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Aug. 22, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 22, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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So, folks, let us review the last few days that have transpired here in our great country.
Donald Trump, presidential candidate, Republican side, visited Louisiana.
They've had some terrible flooding there.
There hasn't been one representative of the Obama administration get even close to Louisiana.
I'm sorry, I didn't know that.
Jay Johnson went for a day.
The guy spells his name J-E-H.
Okay, Jay Johnson went for a day.
Who is he?
Homeland Security?
Right.
Okay, so the Homeland Security guy went down there for a day.
Hillary Clinton decided to stay in Martha's Vineyard for her husband's 70th birthday party.
Obama continued his vacation at Martha's Vineyard, getting in his 10th round of golf.
Did you see the photo mock-up that Drudge posted?
This is one of the greatest of all times.
There's a little Beamer station wagon that's practically flooded, completely flooded, along with a bunch of other cars in Louisiana, and Obama is on the roof, hitting a chip shot of the BMW on his way to Louisiana.
He is just, this is that kind of thing.
You're not supposed to do that.
You're not supposed to make fun of leftists.
You're not supposed to laugh at them.
They don't have any sense of humor where this stuff is concerned.
And it was just, it was fantastic.
So Trump goes down to Louisiana and actually helped with the relief efforts.
And there were people down there saying, oh, we knew you'd come.
We knew you would come to help us.
We were hoping you would come.
CNN says Trump got there too soon.
The people of Louisiana, the officials of Louisiana, they're not ready for any of this yet.
They need another week of suffering before they're week of suffering before they're ready for the logistics necessary to accommodate Obama.
Obama was supposed to go in there tomorrow.
He's coming back from Martha playing another round of golf today.
Supposed to go down there tomorrow.
Now I'm told he might not get down there until Thursday.
There isn't, there doesn't seem to be any outrage.
And again, people ask me frequently, Rush, why is there no outrage within the general population over X move by Obama or something Obama didn't do?
And the retort is, well, nobody knows.
You and I know that he hasn't gone.
We follow it.
But the low information crowd, which everybody's waiting to get mad, I mean, when we talk about when are people getting outraged, let's admit it, we're talking about people who're not daily followers in depth of political things.
But how can they not know this?
How can people not know Obama hasn't gone to Louisiana?
Maybe because Kanye West hasn't gone on a rant about it.
Maybe because Kim Kardashian hasn't gone on a rant about it.
Barbara Streisand's ticked off, but only at Siri.
You heard about this?
Barbara Streisand's mad, not at Obama not going down to Louisiana.
No, she's mad that Siri mispronounces her name.
This is incredible.
Barbara Streisand was on NPR.
They got it to talking about, I don't know how it even came up, but she started complaining that Siri didn't any good because it mispronounces her name.
It calls her Streisand instead of Streisand.
The soft S is pronounced as a Z by Siri.
So she said she called the head of Apple, it would be Tim Cook.
And Tim Cook said, okay, I personally will fix it.
We're going to put out an update to iOS 10 on September 30th, and we will fix the way Siri pronounces your name.
Now, a couple of things.
Barbara Streisand can fix the way Siri pronounces her name on her iPhone or iPad right now.
And so can you.
You can go to your phone.
You can call up Siri and tell it how to pronounce your name.
Just say, my name is pronounced X. You can tell Siri, please call me superstar.
Please call me what, and Siri will refer to you as that from now on.
It's a server-side update.
Tim Cook doesn't have to go in and issue a software update to change the way Siri pronounces words.
They can do that on the Siri server side.
So I don't know what she's talking about.
iOS 10 update on September 30th, if there is one, it would be a patch because iOS 10 is going to come out around, September, I'm guessing 15th or 16th, something in there.
And if they come out with a thing on September 30, it'd be 10.0.1 or some little patch, but there's no reason to think Streisand knows what she's talking about.
Anyway, that's what she's upset about.
You didn't know you could change the way Siri pronounces your name.
