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Sept. 6, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 6, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Make no mistake about it, ladies and gentlemen, the Democrats and their willing accomplices in the drive-by media are still very worried about this whole email situation with Hillary Clinton.
They think that great danger still lurks there.
And they are probably right about that.
Greetings and welcome back.
Great to be back.
Great to be with you.
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And if you want to send an email, I check them.
We have a new email address.
It is lrushbow at eibnet.us.
Catherine Harridge at Fox News.
By the way, it's tough, folks, to understand all this.
It's tough to get your arms around all of the FBI document dump, the various contradictions in questions and answers.
The Benghazi hearings have resurfaced.
Allegations are that the Democrats on that committee were furnished with the questions Hillary wanted asked and that they did indeed ask those questions.
John Cornyn says that Congress was duped during her confirmation hearings.
It's taken eight years, but a Republican senator has actually awakened here to complain about the obvious, meaning tricks of the trade employed by Democrats.
But anyway, Catherine Harridge at Fox has been reporting all day, raising big questions about emails that indicate the Clinton camp got questions they wanted to have asked to Democrat senators during the Benghazi hearing.
And the Democrat senators then used the very questions they were fed at the hearing because Mrs. Clinton had the Pat answers ready to go.
Hillary Clinton, in her FBI interview, said she was unable to recall things 39 times.
There are, I think a lot of, I don't know how to characterize small stories that could potentially get big or big stories out there that are big only within a small universe of the media.
You know, you realize, folks, we are a segregated media.
We're a segregated country and we have a segregated media.
We have the, I don't know what the conservative media, the new media, whatever, and we have the drive-bys, the old mainstream media.
And they're still the big ones.
They are still the majority media.
And in fact, the existence starting in 1988 of this new media, of the conservative media, I think has hardened the drive-by and mainstream media.
I think it's made them even more biased and more openly biased and more openly confrontational and more openly supportive than they ever have been before.
They used to be able to get away with the pretense of being objective and fair and down the middle.
And with the rise of the new media, almost a call to arms in the media in terms of competition, they were forced out of the foxhole and they had to expose themselves in the process of defending their turf.
And so it has given the impression that the divide in the country extends even beyond the population, that it includes now the media.
I don't think that's new.
I just think it has a new face or a cloak has been lifted and people now see the mainstream media for what it always was.
It was never objective and it was never non-biased or unbiased and it was never, quote unquote, fair.
What's different about it, as I say, is they're open about who they are now and they're unashamed because they're in a very competitive situation.
But nevertheless, it's led to this segregated media and things that happen, things that get reported, not things that happen, the things that get reported in our media tend to stay there.
They don't cross over to the mainstream media, such as Hillary's coughing.
In fact, the mainstream media reaction to Hillary's coughing is, would you guys stop covering this?
There's no story here.
There's nothing to see here.
Human beings cough.
You're using this unfairly, and you're using this in a way that's not representative of the truth, and it's got to stop.
You should just stop it.
They have no intention of using it.
So this segregated media remains what it is, and that even extends to social media.
Sometimes there's crossover.
Sometimes things that happen that are big here in our media do make it into the drive-bys, reluctantly so.
But it's why so much of what you see on Fox you don't see on CNN or MSNBC or anywhere else.
And the Hillary FBI interview and the FBI document dump is a classic example of this.
The Drive-By media and its related membership looked at all these documents that were released and dumped on Friday of Labor Day weekend, and they say they are reporting that everything confirms that Hillary Clinton's honest and did not lie and does not lie, and that there isn't even a story here.
There's not a story on Benghazi.
There's not a story on the emails.
There isn't anything.
And everything you're hearing in the right-wing media is all made up and trumped up, and you shouldn't believe any of it because it's all just partisan BS.
That's what they're saying.
They're saying there's nothing to see here.
This proves that Hillary Clinton is the angel we have always thought she was.
The document dump says that there's nothing to see here.
Well, there are various lists.
People have looked at the documents and have written lists: the 10 things you had always remembered, you should always remember, the five things you should always remember, the ten things we should never forget about the Hillary Clinton document dump.
And I have amassed and collected all of these, and I have a couple to share with you.
The five most outrageous things Hillary Clinton said in her FBI interview.
