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We have the Hillary illness stack and the accompanying sound bites that I want to get to next.
But in addition, folks, I have a whole stack here of things that I didn't get to yesterday.
Have nothing to do with the campaign.
And there's some things I've added to it today.
Let me just run to the headlines to give you an idea of what I hope to get to before the program ends.
Just in from USA Today, the Democrat Party is becoming more diverse, less religious, and better educated at a faster pace than the country itself, according to a Pew Center survey.
The headline, Democrats changing more rapidly than Republicans.
They are becoming more diverse.
They're becoming less religious and better educated at a faster pace than the country itself.
Meanwhile, the opposite is true for the Republican Party.
Now, you might be thinking, boy, this is media bias.
How can that be?
Well, before you have that reaction, let me remind you of something.
You know as well as I do that the left has been engaged in a very systematic effort to keep Christians and Christianity out of college.
They have done everything they can to take Christianity out of the mainstream of American life.
They have focused their attention of government as Santa Claus to this minority group, every minority group they can find.
You look at the enrollment at major universities, institutions of higher learning, and if you've forgotten, let me remind you, the number of men enrolling in college and universities has been declining for 10 years.
The number of people going to college, the number of people coming out of there with degrees and so forth, and this massive student debt, the Democrat Party is owning more and more of them.
Here's a pull quote from this story.
The number of Democrat and Democrat-leaning registered voters who have obtained at least a college degree went from 21% in 1992 to 37% today.
That's a 16% increase.
Meanwhile, the number of Republicans with at least a college degree has increased by just 3% in the same time period.
1992, 28% of Republican and Republican-leaning voters had at least a college degree.
Today, the share is 31%.
So the Democrat number, 37% who have a college degree, vote Democrat or lean that way, 31% Republicans.
American voters in general who have at least a college degree has gone up 10 points since 1992, 23 to 33%.
Well, you might be, yeah, yeah, man, that's right.
But who's running the colleges, folks?
I mean, they're not citadels of learning.
They're centers for indoctrination in many examples today.
So I think this establishes that the left's efforts to commandeer as much of education as they can and to shame and do whatever they can to convince mainstream Republicans slash Christians to not even attend has shown some success.
Over at 538.
Now, a couple of things here.
538, that's the Nate Silver blog.
This is the Wonderkin that the Democrats relied on in 2012.
This is the guy that predicts candidates' chances of winning the presidency or whatever election they're into a percentage.
And what he does, he supposedly has this proprietary, known only to him method of mass poll analysis.
Supposedly, Nate Silver has a way of taking every polling, Well, every poll out there and putting them into his formula and coming up with meanings that other people haven't found a way to get.
The story here is that young millennials in polling data, young millennials love Obama, but they're not buying what Hillary is selling.
Hillary is having a tough time with them.
And there's something else.
This guy was just hired.
Nate Silver was just hired by the GOP.
I think it was the GOP.
I have to find this.
He did a presentation, a seminar, to Republican-moneyed interests over the likelihood of their agenda being advanced and what progress there is to report on that front.
So he is rapidly becoming an authority within the upper level reaches of the establishment.
And when that happens, he's going to have the kind of image and reputation that whatever he says is going to be considered gospel.
If he's already being asked to present to the upper echelon of the wealthy within the establishment, that's quite a coup for Nate Silver.
So he continues to climb his own individual ladder of success.
This story from his own website details that the race, the presidential election continues to tighten.
Some voters younger than 25 might go back to their Democrat roots.
Right now, they might feel like they can cast a protest vote for a third party candidate without contributing to a Trump victory.
They just don't like Hillary.
Not crazy about Trump either.
Don't misunderstand.
But they're not automatically going to Hillary, which means they're gettable.
I think they're gettable.
We'll find out.
National Football League.
Tell me what you think of this.
We just learned, by the way, oh, this is what.
No, I didn't.
You didn't learn this because I didn't get a chance to pass it on until yesterday.
The first thing is that the ratings for opening night, the National Football League, are down.
Yes.
Here it is.
Ratings for the NFL are down from a year ago.
And in some cases, the original reporting in the overnights before the entire national rating sample have been calculated down like 11%.
This is the Sunday night game, not Thursday.
