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July 22, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 22, 2016, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 podcast.
Right on schedule.
Obama is at the White House.
He's doing a joint press conference with Presidente of Mexico.
And he's talking about how important the trade and immigration relationship is.
Right on schedule.
Greetings, folks.
Friday, let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
What a week.
What a week.
It had everything.
And it's still not over.
And Donald Trump continues to surprise, even when you think it can't surprise you anymore.
It's great to have you with us.
It's great to have you here every day.
Open line Friday.
That means that you get to talk about whatever you want to talk about.
And I think I have a pretty good idea what you're going to want to talk about.
So we'll make an extra effort here to make sure that you get your chance.
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I am still processing.
Folks.
I do not have a definitive up or down on this.
I mean, I did up, but I mean, I'm there there's some things that that troubled me.
Uh, some things that are problematic to me.
And I just want to share all of this with you as the program unfolds today.
We'll do it with a combination of monologues and audio sound bites.
Gonna dig uh dig back to the grooveyard of forgotten sound bites, some of the archives here really, really telling today when you learn some things about the speech last night, for example.
It was written by a millennial, and we went back to my archives for a couple of monologues that I did on my discovery of what kind of entertainment uh millennials are exposing themselves themselves to and and what their genuine or general world outlook is, and it's dark.
It's dank.
Uh you may already know this on your own.
It's dark, depressed, dank.
They think the country's best days are behind us.
The and that's not new.
The only problem has been in terms of my dealing with that is that they have been incorrect in affixing blame or explaining to themselves why this is.
Why is the country in such a dark?
Why is the country so stagnant?
Why is the country so economically stalled?
I mean, there are definitive answers to this, but they don't have them because they haven't been provided them.
But it all dovetails with the tone of Trump's speech last night.
Now, the first thing that I want to start with here is the Democrat reaction, which is, I'm sure the result of memos having gone out from the Hillary campaign campaign of Democrat National Committee to the rest of the drive by media.
And wait till you hear some sound bites coming up in CNN.
Last night after this speech, CNN had person after person, even Fox had some people on, oh my God, I've I don't know why I'm so scared that was Hitler-esque.
That was authoritarian, it was Hitler-esque.
I I I don't know where I can go to hide.
People scared to death.
The CNN people were just convinced that the majority of people in this country were gonna see it the way they did, that it was horrible, that it was mean, that it was braggadocious, that it was unrealistic, and they were shocked and stunned when they learned a majority of their viewers gave it a thumbs up.
And you'll hear that, the audio soundbite's coming up.
In years past, Republican conventions passed, and day-to-day politics in the United States.
What has been one of the major criticisms or beefs that we have had with the Republican Party?
Who, by the way, Megan McCain is now saying the party she was a member of is dead.
And Nicole Wallace of the Bush, the George W. Bush uh Administration saying the same thing.
The Republican Party that she was a member of is now dead.
Well, what was that Republican Party?
What were Republican conventions and what was the day-to-day political behavioral pattern of the Republican Party?
And what was it that we objected to?
Tried to prove they were nice guys, right?
Tried to show, no, no, we're not all that that the Democrats say.
It was a total defensive posture, was it not?
We support amnesty to prove to Hispanics we don't hate them.
We do this to try to prove to gays we don't hate them.
We do this to try to prove to African Americans who don't hate them.
But why do we do that?
Because the drive-bys in the Democrat Party are out there for years saying that's who we hate, that all we do is hate, and these are the people we hate, and we're bigoted and we're racist.
And so the Republican Party doubled down on nice.
Republican Party doubled down on non-controversy.
Republican Party doubled down on crossing the aisle, working together, getting along.
Republican Party was steeped and buried in a position which had them constantly on defense, never on offense.
And that was the result of many tricks portrayed and played by the Democrats.
And there are many of these tricks, and they worked, such as convincing Democrat Democrats convincing Republican consultants and the Republican Party that the only way to win an election is the independence.
And the way you get the end of you can't criticize Democrats to get the independence.
If you criticize, if you are too combative, if you are confrontational, you're just going to send those independents running right to the Democrat Party.
