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Sept. 14, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 14, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #1
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I told you long ago, folks.
I'm I I observed long ago, and I got in deep doo-doo for this too.
And I said things you're not supposed to say.
And I I I pointed out these Colin Powell emails in this in this massive email dump here, the latest of WikiLeaks.
I mean, a lot of people think that the email dump contains very damning messages, information, attitudes, opinions about Hillary Clinton from uh from General Powell.
But I think there's an overall larger concern, and that is that Colin Powell is primarily interested in maintaining good standing with the people that run the establishment inside the Beltway and in New York, the Boston, New York, Washington corridor, the uh the social status.
If you'll notice where all these leaks happen, they happen at parties in the Hamptons.
All these comments are made while General Powell is socializing with the with the elites and the people in the upper stratosphere as they as they socialize.
And that has been his objective from the moment he became prominent in public life.
Uh he's in other words, he's profoundly concerned with what people think of him.
A lot of people are, don't misunderstand.
A lot of people are, but General Powell does not have that normally said about him.
Uh he is is viewed in uh in other ways.
I just think you have to understand that if you want to understand how and why uh General Powell says the things he says about the people he says them.
We'll get into this in more detail as the program unfolds.
But I want to see if I have something straight here, ladies and gentlemen.
We are now being told that Hillary Clinton got Pneumonia.
Hillary Clinton got pneumonia because a woman has to work harder than a man.
Because as a woman, the playing field for her is unlevel.
Even at this stage of her career, she's the smartest woman in the world.
She's been Secretary of State, she'd been first lady.
She's a defeated candidate the first time for the presidency.
But even after a 30-year public career, we still have to be treated to Hillary Clinton as basically being cheated against.
Because our culture is rigged, because our society is rigged, because she is a woman.
And is such it just isn't fair.
Despite all the progress, it doesn't mean anything because the decks are still stacked against Hillary Clinton.
And there are people out there saying she got pneumonia because she working so hard.
Even General Powell in one of the emails talks about, oh my god, she's working so hard.
She's working so hard she could barely climb the steps to the podium.
You know how General Powell defined working hard?
Going to three fundraisers in a day and having to fly to two of them.
She's just burning in both ends, and she's gonna have to slow down.
But she's she that's why she's getting pneumonia.
She has now, folks, don't laugh here.
I know I know it sounds humorous, but this is what they're trying to sell.
And it will sell to a certain segment of our population.
She got sick.
She is sick because the nation is structured in an unfair way.
The nation is still sexist.
The nation is still bigoted, the nation, our culture, our society's still biased.
And it doesn't matter that she's the smartest woman in the world.
It doesn't matter that she is more competent and more qualified than anybody who's ever been president.
It still isn't fair because she has to work so hard just to level the playing field, she's making herself sick For all of us.
She got pneumonia for all of us.
Well, now wait a minute.
This doesn't kind of wash for me because I I remember the first WikiLeaks email dump.
And what was that about?
It's about how the Democrat National Committee had basically rigged the whole outcome for her.
Remember that?
The Democrat, this led to Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz having to quit in the middle of the convention.
She had to quit and head home back to Boca.
Because it had been discovered that the Democrat National Committee, as we told you, had structured a Democrat primary so that no matter what happened, Bernie Sanders wasn't going to win anything of consequence.
The whole thing was rigged.
So how about that unlevel playing field there?
It sounds to me like if there was an unlevel playing field in the Democrat primaries, it was victimizing Crazy Bernie.
And it seems like the unlevel playing field existed and in fact was created to benefit Mrs. Clinton.
Hillary has had to prove this is the line they're trying to sell, and this is it's driving her to illness.
And she's doing it for us.
They want to change the world.
That's the latest thing.
Why did the Clinton subject themselves to this torment?
Why do they subject themselves to the endless public flogging they get?
Why do they subject themselves to the allegations and the accusations, they're a bunch of cheaters and whatever else?
Because they want to change the world for us.
And we simply do not have what it takes to understand how much they love us and how much they care about us.
And how they are willing to get sick.
They're willing to contract diseases.
They are willing to work harder than anybody's ever had to work in order to make the world better for us.
That's what they're trying to sell.
