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Aug. 8, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
31:30
August 8, 2016, Monday, Hour #3
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So what's so funny in there?
What did I do?
We've been in a break here.
Did any of you I need to ask this question?
Did any of you tune in last night trying to watch the Hall of Fame game on ESPN and scheduling at 8 o'clock?
This is going to be the Packers and the Indianapolis Colts.
Did you tune in to watch it?
Well, I did.
I remembered at about 20 minutes after 8 that it was on.
And I said, whoa.
I don't know what I was in the middle of doing something else.
So I tuned at 20 after 8, and I saw them interviewing a bunch of players.
And it it uh it looked like it was live, the sun was setting.
So I said, that's not right.
What is this?
Is there a rain delay?
So I got out my radar device.
Got up my radar app.
Is it raining in Canton Thunder?
Maybe they had to delay the game.
No, it's not dead.
So I hit the guide to find out.
Maybe the game doesn't actually start till nine.
Maybe this is pregame.
Nope, game starts at eight.
So I said, what the hell's going on?
So I wanted to cover a website.
They had to cancel it.
They had to cancel a game.
And did you hear why?
This is the most incredible thing.
I I just I think it is symptomatic of an overall, I don't know what, lack of pursuit of excellence throughout our culture.
I hope it isn't that.
When these kinds of things happen, though, it's just inexplicable.
Okay, so they had the Hall of Fame ceremonies where they play the Hall of Fame game is a high school stadium in Canton, Ohio.
And they've upgraded the stadium.
They put a brand new field in this year because the field was in bad shape.
And the Steelers kicker injured his knee last year, lost his career because of it.
So, Sean Swisms, they put in a new field.
And they had their Hall of Fame ceremonies on on Saturday night, all the induction speeches and so forth.
They have this giant tarp out on the field where they had stands and chairs set up for people to watch.
So they pull a tarp off, and they hadn't painted yet the Hall of Fame logo or any of the team logos in the end zones.
I don't know why they've only had how long to prepare for they play one game a year on this date.
They play high school games there, but those don't start for a while.
It turns out somebody used the wrong kind of paint.
And the paint in artificial surface that's used now, there are actually, you know what's made of?
Artificial surface is made out of tires.
It's made out of the same kind of rubber that's actually made into tires for cars and other vehicles.
And inside, if you've if you've ever watched a game and you've noticed what looks like little little black particles streaming up when a player slides in or when there's a lot of pressure on the ground, they're actually rubber pellets that are buried deep inside the fake blades of grass, which are also rubber.
And then there's a little cushion it.
Well, what had happened was the they used the wrong paint and it congealed with all those gazillion little pellets and became like tar and concrete.
So they had to cancel the game.
The players would have got stuck in it like playing in a tar pit, or if it had dried, it would be like falling on straight concrete.
They tried to get stuff out there to grind it up and uncongeal it, whatever the word is, and that failed.
They tried for about an hour, then they had to cancel the game.
I've never they had to cancel preseason game in Philadelphia some years ago because of bad field condition there.
And I mean that was not new.
That that field that uh that was at the old uh the vet.
But this brand new, they've they've had theoretically a year to get ready for this game.
Well, I don't know if anybody got fired.
I uh I don't know, and if they do fire somebody, I don't know if they're gonna make a big public display out of it, but it's just just you know how many management people the NFL has?
Now the excuse is oh, wait a minute now, Rush, the Hall of Fame, not the NFL, that's a separate organization.
Well, yeah, that's true, but they work together on this.
I mean, they that you can't say it's the Hall of Fame's fault.
It's it's just a combination of things.
But it who could why why the wrong paint?
Why wasn't it already painted?
Well, we're rushed there going to put a torp on that for the ceremonies and fields are painted before seasons begin.
They play on them, they cover them, it gets rained on.
That's a none of it's explicable.
None of it makes any sense whatsoever.
From the wrong paint to not having it done in the first place.
So anyway, they cancel the game and they tried to do if this is big ESPN had a brand new uh play-by-play crew, they had a brand new pregame crew, they had uh all kinds of stuff planned.
The uh Packers and they wanted to see some players that hadn't played.
Players really probably didn't mind.
They hate preseason games.
So they did a fan fest.
They let the fans in the stands out on the field to mingle with the players for a while.
Players were dressed out in the game jerseys they were gonna wear, but aside from that, there was no pads or anything.
I was just I've never seen never seen anything like it.
Closest I've seen when they canceled a game in Philadelphia on a Sunday night because of a snow in the forecast.
That was bad.
