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July 12, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 12, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Welcome back, my friends.
Great to have you here.
It's Rush Limbaugh and the most listened to radio talk show in America, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, you can send an email.
I check those during the breaks, and sometimes I find things I want to mention and do.
The account address lrushbow at eibnet.com.
So I did check the emails during the break.
And as I knew would happen, I got the usual snark.
What do you mean Obama promotes the politics of grievance?
Look, folks, you know, I really don't mind debating issues, but debating facts is a waste of time.
And you and I know how Obama does this.
It happened with Skip Gates.
It happens.
I could run down a roster of things where this is what happens.
The first reports of an episode happen, and Obama's instincts, the first thing he says about whatever event that just happened is always going to be tainted by his instinct, which is racial grievance.
And then when we learn later that that had nothing to do with what had happened, I can give you movie shootings.
I can give you any movie theater shootups, any of these events, the Fort Hood thing, anything, whatever Obama, his first reaction is always going to parallel those who have a sense of grievance about things where race is involved.
And then after the facts are known, Obama doesn't go back and clean it up.
Sometimes he does, sometimes he, but he never does so in the sense that he's correcting himself.
So his instincts betray him.
And I'm just saying it's not unifying.
And I don't think Obama's trying to be unifying.
I think Obama stands with people he thinks have been given the shaft ever since this country was founded.
I think his objective is to even the playing field as he defines it.
And the way he does it is to transfer discrimination from one group to the next rather than end it.
His prescription is payback.
And that's what we're all getting here.
And it's, by the way, I'm not even going to grant the assumption that payback is justified or warranted.
I think a convoluted view of this stuff has polluted a lot of this.
But this is where we are.
There's nothing unifying that's going on.
There's nothing in common we can all stand up for and hold hands and unify around.
That's just not on tap here.
The Democrat Party doesn't have any interest in that.
Now, a programming note.
There is an interfaith service for the slain officers that just began about 10 minutes or so in Dallas, 10 minutes ago.
And the president is going to be speaking at this event.
Just arrived in Dallas.
I just saw footage of Air Force One taxiing in to its disembarkation location on whatever Air Force Base landed at.
And I just want to let you local affiliates know because of the unknown aspects of this, we're not going to be gypping the whole thing.
I realize many of you affiliates will, particularly in Dallas and in that area, I'm sure you'll bump out and televise or broadcast the entire Obama thing.
It gives us problem, if we go full bore on anything like this, not just Obama, it presents programming problems for best of replays.
So we have to do basically a full three-hour program here every day because they are used in replays.
And if we deliver to our affiliates a three-hour program with a 20-minute hole in it because of something we covered live and gypped.
So we just make the decision.
We'll leave it up to the local affiliates, but I want you to know that whatever your affiliate does, we are here.
So you can stream it at rushlimbaugh.com or any number of other places if your local affiliate decides to preempt the program and cover, which I have total understanding if any affiliate wants to do this.
We don't even know what time Obama is going to begin.
It creates all kinds of problems going through commercial breaks.
There have been rare occasions where we have gypped a live presidential address.
They're rare, and we have done it.
But what we might do is listen to five or 10 minutes or six seconds or comment, move back, come in and out of it.
but we'll still furnish a complete three-hour program to our affiliate stations here each and every day, as they expect, with existing commercial availabilities as well.
So just to give a heads up to anybody involved.
I want to go to the audio soundbites here.
And I just had delivered to me the sound bites of Hillary and Crazy Bernie today in unison in New Hampshire.
Trump's already tweeting that Bernie looked like a sellout and that his crowd looked like they were very disappointed, which they were.
I mean, Bernie's crowd doesn't want anywhere near Hillary.
They're disappointed that Bernie's not the nominee.
And by the way, there's an NBC Wall Street Journal poll.
You will not see much coverage of this at NBC today, by the way.
Today's show gave it a fleeting mention.
And the headline, the NBC news headline, Hillary Clinton's lead over Trump shrinks after a controversial week.
