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Sept. 2, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 2, 2016, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Wow, did I get the Edward R. Murrow Award?
That's pretty good.
That's not bad.
That's a good award.
It's a Lucite block.
It comes with your name on it and everything.
You get it for all kinds of stuff.
I got mine.
I actually got mine for September 11th coverage, 2001, not the other one, but the 2001 one.
You said I was full-time radio host in Washington, D.C. It's really, I'm off at noon there.
So it's kind of most people would say it's kind of a part-time job.
I wouldn't term it a full-time job.
When I go home, I do some homework about the next day.
But really, 9 a.m. to noon, WMAL in Washington, D.C., and a lot of people, including the woman that I love, doesn't necessarily consider it to be a full-time job because I'm home all afternoon.
So, you know, what is that?
I get up at a normal time and things like that.
Well, it is an honor to be here standing in the place where Rush Limbaugh normally stands or sits as the case may be.
There is a chair here, and there was a pillow in it.
I removed the pillow.
I thought maybe Hillary was coming in or something with a pillow in the chair like that.
But I, as I said, in Washington, D.C., ordinarily, came up here to New York, New York, the city that never sweeps, yesterday, and met up with Mr. Bo Snerdley, who's my shepherd, my shepherd for this first foray into the Excellence in Broadcasting Network across the fruited plain, I believe Rush Limbaugh refers to it, this great land of ours, America.
And I did, you have to be a news guy to win that Edward R. Murrow Award.
I did.
Don't hold it against me.
Give me three hours before you judge me.
I did work for CNN for 17 years.
For 17, what was I thinking?
I don't know, but it was a thing 10 years, the last 10 years, covering the Pentagon and the intelligence community and assigned to the Pentagon.
My office was in the Pentagon, where I met all kinds of interesting people, a couple of whom may come up today, including Monica Lewinsky's girlfriend.
Excuse me, Bill Clinton's girlfriend.
Her name is Monica Lewinsky.
Let me straighten that one out.
But I came up yesterday, and after meeting up with Mr. Snerdley at the hotel, the Super Deluxe Hotel where I stayed last night, I did what you do in New York.
You go out for a walk around.
You go out to kick around the neighborhood.
And I went up to Central Park and a lovely place that it is, and wandering through the neighborhood, stopping in various places to say hello to people that I've never met.
And up by Columbus Circle, CNN Center, the Time Warner building up there, it's a big media conglomerate.
Perhaps you've heard of it.
Although, does Time Magazine still publish a magazine?
Is that three or four pages of something, advertisements, and you can find a thing or two online?
Not much.
They have a big building for such a small magazine.
And that cable network is in there that I used to work for.
And what does that have?
Hundreds of viewers, I think, at this point.
And I wandered by there and I went in.
That's at Columbus Circle.
It's where the Upper West Side begins.
And I walked into Central Park, which is always entertaining.
And I saw a woman some distance away dressed all in orange with blonde hair.
And I thought, no, it can't be.
It couldn't possibly be.
I walked to her.
There was no entourage, no security.
I didn't see any motor kit or anything.
I walked over, and it was a tranny.
And I'm like, wow, that had me for a moment there.
And you can say tranny because Rue Paul, who is, I think, an authority on these matters, said, and a tranny, himself, himself.
I'm not sure what the terminology is since Facebook now has 58 different gender choices.
It can often be confusing, especially in Central Park.
And as I got a little further into the park, there was a couple, a young couple.
They were Caucasian, if I may say.
And they were in their, I'd say they're in their 20s, and they were, how shall I say, unclean.
They were kind of, they were dirty people.
One of them had a long beard with food stuck in it and all kinds of things and muttering.
And that was the woman.
And I got up a little bit closer, and the guy was holding a sign, a cardboard sign, and he had written something there, panhandling, of course.
And apparently drug crazed.
I think drug crazed is the appropriate terminology.
And unclean, not clean at all.
And as I got closer, the sign said, the cardboard sign they were holding up said, give me a dollar or I'm voting for Donald Trump.
Give me a dollar.
I'm voting for Donald Trump.
It's a very competitive marketplace being a panhandler in New York City and in Central Park.
So you've got to come up with something more clever than the panhandler next to you.
And I, of course, did not give them a dollar in this particular instance because naturally I want them to vote for Donald Trump.
I assume this will win over their votes in the Trump thing.
