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July 18, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 18, 2016, Monday, Hour #3
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Yes, sir, Ebob, we're back.
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Okay, the Republican convention gaveled to order one hour ago.
They are in Cleveland, and even as we speak, ladies and gentlemen, paid professional protesters, quote unquote, are starting up at the convention outside of Quicken Loans Arena.
They're being called anti-Trump protesters, by the way, by the drive by media.
Most of these, they're being called grassroots.
They're being portrayed as organic.
They're not unified.
They're just a bunch of protesters.
They're so outraged, don't you know?
They're so outraged that the Republicans are outraged at Trump that they've just shown up independently of each other.
This is what the drive-bys want you to know, but it's a paid mob.
Most likely George Soros' money is used to provide whatever's necessary for these people to get there and sustain themselves while they are there.
They are carrying professionally printed signs, as usual, or banners that are so professionally made that they look homemade.
But don't doubt me, when you see them, they are professionally made.
These protests are scripted, they are organized, they are bought and paid for, and I'll tell you something else.
Another little secret.
The media outnumber the protesters.
But the media are doing their best to hide that fact.
They want you to think that Cleveland is teeming with angry, seething people.
They want you to think that Cleveland is swelling beyond its ability to handle it all.
With people, legitimate Americans with legitimate grievances.
It is so fed up with the Republican Party they want to burn the town down.
And that's not happening.
You know, I know a lot of people.
There's a powerful, influential member of the media.
I know a lot of people.
I am so powerful, influential, I don't have to go there.
I'm too famous to show up at this convention if I I just couldn't go.
But I know people who are there.
And they have told me that it is actually, because everybody was was subjected to the uh the frightful predictions and the negative expectations and the probabilities of an unrest and anger at the possibility that the Republican Party is seen as a giant police force with angry protesters wanting to take them all out.
So people arrived in Cleveland a little trepidatious, as it were.
And my spies are telling me that it's not at all feeling dangerous.
They are not at all uncomfortable.
They are in fact having a good time.
And for what it's worth, I don't know if you know what this means other than what it sounds like, but they are saying it has a feel that is different from other conventions.
I don't know what it means, because it's only been going on for an hour, but maybe there's talking about the whole atmosphere in town surrounding the uh the convention.
At any rate, the media are doing their best to make it look like the town is teeming with seething legitimately angry people, and they are hyping possible violence.
This is another thing the media does.
They don't report on any violence that isn't happening.
They hype it.
They warn of it.
They speculate.
They get their round table discussers, and a round tables discussers discuss the what ifs.
What if the protests get unwieldy?
What if the protests get violent?
What if there is police violence?
What happens if weapons are fired?
They start talking about all this, while none of it is happening.
They start speculating.
And let me tell you what they're saying.
Some in the drive-bys are saying that possible violence, the media's hyping of possible violence could end up helping the ratings at the convention.
So what does that mean?
Well, that means that it could well be that the Republicans themselves will be behind the protests in order to create chaos, in order to create catastrophe, which will create more eyeballs, tuning in and watching.
And so the Republicans are being accused here of grand manipulators, being grand manipulators.
Again, none of this is happening.
None of this has happened.
But this is all couched as, well, it could happen, or it's likely, or if it does, here's what it will mean kinds of destruction.
At least at the Republican convention, all the violence against America will be happening outside the convention center.
That's something we know.
If there is violence, if there are dangerous protests at the Republican convention, the one thing we can be sure of is it'll all be happening outside, not inside, as opposed to the Democrat convention, where all kinds of hell will break loose inside the convention hall in Philadelphia.
It'll be happening not only inside, but on the stage.
It's going to be such a great thing to contrast.
The theme of the first night is keep America safe.
Make America safe or whatever.
It's going to be a direct response to all of this wanton violence against the police and law enforcement all over the country.
And I guarantee you folks, it's going to be a contrast that you will not be able to miss.
