting this speech?
	We want to hear what your take on the news is.
	Just do what you what you do on your radio show.
	I said, you're not expecting me to give you an advertising pitch.
	If you do that, you're going to be booed out of here.
	I said, I looked at my sales executive and I said, thanks.
	And I was ticked off.
	I can't tell you how ticked off I was.
	I mean, it was a sales guy trying to have me do his job for him in front of a bunch of advertising execs.
	And it had misled me.
	You've got to be careful out there, folks.
	You just have to be careful.
	And when there's ever any confusion about what you're to do, be who you are.
	Always fall back on that.
	Wendy does it every day.
	Just be who you are.
	Not even listing.
	What?
	What?
	I just heard my name.
	Be who you are.
	Don't try to be what somebody else tells you you should be or what they tell you others are expecting you to be.
	If you've been invited to go somewhere, it's because they already know who you are and they want you to be who you are.
	So just do it.
	I'm not, no, no, no, no, no.
	I'm not.
	No.
	And I'm not going to get such an invitation anyway.
	You can stop dreaming of that.
	But I'm not going to get such.
	Snurdly's asking me if I get an invitation to speak at the convention.
	Well, I do it.
	I'm not going to get that invitation.
	I'm not a political guy.
	I'm not a party guy out there.
	When's the last speech you saw me give at a Republican convention?
	Never is exactly right.
	Never.
	Well, Donald Trump's been at conventions.
	I don't know.
	I've never heard.
	Oh, in charge of.
	Well, yeah, true, but no, no, no, no.
	That isn't going to happen.
	I'd be shocked.
	And I don't know if I would do it if asked.
	You know, I've got this no-speech policy right now.
	I was just noticing, you know, our FakeBook page, We use the Revere Fakebook page a lot, and we have the Rush Revere and Liberty Fakebook page.
	I mean, Catherine has that humming.
	We've got great audience relationships going there with the Rush Revere book series, families and books and homeschoolers.
	But on the Rush Limbaugh EIB Network Fakebook page, I know we got 2 million followers, and I never do anything on it.
	We could have 20 million followers if I actually applied myself.
	But you know why I don't?
	You want to know why I don't?
	Well, I'm going to get in big, big trouble here because I got people working with me afraid if I go on Fakebook every day that I'm going to start calling people names and that I'll be out of control and that they're going to get in trouble themselves.
	So don't just don't tweet, don't fake book, don't do anything.
	You'll just cause us trouble.
	Three hours on the radio is a big enough risk as it is.
	Do not go out beyond that.
	That's what people who work with me say.
	I'm kidding you.
	You'd be shocked, folks.
	But anyway, 2 million followers and we don't even do – well, we put things on fake book and they eventually will – we drive them to RushLimbaud.com.
	I got a lot of places to service out there.
	But my point is that I don't even know what my login is.
	I probably shouldn't admit this, but I don't even know what my login is.
	So people, you mean we're posting stuff at FakeBook that you're never seeing.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	I see things there, but I don't, it's not a day.
	Remember what I've always said about social media.
	I'm not going to go there and say, hey, guess what?
	I just had my English muffin and I'm roaring and ready to go for the day.
	Happy day.
	And that's not me.
	Hey, just got out of the bathroom feeling really great.
	Show starts in a half hour.
	Don't miss it.
	That's not me.
	Isn't that what people do on Fakebook?
	Or Twitter or what have you.
	Folks, what's that?
	Twitter's fine.
	I'm just funning with people.
	From subject matter we've discussed earlier today, Washington Post kindergartners suspended for bringing Princess Bubble Gun to SCRUL.
	A kindergarten student was suspended for bringing a toy bubble-blowing gun to a scruple in the Denver suburbs on Monday.
	The five-year-old girl received a one-day suspension for bringing a clear bubble-tup, a bubble-type gun to Southeast Elementary in Brighton, according to Colorado's Scrule District 27J.
	Local television stations spoke with a woman they identified as the student's mother who said, really, I'm in shock.
	I don't want her to miss out on class.
	It's such a silly reason not to go to school, the mom said.
	What bugs me is that this is going to be something they can refer to if we have any issues in the future, which I don't foresee, but it's always going to be a lingering thing there in her school file.
	The Scruel District defended the suspension, citing policies regarding weapons.