Number one, she cited her 2012 concussion as the reason she can't remember details of briefings during her transition out of office.
Well, if she was unable to remember such things at the time, why was she at work?
If this concussion was so bad, why was she allowed?
Why was she permitted front and center on all of these issues if she had no idea what she was being told?
If every briefing she got she can't remember, then why did she have the job?
Shouldn't she have been on medical leave if this concussion was that bad?
Anyway, I think, you know, to cite the 2012 concussion as the reason she can't remember details of briefings during the transition out of office, that makes the concussion sound far more serious than what they're trying to make it out to be.
Number two, she said she never even thought whether emails she exchanged on a future U.S. drone attack should be classified.
Never even thought about it.
See, she didn't lie.
There's nothing to see here.
Drone attacks, who says they should be classified, say her defense.
Yes, we're supposed to believe that's exactly the point.
She said she never even thought whether emails she exchanged on a future U.S. drone attack should be classified.
Why did you want to see those?
Those are part of the yoga and wedding things.
I delita, why would those be interested?
Yes, we're supposed to believe that.
Number three, she said that she thought the C before a paragraph indicated alphabetical order.
Now, the C stands for classified.
But the Secretary of State and any of them will tell you, Colin Powell, you run the gamut of them.
They'll tell you.
They consider everything they get to be classified.
Everything they get is secret.
Everything they get is for their eyes only and for a small group of people.
Well, Hillary Clinton is trafficking in this stuff.
She is trafficking in classified data.
Her excuse to the FBI was, ah, I thought the C indicated that it was paragraph C. Well, where was paragraph A?
Where was paragraph B?
She was in the Senate for eight years.
She was Secretary of State for four years.
She was on the Armed Services Committee.
She said and ran into and saw countless classified documents.
She saw the C, in other words, on document after document after document.
Is she really so stupid she couldn't figure out what it meant?
If she's, folks, do you realize how stupid this makes her sound?
I just, I thought that was alphabetical order.
This is my point earlier in the program.
When she gets caught, she resorts to one or two, maybe three things.
She plays the gender card.
Sometimes she plays the race card.
And sometimes she plays the sympathy card.
As in, I'm sorry I don't recall, or I didn't know.
And it's the I didn't know that buffaloes me.
Because I don't know how that jives with the fact that this is the smartest woman in the world.
And all of the people that support her, and for the entire time that she has been in public life, her reputation has been the smartest woman in the world.
Don't forget that Barack Obama on the stage at the Democrat convention told everybody that she is far and away the most qualified person ever to seek the presidency.
Sorry, George Washington.
Sorry, FDR.
Sorry, Abe Lincoln.
Sorry, Bill Clinton.
But your wife, she runs rings around both of us, is what he said.
And yet, after having said that, here's a woman who says, oh, I thought the C represented alphabetical order.
She has no problem portraying herself as ignorant and thinks that it's an excuse.
She thinks that she's going to get away with it.
Number four, she said that no one ever raised concerns to her about her use of a private email server.
And yet, we have emails where her own aides, including Huma Abaddon, raised concerns about her server being unsecure.
She said she couldn't recall any training on how to handle classified information.
Now, come on.
I mean, she signed documents saying she had been briefed on how to handle classified information.
And she didn't ask.
This is, again, she's citing the stupid card.
I don't remember.
I'm sorry, nobody taught me.
Nobody trained me on how to deal with class.
You're the secretary.
It's the first lady senator.
What do you mean?
Nobody trained you.
You're supposed to be so smart that this stuff instinctively occurs to you.
And yet, we're supposed to feel sorry for the girl.
We're supposed to understand.
Well, she had a concussion.
Yeah, she fell off the snow profile or whatever.
All these crazy accidents.
It might be brain fried there a couple of times, and she's got to be sympathetic.
You've got to be understanding.
She's got the coughing spasms.
She's working hard.
She's doing the best she can.
Nobody taught her.
Nobody trained her on classified and how to deal with it.
Really?
That's the excuse.
Now, you might think individualist stuff is small stuff, and it probably sounds that way.
But when you remember what it is we're talking about here, we're talking about a serial liar who's caught in the act, and these are her excuses that she offers in order to get away with lying.