You're going to be able to contrast the wholesome, uplifting, positive can do.
We all want a rosy future tenor of the Republican convention with the pessimism and apocalyptic nature of the Democrat Convention and the pessimism, the apocalyptic nature will derive from the dire consequences, of course, if the Republicans win.
But you'll be able to notice it.
The problematic thing for me is that pessimism happens to be the order of the day.
Pessimism happens to be selling.
And the Democrats are prepared to feed it.
They are prepared to shovel it out in quantities we haven't seen before.
In fact, there's a little little blurb here entitled Chaos at the RNC from the Politico's insiders.
GOP insiders dreading Trump's convention.
That's a major theme that the real Republicans, the Republicans we know and love, the Republicans happy to lose, the Republicans happy to not oppose Obama.
They are dreading Trump's convention.
Republican insiders dreading the Republican convention this week, according to the Political Caucus, a panel of activists, strategists and operatives in 11 key battleground states.
One Ohio Republican said, I'm an Ohioan.
I was excited for our state to welcome the RNC, and now it's turned into a potentially violent spectacle that the leaders of our party are avoiding.
I'm dreading it, and I'm dreading the stories.
This is an Ohio Republican.
He's a he's a standard issue establishment Republican type.
And he's very, very concerned that this thing's going to turn into a spectacle of violence.
This is a Republican saying this ostensibly to the politico.
So this is what they're setting up.
They're setting up a week of chaos, a week of spectacle, a week of violence, a week of incompetence.
They are setting up a week where the real Republicans don't even want to show up.
The real Republicans we know and love, the Republican losers, the Republican Compromisers, the Republicans who want to cross the aisle and shake hands with us.
They're not going to be here, Drat.
Damn it.
Only these newfangled Trumpists are going to be here.
With that, we go to the audio sound bites, and we start with media montage, the drive-by's versus Trump.
And this kind of speaks for itself.
It's a montage Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
We have a number of different people, both in the media and out, commenting on Mike Pence as Trump's vice presidential nominee selection.
He referred to himself as Rush Limbaugh on DCAF.
A former radio talk show host once described as Rush Limbaugh on DCAF.
He liked to call himself Rush Limbaugh without the caffeine.
He described himself as Rush Limbaugh on DCAF.
Once a radio talk show host when he described himself as Rush Limbaugh on DCAF.
Rush Limbaugh on Dcaf.
He described himself as the Rush Limbaugh on Dcaf.
His nickname, his moniker was Rush Limbaugh on Dcaf.
That's what they called Mike Pence back in the day.
If he was a decaf rush limb, I don't know what he is to Donald Trump.
Mike Pence describes himself as Rush Limbaugh on Dcaf.
Styled himself as Rush Limbaugh on Dcaf.
So I wasn't even around.
I had nothing to do with the selection, and yet Trump chooses Rush Limbaugh on DCAF as his vice presidential running mate.
That's the theme from the drive-bys.
And that uh media.
No, no.
In fact, the the coffee that that was made here right before the show is still nice and hot, because we have this thermos pot in here, so no, I'm cool.
But thank you for uh thank you for asking.
I do not drink decaf.
Now, Pence used to be a radio talk show host, uh like everybody else.
And he was asked to describe himself by people, and and he actually is the one that came up with the phrase I'm Rush Limbaugh and DCF.
Um, which you can interpret it any number of ways.
I mean, he's conservative, he's just not as energetic, he's conservative, he's not as out there, he's uh a little bit more reserved, maybe a little less bombastic, whatever he meant by it.
But when he said he's Rush Limbaugh, he meant I am conservative.
As long as the day is long, as short as the night is short, I'm conservative.
That's what he was saying.
And uh so that's what they're all harping on here.
ABC this week, this was Sunday morning, during the round table, George Stephanopoulos talking with Donna Brazil and the political analyst Matthew Dowd, who used to be a Republican when the Bushes were in the White House, and they're talking about Trump naming Pence, and they had this exchange.