All you got to do is just call Siri up my name, any name.
Like if let's say that you have a friend with a name that you want to tell Siri to take.
How many people know you can do this?
You call up Siri and say, hey, Siri, send a text.
No.
Hey, Siri, send a message to my wife.
If on your contact card you list your, or on your wife's contact card in your contacts app, you list her as your spouse, then Siri will know.
If you have a friend with a weirdly pronounced name, that's because it's your phone.
It's asking you what your wife's name is.
You don't have a wife.
But you can say whatever you want to say there.
But if it's a card, if it's a contact card in your contacts app, then Siri will forever know that whoever that contact is is your wife.
But all you have to do is if you've got a friend with a weird pronouncing name that you, or it's hard to pronounce it, it doesn't pronounce the way it's spelled.
You can simply tell Siri how the name is pronounced and she will know from then on out.
Streisand doesn't need an update for this.
So anyway, all of this talk about Trump to Louisiana and the drive-bys are saying he doesn't mean it.
He just tried to take advantage of Obama not being there.
There's nothing Trump can do.
Trump doesn't really mean it anyway.
And he doesn't, you know what?
All of these things that are never, ever said, when a Democrat goes to the sign of any, when the Clintons go to Haiti, anybody say, well, they can't do anything.
What are the Clintons going to do?
Except find a way to get rich off of it, frankly, is what the Clintons do.
So the drive-by's are saying Trump doesn't mean it.
There's not very much he can do.
All he's going to do is gum up the logistics because it's too early.
Local authorities don't want people down there.
But they never ever.
In fact, the Washington Post, did you hear this?
Did you hear this excuse they gave for Obama not going there?
Obama has long opposed the theatrical aspects of politics.
Oh yeah, Obama knows this is just a photo op.
There's nothing he can really do.
Obama can't pass out enough goods to help people.
There's nothing Obama can do.
There's nothing any single person can do in terms of actually helping people rebound from the disaster.
There's nothing tangible.
And Obama knows this because he's so much smarter than all the rest of us.
And he knows that all it is is a photo op.
All it is is cheap theatrics.
And of course, Obama, he has no interest in that.
Right?
The guy who gave his acceptance speech in 2008 in front of a bunch of styrofoamed Greek columns.
Barack Obama, who wanted to give a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Germany.
Barack Obama is above the theatrical nature of politics.
The lengths they go to cover for Obama.
It's clear he doesn't care.
Now, let me say something else here, though, just one second about this.
These presidential visits to disaster areas, in one sense, they are misrepresentatious or misrepresentative, let me say it that way.
Because there really isn't, other than maybe providing some uplifting inspiration or Tangible evidence that there is concern from the highest levels and that help is on the way.
There's nothing really a single individual can do.
But as conservatives, let me ask you, are you a little troubled by the fact that anytime there's a disaster anywhere that the place can't heal, the situation cannot possibly get better unless somebody from the government shows up?
I have been I have been not nervous, dubious of this because it's always the Democrats always end up getting credit for this kind of thing.
It's all.
It plays into their great intentions, their big hearts, how much they care.
But it's like every other thing that big government does.
They don't do anything.
It doesn't really matter.
Except they end up being credited and promoted as having great intentions, big hearts, huge compassion.
So here Trump goes down and actually helps pass out some relief supplies, and he gets trashed as being insincere, or he's trying to capitalize on a natural disaster.
It's beneath him.
He shouldn't be there.
He's not president anyway.
What does he think he is doing?
So it's just classic.
No matter what a conservative or Republican attempts to do in the area of good works, particularly in a campaign, the drive-by media is going to be all in to blow it up and destroy it.
And of course, we've got examples of hypocrisy that are just exploding here.
Barack Obama in 2000, let's see, what was it, 2005?
Whenever Hurricane Katrina hit, he was Senator Barack Obama at the time, just gave George W. Bush hell for not going down to New Orleans.
