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Sept. 13, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 13, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hi folks and welcome back.
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Now just to illustrate what I was talking about about the Trump rally in Asheville, North Carolina last night.
First is ABC News.
Man at Trump Rally hits two protesters in the head is the headline.
This is not the story.
It's what the drive by's want you to think is the story.
A man in the audience of a Trump rally in North Carolina Monday evening hit two male protesters in the head as they were being escorted out.
Further details not immediately available.
Earlier, Trump invited a group of his supporters to join him on stage to speak out against Hillary Clinton's claim that half of those backing Trump are belong in a basket of deplorables.
And then he quotes the story quotes the people that Trump called up sound bites which we just played for you.
Later during the Trump speech, a member of the audience appeared to faint not far from the stage upon which Trump was speaking.
Trump said, Could we have a doctor, please?
Trump noted the room was about 100 degrees as the supporter received assistance.
Trump briefly left the stage and walked down to the crowd before continuing the speech after a few minutes.
Why do you think I put that in there?
See, see, everybody faints when it's hot.
Everybody faints, every every every every everybody is dehydrated when it gets hot.
It's not it's not no big deal what happened to Hillary.
That's that's that's what you're supposed to conclude.
Um then the AP story.
Trump supporter grabs appears to punch protester at North Carolina rally.
This AP story is almost a satire piece.
If you didn't know better, you would think somebody mocking the AP had written this.
This is so filled with obvious pro-Hillary anti-Trump bias.
They're not even trying to make it look like it's real journalism.
And it's it's along the lines of the of the ABC story.
They want you to believe it, everything was fine.
Protesters had to be escorted out, and then he's mean Trump supporters started beating this guy upside the head.
Trying to convey the impression that Trump supporters are mad, violent, unhinged, insane, white supremacists.
In fact, right here in the Washington Post.
Dana Milbank, who wouldn't know objectivity if it gave him a French kiss.
Headline, yes, half of Trump's supporters are racist.
Hillary Clinton may have been unwise to say half of Donald Trump's supporters are racist and others deplorables, but she wasn't wrong.
If anything, when it comes to Trump's racist support, she might have lowballed the number.
And then he quotes what happened at Trump speaking to National Guard Association and so forth.
I continue to maintain That there is panic on the Democrat side.
Now, I know they're trying to make it look like Hillary's health problems are common.
Like everybody gets pneumonia.
In fact, it's so common, practically everybody on the staff has a strain of it.
Poor old Robbie Mooks got it.
Bill Clinton's out there saying, hell, you know, just happens to her all the time.
She she falls on her face half the time.
I mean, this is nothing new.
He tried to help, he's trying to help her out, but he just he he he made it look really even worse.
He's talking to Charlie Rose.
In fact, let's go to those sound bites.
Grab number four.
This last night on CBS Evening News, they played a preview of last night's interview with uh Clinton and Charlie Rose.
And in this clip, Charlie Rose says, Is what happened that she got dehydrated?
Because when you look at her collapse in that video, we wonder if it's not more serious than dehydration.
Well, if it is, it's a mystery to me and all of her doctors rarely, but on more than one occasion over the last many, many years.
The same sort of things happened to her when she just got severely dehydrated.
She's worked like a demon, as you know, at Secretary of State and as a senator and in the years since.
Oh, yeah.
She works like a demon out there.
Well, she's Secretary of State, and she's uh she was a Senate.
She just worked like a demon out there, just got got dehydrated.
Who gets dehydrated sitting behind their desk?
The Green Bay Packers played the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday afternoon.
The on-field feel-like temperature was over a hundred degrees.
Now there you're talking dehydration.
Now they deal with it in the NFL.
Players now get IVs before the game.
They get IV fluid as part of the pregame meal.
In fact, you know that's become standard at a Super Bowl, even when the Super Bowl was played in a climate control place.
Even in a dome, the players will get IVs even before.
Uh kickoff.
I've also got a story here that says Hillary refuses to drink water.
That you can really get in trouble if you're on her staff and you suggest she drink water, she hates it.
Don't ask me why.
Don't ask me why, but she doesn't apparently like water.
Now, I I thought, frankly, water was something you couldn't do without and stay alive.
