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Aug. 25, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 25, 2016, Thursday, Hour #2
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Now, not to beat a dead horse here.
Maybe that's a bad choice of words.
This whole business of the regime sending government-paid lesbian farmers.
You would be stunned to know how long this has actually been going on.
The LGBT Farm Summit in Des Moines was the 14th such summit in the past two years for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Now, on June 2nd, it hosted a summit in North Carolina.
This all according to BuzzFeed.
The campaign started, this whole idea of lesbians and LGBTs being granted agriculture department money to head out there and learn farming and so forth.
This all got started back in 2014 with a summit at North Carolina ANT University at the Law Center there, the LGBTQ Law Center.
And the goal is to help LGBT people, and lesbians are in that gang, is to help them sign up for the Agriculture Department's programs like food stamps and housing loans, which, quote, strengthen the daily lives of LGBT rural community members.
So this is a two-year plan that we are in the midst of.
The Agriculture Department doing seminars on teaching lesbians and gays and bisexuals how to get food stamps, how to get money to head down to the farm.
And they laugh at this in the drive-by media.
They think it's atrocious.
It's outrageous.
It's demeaning.
Limbaugh would even talk about this, but there it is.
Okay, back to the audio soundbites here.
We left off at, let's pick up a number two here because this is the drive-bys at the Fox Business Network actually talking about my theory on Trump supporters and how they are immune to any criticism from the left and how they are glued to Trump and what it will be, if anything, that will cause them to abandon him.
I don't think there is much of anything that'll make that happen for a host of reasons.
But we'll start here with David Asmond last night, the Fox business show after the bell.
While the mainstream media is predicting that a Trump shift on immigration is going to hurt him with his base, Rush Limbaugh today said such talk is just wishful thinking on their part.
Trump supporters don't care what he does or what he says because there is no way they are going to do anything that helps elect Hillary Clinton.
Now, a lot of people have taken that and say, well, you mean that they primarily support Trump because they oppose Hillary?
No, no.
Although there is some of that.
I'm just here telling you that there is a significant number of Trump supporters who do not want Hillary Clinton to become president.
They're not going to abandon Trump if it means that.
Now, if you ask them if they get, see, this is what nobody's asking.
You drive by.
If you want to get to the bottom of this, let me tell you what to ask these people.
Don't ask them if they're going to abandon Trump.
Don't ask them that.
You go ask them if you think this is hurting his chances to win.
Because that's what the Trump supporters all want.
They want him to win.
Why is what you all have to learn?
There are those of us who know why Trump supporters want him to win.
People in the establishment, I think, are still in various stages of denial about people outside the establishment and their view of it.
But if you want to do man on the street interviews with Trumpists, don't ask them if they're getting upset or if they will turn on Trump or abandon Trump.
Go ask them instead, is any of this making you worried that it's hurting his chances to win?
And there you will get far more interesting answers, in my humble opinion.
But it is a waste of time To even speculate, much less ask these Trump people straight on.
So Trump is flip-flopping on abortion.
Trump's flip-flopping on immigration.
Trump's flip-flopping on this.
Was the immigration that's really bad?
Are you going to abandon?
You're never going to get the answer you want there.
But if you ask him, are you getting worried that he's hurting his chances to win?
Well, now that you drive by, you might be more intrigued by those answers if you approach it that way.
Same show, David Asmond speaking with a Republican fundraiser, Noel Nickper, and a Democrat strategicist named Steve Murphy about me and my comments that Trump's softening on immigration won't cause him to lose too many followers.
Asmund plays the clip of me from yesterday's show, and then he says, So, can Trump soften his views on immigration and still hold on to his base?
Noel, Rush thinks it won't hurt him with his base.
What do you think?
I think two things.
Number one, if you replace the word softening on immigration and replace it with something like reasonable immigration, I think when anyone runs for an office, they need to make bullet points.
And his claim to fame was the wall in keeping out the bad guys, not keeping out everybody that wants to come to this country.