This is Brazil endowed.
If Trump is such a great businessman and manager, why does picking a vice president, which is one of the big tests of a presidential candidate?
Why does it devolve into a clown show?
Well, I actually think his pick of the vice president was the first time.
I mean, I think the process, I think they messed up the process.
It made it look like uh Keystone Cop situation.
Well, it sure seemed like he had second thoughts late Thursday night.
You know, I I didn't see any of this until way after it happened.
I I read about it.
And the way it was written about it was it was obvious Trump didn't want this guy.
It was obvious Trump supporters made him pick this guy, and Trump was so mad about it that when at the announcement ceremony went out there and pretty much let everybody know he didn't like this guy, didn't want this guy, but he was stuck with him.
And then later that night, there were rumors about how Trump had gone to his...
Is it too late to get rid of this guy?
I don't want this guy.
Okay.
And yet none of that is gonna matter because the the general consensus is for people I've just asked, they pretty much like the selection of Pence as a good balance.
Let me let me ask you a question.
In fact, I'm gonna include the people on the other side of the glass in my question.
I asked everybody at the golf tournament this past weekend, because they all asked me, what do you think of Pence?
So I had a question for him.
And you'd be amazed, by the way, at how many people were stumped by this question.
And it's not complicated.
What is the only important responsibility and duty of the vice presidential nominee from here to Election day.
What is the number one gig?
What is the thing he has to do?
No, it is not raising money.
It's well, okay, Sturdley, you're 55, you're half, you've named half of us, Nerdley said attack dog.
That's right.
The VP nominee is who really goes after the Democrat nominee.
Brian, you want to take a stab at this?
Or you want to talk about Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson?
Here's the answer.
Brian's a sports guy.
The number one, and don't feel bad in there because everybody else I asked was stumped by this.
The number one responsibility of the nominee, the vice presidential nominee, is to defend and promote the nominee.
No matter what.
And so you ask yourself, okay, is Pence the guy to do it when Trump goes out there and says whatever Trump says.
I mean, pick take a pick of anything he has said, or make something up you think he might say.
Pretend that Trump had said what Newt said that we're going to deport anybody in this country that believes in Sharia law.
Okay, imagine for a moment that Trump said it.
Can you see Pence out there defending it to the hilt, promoting it to the hilt, explaining why it's the greatest thing you've ever heard, why it is the most brilliant tactical position a nominee's ever had.
Because that's what he's got to do.
A vice presidential nominee cannot go out there and say, I I really wish our nominee hadn't said that.
I can't quite uh understand why he said it.
I certainly don't agree, but can't do that.
The vice presidential nominee cannot do that.
And I had people say, I'm glad you didn't pick Newt.
Newt's too old that well, I tell you what, Newt.
If Trump would have said something like Newt said, if Trump would have said we're gonna deport every sharia believing person in America, Newt could riff for 15 minutes on its brilliance with two seconds of thought and pull it off.
So in that sense, Newton would have been a good choice.
But I I uh I'm just throwing the question out there because it is one of the things that Pence is going to have to be prepared to do.
And we all know Trump.
I mean, he he comes at things from many different uh vantage points, including off the wall at times.
So it's it's gonna be it's gonna be fascinating and interesting to uh to watch.
There's other tactical reasons why it's a good selection.
It's it's solid conservation solid conservative, there is uh no doubt about that.
But there's some people angry at him.
They think he caved on a religious freedom act in Indiana after all the protests.
But I gotta I gotta take quick time out here, folks.
Uh the time is zipping by here will be right.
Right on, right on, back we are.
I'm trying to see here what I want to do next for the audio sound bites.
Let me grab a call here quick because uh this this keeps I'm out of sound bites for the convention.
Well, not out of them, but sound bites uh next on the roster go back to uh cops being shot.
Great stuff here.
One of them from the uh Cleveland police chief, police union chief.
