Yes, America's Anchorman is away and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in no supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Honored to be here direct from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire and Mr. Snerdley and Mike are controlling the show ruthlessly from the New York studios.
I don't know whether have they taken down all the saw horses and the RoboCops and the 187 car motorcade has departed from the president's visit.
The president basically was in the next door building for an appearance with Jimmy Fallon on the tonight show that airs tonight.
And he reiterated his thing that running for president, being president, it's a serious job.
It's not a reality show job.
He said this on the tonight show.
He gave an exclusive interview to Jimmy Fallon saying that being president is a serious job and it's not a reality TV show, which is the main experience of some guys we could mention.
That was the upshot of what Barack Obama was saying.
So I'll be interested to see the full actually I won't be interested at all to see it.
In fact, I won't be watching it at all.
I'll be watching the Mary Tyler Moore rerun on Channel 373.
But if I was watching it, I would be interested to know what kind of tough questions that the president is exposing himself to.
As you know, Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first woman who is the first, what did I say yesterday?
She's the first person who identifies as a woman to be the nominee for president of a major party.
And NPR's White House reporter, Tamara Keith, grasped the significance of this immediately and in a tough interrogation of Hillary Clinton said, Secretary, last night when you took stage in Sacramento, there was a woman standing next to me who was absolutely sobbing.
And she said, you know, it's time.
It's past time.
People here and people just come up to you and they get tears in their eyes.
Do you feel the weight of what this means for people?
Unquote.
This was the question that Tamara Keith put to Hillary Rodham Clinton as she made history.
And unsurprisingly, Mrs. Clinton, the question bit, the bit about people tearing up and sobbing and all the rest of it.
And I had that, actually when I met Hillary Rodham Clinton, I found suddenly I found tears welling.
It was unbelievable.
I was like this woman in whatever it was, Sacramento.
I found tears welling up in my eyes.
And then I looked down and realized it was because she was crushing my genitalia.
But at any rate, the upshot of the question here, do you feel the weight of what this means for people?
And unsurprisingly, Hillary Clinton replied, I do.
That's tough questioning by NPR of the Democrat nominee.
Do you think I actually saw people crying at a Trump rally when he was talking about Kate Steinley being murdered by an illegal immigrant?
And I saw people actually tearing up there.
And oddly enough, no one ever interviews Trump by saying, you know, there was a woman standing next to me who was absolutely sobbing and people here just come up to you and they get tears in their eyes.
Do you feel the weight of what this means for people?
No, he doesn't get he doesn't get questions like that.
So this is the field.
This is the terrain on which these things on which these things play out.
Now there's another thing here.
There's another thing that's going on.
And this isn't to do with whether you like Trump or you don't like Trump.
You can loathe Trump and you still ought to be revolted by what is going on in American politics at the moment.
Deborah Saunders, if you'll forgive me playing the unassimilated foreigner, Deborah Saunders is one of the few American newspaper columnists I enjoy reading.
And Deborah Saunders has a terrific column in which she talks to one of the victims, one of the guys who got beaten up at this Trump rally in San Jose.
My nose is broken.
I have bruises and scratches all over.
I got knocked in the head a lot.
San Jose's Juan Hernandez, 38, told me.
He suffered a mild concussion.
That's the price Hernandez paid for attending the infamous Donald Trump rally in San Jose last week.
For his trouble, Hernandez was called names, beaten, and blooded.
And then for dessert, he got to hear politicians suggest it was the fault of his candidate that thugs beat him up.
When liberals are on the receiving end, this is known as blaming the victim.
Hernandez does not fit the stereotype of a Trump supporter.
He is gay with Mexican roots.
But now that he's pro-Trump, Hernandez confided, I have more people against me than I did when I came out as gay.
So he's not your typical angry white male.
He's a young man, Juan Hernandez.
He's one of the members of Gay Mexicans for Trump.
And he goes to a Trump rally and he gets a broken nose and a concussion because thugs hunt him down.
And the San Jose mayor, Sam Licardo, a Hillary Clinton supporter, and the police chief Edgardo Garcia allow it to happen.
There's another story today in the San Jose Mercury News.