So let's see if that holds up.
Hillary Clinton has to work harder than Trump.
He's a man.
We have to work harder than Trump because the deck stacked for Trump, because Trump is a man.
Is that why she's having so many fewer campaign events than Trump?
Is that what working harder than Trump means to level the playing field?
Is that why when she does show up at a campaign rally, her speeches are almost so short, if you blink you miss them?
Is this why she never does press conferences?
Because she's working so hard to level the playing field.
What is she doing?
What work is she doing that is so hard she's getting pneumonia for us?
She doesn't do campaign appearances very much.
When she does, she doesn't speak much at them, and she certainly doesn't do press conferences.
In fact, Mrs. Clinton, who's working so hard that she contracted pneumonia for us, practically took the whole month of August off.
Except for a couple of fundraising dinners.
Man, she just, I guess, has run herself ragged trying to prove that she's as tough and has the same stamina as the 70-year-old Donald Trump.
Even though she says, I ain't no way tarred.
Apparently she's very tired.
Apparently she's willing to get tired and pee pneumonia for us.
Because she wants to make the world a better place.
Now the drive-bys don't seem to have made much notice of this or mention of this.
Robbie Mook, who was the Hillary campaign, campaign manager, I guess.
He was talking to Jake Tapper on CNN.
He said that Hillary's doctor did not catch up with her until she got home to Chappaqua on Sunday after she had that event.
She left the 9-11 memorial.
She's standing out there waiting for the exit vans to arrive.
The vans pull up, and you've all seen the video now.
She barely made it.
They had to shove her in there.
She practically collapsed.
She looked like she was having a seizure.
We made note yesterday that they made an active decision not to take her to a hospital.
They didn't take her to an ER because they don't trust the doctors there.
They don't trust doctors they don't know.
So they willingly subordinated her health to privacy.
And then we have Clinton saying, she falls on her face all the time, it's not a big deal.
She does it frequently.
I mean, infrequent.
What?
Uh.
Well, the reason why they did it, because we see it, you know, much times a week's no big deal, trust me, it's not.
But everybody else is scratching their heads.
This is a serious, serious episode.
You would think you go to the hospital.
The doctors all think you go to the hospital.
Well, Brian, the screensavers just came on in the TV.
Again, here.
We got these idiot TVs here.
I'm about ready to mention a brand name.
Why are they going into Screensaver?
We turned the screensaver off.
I've not lost my place here.
So she didn't see the doctor till they got home to Chappaqua.
She spent whatever it was, an hour and a half at her daughter's emergency room, and apparently revived fully, completely in an hour and a half in there.
From dehydration and whatever it was that she had.
Whatever was done to revive her at Chelsea's ER has got to be some kind of magic because she didn't see a doctor till they got back to Chappaqua.
So here come the various mechanisms the media is using to cover for what obviously is a serious problem.
And now the new twist, she's working so hard because she has to, because it's so unfair because America's so sexist and the playing field is so unlevel, and she has to she has to do twice the work of a guy just to stay even.
And it's driving her to pneumonia and who knows whatever other kind of illness, and she's doing it for us.
Now there is a story here.
Where does this run?
This runs in the uh this is the Hill.com.
And I want to read to you the headline here.
Democrat apologizes for remarks about Clinton and sex.
It wasn't long ago that I would have seen this headline and read this story and concluded that this is hilarious.
And I would have been thinking of various ways to have fun with this.
Uh to poke fun, to be creatively hilarious with this, and have people think, wow, this limbaugh is really, really sharp.
But I look at it a different way now.
Let me give you the details of this story.
Representative, former representative Joe Garcia, Democrat Florida, apologized yesterday for poorly worded comments he made over the weekend when he said that Hillary Clinton, quote, is under no illusions you want to have sex with her.
Unquote.
So here we have another sensitive, another very much in support of women's rights and women's equality, very much opposed to the bigotry and sexism that supposedly exists in America.
Here's a former Democrat representative essentially saying, Hillary, don't worry.
She knows there's not a soul in the world wants to have sex with her.
And so he has apologized.
My comments were intended, get this now, my comments were intended to speak to Secretary Clinton's relentless focus on getting the job done.