You won't find, you're not going to find NBC spending a lot of time showing the details of this poll.
You're not going to find the Wall Street Journal spending a lot of time.
Today's show, as I say, gave it just a casual kind of brush-off mention.
And here's why.
I'm sure that they were expecting that Hillary Clinton would pull away in droves in this poll because I still believe that traditional inside establishment political professionals still do not know how to handicap, watch, analyze this race.
It's like yesterday we had the piece from Andrew Malcolm who thinks, or who asked, is Trump torpedoing his own campaign?
I mean, for crying out loud, he's had a full week to go full board at Hillary over this email stuff, and he's done nothing but talk about himself.
And I'm sure that's what the political professionals inside the establishment, inside the Beltway, think.
They think Trump's not spending any money, doesn't have any money.
Hillary's running gazillions of dollars worth of ads saying that Trump's unqualified, that he's a misfit, that he is not got the right temperament.
They expected Hillary to just pull away, especially after her exoneration, which was not an exoneration, but they think it was.
Not being charged in the email scandal.
She is sinking in this poll.
Trump has pulled within three points in the past week.
In the past week, she has spent a small fortune on TV ads to make her seem likable in swing states.
And that's mission impossible.
You could see that today as she was standing next to Crazy Bernie.
The one thing Hillary isn't is likable.
And that's not why people are voting for her.
They're voting for her because it's Clinton and a Democrat, a big D on the ballot.
There's no personal connection people have with her.
And that's going to matter.
Trump, while Hillary was dropping gazillions of dollars here to besmirch him, Trump didn't spend a dime.
In fact, some people on the Republican side are ringing there.
Oh my God, he's not even out there campaigning.
God, he's not even doing any appearances.
Oh, my God.
Does Trump even want to win?
Oh, my God.
That's been the fear in Republican circles.
You had this FBI decision announced by Comey during the period in which this poll took place.
And I think the wrong take on that is that Hillary wasn't indicted.
When's the last time?
Let me ask you a serious question.
Have you ever seen the director of the FBI do a press conference of 20, 25 minutes laying out all of the violations, all of the violations of law, all of the supposed pretty obvious lying?
You ever heard the director of the FBI do a 25-minute, 20-minute press conference explaining the guilt of a perp and then saying, but we're not going to charge because we couldn't find any intent.
Have you ever seen that happen?
No.
You never see that happen.
You never see what goes on behind closed doors when there aren't any indictments or no charges.
The FBI director, if you ever did, it would be the line attorney or more likely the attorney general who would call the press conference and explain why no charges are going to be filed.
Loretta Lynch went up, testified before a committee on Capitol Hill today, and she wouldn't even admit that lying under oath is a crime.
She wouldn't admit anything.
She just got in there and got out of there.
It was a perfunctory performance.
My point is that, and I can't tell you the number of, I call them civilians, people that email me that are not in the media, that are not writers, that are not just people and news consumers.
I've had friends of mine who think Comey was great, who think this was the greatest thing, and that finally somebody came out and made a case against her.
You know, while we're all sitting here saying he sold out, he sold out.
He could have charged her.
He could have recommended charge.
He could have lowered the boom, but he didn't do it.
We're all coming up with reasons why.
People I'm hearing from think he did lower the boom.
And this NBC poll may be some evidence that people did hear what he said, and Hillary is paying the price for it.
Despite all the positive spinning by the drive-bys, despite all these ever say, hey, she's in the clear.
She's in the clear.
She didn't do anything wrong.
Everything's home-free with her.
No, apparently not.
The poll shows something else entirely.
Now, I do think that Trump and the Republicans need to really hammer this.
I think they need to get going on it, or at least make it a prominent item at their convention next week.
Online polling, by the way, was a fundamental aspect of this poll.
Do you know what the margin of error is in online polling?
1.4%.
I can't believe that, but that's what they say here.
That's a better margin of error than these phone polls are.
