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May 31, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 31, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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So some veterans groups are popping up now claiming that Trump is using them as props in the uh in the campaign.
I think I mean anything could be true.
But I think what's going on here is it not that the VA is in dilapidated condition after almost eight years of the Obama regime.
It has become known to be so bad that that in itself has become a campaign issue is the treatment of American vets, and particularly during the time of a Democrat administration when it's widely understood that many Democrats look at the U.S. military as a problem rather than a solution in the world.
So Mrs. Clinton's out there after reading the Washington Post story on how Trump has lying about how much money he's raised for the vets.
Yeah, the Washington Post, big tell all, big expose.
Trump said he had donated six million, and the Washington Post said no, he's lying.
It's only five point six million.
And so Hillary campaign staff hired some vets to go do a faux protest against Trump outside Trump Tower in Manhattan over the weekend.
It was a total astroturf operation.
So after Trump's presser today, Hillary is in some bunker where she's holed up in California, because she's had to go out there because she's getting so much pressure from Crazy Bernie.
So apparently she made a conference call on how wacko Trump is with the military today.
And uh so forth.
So now the the the next story in the sequence of events is that right on schedule, some veterans' groups are popping up.
We think Donald Trump is using us as props, we think Donald Trump is using us as props.
We don't think Trump really cares about vets, we don't Trump is really genuine about vets, we think Trump is using us for props.
So that'll all have to be sorted out and uh and waited.
Meanwhile, if you focus on the Clinton campaign, you find a whole big bunch of panic and nothing from a very, very concerned AFP, that's a French news agency.
Clinton campaign faces a deficit of a vital commodity enthusiasm.
His rallies are like raucous circuses interrupted by the clamor of a captivated crowd that's quick to finish his sentences.
Hers seem more like sober presidential addresses, exhaustive litanies of proposals presented to well-behaved supporters with an occasional cackle thrown in.
Making matters worse, Hillary Clinton tends to arrive late while Donald Trump always begins on time.
But even in this story where they're worried that Hillary has no enthusiasm, and she doesn't, Hillary Clinton doesn't have a connected audience.
I think this is a crucial thing to understand, and I I've I've mentioned this I don't know how many times, I still don't think that your average ordinary run-of-the-mill political press or even political scientists, think tankers, whatever they I don't think they get it.
I don't think they under when when I specifically mention audience connection, I don't I it it's since so few of them are performers, I don't think they know what I mean.
They look at politics as you have voters, you have supporters.
And on that rare occasion you have out-of-control fandom like Ross Perot had.
Um whenever that happens, those people are always going to be called kooks.
They're always going to be called followers, oddballs, wackos, tinfoil hat wearers, what have you.
But real politicians have supporters.
Real politicians have voters.
They don't have accolites.
They don't have uh teeming slaving, slobbering groupies following them around.
Mrs. Clinton does not have an audience.
Mrs. Clinton is where she is because the Democrat Party has ordained it.
Well, she has demanded it.
And they have acquiesced because there is this understanding that she deserves to be paid back for all she has done for the party by continually standing by her husband when he's gotten in deep doo-doo.
It was supposed to be 2008, then Barack Hussein O came along and they swept her aside for a younger, more attractive black guy.
And now she's being swept aside by an older, doddering curmudgeon-like seasoned citizen in Crazy Burney.
But she has no audience connection.
Hillary Clinton will announce an appearance, and they have to work to get people to show up.
They have to work to get volunteers.
They have to work to get people to show up as supporters.
Hillary Clinton cannot announce she's going to be at the Cow Palace somewhere and have it automatically fill up because there are people that want to see her.
They have to work at filling whatever venue she decides to show up at.
Her book.
Nobody showed up at signings.
It was a bomb in term of sale.
She has no connection with people.
People don't have anything personal.
There's no linkage.
She's the Democrat nominee.
There's a big capital D next to her name, and that's it.
Now, in presidential politics, that can often be enough.
Get you where you need to go in the electoral college, but up against Trump, it's always going to come off as looking listless and dead by comparison.
So here you have even the French news agency acknowledge it.
Clinton campaign faces a deficit of a vital commodity enthusiasm.
And even in this story, they characterize her speeches as presidential, and Trump is a circus.
And it takes me here to the New York Times.
Once again, Hillary Clinton struggles to find footing in unusual race.
This is by essentially Jonathan Martin, our old buddy from his politico days.