Oh, I forgot to see paragraph C. Nobody trained me on classified guy.
Can you imagine if George W. Bush, who they portrayed as a dumb hick cowboy, had ever laughingly, jokingly, no one ever told me about classified.
I never knew about classified.
I thought it was for everybody.
Can you imagine what the reaction would be?
Clinton AIDS told the FBI the Secretary of State frequently replaced her BlackBerry phone, and the whereabouts of her old device would become unknown.
The FBI reports suggest there were at least 13 different devices.
The point of that is she was making supreme efforts.
She was going to the extensive mile to cover up what she was doing because she did know what she was doing and she did know that she was skirting the law and she did know she was skirting policy.
And she worked it.
She found as many different ways as possible to do it.
Because the ultimate objective Was to prevent people from finding out what she was actually doing as Secretary of State.
And what she was actually doing as Secretary of State was raising money for her husband and herself and her daughter under the guise of funding a Clinton Global Initiative and Clinton Family Foundation.
She used the position of Secretary of State to raise money.
She sold access if necessary, but whatever she was collecting money, she was raising money for herself and her family.
And that's why she didn't want anybody to know what she was doing.
That's why everything was done on a private server.
That's why everything was done away from the official State Department network because she couldn't allow for what she was really doing as Secretary of State to be discovered.
Now that it has been discovered, the excuses, I didn't know.
I'm sorry, I can't remember.
Classified?
No, nobody ever trained me in that.
That was a classified document.
I thought that was paragraph C. I didn't know that what was in that paragraph was secret.
Oh, gee, I'm sorry.
I didn't.
Well, you know, I had a concussion.
I had a fall.
I had a concussion during the corkscrew landing that resulted in sniper fire, and I just don't remember.
All of this was to hide what was really going on.
And that is Bill and Hillary Clinton accruing and acquiring personal wealth the only way they knew how to sell access to themselves and the positions they held in government.
Squeeze another telephone call in here, folks, as we maximize broadcast time.
Here is Lisa, Charleston, South Carolina.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
I'm going to make it real quick since my battery is about to go here.
But your comment earlier about the celebrity of Donald Trump, I just wanted to make the point that I actually think it's the reverse.
I think that he has succeeded in spite of his celebrity, not because of it.
So I feel like that really, he really spoke to conservatives for him to be able to overcome just being known as a celebrity and be taken seriously.
Because conservatives generally shy away from the celebrity culture.
They don't like celebrity.
So he had to prove himself to be taken seriously rather than people be impressed.
Now, wait a minute.
You got a good point.
You have a great point there.
But I need to, what do you mean conservatives shy away?
They don't like celebrity.
What do you mean by that?
Like when you see people, like when you see Hillary Clinton going with Justin Timberlake or Jennifer Anderson or hearing celebrities or Hollywood speaking their minds.
I mean, people don't really care to hear that they're not.
But wait, what if Justin Timberlake were out there doing joint appearances with Trump?
You think they'd like it?
No.
I actually think that that would probably turn people away.
They don't, I mean, unless he actually truly believed, I mean, I don't know.
I just, I don't know.
You know where Bill Clinton was this weekend?
He was not with Hillary when she was having her causing spasms.
He was in Detroit marching.
No.
Well, he wasn't walking.
He was with Beyonce.
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
Yeah, he was with Beyonce.
So, yeah, to be quite honest, I think if Justin Timberlake or some celebrity came out, I don't think that that would look good for Donald Trump.
I think that the conservatives are not impressed with that.
I think he had to work harder.
Yeah, true.
But remember, not everybody's supporting Trump's conservative.
Well, he's the only one.
I feel like it's a false, you know, I think it's a false narrative to say that people like Paul Ryan speak for conservatives.
People are against our voting for Trump because he is the one, I think, espousing conservative values.
He wouldn't fund the omnibus bill.
He's strong in immigration.
He's sovereign.
Or Paul Ryan, who claims to speak for all conservatives.
Who brought up Paul Ryan?
I feel like Paul Ryan is part of the establishment.
They're the ones who act like...
When did we get married?
They're the ones who gauge who's a true conservative.
When did we get back?
What kind of device are you using at your batteries about Peter out on you?