So I think the fact that he says he wants to soften it up a bit is only talking about people that are here legally, that are in the country, that have businesses, that are already established.
Okay, so here, see what's happening?
Look at the assumption.
Despite what Trump has said about this, no matter what it is, the analysis there is: what he means is he's got nothing against people here who are upstanding and behave and follow the law.
He's got no problem with people who've been here, even if it's illegally 20 years and have kids.
He wants to keep the bad guys out.
He wants to keep the rapists and the muggers and the purse-snatchers and the thugs.
That's what he wants to keep out.
And he's not changed on that.
Look, I've been there, folks.
I've been there with Peroistas.
You couldn't talk a Perot supporter out of supporting Perot no matter what you did.
I know because I tried.
What it finally took was Perot getting out of the race.
There was nothing you could do, no matter what Trump, no matter what Perot said, no matter what changes in policy Perot announced or didn't announce, no matter whatever faux pause he might have made in a speech, didn't matter.
You weren't going to talk him out of it.
And it's the same thing here with the Trumpists.
And I think it's even stronger with the Trumpists.
Now, the other guest is the Democrat strategist Steve Murphy.
And Asmund said, okay, Steve, I want to talk about the sort of meme in the mainstream media is today that somehow Trump's going to be disillusioning his base by changing, by softening his views on immigration.
Rush says no.
That base is so anti-Hillary, they're not going to be shifted.
What do you think?
I think Rush is probably right.
I don't think his base is going anywhere, but it's also not going to expand one bit.
And that's what he needs to do.
Well, that's what the Trumpists will tell you he is doing.
That the quote-unquote softening is to expand the base of support.
There's no question that's what whether it's succeeding.
Look, folks, all I can tell you is that the polls are tightening.
And there's one thing inescapable here: Hillary Clinton is no prize.
She has her own negatives.
She has her own problems.
She does not make a good impression.
She doesn't have charisma, likability, any of that.
Her negatives are very, very close to Trump's, and they know it.
There's a reason they keep Hillary away from cameras and microphones and press conferences.
There's a reason she only goes to fundraisers, and there's a reason there's only still shots made available of it.
And if you don't doubt me, you're making a mistake.
We have documented it.
We have the evidence.
We've researched it.
We've looked at it.
You can track Hillary Clinton's poll numbers.
They go up when you don't see her.
They go up when you don't hear her.
The convention is an exception to this because obviously the convention is going to be its own bounds.
But outside of that, the more Hillary shows up, the more she speaks, the more personal appearances she does, the worse her numbers get.
They know it.
The Republicans know it.
Everybody knows it.
The drive-bys won't admit it, but they know it.
It happens to be true.
That's why the drive-bys are not clamoring for a press conference with her.
They don't need to have a press conference.
They don't care what she thinks.
Everybody talks about the Trump supporters and how they won't abandon Trump.
How about the drive-bys?
You can't talk them into abandoning Hillary no matter what.
Hillary can be as filthy, as corrupt as they are learning she is, and it doesn't matter.
This cuts both ways out there, folks.
People love to go out and say insulting things about Trump supporters because they're so dumb and so single-minded, so short-sighted that when they learn the truth about Trump, that they won't be.
I think that's even more the case with the drive-by media and Hillary Clinton.
They don't care to have a press conference with her.
There's nothing she's done or said they want to get to the bottom of.
There's nothing she's done or said that they want to expose.
There is no questionable behavior whatsoever as far as they are concerned.
Their job is to protect her.
And if that means making excuses for no press conferences, if that means, in the case of the New York Times, not even running the story of selling access while Secretary of State, which the New York Times has not done, then that's what they're going to do.
And you'll note, nobody is talking about that.
All anybody can talk about, will Trump's supporters abandon him?
Will Trump's supporters finally see the light?
Will Trump supporters realize he doesn't know what he's talking about?
Will Trump supporters realize he's lying to them?
Will Trump supporters realize he's making a fool?
All those questions are being asked.
Because you've got two contingencies here, or two contingent groups.
You've got some people who think Trump's supporters can be separated from him.
