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Aug. 29, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 29, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, so Huma Abaddon has announced that she is separating from the husband Carlos Danger.
Carlos Danger tweeting out photos of himself with a swollen crutch with a child next to him.
So Huma says that's enough.
Did Huma Abaddon Wiener really not know she had a deviant taking care of her child?
She may not know what's best for herself, but she apparently knows what's best for Hillary Clinton.
I mean, she's she's in line.
We've heard she's gonna be, she's chief aide now.
She's uh presumably gonna be Hillary's chief of staff, but she has not been chief of her husband's staff.
Obviously.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
L. Rushbow here behind the golden EIB microphone, telephone number 800-282-2882.
Colin Capernick, the third string quarterback for the San Francisco foreigners.
Folks, we lose sight of something, but we are all blessed to be born in the United States of America.
It is quite simply the absolute finest human invention in history, the United States of America.
We sometimes forget it.
We're born here, we get caught up in disagreements, fights, arguments, easy to lose perspective when we haven't lived elsewhere, when we haven't expressed and experienced what 95% of the world's human population has had to live through since the beginning of time.
We are the lone exception, and our existence has charted a new course for humanity the world over.
And I think it would serve us all well to just take a moment and thank God or whoever you thank for your existence, that you are an American, given all these other things.
It's a shame, and it's you know, I I've I've warned of this coming.
I've warned of the politicization of everything.
There now doesn't seem to be a single aspect of life in the United States that is not touched, that does not become controversial because of race.
Thank you, President Obama.
Even the national anthem has now become a matter of race.
You know, the most recent Rush Revere book, Time Travel Adventures with American Exceptional Americans, Rush Revere in the Star Spangled Banner.
The book for children is about how it came to be.
It's about much more than that, but it's about how the Star Spangled Banner, our national anthem, came to be.
It's one of the most popular of the four Rush Revere books to date.
And it's ironic that we have now a quarterback who was adopted and raised by a white family, who was scouted and signed by white scouts, was employed by white owners, the National Football League, decides now to steal the stage of the National Football League to make personal statements.
During the week, he is about to be cut from the team because of his inability to play.
I don't now know if he'll be cut.
It's a question for the 49ers to deal with.
But I, look, I...
See, I told you so kind of people, you know, these nyan yang-gang-yeah, and I'm had my tendency to be one, but I have warned everybody that this was coming.
I've warned everybody that the politicization the left has engaged in, and this anti-American transform America, America's unjust, America's immoral.
I have been trying to sound the clarion for eight years about what we are headed for.
We're smack dabbing the middle of it now.
And I want to share With you, something I wish I had written.
Something that was on Twitter, I was not on Twitter, but somebody was and sent this to me.
See if this doesn't describe it for you.
Colin Capernick does not stand for the national anthem.
St. Louis Rams players can run onto the field with their hands up, mimicking hands up, don't shoot, something that did not happen in Ferguson, Missouri.
Other players in the NFL and the NBA can wear t-shirts saying I can't breathe, which is a take on the Eric Barber situation, Eric Garner situation in New York City again, misreported by the media.
However, while Kaepernick can do what he wants and everybody applauding him and everybody, hey, he's got the right to.
He's got the right to.
That's everybody's cop out.
While he can do that, while the St. Louis Rams players can run onto the field with their hands up, mimicking hands up, don't shoot, the Dallas Cowboys were denied by the National Football League, their request to put a sticker on their helmets this season to honor the five police officers killed in Dallas.
So the Cowboys can't do that.
Too provocative.
No freedom of speech there.
League turned down the request.
The Cowboys won't be honoring the cops there and elsewhere.
But Capernick can do whatever he's doing to plaudits to acclaim to cheers and all these other expressions against America.
Tolerated, applauded, accepted.
We're told we must understand.
But using the stage of the National Football League or your own individual stage to honor police, the United States military often is now so controversial that the safest bet for you is to not do it.
Now I'm one of these people who thinks Capernick has his right, every right to his opinion, but you know there's something else that is curious to me.
The coach of the Fortiners, sorry, the Forderners, is Chip Kelly.
