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Sept. 2, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 2, 2016, Friday, Hour #2
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It's the heart of the nation's capital.
Not really entirely sure the nation's capital has a heart.
It has some other body parts, some of which are inflicted upon us fairly regularly.
But heart may not be at the top of the list.
I am Chris Plant.
I do my radio show ordinarily Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to noon out of WMAL in Washington, D.C. I've lived in Washington for far too long now, I think.
I've lived there for longer than I've lived everybody else, but I am originally from the United States of America and raised primarily on the north shore of sunny Chicago along the shores of Lake Michigan.
A little bit of New York when I was a small child and a little bit of Milwaukee when I was a small child.
I lived in California for seven years.
I lived in Kansas City for six months.
And then somehow, you know, the Cadillac got stuck in the ditch in Washington, D.C., and here I am all these years later.
But having a good time.
And as was mentioned in the generous lead-in there, a veteran journalist I was with CNN of all places for 17 years where I had a grand old time and I'll try to clean it up.
Was able to go on the All the World's Hellholes tour for a bunch of years as a first producer and then correspondent covering military matters and intelligence matters for CNN and having a grand old time getting to do all kinds of great boy stuff.
You cover the Pentagon for a news organization and you get to do all kinds of great stuff.
You get to fly fighter jets and I drove the USS Enterprise, the aircraft carrier, and spent several days on a nuclear attack submarine in Los Angeles, Class Attacks, which I also drove.
I've driven a lot of, I don't have a license to drive a submarine or an F-16, but I got to fly an F-16, F-18, A-6 Intruder off the deck of the Enterprise three times.
Good boy stuff.
Fall out of airplanes with the Army, with the Golden Knights a couple of times, and good fun.
Good fun stuff.
And you do some news in the meantime.
And that's back when CNN wasn't quite the way it is now.
We have Jeffrey Lord joining us this hour.
And there's one story I just want to sort of slip in here.
The Columbus Dispatch.
Green Party presidential candidate.
You know Jill Stein.
Everybody knows Jill Stein.
She's got 2% of the vote.
Did you see the poll a couple of weeks ago?
They did the poll and they included Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, who got 2% of the vote.
And Gary Johnson, who got 7% of the voters.
And then they swapped out Gary Johnson and Jill Stein with other things.
And they swapped out Jill Stein with Harambe, the dead gorilla.
Remember Harambe the Dead Gorilla from the enclosure?
And Harambe the Dead Gorilla also got two percentage points.
Got the same as that had to hurt a little bit, didn't it?
I'm thinking Harambe went, Harambe's dead.
And when he was living, he was a gorilla.
And you'd vote for him as much as you'd vote for me?
Yes, Jill, that's exactly the case.
And here's one reason why.
The Columbus Dispatch.
Green Party presidential candidate's Capitol University speech delayed after she flies to wrong city.
Oh, that can't be good.
See, if you have Air Force One, if she were president, they always fly to the right city.
Air Force One rarely lands in the wrong city.
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was scheduled to speak at Capitol University in Bexley at noon, but it looks like she's running a little late.
That's because instead of flying to Columbus, she accidentally flew to Cincinnati instead, according to the Capitol University Greens student organization who are sponsoring the event.
Yes, you heard that correctly.
And listen to this.
About 100 people were waiting at Schaff Lawn on campus.
It's unclear if they're all hanging around, all 100 of them.
It's unclear if they will all hang around.
There are 100 people waiting in line for a hot dog down on the corner here at the intersection.
She's drumming up those big crowds.
It's unclear if they're all going to wait around while Stein drives up from Cincinnati, but pizzas are being ordered to thank the people for their patience.
I hope they're green pizzas.
No meat.
There's got to be vegan pizzas, right?
Got to have vegan.
It's all meat-free and all that kind of stuff.
It's also unclear how and why she flew to the wrong airport.
Aaron Suarez, who's president of the Capitol University Greens student organization and a sophomore political science major from Marion, said, they just got on the road and they will be two hours late.
Things happen.
I assume they cropped off man, where he said man.
And then he took a hit from his vape and went back.
Where's the pizza?
He's a green.
He's a green guy.
All right.
And with that, let's go to Jeffrey Lord, who is, I believe, I hope, hanging on the line.
And Jeffrey Lord, a remarkable career, going all kinds of places, working in the administration of President Ronald Reagan.