Just reamed him a new one for not caring enough to go to New Orleans and show solidarity with those whose lives had been turned upside down because of Hurricane Katrina.
To the audio soundbites, this is September 6, 2005.
This is on the floor of the Senate.
Barack Hussein Oh, who stayed in Martha's Vineyard the entire time of this flood and is still there playing golf?
I can say from personal experience over the last week how frustrating it has been, how unconscionable it has been to be unable to find somebody in charge so that we can get medical supplies, doctors, nurses, and other supplies down to the affected areas quickly enough.
If there's any bright light that's come out of this disaster, it's the degree to which ordinary Americans have responded with speed and determination, even as their government has responded with what I consider to be unconscionable ineptitude.
There you go.
Unconscionable ineptitude.
George W. Bush nowhere to be found other than at 10,000 feet flying over the place looking out the window of Air Force One.
How insensitive, how uncaring Barack Hussein Obama ripping into the government and begrudgingly praising the people on the ground for actually fixing and addressing their own problems.
And he wasn't through the campaign trail of 2008.
Here's Obama once again criticizing Bush's flyover of the disaster area at Katrina.
Bush was not playing golf while people died.
Bush was not on Martha's Vineyard hobnobbing with the swells.
He was not in any way ingratiating himself with the elites as Obama was.
But here we go again.
When the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast extended their hand for help, help was not there.
When people looked up from the rooftops for too long, they saw an empty sky.
When the winds blew and the floodwaters came, we learned that for all of our wealth and our power, something wasn't right with America.
We can talk about what happened for a few days in 2005, and we should.
We can talk about levies that couldn't hold, about a FEMA that seemed not just incompetent, but paralyzed and powerless, about a president who only saw the people from the window of an airplane instead of down here on the ground trying to provide comfort and aid.
Oh, absolutely.
People love that.
And here, that same guy could not be dragged off the golf course, doesn't care enough.
Where is the similar outrage among the American people?
Screw the media.
We know the media is not going to express.
Where is the outrage?
Where are the American people angry?
Can't find it, don't see it, don't understand it.
Obama stays on Martha's.
And of course, Hillary, she can't even be bothered.
She's got to hang in at Bill's 70th birthday party because if she didn't, who knows what kind of women would show up.
We'll get into this in a little bit more detail as the program unfolds.
But one of the many things Trump did, series of speeches recently, is make an appeal to African-American voters.
Now, this is something that Republicans have been urging Republican leaders to do frequently.
It's a political thing rooted in the fact that if the Democrats could just be forced to lose 10% of the African-American vote, that it would seriously damage a Democrat's presidential aspiration because they routinely get 90 to 93% of the African-American vote.
And it's assumed that there's nothing to be done about it.
But yet there are often calls and have been for decades for Republicans to make an appeal.
And there have been several.
Jack Kemp Enterprise Zones actually went to urban neighborhoods to pitch various plans and proposals that would facilitate the building and creation of black small businesses, selling entrepreneurism and so forth.
And there have been others that have made efforts to convince African Americans that they're wasting their vote with the Democrat Party.
I don't recall anybody doing it the way Trump is doing it.
The way Trump is doing it is to just look at them and say, what have you been getting for it?
I'm going to use my own words to convey the same message that Trump tried to get across, which was, which is, you have been voting for the Democrat Party for 50 years.
You have every four years voiced the same complaints, the same injustices, the same racism, the same unfairness, the same stacked deck.
And yet, after all of these years and after all these Democrats being elected, you still complain about the same things.
And your life circumstances certainly haven't improved.
Look at black teenage unemployment.
Look at black adult unemployment.
So Trump mentions all this in his own way.
He says, what have you got to lose by voting for me?
Because how much worse can it get?
It's an intriguing appeal.
And I think it's effective by virtue of the Democrat media reaction to it.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations daily.
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I like the way Trump made his pitch for African American votes.
And I'll tell you, it's effective.
And the reason I know it's effective is not because of anything I've heard from the African-American community.