Okay, Donald Trump and his speech to the economic club of Detroit.
Now, let me just set this up by telling you what this was.
It was a classic speech for a Republican candidate for president on economics.
It was classic.
I think purposely so.
By classic, I mean it was what you would expect.
Any Republican to say he was for economically running for president, low taxes, limited government, uh entrepreneurism, economic advancement, freedom and liberty.
But he did throw in, he did throw some things to his base.
And the base is not crazy.
Trump's base is not all that crazy about a traditional Republican or Democrat economic speech because they don't believe it.
But Trump covered him.
He threw in that he either wants to throw NAFTA out or renegotiate it so it's favorable to us.
And if that doesn't happen, he's gonna throw it out.
And he threw in forcibly his opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
So he covered all of his bases, and there's no question in my mind that one of the intentions here was to stop the bleeding from all of the damage that was done last week, whether it was legit or made up.
So we will see.
It was a good speech.
It was really, really well accepted.
This crowd was on its feet a number of times, particularly when the Trumpster criticized Hillary and her economic policies.
Let's get started.
All Hillary Clinton has to offer is more of the same.
More taxes, more regulations, more bureaucrats, more restrictions on American energy and on American production.
More of that.
If you were a foreign power looking to weaken America, you couldn't do better than Hillary Clinton's economic agenda.
My campaign is about reaching out to everyone as Americans and returning to a government that puts the American people first.
That's when the protesters, that was the first.
Yeah, right.
We by the way, we edited this applause.
You know, I'm gonna make an executive decision.
I'm gonna leave some of this plause in a little longer because it has an effect, a positive effect.
So Cookie, leave the applause in a little longer here.
And the booze as well.
Uh it all matters.
But that's when Trump first started getting protested, and you heard him raise his volume level, start speaking over them, and the crowd wanted no part of them.
The crowd, they ran them out of there as soon as they piped up.
Here's the next bike.
Recently, at a campaign event, Hillary Clinton short-circulated you know this.
You've heard this one.
Hillary Clinton short-circuited again to use a Now famous term, when she accidentally told the truth and said that she wanted to raise taxes on the middle class.
I am proposing an across the board income tax reduction, especially for middle income Americans.
This will lead to millions of new and really good paying jobs.
The rich will pay their fair share, but no one will pay so much that it destroys jobs or undermines our ability as a nation to compete.
That went on and on and on.
That applause went on for 10 seconds minimum.
And some people came out of their seats and stood up.
Standing ovation at that one.
Don't doubt me.
Here's the next bite.
And this is the reference here to carried interest.
And you'll you'll hear the room kind of get a little uh subdued on this one.
We will eliminate the carried interest deduction, well-known deduction, and other special interest loopholes that have been so good for Wall Street investors and for people like me, but unfair to American workers.
Tax simplification will be a major feature of the plan.
My plan will reduce the current number of brackets from seven to three and dramatically streamline the process.
We will work with House Republicans on this plan using the same brackets they have proposed.
12 percent, 25 percent, and 33 percent.
For many American workers, their tax rate will be zero.
Which it is now.
Uh there's there's quite a few people that pay zero tax, particularly when you factor in the earned income tax credit that they get.
Now I think it's interesting to point out that back in 1986, we reduced our tax rate tax rates to, well, it was two, but there was for a small bubble of people, there were three rates.
It was it was 15 and 28 percent, and the certain small bubble group paid 31.
I, of course, ended up in that group.
But notice now we're back up to seven.
Now, what happened in 1986 was when Reagan took office, don't forget this, when Ronaldus Magnus took office, the top marginal tax rate was 70 percent.
Now, if very few nobody paid it, that was what was crazy about the tax code.
Uh there were all kinds of shelters and deductions that you could take, and that you were incentivized to take before you ever got to paying 70 percent on the last dollar you earned, the marginal tax rate.
And it used to be 90 percent.
Anyway, Reagan takes office, top marginal tax rate 70 percent.
When he leaves office, the top marginal rate's 28 percent.
But along with those reductions in rates, along went a bunch of deductions as well.
And I remember people at the time fretting over that.
Yeah, Russia, it looks good down to 28 percent, but look at all the deductions are gone now.
And they can start raising those rates up back gradually, and you know they're not gonna reintroduce the deductions, and they haven't.
So now we're back up to seven income tax rates or brackets, up from two or three in 1986, and the deductions are way, way gone.
I think the largest deduction you can get is 33 or 39 cents on per dollar.
You never get a full deduction, no matter what it is.
So Trump wants to bring it back down at the three rates.