A droid, but I'm not home to plug it in.
Crying out loud.
Yeah.
But anyway, so I just.
Well, I hope the thing doesn't explode on you.
Well, it's not a Samsung, and I just saw Samsung's were exploding.
I'll send you a new iPhone if you, well, I mean, a 6S if you want one.
Really?
Yeah, just tell Mr. Sterling what you want.
Awesome.
Thank you.
Do that.
You know, I think what Hillary Clinton lies with the imagination of a six-year-old.
That's what I'm trying to say here.
The way she lies about these things is akin to your six-year-old kid.
You end up almost feeling charmed when your six-year-old lies to you about something.
You know, the kid knows you got caught red-handed, and you kind of marvel at the kid's explanation.
Hillary strikes me as a six-year-old coming up with these excuses for lying.
Here, grab audio soundbite number eight.
Now, this happened on a new campaign plan yesterday.
Henri Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, said to Hillary, Madam Secretary, the FBI report cited several instances where you couldn't recall State Department guidance about the classification system of documents, about how you were trained when you went in, about what you did when you left office.
Does that indicate apparent latitude towards classification and towards the way secrets were held and protected?
Does it mean you didn't take it very seriously, Mrs. Clinton?
I went into the State Department understanding classification.
I'd been on the Senate Armed Services Committee for years before I was Secretary of State.
I take classification seriously.
The fact I couldn't remember certain meetings, whether or not they had occurred, doesn't in any way affect the commitment that I had and still have to the treatment of classified material.
Classic!
Classic!
The question is not whether you treat it seriously.
Well, actually, it is.
But the question is not whether or not you're committed to it.
The question is, why didn't you commit to it?
Well, I am.
I'm committed to it just because I don't remember my training and just because I don't remember some meetings and just because I don't remember how.
It doesn't mean that I'm not committed.
The point is, you were trafficking in classified documents.
Secrets were all over the world because of you.
And your excuse is, well, I care.
I really care.
That's the Democrats out every time they get in a tight snatch.
I care.
At least I care.
The other guy doesn't even care, but I care.
Oh, okay.
And then you had a concussion because your corkscrew landed and had a sniper fire and you fell down, all that stuff.
Yeah, right.
I don't know, folks.
None of this jibes, again, with the reputation they want us to believe, and that is she's the smartest woman in the world.
She's more competent than anybody who's ever been president.
That's what they told us at the Democrat Convention.
That she is so competent that she's so smart, she can't even contain it.
The competence and the intelligence are oozing out of every orifice and every pore in her skin.
It's just incredible how talented this woman is.
Duh.
Where is it?
Because every excuse we get is wrapped around, I didn't know.
I don't remember.
I wasn't trained properly.
I forgot.
Excuses that nobody in positions of power uses or even gets away with.
Here's Karen in Detroit.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
I'm glad you waited.
Hi, Karen.
Can you hear me okay?
Yeah, I hear you fine.
Okay, I'm sorry.
I listened to the live and watched, I should say, the live feed from Trump's visit to Detroit at the Great Faith Ministries Church.
Yeah.
And he left soon after he spoke.
And I decided I would watch the rest of the program, okay?
And when the Bishop Jackson preached, I just want to say that midway through his message, he said that his team asked the Trump advance team, do you have any requirements or whatever?
And the only question the Trump team said was, will you give Trump a fair shake?
Or it might have been a fair chance, but it's the same message anyway.
And he said he didn't ask about money.
He didn't ask about restrictions on questions.
He only wanted a fair shake.
And to me, that spoke volumes.
But you won't see that on the media.
No, you won't.
I didn't know about it until you just said it.
That they asked Trump what he wanted, what his needs were, what his requirements were.
And I just want a fair shake.
He didn't demand any money.
He didn't demand a note questions in advance.
Didn't demand that questions be on a certain topic or asked a certain way, which is the Clinton way, by the way.
The Clinton way, they pick the people who are going to ask the questions.
They didn't give those people the questions so that the answers are foretold and already known.
And needless to say, Trump also didn't tell them he wanted only brown MMs, you know, in the bowl in the green room.
So I did not know that.
Karen, I appreciate the call.