Yes, nobody wants to have sex with her.
And she knows it because she's working so hard, it repels any Don Juans out there.
Don Juan's don't want women that work real.
No way.
Don Juan's are not interested in hardworking, achieved, accomplished women.
And that's what he was trying to say.
But he didn't say that.
He said Hillary Clinton's under no illusion you want to have sex with her.
What in the world would prompt that?
He said my comments were intended to speak Secretary Clinton's relentless focus on getting a job done despite the unjust gender stereotypes and biases that women in public life are frequently subjected to.
And I'm with her because I'm confident she'll be one of our country's most effective leaders.
And I'm confident she doesn't expect me to want to have sex with her.
Now, as I say, it wasn't that long ago.
We'd be yucking it up, and I imagine some of you are.
I imagine some of you are imagining the viewers sitting where I'm sitting, some of the things you'd say or do, but you how does Hillary?
70, she's she's 69 or 69.
I have to think that this is probably one of the scariest.
I mean, I would bet you if she heard this, I will bet you it really did a lot of it, probably made her mad, but I bet it really hurt her feelings.
There's this nobody wants to think that this is how people see them.
Now look, we have the ugly, and the ugly know who they are.
But even them, even they don't consider themselves shut out in this area.
And they've demonstrated that they're not shut out, they all have kids.
I even but but the idea, I with you know, women, it's like a woman said to me recently, who just turned 50, and she was, she was what you would you would consider she was a looker.
She was a head turner.
She knew it.
But she said when she turned 50, she says, you know, nobody notices anymore.
Nobody cares.
It's just, it's it's it's striking.
It's this, oh, they know I turned 50.
My point is that this is a really cutting comment.
This is the kind of thing that a woman Hillary Clinton's age.
This is this is the one of the biggest fears that probably men too have about growing old.
The libido doesn't suffer.
I mean, you young people, you you people out there 25 and 30, you're thinking that when you're 65 or 70, you're not gonna have any interest whatsoever.
You have no idea.
It's not gonna change, millennials.
It isn't gonna change in IOTA.
In fact, it's gonna get worse because the older you get the more accomplished you actually think you are, the more attractive you think you are.
But this kind of thing with women, this this is this is really my point is it's really unkind.
This is really insulting.
And this is the kind of this is if if if a lot of women hear of this guy's comment, they're gonna really, even though he's a liberal Democrat, supposedly sensitive and so forth, these won't are areas you just uh you can't win going to.
Even though, in this case, it's no doubt true.
You just okay, polling data up next, and it's it's continuing to look dicey for the Democrats.
What?
Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna get to that.
Uh Ivanka's proposal on uh on child care, the new entitlement.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're gonna get to that.
And you don't want to miss it, by the way, when we do get to it.
But first off, this is from the morning consult poll.
Concerns about Hillary Clinton's health abound.
You know how Drudge is his linked to this?
You know what Drudge's headline is?
Sorry.
30% believe Clinton will die by 2020.
That's in the poll.
That's in the poll.
It's just not how it's headlined by the morning consult people.
Their headline is concerns about Hillary Clinton's health abound poll shows.
Following a caught-on-camera health scare over the weekend, a new morning consult survey reveals widespread concerns about her health among registered voters.
The poll taken September 12th and 13th shows that eight in ten, about 80%, said that they have heard a lot or have heard some about Clinton's health concerns.
That's a high figure.
That's higher than I thought it was going to be.
And that is a testament to the reach of this program.
It's a testament to the reach of social media.
You know, the drive-by's are doing a great job in misdirection when it comes to reporting on Hillary.
They're doing a great job.
They're not covering hardly any of the negatives.
And yet they're getting out there.
The negatives are getting out there.
And one of the reasons the negatives are getting out there, and this is also part of the polling data.
We touched it briefly on it yesterday.
Hillary is having big trouble coalescing the Obama coalition.
There are a significant number of Obama supporters that are just not into Hillary.
And the polling data is showing all of this.
That's the that's bad news to the drive-bys, trying to prevent this very thing from happening.
It's a huge figure.
Nine in ten said they'd heard some or a lot about Clinton's use of a private email server as well.