	A gun that blows bubbles.
	Weapons, real or fake, not permitted in schools.
	If the student were transgender, it'd be a whole different thing.
	Here, take that to the bathroom with you.
	Take your bubble gun to the bathroom with you, little whatever your name is.
	Donald Trump is gaining support among millennials.
	Donald Trump, this is polling data, not only gaining support among Hispanics, the Trumpster is gaining support among millennials.
	The Trump trend, this is from Red Alert Politics, the Trump train, that's in quotes, is headed straight for the general election and picking up supporters along the way, including from millennial voters.
	It's a Fox News poll.
	It was released Wednesday afternoon.
	Trump has significantly closed the gap with Hillary among Generation Y voters and is now leading among Gen Xers by double digits.
	In a head-to-head matchup, Clinton leads Trump among millennials by 11%, 46 to 35, respectively.
	Clinton still holds a double-digit lead.
	It's down seven points from a Fox News poll released on March 23rd that showed an 18-point gain.
	You know, what this is going to be seen as by the Democrats is a continued slowing of the momentum.
	Actually, it's going to be seen as the absence of momentum for Mrs. Clinton.
	Don't doubt me when I tell you that they're having real doubts.
	There's not much they can do other than maybe hope for an indictment and Biden.
	You'd be amazed the number of people who still tell me they think that's going to happen.
	You know, this golf trip over the weekend.
	I can't tell you the number of people who really believe that Obama hates the Clintons, a long-simmering feud, and he's going to pull a rug out from under her at the worst possible time for her.
	And it's going to send Biden in there because he much more trusts Biden to maintain his agenda and advance it than he does Hillary.
	A lot of people who believe that I think some of that belief is housed in hope, but we will see.
	Speaking of hope, we got some hopeful news from Trump.
	Donald Trump has asked one of America's most ardent oil-drilling advocates and climate change skeptics to help him draft his energy policy.
	U.S. Republican Congressman Kevin Kramer of North Dakota, it's a major oil drilling state, is writing a white paper on energy policy for Trump.
	Kramer was also among a group of Trump advisors who recently met with lawmakers from Western energy states who hope that Trump will open more federal land for drilling.
	So you add the Supreme Court nominee potentials that he listed, and now this guy, an anti-pro-fracking, anti-global warming energy advisor, and you have some people feeling a little different.
	And there are all kinds of stories out here about the elites now aligning behind Trump.
	A couple of different stories.
	Republicans that originally opposed Trump are now warming up to Trump.
	Elites who oppose Trump are now joining up with Trump.
	This is a continuing theme that's happening all over the drive-by media.
	Did you hear about this federal judge that had this, I don't know how you would characterize it, he blew up at the Obama Department of Justice over the executive amnesty.
	The federal courts have suspended Obama's implementation of his executive amnesty, and he's done it anyway.
	Obama, DOJ, and other lawyers lied to a bunch of different federal judges, and this one judge just has had it with him.
	Andrew Hannon blasted Department of Justice officials for misleading the court during the course of executive amnesty litigation.
	Now, his penalty on them is nothing, but it is a scathing rebuke.
	Nevertheless, in summary, this court and opposing counsel were misled, both in writing and in open court, on multiple occasions as to when the defendants would begin to implement the Secretary's 2014 DHS directive, establishing a deferred action for parents of Americans and lawful permanent residents.
	That's the DAPA program, and amending the DACA program.
	The judge was livid because the regime lied to him.
	Two different courts have put restraining orders.
	They've stopped Obama's executive amnesty because it's not legal.
	They haven't yet been given permission.
	They haven't been given the case.
	They haven't been granted legal authority to do it.
	And while action has been suspended, the regime was doing it all along.
	Obama just did it.
	And the judge is livid.
	He really is livid.
	It's one of the most stinging rebukes of a judge to a bunch of lawyers that people can ever remember reading.
	But nothing's going to happen.
	You know what the judge's penalty is?
	He is requiring every lawyer that lied to the court to go to an ethics class.
	They ought to be disbarred for crying out loud.
	The federal courts shut it down.
	The federal courts stopped it.
	The federal courts said you cannot continue this.
	You do not have the constitutional authority to grant executive amnesty to illegal aliens either coming into the country or already here, and Obama continued to do it anyway.
