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May 26, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 26, 2016, Thursday, Hour #2
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Ah, how are you, folks?
Great to have you back with us.
This is Rush Limbaugh.
This is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, EIB.
And it's a thrill and a delight to have you here each and every day.
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So Barack Hussein-O said in Japan this morning that Trump ravels foreign leaders.
And you know why Trump ravels foreign leaders?
Obama says it's because they're afraid Trump's policies might not be thought through.
Now, can anyone come up with a single policy of Obama's foreign policy specifically here that seems to have been thought through?
The Arab Spring.
What we did in Egypt, getting rid of Mubarak, putting in the Muslim Brotherhood, which didn't last, the Arab Spring that sprung from it.
And then we go in and we oust Qaddafi from Libya.
Hillary out there taking credit for that.
We basically set the Middle East on fire.
We have a president who has eagerly and publicly abandoned and subverted the Constitution to permit unimpeded, illegal immigration.
Well, I take it that was thought through.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
In fact, you know, you can argue that all of these things Obama's done have been thought through.
The Iran deal, the Iran nuclear deal, was thought through.
We actually did want the Iranians to come up with nuclear weapons.
Who are we to tell them we can't have weapons?
All these previous presidents in the past told Iran, no way, Jose, you can't.
Who are we?
So Obama's fixed it.
Iran can't have nukes.
So in one sense, you could argue that every freaking Obama policy has been thought through.
And what's it gotten us?
Well thought out, thought through foreign policy, domestic policies created havoc.
But let's change the perspective.
Let's give Obama the benefit of the doubt for this.
Let's say that he came up with all these ideas, really thought it would make America better, really thought it would improve life in America.
How could anybody say that those policies were thought through?
Because none of that happened.
I don't know.
I really, you look at Obama's policies, foreign or domestic, I don't know where you see the benefit to the U.S. Trend that, Facebook.
I don't know where you see the benefit.
Okay.
Not even gay marriage.
He wasn't even originally on board for gay marriage, and neither was Hillary.
So you can't even let him have that.
But I mean, if you think some Americans have been satisfied or pleased, but what would you pick?
What policy, what achievement of Obama's would you point to that has made America a better place, that's made America stronger?
What Obama policy would you point to that has the American people cheering and feeling good about their country?
Can you name one?
There may be, I'm forgetting.
Can you name one?
In fact, isn't the mindset of the left such that when Obama accomplishes things, if it makes conservatives and Republicans mad, that's what makes it a success?
And if it punishes America and punishes certain Americans, isn't that what makes the left happy?
Isn't that what they consider to be success?
Things that cut America down to size?
Things that punish America?
Things that rein America in from our excessive superpower ways?
Things that cut America down to size, things that punish individual American achievers.
Those are the things Obama does that his supporters applaud.
But I doubt that anybody could say that Obama's achievements have made America great.
Oh, come on.
Who in the world, who in their right mind, the Cuban embargo hasn't been lifted?
Number one, who in their right mind would say that Obama's open-door policy with Cuba has in any way enhanced America?
Oh, screw them.
They're not journalists.
They're Democrat hacks disguised as journalists.
They're Democrat operatives.
Drived by media people or Democrat.
No, no, I'm being serious about this.
You can't honestly throw Cuba in there is something that American people are not cheering that.
Now, if Obama would have thrown cigars in the deal, he might have been, he might have gotten some cheers, but it ain't going to happen.
I'm being facetious.
Point is, I'm serious.
Where is the Obama?
How many people cheered healthcare versus how many are still cheering it?
There may have been some who thought it was free, thought it was going to be panacea.
My point is, there's Obama out there saying, all these world leaders are very, very worried, very, very rattled over Trump's policies.
Don't seem to be well thrown.
Well, where the hell are we with Obama anyway?
Who's out there celebrating what in the world has happened to improve America's lot, America's position in the world?
Are we now less involved?
Are we now more vulnerable?
I mean, you can go through the list if you wanted to.
But on the contrary, I actually think that it's about time foreign leaders are a little rattled and maybe a little not sure what we might do.
Because I guarantee you, under Obama and the United Nations, we are seen as a blank check.
We are seen as led by a guy who believes in America's guilt and responsibility and a willingness to pay for it.
We're a blank check.
And if we're not a blank check, we are a robbery victim.
We are the rest of the world, it feels like their lot in life is because of us.
We owe them.
