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June 2, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 2, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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You are smack dab in the middle of the most listened-to radio talk show in the country, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
And as always, we come to you from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Happy to have you here.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882 and the email address, El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
For the second day in a row, I have this story.
Hillary Clinton, people tell me they won't vote for me because I am a woman.
Which is a crock.
She wants us to believe that she's wandering around, walking around, whatever she does.
She doesn't do much public appearance or many public appearances.
And whenever she does them, they're always small and they're tightly controlled and managed.
And I would go so far as to say that even in the audience of these things, there are professionals, maybe even members of the Clinton campaign team, or certainly people they have hired to ask her questions directly related to whatever agenda items she wants to promote that day.
I don't think they let her go out there and randomly answer questions from people.
I don't think they trust her.
I don't think they think she can do it.
Everything's stage-managed.
Everything's tightly managed.
You'll never see her do an event in an arena like Trump does.
You will never see her do an arena or even a modified small arena like 1,200, 2,500 people.
You'll never see her at a place with 10,000 people other than something like their convention, which is totally scripted and tightly controlled.
And even as tightly controlled as things are, Mrs. Clinton wants us to believe that people come up to her on the rope line and say, you know, I really admire you.
I really like you.
I just don't know if I can vote for a woman to be.
Who would say that?
What she's saying is that people admittedly come up to her and admit that they're sexists.
She, I really like you, Mrs. Clinton.
I just don't know if I can vote for a woman.
You know what that is?
That is also an insult to every potential voter in this country.
She's playing the victim card.
She is acting like, oh, woe is me.
I'm running at such a disadvantage because this country is still so bigoted and sexist that people still can't bring themselves to vote for a woman, even with people who think I am more qualified than anybody who has ever run.
And she wants you to feel sorry for her.
Have you ever known anybody?
Let me ask you this.
Anybody in your family, somebody in your circle of friends who has a personality tick, a quirk, they try to make people feel sorry for them.
Doesn't it irritate you?
And isn't the last thing you end up doing is actually feeling sorry for them?
But they want it.
Oh, they desperately want you to feel sorry for them.
They may go so far as to beg for it by complaining about what victims they've been, how unfair things have been to them, how fair life is, the bad breaks they've gotten.
And finally, after a while, you can't take it anymore.
You shout at them.
Grow up.
You know, it's called life.
But here's Mrs. Clinton, an adult, how many times over, actually walking out like a crybaby.
But I don't believe this.
I don't believe that there are enough people that come up to her and say, gosh, I love you.
I think you're brilliant.
I think you're so smart.
I just don't know if I can vote for a woman.
Are you kidding?
That just doesn't happen.
Just like she didn't have to corkscrew land going over to Afghanistan to avoid snipper fire, as she said, sniper fire.
Just like she wasn't named after Sir Edmund Hillary because he hadn't even climbed Mount Everest at the time she was born.
Nobody had ever heard of him.
There would be no reason for her to be named after Sir Edmund Hillary.
She has totally made it up.
Yeah, you know, people tell me all the time that they really, really, really like me and they really think I'm smart, but they just can't vote for me because they can't vote for a woman.
This is in New York Magazine.
He said this in an interview in New York Magazine.
I mean, they come to my events and then they say that to me.
She said that she thinks Americans are afraid that a woman's ambition would crowd out relationships, marriage, children, and family and homemaking.
Have we not dispelled that canard?
So she's telling us what she's saying is that people are coming up to her and saying, Mrs. Clinton, I really, really like you.
I really admire you.
I just don't know if I can vote for a woman because it would be unfair to you, Mrs. Clinton, because you wouldn't have time for your marriage.
You wouldn't have time for your children.
You wouldn't have time for your family.
You wouldn't have time for your homemaking, Mrs. Clinton, because you'd be so busy being president.
I just don't know if I could vote for you.
That would be such punishment, Mrs. Clinton.
I don't know if I could, I don't know if I could condemn you to that kind of miserable life, Mrs. Clinton, by electing you president.