He's from Oregon University by way of the Philadelphia Eagles.
When this all came up, Chip Kelly said, Well, I can't tell a guy what to do.
I'm not, I can't tell a guy what you can't, you do every day.
You give them bed checks, you give them curfews, tell them what time they have to show up in the morning, and if they don't, ostensibly they're in trouble.
Adults used to tell kids what to do all the time.
Because the kids hadn't been alive long enough to know right from wrong, good from bad, appropriate from inappropriate.
The coach is the adult.
Coach says, it's not my job.
I can't tell a kid what to do.
I can't tell a kid what to think.
He didn't say what to think.
Point is nobody wants to tackle it.
And here's the thing about this, folks.
This is not a one-off.
It is not an isolated incident.
These things never are.
This, what Kaepernick is doing, is the result of other things which came before Kaepernick.
Other things which everybody thought, okay.
Okay, we've we've done that now, okay, solved.
Stopped.
Everybody, everybody got it off their chest.
No.
That's not how the left operates.
That's not the politics of this.
This is the next step.
For those who want to take America out of major professional sports, this is the next step.
What would the next step be after this?
Maybe refusing to permit any honoring of the military before or during games.
Yes, because you see, sometimes innocent people are killed.
And we have turned our military into mass murderers, in effect.
They come back from where we send them, incapable of coping with structured peaceful life.
We are condemning our military men and women to come back monsters.
I can see that coming.
I can see that happening.
Maybe not tomorrow, not next season, but the trend has been established.
And the trend appears to be, if you want to criticize, if you want to, well, more than criticize, if you want to attack the justification for America, if you want to make the claim that America is not justified to be what it is, that America is not this great place.
If you want to make the argument that America's racist, sexist homophobic way, you have free reign.
You can do whatever you want, and nobody will challenge your right to say it.
But if you want to speak out in other ways, you're going to have all kinds of people climb on your case and try to intimidate you or bully you into shutting up.
And it's been working.
Remember, this is not the end of something.
This is the continuation of what has been going on.
Well, it depends on how far you want to go back.
Certainly been going on the past eight years with intensity, but even prior to that, the left was on the march with their complaints.
We have two Americas now.
I'm I remember seeing a protest sign, big sign being carried at some protest, I think at a Trump rally.
It was recently, I may have the event wrong, but the sign, and there were many of them, America was never great.
I remember commenting on it when I saw it.
On this program, it's been the past month or so, maybe six weeks.
America was never great.
That's who's gotten hold of Colin Capernick.
Or maybe he got hold of himself, who knows.
But that's who's gotten hold of Black Lives Matter, or that's who Black Lives Matter is.
Six of one half dozen of another.
But still the truth can't be denied.
And it would serve everybody well to remember it.
We are the luckiest people at any time in human history.
The luckiest people.
Americans in 2016, approaching 2017, are the luckiest and the most fortunate people in the history of humanity.
It'd be great if more people just realize that.
They can just accept that and build on that.
Build on something.
Because I'm tired of teardown.
I'm tired of it.
It's unwarranted.
It's unjust.
It's unnecessary.
It's destructive and dangerous.
We need to build on.
Back after this.
Hey, welcome back, El Rushbow and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Folks, I have to express complete shock and surprise.
When I got today's audio soundbite roster, the first 11 sound bites are me and the drive-by media reacting to me and something that happened on this show last week.
Now, I do not watch news broadcast on the weekend.
Maybe Sunday night, just to get back into the flow.
I don't watch the Sunday shows, and I haven't in a long time.
And it's only because I know what they're going to be.
Even before they air, even before the guest lists are published, I know what they're going to be.
I just, it's it's not arrogance.
I just don't learn anything from them anymore.
And they're not entertaining to me.
So I don't watch them.
What's new is that nobody tells me about it anymore either.
I don't get emails from anybody say, Do you see what just happened on me?
Nope.
Did you see what just happened on Fox Newton?
Nope.
It used to be that people would email me about this, but now that doesn't have a point is I spent the last two and a half days totally ignorant of how much something that happened on this program last week became the subject and focal point of so much in the drive-by media.