And uh I thought that that might have the uh the carried interest, but uh it didn't.
So here's the here's the next let's keep going.
Here's the next one.
She pledged 200,000 jobs for upstate New York when she was a senator.
But what happened?
The Washington Post writes, manufacturing jobs, plunging record-setting levels, plunging nearly 25 percent.
Many promised jobs, they were all promised.
I remember it so well.
Vote for Hillary, she'll bring back your jobs.
Many promised jobs, never materialized, and others migrated to other states.
She turned her first presidential run, which also was a disaster.
Thank you.
I'm telling you, and by the way, I was wrong, he did mention carried interest in the first sentence of our bite up there, and and uh I missed it when it went by.
I was waiting for it later in the bite.
Anyway, you hear the crowd go nuts every time she is criticized.
And we as again, we edit the applause here for for time's sake, but I wish we really need to leave this in on occasion because it it went on and on and on, and it's an opinion in and of itself.
Um it's one thing for me to sit here and tell you the crowd went nuts, but if you heard it, it would have a whole different effect on you.
It it would it would let you know how many people are in agreement with what Trump is saying, and this is in Detroit, which is Blue State, their economic club.
But he hit um he hit a lot of home runs in this speech today.
What's not take a brief time out?
There's three more, and I'll this is an opportune time take a break and have plenty of time on the other side to get the other three in.
So we'll be right back.
Do not go away.
Okay, I want to listen to Sound by 24 gigs.
I was I could have sworn.
Now I'm doing this on the fly.
I could have sworn when he mentioned eliminating carried interest that the crowd got very quiet, some of them booed.
But in the bite that we played that didn't happen, it's the first thing in this.
I'm not gonna play the whole bite again.
Just uh enough of this for me to get a feel.
It's number 24, hit it again three, two, one.
We will eliminate the carried interest deduction, well-known deduction, and other special interest loopholes that have been so good for Wall Street and okay.
Well, now I'm now confused.
I'm gonna do a search of the transcript of this thing and see if he mentioned it again.
Because I could swear I know these guys do not want the carried interest deduction eliminated.
I mean, would you?
If you if you're a gazillionaire and your income is taxed at 25%, you want that eliminated and in exchange for paying 39.6% on it.
The deal they've got now is where they pay whatever the capital gains rate is.
And it's it many people just earned income.
But for them, the way hedge funds financially are structured, they've been able to call it carried interest.
It's it's really convoluted.
It's typical, typical convoluted tax law.
And I could have sworn that there was a negative reaction to it.
So I'm I might say, listening to this stuff all on the fly during commercial breaks, heard something else.
Also, Trump's tax rates is brackets.
He announced 1225 and 33 percent.
That 33 used to be 28.
Trump's original proposal was 1225 and 28 percent.
The 28's become 33.
Just three brackets.
Well, we don't have the income levels.
So I don't know.
That's that's part of what's yet to be released.
But he does say that uh for many workers their tax rate will be zero, which it that's the case now.
Income tax rate, everybody pays.
FICA social if you work.
You see, it's hard to calculate who doesn't pay tax.
I mean, 94 million Americans not in the workforce.
Anyway, we have three more of these.
Let's go.
She supported Bill Clinton's NAFTA.
She supported China's entrance into the World Trade Organization.
She supported job-killing trade deal with South Korea, and she supports the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Not now, but very soon if she wins, and we can't let her win.
Because that will be a disaster for Detroit and everybody else.
Hillary Clinton's closest friend, Terry McAuliffe, confirmed what I've been saying, and this is from the beginning.
If sent to the Oval Office, Hillary Clinton will enact the TPP.
Her donors will make sure of it.
Detroit is still waiting for Hillary Clinton's apology.
I expect Detroit will get that apology right around the same time Hillary Clinton turns over the 33,000 emails she deleted.
The crowd went nuts out there, folks, and the Russians are still trying to find them.
And by the way, Julian Assange says the Russians Did not leak them.
Julian Assange, and Julian Assange furthermore says he's not out to sabotage Hillary.
Julian Astain said to me, you don't understand, guys.
We don't release this stuff for any other reason, and we want to get to the truth.
Who it hurts, who it helps.
That's not how we do it here.
The journalists say, well, you're not, you're not one of us.
You're supposed to shield the stuff that hurts Hillary.
Well, they don't say that to him, but that's uh that's what they mean.
But he's no, I'm not out there to hurt Hillary, I'm not out there to help her.
I'm just telling you, this is what we've got.
We're gonna dump it.
