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Sept. 12, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 12, 2016, Monday, Hour #3
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And welcome back.
It's great to have you here as we kick off a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
We had the opening of the NFL season yesterday, a lot of surprises that took place, especially among the young quarterbacks yesterday that all look like seasoned veterans.
And then tonight we got two games.
We got the Steelers and the Redskins, followed by the Rams and the Forturners.
And whatever Colin Capernick decides to do during the national anthem.
We got the new iPhone coming out this week.
We got iOS 10 hitting tomorrow for you iPhone and iPad users.
Let me just tell you something.
IOS 10.
I, as a powerful, influential member of the media have been running iOS 10 since they released the first beta back in uh mid-June.
And I this has got so many tremendous fun, functional, productive improvements in it that I cannot wait to do tutorials with people.
And it's really kind of frustrating.
Some of the new features that are in iOS, well, most of the new features only work with other people running iOS 10.
Like what they have done to the Photos app, you will not believe what you're able to do in the Photos app.
You will not believe what it does for you.
And the uh the additions the fun things and all that you can do in the messages app are just over the top.
But you can't use them with people not running iOS 10.
So I've been frustrated here, because I don't know anybody else running the beta.
I've tried to get friends interested and they're afraid, which is understandable.
It's beta software.
And they're afraid to put beta software on their primary iPhone.
They've only got one.
So I have more than one, so it's I got a phone I could dedicate to it, iPads too.
So I'm looking forward to it going live tomorrow, just so I can start using it with other people.
But it's uh it's it's it's gonna make you think you got a new phone.
It's gonna make in many ways uh feel like a brand new phone to you, whether you get an iPhone 7 or not.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, you gotta hear this.
This is Wolf Blitz moments ago on CNN.
Now the drive-by's are trying to massage and manage Hillary's comment that all of these Trump supporters are deplorable.
Now the way it came out, she said she put Trump supporters in a basket.
And half the people in the basket are deplorable.
They're racist, they're sexist, they're bigots, they're xenophobes, uh, and all these horrible rotten things.
And then the other half that's in the basket of Trump supporters, they just feel disenfranchised.
They feel ignored, they feel left out, they feel like the government's not helping them as let them down.
And it was a it was a what ended up being a perfect indictment and criticism of the Obama presidency of the last eight years.
So the drive-by's now have to do some damage control on this deplorables business.
They have to mitigate the damage.
Because it really is not helpful for a candidate.
Well, she got pneumonia, whether she has seizures, whether she's not all there, whatever.
It's still not helpful for your candidate to be running around ripping a significant percentage of the American people as human debris.
So Wolf Blitzer had as his guest today the Clinton campaign press secretary, a guy named Brian Fallon, and I want you to listen to this exchange over the deplorable comment.
Instead of saying half, she said half of his supporters were part of this uh so-called basket of deplorables.
What should she have said?
10%, 20%, 5%?
What would have been a more accurate number?
I don't know, Wolf.
It's certainly a non-zero number.
But the reality is, while uh every Donald Trump supporter is not necessarily a member of the alt-right, it seems like the alt-right is fully aligned with Donald Trump.
Did you did you Okay, so Wolf wants to know, okay, well, what if it's not half of them?
If it if it's what is it, 10%?
Is it 25%?
What would have been a more accurate number of the deplorable?
A tantamount acknowledgement that Trump supporters are deplorable.
And Wolf thinks the mistake is that Hillary might have inflated their numbers.
Not that she called them out.
Not that she described them that way.
Not that she categorized them that way.
Because the dirty little secret here is that that's exactly how Hillary Clinton and Obama and Wolf Blitzer and everybody else on the left, this is exactly how they see people that don't vote for them.
Racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
It's like I mentioned to you on Friday.
If you are not in favor of the progressive agenda, and let's face it, the progressive agenda is essentially open to any change whatsoever, no matter how degradory, no matter how damaging, no matter how corrupt, whatever is change is good unless it is conservatism, then that change is intolerable.
And of course, so that's how you have a progressive.
That's what a progressive is, it's how you define them.
A liberal.
And then we are conservatives, and we oppose that kind of change because we think that it is cultural rot.
We think that it is corruption.
We think that it's eating away at the very backbone and fiber of the country.
They call they in turn call us racists and say that what we really don't like is this mass infusion of brown people.
It's nothing to do with it.
It's all about values.
It's all about cultural values.