Now here's what it is.
Last week, whatever day it was, it seems to me it was Wednesday, but it doesn't matter.
It could have been Tuesday, it could have been Thursday.
Whatever the day was that the drive-bys put out the news that Trump was flip-flopping on immigration and was going to rethink his mass deportation effort.
The drive-bys began laying the case that Trump was flip-flopping and that they had all predicted it.
And that it was going to add up to being amnesty.
And that Trump's followers had been duped.
But then the drive-by said, you know what?
Trump's followers don't care.
Trump's followers or supporters are staying with him no matter what.
So I, upon hearing what the drive-by's were saying, and as a result of my own investigation of what actually was happening in the Trump campaign.
I was unable to control my laughter at the idea that of I'll start laughing about it again now.
After all the efforts that so many in the Republican Party have made to get everybody to sign on to Amnesty, who would have believed that it was Donald Trump to come along and have the Republican base essentially say, so what?
No big deal.
There was another story that day, whatever day it was, sturdily brought it into me.
It was the New York Daily News with an absolutely psychotic reaction to my reporting the news that the agriculture department was granting funding and grants, financial grants to lesbians.
so they could go out there and become farmers.
Those two things happened, and I was unable to control my laughter.
It took a considered effort on my part to regain my composure here.
And present this program in a professional manner.
Well, anyway, the drive-by media caught up on all this.
And the first, actually, the first ten, there's 11 sound bites total.
The first ten sound bites are about that.
And of course, the drive-bys have misunderstood what I was laughing about and what my laughter meant.
But that's okay because that's common.
It causes me to laugh.
I'm going to share all this with you.
We get back from the break here at the bottom of the hour.
But I don't know how to impress I get here, and I didn't know this until it's Cookie sends me the soundbite roster at 11:30.
I had no idea.
And yes, it happened.
I know some of you people, how can you go through the whole weekend and night?
Because I don't watch, folks, anymore.
I just don't.
But then added to nobody tells me.
That doesn't happen anymore.
Because I guess it happened so much that that's all people would be doing.
And they know it's no big deal to me anymore, anyway.
Somebody just told me Colin Capernick is Muslim.
I had not heard that.
Brian, you're a big sports fan, you know that.
I had not heard that from anybody.
Well, if that's true, I wonder what Colin Kaepernick thinks of Saudi Arabia.
If he's Muslim.
Anyway, greetings, welcome back.
Great to have you.
El Rushbow, serving humanity, executing a scientost duties flawlessly.
I want to paraphrase somebody.
America was only itself.
America is only itself when it is being great.
When America is not being great, when America is beating itself up, America is not itself.
And that's the day that was Charles de Gaulle, by the way, speaking of France, and I think it's appropriate and applicable to the United States.
Now this always happens.
I just told you what was going to happen when we come out of the break.
All of these soundbites, and Cookie assures me it could have been 20 sound bites, with the drive bys reacting to me, laughing on this program last week at the notion that Trump may have flip-flopped on immigration amnesty, what have you.
And then during the break, I got a couple of sound bites from CNN about Huma Abidin Danger now splitting from her husband Anthony Carlos Danger Wiener.
You know, and it's interesting to note this too.
Did Hillary try to talk her into staying?
Hillary didn't do this.
Hillary hung in there.
But Huma has had enough.
Huma has chosen Hillary over Wiener.
Obviously, in more ways than one.
I mean, the idea of the possibility of becoming Hillary's chief of staff obviously is a very attractive thing, particularly when Huma has not been chief of her husband's staff, obviously, for quite a while.
But the contrast here, no bimbo eruption unit here.
Huma Abaddon not arising and trying to find out who these women are, texting with her husband, and then trying to destroy them.
That's Hillary's MO.
But Huma, guess she just doesn't want to deal with it.
Doesn't want to put up with it.
And they're very sad in the drive-by media.
It's almost fly the flag at Half Mass Day.
Jeff Zebony, CNN just a moment ago.
He is more than a spouse.
