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Sept. 16, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 16, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchorman, Mark Stein.
Honoured to be behind the Golden EIB microphone while Rush takes a day off to set up all the apps on his new iPhone 7.
Rush is going to be back here for the real deal, authentic, full-strength, all-American excellence in broadcasting starting on Monday for the full week, as American as apple pie, whereas I'm as American as apple pie a la mode.
It's just like it's just got something foreign and icky at the end of it.
It's great to be with you.
How bad is it going to be for Mrs. Clinton?
The police, what they call the fraternal order of police, I nearly said the federal order of police, the fraternal order of police have endorsed Donald Trump.
They sat it out last time around.
They didn't endorse either Obama or Romney, but they have now decided to endorse Trump.
These things matter, to use a word.
All these little things like Black Lives Matter.
You can't, it would have been difficult for the fraternal order of police to endorse Clinton after going full Black Lives Matter at that convention, I think.
I think it would have been extremely difficult to them.
How bad is it getting for Hillary, though?
This story reports from the New York Times Friday that Hillary Clinton's team is discussing ways to bring Al Gore into the fold between now and November.
And the reason they want to bring Gore into the picture is they want to help the Democratic presidential nominee who is struggling to build her support against competition from third-party candidates.
Gore might be able to convince voters that a third-party ballot could end up electing Republican Donald Trump because he knows what it's like when it's a close race from 2000.
So they're going to bring in Al Gore.
What's happening here is that young people are apparently not warming up to Clinton and instead are parking their vote for the moment with Gary Johnson.
Whether they're going to do that on Election Day, we don't know.
But they don't regard Hillary Clinton as anything new.
They don't get it, as they say, when they don't understand why this particular person has been imposed on them as the candidate.
The name doesn't mean anything to them.
The Clinton thing doesn't mean anything to them.
And when you hear about it, it all gets pretty iffy.
You know, if they start to Google around and run across Juanita Broderick or whatever, they don't understand.
Why is this person the person I'm meant to vote for?
So the young are parking their votes with the aforementioned Gary Johnson, the Aleppo guy.
And this is interesting that there are two third-party candidates right now.
There's Gary Johnson and there's Jill Stein, who's the Green Party candidate.
She's the one who wants to make the Code Pink woman her Secretary of State.
So she's got real strong appeal to the young lefties, Jill Stein.
And she's got the whole environmental thing.
So almost all the Jill Stein vote is taken from Hillary.
Then you've got Gary Johnson.
Gary Johnson is the libertarian.
He's meant to be the candidate for people who don't like Trump.
But when you actually break down the numbers, it turns out that he's drawing more people from Hillary.
So unless that's particularly young people, because young people don't care about the financial stuff, the fiscal stuff, but they like all the social liberalism.
So they like all the marijuana stuff.
He sounds like one of them.
And they don't hear any of the other stuff.
So right now, according to the way the numbers look, if the third-party vote manages to flip a state, it's actually far more likely to flip a state out of the Hillary column into the Trump column.
One of the saddest things I saw today was the endorsement of Gary Johnson by the union leader, which is New Hampshire's statewide newspaper.
Used to be a great newspaper.
It was run by a woman called Naki Loeb.
Pat Buchanan, when he won the New Hampshire primary in 1996, he thanked Naki Loeb for a great job and running a great newspaper because he felt at that time it was a powerful newspaper and it helped deliver New Hampshire to Pat Buchanan.
And since then, it's been backing losers.
Who did it want in the Republican primary?
Was it Christie?
Yeah, it was Chris Christie.
The union leader endorsed Chris Christie.
And then, of course, when Chris Christie became Alfred to Trump's Batman, the union leader has completely fallen out with him.
He's become Jeeves to Trump's Bertie Wooster.
He does it very well, mind you.
Chris Christie is on the outs with the union leader now.
They're furious with him.
But so anyway, the union leader, basically, because they got suckered by Chris Christie, is not endorsing Trump, and they are endorsing Gary Johnson.
As I said, this used to be a great and influential newspaper.
And when Nacky Loeb died, I actually suggested to the newspaper group I worked for at that time that we ought to buy the union leader and keep it a strong conservative voice in New Hampshire.
And instead, it's just run by some inert trust and has declined in influence to the point where it is now endorsing Gary Johnson and Bill Weld.
A conservative, a strong conservative voice for New Hampshire that all during Bill Weld's governorship of Massachusetts thought nothing of urinating on him from across the border and mocking him.