Here's a quick time outcoming, but we'll continue.
Pick up the place right here.
Okay, so in the morning consult poll taken uh yesterday and the day before, eighty percent say they've heard a lot or some about Hillary's uh health concerns.
That's not good from Hillary standpoint, nor is it good from the drive-by media who've been trying to misdirect everybody away from it, or trying to say it isn't a big deal.
Or trying to say, hey, yeah, she's sick, but she's doing it for you.
She's working so hard for you.
Yeah.
That also is revealed.
It is also revealed that 90% in the morning consult poll had heard a lot or some about Clinton's use of a private email server.
And that story doesn't go away.
I have to tell you where I am on this.
And I I this like you, I mean, I've you've got to fight through this stuff each and every day.
How long has this email story been intense?
I mean, at least since March of 2015.
And yet, every day there's something new that that comes out that that makes it even worse.
And every time I see one of these stories, I'm tempted to throw up my hands and toss it away because I'm well, how many people really care about this anymore?
Because there hasn't been any outcome from it.
There hasn't been nobody's been punished, nobody's been called to action for anything.
I mean, just the stories are more and more information about what she did.
But then you look at the polling data on her, and you see that it has to be making a difference, having some kind of impact.
Her untrustworthy numbers are way up.
Her negatives are sky high.
And it's to the point now when you when you look at commentators on TV talking about the race, how often do you hear them say, yeah, you don't want the American people really don't like either of these two?
It's a really sad thing.
We're scraping the model of the bottom of the barrel.
Why couldn't we have found somebody that everybody respected or liked?
Well, that's a question for another day.
But the point is that despite the best efforts of the drive-by media, they have not been able to protect her.
They have apparently all of this news, this dribble dribble, drip, drip, drip on the emails and on the server.
Apparently, even though I don't think too many people have a real specific knowledge of what went on, and I don't think a lot of people even get what the real problem is beyond this is just not how you're supposed to do it.
But it's so deep in the weeds talking about classified data, sending classified secrets in an insecure way.
I think it goes over a lot of people's heads because they don't see any damage that's resulted from it.
But we don't know that there hasn't been any.
How about all these terror attacks?
How about all of the uh things that just seem to be going wrong for this country elsewhere around the world?
Who knows?
It may have a significant impact.
Regardless, it apparently is having an overall impact in people's impression of her.
Her negatives have never been this high.
And they've never been off the charts positive either.
She's never been a typical Democrat presidential candidate, loved, respected.
She's never had that kind of uh public image, but this is bad.
So all of these things are obviously having some kind of impact.
And now, if you look in the election polls, here Trump and some of these battlegrounds, like Ohio is up five points in a legitimate poll.
This got everybody shocked.
Uh And now there are stories about how the Democrats who were practically making plans for retaking the Senate.
Here's this headline, the AP.
And I guarantee you, they're white knuckled right now.
I get the AP bamboozled here.
Democrats fear their Senate takeover chances dimming.
How can that be?
They've been measuring the curtains for the Oval Office for how many months now?
They've been thinking that's over.
They've been thinking Trump is so bad nobody hates Trump so much that they're going to take the Senate, maybe even the House.
All of these things in their minds attitudinally have been a fait accompli.
And now from the AP, uh Democrats are sounding increasingly concerned about their chances of retaking the Senate as Republicans demonstrate a commanding fundraising advantage.
And Hillary Clinton's lead narrows in key battleground states.
There's also something else happening out there that's got them bamboozled on the left, and that is Republican voter registration is apparently skyrocketing.
None of this was expected.
In fact, none of what Donald Trump has accomplished was expected from the day he announced.
The establishment types and the elites continue to this day to tell themselves that Trump is going to implode.
And some of them think that he already has and is hanging on by a shoestring.
Some thinks they think that a major, major implosion is yet to happen, but they've all but concluded Trump is going to eliminate himself simply because he's such a boob.
He's so incompetent.
He's such a bad candidate.
Now they're even calling him a fatty.
You know, that's enough that drive-bys have decided one of the ways to misdirect people away from the stories on Hillary's health care is to start examining the health consequences of Donald Trump being overweight.
It has now become almost a talking point.
