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Sept. 8, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 8, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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Back we are.
Great to have you with us, L Rushbo, serving humanity, simply my being here each and every day.
One big exciting broadcast hour remains, 800-282-2882, and the email address L Rushbow at EIVNAT.com.
After the program today, by the way, I'm uh interviewing for the next issue of the limbaugh letter.
A Baltimore Ravens tight end Benjamin Watson, who has played also for the New England Patriots.
Why are you frowning at me?
You didn't know.
What do you mean what's his deal?
Benjamin Watson has he's a tight end played for the Patriots.
He's played for the uh New Orleans Saints and the Ravens.
He's 36, he's a 12-year veteran.
He just in a preseason game and he blew out his knees, gone for the season.
But he has a new book.
And that's what we're going to be talking to him about.
He uh he's distressed at the racial divide occurring in the country.
He's distressed over well a lot of it, but he's distressed over things happening to the to the African American community by left-wing activism.
He's Christian.
Uh but it's very risky.
Uh very think the opposite of Capernick in in some regards.
I mean, I don't want to pre-characterize it the interview until we speak to him.
It was originally scheduled for the current issue.
We were going to talk to him in August, and and then he was unable to get away.
We we do the interviews uh 3 15 on the day that we choose it, and during training camp, he simply didn't have the time to do it uh and and asked for a later date.
And then like a week later, had the injury to the knee, and so we scheduled it for the uh next issue coming up.
And I'm looking forward to talking this afternoon.
Now, this is something that I have noted for a long, long time, and it's something I've simply internalized.
My reaction to it.
I've never made a big deal about it.
Haven't even really talked to anybody about it.
But I ran across a story today that kind of well, I don't know the process internally in my in my deep dark crevices of the uh incredible brain in there, but it just came rushing forward here.
I've I've I've I've I've been leery resentful.
I don't know why I've had a problem with tweets becoming news sources for the longest time, and it seems like it has been increasing, and you read it it's particularly in gossip.
But even in hard news, I mean you you can be reading something from CNN or NBC, whatever, and it's based on a tweet.
It's some public figure, a 140-character tweet.
And it's just the latest example of reporters sitting around waiting for news to come to them rather than going out and finding it.
Of course, we know that doesn't happen anymore anyway.
They're just waiting for the latest facts or tweet or what have you.
But here's what prompted this.
What prompted me to mention this.
I have a story here from a website called Russian Times America.
Now you probably never heard of it, but our show prep here knows no bounds.
And the headline of this story is Obama says Americans are too lazy to explore the world.
Did you know Obama said this?
There's no right or wrong.
Have you heard?
Did you know that Obama said to anybody that Americans are too lazy to explore the world?
I didn't.
So I said, what?
What will Obama say this?
I don't have any doubt that he said it.
I mean, I think it's perfectly within Obama's character to say something like this.
I think this guy's got a chip on his shoulder about this country.
I've I don't want to repeat that.
I've said that enough here.
But let's dig into this story together, shall we?
Here's what it is.
President Barack Hussein Obama says Americans are so uninterested in the rest of the world because they are lazy and don't feel like knowing about quote other people, unquote.
His remarks have not gone unnoticed at home, where angered Americans suggested that he should stay abroad.
Okay.
So I read this from the Russian Times America website and say, what?
People at home.
This is the first I've heard of this, and yet they're taking, they're saying that Obama's remarks have not gone unnoticed at home.
I'm not aware that they've been noticed.
But they have, see, that's the thing.
I guess this is what they report, he said.
We are such a big country, we haven't always had to know about other parts of the world, Obama told a young Southeast Asian leaders initiative, Town Hall.
He's over there in Laos.
And he's over there in Chica at the G20 and whatever.
And he said, if you are in Laos, you need to know about Thailand and China and Cambodia, because you are a small country, and they're right next door, and you need to know who they are.
But if you are in the United States, Obama continued, sometimes you can feel lazy and think, you know we're so big.
We don't have to really know anything about other people.
And Obama added, that's part of what I'm trying to change.
Okay.
We even have the audio soundbite of this.
That's how extensive our show prep is.
Let's move forward here to audio soundbite number 24, and let's listen again.
This is yesterday in Luang Prabong.
I love the names of these places.
I'd love to go to the law.
Where are you calling from to me, Russia?
I'm in Lawong Prabong.
What are you doing?
I am Lawang Prabonging.
That's what I'm doing.
Is that the young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall?
Here is our esteemed president.
Because we're such a big country, we haven't always had to know about other parts of the world.
You know, uh, if you are in Laos, you need to know about Thailand and China and Cambodia because you're a small country and they're right next door, and you need to know who they are.
