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Aug. 3, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 3, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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You know, look at this headline here, folks.
It's from the Associated Press, the revered, the veneered, and respected Associated Press.
Ready for this headline?
In a blow to Republican unity, Trump refuses to back Ryan or McCain.
In a blow to Republican.
Over here, I have a story of all these Republicans saying they're going to support and help Hillary.
And over here, I have a story headline to the AP, in blow to Republican unity, Trump refuses to back Ryan McCain.
And they're giddy.
Oh, they're excited.
The AP is.
Welcome back, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, the cool Rush Limbaugh here, the hip Il Rush Board 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
I'm not kidding.
The Politico.
I mean, they're hooting and hollering here.
HP CEO, Hewlett-Packard CEO, Meg Whitman, backs Clinton, denounces demagogue Trump.
Hewlett Packard CEO and prominent Republican fundraiser, Meg Whitman, pledged her support to Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, casticating Trump, labeling him a demacog, a demagogue for good measure.
In a phone interview with the New York Times, Whitman promised to donate a substantial amount to Hillary's campaign to help her oppose Trump, whom she claimed undermined the character of the nation.
She said, I will vote for Hillary.
I will talk to my Republican friends about helping her.
And I will donate to her campaign and try to raise money for her.
Really?
Donald Trump is undermining the character of the nation?
Bill Clinton didn't do that.
Barack Hussein Obama doesn't do that.
Half of the Democrat Party's protest constituent groups don't do that.
You seriously, Ms. Whitman, want to talk about undermining the character of America and focus on Trump?
I mean, he may be a lot of things, but Donald Trump has not done one thing that detracts from the character or the reputation of this country for crying out loud.
I can give you a list of Democrats who you seem to want to sidle up to who are doing their level best to destroy this country as it was founded, who are doing their level best to transform this country away from its intentions as founded for crying out loud.
And by the way, they have a huge list.
The Washington Post has listed all of these highly respected, dignified Republicans who, as a matter of principle, cannot support Trump.
And they are heralded and they are celebrated.
And I'm telling you, when every Trump supporter sees about this, it just cements them tighter with Trump.
Richard Hanna, Republican, New York, moderate Republican retiring this year.
I think he's one of the few actual officeholder Republicans to denounce Trump.
Henry Paulson, Hank Paulson, the Treasury Secretary of the bailout era.
Richard Armitage, who leaked Valerie Plain's name and got away with scooter Libby being sent to jail for it.
Brent Skolcroft.
Alan Steinberg, a former administrator.
Doug Elmitz, former Reagan spokesman, Jim Saccone, Charles Freed, Robert Kagan, Max Boot, Peter Mansoor, Larry Pressler, Arnie Carlson, and Robert Smith, a former judge on New York's highest court, the Court of Appeals.
It's actually a kind of pathetic list.
I mean, that's it.
I mean, that's it.
That's the Washington Post list of GOP watchdogs who are treasonously abandoning the Republican Party.
I thought all these people were saying they feared for the party.
They wanted to rebuild the party.
How do you do that?
By giving money to Hillary Clinton.
How do you rebuild the Republican Party?
These are the same people that told us, us Tea Partiers and us conservatives, every four years they told us we had a duty to hold our nose and support the nominee.
They told us that we had a responsibility to handle our losses with dignity and remain unified and support the party, be it for the presidential nominee or any other office holder.
And look at these cut and run experts.
Now, these are the people claiming that they wanted to save the party from Trump.
They wanted to do what I couldn't stand by and watch Trump take down and destroy the GOP.
So what's their recipe?
Publicly announce that they are going to support Hillary Clinton.
Some of them publicly announced they're going to donate to Hillary Clinton.
And then others, in addition to all that, publicly announced they're going to help her.
They're going to advise her.
Republicans.
This is why there is a Trump.
And then the other AP story.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's refusing to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator John McCain, two of the party's most powerful members.
He also ripped into New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayat in the same interview with The Washington Post.