Again, this is fascinating.
This is the opening of the story in the San Jose Mercury News.
Two undercover police officers at a Donald Trump rally last week said they saw Trump supporters get punched, kicked, and pushed and running for their lives, according to a police report.
The plainclothes officers said they did not intervene for fear their own safety would be jeopardized as the estimated 400 protesters developed a mob mentality.
Now, this was interesting to me.
Why are there no security uniformed officers keeping the peace at this event?
But there are undercover officers at the Trump event.
Well, obviously, there are undercover officers because they're there to eavesdrop if anyone says something that might count as a hate speech or whatever.
They're there to report back to the police chief on what Trump supporters are saying.
And they decided not to intervene for fear their own safety would be jeopardized as the estimated 400 protesters developed a mob mentality.
So you have a mob hunting down people who have done nothing except go to the political rally of the candidate of their choice.
Now then, we have the Huffington Post, which says today, Liberal Jesse Benn, writing in the Huffington Post, says violence during Donald Trump rallies is quote logical.
In the face of media, politicians, and GOP primary voters normalizing Trump as a presidential candidate, there's an inherent value in forestalling Trump's normalization, says Jesse Benn in the Huffington Post.
Violent resistance accomplishes this.
So Jesse Benn, who is supposed to be, he's a writer.
He's a man of words.
He's supposed to use words to persuade you to see his point of view.
But he says instead, screw that, screw that.
There's no point making an argument about Trump.
Instead, let's get out there, get in his face, smash the faces and break, let's find some gay Mexican like this Hernandez guy and break his nose and give him a concussion, and that will prevent what he calls Trump's normalization, Trump's normalization.
The denormalization here is by the thug left and the left-wing commentariat that supports them.
And essentially, as Deborah Saunders concludes in her pie, essentially licenses the violence.
And when you do find any of them, she points out that when they do object, when the big spokespersons of the official left ever do object to the violence, then it is only because, as LA Mayor Eric Garcetti told the Los Angeles Times, violent protest is, quote, a tactical mistake.
So they don't object to breaking Mr. Hernandez's nose.
They don't object to breaking a gay Mexican nose because they shouldn't be doing that, but only because it's a kind of PR error.
It might not look good if it were known that the thug left are beating up gay Mexicans any more than it looks good when Bernie supporters are hunting down female New York Times reporters and calling them the C word in their tweets.
It's a perception thing.
The optics of it aren't good.
But they've got no actual problem with violence in and of itself.
That's what this Huffington Post thing says here.
Now, here's another one.
This is the editorial page editor, the Detroit Free Press, and this is from the Newsbusters website.
Stephen Henderson, the editorial page editor of the Detroit Free Press, is upset with charter school backers in Detroit, who are, you know, Detroit, by the way, has an education system.
They had a school board chair a couple of years ago who was functionally illiterate.
And the Detroit education system produces about the same functional literacy rate as the Central African Republic does.
So that's how great the official public school system in Detroit.
So some people got together and they advocated for charter schools.
And now Stephen Henderson, editorial page editor of the Detroit Free Press, says, we really ought to round up the lawmakers who took money to protect and perpetuate the failing charter school experiment in Detroit, sew them into burlap sacks with rabid animals and toss them into the Straits of Mackinac.
And you think, well, maybe he's just getting, maybe he's just getting a little overheated there.
But he returns to the theme.
He says, what's happened with charter schools in Detroit is every bit deserving of an old school retributive response.
A sack, an animal, a lake.
No lover of actual democracy could weep at that outcome.
And I'm in favor.
I'm a First Amendment absolutist here.
So I don't mind if he wants to do that.
You can make the argument it's obviously a little bit flowery and exaggerated and parodic, and he's not actually handing out sacks.
It's harder to do that with Jesse Benn, who's the next point on the continuum, when he's actually calling for violent resistance.
He's actually not just justifying it, but calling for violent resistance.
And it's even harder to do it after the violence has occurred, in part because of a highly political mayor and a highly political police chief failing to do their jobs and standing back as citizens are attacked for exercising their lawful right to participate in the political process.
And people are beaten up.
This guy got a broken nose.