But maybe.
Well, maybe it's like hot sauce, maybe she's a vampire.
Maybe she's one of those blood suckers out there that doesn't need water.
Do we ever really see her in the daytime?
Look what happened to her.
We saw it at daytime on uh on Sunday, the 9-11 thing.
Look what happened.
Sunglasses, by the way, those sunglasses, have you seen those dark blue shades?
Here's another thing.
You know, this you can't stop this stuff from happening.
You get all these supposed experts out there, and many of them doctors are weighing in.
Apparently, because the sunglasses are so ugly, but there's nothing fashionable about them.
Some experts are saying that they're anti-seizure sunglasses, that they work by restricting certain frequencies of light.
And so they they they block out certain colors, the spectrum, and it ostensibly helps with uh with seizures.
Whatever, it didn't look good.
And she was the only one wearing shades in any picture that you saw that was a that was a group uh photo.
And Clinton himself in this bite doesn't sound all that strong.
Did you hear his voice?
You know, I I have bouts of hoarseness.
I mean, I'm first to admit it.
Can't hide it, don't try to.
But listen to the next bite.
This is this is uh Charlie Rose saying, well, look, is what happened if she got dehydrated?
Because you when you look at her collapse.
Wait a minute.
Oh, wait a minute.
Oh, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
CBS cleaned up a mistake that Clinton made.
Wait a minute.
We gotta go plack and play number four again because number I was looking here at four AS is the same thing.
But there's one word.
that let me uh uh Okay, hang on here a minute.
Um, but I'm trying to figure out which is which.
Okay, look, here play play cut four.
We'll just we you know what the question is.
Let's look at it.
Well, if it is, it's a mystery to me and all of her doctors.
Rarely, but on more than one occasion over the last many, many years.
The same sort of things happened to her when she just got severely dehydrated.
Okay.
She's worked like a demon, as you know, at Secretary of State.
I done got it.
I done got it.
That is what that is what they aired.
In the full interview, which is not what they aired, you see it on their website.
In the full interview, he says it happens frequently.
And here is the full interview that they edited.
You're going to hear something in the first line here that you didn't hear in the bur about you just heard.
Well, if it is, it's a mystery to me and all of her doctors.
Because frequently, not frequently, not so.
Rarely, but on more than one occasion over the last many, many years, the same sort of things happened to her when she just got severely dehydrated.
Right.
So here's what happened.
In the original interview, uh Clinton said what you just heard him say.
You know, it's a mystery out there.
I mean, to me and all her doctors, because frequently, well, I mean not frequently, uh uh, that's not a rarely.
Rarely, that's what I meant to say.
Uh but on more than one occasion.
They cut that out in the broadcast version.
They helped Clinton clean it up.
So in the broadcast version, well, yeah, if it is, it's a mystery to me and all our doctors rarely, but on more than one occasion over the last many years, same sort of thing.
He actually said, cause frequently, well, not frequently, but uh that's not a rarely.
And that it's where he stepped in it.
He says it's frequent.
And they edited it out.
It you know, it reminds me in the 2004 campaign, CBS was interviewing John Kerry, and he did so badly, they let him do a do-over.
His answers to the questions he's being asked were so atrocious that they let him do it again.
And here they're editing Clinton to make it look less damaging to Hillary.
But even at that, you uh you hear his uh his voice.
And his voice is not strong in any way, shape, manner, or I just then you got Koki Roberts over here.
Um this is the second day that this story's had legs.
NPR morning edition, journalist and author Cokey Roberts indicated that many of the establishment Democrats may be getting antsy over the renewed speculation of Hillary's health.
It's taking her off the campaign trail, Cookie Roberts said yesterday morning, but as for members of the Democrat Party, it has a very nervous.
They're beginning to whisper about her stepping aside and finding another candidate.
And then the political former DNC chairman calls for Clinton contingency plan.
That'd be Don Fowler.
Don Fowler, head of the DNC in 1995 to 1997 during the Bill Clinton presidency.
So look, I maintain that the things I mentioned to you yesterday are still true in operative.
This is day two that she's not doing fundraisers out in California.
I think it's much more serious.
