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Aug. 16, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
28:08
August 16, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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This is great.
CNN can barely keep their pants on right now.
They're so excited.
Yeah, but, you know, Brian, these two monitors, these Samsung, sorry, for no reason, they just go to sleep twice.
When I get here, just go to sleep.
Big whooping.
I have to hit a button down.
The bottom one's going to go to sleep here in the next couple of minutes.
Anyway, folks, welcome back.
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Okay, CNN, there are two things going on.
They just found out that Trump's going to Milwaukee and they are beside themselves with rage.
They are angry.
They are ticked off.
I saw they had a reporter on there.
They were talking to some female reporter.
I didn't get any names.
It doesn't matter.
I saw this.
I was walking out in the top of the hour break.
I had to walk out and do some cigar stuff out there.
And I saw a graphic on the screen that made me stop.
The graphic was critics.
What does it say?
Critics suggest Trump shouldn't go to Milwaukee because he's too polarizing because critics say he only has 1% in the black community.
Now, damn it, this is how they do it.
He's running for president.
He's going to Milwaukee.
They have no idea what he's going to say.
They have no idea what he's going to do.
But they're telling him, essentially, you have no right to go to Milwaukee.
You only have 1% in the polls support from African Americans.
That to me is every reason to go.
But who the hell is CNN and these mythical critics that they cite?
That's a journalism technique, by the way.
When a reporter says critics say, that's what the reporter thinks.
And the reporter has to project fairness and objectivity and all these other mythical policies.
So if the reporter doesn't want to report favorably on Trump, you simply say, can critics suggest that this is a provocative visit by the Republican nominee since he only shows a 1% support in the polls among African Americans.
Oh, is that how it works?
So you people of the news media get to tell the Republican nominee where he can and can't campaign.
You get to tell him what groups of Americans he can and cannot appear before.
You get to suggest, you get to suggest that Trump has no business going to Milwaukee because he's so provocative that all he's going to do is cause trouble.
And your definition and your reasoning is he's only showing his 1% support from blacks in the polling data.
This is exactly how it's done.
So they have just, they transmit to their audience that blacks hate Trump.
That's what they want the conclusion.
Blacks hate Trump.
Trump's going to Milwaukee.
Trump's going to support the cops.
Trump is going to blame the blacks.
Trump is going to cause trouble.
And if there are riots in Sioux, it's Trump's fault.
It's a presidential campaign.
Candidates can go anywhere they want to go.
He was in Connecticut the other day, and there's no reason to go there.
I mean, there aren't enough rep. If he got every Republican in Connecticut, it would be a statistical 0%.
There are that few of them.
You know, these never Hillary bumper stickers, we can't give them away in Connecticut.
People in Connecticut are afraid to put them on the cars.
We found about 50 people that want them, afraid to put them on the cars and drive around, afraid of what's going to happen to their cars.
So there's some alternate bumper stickers that somebody came up with that acknowledge support for the police.
And people there won't put those on their car either.
But that's a side story.
This business that Trump has no business going to Milwaukee, that his visit is considered by critics to be provocative, that Trump's just a rabble rouse here.
Trump is just going in to cause trouble.
He had no business going there.
He was only got 1% support.
Was he supposed to write it off?
You know, all it would take is 10% of the black vote to really mess up the Hillary campaign.
That's all it would take.
The second thing that CNN is in a wad over is that one of their reporters is saying he's heard That Roger Ailes is informally advising Trump in his campaign, and that ticks him off, too.
They're in a double wad at CNN.
They think, since Ailes has been shamed into resigning at Fox, that he should just slink away and go away and never, ever be heard or seen again.
They consider themselves to have taken Ailes out.
So now Ailes, and I don't even know if it's true, but the report said that Ailes and Trump are best buddies.
They're good buds and they talk on the phone a lot.
It's not a formal arrangement.
Trump has not given Ailes a title.
But this, the reporter said, this is really Ailes' expertise.
It isn't running news networks.
His expertise is managing campaigns for Republicans.
And then they mention names like Nixon and George H.W. Bush.
Ew.
And then George W. Bush.
Ew.
That is the tone behind their reporting.
They didn't actually say that.
That's just the tone.
And then they suggest, imply that this is not good.
Ailes got no business doing this.
Who does Ailes think he is?
Doesn't he realize he's been shamed into silence here?
And then they further detail that what Ailes is really going to be helping Trump do is prepare for the debates to advise Trump on dealing with Hillary.
Well, that really makes them mad because the way they hear that is that Roger Ailes is going to be telling Trump how to beat her.
And so Trump shouldn't be going to Milwaukee because he's too provocative because he only got 1% support from the black community.
And he shouldn't be using Ailes because Ailes used to be at Fox but isn't anymore.