And you've got others who know that they can't be.
And in both instances, and I'm talking about drive-bys and media types, they want to illustrate that.
They want to illustrate that Trump's supporters will not abandon him.
And the other contingent wants to keep trying to see if they can make it happen.
They're obsessed.
But over here is Hillary Clinton with a bunch of mind-numbed robots that are supporting her no matter what they learn about her.
In addition to what they already know that they bury about her.
One more soundbite from Fox News.
It will take a brief time out.
David Asmund back to the Republican fundraiser, Noel Nickberg.
Noelle, it does appear that Trump has been improving a bit in the polls since he has begun to soften his tone.
That means bringing in people other than just his base, doesn't it?
Isn't that what it means?
Yes, absolutely.
I mean, he's already got his loyal supporters, and that's not going to change, and Russia's right.
But where he needs to be presidential and appear a little bit, you know, down the middle, especially when he talks about immigration, this is where he's winning over some of these Republicans that said never Trump.
Right.
That's got to, that's got, that's, see, that's the side of this that few people are talking.
Everybody's focusing on, my God, Trump is making fools of his supporters.
Oh, my God.
Trump is flip-flopping right in front of him.
Oh, my God.
Trump's making fools.
No.
Trump's actually maybe building his base a little bit.
Possibly.
I mean, the polling data, polling data is all over the place.
I mean, you can find a poll that shows Trump losing ground.
You can find Hillary winning in double-digit landslides.
But if you take the aggregate, you see them close.
Well, not close, but they're getting tighter.
Hillary's losing a little over here.
Trump's gaining a little over there.
And particularly in the battleground states.
Now, here's another good test market question for Trump supporters.
This is last night, Rupt Audio Soundbite number six.
I'm not telling you that.
I'm telling the broadcast engineer.
Jackson, Mississippi campaign event, teleprompter.
Out of the blue, Trump.
Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future.
Did you hear that crowd reaction?
Now, it was mixed.
There was a lot of support for it, and there was shock.
And in fact, if you saw it on screen left, to Trump's right as he's standing there, there's a woman.
I think she's wearing a white dress.
She's brunette.
And the moment that Trump says, Hillary Clinton is a bigot, her face contorts in such a way that you can tell she doesn't know if she's supposed to clap or not.
She doesn't know at that moment whether she's supposed to applaud this or not.
But this crowd ate it up.
You go to the drive-bys, that's just so unbecoming a presidential candidate.
That's just not the kind of words we want to hear.
That's just not, that's so beneath what we are all.
You just don't do that.
You don't see that.
You don't see one candidate calling another candidate a bigot.
Particularly liberal Democrat.
But Trump did.
And I don't, well, I know Hillary's been calling him worse than that for weeks, but that's okay because that's the conventional wisdom, that Trump is unsuited.
He's unfit, of the right temperament, any of that.
Hillary did react to this, by the way.
We'll have that for you right after this, folks.
Don't go away.
Now, one thing I need to add.
This is not the first time Trump has called her a bigot.
Yeah, I'm sure you remember the other time.
So why are the drive-bys going nuts?
So why now?
I'll tell you exactly why.
It's because Trump all week has been making the case to African-American voters that the Democrat Party is taking them for granted, underutilizing them, failing to come through on their promises.
Trump is tackling that head on while assuring them that he will actually improve things for them.
And this is a sacred ground.
You're not supposed to, there's no Republican ever who is supposed to ever try to get the black vote.
The Democrats are considered to own that.
It's theirs, and you're not even supposed to try for it.
And here's Trump now in the middle of a full solid week's effort of outreach.
They're offended, they're angry, and a little bit worried.
So now they focus on Trump calling her a bigot, and Mrs. Clinton responded to it last night on Anderson Cooper.
Donald Trump has shown us who he is, and we ought to believe him.
He is taking a hate movement mainstream.
He's brought it into his campaign.
He's bringing it to our communities and our countries.