He got a concussion.
And the mayor of Los Angeles will merely regret that it was a tactical error because it looks bad on television.
It looks bad in television.
But this is the world the left is building for us.
It's got nothing to do with whether you're a Trump supporter, you're a Bush supporter, you're a Lindsey Graham supporter.
Your party, there were two parties on the ballot in November, and in this society, the left-wing press, left-wing political officials, and left-wing thugs are saying that you can no longer go and peacefully attend the rallies of one of the two major political parties in this country.
You can't take your wife and children to the rally because it will be physically dangerous for them.
If you are elderly, it will be physically dangerous for you.
You need to be pretty nimble.
If you've got a walker, you can't go to a rally of one of the two major political parties because you won't be able to run fast enough to escape the mob while the police of the Democrat-run city are standing by.
In other words, these guys are saying they're all cool with the idea that this is now a one-party state.
And if you think you'd like another choice, if you think you'd like it to be a two-party state, you can't do that without actually running the gauntlet of people who will give you a broken nose and a concussion.
This is disgusting.
And just look at it this way.
How many people have called on Hillary Clinton and how many people who are upset about Trump's remarks about this judge?
How many people are interviewing Hillary and Bernie and all the rest of the Democrat big shots about what is happening on the streets of American cities?
It's one-party state.
They're saying it's a one-party state.
If you pick, it's not quite a one-party state, it's a one-and-a-quarter-party state.
If you pick someone who's the kind of, if you pick Lindsey Graham and we all like him and he's lovely and he's gonna lose and he'll give such a great concession speech, you can have him as the alternative on the ticket.
But basically, they're saying in this in the United States in the year 2016, it is unsafe to attend the political gatherings of one of the two major parties in this country.
Shame on them, because this will not end well for anybody.
Mark Stein for Rush, we'll take your call straight ahead.
Let's go to Samantha, somewhere in southeast Michigan.
Samantha, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
What's on your mind today?
Hi, Mark.
Truly an honor to talk with you.
I have what I think is a simple question, but I really need your help.
Why do members of the media, and by that I mean writers and pundits for well-known influential news organizations who have been so colossally wrong about this election and Trump in particular, still have jobs?
Why are they still sought after?
And I offer up Bill Crystal as exhibit A through Z. Yeah, Bill, I like Bill Crystal personally.
He's a very pleasant and agreeable chap, but he's been completely wrong on all of this.
He's not unusual.
Most people thought Trump wouldn't last the summer, that they thought he was a six-week bubble.
Then they thought that the Bush had all the money and would outspend him and he couldn't compete with the Bush money.
Then they thought he'd be dead from the moment people started voting because they didn't have a ground game.
These people have been, these people have been wrong.
And in fairness to Bill Crystal, Samantha, he's been wrong about some more important things too.
He welcomed the Arab Spring, which has left us with the complete implosion of Syria and Libya and has loosed millions of refugees upon the world and put a military dictator, led to the Muslim Brotherhood taking over in Egypt.
He was wrong on that.
He thought it was a genuine flowering of Western-style democracy in the region, and that there are important things to get wrong.
And the reason people still have jobs is because I think these jobs are like wholly cut off from the real world now.
I think it's if you take these magazines and think tanks and the donors, it's a little circular world where people fund them to say things they want to read and they read it back in the magazine and they think that means the message is getting out, so they fund them again and then they read it again and they think the message is getting out, so then they give them more money.
It's a completely circular world.
And the only thing I would say, Samantha, and I'll talk about this a bit late later, is when you have been that wrong as the Republican, the pundit class was, it ought to occasion a certain modesty that you ought to think twice before then say, well, I've been wrong about everything for the last year, so now I'm going to run David French for president.
You shouldn't be thinking like that.
You ought to step back.
You ought to say, well, how did I come to misread?
I claim to represent this party, this philosophy, to the nation, and I've been doing it for decades.
How does it come that I don't know my own party?
And that's the question that people like Bill Crystal should really be asking themselves.
Thanks for your call, Samantha.
More straight ahead.
Yeah, I'm getting a lot of email from Bernie supporters accusing me of being snowflake of phobic, so I'll have to watch that.