It was kind of strange because the woman, beard and all, looked strangely, as I mentioned earlier, a lot like Monica Lewinsky.
And we've all been wondering where Monica went.
I'm not sure that I have an actual certified sighting here, but I wouldn't want to leap to any conclusions.
I might have to go back after the show and see if she's still there.
Because I know I was telling both Snerdley and Mike and the gang here that I, when I worked at the Pentagon for CNN, I worked with or in close proximity to Monica Lewinsky.
The CNN office in the Pentagon, where I resided for the better part of a decade, was two doors down.
This is a big building, mind you, 17 and a half miles of hallways in the Pentagon.
And two doors down from the CNN office and the Fox office and the ABC offices, CBS, and everybody has their offices right there.
Two doors down from the CNN office, they decided to put the president's girlfriend to park her over there, give her a job over there at the Pentagon to keep her quiet, give her a government paycheck, all that good stuff.
And we were leaving work.
We would often leave work.
You stay, you watch the evening news, and then you leave, and everybody leaves kind of at the same time.
She worked for the Pentagon spokesman at the time, a guy named Ken Bacon.
And everybody after the evening news broadcasts, 6:30 Eastern, would kind of walk out at about the same time because you see what the competition is doing before you knock off for the day.
And Monica parked in the same parking lot that I parked in close to where we parked.
But this day, and she always walked out, and she was not famous at this time, of course.
But at this time, as we were walking out, she took a left instead of taking a right to go to the parking lot.
She took a left where you might go to go to the subway, to the metro, to take the metro out of the Pentagon.
And I said, well, where are you going?
She said, oh, my car is in the shop.
I've got to take the metro home.
And I said, well, you live in the district, right?
And she said, yeah.
I said, where do you live?
She said, I live on Virginia Avenue.
820 Virginia.
That's the Watergate, isn't it?
The Watergate.
So you live in the Watergate.
You got a receptionist job at the Pentagon, and you live in the Watergate where it's a million dollars a bedroom.
She said, yeah, yeah, I live there.
I said, well, that's on my way home.
I can give you a ride home.
So I drove Monica Lewinsky all the way home, as it were, and took her in my Mazda B2000 pickup truck under the Kennedy Center and up into the parking lot.
You do a little loop around, and I pulled her in front of the entrance to the Watergate.
Her next-door neighbor was Bob and Libby Dole.
Did you know that?
Bob and Libby Dole.
And Bob Dole, Senator Bob Dole.
I know it, you know it.
The American people know it.
And so I dropped her off, and she thought I was so generous that she pulled out her purse, which was like a vaudeville trunk.
It was something you could travel through Europe for weeks with this purse.
Just roll your clothes, stick it in this giant purse.
And she dug down.
It went past her elbow to reach down to the bottom of the purse.
And I'm like, what is what are you?
I said, I don't want it.
Whatever it is, I don't want it.
And she comes up with a box of box, cardboard box, White Houses do this sort of thing, of MMs.
It's a White House white box with gold trim, and it has the presidential seal, the seal of the president on it.
I said, oh, well, I'll take that.
That's kind of fun.
So I took it in a, hey, shake it, and it's MMs.
And she got out of the car.
About two weeks later, she became famous.
But I took it home, and my best girl in the world was sitting there.
And I said, hey, look what I got coming home from work at 7:15 or whatever it was.
And I tossed her the box across the room.
She immediately tore it open and started eating the MMs.
MMs, I said.
Little did I know, little did I know at that time, that two weeks later, the story would break on the Drudge Report about Monica Lewinsky.
And I said, wow, I really, I kind of blew this one.
Or did I muff it?
What did I do?
I did something.
And I should have kept those MMs because that would have been great to have them Monica Lewinsky.
I should have had her sign them and maybe give a little kiss with lipstick or something.
It would have been great eBay item because you know the slogan of MMs, right?
They melt in your mouth, not in your hand.
See, so it's bad up boom.
Hey, we got a rim shot out of that one.
That's my Monica Lewinsky story.
I have more Monica Lewinsky stories, but that's my central Monica Lewinsky.
My central Monica Lewinsky story.
There are, of course, as you might expect, dozens and dozens of big news stories to get to today, having nothing to do, as far as I know, with Monica Lewinsky.
We've got Donald Trump with his statements, his policy, his speech, his, some would say, evolutions on illegal immigration policy.
The moderators, this is what we call the moderators for the big presidential debates have been selected.
