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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 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 headlined 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 L. Rushbone 800, 282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
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, cascating Trump, labeling him a democog, 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 says, 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 were 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 uh 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 Scalcroft, Alan Steinberg, a former administrator,
Doug Elmet's former Reagan spokesman, Jim Siccone, Charles Freed, Robert Kagan, Max Boot, Peter Mansur, Larry Pressler, Arnie Carlson, and Robert Smith, a former judge on New York's highest court, the Court of Appeals.
It's actually kind of pathetic list.
I mean, that's it.
I mean, uh 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 by 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 whatever he couldn't stand by and watched 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 Ayotte.
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 Kazir 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 demurrole before he endorsed Trump, telling CNN on May 6th, I'm not there right now.
That's what Ryan said.
Um let me check something here.
Is there a uh yeah, here it is.
It's on Drudge.
Let me see, what's it Hitler?
Uh it's Ryan and fight for his life.
I 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, 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, you know, 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.
Uh, 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 uh Monday, was it Monday?
This is Wednesday, right?
So I'm so I I hate the sound of paper rattling like that too, so I'm sorry, but what date is this?
Uh yep, yep, it's Monday.
New York Post ran nude photos of Melania Trump.
Uh with other women.
Girl on girl, as it is characterized by those who traffic and such purile interests.
Girl on girl.
Nude photos, uh 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, so 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 uh tremendous amount of I mean, I said some really, if I say something, I said some cool things, very important things, and 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 they just since I said it, they were instinctively not happy with it.
And I thought I would mention that.
I just get a 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 Melania out.
They found these old novel pictures.
And my comment might have reminded Wait a minute, it could be just the opposite.
And then there was this.
This was in 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 uh 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 uh 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, is 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 uh in 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 gonna 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 who 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 believe they go off on their mock indignation.
Outrageous that things that I supposedly say.
And the acknowledgement that the ugly know who they are, just they thought was beyond the pin, didn't see the humor in it.
Well, lo and behold, Washington Post on uh what was it, the uh 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 woman uh written by a woman named Kristen Saleke, 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, Russ, 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.'s speech about real things, construction sites, caterpillar track, there's the real world.
It says 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 uh 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, what 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 uh good lies about what uh Hillary Clinton has done for children, which you just spoke about and didn't give any example.
What can they cite?
Oh, she she's there to read her grandchildren a book any time they need her.
That's uh that's the children that she advocates for.
I know.
It was bile inducing, I grant you that.
But it was it was you know the interesting too, and people have people have made this compare.
How about this?
Do you believe that anytime they they have an interview with a Vonka, 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.
That that that I could go for that.
Yep.
Yep, I'd report on that if that happened.
I I'd be think has to start taking the gloves off on this whole Clinton business.
I agree.
She's she's the opponent, she's the target.
And I'm telling you, if you're gonna put the kids out there, uh, you know, that at some point the Clintons have only gotten the way you can't talk about our door.
Okay, okay, okay.
Meanwhile, she's out there being paid 600 grand 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 you know 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 cum.
Wherever the Clintons go, NBC's making sure that the Clintons are going to let them tag along.
I mean, I would if I worked at NBC and uh 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 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 you'd be surprised.
The big money in TV is for the anchors that read the prompters the best.
Uh, and have a natural talent because of their genetic makeup, they look good on TV.
I I'll give you something to note on TV.
If you want and you 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.
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 looking for it.
Compare it to their shoulders, primarily men.
Now it's not going to be true of the commentators and the the uh journalists and the 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.
Rushbow 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 will 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 it's two aspects.
The big head dominates.
You sublimately 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 uh 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.
Uh these are things that that people at hire in in movies, television look for, but it's it it these are things that you're born with.
You can't, you know, you 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 adectomy 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.
Uh and you can't 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 or you know, 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 you can't balloon head somebody.
But it's the size of the head and that's the eyes.
Those are those are the things.
And they subtly work.
They they cause you to uh want to keep watching, or at least not not want to watch.
It's very, very uh subtle subject.
Did you see Bright Bart has a story here?
It's actually a column by Thomas D. Williams, PHD, 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 stray 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 Dabique.
D I B IQ.
I don't know.
I I uh 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 uh and other minority groups that follow, and I'm sorry it won't be.
What am I what am I thinking?
Um here's Cindy, Waterford, Michigan.
Cindy, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rose.
Megadiddles.
Thank you.
You know, I'm a former HP employee.
I was laid off last week, and um with 20 plus years of uh work with them.
And one thing What did you do?
What did you do at Hewlett Packard?