The Sunday night game between the Garoppolos and the Arizona Cardinals, down 11% over the same game a year ago.
Not panic time, any stretch, but nobody expected this.
Everybody was expecting the NFL just to continue to grow.
I wasn't.
Don't misunderstand.
But I mean, everybody involved in it.
There's nothing stopping us.
There's nothing out there on TV to watch it any better.
We still have all the ingredients.
We have fresh.
We have unscripted.
We have drama.
We have an unknown ending.
We've got everything at table.
We got stars.
Yeah, they're setting their stars down.
They're suspending their stars like Brady.
I will never understand that.
But if you look at the NFL as a TV show, have you ever heard of a TV show other than Charlie Sheen?
Have you ever heard of a TV series suspending its star for anything?
Now, I know the NFL is bigger than any one player.
Don't misunderstand.
But man, they were so eager to suspend Brady.
They spent two seasons trying to suspend Brady.
And so Brady's sitting for four weeks, and their numbers are down.
People thought, you know what?
You know what?
With Garoppolo, they're going to be watching in droves just to see how the replacement does.
And then when Brady comes back in week five against Cleveland, man, those ratings are going to be off the charts.
Well, it's not working out that way.
The next thing that we learned, the NFL's ratings with women have taken a big hit, despite Pink October.
So the overall numbers are down opening night compared to last year, 11 or 12%.
And the general interest for the game among women is declining.
Now, you and I know what the problem is.
We can tell them.
If they call here and say, well, why do you think we have a problem here, Mr. Limbo?
I could tell them.
I could tell them in under five minutes.
Well, you may have heard, you may not have heard.
Let me tell you in case you didn't hear, a player wanted to wear a special set of cleats this past Sunday, two days ago, shoes, to honor 9-11.
And the league says, there's no way, pal.
We're not giving you a waiver.
The NFL has got a very strict uniform clause.
Shirt tails have to be tucked in.
Have you noticed, by the way, if you watch the NFL paying attention, have you noticed that NFL jerseys no longer tuck in?
They are tailored.
They're cut so that they end right at where the pants, the waist is?
It's because players hate tucking in their jerseys.
An NFL jersey, I happen to know this, an NFL jersey, when you put it on over shoulder pads, will go down to below mid-thigh.
That's how big it is, because they have to stay tucked in by rule with all that contact and all that maneuvering around.
So the players have gotten together with the equipment guys, and they tailor these jerseys so they don't have to tuck them in.
It looks like they're tucked in unless they're wearing under shirts, like t-shirts that are longer than the jersey, which you are starting to see.
The NFL does not like this.
This is a violation of the uniform uniform policy.
You can't put your own sticker.
You can't use your own headband.
You can't wear your own decal on a helmet.
You can't, it ever pre-approves.
This guy wanted to wear, well, Peyton Manning.
Peyton Manning wanted to honor Johnny Ionidas by wearing shoes that were black high-top shoes.
And he asked the league for permission.
They turned him down.
Nope, you've got to wear the shoes the rest of the team wears, which I think in the day were white.
So they're very strict about it.
Well, the NFL has relented.
And they're going to allow on week 13, they're going to allow every player to make his own social statement somewhere on his uniform.
They're going to allow a player to wear special cleats, special shoes.
They're going to allow players to use special sweatbands, wristbands, promoting whatever cause that's important to them.
What do you think that's going to do for ratings?
The National Football League is going to let players speak their minds with their feet.
But being the NFL, it's going to be in a tightly scheduled and pre-approved way.
Sports Illustrated reporting the league is preparing to set aside week 13 for players to promote a charitable cause of their choice on their shoes and on their equipment.
So week 13, the NFL is going to look like a social and cause-oriented billboard.
Just keep in mind, NFL viewership slipping among females of most demographics.
Among white women, the NFL lost quite a bit of steam.
And yet, look at all the efforts they're making to attract women to the game and hold them.
That's with Pink October Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
So that's out there.
It's deteriorating, is the point.
Everything about it is deteriorating.
The whole, I mean, last night, the second game, the Fortiners and the Rams.
What was the focal point of the game last night?
What was Kaepernick going to do?
Was Kaepernick going to take a knee?
And would any other players join Kaepernick?
