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Aug. 2, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 2, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
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Just a little housekeeping here to acknowledge what has found its way into the uh the mainstream media today.
We announced early this morning that I have decided to keep doing this for four more years.
And I want to be honest with you about well, I'm always honest.
I want to tell you something.
I have in the past six months really been going back and forth uh on whether or not I wanted to keep doing this or move on to something else or nothing.
And uh it went back and forth in a whole bunch of different ways with a bunch of different input and a lot of soul searching.
It's been 28 years.
We're starting our 29th now.
And uh well, I don't do this for any reason other than uh I love it.
Uh one thing that was not a factor in my decision was the what else is there.
Uh I never said to myself, okay, you've there's nothing left you have to prove.
There's nothing left you have to accomplish.
That was not part of my thinking.
As I told you yesterday, uh I still don't think I've done a perfect program.
As I told you yesterday, I walk out of here after the end of many programs, trouble to one degree or another, it could have been better.
I figured if I still think that, if I still feel that way, uh, then that was in the column to uh to keep going.
Uh but it eventually, it eventually came down to uh being honest with myself about uh what I love and the great good fortune I've had to be able to do what I love at a high degree of success.
And I don't feel old, I don't feel worn out, I don't feel none of none of that.
So I decided to keep doing it.
Uh because there's nothing I love more, and there's nothing that could replace it.
Even being on TV occasionally, which would not be a replacement or anything of the sort.
So uh four more years uh is what the release didn't specify that because I I told everybody involved I don't want any terms announced.
I have never, by the way, released that kind of information about my arrangement here.
Uh those numbers have always come from other people.
My parents, my dad always told me you never talk about it, son.
It was a sign of good manners, bad manners, class and no class.
And I've I've uh I've never forgotten it.
It's kind of a joke for people to throw out numbers anyway, because I don't earn a salary.
You know, that this is uh my this is another thing, by the way, that keeps this fresh and young.
Uh I have to perform every quarter, every six months, every year.
Uh the the there's no salary involved here.
So throwing out numbers with this kind of is misleading uh in the in the first place.
But I just wanted to confirm what everybody had seen in the uh in the media.
Um even though it doesn't need to be confirmed because it's official, I'm quoted there.
Uh I said, I really want to be here, folks, if the Russians find Hillary's emails.
I mean, when it comes down to it, that's why I rolled the dice and hung in.
Can you imagine if that day ever comes?
Speaking of which, Julian Assange at WikiLeaks claims that there are a whole lot more emails coming.
And he says that they are about Benghazi, but not so much what you think of when you hear Benghazi.
Have have any of you ever stopped to ask yourself, what were we doing there?
I mean, okay, we have just wiped out Qaddafi, And terrorism rose up in that country out of control.
It was a hellhole.
It was a dangerous place to be.
There was no reason to have a State Department or CI, well, State Department annex anywhere near an embassy in Benghazi.
There was no reason for it diplomatically, particularly in the aftermath of having ousted Qaddafi, which Hillary Clinton to this day claims was a major foreign policy achievement.
Well, you may have heard over the course of the recent past, a few years or so, that there was actually a gun running operation going on out of Benghazi.
Have you heard that?
I have.
I have heard it I don't know how many times in different ways, and the upshot of it is that we, the United States, were running weapons to the Syrian rebels.
I is this we were running weapons to Islamic jihadists in Syria, ostensibly supporting their position in the civil war.
When you hear the rebels in Syria, the anti uh sadists and so forth, you're not supposed to think terrorists are ISIS, and that the ambassador Stevens was there to ensure the free flow of military armaments from the United States to Syria.
Well, now, with the uh the apparent eminent release of more emails from WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and he's intimating that the emails he has back this up, we won't know until and if said email release actually happens.
But a lot of people have put a lot of stock in these, I guess you call them rumors uh up to now about what we were doing in Benghazi because of what did happen because of the four Americans who died in Benghazi because of the lackadaisical attitude of Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton, the deaths of which we're not supposed to talk about now, and we're not supposed to have any sympathy for the parents of those people who died.
Isn't that interesting?