So the Republicans dutifully played along and didn't get into anything controversial.
They didn't confrontate none of the stuff.
And of course they get steamrolled.
Well, in national elections, presidential elections, steamrolled in the media, steamrolled in the social media sphere and so forth.
So last night, a stark and total departure from that.
What the Democrats think is dark is confidence.
What the Democrats think is dark is aggressive.
What the Democrats think is dark is honesty.
But let's talk about dark, because Hillary Clinton sends the memo out and the media dutifully reports that Trump's speech painted a dark picture of America.
Excuse me, but who really does that day in and day out?
And who really has been doing that for most of our lives?
Isn't that the primary problem that the Democrat Party has so filled people of this country with pessimism that they don't even react to optimism?
They are so pessimistic, they're so down in the dumps, they're so apocalyptic that pessimism is such the order of the day that anything optimistic is deemed to be phony and a bunch of lies and impossible and untrue.
The Democrat Party message every day is this country is what?
Racist?
The Democrat Party every day of my life has been this country is bigoted.
That this country is unjust, that this country is immoral, that this country is homophobic, that this country discriminates, that this country has evil corporations which do nothing but target and kill their own customers.
That this country is run by a bunch of evil bankers who are themselves creating this wide gap in wealth.
And the income gap.
Day in, day out.
I am 65 years old.
Most of my life, the Democrat Party has been pummeling me.
And anybody else who listens, and their voters do, with just how rotten this country is.
They wouldn't know how to be optimistic if they tried.
Their version of optimism is what?
We are going to help you maintain your current economic circus.
The Republicans want to make you poorer.
Well, we're going to make sure you don't get any poorer.
We're going to keep you as poor as you are now, and you're going to like it.
The Democrat Party doesn't uplift.
The Democrat Party doesn't offer anything Optimistic.
The Democrat Party punishes achievers.
From schools to athletics to extracurricular activity.
Who is it that slaps all these performance penalties on people?
Who is it that's been passing out trophies to people and haven't accomplished anything?
All they've got to do is show up.
Sometimes they don't even have to show up, just get their name on the roll, they get a trophy.
Who is it that has been painting a picture of the United States and life in this country as so bleak that the only hope any of us have is to rely on whatever government can do for us.
We are incapable and incompetent of providing for our families.
The government must raise our children.
You are incompetent.
You cannot make the right decisions with your own money.
You certainly can't handle your own health care.
You're not probably going to buy the right car we determine you should buy if we leave it totally up to you.
And since you won't buy the junk and garbage that we are requiring you to buy, we're going to outlaw the stuff that you want.
Somebody explain to me how in the world the Democrat Party escapes.
This characterization of dark and filled with doom and gloom.
They defined how to do it.
They define the execution.
They do it every day.
That's how they stay in power.
They scare the heck out of people.
They tell people there is no future unless they vote Democrat.
They tell people that the Republican Party is coming for them.
They tell them that the conservatives want to put them in jail.
Conservatives want to put them in prison.
Conservatives never want to let them out of jail.
They tell them that if you're innocent and you're a minority, conservatives and Republicans are coming for you, or the government's coming, or the country, or what have you.
It is a constant barrage, day in and day out to keep the people of this country on edge and afraid.
And they've succeeded.
They have succeeded.
The apocalyptic attitude among America's youth is overwhelming.
The degree of negative.
I have I have chronicled on this program, I mentioned it countless times.
Do you ever see happy, smiling liberals, other than when they're, you know, at happy hour or in Hollywood?
When do you see it?
They're not happy.
They don't laugh.
And they're getting everything they want.
They've had eight years of Obama.
They've got their national health care plan.
They've got their attack on fossil fuels.
They have got their education standards implemented.
They are well on the way to destroying every tradition that defined this country's greatness, and they're still miserable.
They're still unhappy.
And their agenda is being implemented.
How in the world can it possibly be that they're not happy?
Well, one reason is they're learning their agenda doesn't work.
Their agenda doesn't create this utopia.
This agenda does not create this idyllic existence of sweetness and light and love because government can't do that.
