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July 7, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 7, 2016, Thursday, Hour #2
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Don Lemon suggests that sexism is at play in the criticism of Clinton's email conduct.
CNN host Don Lemon suggested, what is this Thursday?
It's Tuesday, that uh sexism was in part responsible for the criticism of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, commenting that as the first woman with a real shot at winning the White House, the men at the top would have a lot to say about her.
Lemon compared the tumult over Clinton's emails to fireworks on the Fourth of July.
He said, This is CNN tonight, I'm Don Lemon, and when you're the first woman with a real shot at winning the White House, you know at least one thing for sure.
The men at the top are gonna have a lot to say about you.
You remember how outraged Don Lemon was over the treatment of Sarah Palin by the men at the top?
I do too.
You remember how outrage of Don Lemon was very mad about how the uh men at the top were treating Sarah Palin when she might end up being the first female vice president?
I don't I don't recall, I don't recall that either.
I I I don't remember one word of that.
But that's how Don Lemon led his report on Comey's 15-minute statement Tuesday, in which he did not recommend charges to be brought against Clinton for her conduct at the State Department.
And then Lemon played some clips from Trump criticizing Hillary and of President Obama emphatically praising her while on the campaign trail, Trump and Obama both men playing into Lemon's narrative that sexism may play a role.
Now, for what it's worth here, uh it this is a Washington Free Beacon's story.
They point out here that Clinton's gender was not brought up at all in Comey's remarks about her and the investigation into her private email server, nor did they play into Obama and Trump's commentary about her.
So it's unclear why Lemon would make such a remark about an issue having nothing to do with gender.
Precisely.
Why did he bring it up?
That's what liberals do.
Remember, Hillary Clinton is automatically qualified.
That has been decided.
Hillary Clinton's automatically qualified.
Anybody coming along and says she isn't, well, it can't be because she's not qualified because she is.
They've determined that.
So it has to be something else.
And what do they conclude?
It's always going to be racism, sexism, bigotry, or homophobia.
I mean, those are the things that the Republicans are routinely accused of, that conservatives are routinely accused of, and have been accused of for decades.
And by the way, those are the things that Republicans bend over backwards trying to prove are not true, and have been doing that for decades.
Such as agreeing with the idea that we need comprehensive immigration reform.
Largely in part, not only satisfy donors who demanded, but to show the Hispanics that we do like you.
We're not racist, like the Democrats say.
And of course, it never works.
You're in the process here trying to prove the old thing about proving it negative, uh, which you can't do, but it keeps you on defense as as a result.
So, anyway, Don Lemon, I mean, I know he doesn't speak for everybody, he's not a noted historian or anything, but it is um it is evidence of uh of my theory in a bit of a just a slight bit.
Now there's a Rasmussen pollout.
Now I know what you're come on, Rush Rasmussen.
Now wait a minute, folks.
There have been stories this week.
I've shared them with you about how the Republicans had better stop this business of rejecting the polls.
Right.
There was one, I can't remember who wrote it.
It was my, I think it was Washington Post.
I know I was mentioned in it as a one of many who thought that the polls were wrong on Romney in 2006 or 2000 2008.
Sorry, 2012.
It seems like ages ago.
But he's right.
I mean, whoever wrote the story was right.
We did think that the polls had it wrong.
We thought because of the the midterms in 2010 and 2014 and these massive energetic crowds that Romney was getting, these polls have to be wrong.
And we thought the pollsters are naturally in the tank for the Democrats anyway.
But the polls turned out to be right, the vast majority of them.
Some of them were blatantly wrong, too.
And some of them would Gallup, Gallup has gotten out of presidential polling because they were so wrong.
But the point is, if we're now being chastised for not believing the polls, if we must grow, if we must grow up, if we must mature and accept the polls for what they are, well then let me give you this one.
A Rasmussen reports national telephone and online survey taken last night finds that 37% of likely U.S. voters agree with the FBI's decision to give Hillary a pass.
However, 54% disagree and believe the FBI should have sought a criminal indictment of Clinton.
10% are undecided.
64% of Democrats agree with Comey's decision not to seek an indictment.