And I've got to say, I don't know who we've got negotiating for us.
I think the art of the deal didn't come through on this one because some of the moderators that were chosen are not the moderators that I would have chosen for the debates.
And we'll get into that one.
But I want to hear from you this morning across the country on Donald Trump and illegal immigration and whether you're good, bad, or indifferent to the iterations that we have been taking in.
The debate moderators I'll get into.
And another story that I think is kind of fascinating, Georgetown University saying that they're going to offer the descendants of slaves preferential admissions treatment.
Georgetown, not all universities across America, but Georgetown University in Washington, about a mile and a half from where I live.
And this is an interesting idea for a variety of reasons.
And I want to get into that today because I have some, I think maybe unexpected views on that and a variety of other things.
Dwayne Wade, you know, the Chicago Bulls player whose cousin was murdered in Chicago walking down the street with her baby in a baby stroller.
Dwayne Wade was on television talking about this and had some kind of surprising things to say about Donald Trump.
And I think there may be some things that he doesn't fully understand or appreciate.
And I'll try to help him with a couple of those things.
And a whole host, a veritable cornucopia of other stories across the Ferguson Police Department.
This is going to come as a shock to everyone out there, I think.
The Ferguson Police Department is having trouble hiring police officers.
And they've got a little program of their own going, but they're trying to hire police officers to staff up in Ferguson, Missouri.
And for some inexplicable reason, they're having a lot of trouble getting, hey, I want to be a police officer.
I think I'm going to sign up in Ferguson, Missouri.
When's the last time, gosh, police officers there had any trouble?
It's probably not a problem at all for us.
And Anthony Weiner has a job offer, and this is very important stuff.
Anthony Weiner with a new job offer from a porn site.
And it is sincere.
It's honest.
They're concerned about him.
They care.
That's what they care about him.
And I want to get to those and everything else.
We've got phone lines open at the moment, 800-282-2882.
That's 800-282-2882.
I'm Chris Plant sitting in for Rush Limbaugh today.
Well, all right then.
Yeah, Ferguson Police having trouble recruiting people.
It's almost impossible to believe.
Who wouldn't want to be a Ferguson police officer?
I think anywhere you go in the country, it comes with name ID, doesn't it?
Ferguson Police Department.
The Business Insider has the story.
Ferguson Police can't hire enough officers two years after Michael Brown's shooting death, the headline is.
Two years after Michael Brown's shooting death put a national spotlight on the Ferguson Police, the suburban St. Louis City, is struggling to maintain the number of officers it needs.
Gosh, you should change the name.
I thought they were going to change the name of the city after the whole thing.
I thought they were going to have to sort of wind it down, wrap it up, call it something else.
Call it Michael Brownville.
Change it to something.
Brownsville, the department is facing 13 vacancies.
It's a small department now, you know.
It's down to a staff of 36 officers compared to 55 in 2014.
Kind of a small police department for one that's so reviled.
I wonder where Officer Darren Wilson is.
Does anybody know?
He might be in Central Park, too.
He might be living in Australia.
What happened to him?
His definitely witness protection program would be welcome, I think, from him.
Some officers have retired.
I bet some of them retired early, while others who spent months dealing with the protests and heavy scrutiny left for different jobs.
Can't imagine why.
And there were two police officers shot at the last news media doesn't like to talk about this, but two Ferguson police officers were actually shot by a gunman at one of the last protests they had there during that cycle.
Mayor James Knowles III said day before yesterday, some just got fed up with police work.
Yeah, that's probably it.
They probably just got fed up with police work.
I think you got your finger on the pulse, Mr. Mayor.
I see now why you're an elected official.
Finding qualified applicants has been tough, he said, adding that leaders in the Missouri city were pushing to make the force, which was mostly white at the time of Brown's fatal shooting, more diverse.
By more diverse, they mean less white, I assume.
Ferguson has sponsored two young black men at St. Louis County Police Academy, paying for their training.
You've got to pay for your police training.
You sign up to be the police, and you've got to pay for your police training.
That doesn't seem right.
Let's talk about that for a minute because that seems a little kooky.
You've got to sign up and pay to become a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
It's a form of masochism, I think.
Paying for their training in exchange for an agreement to work in the suburb upon graduating.
One recently graduated.
Hey, progress is being made.
The other is currently in class.
Good luck to Ferguson, Missouri.