And this this pneumonia is a convenient thing.
But they could have announced this a couple of days before they did.
And they could have they could have used that as an excuse for for making the deplorable comment.
They could have gotten her out of a lot of messes.
But here's the big thing.
And we noticed it too yesterday, talked about it then.
She nearly collapses.
She looks unable to move, getting in that van after having left the 9-11 event.
I mean, it's bad.
She is looks like she's seizing and is unable to walk on her own power.
She walks, tries to get in the van and just collapses, and they basically prop her up the armpits and then they shove her in there as it was stated like a side of beef.
Somebody said that, not me.
Just threw her in there.
And then they made the decision not to go to the hospital.
Why didn't they go to the hospital?
They didn't want anybody at an emergency room to find out what's really wrong.
They didn't want to be put in a position of having to trust ER doctors that they don't know.
I mean, after all, it's a Democrat nominee, it's Hillary Clinton, even though it's New York.
You can't be sure there won't be somebody in there who is not a Hillary supporter, will find out what's going on and leak it to someplace.
So they made the decision that keeping her out of the ER, subordinating her health, was preferable.
Putting her at keeping her at greater risk was a greater thing politically to do, more sensible political thing to do than take her to the hospital.
That tells me this is much more pneumonia.
For all this is a pneumonia.
Okay, so she's got pneumonia.
She fell from it, she got a attack, she got weak.
You go to the ER.
If she's dehydrated, give her a couple IVs, send her on her way.
If all it is is pneumonia, the ER will confirm it, and that's that.
It's obviously not pneumonia.
It's obviously not just.
I should not say obviously, I'm not a doctor, but it looks, folks, very much like it's more than that.
And I have uh I really do have great concern for her.
This is that whatever it is, like we said yesterday, it just could be she could be a person that doesn't age well.
And I don't mean looks.
I'm talking to some people, they just get old fast.
It just depends on so many things.
It could be that she's got something far greater wrong than than pneumonia.
It could be a neurological disease.
I mean, they've announced she's on these blood thinners, she's had concussions, who knows.
But the fact that they wouldn't take her to the hospital because they couldn't run the risk that somebody there would find out what's really wrong.
So they must have a hell of a medical setup in Chappaqua.
Because that's where she went after she left her daughter's ER room.
She went back up to the Chappaqua family estate.
They must have a pretty well stocked medical facility in their house.
If they've made the decision, they just can't take her to hospitals.
Stop and think about that just in and of itself.
It's a Democrat candidate for president who can't take her to a hospital for fear of what might be learned there.
Brief, obscene profit timeout.
We are coming back.
We never really end here.
We just take little pauses.
Back to the phones we go.
People patiently waiting.
We appreciate it.
Claire in Akron, Ohio.
Welcome.
Great to have you here.
Thank you, Rosh.
How are you doing today?
I'm excellent.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Hey, I've got two comments.
I was just starting out with one, but I wanted to say real quickly, first of all, in Hillary, everybody's missing the big picture.
They're happy to pin it on a health problem because she truly is wearing out.
And she's proving what Donald Trump has said that she cannot do this job, but it's because of her health.
This has run the dog out of her.
And I believe that it is just exhaustion.
And they can't say that.
Wait, wait, wait, hold on a minute.
Why are they happy to pin it on her health if she's wearing out?
Because that that can at least be explained away.
If you're going to be the president of the United States, you can't be taken.
Well, you can, because Barack does it, but you you you have to be working every day.
It's like Donald Trump is super human.
That man, he never you just don't ever see him taking a day off ever.
And she can only work every couple of days and has to have a long weekend.
And it's just like they've coddled her all along, but the chips are down, and I don't think she can handle it because she's not fit health-wise to handle it.
Um that was one comment, and then I have another comment and a suggestion, real quickly, going back to the NFL.
I wanted to say these players, you know, they need to understand that, yeah, they're seasoned chicken holders, but there's a lot of people that are going to these games that are spending money, they might not even have, but they want to go see their teams play.
You know, the people want to go and enjoy football.
We don't really care what their political stance is on anything.
And I feel like um, you know, we're paying a lot of money to go see 'em.