You know, if you're in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think, you know, we're so big, we don't have to really know anything about other people.
And that's part of what I'm trying to change.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And how's he doing that, by the way?
How's Obama trying to change that?
Hell no, it's called open borders.
That's how he's trying to change it.
He's not just apologizing, he's opening the borders.
Okay, if you Americans, if you think you're so much better than everybody else, and if you think you're still big, you don't need to know everybody else.
You don't know that the real people in this world, the people that really count, don't live here, and I'm gonna make sure you get to know them.
And hello, Syrian refugee.
Hello, whoever he thinks we need to know.
I think it's just part and parcel of Obama attempting to diminish the United States as a superpower.
This is a castigation.
He's castigating people.
We're a bunch of arrogant citizens.
We're so big.
We're so selfish.
We don't care about other people.
We're the most generous freaking nation in the world, for crying out loud.
But in his view, we don't care.
We're too big.
We're lazy.
We haven't taken the time to learn about all the superior government systems around the world, like communism and Islamism and socialism.
We're so locked in our old-fashioned attachments to the American founding.
a bunch of deadbeats Americans are.
Speaking of which, deadbeats, you got to hear this before I get back to this.
Bill Clinton was in Orlando yesterday at a Hillary campaign event, and he doesn't like Trump's Make America Great slogan.
That's what he said.
I'm actually old enough to remember the good old days, and they weren't all that good in many ways.
That message where I'll give you America Great again is if you're a white southerner, you know exactly what it means, don't you?
Thank you.
What it means is I give you the economy you had 50 years ago, and I'll move you back up on the social totem pole and other people down.
What Hillary wants to do is take the totem pole down and let us all go forward together.
Whatever the hell that means, but here's implied race, and Bill Clinton saying that white Southerners know what make America great.
In other words, that's racist, folks.
Trump's slogan, make America great again, that's racist.
And Bill Clinton should know because his idols were all racist segregationists.
Bill Fulbright, William Fulbright, the Senator from Arkansas.
So he's out there actually trying to say that Make America Great is really a bunch of white Southerners who want to go back to the days where they ran the show and the minorities were back there invisible and unseen and not causing any trouble.
And Clinton knows that's what that's what makes great.
No.
Make America great again means rescuing it from the destruction wrought by people like Obama and the Democrats who've been running this country into the ground for who knows how many years.
That's what making America great.
It's nothing about race.
But this is how did you notice the cheers that he got?
Hey, hey, you know, these white Southerners like I am.
I'm one of the they know exactly what that means.
And then this rig emroll about the totem pole.
When Bill Clinton starts talking about totem polls, Monica Lewinsky's not far away.
Now back to Clinton in Laos.
I'm sorry, Obama and Laos at the Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative.
That would be the Y SEALs, by the way.
That's the anagram.
The Y S. Whatever.
At the same time, Obama did not forget the flatter Laotians after calling Americans lazy twice, once in reference to acting on climate change.
Oh, yeah, see.
We still are not getting with it on climate change.
How many of you watch Mr. Robot?
This this stuff is there.
You watch Mr. Robot.
You don't watch Mr. Robot.
Why watch Mr. Robot?
And if you don't watch it, just think geek.
Total, total geekville.
It's about hacking.
It's about.
And the hated entity in this show is a corporation called Evil Corp.
The Evil Corporation.
They manufacture evil and they run everything.
Everything.
Evil Corp owns everything, including the Oval Office.
They own it and the CEO of the Evil Corp.
They they hack evil Evil Corp, these renegade geeks.
Anyway, the CEO of Evil Cork, Evil Corp last night, was being asked by one of his subordinates, what keeps you going?
You've been running Evil Corp for who knows now.
What keeps you going?
And here was his answer.
You know, when I was young, every room I was in, there was somebody more powerful.
And I determined long ago that I wasn't going to stop until I was the most powerful person in any room I walked into.
Now we got doofuses all over the place.
He basically talked about how he was going to be God on earth.
And then in going through his litany of things that he was fighting and dealing with, came this.
a section where they were trying to sell the Congo to the Chai comms.
Evil Corp.
wanted to give Congo to the Chai comms.
And the guy says, and a reason why is because climate change is already destroyed Congo.
It's worthless, and the Chicoms have no idea.
So let's unload Congo on the Chicoms.
Because here it is again, another reference to climate change as though it's real and it's destruction.
And it's not.
It's an absolute hoax.
And here's Obama after calling Americans lazy twice, once in reference to acting on claimant change.
yeah, we're not doing anything about it, folks.
