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Aug. 5, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 5, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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Yeah, yeah, I know, but I don't think it's that big a deal.
We got the sound bites.
You can judge for yourself.
Hillary went out there and made a made a speech to some black and Latino journalists, and then she took some questions from them.
And you know what kind of questions they were?
It was exactly the kind of garbage that we got that Obama got.
Well, the kind of garbage we got when Obama was up at the Pentagon yesterday discussing the ransom that wasn't a ransom.
I'll explain that here in just a second.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live.
282-2882 and all that.
Now Obama's over in the Pentagon.
It has a press conference.
He's trying to cover up your practice and just paid a ransom.
It wasn't a ransom.
No, there was nothing nefarious going on.
And he threw it open to the media.
Did you notice the kind of questions they asked him?
They didn't ask him about that.
They said, Mr. President, earlier this week you said that Donald Trump is unfit.
Could you tell us how he's unfit?
So Obama would answer it.
And the next journalist would say, Well, could you add a little bit more to that?
Could you could you give us even more detail given your experiences in the White House and all the crazy things that you have to deal with as president?
Can you share with us even more why you think Trump is unfit?
At an Obama event to cover up the payment of ransom for the release of American hostages again in Iran.
The press was only interested in Obama further explaining why he thought Donald Trump was unqualified and unfit.
The uh I don't know.
The week the drive-by's tried to pile on to the extent of saying but there were actually stories earlier this week.
Is Donald Trump sane?
Has Donald Trump lost his mind.
So it's in that atmosphere that Mrs. Clinton, I'm sure felt it's entirely safe for me to go out there and take a risk answering questions from the media.
So she did.
Let's uh in fact, let's let's start here with soundbites 28 through 31.
We've got four of them.
And I guess the first two are just parts of her uh speech, and then the other two next to our I think yeah, the questions.
Here the first soundbite, this is in Washington, the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists joint convention.
They pooled their resources, and they had one convention for both groups.
And here's the first of two sound bites of the remarks Hillary made to them today.
At every turn, he stokes division and resentment.
He says horrible things about one group of Americans after another.
He's hearkening back to the most shameful chapters of our history and appealing to the ugliest impulses of our society.
You know the list, you've reported on it.
Yes, you got our memo.
You got the memo from the Clinton campaign, and you dutifully reported what we wrote for you.
You know how egregious this guy is.
What era, by the way?
What chapter?
What most shameful chapter or chapters in our history is Trump hearkening back to?
Would that be when the Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan?
Would that be when the Democrats were the party of segregation and were turning dogs and fire hoses on John Lewis and Martin Luther King at Selma?
I mean, who what what chapter she talking about here that Trump is hearkening back to.
In the next soundbite, she praises Jorge Ramos.
Many of you are showing the way.
It's a badge of honor when Jorge Ramos gets thrown out of a press conference for challenging Donald Trump.
As Forge said, the best journalism happens when you take a stand when you denounce injustice.
Is that what it is?
So I hope you'll keep calling it like you see it.
Keep holding all of us accountable.
Ha ha ha!
Yes!
Hillary Clinton says to the journalists, I hope you'll keep all of us accountable.
Excuse me.
And their journalism was defined as when you take a stand when you denounce injustice.
All right, so Trump is injustice.
And Jorge Ruamos stood up to Trump.
Would it be impolitic of me to say that when Jorge stood up, you didn't know it?
Might be.
Okay, so now the Q and A. First question from the moderator.
I guess the moderator was relaying questions as assembled by the journalists in the audience.
Moderator Kristen Welker said this week, uh, Mrs. Clinton, you told two separate news organizations that FBI Director James Cuome said, quote, my answers were truthful.
And that what I said is consistent with what I've told the American people.
That assertion, as you know, has been debunked by multiple news organizations, which point out that Director Comey did say that there was no indication you'd lied to the FBI, but he didn't weigh in on whether or not you were truthful to the American people.
Yes, he did, and he said that she wasn't.
If she had lied to the FBI, Comey would have had no choice.
