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May 24, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 24, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #2
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The plot thickens.
I just got an email.
I got a click of the link here.
I had not heard this.
It goes with the Ken Starr story.
Hang on a minute.
I'm going to turn a diddle cam off for a minute because I got to do something.
Hang on.
I just don't like turning my back to the camera.
That just looks bad.
So I have to do that.
If you're on the diddle cam, be patient.
I'm coming right back to it.
I just got to print something out here real quick.
And of course, printing is a 15-step process here.
Let me just print the first page.
That's all I need.
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I got to wait for it to print.
We're ready to go.
Five, four.
There's one page of it out here.
This is a totally unrelated story.
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Forgot about that.
Put that there.
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Let's get going.
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All right.
Welcome back.
Ken Starr reportedly being fired by Baylor University for mishandling sex scandal.
He's under heavy investigation for looking the other way when black football players raped co-eds.
Ken Starr, they turned Ken Starr into the sex per in the Clinton Lewinsky scandal.
By the time it was all over, Ken Starr was the sex pervert and Bill Clinton was the Boy Scout, saving damsels in distress.
Most amazing.
And that was the Clinton strategy.
You go after whoever's attacking you and you destroy them.
You don't go after the evidence.
You don't defend yourself with the evidence.
You just go after the attacker and you deal it right out of the Alinsky handbook, by the way.
You just go after the attacker and you cream them.
You destroy their reputation, their integrity, and everything else.
And that's how you save yourself.
And that's what they did.
So here's the first part of the story.
Kenneth Starr, the former independent counsel whose investigations of Bill Clinton in the 90s, by the way, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the reason all of this is back in the news is Donald J. Trump.
Because Donald J. Trump went there.
Donald J. Trump published an ad with a picture of Bill Clinton, black and white photo, big cigar in his mouth.
And then the audio testimony of Juanita Broderick claiming that Clinton had raped her, or tried to, and Kathleen Willey.
And you're not supposed to bring that stuff up.
The media didn't talk about it when it happened.
You're not supposed to.
And since the media didn't, it's taboo.
It's the way it works.
And Trump says, I don't care.
I'm talking about it.
So he is.
And all of this is being dredged back up by design because there's a whole lot of young voters that don't know anything about it, that weren't alive while it was happening, that weren't under the media spell and therefore under the Clinton spell when this happened.
A lot of young people who find any behavior like that of Bill Clinton to be reprehensible and indefensible.
The Republicans won't go there.
The drive-bys won't go there.
Trump is going there.
And because he did, all of this stuff is now effervesced up to the surface.
So, Kenneth Starr, the former independent, by the way, keep interrupting myself because I think there are data points that you millennials need to know.
Ken Starr was the epitome of boring.
Ken Starr, just his personality, he was a nice guy.
Don't misunderstand, but in terms of his personality, he was the epitome of dryball.
Was the epitome of colorlessness, right?
Would you agree with me on this, Mr. Snerdley?
Ken Starr, soft-spoken, just almost embarrassed to be alive.
And he somehow ended up with the assignment to investigate all of this.
And they went after this guy and made him out to be the biggest sex pervert.
They assigned James Carvel, Serpent Head, to the case.
And they succeeded in making Ken Starr out to be this guy wearing nothing but a trench coat, prowling the alleys of Washington after midnight, looking for unsuspecting victims.
When Ken Starr is probably the kind of guy that doesn't get undressed to go to bed.
So knowing that, Ken Starr, the former independent counsel whose investigations of Bill Clinton in the 1990s led to his impeachment, now heaps praise on the former president, according to the New York Times.
When's the last time a New York Times had anything positive to say about Ken Starr?
I mean, they may have, you know, Starr was a warrior, maybe a judge, maybe a work with judges.
I forget exactly what his resume is.
And they may have written some articles of praise for some legal things he's done.
But when it comes to the Clintons, the New York Times did nothing but try to destroy Ken Starr, as did the Washington Post.
But now, now, the New York Times comes to praise Ken Starr.