Look at all that you would miss.
This is a woman stuck in a time warp.
What would you think, Snerdley?
Wellesley College, circa 1971.
Holy smokes.
This is why the more she opens her mouth, the worse it gets for her.
And then there's this.
UK Daily Mail, an incredibly increasingly reliable publication.
I think the Daily Mail is great.
The Daily Mail has stories going on in this country that the media here never touch.
Plus, if you love gossip, there's nobody better.
The Daily Mail gossip, Wendy, you should check it out because there's nothing better.
The UK, it's never ending.
Photos and everything on the gossip side.
But there's this.
FBI agents investigating the death of Vince Foster found that Hillary Clinton triggered his suicide when she attacked and humiliated him from their former Rose law firm in front of other White House aides a week before he took his life.
Hillary triggered the suicide of Vince Foster when she attacked and humiliated him in front of White House staff one week before his death.
This is according to FBI agents.
Vince Foster shot himself with a.38-caliber revolver at Fort Marcy Park along the Potomac River July 20th, 1993.
I happened to be in Israel at that time.
A week before his death, the first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, held a meeting with Foster and other aides to discuss her proposed health care legislation.
Hillary violently disagreed with a legal objection Vince Foster raised and ridiculed him in front of his peers, say former FBI agents.
One of the agents is even named Coy Copeland.
Former FBI agent Coy Copeland said Hillary put him down really, really bad in a pretty good-sized meeting.
She told him he would always be a little hicktown lawyer who was obviously not ready for the big time.
You have failed us, Hillary told Foster, according to former FBI agent Jim Clemente.
Foster's behavior changed dramatically afterwards.
He became withdrawn and preoccupied, and his sense of humor vanished.
Ronald Kessler, the former Washington Post, a Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, New York Times best-selling author of the First Family Detail, Secret Service Agents, reveal the hidden lives of the presidents and the secrets of the FBI.
It's actually a Ronald Kessler book slash story that the UK Daily Mail has picked up on.
You won't see this at ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, LA Times, and take your pick.
Named FBI agents said Hillary Clinton drove Vince Foster to suicide.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Really put the poor guy down.
Told him he was a small-town hayseed hick who didn't have what it takes to make it in the big time.
Should just think about going back to Arkansas.
It does sound very mean.
It sounds so royally put-down-ish.
It sounds so superior.
It sounds so condescending.
Is that the Hillary that we've heard of?
I don't hear any compassion either.
I certainly don't hear any understanding.
I don't hear the love.
And I don't hear the good vibes.
But the question is, Does this comport with what we have heard about Hillary Clinton in other instances?
Like we've heard that she threw ashtrays at her husband.
We've heard that she was disrespectful of both the uniformed military personnel of the White House and Secret Service.
We have heard your condescending attitude.
What's wrong with being what?
I didn't you oh, what's wrong with throwing ashtrays at?
Well, nothing if it's Clinton.
I can understand it.
I'm just saying she did it.
This is what we've been told.
Yeah, staff was not allowed to talk to her.
It's not the staff wouldn't talk to her.
Staff was not permitted to talk to her when she's walking down the hall anywhere in the White House.
They were not permitted to address her.
We've heard that too.
Anyway, we'll see how far this gets.
They'll say, Kessler, you know, he's just a typical Clinton kook.
He's just one of these conspiracy guys, you know, from the vast right-wing conspiracy.
Vast right-wing conspiracy guy.
Obama will weigh in on it.
That's absurd.
We'll see if it happens to go anywhere.
Trump, by the way, back to him, audio soundbite number nine, laying into Hillary saying, you know what?
She didn't even have any talent.
The only thing she does is open her mouth and lies.
Hillary is not a talented person.
In fact, she's a person with absolutely no natural talent.
All you have to do is watch her speak.
And you ever notice, even for a minor speech, she has teleprompters.
Do I have teleprompters here?
No.
But she's got like these minor speeches.
And I saw this a couple of times.
See, you know, four words.