Despite how many people are driving worthless cars they'd rather not have, despite doing a whole bunch of stuff they think they need to do to make up for all of the destruction they have wrought.
You see, with the left, it's never enough.
You can you can give up everything you've got.
You can devote everything you have to their cause, and you're still never doing enough.
We're lazy.
We're not doing enough about climate change.
Obama said that Laos has the youngest population, the fastest growing economy, which Americans could in fact learn from.
Yep.
We need to learn from young people in Laos.
They got climate change down PET, they've got entrepreneurship down PET, they're fast, they're young, they're growing, and so forth.
And Americans are a bunch of lazy.
Really, stop and think about that.
This is the this is a man whose policies have led to 94 million Americans not working.
Well, not all of them.
I mean, Obama's probably added, I don't know what the number of Americans not working when he took office.
It's at least 10 or 12 million that he's added to it.
That's the number of jobs we've lost, if not more.
But now we're lazy.
And again, everything Obama has touched has gone to hell.
Health care, American foreign policy, Iraq, creation of ISIS.
It's just, it's it's devastating what has been done.
And now it's all our fault.
We are lazy.
Anyway, I have not seen this reported.
This this, by the way, is all Twitter.
Even the audio.
Haven't seen this reported anywhere.
Um here's what this this Russian I do, the uh Russian Times America site.
While the Laos Town Hall exploded in applause with everything Obama said, the internet burned in anger.
Americans turned to Twitter to let their frustration out, accusing the president of being anti-American.
Some people on the social media have even suggested maybe Obama should stay in Laos if he likes it so much.
Anyway, all of these things end up being tweets, and that's where we that's the source of the news.
I don't know.
I I'm not expressing this as well as I had hoped to.
The story itself is one thing, and then how we learn about it is uh is another.
I just think when tweets become legitimate news sources.
What the hell am I talking about?
The news business is gone anyway.
I made a minor error uh regarding Benjamin Watson in blot his knee.
It was his Achilles tendon.
In a preseason game on uh on August the 27th.
Grab audio sound by let's see what it is.
It did it did it did it.
Yeah.
Audio sound by number four.
Hillary Clinton last night in a commander-in-chief forum, moderated by Matt Wauer of the Today Show, during the QA, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, Pam Campos, said, You've had an extensive record with military intervention.
How do you respond to progressives like me?
That means Lib, who worry and have concerns that your hawkish foreign policy will continue.
What is your plan to end wasteful war campaigns in which our peers, service women and men continue to be killed and wounded?
Well, I assume you're talking about Iraq because of my vote, and you probably are talking about Libya because of the role that I played in the uh administration's decision about uh whether to take on Gaddafi.
Again, there is no difference between my opponent and myself.
He's on record extensively supporting intervention in Libya when Gaddafi was threatening To massacre his population.
I put together a coalition that included NATO, included the Arab League, and we were able to save lives.
We did not lose a single American in that action.
Now she's talking about the operation to take out Moamer Gaddafi.
We didn't lose a single American.
But we did in Benghazi, and that is Libya.
We lost four Americans on her watch.
Now she's not specifically talking.
He's talking about the actual operation to get rid of Gaddafi.
But that's not what she was asked.
Stop and think of it.
Here is a progressive, a profound deep leftist who is a former Air Force intelligence analyst.
That scares me right there.
I know these people are everywhere, but I mean to face it like this.
Air Force intelligence analyst, former Pam Campos, she's not asking Hillary about liberty Libya.
She's asking Hillary about a rock.
Can you imagine these people think Hillary Clinton is a warmonger?
They think Hillary Clinton is a hawk.
To them, to some of these kooks, she's no different than George W. Bush because she authorized she voted to go into Iraq.
So she, knowing full well, that's what the question is, starts talking about how, you know, we win and we got rid of Gaddafi.
I did it, and we didn't lose anybody.
Nobody died.
Interesting, I'm not happy with it.
Ha.
Hi you.
Great to have you with us, my friends.
El Rushbaugh executing assigned host duties flawlessly, as always.
Zero mistakes.
Here is uh Walt in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
Walt, great to have him.
Glad you waited out there.
How are you doing, sir?
Oh, no worries, Rush.
Mega Afghan veteran, union member, pro-Trump dittoes from the Great Plains.
Well, it's great to have you here, sir.
Anyhow, I want to take on this theory that Gary Johnson is a libertarian.
He is no more libertarian than Bernie Sanders.
If you take a look at his stance on the Cap and Trade Carbon Tax Initiative or the TPP, which really isn't free trade, it's more government regulation from outside our own federal government.
Yeah.