He is a central player, of course, to Huma Abede, though, but one cannot understate the importance of her to the Hillary Clinton campaign.
There is no one who is.
Stop the tape a minute.
Stop the tape.
Don't re-cue it.
Note the tone here.
It's like somebody died.
The candidate's right hand more often than Huma Abedin.
This really is a personal matter, not a campaign matter, but it is really angering some people on the campaign I was spoken to this morning when this uh a New York Post report came out.
They were hoping that he would not embarrass this campaign in Barasuma, but that is what has happened here.
But you know, there are so many aides and so many people who work on a campaign, but again, no one closer in every respect to Secretary Clinton than Huma Abdee.
One can only imagine the personal conversations that Huma Abbotting is having with Hillary Clinton.
I wonder if Jeff Zellany there understands what he really just said.
When he says one can only imagine the personal conversations that what is Huma have in common with Hillary?
What in the world could this possibly be about?
What in the wor what it's obvious?
Horn dog husbands.
So they all know.
They all obviously know, but Huma has chosen a different route.
She's distancing herself and separating herself.
I guess she figured there's no future in a last name being Wiener, whereas Hillary knew there was a future with a last name being Clinton.
Here is Brian Stelter, the media whiz at CNN.
It's perplexing, it's mystifying, and now just downright sad.
You know, people have had fun with this story, they've exploited this story.
The New York Post, among others, certainly have.
But now to have a child involved, to have the child on the cover of the New York Post with his father in bed with him taking lewd photos, that is just sad.
Well, who made it possible?
Didn't Wiener make it possible?
Anyway, you can expect a lot more hand-wringing.
You can expect a lot more sorrow.
You can you can expect much sadness in the days ahead.
Uh, as this story continues to bounce around and reverberate through the presidential campaign.
And of course, what will it mean for Hillary?
What will it mean for her campaign, and what will Trump do with it?
Yes, everybody will be very, very concerned at whatever tactless, tasteless thing Trump tries to do with it.
This in their point of view.
Okay.
Here we go.
We're just gonna start in the order in which I was furnished the sound bites.
First off, the set it up Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, we have a montage of people from NBC, CNN, C SPAN, and the AP discussing my reaction to Trump's apparent flip-flop on amnesty.
Rush Limbaugh broke out in laughter over this.
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh trying to compose himself.
Rush Limbaugh this past week laughing.
Rush Limbaugh going, who'd have thought that he'd have brought on amnesty?
Rush Limbaugh could barely contain himself.
Rush that give me a minute to regain my composure.
I mean, he was like hysterical.
I can understand why.
I say went to Mike Pence to get clarification.
We'll have expansion on all those, but we get first Mike Pence here On CNN State of the Union, Jake Tapper yesterday, uh, to try to put all this in perspective.
Here's how that went.
It's Rush Limbaugh, it's Governor Sarah Palin, it's other people who want Donald Trump to win who are saying, wow, it sounds like he's really backing away from this deportation force removing eleven million.
And you're not saying right now, Governor, you're not saying, you're not pledging that there will be a removal of all undocumented immigrants.
You're not saying that.
No.
What I'm saying, Jay, and I want to be very clear.
There will be no path to legalization.
Right.
No path to citizenship.
People that want to gain legal status, you heard Donald Trump say again and again.
We'll have to leave the country.
But what about the millions in this country right now?
Well, what happens to you?
I think Donald Trump will articulate what we do with the people who are here.
Okay, we keep going.
This interview continued, and Tamper said, Okay, you're saying that he's going to be unveiling it in the next few weeks.
It's 72 days till the election.
I think it's this week, in fact.
I think this week Trump's going to unveil this new immigration policy in the speech.
What you see going on right now, and I I think at a certain level it's very refreshing, because it's the Donald Trump that I see every day, is you see a CEO at work.
You see someone who is engaging the American people, listening to the American people.
He's hearing from all sides.
But I promise you, he is a decisive leader.
He will stand on the principles that have underpinned his commitment to end illegal immigration in this country.
Uh and that's what people will learn more about in the days ahead.