When Bill Weld was governor of Massachusetts, they abolished one county in Massachusetts.
They merged it, they merged it into the other county.
And the union leader ran an editorial saying, if they can abolish one Massachusetts county, why don't they just abolish all of them and the whole state?
That's what the union leader thought about Bill Weld in the good days.
Now it's endorsing Gary Johnson and Bill Weld for president and vice president.
Something odd is happening here, folks.
You know, Hillary Clinton is asking Al Gore to go around warning people of the dangers of a third-party vote because she has calculated Bill Clinton is a bust on the campaign trail.
Have you seen that?
Have you seen his appearances lately?
Nobody under 40 seems to know who he is.
They don't seem clear on it.
Whereas Al Gore, the stiff who stood next to Bill Clinton, the cigar store Indian at Bill Clinton's side for eight years, still has some resonance with the young because ever since they were in grade school, they've had to watch his rotten stinking climate change movie.
So we are now in a situation where Al Gore has more cool.
Can you imagine what Bill Clinton must make of this?
Al Gore now has more cool than Bill Clinton.
So Hillary wants to get Al Gore to go out and tell young people about the dangers.
Say, stop.
I know you keep warning them about the polar bears and the melting ice flows, but instead, could you also mention that it's my electoral college majority that's also melting on that ice flow with the polar bear?
So could you just mention occasionally, Al Gore, when you speak to these people, could you just tell them not to vote third party?
Because right now there's two third parties and they're both taking far more votes away from me than they're taking from Trump.
That is the situation that they've got to in this election.
Now, I want to make, you know, I get all these emails when I do this show saying Rush isn't conservative, Russia isn't conservative.
Of course he's not conservative.
As I mentioned, the presidency started as a reaction to monarchy and it's now turned into a kind of monarchy.
So we're told that he's a celebrity candidate.
Actually, if you want a celebrity candidate, look at the way they treat Hillary and look at the picture of the press corps looking adoringly at Hillary on the plane.
Some guy tweeted, I'd like to find a woman who looked at me the way the press look at Hillary.
She's the one who's, it's nothing to do with Trump being a celebrity.
He actually gets treated far more like a normal person than Hillary does.
It's the nature of the institution.
I'm not looking for a messiah.
I'm never looking for a messiah.
I was born in Toronto, the subject of a monarchy.
And one of the advantages of that is that the guy who runs the government is just some bloke in a suit.
And that's in a healthy situation.
That's the way it would be.
That's how it was in Calvin Coolidge's day.
He was just the bloke in the suit.
But we don't do the bloke in a suit thing anymore.
The presidency has become this where people are looking for the great leader like Obama, you know, these come down from, you had all these Hollywood celebrities saying we divide the world into the age before Obama and the age after Obama.
I'm not looking for that.
I don't want him to be a savior.
I don't expect to agree with him on everything.
And I know enough to know that my 80% friend is not my 20% enemy.
And that's what happens when you've got two choices here.
You listen to that economic speech he gave.
There's things in there that Reagan would not applaud and would sit on his hands for, and that Calvin Coolidge would not applaud and would sit on his hands for.
But it's indisputably more conservative than anything that Hillary Clinton is offering.
And Rush got hammered by people for saying that, you know, we should put aside the maternity leave thing.
He said the politics of it were brilliant.
And it's not as cynical as that.
The fact is, when government gets to the size it's got, the fact is big government is a given.
It's just a question of what it does, what its priorities are.
And so we're not, the idea that we can suddenly overnight go back to Calvin Coolidge's size of federal government, we cannot.
We cannot.
That's not on the ballot.
But as I said, when you take Trump all in all, he's right on the biggest issue, which is that no advanced society needs mass immigration in the second decade of the 21st century.
No advanced society does, because those people in the shuttered mill towns doing the crummy night shift at the quickie crap, enjoy it while you can, because the next thing is going to be automated checkout there and they won't need you for that anymore.
So no advanced society needs mass immigration, never mind mass illegal immigration or one million Syrians as Hillary Clinton is proposing to be.
So he's right on the most important issue.
And if he's wrong on that, it doesn't matter because there'll never be a Republican again because everywhere will be California.
So you won't have to worry about the Republican Party.
And so that's what the choice is.
And as I said on this show three, four months ago, the problem with Hillary Clinton is that the whole stinking show is rotten and corrupt.
