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Aug. 17, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 17, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Man, do I know these people or do I know these people?
What did I just say a half hour ago about Obamacare?
What did I just say?
Well, but give me the highlight.
What did I predict?
Tell me what.
I specifically said that they're gonna come out.
I said, Hillary's gonna come out and say we tried market-based solutions and they didn't work, and now we we we we must immediately go to single payer.
And I predicted that Hillary Clinton would say that sometime soon in her presidential campaign.
Well...
Recently posted by a former labor secretary, Robert B. Rice.
Shh.
The problem isn't Obamacare per se.
It's in the structure of private markets for health insurance, which creates powerful incentives to avoid sick people and attract healthy ones.
Obamacare is just making the structural problem more obvious.
The best argument for a single payer health plan is the recent decision by Aetna to bail out.
And he says the problem isn't Obamacare, it's in the structure of private markets.
Exactly what I said.
I just missed the person.
Here's Robert Reich out there saying, we tried market-based solutions, they don't work.
We've got to go single payered.
But I look it, I'm not gonna take a lot of credit because it doesn't take a brain to figure this out.
All you have to do is listen to these people.
That's all I do.
How do you know these liberals so good?
I listen to them.
I listen to what they say.
And I know how they think and I know how they strategize.
I know what they do every day is discredit everything they oppose.
I don't care if it's capitalism, I don't care if it's a person.
Anyway, you've got to hear this too.
By the way, welcome back.
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Brand new as of today.
We haven't been able to update the uh iPhone and iPad app yet.
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So it's L Rushbow at EIBNet.us.
I made reference to this in the last half hour.
Hillary with a campaign appearance in Cleveland, but you gotta hear this.
Because you've heard it all before, almost word for word.
We have heard this before.
We have two sound bites.
Mrs. Clinton talking about our desperate need to rebuild our infrastructure.
I've got an infrastructure plan to create millions of jobs, fixing our roads, our bridges, our tunnels, our ports, our airports, our water systems, our sewer systems.
As part of that plan, I want to start a national infrastructure bank so that we have public and private funds working together so we don't just wait on Congress to act, but we are building, rebuilding, maintaining all the time.
Holy smokes!
In other words, screw Congress.
I'm gonna be going out there and I'm gonna be raising private money, like from Iran and from Russia, and from the Sultan of Brunei, and wherever I can get it, we're gonna rebuild our roads and we're gonna rebuild our bridges.
But where have we heard this all before?
Barack Hussein, oh.
It was part of his campaign in 2008, and it is precisely the number one ingredient that he used to sell his stimulus package, which we dubbed the porculus bill within two months of his immaculation back in 2009.
It's incredible.
And the logical question is why do we need to do this?
You promised this eight years ago, you allocated nearly a trillion dollars to spend on it.
Why isn't it fixed?
Why isn't our infrastructure rebuilt?
And even if it's not, why Why don't we see the projects underway?
Why aren't we seeing roads and bridges under construction?
Why aren't we seeing sewers being modernized?
I mean, you've had eight years to do this.
You you you succeeded in allocating nearly a trillion dollars for it.
And I know what you're saying.
Why don't other people see this?
Why don't other people ask this question?
Why are people applauding her instead of laughing at her?
This is the kind of thing anybody would have a brain would walk out of the speech on, or stand up and poo-poor and turn around because it's the same old thing.
It's an empty promise.
She's the only wrinkle she's added here is she's not going to wait for Congress to act.
Screw them.
We're going to have a combination of private and public money working together so we don't just wait on Congress.
But we are building, rebuilding, maintaining all the time a national infrastructure bank.
Now, folks, this is nothing more than a dressed-up money laundering scheme, just as Obama's was.
The money that he promised, the reason that he asked for the money to rebuild roads, bridges, and schools, sewer systems, and all that.
None of it happened.
None of it happened.
You might be saying, how do you know Rush?
Because they would be pointing to it, folks.
If they had succeeded in getting started, rebuilding the infrastructure would be part of Hillary's campaign.
Instead, what is she doing?
She's talking about it as though those Republicans, look at how they let the country deteriorate.
She doesn't say any of this.
This is all stuff you're supposed to infer.
She's implying those Republicans, they don't care.
That's what the illusion to Congress is.
We're not going to wait on Congress.
We're not going to win on a Republicans.
Republicans don't want to rebuild a Rosen Bridges, but I'm going to do it anyway.
You're not supposed to ask, wait a minute.
This is eight years old.
Why don't we see any projects under construction?
And there aren't any, folks, because if there were, she'd be pointing them out as the Democrats already getting started on it, and she'd be asking for people's vote to continue this great work that they would be pointing to.