I've rather heard and read media reactions to it.
They are loaded for bear.
They are outraged that Trump would make an appeal to African-American voters.
And then you know what I saw?
I wish I would have printed this out.
This was a, I was really hoovering news.
I was trying to make up.
I've been off the grid for a couple days.
And this was Saturday, and I forget where I saw this.
It's not necessary to anybody go out and find it.
A series of stories, there might have been two stories written by drive-by reporters trying to make the case that, hey, life in America isn't that bad for African Americans.
And I said, well, this is new.
Seems to me that every bit of reporting on African Americans is that it's one of the worst things that could happen to you is to be black in America.
And that's been the tenor of the coverage of African American news and stories my entire life.
Filled with sympathy and sorrow and all the discrimination and the racism and the historical precedents of slavery and all these horrible rotten things that America is guilty of, making it practically impossible to be African American in America.
Trump comes out and makes a direct appeal to them.
And then they just do a 180 and start saying, well, you know, black unemployment's not that bad.
And they start citing middle-class income figures, home ownership statistics to try to indicate that, hey, it isn't that bad for African Americans.
Isn't this fascinating?
Where's this story been for 50 years?
Life for African Americans in America, not bad at all.
You've never seen that until Trump makes his pitch.
And what he said is, what the hell do you have to lose?
You're living in poverty.
Your schools are no good.
You have no jobs.
58% of your youth is unemployed.
What the hell do you have to lose?
And by the way, these are not things he's made up.
These are statistical truths.
And they oftentimes are complaints that you actually hear from the mouths of African American leaders like the Reverend Jackson or Al Sharpton.
I mean, they're the ones promulgating this stuff.
They're the ones that need to be this perception that life for African Americans is the dregs.
And of course, the reason for that is racism and bigotry and discrimination, thereby needing the race industry to defend these African Americans against this onslaught of unfairness that is intrinsically baked into the United States of America's existence.
And then Trump comes along.
And I think it's a reasonable appeal.
Now, what Trump didn't say that I think is implied here when he says you're living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58% of your youth is unemployed.
He talks about immigration.
That's not going to help any of these circumstances with all these illegal immigrants and refugees pouring into the country.
And then the Democrats turning their favorites, the attention on favorites, new favorites, such as gays and lesbians and bisexual transgenders and so forth, taking the African-American vote for granted.
But the point is that the implied message of what Trump says is that the circumstances that blacks and their leaders complain about haven't changed.
In fact, you could possibly accurately say that there's more anger in America today than there was 10 years ago, certainly more than there was eight years ago.
There is more anger in this country than there was eight years ago.
There hasn't been any resolution of that.
There hasn't been any unity.
There hasn't been any softening of tensions, relaxing of tensions.
It's gotten worse.
Exact opposite what people hoped would result from electing the first African-American president, Barack Hussein.
Oh, so the implied question is: you've been voting for the Democrat Party your entire life and for the entire life of your grandparents, and you're still complaining about the same things, and you're right.
You're still living in poverty.
Inner city schools are the dregs.
Unemployment, African-American unemployment is double or triple what the national rate is, and it's 58% for youth African Americans.
So where is all of this improvement?
Where are the results of the Democrat Party looking out for you?
Thus the question: what the hell do you have to lose?
I have always thought an appeal like that would work.
I've never heard that appeal.
The appeals that I have seen made by Republicans, I mean, they're good, they're admirable.
I mean, they do contain and consist of personal outreach.
I mean, Jack Kemp actually went out to African-American neighborhoods all over the country and pitched his enterprise zones, which was basically a government program designed to promote black entrepreneurism leading to black small businesses, leading to black independence, because that was the objective.
I mean, the conservative Republican objective is independence and government for everybody, not dependence on government.
The message is that dependence on government has led to perpetual poverty.
Dependence on government has led who's running the schools.
Who runs all of these cities with all of these dilapidated schools and dilapidated city services?
Who's been running them for years?
It's a legitimate pitch.