We're not supposed to even think about it, we're not supposed to have any sympathy whatsoever for Patricia Smith or any of the others whose family members perish there because of government incompetence.
You know, I I chuckle at the president's out there.
He's doing a joint press conference today with the uh head honcho in Singapore.
And, you know, this has to be planned, and even if it wasn't planned, it was going to happen.
Obama is using the occasion of this to bash Trump out the wazoo.
Uh one of the questions he got was about the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
And because that's why one of the reasons for the press conference is Singapore uh head honcho would benefit from this.
And Obama attempting to give that trade deal credibility, so, well, hey, you know what?
I'm president, I'm for it.
Now, this is after he has just onloaded on Trump as indecent, as unfit, as incompetent, as dangerous.
You know what I watched on CNN today?
They were promoting, I don't know if it actually happened.
They were promoting an upcoming round table between Bloomberg people and others on the question of whether Donald Trump is actually insane.
They're actually going to have a round table on Trump's state of mind, whether he's sane or not.
The word insanity, I saw it in the graphic.
So if people have been watching CNN in the morning, they see Obama come out, and he starts going on and on and on about how Trump is unfit and he's uh not got the right temperament, and he's unqualified.
And he also said, how can you Republicans continue to support this guy?
How can you possibly do it?
And then to explain the lackadaisical lackluster Economy, Obama said, hey, you know what?
I can't help it, it's a global economy.
I really can't.
So why we got a guy making an excuse for not being able to do something.
He didn't say eight years ago he wasn't going to be able to fix the economy because it's global.
What he means is, hey, it's so big it's global.
Our economy is just a drop in the bucket compared to the global economy.
I can't control a global economy.
And if I can't control a global economy, I can't control a U.S. economy.
Wait a minute.
Eight years ago, the sea levels were gonna what?
Sea levels were gonna, they were gonna come down.
The planet was going to heal.
Uh there was gonna be love and utopia everywhere.
And of course, none of what Obama projected, none of what he promised, none of the pictures he painted have come anywhere near being true.
And we have to hear how Donald Trump is unfit.
After this bunch takes policies that puts weapons in the hands of Mexican drug cartels, fast and furious, after this bunch, irresponsibly, whatever they were doing in Benghazi blew up, and four Americans died, and then they lied about why and continue to, and now they are embarking on a campaign to sully and destroy the reputations of the surviving parents of those four.
And we have to hear how Trump is unfit.
We have to hear how Trump is not suitable.
We have to hear how Trump is not stable or what have you.
And now we have all of a sudden the reason why our economy is growing at barely one percent.
Well, I can't help it, it's a global economy.
Wait a minute, you were gonna control everything.
You were gonna fix everything.
Just your presence in Washington was gonna make the rest of the world bow down and demand and agree to whatever demands or requests that you made.
What happened to all of that?
Where are the objective standards of measurement and analysis of Obama's presidency?
They don't exist.
As far as the drive-by's are concerned, he sounds like he's a Harvard educated guy.
He has intellectual speak down pet, so that's all you need.
He's smart.
Whatever he does, doesn't matter how bad, doesn't matter how wrong, he's smart.
And that's all we care about.
And Trump, why Trump's bordering on insane?
Trump's uncontrollable, he's unpredictable.
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
He's unsuitable, he's unfit, he's ill-tempered.
So this is where we are.
The incumbents are making flimsy excuses for their failures while being covered by the drive-by media and having failures converted into success stories.
All the while, by the way, not complaining, because everybody knew this was going to happen.
The Trump people should have known this was gonna happen.
What do you think, Mr. Snerdley?
Couple questions here.
Ask Mr. Snerdley and you.
What do you think of Trump saying that he fears the election's already rigged?
You thought it was lame.
Why do you think Trump said it?
I'm asking all of you.
Because he honestly does think the election's rigged.
Well, he was bouncing off what happened to crazy Bernie, who we know was cheated.
I mean, we know.
We've got the emails, WikiLeaks, the document.
No, we know the Democrat National Committee cheated.
And by the way, I didn't get a chance to get into this yesterday, although I intended to.