But they don't.
Here is the concluding soundbite on this whole thing.
When I talk about creating new jobs in infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, clean renewable energy, I also talk about creating more small businesses and small businesses that will actually grow and give more people a chance to fulfill their dreams and will be part of the basic bargain who will be paid for the work that they do so they can stay in business.
Creating the jobs of the future means we've got to make sure that all Americans, not just young Americans, have all the education and all the skills that are needed.
Okay, so again, it's the same bunch of empty promises.
When I talk about creating new jobs and infrastructure, okay, infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, clean renewable energy.
I think every clean renewable energy project Obama funded is gone.
Cylindra, wind, solar, every damn one of these things.
They got their money, and then they went out of business.
They got their federal grants, they got their subsidies, and then it's hello bankruptcy.
They're gone.
It was nothing but money laundering.
It was nothing but a payback to donors.
So let me explain this money laundering business again.
There's no other term for it.
In the case of Obama's stimulus package, he asks for, let's use the number $800 billion.
It's actually closer to a trillion, but well, let's use a trillion.
It's easier.
It's it's a single digit.
Roads, bridges, schools.
Money didn't go there.
Where did the money go?
Well, we know where the money went.
The money went largely to unions and union employees.
The money went to various unions and their employees in order to not lose jobs.
We were in big recession.
We were we were losing jobs left and right when Obama took office, and we continued Losing jobs at a rapid rate.
It was, it was like at some point 400,000 jobs a month we were losing.
And Obama was elected in part because of donations from big labor, a number of other uh interest groups.
So we now know.
For example, in Wisconsin, 80% of whatever stimulus money went to Wisconsin, went to the teachers' unions.
Now, teachers do not rebuild roads or bridges or sewers or any of that.
The money went to these unionized jobs to keep them employed.
Now, what the Democrat Party would like to be able to do, now follow me on this.
What the Democrat Party would like to be able to do would be to walk over to the Department of Treasury and cash a check and put it in their bank account at the Democrat National Committee.
But they can't do that.
That's not legal.
So instead, the Democrat president, Barackus St. Obama, asks for a trillion dollars, ostensibly to rebuild roads and bridges, schools and all that.
And people approve it.
Congress signs off on it.
He's a new president.
He's got the honeymoon period, think it's great, we need to rebuild all this stuff.
He gets the money and he starts parching it out, and it doesn't go to any of that.
It goes to union people, in large part.
What happens to it then?
Okay, money has left the Treasury, money that we don't have, by the way, but that's another matter.
Money leaves the Treasury, it goes to every state, it goes to Democrat organizations in these states.
In many cases, they are unions.
The union people thus stay employed.
The key aspect of that is they continue to pay union dues.
The union dues are then collected by union leaders, who then do what?
They donate to Democrats.
So that money that came out of the Treasury ends up back at the Democrat National Committee.
Not all of it, but a good percentage of it ends up back at the Democrat National Committee by way of campaign contributions.
So Obama went to the Treasury, he got a trillion dollars.
Instead of putting it in the DNC's bank account, he distributed it to various supporters of clean energy, of unions or what have you, in all 50 states.
In many cases, he was repaying donations that people had made to him.
In other cases, he was maintaining union employment.
In any event, much of the money donated was collected by Obama supporters and sent back to the Democrat National Committee in the form of campaign contributions.
And it could have gone to individual candidates as well.
That's the route that money takes, and that's why I call it, you know, a modified money laundering scheme.
So here's Hillary promising to do the same thing.
Only she's added some goodies.
In addition to the roads and bridges, she's added sewers, and she's uh talking about funding small businesses and clean energy and all of this.
I guarantee you the money's going to end up in the same hands that Obamas did.
It's going to end up in the hands of Democrat donors who are going to give some of that money right back to the Democrat National Committee.
Some of that money will end up at various Democrat candidates' accounts, and there won't be any roads and bridges built.
There won't be any sewers modernized, and there isn't going to be anything of any substance from renewal energy programs like wind or steam or solar or whatever.
It's not going to happen because it isn't there yet.
None of this alternative energy business is self-sustaining.
Not even Elon Musk.
Elon Musk and Tesla and everything he does, you would not believe how much of the money Elon Musk has comes from federal subsidies and state subsidies.
He would not be in business without it.
Tesla, they have never shown a profit.
Still making cars, still selling these electric cars, whatever else he does, launching rockets never made a profit.
He's being subsidized and underwritten.
Where do you think Elon Musk sends his political money?
But that's just one example.