This is Starr being quoted about Clinton.
His genuine empathy for human beings is absolutely clear, Ken Starr said of Clinton during a panel discussion at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
It is powerful, said Starr.
It is palpable.
And the people of Arkansas really understood that about him, that he genuinely cared.
The I feel your pain is absolutely genuine.
President Clinton was, and perhaps still is, the most gifted politician of the baby boomer generation.
He just has remarkable gifts.
I mean, this is, this really, this is regurgitate Civi.
He is saying this about the man who single-handedly and systematically set out to destroy him.
Again, if you weren't around in the 1990s, it was vicious what the Clinton team, what the Clinton war room team did to Ken Starr.
And all Starr was doing was interviewing the women.
Clinton lied under oath to Ken Starr.
Well, his deputies.
Ken Starr, now president of Baylor University in Waco, said that since Clinton's administration ended, the former president has worked hard to overcome the personal scandals that plagued him during his time in office.
There are certain tragic dimensions which we all lament, said Starr.
That having been said, the idea of this redemptive process afterwards, we have certainly seen that powerfully since Clinton left office.
President Carter set a very high standard, which President Clinton clearly continues to follow.
Now, here's the thing.
Again, for those of you not around in the 90s or not paying attention, I pardon, excuse me, those of you who were for maybe being redundant here.
But again, I need to remind you of an observation.
And the reason we call the Clinton Foundation the Clinton Crime Family Foundation, there has yet to be.
And there wasn't back then.
There has yet to be the tell-all book about the Clinton White House.
Yes, there have been a couple of FBI agents who have written things about Mrs. Clinton and so forth.
But it is truly unusual that in every presidency, every White House, the Butler somebody writes a book about what a reprobate the president and his family were.
It happened to Reagan, it happened to the Bushes, it happens to everybody.
No such thing has happened about Bill Clinton.
And Reagan and Bush were pikers compared to what Clinton did to the White House.
From the fundraising to cheapening it to the Winsky scandal.
But not only are the tell-all books not there, it is that people the Clintons have targeted for destruction turn around years later and praise them to the hilt.
And it has always made us suspicious in a way that Clintons had 500 FBI files on people, and we've always wondered, what do they have on these people that gets them to go silent, to shut up, to not turntail, and basically pledge eternal loyalty.
It has to be something based in fear.
And now Ken Starr, this is unbelievable.
Now, in all fairness, back in the night, Ken Starr was not routinely and daily ripping in the Clintons.
It's not his personality.
He didn't do that.
It was just the nature of his investigation.
Ken Starr never said a word.
The media was camped outside his house with howitzers and all kinds of things.
Ken Starr would walk outside his house in the morning to get in his car and go to work, and the media would be there.
Do you really want to sell cigarettes to kids, Mr. Starr?
Is that really what you do in your private time?
Are you really a sex pervert?
Starr would go, and he would smile and wave and stutter and then get in his car and drive off.
The media camped on his front yard every day with the latest allegation from James Carville.
Are you really from Mars, Mr. Starr?
Did you land from Mars and you really have a deal with tobacco companies to sell cigarettes, give them away to our kids?
Is that what you, I mean, we're exaggerating here, but it was that kind of stuff that Carver was accusing this guy doing.
Starr was no more equipped to deal with it than Mother Teresa would have been.
Well, a mediaite, Ken Starr reportedly being fired.
This is May 12th today.
Whoa.
Ken Starr reportedly being fired by Baylor University or mishandling sex scandal.
Indications from Baylor are that the board of regents are preparing to remove Ken Starr from his position as screw president.
This may shape up as an ironic twist of fate for the lawyer, turned administrator, as his expected ouster is due to the board being unimpressed with how he handled a sex scandal at the school.
Ken Starr has been the president and chancellor at Baylor for the past six years, during which time the screw has been dealing with at least eight major allegations of rape and assault against members of the football team.
