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May 25, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 25, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Okay, audio soundbite time.
This is the Clinton News Network back in action, CNN.
A number of anchors shutting down discussions of anything to do with Bill Clinton in the 1990s, while at the same time condemning Trump.
At some point yesterday afternoon, CNN went back to the 90s and became the Clinton News Network all over again.
Brooke Baldwin, Info Babe in the afternoon, shut down Kellyanne Conway when she dared bring up the fact that uh Clinton settled the Paula Jones lawsuit.
They're talking about it, Clinton's history with women, and we joined it in progress at that point.
He put Paula Jones $850,000 for sexually harassed someone.
Okay, okay, we're not $850,000.
We're not airing all this dirty laundry here.
I just can't believe we're going there.
We're not gonna she was just talking about how the Clinton had settled the Paula Jones lawsuit for 850 Gs.
It was a factual matter, and there was not even any illusion to what was going on betwixt and between the sheets with Clinton or in the bathroom off the Oval Office, or cigars.
But dutifully right there was Brooke Waldro.
Oh my god, oh my god, okay, okay, okay.
We're not, we're not at we're not airing all this dirty laundry here.
I just I just can't believe we're going there.
We'll go back to 1980 for Bill Cosby.
We'll go back to prep school for Mitt Romney.
We'll go back to Newt Gingrich's mother talking to Connie Chung back in the 70s.
We'll go back as far as we have to to continue to air and re-air whatever they come in with Republican dirty laundry.
But they're not going back to the Clintons.
Wolf Blitzer, situation room last night, speaking with uh uh well, he was he was talking about the uh Trump bringing up the Vince Foster death and said this.
I was the White House correspondent for CNN in 1993.
I remember all of that very vividly, was a sad, sad moment for everyone involved, especially Vince Foster's family.
And now for the the Republican presidential uh presumptive nominee to revive all of that at this stage, that seems beneath uh Donald Trump.
Tisk tisk tisk, we're not going there.
CNN dutifully circling the wagons.
Jake Tapper last night on CNN's the lead with Jake Tapper.
Mr. Trump, you lent credence to a bizarre and unfounded conspiracy theory.
The notion that this is a murder is a fiction born of delusion and untethered to reality and contradicted by evidence reviewed in at least six investigations, one of them by Ken Starr, hardly a Bill Clinton defender.
To say otherwise is ridiculous and frankly shameful.
Again, this is not a pro-Clinton position or an anti-Trump position.
It is a pro-truth position.
But but here's the thing.
If you don't like Trump going back there, you can do all that.
I mean, it's it's but it does come across as pro-Trump or pro-Clinton all over the place because there seems to be this need to defend, which does not happen for Republicans.
When it comes to Republicans, the nature of the evidence is irrelevant.
It's always the seriousness of the charge.
I give you Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill.
The nature of the evidence was irrelevant.
It was the seriousness of the charge.
I give you a guy named Gary Sick, Columbia University wrote a book once, claiming that George H.W. Bush in 1989.
Or 88.
No.
I take it, but 1979.
George W. Bush in 1979 was flown to Paris on an HR an SR-71 spy plane and had a meeting with the Iranians.
At which time George H. W. Bush told the Iranians, you'll do nothing.
You'll keep those hostages hostages until Reagan's elected, then you'll release them.
Gary Sick published that story in a book.
He was all over TV being interviewed by it.
Tom Foley, the Speaker of the House, said we don't have any evidence to support it is, but the seriousness of the charge requires that we investigate this.
And so they did.
There was a House investigation ten years later about whether Bush had flown to Paris to meet with Iranian officials to arrange the hostage release only in the event of Reagan's being elected president.
There was no evidence.
So with with with Republicans, the series of the charge always determines whether they cover some not the nature of the evidence.
Now with Clinton, we won't have realized there's no evidence for this.
This is silly, it's absurd.
There isn't any seriousness of the charge.
We need to investigate this.
These same liberals, they still publish theories about the JFK assassination.
nation.
Though the Warren Commission said it was only Lee Harvey Oswald.
But ever so often they go back to Lincoln.
But when it comes to Vince Foster, uh it's despicable.
You're good.
No way, Jose.
It's just different in the way they all treat it.