And, you know, someone who's questioned the citizenship of the first African-American president, who has courted white supremacists, who's been sued for housing discrimination against communities of color, who has attacked a judge for his Mexican heritage and promised a mass deportation force, is someone who is very much peddling bigotry and prejudice and paranoia.
That's quite a laundry list of things that Hillary has there, but she left out the things that she really should be focusing on.
And that is he's unfit.
He's a wrong temperament, doesn't have the qualifications.
I mean, that's her thrust.
That's the primary point that she's been out there trying to make.
She was off message.
You know why?
Because this was written down.
She cannot rattle all that off, I don't think, from her memory.
She's on the phone, so nobody can see her.
She's on the phone with Anderson Cooper, and I think reading from a cheat sheet.
And somebody forgot to tell her to include the fact, which their main campaign thrust is that Trump's not qualified, is unsuited, and all that.
We'll be back.
We're going to get back to the phones when we get back.
So sit tight.
Okay, back to the phones.
We go to St. Peter's, Missouri.
Scott, glad you waited, sir.
You're next on the program.
How are you?
I'm doing fine.
Thanks, Rush.
I had a question for you.
I wondered, do you make a distinction between people who are voting or will vote for Donald Trump and those who support him?
I listened to your show and you use different terms at different times.
And I'm just wondering if you see a distinction there.
I don't know.
When I'm talking about the Trump supporters such as I have today, I'm talking about actual supporters, not passive people.
I'm just going to vote for him for the heck of it.
So the folks who are voting for Trump, not supporters, do you view them as anti-Hillary votes?
They're made up of a whole lot of different people voting for Trump are doing so for a whole lot of different reasons, but I think there is a typical Trump voter.
I think they're there for specific reasons.
I don't think there's who do you think these what is the difference in a Trump voter and a Trump supporter to you?
I think a Trump voter is someone who a year ago would not have voted for Donald Trump, but today will, simply for pragmatic reasons.
And what's a Trump supporter?
Somebody's been with him from the day he announced?
Yeah, I think people, and I think that's a smaller group, but I think there are people who've been with Trump from the beginning.
I think they're the majority of them, in fact.
But I'm trying to, what is the, you obviously think there's enough of a difference between a Trump voter and a Trump supporter.
You have a point to make about this.
What is it?
It really was a question.
I wondered if you saw a difference because of the different terms that you use when we're talking about Trump support and the election.
I'm not aware of using different terms.
I guess that's my – are you talking – when I use Trumpist and a Trumper?
Yeah, Trumpist and the Trumpers, yeah.
Ah, Trump.
Trumpist is just a term to describe.
It sounds better than Trumper to me.
A Trumpist makes them sound intellectual.
A Trumpist is a devoted supporter and understands what he or she is doing.
A Trumper, it's just different sounding, better sounding, I think.
I've even had some Trumpists tell me they don't like the term.
They think it's derogatory.
Well, you know, I got a friend in Hawaii who's a huge, huge Trumpist, but doesn't like that term, tries to talk me out of it, which just makes me use it all the more.
But no, don't draw any inferences from the different ways I describe.
I think most Trump supporters, look, what you're basically asking me is active versus passive.
And I'll give you what that means.
I'll define that for you in terms of radio listeners.
You get into an elevator and there's music playing.
You hear it, but you're not into it.
That is passive.
The television sets on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking.
Nobody's watching TV.
It's there.
They're aware of it, but they're not participating.
That's passive.
You're in the car.
You're talking to somebody.
The radio's on.
Music's playing.
You're not really listening to it.
You're aware of it.
That's passive.
There is no passive listenership to this program.
That's what makes it good.
When you listen to this program, you are 100% engaged.
You are active.
And I think most people supporting voting Trump are actively engaged in the campaign.
I think they're actively engaged in supporting Trump, and I think they have active reasons for it.
Now, there are passive Trump supporters.
I'm not going to deny that.
But I'm not talking about them when I analyze what a Trump supporter is going to do, say, in a circumstance where Trump maybe flip-flops or makes it look like he's going to flip-flop.
I'm not really addressing the passive Trump supporter.
