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Aug. 12, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 12, 2016, Friday, Hour #2
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Okay, I'm gonna have more on this in a short period of time.
Hillary Clinton has released well the Clintons have released their tax returns.
Some conflicting reporting.
The original first report was a forty-two percent combined tax rate.
Now they're saying it's a an effective rate of thirty percent.
But here's the deal.
Ninety six percent of Hillary's charitable donations went to the Clinton Foundation.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Ninety-six percent.
They donated it themselves.
And CNN would just talk about more.
Look at how much they gifted charity.
Aren't they so wonderful?
Yeah.
And greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbo here executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes, all while serving humanity with half my brain tied behind my back.
As I mentioned moments ago, we're gonna spend a little time here with Liz Cheney.
Um she appears here now and then to discuss foreign policy, things happening uh it's one of her many areas of expertise.
And uh the Republican Party right now is is in the midst of uh some upheaval and and uh a lot of people had a lot of questions about in fact, Liz, somebody was asking me yesterday if if Trump loses, what is going to become of the Republican Party?
You come from a uh a family that that could be said to be founders of the modern Republican Party.
What do you think about what all's going on these days with the party and just take it and run with it?
Yeah, no, listen, well, thank you very much, Rush.
You know, I I think that um we're always gonna be in a position as Republicans and as conservatives where we've got to be willing to stand up for our conservative values.
And certainly, you know, at the top of that list is a strong national defense, the importance of uh a United States military that is superior to all others in the world, um, the extent to which, you know, this president has um absolutely abandoned our allies, and we've got this huge threat growing out there in terms of radical Islamic terrorism and a military that he's absolutely gutted.
So our capabilities are decreasing almost as fast as our enemies uh are increasing.
So it's a very dangerous situation, and you know, as Americans, we've got to make sure that we begin to rebuild and and get our resources, our military, the resources they need to defend us.
Well, I have you, let me ask you.
I wasn't gonna ask you this, but but since foreign policy has come up here, what what do you think of uh um the the implied statement Donald Trump is making that the existence of ISIS actually uh can be laid to an extent uh at the feet of the Obama administration.
Do you think for forget whether uh Obama was the founder, but but rather his role in in the uh maybe not the creation of ISIS, but its growth.
Do you think he has a point or people who think that have a point?
Absolutely.
There's there's absolutely no question but that this president's policy, his decision to walk away from the Middle East, his decision to walk away before, you know, our military commanders felt they could.
Um you can go back and read the history of what happened, and and in particular, his decision not to enforce the red line in Syria once he had declared it, um, and how that emboldened ISIS and how that emboldened, you know, the rebel groups that were fighting against the United States.
Um was you know, there's just no question.
When uh he walked away, um we created a situation where not only was ISIS able to you know begin to form the caliphate in Syria, but then they went back into Iraq, and there's just nothing more heartbreaking and shameful in my view than the fact that we have towns across Iraq that were one um you know,
for the Iraqi people with uh the blood of Americans with American lives, and President Obama walked away, and now many of those towns are under ISIS control.
So, you know, it is absolutely the case that he is responsible for uh the development of ISIS.
Secretary Clinton was standing by his side as that happened, and they both are absolutely to blame uh for the situation that we find across the Middle East today.
ISIS ISIS is everywhere.
ISIS is in Syria.
Uh Some people think that what we were doing in Benghazi was was actually running guns to Syrian rebels, which are ISIS.
Here, I just found something I wanted to run by you.
This is uh a story that Washington free beacon did.
This is just astounding to me.
Obama administration administration gives green light for Iran to build two new nuclear plants.
So we just paid a 400 million dollar ransom.
We've unfrozen all of their 150 million dollar assets that we had because of sanctions.
What is it with President Obama and Iran?
It did none of this makes sense to average people.
No, I mean, he clearly um the best way to say it is that he believes Iran can be an ally.