Uh but Rosemary and uh uh Balston Spa, New York.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, I have tried repeatedly over the past few weeks to contact you and keep getting a busy signal.
I'm very grateful that today I got through.
And I need to clarify something before I go any further.
But I am a guided world born-again Christian, and I love the Lord.
And I didn't say that for any other reason than to clarify what follows next.
I am sick and tired of the so-called Christians who claim to not be able to vote for Trump because of their conscience.
If they truly looked at their conscience, how many people have they voted for who have been liars, thieves, etc.?
If they were true Bible readers, they would even go back and realize that George W. Bush, who I voted for, by the way, is a one-world government, he was a one-world government president.
I'm so sick of them, I cannot stand it.
I am I have read Eric Erickson, and if I've done this and it's wrong, I'm sorry.
But he is so self-righteous.
I can't handle it.
God did not make us self-righteous.
He said we needed him.
And they certainly are not showing that.
And that's what I called for.
If you have any comments, go ahead and miss that.
Well yeah, look, look, uh the subject, the never Trumpers uh comprise uh all kinds of different beliefs and people, people of different beliefs.
Um and uh I I know that some of them are uh honestly held, their beliefs, they're legitimate and so forth.
Others are personal and selfish.
When I say selfish, uh I don't it self-interested.
Um there's a difference of self-interest and self-ish.
But here's what it boils down to for me, and I I have been expressly clear on this from the get-go, and nothing's changed.
And in fact, it has even become more important and crucial, and that is never Hillary is the only thing that matters here to me.
I don't care.
Uh we don't have the ideal choices here.
It didn't work out for a lot of people.
But it can't, we cannot, we cannot have another four or eight years of this.
And that's what they want.
There's this magic dream that Obama and Hillary have of sixteen consecutive years of transforming America and basically wiping it out from its foundational roots.
And there is no amount of self-interest for me that would trump that.
Meaning if it meant the end of this radio show.
If if if supporting Trump meant the end of this radio show, but that meant the end of Hillary, then that's what I would do.
It's that important to me.
And I think that some people look at Trump as a personal threat.
Some of them are are serious uh and sincere in their righteousness, as you call it.
Other people are are thinking, oh my gosh, if this guy wins, this this is the end of the Republican Party, and that's the end of the party establishment.
That's the end of my future.
That's the end of my career path, that's the end of my chance, that's you know, what have you.
And I'm way beyond that.
Fortunately, I have the excuse me, the freedom to be.
But I don't know how people who have expressed conservative beliefs and have meant them and live them and are devoted to them.
I don't know how they can take any action whatsoever that would that would make it more likely that Hillary Clinton would be elected.
I I that to me is unacceptable.
It's just unexpected.
We can't handle it.
We cannot, we shouldn't want to.
We don't we don't want to even conceive of that.
A woman is an outright mitigated disaster, and so is her party.
And I it scares the ever-living heck out of me to think of four more years of this or eight more years of it.
And people who think, Well, four more years of Hillary, as long as it's not, you know, we we we've we can't let Trump win this because it's the end of the party.
It's the end of it's the end of any serious opposition of the Democrats ever.
Uh and if Hillary gets elected, uh the big thing there will be Trump losing, and Trump must lose, so the Republican Party will be viable once again.
Well, why did Trump win?
How did this happen?
There wasn't any trickery that went on out there.
There were all kinds of opportunities for people to vote for any number of other Republicans.
Now you could say, well, yeah, but that vote was split in so many different ways.
It went 15 different ways, 16 candidates and Trump many.
I may be true, probably is.
But I also don't see Trump as the giant negative that a lot of people do.
And one of the ways that I look at Trump is I look at his family, and I look at his kids, and I don't see, I don't think I've ever seen a story of any Trump kid in TMZ or e entertainment.
I I I don't I don't see them in the gossip pages.
I don't see a single story about a Trump kid that's wandering aimlessly through life drunk and out of control and disorderly and uh wandering aimlessly here and there.
