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June 16, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 16, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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LAUS Open is underway at Oakmont Country Club, Oakmont, Pennsylvania, near Plum.
It's actually just northeast of Pittsburgh.
And it is the hardest golf course I've ever played.
And it is by reputation maybe the most difficult golf course ever played for the U.S. Open.
And it's supposed to be, I played it as part of a Boys and Girls Club charity tournament about three weeks ago, which means it was set up for the Open.
The rough was where it is.
The fairways were narrow.
The greens were fast.
It's the second time I played it.
And for those of you, they've had a bunch of rain delays.
They're about ready to get started again here.
I think for the third time, the early starters still have not finished today.
So they're going to be hustling to catch this thing up by Sunday.
They'll do it, but they're going to have to play starting on both number one and number 10, maybe even into Saturday, especially if there's more rain today or tomorrow.
But I just, for those of you that end up watching this on TV, these guys playing this game make it look so easy.
And I'm telling you, this golf course, one of the reasons why these guys are, and he's got some people three under right now, two or three under, five under, I think.
I can't conceive it.
I can't conceive of Johnny Miller shooting a 63 on this golf course.
He did in 1973 in the final round to win it.
But one of the reasons, as you watch this, one of the reasons that these guys are able to make it look easy, even though it's even not for them, they are so long off the tee that their second shots are with shorter irons.
They're able to come in with a much higher shot, hold the greens much easier versus schlubs like me.
You know, I hit the ball.
I can hit the ball fairly well for my handicap.
I'm 240 to 260.
But you've got number 18 here, which is practically a 500-yard par four.
It's 400 and some odd.
My second shot is a three-wood, and I still don't have a prayer getting there.
And if I luck out, you're going to end up in a sand trap.
They're not shooting three woods on their second shots on par fours or par fives even.
These guys are so long.
Dustin Johnson on a 400-yard par four was hitting a wedge in for his second shot.
As long as these guys keep it in the fairway off the tee, they're going to make this course look.
There's nothing tougher than a U.S. open course.
I mean, it's different from any course any amateur ever plays.
Augusta would be the same way if you ever had the chance to go there.
But the way they set these courses up with the rough and the fairways being something, the greens are like glass.
They're so fast.
But now they're slow.
They've had so much rain.
The greens have slowed up, and it's confusing these guys after three days of facing pool tabletop greens.
And I just wanted to mention this because the key here really for them is they hit it so long off the tee that their second shots are so much shorter than the average rank amateur going in there.
And it leads me to another, I'm not going to get into it today.
I mean, the golf business struggles to keep people playing.
It's so hard.
People take the game up and they quit.
At any one time, there's 24 million people playing.
They're not able to grow the number because it's so hard to learn.
And you watch it on TV.
You see these guys hitting it 300, 350.
You wonder what that's like.
You'll never be able to do it.
You're not born with the swing speed to do it.
But the golf club manufacturers have it really tough because they can't keep people playing the game.
It's so damn hard.
And there are things that could be done to change that, I think.
But that's for another day.
Greetings and welcome back because I know it's stick to the issues time here.
But if you're going to watch part of this today, realize it is so much harder than what these guys are making it look.
It's incredibly, it's part of the fun and the challenge of playing it, too, by the way.
It's a way to test yourself and measure yourself.
Anyway, telephone number is 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address, IlRushbo at EIBnet.com.
Two Trump stories here.
The first one is from Breitbart.
Now, folks, there's a poll that came out yesterday or the day before.
It was a Bloomberg poll that showed Hillary up by 11.
The aftermath of that poll was devastating for Republicans.
You have Republicans talking.
And we played the sound bites yesterday.
Dan Senor and a number of others saying, we got to get control of this at our convention and we got to come up with another candidate.
It's going to be a landslide loss.
Trump's making a fool of himself.
He's making a fool of us.
Oh, my God, it's going to be horrible just because of this one poll showing him losing ground 11 points down.
And it was Panic City, and it's continuing as Panic City.
And then Trump said something about going and talking to the IR, the NRA, about changing their minds about people on watch lists being able to get guns.
The official position is that you can't deny people a constitutional right if they haven't committed a crime.
Being on a watch list is not committing a crime.
And a lot of people on watch lists have no business being on the watch list.