I think there, you know, in fact, uh what he's done to help support and assist Iran, you know, not only do we have the ransom payment, not only do we have this new information about nuclear facilities, um, but we learned the last couple of weeks that there was a secret deal connected to the Iranian nuclear agreement where Barack Obama agreed that Iran,
America's one of America's worst enemies, the world's largest state sponsor of Earth, could have access to the most uh advanced enrichment technology, the most advanced centrifuge technology.
So it isn't just that his agreement fails to prevent them from having a nuclear weapon, it's that it uh it aids them in that purpose.
And for an American president to be aiding America's enemy in developing nuclear weapons technology is unprecedented, absolutely.
Now, you're running you're running for the lone seat in the House in Wyoming, right?
That's right, exactly.
Yeah, that we've got one one voice out of four hundred and thirty-five in the House of Representatives and uh What is the Wyoming population, five or six hundred thousand people?
Yeah, exactly.
Just around five hundred thousand.
And they've got one representative, you're running to be it.
So I ask well, you can then uh what are the issues?
That matter in Wyoming.
Is Trump an issue?
Is where the party's going an issue is what we just talked about foreign policy, ISIS America at risk, direction the country.
What's what are the issues in Wyoming?
Well, certainly the ones we've been talking about are tremendously important issues.
Um overall, the you know, no state in our country has been hurt more by the eight years of Barack Obama than Wyoming has been.
And whether it's the absolutely unconstitutional role the EPA is playing and the president trying to kill our coal industry, Wyoming is the nation's largest coal producing state.
So when President Obama and Hillary Clinton say they're gonna put coal out of business, it hits us harder than just about any place else.
Um the massive uh trampling of our constitutional rights, our first amendment rights, our second amendment rights, very important.
Um and just the massive overreach of the federal government and the need to make sure that you know we uh have a representative who can hit the ground running on day one and begin to roll back uh the tremendous damage is being done and and restore our constitutional rights.
I mean, it's it's really a race about freedom and our rights and our security.
Talking with Liz Cheney, who is on the phone with us today from uh from Wyoming, uh there are uh interesting little uh Bloomberg poll today that the Washington Post has referenced, and it's got them very, very worried.
Um in the poll, Trump is losing by the usual eight or nine points, just like I think in the new NBC poll that that just came out.
I think Hillary's up by nine in that poll.
But they found a question here that really worries them at the post.
They presented two versions of America.
One, a country at risk in a dangerous world that's in decline and uh no seeming leadership to get us out.
The other a vision of America that's robust and economic recovery to chunky dory and it's the Hillary Clinton version, everything's great.
Obama's been great, we're only gonna get better.
Fifty-six percent of the people in this poll sided with the version of America that we're not in the right direction.
We're in a state of decline, and something needs to happen.
And the and the writer of the story said this if Trump wins this, this poll question could be what it all ends up being about.
Well, now you're running for office.
You've got to get votes from people.
Um we hear in the drive-by media that that that Trump has got people like you down ballot, all worried that his his drag on the tickets could take people like you down with him.
Is that a factor as you run?
You know, look in Russian Wyoming, um we there is no question for us that uh Hillary Clinton would be devastating and far, far worse than uh than Donald Trump and and we've got to unify behind him and make sure Hillary Clinton's not elected.
I mean, she is um a felon.
Uh she absolutely, I mean, as you've covered better than anybody else, um, clearly violated the law with respect to her personal server and her lack of willingness to take care of the national security information of the nation.
What's been going on with the Clinton Foundation is absolutely crooked and corrupt.
Um, you know, she is a woman who has a long history of not abiding by the law and of getting away with it.
There is just a level of uh slime and fleas associated with the Clinton family, and we we know in Wyoming we've got to do everything possible to make sure they never get anywhere near the Oval Office.
I didn't know, and I should have.
I didn't know that that Wyoming was the leading coal producing state.
I I knew that it was big.
Yeah, no, we we are.