It's about the values associated with this country and its founding.
And that's what they seek to destroy and blow up and call it progressive.
Call it liberal.
We want to bring that to a screeching halt.
They call us reactionaries.
When we seek to stop the advancement of the leftist agenda, they call us reactionaries.
And of course, reactionaries are not people who think.
No, no.
Reactionaries are exactly what the word implies.
Just a bunch of off-the-wall mad cap reactionaries who don't think and are thus dangerous.
And that's how they see us.
So along comes Hillary Clinton with her comment about Trump voters being deplorables.
And Wolf Blitzer does not think the mistake is in the characterization.
The mistake is the number.
So he's asking this guy, her spokeswell, well, what is what is the uh what should she have said with a correct number?
10%, 20%, 5%?
What would have been a more accurate number describing the deplorables?
So once again, a teachable moment.
Once again, a learning opportunity.
Same show, same host, Wolf Blitzer talking to the same guest, the Clinton campaign press secretary.
And his next question, well, would it have changed?
In other words, this diagnosis of pneumonia and the description of Mrs. Clinton's health.
Would that have changed if we wouldn't have seen that very dramatic video of her getting in the van after leaving the 9-11 event early and nearly, you know, falling down almost completely.
I don't know if she fainted.
Did she faint at that moment?
She actually made the decision on her own that she was uh feeling a little hot and decided that it would be best to get out of that crowd of people and try to find a place where she could get cool, find some shade and maybe get a drink of water.
And so she left the ceremony site on her own accord in the course of walking to the vehicle with some staff.
At that point she began to feel a bit dizzy, and she was helped into the vehicle.
At that point, though, she got into the cool inside of the vehicle and had some water and uh said she was fine right away, and actually placed some calls to staff from the car.
And once she was able to get to her daughter Chelsea's apartment in Manhattan uh soon after arriving there, she was playing with her her own grandchildren running around Chelsea's apartment and was fine.
And uh the public had an opportunity to see that for themselves.
Uh so uh, ladies and gentlemen, what we're what we're being told here is that she recovered instantly from what we saw on that video.
And this guy tries to say here that she she left the ceremony site on her own accord, and then she began to feel dizzy walking to the van and was helped into the vehicle.
That's being generous.
To say that she was helped into the vehicle.
At that point, she got into the cool inside of the vehicle and had some water and said she was fine right away.
You recover from that kind of stuff instantly, just get in some air conditioning.
That's it.
That's all it took.
I still say that this was a much more dramatic emergency than they want you to know.
And you know why?
Because she left that event before her exit transportation was even in place.
Now I know a little bit about this, folks.
I don't want to go into great detail why, because I'm not comfortable talking about myself, but I can just tell you, and do not doubt me on this.
The absolute most avoidable thing, the thing that you must not allow to happen, is to leave an event because you have to get out of there.
Whether it's scheduled or not, you do not leave until your exit transportation is in place so that you do not have to stop on your way to it.
That is the biggest no-no, and you will never see it happen to the president.
Now I'm not talking rope lines after speeches or these kinds of things, which are already tightly controlled.
I'm talking about she's leaving a public venue.
She's using public sidewalks and so forth to exit this ceremony.
She's going to meet her vehicle, her motorcade in a public throughway, public street.
In a circumstance like that, you do not leave.
The Secret Service, your security detail does not put you on the move until you have an uninterrupted pathway to your vehicle, which is the next secure spot.
You get in the vehicle, you close the door, you drive off.
She had to leave that 9-11 event in such a state of emergency that her ground transportation was not yet in position, which meant that they were not expecting her to leave anywhere near that time.
They were parked in a satellite area.
So somebody in her in her detail had to call the drivers of those vans and tell them, whatever her nickname is, loudmouth is leaving, please get in position ASAP.
And then they left.
And the ground transfer, the vans were not there.
She was standing there for at least 30 seconds.
That is one of the biggest no-nos in security that you can ever imagine.
You're a sitting duck.
You just you're a sitting duck.
Now, granted you've got you've got your detail that can surround you, but at that moment she wasn't.
She was wide open to anybody driving by on the street.
Now the street might have been cordoned off and only certain vehicles allowed, who knows.
Anyway, watching that told me that she had to get out of there in such a rapid, at such a rapid pace that it didn't leave her detail time to assemble the getaway vans.
She was stopped and surrounded by her detail until those vans drove up.