That whole game, the coronation and nomination of Hillary Rodham, that was done in 2008 after Obama won the presidency.
That deal was put together back then.
I have no doubt, folks, Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz being put in charge of the Democrat National Committee coming over from running parts of Obama's campaign.
There's no question the fix was in.
I don't care if any of you out there want to tell me I don't know what I'm talking about.
You don't.
I know exactly what happened here.
I know exactly what 2008 was going to be until Obama decided he wanted to run.
2008 was when what's happening now was supposed to happen.
Hillary was promised.
2008 was hers.
They owed her.
They owed her big time for saving her husband and thus saving the Democrat Party, saving his president.
They owed her big time.
But then they got snookered.
Obama decided he wants to run.
Now they've got a choice.
The young black guy or the old nurse ratchet.
What do we do?
And the choice was easy.
They threw Hillary overboard.
And she was livid.
And she still held a lot of testicles in the lockbox.
And I'm telling you, she was guaranteed this year would be her nomination.
And they would do whatever it took.
You don't wonder why Biden didn't actually run.
You wonder why only crazy Bernie ran?
I mean, this should have been wide open.
Who do we have?
We have Crazy Bernie of Jim Webb, we had that guy from O'Malley.
Where people said the Democrat Party didn't have a very deep bench, meaning they don't have any young talent out.
They do.
Well, they did on paper, they had the Castro brothers down there in San Antonio.
Uh they could have repeated first black president with first Hispanic, but there's any number of Democrats out there.
Corey Burke, what Elizabeth Warren, why didn't she run?
I mean, there's any number of people out there that are much more popular than Hillary Clinton that poll much better than Hillary Clinton, have much less baggage than Hillary Clinton.
Where were they?
Why were the debates placed on Saturday night?
Why do they want the debates now?
Opposite NFL games.
Because Hillary can't she can't win campaigning.
The only hope they've got, and I mean the only hope, and they they appear to be pulling it off now.
The only hope they've got is to destroy Trump because she cannot win this on her own.
I think what they're angling for, I think they are trying to tape Trump out right now.
I think they're trying to dispirit, destroy the Trump campaign right now.
I think they are angling.
I think their objective here is to see to it that it gets so bad that there aren't any debates, they just cancel them.
Because they can't agree to move them from the conflict with the NFL.
People say, well, nobody's gonna see the debates.
We can't.
And rather than move the debates, just gonna decide not to do it, because that would be the most beneficial thing for Hillary is to have there be no debates.
So I may be getting a little ahead of myself there, but I'm telling you this whole thing was cooked and baked in in 2000.
So they cheat.
So we've got this this email dump coming, we're back to Benghazi.
Why were we there?
Trump's saying that he thinks the election's rigged.
I hope he's not making excuses.
I hope that he's not trying to evoke sympathy.
I hope that he's not saying this as a head start on explaining why he lost.
I hope that some people think that's what he's doing.
I hope that's not what it is.
Some people think, you know, he's he can seriously to T. Lee's rush, he's already established and giving it on paper why he lost.
He didn't lose because of him.
No, he's cheated out of it.
That's what hope that's not what's going on.
But if there's an if if this is a actually political strategic move, tactical move, to elicit sympathy that they hope to convert to support.
That's not how politics works.
You don't you don't get support by people feel sorry for you or thinking that you're the object of dirty tricks, and so we're gonna really come out and defend you and promote that's not how it works.
But I'll I'll amplify on that more as the program unfolds.
Right now I have to take an obscene profit timeout.
Don't go away.
Okay, I got two sound bites here.
Can I no, I'm not gonna be able to get them both in.
Which one's more important to them?
Okay, let's just play the first one, and we'll tempt you to they're both Obama.
I was just referring to his press conference.
Here's the first soundbite from it.
I think the Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president.
I said so last week, and he keeps on proving it.
This is not just my opinion.
I think what's been interesting is the repeated denunciations Of his statements by leading Republicans, including the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, and prominent Republicans like John McCain.
And the question I think that they have to ask themselves is if you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?
So now the pressure is being brought to bear from the White House to the Republican establishment guys who are attempting to stand firm on their principles.