Thank you very much, the president, the greatest president of my lifetime, certainly.
And a journalist, an author, now an analyst for CNN, the cable news network, my alma mater.
And Jeffrey Lord, thanks for being with us.
Hello, Chris.
It's good to be here.
Thanks for having me.
You bet.
So tell me, we've been talking about Donald Trump and the immigration, the illegal immigration evolutions.
Would you say that there have been evolutions?
You know, I just don't agree with it.
I mean, I think we're, you know, all the media fascination with this gets off the topic here.
I mean, he gave his speech the other day, and he was pretty clear about what he'd do, which sounds to me about what he always said he would do.
And I just think that we get into semantics here.
I think I have a column at the American Spectator today, as a matter of fact, comparing his trip to Mexico to Reagan's dealings with the Cold War.
And if you'll recall, Chris, and I know you do, that when Ronald Reagan took over, he was viewed as an extremist by even people like Gerald Ford.
And at his very first press conference, which was nine days after he was inaugurated, and Sam Donaldson stood up and asked him about his policies towards the Soviet Union.
And he said to gasps in the room to preserve unto themselves the right to lie and to cheat, and that we have to be aware of this when we deal with them.
And, you know, there was a gasp in the room.
And that sort of set the tone.
But in fact, it was that kind of reality that ended the Cold War, won the Cold War, etc.
He took the status quo and got rid of it.
And of course, his strategy.
I think that's exactly what Donald Trump is about here: that we have been lulled into the status quo here with people streaming across this border, causing all kinds of chaos.
Yes, in fact, there are crimes committed.
I mean, and I hear this constant refrain from people: oh, well, there's more Americans, natural-born Americans who commit crimes.
I mean, the point is there should be zero crime rate from illegal immigrants because they shouldn't be here.
Yeah, well, I would hope that Indigenous Americans commit more crimes.
And it'd be pretty extraordinary if the 10, 11, whatever the number, 15 million people committed more crimes than the rest of the population in a nation of 320 million people.
This kind of thing, a little crazy.
But it is very clear that when he says that the immigration system is a mess and that it's in even worse shape than we thought, that he's correct.
And, you know, at first all this focus was on illegal immigration, which, by the way, as I repeatedly point out on CNN, America is the only country in the world in which 100% of the population is descended from immigrants.
So he's hardly, including Donald Trump, he's hardly anti-immigrant.
But illegal immigration is a whole nother topic.
And when we realize with what went on in California with the shootings by the Muslim couple and the woman who came into the country on a, what do they call it, a K-1 visa, fiancé visa, or whatever, and they didn't even check her out to see what was going on here when she arrives in San Bernardino.
Right, sure.
And they had no idea.
So you realize that the actual regular immigration process is a mess.
And that's before you even get to the illegal immigration situation.
So you really almost have electric shock therapy here for a lot of elites in this country because it is so bad, and they just sort of sit back and accept as the status quo.
Meanwhile, regular folks out there have had enough.
Well, and as I'm fond of pointing out, they would never be accepting of this level of illegal immigration and open borders if we were talking about France, if we were talking about Canada.
If we were even talking about Mexico, they would defend Mexico's right to protect their southern border for the money.
Can you imagine, Chris, if 11 million Americans illegally streamed across the Mexican border to settle in?
Right.
I mean, the fur would be unbelievable.
Well, this is another thing that amuses me, that liberals, whenever we have every four years now at this point, people like Barbara Streisand and those of her ilk threatened to move to Canada every time.
Have you ever noticed the fact that not a one of them has ever threatened to move to Mexico?
Very good point.
You know, why is that?
I guess it's a simple case of racism.
They don't like brown people.
They like Canadians and Eskimos.
I mean, it is, I mean, that gets off into the whole subject, which I have been saying for years, that the Democratic Party is the party of race, that they began this way with making an alliance in 1800 with Thomas Jefferson and slave owners, and it has continued all the way through the segregation years and lynching and the founding of the Ku Klux Klan, which was their military arm, their terrorist arm, all the way through to today when it's illegal immigration by skin color.
I mean, that's in essence what's really going on here, and everything is about race.
They are obsessed with it.
Yeah, I always ask them if Jefferson Davis was their favorite Democrat president.
See if they pick up.
Somebody pointed out the other day that in 2008, when Hillary ran for president, there were a group of people from Arkansas calling themselves the Arkansas Travelers who would go around America campaigning for Hillary.