So whatever caused her to get out of there, it was urgent.
Let's just say it was urgent.
And then when the van pulled up, she was not able to get in that van on her own.
That's the point.
She had she she was unable to move off the curb.
She was, it looked like from the rear, it looked like she was partially paralyzed or just stuck.
And then with some assistance, she was moved off the curve, but she was not able under own power.
And when they finally really she when it was left to her own power, that's when she started to go down.
That's when they grabbed her arms under her shoulders and pulled her back up, and they literally shoved her in the van, and in the process, one of her shoes came off.
And by the way, their original excuse was no, no, no, nothing.
She just lost a shoe stepping off the curb and it screwed up her balance.
They tried that first.
I don't know how many of you remember hearing that.
But I was on this yesterday, and I'm telling you that this is because I was I was wired up ready for the NFL to start.
So I was sitting there at my desk.
I was doing as much show prep as I could before the NFL began.
That's the first thing that they offered.
Yeah, that's nothing.
She lost her shoe getting off the stepping off the curb and lost her balance.
The last thing they wanted to admit was what really happened.
The last thing they wanted to have to come up and tell anybody she got pneumonia.
So now we're told an immediate recovery occurred the moment she encountered the air-conditioned environment.
Thank God we haven't done our global warming routine yet.
There wouldn't be any air conditioning.
Thank God she was able to experience air condition.
Well, they want to eliminate it.
They want to eliminate air conditioning.
I'm not making it up.
Anyway, she reached the air conditioned environment of the giant gas guzzling, climate-destroying SUV, and miraculously had a full recovery.
I was able to get on the phone, call her aides, and then go to her daughter's emergency room and start playing with the grandkids.
Grandkids, are there two?
Or is there just one?
Look the guy said with her grandkids.
But then something must have gone wrong because they're now not letting her go to California today.
If she had a full recovery in the van, she had a full recovery at her daughter's apartment, emergency room, came out feeling great.
It's a great day in New York.
I see that little girl.
Let me hug that little girl here, little girl.
See I can breathe fine.
She hugs a little girl.
They tell her she's got pneumonia.
She hugs a little girl.
And then they say, she canceling a fundraising trip to California.
Really?
So it wasn't a full recovery in the van once she found the air conditioned comfort of the gas-guzzling climate destroying SUV.
Well, leaving us even more confused and perplexed here at the EIB network.
We know what we saw.
And the poor woman, I'm telling you, is sick.
She's not well.
I don't know what it is.
I don't know.
Maybe, you know, some people they just they just get old fast.
Some people just age quickly, and it makes them more susceptible to things.
Maybe it's nothing.
Maybe she maybe she doesn't have anything.
Maybe it's just age.
Who knows?
That's the point.
We don't know who to believe.
And this is serious.
We're talking POTUS here, President United States.
I gotta take a break.
We'll be back and we'll continue in mere moments.
Don't go away.
You know, I was just reminded of something.
And this is a good point.
You remember how many years ago that uh Catherine and I were in Hawaii, and it was at Christmas time, and I had what everybody thought was a heart attack.
You remember this?
I'm sure you all do.
You saw your futures dancing in your so in fact, it was reported that I'd had a heart attack before I even got in the hospital.
I'm I'm convinced that ambulance drivers are paid by gossip people to report if they get about any ambulances.
Anyway, I'm just a guy on the radio.
There was an entire press gaggle with Obama because he is in Honolulu, Oahu, at Christmas time.
And I don't know, it seems like 80% of that press court left Obama and came to the Queen's Medical Center where I was, and they camped out.
I'm just a guy of the radio.
And I remember being told you need to do a press conference.
You need, because it wasn't a heart, it was a faux heart attack.
It was, I know what it was.
We know we now know what I'd had a spinal epidural for uh cervical disc thing, and had gone out and played golf immediately afterward and had uh partied and exerted too much.
And it it it resulted in something that was not a heart attack because they did one of those uh things through the uh through the uh well they go up in there and they look for blockages and they found none, and you can see they were shocked.
They were stunned.
I should have had high cholesterol, should have anyway.
They said you need to do a press conference immediately to explain to everybody here what's happened.
I said, why?
I'm just a guy on the radio.
See, there's a whole press gaggle down there, that's why.
So the person that reminded me of this thing, you realize there were more people demanding that you come clean on what had happened to you than apparently there are demanding Hillary Clinton come clean with what happened to her.