79% of Republicans and 63% of voters not affiliated with either party disagree with the decision.
Wouldn't it be amazing if Hillary ends up losing the precious independent vote?
You've heard it said, by the way, if you're paying attention that Trump's gonna really have to score big in independence to make up for uh the never Trump Republican voters who claim they're never gonna vote for him.
He's gonna have to really, really, really score big in the independence.
So goes the theory as we sit here today.
But here's a poll and you know, perusal of social media.
I'm telling you folks, this is not like it was with Clinton and Lewinsky, where there was universal, now there wasn't a whole lot of social media then, don't misunderstand.
But the you can still get a general sense of public opinion.
And it was frustrating.
Back when the when the impeachment proceedings fell flat, and when Clinton was perceived to be getting away with this, you you could sense that a lot of Americans were happy about it.
Not that a lot of Americans weren't, but there you could sense that a at least 50%, if not more, of the country was relieved.
And one of the reasons was the economy was going well.
And people didn't want that messed with.
People didn't want to upset the Apple cart because the economy was good.
But I don't sense that with Hillary.
I don't sense that she has the same kind of uh connection with people in Democrats that her husband has or had.
And I I don't sense that she's got a lot of people behind her and want her, you know, wish her well and hope she triumph over this.
I mean, it's a rock rib Democrats do.
But I don't my my sense is I just don't think she's gonna skate on this.
I don't care what Comey's intentions were.
I know some people think Comey did this on purpose to basically list everything she did and then say, sorry, we're not uh gonna choose to prosecute.
But what he did was pretty devastating in terms of things that he did acknowledge that she had done.
So that's thrown to the court of public opinion.
Uh it can be turned into campaign ads by uh the Republicans and political action committees, and it will live on.
And I don't know if if Comey was doing that, fine.
I'm I that's not the point is that she just doesn't have this massive overwhelming support.
She doesn't have a gigantic uh OJ-type jury defending her no matter what, because she's just not that likable.
She has never, she's She's never been the front runner.
Clinton always.
Bill Clinton was the guy who established the connection of voters to him and as an ancillary basis to his wife.
But she's never led on that.
She's never been the reason that the Clintons triumphed, other than standing by him during all the affairs, making sure that the Democrats didn't have to get rid of him.
That's that's been her value.
That has been her, and that's her reward, by the way.
That's why all this attempted coronation is happening.
Look, it's a long way of saying that I don't think it's automatic she's going to get away with this in the court of public opinion.
She already started out with negatives that are sky high.
Her negatives are not that much better than Trump's.
Everybody harps on how bad Trump's negatives are and his disapproval.
Well, Hillary's in not much better shape.
And this kind of thing does not change that for the better.
This kind of thing that the this whole email server problem and the way it's uh rolling out affirms reasons to be suspicious of the woman.
It affirms people and their instinct to not trust.
So it's helpful to her in the sense that she's not subject to any sanction in the legal system.
But the court of public opinion is a much different thing.
Paul Ryan at Breitbart.com and angry Paul Ryan lashed out at Hillary Clinton yesterday for her reckless handling of classified uh correspondence as Secretary of State and demanded that the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, block her from receiving intelligence briefings after she becomes the Democrat nominee.
What do you think the odds of that happening are?
I mean, they're absolutely zero.
She's going to get classified information.
She's going to be the subject of a lot of it, if you ask me.
But at least Ryan's out making the case.
But see, this making the case isn't it.
He ought to follow up on this.
They ought to really, really try to insist on this, continue to make the point, even though everybody knows it's never going to happen.
Oh, he did.
He pounded on it again.
Well, that's good.
I must have been trying to solve a beta software problem and uh and missed that.
Uh and then there's this.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, this is from real clear politics, Charles Lipson.
Clinton emails scandal, it's far from over.
Charles Lipson is the Peter B. Ritzma professor of political science, the founder and director of the program on international politics, economics, and security at the University of Chicago.
And he writes here that her email problems are going to last all the way through November.
The FBI's refusal to recommend an indictment, obviously a huge win, but her reluctance to take a victory lap is instructive.
You know, I've noticed this too.
She still hasn't talked about this.