And an ideology can't do that.
You can't wave a magic wand and make everybody one thing because nobody's the same.
The Democrat Party does its best to make everybody the same by defining everybody downward.
The Democrat Party doesn't promote upward.
They demonize successful people.
They demonize genius.
They demonize rarity.
And they do it because those numbers are few.
They have created class envy.
They have created hatred.
They have created anger.
They are almost single-handedly responsible for the divisions in this country and this particular president.
And they do it spreading lies, such as hands up, don't shoot.
That's an abomination.
And they continue to do it.
So this idea, ladies and gentlemen, that what we got last night was representative of dank and Dark picture of America.
Sorry.
Democrats own that.
Democrats did that.
The people arrived at the Donald Trump convention speech last night already enveloped in darkness.
Already enveloped in depression and paranoia and fear.
The difference is some of us want to want out of it.
We don't want to have to think of our country this way.
We do not want to have to think of the decline.
We do not want to have to be absorbed by it, and we certainly do not want to be powerless to do anything about it.
We want to fix it, and we want to bring everybody along with us.
Sorry, Hillary, you own dark.
You own every agent of darkness.
You own every agent of depression.
You own every agent of division, the Democrat Party exclusive rights to all of the so-called darkness and dankness and depression.
Just look at their voters.
Just look at their constituents.
Just look at the country.
You don't find happiness.
You find 70% of the people in this country think it's headed in the wrong direction.
In this country, wholesomeness, achievement, accomplishment, speaking properly, all of these things that used to be norms are now attacked.
Ridiculed and mocked.
Achievement is something that is so rare, it's not really natural.
It must have resulted from cheating.
It must have resulted from rig, this or rig that, so no success is legitimate.
No achievement is really legitimate, not in the Democrat world, because they have to undermine it.
It's not possible, it's not for me.
You can't get where you're going.
You can't be what you want to be.
You can't get up and get through the day unless you are on the right side of your government and allowing your government to dictate things for you because you have to acknowledge your essential incompetence.
The Democrat Party and modern liberalism exist in great conflict with human nature.
Another reason why people are so unhappy.
Liberalism has been made seductive.
It's been made attractive because it's been portrayed as Santa Claus, but it is such an offense and assault on human nature.
It's impossible for people to be happy in the midst of liberalism, socialism, communism, or what have you.
It's impossible for free human beings to be happy.
In circumstances like ours, run by the modern radically extreme Democrat Party.
Freedom and happiness don't go with liberalism, socialism, central command, government control of everything.
They don't work.
That's why people are intrinsically unhappy.
They're going to be waiting the rest of their lives for government to come through for them when government can't, and government really doesn't intend to.
It's all a lie anyway.
It's just a giant trick for votes to keep a few people in power.
Take a break.
We'll come back and continue after this.
Here is what the Hillary campaign actually said.
And...
Tonight Donald Trump painted a dark picture of an America in decline.
And his answer, more fear, more division, more anger, more hate.
Was yet another reminder that he is temperamentally unfit.
There was no hate last night.
This is another Democrat trick.
Categorized passion.
Deep caring as hate.
There wasn't any hate for anybody last night.
If anything, there was love expressed for people last night.
There was a desire for everything that's going wrong to be fixed and quick.
There was a desire for all of these systems falling apart to be fixed and quick.
There was a desire for the American people to once again feel safe and protected In their own country.
There were promises and pledges made as to how to make this happen.
How to bring about the change.
Just think about this, folks.
We need change to make America safe.
Isn't that the primary job of our government?
We need change.
We need reform to keep us safe.
What the hell's gone wrong then?
We need change.
We need reform to restore law and order for crying out loud, that's the glue that's always kept this country together.
What in the world is going wrong if big change and reform equal law and order and keeping Americans safe?
Well, what's gone wrong is the Democrat Party.
What's going wrong is American liberalism.
What's gone wrong is extreme radical leftism.
There's no hate.
There is anger.
The anger's entirely justified.
People ought to be mad, and they are 70% dissatisfied with the direction of the country.