And we've got a president who happens to agree in many ways with that line of thinking.
Now, Mrs. Clinton, let's talk about her policies and whether or not world leaders might be rattled.
Because I would think that the prospect of a Hillary presidency would rattle world leaders even more.
I mean, they've seen her in action.
They've seen what an unmitigated disaster.
Actually, take it, but what am I saying?
They've already bought her.
I'm sorry.
They don't care whether she's a rattled, whether rattled.
They've bought her presidency.
$100 million.
And yet, if they haven't yet bought her presidency, they know that they can.
They know it's going to be for sale.
This stuff at the State Department is even worse.
Yesterday, I made a point on this program.
The State Department Inspector General was running around saying she broke the rules.
She didn't break the rules.
She broke the law.
From where are these rules about emails and servers and public records and all this?
Where do those rules come from?
Those rules come from the law.
So they were trying to sugarcoat this and soften the blow by saying, well, Colin Powell, he did the same stuff.
And Condoleezza Rice, she had her own server too.
Yeah, but they're not running for president right now.
And they, this break the rules was also supposed to soften the blow.
She didn't break the rules.
She violated the law.
That's where the rules come from.
Pointed this out yesterday.
It's now she's Huma Abbottin, I'm sorry, Huma danger.
And a lot of these people refused to testify, and that only can be interpreted one way as taking the Fifth Amendment.
But this, an examination, Breitbart News Daily, or Barber News Daily, an examination of Clinton's campaign promises reveals that Republicans are willing to thwart Trump in favor of Clinton.
Republicans who are willing to do that will be complicit in electing a president who would seek to bring about the complete dissolution of our national borders.
A review of Clinton's stated positions on the issue of immigration suggests that she is perhaps the most extreme candidate on immigration ever to run for office of the presidency.
Her views place her even further outside the mainstream of the American electorate than Obama, who systematically dismantled U.S. immigration law during his two terms in office.
Here we get to the meat and potatoes.
Hillary Clinton has pledged to enact amnesty within her first 100 days in office.
As NBC recently reported, if elected, the former Secretary of State has promised to build on Obama's executive actions and introduce comprehensive immigration reform during her first 100 days in office.
Her own website has explained that by, quote, comprehensive immigration reform, Clinton means full citizenship for illegal immigrants, which would then give them full welfare access, voting privileges, and the ability to bring over their family members through chain migration.
Her website says, as president, Hillary will fight for comprehensive immigration reform that provides a full and equal path to citizenship.
First hundred days.
This is not waiting until we get comprehensive immigration reform legislation out of the House.
She says she's going to go beyond Obama's executive orders.
What she means is, and the reason why the headline of the story says Clinton releases plan to dissolve U.S. border within 100 days.
That'll be the practical result.
If she's going to take every illegal in the country, by the way, this is how you get them out of the shadows.
If you don't know how many there are, all you do is step forward.
You're going to be a citizen.
You're going to be able to vote.
Register Democrat.
We'll show you where.
You're going to be able to get on welfare.
You're going to be able to get on Medicaid.
Have full citizenship.
All you have to do is come out of the shadows.
Then we'll find out how many there really are.
She's not going to wait for comprehensive immigration reform.
She's just going to expand on Obama's executive actions.
So right off the bat, let's say there's 11 or 12 million because the number gets thrown around.
That many brand new Democrats in the first year of the Hillary Clinton presidency by virtue of her own words.
The practical result of that is essentially the dissolution of the U.S. border.
But the chain migration, that is huge.
Automatic citizenship for you conferred to all of your family who are not here.
They can come here as full citizens.
So let's take the 11 or 12 million here and multiply it by 1.8 or 2.
Maybe 2.8.
Family has at least a kid.
Multiply it times three.
And that's how many new American citizens, no doubt, registered to vote Democrat, that there will be.
And we still have, with all of this, we have all of these never-Trump people out there claiming to be afraid of Trump because he's going to be a dictator.
And here is Hillary Clinton promising to be one from day one and through the first 100 days.
Let me repeat, Mrs. Clinton's plan for full citizenship in the first 100 days of her presidency is the guaranteed way to bring every illegal alien out of the shadows.
That'll do it.
A full-fledged promise of citizenship for them and their families, whether they're here or not.
Chain migration can you, whatever the number is, multiply by two or three, folks.
And I guarantee you that these in the shadow illegal immigrants coming out of the shadows are going to know full well the deal is vote Democrat, register Democrat.