Democrats could hardly believe their good fortune last month when it became clear that Hillary was headed to a general election showdown with Trump.
Trump carried so much baggage and had insulted so many voting blocks that some Clinton supporters began to imagine a land slide.
But early optimism that this would be an easy race is evaporating in the corridors of Congress, on airplane shuttles between New York and Washington.
At donor gatherings and on conference calls, anxiety is spreading through the Democrat Party that Mrs. Clinton is struggling to find her footing.
How can that be?
She's the smartest woman in the world.
She's the most qualified person to ever run for the presidency.
She's known and adored by Americans for over 25 or 30 years.
How can it be that she's struggling to find her footing?
I guess the New York Times and the rest of the drive-by's think that they just constantly claim that Trump has, quote, insulted so many voting blocks that it'll just become fact.
In reality, Trump hasn't insulted any voting blocks.
He has noted that illegal alien Mexicans in our country have brought drugs across the border and committed other crimes, including murder and rape.
But are illegal alien Mexicans a voting block?
Well, they are to the Democrat Party.
Are murderers and rapists a voting blocks?
They are to the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party wants felons to be able to vote.
So the Times is ringing its hands.
Oh, it's Hillary's in trouble.
And then this other story, it's just unfair.
Trump's got so much of an advantage over her that we need a fairness doctrine in the media to be able to balance our coverage of Trump and Hillary.
That I shared with you in the opening hour of the program today.
Back to the audio sound bites.
We still have some to go here on the Trump press conference that concluded knowingly, by the way, the message was apparently received.
The Trump press conference, 45 minutes in length, ended 15 minutes before the EIB network began today.
Right on schedule.
So now we are up to uh that's right, number 25.
This is told you about this where he calls a reporter sleaze.
He's talking with uh it's a reporter QA.
And let's uh it's an unidentified female reporter and ABC correspondent Tommy's.
Tom Yamas is who Trump calls a sleaze.
It was the biggest crowd you could have had because it was all cordon.
They weren't allowed to have any more people than they had.
So instead of saying Trump made a speech in front of a packed crowd, they said Trump was disappointed because I didn't have millions of people going from Jefferson to Washington.
I mean, give me a break.
It's just honestly, it's dishonest reporting.
Yeah, go ahead.
How are better I'm not looking for credit?
But what I don't want is when I raise millions of dollars, have people say, like this sleazy guy right over here from ABC.
He's a sleaze, my book.
You're a sleaze, because you know the facts and you know the facts well.
Why am I a sleez?
It's a badge of honor, by the way.
Don't don't be don't be hurt for the media.
It's a badge of honor to be called a name by Trump.
So I guarantee you, uh what's his name, Tony Yamas.
At the bars and restaurants, he's always going to be the slees now.
His wife will call it the sleaze if he's married, I don't know.
But his colleagues everybody will call it, hey sleaze, how are you doing tonight, buddy?
He's a badge of honor to have your name called by Trump and be made a nickname.
What Trump is talking about here, he had a big rally in Washington, where there were a bunch of bikers.
It was a bikers rally for uh Memorial Day for vets.
And uh Trump is claiming that he would have had just as big a crowd as Martin Luther King had, but they cordoned the area off, and they wouldn't let nearly as many people get in it wanted in.
And the press didn't report that.
Instead, the press reported that Trump was disappointed at the small crowd.
And that's what that sound bite was all about.
They missed I wasn't disappointed, they wouldn't have let the people in that wanted to get there.
Could have been big, could have been as big as Martin Luther King.
Unidentified female reporter, you yourself recently reacted against what you called a spoiler independent candidate in this race.
Yet earlier in the primaries, you didn't rule out an independent run of your own.
He's the last one.
Don't forget.
He said Trump will never run.
He said, Donald Trump will never run.
Remember?
Do you remember?
I actually blame you.
Why do you put this guy on television?
I see him when the different shows.
He's got no credibility.
Let me tell you.
These people are losers.
When you talk about conservatives when you when you refer to some Republicans and conservatives as losers.
No, no, no, I didn't say that.
I said, Bill Crystal is a loser.
And I'll tell you why.
He has called every single move.
Take a look on me.
He's going to lose this state.
I win in Atlanta.
Wait a minute, Carl.
I didn't say everybody.
Many, but I didn't say everybody.
So Carl Cameron was what he wanted to ask here.