There won't be any roads and bridges built, and there aren't going to be any small businesses that magically start employing all kinds of new people because Mrs. Clinton's giving the money, because most of the money is going to take a circuitous route right back to the Democrat Party.
And nobody's going to stop them.
Nobody's going to call them on it.
But Cylindra is gone.
These clean energy, renewable energy businesses, oh, they sound wonderful.
And young people have been scared into thinking that the planet is being destroyed.
They really, really think.
Many of them think that with the time they're 65, social security age, that the earth will not be habitable.
Don't laugh at me, folks.
There are a number of young people have been sufficiently scared by this whole phony hoax.
They literally believe we are past the tipping point, destroying the earth as a habitable place.
So any federal money that is earmarked for any industry that's going to save the planet via climate change, universally supported by young people.
They grew up watching Captain Planet on Saturday morning in cartoons, and they've been inculcated their entire lives with the lies of this climate change global warming hoax.
whatever it is.
At the end of all this, if she's elected, not one thing is going to differ from what happened with Obama.
With Obama, there are no new roads, no new bridges, I mean, the projects.
I mean, construction projects are ongoing all the time, but we don't have a magic program rebuilding dilapidated stuff.
The money didn't go there.
Hillary's money will not go there.
And you won't care.
Well, the you will, but most people will simply be satisfied because boy, did she really care.
Oh, did you see how much she cared and her intentions?
The biggest the best and the biggest scam that the Democrat Party has ever run has been that scam whereby they are never held accountable.
The biggest scam they've succeeded in running is how they have escaped being judged on the results of their investments, of their plans, of their ideas.
They never get judged on that basis.
They only get judged on their good intentions, their compassion, how much they care.
Quick timeout.
Back after this, don't go away, folks.
Let me uh grab Catherine up there in Gray Maine.
I want to get some uh phones in.
It's been a while.
Here is Kat.
Catherine, I'm glad you called.
I really glad you waited.
How are you?
I am well, Rush.
How are you?
Very good.
Very good.
Thank you very much.
Thank you so much for your humor, your integrity, and your honesty.
I've listened for 25 years and I've never called.
Well, I appreciate that more than you know.
I really do.
Thank you so much.
Well, and I get it in sense.
Like, you know, we talked about the fire trucks taking off the American flags today.
You talked about transgender homeless people.
I mean, I try to pick my battles, but I'm I'm overwhelmed every day.
I don't have an answer, but what you said today is we're not at the pianic point.
I really appreciate that.
Well, look, we're overwhelmed every day.
I I uh I'm acutely aware of it because of my uh I don't really call this a job.
I mean it's a job, but uh this is this is just what I do, and what I do requires a deep dive into what's happening in America every day.
And as such, I can't escape this stuff.
Uh not that I want to, but look, folks, you have to have a you have to have a strong constitution uh to do much of anything.
And And deep diving into what's happening in America as reported by the media every day requires big boundaries.
You have to be able to let a lot of stuff bounce off of you.
At the same time, you can't you can't grow immune to it.
What she's talking about, there are two stories.
The Obama administration is sending out rules and guidelines that homeless shelters may not discriminate against transgender people.
This is an attack on churches.
Churches run many homes, homeless shelters.
And as such, they they police them and have rules governing who can come in and who can't and so forth.
And the Obama administration says, look, they didn't single out churches per se.
They just know that churches are going to be ensnared here.
And they've basically issued an order that says homeless shelters, if if if a transgender woman comes in, as a man, you can't sing about it.
You have to let them in.
You have to let them use your shelter and the restrooms or whatever.
You can't, you cannot discriminate.
The second thing was the fire department in Poughkeepsie, New York, has had to remove flags from the back of the fire trucks this week, uh, because some in the uh the fire commission think that the flags are provocative.
They're too provocative, and they don't give any more detail than that.
And Catherine here simply cataloging how this is overwhelmed every day, doesn't know how to deal with this.
Friday, Grab Audio Soundbate Number Five.
I've been talking about this for most of the program.
As you know, Trump had a campaign.
It's not right to call it a shakeup because nobody was fired.
A couple of people have been added to the campaign.
The executive chairman of Trump Bart uh Incorporated, Stephen Bannon, is now the executive chairman of campaign, and the pollster Kellyanne Conway has been named the campaign manager.
So she's going to have the day-to-day run the campaign operation.
And that's all well and good, that's fine and dandy, except Trump gave a good speech last night in Milwaukee.
He said some things that need to be said.
But by announcing this campaign change, eight hours later, he gave the media every excuse in the world to ignore covering his speech, and they have ignored it.
They've spent the whole day theorizing, discussing, analyzing whatever these campaign changes mean in terms of the stability and the strength of the Trump operations.
