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July 12, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 12, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Right on.
Right on, right on.
Back we are.
Rush Lindboy here, firmly ensconced in a famous Attila the Hun chair.
The Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, our telephone number if you want to be on a program.
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From the AP, the headline, Clinton struggles to make inroads with young Americans.
I gotta tell you, over on the Hillary campaign, they have to be discombobulated and they have to be a little bit uh puzzled, just like I think establishment Republicans are.
Folks, I'm here to tell you this past week.
If you would have, if you go back seven days ago, and you start talking to insiders, establishment types, the elites, Republicans and Democrats, they would have they, I'm sure they would have told you that this is the week that Clinton was going to pull away, maybe unbeatably so, and that Trump was going to fade into the background, the convention at the Republican side falling apart, nobody knows what's happening, nobody knows who's speaking.
Trump doesn't even have any idea who's going to pick his vice presidential roommate.
Nobody wants to do it.
There's this never Trump faction trying to mount a coup, take the nomination away from him.
You would have had both political parties professionals believing that this and throw in Hillary in their minds being exonerated because she wasn't charged.
And so with a Clinton, as long as there's no criminal accusation, then everything's fine.
They consider to be it gotten away with.
So you've had this NBC Wall Street Journal poll out today, which you can't find anybody at NBC saying too much about.
Showing that Hillary's lead is shrinking and Trump is gaining ground.
Then you have this.
Clinton struggles to make inroads with young Americans.
Hillary Clinton struggling to make inroads among young Americans who overwhelmingly supported Bernie Sanders during the Democrat primary.
A worrisome sign, A.P. says, as she tries to reassemble a coalition that twice propelled Barack Hussein O into the White House.
Opinions of Clinton among young Americans vary by race and ethnicity, according to a new Gen Forward poll of adults ages 18 to 30.
The majority of the nation's younger blacks and Asian Americans have a favorable impression of Hillary, but the presumptive Democrat nominee struggles with whites and wait for it.
Hispanics.
What's that you say?
Hillary's struggling with Hispanics?
Why, that doesn't fit the formula.
It's exactly right.
Hillary's struggling with whites and Hispanics.
Just 26% of young whites and 49% of Hispanics have a positive opinion of her.
Both groups overwhelmingly say she is not trustworthy.
I think that Hillary believes campaigning with Bernie will take care of this.
I have no doubt that she thinks this.
She allowed herself to look like a bobblehead doll, bubblehead, whatever it is, standing next to Crazy Bernie today as he made his supporters regret that he was pulling out.
She's promised Bernie enough goodies that he's going to be out on the hustings with her starting today in New Hampshire.
Jen Forward, if you've never heard of this poll, it's a survey by the Black Youth Project, the University of Chicago.
The first of its kind poll says it pays special attention to the voice of young adults of color, highlighting how race and ethnicity shape the opinions of the country's most diverse generation.
Cool.
Another tribal poll.
Love it.
Anyway, the survey polled all young adults, not necessarily registered or likely voters.
Found that among those who preferred uh Sanders, only half are prepared to say they'll back Hillary.
That's young people.
You know, it's a good opportunity here since uh let's we've got the Bernie Sanders Hillary bites today.
And folks, they're painful.
I mean, I they're they're painful.
I I know you know it, but you gotta hear it.
I had to listen to them.
You have to listen to this.
And if you listen to this, understand now, as as painful as it is, that 45, 47, 48%.
It's a wild guess of the American people just eat this stuff up.
That 45, 47, 48% can't get in.
It may be higher.
Can't get enough of this.
They love this.
We start here first with Bernie.
This is today in New Hampshire.
It's a Hillary campaign event where Bernie shows up to announce to his saddened and disappointed supporters that he's throwing in the towel and endorsing her.
Secretary Clinton has won the Democratic nominating process.
And I congratulate her for that.
She will be the Democratic nominee for president.
And I intend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president of the United States.
I have come here to make it as clear as possible as to why I am endorsing Hillary Clinton and why she must become our next president.
Okay, so so next we got we've got Bernie droning on about income inequality, standing next to a woman who made 21 million dollars in two years doing speeches.
Bernie Sanders droning on and on and on about the unfairness of income inequality, standing next to a woman who made 21 million dollars in two years delivering speeches to the hated, dreaded Wall Street banks, and she's standing there nodding her head like a bobblehead in agreement with it.
This election is about the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that currently exists.
Hillary Clinton knows that something is fundamentally wrong when the very rich become richer while many others are working longer hours for lower wages.
She knows that it is absurd that middle class Americans are paying an effective tax rate higher than hedge fund millionaires.