1.4% margin of error online polling.
By the way, this poll took place at the same time Obama loaded Hillary into Air Force One via the cargo bay, flew down to North Carolina, had that joint appearance, flew back to wherever, Washington.
I mean, that's supposed to give her a bump in the polls.
Here she is with the president, Air Force One.
He, by appearing with her, transmitting she couldn't possibly have done anything criminal.
She sunk lower in a poll taken during a week when that happened.
Despite this, despite Hillary's lead shrinking, and Trump, by the way, is gaining too.
It's not just that he's static.
He gained in the poll.
She lost ground in the poll.
Everybody shocked.
And while that's going on, there are Republicans, there are never Trumpers who are still toying with the idea of throwing Trump overboard next week in Cleveland.
That would not be wise.
Get this.
I just got an email.
Who decides when you're going to preempt your show?
What do you mean?
Who does?
I do.
What do you think?
There's some Mr. Oz somewhere behind some curtain pulling the strings on the I decide that.
I'm the CEO.
I'm the host.
I'm the program director.
I'm the producer.
Who decides?
I do.
There is no political director here, no news director, no program director.
I'm it.
It's my decision.
Okay, we're going to go to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting, and we're going to start it.
Size what?
Who decides?
Oh, by the way, speaking of which, folks, I should tell you, it's annual guy golf trip time.
As you know, this month, every year, I'm gone for a couple of days.
I'm going to be gone Thursday and Friday.
And I have instituted new rules on the golf course.
And I can't wait to try them out.
It's going to be in a tournament.
We've got a member guest tournament coming up.
And if I happen to hit the ball out of bounds, say off the first tee, I'm just going to tee up again and say, I didn't intend to do that.
So there's no penalty.
And I'm just going to see what people do.
And if they start laughing, I'm just going to continue.
I'm going to hit it again.
Wait, you can't.
You got to lay out up there.
It's lateral.
I don't care.
I didn't intend to hit it out of bounds.
And I'll tell you this.
If I hit a shot in the water today, there's no way I'm announcing right now I do not intend to end up in the water on any hole.
So if it happens, I'm doing that over.
Well, there's a bunch of commie libs at these things.
There always are.
So it'll be fun.
Who decides we go to the phones?
I decide when we go to the phones.
This is, where is this?
Ringo's New Jersey.
And it's Laurie.
Laurie, you're first today.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
This is the high point of my summer other than having saltwater taffy at the seashore.
Oh, wow.
I love saltwater taffy, too.
Hey, just a comment after what you were reading in the first hour about the disintegration of our country through to fifths of this.
Yes.
I think in all of this, and this is going to sound cute, but I really kind of mean it.
It's red, white, and blue lives matter.
And that's the way we should be coalescing.
And that's really hard to do when people are looking for retribution all the time.
We have more in common if we would just realize that.
And, you know, as Americans, and I am not talking to the illegal immigrants in the country right now, than we have different.
And that should be the basis.
If we want this thing to continue instead of retribution and attacking each other, that's the way this has got to work.
Well, see, I think you're just swerved into something there.
And this is what is hard to accept or believe for a lot of people.
But there are some people who do not want this thing to continue to work.
And that's what they're doing is all about.
They don't want to unify.
They don't want this thing to work.
That's the whole point of going forth with grievance after grievance after grievance and victim after victim after victim because the inherent system, there is an all-out assault on the unity of this country.
There are people whose express purpose is to rip it apart.
So what do those people think is going to work better?
I, you know, it's, it's, I read a story last night of a college professor at Dartmouth.
I can't remember if I printed this out.
I don't think I did.
Or if I did, it didn't print.
Anyways, maybe Cornell, I forget which, but there's an African-American professor at a noted Ivy League school who is saying there's three kinds of white people and only one of the three different kinds is worth anything.
And that they're so tiny and so small a group that you don't need to be worried.
The first group, they're just nothing but the white capitalists who believe in the founding of the country and you can't unify with them.