It's random access.
And once you're on a watch list, it is one of the hardest things in the world to get off of one.
And the NRA doesn't think that just because you're on a watch list, you should be denied the right to go through the process of buying a gun.
A lot of people on watch lists who haven't committed crimes.
This guy, Mateen, was on a watch list.
You know, why was this guy calling the FBI, by the way?
Why did the San Bernardino 2 why did they call him in the middle of the attack?
Do you know why they did it?
The religion requires it.
When you are committing jihad, you have to proclaim what you're doing in the middle of the attack.
That is part and parcel of the sacrifice that you are making.
That's why it's not that they're bragging about it.
It's what is it?
I had it here and it scrolled already out of my view.
There's a name for it that is part and parcel of the process.
You're basically pursuing the 73 virgins here, which we've now been told are 73 raisins.
All this time we've been misinterpreting it was not virgins, it's raisins.
So there's going to be a lot of people perplexed.
But anyway, they have to.
The San Bernardino 2, they called the FBI, they called somebody.
This guy Mateen called the FBI and the media.
It's part of the commandment that if you engage in this activity, you have to proclaim that you're doing it.
It's part of the, I don't want to say sacrifice, but it's part of the probably, it's the equivalent of yelling a lot of Akbar publicly.
You might call it a jihad protocol.
So anyway, Trump said it's bayat.
That's what it is, B-A-Y-A-T.
You have to commit the bayat.
It has an actual name.
And that's why they're not bragging.
They're not looney tunes.
They're not calling up.
And then Trump, it is actually part of what is commanded.
It's in the name.
It's the name of the Islamic requirement that when you are committing jihad like this, that you have to proclaim it.
And bayat, and I'm pronouncing B-A-Y-A-T, could be Bayat, Bayat.
That is what it officially is.
It's not because they're showing off.
It's not because they're bragging.
They must pledge bayat.
They must pledge allegiance to Islam before they die.
And that's what that is.
And they're not doing it because anybody's called them names.
So Trump wants to go to the NRA.
Said he wanted to go to the NRA and talk to them about maybe relaxing this idea that people on a watch list shouldn't be able to get a gun.
And a bunch of red flags went up at the NRA.
The NRA has endorsed Trump.
And this was Trump seen as sidling up with people on the Democrat side of the aisle and gun while an attempted filibuster that the Democrats were conducting on this.
So a bunch of red flags went up.
That was after a bunch of red flags went up after the Bloomberg poll that shows Trump down 11 that had all these Republican establishment buys ready to pledge buyat themselves.
Hari Kari or whatever, as typified by Dan Senori.
I mean, they're already still plotting maybe how to take this away from Trump at the convention in Cleveland.
He's down 11.
Remember, we had the soundbikes yesterday that presidential races, a lot of them are lost in June.
Did you know that?
Polling data in June.
That's where you win or lose the election, according to some of these Republicans.
Well, it wasn't just there.
I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a website printout from Breitbart News.
And here's the headline: Trump-ism is winning.
Now we'll have to see about Donald Trump himself.
It's by somebody named Virgil.
Let me just read the opening paragraph.
A new poll makes clear: Donald Trump can win this if he keeps hammering on the anvil.
That is hammering with the same hammer on the same anvil for the next five months.
The anvil is the basic issue of homeland security, and the hammer is the action needed to keep the country safe.
The latest Reuters poll, it might, you know, it might be Reuters.
I've been saying Bloomberg.
It might have been a Reuters poll published by Bloomberg where Trump was down 11.
I think it was.
Doesn't matter.
The latest poll suffices.
The latest poll asks this question.
Now, this is why the people at Breitbart are focusing on this rather than Trump being down 11.
You know, you see a poll like that where you look for good signs.
By the way, in the same poll, no, take a CBS poll.
I mean, the panic, I think, is really starting to set in.
In the CBS poll, do you approve or disapprove of Donald Trump's response post-Orlando?
Only 25% approve of Trump's response.
51% disapprove.
And there are people saying, you know, that's a bigger deal than being down 11.
I mean, for crying out, if your number one thing is building a wall, keeping the bad people out, and after terrorism happens, Orlando, and you go out and say, see, I'm right, we've got to do something.