He says the Russians were not the source of the leak.
Here he is assuring everybody, contrary to what they're saying, he's not an isolationist.
Trade has big benefits, and I am in favor of trade.
But I want trade deals for our country that create more jobs and higher wages for American workers.
Isolation is not an option.
Only great and well crafted trade deals where we as a country for once benefit onstead of being taken advantage, instead of being taken advantage of, we are going to benefit, and our workers are going to benefit, or we're not going to make those deals.
Economic Club of Detroit, Donald Trump, we've got one more, and he's uh he really caught fire at the end of this thing.
But I'm telling you the whole speech.
Uh, we've edited out most of the protesters of five or six of them, but uh, he got numerous standing O's in this speech.
And we've got one more example of it when we get back, and then back to your phone.
So sit tight, my friends.
Back before you know it here.
Now look.
Here's a perfect example.
Again, CNN, where the Chiron graphic, conservatives blame Hillary email for Iran scientist death.
Conservatives blame.
This is exactly what's wrong.
An Iranian scientist was killed by the Iranians.
An American Iranian scientist was killed when Hillary Clinton, passing around secured emails on her unsecured server, happened to end up releasing his name.
Why is this only of importance to conservatives?
A man is dead because Hillary Clinton's email server was not secured and was hacked, and she's passing around classified data.
The director of the FBI has openly stated how what she did was wrong, how she lied about it to the American people, but not to the FBI, but to the American people.
She's out there saying, no, no, no.
He he I heard what he said.
And now when she but caught on that, well, I I I had a what did she say she had?
A short circuit, yeah, a short circuit there.
Uh short circuit there.
Chris Wallace and I were kind of talking past each.
She lied.
She's lied about it.
She lied about everything.
Have any of you seen the movie 13 hours?
Oh man, you've got to watch that.
Benghazi, it's about what actually the hell happened in Benghazi.
And it you will get mad at a bit.
Michael Bay did it, and they make a point of saying this is not about politics, about just what happened.
It's about the it's about the men and women of Benghazi and what happened.
But they make it clear, they actually uh make reference in the movie that that it that the attack in Benghazi could not have been because of a bunch of people getting mad over a video.
It was a coordinated, highly coordinated military attack.
It was not a leftist protest over a video.
But when you watch that movie, what rings true is that everybody and their uncle at the annex in Benghazi and at the CIA station, there were two different locations, and they were begging Washington for help.
They were begging, and none came.
And Washington was not even interested in helping out.
The movie makes plain there were forces in Italy.
Even just it got so bad they requested just a flyby.
Look, if you won't launch anything, just send a couple F-16s to fly over and put the fear of God in these people.
Like happens at An NFL game.
Fly over at 200 feet on full afterburner and let the roar of freedom scare these people wouldn't even do that.
They were hung out to dry.
And the movie makes it clear.
But yet to the drive-by media, only conservatives think there's anything to see in Benghazi.
And now only conservatives think there's anything wrong about an Iranian site is losing his life because his name showed up in Hillary Clinton's emails back and forth on an unsecured server.
Why is it that only can is it meant to discredit the whole thing?
Yes, it is.
Because when CNN puts a graphic up and says conservatives say it's meant to, it's meant to tell everybody else crackpots and kooks are saying blah blah is how CNN's audience is supposed to read it.
Good God, folks.
If the Democrat Party's candidates can get away with killing people via their incompetence, if people die because of their incompetence or lack of caring, why isn't that news?
It just well, I circle back to the New York Times piece that I quoted earlier from yesterday.
Where the media feels they have to destroy Trump because he poses such a grave threat.
He's so unprepared, we can't let him nearly unbalanced.
We can't let him near the nuclear codes.
We just can't.
We've never been in this position, the media.
We've never been in a position of actual opposition journalism.
It's the most incredible thing.
Okay, here he is.
Belatedly the last soundbite we have from the Trump speech to the economic club of Detroit today.
American cars will travel the roads.
American planes will connect our cities, and American ships will patrol the seas.
American steel will send new skyscrapers soaring.
We will put new American medal into the spine of this nation.
It will be American hands that rebuild this country.
And it will be American energy, mined from American sources that powers this country.
It will be American workers who are hired to do the job.
Americanism, not globalism, will be our new credo.
And the globalists are shuddering in fear.
The globalists are angry and can't believe it.
But remember, for all of that that you heard, he did rip onto the NAFTA deal and uh demanded it be renegotiated or gotten rid of if we can't make an America favorable.
And uh said no to TPP.
So, as I say, he uh he caught fire there uh at the end.