It's a great pleasure to have with us now one half of the film-making team of Anne McElhenney and Philim McAlier.
They're currently working on a feature film about America's biggest serial killer, and that is the abortionist Kermit Gosnell.
And you may not think of him as America's serial, biggest serial killer, but that is a fact.
And once you put it like that, you wonder why a lot of Hollywood studios didn't rush to make that story.
But instead, it took Phaleem to go ahead and make that story.
He also mounted a play in Los Angeles last year, I think it was, about Ferguson, Missouri.
And he got actually quite a starry cast for that, who signed up for it, including the guy I think who played young Frank Sinatra in the big Frank Sinatra telebiopic back in the 90s.
And they were all a bit stunned to discover when Philim started directing the world stage that the play didn't take quite the standard Black Lives Matter line on what had happened in Ferguson.
But his latest thing is called Clinton Emails on Film.
And it opens today.
Phaleem, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh show.
And tell us what this new film is about.
Well, I'm sure, Mark, I'm sure all your listeners know that Clinton's staff are currently being composed under oath in Washington.
Cheryl Mills, Huma Abbotton, they're all going to come up in the next month.
These depositions are being filmed, but in a kind of unprecedented playing last week, the judge said he was going to suppress the films in case they were used against Hillary Clinton during the election campaign.
So they've...
Yeah, so they've recorded...
So, go ahead.
Yeah, so they've recorded these depositions and they're not releasing them.
And you've decided, in effect, to take the transcripts and dramatize them, basically use Cheryl Mills' deposition as a shooting script.
Yeah, yeah.
So we've cut it down to about a half an hour of her greatest hits.
And we've got professional Hollywood actors.
It is filmed in Hollywood in the heart of the beast.
And it looks really good.
We posted it this morning on Clintonhemails on film.com.
We've had an enormous response.
People can really see the Clintonian evasions.
You know more about Clinton, perhaps, than many of us, Mark.
You've known him a long time.
But, you know, they have these staff that are just like them and these Clintonian evasions.
During the deposition, Cheryl Mills said the words, I don't know, or I don't recall, 189 times.
Right, right.
And that comes from the boss.
That's Hillary's been doing that since the 90s.
Try to remember as the prosecutors tried to get her to do.
From your point of view, though, this is this is gripping stuff, because in the last few years in in the West End in London, the the David Frost, Richard Nixon transcripts were dramatized and a big hit play.
And the Tony Blair Iraq war inquiry was dramatized and made a great and people think, oh, wait a minute, this doesn't sound much of a story.
He's he's taking these.
He's taking this written testimony and he's getting actors to read it.
But it is actually, in fact, gripping when you see it done like that, isn't it?
It's unbelievably gripping because actually, when we did Ferguson, I noticed in the theater, people were leaning forward to hear what people were saying because they knew that every word was an actual verbatim piece of testimony from a live person.
So they didn't miss a word.
It's actually more compelling when you go verbatim rather than just kind of based on a true story and add your own ground.
You know, the truth is often much stranger than fiction and very much stranger when you're talking about politics.
And yeah, you're right.
It's quite big in Britain.
In fact, the one I remember most is the Bloody Sunday inquiry was used as a basis for a West End play.
It ran for months.
Right, right, right.
And as you say, when they do this based on a true story, they kind of Hollywoodize it and they put in all this kind of soft focus, emotive blather.
And actually, often the hard, cruel words that ordinary people use when they're actually going at it across a courtroom or whatever are actually far more gripping than what a professional screenwriter puts in their mouth.
People are under oath.
They're under pressure.
And very often they want to tell the truth or they want to lie.
And if they're lying, there's someone there destined to take the truth out of them.
It's very, very compelling.
People can see it.
We've had a great response to it.
We just posted the first film this morning, ClintonEmillsonFilm.com.
But we want to make more of them.
There's five more depositions coming up.
Huma Abidin, Brian, Fifth Amendment, Brian taking the fifth, Pagliano, and perhaps if enough evidence emerges, Hillary herself.
But don't forget, all these videos are being suppressed.
They'll be sealed till after the election.
So we are going to bring all these videos.