And they arrived in South Carolina, and their button, which I've seen from 2008, that says Arkansas Travelers for Hillary, the background is the Confederate battle flag that is so controversial in South Carolina.
All right.
Well, that's, you know, all vestiges of the Democrat Party are being eliminated on college campuses and elsewhere with the tearing down of statues to Confederate generals.
Democrat Nathan Bedford Forrest, this was one you mentioned, the founding of the KKK.
He was an elected Democrat, Nathan Bedford Forrest, statewide.
And also, the KKK was created to terrorize freed blacks and the Republicans that freed them.
And they lynched a lot of white Republicans, the KKK did, for their terrible deeds like the 13th Amendment, the 14th Amendment, the 15th Amendment, which Democrats opposed.
People say to me, oh, well, they passed the Democrats were responsible for the civil rights laws in the 1960s.
And I keep saying to them, why did we have to have those laws?
And the answer is that all that legislation was passed in the 1860s and 1870s, and the Democrats spent 100 years trying to overturn it, get around it, or put a halt to it.
I said, so it had to be redone in 1964.
So please don't.
I mean, this is like the fireman who turns out to be the arsonist and arrives on scene to put out the fire and wants the credit.
That's exactly right.
And also, it was the Republicans on Capitol Hill that led the charge.
LBJ gets all the credit for it, and we all know what LBJ is.
Everett Dirksen.
And Everett Dirksen was the Republican on Capitol Hill from Illinois, the senator leading the charge for civil rights and voting rights.
And the Democrats were the ones opposing.
They play this little two-step, this sleight-of-hand that they pretend gives them the get-out-of-jail-free card.
They say the magic words, Southern strategy, and then they high-five each other and walk away like that means something.
And it's just another fabrication, honestly, of the Democrat Party to airbrush their own history.
That's right.
And my point is that they haven't walked away from this history.
I mean, whether they were playing all those Southern whites in the 19th century.
and most of the 20th century, or whether they're playing to African-Americans or Latinos, they make these pitches based on race.
That's what it is.
It's not about jobs and the economy and colorblind arguments.
Everything is all about race.
That's exactly what they are about.
Which is fundamentally anti-American.
We're talking to Jeffrey Lord.
We're going to take a quick break right here.
Can you stay with us for a couple minutes, Jeffrey?
All right.
Well, we're going to take a quick one and be right back with more from Jeffrey Lord.
We have returned, as Douglas MacArthur once said.
He said, I, though.
He didn't say we.
He said, I. Philippines.
And today, by the way, is the 71st anniversary of the surrender of the Japanese at the end of World War II on the deck of the USS Missouri, the fan tale of the USS Missouri.
Kind of an important event in American history.
Good stuff.
My father, who art in heaven, was a Navy fighter pilot in WWII, the big one.
And all that good stuff.
But that's not important now.
Because we have Jeffrey Lord on the line, don't we?
And, Jeffrey, I don't know if you saw this.
And I want to ask you about CNN also and how much fun it is there.
But you may have seen this, a Politico article today.
Clinton advisors tell her to prep for a landslide.
For a landslide.
They say, displaying unchecked confidence.
The Democrats' paid consultants see plenty of paths to the White House.
Maybe they're eating some of those Colorado brownies.
But I'm looking at polls that have Donald Trump cutting her lead in half.
They own the real clear politics and average.
And polls here in Pennsylvania that have her in very much in a race within the margin of error.
In state after state after state.
I mean, I think these people are smoking something because this bears no reaction, no comparison to reality.
It's not reality.
You know, when you talked about Jill Stein having a rally there in Columbus and there were a hundred people the other week, Hillary Clinton was here in here, meaning Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and the press accounts had her having a crowd of, and I'm quoting directly, hundreds.
Yeah.
I was at the Donald Trump rally, both of them here in the area, and one that was a few days after that Hillary Clinton rally.
I can only tell you, it filled the largest high school in the area.
They had about 4,000 to 5,000 people inside, and there were another 5,000 people outside who wanted to get in and couldn't get in.
This is what I call the enthusiasm gap.
I mean, I just think this is so evident everywhere Trump goes.
These crowds are mammoth.
At the time he was here before that, he filled what we call the farm show arena, which holds about 10,000 people, again, with thousands outside trying to get in.