And one other player did, Eric Reed.
So they took a knee.
They normally don't televise the anthem of these games, but they did last night so they could televise Kaepernick's protest.
Remember when I worked at ESPN and they said, we do not permit politics here.
You violated a public trust with us, which, by the way, there never was a promise.
They never extracted a guarantee from me not to talk politics.
But they said after the fact that they did and that I'd violated it, but I hadn't.
Well, that's out the window now because ESPN is all politics all the time.
Politics even occurs before sports on ESPN now.
And they're losing subscribers left and right.
They're losing cable subscribers in huge numbers.
It's phenomenal what's happening to ESPN.
And the NFL is losing audience.
Meanwhile, the left is happy because they got more people going to college and their people are getting smarter than the rest of America and they're more progressive.
They're happy for all of these selfish reasons that are not responsible for anything really improving.
John Kerry State Department.
Ready for this?
You know, John Kerry has a couple of daughters.
At one time, Ben Afflick had a crush on one of them.
That was back during the Democrat convention in 2004 when Kerry and his Swiftboat buddies reconquered the Boston harbor.
They sailed across Boston Harbor to the convention hall replicating, I don't know what they were doing.
And Ben Affleck was on TV a lot during that convention, just going on and on and on about what a dream boat Kerry's daughter was.
I forget which one.
Ready for this?
More than $9 million of Department of State money has been funneled through the Peace Corps to a nonprofit foundation started and run by John Kerry's daughter.
What is it, folks, about the children of ranking Democrats that seemingly makes it impossible for them to earn their own way in life?
What is it about children of ranking Democrats, politicians, high office holders, cabinet appointees?
What is it about their kids that seemingly makes it impossible for them to make their own way in life?
So here's John Kerry's daughter getting $9 million for a nonprofit that she runs.
We know what happened to these things.
Funneled through the Peace Corps.
They think they're hiding the money.
You think your daughter could get $9 million to a nonprofit she set up, run through the Peace Corps?
Well, no, Rush.
No, of course we don't.
But we don't decry these kind of connections.
I mean, that's exactly what these kind of connections are for.
Any parent who could would do it.
Not supposed to happen at the national leadership level.
That's the express point of our way of government.
Government is not better.
Government does not get this.
This is not supposed to happen.
But I find it just incredible how many children of rich Democrats seemingly can't get jobs and make their own way in life.
They still have to feed off whatever mom and dad can steer their way from the federal budget.
It's incredible.
Okay, back to the phones.
We go to Washington, Oklahoma.
Don, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Maha Rushi, mega 18-wheeler dittos.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Great to have you here with us.
I just called because you were speaking earlier about the conservatives that were trying to come up with a reason not to vote for Trump.
And you had that one gentleman, the Hispanic gentleman, I don't remember his name.
You talk about an audio soundbite that I played?
Yes, sir.
That would be Alfonso Aguilar.
Ah, thank you.
Okay.
Well, when he came out and said that he couldn't vote for Donald Trump because Donald Trump doesn't believe in immigration, this man's a fraud.
If he's a conservative, so is Mayor Bloomberg.
You know, neither of them are very good, convincing Republicans because he says that Donald Trump is against immigration.
Donald Trump never said he was against immigration.
All he's against is illegal immigration.
All right.
The reason I'm pausing, I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing.
The guy you're thinking does not talk about immigration.
He talks about me and Trump and how he can't support him, even though he's a conservative.
There was another guy who blamed me for I'm not sure we're talking about the same guy.
I'll have to look at these sound bites.
Yeah, I think if you go back to the soundbite, that was when I dialed, was when he was on.
But look, your point is that Trump is not against immigration.
It's only illegal immigration.
He just wants to enforce the law.
That's your point, right?
That's right.
And I can't understand how anybody could object to that.
Well, yeah, it's because this really isn't an immigration issue to these people.
It is the umbrella under which the change they want takes place.
What we're really talking about here is amnesty for the current crop of illegals here.
And they do not want to increase border security.
So it's their overall attitude.
And there's no difference to them, illegal or legal immigration.
It's all immigration.
And we all need to be for it.
Because this is what made America great.
And they're not willing to make the distinction.