So just shut up and do your job.
And if Roger Goodell had an ounce of Kutzba, he would say, and I'm coming from a conservative uh point of view here and and kind of tongue-in-cheek, but let's make the NFL our safe zone.
Let's say we cannot do this because all of the people need to be protected.
This is our safe zone.
We can go escape for a few hours and not be harmed by liberal points of view.
Um, you know, in these kind of stances.
It's just ridiculous.
Well, I'm just I'm looking.
I had a I had a monologue.
In fact, we had the soundbite yesterday that that that was um I had it available to replay, and I didn't get to it.
Cookie, get me that.
Get get that to Mike.
It'll dovetail nicely with what you said.
I just want to warn you though, uh, Claire, it's only gonna get worse.
Because all the attention these players are getting doing this.
I saw a story, 12-year-olds, a 12-year-old high school team is now taking a knee or refusing to stand for the national anthem.
This is only gonna get worse.
You're gonna see it happening with even greater frequency because the players are getting all kinds of attention for this, for things other than playing football.
We've got somebody else who was in the Asheville rally, the Trump rally in Asheville last night.
This is uh Ed in in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
Hi, Ed, how are you?
Hey, Russ, thank you for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Yeah, I was there last night, and uh the amazing thing when we came out of the rally is that they had taken down all of the barricades so that we were immediately within five feet of the door, uh, we were being accosted by the uh by the protesters there, and they were just screaming at us, holding signs as that lady previously had mentioned.
And I actually was near the guy that I believe was the one you mentioned that uh that had hit a protester.
Uh he was he was probably in his mid-sixties, and he was with his wife.
Um not quite sure why he hit them, but uh I could say that the things that were being yelled at us as we had to pass through the crowd, there was no other way to get out.
Um he very well could have just been protecting her honor.
I'm not quite sure what the reason was.
How many protesters were at this event outside when you left?
How many would you say were there?
Oh, there was I would minimum a hundred and fifty, maybe two hundred or more.
There was quite a few.
Uh and when we first got there, there actually was a barricade, so we had to stand in line to wait to get in, and the whole time they're just screaming at us.
And everyone around me, nobody responded back to them, nobody said anything back, but we stood in line, we smiled, we moved through, and the volunteers tried to keep us separated from them.
But coming out, it was like uh you you always like we were in a cattle shoot.
We just had to go immediately through them, and uh, and it was bad.
It was I mean, I could see where an elderly person or someone with a child would be would be would be scared, afraid.
Well, but that's the only incident of violence that you know about when the guy you you think we're talking about here walloped an anti-Trump protester.
That was it, right?
That was the only one I was aware of.
I was right near him.
Actually, a cop stopped me thinking I might have been involved.
Okay, so see, that's that's my point.
Here you're at a place that filled up 7,000 people, and you have whatever number of protesters were there.
And everybody inside had a great time.
It was a typical Trump rally, it was filled with a raptor, it was overflowing.
I have seen a photo of inside.
The media will not show you this.
The media, even when Trump tries to shame them, they will not show you the inside of these arenas.
They will not show you.
That's why the Trump campaign has to tweet these things out themselves.
Anyway, so you had the 7,000 people there.
You had Trump bringing up people that are Hillary's calling deplorable, announcing that they're not, showing that they're not, demonstrating that they're not.
Uh and you have this one incident where something provoked a Trump supporter to wallop some Trump protester upside ahead, and that's the story.
That becomes a story.
Could well be the Trump supporter was a foil anyway.
Could well be the Trump supporters a plant.
You just you'd never know.
But I'm telling you, these things are not organic.
And when I when I say not organic, I mean whatever number of people were there, those hundred and fifty, they didn't show up just because Trump is there and 7,000 people are there and they're fit to be tied.
They're paid.
They're organized.
They are dispatched.
They're bought and paid for by people like George Soros.
Black Lives Matter is being funded to the tune of tens of millions of dollars by Soros, for example.
I don't know what group dispatch these people.
I just know this how the left operates.
Everything is manufactured.
And they get away with it because the press, media's on their side.
So the media reports it is.
Oh, look at this.