Well, with Hillary and Obama targeting coal, that's I'm sure that resonates there.
Uh as you as you pointed out.
But here's the thing about about Hillary, you know, I've Liz my whole life, well, uh the last twenty-five, thirty years of this program, I've encountered people on our side in the Republican Party, literally paranoid, scared to death of Hillary Clinton that she's some cruella de ville that is unbeatable.
And I I look at you know, she's had prominent positions in politics the last thirty years.
First lady was given choice of health care or given a chance to run health care, Secretary of State.
She ran a bunch of things in the Clinton administration.
And here she is running for president.
She has a 30 year record.
She you listen to what she says she wants to do and this utopia she wants to create, why don't why don't people see she's been at it 30 years and hasn't accomplished anything?
She's still complaining about the same things that she came into politics complaining about.
Now you and I know these are campaigns tactics of hers, but the real assessment is she hasn't accomplished anything.
Everybody thinks she has, first woman to do this, do that.
But everything she believes in, like the uh the economy, why why do they need to fix anything?
They've had eight years here to create the utopia.
Why is everything worse after thirty years of Hillary or eight years of Obama?
Exactly.
No, I mean she is, you know, and and I it's even worse than that.
I mean, obviously she advocates failed policies, and obviously she's in a situation where, you know, she will continue the devastating policies we've seen from President Obama.
Um but she's just, you know, she would be uh the most corrupt individual ever to sit in the Oval Office uh if she's elected.
And she clearly believes she's above the law.
Um obviously we know she will apport so appoint Supreme Court justices who will undo and uh you know trample over so many of our constitutional rights.
And and frankly, I you know, I don't know Rush why people have been afraid to take her on.
But I I watched her a couple of days ago, you know, castigating Trump saying words matter.
And I thought, well, you know what, uh Hillary Clinton, it's right.
Words do matter.
When you stand over the coffin of dead Americans and tell their parents that it was because of a video, those words matter.
You know, when you are uh having conversations in your email and an unclassified email putting the name of an Iranian nuclear scientist in those unclassified emails and then he's executed, you're you're right, Hillary Clinton, words matter, and the American people understand it and they also know that actions matter, and I can't believe that you know, we're gonna elect somebody to the highest office in the land who has proven herself not only corrupt and not only a criminal but completely unfit to be our commander in chief.
Now, I'm gonna ask you a question and I know what you're gonna say uh because you're running for office.
But I'm gonna ask you anyway, because so many people that I run into that I would consider to be people on my side of things, have a a fear that an increasing number of the American people are woefully un uninformed, uh and with legitimate reasons, the media being the primary reason.
Uh that the American people l you just gave an indictment of Hillary Clinton Benghazi, and it's been out there for quite a while what happened and what the what the allegations are.
It doesn't seem to have I mean her negatives are pretty high.
So you could say maybe it's impacted her, but do you have a concern about the uh state or the level of uh the American public and and the degree to which they're informed and care about things that you think are important.
Well, I know, you know, obviously here in Wyoming, people are very engaged.
They are they're very concerned because the policies of the Democrats have just hit home and and hurt us so much.
Um the people are engaged, but what I worry about Rush, um, you know, uh in large part is our kids.
I mean, if you look at um the complete failure in too many instances to teach our kids the truth about our history and about why our nation is exceptional.
Um, and I I you know say common core is certainly the latest iteration of a very bad education policy, and that's gotta be repealed.
Um we gotta get the federal government out of the business of educating our kids, just telling us how to do it.
But when you look at how we are failing our kids and how the story that they hear about the United States and about the role we played in our w in the world and our role as the defender of freedom for millions uh across the world throughout history, um, you know, they they aren't being prepared to stand up and work and fight and defend this nation.
And when they aren't told that it's exceptional, you know, then it it becomes much more difficult um or actually comes much easier for people like Barack Obama to be elected, who, you know, spread this message of, well, you know, no nation should be held above any other, and you know, we all ought to sort of go down the path of European social democracy.