All three have primary challengers, and each disapproved of Trump's criticism of the Muslim American parents of an army captain killed in Iraq.
Nice try AP.
Something tells me that Trump's decision to not endorse these candidates happened before the media found out about Khazir Khan and that whole thing happened.
I think Trump has openly expressed his lack of enthusiasm for some of these people long before anybody ever heard of Kazir Khan.
Trump's rebuke to Ryan carried particular derision, says the AP.
Yeah, I'm just not there yet, Trump said in an interview with the Washington Post, closely echoing Ryan's dimboral before he endorsed Trump, telling CNN on May 6th, I'm not there right now.
That's what Ryan said.
Let me check something here.
Is there a, yeah, here it is.
It's on Drudge.
Let me see.
What's it, Hitler?
That's Ryan and Fight for His Life.
I thought I saw a link or headline yesterday that Ryan.
It wasn't something Ryan said.
It was somebody else talking about Ryan.
I know what it was.
Somebody said that they knew that Ryan, if Trump were elected, that Ryan was going to do everything he could to undermine a President Trump.
And I don't remember who that was.
In fact, I didn't even click on the link, so I don't think I ever knew.
I just saw that and I said, well, okay, ask myself, do you want to believe that or not?
And I throw it up in the air.
Yeah, I can believe it.
So here you have a list of, let me count them up.
One, two, it's too many to count.
At least 15 Republicans proudly bragging about defecting and joining and supporting and donating to Hillary.
And the AP, in blow to Republican unity, Trump refuses to back Ryan and McCain.
Ladies and gentlemen, I've had this story here.
Oh, before I get to the story I've had here for a while, I see something else I didn't throw away after I used it.
On Monday, was it Monday?
This is Wednesday, right?
So I hate the sound of paper rattling like that too, so I'm sorry, but what date is this?
Yep, yep, it's Monday.
New York Post ran nude photos of Melania Trump with other women.
Girl on girl, as it is characterized by those who traffic in such puerile interests.
Girl on girl, nude photos of Melania Trump.
And there were, I think, two or three different photos.
I think, I don't know if it's the same woman or different women.
Anyway, I keenly and uniquely observed on this program after having seen these photos, I said, well, that probably wraps up the LGBT vote for Trump.
Now, also on Monday, I had a lot of poignant things to say to you.
It was our 28th anniversary, and I had a tremendous amount of, I said some really, if I say so, if I said some cool things, some very important things, had some brilliant points that I made.
The Politico, in writing about this show on Monday, only focused on my comments on the New York Post nude photos, the Melania Trump girl and girl nude photos, and my comment that it wraps up the LGBT vote for Trump.
They were not happy.
I don't know what they thought it represented, but they just, since I said it, they were instinctively not happy with it.
And I thought I would mention that.
I used to laugh out of this.
Of all the things I said on Monday, some were brilliant, some were unique, some would have been worthwhile quoting in a news-related publication.
But no.
Limbaugh's take on the Melania Trump photos looks like that wraps up the LGBT vote for Trump.
Probably scared them that it might have that impact.
See, they're only used to photos like that helping Bill Clinton.
They're only used to pictures like this helping Democrats, not Republicans.
They're looking at photos like that.
Oh, well, that's it.
We've destroyed Trump now.
We've taken Melanie out.
They found these old model pictures.
And my comment might have reminded, wait a minute, could be just the opposite.
And then there was this.
This was the Washington Post over the weekend.
Now, before I tell you what this is, over the course of the many years that I have hosted this program, I have had extensive commentary on the ugly, to put it bluntly.
We have had commentary on business areas, malls, and shopping areas that I have thought were being unkind by banning the ugly so as to not harm economic activity.
There have been people who have categorized certain Americans as uglo Americans, and we've commented on all of that over the course of the many years of this program.
It's even an undeniable truth of life that has reference to the ugly.
And each time that I have talked about this, and I've come to the defense of the ugly, by the way, I've come to their defense.
And in one such instance, in mocking some of these people who wanted to ban the ugly from the streets in daytime, I asked, well, how are you going to enforce that?