You know, Obama, when they went to Raleigh on that joint presser where she copped a freebie on Air Force ride.
Coped a free ride.
Don't anybody misunderstand me there.
When she coped a free ride on Air Force One into Raleigh, North Carolina, neither she nor Obama addressed this.
And she has not addressed it.
She's not gone out and done a I got away with it because I didn't do anything.
I never watch trafficked and classified information.
Not once, not a single time ever.
I did not have sex with it.
I didn't do it.
She hadn't done any of that.
She hasn't.
She hasn't circled the bases, acting like she hit a home run here.
She's soft-selling this.
She doesn't want any more attention called to it.
Put it, she doesn't want to be the reason any more attention is given it.
She knows that the Republicans are not going to let it go.
But she doesn't want to say or do anything that is going to continue To breathe life into it.
I think this is a good point.
The fact that she has not taken a victory lap is instructive because she knows that she's going to continue to face withering attacks that she cannot wave off as ridiculous conspiracy theories.
In other words, she can't say this is part of the vast right wing conspiracy.
Because after all, FBI director James Comey publicly shredded all the defenses Hillary used the past year.
Which he did.
Every defense, I mean, that's why the questions that he got did she lie to Congress?
Did she lie to the American people?
Because she did all this.
She told somebody lies in that first press conference at the UN.
Now Comey didn't want to go there.
I didn't I had an interviewer on that.
I didn't talk about that.
She didn't, we don't think she lied to us.
There's no way he's going to say anything otherwise, because if if if uh he thinks that she lied to them, then that's a process crime that they would have to pursue.
So he's not going to admit that.
By the way, have you noticed also that when we talk about Hillary Clinton and the FBI, she grants an interview.
She's never like other people are interrogated.
Other people are subpoenaed.
Other people are called in to face questioning with Mrs. Clinton.
Yeah, I granted an interview with the FBI Saturday for three and a half hours.
We discussed yoga and my daughter's wedding reception.
But they never ever characterize Hillary as being subpoenaed.
Well, she wasn't, but I mean never character being brought in to face questioning.
No, no, no.
Hillary is always interviewing.
So what can you expect, according to Charles Lipson here?
What can you expect in the coming weeks and months?
Well, this opinion, of course.
First, you'll see plenty of Republican spots advertisements showing Clinton's previous lies and misstatements on the issues.
Video clips will show her saying, I never said or received anything classified.
And after that proved false, I never sent or received anything marked classified.
We've already got these juxtaposition audio and video tapes out there.
There's four of them now that expose the lies that she told.
The simple, devastating image of these ads, Clinton is utterly untrustworthy.
That will be what people conclude.
The public already believes that.
That was my point mere moments ago.
The ads will cement that perception using her own voice, not somebody else accusing her of it.
Second, the Republicans are going to hold several hearings designed to reveal the FBI's evidence against Clinton.
And that's another thing that's going on today.
They're not trying to nail Comey.
They're not trying to embarrass him.
This is all about getting the evidence.
They would love.
They would love the transcript of her interview over the weekend release.
That's never going to happen.
They would love for the file to be released.
That's never going to happen either.
The public's growing conviction that equal treatment is a farce is the heart of both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump's campaigns that will continue.
Fourth, look to see if there are leaks from ordinary FBI agents.
More on that in just a moment when we get back.
Just to review, you know, we got to get to the phones.
We'll do that when we get back from the break coming up here at the bottom of the hour.
But just to review some things that happened in the hearing this morning, uh the FBI director, James Comey, said that Hillary knew she didn't have authority to have her server in the basement.
But that did not mean that she intended to do anything.
And Comey admitted before the committee today that Hillary's attorneys scrubbed multiple servers to prevent forensic discovery.
But we can't, we can't say that that equals the intent that is in the statute.
See, this is what everybody finds incredible.
And what everybody's incredulous over is the intent was there from day one in just setting up this system, which is what Trey Gowdy's point is, that She was the opposite of careless, that she was explicitly careful.
And we have a tweet here from Reuters.
Are you ready for this?
This is get this.
This is exactly what happens, folks.