Hillary also spoke to the American Legion the other day, and the rest of the news media didn't show it, but Fox News had a camera in the back of the room and shot a wide shot.
And even in the front three, four rows, there were lots and lots of empty seats and a smattering of applause, and I assume they put some friendlies in there because they're good at staging things like that.
She's not drawing people.
She has no charisma.
She's not likable.
She's not a good retail politician.
When you think of how close this is in these polls, and has been pointed out, Trump hasn't really launched until now an advertising campaign.
I mean, this is all coming about because she really is a weak candidate.
She's a terrible candidate.
But at the same time, I did see something this morning that disturbed me a little bit, and that is that in Florida, you may have seen this story, the Hillary people have 51 offices up and operating in the state of Florida.
The Trump organization has one office in the state of Florida, which, as you know, is a key, I think we remember 2000, a key state for any president if you're going to win the presidency.
And he doesn't have a lot of, they call it the ground operation.
He doesn't have a lot of offices scattered in key states around the country.
Are we just relying on enthusiasm and people showing up at rallies?
No, I don't think so.
I mean, I know Kelly Ann Conway a bit from over the years.
I think she's terrific.
I think she really knows exactly what she's doing.
I know the person who is in charge of the campaign in Pennsylvania, and he too has a serious track record of winning state elections for candidates for the U.S. Senate and other things.
So I have complete and total confidence in this.
And I would remind that the same kind of thing was said about Jeb Bush.
He had $100 million plus in the bank and had all these ads and all this big organization, and he was just going to roll over everybody.
And he wound up winning no primaries and getting three delegates.
Right.
Yeah, that's right.
What is it?
$50 million per delegate, I think.
Yeah, exactly.
Jeffrey Lord, in some ways, I think she is the Democrat's Jeb Bush.
Yeah, I had wanted to ask you about CNN, but we've run out of time.
I appreciate you being here.
And good luck on CNN between now and 11.
I'm having a great time.
Well, that's good.
I know it's a little bit of a tough environment having come from there myself.
But listen, I appreciate your being here.
And we'll be looking for you on the television.
Jeffrey Lord, thanks.
We're going to take a quick break here.
I'm Chris Plant, sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
All right, who's been to North Korea?
Raise your hand.
No.
Have you been there?
No.
I know people that have been to North Korea.
I know a number of people, a bunch of people actually, that have been to North Korea for a variety of reasons, mostly news people and government people, but on various missions.
There is a story out last night, and this is really one for the books, these guys, the Hermit Empire, the Hermit Kingdom, the place is just nutty as.
The headline is, Long missing U.S. student reportedly kidnapped in China in 2004, forced to tutor North Korean dictator.
What's this?
David Sneddon.
David Snedden, is he related to you, Mr. Snerdley?
No?
No, I don't think so.
David Sneddon, then a 24-year-old Brigham Young University student, disappeared in August of 2004 while hiking in China's Yunnan province.
When Chinese police and the U.S. Embassy could not find him, China sends Snedden likely fell to his death in Tiger Leaping Gorge, a theory that his parents did not believe plausible.
So Chinese police work, it was a closed case.
They closed the case.
He probably jumped into the gorge and sacrificed himself to the God of Fire, something like that.
Sneddon's family claims on a website devoted to the search for him that they believe Sneddon was kidnapped by North Korea and is being held hostage there.
The claim appears to have stemmed from information gathered over the years and recent comments from Choi Seung-yong, head of South Korea's abductees family union.
They kidnapped so many South Koreans that they have a union.
They unionized.
Goes on a lot, apparently.
On Wednesday, a Japanese news source reported that Sneddon was abducted by agents of the North Korean government and whisked away some 2,500 miles from the Chinese province where he vanished.
Yahoo News Japan also reported that Sneddon became an English tutor to Kim Jong-un, the dictatorial leader of North Korea, and is now believed to have a wife and two children.
Got a wife and kids in Pyongyang, Mac went out for a walk and I never came back.
Man, kidnapping with benefits.
That's right.
It comes with all kinds of goodies because North Korea is such a nice place to live.
The news outlet, which cited South Korean abductees family union for the information, said Sneddon lives in Pyongyang, where he teaches English.
Sneddon's parents say they believe the son was taken by the North Korean regime for training purposes.
This is the Manchurian candidate, English language version.
