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July 26, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 26, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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30 and 10-4, and here we are, back at it, final hour, broadcast excellence today, Rush Limbaugh.
And the excellence in broadcasting.
No, folks.
I got I got an email.
During the break I check them.
I just don't read them verbatim to you to summarize them.
Rush, come on, tell us the truth.
You love watching these Democrat conventions.
I don't, folks, that maybe maybe in the past.
But it I imagine I'm no different than you.
It's torture.
I mean, you care about the country.
You care about the future, and you watch this.
You turn these people on, and you listen to the world that they project.
You listen to the country they reflect.
You listen to the dystopian negative cataclysmic set of circumstances they want everybody to think they're living in.
I mean, it would be different if they got 20, 30% of the vote, but they win sometimes.
It's torturous watching this stuff when you realize that it has a good chance of winning.
That there are enough people out there moved by this.
That's scary to me.
It's torturous watching this.
As I said at the beginning of the program, I watch these things now entirely differently.
I remember back in uh the the this this program actually began August 1st, 1988, and that was right in the middle of the George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis campaign.
And you talk about fun.
I mean, there was Dukakis running around in a tank looking like Beadle Bailey wearing his uh army helmet.
And it it it was it was just it was obviously lunacy, it was insane, and it was and it was remember this was the Reagan third term, this 1988, and Bush was campaigning that way.
And even though when this program started, Dukakis was way up in the polls, nobody thought it was going to hold up and it and it didn't.
But back in 1988, there was a confidence, there was a there was a uh decent expectation that the left as embodied by Dukakis was going to be vanquished.
And then 1992 came, well, before we got to 92, we had some serious policy malfunctions before that.
The read my lips, no new taxes backtrack, and then the Clinton campaign came along, and and uh even then, I mean we we had all kinds of uh opportunity for jocularity and mimicking and mocking and so forth, and we did all the way through uh 96 and the 2000,
2000, and the Florida recount aftermath is when I track the seminal change, and that's now 16 years ago, and it just seems like yesterday.
The Democrats have never been the same since that recount.
They've always been liberal, but they have the the radicals have taken over that party.
The the protester generation of the 60s has come of age and taken over that party.
100%.
There aren't any mainstream moderate democrats left.
You might have some of them try to act that way.
And that Florida recount, that aftermath, when when they lost the electoral college, legitimately, but they don't think they think the whole thing was stolen from them at the Supreme Court.
They didn't that there was no way based on what had happened and the vote outcome that they were going to win.
But yet they won the popular vote.
And that created a sense of rage and anger that has not abated.
It has only intensified.
And it came to its ugliest fruition during the George W. Bush administration.
And they have been nothing but hate-filled and angry and pessimistic.
They've always ripped America.
They've never thought America was the solution.
Michelle Obama last night, I have to tell you, listening to her praise the founders, I'm sorry, but I wasn't buying that.
I don't think Michelle and Barack Obama really think much of the founders.
And there's a popular statement that they're using now, which I think betrays something actually, or portrays something, whichever it is.
Obama has begun saying it a lot, and last night she said it.
No matter, no matter when or what the occasion, they can't stop talking about slavery.
And largely in a context of, hey, you know what?
It isn't settled yet.
Hey, you know what?
We haven't fixed it yet.
I mean, that's their starting point.
And I think that's a no-win situation for us.
Because we've made great strides.
This country has made phenomenal strides since then.
Undeniable.
And we're one of the only countries on earth that has.
Great Britain being the other.
This country has done more for and was organized for minorities than any other nation on earth.
I I gave a guy an analogy here on the program.
We had a guy call and wanted to know, you know, what I thought was so bad about grievance politics.
And I made an analogy for him.
I said, sir, imagine, are you married?
He said, yeah.
I said, okay, imagine that you're wife, imagine that your wife has an affair.
And it causes all kinds of acrimony.
You almost lose your marriage.
It's really a rocky period of time.
But you and your wife get together and you decide that you're going to forgive her.
You're going to look past it for the sake of the marriage and your kids, and you move forward.
He said, okay.
Now imagine, sir, every argument you have, you continue to remind her that she's to blame for everything because she's the one that had the affair.
I said, your relationship doesn't have a prayer if you can't let it go.
If all you can do is continue to remind her what you've already forgiven her for, then the days of your relationship are over.