You have nothing in common with them.
It's what he's teaching his students.
You should pay no attention.
These are the people who have been causing you problems ever since you were born.
Then there's another group of white people who acknowledge the inherent racism of white people, but they still like capitalism and think the solution to problems there, and you can't deal with them either.
The other group of whites, the third group is so small and they are the progressives.
But even if you come to an agreement with all of them, you haven't made any progress because there aren't enough of them.
So with things like this being taught to students whose parents are paying $30,000 a year to send them there, I mean, you're not going to have any unification around.
What do they think is going to be better?
They obviously think socialism is better.
Some of them, probably the radicals, think communism is better.
They do.
I mean, you're sitting here, any of you, not just Laurie.
That doesn't make any sense.
them it does.
The politics of grievance is pervasive.
It's spreading.
And when you have an economy that has been ripped to shreds like this, and when you have more and more people thinking that there's no economic opportunity, that the game is so rigged that the standard recipes of hard work and education, stick-to-itiveness, and so forth, don't pay off.
If that's all a joke now, because the game is so rigged that it's easy to recruit them into your grievance world, into your grievance industry, because you've just given them an out.
You've just given them an excuse for failing.
You've given them a reason to be mad, justifiably so.
It's an easier route to take, and it's been way too seductive for way too many people.
Okay, here we go.
It is from our buddies at Campus Reform, story written by Rob Shimshock, a professor at Cornell University.
Only whites who hate capitalism are Black Lives Matter allies.
He's a history professor, has a PhD in history from Columbia, a master's in African American studies from Columbia.
An Ivy League professor recently called the Fraternal Order of Police a terrorist organization.
He called capitalism an anti-human system and the majority of white America racist.
According to the Ithaca New York Voice, Professor Russell Rickford, Cornell University, made those statements and others at a Black Lives Matter protest on Friday, even going so far as to charge the police with genocide in relation to recent well-publicized shootings.
Here's what he said.
There will always be a segment of white America that is overtly, irredeemably racist.
Forget about them.
They're not worth your time.
There's a much larger segment.
Some of them are gathered right here.
A segment of white America that considers itself enlightened.
They outwardly reject the symbols of white supremacy, yet they aggressively protect their white privilege.
And then he said, forget about these folks, too.
They're not worth your time.
Deep in their heart, they despise your blackness.
He said, there's a sliver, a sliver of white America that hates white supremacy and that hates capitalism.
These are the folks that you need to organize with, he said.
It's a Black Lives Rally matter.
Black Lives Matter rally.
You've got to organize with class-conscious workers.
You've got to organize with the undocumented.
You've got to organize with the radical transgender people.
You've got to build a poor people's movement.
You've got to build a colonized people's movement.
We've got to build a grassroots anti-racist movement to defeat capitalism altogether.
And it's not going to happen at the ballot box.
Well, then, where is it going to happen?
Well, of course, of course, this is 60s redux.
It is.
It's the same stuff being repeated.
If you weren't alive or old enough, the time to pay attention.
This is 60s redo.
This is exactly what the Huey Newtons of the day were talking about.
The Angela Davises of the day, the Black Panthers, students for a Democrat Society.
It's just, they're weather underground.
Yeah, it's just this is recycled stuff.
But to people who've never heard it before, what do you mean?
I'm white and you're telling me I'm not worth your time.
That's exactly right, Honky.
You are not worth our time.
There's only a sliver of white America that hates white supremacy and that hates can.
Most of them are sportswriters.
I'm sorry.
I probably shouldn't have said that, should I?
He said, back to Professor Rickford, Professor Rickford at Cornell, there can be no human system under capitalism.
Capitalism is an anti-human system.
Opining that most of us are losers under capitalism, Rickford also denounced a global economy that's rigged to enrich a few while enslaving the masses.
He said to hell with the Republican Party and to hell with the G damn Democrat Party.