We're going to turn them around.
Cheryl Mills only give evidence last week.
We got a script together, got the actors together.
We got a crew together for the film in a week.
So we need more people to we need to make more films.
So you're doing, which appears to be the theme of the week, you're pushing back against the judge.
A judge has said we're going to cover up and protect these film transcripts of these films of the deposition.
And you said we're going to film them anyway.
So there's going to be films out there.
And just say again, the website where people can see the first of these films, Philime?
Well, it's ClintonEmailsonfilm.com.
We're crowdfunding.
It's a public-funded process.
So if people want to help to make more films, they could donate.
But we really wanted to go to ClintonEmosonFilm.com to watch, to vote by watching and say this is not enough.
I mean, you know, you've had experience with the American justice system, Mark.
No, no.
These judges.
And I should say, by the way, Philime, that I'm enormously grateful to you and Anne.
As you can hear, Philim is also an immigrant to this great land, my fellow Irishman, as I like to think of him.
And he and Anne flew in from Los Angeles for my trial in the District of Columbia for a rather dreary hearing in the District of Columbia Latrine of Appeals.
And what I like about Philime's attitude is he was a little thirsty after his long flight, and he went to the opposing counsel's table, took their entire jug of water and drank it himself before counsel walked in.
So I like the way you don't have a great deference towards the expanding powers of the judiciary in this country, Philime.
No, and I think that's why we're making these films.
You know, look, this is you know, justice needs to be seen and heard.
People want to help make these films, go to clintonemosonfilm.com.
They can watch the film, donate maybe and make it happen.
But no, that's what I'm talking about.
We need to stop listening to this nonsense and bowing down and really taking this anymore.
This is a way to get the truth out there.
And the truth is the truth, and it's not partisan, and it can't be used against you.
It can only be used to illuminate, and that's what we're trying to do.
Right.
And that's why this project is so valuable, because you're not putting a spin on it.
You're not changing the words, shaping the words.
You're not doing a Katie Couric and editing the interviewees into incoherence.
You have taken the transcripts, and the judge has said, no, people cannot see the depositions.
And you've said nuts to that.
These are basically the five people closest to Hillary during her tenure at the State Department.
So it's as near.
I was telling a friend about it, and he said, this is the film that Hillary and her cronies don't want you to see.
I mean, you know, George Orwell, Mark, and I think we both may have agreement and disagreements with him.
But he once said journalism is something that somebody somewhere doesn't want published.
And this is classic, doesn't want published.
So this is classic journalism, I think.
No, and you're absolutely right.
You're absolutely right.
And the sad thing is that you live in the belly of the beast, as you put it, and there are not a lot of people doing this kind of thing.
There aren't people.
Ferguson, well, for Sat, the Ferguson play was a great thing because it's great to see topical things.
When something is around, what you want is to get it on stage, get it on film as soon as you can, which is what you did with Ferguson.
How's the Kermit Gosnall film coming?
It is 99% finished.
The film is wrapped.
We have the sound mix, everything.
We are now, we have a special song commissioned for it by a great artist who we can't just reveal right now, and then we have the credits to finish, and then it's ready to go.
We have out with distributors at the moment trying to entice distributors to deal with it.
So that's a process.
Let's see how that goes.
But we showed it recently to someone, another radio host who won't name, and he was crying at the end of it.
It's a wonderful movie, actually.
It's not gory.
It's compelling, actually, because, and it's funny, it is, you know, dramatized a little, but you're right.
The most compelling bit, the bit that people remember, when they tell us about it, we go, that's an actual true story.
That happened.
And the truth is very compelling.
And it's shocking, but as shocking is the way the broader media and the broader culture turn away from stories like this.
And that is why what you do is so important.
And at a time when Hillary and the media, the whole thing is just to tamp this story down.
Don't talk.
Don't put out the video depositions.
Keep it all quiet.
Keep it all quiet.
Nothing to see.
There's nothing to look at.
You've given us something to look at, Phaleem.
So that's clintonemailsonfilm.com.
And if they want to actually help fund future editions of this, then they can go to indiegogo.com.
And I think it's Projects ClintonEmails on Film.