Well, I beg started as a programmer the last seven or eight years, I've been uh software tester.
Yes.
Okay.
And uh one point that I don't think is being made about Meg Whitman's endorsement of Hillary is that HP has a seventy percent offshore hiring policy.
And Trump has been very vocal about uh this population.
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.
Yes.
And be able to fire their Native American workforce.
And you that's what they're doing.
Right.
And so Trump is opposed to this.
And so but and Meg Whitman, she doesn't admit that.
She no this guy's a demagogue.
This guy's horrible.
This guy, this guy would destroy America as we know it.
So she's gotta go sidle up to Nurse Ratchet.
Oh, I'm sorry you lost your job.
That's what are you gonna do?
Uh I don't know right now.
I'm through I was three years from retirement.
I'm working with my financial advo advisor to see if I can if there's any way retiring now.
If not, I'm you don't sound nearly old enough to be retiring.
I'm sixty-two in a week or two.
No kidding.
Yep.
Have you got your first social security check?
No, no.
I I'm not supposed to collect social security until I'm sixty-six.
So that's why I would like to work uh three or four more years if I could.
So you uh you you live in Waterford, Michigan.
HP has a uh office there?
They have one in Pontiac.
Pontiac.
It's a neighboring city, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Pontiac.
You know the Detroit Lions used to play there.
Yay.
Um 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 you know, it would be just a short term like Well, is there anything like HP, the any competing companies that do things that you're qualified to do that you like doing in Pontiac?
Yes, uh, or in the Detroit metro area there are there's some opportun you know, opportunities around.
I'm just gotta apply.
I'm I'm working with headhunters right now.
Head hunters?
Yeah, that's kind of how you get most of your IT jobs.
Well, I know, I I once did a headhunter thing.
Back when I worked for the uh 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 head hunter.
And this guy had this weird quirk that if you if if you had a drink, whatever it was, coke, water, what 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 head hunter.
I'm not kidding.
But anyway, I met with the head hunter for about thirty minutes and I got a bill for twenty five thousand dollars.
And I was earning seventeen.
Oh my.
And I said, what what I was I was working for the Kansas City Royals at the time and I had some time where I went down to I was down in Dallas watching a Steelers pregame uh with the Cowboys and this friends come by got this headhunter buddy.
So met at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas as headhunter guy coming in.
I I've that's the only experience I've had with one, but I know that that uh that that means you're an executive here, right?
No, I'm not an executive.
Um I've d haven't done much managerial, but that's you know, in and the head hunters around here what they do is they they hire you and then they contract you out to different companies, and so they pay you and then uh like saying Oh really?
So have you have you been hired by the headhunter or you're still interviewing with them?
I'm still interviewing with them.
They're trying to get me right now into a uh a position at and well at one of the the big three around here.
Well, it sounds like it's gonna work out.
I hope so.
You just want another three or four years, right?
And then you Yes, yes, I definitely want another three or four years.
The main thing is insurance.
I mean, you know, the cost of premiums is uh up the roof uh you know other than No, no, n you you're talking about health insurance?
Yes.
No, that's you should be that should be twenty five hundred dollars cheaper.
Yeah.
If it costs you anything at all, that's that's Obamacare.
What you're it's more expensive for you.
Well, if I have to buy it myself, you know, um right now it's not buy by my employer.
Well, I I pay a share.
But if I No, you're paying it all.
Yeah.
You're paying it all.
Yeah.
Um what about your doctor?
You like your doctor?
I love my doctor, but I'm I don't have an insurance anymore.
All right, so your doctor does all of you.
Exactly.
Right.
Uh well, I'm surprised.
This is not this is not what we were told.
Yes.
I mean, how uh by the way, there's this great recovery going on.
How in the world you've been thrown out in the street with no health insurance.
I mean, this is the old this is the greatest economic recoveries that we've ever had in this case.
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 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 missed it.
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 I I celebrated yesterday when I found out you're 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 thank you.
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.
Uh 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 a Lou Dobbs show.
No, because yeah, the eponymous Rush Limbush 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 uh 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'Neal, 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 Gazir Khan is not who he is, I mean...
He had a son.
He lost his son.
Yeah.
But he's a he's a he's a 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.
When it's 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 Clinton machine.
There's no mistake.
That Mr. Trump was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos.
He's in the Clinton camp as well.
This is how Clinton politics work.
Exactly right.
That is 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's 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 I 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 uh it was Weston.
I don't know who was there before Weston, so I I could 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 a hundred years.
Two hundred and fourteen sentences prisoners.
Sorry, we were wrong.
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