Exactly.
That's that's a real danger.
Well, when is your primary?
I know you screwed probably next week, I think.
It is.
Our primary's on uh Tuesday, August 16th, and uh we're working very hard down to the end.
Uh just the stakes as you know better than anybody rush could not be higher.
Well, they are but I I I uh you've got guts for doing this.
I I I know your family uh history is uh elective uh politics and so forth, but it's uh man is it vicious it's dog eat dog.
They come after you like uh you need steins of speel sty steins of steel to do it, and I think people have a great appreciation for you, your father, your whole family for the sacrifices and the devotion that you've had.
So I we wish you the best in um becoming the one member of Congress in Wyoming.
That's cool.
Well, thank you, Rush, and then again, you know, thank you for everything you do.
I mean, you you fight the good fight better than anybody else, so it's greatly appreciated and hugely necessary.
Tell your dad we said hi too.
I sure will.
Thanks, Liz.
Liz Cheney from Wyoming, and uh yep, good time to take a brief obscene profit timeout.
We'll do it and be back with much more right after this.
You know, it was the funniest thing to listen to CNN talk about the Clinton's tax returns.
The info babe was saying, you know, Wolf is really, really striking here.
The Clinton's income two thousand fourteen was nearly thirty million, and then mysteriously, Wolf, their income last year dropped to only fourteen million dollars.
Well, that's really, really strange.
Wolf, I won and then wolf, you know, sixty percent of the Clinton income came from Bill Clinton doing speeches.
And I'm looking at this info baby and says, You think we're idiots here?
You think we don't understand that they can turn their income spigot off the year before she's gonna run for president and do it on purpose?
Woman that made twenty million in two years doing speeches.
And then they was r they were raving about how much money Hillary gives to charity.
They didn't tell us that ninety-six percent of Hillary's charitable donations went to the Clinton Foundation.
I mean you have to marvel at it.
Open line Friday, here's Dave in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
I'm glad you called, sir.
You're up first.
It's great to have you here with us.
Well, thank you for taking my call, Rush and United States Coast Guard dittoes.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
Uh before I get to my question, I want to tell you two reasons why I listen to you.
One is you say what I think and what I believe, which is great.
And the other thing is you can read the stitches of a fastball, a curveball, a slider that the left are the Democrats throw.
And you can explain it to us that makes it understandable and sensible, and I want to thank you for that.
I appreciate that, sir very much.
My question to you is a while back there was a subject of guys, and I'm sure you'll remember, who said the mere impropri or the mere appearance of impropriety should uh spark the investigation.
No evidence, but we should um investigate.
And do you remember what that was and just doing that?
the first, there have been many of these that the Democrats have employed, but the first the first iteration of this, a Columbia professor named Gary Sick, wrote an entire book largely about how George H.W. Bush secretly flew to Paris in the summer of 1980 and made a deal with the Iranian mullahs to hold on to the hostages until after the election and
release them if Reagan won.
And Tom Foley, Speaker of the House, said, you know what, this is highly improper.
The appearance of impropriety and the seriousness of the charge is such that we must investigate this.
But Mr. Foley, there's no evidence.
It doesn't matter.
The seriousness of the charge is so crucial that despite the fact there's no evidence, we must look into this.
Which they did.
They had an entire congressional hearing.
And the next time is Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill.
Look, forget Trump for just a second here, folks.
Get back to Trump here in just a second.
The drive-by media, they have already got Trump buried, except they don't.
They are scared to death, things are going to blow up on Hillary Clinton.
And I want to replay this soundbite, which is a media montage of several people in the drive-by media worried about her emails.
And all of this back and forth between the Clinton Foundation and the Department of State using Huma Abbott and Cheryl Mills.
These are her chief of staff and chief aide, and they should have nothing to do with the Clinton Foundation, but they're commingling efforts.