We're going to win in the North, South, East, and West.
Ba, papa, ba, pa, pa, ba.
Oh, boy, so insincere.
Hillary Clinton, and this is 100% Hillary Clinton.
She lies.
You remember that?
I started that.
She lies.
She lies.
So Hillary decided, you know, she had to get back at this.
This is in Newark at a campaign event, and she goes after Trump as a fraud.
We're learning about another scam, the so-called Trump University.
Trump and his employees took advantage of vulnerable Americans.
This is just more evidence that Donald Trump himself is a fraud.
He is trying to scam America the way he scammed all those people at Trump U. It sounds exactly she's reading that.
He is trying to scam America the way he scammed all those people at Trump U. Yay, yay.
And then she defended her employees in the media, meaning the state control media, against Trump's attacks.
He doesn't want to unify us.
He wants to divide us.
That's why he started his campaign attacking people and he hasn't stopped.
Yesterday it was the press that he was attacking.
Now, if you're in public life, you're not always going to like what the press says about you.
I have some experience with that.
But part of the genius of our democracy, our system, is we have a free press.
You know, she's just short of screeching again.
She's reading it.
She's just short of screeching.
You can just hear it.
It's about ready to happen there.
Just minuscule millimeters away from it.
Just on the verge.
Grab moved forward audio sound number 14.
Howard Kurtz was on Fox News this morning and was asked.
He said, Donald Trump calls her crooked Hillary over and over again.
Can she out Donald Trump?
Can she outinsult Trump?
It will be hard for her to win an insult war with Donald Trump.
The media bear some responsibility here.
Trump makes more news.
There was an incident last week where Hillary Clinton gave a speech to a union group in Las Vegas.
None of the three cable news networks carried it live, but they all had pictures of an empty podium in Bismarck, North Dakota, and then Banner said awaiting Donald Trump's speech.
And that was considered more newsworthy than an actual speech by the presumed Democratic nominee.
We have to be careful that we don't appear to be tilting by doling out the media oxygen too much to one candidate in this country.
Come on.
You know, Howard, you should have stopped before the last sentence.
We in the media, we have to be careful.
We don't appear to be tilting by doling out the media oxygen too much to one candidate.
I love these guys that are the ombudsman over the media to analyze what the media is doing wrong.
There are changes.
But he's exactly right.
An empty podium where Trump is going to soon be speaking is a greater audience grabber than an actual Hillary Clinton appearance.
And we will be back.
Don't go away.
Okay, I mentioned earlier in the program that Thomas Lupe Friedman, the foreign policy columnist of the New York Times, and the classic example of an elitist establishment snob appeared on CNN this morning and had a near-nervous breakdown over what is going to happen to our culture if Trump is elected.
We have one, two, three soundbites of that coming up, but that's coming soon.
In the meantime, Kevin in Elkhart, Indiana, where Obama was young, because we have an eyewitness here.
Welcome, sir, to the program.
Hi.
Greetings from the RV Capital of the World.
RV, yes, sir.
Yes.
Yesterday we had the bumbling idiot-in-chief come into town and say how his policies brought back the RV industry, which back in the day when gas prices were $3, $4 a gallon, nobody was buying RVs.
But as soon as fracking came into play and brought the gas prices down, that's when the RV industry saw a boom.
And that what caused that?
Fracking is what caused that in a large degree.
Now, but you know, Obama went to Elkhart in 2009.
As soon as he was, he was promoting her.
He'd either signed it and was promoting it or getting ready to sign the stimulus, the porculus package.
And he was making the claim that Elkhart was exactly the kind of place he was talking about was going to benefit from this massive, massive government spending program.
It was going to resuscitate the economy.
And yesterday he went back to take credit for having made it happen.
And you're saying he had little to do with it.
That's right.
And a lot of the RVs went to North Dakota where the fracking was being done because, you know, they're fracking out in the middle of nowhere.
They need a place to stay.
So they bought up all the RVs here, sent them to North Dakota, and they were living in them right site.