Tweet from Reuters update, FBI director says questionable whether Clinton had sophisticated enough understanding to recognize classified email markings.
So exactly my point.
Normally she's the smartest woman in the world.
But there are times where she's this bumbling idiot who doesn't even know what the words top secret mean when they're in when they're on documents that she's dealing with.
FBI director says questionable whether Clinton had sophisticated enough understanding to recognize classified email.
You see, she's just she didn't know what she was doing.
Okay, back to the phones.
Well, not back, we haven't been yet.
I'm sorry about that, but we're gonna start in L Central California to Sandy and welcome.
I'm glad you waited.
Hi.
Hi, Rush, how are you?
Fine and dandy, thank you much.
Good.
Um I agree with your theory about Cole and Roberts.
But here's the problem.
When people reach such a high level of power that they don't do the right thing, and they end up harming American people, which I believe Obama and Hillary have done with Obamacare, Fast and Furious, IRS, Benghazi's a big one, and this email, then there's a big problem because Comey and Roberts are cowards.
Obama and Hillary are criminal and they're liars.
And they've lied to the American people, and perhaps uh Trey Gowdy needs to refer Hillary for lying to the Benghazi committee.
I wonder if she did that, you know, for criminal behavior.
What difference does it make now, anyway?
The difference is we've got to make a change.
That's why I'm a Trump supporter.
Let me ask you.
I was I was being facetious.
That's what Hillary said when uh she was questioned by the committee on the deaths of the people.
What difference does it make now?
It happened long ago.
What difference does it make?
That's what she said.
Right, I've heard that.
All right, well, let me let me ask you you you you you accept my theory that I espoused there.
A lot of people, a lot of people still think not at that camp, it's got to be blackmail.
They had something on Roberts, they had something on Comey, they uh have got something on Gowdy, they got something on the Bengazi, what everything they skate on, people think has got to be blackmail.
Now, if it's not blackmail, let me ask you why why do you think somebody like Roberts, why do you think somebody like Comey, why do you think all these people do not seem to be as uh affected by the disaster this administration is creating as you are?
You you mentioned Fast and Furious, you you mentioned the open borders immigration and the damage it's doing to the country.
What why why does it seem nobody in government?
Why is it that nobody in Washington it's not true, nobody there are a lot of Republicans there bothered by it, but the people we're talking about the chief judge, the Supreme Court doesn't care, other than two or three members.
Um the the FBI Justice Department don't care, and yet we're witnessing the utter transformation of this country.
How do you how do you how do you uh square that?
I mean, how can it be you care?
Half over half of America cares so deeply about this they're going crazy with how is it that these people are willing to sit by idly and let all of this change, this destruction, whatever, happen.
You've answered your own question in the past.
They're all part of the political elite.
They are all in their little houses, you know, surrounded by fences and protected.
Many of them have armed guards, so they don't care that us NRA members, you know, they want to try to take our guns away.
They're part of the political class.
And that's the problem.
That's why Trump's got to be voted in.
I understand.
They party together, they drink together, many of them sleep together.
They're I mean, they are the problem.
Look, I understand all that.
I'm I'm not asking this the right way.
Because you're of course that's right.
But but your answer makes them out to be selfish.
Your answer, and I'm not disagreeing with you.
I'm I'm so I can't relate to people not caring about the future of the country as long as they've got their house in a gated community with plenty of protection, a guaranteed job, and a guaranteed income, they think, uh, and and a future for their kids.
I I I can't, I still can't if even if you have all that, how do you sit idly by and watch the rest of the country fall into the abyss?
Okay, they don't see it happening.
They don't see us falling into the abyss.
They need visas to go to Iowa.
They don't see the kind of destruction that you are living, Sandy.
They don't see it.
It doesn't, and and they they may believe that there's well, there's gonna be a certain percentage of people in the country, you're always gonna be poor, no matter what we do.
There's always going to be people that have more than others.
It's always going to be uh a problem here.
But I guess the answer is that as long as they remain insulated and unaffected by any of this transformation or anything that happens, then to hell with it.
But I just even even well, they s I know they see it as the normal ebb and flow.
This is not the normal ebb and flow.