There are corporations in this country that make billions of dollars a year in profit.
Yet because of the loopholes that their lobbyists created in a given year, they do not pay a nickel in federal taxes.
That is wrong.
Which I wish you could see it.
He's droning on and on about all this income inequality, all of the unfairness.
And here is a woman whose net worth is approaching 200 million dollars in her husband speeches, 21 million dollars and nodding her head in a great when he's indicting her.
he's on a diatribe Bye.
And singling her and her husband out, and there she is, nodding her head.
Okay, there was more.
Uh you know, Bernie said we all have to stand together.
We have to point out there's nothing in common we all have to stand around.
I don't know what it would be.
But anyway, he had to see the stage.
He went on for a long time.
Crowd was eating it up.
She just stood there nodding her head like a literally like a robot.
But it was her time.
Grandma takes the stage and starts screeching.
Hello, New Hampshire.
It is so great.
It is so great to be here with so many friends, old and new.
Thank you.
It is such a great privilege to be here with Senator Sanders.
She's lying.
I can't help but reflect how much more enjoyable this election is going to be now that we are on the same side.
Because you know what?
We are stronger together.
No, I didn't.
I didn't call her that.
Don't spread that rumor.
Here's the next bite.
Donald Trump thinks wages are too high.
He actually stood on a debate stage and said so.
He does want to get rid of the federal minimum wage altogether.
Well, both Senator Sanders and I believe anyone who is willing to work hard should be able to find a job that pays well enough to support a family, and Bernie is right.
$7.25 an hour is a starvation wage.
So sorry, Donald, if you're watching.
We're not cutting the minimum wage.
We're raising the minimum wage.
Oh my God.
Folks, this can't possibly work if she keeps talking like this throughout this campaign.
Where did I see it?
It was over the weekend, darn it, and I didn't print it out.
You know, I've got a new rule.
If I see something on Saturday, I don't print it because I got in the habit of throwing stuff away from Saturday.
So, but it was a it was a it was a piece where the Washington Post inadvertently admitted that raising the minimum wage cost jobs.
It was a story I forget on who or where, but it was noteworthy that the Washington Post made the case like it was you or me.
Talking about some place and some location, some business where the minimum wage had gone up.
It was a government minimum wage or something, and they had had to they had to lay off six or seven hundred people when the minimum wage went up.
And they made the case for white, not knowing what they were doing.
They didn't intend to do it.
It was a bunch of leftists swerving into the truth, not knowing they had done it.
They just undermined the whole premise of raising the minimum wage.
And I wish I had printed it out, because that's all I remember about it.
Maybe I should change that rule.
Well, see, when I see something on Saturday, what I found was that I'd come in here on Monday and I'd see a bunch of stuff printed on Saturday and say, I don't feel it anymore.
I'm not fashioned.
It's two days old.
Because all kinds of new stuff had happened since I just toss it.
It just became a way of becoming more efficient.
You know, trying to end up not end up with a stack so high here I couldn't possibly get to it all.
Um this is uh is that it?
Oh, darn it, there's one more.
Damn.
Okay, here it is.
This is the last bite.
Uh oh, this is great.
I want you to listen to this week.
We need an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top, not just the millionaires and billionaires, but everybody.
And to do that, we need to go big and we need to go bold.
This isn't a time for half measures.
Here we go.
Here we go.
So we are setting five ambitious goals for starters.
In my first hundred days as president, we will make the biggest investment in new good paying jobs since World War II.
Oh my God!
Oh my god, can't wait.
Why are we gonna wait?
Why don't we, if she knows how to do this, call Obama and start the process this afternoon when he gets back from Dallas?
The biggest investment in new good paying jobs since World War II.
What's it gonna take?
World War II.
What's it gonna take?
She doesn't have the slightest idea, folks, how to do this.
She hasn't the slight if if these people have been promising good paying jobs for how long?
How long has the Democrat Party been promising minorities emancipation?
How long has the Democrat Party been promising the poor?
They're not gonna be poor for very much longer.
How long has a Democrat Party been promising African Americans there ain't gonna be any racism anymore?
And there isn't gonna be any discrimination.
There ain't gonna be any unfairness.
How long has a Democrat Party been promising middle class blue-collar workers that they're going to start getting rich and join the upper middle class?
How many decades have they been making these promises and it's never happened?
Why is that?
Well, I'll tell you why.
It's because those Republicans are over there and they're trying to make sure nobody ever gets anything.
The Republicans are trying to destroy the planet.
They want climate change, they want global warming, they want your kids poisoned with water, bad air, and everything else.