And I said, maybe I have the answer.
Maybe you don't have to enforce it because the ugly know who they are.
Well, as you can imagine, people who do not hear this program in context only hear that sentence when they tune in.
Oh, my God, did he really say, oh, gee, that's outrageous.
That's so typical.
I can't.
And they go off on their mock indignation.
Outrageous, the things that I supposedly say.
And the acknowledgement that the ugly know who they are just they thought was beyond the pitch and see the humor in it.
Well, lo and behold, Washington Post on, what was it, the 26th, so it's actually late last week, a column, headline, stop telling me I'm beautiful.
I'm ugly, and it's fine.
My appearance doesn't define me.
And it's written by a woman named Kristen Salake, social media editor and writer based in New York City.
She says, if you're alive and online, you've seen the Dove Real Beauty ads where people react to being called beautiful.
They smile, they break into tears, and they hug.
These campaigns are meant to make me and all women feel good in their own skin.
But she writes, while I love a good compliment, it doesn't work on me.
I'm ugly, and I know it.
Case closed, folks.
What more do I need to say?
Here is Levi in Jackson, New Jersey.
Levi, great to have you.
I'm glad you waited.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush, for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
I just find it fascinating the contrast between Chelsea Clinton's speech about her kids, they love grandma and Elmo and blueberries, as opposed to Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. speech about real things, construction sites, Caterpillar Tractor, the real world.
It's as if Chelsea Clinton lives in this Candyland world and the Republicans live in the real world.
And I think that should be spoken about more, this tremendous contrast.
What were you expecting or hoping the media would do reporting these two epic speeches?
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking.
Well, I mean, were you expecting them to laud Ivanka?
Were you expecting them to, wow, man, would this woman make a fascinating first daughter?
Were you expecting that?
Were you expecting them to praise her?
Were you expecting them to say, wow, this Chelsea Clinton, kind of like a wet noodle.
Were you expecting them to report that stuff?
No, but I was expecting them maybe to come up with some good lies about what Hillary Clinton has done for children, which she just spoke about and didn't give any examples.
What can they cite?
Oh, she's there to read her grandchildren a book anytime they need her.
That's the children that she advocates for.
I know.
It was bile-inducing.
grant you that but it was it was you know the interesting too and i think people have people have made this compare How about this?
Do you believe that anytime they have an interview with Ivanka, they always ask her about her father's treatment of women?
And when they interview Chelsea, they never bring that up.
Well, I think hopefully Ivanka Trump should take the media on on that precise question that you just said.
That would be fun.
I could go for that.
Yep.
Yep.
I'd report on that if that happened.
I think Trump has to start taking the gloves off on this whole Clinton business.
I agree.
She's the opponent.
She's the target.
And I'm telling you, if you're going to, they're going to put the kids out there.
At some point, the Clintons have really gotten the way.
You can't talk about our dog.
Okay.
Meanwhile, she's out there being paid $600,000 for not knowing anything or doing anything by NBC.
Here's another case.
NBC pays Chelsea 600 grand.
She's never been on TV.
How about if you were at NBC?
You've been working there for 20 years, 15, 10 years.
You're trying to climb the ladder.
You've worked at low, small market towns.
You've done all the reports on what town councils are doing in towns of population of 1,500.
And you've paid your dues.
And then out of nowhere, you see they hire Chelsea Clinton, who's never been on TV, who's never done anything on TV, who has been shielded from TV, and they pay her 600 grand.
Then you realize they're just buying access to the Clintons on the come.
Wherever the Clintons go, NBC is making sure that the Clintons are going to let them tag along.
I mean, if I worked at NBC and had been paying my dues for a lot of years, and by the way, there are very few people at NBC who make 600 grand.
The anchors do.
But after that, there aren't very many people.
I mean, reporters that have been there years don't earn that kind of money.
You'd be surprised.
The big money in TV is for the anchors that read the prompters the best and have a natural talent because of their genetic makeup.
They look good on TV.
I'll give you something to note on TV.