It is a legitimate outreach.
It needs to be made more than once.
And of course, each time it's made, the media is going to savage Trump and savage the effort.
And they're going to fact-check it.
And they're going to report that Trump is lying about how horrible circumstances are for African Americans.
But it's this very media which has been telling us this story for all 50 years about how impossible life for blacks in America is and how it's continually getting worse, how racism is getting worse, discrimination is getting worse.
White privilege is now, I mean, it's gotten to the point now where white students on college campus have been so guilted.
They have been ladled with so much guilt over being white that they are suggesting it would be wrong to have white roommates.
They don't want that because there's too much white privilege.
They have benefited unfairly.
They feel appropriately guilty.
All of this has been done by the drive-by media and the professors, the entire liberal culture spreading this word.
So I find it fascinating that when Trump makes his pitch, the media comes out and immediately starts reporting stories.
Hey, it's okay in the black communities.
Life is okay for African Americans.
It isn't nearly as bad as Trump said.
Well, you can't have it both ways.
So we'll see.
This presidential campaign is unlike anything anybody has seen, and it's really hard to handicap.
I also saw something else that I, I think this is Friday, as I was flying back home from my two-day business trip.
I think it was Friday.
Dana Perino is telling Mr. Snerd leader, did you see this?
You didn't see it.
It was on the five, I think.
Or it might have been a show on Fox where she was a guest analyst or commentator.
But she delivered a commentary or she made a statement that she just looked really in pain.
It looked like the last thing she wanted to say.
And what she told people was: if you think the polls are wrong, they're not.
The polls are right.
And you had better get with the program and understand it and admit it.
Otherwise, you're lying to yourself.
She said, I did the same thing back in 2012.
I thought the polls were undersampled of Republicans, oversampled Democrats.
I thought everything was wrong.
I thought Romney was going to win by six points at least.
I thought the polls had it all wrong for a host of reasons.
And the polls ended up being dead on right.
And I'm never doing that again.
I am never going to look at polling data and automatically throw it out, particularly when you've got 34, 35 polls right now that show a Hillary victory of one size or another.
She said the polls are not wrong.
And she looked at the cameras.
I will never lie to you.
I can't lie to you now.
And you could tell she was uncomfortable with it because the assumption was that her audience doesn't want to hear this.
I mean, she's on Fox News.
And the assumption in her heart, I'm sure, was the audience wants to hear every day.
These polls are wrong.
You don't fall for it.
You keep your chin up.
Keep thinking positive.
We're going to show everybody.
She couldn't do that anymore, she said.
She's got to do the polls are right.
It's not looking good.
Well, there is movement in the polls, folks.
And even old Nate Silver at 538 is saying this thing's not over yet.
Trump is beginning to trend in the right direction.
Other poll analysts are pointing this out as well, but then asking, is it too late for this?
Is there enough time?
Can Trump continue this trend?
Can Trump continue to tighten the race?
And then there are a couple of polls that show Trump up.
That new LA Times poll done with USC has Trump up after being down by three.
This is the poll the week of the Democratic Convention.
Trump was up seven, lost that lead through the Democrat convention a week and a half after.
Then it tied, and Hillary went ahead by three of that poll.
Now Trump's back up by half point.
This is the poll has 3,000 people, 400 of whom never change.
And they take the poll every day, report the results at midnight every night on the left coast, so it's 3 a.m. Eastern Time when they update it.
And Trump's back in the lead by a half point or a point.
There's Erasmus and Poles, a couple others, I think, that have Trump up a point to three points.
But the vast majority still have Hillary winning.
And it's fast.
Hillary's, she's not doing anything.
Hillary's not going on TV.
She's not doing any campaign appearances.
But it is fast.
They're almost panicked in the Hillary camp about fundraising.
They're sending out fundraising letters as though they're in the middle of a crisis.
It's weird.
But you know what?
It's clear, folks?
You've got the Democrats.
There's story in the Washington Post.