Even though Tevin Elliott and Sam Ukuachu have been convicted of rape, the school and a near dozen other players are still facing allegations and legal actions dating all the way back to 2009.
The football coach Art Bryles and athletic director Ian McCaw have both been caught in the maelstrom of incidents.
But according to the Horns Digest, the local paper, sources say that Starr will be the first to be removed from his position.
So, Snerdly, what are we to make here?
Is there any connection?
Any connection to Starr being accused of looking the other way, rape allegations, football players on campus, and turning around doing a 180 and someone how great Bill Clinton is?
And yeah, it is a strange coincidence.
Clinton has grown dramatically.
When he said, I feel your pain, he really meant it, said Ken Starr.
The people of Arkansas knew that he meant it.
Oh, well.
Then there's this from Salon.
Folks, I have two stories from Salon.com that I've got to share with you before the program ends.
One of them here, it must stop now.
The media cannot allow Trump to make this election about Bill Clinton.
Salon's had it.
Salon's sending out a plea, a warning, a demand to the drive-by media to shut this Trump stuff up about Clinton.
But the other Salon story, Donald Trump is going to win.
This is why Hillary Clinton cannot defeat what Trump represents.
Now, I'm just going to read excerpts of this story to you verbatim.
And I want to see if you have the slightest idea what the writer is talking about.
This is the, did you read it?
This is the most amazing attempt at intellectual discourse I have ever.
It's almost like a satire.
Well, let me just read the beginning just to show you what I'm talking about here.
Just a little tease.
The neo-fascist reaction, the force behind Trump, has come about because of the extreme disembeddedness of the economy from social relations.
The neoliberal economy has become pure abstraction, as has the market, as has the state.
There is no reality to any of these things that we have classically understood them.
Americans, like people everywhere rising up against neoliberal globalization, want a return of social relations or embeddedness to the economy.
That's the opening paragraph.
Do you know what neoliberal is?
I gather to say, I would, you think you know, but you're not sure, so you don't want to say.
Well, yeah, neocons, it's confusing.
No, neoliberal has nothing to do.
It's not related in any way, shape, man, or form to the definition of neocon.
Now, neoliberalism is liberalism that believes in capitalism.
And of course, Salon hates that.
They despise it.
The neoliberals suck.
Do you know what neo-fascism is?
Do you know what the neo-fascist reaction is?
Do you know what disembeddedness is?
Do you know what the social, what is it, social, social relations and embeddedness of social relations as related to neoliberal economics is?
Well, that's all in the first paragraph, and it all adds up to why Trump's going to win.
It goes eight pages like this.
It prints it eight pages like I don't, I'm not sure what it's saying.
I've read it twice.
I've sent it to people who understand this kind of goblet-de-gook and asked for translations.
And I haven't gotten anything back yet.
That's the point.
If it weren't for the headline, I would have no idea what this story is about.
Now, the two salon pieces, and we're going to come back.
I'm going to get to your phone calls when we get back, but just to let you know, it must stop now.
Media cannot allow Trump to make this election about Bill Clinton.
The press is allowing Trump to change the conversation from real current issues to 90s-era nonsense.
So here's Salon telling the media they can't let Trump get away with this.
Just after Hillary.
I love salon.com telling the media that they cannot let Trump go after Bill Clinton.
It must stop now.
Bill Clinton isn't running for president.
What he did with his penis 30 years ago is irrelevant, according to salon.com.
Now, what I love, here's Salon telling the media they can't let Trump go after Bill Clinton just days after Hillary told everybody that Bill was going to fix the economy for.
And she was going to put him in charge of the economy.
But we can't go after Bill.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
We can't go after Bill's stuff during the 1990s.
It's a diversion.
And this is a pull quote from the piece.
Worse still, we've been down this road already as Peter King, Republican New York, which is Trump-hating rhino, by the way, said, we've been here before, and for most, it's probably old news that people get a little squeamish about, especially when Trump brings it up in the abstract.
He risks making the same mistake Republicans made in 1998 when we got caught up in this stuff.