The minute I tell you this, when you start noticing this, it will blow your mind.
There is a subtle requirement for people on TV, and it is a good indicator of whether or not they will be successful.
And success on TV is almost, not all, but a large part of it is whether or not people want to look at you.
It doesn't matter what you're doing.
If you're on TV, people better want to look at you.
Notice how large practically everybody on TV's head is.
You've probably never noticed this, but start looking for it.
Compare it to their shoulders, primarily men.
Now, it's not going to be true of the commentators and the journalists and people they bring in to do commentary, but I mean the actual TV employee, the anchors in that.
You take a note of how big David Muir at ABC is a great example.
It's stunning when you notice it.
Okay, we're back.
El Rushbaugh would have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
The email questions, what's so big a deal about a big head on TV?
Well, there's two things.
It's very subtle.
You don't notice it until I ask you to notice it.
You'll never, that's the point.
A big head is dominant.
And you can notice it.
You don't think there's anything to this until you actually look.
And I'm talking, not everybody on TV, folks.
There's so many on TV now that it doesn't apply.
But I'm talking about to the primo employees, actors in movies.
It's the same thing.
It's two aspects.
The big head dominates.
You subliminally, subconsciously notice it, but it's also this.
The bigger the head, the bigger the eyes.
If you notice, no genuine star on TV appears to have eyelids.
You can see every bit of their eyes.
You see the whites, you see the whole iris, the pupil.
A lot of people have to really make an effort to open their eyes wide so that the whole eyeball can be seen.
You pay attention to this stuff.
These are things that people that hire in movies, television look for, but these are things that you're born with.
You can't, you know, you have no control over whether or not your eyelids cover half of your eyes.
You'd have to go out and get an eyelid addectomy and have them taken out of there.
And that would not be good.
So that's one of the reasons people on TV earn what they earn, because you can't manufacture it.
And you can't train big heads, and you can't train just people liking to look at other people on TV.
You either have that.
Now, you can't inflate a head.
Not literally.
I mean, you can inflate a head with an ego and so, but not literally.
You can't balloon head somebody.
But it's the size of the head and that's the eyes.
Those are the things.
And they subtly work.
They cause you to want to keep watching, or at least not want to watch.
It's a very, very subtle subject.
Did you see Breitbart has a story here?
It's actually a column by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. in a bizarre digression from their latest anti-Christian tirade.
The Islamic State addressed the question of black slavery, claiming that if Muslims had been in charge of Western states like America, the slave trade would have continued.
If Muslims, rather than Christians, had been running things in countries like America.
ISIS argues that in most recent issue of it's got a magazine, by the way, ISIS has a magazine called Dabek.
D-I-B-I-Q.
I don't know.
I don't know if it means beheading or not.
But they claim in their magazine that if they ran America, if they had always run America, the slave trade would be alive and well.
Still.
Of course they see it as a virtue.
I can't wait for this to be reported so that Black Lives Matter sees this and other minority groups that follow.
And I'm sorry, it won't be.
What am I thinking?
Here's Cindy, Waterford, Michigan.
Cindy, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Raj.
Megadidos.
Thank you.
You know, I'm a former HP employee.
I was laid off last week and with 20-plus years of work with them.
What did you do?
What did you do at Hewlett-Packard?
Well, I started as a programmer.
The last seven or eight years, I've been a software tester.
Plus, you're an engineer.
Yes.
Okay.
And one point that I don't think is being made about Meg Whitman's endorsement of Hillary is that HP has a 70% offshore hiring policy.
And Trump has been very vocal about this policy.
Oh, yeah, that's a great point.
Silicon Valley, all those firms are big into the expansion of immigration because they want to be able to do what Disney did.
They want to be able to bring in highly skilled, highly educated foreigners that'll work for dirt to be able to fire their Native American workforce.
That's what they're doing.
Right.
And so Trump is opposed to this.
And so, but Meg Wickman, she doesn't admit that.
She's, oh, this guy's a demagogue.
This guy's horrible.
This guy, this guy would destroy America as we know it.