That's going to be the deal.
When it may not even be required, they're going to be filled with such gratitude.
The press and everybody, look at what Hillary Clinton has done.
This is the most compassionate act we've ever seen.
And in one signature, Hillary Clinton will forever change irrevocably the United States of America.
But the upside for him, for her and them, is that there's all these brand new Democrats.
No Republican will ever get elected anything again.
And that, folks, the key here, promising citizenship is how you get them to come out of the shadows.
That's where we'll find the actual number.
We, as you know, have microphones, cameras, listening devices, drones everywhere, including Chappaqua.
Kind of makes sense, Cosby be calling Clinton for advice.
The one guy not getting away with it, calling the guy who did, for all intents and purposes.
Here's Amy as we head back to the phones, Colorado Springs.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Amy, are you there?
Yeah.
Hi, Amy.
Hi, Rush.
It's great to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
I just called with a little comment on Trump going over the top with delegates.
I'm obviously from Colorado, and I'm female.
I've been a Trump supporter all along, and I felt pretty cheated when Cruz got all the delegates.
So I was very happy to hear that it was a woman from Colorado that put him over the top.
But see, Cruz didn't get all the delegates because there's enough of them out there for one of them to put Trump over the top.
I mean, that's why you're excited.
That's why you're happy.
That's true.
I am excited that a delegate, a female delegate from Colorado put him over the top.
Yeah.
Yeah, so it was, I mean, because I think there's a lot more Trump supporters out here than people think.
Where you mean Colorado or anywhere, everywhere?
Colorado, and I guess in general.
But I think Colorado, being here in Colorado, I kind of felt like underrepresented that you know why?
It's because of the way the media covered what Ted Cruz was able to do at the Colorado Democrat or Colorado State Convention of Republicans.
They were able to portray that Cruz went in there, even though Trump won the primary.
Well, there wasn't a primary.
That was the point.
And Cruz went in there and got all the delegates, and they were able to portray Trump was nowhere in Colorado.
And the press misses the irony in total here.
I mean, the two delegates that pushed Trump over, one a woman, one from Colorado, both are places and people that are supposed to hate Trump.
And yet, who is it puts him over the top?
And the AP reporting this don't even mention that, which means I guess if they got the irony, they did it.
They chose not to mention it.
Maybe they didn't get it.
Yeah, I didn't even know that until you mentioned it at the beginning of the show.
So that's exactly my point.
Yep, so I was excited to hear that and, you know, and excited for Mr. Trump, and I hope he goes all the way.
What do you like about Trump's?
Just give me the one thing you like the most about Trump.
What is it?
The one thing I like most about him is he speaks from the heart, like you said.
He's not a politician.
He speaks from the heart.
He doesn't need a teleprompter.
He means what he says.
So he knows what he says.
He means it, likes it, and makes you comfortable.
Yep.
There are you.
Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
You know, I have a theory, folks.
I think one of the reasons that real women, and let me define real woman.
I'm talking about the non-feminist, the non-victim feeling, just a woman happy with herself, happy being with a woman, wants to be in a relationship.
You know, what we've always thought of women, not activists, not angry.
I mean, look, you know what I mean.
I mean, not left-wing activist feminists type women.
You know, the type of women I'm talking about.
Don't you?
I mean, the girl next door, the businesswoman, the woman that's confident, the woman that likes herself, those are the kind of women we're talking about here.
Okay, wholesome American woman, beautiful in the eyes of someone.
Yes, absolutely.
I'm not talking about women that are angry, that feel like they're victims of something, that think men are the biggest things and obstacles they face on earth and so forth.
I mean, there's all kinds of people.
And women tend to get typecast as monolithic.
And the liberals are the ones that do it, the media.
They typecast all women.
They either become soccer moms or they're angry for not being paid equally or what.
But they're always, the thing in common with the way women are portrayed and caricatured by mainstream media is that they're all and Democrats is they're always constantly mad and angry and feeling victimized and blaming men for it.
And those are not the kind of women I'm talking about.
My theory here.
I think that the reason real women, like our first caller today, and like our last caller, and like pretty much all of the women who call this program, the reason they like Trump is the same reason the media hate the guy.
And that is he's not PC whipped.
He's not politically correct whipped.
He stands up for himself.
He's not ashamed of himself.
He's not afraid.
And he stands up and defends the women who work for him and the women who are close to him, as is evidenced by the latest news today.