Yeah, they were having to build little towns because where the fracking was, the oil was discovered and the retrieval was going on.
Nobody lived there.
They had to actually create towns, little infrastructure, and the RVs were the simplest way to do it.
So it was fracking that brought it all about.
Same thing happened in Ohio, largely.
But it wasn't.
Your point is that it wasn't government spending that revived.
Were you at the event yesterday?
No, I had to work.
I work afternoon shifts.
Congratulations on having a job.
Yeah, we actually supply the RV industry with tubing for their chassis.
Wow, cool.
Okay.
But were you close enough to know that Gwen Eiffel of PBS really, really knocked Elkhart for not applauding Obama, not supporting him, not showing any enthusiasm?
Did you see any of that or hear about any of that?
Not her, but no, no, I didn't.
I don't pay attention to PBS or anything they say.
No, but I mean, are you aware that the crowd was not all that hepped up about Obama?
Oh, no.
Well, they were.
In fact, I've got.
Do we have.
Yes.
Grab audio soundbite number 25.
Thanks for the call, Kevin.
Here's the actual evidence.
Gwen Eiffel, last night on the news hour, formerly with Jim O'Lara, now hosted by Gwen Eiffel, and she had this reaction about Obama and his trip there.
This marks the president's fifth visit to the once and again RV capital of the world, a small city where the unemployment rate hit 19.6% his first year in office and now has dropped to about 4%.
But this White House isn't getting any credit for that turnaround.
Residents here voted for Ted Cruz in this year's primaries and Mitt Romney by 2-1 in 2012.
Even when President Obama won Indiana in 2008, just as the economy was crashing, Elkhart went with John McCain.
So what Gibbs?
What, Gibbs?
Why don't they like Obama?
He's saving the town.
He saved the RV industry.
He saved the American economy.
Why don't they like Obama?
Yeah, it's tough getting out of the bubble, D.C., and seeing real life.
Okay, Thomas L. Friedman, who is the foreign policy columnist for the New York Times.
He's in the upper 1% of 1% by virtue of marriage.
He travels the world on an unlimited expense account, basically concludes that we need to be more like China.
China's really great.
They got great, smart leaders that are arranging life for every citizen.
And a great, elite group of really brilliant people will be much better just leaving it up to chance.
It's what he really thinks.
He's written about it over and over and over again.
Claims that SHICOMs are better at infrastructure than we are.
They're better at city planning.
They are better at moving people around.
They're better at creating jobs.
They're better at command and control economy.
That's what we need to learn from.
And whatever else he writes about foreign policy.
He pops up on TV now and then.
He was on CNN today with who is it?
Chris Cuomo.
And they were talking about 2016 presidential race.
And I had it on here.
I didn't have the sound on.
I was occasionally checking the closed captioning.
I wasn't paying much attention, but I did notice that Friedman couldn't sit still.
He was wildly gesticulating.
He was leaning forward, his chin sometimes on the table.
His eyes were rolling.
His eyebrows were going all over the place like Peter Jennings used to do.
And he was pounding the table and so forth.
So what the hell's going on?
It still didn't make me want to turn it on and listen to it because I knew that it wasn't going to be anything I was particularly interested in.
So when Cookie sent me the soundbite route, I said, whoa.
And apparently he had a, he was really, really anxious out there over the potential damage to our great culture if Donald Trump is elected.
He said that Trump's answer to the world's problems is nothing but testosterone and balls.
And we don't need testosterone and balls.
That's the last thing we need.
Enough trouble with testosterone and balls.
We don't need any more of that.
And he went on to blame the GOP for making Obama a failure.
You'll hear all of this in the upcoming three soundbites.
So Chris Cuomo says we've never had unfavorable ratings like this coming out of the conventions for both candidates.
I mean, unfavorable, dislikable, unlikable, whatever, both candidates.
You never had a candidate on trial for fraud and another, the FBI, looking into them.
We have a guy who is talking every day in this country in ways you wouldn't want your five-year-old kid to talk.