And you if you take a look at his stance on religious freedom, he's more of a freedom from religion than a freedom of religion guy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It it's basically a flawed principle that he isn't any way a representative of the libertarian beliefs.
I well, I'll take your word for it, because I otherwise I'm uninterested.
I'm going to tell you something here.
Walt, I don't mean this directed at you.
I'm not, I'm not reacting to what you have said here.
So don't take this the wrong way.
But I'm going to leave you up so you can react to it.
I was just going to take the occasion of your call here.
Well, Gary Johnson, okay, big whoop.
What's he going to do?
8%, 8% of American voters are going to throw their vote away.
Jill Stein, what's she going to get?
2% of American voters are going to throw their vote away.
I don't know what it feels like to knowingly go into a polling place and know that your vote is actually undermining what you want to accomplish.
I don't understand it.
I I take that back.
I understand it because I understand there are all types.
I understand there's all kinds of human psyche, psychology, uh, motivation.
I just personally I cannot relate to voting for a third party candidate.
I I'm not a protester by nature, so I don't have that element.
A lot of people vote third party to protest what they don't like in the other two.
But to me, common sense says, what are the two, the Republican of the whatever year?
I'm not just talking about this year, any year, the Republican or Democrat is going to win.
It seems to me that a responsible citizen would decide who among the Republican or Democrat you want or don't want, and have that be the primary way you vote.
You're throwing your vote away on these third-party people.
And as Walt so adequately points out here, Gary Johnson is not even who the libertarians want him to be, right?
Correct, sir.
So are you are you a libertarian?
Would you vote third party?
But I don't mean to insult you if it's if that's who you are.
I'm not going to be able to do that.
I will admit I have voted libertarian in the past, like whenever they ran John McCain, I could not bring myself to vote for him.
Yeah.
And I was you know, I I'm almost grateful that the Libertarians pick Gary Johnson because he is such a poor libertarian that a lot of people.
Well, that's just he's polling better than any libertarian has since any third party guy since Perot.
I I really think that that is coming from the Bernie Sanders crowd for what he believes in.
Because had had the Libertarians.
No, you may have a point there, yeah.
Had had the Libertarians managed to convince someone like Graham Paul, who I was a huge supporter of to run for a libertarian ticket, then I actually think that he would poll more votes from Trump than Gary Johnson is going to manage to poll from Clinton, although that Arizona does worry me.
In what sense?
Well, I and I am not accusing Trump of racism or bias against Hispanics or anything, but Gary Johnson's attitude toward illegal emigration and not defending our borders.
Supposedly that's being manipulated to pull a lot of what would be normally conservative Republican votes from Trump to Johnson in a normally conservative state.
You know, that may be, but I I don't think Gary Johnson's pulling votes from Trump.
I think I think people are voting against Trump for their own religion.
And he's who you vote for if you're if you don't like Hillary, and you can't stomach Trump.
Okay, where do you go?
You don't vote Jill Steinste.
You go out and you vote for Gary Johnson.
I don't think it's an affirmative vote for him.
I think you just have some people for whatever reason that don't like Trump on the Republican side.
You know, they're never Trumpers.
We know they're out there.
And Gary Johnson just happens to be the receptacle you throw the trash that is your vote in.
Right.
Well, my whole thing is, you know, the anti-Trumpers I cannot stomach because they're the ones that kept constantly berating me any time I said that I didn't support a milktoast Republican like the McCain's or the Romneys.
And you know, the Hillary voters, I write off in the three categories, you know, actually ignorant, willfully ignorant or willfully evil.
Let me see.
Speaking of you mentioned Romney, I've got uh story here that Trump's polling better than Romney in some poll here wherever it is.
I don't know.
I'll have to find it here.
In the meantime, Walt, thanks for the call.
I um I appreciate it.
I I uh you're you're obviously more up speed on Gary Johnson.
The only thing I know about him is that he doesn't know uh what Aleppo is or where it is.
I think I might have found it here.
Walt, thanks very much.
I appreciate the call.
Let's see.
Um I this is a Mason Dixon poll.
And uh let's see, what is this?
Trump leads four-way race in Florida, Mason Dixon, for the first time in a long time.
Let's see, it's uh is this the one we mentioned.
This must not be the one where he's doing better.
There's a there's a somewhere where he's doing much better than Romney is doing.
Um oh, it's in the electoral vote project.
Right now, I got it.
This is it's 538.
It's these it's these guys at 538, uh, Nate Silver.
Nate Silver says that Trump has right now a 35, 33, whatever the percent chance of winning, which is up from like 15 or 20.
And he also is he associates right now of the polling date.
If if if the election played out the way it is, Trump would get 242 electoral votes.