And the grievance industry doesn't, they don't want solutions.
They want to be able to do just that, no matter what progress, no matter what agreements, no matter what, they don't want to acknowledge that anything has been done.
And that's how I hear the Obamas.
So they love to wax eloquent about the early days of the country and how they were three-fifths of a person, even though they never have been three-fifths of a person.
He doesn't even have any slave blood.
She does, but he doesn't.
But it but they will admit they're never going to let it go.
They're never going to let it go.
So whenever we as a nation have an argument, they're always going to be circling back to that or the way women were treated, or what things that have been dealt with.
Things that have been addressed, maybe not fixed forever, but addressed very significantly.
But they won't let it go.
And so we're not making any progress here by design.
So when a speech is heralded and contains all of these references to America's reprobate, dishonest, putrid, racist pig passed.
And then the rest of the speech Well, there's been some progress, like now I wake up in a house built by slaves.
I mean, what what what?
What is the point of that?
I get it on one level, but if it were really uttered as an acknowledgement of the profound progress, then it would be great.
But I just I don't sense it because I don't see it any other time.
And that's so when Michelle starts praising the founding fathers and the last seven and a half years.
Have you ever talked, have you Herbert heard them talk in those terms?
It's like they know there's certain things they have to say.
It's like liberals know they have to campaign as conservatives to win, but then to hell with it.
Republicans think the same thing.
Have to campaign as conservatives, or you certainly can't campaign as your radical leftist, you know, moonwalk fruit cake and uh and get elected to anything.
Even after a convention like this, they're gonna come out of this and say, so it's all about trying to portray Hillary's moderate and what and that's the real reason Bernie was allowed to keep going, because he's wacko leftist, he's made these there for two purposes, make it look like she can overcome a fight, make sure she can win a battle when it was a coronation to begin with, and he was also there to position her as a centrist when she is as radical as Bill Clinton or Barack Obama or Sololinsky or any other leftist you want to name.
So it's torture watching this stuff.
I mean, you have all kinds of opportunity for great jokes and bits and funny lines present, but at the end of the day, half the country, or close to it, this is gospel to them.
And that is depressing.
That is scary to me.
And that's why they've got to be defeated.
And in the process of defeating them, these people that are voting for them are going to have to be educated and informed.
Their lives could be so much better if they would let go of the notion that they are powerless.
But when these guys start talking last night about how there's no future in individualism, rugged or otherwise, that the only thing that matters is standing together.
It's so cliched.
Of course, people stand together, people come from families.
People that saw a story about some Democrat describing how they are going to really ultimately ban guns, and they're going to do it with language.
Some delegate to the convention admitted to a member of the media.
Oh, yeah, it's the way we talk about it.
We can't ever go out as a party and say, we want to get rid of the Second Amendment.
We want you to have to get up your gun.
We're instead going to talk about common sense gun law.
And then after we use the phrase common sense gun law, then we're going to bring out parents of people who've been killed by gun violence.
Common sense.
We're going to portray the gun and having a gun as the opposite of common sense.
And that's the way they do it.
On every everything is common sense.
Health care reform, common sense, uh, tax reform, common.
Whenever you hear common sense fill in the blank, you know they're lying to you.
When you hear liberal Democrats talk about common sense anything, you know they are gaming you.
They have admitted it.
I knew it before she admitted it, this delegate.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm not complaining about anything here.
I'm just, I'm just telling you that.
If I can sit here and watch this stuff and not be affected by, but I am.
I think we're all affected by this.
This is our country, these people are ruining.
This is our country, these people don't like.
This is our country.
These people are trying to transform and make it something it was never intended to be.
I find it difficult to forget that when I'm watching these people go through the motions here of their convention.
It bugs me to sit through their lies and their prevarications and their misrepresentations and their their slander and their libel and their all-out allegations against decent people and their effort to destroy people that don't agree with them.
It's like this this leak of what was on their servers.
They don't deny any of it's authentic.
can't.
Like they cannot debate us about ideas.
And their convention is not about ideas.
Their convention is about destroying opposing people who have different ideas.
And then a bunch of Santa Claus type mush.
So I'm just it's a long way of telling you that, yeah, I watched this stuff, but from a far different perspective.