So I'm sure she was told before that three and a half hour interview on Saturday, Hillary, whatever you do, tell them the truth isn't gonna matter.
But if you lie to them, they have no choice and they have to mark the steward you.
So she didn't lie to Comey, but we also don't know what kind of questions she got.
But she did lie to the American people, and Comey made it plain.
Anyway, the question is are you mischaracterizing Mrs. Clinton what Director Comey said?
Uh it is is this not undercutting your efforts to rebuild trust with the American people?
So it's a long question to translate it.
The moderator here is repeating question the audience.
Look, Comey said you lied.
You said that he didn't, but it's obvious that you did, at least to the American people.
Is this kind of bad for you?
I mean, you're you're trying to rebuild trust the American people and you didn't quite pull it off here.
Is this bad for you?
I was pointing out in both of those instances that Director Comey had said that my answers in my FBI interview were truthful.
That's really the bottom line here.
I may have short-circuited it, and for that I will try to clarify, because I think you know, Chris Wallace and I were probably talking past each other, because of course he could only talk to what I had told the FBI, and I appreciated that.
I do think, you know, having him say that my answers to the FBI were truthful, and then I should quickly add what I said was consistent with what I had said publicly, and that's really sort of in my view, trying to tie both ends together.
What did she say?
I guess she's relying here on the fact that uh I didn't lie to the FBI.
Screw you, but I I didn't lie to the FBI.
Comey said I didn't lie to the FBI.
So uh the next question is well, one inconsistency though, Mrs. Clinton, is that you said you'd never sent or received classified material, and Comey did say there were three emails that were marked classified at the time.
Is that an inconsistency?
Director Comey said that only three out of 30,000 had anything resembling classified markers.
What does that mean?
Well, usually, if any of you have ever served in the government, a classified document has a big heading on the top, which makes very clear what the classification is.
And in questioning, Director Comey made the point that the three emails out of the 30,000 did not have the appropriate markings.
And it was therefore reasonable to conclude that anyone, including myself, would have not suspected that they were classified.
This is what she's been trying to peddle from the beginning.
When the truth is everything on that server that is dealing with her job is assumed to be classified, meaning private.
And to sit there and say, well, there were only three of them.
It said classified at the top.
I it's not my fault.
It's not my fault if they weren't properly marked.
Yes, it is your fault because you should assume it everything is.
But that's how you do it.
Blame it on other people.
Blame it on the font wasn't big enough.
Blame it on, you know, hey, what if I'm a machine here?
I short circuited.
You can't hold me accountable for this.
So she will now, however, folks, despite the pathetic nature of these responses.
The drive-by story will be Mrs. Clinton effectively dealt with and repudiated claims that she had lied about dealing in classified information.
And that will be what low information people see on the Yahoo News newsfeed or on Facebook.
Once the drive-bys have a chance to write up the story of her QA today before the black and Latino journalists, Hillary Clinton at her first press conference in 10 years today effectively rebuked charges that she had lied to the FBI director, James Call me in a don't classify the information.
Case closed.
Now, next time Trump brings it up, he will not let it go.
He just continues to browbeat something he knows is not true.
Is he fit for this off?
And this is how this will all play out.
As they will continue here to try to provide cover and insulation for her.
While smearing to the point of destruction Donald Trump.
We had a soundbite here, by the way, of a uh an 11-year-old.
We had a great 13-year-old caller, last caller previous hour.
And uh it was great if you miss it.
He um talked back, disagreed with uh social studies teacher, who was telling his class that socialism and communism are the best forms of government hands down.
Well, yesterday in Raleigh, North Carolina, not far from Durham, North Carolina, there was a Trump Pence campaign event during the QA.
An 11-year-old Trump supporter named Matthew Schricker stood up and asked a question of Mike Pence.
I've been noticing that you've been kind of softening up on Mr. Trump's um policies and words.
Is this going to be your role in the administration?
I couldn't be more proud to stand with Donald Trump and we are shoulder to shoulder in this campaign, my friend.