Obama's not saying your principles aren't worth diddly squat till you condemn this guy, until you talk back and take back your endorsement.
See, they're not getting any credit from the people they want credit from for this highly principled position, are they?
So I'm asking myself if I can recall, and I will ask you.
Can you recall ever in your lifetime an incumbent outgoing president being this involved in the presidential campaign to replace him?
I can't.
I know George H.W. Bush, well, he was running for re-election.
George W. Bush, nothing like this.
Reagan didn't get involved after his two terms.
Uh there haven't been any den Obama's the first Democrat two-term president in many, many moons.
So I I don't remember this is unprecedented.
And I'm just folks, I predicted this.
This is exactly, in fact, let me remind you, this is exactly what he's gonna do after the election.
I don't care who wins.
If Hillary starts trying to unravel what he did, this is what he's gonna do.
He's gonna call a press conference, he'll put together an event of former world leaders, he'll bring him to Washington under the auspices of some excuse, and they'll have a meeting and he'll go to the microphones and be interviewed, and he's gonna comment.
If Trump wins, it's gonna be every day he's gonna be out there.
This is unprecedented what Obama did today and what he's been doing.
No president ever gets this deep.
And don't tell me that it's because Obama cares about the country.
It's not about that at all.
Obama is worried about his legacy and his agenda becoming unraveled if Trump were to win this thing.
You know, it won't take much.
If Trump does win this thing, it won't take much to lift the veil of what's really gone on the past eight years.
The American people will be informed what's really gone on in Washington that the media didn't tell them.
And I don't mean scandal.
I mean the cynicism behind everything.
I mean lifting the veil on who these people really are.
They're not the nice, sweet, thoughtful, tolerant, compassionate people.
These people in private make as much fun of gay people and African Americans as anybody else ever has.
And when they get caught on it, isn't it amazing how it just kind of vanishes?
Well, they don't really mean it.
Well, it was a moment in time, maybe they had too much to drink, it's not really who they are and so forth.
Yeah, covered up for.
But they're they're these people are not the angels.
I'm talking about leftists and Democrats that everybody thinks they are.
They joke, they make stereotypical jokes like anybody else does.
Look at their comedians.
Except they don't think they're comedians are comedians.
They think they're comedians are actually policymakers.
That's why they don't have any sense of humor.
They do not understand humor that is at their expense.
But I'm convinced that when these people were watching the Daily Show, they weren't, they weren't watching a comedy show in their mind.
They might have been laughing.
They were watching what they thought was real as representative what the Democrat Party, what progressivism is, or whatever it is, and they were watching how it's implemented and how it's conducted and how it's practiced, and how you go out and you destroy your enemies.
The laughter was a secondary thing.
The West Wing, remember that TV show?
I mean, the joke was that liberals, that happened when Bush was in the White House.
That So there were people that actually, we made jokes that people on the left actually believed that what's his face?
What's his uh estimates?
What's this?
Martin Sheen was actually the president.
They pretended they lost themselves in it.
Anyway, I'm gonna play these two Obama sound bites back to back now rather than separate them because they they go together.
And it's it's Obama going all in at a press conference today with the Prime Minister of the President, I forget his title of Singapore.
Uh the president got a question during a QA from the CBS correspondent Margaret Brennan.
She said, given the Republican nominee's recent comments about the Khan family and his statement that if President he would consider recognizing Russia's annexation of Crimea, does it make you question his fitness to be president?
Yes.
I think the Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president.
I said so last week, and he keeps on proving it.
This is not just my opinion.
I think what's been interesting is the repeated denunciations of his statements by leading Republicans, including the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, and prominent Republicans like John McCain.
And the question I think that they have to ask themselves is if you are repeatedly having to say, in very strong terms, that what he has said is unacceptable.
Why are you still endorsing it?
I was right in the hold.
No, no, no.
I didn't I'm so I didn't mean playing back to back.
I just meant we're gonna play both of them.
I I want to comment on this.
I I don't doubt that some of these Republicans that he's quoting here, McCain and Ryan and McConnell.
I mean, uh they're out there speaking on principle, but they're also out there trying to protect their their turf.