I want to go back to our caller before the last half hour, the one who had an Android phone, and I made a snide comment about, you know, her battery was about to expire.
She said she didn't have much time.
And I thought, well, I hope it doesn't explode on you.
Now, that's a reference to the latest Samsung phone, their fablet called the Note 7.
And they've had to recall them because they're exploding.
The batteries are exploding during a recharging.
Samsung has this supposed fast charging technology, but the battery assembly, there's something not right in it.
And the batteries, just the latest one, a battery exploded in an Australian hotel room and did $2,000 worth of damage.
It's a very dangerous thing.
So there's an unofficial official recall.
They haven't actually recalled them through the Consumer Product Safety Commission, but they've let it be known.
If you take the phone in, they'll exchange it for a new one, but it's going to take some time.
Now, here's the point about it.
So what, Rush?
Well, I'll tell you what, it matters.
And it's a media thing.
As you know, I read tech books, my hobby.
I read every tech blog.
Well, not everyone.
I don't think it's possible.
But I mean, a slew of them.
And I'm here to tell you, folks, that 80%, if not more, of the tech media hates Apple and loves Samsung.
80% of the tech media reports on Apple the way the drive-bys report on Republicans.
And Samsung gets the treatment that Obama and Hillary and the Democrats get.
Now, what's fascinating about it is that all year, the reporting on Apple has been, it's over.
Apple's finished.
First year, iPhone sales did not grow.
There's no innovation, nothing new coming out of Apple.
They're finished.
They're done.
Meanwhile, they are just scoring 90% of the profits in the smartphone industry worldwide with nowhere near 90% market share.
And it turns out, information today, the iPhone 6S is the biggest selling iPhone in the world.
The second biggest selling iPhone in the world is the iPhone 6.
Samsung is at number four.
Samsung has sold something like two and a half million of these Note 7s.
Apple sells that in five minutes.
So here comes this Samsung phone that the media touted as the iPhone 7 killer.
Samsung even moved up the production and the release date to release the Note 7, whatever they're calling this thing.
It's their fablet phone.
It's their five and a half or six inch phone.
The Note 7.
They moved up product to release it earlier than the iPhone 7s coming out to beat Apple.
And now they're all blowing up.
And the tech media, it's incredible.
Tech media is, oh, how unfortunate for Samsung.
They tried so hard.
You know, this is going to cost Samsung a billion dollars.
Oh, my God.
It's horrible.
It's horrible what this is going to cost poor Samsung.
Now, look, I got nothing at Samsung.
Nothing at all.
A couple Samsung TVs in here.
Don't anybody misunderstand.
This is strictly media analysis here.
If Apple released a product that was blowing up on people, it would be front page New York Times.
Everybody who's had a phone that blew up would be featured.
There would be this class action lawsuit like you can't imagine.
It's stunning.
And yet Apple is a bunch of libs.
Apple is a bunch of progressives.
Apple does everything.
They're global warming aficia models, all of this stuff, but they're big.
They're the big guns.
And as such, they've got to be taken out.
As such, they've got to be destroyed.
As such, they've got to be taken down the pick.
amazing thing to watch the similarities in the way media treats apple versus its competitors primarily samsung and i it's it's uh something i've noticed for ever since i started reading these things and this takes the cake this was this was going to be the iphone killer and understand there's a couple of them every year Tech media,
whatever new is coming out in Samsung is the next iPhone killer.
And there hasn't been one.
And poor Samsung, now this thing's the latest.
Samsung got better displays, got a faster processor.
Guess what?
The iPhone 6S, a one-year-old phone, smokes it in geekbench tests.
It's not even close.
And it's amazing to see how this is, it's a fascinating study in media.
It just is.
And it doesn't matter where you go in media, they're all predictably the same.
Whether it's sports, whether it's tech, whether it's business, whether it's the news, doesn't matter.
It's all the same.
Jason Chavitz, Utah, has pledged to hold fresh hearings on Hillary's private server use before leaving the State Department in the middle of a campaign.
This is not typical Republican behavior, folks.
All right, folks, we're off and running the sprint to election day.
Officially underway, the day after Labor Day, it begins.
And we are here for the duration.
It's great to be back with you.
And we look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
I'll be on from noon to one.
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