I think they've got some issues that they're going to have to deal with there for a long time to come, particularly when it comes to being a police officer.
You see, I'm going to have to pull up this story also.
Police officer, where was it?
I think it was in New Mexico.
A guy shot him.
See this?
And the bullet hit his badge.
And the badge stopped the bullet.
He's got to get a new badge.
But I'm going to have to go find that story.
I didn't print that one up.
Anthony Weiner.
Perhaps you're familiar with him.
He's married to the lovely and talented Humma Weiner.
And I see a theme emerging here, I think.
Anthony Weiner gets a job offer from Porn Site is the headline.
A porn website has extended a helping hand to helpless, hopeless horn dog Anthony Weiner.
Smut site, porn.com, has taken pity on the disgraced politician after he lost his wife.
But he didn't lose her.
He knows where she is.
She's with Hillary.
I mean, it's as you look behind the refrigerator, I find a lot of stuff back there.
I don't spread those rumors like Bill Clinton does about Hillary, but I know that I've read in numerous papers that Bill Clinton has told a number of his paramours, shall I use the euphemism paramours, has told a number of his paramours that Hillary Clinton has, I'll do it like a 1970s game show, has blanked more blank than he has.
I've read that in a number of instances.
And Hillary Clinton aid Huma Abedeen, aka Humma Weiner, and his job as a TV commentator after his latest sexting scandal broke.
Anthony Weiner's most recent series of sextings have made it quite clear he suffers from sex addiction, as is often the case with addiction.
His life has been turned upside down.
His marriage has ended, and he has lost his job at New York One, said the vice president Charles Anderson of porn.com on Thursday.
Porn.com takes sex addiction very seriously, and we realize Mr. Weiner is in a very bad place.
You know, if you were writing this for a bad comedy sketch and his name was Mr. Weiner and this was the story and his wife's name is Humma, and it's you just why people make stuff up anymore, I just don't know.
Porn.com takes sex edition very seriously.
We realize Mr. Weiner is a bad place, sympathizes Anderson.
He must feel very alone, except for the nameless women he's been sending the now infamous crutch shots.
Abedeen announced on Monday she's separating from Weiner.
You know, it just they just keep coming.
After the last in a series of erotic selfies was made public by the New York Post.
This is one where he's cradling his baby in one arm and all of that good stuff.
But the site sees a silver lining.
Anderson with porn.com hopes to hire Weiner to write a monthly advice column for the site entitled Dear Mr. Weiner.
This is a serious and sincere offer as we wish to appoint Anthony Weiner, our first ever love and sex columnist at porn.com.
What a country.
I guess this is all part of the fundamental transformation of America.
This is, if you keep voting Democrat, I guess it can be entertaining.
Filling in for Rush Limbaugh, isn't that crazy?
That's just nuts, isn't it?
People at CNN are rolling over in their media graves there in the ratings, in the ratings graveyard.
Who's doing what?
This is nuts.
Also, John Lewis, I don't know if anybody saw this, the Stephen Colbert.
You know, remember Stephen Colbert had a show on Comedy Central.
Now he's got one on CBS.
I don't know if anybody watches that very much.
Does that have any ratings?
Stephen Colbert.
I think he's on real late at night.
It's called The Late Show.
And John Lewis was there last night, and they had him.
This is not a young man.
John Lewis is an authentic hero of the civil rights movement when the civil rights movement was really the civil rights movement.
Now, unfortunately, the Democrat Party has forced him, convinced him to do all kinds of ridiculous things in the last few years.
And since our whole world and our political process is a TV show now, he went on the Stephen Colbert, the late show from the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City.
And they had this congressman, civil rights leader, 76 years old.
They had him do a crowdsurf, crowdsurfing.
And you imagine, what is he, Bon Jovi?
He's out.
He's crowdsurfing in the crowd at the late show, and they push this 76-year-old man out there face down, no less.
I mean, that's not comedy.
That's elder abuse.
Somebody should notify the authorities.
This is not appropriate under any circumstances to take a 76-year-old man and push him face down into a crowd being passed across the top of the crowd.
And he's face down.
Whenever crowdsurfing, you should always crowdsurf face up, back down, because while there are perfectly good reasons for that, I'm thinking that Congressman Lewis is probably getting jostled and ways that he hasn't, probably since the civil rights movement, I'm guessing.
Going over the top of the crowd, 76 years old.