Anybody that does make the distinction, they think is missing the point.
Anyway, quick time out here, folks.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
Don't go away.
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Rush Limbaugh here on the cutting edge, and we go to Pam in Asheville, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the program.
How are you doing?
I'm doing great, Rush.
Say, my husband and I are both Trump supporters, so I guess one of the two of us is peeking out on the basket of deplorables, eh?
Let me ask you a question before you go on.
You are.
By the way, deplorables, the t-shirts are ready.
We've got them at the EIB store.
I've been meaning to mention that.
We just ran in the commercial break.
We've a spot for the Never Hillary shirts.
The deplorable, I'm a Hillary deplorable t-shirts are now in the EIB store.
They're part of the Never Hillary collection.
They're at rushlimbaugh.com.
I mean, and we've stocked up.
These things are going to sell like new iPhones out there.
And we are ready for you.
Rushlimbaugh.com.
Now, I need to ask, you live in Asheville, right?
Yes, just outside of town.
Okay, most of the people in Asheville are communists.
Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but they're leftists.
Are you?
No.
You're not.
Okay.
So you're in the minority of the population.
You went to the Trump rally last night.
Is that right?
We did, my husband and I and our son.
Okay.
And from what I heard, I just want you to confirm that what I found was true, that the arena or the venue was full and that it holds about 7,000 people.
Is that close?
That's accurate, yes.
Okay, fine.
Because what I have here, I've got two stories.
I've got an ABC news story and I've got an AP story.
And what they report, they don't report the size of the crowd.
They don't report how uplifting and exciting and positive the crowd was.
They don't report how good Trump was.
They focus on a skirmish that happened, and they're trying to make it look like a bunch of Trump supporters were picking on Trump protesters and that the whole thing descended into a giant fight.
ABC and the AP are both trying to report that as the primary event that happened at Trump Rally.
Is that what you saw?
They're not.
No.
So it was very interesting because we did, there was a sea of protesters, and we did have to pass through the sea, so shoulder to shoulder, face-to-face, to get into the event.
There were some protesters that got in.
Here's the thing that really amazed me.
There were F-bombs everywhere.
They were all over the protesters' signs.
As protesters in the rally got up and made their point known and were escorted out, they prominently gave the finger to us very, very visibly.
There was a sign that was smuggled in somehow, and I don't know what sign says.
Haven't been able to find it.
We couldn't see it.
But it had to be pretty vile.
And we were just there having a good time.
And so, like I said, there were absolutely F-bombs everywhere.
How old is your son?
He is 14, so that was not good.
On our way out, though, the protesters with the signs, here's what they chanted.
Love Trump's hate.
Love Trump's hate.
That's not new.
They have been, that's been a popular refrain of anti-Trump protesters for months now.
And I think it kind of backfires on them.
They're trying to say.
To watch what was going on there, we just peacefully went to a Trump rally.
I'm very concerned that the things Hillary is saying are cultivating an incredible prejudice among people.
I mean, I think that most voters on both sides are good-hearted people who love their country and care of their country.
But we encountered just ratted protesters who believe that we are awful people and terrible-hearted people.
Pam, we really believe that.
Look, you're mostly right when you say that Hillary is cultivating that kind of person, but it's really not her.
They existed long before Hillary, and they would be there no matter who the Democrat nominee was.
Those are people largely paid.
They are bought and paid for by activists like George Soros.
George Soros funds.
He invests in paid protest groups, and their express purpose is to go out and disrupt every Trump rally they can.
And even if they're not acolytes for Hillary, I'm not trying to let her off the hook in terms of being responsible for cultivating the hate, because I think the left owns hate.
I think they promote it.
I think they cultivate it.
I think they use it.
I think most of the hate in this country is actually found on the left.
You're not a hater.
I mean, you went to this rally just wanting to be part of it.
You wanted to see what it was.
You hoped it was fun.
You hoped it was good.
You hoped Trump was good, I'm sure.
You didn't go there to hate on anybody or to hate on anything, and hate is not what attracted you to it.
But the people that protested you and were writing and shouting all those F-bombs, obsessed with it.
They were.
The protesters were very peacefully and courteously escorted out each time.