	And the lawyers at the Obama DOJ lied to the courts and told them, we're not.
	We're not doing it.
	We've stopped it.
	And they were doing it all along.
	And the judge found out about it.
	And that's why the stinging rebuke.
	And the penalty is to go to ethics classes.
	That's a small price to pay.
	Let me take a break, folks.
	Back with much more in a jiffy.
	Okay, back to the phones.
	We go to Raleigh, North Carolina.
	This is Pepe.
	Pepe, great to have you here, sir.
	Hello.
	Rush, how are you?
	Very well, sir.
	Thanks to being with you on the phone.
	It's unbelievable to me that I'm on the phone with you today.
	Big fan since 2003.
	Thank you.
	Thank you so much for your voice of reason in this crazy nightmare that we live in now.
	But, you know, I want to call you about the iPad Pro, but something more important came up last night.
	I was sitting down and I was reading a story about that just made me almost fall off my chair.
	It's not only the bathroom conundrum that we find ourselves in here in North Carolina, but I just read a story last night that my county, Wake County, the school district, they have decided that in 2018 they're going to stop allowing valedictorians and salutatorians in high schools because it is an unhealthy competition in order to get to that point.
	So instead they're going to go to just a ranking system, I guess.
	But they're not going to allow principals to name valedictorians.
	So it's just one more little thing that they just shows the danger of progressivism and what it's done by indoctrinating our kids left and right for ages now.
	And it's just, all it's done is desensitizes to really Pepe, that has already happened in school districts around the country.
	Elimination of valedictorian is saludictorian, eliminating some come loud, big come loud, all of that gone.
	It's just now getting to Raleigh.
	But you know, the real purpose of it, Pepe, notice what is being erased.
	Notice what's being eliminated.
	Notice what is being discarded, and that is achievement.
	Recognition of the highest achievement.
	Now, it used to be that the recognition of highest achievement was a great honor.
	It was intended to be rewarding, but also to be inspirational.
	It was intended to demonstrate what's possible.
	It is intended, it was intended to honor that which was superior.
	That involved effort and hard work and perseverance.
	It was merit-based, top to bottom.
	And the left, Pepe, to understand, there's a lot of things that the left are doing.
	If you want to understand the most of what appears to be the leftist agenda, not everything, but if you understand one thing, and that is the elimination of competition, that is what is considered evil.
	The elimination of competition is the objective because with competition, you have winners and losers.
	And that is seen as unfair.
	Now, in the standard, ordinary, everyday American playbook in the world of winners and losers, which is life, by the way, the effort is to win.
	Everybody wants to be a winner.
	Not everybody can be, but it is the effort to try that is the message.
	But it's all about achievement, being better than you think you can be, learning that there are things larger than yourself, that you are not the center of the world.
	And in the old America, when there were these divisions, the winners and losers, the effort was to elevate everybody.
	The left wants no part of elevating anybody.
	The left is all about lowering everybody so that everybody is equal in the same.
	So you punish achievement, you raise their taxes, you eliminate their awards, you stop recognizing them, you eliminate classes where they can excel, and you just dumb everybody down.
	Easier to control that way either way, but it's insidious.
	It's anti-human nature as well.
	Daily Signal headline, Obama's overtime rule tried at IBM and it didn't work.
	Now keep in mind, earlier in the program, Joe Biden, speaking the National Urban League, 73 years old, admitted he has never had a job in his life.
	In his words, he's never cashed a paycheck.
	Now, he gets paid as a U.S. Senator, but it's direct deposit.
	It's in the House Bank, the Senate Bank, whatever it is.
	And these guys, they never see it.
	It's just deposited there.
	It doesn't matter what they're paid.
	Whatever they spend is covered and they make whatever.
	Biden's never had a job, has never had a job in the private sector, has never been an employer, has never set foot inside any business as an employee.
	Okay?
	Keep that in mind.
	Juggling work and family life is hard.
	On Wednesday, the Labor Department made it even harder for millions of salaried workers.
	The regime's new overtime regulations will effectively turn them into hourly employees.
	What has happened here is that the regime has noticed that with the advent of Obamacare, employers are converting more people to part-time because Obamacare is unaffordable.
	And it only applies.