I mean, this is insider versus outsider.
We all know what's going on.
But one of the observations I've always made is these establishment Republicans to me always seeking the approval of Democrats.
They're always seeking to be seen by Democrats as not your typical racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe Republican.
And so they go out and they say things, they do things, they propose walking across the aisle, they propose uh things like green with the president on amnesty.
All designed to get credit from the media, from the Democrats and all that, as solid, decent people.
So here they are, dutifully denouncing Trump, positioning themselves supposedly as above the fray, and what's the result?
Obama hammers them.
Obama doesn't praise him, not in the end.
Obama doesn't hoist him up and say these are great guys.
You Republicans, you could be proud of any one of these guys as your president.
He doesn't do that.
He calls them out.
He says, okay, so fine.
You go out there and you say Trump's unsuited.
Big whoop.
How come you're still endorsing him?
See, you can't please him.
You can make them love you.
You can't make them say you're okay.
It never is going to happen.
And that is proof of it.
I'm sure they thought that they had uh distinguished themselves well in their publicly stated repugnance of the nominee, Donald J. Trump.
But Obama not having any of it doesn't impress him.
I mean, that guy keeps saying what he says, and you you until you pulled your endorsement, you aren't gonna impress me.
Here's the next bite, and this in this bite, you're gonna hear Obama essentially suggest that he will not accept a Trump presidency.
I was right in Mitt Romney and John McCain were wrong on certain policy issues, but I never thought that they couldn't do the job.
How big is and had they won, I would have been disappointed, but I would have said to all Americans, this is our president.
Oh man.
And I know they're gonna abide by certain norms and rules and common sense.
Big if we'll observe basic decency.
How big will have enough knowledge about economic policy and foreign policy and our constitutional traditions and rule of law.
Big of that.
Our government will work.
And then we'll compete four years from now to try to win an election.
But that's not the situation here.
Man is this guy Magneto.
Holy cow is this guy really well mannered.
Did you hear that?
He, Barack Hussein the first, decrees that, yeah, they're okay.
I wouldn't have been happy.
But at least they're gonna abide by the norms and the rules and the common sense that I have.
I think these guys, even though I think they're dog doo-doo on policy, I don't agree with a single single thing they say, but they have decency.
They know enough about economic policy and foreign policy.
Not to totally screw it up.
What arrogance.
What ryebald naked bold arrogance to talk about McCain and Romney this way.
This is not complimentary.
This is not accommodating.
This is not inclusive.
This is not Obama.
You know, those guys in the same club, I'm we all know what it takes.
This is Obama saying, look, I'm special.
I'm the most special that's ever been here.
These other chumps, yeah, well, they wouldn't have embarrassed us very much.
We could have tolerated them.
But this guy, Trump, there is no way.
This is stunning.
I mean, Obama, he actually betrayed himself for who he really is in that second fight.
You hang tough.
We're coming back and continuing right after this.
I'll tell you, folks, I've never seen anything like this in my entire life now.
Obama is completely undermining our system of government where power is passed from one party to the other or kept within the party, but it's done peacefully, gracefully, cheerfully.
Uh what's Obama gonna do if if Trump wins, he's Trump's uh Trump is his uh is is unsuitable.
Trump Trump is uh what was the word Trump is he won't accept it's unacceptable.
Well, what's he gonna do if Trump wins?
And by the way, not fit.
This is the guy that oversaw the Iranian nuclear deal that arranges for Iran to have nuclear weapons, and we freeze or we release 150 billion dollars frozen assets that John Kerry acknowledges is going to be spent on terrorism.
This is a man who lied through his teeth how many times about Obamacare in order to get it passed.
A man of the absolute worst economic recovery since 1949.
There essentially isn't one.
And Trump's unacceptable.
Romney and McCain, well, well, we can accept them, but I mean, there's still no great shakes, but at least, you know, they're not they're not insane like Trump is.
I mean, that's that's the inference that you are to draw from Obama's comments.
It's it's unprecedented, so much is unprecedented.
This is another reason, folks, why I I was so excited to uh at what when I actually sat down and thought about it, because I did.
I I went back and forth.
