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July 6, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 6, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And here we are, folks, back at it, L Rushbo serving humanity simply by showing up here behind the golden EIB microphone, the most listened to radio talk show in America coming up on twenty-eight years on August 1st.
No, there's not going to be some big anniversary.
Pow wow, and then we did that on the 20th, maybe the 30th, if there is one, who knows.
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Let me see if I can say something cogently here.
This would be under the category of things that trouble me.
Uh we just had a call, Mario from Deerfield Beach, Florida.
He was talking about the fact that Hillary's email server was wide open.
It call me alluded to the fact that quote unquote hostile actors may have had access to it.
There's no question.
Folks, see, this is I don't think, and I really want to be wrong about this.
But as I as I I purposely expose myself to things that young people are doing.
I read the media they read.
I try to watch some of the stuff.
I can't do much of it that they watch.
We can't handle much.
But I I vowed I'm I'm not going to become these old fuddy dutties when he's get off my yard old guys looking down on young people as a bunch of inexperienced brats that have no business being listened to.
And I do it because I'm interested in their political outlook on things.
Because I think that happens to matter.
So in the in the case of uh Hillary Clinton's emails and whatever they contained, and a lot of it was classified, a lot of it was top secret.
That's why any of this matters.
And the fact that we could have ISIS, you could have ISIL, you could have had Al-Qaeda, Vladimir Putin, the Chicom's hacking.
We know that she was hacked.
We've had people bragging about it.
But this is what people do.
The Chinese are trying to hack the DOJ every day.
The Chinese trying to hack the Pentagon every day.
It's the way nations do business.
And I don't know that young people are even aware of this.
I mean, can you blame them?
Every ISIS terror attack.
What are they told?
It's the guns' fault.
It's never the fault of the perpetrators, or it's the Tea Party, or it's the Republicans, or it's the Second Amendment.
I'm not aware I'm I I'm not the right way to put it.
I don't know how aware a lot of Americans are of just how intense intelligence gathering by our enemies is.
In fact, I'm not even sure how aware certain Americans are that we even have enemies.
I am really concerned that a lot of Americans think the biggest enemy that we have is the Republican Party.
And I'm not trying to be funny, and I'm not trying to be outrageous, and I'm not trying to be extreme to get your attention.
This is what they hear.
It's what they see repeated on Facebook.
It's what they see tweeted out every day.
It's what they see their Hollywood heroes say.
It's what they hear people they look up to.
They're Democrat heroes say.
It's always the Tea Party's fault.
It's always the Republicans' fault.
I don't know that they're even aware that the Chinese view us as an enemy.
I'm not aware that they, you know, they they think Al-Qaeda and ISIS do, but they don't know why.
They just think it's extreme terrorism, but you couldn't blame them if they thought Al Qaeda attacked us because George W. Bush took pictures at Abu Grab or put prisoners in Club Gidmo.
I mean, this is what they were told.
So that aspect of Mrs. Clinton's behavior here may not have any impact on I shudder to think how many millions of Americans.
And therefore, the real danger posed by her negligence and her incompetence may totally escape people.
Particularly those who have been conditioned by their teachers and their professors to think that the real problem in this world is the United States and its racism, its sexism, its homophobia, its mistreatment of transgenders and bathrooms, the way it wouldn't let gay people get married for all these years, slavery, that's the kind of stuff that concerns me.
You get the Democrat Party out there promoting this, prom uh and amplifying this as often as they can, that the United States of America is the problem.
It's gotten so bad that when we are hit, there are a lot of Americans who think we deserve it, that we caused it because of our behavior as a nation all these years.
I think it is that bad.
I shudder to think how many millions think it, I don't know, but I'm worried about it.
It it uh it concerns me greatly.
So when people begin talking about uh the danger posed by Hillary Clinton's behavior, her lack of competence, her lack of concern, I I don't know if uh if if that hits.
Now, here's here's something that uh you know, I talked about Trump earlier, and I I'm admittedly I'm a little concerned here that regardless what we think of the legal system and its lack of doing its duty here with Mrs. Clinton.
Nevertheless, you take opportunity wherever you find it.
Comey did detail for everybody, he detailed explicitly her lying, her prevarications, her incompetence, how she put the nation at risk, how she exposed national secrets and all this.
And Trump is out now thinking about responding to her attacks on his way of running a business, is pension she says for filing chapter 11 bankruptcy, the way he rigged his casino operations to get paid no matter who else lost money.