Because twenty-eight years ago, honestly, folks, 28 years ago I'd watch one of these conventions like the conventions of 1988, even the conventions of 1992.
And the Liberal Democrats would be doing what they're doing.
I would think the m I don't have a thing to worry about because the majority of people are not buying this.
Even when the Democrats are winning elections, I was saying they're not buying this.
They're succumbing to something else, like Santa Claus or class envy.
But now we have to deal with the fact that they have succeeded in creating among way too many people a genuine dislike and disrespect for this country.
So when I hear Michelle talk about how it's a great country, and this don't let anybody tell you different.
Keep in mind the perspective and the context.
Yeah, in 2008, she said for the first time in her life she was proud, and that was only because her husband was running.
Okay, so it's eight years later.
She can't run around and keep trashing a country, not after this guy has been transforming it for eight years.
She has to go out and talk about its greatness now.
And who knows, she may actually think that what Obama is doing to the country in this so-called transformation is making it great.
But then you listen to Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders, or any of the other 61 speakers last night, and you don't hear anybody happy about anything.
The wealth gap is bigger than ever, the poor are getting bigger, the middle class is being wiped out, climate change is destroying the planet, college loans are so who's running all these things?
When I hear them complain about student loans, yeah, I laugh, but I get really ticked off.
Who's running that program?
Who is it that refuses to reduce college tuition costs?
Because that's where their buddies work.
The left.
I hear these people whine and moan about how difficult it is and it's unfair for graduates to have such punishing student debt.
Who the hell is doing it to them?
Who the hell has made the college education an albatross around their necks?
These people have.
So yeah, I mean, I try to laugh at it.
But it still makes me mad as it can be.
Because these people are destroying things.
They're destructive and they're succeeding at it.
And they're doing it with the I hope it's unwitting assistance of low information voters who have a stupefying idea of what's going on.
Here is uh Greg and Hayden Idaho back to the phones.
We go, hey, Greg, great to have you with us.
Hello, sir.
Uh great to talk with you, Rush.
I've been a longtime listener all the way back to your TV days.
My wife and I still reminisce about coming up out of the sofa saying that guy's finally saying what we think.
Well, thank you very much.
I I uh uh profoundly appreciate that.
I really do.
Well, hey, I was listening to your monologue this morning, and uh you had mentioned that why hadn't Democrats uh vanquished all the Republicans since the Republicans are to blame uh for everything being so miserable, and I just wanted to say that I I think the answer is is they need Republicans to blame because they do get poor business results.
They always well get poor business results.
Hence they will always need some Republicans to be able to explain to their group um why things are as miserable as they are.
Well, this is true.
They need demons.
There's no question they have demonized somebody uh and they end up blaming somebody for their own policy and personal failures.
What I would like to see is uh Donald Trump being a businessman uh, you know, just do a little business one on one.
I worked for a pipeline company before I retired, and when you were in the boardroom, um you had to talk about your results, and you didn't get to say, hey, I'm trying real hard, sorry.
Um you had to produce.
And I think uh Trump could very simply explain about how you know business results work and then point out the metrics like he did in, you know, he did some of that in his speech and just keep hammering.
Well, wait a minute.
I want to understand what you're saying.
What is he not doing?
Well, you're not hearing that you you want him to correct, or what is he what is he saying that that's not correct?
Um need you to clarify about what are you talking?
Yeah, what I what I mean is it's actually giving the metrics like when you talk about that uh for instance uh blacks are now fifty-eight percent increase and in there being on food stamps, you know.
I mean, you could go through a list of performance metrics that really describe, and I would point right to the minority groups because that's the Democratic constituency, and you just keep repeating those numbers that the results are bad, and yet you people keep voting for this guy and then pivot and say, Oh, I'm gonna change this.
I see what you well see, um yeah, I have advocated that too.
And I can tell you that in my own inimitable fashion and style, I've done that on this program since its beginning.
And I have had the occasion several times talking to devout Democrats here, and I've given them these numbers.
I've asked the question, it's been fifty years that they've been voting in locked up with the Democrat Party, and I hear them as complaining as ever, I hear them angry as ever, I hear them as unsatisfied as ever, and I've asked them at what point are you gonna hold them accountable?
They've been promising you the rose garden for 50 years.
They've been promising you the end of this, the end of that, and we're no near well, yeah, you're angrier than ever.