Aaron Burnett on CNN outraged that Trump is going too far, dredging up things that are deeply personal.
Trump going deeply personal.
And I mean deeply personal.
We are meaning to dredging up things from the past, accusations of the past, uh, many of which have been completely debunked.
Is he going too far?
Is he going too far?
And finally, John Berman.
This was last night, CNN Anderson Cooper 360 talking about Trump, Vince Foster et al.
We begin tonight with new attacks from Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton that are actually neither new nor against Hillary Clinton when you get right down to it.
And in at least one case, Vince Foster, Trump is trafficking in conspiracy theories that have been proven false.
Repeatedly.
Donald Trump continues to find different ways of singing a song written long ago about his opponent's marriage and about her husband's behavior.
So uh CNN did decide to circle the wagons.
There's which, hey, folks, they can do it.
I'm just pointing out that they are, while they may want it to appear something else.
Now the New York Times, as Donald Trump pushes conspiracy theories, right wing media gets its wish by Jonathan Martin, formerly of the politico.
Ever since Talk Radio, cable news and the internet emerged in the 1990s, sorry, Jonathan, I emerged in the 80s, and everything else came afterwards.
But let me just read it as it's written.
Ever since talk radio emerged in the 1980s, cable news, the internet emerged in the 1990s as potential potent political forces on the right.
Republicans have used those media to attack their opponents through a now familiar two step.
Political operatives would secretly place damaging information with friendly outlets like the Drudge Report and Fox News, and with radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh.
Uh, there are no hosts like Rush Limbaugh.
But we continue.
And then they would work to get the same information absorbed into this the drive-by media.
Candidates themselves would avoid being seen slinging mud if possible so as to avoid coming across as undignified or desperate.
Vast right Wing conspiracy again.
So it was me and Drudge and Fox News that came across as undignified or desperate and thereby protecting our candidates who didn't have to do that.
Now I I don't know what what Martin is talking about here.
Political operatives would secretly place damaging information with friendly outlets like the Drudge Report, Fox News, and with me.
Ever since I read this, I have been 27 years is a long time to be doing this, and I've been trying to think from whom have I taken phone calls from people planting information for me to use.
This just doesn't happen.
I don't talk to anybody.
I really am a hermit when it comes.
I do not have networking relationships with any of the people.
Well, look, I've gotten to know a few of them over the years, but look, I got a call from Greenspan once about a Mexican bailout.
Newt urged him to call me, thinking it would help if I knew what was going on.
But I don't I don't get calls from people trying to plant information.
I get I get calls from people wanting to appear to sell their books or what have you, but I I don't.
The left has always thought that this is what happens, that there's this cabal of operatives out there, and that they would be consorting with people like me and Drudge and Fox News plant news.
We would hype the news, and then somehow the drive-by's would pick it up, and that's how we got stuff in the in the mainstream.
And I just that is strange as it can be to me.
I have I have no memory.
Snerdley, help me out here.
Look, it's trying Well okay, okay.
That's right.
Okay, good.
That's that's right.
The White House twice sent emissaries now to get my mind right on immigration.
But that wasn't a plant information.
They were out saying what they were saying themselves.
And I was disputing it.
They wanted to get my mind right on it.
I I can tell you this, I have never gotten a call from somebody at a website that I don't know saying, hey, we got a story coming, and it would really, it's going to be really right up your alley.
I have friends who post things, not very many, but I have friends who who post things at websites who tell me.
What?
Oh, the phony soldiers thing.
Oh yeah, there was one.
In fact, there was a there was a guy in Las Vegas who got hold of John Hindrocker at Power Line.
And he said, I will only tell my story to you and Rush Limbaugh.
And his story was that he knew who it was that beat up Harry Reed.
He knew why Harry Reed was showing up with black eyes and all this over the holidays one year, a couple years ago.
And this guy would not use his real name with us, but he would only because he only trusted Hindrocker and me to get the truth out.
And it was a total setup.
The guy tried to tell us it was Dingy Harry's brother who had beat him up over some, and the guy later admitted he was just running a scam to see if he could get this done.
If he could plant false information and it would, and we would run with it.
And it didn't happen.
I've got friends that that post things at websites will send me what they've posted, but they'd never, hey, would you run this?
Would you would you hype this?
They just keep me informed.