And all Ailes wants to do is beat Hillary, so Trump shouldn't be using him.
They've got random roundtables now discussing all this.
Well, they've moved on to Intel Breathing.
Roundtable discussions discussing all this.
And CNN, by the way, now is back to a solid third place behind even MSNBC.
You have to try.
You have to try.
You can't be, it's impossible to be that bad accidentally.
You have to try.
It's like, folks, sometimes on the golf course, I hit shots that I couldn't hit if I was trying to.
They're that bad.
I couldn't do it if I was trying to.
A guy was playing with Saturday.
We had a little short par three, like 117 yards, and he hits 117 yards on a pitching wedge.
He hit it two fairways to the right.
Not possible.
You couldn't do it if you were trying.
If you aimed there, you couldn't do it.
This guy did it.
Well, that's what CNN's doing at MSNBC.
To come into, to finish behind MSNBC cannot happen on its own.
You have to be trying.
And their obsession here with Trump and their obsession with Fox, their obsession with Ailes and whatever else.
It's amazing, too, because they were leading during the Democrat convention.
All the libs that wanted to watch the Democrat Convention, the majority of them, tuned to CNN.
They had 6 million people a night watching for the first time in probably 20 years, and they haven't been able to hold it.
And what are they doing every day?
All they're doing is bashing Trump.
You would think they'd be scoring through the roof, given the polling data, and given how unpopular Trump is, and given what a Doomkoff Trump is, and given how much the left hates him, you would think that a network that does nothing but bash him all the time would be scoring big ratings, but they're not.
Wonder what that means.
Wonder if there's anything to that.
Is there anything more to tell you about the Aetna?
No, they lost $200 million in the second quarter, second, in three months.
On the Obamacare exchanges, they were in 15 state exchanges, pulling out of 11 of them now.
And the CEO of Aetna is a guy by the name of Mark Bertolini.
And Mark Bertolini said, as a strong supporter of public exchanges as a means to meet the needs of the uninsured, we regret having to make this decision.
As a strong supporter of the public exchanges, you're getting out of 11 of 15 of them.
If the exchanges are the best way to meet the needs of the uninsured, then why are you leaving?
This is cronyism.
Yeah, the guy's pulling out, but he can't humiliate Obama doing so because he's got this crony relationship with Obama that must be maintained.
So while he gets out of the exchanges and while he gets out of Obamacare, he has to tell everybody how wonderful Obamacare is.
He has to tell everybody what a great way Obama structured insuring the uninsured.
Oh, yeah.
What am I looking for?
There's one other thing before I go to the break here.
It is, here it is.
It's a story in the college fix.
This is one of our college websites that we follow, young conservatives.
Male, this is the headline.
Male college students are weaklings compared to their fathers.
Research finds.
If you have ever cradled your hand in pain after shaking hands with an older man, this research may explain why.
Among the articles in press by the Journal of Hand Therapy, whose audience is therapists treating disabling hand problems, is an examination of hand strength among 20 to 34 year olds studied in 1985 and in 2015.
I'm not making this up.
Research from Winston-Salem State University found that today's young males have far less grip strength than men the same age 30 years ago.
And lest you think this is an oddball kook story, this story was summarized by the Washington Post.
And the Washington Post says that the differences among younger millennials are even more striking.
The average 20 to 34 year old today, for instance, was able to apply 98 pounds of force when gripping something with his right hand.
In 1985, the average man could squeeze with 117 pounds of force.
So the, oh, I mean, the inarguable conclusion is that male college students are weaker compared to their fathers.
So that would then beg the question: well, why?
What would be the reasons behind this?
And the story does not go into that.
Have you heard, folks?
This is embarrassing.
This is literally embarrassing to have to do this story, but it's out there and everybody's you heard about this Japanese Paul Vaulter.
Well, it's easy to do, but it's just one of these things that you never thought you would ever be talking about at a family-oriented radio broadcast.
Well, all I've got is a GIF.
I don't have a still shot.
Well, no, wait, maybe I do have it.
I think I did just see a still shot.
No, probably not.
I don't know.
We'll put it at rushlimbaugh.com.
I don't want to hold this thing in my hand.
I've already done that once today.
Okay, so you got this Japanese Paul Vaulter.
You know, these guys at the Olympics, they're doing like women.
They're dressing in as little as they can get away with.
It's all spandex or lycra or what have you.
Now, for whatever reason, male athletes today differ greatly also from their fathers and grandfathers in that they shun the jockstrap.
The revered, the traditional athletic supporter is not used by very many male athletes lately.
And the reason is that they want the visible image of a great package to be seen by TV viewers, predominantly, obviously, women.