And so you're you're the the question is even when you hold up the results to them, even when you point out the African Americans, since this group you're talking about unemployment rate, or the percentages of the population that don't have a dad at home, or how many on food stamps.
Even when you pound the results, the Democrats have succeeded in making them think, well, at least they're trying, and the Republicans don't care.
And so the Democrats retort to this has always been ignore the results and examine our intentions.
Because virtually everything they've supported and promoted to fix all this inequality is bombed big time.
The war on poverty, big failure.
A big failure.
The effort to play Santa Claus for everybody, no matter what, it's a big failure.
We're 19 trillion dollars in debt.
The evidence is abundant, and yet, whenever there is a crisis, what do the American people do?
They turn to government and demand, you fix it, you fix it.
And who are they telling that to?
The people who broke it.
It's one of the very frustrating things.
But the Democrats have succeeded in a light of psychological ops.
They have succeeded in branding, and don't forget part and parcel this having the media uh on your side to make your case every day, both pro and con.
And so you're not supposed to look at the results.
You're only supposed to look at the intentions.
And on that score, the Democrats win every time because the conventional wisdom is the Democrats, well, at least they care.
At least they care, at least they're trying to help you Republicans.
Well, you don't even care.
You only care about the one percent of Wall Street.
You don't even really care.
You care about Halliburton, you care about going to war, but you don't care about me.
And the Democrats have succeeded.
I remind you again, the exit poll data, 2012 question cares about people like me.
Obama, 81 percent, Romney, 19.
See, I that's I think I think one of the advantages of Trump is that stuff doesn't matter anymore.
Because I don't think people look at Trump that Trump is not seen as one of those Republicans.
Trump is at the moment exempt.
I guess I saw these signs of the convention last night, and they have three words.
Each word on top of the other.
Love Trump's hate.
Okay?
Now, the first place, if you see those signs in mass from a distance, what you actually see is love Trump.
Not love Trumps.
You don't see the S. But where did it become automatic that Trump is a hater?
You see, Trump.
We've known Donald Trump for 30 years or more.
Donald Trump's been in the public eye for 30 years.
He's been hosting his TV shows.
He has been on every news show there is.
Donald Trump is everywhere.
Donald Trump's one of the biggest celebrities in this country.
And only when he started running for office that he all of a sudden become a racist.
For 30 years, nobody called Donald Trump a racist racist.
For 30 years, nobody ever said Donald Trump hated anybody.
Fact, it's exact opposite.
But now Donald Trump is the Republican presidential nominee, and guess what?
Automatic racist.
And he hates.
This is what the Democrats are going to do.
So you have the sign Love Trump's hate.
What hate?
Who does Trump hate?
Don't do it hate anybody.
Trump loves people of this country, and it's patently obvious.
And Trump is not a racist, but he has become one.
So this is the way they do things.
And this is one of the things that that is, I don't want to say depressing.
But how are they able to make these low information people believe this?
People that have been following Donald Trump, people have been watching The Apprentice, people that have been aware of Trump for 30 years, and all of a sudden the Democrat Party starts calling him a racist, and bamboo.
He's a racist.
Except that he isn't.
But that's their technique.
That's how they how they go about it.
Grab soundbite number 28.
You know who Alexander Pelosi is?
Nancy Pelosi's daughter.
She's a filmmaker.
I remember when I heard that George W. Bush granted her permission to follow him around during his campaign.
Pelosi's daughter.
And somebody's, oh shit, Alexandria, you want to follow for your documentary on HBO?
Absolutely.
I'm saying, what in the world?
Do you realize you're just gonna have a hit piece on your campaign on HBO from Pelosi's daughter?
And for the most part it was.
So now she's been made this, because of this, she's she's her own.
Well, she has a media profile.
I don't know how high it is, but she's she's bopping around Philadelphia now, and she's got a new HBO special coming called Meet the Donors Does Money Talk.
Meet the Donors Does Money Talk.
So she was on CNN this morning on one of their uh early morning news programs, John Berman was the host, and said, uh, really, you're doing a documentary on money and politics?
Really, we didn't know that.
I mean, you're kidding us, right?
But this convention, what you see is you see money.
And you didn't see it in Ohio, because they weren't really out there for Trump.
You know, the big donors haven't been behind Trump up till now.