They want the oil companies to emerge triumphant.
They want pollution, they want destruction.
The Democrats are trying to bring about all kinds of positive change, and the Republicans are out there standing in the way of everything.
That's their excuse.
But seriously, for all of you constituent groups, you ever asked yourself, you've just had seven and a half years of an historic presidency, first African American ever.
You have a progressive president enacting a progressive agenda.
Why are you all so mad?
You're angrier today than you were in 2008.
Why don't you feel any closer to utopia?
Why don't you feel any closer to happiness?
Why is contentment something that you still only dream of?
Your party has been in power seven and a half years.
You have a Republican Party that's stood aside and has not mounted serious opposition out of fear being called racist, and so your president has had pretty much free reign to go wherever he wants, to do whatever he wants, why are you still so unhappy?
Why are those of you who call yourself progressives or democrats?
Why are you still so mad?
Why are you still so outraged?
And if federal power, if concentrating power in Washington with the federal government in the hands of good Democrats are going to fix everything, why hasn't that worked?
Why hasn't Washington been able to erase all these problems?
Why hasn't Washington been able to bring happiness?
Whatever it is, why haven't they delivered?
Why are you angrier than you've ever been?
Why are you unhappier than you've ever been?
Why are you more pessimistic than you've ever been?
I listened to the Clinton campaign, and it's an indictment of the last seven and a half years.
I listened to Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders run around campaign, and I don't hear any positive at all.
I don't hear them saying Obama's been great and we're making great progress and we got a long way to go, but I'm the guy to do it or I'm the girl to do it, I'm the woman.
I can do it, I can take us all the way there.
We got a good base, we got a good foundation.
Obama's laid the foundation for us to be.
I don't hear any of that.
All I hear is a bunch of fist pumping ticked off.
Bitter anger.
Why?
Is it because you have opposition?
Is it because there are people disagree with you?
Or is it because maybe you realize that nothing is ever going to work on your side?
Maybe you realize the federal government cannot make you rich.
They cannot raise the minimum wage to a point that you're going to be you can't make you rich.
The government can't create jobs.
If if you, by the way, if you could, what did she say?
Make the biggest investment in new good paying jobs.
Why wait until 2016 to do it?
Why didn't, if the answer is there, and if the mechanism is there, and if it can be done, why hasn't it been done in seven and a half years?
And why didn't Bill Clinton do it?
Why is it always on the cum?
Why is all this stuff never anything more than promises?
Why are Democrat policies never ever realized?
Think about it and let me know.
Okay, for those of you on hold on the phones, I want you to stay there.
We're gonna get to the phones immediately coming out of the upcoming break at the bottom of the hour.
There isn't time to be fair with uh the next caller right now, and I don't want anybody thinking we get short shrift here because of that.
So uh Jim Jordan, the Congressman from Ohio, just ripped into Loretta Lynch today.
She went up there to testify and explain why there were no charges against Hillary and so forth.
And this is what he said to her.
I think your actions made it worse.
I really do.
I think a lot of people already think that there are two systems, as many have talked about, one for we the people, a different one, entirely different one for the politically connected, your former Secretary of State, your former senator, your former first lady, your nominee for president, your husband meets with you five days before a decision's announced.
Different standard for those facts, and you proved it.
I mean, Jim, and he had a great day when uh when uh Comey was up there launching both barrels at Loretta Lynch, who basically didn't want to say anything today.
She didn't even want to acknowledge that existing crimes are existing crimes.
She didn't she didn't want to get close to it because she didn't want them the next question to be uh about Hillary, where she would have to oh, yeah, uh well based on what I just said, yes, that would be a crime.
She didn't want to get there, so she wouldn't even acknowledge a crime is crime.
I'm not going there today, Congress.
That's not why I'm here.
I'm here because you called me up here, and I'm here because I'm required to come, but that's about it.
We have time for this one.
We do.
Soundbite number three, Philadelphia Television, good day, Philadelphia today.
Question, why is it a slap in the face of the movement to say that all lives matter?
It's not a racist organization, so the foolishness that we hear Limbaugh and Rulie Giuliani, they just need to stop that.
The morality speeches have to stop.
We in our society we know that African Americans were perceived as three-fifth human beings.
And so once again, it's an oppressed people not buying into the victimization, but identifying themselves to say, listen, black lives matter.
To say that all lives matter for me, it's not just ignorant, it's just disingenuous.
It's like going to the AIDS benefit and simply saying cancer matters also.
You wouldn't do that.
Uh well, but it's not that's not a good analogy.