We'll see.
Time will tell.
Let me get back to the phones.
People patiently waiting.
Pompano Beach, Florida.
Hi, Julie.
I'm glad you called.
Hi.
Hi.
How are you doing today?
Very well.
Thank you very much.
I am really concerned about Wall Street.
You are?
What if they vote for Hillary just to keep their little game going?
Oh, there's no question that's going to happen.
I mean, not just vote for her.
They've already underwritten her presidency.
Did you hear yesterday's show?
Yes, I did.
$21 million in speech income, two years, two years, the banks and Wall Street firms and others have paid Hillary $21 million in two years for speeches.
Well, I think Trump should talk more about that kind of stuff, too.
Well, give him time.
I mean, there's so much Clinton stuff out there.
You know, it's like hacking through the jungle.
You've got to figure out the path you want to go.
Well, you are fabulous.
You've kept me going for the last week.
Well, aren't you?
I appreciate that.
But really, I mean, and there has to be a timing to this stuff.
I had some people asking me today, oh, because this Clinton 90s stuff makes a lot of people nervous.
Let me be honest.
The reason it makes them nervous is because they think it's like the budget deal in 95.
They think it blew up in the Republicans' face.
And they think that because the Republicans went after impeachment, but they didn't really.
They went through the motions, but they didn't.
I mean, it was a foregone conclusion before it even got started.
The Senate was not going to convict.
The Senate wasn't going to take it seriously.
So the House impeachment managers put the case together, but nobody's heart was really in it.
And now Clinton has come back with the charities and the global initiative, and he's best friends with the Bushes, and he's running all over the world saving people from natural disasters.
And they think that they had their lunch handed to him twice.
So they think we've been there, done that, and we can't beat Clinton on that.
So they just don't go there.
I mean, even people emailing me.
The point is that I predicted long ago Trump would go there.
That it's precisely the kind of thing Trump will zero in on, precisely because it hasn't been done right, in his view.
Now, the timing, why do this now?
As opposed to, say, in September, October, when the campaign really, really officially kicks off after Labor Day, and that's standard operating procedure.
But I think that's being thrown out, too.
I think with Trump, you have to throw out everything you know.
You have to throw out your experience.
You have to throw out the expectations.
You have to throw out the formulas because Trump doesn't, you can't plug him into any of it.
So there's a reason why he chose this time to do it as opposed to waiting.
And he may go back to it.
But I mean, I don't know, folks.
I'm just thinking it's almost a certainty because it makes so much sense.
At some point, he's going to zero in on this speech income.
$21 million.
And the way he's going to zero in on it, well, I don't know that either.
The way I would zero in, here's Mrs. Clinton trying to portray herself as a man, or I'm sorry, a person of the people, a woman of the people.
She can relate to the downtrodden, the homeless, the starving, the thirsty, the dispossessed, the impossessed, or whatever the hell the left describes them as.
And she has no more in common with average ordinary Americans than somebody in Mars.
In fact, Mrs. Clinton's whole life has been to distance herself from that.
That's why the wealth.
That's why the power.
Mrs. Clinton doesn't want to be subjected to the laws and the rules that she's going to implement on everybody else.
She's one of our betters.
Mrs. Clinton can't be bothered by the tedious requirement to obey these little laws that are there to keep all of us in check.
They are there to keep us under heel.
They are there to make sure we don't follow our worst base temptations.
But Mrs. Clinton, clearly not subject, she's such a brilliant, smart person, clearly better.
And she has nothing in common with the people she seeks to rule.
And her whole life, particularly since the White House years and up to present, proved this.
So going after Mrs. Clinton on the speech income, $21 million in two years doing 20-minute speeches, minimum price, $225,000.
Who can do that?
There isn't the best entertainer in the world, the person who has the ability to captivate the most people and either grab them or make them laugh or persuade them.
It can't come anywhere near that.
And there's nothing compelling about Mrs. Clinton.
She's selling access.
She is selling her presidency.
Her presidency has been bought.