And that was before we got the pay-for-play revelations about the Clinton Foundation, where basically you paid Bill Clinton money to get Hillary Clinton's ear at the State Department.
That was before we found out that John Kerry had given $9 million to some so-called non-profit that his kid runs.
That was before we got the revelations about the Department of Justice basically conducting a sham investigation into the whole Clinton emails thing.
If you think, you think of what it's like now and put on another eight years of it, eight years, because that's what it'll be, eight years.
I know I've heard all this stuff.
Oh, we just have to sit this election out and then we'll finally get it right.
We never get it right.
We haven't got it right for a year.
We haven't got it right since Reagan.
But in 2020, we'll get it right.
We will get it right.
We're going to get it right this time.
We didn't get it right before.
We didn't get it right in 2012.
Didn't get it right in 2009.
Didn't get it right.
All the way back to 1984.
We haven't got it right, but we're going to get it right in 2020.
Doesn't work like that.
Doesn't work like that.
And in case you haven't noticed, I mentioned earlier that there's increasingly less respect, even for the fiction, that there are two sides, that there is a diversity of opinion.
If you think what it's like now, there's some Ivy League college in the paper the other day.
It says you can't say you guys anymore because it might upset women, might upset women.
You can't say this, you can't say that.
Think of the most stupid, politically correct college campus you know and imagine it applied to the nation.
That's what eight years of a Hillary Clinton presidency and a Hillary Clinton Supreme Court is going to get you.
And you can be purer than thou and you can sit it out, but in the end, you will mistake, don't mistake the sidelines for the moral high ground.
Because in the real world, you have choices to make.
And being too pure to vote for Trump means ensuring that in 2024, we will be emerging from Hillary Clinton's America.
Mark Stein for Rush will take your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein for Rush Open Line Friday on America's number one radio show.
Let's go to Terry in Toledo, Ohio.
Terry, you're live on the Rush Limbo show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mark.
I love when you fill in for Rush.
Well, thank you.
These are grim times, but we shall struggle through them.
Yes, and you make it really funny.
So anyway, the reason I was calling is because Hillary was speaking at this Black Women's Agenda Symposium Symposium today.
And she was saying how Trump has tried to restrain himself and clean up his image over the past couple of weeks.
And then she, like in her monotone voice, she says how Maya Angelou once said, when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
And then she went on to talk about how Donald Trump has shown us who he is and about this birther thing.
And he's tried to delegitimize the first black president that we've had.
But she needs to take that quote and apply it to herself because she is the one that has shown everyone who she is by calling half of Trump's supporters, which total millions and millions of Americans, who she really is by calling them deplorable.
Right, right.
And this applies to her really well.
Yeah, yeah.
That's a real, that Maya Angelou line when someone shows you who you are.
You know, Hillary has been showing us who she is for 25 years now, since she first emerged from Arkansas onto the national stage.
And everyone keep, all the media keep insisting there's another Hillary that people say, oh, people say in private, Hillary is charming and humorous and delightful.
No one ever sees that Hillary in public.
But they keep saying that somehow there's this secret Hillary somewhere when she finally kicks off her shoe, the one she didn't leave in the street, when she finally gets back to her place and kicks off the sole remaining shoe, there's a charming, wry, humorous, delightful, amusing Hillary that is sparkling company and everybody loves.
And it's such a pity that we don't get to see that on the campaign trail.
We have seen the same consistent, humorless, monotone Hillary now for 25 years.
And they keep insisting that there's some other secret Hillary that all her friends know.
And the Maya Angelou line, when someone shows you who you are, believe them.
If we can't believe Hillary Clinton after 25 years, Terry, if it's going to take another 25, I don't believe that secret, charming, amusing Hillary exists, Terry, I'm afraid.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And then she tried to walk it back again by saying she didn't apologize by saying she didn't mean the word half.
Right, right.
What does that mean?
I mean.
No, no.
I did like that Trump thing when he said he was going to be president for all Americans.
Right.
You can't say that a quarter of the electorate is irredeemable.
You can't basically express your contempt for them.
When you're standing next to Barbara Streisand, Barbara can do it.
Barbara can get away with it.
She's in her beach house at Malibu, and she can get away with stuff like that if she wants to.
But she knows enough to tap Hillary on the shoulder and say, you can't write off a quarter of the American people as if they do not matter and they are irredeemable.
And that remark, the media is trying to spin it as somehow a brilliant strategy by Hillary.
It's not.