So she's got to go sidle up to Nurse Ratchet.
So I'm sorry you lost your job.
What are you going to do?
I don't know right now.
I was three years from retirement.
I'm working with my financial advisor to see if I can, if there's any way of retiring now.
If not, I'm going to.
You don't sound nearly old enough to be retiring.
I'm 62 in a week or two.
No kidding.
Yep.
Have you got your first social security check?
No, no.
I'm not supposed to collect Social Security until I'm 66.
66.
So that's why I would like to work three or four more years if I could.
So you live in Waterford, Michigan.
HP has an office there.
They have one in Pontiac.
Pontiac.
It's a neighboring city, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Pontiac.
The Detroit Lions used to play there.
Yay.
So in the silver dome, I think it was.
Yes, it is.
Are you willing to move or do you want to stay in Pontiac?
I'd like to stay where I'm at.
All my family is here, and it would be just a short-term likely.
Is there anything like HP?
Any competing companies that do things that you're qualified to do that you like doing in Pontiac?
Yes, or in the Detroit metro area, there are.
There's some opportunities around.
I've just got to apply.
I'm working with headhunters right now.
Headhunters.
Yeah, that's kind of how you get most of your IT jobs.
Well, I know.
I once did a headhunter thing.
Back when I worked for the Kansas City Royals.
Headhunters are relatively new things, and I had a friend who knew one.
So I had to fly to Dallas to meet this headhunter.
And this guy had this weird quirk that if you had a drink, whatever it was, Coke, water, and your glass sweated and was dripping, if you didn't like that, he didn't like you.
That means you were opposed to nature.
So if you had a napkin under your drink to keep water from dripping on your pants when you picked up the glass, that was a negative point for you with this headhunter.
I'm not kidding.
But anyway, I met with the headhunter for about 30 minutes, and I got a bill for $25,000.
And I was earning $17,000.
And I said, what?
I was working for the Kansas City Royals at the time, and I had some time.
I went down to, I was down in Dallas watching a Steelers pregame with the Cowboys.
And this friend said, come by, I got this headhunter, buddy.
So I met at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas, this headhunter guy, kind of, that's the only experience I've had with one, but I know that that means you're an executive here, right?
No, I'm not an executive.
I haven't done much managerial, but that's, you know, and the headhunters around here, what they do is they hire you, and then they contract you out to different companies.
And so they pay you, and then, like, say, oh, really?
So have you been hired by the headhunter or are you still interviewing with them?
I'm still interviewing with them.
They're trying to get me right now into a position at, well, at one of the big three around here.
Well, it sounds like it's going to work out.
I hope so.
I'm praying so.
You just want another three or four years, right?
Yes, yes, I definitely want another three or four years.
The main thing is insurance.
I mean, you know, the cost of premiums is up the root.
No, no, you're talking about health insurance?
Yes.
No, that's you should be $2,500 cheaper.
Yeah.
If it costs you anything at all, that's Obamacare.
It's more expensive for you.
Well, if I have to buy it myself, you know, right now it's being supplied by my employer.
Well, I pay a share.
No, you're paying it all.
Yeah.
You're paying it all.
Yeah.
What about your doctor?
You like your doctor?
I love my doctor, but I don't have an insurance anymore.
All right, so your doctor doesn't love you.
Exactly.
Right.
Well, I'm surprised.
This is not what we were told.
Yes.
By the way, there's this great recovery going on.
How in the world have you been thrown out in the street with no health insurance?
This is the greatest economic recoveries that we've ever had in this country.
Look at you.
You've lost your job.
You've lost your health insurance.
You should still have your health insurance.
It shouldn't be costing you anything, if anything, $2,500 less.
You should be able to pick whatever doctor you want.
Man, there's a great, great recovery happening out there.
And somehow, Cindy, you've been.
I don't know the right people, I guess.
Must be.
Oh, I feel for you.
I really do.
Well, thank you.
And I can't tell you what a pleasure it was to talk to you.