I don't know about that.
I just I do know that I have that it was strongly suggested that I do a press conference if I wanted to change the story because they were running with this heart attack business, and it wasn't that.
It wasn't, it was not even a heart event, as it turned out.
No enzymes in cre anything.
And I'd for I totally forgotten that.
That a guy on the radio, there was more scrutiny demanded.
Anyway.
Well, look at this.
I've now talked myself up to another profit timeout here, which we have to take, but we've got uh 30 minutes remaining here, folks, to make the most of it as we always do in mere moments.
We have Trump responding to Hillary's comment about his supporters being deplorable.
He was in Baltimore during the National Guard Association 138th General Conference.
I was thus deeply shocked and alarmed this Friday to hear my opponent attack, slander, smear, demean these wonderful, amazing people who are supporting our campaign by the millions.
Our support comes from every part of America and every walk of life.
We have the support of cops and soldiers, carpenters and welters, the young and the old, and millions of working-class families who just want a better future and a good job.
These were the people, Hillary Clinton, so viciously demonized.
These were among the countless Americans that Hillary Clinton called deplorable, irredeemable, and un-American.
And then he categorized correctly the way Hillary and all of the Democrats really see people.
She called these patriotic men and women every vile name in the book.
She called them racist, sexist, xenophobic, Islamophobic.
She called half of our supporters a basket of deplorables in both a speech and an interview.
She divides people into baskets as though they were objects, not human beings.
Exactly right.
You know, this the thing about this too is that uh Hillary and the Democrats, they're the ones they get all the credit for being compassionate and tolerant and open and welcoming and accepting and all of this.
And nothing could be further from the truth when you get right down to it.
They have open contempt.
Especially for people that don't vote for them, but they have open contempt for people.
They really do believe this caste system type thing.
They believe in the elites and then the hoi polloi and the rabble rousers, and they categorize people on that basis.
And then they make judgments on value, all these things.
They accuse us of doing.
They live their lives this way.
They classify and qualify people based on the color of their skin or their sexual orientation or their gender or what have you.
All these surface things, all the while getting away with the supposed image of concern and love and tolerance and acceptance and openness.
And it's Just not true.
In fact, here's how Trump characterizes this.
Hillary Clinton made these comments at one of her high dollar fundraisers on Wall Street.
She and her wealthy donors all had a good laugh.
You heard them.
They were all laughing.
Hillary Clinton spoke with hatred and derision for the people who make this country run.
She spoke with contempt for the people who thanklessly follow the rules, pay their taxes, and scratch out a living for their family.
Hillary Clinton has revealed her true thoughts.
That was her true thoughts.
She revealed herself to be a person who looks down on the proud citizens of our country as subjects for her rule.
I mean, he had it right, and he just kept going.
He's really on it on this.
Hillary Clinton still hasn't apologized to those she slandered.
In fact, she hasn't backed down at all.
She's doubled down on her campaign conspiracy and contempt.
If Hillary Clinton will not retract her comments in full, I don't see how she can credibly campaign any further.
Let's be clear.
These were not offhand comments from Hillary Clinton.
These were remarks.
Not at all.
They were given also in an interview.
And probably a number of interviews.
These were lengthy, planned, and prepared remarks.
It was perhaps the most explicit attack on the American voter ever spoken by a major party presidential nominee.
Total disrespect for the people of our country.
Clinton was using a very deliberate page from the Democratic playbook.
Right on!
Right on Trump, sir!
Exactly right.
Finally, finally, folks, getting there.
And I'll tell you what I think this means.
The Democrats, if you if you uh if you pay attention to victorious Democrat campaigns, they don't do this.
I mean, Obama had his bitter clinger comments, but but those comments are made at a at a fundraiser where he didn't expect them to escape.
I mean, they all think this.
But the Democrats run campaigns on this whole notion of unity and inclusion.
Now they will warn their voters of the dangers of Republicans and conservatives and so forth, but they never go to the extreme length here that Mrs. Clinton went to.
I I think it all means that they're panicked on the Democrat side.
In fact, uh, there is, I have a story in the stack here, and it's held over.
There was actually this stuff ran on Friday, too.
And it is that the Democrat Party, again, secretly, is panicked over why it's even this close.
The polls tightening.
The race is tightening, battleground states, it's tightening.
None of this was supposed to happen.
Trump was not supposed to ever end up more than 30 percent.
This was supposed to be a cakewalk.