Sometimes things don't always come out like you mean, right?
And uh Donald Trump and I are absolutely determined to work together.
Okay, so everybody's thinking here that the kid is uh a little smart aleck here, is trying to drive a wedge between Trump and Pence.
Is this your role?
Is this your role?
Your role is going to be kind of soft peddling.
What's everybody?
And then the kid comes back with this.
I really think that listening to a few bad words coming out of Donald Trump is a lot better than people getting blown up by terrorists, people getting burned alive, people being heads being chopped off, and people getting drowned.
So the 11-year-old kid puts it all in perspective.
If somebody could have just reminded him that the president had just paid ransom to the people who do all that, it would have been a grand slam home run.
We'll be right back, my friends, with your phone call.
Hey, folks, we found Walker's app.
We found it on the app store.
It's called Never Hillary Clinton by Chad Haber.
Uh his last name is Haber Walker Haber.
And I've sent the link, and by the way, thanks to Seaton Motley for finding the app here.
We've sent the link up to Coco at rushlimbaugh.com.
Um so this will save you having to search for it.
There's a lot of these kinds of apps.
In fact, we found a Never Hillary app that has an accompanying app, Never Trump.
We knew that wasn't it.
So we've got the exact link to Walter's app.
It's 99 cents.
Uh which is nothing.
It's not a big deal.
And it's he's 13 years old.
He was very proud of it.
He started uh to hype it before we ran out of time.
And so we've got the link, and it'll be up at Rushlimbo.com, and you'll be able to um search for it that way.
If you want to search for it at the app store without waiting for the link, it's never Hillary Clinton by Chad Haber.
That's how it's listed.
And then the description of the app says my name is Walker Haber.
So he's he's part of a family, which is a family project here, but it's his app, it's Walker's.
And, you know, I read a story, and I I constantly devour my tech blogs as my hobby.
And there was a uh story this week about how Apple is really limiting the number of anti-Hillary apps and promoting the number of anti-Trump apps.
And I forget the story I read, I think it was just reporting it.
It was not an opinion piece.
It did say, how can Apple do this?
I mean, these are harmless.
But apparently some of the anti-Trump, all the anti-Trump ads passed, some of the anti-Hillary, many of them don't, but this one did.
So it's his tap app.
It's a just a fun little game.
So if you uh if you've got 99 cents to spare, might be able to put old Walker's app here near the top of the App Store rankings for a while and see what happens out there.
They are.
Snertly is saying he just heard Apple's going to do something.
They're going to pay bounties to white hat hackers that find bugs in root and kernel software.
Not the kind of bugs you would find using.
These are security bugs.
And the top bounty they're going to pay is 200,000.
No, it's not like the stuff I find that if you turn this switch off and back on that it'll change the way their thing is reading it.
No, nothing like that.
Those are not bugs, per se, as Apple's defining them.
No, these are things you have to have uh root level coding experience to be able to find.
And I think it's 25 grand up to 200 grand for, depending on the kind of bug that you might find.
What else about?
Oh, Apple's also got themselves enmeshed in a bit of a controversy over this gun emoji.
And it even got so ridiculous that there were apparently arguments inside Apple over which way they wanted their water pistol pointing, left or right.
I'm not kidding.
They had a gun emoji.
All the other still, in fact, if if if you find the gun emoji on, it's an iOS 10, it's not out yet.
It'll be out in September.
But us beta testers have it.
So if it they replace the gun with a green water pistol.
But if you send their green water pistol, say to an Android user or a Windows phone user, it'll show up as a gun because in their systems they still use guns.
But Apple switched it out to a water pistol.
And it's got support in the tech.
Oh, this is wonderful.
Apple should be distancing itself from these weapons of death.
So forth.
Now, you have to trust me on this.
This is a minor thing.
You would never have even heard about this, odds are if I hadn't told you.
But it's little microscopic stuff like this, folks.
Replacing a gun emoji with a water pistol that starts resonating with people as a smart move to not promote the dangerous death aspects of a gun.