	You only have to provide health care to employees that work 30 hours or more.
	So businesses are reclassifying people, turning from salaried to part-timers, and giving them 29 hours a week and no health care.
	Now, the regime, that makes them very mad because these businesses, they're not just sitting there and taking the punishment.
	The businesses are not just sitting there and absorbing these penalties.
	Businesses are doing what they always do.
	They act dynamically, taking steps to avoid these costly, inefficient, and unworkable mandates from the federal government.
	And so the regime says, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, well, well, then we're going to raise the wage that you pay these part-timers.
	We're going to get you, we're going to get you to the other end.
	And so that's what's basically happened.
	The Fair Labor Standards Act exempts salaried employees.
	Salaried employees get paid to do a particular job, not work particular hours.
	Salaried employees have the flexibility to do things like take off early in the afternoon to attend a soccer game and all that, but part-timers don't.
	And the Labor Department, that's not fair.
	So on Wednesday, it raised the overtime threshold test for salaried employees to $47,500 a year.
	All salaried employees making less than that, no matter how advanced their job duties, now qualify for overtime.
	This is the way the regime is biting back companies who have reduced hours.
	Oh, yeah, you can't do that, so they're now mandating overtime.
	The employers must pay time and a half when these employees work more than 40 hours a week.
	By the way, it's always been this way.
	Salaried employees are not on a clock.
	The job may be 9 to 5, but you work whatever you work to get the job done.
	And it's always been assumed by others that salaried employees, boy, they've really got it easy.
	These white-collar guys, yeah, they take the dog to the vet, they can do it, this, and that, but I'm on the clock.
	I ain't paid for the hour.
	It's not fair.
	So the regime's moved in here.
	And as this website, the Daily Signal, says, you know, this seems fair.
	You know, this seems appealing.
	Why shouldn't workers get extra pay for working longer hours?
	However, economic research shows that's unlikely to happen.
	Most employers respond to overtime laws by reducing base pay an offsetting amount.
	Combining new overtime pay and lower salaries, most workers will earn about the same.
	And the reason for this is that companies budget labor costs.
	Companies do not have a stack of cash other than Apple.
	They do not have a stash of cash that they're hoarding for the execs to spend on prostitutes or whatever.
	that they're keeping from the employees.
	They've got a budget every year.
	Labor is probably the most expensive budget item.
	They're earning or trying to earn a profit.
	They just can't willy-nilly blow the budget left and right, not like governments can do.
	So the regime comes in and says, you know what?
	You know what?
	You're short-changing people because of Obama Air Force.
	Well, we're going to make you pay salaried employees time and a half and hourly employees, any overtime over 40 hours, time and a half.
	So the employer says, okay, fine.
	And they're reducing the regular hours so that the amount each employee is being paid is the same.
	And this has really got the regime ticked off.
	But here's the point.
	The bottom line is, all of this was done by people in the regime like Joe Biden who've never worked in the private sector.
	Obama never has.
	Obama's never had one job at some law firm where he admits he felt like he was among the enemy.
	The Obama administration, I think it's true to say my memory is that there's not a single cabinet member who has ever had a private sector job.
	They're all egghead faculty at universities or think tankers.
	They have never had real world job experience.
	And yet they're the ones who sit around and curse everybody in the private sector.
	And they're the ones that sit around and claim they know how to do it better because they are the theoreticians.
	And they're smarter.
	They're better.
	They're brighter.
	And they know exactly how these businesses ought to be run.
	And nobody would ever be mistreated if they ran them.
	Everybody would be happy and everybody would be well compensated and there wouldn't be any profit.
	They wouldn't be in this stuff that poisons businesses.
	There wouldn't be any fracking.
	There wouldn't be any global warming.
	So that's what they do.
	People like Joe Biden have never gotten a private sector paycheck, never been into business.
	Same thing with Obama.
	They sit up there arrogantly, condescendingly telling other businesses what to do.
	So they implement this new overtime law, and IBM was the test case, and it didn't work.
	Obama's overtime rule was tried at IBM.
	And IBM, no matter what Obama did, IBM found a way around it so that at the end of the week, their labor costs did not increase.
	Now, this kind of thing, if it goes on, if it were to go on, would just make Obama livid to the point.
	Well, I don't know what he would do, but this problem was supposed to be fixed with Obamacare.