It's yet another albatross around her neck.
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Hillary is now calling on Trump to apologize to Obama over the birth of claims.
This is why I've spent, as I said, I've been traveling for a little project I'm working on.
And what you're seeing is basically all over the world, but particularly over the developed world, people are getting sick of being told what they can and can't talk about.
And the way election campaigns devolve into all these little nothing things.
There was the same business before the Brexit vote, Nigel Farage, who appeared at a Trump rally a few weeks ago at Trump's side and is a great man, a great man.
And he apparently had come up with some ad that all the people got fit of the vapors about and said this was unacceptable and this was racist and this was to be it was deplorable and all the rest of it.
And people said, no, sorry, this is when we vote, we'd like to vote about issues that are of importance to us.
And all these things about whether Trump disrespected Obama, nobody cares about that.
It didn't work during the primary, whether he disrespected John McCain or Jeb Bush or any of it.
Nobody cares about it.
Because when your life sucks, you'd at least like to get the chance to vote on something important.
And it's not going to get Hillary, it's not going to go anywhere.
I don't care if Hillary apologizes for the deplorables thing because it doesn't mean anything.
It's a political apology.
And a political apology is completely pointless.
We know what she thinks.
We know what she thinks of these people.
Why bother demanding an apology?
It's completely, completely stupid.
But she's saying now that Obama, that Trump should apologize to Obama for the birth acclaim.
She was at a black women's agenda symposium, as we heard.
And she said that he owes Obama an apology.
Hillary Clinton, when she was running, all her advisors, she's the one who started this getting into this bertha thing, and again, the secret Muslim thing where she was giving these coy answers.
Oh, he's not a secret Muslim, as far as I know, and all the rest of it.
Her strategist, Mark Penn, who's one of these clever people, that's the other great thing, by the way.
Even if you disagree with Trump, it would be an immense cleansing act for a man to be elected president of the United States without this vast consultant industrial complex that has done so much to disfigure presidential politics in America.
But a member, a distinguished member of this consultant industrial complex, Mark Penn, sent a memo to Hillary in 2007 urging that she target Obama's quote lack of American roots, unquote.
I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.
She was being urged to play the foreigner card.
And she did for a bit with all this secret Muslim thing.
Is he, isn't he?
Just like setting it out there and letting people tease it out of her.
And in fact, the original birtha was Obama himself, who let his own publicist, his own literary publicist, literally, either his literary agent or his publicist, I forget which.
This is in my book, by the way.
I could check it in my book, but it's on page 137 of the undocumented Mark Stein, if you want to get chapter and verse.
But he let his publicist pass him off as Kenyan for 10 years because the publicists thought it would sell more books because they thought for Obama, instead of passing him off as just the latest in the Jesse Jackson Al Sharpton parade, that it would be better if he was like an exotic who wasn't American.
So his own publicist on the website had him there for 10 years as born in Kenya and took it down a week after Obama announced he was running for president.
Barack Obama's publicist is the original birtha because he thought it would be cooler to pass himself off as foreign and exotic.
I do it myself.
I was born in Toledo.
This accent is hell to keep up, especially by the time you get to the third hour.
So I completely sympathize with that.
I completely, I was completely, I was born in Toledo, Mr. Snerdley.
Everybody knows that.
So I completely sympathize with this wanting to pass yourself off as foreign and exotic.
But the idea that has Hillary demanded an apology from Barack Obama's publicist for calling him a Kenyan for 10 years.
Nobody cares.
It's not going to work.
It's not going to work because there are real issues at stake in the election.
It's not a business as usual election.
Hillary will open those borders not just to a million Syrians, but to anybody else.
And she will complete.
They are serious.
You know, as Hillary said at this meeting for the Black Women's Agenda Symposium, quoting Maya Angelou, when someone shows you who you are, believe them, the Democratic Party doesn't waste time.
They read the, we've had people on today talking about the Obamacare.
73% people opposed it.
Scott Brown got elected to Ted Kennedy's seat.
That's how much people opposed it, even in liberal Massachusetts.
And yet in the lame duck session, Barack Obama got his mallet and the wedge and hammered it down America's throat because they're serious about power and the Republican Party has not been serious about power.
So that things that were nobody even thought about.
Who the hell gave a thought to transgendered bathrooms in 2008?
And suddenly they're sending directives now to every little grade school in the country.
You knock it on eight years to 2024.
They're serious about completing their transformation of this country.