One of the things I loved is there was a point at which they went and got a bunch of Trump supporters that hadn't been able to get into the rally, and they escorted into the places that were vacated by the protesters.
And it was inside the building.
It was all incredibly peaceful, incredibly peaceful.
Outside the building, I saw Trump orders, some of them.
Long story, but my son and I got stuck in the sea of protesters.
We got separated from husband, and we were stuck there for about an hour.
And so we missed a lot.
And there were a few Trump porters that tried to engage protesters in meaningful conversations.
Was this your first encounter with protesters up close like this?
Yes.
Yeah.
I can tell.
Nothing wrong with it.
I can just tell.
You read about them, and you may see them make noise at a Trump rally you're watching on TV and you see them escorted out.
And you think, okay, fine and dandy.
But here you came face to face with them.
And it totally changes the way you see them.
And it totally changes the impact they have on you.
I can tell by listening to you, you think this was atrocious.
You think this was, you think it was outstandingly bad.
It was egregious.
You think it was harmful.
I can hear all this in your voice.
Well, and I think, I guess one thing that concerns me is that it's as if democracy is being lost.
I mean, the country stands for freedom to disagree, freedom to hold your own views.
And the message that's communicated is, if you disagree with me, you're full of hate and all these various isms.
And you are subject to potential violence.
You are subject to threat.
We're going to threaten you.
We're going to intimidate you.
We're going to bully you if you don't agree with us.
We're going to shut you up.
We're going to send you packing.
And Pam, look, you know, all of these wonderful statements that we keep hearing in association with this Capernik protest of the anthem.
America means that you have the right to say whatever you want.
You can voice whatever opinion.
It's a bunch of BS.
This is the kind of thing that losers tell themselves when they don't know how to deal with the protesters you're encountering.
The protesters that you encounter do not respect your right to think what you think.
They don't respect your right to show up and say what you want to say, support you support.
They show up to shut you down.
There is none of this respect for the great concepts of dissent.
If you dissent from them with them, if you violate what they want, they're going to come after you or make you think they're going to come after you one way or the other.
And we get caught up in these flowery little bromides of America, freedom of speech.
I will defend to the death your right to say it, even though I disagree with you.
That may describe some people and the way they look at it, but not the people you encountered last night.
They're not Democratic.
They're not interested in the Democrat process at all.
They don't trust it.
If they lose this election, what you saw last night is romper room compared to what they're going to do.
And I think the reason I asked you if this is the first time that you've actually encountered it face to face, because it changes you.
It's one thing to see these people on TV.
You're watching a Trump rally anywhere, and you'll see a disruption, and they may show a protester or two being hauled out of there.
But you don't see, you don't see the confrontations.
You don't see these people bullying, shouting all these F-bombs, making threats.
You don't see all that.
That's not shown.
All you see is a couple of them taken out.
Isn't that wonderful?
We've got the fine art of dissent being practiced.
Isn't it just a beautiful thing to see?
But you encounter it face to face like you did, and it changes the way you see it.
And it makes you start questioning very soon, which I totally understand.
This is why I don't understand all this tolerance for these people.
And I'm not saying be impolite to them or any of that, but the idea that they've got the right to come in and disrupt something because this is America, when did all this become a suicide pact?
When does somebody's freedom of speech permit them to come in and totally destroy your rally?
When does the Constitution permit somebody to come in and totally destroy the country?
At what point do people stand, wait a minute, we're not engaged in a suicide pact here by extending to you your freedom?
But I'm glad you saw it up close and personal because it changes it.
It changes your perception of it the moment you see it.
And by the way, I'm serious.
The AP story here and the ABC story, do not talk about the Trump.
Like Trump, I've got some soundbites I'm going to play coming up for the break.
He brought some people up that Hillary calls deplorable.
He wanted them to come up and speak for themselves.
It was a typically good Trump rally with lots of energy, a full house.
And there were enough protesters to give the media the opportunity to focus on the protests as the main thing that apparently happened.
If you weren't there and didn't see it, that's all you would think happened.
You'd think Trump had a rally and half or more of the people shut it down because he's hated and reviled and filled with hate.
And that's what the media is trying to do.
It's how they carry Hillary's water.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton couldn't draw 1,000 people to an event like this.
