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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 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 pointed out these Colin Powell emails in this massive email dump here, the latest in WikiLeaks.
I mean, a lot of people think that the email dump contains very damning messages, information, attitudes, opinions about Hillary Clinton 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 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 elites and the people in the upper stratosphere as they socialize.
And that has been his objective from the moment he became prominent in public life.
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.
He is viewed in other ways.
I just think you have to understand that if you want to understand how and why 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 p.
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's 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 as 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.
He's just burning in both ends.
She's going to have to slow down.
But that's why she's getting pneumonia.
She has, now, folks, don't laugh here.
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 is 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 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 the 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 tired.
Apparently, she's very tired.
Apparently, she's willing to get tired and P. 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, what is it, 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 out there.
It's not a big deal.
She does it frequently.
I mean, infrequently.
Well, the reason why they did it, because we see it, you know, much down to weeks, 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'd 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 until 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 is so sexist and the playing field is so unlevel.
And 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, this is thehill.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 just hilarious.
And I would have been thinking of various ways to have fun with this, to poke fun, to be creatively hilarious with this and have people think, wow, this limbaugh guy 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 Juans don't want women that work real.
No way.
Don Juans 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, if you were sitting where I'm sitting, some of the things you'd say or do.
But you, how old is Hillary?
70?
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.
It probably made her mad, but I bet it really hurt her feelings.
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, they don't consider themselves shut out in this area.
And they've demonstrated that they're not shut out.
They all have kids.
Even but the idea, women, it's like a woman said to me recently who just turned 50, and she was, she was what 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 striking.
It's this little 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 one of the biggest fears that probably men too have about growing old.
The libido doesn't suffer.
I mean, you young people, you people out there 25 and 30, you're thinking that when you're 65 or 70, you're not going to have any interest whatsoever.
You have no idea.
It's not going to change, millennials.
It isn't going to change an iota.
In fact, it's going to 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 is really, my point is, this is really unkind.
This is really insulting.
And this is the kind of, this is, if a lot of women hear of this guy's comment, they're going to really, even though he's a liberal Democrat, supposedly sensitive and so forth, these are areas you just, 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 continuing to look nicey for the Democrats.
What?
Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm going to get to that.
Ivanka's proposal on child care, the new entitlement.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're going to 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 has 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 10, 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-bys 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 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.
80% say they've heard about Clinton's health concerns.
That's bad news to the drive-bys trying to prevent this very thing from happening.
It's a huge figure.
Nine in 10 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 yesterday and the day before, 80% say they've heard a lot or some about Hillary's health concerns.
That's not good from Hillary's 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 any 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, like you, I mean, 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 comes out 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 look at commentators on TV talking about the race, how often do you hear them say, yeah, you know what?
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.
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 at 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 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 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 in some of these battlegrounds think Ohio is up five points in a legitimate poll.
This got everybody shocked.
And now there are stories about how the Democrats who are practically making plans for retaking the Senate.
Here's this headline, the AP.
And I guarantee you, they're white-knuckled right now.
Look at the AP get 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, everybody 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, 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 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.
The 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 Kaine casting tiebreaking 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 Kaine 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 were going to give to Trump.
That the Koch brothers are just 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 fill 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 thinks 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 aides were there to make sure she didn't topple over.
But there was nothing to see here.
She just lost her balance.
Then accompanying 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 and 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, what is it, anywhere from 2 to 4 million didn't vote.
And 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 going to 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 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 country's 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.
Look, you know, here you go is another headline in Mr. Sonbloomberg.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 even 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 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 rushlimbaugh.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 rushlimbaugh.com.
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 Advance North Carolina.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's great to speak with you.
Thank you for your time.
You bet.
Listen, I wanted to propose that I think James Comey knew that an Obama administration would not indict Hillary.
Therefore, his only potential out would be to pass on his own recommendation, knowing that if Obama can't 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 you're somewhat close.
What we saw with Comey in that process, we never see.
If the FBI either recommends or doesn't, after an investigation, 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 the investigation and 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 is 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, mentioned all the times that she had not been forthcoming, all the times 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 she not be charged.
And the reason for that, 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 knew they weren't going to indict.
That's looking at it in as favorable a light as possible.
Now, you think that Trump might come along and indict her if he becomes elected.
I don't think they'll look backward and do that.
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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