	They just don't understand the dynamics of how business is run.
	All they have is hatred for it.
	All they have is contempt for private sector businesses.
	It's like the misunderstandings of children in a way.
	Here's Keith in Atlanta.
	Keith, I'm glad you weighed it.
	You're next on Open Line Friday.
	Hi.
	Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
	Yes, sir.
	Hey, so I've been a registered Republican for 30 years, and like a lot of folks, I'm not real happy with where we sit right now with the election choices.
	And I know conventional wisdom states that third-party candidates just don't have a chance in our system, but this has been a year that stood conventional wisdom on its ear.
	And I went to this nonpartisan website of who I side with or iSideWith.com.
	It turns out I side with libertarian Gary Johnson.
	And it occurs to me that probably most of Bernie's followers would go to him, and most of the disaffected Republicans might be interested.
	And then you look at the in-betweens with the independents, and maybe there's a chance to have a sane choice between Trump and Hillary.
	And I'd like your thoughts.
	Well, Gary Johnson's name comes up regularly by that once or twice a week here on the program.
	And every four years, every presidential year, We entertain calls from people who want to go the libertarian route because either they're libertarians or they're just turned off by the Republicans or Democrats.
	And every four years, they think that's the year that the third party candidate can win.
	And the third party candidate never does.
	It just, it's not, it's not arithmetically possible.
	There aren't enough disaffected Republicans and Democrats to go third party that would.
	The only way it could happen, Keith, is if the third party candidate get enough votes to prevent either candidate from getting 270 electoral votes, in which case the election would then be decided by the House of Representatives.
	The House of Representatives would elect the president by vote among the top three vote-getters in the general, which in this case would be Trump, Hillary, and Gary Johnson.
	And since the Republicans control the House, Donald Trump would be elected president.
	The Republicans in the House, and if the Democrats ran it, it would be Hillary.
	Neither of them are going to vote for Gary Johnson.
	I also think, and I mentioned this yesterday.
	I wouldn't be, a lot of people think it's gone too far, Rush.
	It can't happen.
	It's not possible.
	There's no way they could mend enough fences.
	It's gotten too brutal.
	I mean, Barbara Boxer out there said she feared for her life at the Nevada convention.
	If Hillary were to put Bernie on the ticket as the VEEP, that would eliminate all Democrat disaffected going to Gary Johnson.
	If you put Bernie on the ticket, then his voters stay Democrat.
	And Hillary may be forced to seriously consider something like this.
	Her momentum is plundering.
	And it may be, I don't know, if Bernie's her vice presidential nominee, then some of his voters, I think 8%, 10% of them are saying they're interested in voting for Trump.
	That may hold up.
	It may not.
	If he's on the Democrat ticket.
	Bernie would do it in a heartbeat, I think.
	It's Hillary that would be the stumbling block.
	Although it may be the other way around.
	But either way, I think the scenarios add up to, once again, it being a really, really tall hill to climb for a third party.
	There's too much pro-Trump emotion out there, even though you cite a lot of people on the Republican side fed up with him and don't like him, not happy, and so forth.
	There still isn't, I don't know if there's just the numbers are not there for meaningful third-party candidate victory.
	Third party usually takes away from Republicans and would elect Hillary Clinton.
	And I think that probably holds up theoretically this year, too, if it were to happen.
	Caught a little bit of Trump here addressing the NRA.
	This is funny.
	He was talking about Sam Bernardino.
	And he said, 14 people, 14 people that come and shoot a place up.
	People gave him a wedding shower.
	They thought they were their friends.
	They're coming.
	They're blowing people away.
	People still in the hospital.
	And there are no guns on the other side.
	If he had guns on the other side, if I'd have been out there, boom.
	Audience erupted.
	Yeah, if I'd have been out there, boom.
	Well, it was a short week for me, folks, but it was always enjoyable.
	Always is.
	Look forward to it each and every day.
	Trump continuing his improvisational shoot from the hip, whatever you're thinking he says speech at the NRA.
	He's getting standing O's left and right as he's doing so.
	But he started it, you know, it's a good timing.
	Three weeks ago, the show, this speech might have started at 1 p.m.
	They moved it to near 3, so they're making progress there.
	It's a good thing.

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