And I know that he's gonna respond to it.
He can't help it, that's who he is.
But I I hope that he doesn't get taken off message.
I hope he doesn't let this whole business of her and this server stuff, this email stuff skate, because she's desperately trying to change the the narrative on this.
She's trying to change the message, if you will, to she hadn't even commented on this yet, neither did Obama yesterday.
She hadn't said a word about this, at least not that I'm aware of.
All she's done is ignore it and turn everything back around on Trump.
Now, Trump has done one thing that I find very encouraging.
I'll tell you a little story.
I saw that New York Times story on Sunday.
I was, folks, I was appalled at this too.
No, the Star of David thing, the Star of David thing, actually, Trump did the right thing on that.
I'm talking about something else.
The star of David, that tweet with the star of David, he said out that is the six-point star is also a sheriff's badge, right?
So Hillary Clinton trying to make that a Democrat's trying to make that something anti-Semitic.
Eh, what a crock.
I I think the point of that was that Trump got a lot of beneficial free media by that thing being tweeted and fake booked, and however it was distributed out there, because what was important about that is the allegation he was making about her.
And it was seen.
The Democrats tried to turn it into Trump being anti-Semitic, but it you know that no, but I'm not talking about that.
I think that could actually end up being a net positive, though.
But if you do nothing but listen to the media, you think Trump stepped in it, because the media is trying to turn that into Trump's an anti-Semite, Trump's this, Trump's that.
You got to guard against that.
No, there was a New York Times story in which Mrs. Clinton said that she is thinking of holding Loretta Lynch on as attorney general if she's elected pres.
That is bribery.
That was in the New York Times on Sunday.
That is before Comey comes out on Tuesday in his press conference.
This is before anybody knows what's going on.
This is a result of the meeting that Bill Clinton has with Loretta Lynch on the tarmac in Phoenix.
So there's a little quote, and it's at the very end of the story.
Most people probably didn't see it.
It was a long story.
Most people don't read to the end of news stories, particularly if they're reading the hard copy of the paper and have to change pages.
What a pain in the butt.
If you are used to getting your news on a five-inch screen, and all of a sudden you're reading a newspaper and it's continued to page 8B, the hell with that.
You just don't even go there.
So you read what's on the front page.
At the end of the story, and even people reading it on computers and other digital media may not read all the way to the end of it.
Can I give you a hint?
If you want to know how to read a news story, let me tell you what to do.
Read the first two paragraphs and the last.
Particularly if you're reading a column.
If you're reading a column, read the first paragraph and the last.
Those are the nut money paragraphs.
In a news story, pretty much the same thing.
I have learned this over the course of many years of study.
So I read the end of stories, and it was the end of a story in which Hillary Clinton quotes, is quoted as saying that she is inclined.
She's thinking seriously about retaining Loretta Lynch as attorney general.
Folks, that's bribery.
That is bribery.
And I sent that quote, I pasted, I cut and pasted that quote into another email, and I sent that out to some friends and to some people.
And I said, look at this.
This is flat-out bribery.
And I can't tell you how excited I was when I saw Trump call it the same thing.
No, I didn't send it anywhere to Trump.
Trump doesn't do email.
I didn't say I'm just, but but he saw that for what it is, or somebody there did, and called Hillary out on it.
And that's the kind of stuff that is going to be necessary here.
The Clintons, there's a there's a there's a pattern with the Clintons, but the thing you need to know about the Clintons is that since Whitewater, actually since Vince Foster, since that whole Vince Foster thing, the Republican Party, as an institution and its individual members has pulled up short.
Every Clinton controversy.
They pull up short.
They don't go all the way because the Vince Foster thing was it's kind of like the budget deal of 1995 and the government shutdown.
They're paranoid now of a government shutdown.
Oh my God, we can't have a government show.
No, no.
Well, Vince Foster and that whole thing made them paranoid of going for broke and calling out the Clintons for who they really are.
So the Clintons get away.
They skate.
Name the scandal, name the controversy, Clinton Crime Family Foundation, two years, 21.5 million dollars doing speeches.
They may reference it, but they will not call it what it is.
They will not say the Republican Party nor its candidates will not say Hillary Clinton is selling access on the come to the White House by selling herself to all these foreign entities, and who are they and what are they buying?
It's a serious question.
It needs answers because the Clintons, in their quest for personal wealth, which is what this is, their quest for personal wealth, Hillary Clinton has been accepting tens of millions of hundreds of millions of dollars of donations from foreign entities, countries, individuals.