And all of this is reactionary because none of this is playing out the way they thought it was or going to.
None of it is.
How many stories have we had in the past week headlined with something like Democrats scratching heads over why Hillary hasn't already closed this down?
Why hasn't Hillary already locked this up?
They don't understand why she's not at 70% and Trump's at 30.
They don't understand.
They really thought that this was over even before the Democrat convention, but certainly in the week after they thought it was over.
And now none of this is making any sense to them.
So the Republicans are increasing their fundraising, defying odds.
The Republicans are running away with new voter registration.
That's defying all kinds of odds and predictions.
Although most Democrats still express confidence that they will win back the Senate in November, they now appear to have fewer paths to victory, as wins in Ohio and even Florida look increasingly remote.
Well, how can that be?
What in the world could be causing them trouble in Florida and Ohio?
And if they do win back control, says a hopeful associated press, it could end up being with the narrowest of margins.
Even a 50-50 Senate with a vice president Tim Kane casting tie-breaking votes for the Democrats, if Hillary Clinton becomes president.
That's what it's come down to.
That's what they're now hoping for that maybe we can at least get 50-50 and have Kane in there as the deciding vote.
And a key factor in all this is, again defying odds, the Republican money edge, which is particularly pronounced this year because some major donors have decided to stay out of the presidential race because they don't like Trump and are pouring money into Senate races instead.
This would be the evil Koch brothers.
The Democrats thought they had dispatched with the Koch brothers when the Koch brothers said they weren't going to give to Trump.
The Koch brothers is going to go away and not play in this cycle.
But then again, I might have known it would come down to being the Koch brothers' fault.
I mean, when the Democrats can't explain why people reject them, it has to be some big Republican money people.
And the Koch brothers filled that bill.
Another concern the AP says is Hillary's weak performance as a candidate, particularly pronounced over the past days as her campaign contended with questions over its handling of her health.
Her stumbling exit.
That's how they referred the incident on Sunday.
The seizure where she had to be thrown in the van, they refer to it here as her stumbling exit, was followed by the disclosure that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia.
The New York Times today is saying she just lost her balance.
Yep, that's all that happened.
She lost her balance.
She's getting off the curb, walking off the curb, she had a problem with the shoe, shoe came off, lost her balance, and thankfully a couple of aids were there to make sure she didn't topple over.
But there was nothing to see here.
She just lost her balance.
An accompany story from the AP again, very grim, GOP gains ground on Democrats in voter registration in key states.
Republicans have gained ground on the Democrats in registering voters in three battleground states, and they've kept their razor thin advantage in Iowa.
Encouraging news for Trump eight weeks before election day.
Republicans added hundreds of thousands of voters to the rolls since 2012 in states including Florida, Arizona.
Now what could explain this?
Normally when we talk about 2012, what do we hear?
We hear how many Republicans stayed home.
We hear how many re what is it, anywhere from two to four million didn't vote.
And we we hear that had they voted, Romney would have won, but they didn't show up.
Now they want us to believe that it's this much.
We're talking registration.
Now I'm gonna tell you.
Starting with Robert Costa in the Washington Post talking to Charlie Rose, there are a number of people on the left who are really worried that what is happening is that a large percentage of Trump support is coming from people who are not registered to vote, who are not recent voters.
They're people who believe the political system abandoned them years ago, and they don't trust any of it, and they don't participate in it.
Trump has come along.
If this if this rapidly increasing Republican voter registration, and I'm not sure nobody is yet.
But if this new wave of Republican voter registration is coming from that group of people, the 50% of the people that don't vote, there's a lot of them.
You've got 70% of people think countries in the wrong track, 50% of the population that's eligible doesn't vote.
If this new Republican registration is coming from that group, and there are people inside various organizations who know it, I guarantee you that they're quaking in fear over that as well.
We'll just have to see.
Time will tell.
Looking on here you go is another headline in Mr. Son Bloomberg.com.
Nervous Democrats fret about Clinton's stumbles as race tightens eight weeks from election day.
Democrats are feeling queasy about Hillary Clinton's narrowing national and battleground state lead over Donald Trump, despite the fact she's working so hard she's getting pneumonia for us, folks.