It's been bought by $21 million of speech income from Wall Street banks and Wall Street firms.
And then the Clinton Foundation has $100 million in it from foreign sources, such as nations and leaders in foreign countries, foreign corporations, businesses, what have you.
I mean, that stuff is sitting duck, just waiting to be hit.
And Bernie went after her on it.
She will not release the transcripts of any of those speeches.
I mean, it's a lot of speeches.
It's two years' worth of speeches, 20 minutes, 25 minutes.
What is she saying to these people?
That makes it the reason people want to hear what she says is because most people think that if you're being paid a quarter million dollars to do a speech, it must be pretty fascinating what you say.
And it isn't.
These are, this is the closest thing to no-show work that you can get.
She has to go.
But it doesn't matter what she says.
But I can tell you what it is.
Whatever the girl, if it's Goldman Sachs, if it's Colbert, Kravis Roberts, I don't care who it is, she tells them how great they are.
She tells them how important they are.
She tells them how crucial they are to the economic recovery, the economy, whatever.
That's what she tells them.
And she assures them that everything's going to be fine if she's in the White House.
And they happily pony up.
Individually, and a quarter million dollars for these people, chump change.
But if you do enough of these speeches and add it up over two years, $21 million, who can do that?
And it's got to be target rich.
I'm just being informed here, informed, that Crazy Bernie is asking for an official recount of the Kentucky primary vote.
Excuse me.
Is that not great?
They want this guy.
He's become a fly, you know, a fly.
He's on the wall.
He's buzzing around the ice cream.
He won't leave the fruit plate alone.
They want the guy just to try to swat him away and he won't go away.
And now he's demanding an official recount for Kentucky.
This is going to drive Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz up the wall.
She's going to go nuts.
Here's Bill in Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Rush.
Hi.
I feel I'm just alone in a sea of liberals.
By the way, I think that maybe a neoliberal could be like the worst red diaper baby mainstream Democrat that exists these days.
Maybe that's what a neoliberal is.
A neoliberal, according to this, I looked it up.
There is a definition for it.
Neoliberal is a liberal that believes in capitalism.
I don't know how that could even be a liberal, but that's what this guy calls him neoliberal.
I see.
I wanted to call you about this Trump commercial that has Juanita Broderick on it.
And just to say that anything about Bill Clinton should now be fair game for the mainstream media and for any talk show and for anybody discussing this kind of thing in the supermarket or anything like that.
And that is because I think it was last week or the week before that Hillary said she's bringing him back into the White House and she's putting him in charge of fixing the economy because he knows how to do it.
Of course, that depends on what it is.
But that's sort of another issue.
In his capacity, God forbid that she gets elected, he will get to meet with the heads of the HR departments.
That's personnel departments for your Rio Linda listeners in major Fortune 500 corporations as part of job creation.
As part of running the economy, right.
Exactly.
And you may know that in corporate America, one of the first places that women were able to break through that glass ceiling is the HR department.
So he's going to have all these babes surrounding him.
And I don't know whether Hillary's going to put in one-way mirrors in some of these conference rooms or what, but she should do that or get some of those surveillance.
What do you mean, so she can spy on him and make sure he's behaving?
Absolutely.
If they had the cell phone for Angela Merkel in the Obama White House, she's got to get Bill's private number there.
The other thing I would bring up about this, though, is you may remember, and probably at the end, by the end of your mesmerizing three hours today, you'll have the soundbite.
I think it was the infamous 60 Minutes interview when Clinton was a candidate the first time.
And the two of them were there, and they asked Mrs. Clinton about her role.
And she said something like, well, I'm not going to sit home any, you know, and just bake cookies.
No, wait, it's worse than that.
She said, I'm not some Tammy Y-Net sitting home baking cookies for my man.
I'd love to hear that.
I think they hinted at that interview that he was going to put her in charge of health care, just the way that she is going to put him in charge of the economy.
And then they came up with the line, you see, you get two for the price of one.
Right, the blue plate special.