For what?
What in the world do these people think they're buying?
We know they are investing in her as an eventual president.
That's what they're buying.
They also spent this money when she was Secretary of State.
They were getting something then.
This is insidious, whatever it is.
But the Republicans will stop short.
They will never go there.
They will never go all the way in calling the Clintons out because of the fear that it's going to backfire like it has backfired in the past.
The Clintons know this.
The Clintons know they've got the Republicans buffaloed.
They know the Republicans are not going to go all the Way.
But Trump.
Well, Trump is not your typical Republican in any number of ways.
So he's out there the last two days, he's actually out there saying that Hillary Clinton bribed Loretta Lynch, and that's part and parcel of what happened with Comey yesterday.
That's never said those allegations of Republicans never go that far.
But Trump did.
And I hope he keeps it up.
For two reasons.
A, the American people need to hear it.
They need to know it.
They need to start considering it.
And number two, the Clintons have never had to deal with that straight.
That full frontal of an attack.
You got to admit, folks, they for the most part got a pass because of fear.
And you know the fear I'm talking about.
the Republicans have the fear of opposing amnesty.
Well, better stated, the need to be seen as supporting amnesty So as to not anger uh Hispanics as hopefully to acquire significant uh numbers of Hispanic votes.
So they do things that are not in their own interest.
As a party in the nation's own interest, or they're doing the bidding of the Chamber of Commerce, the donors, or whoever.
Then whatever when it comes to the Clintons, everybody there is in the establishment, Republican or Democrat.
They're all in the club, and they they do they pull back.
They do not go all out when going after each other, except the Democrats do when going after the Republicans.
But Trump doesn't pull up.
At least he hasn't on this.
I mean, you realize what a big thing it is to accuse Hillary Clinton of bribery because of one of her quotes in the New York Times.
I mean, it's exactly what it was.
Now I know what some of you were thinking.
And by the way, this is a legitimate question.
What is so attractive about a government job that pays $175,000 a year when you, somebody like Loretta Lynch could go out there and make $10 million a year in private practice somewhere, the rainmaker at some law firm or at some think tank, or not think tank, but uh lobbying firm.
Power, folks.
Power.
This is another thing I don't think average ordinary people have any concept of.
I mean, everybody is aware of power.
Most people are aware of the power being used against them.
But I would venture to say that uh not anywhere near a majority of people seek power the way somebody like Hillary Clinton does.
Hillary Clinton wants to win the White House for the simple power of it.
That's the thirst.
That's the attraction for her.
She wants the power.
I don't think that's why Trump wants to be president.
I I don't look at Trump as anywhere near having autocratic power tendencies.
as some people are afraid that he might.
I don't think Trump has ill intentions like I think the Clintons do.
So, But this quest for raw power is another thing that frightens me about them and argues against them getting it.
People who quest and thirst for power that much, I don't think can be trusted with it.
And she wants it.
And Mrs. Clinton is used to skating.
She's used to the media covering for her.
She's used to the Democrat Party covering for her.
And she and her husband are used to the Republican Party pulling up short when they're going after them.
Here we go to the phone, Savannah, Georgia.
This is Ed, and I appreciate your patience, Ed.
I really do.
How are you, sir?
Just fine.
Thanks for taking my call.
I really appreciate it.
I've been listening for 27 years, and this is my first time to call.
I'm glad you got through.
I'm one of those guys that thinks that uh Comey handed Republicans a big Gift by not uh recommending indictment of Hillary.
Um the reason I think this is that if he had indicted her, then um Biden would end up getting the uh the the nomination and hell even I like Biden to some extent.
No, I don't like him a lot.
I'm I'm I'm I'm just saying that versus Sillary and the lockability quotient.
He's way ahead of Philly.
And maybe even ahead of trust.
I'm a Trumpster from day one.
But um I I that that had Hillary been indicted, she would have um uh I mean she she's not gonna get um she's not going to jail, she's gonna get an automatic pardon, but but this way, by not indicting her, uh he does wax on wax off, leg sweeps her, and then throws her back out out in the ring, and she's very damaged.
And I think the the way that I look at it is if Trump can't beat her this damaged, then he he was never gonna beat her at all.
Okay, look, I I I see the way you're thinking about this.
But A, if she was indicted, she'd not going anywhere.
Democrats would circle the wagons, accuse Comey of being part of vast right-wing conspiracy, they'd link him to John Ashcroft, name him a Republican, they would politicize it.