The anger is entirely justified.
The division, you own that Hillary, you and your party.
But the hate, nope, not here.
Once again, there was no hate last night.
And when the Democrats start throwing that allegation around, you know that they're close to bankrupt and have nothing else to say.
There wasn't any hate last night.
There was anger, justified anger, and there was love.
In fact, did you hear how Trump ended the speech last night?
Folks, I don't know how much I say so much here.
I over the course of just a week.
I don't know how much you remember of what I was saying last campaign, last fall, during the campaign, in trying to explain Trump.
And it was so impassioned back then.
There were it may still be so many people angry at me for not doing this or for doing that.
And when you're angry, sometimes it's harder to permeate.
But I made a point trying to explain Trump to people.
And I want to thank Byron York, by the way, for writing that there was probably nobody better able and more capable of explaining how Trump does what he does than me.
And one of the things that I pointed out when all of this criticism of Trump came along and he's bombastic and he's narcissistic and he's an egomaniac, and all he does is talk about himself.
I said, You're missing it entirely.
It may only take 10 seconds, he may spend 30 seconds.
But every one of these appearance, appearances that Trump makes.
He makes sure to tell that crowd how much he loves them.
He makes sure to tell that crowd how much he appreciates them.
He he conveys to his audience at every one of these rallies.
He takes a brief moment, sometimes longer than brief, but he takes time to let them know that he has deep appreciation for them being there.
And he did it last night again.
The last words of his speech, I love you.
There were a couple other occasions in the speech last night where he dropped from the prompter.
Uh, stopped his projection, which some called shouting and got conversational.
Those were moments where Trump was establishing the bond that exists with those who have it.
Not everybody does, not everybody likes Trump, but those who do have a deep bond.
And you who do not like that are not going to be able to break the bond.
Only Trump can break it, and he hasn't done that yet.
Not with his supporters.
There's love, is my point.
There isn't hate.
Hate is not the basis.
Hate is not the foundation for Donald Trump support group.
There might be supreme fear, anger, and dislike of Hillary Clinton, but not at Donald Trump.
Donald Trump's not inspiring hate.
Donald Trump's not living off it.
He's not promoting it.
Donald Trump loves the people of this country and loves the country and wants it to work.
So the Democrats, when they start throwing around the staff, there's a bunch of division and hate last night.
That means they're bankrupt.
They've got nothing left to say about what was said.
I think they're running scared.
It was a column by Doug Schoen today's Democrat pollster and so forth.
These one of the numerous analysts and commentators of Fox News, and he's got a column that the Democrats ought to be running scared after this speech last night.
But they're not.
The Democrats are still making the mistake, and the drive-byers are still making a mistake.
They're still trying to plug all of this into what they consider their standard operating everyday political analysis formula.
And they can't do it.
And they were stunned last night with their quick reaction polls on their websites show massive acceptance and massive approval of Trump's speech.
You can see them on camera.
They were stunned.
They didn't believe it.
You want to talk about hate?
How many times have we opened Esquire?
How many times have you opened Salon?
How many times have you gone to any liberal website and read that Trump is Hitler?
How many books did you have to read on how to assassinate George W. Bush?
The left is filled with hate hatred for us.
And they don't even disguise it.
But they're never called on it because it's their own team out there mounting this allegation at us.
But they are the ones that are filled with a hateful rage.
They're the ones, and their and their hate derives from our very existence.
They consider us a more dangerous enemy than ISIS, than Al Qaeda, than militant Islamic terrorism.
This own administration, the Obama administration, actually has produced written documents from Homeland Security warning of dangerous behavior and riots and civil disobedience by Tea Parties and other organizations of the American right wing.
They're the ones, folks, that harbor all of this animosity.
But it is true the people of the country are angry.
Justifiably so, anybody paying any attention.
And anybody who wants a better life, and anybody who wants a better life for their kids and their grandkids damn well better be angry because what's happening in this country is being done on purpose.
It is not the result solely of incompetence.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have designs and ideas on this country that are rooted in punishing it for what they consider to be an immoral and unjust founding.