We've got to start a team.
And only 25% agree with you, and 51% don't, then there's panic that's beginning to set in.
Breitbart is a very pro-Trump site, and they are now focusing on Trump being down and what he's got to do.
And they say if he just keeps hammering the one issue, here's the Reuters question that they are focusing on.
Agree or disagree, the United States should temporarily stop all Muslims from entering the U.S. Breitbart says the rest of this poll means nothing.
If Trump continues to harp on that, he's going to win and win big because 50% agree with that premise and 42% disagree.
So forget whatever else is in the poll.
50% agree with the statement the U.S. should temporarily stop all Muslims from entering the U.S. 42% disagree.
So the people at Breitbart say, that's it, that's it.
That's where the election's won or lost.
If Trump doesn't waver on that, he's going to win.
He can overcome the 11-point deficit.
He can overcome the post comments, Orlando comments, because people are going to forget about that.
But then they go on to say, and it's right here in the headline, Trumpism is winning.
Now we'll have to see about Donald Trump himself.
What these guys, I think, are saying is what a number of people have speculated all along, that this whole thing with Trump is about much more than Trump.
And the reason, you know, people have been, why doesn't any of this stuff that Trump says that would destroy any other politician?
Why does it glance off him?
Why do his supporters not care?
He can insult anybody.
He can say the most impolitic things, and it helps him.
Everybody's been curious about this.
And my answer to that was, is because when you boil all this down, it's about much more than Trump.
Trump represents something much larger than even himself.
And people are so invested in it, they're not going to allow their movement to be derailed, and they're going to maintain support for the guy no matter what, because it's the movement that matters.
And I think that's what this Breitbart piece is essentially saying.
Trump-ism is winning.
Now we have to see about Donald Trump himself.
They're getting a little worried out there.
Wouldn't you say, how would you interpret this?
They're worried about it.
They're worried about the 11 points.
They're worried about the fact that only 25% agree with what Trump said.
And remember now, well, I know there's all kinds of counter in that poll, too.
I mean, that poll's not flawless, but it's all you got to work.
I'm telling you, people react to this stuff.
They don't dig into it as deep as we do here.
We could point out all kinds of flaws in that poll.
Well, I have a Reuters, Bloomberg.
I'm not sure which it was.
But the point is that there are people getting nervous out there now, and it's really the first time.
Now, let's move on to the second Trump story.
Tell me if you've heard.
This is Invanity Fair.
And it's a long story.
It's an exclusive.
That word's in the headline, exclusive.
Is Donald Trump's endgame the launch of Trump news?
This is a story positing that the whole purpose of this Trump campaign is to provide the launching plan platform for his own cable news operation.
And it's based on the fact that no matter where Trump goes, the ratings of that show skyrocket, no matter where it is.
If he's on CNN, if he goes on Hannity, if he goes anywhere on Fox, and if it's known that he's going to be there, the ratings skyrocket.
And this story says that Trump is well aware of this and believes that he could start his own cable network with him as the central figure and star and start out number one.
That he's got a built-in audience already from day one bigger than anybody else has.
Fox, CNN, PMSNBC, of course.
Here's a little excerpt.
The breakout media star of 2016 is Donald Trump, who has masterfully and horrifyingly demonstrated an aptitude for manipulating the news cycle, gaining billions of dollars worth of free airtime and dominating coverage on every screen.
Now, several people around him are looking for a way to leverage his supporters into a new media platform and cable channel.
Trump is indeed considering creating his own media business built on the audience that has supported him thus far in his bid to become the next president.
According to several people briefed on the discussions, the presumptive nominee is examining the opportunity presented by the audience currently supporting him, not the voters, not even the audience currently supporting him.
He has also discussed the possibility of launching a mini-media conglomerate outside of the existing TV production business called Trump Productions LLC.
You ponder that.
And it's very clever of these people.
I don't think these people at Vanity Fair realize how close they are here when they refer to Trump's supporters as the audience.
Okay, back to the phones, Dallas, Texas.
Chuck, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Rush, I don't believe this is all just happenstance.
I believe it's been pretty methodical.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything like that, but it's a very methodical way to change.
And the best way to do things sometimes is what you tell people, tell them what you're going to do, and just leave it open.