And that is the exact reason why the media can't resist covering him despite themselves.
He's so different.
He's so unbound.
He's so unpredictable.
He's so male.
And they are at the same time offended by it, but intrigued at the same time.
Deep down, and I think you women will back me up on this out there.
Deep down, no real woman respects any man who can be so easily PC whipped or woman either.
And whatever else that you might say about Trump, that is something that he isn't.
I don't think it's hard to understand these things at all.
If you go to D.C., you go to the upper west side of Manhattan, you'll have a different, and you look at the men.
I mean, real men in that world are like the metrosexuals and the, you name it.
And strong, able men, they're mocked, laughed at, called Neanderthals or what have you.
Back to the audio sunbites.
Before we turn to the phone calls, this is Obama.
I want to actually have you hear this.
This was in Shima, Japan, the G7 meeting over there.
Obama, during Q ⁇ A with a reporter, reporter said, you've said before, Mr. Obama, when you talk to world leaders, they often ask you about the presidential election.
Can you give us a sense of conversations that you've had so far, what they're saying to you, these world leaders, what you're saying to them, particularly now that Trump's a nominee, he recently said that Japan should pay for U.S. troop presence there.
They are not sure how seriously to take some of his pronouncements, but they're rattled by them.
And for good reason, because a lot of the proposals that he's made display either ignorance of world affairs or a cavalier attitude or an interest in getting tweets and headlines instead of actually thinking through what it is that is required to keep America safe and secure and prosperous and what's required to keep the world on an even keel.
Keep America safe, secure, and prosperous.
Is that how we would describe ourselves today?
Look at the lines at the airports, TSA.
Prosperous, 94, 95 million Americans not working.
Practically every new job created is a part-time job.
The state of health care is in ruins in this country.
We have people buying guns at a rate approaching a record, and it's not because they're feeling safe.
The last thing Americans are feeling is safe.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be out buying guns to the tune that they are.
But here comes this arrogance and this condescension from Obama from the standpoint that, oh, yeah, I'm, you know, I'm of the faculty lounge.
I'm an Ivory Leagueer.
I'm smarter than the other people.
I understand all these things.
I'm a policy expert.
And I speak in ways that make people think that I'm intelligent and deeply, deeply educated and intellectual.
And therefore people trust what I'm doing.
I'm able to hide my abject incompetence with my vocabulary and so forth.
So the appearance, the perception of intelligence is there.
But when you look at the actual policies that have been implemented, I mean, the national debt has practically doubled.
More millennials are living at home than ever before.
But I have a story in the stack on that yesterday.
You know what the two reasons are?
There's two primary reasons.
Well, money is one, but the money manifests as no jobs.
The jobs that are out there are not enough to either rent or own on your own.
Second reason, this is, by the way, the result of in-depth research.
These are not just experts guessing at the phenomenon.
People aren't getting married nearly as young and in nearly the frequency as in the past.
So there is no reason for young people to have their own homestead.
I'm just telling you what it said.
You can argue with it or think it's good or bad.
I don't care.
I'm just telling you what the experts are saying is why the phenomenon exists.
Well, that's the point.
Since they're not getting married, they don't need the privacy.
Since they're not getting married, you're thinking, how do you bring the girlfriend home and do the nasty with mom and dad upstairs?
Mom and dad know what's going on downstairs.
They leave them alone.
I mean, you're talking about a 30-year-old kid down there.
We're not talking about a 12-year-old or 15-year-old junior high school student down there.
Mom and dad know what's going on when 30-year-old Ricky Jr. brings home Annabelle for the night.
Mom and dad know what's going on.
In fact, mom and dad, well, the guy is going to have his privacy, Mr. Snerdley.
Unless mom and dad don't like Annabelle.
And then new dynamic there.
But if you're not getting married, you don't need your own place.
I'm just telling you what the research said.
And I think it makes sense.
But the point is: record numbers of children either having never moved out or after college went back home, have never had their own places up to age 35 now.
That part, you said money, no question.
Economic factors are huge in this.
Economic factors have to be huge.
So my only point is: where is all this prosperity that Obama brags about?
Where is all this security that Obama brags about?
I think people are more nervous, edgy, frightened, insecure, scared.
Even people that have jobs, even people who have savings accounts, are worried it's going to vanish, or they're worried they're going to lose their jobs.
That seems to be where things are trending.
And then you add, you know, every day you see a story like this.