The passive Trump supporter is a Trump supporter because not going to vote for Hillary, would never vote for a Democrat.
The active Trump supporter is the Trumpist who can tell you exactly why.
And if you tell the active Trump supporter that you don't, he will try to convince you to change your mind.
That's an active Trump voter or supporter.
Every candidate has passive support.
It's just people that are going to vote for him no matter if there's an R by his name, so they're going to get the vote.
Hillary has a lot of passive support.
In fact, I think most of Hillary's support is passive.
You want to know the truth?
What is there to get excited about?
Now, granted, this is from our perspective.
To me, there's nothing to get excited about with Hillary Clinton.
I mean, maybe there's things to get excited about in terms of scared of in terms of opposition.
But I don't think Hillary has this large army of devoted fans willing to go through fire for her.
She's got some.
She's got the feminazis and she has certain other groups where the leaders of the group make up the active support.
But I think a lot of my evidence for this is Hillary has a book.
She writes a book.
She does book signings and nobody shows up.
Hillary does not have a connection with her voters like Trump has with his.
She's got people who like her and she's got support because she's a woman and she has support because she's Mrs. Clinton.
She has support because she's a Democrat.
There are some women, we have to admit this, there are some women who support her simply because they think it's great that a woman might be elected president for the first time.
But in terms of active, gee I really want Hillary because I can't wait how she's going to make America better.
I can't, I believe in Hillary so much.
She's got so many great ideas.
She's got such great plans.
I don't know how strong all of that is with her.
And it's why I've always thought she's vulnerable.
It's why I've never been afraid of her.
But I'm telling you, I'm in a minority there on the Republican side.
I can't tell you over the years the number of people I've run into, literally scared to death.
And I think it results from the presumption, I should say, the assumption of unmitigated raw power the woman has.
And people are very much worried about the nurse ratchet characteristics of her personality.
In fact, I'll tell you this.
I think Hillary's, the people that oppose her are more actively opposed to her than she has active supporters.
Now, you might think this is crazy.
I can see some.
What are you talking about?
Rush look at her leading the polls.
I know, folks.
But I think Bernie Sanders would be doing just as well.
And I'll tell you, if Bernie Sanders are the nominee, the Democrat campaign would have 10 times the energy it has.
If Bernie Sanders are the nominee, wherever he went, the crowds would be big and you'd be scared to death of him.
You would be worried sick.
There'd be so much energy and those people would be running around and they'd be doing nothing but working for, campaigning for, marching for, protesting for Bernie Sanders.
None of that is ever going to happen for Hillary unless they pay for it, unless they buy it.
And it's for this reason that I've always thought she could be beaten.
Now, not to say the loyalty to her is weak.
The loyalty to her is party loyalty.
And she has, by the way, she has a lot of support simply based on the fact that we are despised, folks, conservatives, Republicans, are literally hated irrationally and inexplicably.
But even that does not mean that those people actively, energetically love and support and are invested in Hillary Clinton.
I don't believe there is that much of that.
Now, when it comes to Trump's supporters, most of his supporters, most of his voters are active.
They are engaged and they are invested and they are doing everything they can to see to it that the guy is going to win.
And I also believe there's a whole bunch of them that we don't know exist.
I don't know how much of a Trump effect there is.
You know, the Wilder effect, Doug Wilder, black candidate running for governor in Virginia, the polls all said the guy was going to win in a landslide.
Turned out not to be true.
The explanation was that a bunch of people had lied to pollsters.
They had told pollsters that they were going to vote for Wilder so that the pollster would not think that they're racists.
So they lied and said, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm voting Wilder, who happened to be African American.
But in truth, they didn't.
So, excuse me, on the Trump side, I don't know if there's a Trump effect where people do support Trump but are afraid to say so because they don't want to be lectured or criticized or made fun of or thought of poorly by the pollser.
No way of knowing that.
I do, though, think that there are Trump supporters that nobody knows.
I don't know how many.
I don't know if it's a significant number to make a difference.