Romney got 202 in 2012.
That's that's what it is that I remember.
So Trump is outperforming Romney.
That has just got to really irritate some of the never Trumpers out there.
Hell, it might even irritate Romney, for all we know.
What's what?
Well, I don't I don't know that the never Trumpers have a de facto head or real head.
I I I don't know if the If the never Trumpers have a leader.
That's an interesting question.
Is there a leader of the Never Trumpers?
You know, there wasn't a leader.
Oh, speaking of the Tea Party.
Tea Party didn't have a leader.
This story, I mentioned this earlier, and no better time than now.
It's from the Washington examiner, old buddy Paul Badard.
FEC commissioner warns Democrats are gunning for conservative media.
And this is one of the points made in that anonymous piece from Claremont yesterday.
A key federal election commission Republican warned yesterday that liberals are moving aggressively to amend the First Amendment so that conservatives are silenced and businesses are chased out of the democracy.
In some of the toughest criticism leveled at Democrats, the commissioner, the Republican named Lee Goodman, said that the attack started once the Tea Party changed American politics in 2010, and it now dominates the politics of the left.
He said the Tea Party triggered a very aggressive movement by people to amend the First Amendment.
He was on with Howie Carr yesterday in the radio saying this.
Now there was a movie.
And it was one of these movies had three parts in it.
I wish I could remember the name of the movie.
But in the in the movie, Clooney played a Democrat candidate or Democrat official.
And the first third of the movie was how the Democrats were paranoid of Operation Chaos.
Remember, I came in and I told you about it.
I had no idea when the movie was actually playing in theaters.
Nobody had it was a big bit Operation Chaos.
Now, I and that was a dissension, of course, or not a dissention, that was a uh an offshoot growth from the from the Tea Party.
The Tea Party, make no mistake about this.
This guy Goodman is exactly right.
The Tea Party, this organic movement that came from the backbone of America, the Tea Party.
People that had never been in politics before, all they had done is vote, and they started going to town hall meetings and they started attending political events.
They gave a landslide midterm victory to the Republicans in 2010, and they did it again in 2014.
And the Republicans who won didn't do anything with either victory.
I'm sure you remember all this.
But the thing to remember is the Democrats were literally paranoid of these people.
Because the Tea Party is exactly what the Democrats do not have.
The Democrats have to manufacture their groups.
Every protest group is the result of a donation or investment by George Soros.
Like Black Lives Matter is bought and paid for.
It's a created group.
Occupy Wall Street was created, funded, paid for, orchestrated by the left in response to the Tea Party.
It was made to look like it was the Tea Party of the left, that it just organically came into existence.
By organic, I mean natural.
The Tea Party came into existence, and it was just average ordinary Americans from all over the country.
There was no leader, there were no donations.
In fact, it was undermined by people at fundraised against it, if you ask me, but that's another story.
The Tea Party was legitimate Americans, fed up with what Obama was doing.
It was related to spending, it was related to Obamacare.
They created Occupy Wall Street, and the media, of course, Ballyhood Occupy Wall Street as another organic movement, but this Goodman guy that so this up is exactly right.
They are paranoid of organic of actual Americans who align politically, get involved politically, who are not officially part of the Republican Party or any other organization because they're powerful.
And there's no way to take out the Tea Party.
There's no single leader.
There's no single person you can destroy and thus destroy the movement.
And it was it was fascinating.
And it's still there.
In spirit, it's still there.
The people that made up the Tea Party are still there.
They still think what they think or what they thought.
And they're prepared to vote on it.
And many of them are with Trump.
Not all, but many of them are with are with Trump, and it scares the hell out of the Democrats.
And this guy at the FEC, the Republican, is warning everybody that the Democrats on the FEC are prepared to do everything they can to undermine anybody in conservative movement media that might be said to act as a uh like the Drudge Report.
They're targeting Drudge.
They think Drudge is an unofficial Republican campaign aid.
They think that of talk radio.
And so they are preparing moves on the First Amendment to redefine what political speech is.
They want to limit it.
And the First Amendment specifically is about political speech.
Specifically political speech.
Anyway, I'm a little long.
I have to take a break.
We'll come back in just a second.
Well, that's it, my friends.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence.
Unfortunately, it has to come to a screeching halt.
Well, it's actually not a screeching halt because we're always back.
Take a little break here of 21 hours.
We've got the opening NFL game tonight.
Carolina Panthers at the Denver Broncos.
A Super Bowl rematch.
Doesn't happen much.
Super Bowl rematch on opening night.
All kicks off around 8:30.
Pregame is earlier than that on NBC with Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth.
We will be here tomorrow, open line Friday.
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