And it this is how you start creating mind sets and opinion in the minds of people that are not political.
This has nothing to do with left versus right Republican Democrat.
This is purely safety and sustainability of human life.
And so this is the kind of thing that happens in 2016.
And then in 2020, out of the blue, it seems like a majority of people support getting rid of the Second Amendment.
You weren't, how the hell did this happen?
Well, you'd be able to circle back to something as seemingly as innocuous as this.
Changing an emoji from an actual pistol to a water pistol.
Little tiny stuff like this is the kind of stuff that ends up creating or moving or changing opinion.
I don't know in this particular case how far it's going to go, but this is the technique.
This is how you get to people in almost a subliminal way.
Now the NRA will be aware of it and it'll be beating it back, and it's going to be a point of controversy.
It's not going to sneak up on anybody in other words, but other things like this do.
I think what what I read was that Apple had rejected an anti-Hillary app that they may not have been shamed back into accepting it.
But they were they were obviously people didn't know if it was just one reviewer in the app store that had a bias or if it was a country or company wide decision.
You never know those things.
But but Walker's app made it.
So you go to Rushlimbud.com, you see the link, tap on it if you want to go check out his little app at the app store.
Well, I'm sorry, we haven't got the link up at Rushlimbaugh.com yet.
We're having all kinds of email delays here on our so Coco may not have even received the link I sent up ten minutes ago to this.
It's never what is it?
Never Hillary.
Never Hillary Clinton and it's uh the the by Chad Haber or Walker Haber.
Uh it's a standalone app, they're not part of it.
There's no other accompanying app.
Sometimes searching the app store can produce things.
But if you search that exact term, never Hillary Clinton, and we will work.
Let me reload here and see if we get it up there yet.
On the uh Yeah, okay, he's posted it, just hasn't shown yet.
But uh keep checking at Rush Limbaugh.com.
We will have the link straight to the app store to Walker's app there in mere moments.
Here's Mike in Richmond, Virginia.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thanks, Russ.
I appreciate it.
Thanks for having me on your show.
I appreciate that.
You're welcome, sir.
I'm glad you're there.
Thank you for keeping my blood pressure at a manageable level.
In reference to Trump, do you think that what's going on right now with the Democrats and the media, even the turncoats in his own party can possibly backfire on them?
Um give me an example.
What what kind of thing do you are you thinking or hoping?
Well, what I'm thinking is sometimes in this country when you click on the underdog, the underdog comes out with sharper teeth.
Well, I'll give you an example when I thought that uh I don't know if I thought I hoped.
The other day, when Obama shows up at the press room and starts in on how Trump is unfit.
He's just not fit.
He's not suitable, he doesn't have the right thing.
He just went on.
And then when he said, now, you know, I could have accepted Romney, and I could have accepted McCain.
I mean, they you know, they're still idiots, but at least they know the Constitution.
I was thinking, this is so this is so arrogant and condescending.
Right.
At some point, is this gonna arouse pro-Trumpers to the point of being so damned condescending and insulting that it's gonna fire them up even more.
Um and then there I know you could probably give me other examples where you think the media just being over the top can cause a backlash.
Um you never know.
That's the thing is we'll not know.
I mean, maybe it shows up in polling data, but we won't really know what to attribute it to.
Right.
Um but I I do know that you can't rely on that, even if something like that does happen.
Right.
Uh I think I think one of the things that Obama doing with with that, really arrogant and condescending, you have to understand that Trump has ardent supporters.
And Trump's supporters are not demanding.
They don't demand he speak correctly.
They don't they're not demanding that he sound like a Harvard professor.
They just demand that he be honest with them, that he mean what he's saying, that he intends to do all of this.
They've given Trump a lot of leeway and a lot of latitude.
He can go off the beaten path and say something impolitic about somebody and they won't abandon him.
So I think when you have just a blatant media campaign such as this to destroy Trump and then Obama coming out on top of it with his arrogant condescension.
What one of the things you think might be happening is that it will really cement in people's eyes just who these establishment people are and just what a monumental task it is to take them on.