The Clinton Foundation is raising money based on promises being made by Hillary Clinton in the State Department.
And people are applying for positions in the Foundation or asking for access to Mrs. Clinton, and these two are arranging it.
You talk about the appearance of impropriety.
This is exactly what the drive-byers are worried about.
Even Charles Krauthammer said recently on Fox that if evidence ever is produced, if these emails are found, these 33,000, and 44 of them have been, which is why we know as much as we do.
If more of these emails are found, and they're out there, somebody has them.
Trump says maybe the Russians can find them.
Whoever has them, they are worried to death that there is an email thread or two that will document all of this that everybody knows is going on.
There just isn't any point to it proof right now.
And these people are worried that if that proof is forthcoming, she's finished.
No matter how many gaps Trump makes, no matter how much baloney gets into, they're scared to death about it.
And Krauthammer even said this could be the end of her campaign.
I that's what first called my attention to this.
Because the drive-by's, you know, when they talk about this, they've got Trump, it's over.
Trump's dead and buried politically.
Hillary's going to win this thing.
Trump's such a bad candidate.
Trump doesn't have any organization.
Trump's not campaigning.
I mean, they have an office set up in Ohio, you know, this kind of stuff.
They're writing him off.
But then they start talking about how her candidacy, she's she's damaged.
You know, that's what has so many people frustrated.
To be bluntly honest about this.
The Democrats have nominated the absolute most vulnerable worst candidate they could have put up there because they had to.
They owed her.
But she has so much baggage.
She has so many vulnerabilities.
She can't tell the truth about anything.
She doesn't speak well.
She is not charismatic.
She is not confidence inspiring.
There is nothing about her that is in any way familiar or common in terms of the gifts that Obama and Bill Clinton have in the realm of politics.
She just is skillless and talentless in this stuff.
And they know it.
And I want to play this montage again and follow it up by Stephen Brill, who was on Charlie Rose.
Charlie Rose is scared of Charlie Rose is talking to anybody and everybody about this.
But here's the montage again, just to put it in perspective for you.
It's Chuck Todd.
It's uh Danny Dor Donny Donny Dech.
Dech, what's it?
Donnie Duch, uh, John Berman, Mika Bzhinski, uh, Bob Woodward of Woodward and Bernstein fame, Sandra Smith at Fox News, A.B. Snoddard, listen to this.
The October surprise is sitting right in front of us.
What would be the kind of thing that would be a game ender for Hillary Clinton?
You nervous there might be an October surprise somewhere in these emails.
How realistic is the possibility of an October surprise or some sort of damning revelation?
The people who have this, the Russians, the Chinese, God knows, can kind of deal it out in a way that could be quite damaging.
Will there be an October surprise of a big document dump of emails indicating that this kind of access was provided, really could end her candidacy.
And if they don't think that that could happen, Democrats have their hat in the sand.
You'd realize they're making it clear they don't think they could save her if this stuff comes up.
I find that's maybe the most incredible.
They don't think they could cover it up.
I thought that drive-bys were of the frame of mind that there's nothing they couldn't sweep under the rug if they had to.
There's nothing that they couldn't keep the American people from learning.
There's nothing that can damage her.
But they clearly big bug and her candidacy.
That was A. B. Stoddard.
So here on Charlie Rose last night on PBS, speaking with Stephen Brill, the author and journalist.
He had a magazine once.
What was the name of that magazine?
It was a media magazine.
That's why the media liked it, and it was I don't remember what it was.
Anyway, here's the question Charlie Rose is asking him about this October surprise.
There, folks there are worried that somebody's got these emails.
The Russians, or even ISIS.
This guy, they're worried that ISIS or the Russians have Hillary's emails.
And what does that mean?
Well...
You could have an October surprise if you take it that the terrorists would like to have a Trump presidency, because, again, he's willing to declare war on them, which is what they want, then...
Then the next logical step is they might want to disrupt the election.
So that Trump is more favored.