I'm not sure what because of his fluency in Korean, according to the Desiree News.
Sneddon, who grew up in Nebraska, served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints in South Korea.
That's the Mormons.
And the newspaper reported his mother, Kathleen Sneddon, told the paper, reporter's son being in North Korea doesn't surprise me at all, she said.
We just knew in our heart that he was alive, so we had to keep fighting.
This is man, oh man.
I don't know.
It's North Korea.
You can probably.
How many wives can you have in North Korea?
And there's another one.
You saw that he had a minister executed the other day by firing squad, a senior government official, executed by firing squad, apparently because in a meeting, he started to slouch.
He was slouching.
His posture was not what it should be.
So they dragged him out of the place and they killed him by way of firing squad, which is not as bad as what he did.
What was his uncle that he fed to the dogs?
Remember, that had all the high command people come and watch so they could see what happens to people that are disloyal to Lil Kim.
It does go on your permanent record, and everybody knows it.
And this is rather an unusual place, I'm happy to say.
But when you give radical hardcore left-wing dictatorships free reign, this is kind of what you get.
Kim Jong-un executes Education Minister for not sitting properly.
Boy, I mean, again, I mentioned earlier, I went to Catholic school, and the nuns, they could be pretty tough.
Mr. McAvo, too, he had a fraternity paddle and stuff, and you took him seriously.
But North Korea is another level altogether.
Kim Jong-un executes Education Minister by Firing Squad for not sitting properly during a meeting.
Skip right over the rap on the knuckles with a ruler and go right to the firing squad.
Kim Jong-un has executed a senior North Korean official by firing squad because he did not sit properly during a meeting.
Education Minister Kim Jong-jin, they apparently don't have a lot of different names to choose from, I'm thinking.
63 years old, was shot dead after his bad sitting posture in parliament incurred the wrath of the North Korean dictator.
The slouching vice premier was interrogated and found to be an anti-revolutionary agitator.
That's what we're all going to be found to be if Hillary gets elected before his execution in July, a South Korean official said.
Why would that be a problem?
Hey, that's just, he's harsh, but fair.
A little strict.
You know, it's kind of strict.
I wonder if he went to Catholic school.
It might be the birthplace of all of this stuff.
I should go to a telephone call.
Should I go to a telephone call?
Let's go to a telephone call.
Let's do that.
Let's go to Dave in Laurel, Maryland.
Hey, Chris.
You talk about table manners, huh?
Yeah, seriously.
If we had that rule, we could have gotten rid of Harry Reid a long time ago.
Yeah, for slouching?
Yeah.
Yeah, he's like a question mark.
He's question mark and the mysterians.
Yeah, he's got some kind of spinal thing going on there.
He should have it looked into.
I know a good surgeon if he needs one.
You know, in these debates, they're going to ask Trump some gotcha questions.
They're going to ask him about his bankruptcies, his former marriages.
They're going to ask him things like, you called Rosie LaDonald that pig.
Do you still feel that way?
And I think his answer to every one of these gotcha questions should be exactly the same.
And I think this is what it should be.
He should say, at this point, what difference does it make?
Now, once the laughing and the clapping starts, stops, I think he should look at the camera and say, if that answer was an acceptable answer by a Secretary of State being questioned by a congressional committee looking into the deaths of four Americans, then it certainly is an acceptable answer for a presidential debate.
He should say that every single time they ask him a gotcha question.
That is good.
That would be a very good response.
I don't know if you can do it with every question, but he should definitely expect, and you're absolutely right, that we have, they announced, I mentioned earlier, debate moderators unveiled.
Unveiled is the headline from The Hill.
What is it, the new Corvette?
They weren't unveiled.
They just announced these reporter guys.
One of them is Chris Wallace of Fox News, and he's serious, and that's acceptable.
Apparently, Donald Trump kind of gave a nod during an interview to Lester Holt.
So Lester Holt from NBC News, who is generally innocuous enough.
But the problem is that he's the front man for NBC News, and NBC News is one of the most corrupt news organizations on the planet.
Then you have Manderson Pooper of CNN, and he's a billionaire member of the Vanderbilt family.
He vacations at Biltmore House.
He bought a firehouse, a fire station in New York as a plaything.
Did you know that?
Yes, he did.
He bought a fire station in New York as a playhouse, go up and down the poll and all that stuff.
Yeah, for parties, for parties.