We have a sub look at we have a substantive dramatic for the worse transformation.
Things are happening, I think, detrimental things, which many of them may be for the first time at such a scale.
And I don't know how you escape knowledge.
I don't know how you escape awareness.
Uh but it is it's always it's always been the big bugaboo I have with this.
Um I've always chalked it up.
Well, they just don't care.
They just they're they're not, for lack of a word, patriots.
They they just don't care.
They've got theirs.
They've got their kids' futures taken care of, and that's it.
Everything is everybody else's problem.
Whatever the problem is, it's somebody else's not mine.
I've dealt with my problem.
I've taken care of my family, I've taken care of my kids, I've taken care of me.
If somebody else can't do it, screw them.
I'm my job's not to worry about everybody else.
And if you can't handle mass immigration in California, Arizona, it's your problem, not mine.
You chose to live there, I didn't.
Is that the attitude?
Oh, not quite.
Well, it's got to be something.
It has to be something.
This is the because this divide, I've never seen it bigger.
I've never seen it.
And however you want to define the divide, haves and have nots, uh rich versus poor, elites versus plebes, uh, political class versus ruling class, the divide is bigger than it has ever been.
And they know it.
They know full well how agitated people are.
They can read, they can see political results.
They can they I mean you think they're in denial about why Trump's uh succeeding.
Okay, you do.
Here's uh here's Steve in Houston.
Steve, you're next.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Good, sir.
Thank you.
Right before the break at the bottom of the hour, you actually touched on my point, which uh is a discussion of her IQ.
Oh, yeah.
And I think I really think if you read between the lines two or three times, Comey was carefully trying to testify that Hillary was just too stupid to have had any sophisticated intent of mismanaging this information.
Uh okay, so now, in addition to there not being any intent, we're going to allow ignorance of the crime to be exonerating.
Is that right?
Well, I think it's just like uh a child.
We can't we don't convict children of crimes Because they they just don't have the intent.
And I think and I don't agree with that.
I'm I'm in the same camp that you and Gowdy are.
I think she's a conniving individual.
But I really think that Comey is giving her a pass on intent because he just thinks she's too stupid.
I don't think that's it at all.
I and the reason I say that is because I think he really believes this intent business as he is interpreting the statutes.
I I think that's in fact what he's relying on.
I think he's relying on the fact the statute is wrong, that the statute is not applicable when it comes to intent versus gross negligence.
And I think that's his hook.
And I think he's gonna end up being shown to be wrong on it.
I I think it's gonna be demonstrated within legals, nothing's gonna change, folks.
Even even if somebody were to come up and expose how uh Comey has been totally wrong in his interpretation, it's not gonna change anything.
It's done.
So any discussion on the legals of this will be exercises in academic uh legal ease, as as legal beagles debate this back and forth and what it means, and it will have impact on future events and and uh writing future statutes or amending current ones, but it isn't gonna change the outcome of what's happened here.
Now, what Steve's talking about here, Reuters has, of course, a reporter up at the Comey hearings, and they tweeted the following.
FBI director says it's questionable whether Clinton had sophisticated enough understanding to recognize classified email markings.
Now remember, this is not saying that the FBI director says it's questionable whether she understands email, whether she understands servers, whether she understands on site, off site, offline, online.
It's this is simply saying the FBI director says a Reuters tweet, akin to a report in 140 characters or less, that Comey is saying it's questionable whether she was sophisticated enough, her understanding was sophisticated enough to recognize classified email markings.
So she's reading an email, and he's saying it's got a mark on it that clearly indicates that it is classified, top secret, super top secret, nobody can see it but you, whatever, but that she doesn't know enough to recognize those markings.
Now, isn't it convenient that whenever she gets in trouble, one of two things is to blame.
Either somebody's playing the sex card on her, and she becomes this big victim of some bias against women, or she's blissfully ignorant.
She just didn't know.
She's not sophisticated in her understanding of this high-tech stuff.
She didn't recognize the check mark up there, or she didn't recognize where it said top secret, or whatever the marking is.
No, of course not.
She's only Secretary of State for crying out loud.
She's only traveling the world representing and negotiating foreign policy.