Donald Trump showed up, and people who naturally hate his guts because they should showed up and let everybody know what a reprobate we all think Trump is.
That's become that becomes the tenor and the flavor of the story.
And in that regard, that way they're able to avoid reporting in any detail what happened at the rally.
And they don't go talk to people at the rally who had a great time and were moved by it.
They simply focus because they've got this meme going.
They've got this narrative going that Trump supporters are a bunch of white supremacists with sympathies to the KKK.
So here comes some 60-year-old guy barreling out of the rally and starts knocking some innocent flower child of the Trump protesters upside the head, and they get their story.
And they run with it.
ABC and the Associated Press at the uh at the same time.
But you notice, folks, the scope of this program.
Here we've had two people already who were at that event last night, who've called in to tell us what happened, and they saw we're everywhere without having to actually go there.
But do but okay, we had our caller uh bottom of the hour.
Forget her name, Mental Block.
She was describing the effect all these players protesting and having on her.
Hey, we don't want to see it.
That's not where we're watching.
You're gonna destroy it.
Ratings are down uh opening night this year versus last year.
It's only gonna Claire and Akron, that's where it was.
Okay, good.
And I told her that I had I had made similar comments this all the way back on August 30th.
This was shortly after Capernick first pulled the stunt.
And uh this I think was the next day or two days later.
This is my take on all of this.
I just want to say something to you players of the National Football League.
The American people love your sport.
And the American people respect you who have the unique human ability to play it at the level you play it.
But the American people are not going to sit by idly and watch the stage of the National Football League stolen and used for personal political purposes.
You players in the NFL, you can go ahead and try to continue stealing the stage of the NFL if you want.
You can take the example of Capernick, and you can try to get some news coverage, you can draw attention to yourself, but you run the risk of obliterating the stage on which you perform that earns you your living and gives you the opportunity to succeed beyond your wildest dreams.
You better be careful in what and how you express your thoughts on this country, greatest place in the history of mankind, and the residents of this country are among the luckiest in the history of all humanity.
The National Football League is on TV.
It can easily be turned off.
The National Football League is sponsored by beer and cars and soft drinks that can easily be not purchased.
Not that hard.
Just turn it off.
You better be especially careful because the opening weekend of the National Football League this year is the 15th anniversary of 9-11.
That sounds perfectly reasonable, right?
Now, I know what some of you are saying.
Wait a minute, Rush, are you saying it just because they're athletes and players, they ought to shut up about their political.
Not at all.
I'm saying don't do it on the NFL stage.
Do it on ESPN when they're interviewing you after the game.
Do it on ESPN when you do it.
But to take over the game and turn the game into a political stage, you're stealing the stage that the NFL built.
You're a temporary occupant of this stage, relevant and highly talented and all that.
But uh this wasn't even really intended as criticism as much as it was guidance.
You know, I I don't know.
I really don't know how many people understand the whole concept of compensation.
Why do people make what they make and where does that money come from?
You realize how many people think jobs are for health care?
Do you you'd be stunned if you had young people today, you ask them, why is uh there an XYZ widget company in your town?
Because they're there to provide jobs for the community and provide health care.
Really?
That's why the XYZ widgets company is there.
Go ask your average NFL player.
Where does a team get the money to pay you?
Hey, I don't know, dude.
Doesn't matter to me.
All I know is my contract's guaranteed the first couple of years.
But I'm seriously, where do they get the money?
Well, I'm sure they get it from the TV and I get the sponsors and so forth.
That's not my problem.
Yes, it is.
And the more money you make, the more you had better be intimately aware of how it gets to you.
It obviously matters a lot to you.
Maybe a bit of an off-the-wall statement here, but I dare say if more people understood compensation, how they or anybody else gets paid, people would be earning a lot more than they are.
But that is for another time.
Well, that's it, my friends.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence.
Has now come to a screeching temporary halt.
Now, I we didn't get a chance here to pay much attention to it.
There has been a congressional hearing, another one on Hillary's emails and server, and apparently it has uh what's the word?
It it not devastating, but it it's had some serious news made during the course of it.
We'll have uh expert details tomorrow.
That'll be me uh and sound bites from it and put it all in perspective for you.
So we'll see you then.
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