Face up, face up.
Everybody keep that in mind.
And on television, we shouldn't be doing elder abuse as entertainment.
I think that's wrong.
I went to Catholic school for a little while, and I don't think that's appropriate at all.
We should go to the telephones.
Shouldn't we take a caller to the Rush Schlimbaugh program with me sitting in for Rush Limbaugh?
That's nuts.
Chris Plant, we're at 888-282-2882.
Right.
Yeah, we're at 800-282-2882.
Who put that phone number out there?
Let's go to the telephones.
Let's go to Donna in Frederick, Maryland.
Donna, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show with Chris Plant.
Hi, Chris.
It is so great to be able to hear you on the golden EIB microphone today.
I want to comment on immigration because you brought that up earlier.
And there's a lot of discussion about this, but I have to think in terms that Trump has surrounded himself with sensible people like Mr. Bannon, and therefore he feels it is wise to position himself in a more, let's say, low-key stance than what he previously had with regard to how to handle that.
And I think it's important because he reaches a much wider audience.
So you approve of his, would you say he's dialed it back?
Yes.
Were you a supporter of Donald Trump's from the beginning?
Yes.
As time has gone on, he's grown on me.
When there were 17 contestants in the beauty pageant, you had someone else that was in front of Donald Trump in line?
Yes, I did.
And it doesn't really matter at this point who that was.
But you've moved over to Donald Trump before he became the nominee.
Did you move over to Donald Trump?
Yes, I was kind of moving that direction.
Okay.
All right, and you approve then as a voter, a taxpayer, an American citizen, of Donald Trump dialing down.
But some of the rhetoric has changed.
For example, we're not necessarily talking about a wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico anymore.
We're talking about a security something or other.
And some will be electronic, and we're talking about sensors to look underground for tunnels, and we're talking about some.
It's not all wall, right?
And that's okay?
Yes.
Okay.
They have to do what they have to do.
Well, that's right.
The topography is different.
That's exactly right.
The topography is different.
And it's true.
And I've been talking about this on my show.
There's a lot of desert and sands shift.
And out there they have things they call arroyos in the desert where water flows for a part of the year and it's in a different place every year.
And there's a mountain range that comes up the continent over there where Mexico joins the United States.
And so there are some complications when it comes to building a wall from sea to Shining Gulf.
And then there's the other thing.
So we're going to have deportation force.
Now, they did something I think pretty clever here, and that is they took deportation force, which I think he mentioned only once.
If we held Hillary Clinton to the same standard that Donald Trump's being held to, we'd have a different ball of wax altogether with the old Hillary there, Hillary Diane.
But it went from being a deportation force to a deportation task force.
Now, that's completely different.
Now, Mike and Bo Snerdley and I could create a deportation task force, but I wouldn't call us a deportation force.
And he said that that deportation task force will reside within or under the umbrella of ICE.
That's okay with you?
You know, Chris, this is such a hard call, but I think in this case, a little bit less equals a lot more.
Yeah, I've got to say.
That's what I'm trying to say.
I've got to say that when I heard this deportation force thing, it struck me as, and again, it was off the cuff.
It was Donald Trump.
It wasn't a policy paper.
It wasn't hammered out in a conference room.
Something that he delivered, I think, to Mo and Mika on Morning Joke on MSKFC.
And it was just off the cuff.
And there's, oh, well, we're going to hold you to that.
Now, we're going to hold you to that forever.
Honestly, if Hillary Clinton were held to the same standard with all of her lies, if Barack Obama were held to the same standard, if you like your doctor, you can give your doctor, you like your health care plan, keep your health care plan.
If we held Democrats, let's just say, to the same standard that the phony news media is holding Donald Trump, we'd have a completely different political process.
But he did say deportation force, and he's not a guy who spent his career in government.
And I think most people, if you support Donald Trump or if you're going to vote for Donald Trump or if you're going to vote against Hillary Clinton, recognize or accept that there's a certain amount of wiggle room that's built in because he's not a career politician, a career government inside the beltway kind of guy who uses all the spit-polish terminology that the political weasels in Washington use with such alacrity.
And it's kind of why we want to throw the weasels out because they craft and shape phrases and use specific words.
It depends on what the meaning of the word is is and so on.
So that they can deceive us with panache.
Whereas Donald Trump just kind of lets it all go.
And then later on, there's some mop-up to do.
And I think most people recognize that.