He said, Hillary Clinton's a war-mongering imperialist and a lapdog of the corporate elite.
We don't need a woman CEO of capitalism.
Hell, you had a black CEO of capitalism.
What did that get you?
That's Obama.
He called the Trumpster a neo-fascist.
It was in 2014 that Russell Rickford, who was an assistant history professor at Dartmouth at the time, referred to Martin Luther King Jr.
Day a tool of the far-right imperialists to appease people.
He's of the belief that Martin Luther King Day and all of the different Martin Luther King boulevards are just a sop.
They're just a way to appease blacks to make them think that they're being thought about, cared about, honored, and so forth when they don't really mean it.
They don't really care.
They didn't like Dr. King in the first place.
He's one of these guys.
Did you ever notice where Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevards are?
I mean, this guy's loaded for barren.
He's teaching at Cornell.
Okay, back to the phones.
This is Bart in Tucson.
Bart, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thanks, Rush, for taking my call.
Mega Dittos from Rush Revere families are fans of Rush Revere and from a man you helped keep sane in an insane America.
Thank you very much.
I really appreciate that.
I just, what hit me this past month is that we're living the fast and furious strategy.
That's what's going on.
Explain that.
What do you mean by we're living the fast and furious strategy?
I mean, I know what it is.
What do you mean?
Relate it to what's going on now.
They're taking the carnage and the chaos and the bloodshed, and they're using it to curtail our, to advance their agenda, to curtail our liberties and shred the Constitution.
They're going to, they're just, you know, especially in stuff that doesn't make any sense when you have an avowed Muslim terrorist mowing a bunch of people down.
Oh, it's the gum's fault.
And when you have domestic terrorists mow down cops, oh, it's the gun's fault.
We've got to restrict the guns.
This is what they wanted to do with the Passofurious.
So this is kind of the Wayne Lapierre theory.
He was on this week with David Brinkley way, way, way, way back when Brinkley hosted the show.
It's back when people watched it.
It was in the 90s.
Clinton was president, and Clinton was making the usual Democrat move on guns after some event.
And Wayne Lapierre said, I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.
That's a hell of a thing to say.
That's a hell of an accusatory thing.
I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence because it allows him to go on these anti-gun rants.
It was just, it was Lapierre's way of saying what Rah Emmanuel said.
And that is a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
Chaos is a terrible thing to waste.
And what that means, and there's my point all along that I've been trying to drill home that there's a beneficiary in all of this.
There are people trying to benefit from this.
I don't care if it's five dead cops, a dead black citizen in Minnesota, or in Louisiana.
There are people trying to profit from it, politically profit from it.
It's undeniable.
I think it's cheap and I think it's sick, but they are there.
And you and I both know who they are.
It's a good transition.
Let's head to the audio soundbites here, starting at the top.
This is last night, Fox Biden's Network Risk and Reward.
Deirdre Bolton speaking with Ford O'Connell, a Republican strategy.
Does that name ring a bell?
It should.
We've mentioned Ford O'Connell on this program before.
Ford O'Connell is the young Republican strategist who wrote the piece that we quoted from here about how Republicans, if we are ever to return to majority status, must appeal to Democrats and minorities.
We must do what is necessary to appeal to those groups.
Otherwise, we Republicans are never going to amount.
In other words, conservatism, no way, no way.
You can't, conservatism is not the answer.
The Republican Party has to reach out, moderate, and modify its views to be able to accommodate radical Democrats, minorities, and so forth.
So anyway, he is the guest.
And they're talking about Black Lives Matter and Rudy Giuliani and people's reaction to it.
And here's the first part of it.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, and talk show host Rush Limbaugh claim that Black Lives Matter exacerbates tensions and sows racial divides.
Are people conflating the Black Lives Matter message with being anti-police?
A lot of protesters are saying the terms are not binary.
What?
The term, what?
Binary means synonymous?
That's what she means.
Okay.