I mean, you're saying some lives matter more than others for whatever.
They're just making their own case that we're right here is what they're doing.
And we're back.
Great to have you with us, my friend Zell Rushmore behind the Golden EIB microphone.
One of the things that Jim Jordan was repeatedly doing was asking Loretta Lynch if she made the decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton.
He kept pounding, wanting to know, was it you?
Did you make the decision?
She refused to say.
She wouldn't answer anything substantively because she knew if she did, the next question would attach Hillary Clinton to it.
So So she didn't go there.
Okay, Hank in Brooklyn, I'm really glad you waited.
Your next.
So we head back to the phones.
Yes, hello.
Hey Hank, how are you doing?
How are you doing?
Uh, I want to address uh uh grievance comment that you made.
Uh why is it that whenever a black person talks honestly about their history in America is labeled as a grievance?
Well, not each instance is labeled as a grievance.
A grievance is a political action.
Um it's not just African Americans.
I mean, the the the feminist industry, if you want to call it, it's based on grievance.
Um it's it's a tactic.
The Democrat Party has evolved and developed.
Uh because one of the values of having a grievance is it's never solved.
You've always got a reason to complain.
You've always got a bitch.
You've always got a mechanism whereby you can complain you're getting a shaft.
It's a political.
I understand that, but if like if I'm telling my history honestly, it's it's just me telling my history.
It's not necessarily a grievance.
I'm being honest about uh black history uh experience in America.
You know, it's not necessarily agreement being honest about the black history in America.
Well, it depends on what you want to do with it.
It depends on why you're mentioning it in what forum and what you're demanding as a result.
I mean, if you and I are sitting around having a drink and we're talking about these things, I wouldn't attach grievance to what you're talking about.
But if you are a member of a group that it's trying to advance a political agenda, and you're blaming me for it.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Now I'm just we're speaking hypothetically.
And you I hear what you're saying, and you are blaming and you're blaming me or other people for it, and maybe it may be something that's never even happened to you, then I would call it I would call it grievance.
Uh I agree with you.
I I totally agree with you.
I I don't mean it that when I when I talk about it, it's more to explain to like like like younger black kids why you know say the history uh and to know if you see the gap between a whites and blacks in this country and explain it explains it sometimes.
Like, you know, if if blacks had a uh a late start in this country, we didn't have the the opportunity back then, so we had a later start.
So that's why you see the gap.
But you know what I'm saying?
So so they don't think that oh, is is this gap because I'm lesser of a human being.
You know what I'm saying?
And for young kids, black kids, especially growing up, they need to know that.
So they don't think, they don't see that gap.
And it's because they're left, their race is lesser.
It's like, no, it's just that we got a late start in this country.
And I don't think there's nothing wrong with being honest and saying that.
It's not saying that you owe me anything.
No, I'm not saying that at all.
It's just explaining.
Listen, we have we got a late start.
So that's why you see the gap.
Okay, well, you're not.
You're not.
Let me let me change the subject to do to give you an analogy.
Um are you married?
Yes.
Okay.
I'm gonna make up an event.
I'm gonna just we're gonna speak hypothetically.
Let's say that you catch your wife having an affair, but you talk about it, and you solve it, and you agree to go on, you agree to continue the relationship and the marriage and try to make the most of it.
But you never let her forget it.
Whenever any argument comes up, you remind her you cheated on me.
Your relationship has no chance because you have you agreed to set it aside, you accepted that it happened, and you accepted her explanation, and you agreed to move forward, but then as you move forward, you continue to lay that off on her, and you never let her forget.
Your marriage doesn't have a chance.
If you don't let it go.
You're right.
Absolutely.
I I that happens to a lot of couples, and it and it's it's like uh I understand the the uh uh black history in this country.
I regret it, I wish it hadn't happened.
But see, I also know that it it hasn't happened to African Americans alive today.
There isn't one African American alive today who's treated as three-fifths of a person like it was in the past.
Absolutely, you're right.
We've made progress in our country, and it it's been the Constitution that that permitted that to uh to happen.
I hate all this stuff.
Hank, I I I I wish this stuff weren't happening.
What bothers me is that I don't I don't see the eagerness for a genuine solution to the political people on the opposite side.
They want to continue to use the grievance to use the whatever happened hundreds of years ago that did not even happen to them as a way of expressing how this country is failing or is less than uh decent and good.
We're never gonna move forward if we can't let go of things, especially things that don't happen to people today.
Absolutely.
I agree with you a hundred percent with you on that.