And Martha Radditz, Radetz of ABC.
Yeah, seriously, he bought a firehouse.
Yeah, give it a give it the old Google.
Well, for parties and things.
It's a nice place.
He's a very wealthy man.
He's from one of the wealthiest families in the history of humankind.
His mother was Gloria Vanderbilt, and it wasn't just the Blue Jeans, you know.
And his father was no slouch either.
So, no, Anderson Cooper is from one of the world's wealthiest families.
He doesn't have to work or anything.
He just kind of does this.
And honestly, I used to work with him at CNN here and there.
And he was one of the more intelligent, articulate, serious people there.
But this machine just turns everything into what it is at CNN.
And it's, you know, he's voting for Hillary.
Lester Holt is voting for Hillary.
Martha Radditz of ABC News, who does some good reporting on national security stuff.
And I know her.
And you know what?
I like her.
But they're all Democrats.
And this is, the deck is stacked.
Every direction you look, the deck is stacked.
I can tell you from personal experience, decades long, learning it the hard way, in the streets, and in the hallways.
And it's just the deck is so stacked against every Republican.
Mitt Romney is one of the sweetest, nicest people you're ever going to meet in your life.
And he wasn't the perfect candidate, and he wasn't aggressive enough.
But look what they did to him.
I mean, look what the news media does to Republican candidates.
And then Hillary Clinton, who is one of the great slime balls ever to run for president of the United States, and is as untrustworthy as Kim Jong-ul, Kim Jong-un, she just gets a free ride on everything.
And once again, I think a lot of American people are having their eyes opened this election cycle as to just how corrupt the media machine.
And it's not just the news media either.
It's Stephen Colbert.
It's Jon Stewart.
The list goes on.
It was David Letterman when David Letterman was on the air.
These are all arrows in the Democrat Party's quiver.
The jokes are obviously anti-Republican and pro-Democrat.
The guests, the treatment of the guests, when Michelle Bachman went on, was it Jimmy Fallon with The Roots, the song that they played.
Remember the song they played when she came?
The song was Lion Ass Bitch is the name of it.
Can I say that?
That's the name of the song that they played that The Roots played when Michelle Bachman came out.
There were no lyrics when they played.
It was the instrumental only.
And it's too bad they wasted it because they could have Hillary on soon.
And now what are they going to play?
I guess they could play the Elton John version, you know, The Bitch is Back.
Maybe you have to save that for the second time.
She's on there.
Shouldn't that be the theme song of the Hillary Clinton campaign when she comes out on stage?
They had Bill Clinton and Al Gore with their shirts off doing Fleetwood Mac and Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow.
I think maybe Elton John should be the choice for the Clinton campaign.
But that's me.
I think I'm looking at the clock now.
I've got to take a break, and Mike is nodding at me.
So let's do that, and then we'll come back and do more fun radio.
See, I just, I went to the Bing Google machine on Al Gore's amazing internet there, peace be upon him, to look up Anderson Cooper's firehouse here.
And again, it's not that he's a bad person.
It's just he's a biased journalist.
That doesn't say, well, they're all either bad people or they're just bad journalists.
But it's the state of the industry, and it is an industry, and it's a TV show.
But here's a great headline from the Daily Mail on Anderson Cooper's Firehouse 2014.
The headline is, And Andy Cohen slides down Anderson Cooper's Fireman's Pole in CNN Anchor's house at Book Party with guests Monica Lewinsky, Kelly Rippa, and Nini Leaks.
Now, wait a minute.
You got Andy Cohen sliding down Anderson Cooper's Fireman's Pole and as Firehouse.
You got Monica Lewinsky, and the fire people are sliding down polls.
I don't know what Kelly Ripa's doing there.
And then Neni Leaks.
Neene Leaks.
It's a real housewives person.
It's some kind of a real house.
I'm glad I didn't know who Neni Leaks was.
I did have.
Yeah, Nene Leaks.
When I was a small child, my great-grandmother was called Nini.
We called our great-grandmother Neni Leaks.
She lived to be 98 years old.
And during the end, she leaked a little, too.
She was kind of in the, you know, no, no, Nini.
N-E-N-E, Nene Leaks.
And that was, I'm not kidding, that was the name of my great-grandmother.
At least that's what we called her, Greg Grandma.
She lived to be 98 years old, I believe.
And she saw some stuff.