I don't, I'm not part of any networking.
I don't call anybody and ask them what they're doing, and they don't call me.
I am an acknowledged hermit on this stuff.
My friends are not in this industry that I spend a lot of time talking about here on purpose, by design.
Nobody here's I've got to know some people.
But anyway, this is one of these things That it's another one of these myths that the left has concocted because all of the stories that Jonathan Martin's talking about here probably are stories that the drive-bys would not cover on their own for a reason.
You know, not covering a story is as can be just as biased as how you cover a story.
You know, selecting what people hear and what they don't hear about, that's every bit as part of biases as flavoring the story.
So the new media, the alternative media came around, all we did was talk about things that we learned that they ignored.
So they had to devise a theory to explain how this happened.
And it couldn't be that we were actually working and digging and finding things.
No, it had to be that there were political operatives, partisan political operatives that were planting false information with us.
And then we were then running with it, forcing it into the mainstream media.
And of course, I'm mentioned in this because I am the Mr. Big and always have been the Mr. Big of the vast right wing conspiracy.
Anyway, here's the next paragraph.
Yet by personally broaching topics like Bill Clinton's marital indiscretions and the conspiracy theories surrounding the suicide of Vince Foster, Donald Trump is again defying the norms of presidential politics and fashioning his own outrageous style, one that has little use for a middleman, let alone the usual ideas about dignity.
Whereas, of course, respectable newspapers like the New York Times, they don't bother with middlemen.
They dream up their own smears against Republicans, and they put them on the front page.
Politico does this.
Anyway.
There's that.
Now, yep, let me take a break because there's audio sound bites that associate with this, too, that are coming up, plus your phone calls.
We'll be right back.
Music Up next on the phones is Mike in Trenton, Ohio.
Mike, I'm glad you waited, and welcome.
Great to have you here with us.
Well, first, first off, it's an honor to speak with you, Rush.
I tell you, I've uh uh I'm a recent convert.
I've lived my entire life.
Uh my father was teaching me liberal ideas, and he's always been a Democrat.
And uh well, then last I don't know, four or five years.
I I've come to the realization that it's all a lie.
And uh I'm a member of a major union.
I've worked for uh two major unions in my entire life, and I'm still a member of one, and I I just I everything about it is complete a lie.
I mean, it's there's I can't really even describe how much I've been lied to We know over what's that we know.
Uh uh it just it's shocking.
It's shocking.
When you when I came to the realization of it, Rush.
How did that happen, by the way?
Well, I'll be honest with you.
With uh when Barack Obama became president, I I thought, you know, maybe things are are going to be the way they should be, and things are going to be better.
And the more things that uh Barack Obama did, I realized that my God, he's not trying to help anybody.
He's not trying to help people.
You know, whether it be white Americans, black Americans.
He's screwing the whole country over, and he doesn't care.
And and and I've been to training sessions with with the union that I'm in now, and and they're basically, you know, you uh I went to a training session and I had a guy, and he basically stated in this class that uh he would rather give his money to the government than to his own own family when he passed away and I was like are you nuts
seriously that's called family know this that's called that's called indoctrination it's nuts well he's the use living exactly right and uh you know uh I've got here my situation is my entire family on my mother's side is is conservative my family on the left side is uh liberal that's gotta be fun Thanksgiving and Christmas is at your family.
Well, hang on here a minute, Mike.
I've got a scene profit time out here.
Commercial break.
Back in a moment.
Back to Mike in Trenton.
So your family, mother's side conservative, father's side liberal, reverse vice.
But you saw the light.
What caused you to see the light?
Well, you know, when Obama got elected, I thought everything was going to be great.
Why?
I was a member of a major, you know, union.
And...
I ate that propaganda and all that stuff and and the thing of it is I've got an uncle and he used to be a a US Congressman for my area before Buzz Lucas was elected and uh I I felt I felt more akin to with him than anybody.
We would talk and and everything he would say to me I I really just believed in it.
And so uh I started listening to you about five or six months ago and everything you said, everything I heard on the radio I thought then that makes sense you know it just everything that you see anymore with the Democrats is crazy.
It's not true it's the the the thing about it is that nothing's real on that side anymore.
Everything's spin, everything's buzz, everything's a lie.