We got time squeeze a call in before the break.
I appreciate everybody out there holding on.
This is Dave in Colorado Springs.
Greetings, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Oh, Rush, what a great honor.
Thank you.
You are such a great American for all you do.
I wish it was more.
Oh, no, it I'll tell you, in these times it it's crazy out there, and you bring sanity and reason uh and truth, which we are sorely lacking.
And that's that's really my point.
Um, you know, I agree with all your stuff on the polls on the variability and timing and all that kind of stuff, but I think we're losing focus on the release of the wiki uh wiki leaks emails.
Those emails showed conclusively, without without any doubt, that there was collusion between the media and the DNC.
And it was so bad that Blabbermail Schultz had to had to step down the first day of the convention.
That's gigantic.
And you know, it's kind of gone away from the news cycle.
So uh, you know, my my point is I don't think we can trust the media.
I know we can't trust the media, ABC, CBS, NBC, you can't, et cetera.
By their own admission, we can't trust them.
They're telling us they're out to destroy one of the candidates.
Exactly.
And it ain't Hillary.
And I think I think their reporting on the polls shows that.
Yeah.
Well, the the DNC leak, uh, Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz being fired and leaving is what took that story away.
I mean, she was the focal point of the story.
She ran the DNC.
She's the one that rigged the whole game for Hillary.
But I'm going to tell you folks again, that rig took place in 2008.
Without getting into it in great lengthy detail, 2008 was supposed to be the Democrat Party's payoff to Hillary Clinton for all she had done to keep them viable while Bill Clinton was out messing everything up.
Their marriage, threatening the strength of the party and all that.
She not only hanging in there with him, but trying to blame conservatives for his philandering and so forth.
They owed her.
They owed her big time, and they pulled a rug out from under her when a younger black guy came along that they liked better.
And I guarantee you, when that happened, uh for the sake of party unity down the road, they couldn't have the Clintons bolting the party after that.
They guaranteed her this year.
And the evidence was in the schedule.
Look at that, nobody ran against her.
When Bernie Sanders ran, everybody laughed.
Oh my God, this aging socialist.
Nobody gave him any kind of a chance.
And Martin O'Malley and Jim Webb.
I mean, she didn't nobody even ran.
They have a weak bench, but they got stronger people than that.
It was the game was rigged.
And then Bernie upset everything by demonstrating that the Democrat Party's even more wacko radical left than uh they wanted to admit.
So they had to rig the game against Bertie.
And they did it in any number of ways.
And the emails documented it.
And the lesson ought to be that the party cheats.
And that the media's in on it.
You're right, but of course, that's been swept away.
And will continue to be.
Have to take a timeout, folks, as time rolls on, but we let more we get back.
Stay with us.
Here is Christine in Westchester.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, ma'am.
Uh listen to you every day for probably the last ten years.
You're informative and entertaining at the same time.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
How far do you live from Wingfoot?
Uh, about 15 minutes.
Not bad.
Not bad, but I'm a little bit closer to uh Hillary Clinton, so what can you do?
Chappaqua.
Very close.
Um to that point, I one of the things, I mean, we've all been aware for a very long time how how the media has had their biases.
Right.
But it's become to the point that even I'm incredulous as I'm listening to some of the quote unquote polling questions.
One that really gets me rushed is the one about trust.
What are Trump's trust numbers versus Clinton's trust numbers?
49 to 40.
Who do you think is the most honest and trustworthy, Clinton or Trump?
Clinton 49, Trump 40.
I don't even know how you even put that question, put them in the same category for that question.
This is a woman with a track record where you can go from A to Z of where she's not trustworthy.
This man's never held public office.
I I don't even know how you could ask that.
How about this in in a in a in another poll that's out there just released today?
Overall, do you have a favorable or unfavorable impression of Melania Trump?
Well, I mean, that's another one.
Why don't they ask the same question about Chelsea?
What does anybody know?
What does anybody know about her?
I mean, I get your point.
I really that is my point.
That that that's my point.
And it's and and I don't know at what point are are Americans going to stop and and just say, wait a minute, there's something about that.
Your point of the question about the conservatives, how conservatives feel about the issue is.
We are divided.
We are truly a divided country, and the media is on the other team.
And we're gonna find out.
We're gonna find out who outnumbers who in November.
That's what really this is all about.
I forgot to mention this.
Our 13-year-old caller last week, who had the app, the Apple App Store, Walter Haber, Walker Haber, after appearing on this program, his app became number five in all paid apps, and number one in arcade games, and number three in games overall.
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