Like I said, I only use it when I when I explain black history, it's uh like my clip kids and young uh black kids, so they know listen, this is the reason why this is the strategy and and and you just have to you know say we got a late start.
It's not because you're less of a person because you're race.
You know what I'm saying?
Okay.
Hank, let me ask you a serious question.
I mean, I'm asking this because I genuinely I I want to know what what your answer to this is because I know some African Americans, they happen to be conservative, they they're successful.
They they of course have uh raised their kids with and their kids can't escape uh in in school, the history of slavery and all of the horrible things that happened in the past.
But but they don't they they haven't they weren't raised that way, and they are not raising their kids to be imprisoned by that.
They're raising them to talk to to to be the best they can be today, to take advantage of the opportunity that exists today, and it's working for some people.
This is the thing.
A lot of people, oh, that's phony, it's easy for you to say, but it's not possible for us.
But it is, it is working for some.
Oh, absolutely.
I I I always put in my kids' heads never to lose and use race as an excuse.
I always put that in my kids' heads, that racism is not an excuse for for not being successful.
So I agree with you on that.
I always instill that in them.
Well, no, but here's the some look, your kids are gonna encounter it.
We are all, every one of us are gonna encounter some unfairness and some real cruelty in our lives.
People are mean to each other.
Um now, race, that's something you can't do anything about.
But uh, so but that makes it even more cruel.
But we all encounter cruelty.
It's it's it's uh it it's it's uh it's just one of these sad realities of life.
They're mean people out there, and they they're cruel, they're bullies to all kinds of people.
Some are based in race, some are based in uh the way other people look.
Uh some of it's politically based, but there's all kinds of everybody goes through life being tormented at times by something.
Something as simple as just going through four years of high school can can ruin somebody's confidence.
Uh just because of the things that happened there.
And the the key to it all is being taught how to deal with it and how to not let it mar your own opinion of yourself.
And and the grievance industry always seeks to blame other people while never finding a solution.
That's my problem with it when solutions are there to be had.
But when people don't want them, when they when they profit from the division, however, be it politically or financially, that's that's when I abhor it.
That that's and that's when I get depressed because I don't see any moving forward from it.
You're doing great.
If you're raising your kids the way you say, they're gonna be good.
They're gonna be great.
They're gonna know the history, they're gonna know what's possible, but they're gonna know how to not be devastated by it to the point that they hate themselves.
You don't want that.
Exactly.
That that's all I'm saying.
I definitely agree with you all what you were saying, though.
Okay, well, good.
Good.
What if I have some common things here to stand up aground?
That's great.
Well, I'm glad you called, Hank.
I really am.
Thank you.
You bet.
I gotta take a break here, folks.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Pierce Randall in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
You're next.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Hi.
Thank you, Russ.
Um, I find it alarming and disturbing that nobody is discussing the fact that a city police department and a county police department had plastic explosives and blasting caps in its arsenal.
Now, here's what I think is going on.
I think that the federal government, by balking up these police departments with military-style equipment, and then by trying to nationalize all of them, or by nationalizing the police department, they will have a military-style force within the borders of the United States,
because the Federal the Federal government cannot use the military within the borders of the United States.
Except when they do, yeah.
Except for the National Guard, uh that's true.
But but now you have these these military-style police departments which are being taken over by the DOJ, and I believe what they want to do is by putting them under the umbrella of of uh homeland security, that now we have a military style um Let me see.
What if I if you we're running short on time, and my guess is that if you kept talking, I would eventually hear you mention martial law.
I well, I I would say we're pretty close to it if I mean we're screwed.
And you think that the the the secret to this is unlocked by the fact that they used explac explosives and a robot to blow up the perp.
I have no clue as to what a a police department uh a city police department or a county sheriff would need with plastic explosives in their arsenal.
It just boggles my mind that nobody is even disappointed.
Some people some people would say, Randall, now you do.
I mean, this guy had just it was sniper, he had killed five cops, wounded eleven.
They didn't want to lose anybody else, so send the robot up there to blow the guy.
Look, you've got an interesting point.
I don't mean to be giving it short shrift, but I wanted to get uh at least one uh retort in before that we ran out of time.
But uh let me snurdly get his no, we'll call him back tomorrow and continue this because it's a fascinating subject.
I know a lot of people want to hear more on it, so if you make it available to us, Randall, we'll uh talk to you more tomorrow.
Back in here in just a second, folks.
Okay, that's it, folks.
Out of time for today, but we're back tomorrow.
And we're gonna do open line Friday and Wednesday tomorrow.
Because I'm not gonna be here Friday.
Annual uh annual golf trip.
So see you then, folks.
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