So since a lot of what Trump said hasn't been given a lot of attention, I want you to hear some.
So we're going to start with just a few of these sound bites to give you a flavor.
It was a telepromp speech among those people that heard it.
It was heralded.
It was it was uh on point, and it tackled some, it was fearless, tackled some issues that many Republicans ought to be tackling but don't.
So let's get started with some of the bites.
Law and order must be restored.
The main victims of these riots are law-abiding African American citizens living in these neighborhoods.
It's their job, it's their homes, it's their schools and communities which will suffer the most as a result.
There's no compassion in tolerating lawless conduct.
Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and will never be accepted in a Trump administration.
The narrative has been pushed aggressively for years, and now by our current administration and pushed by my opponent, Hillary Clinton.
You know, is a totally false one.
The problem in our poorest communities is not that there are too many police.
The problem is that there are not enough police.
See what I mean.
Anybody else even getting anywhere close to saying that, other than people talking about it on TV, where of course these things are never solved.
Yes, Speech was given just 45 minutes north of Milwaukee.
I mean, it was the may as well have been in the uh in the backyard.
Here is the next one.
Those peddling the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society, a narrative supported with a nod by my opponent, shared directly in the responsibility for the unrest in Milwaukee and many other places within our country.
They have fostered the dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America.
Every time we rush to judgment with false facts and narratives, whether in Ferguson or in Baltimore, and foment further unrest.
We do a direct disservice to poor African American residents who are hurt by the high crime in their community.
The war on our police must end, and it must end now.
*crowd cheers*
Now look.
Look, look, look, look, look.
I know, I know that the Trumpster needs some practice on reading the prompter.
But this is still pretty powerful stuff.
Nobody else is saying this.
Uh and to have it said in the in the presidential campaign is very, very powerful stuff.
But again, they undermined themselves by announcing this campaign switch up.
The very morning this should have been what anybody was talking about in the morning news shows.
But it wasn't.
The media didn't want to talk about this, as you'll hear in in just a moment.
One more Trump soundbite here from again West Bend, Wisconsin, uh just 45 minutes outside of Milwaukee.
Hillary Clinton backed policies are responsible for the problems in the inner cities today.
The Democratic Party has failed and betrayed the African American community.
Democratic crime policies, education policies, and economic policies have produced only more crime, more broken homes, and more poverty.
I'm running to offer you a much better future.
The Democratic Party has taken the votes of African Americans for granted.
They've just assumed they'll get your support and done nothing in return for it.
Right damn on.
That is exactly right.
For 50 years, nothing but carrots and promises and not one bit of progress, not real.
Again, just good intentions.
The Democrats have done a great job of scaring African Americans into thinking that Republicans are take your pick.
Not helpful.
Don't care about them.
Whatever.
But Trump called them out.
Now, there's much more to that, but you've got to hear the reaction.
CNN.
Last night after this speech, they went nuts.
A couple of people did.
Up first is John Carroll is the CNN national correspondent.
Don Lemon is hosting this round table.
Or of course, nothing ever gets solved.
And Don Lemon says, Jason, Jason, that was a tough law and order speech.
How did supporters respond in the hall?
How did they take it in there, Jason?
There's something that's very striking to me.
Uh, here in Washington County, where we are now, Don.
This is a community that is overwhelmingly white.
I mean, when you look at the recent census report, I would say some 96% of the people who live in this county are white.
Only about one percent are African American.
Okay, so after the speech, Don Lemon goes to the African American reporter Jason Carroll to get the spin that they would use, and that became the spin that Trump gave a speech to a white crowd.
He copped out.
He didn't take anybody on, he didn't tell anybody.
He was in the safety of a white crowd.
Big deal.
Next up was Van Jones.
Now, when you listen to Van Jones, if you know how to listen to this guy, as the communist slash progressivity, I mean he's admitted communists why Obama threw him out of the regime.
If he Hadn't admitted it, he'd still be in the regime, but they threw him out.
And you can hear the trepidation.
You can hear the anger.
Especially the link that uh Trump had between illegal immigration and African American poverty.
The Democrats do not want black.
He you didn't hear that in the sound bite, but Trump made he connected illegal immigration to African American poverty by claiming by pointing out that illegal immigrants take jobs away from African Americans, leaving them unemployed and poor.
And you just you're not supposed to say that, and and nobody's supposed to say it.
So here's Van Jones reacting to it.
That message tonight was so shocking in its divisiveness, trying to pit blacks against Latinos, which is the worst thing that you can do.
Acting as if the only reason that we have problems in our community is because of Democrats.