They can't afford truth or reality.
Everything is made up yeah I I um I can imagine the conflict that you had you probably realized it a lot sooner than you think you did.
You just didn't want to admit it it's gotta be tough your family being divided the way it is and your union ties and so forth but welcome home it's it's uh it's great it's great to have you on uh on our side courage on your part too because you know you got your union buddies like your guy who said I want my estate to go to the government when I die and not my family.
That's really smart isn't it?
I mean that's just that that's that's indoctrination.
Pure and simple Mike I appreciate the call thank you very much.
This is Terry in Goshen, Kentucky.
You're next.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Pleasure to speak with you, Rush.
Thank you.
I've listened to you since 1989 when we got married.
Let me preface it, Rush, that I'm a wife of a military man.
And it's great that all the Republicans and all the conservative talking heads are in Trump's back pocket.
And I won't say totally you, but truly I haven't heard a whole lot on your side.
But I will say...
Wait a minute.
There's a whole bunch that are not in Trump's back pocket.
Well, more so are in his pocket than not.
And lately I include you.
And I will say, what is Donald Trump going to do with all the married white women?
And I friended about, let's see, about 30 or 35 within the last day or so.
What is he going to do with all the white married women and white women that are not going to vote for Trump?
In fact, you know, I'm thinking seriously of just doing a write-in and choosing my local candidates.
And this is the very first time I will have done that.
And here's why.
You know, every single day all I hear is about Vince Foster and high cheeks, high bones, and late-night talk show host who throws out these innuendos, calls people names.
I am tired of that.
I want to hear his 100-day plan on what he's going to do on geopolitics.
what is he gonna do on Kyria What is he why isn't he discussing the eighty plus people who got killed in um in Syria within the last day or two?
Why isn't he discussing about our downsizing of the Navy?
Why isn't he discussing about in the first hundred days of the city?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Wait, wait, wait, wait just a second.
Where's his plan?
Where's his plan?
Why isn't he talking about con constitution?
Why is he coached by conservative talking heads about the constitution?
Then redirects the conversation on one eat a broader.
I don't give a darn at least.
Wait a minute.
Take a breath.
What w w uh first place he is talking about rebuilding the military?
He constantly talks about how it's been decimated by the regime.
And where are the details, Rush?
Where are the details?
Where are the details on Obamacare?
Where are the details on returning programs to states?
What states are what programs uh are is he gonna start, you know, returning to the to what programs did he is he going to return back to I'm I I'm not trying to argue with you.
I'm trying to learn here but Terry, is there somebody who ran for office on the Republican side who did have detailed plans that you understood and agreed on how they were going to get rid of Obamacare and how they were gonna deal with Syria and how they were going to rebuild a Navy?
In this go-around or the last go around like in this go-around, and I'm talking about this field of seventeen candidates.
Is there anybody who had specifics on how they're gonna get rid of Obamacare that you heard that you liked but they didn't win and now you're you're you're wishing they had.
Is there anybody?
Yeah, there was Senator Cruz who talked about it um during the the Senate, you know.
He um talked down about um Senator Cruz doing his part and what he was going to do.
He talked down about he, you know, his limited um ability in the Senate.
He had his plan against McConnell, how to stop Obamacare, repeal repeal it, and no one was on board.
You know what?
I'd rather side with someone who has HUTSBA than one who just uh scurressly talks about other candidates.
Um Hillary, I you know, I don't care for Hillary, I don't care for Bill, but I don't want to bring up old dredge up old things about all his pitiful affairs and Vince Foster.
I want to talk about facts today.
That's what I care about.
You know what I want the federal government to do?
One thing.
Defend my country and get the hell out of my way.
Get out of your way, right?
Yeah.
Right.
Well, it doesn't sound like you're much of a Trumpster.
And I won't be.
Rush a really good thing.
Is it because you your first complaint was, or your first reference point was that you want to see how in the world he's gonna deal and attract uh uh reach out to the women who who don't want to hear about this or that and the other thing.
So you obviously are a a woman who's offended by Trump and whatever his manner is.
Not so much.
That's that bothers me.
I want details.
What is he going to do in the first hundred days?
I want details.
I have been waiting since the first two months, and I was on board the first two months because I'm also a legal immigrant to this country.