She's working so hard, she is making herself perhaps mortally ill for us to change the world, to make it a better place.
And despite all of that, the Democrats are fretting about her stumbles.
A race some had considered a layup for Clinton.
On Tuesday showed Trump within two and a half points in the real clear politics average Of polls.
Her stumbles over the weekend from a botched response to a health incident.
What do you mean a botched response to a health incident?
What about the health incident itself?
See, this is how the media misses this stuff.
Okay, so Hillary has a disastrous display of bad health.
And the media fixation.
Well, how did they deal with it?
How did they respond to it?
How was the spin?
They didn't deal with it very well.
What can you do with that?
What in the world can you do with what everybody saw?
You can't lie about it when they had credibility.
I mean, they're Democrats, they can try to lie about it.
So they're worried that she stumbled with her botched response to the incident.
And then they're worried that she's running out there calling Trump's voters a basket of deplorables.
And that this is somehow heightened concerns that she's just not making this happen.
By the way, we had near iPhone type sales figures with our I'm a deplorable t-shirt.
My gosh, the first day sales at Rush Limbaugh.com right there in the EIB store, as part of the Never Hillary collection.
Just added these t-shirts yesterday.
This is the fastest turnaround since I've been doing this program.
You know how I did it?
I eliminated a 14-step test market.
I knew what I wanted.
I ordered it done.
Coco got it done.
We turned it around a one day.
The t-shirts are in there.
The EIB store Hillary Clinton Collection at Rush Limbaugh.com to say I am a Hillary deplorable on the front and never Hillary on the back.
Let me grab a call here in the first hour.
Always try.
This is Sean in Advanced North Carolina.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's great to speak with you.
Thank you for your time.
You better.
Listen, I I wanted to propose that I think James Comey uh knew that an Obama administration would not indict Hillary.
Therefore, his only potential uh out would be to pass on his own recommendation, knowing that if Obama can't uh uh exonerate Hillary for something she's not even indicted for, that there's the possibility that a Trump presidency could.
What are your thoughts, sir?
Well, I think this, and I think I think you're you're somewhat close.
What we saw with Comey is the uh in that process, we never see.
If the FBI either recommends or doesn't, after an investigation, see they can't arrest anybody.
Well, they can't indict anybody.
The DOJ has to do that.
And they have to convene a grand jury or they just directly charge.
The FBI does investigation to make recommendations.
We never see it.
That's what was standout about this.
Comey, even though he's going to recommend no charges, nevertheless read the indictment.
In his press conference, he detailed every illegality she engaged in that they could find.
But he mitigated it.
He said, We couldn't find any intent.
And therefore, we are recommending no charges.
Now, as I say, we never see the results of an investigation that is not pursued.
And this is an investigation not pursued.
They shut it down.
So Comey goes on TV and tells everybody what she did.
And then says, but we couldn't find any intent, therefore, no reasonable prosecutor would ever pursue this.
Well, he's got a job, he's got a job to protect.
He knows, like you say, DOJ not going to pursue no matter what he recommends.
They're not going to indict her, no matter what he recommends.
So he stays on their good side by calling them responsible prosecutors, reasonable prosecutors, and acknowledging that nobody would charge her.
So he puts it out there, and it becomes something where the voters are the jury, and therefore it's up to the Trump campaign and whatever media that want to get involved to make the case.
Comey has spelled it out.
Uh mentioned all the times that she had not been forthcoming, all the time she'd lied.
She didn't lie to them in her interview, but all the other things that have been lied about.
So he made a good case.
That's why everybody's scratching their heads.
You mean you had all of this and you're recommending not be charged?
And the reason for that, I'm I'm totally convinced he doesn't want to be the guy in American history who took out the duly nominated, pardon me, crazy Bernie, Democrat candidate for president.
That's just he didn't want to go there.
So, and and knew they weren't going to indict.
That's that's looking at it as a favorable a light as possible.
Now you think that Trump might come along and indict her if he gun becomes elected.
I don't think they'll look backward and do that.
This might Okay, the Colin Powell leaks in the email dump coming up, as well as Ivanka and Donald Trump's support on a new entitlement for child care that a number of people are having a cow over.
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