But at IndieGogo.com is where you've been crowdfunding this.
Yeah.
Okay, where's that?
It's a great pleasure doing this, actually.
I mean, I know it's funny.
It's work, but it's a real pleasure telling the truth.
And it's so much easier telling the truth, too.
I always say.
Yeah, I know.
That's a very good way of putting it, actually.
You don't need so many rewrite guys when you're just telling the truth.
That's a very good way of putting it.
That's a great way of putting it.
You do sterling work, Phaleem, and this is a brilliant format, and I hope it gets a lot of play.
That's clintonemailsonfilm.com.
And if I can persuade them to do the Michael Mann global warming hockey stick deposition on film, and then the judge decides to cover that up.
I hope you'll come and make a dramatization of that.
You can find the appropriate, what's it called, Seth?
Why do you think we were in the court that day?
Researching.
No, no, we have, we want to actually take this for a bitum idea and make it a national thing in America.
It's more of a British thing at the moment, but there are so many great court cases, so many great courtroom dramas that are not being brought to the public that we think, well, why wouldn't it?
Why wouldn't it be Ferguson Baltimore trials in Baltimore that have just melted away?
It was murder, it was murder, and all the cops are just being found not guilty, left, right, and center.
So we want to take this for a bitum idea and bring it to a wider audience because people deserve the truth.
Yeah, that's a great way of putting it.
Verbatim Films presents.
So with luck, this will be a whole new genre, and maybe they should have a whole new Academy Awards category for it.
Great to talk with you, Phalim, and I will see you in court, no doubt, at some time or other.
ClintonEmailsonfilm.com.
As you can tell, he is an immigrant to this great land as I am.
He came from Dublin's Fair City, as Anne McElhenney did, and they do the stuff.
They do the jobs Americans won't do.
Like making a film on this monster, Kermit Gosnell, like doing a play on Ferguson, and now doing these trial deposition transcripts with actors enacting the words, reenacting the testimony of Cheryl Mills and Hillary's other aides.
Check it out.
Clintonemails.com.
ClintonEmailsonfilm.com.
And if you like it, there's a few more of them to come.
And if you go to Indiegogo, indiegogo.com, you can chip in to help keep this series going.
And maybe they'll get to make the big one with Madame Mao herself if she can ever be persuaded to testify.
Mark Stein for Rush, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in Farush.
That website, by the way, to see the first of these Clinton emails on film, that's clintonemailsonfilm.com.
And Phalime McAlier is a very enterprising chap who is basically doing what more conservatives and Republicans should be doing.
Instead of just whining, instead of just whining about the lousy Hollywood doesn't do anything about us, does he's actually getting in there, getting in the game and producing alternatives.
And so the best way to ensure that you can see some alternative views of America in the popular culture, in film and theater and other things, is actually to support guys like Philim.
And in this case, he's doing a great public service too, because Hillary Clinton is sweeping this under the rug.
The interesting thing is she's not just the first person to identify as a woman who's the major presidential nominee.
She's also the first major presidential nominee to be under criminal investigation by the FBI while she's running for president.
And it looks increasingly as if the FBI will find it hard, will find it extremely hard not to find some kind of criminal culpability in what Hillary Clinton has done.
And that will mean that this thing sits on the desk of the Attorney General, and the Attorney General of the United States will then have to make a decision about whether to announce the prosecution of the Democrat nominee for president.
And the likelihood of that happening in an ever more corrupt republic strikes me as very slim.
And so this may be the closest you ever get actually to seeing the trial of the century.
This is Cheryl Mills, Huma Aberdin, all the people close to Hillary Clinton's inner circle dramatizations of their actual testimony.
And you can see that at clintonemailsonfilm.com.
Mark Stein on Rush, lots more still to come.
Mark signing for Rush, the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals, that's the one in San Francisco, has just announced that there is no constitutional right to carry a concealed handgun.
By a vote of seven to four, the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals upheld a California law that requires gun owners to show a good reason before they can get a license to carry a concealed handgun.
So they're not just supporting this law, but they're saying that there is no constitutional right to concealed carry, which, as you know, a lot of other U.S. states have.