That's the choice we have.
I'm not here to defend Hillary Clinton, okay?
If I were nominating, I'd be nominating someone else.
But we've got to make a choice.
And I think if you make a choice for this kind of man who is speaking this way, the impact on the country, do you realize the impact the president has in the language we use around the country, how people respond to that, how people mimic that?
You realize he's pretty agitated out there.
He does.
He sounds frazzled out there near his wit's end.
Sounds like he's got real problems out there.
I don't think Friedman understands how they already talk on Twitter.
You know, long before Trump showed up.
Hey, Friedman, do you know that Lewinsky's are now perfectly fine in school?
They're not even considered sex.
But you didn't worry about that when that was happening.
When all that was going on, when childhood sexual information being passed on from the White House, you said it's nobody's business.
It doesn't matter.
It's private.
It's not affecting the way he does his job and everybody should shut up about it.
And now we've got Trump coming.
All of a sudden, the language that's out there, it's horrible.
It's what it's going to do to our culture.
Hey, it's been trending this way for years, Mr. Friedman.
It's called trolling.
I don't know if the CHICOMs permit it.
You're heroes, but it's called trolling.
It's been out there all over the place.
So Cuomo getting all excited here because Friedman's getting excited.
So Cuomo says, what you've cited, he hurls insults.
He hurls insults at people.
But Thomas, it may be the truth.
He may be telling the truth when he's insulting people.
It's full of testosterone.
If I were running for president and someone said, you know, how do we respond when the phone rings at 3 a.m. in the morning?
You know what my answer is?
Don't answer it.
We have never been in a world since I've been covering foreign policy 35 years that is as messy as it is now.
To come in now, like you're Trump and saying, all this missing is a little testosterone, someone who has the balls to take down ISIS.
Well, I'll tell you what happens if we take down ISIS tomorrow.
We have to go door to door and most so these are incredibly messy situations.
And if you treat them as if it's just a testosterone history, he's telling it like it is.
Well, you'll get what you deserve.
You're going to get, I think, someone who is deeply unstable.
We've got a guy here with problems with balls and testosterone.
I think it is patently obvious that we've got a metrosexual here very, very nervous about testosterone and balls and discussion of such.
But I want to take you back, remind you of something I said in the first hour of the program.
Obama's out there getting frustrated at Trump because Obama's saying, well, just where do you have your magic wand?
What kind of magic wand do you have?
And it's, look, here's Friedman and Obama, and they obviously think there's nothing you can do about ISIS.
Friedman says when the 3 o'clock phone call rings, don't answer it.
If Hillary's there, that might be the best thing to do.
It could be Benghazi on the other line.
Same thing as not answering the 3 a.m. phone call.
But what kind of policy is that?
Don't answer the call at 3 a.m.
The Shi Coms would answer it.
Lee Ping Jing or whoever it is, he would answer the call at 3 a.m. or 5 a.m. or whenever it came in.
But look, if you think that America can't do something, if you think America's not justified in doing something, if you think it's not America's job to do, if you think American leadership is fraudulent and the problem in the world, then of course you're going to say nothing we can do about ISIS.
But if you believe in American exceptionalism, if you are a can-do guy, if you believe that good can triumph over evil, if you think all it takes a little effort, you're going to say, yeah, these guys can't relate to that.
They hear that as testosterone and balls.
And of course, they've been raised to think testosterone and balls equals predatory, brutish, spare the women and children kind of behavior.
And it's attitudes like this that have us paralyzed as we are.
We're nowhere near a can-do spirit.
If we have any kind of a spirit at all, as authored by Obama, it's we shouldn't do anything.
We have no business doing anything.
It's not our business.
And in the process, we have created all of these circumstances that now somebody's out there saying they at least want to tackle and try.
And then Cuomo, getting real excited because Friedman's getting more excited.
Cuomo says Trump supporters would say that Hillary Clinton checks every box as someone who's tired of politicians who say one thing and do nothing, that she's tired of worn out, and she fills every checkbox like that.