But I don't know if people who are not supporting Trump have the slightest curiosity about it.
I don't know if they see things that way.
The evidence is that most people believe what they hear out of Obama's mouth.
He's got a 56% approval of it.
But the evidence is that most people believe what they hear in the drive-by media.
I mean, they believe that George Bush, after four years, their media convinced people that George Bush was a crime walking.
They got Bush's approval numbers down to the 30s.
Admittedly, Bush wasn't responding to any of it.
The Bush administration was not defending itself at all.
And Trump does.
Trump pushes back.
But I think it's one of the things that we have to, we have to admit this.
Sit here in denial is not serve any purpose.
The great unwashed, a certain but sizable percentage of our population believes everything they see in the media.
They just do.
Still, despite 30 years now of alternative media exposing it every day, their monopoly's gone, and they've been dealt a serious blow in that regard, but their credibility hasn't been assaulted.
Their credibility has not been successfully attacked.
And notice that's their technique.
They never, be it Democrat Party, be it elected officials beat the media, they never debate us on ideas.
All they do is try to destroy any effective man or woman who has the ability to communicate.
I've seen them do it to Oliver North.
You've seen what they do to Sarah Palin.
Uh they're doing it now with uh with Trump.
They did it with George W. Bush.
They would do it to Ted Cruz.
If you think, by the way, that Cruz or Rubio or anybody else would be faring better, it'd be they'd be getting the same stuff today that Trump is getting, tailored to them.
There wouldn't be anything different other than the substance of whatever they would be doing.
But they would be in the same destroy mode.
They'd be going after whoever had won if it were somebody other than Trump, take your pick.
Jeb, they would have found ways, because it's gonna be Hillary come, hell or high water.
Hillary or bust, there is no, well, maybe Jeb's okay.
There's there is no some Republican be okay if Hillary doesn't win it.
That's not the option.
So they'd be out trying to destroy whoever the nominee was.
So if any of you were thinking, well, my God, we could have really spared ourselves if we'd have nominated, nope, nope, wrong way to look at it.
Now you might, you might want to say that Rubio or Cruz or take your pick would have done better at dealing with it.
Where's the evidence for that?
If the drive-by's want to destroy them, they have a knack for doing it.
And the only reason they can is because people believe them.
People don't question it.
And even though, in you if you look at these polls asking people's opinions of various industries, what they think of industry, some of the lowest scores For respectability and trust is modern American media.
So there's a lot of contradictory data that we have about all this.
But you see, everybody thinks, when I say everybody, the majority of American people, they think ABC, CBSNBC is the news.
They turn it on CNN and MSN.
They think they're watching the media.
They're not.
There isn't, it isn't news.
They're watching the promotion of the Democrat Party agenda.
And I say Democrat Party because that's where the power is.
You might say, no, Roster promoting the leftist agenda, it's communism.
Yeah, but the Democrats have to get elected to implement the stuff.
So it's the Democrat Party agenda.
And while they're doing that, they are trying to destroy with basic disfigurement, impugning, lying, whatever the Republican agenda is, and whoever the Republicans are trying to advance it.
So there are two things going on at the same time.
And these attacks on Republicans and conservatives and spokesmen and so forth are always a tax on their character, on their honesty, on their intelligence, on their whatever.
And that's how they go out.
And they never attack or even talk about the honesty of Hillary Clinton, the honesty of Bill Clinton, the honesty of Barack Obama.
Never even go there.
Everything is under the umbrella of will the Democrats get what they want.
Whatever the Democrats want, that's what's fascinating.
If they want Hillary to be the nominee, okay, that's the strip.
That's the MacGuffin.
And anybody trying to stop that, in this case, it'd be Trump is the enemy that has to be taken out.
People watching think they're watching the news, but they're not watching the news.
They're not watching media.
They are watching politics.
And they claim to hate politics.
Like the poll of young people we just shared with you.
I don't like either political party, millennials.
I don't identify.
Only 28% identify with either party.