They think this country was built by and for rich white people who happen to be Christians at the rejection and expense of everybody else.
And they think it's time to even that score.
That's exactly what they are doing.
They are in the process of trying to tear down every tradition, every institution that has defined this country's greatness.
They want the chaos that has ensued.
They feed off of it.
They live off of this unrest.
The unrest and the chaos and the economic disorder naturally cause people to turn to government to fix this.
And who's running the government?
They are.
So they are the beneficiaries of people asking for more government power, which is their business.
They feed off of this.
They cause these things and feed off of it.
And people it's taken some way too long to see it, but the anger, which is not dark.
It's another thing.
Just because somebody's angry does not mean it's not justified.
And just because somebody's angry does not mean it's automatically dark and dank and illegitimate.
That's what they have succeeded in convincing Republicans at large that any anger, any opposition, oh, that's that's not you've got to tone that down.
You can't win being that.
So the Republicans have toned it down and it just clears the path for the Democrats to march onward with as little in the way as possible.
The polls that show satisfaction with the way things are going in the country, the uh satisfied with the direction of the country.
Do you know in the last month they're down 12 points?
Why wouldn't they be?
We've had police mass murders.
We have had illegitimate attempts to jail law enforcement officials who obviously didn't do anything.
Hello, Baltimore.
We have been living the results of a lie from Ferguson, Missouri for over a year and a half.
It makes logical sense that people would be dissatisfied with the way things are going.
And then after innocent law enforcement officers are gunned down in assassination style.
Who is it that runs in and makes the first attempt to defend the perpetrator?
It's the Democrat Party.
Guarantee you that does not inspire confidence.
It doesn't inspire happiness.
It depresses people.
And I'm going to make later on in the program, don't let me forget this, Mr. Sturdley.
I'm going to make some predictions for you, but what we're going to see at the Democrat Convention next week, and it's going to bear out everything I've said since the beginning of this program today.
For example, I'll just give you a one heads up.
Patricia Smith, the mother of one of the four killed Benghazi, was ridiculed, was lamb based, was ripped to shreds, was destroyed by the Democrat Party in the media for having the audacity to take the stage at the Republican convention and talk about the death of her son.
It was exploiting a death for the purposes of criticizing Hillary Clinton.
just unbecoming.
The Republicans should be so ashamed, so ashamed.
And then when she had the audacity to say that she blamed the death of her son on Hillary Clinton, that was it.
The media and the Democrat Party went into full destruction mode, and they did everything they could to try to destroy the credibility of this woman and the Republican Party and the convention.
And yet you watch what happens next week.
We are going to see at least six family members.
Thank you.
of people, supposedly innocent people, gunned down, murdered by the cops.
The cops are once again going to be portrayed as the enemy next week on the stage at the Democrat National Convention.
Law enforcement is going to be held up as the enemy for the express purposes of rallying the votes of a bunch of people as a result of having told lie after lie to them, such as hands up, don't shoot, such as the mess that was Baltimore.
And there's not going to be one condemnation you'll see anywhere in the drive-by media.
Drive by media will applaud this.
The Democrat Party has developed this tactic.
They parade ostensible victims of Republican policy of evil American culture.
You name it, they parade them before congressional hearings, and now they're going to parade them before their convention.
And the contrast is going to be stark.
And the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton are gonna are going to once again mount an assault on law enforcement next week, making the calculation that there are many more victims of law enforcement that will applaud that than there are members of law enforcement, strictly a numbers game.
And it'll be another cheap attempt to rally the African American vote.
You watch.
That's just one example of the drivel that's going to happen next week.
You want to talk about negative.
You want to talk about dark.
You want to talk about pessimistic.
You don't know until you actually watch four days of a Democrat convention, what negative dark, abysmal apocalyptic is.
We'll be back.
Okay, it's open line Friday, so remember uh caller does not have to be reacting to anything I said, and this first one will not be, however, disappointing that might be to you.
Um but we want to try to get some calls in in the first hour since it is open line Friday, and here is Silvana from San Diego.
It's great to have you.
Hello.