And so this poor guy, this poor Japanese pole vaulter, vaulting over the crossbar.
And his penis flops at the very moment he's crossing the bar.
The penis flops against the crossbar, meaning his vault is declared null and void, illegal.
You can't touch anything going over.
And the world knows it.
And there's a GIF that just repeats this.
You can see it plain as day.
His nickname is obviously going to be something like the flopper after this is all over.
But imagine, folks, the Ignominious distinction here of having lost your dream, a record-setting pole vault because your penis flopped next to the crossbar up against it as you're going over the thing.
Justin.
All right, here's Hillary Clinton, CNN, carrying a Hillary appearance, speaking live at a voter registration event in Philadelphia.
A voter registration event in Philadelphia.
And CNN's all excited.
This is after they've learned that Roger Ailes is helping Trump.
By the way, I'm not even sure that's true, folks, just so you know.
And just after they found out that Trump's going to Milwaukee and they're all mad about that, they decided that they take a break from the bad news.
Good news, Hillary Clinton making an appearance, and it was so bad they had to jump out of it.
They couldn't take it.
You'll hear CNN cut away from Hillary while she's in the midst of a typical screaming appearance.
I met another young woman.
I met another young woman who told me she wanted to be a surgeon, and people tell her, oh, she can't be a surgeon.
I don't remember where she went, this young woman.
But don't you believe it?
Don't you believe it?
We're going to lift people up.
We're going to help every single person in America live up to those dreams.
And we're going to do it by Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia.
Whoa, they cut her off in mid-sentence.
Did you hear that?
That was Brianna Keeler, part of the all-female Hillary news team of all the networks.
All right, Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia.
Boy, they can't control this, apparently.
I mean, that's right out of, she's just screaming.
That's right out of your second ex-wife territory.
To the phones, safe refuge.
Marshall in Rye, Colorado.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Thanks, Rush.
It's a first-time caller.
Hey, great to have you with us.
I got kind of a unique perspective on something that your viewers might be real interested in, and that is.
I like unique perspectives.
There aren't very many anymore.
Yeah, well, I own a tool manufacturing company here in Colorado, and I sell metal bending tools all over the country.
And we have noticed that when Trump's poll numbers go up, our sales go up.
And when they go down, they go down.
And we do enough millions of dollars in sales that we know this is not a fluke because we can look at the trend nationally.
In fact, it's so predictable.
I could be somewhere where I can't even see what our sales are.
And I could watch Trump's poll numbers over a few days, and I could tell you what our sales are doing.
Now, are you sure about this?
Because Trump's poll numbers have done nothing but go down in the past couple of weeks.
And that's exactly what has happened to our sales.
Okay, so are you saying that what's your point, that the poll numbers are accurate?
Well, no, what I'm saying is that when people hear that he's not doing good in the polls, the businesses, we do business with thousands of small welding shops and machine shops.
And when these guys are not, when they're not feeling good about things and they think that Trump may not make it and they're worried about a Hillary Clinton presidency, it's affecting their buying.
It's very much of a kind of a national business mood.
And my son, besides the company I own, my son owns another company.
He's the biggest plasma cutting.
He sells the biggest plasma cutting company in the world, manufacture.
And my other son designs and writes software.
And their trends follow the same thing as what ours do.
And so we have a really unique perspective of what's going on in this country.
You know, I told one guy that I know that does a lot of stock trading.
He said, well, everything was going fine.
Well, wait a minute, though, this ultimately is not good news, right?
I mean, your sales are.
Well, it's not good news.
You know, the message that I guess I would get out of it is this, that if Trump wins the election, they're going to see a resurgence.
I've got to take a break, but I think I know the point you're making.
Let me take a stab at it when we get back here, folks, but I don't have the latitude here.
I've got to take this break.
Folks, I have to go back to this Hillary soundbite.
I just have to.
I can't believe they let her out this way.
You know, they put her on Prompter, and I'm sure they're working with her to slow down her speech cadence and trying to modulate her tone.
But this is off the charts.
I mean, this is so bad that CNN had to cut out of it in mid-sentence.
And CNN is her network, the Clinton News Network.
And it was this afternoon on Wolf that fill-in hostette, Breonna Keillor.
And Hillary was already speaking.
They joined it in progress.
She's at a voter registration event in Philadelphia.
Listen to this.
I met another young woman.
Met another young woman who told me she wanted to be a surgeon, and people tell her, oh, she can't be a surgeon.
I don't remember where she went, this young woman.
But don't you believe it?
Don't you believe it?
We're going to lift people up.
We're going to help every single person in America live up to those dreams.
And we're going to do it by Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia.
They didn't even let her tell people how they're going to do it.
They jumped out of that because they knew that didn't.