Back to F. Chuck Todd on the uh Meet the Press Show, this was yesterday, and he used me and my laughter to set up a question for Rince Priebus.
After a week where an attempt to moderate on immigration turned into a muddle.
There certainly can be a softening because we're not looking to hurt people.
I've had people say it's a hardening.
In five days, a dizzying number of positions on immigration.
Who knew that it would be Donald Trump to come along and convert the GOP base.
Trump's latest confusion may be an attempt to soften his image without alienating longtime supporters.
And here's what Rince Priebus said.
You're gonna find out from Donald Trump very shortly.
He's gonna be giving prepared remarks on this issue, I think, very soon.
I don't wanna give a date.
Here's what I know.
His position is going to be tough.
His position is going to be fair, but his position is going to be humane.
He's a guy who's going to be tougher on this issue, tougher on uh illegal immigration than any politician that we've ever had as a nominee or ever could have as a nominee.
Okay, that's Rince Previs.
Just to be clear, folks, I don't think there's been a flip-flop here at all.
I just I think Trump's Trump.
I think Trump says what he's thinking day to day, and if it sounds different from what he said the previous day, people make a mistake if they think Trump does not have rooted principles, if they think he doesn't have certain beliefs that are unwavering.
And uh I don't have any doubt that what he has said about immigration combined with what he said about free trade, and he means it.
Uh I think where this is all gonna end up, and I I made this point Friday, I think where this is all gonna end up.
The argument's gonna be whether they come back after being sent out of the country or touch back amnesty or whatever.
Where this is going, mark my words right now, where this is going, because everybody knows what this is all about.
On the Democrat side, the only reason this is happening is because the Democrats need a permanent underclass and they want whatever number of illegals are here to be able to register to vote.
If it's 11 million, 12 million, the assumption is they're all gonna vote big government, they're all gonna vote dependence, they're all gonna vote Democrat.
The Republicans a little bit muddier water, but essentially the Chamber of Commerce donates, the donors rule, and they want cheap labor.
And uh some some others in the uh Republican voting block also want the cheap labor aspect.
I think the Republican Party too would like to have a stab at these people as uh as as voters, and I think that's where this is gonna shake out.
Somebody, besides me, somebody is gonna make the suggestion, the proposal.
Because people are gonna have to be flushed out on this.
I have no idea.
No, I don't know if there will ever be a serious deportation effort.
I don't know how successful it would be if it were tried.
But I do know something very simple to do here.
And if you want to consider this advice to the Trump campaign, have at it.
I I'm but this is all gonna shake out with okay, are we gonna make them citizens?
Is there gonna be amnesty?
Are we gonna forgive the crimes?
That's one thing.
But then are we gonna go further and make them citizens?
Because if we don't make them citizens, they can't vote.
And that's where this is going to shake out.
If somebody on the Republican side would seriously propose, hey, you know what?
You want to give you want to forgive them.
You want the you you want the uh you want the admission that 11 million, 12 million, whatever number are not going to be deported fine.
But here's where it ends.
They don't get to vote.
They don't get citizenship for years.
This business of having them automatically register to vote, not going for that.
And you'll flush people out.
You'll find out exactly why this is all an issue in the first place.
If that becomes the dividing line, if that becomes the premise under which people support or oppose whatever future immigration policy is, I gotta take a brief time out.
will continue.
Don't go away.
El Rushmore, the EIB network.
Now, I was dubious of the Muslim aspect of this when I first heard it.
Capernick, not Muslim, as I suspected, baptized Methodist, confirmed Lutheran, he's got tattoos all over his body with scripture.
Um that's not the point.
I just wanted to stress this.
I because somebody had somebody they thought he was in the process, and I'd not heard that, so best we can learn that that's rubbish.
But while I was reacting to the Capernic story, the Capernick Caper, in the opening monologue of today's program, at that very moment on San Francisco TV, KTVU Fox.
They were discussing this.
The anchor Sal Castaneda interviewing the writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, Chuck Nevius about Capernick sitting during the national anthem.
The question this might take away from his personal trying to make the team.