She only established the policy that got rid of Moamer Qaddafi and left Libya exposed, where four Americans ultimately died.
Yeah, she doesn't know what she's doing.
Now that could be true in the sense of, you know, how you define smart.
Because I don't think she is very smart, but let's not forget 1992.
Some of you weren't old enough or weren't even born yet.
When this woman came on the scene, do not doubt me, the media narrative on her was that she was the smartest woman in the world.
She had come out of Wellesley, she'd come out of Yale.
She could have been anything.
She could have done anything, is why people say they were shocked when she married that hayseed from Arkansas named Bill Clinton.
But she's never been anything but the smartest woman in the world.
I know, And I've talked about this I don't know how many times.
I know Republicans, conservatives, scared to death of this woman.
Scared to death.
And it isn't because they think she's not sophisticated.
It isn't because they think she's stupid.
But she gets into trouble enough.
Or she fails enough.
Like when she does poorly in a primary.
What are they talking up to?
Sexism.
Like Don Lemon did.
Texas.
She throws that sexism victim card right down, starts crying, starts talking about how hard it's been.
She was raising Chelsea and she's doing her best and her husband is doing that.
So mean, it's so cruel.
And she hung in there.
She's I just and then the other thing they do is say she's no, she's uh ignorant, she's uh not up to speed.
I don't know how any of it jibes with the smartest woman in the world.
Anyway.
Steve, I appreciate the call.
God take quick time out, folks.
Back with more after this.
And back to California.
This is Barbara in uh Palo Cedro, California.
Great to have you with us.
How are you doing?
Hi, Rush.
Um, thank you so much for being the voice for us.
And um, you know, if everybody would just think outside the box and not think about the political Democrat-Republican thing, th the the main thing is that they would never convict her because Obama was surely aware of her setup, and he would have to be called in to testify, and his legacy's at stake.
So just like Trump said, the whole thing is a mess, very dangerous, and um Wait, wait.
I want to make sure your your theory is that people need to look at this in the real world sense.
Throw a Republican and Democrat out.
If Comey recommends Hillary indicted, and if, and this is a stretch, if if Loretta Lynch went ahead and indicted her, and pre that that Obama would be the first witness, and therefore none of that's gonna happen.
Right.
That's that's your theory, and you're still exactly they're not gonna you know he's out there saying, you know what?
He's pulling every little thing he says.
This isn't gonna happen to my legacy.
Well, he's out there saying for the last six months Hillary didn't do anything wrong.
Oh, yeah, of course.
So that sends a message to Comey, by the way.
What's Comey for the six months he's been she didn't do anything wrong, there's nothing to see here.
She didn't traffic and all this data.
There was nothing.
So here comes the FBI draw.
Oh, yes, she did.
That isn't gonna happen.
Well, yeah, he's painted himself in a corner, and you know, being the president and the how he's handled things, he he thinks he's king anyway.
Well, he is.
Yeah, and so you know, who's gonna go against him?
So he's pressing the buttons because she's basically saying, you know what?
I go down, you go down, and his legacy, you know, well, you know, you you throw that out flippantly, but let me tell you something.
This goes both ways.
I wonder what both have on each other.
Right.
It's a very dangerous thing because they're that this is not a normal time in our century, so to speak, that they can just kind of you know say, oh well, it's gonna work out, we can kumbaya stuff.
There's people out there wanting to blow the world to hell.
And people better start really thinking about, you know, the world in general, the other children that need a chance.
Let me tell you something.
You say that, but I look I I'm not trying to throw cold.
You're absolutely right.
Don't misunderstand, but you realize how many people of this country have been educated, have grown up, who have been taught that yeah, we're at risk.
There's a lot of people that want to blow us up and don't like us.
But we are to blame, Barbara.
That's what they've been taught.
We are to blame because of slavery, because we've stolen all these goods and resources from other countries.
We have imposed our way of life on them.
We've sent our military around, and we've conducted wars.
We are on their territory and so forth.
I mean, we've had two generations of kids now who've grown up being taught that the United States has this coming, so to speak.
It is the fastest three hours in media.
I can't believe we've already rolled here through two of them.
So we get back here.
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