And I think they're also, they obviously would appear to be passive, but I think in their hearts they're very excited and invested, which is why I've always thought Hillary.
I don't mean to be repetitive here, but I really, this is the basis for my theory that Hillary can be beaten.
Look, it's a big deal.
I mean, there's a lot of Democrats and there's a lot of Democrat loyalty and there's a lot of hatred for us.
And if she had all of this active, personally invested, energetic support, it would be almost impossible to beat her.
But she doesn't have that.
She can't draw flies to an appearance.
The people that do show up appear to be zombies.
There doesn't appear to be, I guess the best way to say this for me, there doesn't appear to be any evidence, like there was with Bernie Sanders, that she is actually not.
If it weren't for the super delegates, she wouldn't be the nominee.
You get right down to it.
The odds are.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
This is a great example of a caller making a host look good.
He had no idea he was going to do that.
He thought he was going to stump me.
But see how this stuff works out?
It's really great.
Talent on loan from God.
El Rushball behind the golden EIB microphone.
Once again, evidence that my instincts write on the money.
This is from a website called UCSD News.
I don't know what that is.
But what they're doing at this website is publishing something from the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
And here's the bottom line: older adults are happier.
Exactly what I have always witnessed, exactly what I have always known, exactly what I have never feared, and that is getting older.
And here it is, yet another story coming down the pike, documenting, because I always, you know, I've shared with you over the course of the history of the program when I was 15, wanted to be 20, 20, wanted to be 25, because no matter what age I was, people older than I seemed happier.
They seemed adjusted.
They seemed successful.
They seemed stable, rooted, what have you.
In other words, to me, it looked like life got better with age and that that had a calming effect on people.
And that's essentially what this story points out.
I knew it was true.
Just more evidence.
Don't doubt me.
Here is Bobby Jacksonville, Florida.
Great that you waited, sir.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Longtime listener, big time fan.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate you having me on.
wanted to say uh to our brave men who fought over there in benghazi you think uh hillary might have um done something that they would have contributed possibly to her foundation i had to pause there for a second i mean You know, normally the reaction to you would be, that's cheap.
How dare you, Bobby?
But you have to stop and think.
You have to stop and think.
If the Benghazi fan had donated to Hillary.
Look, I'll tell you why the question is worth it.
Because it makes, it brings home how Hillary operates.
And it does say, wow, that's so beyond good taste.
How in the world?
But it's exactly how she operates.
And it illustrates that.
That's the kind of question that gives people pause.
I mean, the instinctive reaction is, don't be silly.
You really believe that Hillary Clinton would have sent some forces in to defend them if she knew they were donors?
And the cynic asking that question, the minute the question's out of his mouth, pauses.
Because it's well within the realm of possibility, given everything we know about Hillary.
They sell access to everything else.
Interesting.
I appreciate it, Bobby.
Quick timeout.
Much more straight ahead here on the EIB Network.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you.
El Rushbo in the EIB Network.
Have you heard about the controversy over the cost of the EpiPen?
I bet there's something you don't know about this.
Hillary Clinton is out raising hell over the price, the skyrocketing cost of EpiPens.
These are these things you shoot up an effort into somebody who needs a jolt.
Peanut allergy or some such thing, whatever, whatever cause.
This is an immediate fix for it.
And the price for these devices has skyrocketed 400 percent recently.
And yet ABC and CBS, in talking about this, have failed to identify the pharmaceutical company involved.
And there's a reason why.
And not only that, it's NBC as well.
ABC, CBS, NBC have neglected to reveal that Mylan Pharmaceuticals, manufacturer of the EpiPens, has partnered in the past for medical aid with the Clinton Foundation.
And it's rumored that Hillary might need one of these now and then.
Well, the CEO of the company is the daughter of Democrat Senator Joe Manchin.
So you have the daughter of a Democrat, West Virginia Senator, the daughter of a Democrat Senator, price gouging 400 percent?
And nobody in the drive-bys is making that connection.
That it's the daughter of a Democrat senator that's the CEO of the pharmaceutical company.
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