I I see nothing but well-raised young adults who are seriously working, who are devoted to their father, and their father is devoted to him.
None of them, none of them doesn't, they don't appear to be spoiled brats, they're not playboys.
They're not getting on the Trump jet, flying a bunch of women off to who knows wherever.
At least we don't know about it if they are.
They're not.
It's not easy to do that this day and age.
You know I know that his kids have all had to work.
They've not been handed things.
Uh they've all had to go to school, but he adores them.
And they obviously adore and respect him.
And that's not easy to do.
In this day and age to not have one renegade kid that's out there trying to undermine dad.
Oh, Rush, wait a minute.
I know what you're saying.
That doesn't mean Trump's any great sheikhs.
It doesn't mean his politics are any good, it doesn't mean his policies.
Well, we're talking values and culture here, and I I do think it matters.
It matters to me anyway, but really when it all boils down to this, folks, there's no there's no choice here.
When Hillary Clinton's on the ballot, there's no choice.
If the Republican Party wants to reassert itself, if the conservative movement wants to retake the Republican Party, then have at it.
While Trump's in office.
Some people think, look, I don't I some people think it'll be easier to fundraise with Hillary in office.
You know, I get hit with this myself, and it burns me up.
I have to this day.
There are people out there in the media who say that I'm lying to you, that I secretly want the Clintons to win all the time, because the Clintons are who made me, they say.
If it hadn't been for the Clintons, you wouldn't even know me because I was able to bounce off the Clintons and I made my bones with the Clintons in office, and it's much easier for me to do a show like mine when the opposition's in power because I can show up here and whine and moan and complain every day,
as opposed to when my people are in office and all I have to do is support them and whatever, and they claim that my secret desires are for the Democrats to win all the time, and I can't tell you how that burns me up, because that means that I don't care about my country and where it's going.
And that means that they think I'm lying to you for 28 years about my thoughts, views, opinions, everything about this country, which I love to death and am scared to death for.
I am genuinely scared to death.
I'm scared to death when I see what's happening to young people, to college students.
I'm scared to death when I ask myself, are we outnumbered already?
earlier in the program, Obama 56% approval number with this crap going on.
That scares the heck out of me.
What is happening to us?
What has happened to our population?
And I think I know.
And it's got to stop.
And the people responsible for all of this destruction and decline have got to be called out.
And they've got to be held responsible and held accountable.
The American people have to be informed about it, which is an ongoing effort, and some say a losing proposition.
But as long as I have breath, that is going to be my message.
I have no desire for if it meant the end of my program, if getting rid of it, if Hillary Clinton losing meant the end of this program, then that's what I would be for.
If that's what it took.
If that's what it took in my death to save this country, meaning she loses, and that means my radio show goes away, then that's what I would do.
I have no self-interest in this whatsoever.
I'm not looking forward to Hillary Clinton being in the White House so I can seek greater advertising revenue.
I don't have a problem with that as it is.
I don't need Democrats in office to be successful.
My success has not been determined by who wins elections, and it never has been.
So Trump is who we have.
Hillary Clinton is who we have and we don't want.
And I don't think there's any comparison in the two.
In what would be the worst for this country, Hillary or Trump, it's not even close for me.
But there are other people who obviously think Trump would be far worse than Hillary.
I don't see it.
I don't think it's even close.
I think she and the Democrat Party are the equivalent of a giant wrecking ball that is intentionally being aimed at institution after institution.
Every day, and they're making contact and they're crumbling things that used to be strong that people could believe in.
Politically, I gotta be taking a break.
We'll be back in a sec.
Well, that's it.
I don't know where the time went, but it's gone.
But we're back here, and uh we'll be back tomorrow as well.
So in the saddle the whole week here, folks.
Twenty one hours will be back.
Thank you so much for being with us.
And don't miss it.
Don't miss it any day.
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