You have been celebrated yesterday when I found out you were going to be on for another four years because I would go through withdrawals without you.
Oh, well, thank.
That's very kind of you.
I understand the pain of withdrawal, too.
I wouldn't want that on anybody.
So thank you very much.
I sincerely appreciate that.
I really do.
And I'm confident that you'll find something here.
Thank you very much.
You're a smart person.
There's something out there for you.
You ever been to Flint?
Yes, I have.
And you're still here to tell us about it.
Thank you.
So, Cindy, have a wonderful rest of the day.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We'll be back here in just a second, folks.
Don't go away.
You know, this is a good point.
Wait a minute.
That's not what I want.
Here it is.
You know who Rob O'Neill is?
Yes or no?
SEAL TEAM Six pulled a trigger on Bin Laden.
Fox News contributor.
He was on Lou Dobbs' show last night, which is called Lou Dobbs Tonight.
That means it's the eponymous Lou Dobbs show.
You know what eponymous means?
It means named after the guy who hosts the show.
It's a show named after you.
He says the eponymous Lou Dobbs show, which means it's the Lou Dobbs show.
No, because, yeah, the eponymous Rushland Bush or the eponymous EIB network.
It's just a word people use to make you feel stupid that you know and they don't because it's redundant.
The eponymous Lou Dobbs.
Why do you say eponymous when they're already telling me it's the Lou Dobbs show?
Anyway, Rob O'Neill appeared on the program.
He's former SEAL Team Six.
He pointed out the timing of Kazir Khan's participation in presidential elections.
And he said it's obvious to him, to O'Neill, that Kazir Khan is not some random parent plucked by the Democrats from relative obscurity.
He instead is part of the Clinton machine.
And O'Neill's reasoning is unfortunate.
They shouldn't be politicizing it.
There was no mistake he came out for the Clintons.
He's worked for the Clintons before.
There have been three presidential elections since his son was killed.
They could have come out during any one of them.
But we never heard of this man until Hillary Clinton runs.
And it makes sense.
I think that's a perceptive comment.
If you want to illustrate that Kazir Khan is not who he is.
I mean, he had a son.
He lost his son.
Yeah, but he's a Clinton Party operative now.
And the Democrats don't present him that way.
They present him as your average, ordinary American parent who tragically lost a son at war, who was so moved by Hillary that he asked to be heard.
And they said, okay, it's nothing like that.
It's part of the illusion.
Democrats use people.
Although I'm sure he was willing to be.
But O'Neill said this is the election.
If it's three of them, this is the one he comes out for.
This is the one he decides to start opining on.
This is part of the Clinton machine.
There's no mistake that Mr. Trump was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos.
He's in a Clinton camp as well.
This is how Clinton politics work.
Exactly right.
O'Neill is a man right after my heart.
That's my whole point about Stephanopoulos.
It has been ever since Romney.
Well, even before Romney, if you go on Stephanopoulos' show, you are essentially accepting an invitation from the Clinton war room.
You are accepting an invitation from the Clinton hacks.
David Weston, I think, was the news director at ABC who hired Stephanopoulos.
I don't know if Stephanopoulos was hired before Weston.
Weston's no longer there.
The reason I mention this is because David Weston's name has been tossed around as Roger Ailes' replacement at Fox News.
How would you like that?
I don't, he's just one of many names that have been mentioned.
I hope it's Bill Schein, but there's a lot at Ben Rhodes.
No, Ben Rhodes in the White House, his brother, whatever, who runs CBS News.
There's a lot of names being bandied about, but I think it was Weston who hired Stephanopoulos.
Yeah, I think it was Weston.
I think it was Weston.
I don't know who was there before Weston, so I could be wrong about it.
But Weston was there when Stephanopoulos was, and loved the fact that he was there.
Well, Mike Pence has just endorsed Paul Ryan.
I think that's how this works.
And get this, Fox News reporting: Obama has commuted the sentences of 214 federal prisoners, the most in any one day in more than 100 years.
214 sentences, prisoners.
Sorry, we were wrong.
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