If Donald J. Trump were to go there, that would be fair game, the fairest of games.
No, it's exactly.
In fact, you're right on the money because no sooner does Hillary announce that she's going to put Bill in charge of the economy, to which the reactions were then he should run.
If you're going to put Bill in charge of the economy, then why the hell isn't he running?
Except that he can't.
Why are you running?
If you're going to put him in charge of the economy, why are you running?
But it puts him front and center.
And here comes Solonse.
You can't do that.
Advising the media, you've got to leave Bill Clinton alone.
But Hillary has brought him back, and he wants to be back.
Don't make any other assumption.
Clinton loves center stage.
He doesn't care whether they're talking about his penis, Lewinsky, or his economy.
just loves being there.
And Hillary is going to...
Why did she say she was going to put Bill in charge of the economy, by the way?
I'll tell you why.
Because there's two reasons.
One is that people think the economy of the 90s was Nirvana and that Bill Clinton knew what he was doing, and that's why.
And so people, Clintons are stuck in the 90s, but you have to understand something.
To understand how Hillary is campaigning, to understand how she looks at the world, they're stuck in the 90s.
They have all these enemies.
The vast right-wing conspiracy hasn't gone away.
It's still out to get them.
And so the 90s, they think everybody else is focused on the 90s.
That's why she makes reference to Clinton running the economy.
That's supposed to remind everybody how great it was.
She doesn't stop to think that it makes her look incompetent or incapable of running the economy.
But it's supposed to also comfort people who think she may not be qualified.
I mean, it's a multi-purpose announcement.
Bill, I appreciate the phone call, and I feel for you.
Stuck where you are there at the Upper West Side, Manhattan.
It's pretty.
It's pretty, but the neighborhood.
Okay, as I understand it, Crazy Bernie is asking for a recanvas of votes, which is just a review of the total votes as originally tabulated.
It's not a full recount per se.
I don't know what the difference in a review and a recount is.
Recount, I guess, would include a full examination of ballots and machines and so forth.
This is just basically retabulating the result.
Now, Kentucky, again, as I understand it, and I understand more than most, Kentucky allocates its delegates proportionally.
So Sanders would likely only stand again one pledged delegate, even if the ultimate winner is amended after the recanvassing.
If the recanvassing shows he actually won, he picks up one delegate.
That's what's at stake here.
So it's a lot of window dressing.
He's just trying to harass him.
He is.
He's the fly buzzing around the ice cream at the social on Sunday afternoon or the grill or whatever.
They just can't.
No matter what they do, he won't go away.
And that's what he's just trying to irritate him here.
Plus, Debbie Blabbermouth.
Jay in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, you're next.
It's great to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hi.
Great to be here, Rush.
I really listen to you all the time because you're as subtle as a cannonball.
You are right on.
I appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
But anyway, what I want to talk about is Hillary, Silicone Hillary, who White Water doesn't seem to stick, Bengali doesn't stick, and the service might not stick, and Claribel, Bernie Sanders, they're looking for the support of Obama, who was doing the tango in Argentina while people were being blown up in Brussels.
Is this the support you want?
How do you feel about that, Rush?
You are.
Let me see if I can cut to the quicker your question.
You're asking me, who do I think Obama's going to support, Crazy Bernie or Hillary?
Really?
That's the question?
Yes.
And what does the fact that Obama was tangoing with a bunch of different authors down there in Argentina have to do with it?
I mean, he's mocking the American people.
Oh, yes.
I think Obama, in that choice, is obviously committed to Mrs. Clinton.
Otherwise, she would be in trouble.
If Obama really wanted Crazy Bernie, he would have done something to show that.
Yeah, it depends on who you run into.
There are still people who think that Clinton is going to have the boom lowered on her by Obama at some point, and Biden is going to jump in and be the nominee.
Because there's supposedly this animosity between the Clintons and the Obamas and so forth.
I think that's a pipe dream.
The exact opposite at the DOJ seems to me to be what's happening.
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