McDonald's has investigated robots to replace hamburger flippers.
You know why?
The initial minimum wage, exactly right, when the owners, the franchisees are looking at $15 an hour.
They're saying, I can't stay open and pay people that.
I just can't.
So they're looking at the initial investment in a robot might be six figures.
So they'll finance that.
But the robot never gets sick.
The robot never calls in sick.
The robot never needs a day off.
The robot's dog never needs to go to the vet.
The robot is just there.
Now, I'm telling you, there are people, young people who read and they see these stories, and the effect may be subliminal, but it is there.
That there are becoming, there are innovations occurring out there that are replacing human beings in the workplace.
McDonald's is one.
Robotics and automobile manufacturing is not new.
But my only point in mentioning all these things, Obama brags about how secure things are, how prosperous we are because of his policies.
And I'm telling you, nobody's feeling it.
Or very few.
The presidential campaign wouldn't be what it is.
And Hillary Clinton, I'll tell you, if things were that rosy, Hillary Clinton would be out there doing one thing, promising to do nothing but more of what's happening.
And she's not doing that, is she?
Hillary Clinton's running around basically conveying that she knows things are a mess and she's got to fix them.
She's got to be very careful when she talks like that about the economy because the economy is a voting issue and she can't give up the ghost that the Obama economy is rotten.
But everything else she's out there, and she even nibbles at that around the edges.
But if everything were hunky-dory, if things were happy-go-lucky, if everybody was feeling jazzed and excited about the future, Hillary Clinton would be running as Barack Obama III, and she's not.
And this presidential campaign wouldn't have the character it has at all if things were occurring on top of a foundation of happiness and good vibes.
They clearly are not.
Have you all heard about the latest example of sleazy, lying editing of, in this case, videotape by Katie Couric?
You heard what Katie Couric did on a documentary on gun ownership.
You heard about this?
You haven't heard about this?
Well, let me tell you about this before we go to the calls.
Grab somebody 19 and 20.
Katie Couric put together a new documentary called Under the Gun.
She narrated the thing.
She's one of the producers.
I think she, I don't know if this is part of her deal with the Yahoo news or what.
But folks, Katie Couric is not a good person.
Katie Couric is not a nice woman.
It's, in fact, the exact opposite.
So she's doing this show with people that are supporters of the Second Amendment.
They are gun owners.
The Virginia Citizens Defense League that she tries to portray as one of these wacko militia types.
She's doing a documentary interviewing them.
And her objective is to portray them as dangerous loony tunes, conspiracy theorists who think the government's out to take over land and kill them and wipe them out and poison the fluoride.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, that kind of thing.
That's what she wants the viewer to conclude.
So in the process of interviewing these people, she asks a question.
Let me ask you another question, she says.
If there are no background checks for gun purchases, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from buying a gun?
And if you're watching this, what you see is nine seconds of her guests having nothing to say.
The image conveyed is that she's asked them a question that they can't answer, and she got them.
She nailed them.
She asked them a question and they don't have the answer.
And she's exposed these people as a bunch of dumb idiots.
Except it didn't happen.
The nine seconds is B-roll that was edited in.
It was video shot before the interview began while everybody was just sitting there waiting for it to begin and nobody was saying a word.
They edited nine seconds of the group sitting there looking around like they were blank, had no answer.
When you listen to the audio, the raw audio of the original interview, all of them had answers and they fired back at her immediately.
She's not a good person.
It's more than that she's a biased liberal.
She's not nice.
So this, here's first soundbite number 19.
This is her asking the question.
Let me ask you another question.
If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from purchasing a gun?
Actual audio from the video has aired.
You want to hear what really happened?
Here's the raw audio.
This is what they edited out.
If there are no background checks, how do you prevent?
I know how you all are going to answer this, but I'm asking anyway.
If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from walking into, say, a licensed gun dealer and purchasing a gun?
Well, if you're not in jail, you should still have your basic rights and you should go hide.
So if you're a terrorist or a felon.
If you're a felony and you've got your time, you should have your rights.
The fact is, we do have statutes, both at the federal and state level, that prohibit classes of people from being in possession of firearms.
Knowledgeable answers, immediate answers, edited out and replaced with nine seconds of B-roll of her guests sitting there with blank faces because nothing was happening.
They were waiting for the interview to begin.
I mean, it's.
There can be no accident, no excuse for this.
This was purposeful.
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