I watched this speech with alarm in my heart that an American leader would walk into a situation like this with so little grace.
You've got to talk about both sides of the problem and bring us together, not talk about one side of the problem and trying to divide us against Latinos with rhetoric that was very, very, I think disrespectful.
The African American community has other things going on than just crime.
I'm telling you, if you know how to listen to this guy, and I do, that speech that Trump gave bugged him precisely because that's the stuff you're not supposed to say because it'll work, it's effective.
In other words, you're not supposed to tell the truth to African Americans.
You're not supposed to tell them how the Democrat Party's failed them.
You're not supposed to tell them how the Democrat Party has chosen Latinos and illegal immigrants over them because they already take the African Americans for granted.
They don't think African Americans are ever going to abandon them so they can treat them like nothing and go focus on Latinos.
Trump said all that.
That's divisive.
You can't say it.
Then later, Don Lemon brings on Kellyanne Conway, and he badgers her in a demeaning tone here.
Uh and and well, here, just listen, because time is at a premium now.
He didn't say that.
I didn't hear him mention any other group but African Americans in crime.
Did you hear him mention any other group as well?
What I heard him do tonight, which is incredibly important, is answer the call of all the complainers and say that, Kelly, and but I want you to answer my question first.
Did you hear him mention any other group besides African Americans when it comes to crime in this particular speech?
What I heard him say is Yes or no, Kellyanne.
I don't recall, but why are you badgering me?
I'm not badgering, I'm trying to get a straight answer from you.
And then you can go on and answer the question.
They answered my question.
People who want to talk about his style and is this and is that don't want to give him his deal.
They're going to continue to insult him, lie about him if they want.
But there are people out there listening to his speeches.
He's bringing the message directly to them through all the noise and through all the silence, and they will hear him.
So they think that Trump, he was only attacking African Americans when it came to crime.
Why didn't you call it Latino crime?
When he thought about white crime and so forth.
Well, what was on the table?
There are actual events here that are being discussed.
Anyway, they were upset by it.
This this speech turned some of these people on the left upside down.
And they went and made this announcement of the campaign change, and nobody today even knows any of this happened.
We'll be back.
Don't go away, folks.
I meant to, you know, I should have done this earlier.
I I had a chance last night to watch the new movie Menher.
Uh it's a Mark Burnett Roman Downey production.
They have executive producers, a lot of people behind it, and they went to the trouble of uh of making a closed caption screener for me.
Uh we sent it back to him today.
They cut it up with the scissors and sent it back.
And uh they they went to a lot of trouble to enable me to see this.
And folks, I'm just gonna tell you, go see it.
It it is don't don't pay any attention to these reviewers, comparing it to Ben Herb with Charlton Hesson in 1959.
Uh many people today haven't seen that version.
Uh this is a modernized version of it with a little bit difference uh in the in the storytelling.
But it is I found myself rewinding a bunch of times to re-watch scenes, and not because I couldn't hear them, because they had the captioning.
I wanted to see something again, the cinematography is it it's about two hours, a little over two hours, one twenty-four the runtime, two twenty-four, maybe or two hours and four minutes is what it is.
But I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The time flew by, and it's um you know, some people are gonna call it hokey.
Because the message is so clean, the message it's about love and friendship and betrayal and integrity and honesty and doing the right thing.
Um it it depicts the crucifixion.
Uh Jesus is portrayed well in this.
It's uh I think uh for whatever reason, whether you want a message out of it, if you want to be entertained.
Uh the chariot race in this movie is incredible.
Uh I watched it three different times last night.
Took me probably three hours to watch the whole thing because I was rewinding.
And it opens Friday.
And as I say, you know, don't pay the critics, whatever they say, good or bad, judge it for yourself.
But don't compare it to 59, the the Charlton Heston version.
Uh you you can, but don't don't don't base your decision on on whether you're going to see it based on what somebody says about it compared to that, because it's a different era.
But you will thoroughly enjoy it.
And some of you might even get a lot out of it.
I think a lot of people will get a lot out of it.
And you realize that uh in a climate like this, to get a movie like that made, big budget going to open at 3,000 theaters, uh important deal.
It's not a message movie per se.
It's an it's a full-fledged entertaining movie as it's intended to be, but it does have some message benefits to it that I think are thoroughly worthwhile.
You know, we we Ben Her.
Ben slash her, Judah Ben Her.
Okay, reminder, folks, uh business trip here uh tomorrow and Friday.
Buck Sexton of the CIA here tomorrow.
Mark Belling will be on Friday, and I will be back Monday to save the day and put it all back together.
Thanks to those guys.
Next two days.
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