Now, I never wanted his deportation force.
I thought, really?
We're going to create a new government agency of some kind that's a new law enforcement, federal, nationwide, coast to coast.
And it just struck me as being a bad idea, as in during the George W. Bush administration after September 11th, they created the Department of Homeland Security, which is this Uber bureaucracy, which has no place in the United States of America.
They wanted to blame the CIA and the NSA for not cracking the code in time.
And so they created the Director of National Intelligence that would be over the director of the CIA, which is completely absurd because the Central Intelligence Agency, it's called Central for a reason, created the National Security Act 1947, and it was to be the Uber boss of all of the various intelligence agencies and the military and the civilian agencies would all be under the umbrella of the director of central intelligence, the CIA director.
So we already had somebody with that position, and it was just kind of a classic bureaucratic knee-jerk response to create more bureaucracy in the aftermath of September 11th.
And DHS shouldn't exist.
It's the monster that will never die.
Now, the director of national intelligence should be dissolved as an office, and it should go back to the director of central intelligence.
And I don't want to see a national deportation force created.
We already have one.
It's called ICE.
Know what I mean?
You know, it's interesting because I was thinking that very same thing.
If they pay attention that the laws, you know, the laws that we already have, rather than ignoring them, Trump should just rebrand that same law that we had in place to begin with.
Right, and also, you know, as a Republican, you deal with the bureaucracy or have.
You don't talk about expanding and growing the bureaucracy and the government.
We already have all the mechanisms in place.
Barack Obama could be doing this if he wanted to.
He just doesn't want to.
I'm Chris Plant sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I should also know we're going to have Jeffrey Lord on, CNN political analyst, and he's going to be on a little bit later this morning.
And are we having Dinesh D'Souza?
We're having Dinesh D'Souza.
Last time, Dinesh D'Souza.
All right.
Okay.
We're going to have Dinesh D'Souza on, whose motion picture, Hillary's America, is actually returning to theaters back in theaters this weekend, this Labor Day weekend.
And if you haven't seen it, I saw it, went and saw it with my best girl, and you got to see it.
Everybody's got to see it.
And then when the DVD comes out, you've got to buy the DVD, too.
No, I'm not an investor in the movie.
I just, you've got to support these things when they so rarely come along and they don't have the usual left-wing message sort of sort of thing.
And let us go to the telephones once again.
Let's go to Rob in Seven Lakes, North Carolina.
Rob, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show with Chris Plant.
Hey, Chris.
How are you?
I'm great.
Thank you.
I'm North Carolina, but spent most of my time with my wife in Vermont.
So we know liberal politics, and now we kind of know independent conservative politics down here in North Carolina.
America.
The patchwork.
And so what do you think about Donald Trump and his various evolutions on illegal immigration?
Well, all politicians, Chris, as you know, have evolutions of thought.
And you pointed it out quite well with Hillary and Obama.
I mean, Hillary used to be for traditional marriage, big time.
Big time.
President Obama, too.
And something that's always fun to point out is that those terrible, awful Koch brothers that you hear so much about from Harry Reid and the likes of Harry Reid, the Koch brothers, who are actually libertarian and not right-wing conservatives.
They started the Cato Institute, I think David Koch did, and all this stuff.
The evil, sinister Koch brothers were both in favor of and spoke out about same-sex marriage in favor of same-sex marriage long before Barack Obama was in favor of it.
And Hillary Clinton then followed Barack Obama.
And that was just all about fundraising.
It was because they were being threatened by groups that, you know, we're going to stop raising money for you if you don't say that you're for same-sex marriage.
So naturally, in the name of fundraising, being Democrats and utterly without principle, they went ahead with the fundraising thing.
And that's why Barack Obama evolved on that one.
But Donald Trump has changed some of his positions on illegal immigration, or at least some of the language, right?
Some of the language.
And for me, Chris, it's really about once Donald Trump becomes president, it's about the all-important judges, federal judges, appointees.
They're going to be the final rulers on what happens with immigration.
And if you get Hillary in there, you know how they're going to rule.
You're doomed.
Doomed.
And that's, honestly, if you didn't like Donald Trump, I had a caller last week, two weeks ago, who's a Donald Trump supporter, looking forward to voting for Donald Trump, said that Donald Trump was number 17 on his list of the Republican candidates.
He was for Jim Gilmore before he was for Donald Trump.