Hi, hi, Red.
I'm calling actually regarding the speech that Donald Trump, the acceptance speech he did yes uh last night.
Yeah.
And after listening to that speech, my question to you is why Donald Trump doesn't want my vote.
I'm a Ted Cruz supporter, and I'm a constitutional conservative.
I felt no love from Donald Trump last night.
He mentioned everybody under the sun.
Evangelical, LGBTQ, Blue Collar, co-workers, students, student loans, Bernie Sanders, his supporters.
The group that he did not mention is people like me, Ted Cruz supporters, constitutional conservative.
Well, and what does that mean?
Well, all I wanted to hear was small government, constitution, bill of rights, uh, individual liberty and freedom, small business.
I heard none of it.
No, I I I and my question, I'm sorry, but my question to you is if he had shown some respect to Ted Cruz and his supporters.
Uh I you know, I think support for Donald Trump would have been overwhelming.
But I heard him say repeatedly that he doesn't care about Ted Cruz and his support.
And the question is, why not?
The other day you had a caller, a guy, and he said, I think we can win without them.
They're welcome to join us, but I think we can win without them.
But my question to you is, why do it that way?
Why not swell your ranks and overwhelm the opposition in November?
I think he thinks he is.
He's not an ideological conservative.
I have mentioned this a b a bunch of times.
He doesn't he's not an ideological liberal either.
He's not an ideological person.
He doesn't look at it.
He didn't talk about the Constitution last other than in in talking about Supreme Court justices.
He didn't mention, he didn't talk about we as Republicans.
And I'm I was making notes.
You're you're getting me a little bit ahead of myself here.
I haven't yet gotten to the speech itself.
I'm still trying to bury the Democrats because they're the enemy here.
But I'm telling you, the first half of the speech, I'm starting to get a little concerned because it was I, I, I, I, I, I, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, and I say, hey, what about us out here?
What about marshaling the support of the American people?
What about mobilizing us?
We're the ones who are gonna have to do it.
Uh where's the we?
Where's the we?
And all this I, I, I, I heard some guy's gonna go in and and grab every lever of government he can find and fix whatever he thinks is wrong, and his supporters want him to do that.
But then later in the speech, he got to the we.
He got there eventually.
He got to the we are gonna do this, and he got to the uh uh the the the idea that the American people are responsible for what happens to them and what they do and so forth, and his jobs to get government out of the way and fix the things that are impetting impediments, impeding people.
But you're right, he didn't he didn't talk about limited government small guns.
He doesn't believe in that, obviously.
My point is this, I think that if he had shown a little more humility and a little less hubris.
To who?
A lot uh I'm sorry.
You still to me.
Ted Cruz, you still got you see his remarks this morning?
No.
Oh.
Oh, you think you're mad now.
He Oh my God, he went, he he had a little press conference, he doubled down on Ted Cruz.
He said, Not only, you know, I like Lion Ted, but I don't even want if he endorsed me, I wouldn't even accept it now.
And he said, by the way, what the hell did I do wrong?
The National Inquirer, it had a picture, and there's Ted's dad with Lee Hervey Oswald.
What am I supposed to do?
The inquirer, they brought the goods on Edwards, they should deserve a pulleter.
I just told you what was there.
They're credible.
You're not gonna like it.
Okay, well, uh then I guess um this election is over for me.
No, it's not.
Believing what you believe, you cannot do anything that would make it easier for Hillary Clinton to win.
Trust me, please, you can't.
You can't.
I had long conversations with my husband, and we are talking about this, and honestly, I know it's easy to have integrity and say, I will not vote.
I live in California.
California doesn't matter.
Okay, in presidential election, I do not matter.
So it's easy for me to say, well, I'm not gonna vote.
Well you just did.
You just did.
I don't want you to do that though.
I want you to think you matter because you do.
You're an American citizen.
You affect who knows however many lives you don't even know about.
You matter.
Doing the right thing matters.
Even if nobody else in your view is.
Back in just a second.
I guess maybe some people didn't see the uh the Trump press conference today.
We should uh most everybody saw the speech.
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