I even told a number of my friends that I was unsure what I wanted to do.
But time went on and I I I just concluded that it's you never know what's coming next.
It's it's so unpredictable.
Anything can happen, usually does.
And I tried to imagine myself looking at a day like this, not having this program.
Oh, it would be torture.
It would be torture.
I would be calling people, hey, can you give me five minutes?
I gotta say something.
I'm the guy that turns down those requests now.
So I figured if I've been gonna do that, I may as well just hold on to this because it's blessing to be able to do what you're born to do and to be successful at it.
I wish everybody could experience it.
Anyway, let me grab the phones because I want to get to them here in the first hour.
Some people want to uh weigh in.
There's a there's I I want to dig deeper into what Trump's doing here by uh claiming the election's rigged and claiming the fire marshals are closing the doors at his arenas before they fill up and uh calling Hillary the devil.
You know, we we have experience that we uh we did a parody song once at Tom Dashell, uh referring to him as El Diablo, and man, uh a bunch of people we'd never heard of came out of the walls in a woodwork to give us some static over that.
People take that seriously.
Call somebody Satan, call somebody the devil, call somebody Lucifer, except when Alinsky does it, then it's no big deal.
But what other people do, wow, gets people's backs up, get really, really offended out there.
And usually it's the people who don't believe in God.
They get all ticked off when you call them El Diablo or Satan.
Here's uh here's Amy in Colorado Springs, your first today.
I'm glad you called, and it's great to have you here.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, great to talk to you.
Just a couple real quick points.
Um the first is about the whole con controversy.
Um, you know, I'm a military wife, and I totally honor their son's sacrifice, but I don't think that gave them or him the right to bash on Trump the way he did, because it's not Trump's fault.
Um, you know, and I understand their pain as a family uh being a military wife, but still it doesn't give them the right to do that.
And Trump when you hit Trump, you're gonna get hit back, and you have to expect that.
And now he wants out, but there's no way he's getting out now.
Who you're talking about, you're talking about Conn wants out.
Yeah, he in an interview he said, Oh, I want out of the spotlight now.
Yeah, yeah.
Uh, yeah.
But I think he you know he still wants in.
All that means it's mission.
Khan wants to get out be f before there's too much scrutiny.
He wants to get out where the timing is still focused on Trump and not him.
Mission accomplished.
They got what they wanted there.
By the way, speaking of which, Professor John Banzaff, who is no conservative.
I remember watching this guy on crossfire way back long ago, trying to get smoking outlawed a bunch of other crazy things, wanting the government to do everything.
I remember Pat Buchanan just reaming this guy.
John Banzaff, who is a law professor, George Washington University, says, quote, virtually all constitutional scholars agree that Muslim immigration ban would be legal.
That Trump is not violating the Constitution.
And Trump is not even suggesting a ban of all Muslims.
He just wants to increase the vetting procedures.
But even if there were a ban, it would not be unconstitutional.
It might be unhelpful, it might be uncool, but it wouldn't be unconstitutional.
Anyway, your second point, Amy.
Well, I wanted to say thank you for what you do.
Um my dad was a staunch Republican back in the 80s, I grew up, and um one of my favorite memories with him is listening to you on the radio while we were in the car.
So you gave me one of my favorite memories of my dad, and I just want to thank you for what you do every day.
You're awesome.
I am well, thank you always for that.
I love these stories.
I mean, you're you're uh well, we have a term for you, is rush baby.
I mean, you're you listened to this program when you were young with your with your parents, and here you still are.
You still are, it's fabulous.
I take it as a great compliment, so I thank you.
Okay, Amy, thanks much.
I guess that's that.
And it's good because we've reached the end of time for this busy broadcast hour.
So sit tight.
We're back.
We will continue in mere moments.
Don't go anywhere.
I have four, I think it's four incredible stories of The out of control realm of political correctness in our country today.
These are unbelievable, except that they are true.
They actually happened.
They are happening.
It is.
Let me just give you an example.
Just give you a headline example.
Federal Appeals Court, this is a federal appellate court, has upheld criminal charges against a 13-year-old for burping in class.
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