It might take away from his effort, it might give the 49ers a tough uh decision to make here, distracting himself from doing what he needs to be done.
I mean, he's in danger of being cut, Chuck.
I think it's inevitable.
It's gonna have to have some impact on his attempts to make the team.
I mean, he did a 20-minute interview, uh, as someone pointed out, this is Monday.
The talk shows are just getting started nationally.
What does Rush Limbaugh say about this?
What is conservative radio say about this?
This could have legs nationally.
This may be only the beginning of Colin Cabinet, given these interviews talking about these things, and he'd better have his talking points down.
Okay, so the uh opinion in San Francisco the San Francisco Chronicle is that it depends on this program.
Conservative talk radio, what do we have to say?
Well, I don't.
You can go to Rushlimbod.com, which should be posted already or very soon will be uh the nuts and bolts of the first hour monologue on this on this subject.
I don't I don't need to take the time to repeat it now, maybe even highlights.
Maybe maybe in the next hour we'll get back into it.
But I want to get back to uh the phones.
I want to start on the phones, get some in in the first hour, as we always try to do, we're gonna go to Rick in Los Angeles.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Your turn, have at it.
Okay, thanks for the taking my call, Rush.
I just wanted to comment on your comments that you just made about Trump and his illegal and his deportation shift.
And I just distinctly heard you say it's not even a it's not considered a flip-flop.
And I just want to tell you, you're doing a disservice to all of us Republican primary voters who didn't vote for Trump, that are struggling with whether or not to vote for Trump.
When you diminish the impact of his single policy that he ridiculed all other candidates for for over a year.
I mean, John Kasich classically said on the debate stage, he laughingly said, come on, folks, this isn't serious.
He's not gonna deport everyone.
And and Trump went ahead and ridiculed everybody who wasn't for deportation.
And for all of us who were Saying that it was a con job, that it was a snow job, that he doesn't know what he's talking about, that he's unqualified to be president for you to sit here and say that now that he adopts all the positions of everybody he ridicules as not even being a flip-flop and it's no big deal.
This is why so many Republican voters have such a hard time going to the con man.
Well, in the first place, I don't think Trump has actually changed that much of what he said.
And I I'm also not aware that he told every Republican they had to agree with him or else whatever he was going to do to them.
He did.
I I'm I'm just uh the point of what is it that you're with all do with all due respect, Rush.
On Chuck Todd's show, he specifically said when asked the question, you mean you're gonna rip the families apart?
He said, No, I'm not gonna rip the families apart.
They all have to go, even the U.S. citizen children.
He then got in the middle of the debate and the argument between Marco and Ted.
When Ted wanted legalization and Marco wanted citizenship as part of a comprehensive plan, that he said they're both wrong, and they're both being absurd.
They all have to go.
Oh, we don't have a nation of laws.
Come on.
You were watching the debates as well as the rest of us were.
You know exactly what he said, and you know exactly the way he ridiculed everybody on that stage.
Yeah.
Well, I guess I guess the difference is, or not the difference, I guess the thing is.
This is gonna enrage you.
You know, I can I can choose a path here to try to mollify you.
But I never took him seriously on this.
But 30 million or 15 or 10 million, excuse me, 10 million people did.
Yeah, and they still don't care.
That my point is they still don't care.
They're gonna stick with him no matter what.
But this is why Trump is going to get annihilated.
Because nobody called him out early on about his absurd policy.
Yes, they did.
For crying out 50 15 candidates called him out.
Everybody was calling him out.
Everybody was calling him an idiot and a sh and a and a charlatan and a phony baloney plastic banana goods.
Everybody was.
Except unfortunately, the number one place where Republican primary voters get their news.
Oh no, oh no, it's on me, and we're out of time.
Oh, he said Fox.
Oh, I thought he was dumping on me.
Okay.
Well, I'll pretend he was dumping on me when we get back anyway.
I'm prepared for it.
When you stop honoring heroes, you will stop having heroes to honor.
And that's where we are headed.
If we don't get our heads straight.
Just getting warmed up here, folks.
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