She would have the Democrat Party rally around her in total unified support.
She would know full well that Barack Obama would pardon her even before the election if necessary, not a thing would happen to her if she'd been indicted, other than the legal system would have worked, as it should.
When we had Andy McCarthy on uh a couple of hours ago in the program, I mentioned that his uh former boss Rudy Giuliani had uh had said some powerful things about this whole situation with uh the FBI James Comey, Hillary Clinton email server.
And we have a couple of bites here.
First, from Fox yesterday, the real story, Kimberly Gilfoyle was talking to Rudy, and she said Director Comey's decided not to uh in fact saying no reasonable prosecutor would recommend that this case go forward against Hillary Clinton.
What are your thoughts, Mr. Giuliani?
My thoughts are that uh it would be unreasonable for a prosecutor not to go forward with it, and almost an abdication of duty.
It does not require intent, it just requires gross negligence.
He said during his long statement that she was extremely careless.
The first definition of gross negligence that comes up if you take out the legal dictionary is being extremely careless.
The minute you say someone is extremely careless, you were saying they're grossly negligent.
Right.
And there's no intent required, grossly negligent obviates the whole notion of intent.
And what is this notion of intent anyway?
Well, she didn't intend to put the U.S. at risk.
She didn't intend to have her system set up in such a way that could be hacked.
She didn't intend for the top secret documents that she was sending and receiving to be seen by anybody else.
You try that.
You know, the next time you're guilty of anything, the next time you're charged with anything, and try to, hey, hey, hey, I I I didn't mean to run the stop sign.
I I you know I I didn't mean to leave the bar uh behind the wheel.
I I did I really didn't I didn't mean to get behind the wheel after having some adult beverages.
See if that works for you.
And if you're saying it's not the same thing, yes, it is.
In fact, it's even it's even worse.
Giuliani wasn't finished, he continued with this.
That's what Jim Comey found.
He then just didn't come to the conclusion that it's a violation of the statute.
He came to the other conclusion.
I think that's why he walked out.
There's no way to square the two things.
Isn't that interesting?
Because he was potentially gonna take questions.
Why?
And he left.
That's the first question that would have been asked.
Second question would have been would she pass an FBI background check for top security, Clarence?
The answer is no.
She couldn't possibly.
Well, I've read a thousand FBI background checks, maybe two thousand.
This would get thrown right in the ash can.
I mean, she wouldn't be, you know, the number 35 person at the State Department.
If you took his report and made it an FBI background check, she couldn't get any kind of sensitive job for the government of the United States.
Well, now wait a minute.
Does that mean she can't be president?
This is serious.
If you can't pass a background check, can you be president?
No, I know nothing's gonna come of it.
That's the whole point.
It should.
This is serious stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know Comey, look, look.
Um one of the things, you know, our guy, previous caller, Ed from Savannah.
Uh, he said, you think Comey has given everybody a great gift here, because otherwise it would be Biden.
And you get rid of Hillary and you put Biden in there, and it would be a prop.
Why is everybody so afraid of Biden?
What when did that begin creeping up on us?
When when did everybody start?
Is it his loyalty to Obama?
Is it that when he's squeaky clean squeaky clean about what?
Oh, he's not corrupt like Hillary.
I think it's something else.
I think that they I think the reason they fear Biden is because they think he's got this magic way of conveying compassion and big-hearted concern to people.
Uh and and but Biden's never won diddly squat within Democrat primaries.
He's never gotten out of the first stage, if you if you want to uh put it that way.
He can't even give a speech without plagiarizing somebody or putting his foot in his mouth.
Stand up, Chuck, let him see you in your wheelchair there.
Chuck A stand.
Oh my God.
Oh, God bless you, Chuck.
Let's everybody stand up for Chuck.
Since Chuck can't stand up, and I'm an idiot.
I think the reason they put all this on Comey.
Uh, because this is, you know, the the when when no, I'm talking about the bribery.
I'm talking about the full-fledged bribe when Hillary in that New York Times story lets it be known in a direct quote that she she thinks Loretta Lynch is doing such a great job.
She's thinking of keeping her on as attorney general.
She obviously knows Lynch likes the job.
She obviously knows Lynch would love to stay in the job, so she's bribing her.
That puts the onus on Comey.
What do you think Lynch stepping out of this did?
Folks, Lynch stepping out of this.
When Lynch said after the Clinton meeting, you know what?
To avoid the appearance of impropriety, I am backing out.