Hillary's already starting to work on her presidential agenda.
Hillary's donors and Hillary's campaign advisors and Hillary's potential cabinet members all getting together and starting to plan out the presidential agenda.
They've got it in their minds.
It's over.
They have it won.
And the way they're going to make sure it stays one is Hillary is going to hibernate.
She's not going to show up because they know the more she shows up, the greater the chance are her poll numbers will decline.
So she's not going to do a press conference.
She's not going to do rallies.
She doesn't have to.
The media is her campaign.
The media destroys Donald Trump for her every day, free.
She doesn't have to spend any money.
Of course, she's going to.
She is, and she's raising money.
But the media is her campaign.
The New York Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, something that pointed out here weeks ago.
Hillary doesn't have to do anything.
Her campaign is the American mainstream media.
Quick time out, back with more in a moment.
Don't go away.
By the way, one more thing on Trump's appeal to African-American voters.
Hillary, of course, poo-pooed and thought it was insane, stupidest thing she's ever seen.
The drive-by media is suggesting Washington's Post.
It's hard to imagine a much worse pitch that Donald Trump could have made for the black vote.
Here what CNN tweeted: Trump wants GOP to court black voters, then slams voting rights for felons.
Now, you might not notice anything about that if you race through that, if you just read that headline.
But what does this headline actually indicate?
What does it show?
That in the eyes of CNN, all felons happen to be black.
So where is the racism here?
Trump wants GOP to court black voters and then slams voting rights for felons.
So CNN is attempting to say Trump's lying or Trump's a hypocrite because over here, Trump is saying, hey, let's make a pitch and get the African-American vote.
And then he wants to deny felons the right to vote.
Well, in the eyes of CNN, it must be that all felons are black.
Not Trump that said it.
That's CNN's reaction.
Of course, others drive-by picked that up and ran with it.
Once again, illustrating that the racism in this country is institutionally found on the left.
That's who look at people and judge them by the color of their skin or their sexual orientation.
It's just amazing.
Anyway, let's start on the phones here so we get that done.
Columbus, Ohio first.
Mark, great to have you.
You're welcome and hi.
I guess you're not there.
Our phones working.
Okay, Mark's not there.
So.
Okay, let's try Mike in Lansing, Michigan.
Hello, sir.
You there?
I was at the Trump rally in Diamondale.
There were blacks in the audience.
And the mile walk between the parking space and the sports complex, there were blacks selling all sorts of Trump stuff, one end to the other, and everyone was happy.
The people in the audience for what Trump had said to the blacks were in cheers and happy to hear it.
Because if you go to Detroit, that's exactly what you see is the blacks who are being screwed by the Democrat Party for the last 50 years at least.
And they have no voice at all in their futures at all.
So let me say, you're talking in Lansing and in Detroit, you're seeing a lot of African-American support for Trump.
There were people, not in, no, not in the cities itself.
I don't know that.
But I'm just saying what I saw when I was at the rally, that the people outside were happy.
The people in the audience of about 4,000 people were happy with what Trump said in every point he made.
And when I was in Detroit, the white people left the city because there were no jobs.
And the people who were left have no jobs.
And the schools, as you already know nationally, are in the tank.
And the Education Department is doing nothing to change that.
And the Democrats, the Democrats and the blacks are the ones who are suffering from it in Detroit and in Lansing as well.
Yes, but it's the Democrats keep getting elected, Mayor.
That's the point here.
Well, I misunderstood.
I thought I'm...
Anyway, let me take a break here, folks.
We'll do that and be back in just a second.
Don't go away.
Yeah, I'm going to get into that.
Trump and his change of tone and got your reaction to that.
Also, this Washington Post, the FBI has uncovered tens of thousands more documents in the Hillary Clinton email probe, the year-long investigation into her private email.
And how about trying to blame it on Colin Powell?
And how about Colin Powell coming back and saying they're trying to pin this on me rather than taking the heat for her?
Wow.
Back in just a second, folks.
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