Well, how are you going to unify these uh Republican Party when you're out there referring to some Republicans, conservatives as losers?
So he said, I just thought about Crystal here.
Just talking about Crystal, that's all.
Crystal's been wrong on everything he said about me.
Um let's see the post press coverage of this.
Uh one little bite here from CNN.
This is at this hour.
This uh John Berman Kate Baldwin, they had this exchange over the Trump press conference, and the money he don't.
The point they're saying is the money that he donated isn't the story in here.
So they're announcing it, they're changing the narrative on this.
The headline at the end of this event wasn't the money he raised or how many groups got it, but it was just how petulant and peevish he was saying the press should be ashamed of itself for asking questions like how much did you raise and where did it go?
Want to go to see it as well.
A factual Basis, those are pretty simple questions you should answer when you're raising money when you're raising money for charity.
Right.
How many seriously, how many how many questions have the Clintons got about the two billion in their crime family foundation and all those donations from foreign investors and whoever they may be?
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm not no, no, do not do that.
I'm not defending Trump by saying, hey, Trump did it, but why don't you go get to the Clintons who did it?
That's not what I'm saying.
I'm saying these people have two different sets of rules.
They've got two different standards for their scrutiny.
And the upshot of it is the Clintons don't get any screen they say goes on with their foundation, that's what's reported.
And whatever they say happens to Clinton Global Initiative.
That's what they say.
And that's what gets reported.
The Clintons aren't under any scrutiny.
Now the Clintons won't believe that.
The Clintons believe they're under more scrutiny than anybody's ever been.
But because of the way they do things, they invite that scrutiny.
So anyway, here's this was John Berman at CN announcing it that changing a narrative here.
The narrative is no longer what Trump donated and to whom, but what a peevish, small minded guy he is to be treating us in the press this way.
Now back to the press conference, reporter.
Is this what it's going to be like covering you if you're president?
We're going to be having this kind of confrontation in the press room at the White House.
Yeah, it is going to be like this, David.
If the press writes false stories like they did with this, because you know, half of you are amazed that I raised all of this money.
If the press writes false stories like they did, then we have to read probably libelist stories, or certainly close, in the newspapers, and the people know the stories are false.
I'm going to continue to attack the press.
Look, I find the press to be extremely dishonest.
I find the political press to be unbelievably dishonest.
I will say that.
Okay, thank you all very much.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you, you dishonest liars.
Thank you.
Thank you for showing up, and we be back right.
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Dwayne, thank you for calling, sir.
You're next.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Good.
Thank you.
Rush, I just want to say that I'm going to end up voting for Trump and I hate him.
I probably never would, except for everyone who's pushing these never Trump campaigns like Bill Crystal and uh Ben Shapiro, and all these talking heads that want us to vote their way.
They can't accept that we won't take a establishment of candidate.
It's just it's it's making me want Trump.
And I don't like Trump at all.
This is interesting.
You don't you in fact you used the word hate.
Yes.
You said you hate Trump.
You were a cruiser.
You hate Trump, but you're gonna vote for Trump because you don't like what these third party types are doing.
Bill Crystal and some of the others.
What what what bothers you about that?
Well, I wanted Ted Cruz very badly because I wanted a conservative and a man with a good moral compass.
And what we have is Donald Trump who does whatever the wind seems to lead him to do.
But he does it very effectively, and he does it with panache, and people want him because he's bold and he won't say what's on his mind.
But I want someone who's grounded.
And now I have these people in the uh leadership of what seems to be the in crowd, the beltway.
They're saying we have to have uh uh I don't know, Romney or one of these other candidates that won't win, also.
And it just seems like they're trying to make sure Trump doesn't win.
And that will just give it to Hillary, who I will not have.
I w I will vote for Trump happily.
But let me interrupt you here and share with you why this is happening.
I'm I'm holding here my formerly nicotine stained finger.
Excerpts from a column uh as an interview by a Wall Street Journal columnist by the name of Brett Stevens.
And the headline, Trump needs to be destroyed in November to teach Republican voters A lesson.
Appearing on CNN, an opinion page editor from the Wall Street Journal left no doubt how he feels about Donald Trump, saying not only will he not vote for him, but that Trump needs to be crushed in the November election as a lesson to Republicans.
Pressed by the host Farid Zakaria, GPS, if he was going to get behind Trump as the nominee.
Conservative columnist Brett Stevens got right to the point.