I was all on board with his illegal uh immigration thing.
And then I got off with Hugh Hewitt.
Let me just Terry, if you want to learn this stuff, I know you're gonna you're gonna I'm just telling you what you can do.
I'm uh you can accuse me of copping out.
I'm not, but all of this stuff is spelled out at Donald J. Trump.com issues.
He's got a website where he's expressed all this stuff.
I I want him when he is interviewed on a television in interviews, I want for him to explain himself.
I don't want him to be coached through an answer.
He has no idea what the Constitution is.
That's the we've finally gotten we've drilled down deep enough.
I now know what it is.
You don't think Trump knows anything.
You don't think you got it?
You don't think Trump's informed?
You don't think you think Trump's winging it?
He's throwing phrases out that a bunch of people are jingoistically attached to, but he doesn't know diddly squat about what he's talking about.
That's what you think.
you you put your finger on it.
He's been listening to conservative talk show for uh Trump.
He knows all the talking points.
Who is advising who are these conservatives advising him?
Everything I hear is he doesn't listen to anybody.
Oh well, I think he's been listening to Fox News and all the talking heads about what we tea parties are talking about.
But ask him about when's the last when's the last time he um went to a meeting about uh common core?
Does he understand common core?
Does he understand what the Constitution is about is about?
Does he?
Because he hasn't told me he does.
Well you're not alone.
I mean, a lot of people who think that Trump is is is not frankly, some of them are attracted to him for this reason.
That he's not wonkish, that he doesn't talk in all of these distracting, spellbinding, impossible to keep up with uh ways that he's uh he's just a real guy.
I understand your complaint.
I I hear it and have heard it throughout the uh campaign from a lot of people.
Um I'm I'm not gonna try to talk you out of it.
I'm not that's not my my point.
I don't think I could anyway.
You just not like your mind is is really made up.
But I need to ask you one thing.
You know, uh does it does it not phase you, for example, Jeff Sessions, who probably is everything you want in a candidate in terms of being informed and being able to articulate it.
You know, he's big Trump supporter.
Does that not influence you at all?
But Rush, two days ago, maybe three days ago, um uh the Congressman said something, you know, he was talking through a scene in an interview, and then at the very end he said, Yes, um Donald Trump has to become more um uh better at talking about geopolitics.
Well, I've been waiting since the very beginning, and I'm tired of waiting.
And not only that, he'll he'll say the pol policy issue one day, and on the very same day he'll be on the other side of it.
So my trust factor is gone.
I don't know which side he's coming on.
He's sounding like Bill Clinton redux to me.
All right.
So you think a lot of people then have been really hoodwinked here.
You think a lot of people supporting Trump are making a huge error.
There are probably um young people not young people, I would say some young people and the those who are out of job.
No, I'm talking about people like Jeff Sessions.
Jeff Sessions is everything you claim to want, and he's a big Trump supporter, but it doesn't influence you.
Uh no.
It it does not, because I think these people have been bought.
I think when he um loses use of certain people, he lets them go.
Jeff Sessions has been bought.
Um poor Carson Carson is gone.
You know, he he uses people and then he lets them go.
Okay.
Well, look, I'm out of time here.
I I I appreciate it.
I I drilled down there.
I found out what it really is.
She just thinks Trump doesn't know anything.
He's faking it.
She's what.
Oh.
Uh let me ask.
Let me let Carrie, let me ask you something.
Were you a a full-fledged Ted Cruz supporter?
Two months in, as I said, Rush, I am a legal immigrant who came here from Naples, Italy.
It's a yes or no question.
Were you a big crew supporter or not?
And are you is your nose still out of joint because he didn't win?
Yes, somewhat.
However, I want details.
I want to understand that he understands the whole the whole I want a hundred-day plan.
I want to know the details, and I have been asking that from day one.
About a month in, I wanted to eat it.
Look, I understand.
The crew is...
Cruz supporters are are a lot of them are still very, very sad and disappointed.
Um you need you need more courting is what is what you need, uh, Terry.
You you you need you need to be wind and dined.
Trump needs to reach out to you in a way that is almost personal to you.
We'll see if that can happen.
Whatever.
Back after this, folks.
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Ready getting close to endorse Trump.
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Trying to get a picture of that.
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What does that look like?
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