The way to do that is to scare more and more people.
That's what all the pundits seem to say, which is, you know, the more scared we are, it's his campaign rhetoric, that's what he says, is you should be scared, and therefore you should vote for me because Secretary Clinton is weak and Obama's weak.
He hasn't gone after terrorism the way I will.
Well, I think if that ever manifests itself, if there is a terror attack, by the way, there have been terror attacks.
There was San Bernardino, there was Fort Hood.
There's been any number of these things.
So what do we hear?
We can't call it what it is.
I mean, if there's another terror attack, of course Hillary is vulnerable because she's part of the Obama crowd that's tried to tell us that we haven't seen what we see.
And we don't know what we obviously see that we're wrong.
It's not Islam, it's not the I mean, they cover for them.
Damn right if there's another terror attack, there's no way it helps Hillary.
She's out there in utter denial about them.
And in these people's, in the the way these people think.
Tell me, tell me if you agree with this.
These people on the left, these media types of Democrats, they actually think that ISIS and Putin and the Chicoms would much rather have Trump in there.
They could have their way with Trump.
They would much rather, so they'll do whatever they can to get Trump alike, because Trump, they think they can just have their way with.
But Hillary, oh no.
They don't want Hillary.
That woman's tough.
That woman's no nonsense.
That woman's not going to put up with anything from ISIS.
She's not going to put up with anything from Putin.
She's not going to You think that's the way our enemies look at it.
I think I think our enemies are looking at Barack Obama as practically, well, I'm just going to say ally.
I'll say God send.
I mean, look at the Middle East.
ISIS.
Islam, Muslim Brotherhood, whatever they want, they take.
You better not.
I'm drawing that line, right?
You See that?
You cross that.
Well, you just better not.
And they cross it.
And Obama forgets that he drew it.
So I I don't I don't I don't follow their their premise that these enemies of ours are deathly afraid of Obama.
Very, very afraid of Hillary.
Oh, yeah.
Very worried about Hillary.
I think it's the exact opposite.
I mean, they have to take Trump at his word, and Trump's talking about wiping them out.
Hillary isn't.
Hillary's talking about treating them with respect.
Hillary's talking about empathizing with them.
We must empathize with our enemy.
Like these people have it exactly backwards.
But still, the point is they are scared to death that something's out there that could end her candidacy.
And it isn't Trump.
It's her own work product, her emails and all the rest of that.
Anybody in there watching the Olympics?
You are.
You know, informal research.
Vast majority of the audience for the Olympics is young and female.
It's millennial.
And if it's baby boomers, it's primarily women.
And you know why?
It's because it's not the Olympics.
This is reality TV.
This is there's much more time spent on public interest.
Who became what athlete and how?
You know, what obstacles they overcame.
They were boy born a girl, became a boy without drugs, had a hard life, but came in an Olympic athlete.
And the people just eating all that that stuff up.
You know, the uh the the what do you call it?
The human interest.
Exactly right.
The human, not the astronaut, because you know what I tabulated?
I I I had somebody do it for me, because I I can't watch it.
I'm I'm I think it's age-related.
Uh but I found out that what is it on?
Three hours a night, four hours not in prime time.
It's either seven, is it eight to eleven or seven?
Okay, let's say, four, you can put the actual Olympic competition as televised.
Could be done in 30 minutes.
Three and a half hours is puff peace pep about the venue, about the athletes, about the crime in Rio, about what to do if you get kidnapped in Rio, who you pay the ransom to, who?
Uh the pollution.
Oh, yeah, the pollution.
Why is the green water green in the pool?
And is it going to affect the athletes?
Is it going to cause cancer in 30 years?
You know, this kind of stuff.
The actual competition, you could probably f squeeze it all in in a half-hour TV show.
And have nobody miss anything.
Of the stuff that was televised.
Here is uh here's um Emil in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks so much for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
You bet.