I most certainly will not vote for Donald Trump.
Stephen began tersely.
I will vote for the least left-wing opponent to Donald Trump.
And I want to make a vote.
And make sure he's the biggest loser in presidential history since I don't know, Alf Landon.
It's important that Donald Trump or whatever he represents, this kind of ethnic conservatism or populism be so decisively rebuked that the Republican Party and Republican voters will forever learn their lesson that they cannot nominate somebody.
So manifestly unqualified to be president in any way, shape, or form.
So they have to learn a lesson, perhaps the way Democrats had to learn a lesson from McGovern.
1972.
It's what I've always told you.
As far as the elites and the established, you people are going to have to get your minds right.
You're going to have to learn how big a bunch of screw-ups you are.
Trump, you're going to have to the biggest landslide defeat in history so that you finally learn never ever again.
Stray from what the establishment is commanding you to do.
And that's guiding a lot of this.
Never Trumpism.
Okay, so we heard on CNN where they changed the narrative from what did Trump donate.
Veterans groups and how much to now the narrative of the Trump press conference.
What a mean guy.
He called us names.
He called his DVDs PVs.
So we got Chris Eliza with a piece of the Washington Post, Donald Trump is dead wrong about the sleaze media.
The politico, Trump calls reporter a sleaze as he details veterans' donations.
And they're all over these reports are all over the drive-by media now.
How the Trump press conference, he called us names.
He called us a sleaze, he call us liars, he called us dishonest.
What they don't know is that they're all kinds of people out there applauding it.
They probably do know that.
Here is Brett.
We actually have the audio.
Brett Stevens, who I just read his quote to you.
Wall Street Journal, here he is on uh Farid Zicaria global positioning satellite on Sunday morning.
Uh Zakarius question.
You have written eloquently against Donald Trump from the beginning.
The rest of the Republican establishment has collapsed and surrendered and uh entered his uh not particularly warm embrace.
Are you going to vote for Donald Trump this fall?
I most certainly will not vote for Donald Trump.
I want to make a vote and make sure that he is the biggest loser in presidential history.
It's important that Donald Trump and what he represents, this kind of ethnic quote conservatism or populism be so decisively rebuked that the Republican Party and Republican voters will forever learn their lesson that they cannot nominate a man so manifestly unqualified to be president in any way, shape, or form.
Trump has really gotten under these guys' skin, I think, on this whole immigration thing.
They think that no, whoa, whoa, what they are the arbiters of conservatism, Mr. Snerdley.
They are the ones that define it.
They're the ones that tell us what conservatism is and what it isn't, and who is and who isn't a conservative, what's legit and illegitimate and so forth.
And I mean, that's that's what they are.
And they're they're big open borders people over there at the journal.
Which is why I'm guessing, I don't know for sure, uh never met Brett Stevens, but I'm guessing that Trump's position on illegal immigration is one of the things, although I'm sure there are many more things that Brett Stevens is.
Look, there are a lot of there are a lot of conservatives in the uh, I don't know, how would you categorize it?
The think tank conservatives, the Washington media can a lot of them just want no part of this.
I mean, it it's Trump's not in any way, shape, manner conservative.
This is the most damaging conservatism that's ever come down the pike that people think Trump is one.
Um damaging.
What do you mean, so context?
Of course that that's the whole point.
That's what the ruling question.
Okay, okay, you go out, you're gonna learn your lesson.
You're gonna go out there, you're gonna vote the way we don't want you to vote, and we're gonna let you know what a big mistake you've made.
We're gonna learn.
And uh I've warned people of this.
And the quote unquote conservative movement.
Um I don't have time to get into it right now, but um just let us suffice to say that there are many who are as distressed as this guy is Bill Crystal's one.
I mean, there they're all the George Will's another.
I mean, you know the names.
I mean, they're just they're totally distressed.
It's uh a lot of things.
Some of them genuinely distressed over what this means for conservatism, others not so much that they're hiding behind that.
Some just don't like the fact that a non-establishment non-political professional looks like he can win this.
Conservatism's got nothing to do with it, really.
They're just hiding behind that as their excuse.
What really bugs them is that somebody totally unschooled in all of this can come along and make a mockery of them.
And that's what's really driving it for many of them.
But some of them are genuine, heartfelt conservatives scared to death over what this means for conservatism, not themselves.