It's like that.
Neene Leaks.
That's what was going on with that.
Where is the clock?
Let's see.
Shall we go to a telephone call?
Let's go to a telephone call.
Why don't we do that?
Talk to some nice people.
Let's go to Dalton in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
I loved you in Roadhouse.
Yeah, I was actually named after Roadhouse.
I was named after Patrick Swayze.
Were you, really?
You were named for Roadhouse, baby.
I'm high-fiving.
Yeah, my dad, my dad, it was right after the movie was, I guess, the movie was out, and my dad named me after him.
He loved the name.
He was a bouncer at the time, actually, so it was ironic.
Sure, Patrick Swayze's a bouncer in a bar.
Ben Gazara, he owned the town.
He zigzags down the road.
It's a fun movie.
It's a camp.
It's a camp kind of movie.
It still is.
It's a little over the top, but it's a fun movie.
In any case, Dalton.
In any case, so I call because last week I heard something Rush said.
He was talking about the woman that actually put out a report.
She went across the Royal Cities, Pennsylvania, and put out the report of all the Trump signs and talking about that those people aren't the ones getting polled and that they might show up in the general election and they're the ones that are going to shoot Trump over the top.
And I'm one of those people.
I'm 22 years old.
I have two degrees, a Bachelor of Art in Economics, Bachelor of Science in Business.
And I don't get on Twitter.
I'm not really on Facebook.
I'm on LinkedIn some.
But working 70 hours a week supporting my son.
And I'm not, I'm in the world cities.
I'm actually, I live in Hagerstown, Maryland.
I went to Trump Rally.
And I think a couple calls before you talked about the Trump rallies.
And man, it was packed.
It was in an airport over here.
And it's probably 5,000 or 10,000 people there.
And there was 5,000 or 10,000 people waiting outside to get in.
But we're the people that are going to show up.
They're not showing on the polls.
The people that aren't on Twitter, that they're not polling it and not seeing those numbers out because I believe that those people are going to show up.
And I just kind of touched on something you were talking about before with the media and the bias.
And of course, when I was growing up and even at the beginning of my freshman and sophomore year in college, I was more Democratic leaning.
I felt that my values were in line with them.
And then I started taking some economics courses and started taking some business courses and really got an understanding of what's going on.
And then switched over, started listening to WMALU and Rush and Savage.
And then trying to change my whole perspective on things.
How about that?
It's amazing what additional information will do.
When you're only given one side of the story, I always kind of compare it to a trial in a courtroom where the news media provides you with one side of the story, depending on what the story is, either with the case that the prosecution wants to make, as is the case with Donald Trump, for example, or the case that the defense makes, as is the case with Hillary Clinton.
But they only give you half of the story.
The so-called mainstream news media, the Lester Holtz and Anderson Coopers and so on, give you a half of the story.
And I've always said, if you listen to my show, Dalton, that the most insidious power that the news media has is the power to ignore.
And if they ignore key facts, key elements of a story, then the listener, the viewer, the reader comes away with a misimpression or a corrupt impression of what they should be understanding, but don't because you've only heard from the prosecution or you've only heard from the defense.
And I find that all too many people these days are perfectly content to just take half of the story and relevance and spout off talking points that have been issued to them.
And I find Democrats and liberals tend to use the talking points that are issued by the party in a disturbing, disturbingly consistent way.
They use the actual words, phrases, and thoughts, and so on that are issued to them by the party.
And I find that to be kind of, not delete kind of, I find that to be creepy.
Dalton, thank you very much, my friend.
We've got to take, what does it rush call them?
An obscene prophets break and an obscene prophets break, and then we'll be right back.
We don't know where Rush Limbaugh is, or as the Reverend Al Charlatan likes to call him on occasion, Russ Lumbar.
It's not on purpose.
He's just the Reverend Al Charlatan.
Every since he lost the 320 pounds, his speech thing doesn't work quite the same.
We were just having a discussion here, Mr. Bosnerdley and myself.
And we want to take a moment, just a quick moment, to congratulate and give a hoo-wah to Jason Lewis in Minnesota, who just won his Republican primary for the 2nd district congressional seat in Minnesota.
Jason Lewis, who at one time did sit in for Rush Limbaugh, right here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and he left the glories of talk radio for politics.
And things are going well because he just won his Republican primary in the second district in Minnesota.
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