Former New York Mayor Rudolph Rudy Giuliani, former Alaska Governor Sarah Pala, talk show host Rush Limbaugh claim.
Don't you love that one?
They claim.
Not claiming anything.
I'm saying anyway, that Black Lives Matter exacerbates tensions and so is racial divides.
How can that even be debatable?
How can you even argue that?
Just like Occupy Wall Street is the same thing.
Exacerbate differences.
How's this even debatable?
Well, they say they're not.
Well, of course.
Communists lie about what they do, too.
Anyway, and then she asks her guest here, Ford O'Connell, whose soundbite's coming up: are people conflating the Black Lives Matter message with being anti-police?
Are people associating incorrectly whatever Black Lives Matter is saying to mean it's anti-cop?
You know, a lot of the protesters are saying the terms are not binary.
You know, binary.
Oh, well, here's Ford O'Connell's answer.
I think they are, and the reason why this is happening is because everyone's extremely emotional.
And I have to say that a lot of white Americans don't know what it's like to be black and don't understand what it is they're seeing.
But at the same time, there are no facts or very few facts when it comes to police and shootings for Black Lives Matter to make its case.
They're upset about a lot of different things, but they're not focusing in on solutions.
What they're focusing in is drawing attention to something that they can't necessarily prove.
Well, I'm sorry, folks.
I don't think we're any nearer understanding anything after those two bites than we were before I played them.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, that's right.
Ford O'Connell, the guy in the soundbite we just played, he's the guy who said that nominating a conservative presidential candidate would just postpone the GOP nightmare.
That the GOP needs to modernize now, ditch all of its outdated conservative notions, and move on from them.
I mean, it's even worse than saying the era of Reagan is over.
We've got to ditch conservatism and people that believe it.
We've got to move on.
Otherwise, if we don't, we're just delaying our nightmare, postponing the nightmare.
That's Ford O'Connell.
Also, on this binary business, folks, the reason I was confused, binary, in its primary definition, has to do with computers.
Binary operating system, a system of ones and zeros.
And there's nothing synonymous about them.
The way to look at it, binary is an either-or proposition.
There's nothing synonymous in binary operations, which is why I was profoundly confused about both sides of that soundbite.
What's that?
It scares Snerdley that he understands what she meant.
It should scare you.
If you understood that, it means that you're well, it also should maybe not scare you.
Show your diversity.
You're able to understand nonsense.
I mean, a lot of people would like to be able to.
Bowling Brook, Illinois.
Michael, you're next.
It's great to have you with us.
Hi.
Great honor, Rosh.
Thank you, sir.
I completely speed this right now.
I've been a long time listener of yours for over 10 years.
My father, a former Marine and Chicago police officer, 46 years, turned me on to you.
We were members of Operation Chaos.
And the reason that I'm calling is because my daughter, she's 12 years old.
I recently got custody off my daughter after 10 years of struggling.
And she's in a school system that obviously doesn't teach actual American history.
Very few do anymore.
Correct.
And my wife, God bless her, love her very much.
She had ordered, no, this is my second marriage now.
My wife has been an actual incredible stepmother, but neither here nor there.
She had ordered the Rush Revere set.
And we just finished The Pilgrim, and we're looking forward to the Patriot.
And she got into it with a younger student, my daughter did, about American history.
And, you know, if Trump gets elected, my dad's getting, my dad will be kicked out of the country.
And my daughter had said, and she's 12.
And she's like, well, if your dad didn't break the law, this might not happen.
You know, I think you guys should really read these books that my family and I are reading.
And that caused a little bit of a stir.
I've got to run because of time, but hang on so snurdly get your address here.
We'll send you a little packet of cool stuff from Rush Revere and Liberty for your daughter.
Be right back here, folks.
Don't go anywhere.
There's other data in the latest Clinton poll.
Actually, it's a different poll.
AP headline: Clinton struggles to make inroads with young Americans.
It's got to have him buffaloed.
They thought Trump was the one imploding this week.
And it's the Mukau.
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