Anyway, long holiday weekends like the one we just by the way, did North Carolina survive that big storm?
Has anybody heard?
I checked Drudge every day over the weekend, and I couldn't find anything, and there were no updates on it.
All it all it said on Drudge was that this uh tropical storm bully, whatever it was, was on its way to the Carolinas, but I never saw it.
Did life go on in in South Carolina?
Okay, good.
Because I didn't see anything.
I've been worried all weekend.
Mark in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, great to have you with us.
You're next.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Pleasure to uh talk to you, sir.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Oh, regarding the gorilla shooting, sometimes I feel like I'm living in the twilight zone.
Now we haven't actually discussed between choosing the life of a gorilla over a uh a boy.
I mean, this is outrageous.
I'm thinking about it.
Okay, what what are you what what what are your outrageous what uh I'm I'm I cannot hear a word you're saying.
I'm having to read what you're saying.
So you you find it outrageous that people even think there's a question over whether to shoot the gorilla or not and save the boy?
Oh, correct.
To get to my bigger point.
I mean, in America, we we slaughter cows and pigs by the truck loads on a daily basis.
There's no are we uh outrageous about that?
I mean, I'm just trying to uh make a some sort of a funny point here, but maybe the media is the one controlling the case.
Yes, but look, when when we when you run over a possum, when you when you run over uh any other roadkill animal, or or when we go to the slaughterhouse and slaughter a bunch of steers and stuff, it isn't on television, and there aren't little children in the area that are being held by the hand by the animal about to be slaughtered.
And those animals have not had movies made about them, nor are there story books about them.
I mean, when's the last slaughterhouse comic book you read?
No, no, yeah, you're you you're right about that.
I mean, it's a w once once once the effort has been made to humanize pets, animals.
It it is thought that all animals could end up being pets if we just had the right circumstances.
Um but this is uh you know the fact that it's on TV and the fact that the first, never forget the first video, did not appear to show the child threatened at all.
Why?
Harambi was holding the boy out of the water.
Harambi appeared to be keeping the child dressed, his pants up.
He was holding his hand.
That's the first video That was released.
And the person that shot the video, another person shot some video, saw that.
So wait a minute, that's not the whole story.
Then we got another video which showed Harambi grabbing the kid by the hand and darting under the water in that kid was being dragged through that moat under the trees.
We lost sight of the kid for a while.
It was at breakneck speed.
And people, oh my God, the kid's gonna have a broken neck.
Oh my god, the kid's arms gonna be ripped.
Oh my god, he's gonna slam the kid's head up against the wall.
But that was the second video scene, not the first.
And the first video showed a polite, even fatherly Harambe, protecting the child from an irresponsible human parent.
Social media gets in gear, and Harambi was not threatening anybody.
He was in his own home.
They didn't cause any of this bamboo, he gets shot.
There's a lot of affection for animals out there, particularly animals that are in captivity and haven't done anything to anybody.
So you look, you you.
If you really stop, you'll be able to understand all of those emotional reactions.
Where it does get interesting is your is your point when it's when the when you reduce the question to its bare essence.
Save the boy, save the gorilla.
That's what you're having trouble understanding how there could be any debate.
The fact that people could be saying, well, hey, it's not the gorilla's fault.
The parents ought to pay a price of their negligence here.
Wait, you're saying that boy should, well, this is not the gorilla's fault.
Um, I I can give you another example.
I probably shouldn't.
I give you another example.
Let me think about this other because there's a there's another example that illustrates this dilemma.
Where human life loses when the questions asked.
Makes you very uncomfortable to hear it.
But in this case, there are people who think that gorilla's life mattered more.
In a country with whatever million number abortions every year.
I mean, you can't factor that out in understanding how people would have problems placing value on which life counts most here.
Anyway, I have to take a break.
Probably thankfully so.
Back in just a second.
Says that Donald Trump will change the electoral map.
He's going to put Democrat states in play.
Gingrich thinks it's going to be bigger than anybody is even conceiving.
He thinks it's going to be so big that there's going to be a new block of voters called Trump Americans, like there were Reagan Democrats.
There will be Trump Americans.
And he thinks Hillary is toast.
That's Newt Gingrich.
We have to take a break back after this.
On the long holiday weekend away, we just checked North Carolina, South Carolina, okay.
No major damage or loss of life was reported after that monster storm went through there.
Whenever it went through there.
It was so big, nobody had time to report it.
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