We've known all along that this country was supposed to change.
And I think targeting all Western countries as soft targets is the way to change the mindset of how we do everything.
Everything from religion.
Wait, wait, I need to catch up with you.
What do you think is all part of what are we talking about here?
Are you talking about the CIA director contradicting Obama?
CIA director contradicting Obama.
How about the DOJ telling the FBI not to do certain things?
You don't have to make giant transition points.
You just have to whittle away a little at a time.
Okay, so you then said something about soft targets.
You've jumped in.
You think I know your point halfway in, and I don't know what your starting point is here with.
I just.
My starting point is this has all been methodically planned out.
What has?
What has all been methodically planned out?
The deconstruction of Western civilization.
Oh, you're talking about a macro issue.
Okay.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
And the assault and the desire to destroy Western civilization, Western culture, devised long ago, and it's been implemented piece by piece, and we're just seeing it now finally come to fruition, and we're just not catching up with it.
I mean, what else could it theories are out there?
Nobody's doing it to the Chinese.
Well, yeah, a lot of people try, just the ones that do end up in jail or lynched or run over by a tank.
Look, hang on here.
Now that I know your starting point, and don't misunderstand my tone.
It's not your problem.
I just want to make sure I knew what you're talking about before I come in.
Hang on to the break, and we'll pick it up when we get back right after this.
Okay, back to Chuck in Dallas.
So your premise is that there has been a long thought out, long implemented strategy amongst enemies of ours around the world to effectively destroy Western civilization.
And it sounds like you think that we're actually helping them do it.
Yes, sir.
Just take, for example, you'd mentioned it just today, the CRVE that Obama wants to put through that.
No, it already exists.
It already exists.
Okay, well, when did it start existing?
Did it start existing when Obama came into office?
Although, although George Bush was sympathetic to this whole notion that we shouldn't... I'm not, I wouldn't exclude any president.
This is just...
This is one doc that just says, hey, we have to do this to not allow the FBI to do this so we can move forward with our overall plan.
Well, you made the point that the CHICOMs are not letting it happen to them.
It seems to be Western civilization, which is the Western European democracies, which are now socialist democracy, but they're under assault.
I mean, Europe is under assault.
It's so bad over there that Great Britain's hoping to get out of it.
That's what the Brexit debate is all about, British exit from the European Union.
This has been stampeded by enemies of Western civilization, and they're here.
And they're coming across borders, not just the southern border.
They're coming into New York.
They're coming in the visa program.
They're coming in as refugees.
And we're welcoming them with open arms under the presumption that that's what America is.
We actually have people, to a certain extent, Chuck, I understand what you're saying.
Because it looks like, if you just casually glance at it, we have people think the Constitution's a suicide pact.
That in the name of openness and in the name of human rights and in the name of civil rights and in the name of whatever the hell else rights that you want to conjure up, we have a duty to let anybody come into this country with any purpose whatsoever because that's what our values are.
That's who we are.
We let anyone in, whatever, and whoever they are.
And it seems like lately, the more grievances they have against America, the better.
I don't like getting started on this because I get so ticked off.
I get so ticked off.
I get ticked off at people that voted.
I get ticked off at Republicans that won't stand up to this.
What was I thinking about earlier?
It was about how some of this stuff has gotten away with.
I don't know.
I can't think of it now.
It'll come to me later.
I want to keep with the phones.
Chuck, thanks much.
Here's Nathan, Appleton, Wisconsin.
What a great place this is.
Appleton, Wisconsin.
This is where visiting teams stay when they go in to play the Packers.
It's where I got EIB1 outfitted.
This is a great, great place.
How are you doing?
Good.
Good, sir.
Ross, this is Mega Dittos, first off.
This is quite an honor.
Thank you very much.
I think the first time I remember hearing you on the radio, I was probably eight years old.
I'm 29 next week.
You're 29 next week.
Yes, sir.
Wow.
I don't remember what that was like.
I just wanted to comment on something one of your previous callers said about if we spoke better about radical Islamists that they would not hate us as much.
Yeah, if we stopped insulting them, that they wouldn't attack us.
I think I, and I don't know if I want to blame him.
Excuse me.
I think he's been brainwashed since, as you put it, screw with how they put it in the textbooks as how we should treat.