And the people that protest Hillary don't care enough about it to show up and do that.
They'll just be satisfied voting against her.
Anyway, Pam, I'm grateful that you called.
I appreciate the eyewitness account.
We will be back after this with much more.
So don't go away, folks.
Okay, here we go.
Last night, Asheville, North Carolina, 7,000 people.
The event sold out.
I'm told by people who live in North Carolina that it's very unusual to have this many people at anything like this in Asheville.
Asheville, by the way, the Vanderbilt Mansion is there.
One of the hugest.
What's the name of the place?
They're having a metal block.
Asheville is not the town that they had to build in order to build the mansion, but it's close.
I'm having a metal block.
I've been there.
I didn't know it was a communist outpost when I went in there.
This is back in the mid-90s that I was there.
But it's supposedly really, really unusual to have this kind of a crowd for anything there.
So that's the setup.
We have two bites here as Trump invited deplorables on stage to respond to Hillary.
These are not deplorable people, that I can tell you.
Come on over.
My wife and I represent non-deplorable people.
I am probably a lot of things.
Deplorable is not one of them, I assure you.
We are going to make America great again, and Hillary needs to take a nap.
After all the horrible scandals that Hillary Clinton's been involved in, and that she has the gall to call us deplorable, it's unbelievable.
It is.
Don't forget our I'm Not a Deplorable t-shirt is now available at rushlimbo.com in the EIB store, part of the Never Hillary collection.
It's a blue t-shirt.
It says, I am a deplorable.
On the front, on the back, it says, never Hillary.
And they are up and running now.
After these people spoke, Trump then closed it up.
After months of hiding from the press, Hillary Clinton came out and finally told the world how she feels about the people of this country.
She talks about people like they're objects, not human beings.
She said half of our supporters are irredeemable and not American.
And describes the other half as having run out of options.
Hillary Clinton spoke with hatred in her heart for these working class Americans.
Absolute hatred in her heart.
She looks down on the people who cook her meals, drive her cars, and dig the coal that power her electricity.
Her goal is simple, to bully the American voter out of voting for change.
Now, what's going on today in Philadelphia?
Is it, yeah, Obama and Biden and Tim Kaine are all campaigning in Hillary or for in Philadelphia for Hillary.
Isn't it nice to know, ladies, so many men can step up and take Hillary's place and keep her relevant while she is unable to show up.
Isn't that a beautiful thing?
Why, it takes three of these guys to show up and do the job that Hillary ostensibly would do on her own.
What does that say?
It takes Obama, it takes Biden, it takes Tim Kaine.
By the way, here's Nicole Wallace, no friend of Trump's, no friend of Sarah Palin's, Nicole Wallace and the Bush, the George W. Bush Communications Office on the Today Show Today, Savannah Guthrie said, hey, Nicole, you might say that the health headlines aren't good for Hillary, but in some ways it actually overlooked this issue of her comment on Friday night where she called half of Trump's supporters deplorable.
Now, is this a larger, longer-term problem for her?
The road to the White House does not wind its way toward attacking someone's supporters.
She gave a speech 10 days before.
I mean, I think this is what she thinks of the segment of the Trump base that we've all learned this new word, the alt-right, that sort of legitimizes white supremacy.
So she has made a more focused case, but lumping in half of his supporters, you know, Trump did a really smart thing with it yesterday.
He put Americans on stage.
He put his supporters who certainly didn't look deplorable at all.
Well, how about that?
That's a great admission.
Trump actually put some of his supporters up there.
It didn't look deplorable at all.
This alt-right business and white supremacy, have you noticed how casually that has just snuck in there and seems to have established a life of its own as though it's actual fact and real that a segment of Trump supporters are white supremacists?
That's the folly.
All of these leftists accuse people who oppose amnesty and want to stop illegal immigration for racial reasons.
Missing the point entirely, as usual, which they know.
They're just trying to smear.
Again, back with more.
I take it back.
All three are not in Philadelphia.
Obama, Biden, and Kane are all campaigning for Hillary today.
It's Obama that's in Philadelphia.
And the name of the Vanderbilt place in Asheville is the Biltmore estate.
That's what I was having a mental block on.
Largest, it wasn't at one time, in a way, largest private home in the country.