Because they don't like politics.
They have no idea.
They're they're watching raw.
Cutthroat till it bleeds politics when they watch ABC, CBS, NBC, read the New York Times, the LA Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Facebook, Twitter, you name it.
Google searches.
Quick timeout.
Back with much more after this.
Don't go away.
Sorry, folks, I was sending a screenshot.
We're back.
N800-282-2882, open line Friday.
Here's Woody in Hollister, California.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Good morning, Russ.
Hi.
All right.
I want to talk to you about the DREAM Act, which was one of Clinton's Bill Clinton and the Democrats' wonderful things they put out there.
So everybody would own a home.
They modified the uh requirements for a loan so that they could make exceptions.
So everybody could own a home.
When George Bush inherited the DREAM Act, by that time, there were so many crooked things going on.
I don't think he was paying any attention.
He inherited this mess.
I was in college, I wrote an art, I did an article, I didn't write it, I did an article in one of my college classes in a financial class about how George Bush questioned these loans.
At some point, he must have caught wind that there was something going on, and he was told that he was being mean and cruel to low-income people.
Well, Obama blamed George Bush for all of the bad loans.
But that whole thing was started by the Democrats.
Yeah, but I know, but this is like a it's an eight-year-old story now.
Why do you want Trump to talk about this?
Well, I think we have to understand that the Democrats, their programs have a tendency to um put the country upside down.
We are, I mean, Look what happened to the country.
Nobody seems to pay any attention to it.
Well, I know that.
I mean, you call it the DREAM Act.
I call it subprime, but the whole subprime mortgage thing is why we had the economic collapse of 2008.
And that economic collapse of 2008 is still blamed on George W. Bush.
The American people still blame it on Bush.
Obama has gotten a total pass on any negative economic news statistics or activity since then.
I chalk it up to the limbaugh theory.
Obama is being given credit for trying to fix it, but man, it's been so hard.
It was such a deep recession.
But given how few people understood it even then.
I mean, when the majority of public opinion data shows that people blame Bush for it to try to relitigate that at this stage of the uh of the of the campaign.
I don't know, because there's too much low-hanging fruit that is of the moment that is much easier explained.
Uh plus, if you want to go into detail on subprime, you've got to get you got to go places where the media just gonna fire.
But you've got to, you've got the reason for those subprime loans was minority housing.
So you start attacking that premise, and they're gonna come at you as a racist.
Oh, what?
You think they should be kicked out of their homes, Mr. Trump?
Such thing.
But you're right in terms of the truth in the statement that that whole collapse should have been tied to the Democrat Party.
But again, even the Republicans back then weren't trying to do that.
I mean, look, there's a reason why Trump is the nominee.
Uh, the Republicans were doing here here's the here's here's a great uh dichotomy, if you will.
Outside of national races, the Republicans have been kicking buttons.
I mean, you look at all the races.
I've been I talk about this so damn much.
The Republicans in the 2010 and 2014 midterms just clean the Democrats' clocks.
The Democrats have lost over a thousand seats nationwide from governorships to the House of Representatives and Senate all the way down to dogcatcher locally.
And yet the perception is the Republican Party couldn't win diddolist.
They won the House, they won the Senate.
What is there to show for it?
They wanted to go along with the Democrats on immigration.
Um they won re-election campaigning as conservatives, and they got there and didn't do conservatism, they didn't, you know, it's it it really all this is amazing when you stop and think about what's happened.
Trump won those primaries for a reason.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
Woody got a brief time out, my friends, and we will be back even after this.
You know, folks, I'm sorry, the link to Walker's app is at the website.
I just didn't see it.
I was looking for the app icon, and we've got a red banner up there.
The red banner is underneath the lifelok ad next to the never Hillary Rush ad next to the Rush 24-7 page above uh the Kizercon for Vice President story right next to the election protection ad.
So if you you grab out your microphone, uh your your mic, your magnifying glass, you might find it.
I'm joking.
It's the red banner there near the top of the page.
And wait, folks, have a great weekend.
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