Um I just want to ask you, do you think our government is becoming uh the evil empire that the uh Soviet Union government used to be?
I mean, if you think about it, all they do is lie.
I I don't want to list off all the lies they make.
They say, but every department is a lie.
Well no.
If it is if you use the term specific evil empire, no.
And I will explain why.
The Soviet Union was called the evil empire, not because its leaders lied, but because they killed people.
The Soviet Union never let anybody out of the country.
If you try to get out of the country, they kill you.
Most countries like ours, people want to get into.
In the so in all communist countries, they have to build a wall or build a moat to keep you in, like Cuba.
Soviet Union.
Political prisoners put you in jail just for what you think If it violated the regime's beliefs and tenets.
You like the video guy, like the guy that produced the video that did not have anything to do with Bengaz, they put him in jail.
Purely, and it was a show.
It was the guy hadn't done anything warranting being put in jail.
Anyway, what is happening, what you are actually referring to, I can trace back to Dr. Angelo Codvia in his piece in The American Spectator, ruling class versus country class.
I think even Peggy Noonan now has written a column about this in the Wall Street Journal.
What is happening here?
And in this country, it's relatively new.
In much of the world, it's the way things are every day.
In this country, it's relatively new.
And you can find it in cronyism.
In the old days, and it wasn't that long ago, corporate leaders and business leaders.
You never questioned their patriot tendencies, their patriotic tendencies.
You knew they were Americans.
And they can they they voted and they they did business with the government when they had a choice, uh, and they ran their companies.
Uh, even if they were multinational, they were headquartered here, they ran their companies.
You had no doubt they were American.
What's happening now is is that our leaders, and I don't mean just the president.
I'm talking about a lot of the elected leaders, but people in the cabinet, people that are not elected, people in the various agencies, EPA, uh, housing and urban development, you name it.
They have nothing in common, nor any interest with the vast majority of the people who live in the country.
They have a condescending view of most people.
It's very class conscious now.
They are an elite and they know it, and they only have interest in what other elites think, say, and do.
There is a greater divide between the people that lead the country and the people who elect them or who live in the country than there has ever been.
Now that's always been the case in socialist democracies.
And Angela Merkel's a great example.
And to hell with what the people of Germany want, she's going to import 800,000 refugees from war-torn areas of the Middle East.
She doesn't care if they're ISIS, she doesn't care if they are sleeper cells waiting to erupt.
She doesn't care.
She doesn't care what the body politic in Germany thinks she knows better.
She's got her concerns, she's got her cronies and their concerns, business people, people that she relates to.
It's the same thing happening in the United States now.
Cronyism.
It's more pronounced in people in big business.
For example, I honestly, folks, I may I'm I could be dead wrong about this.
And it may be my hope speaking, but I really believe that with some acknowledged exceptions, that most of the CEOs in this country are like most of the small business people, and in the normal run of events, wouldn't want anything to do with Obama, that they realize Obama's poison because he believes big business, any kind of business is suspect.
He doesn't like capitalism.
He doesn't like businesses and individuals that are independent of government and don't want any relationship with government.
And I think small business people understand that liberalism is not in any way helpful to them because liberalism looks at them as though they're the enemy.
And yet, today those people will put all that aside if there's a chance to sidle up and get favorable treatment from Obama because of a close relationship or fundraising for him or what have you.
And I think that's what's what's different.
I don't know how it's it's not brand new, it's it's it's evolved, but it's never been more pronounced than it is during this particular presidency.
And it's only going to get worse if Hillary Clinton becomes president, the distance between leaders and the governed.
But more than that, the attitude of leaders toward the government to look down on us, to think that we're nkum poops, that we're incompetent, that we're incapable, and furthermore, that we're so dumb we can't stop them anyway, no matter how organized we get.
I think that's actually what's happening.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have open line Friday, the fastest three hours in media.
Proof of that is there's only one hour left.
I feel like I just started.
So hang on, folks.
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