No, I agree with him.
I think he was perfectly well-intentioned.
I think that's what conflict resolution is taught.
And that's, I say, he was projecting the way he has been taught solve problems onto this situation.
And see, the assumption is that we're all angels at heart.
We're all good people.
Exactly.
And if we just treat everybody with mutual respect and love, then there will be no problems in the world.
And I think, you know, it's idealism on steroids.
And the millennials of this culture just don't understand.
They think everything can be solved with peace and love.
But, you know, radicals, you honest, don't want compassion.
Not peace and millennials think you can solve problems with doctors, nurses, clean water, nice words, and all this wonderful stuff.
That as well.
But They don't understand that they have their own agenda.
And they're not going to conform to our agenda.
And, you know, talking nicer about them, they don't care how we talk about them because they're going to do what they want to do anyway.
Do you want to ruin a millennial's day?
If you ever get agitated at one, if a millennial really just, if you can't walk away and what they're saying to you is frustrating to no end, and they're saying stuff like we're talking about, we just have to respect them.
Like Hillary said about, we must have empathy for our enemies.
And the millennials go, yes, yes, right, empathy.
We must understand why they're angry and I get empathy for it.
And Hillary Clinton said that.
Take what you do out there, Nathan.
Next time you have an interchange like that with a millennial, you are a millennial.
Somehow you escaped the bonds.
Just tell them one of the undeniable truths of life.
Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
They will shriek.
They will think you're a warmonger.
They'll think you're horrible and terrible.
But you can't lose this argument.
All you have to have is a knowledge of history.
Explain why anything in this world has happened.
And you will find at some stage, somebody was aggressively using force to get what they wanted.
It's inarguable.
Any number of examples you can cite.
And then, whenever any of these events have happened, what has been the solution?
The aggressive use of even more force in response.
You can't lose the argument if you know any history.
All you got to do is start citing war after war after war.
And then you have to tell them we're in one now.
That's what they don't want to admit.
But hell, folks, when you have Obama, did you hear what Obama said?
This happened when I was away.
When this happened, when I heard about this, I almost got on the plane and flew 12 hours back here.
I could have done it on the phone, but I don't trust.
When Obama and his commencement speech at Howard University, do you remember what he said?
Here's what he said to the class of 2016 at Howard University.
Yes, you've worked hard, but you've also been lucky.
And that's a pet peeve of mine.
People have been successful and don't realize they've been lucky, that God may have blessed them.
It wasn't nothing you did.
Quote unquote, Barack Obama, right out of the Elizabeth Warren playbook, hey, you didn't build that, which Obama has also said.
Can you imagine telling college graduates, you've worked hard, but you've been lucky.
And so is every other successful person out there.
They've been lucky, and they don't realize it.
Wasn't anything you did.
And that, nothing, nothing.
And that is how they lay the case for big government to redistribute, to make things fair, to determine equality of outcomes, because it's just luck.
Dick Gephardt, the successful winners of life's lottery.
I'll tell you, the American left, progressives, the greatest enemies of human greatness that we have to deal with.
They really stand in the way of individual, group, whatever, human greatness by disparaging it, by impugning it, by denying it.
It's bad enough, you think it, but to now run around and send college graduates from a black university out into the world thinking that what they've just accomplished was luck.
That's the kind of thing.
You know, you walk out of a speech, people saying things like that.
I just saw something up here, folks.
The D.C. Examiner, Washington Examiner, LGBT community explodes with positive social media support for Trump.
See, I knew this is going to happen.
You know what?
You know what may become more important than polling data is likes on a social media.
No, I'm not kidding.
We're in, there's all kinds of transformation going on out there.
And polling data polls are relics.
This social media stuff is so big and it's exploding.
And if you end up with tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of likes out there, that can spread and be much more influential than a positive or negative poll.
We'll just have to see.
No, no, I can't wait to get back up there and play Oakmont sometime.
No, I didn't do that badly.
If I had a little bit more coarse knowledge, I would have scored better.
I was hitting the ball well that day.
It was fun.
Hey, folks, we'd be back here tomorrow.
Already Open Line Friday.
tomorrow, so be thinking what you want to call and talk about or ask about.
We'll see you then 21 hours from now.
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