Now he's recruiting them, but Hillary's gonna need these people to pay the bill to run all those ads to talk about how Donald Trump's gonna destroy America.
That's where the billions of dollars are gonna go into these terrible ads.
Who's paying for those ads?
What are they doing here?
They're having parties.
Snoop Dogg is here, Fergie is here, Lady Gaga is here.
I mean, this is where this is like prime time good parties that they're having at this convention.
So you see, what's having a Democrat Party is hip and it's cool.
They got Snoop Dogg, they've got Fergie of the black-eyed piece.
They have Lady Gaga, who just broke up with her boyfriend, the fireman guy.
It's a tragedy.
And they got all these people paying all this money to see all of these celebrities, And Trump's got bupcas.
So what's happening here?
This is really cool.
And the rest of you people out there, you're not really in touch because you're not cool, but we Democrats, we're cool.
We got Lady Gaga, minus her fireman guy boyfriend.
We got Fergie, we got Snoop Dogg.
What's Trump got?
Nothing.
Except Trump is a bigger celebrity than all three of these people ever just mentioned.
Here's Jillian Assange.
This is NBC Nightly News last night's Skype interview.
Remember, he's holed up in the Ecuador Assembly in London.
He's a fugitive from justice.
And this is question from uh Richard Engel.
Look, Julian, three cybersecurity experts told us that the DNC emails were hacked by Russian intelligence, and that's who gave them to you.
What do you say about that?
Well, there's no proof of that whatsoever.
We have not disclosed our source.
And of course, this is a diversion that's being pushed uh by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Make no look, this guy doesn't like Republicans.
I don't want anybody at the wrong idea.
He just doesn't like Hillary because she thinks he's a warmonger.
And uh and a couple of other reasons too.
But he is saying, look, there's no proof of that whatsoever.
He's not denying it.
He said, you just can't prove it the Russians gave it to me.
And you know, we haven't disclosed the source.
He said it doesn't matter.
Nobody's disputing the evidence, and the evidence is that these people rigged the game.
When I saw Elizabeth Folkahattas last night told her rigged game.
And then I heard her say, Hillary Clinton wants to take the money out of.
Well, I saw that, I laughed my ass off, and then I started, and then I knew what was coming.
Citizens United.
Hillary Clinton will turn back citizens.
Do you know what the Citizens United case is, folks?
Do you know what really that was about?
The Citizens United Citizens United's a pack.
They made a movie criticizing Hillary Clinton, and she didn't like it, and she went to court with her supporters to try to prevent anybody raising money to run critical media of her.
Of course, it's about much broader things than that.
But that was why and remains why Hillary Clinton's fit to be tied over this.
Mike in New Orleans, we've got about a minute here.
I wanted to make sure I got to you.
Thank you for calling.
Hi.
Thank you, sir.
It's a pleasure and an honor to speak with you.
Great to have you.
Uh I am a senior computer science major, and I just had a couple comments about the whole uh Russian hacking thing.
Okay.
Uh uh, I'm about as convinced that it was the Russians as you are.
As far as I'm concerned, it could be any one of the 10 million people on this planet.
Uh I I'm a big computer nerd.
Like I said, I'm a computer science major.
I'm a senior in college right now.
And on top of that, I've done quite a bit of hacking of myself in the past.
And I I'm not going to claim to have uh the huge hacks and if I and if I did, I wouldn't be discussing it with you right now.
But what I do want to say is uh you're talking 101 here.
One of the first things that you do is you mask or you spoof your appearance.
I have thought whenever you're hacking.
See, exactly, exactly.
We are sadly out of time here, but get Mr. Snerdley, get his number and see if we can talk to him on Friday.
Open line Friday.
Everybody, have you noticed?
Every cybersecurity, oh yeah, the Russians left signs.
Oh, yeah.
We were able to track it right back to the GRU.
Oh, yeah.
The still Russians left is that what hackers do?
I mean, it may well be the Russians, but there's there's every bit of common sense argument that it might not be either, folks.
We don't know yet.
You know, I have a piece of information here from Nate Silver.
Yesterday predicted that there is a 58% tran a chance that Trump wins, but I left out something.
Nate Silver thinks that Trump is gonna win Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Iowa, Nevada, and New Hampshire.
And I'll fill in the blanks tomorrow.
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