Can you imagine what that looked like?
We hear how it sounded.
Can you imagine what it looked like?
CNN, they're really in a wad now.
So they just promoted another segment on Ailes Helping Trump.
4.45 in New York Latest update, Roger Ailes Depaugh's chairman, Fox News Channel secretly helping to It's 4.46 at CNN just into the CNN breaking news division Roger Ailes of Fox News now helping the Donald Trump case.
It's 449 in New York.
It's 149 in Los Angeles.
News just into CNN.
Roger Ailes.
Is that what they're going to do with this?
That's what they usually do.
Back to the phones.
We go to Charlotte, North Carolina.
Hi, Carol.
It's great to have you with us.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I'm so happy to talk to you.
What I want to say is Hillary Clinton wants to bring in all of these foreign refugees.
And I hear so many ads and see in my church how we collect food for the hungry in our country.
We have so many Americans that are hungry, and she wants to bring in thousands of refugees.
Yes, that's true.
You're asking why?
Well, I know why for the votes, I think eventually.
But, I mean, why can't people see this?
I just don't understand.
You know, Carol, it's the eternal question.
I've been asking it my whole life.
Why don't people see what frauds the Democrats are?
Why don't people see that it's Obama's economic policies that explain why they can't get a job?
Why don't people see that the student loan program is out of control?
Because the Democrats are using it to fund universities and salaries for liberal professors in college press.
I don't know.
The best answer is that the drive-by media does never tell people the angle of the news that you and I wish they would tell them.
Well, don't they have any sense themselves that they can figure these things out?
They're being dumbed down so much in the public school system for now two generations, Carol.
Well, it's just sad.
Our church collects barrels of food for people.
We actually had a professional golfer in Charlotte that ran a program or a contest to get mattresses for people that don't have beds.
Well, you know, Obama's pastor, a man by the name of Jeremiah Wright, said that all that excess food that you have is an example of white man's greed.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And you really don't give it away to the people that need it, especially cruise ships.
They throw it away and this kind of stuff.
Well, restaurants around here, I'm not going to name them, but all the food at the end of the day that they have left is donated to the hungry here in Charlotte.
They do?
Oh, yes.
And, I mean, Publix, they donate.
You wait a little bit.
Agriculture Department hears about that and they'll be on their case for giving away leftovers.
Oh, violating health standards.
Oh, well, they do.
They collect everything that's left at the end of the day is given to the.
It's actually kind of sad that there's that much need.
But that's another thing.
Why is there that much hunger?
Why in a country with this abundance?
And see, what the left will tell you, it's well, because the rich are hoarding everything and they're not giving it away and they're not sharing it.
And that, of course, is not anywhere near the proper explanation for it.
But your frustration is felt by untold millions of people, Carol.
Your question is the question.
Why don't people see X?
It really is.
Here's Marley in Arlington, California.
Arlington, where is Arlington, California?
It's Lincoln.
It's Lincoln, California?
Yes, outside of Sacramento.
Oh, I knew that.
Well, how does you tell anybody?
That's just a mistake by your screening.
Oh, he must have thought that you were calling from Arlington Cemetery.
There you go.
I was in the Air Force.
That could be.
Hey, my question to you, Rush, is why doesn't the news media ask Hillary why she stayed with husband Bill when he was impeached as president?
They're afraid of the answer.
They're not going to ask that.
They've got a built-in answer for that because that's a solid marriage.
That is a marriage that most Americans ought to aspire to.
She hung in there in his time of need.
He was under duress, being attacked in a vast right-wing conspiracy.
She could have left.
She could have split.
She could have forged her own life.
But she hung in there.
That is the mythical tale that they tell.
Well, true.
But she didn't leave because of this.
That's the deal.
This is what is owed to her for staying, for hanging in.
It was supposed to happen in 2008, and then somebody more attractive came along.
That had to be.
Man, every time I think about that, I think about how ticked off the Clintons had to be because the Democrats literally broke a promise and pulled a rug right out from under her.
And she might have even been told, don't worry, he's not going to win, but we can't tell a black guy he can't run.
But don't worry, Hillary, it's in the bag.
Just like they did to Bernie this year.
They might have even told her that.
But 2008, she was supposed to be wrapping up her presidency this year.
And when they pulled that rug out from under her, man, the ashtrays that were thrown on that, it was spectacular.
I'm telling you the plan, far back as Arkansas, the Clintons have written about several Clinton.
Well, they haven't, but Clinton biographies have mentioned this.
Bill was going to get his two terms, and Hillary was then going to get her two terms.
That was their personal goal.
And Hillary's two terms were supposed to be ending this year.
We all know what happened to that.
So that's why we're putting up with all this stuff now.
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