But Donald Trump is the nominee now, and he's with Donald Trump.
And in large part, it is because of the judge, the judicial appointees.
Catherine Harridge on Fox News did an outstanding piece the other day on all of the appointments that Barack Obama has made to the various federal courts around the country, the circuit courts and the district courts, and the influence that they've had.
And he's really stacked a lot of the courts over the course of the last eight years, which is what you do when you're president on either side of the fence.
But he's been very effective at moving the courts very much to the left.
And that's something that will plague us for generations to come.
We've got to replace Antonin Scalia, and that's going to be one of the first tasks of our next president, whoever that is.
And if it's Donald Trump, we're going to get one kind of Supreme Court justice.
And if it's Hillary Clinton, we're going to get maybe Raul Castro might be too old, but they probably have children, the Castro brothers or grandchildren or great-grandchildren that Hillary would like to put on the court.
And that's just, that's enormous.
Personally, Anton and Scalia, who's one of the greats, I actually had an opportunity to meet Anton and Scalia, Justice Scalia, and his wonderful wife, and have dinner with them at a friend's house a couple of months before Justice Scalia died.
And he was just great, hilarious, funny, everybody laughing, telling jokes, singing at the dinner table.
He sang to my best girl, his old camp song he sang.
And he died a couple of months later, and it was a terrible thing.
And it tips the balance of the court.
It's amazing how easy it is to tip the Supreme Court one way or the other.
And I would like to see Ted Cruz be selected or at least considered to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
I think he'd be a reliable, consistent conservative.
It's kind of good for him.
He doesn't have to make any friends.
Nobody has to like him.
He doesn't go on television.
He doesn't even have to go to the State of the Union address.
And in the Senate, he'd get 99 votes.
I don't know if he can vote for himself, but in the Senate, he'd get 99 votes.
It kind of reminds me of the old billboard in Arkansas when Bill Clinton was running for president.
And a farmer put up a billboard, said, elect Bill Clinton president.
Just get him the hell out of Arkansas.
And it's sort of like that.
But Ted Cruz would be a good, reliable conservative on the court, and it would be a good place for him for a whole variety of reasons.
And coming from Texas, Republican governor, Republican replacement, good stuff, and nice offices.
He could look out at the Capitol across the street.
It'd be wonderful for everybody all around, I think.
Rob, thank you.
Thank you, my friend.
I'm Chris Plant.
I'm sitting in today for Rush Limbaugh, who's taking a few well-deserved days off after some urging by his friends.
Take a few days off, why don't you?
So some other people can get some time.
And enjoy yourself.
Go relax.
Have a pina colada.
Well, not a pina colada, but have something.
Have something good.
Be right back.
All right, we are back.
This is Chris Plant sitting in for Rush Limbaugh, taking a couple of days off and back Tuesday.
Yes, back Tuesday.
Rush Limbaugh is back on Tuesday.
Monday is Labor Day, of course.
It's a holiday.
A great American holiday.
And there's a great deal yet to get to this morning.
All kinds of things.
Slavery in Georgetown University.
Crazy people in Seattle leaving their cars on things.
Oh, and Dwayne Wade in Chicago.
Apparently, he's not a Trump fan, but he's glad somebody drew attention to the fact that his cousin was shot in Chicago because the Democrats certainly wouldn't since it's something that hangs around their neck.
We are going to have Dinesh D'Souza on a little bit later on, his movie, Hillary's America, back in theaters this weekend.
It is a big winner.
It's a must-see for Americans.
Bring the Nick Searcy coming on to also join us.
This great movie about Brandon Burlsworth, which I'm sure you've heard about.
You heard Rush Limbaugh talking about it, and we're going to get into that a little bit later on as well.
Also, the debate moderators have been chosen.
And I'll just give you a clue, Manderson Pooper, and then we'll just move on from there, but we'll get to that a little bit later on.
And also in the next hour coming up, we're going to have Jeffrey Lord with us.
He is a CNN analyst, my alma mater.
I can't wait to hear what he has to say about CNN.
Chris, they're still paying him, aren't they?
So he's made, I'll try to be nice.
And also a surrogate, effectively, for the Trump campaign.
Jeffrey Lord coming up in the next hour.
With lots and lots more stuff to get to.
In the next two hours, I'm Chris Plant, sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
We'll be right back.
Oh, don't forget about the ISIS people in Syria banning the FIFA regulations.
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