What do you say to that, Friedman?
People are bored and they're cynical, and that's a tragic problem.
And it's a product not only of Obama over the last eight years, it's also a product of a party that spent the last eight years trying to make government in Washington not work so Obama would fail.
And after a while, people think the whole thing doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
Let's have fun.
He's incredibly entertaining.
Do I wish we had better choices?
You bet I wish.
I'm going to choose the one who, in my view, is going to do the least damage.
We cannot afford eight years to not have a proper education and infrastructure program, to waste money building a wall.
You can't just not govern the country as we've been doing for the last eight years.
The Mexicans are going to pay for the wall.
Everybody knows that.
What do you mean?
But Obama did great with the infrastructure.
See, here's the Republicans did nothing but stop Obama.
What world is he living in?
For the first two years, the Republicans couldn't stop anything.
They didn't have the votes.
When they finally got the votes, they didn't stop Obama.
They didn't have the testosterone or balls to stop Obama.
Obama's gotten everything he wants, and then some, he can't believe it.
But according to Thomas Lupe Friedman, Obama has been arrested and stopped at every stage.
He has been stopped getting his tracks.
He's not been permitted to accomplish anything.
And it's all the Republicans' fault because of balls and testosterone.
And damn it, we have had enough of that.
According to Thomas Friedman at the New York Times.
Patrick in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, thanks a lot, Rush.
Really appreciate you giving me some time to ask a couple questions.
I'm going to the Bill Clinton speech today representing his wife, of course, here in New Mexico.
We have our primary on Tuesday next week.
I'm kind of wanting to know what to expect.
I've kind of wondering, I talk to Democrats, and they say that they don't like what he did back in the day with all the extramarital and all that, but why do they still treat him like a rock star?
Well, because in the Democrat Party, he is.
He's the closest thing they've got to one.
Hillary clearly is.
And Bill Clinton's the closest thing they got to.
Remember, Clinton's resume is the kind of resume for advancement in the Democrat Party.
And the reason he's always going to be a rock star is no matter what he did with the interns and the bimbos and all that, Clinton is always going to be praised and celebrated for defeating conservatives and getting away with whatever it took to do it.
That's...
He's going to be forever treated as a god because that is their primary objective is to defeat us politically.
As far as his message is concerned, try this.
He was in Cranford, New Jersey yesterday.
He dismissed Trump's policies as divisive.
He was speaking at Union County College.
He said, white non-college educated Americans are Trump's base.
They need to be brought along to the future.
They've seen great drops in their income.
They have seen great increases in their unemployment rate.
They've seen drops in their life expectancy.
They need to be brought along to the future.
That Trump's base is a bunch of dumb white people.
And they're stuck in the past and they're committing suicide.
And we need to bring them into the future because they can't live under the illusion that you can reclaim the past, which is what Trump is offering them.
You've got to cross the bridge in the 21st century.
What happened to these people?
Aren't these the people the Democrat Party kind of just rejected and said, you know what?
You guys don't matter anymore.
We're going to go after.
We're going to focus on minorities and illegal immigrants and so forth.
They're all with you guys.
Isn't that pretty much what happened?
But here's Clinton pretty much admitting it.
And we had those pieces from Dan Balls and others, I forget, Washington Post columnist thing that Obama was going to write off the white working class vote.
They weren't interested in it anymore.
I'm sure that African-American, non-college educated Americans have been successfully brought into the future, right?
We see that in Baltimore, Chicago, all over the place, right?
This administration, Democrat Party, is leaving everybody behind as they focus on themselves and their own enrichment and their own acquisition of power.
Everybody except the super rich and corporate Titans are losing ground under the Democrat Party.
Well, that's it, folks.
It always ends too soon, doesn't it?
But it always resumes.
That'll be tomorrow.
It'll be Open Line Friday.
And we'll see you then.
And as always, thanks, the bottom of my heart, being with us today.
You'll never know how much all of us appreciate it.
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