This was supposed to be a coordination.
All of these political pros, they look at Trump and they see just an absolute neophyte.
They see he's not spending any money on ads, he didn't have any ground game, he doesn't know any state offices.
They're thinking, well, I mean, they're gonna be able to win by simply dredging up anti-Trump sentiment.
They're not even gonna have to sell Hillary, and it turns out they have to sell her.
And that's where they are encountering their problem.
How do you sell this woman?
She's Nurse Ratchet, who needs to be the patient, actually.
That's what's becoming patently obvious to everyone she's not the nurse, she's the patient.
She's the one who's not well.
But she's not likable or charismatic.
She's she can't draw crowds, she can't make people.
You know this old bromide that people will forget what you say, but they'll never forget how you make them feel.
That's not something that benefits her.
She does not make people feel confident, warm, fuzzy.
Any of this, upbeat, none of this.
Uh she just doesn't have it.
This is this is a candidate that's literally being forced on us.
Smartest woman in the world, all this branding.
They're forcing The Clinton candidacy on us.
They're using the power of a capital D on the ballot.
And they thought it'd be a cakewalk because Trump is an absolute neophyte, and the people supporting him are absolute deliverance types.
So they're worried.
They're worried about a lot of things.
They don't understand how it's this close.
And now with this medical stuff.
This this health stuff.
And I don't know how many of them, even the highest levels of Democrat Party, actually know what's wrong, if anything.
Maybe, you know, folks, it's entirely possible there isn't anything wrong.
It's just the fact she doesn't age well.
It just could be that she's just getting old fast.
Who knows?
But whatever it is, it's nothing that's giving anybody in the Democrat side any confidence at all.
Here's Mike in Jacksonville, Florida.
Glad to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking the call.
Yes, sir.
Well, uh, you know, I have uh I have a couple of interesting observations.
And uh, you know, one of them is um I'm a member of the uh Basket of Deplorables, first of all.
I should tell you that.
Maybe I'm in the B group, I'm not sure, but I didn't even I didn't even know till last week.
Well, you know, we are soon going to have at the EIB store a t-shirt for people like you.
Oh, great, great.
Well, I'm gonna need one for sure.
Uh we well, you're gonna be as many as you want.
Um it's gonna say I'm a deplorable right on the front, and on the back it's gonna say never Hillary.
Make sure it doesn't say deportable, it's deplorable.
No, no.
I even I haven't thought about putting not deportable on the back, but I didn't want to confuse things.
That was a ring.
The original design was gonna say on the back, but not deportable, but we'll save that for another time.
Well, listen, I you know, I wish Hillary Well did, but as a human being and the humane side of me.
But this is the real deal.
This is for president of the United States.
And I am just taken aback.
The one thought that came to my mind is if she were your pilot in an airport in an airplane, would you like her to fly your plane?
And now, wait a minute.
That that's a great.
I don't think she couldn't, she couldn't be qualified.
She I don't think she could pass certification at this with the point.
No way for some of them.
No way.
But I mean you're gonna be well, what rush your president will be flying a plate.
I understand that, but well, I'm I'm just drawing an analogy uh in terms of capability for a job.
She wants to fly a plane with 300 million people on board.
And that's called president of the United States.
Yeah.
And the other thing that really troubles me is there's a level of transparency here that just seems to.
They all say they're being transparent.
It reminded me of Kim Jong-un a couple years ago, where they showed him limping around.
No one knew what was wrong with him, but he's in great shape, no problem.
Yeah, such transparency.
We wouldn't even know she had pneumonia if she didn't get caught on the city.
Well, the Kim Jong un thing, he had mistakenly taken half a bottle of Viagra.
He might have, who knows?
Yeah.
Anyway, I just wanted to share that because I thought it was uh worth share.
Well, it's a good analogy, even though some people will try to find flaws in it.
But but look, um, I don't know much more to add to this.
The the poor woman, there's something wrong, and you're she you're right, she wouldn't be qualified to fly a passenger aircraft and all that, and they're not being transparent.
They're trying to keep the full breadth and knowledge of this in people, which, you know, I guess it's understandable, but it's still we have to find out before November 8th.
Back in a sec.
Lots of fun stuff coming up tomorrow.
Didn't have a chance to get to it today because of the gravity of the circumstances of the news today, but try this.
Dolphins recorded having a conversation just like two people.
Like two people for the first time.
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