I will accept whatever recommendation we get from the FBI and from the career prosecutors.
And everybody, wow, what a great lady.
She understands the appearance of impropriety pulling out.
What'd that do?
That put the onus fully on James Comey.
They put it all on Comey.
And he must have known that would be the blowback.
And I can imagine Comey would probably look if he, like any of the rest of us, he knows who these people are.
And he knows what they could do in terms of making his life miserable.
Now we hear Comey is supposed to be a straight shooter, but he's only human, folks.
He's under the same pressure or even more that John Roberts was under up there at the Supreme Court.
And who knows what kind of pressure that we don't know about was brought to bear on the chief justice.
Look what the drive-by media and history have done to people that they hate for having made a decision that hurt their side.
These these people are fully aware of their fate.
The left would smear Comey out.
It's exactly what would happen.
If if Hillary had been indicted, I guarantee you, James Comey would cease being a man of integrity at that instance.
And he would, at that instant, he would become a partisan Republican attack dog, probably accepting his orders from me, or who knows who.
And they would ratchet up this vast right-wing conspiracy business, just like they did back with uh in in the uh in the 90s on the Lewinsky case.
Where Hillary says there's a vast right-wing conspiracy ought to get my husband at every turn.
Or they would they would make Comey the the Mr. Big and they would launch into attacks and they would accuse him of being the most partisan and therefore the most untrustworthy FBI directors, J. Edgar Hoover.
And they would do this for the rest of time.
They would do it for the rest of Comey's life.
You know darn well.
But but the point is, so what if we get Biden?
So what?
I don't understand why this fear of Biden all of a sudden.
But we wouldn't get Biden is the bottom line.
That's not what would happen.
It's all moot anyway, but since we had the conversation start, just let me repeat again.
If there had been an indictment, or if a recommendation, that doesn't mean that if Comey had recommended it, it doesn't mean Lynch would have done it, no matter what she said.
They would have to take it under advisement or study it, who knows what.
But let's say that they had decided to press there was no way that was going to happen.
But just no way.
It was Obama couldn't permit it.
He's already been out there for months saying she didn't do anything wrong.
But, for entertainment's sake, if they had decided to indict, he would pardon her at some point.
She would never face trial.
It would never ever happen.
The Democrats would circle the wagons around her, and it would not give us Biden.
That's my theory, and I'm sticking with it.
Okay, we put together our own uh audio montage here.
The montages we created, invented, and are known for.
And what we've done in this one, we played you Trumps, we played you the GOPs, we played you the Reason Magazine in the first half hour of the program.
What we've done here, we've taken Obama's comments from a Fox News appearance in April, and we've backed them up against James Comey's comments yesterday in his press conference.
Hillary Clinton was an outstanding Secretary of State.
She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy.
We did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws.
And she's acknowledged that there's a carelessness in terms of managing emails.
There is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
I do not talk to the Attorney General about pending investigations.
I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations.
I have not coordinated this statement or reviewed it in any way with the Department of Justice or any other part of the government.
I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI.
What I can assure the American people, only facts matter.
And the FBI found them here in an entirely apolitical and professional way.
Well, that pretty much closes the loop.
So we had the Reason magazine soundbite, which uh they put together.
Trump did one of his own, uh, and the GOP did theirs.
And this is ours.
Obama and Comey cut together to illustrate the eerie similarity in terminology and phrasing that was used by the president again back in April in an appearance on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
And Comey yesterday at his press conference announcing that no reasonable prosecutor was...
would bring the case.
We'll take a brief time out and be back right after this.
Yeah, I I you know I didn't get to it with enough time detail here, but I can give you the I can give you the uh the heads up on this.
This is uh from a website called What's Up With That.
It's a science-oriented website.
Are scientists preparing for a flip-flop back to global cooling predictions?
Now, Roy Spencer on his website uh last week posted that he has changed his prediction about this year being a very warm year because we've experienced the second greatest drop in temperature in the past few months in 38 years.
Temperatures are plummeting.
There hasn't been any warming.
And what this story alleges here is that global warming scientists will never gliver going to give up the climate change meme because it's political.
And of course, the climate is always changing.
It's never static.
And who's to say that where we are right now is what is supposedly normal, and anything up or down is bad.
But nevertheless, since it isn't warming, they're they're getting ready here to change now and say global cooling, as in 1979, is actually very likely, and that is going to be the same devastating climate change as global warming would be.
We're causing it, what have you.
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