They're absolutely serious about it.
And they're less and less inclined even to pay lip service to the idea of a two-party system.
Their idea of a two-party system is that most of the time they win and every so often the other guys win, but they don't do anything.
They just keep the seat warm until the Democrats win again.
And that is the core, that is the core idea animating the immigration issue in this country, is that the Democrats relied on the Republicans never meaning it on mass illegal immigration.
That in the end, they would always talk about it in terms of comprehensive immigration reform.
That in the end, they would be like John McCain, who mocked the idea of the word amnesty and said, if you don't like the word amnesty, call it a banana, but it doesn't make any difference.
I'm going to do it anyway.
And then when he's in trouble in his primary, John McCain, in even years, runs as build the danged wall, build the danged wall.
That's what he's running in even years.
And in odd years, if you don't like the word amnesty, call it a banana.
That's where the Democrats relied on the Republican Party never seriously pushing back on anything that mattered.
And people got sick of it.
And this mad primary season is the result of it.
And the result of it is that the Republican Party has a candidate that had it been a healthy, functioning entity, this man would never have been able to make a hostile takeover of the Republican Party.
But he did, because that's how weak the Republican Party was.
And at this stage, what is important to me is I want to live in a country that is not corrupt.
So Hillary Clinton is unacceptable to me on corruption grounds.
She is a corrupt person.
Her foundation, her charitable foundation, is a money laundering operation.
Only in America could you give taxable, tax-free donations to your own foundation, which then gives it back to you in the form of expenses.
That's a racket.
That's before you factor in the world's most unsavory foreign governments paying the Clinton Foundation in order to line up appointments with Hillary Clinton's State Department.
That's before you factor in Hillary Clinton's State Department arranging diplomatic passports for the Clinton Foundation.
So we're in real banana republic country.
I don't know why, I don't know why, look, I'm a foreigner.
If you need me to tell you this, you're over.
You're finished.
It shouldn't be necessary for me to point this out to you.
But the line between the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton State Department did not exist.
They had emerged.
The Clinton Foundation's relationship to the Clinton State Department was that of the Communist Party to the Soviet government.
In the one-party state, the party and the state merge.
And in Hillary's one-party state, the foundation and the State Department merged.
It's disgusting.
Hillary ought to be prosecuted for what she did.
And she isn't being prosecuted because she's Hillary and you're not.
So we've got equality before the law issues there.
There's no equality before the law.
That's important to me, too, you know.
I don't think whether you get prosecuted should depend on whether you're Hillary Clinton or whether you're Joe Schmo.
I think Joe Schmo and Hillary Clinton should be the same when they come up before a judge, or in this case the Department of Justice.
But they're not.
So we know what we have now.
We have a corrupt revenue agency.
We have a corrupt national law enforcement agency in the FBI.
You know, when you've got a corrupt revenue agency, how do you think, by the way, when you have your, when you sit out this election and you come back for your usual big term victory, big midterm victory in two years' time, how do you think it's going to go for whatever replaces the Tea Party, the next mass movement, the support groups?
How do you think it's going to go?
How do you think the IRS is going to treat those groups when the Democrats have been rewarded by a third term?
The IRS is basically the paramilitary wing of the Democrat Party, and they've paid no price for it.
Likewise, now you've got a corrupted law enforcement.
And Republicans are the biggest saps on the planet.
You do this all the time.
All the time, in the run-up to James Comey's decision, they're all, James Comey isn't a political figure at all.
He's a man of complete probity and integrity, and he will do the right thing.
He's not a partisan figure.
not a democrat or a republican you're absolutely all these parade of people saying this stuff on the news And it turns out, as usual, Republicans got suckered again.
America, what you think of as America, is not going to be there after a Hillary Clinton presidency.
They're getting less, they're less and less interested in even pretending that they're not about a total transformation.
And your job is to shut up, just the way when your kids get sent to American universities and you've raised them as conservatives and they start to say something, then everyone says, no, you can't say that here.
You're intruding on my safe space.
You can't say that.
You can't do that.
You can't be that.
Think of the worst university campus in this country and imagine it stretching from Maine to Hawaii.
That's the world Hillary's building for you.
Mark Stein, back in a moment.
You know, the difference between Hillary's Press Corps and Trump's Press Corps is that Trump's Press Corps is existing in an openly oppositional relationship to him.
You may recall they were stuck on their plane last night and they were late and furious because Trump said he was going to, he joked about it and said they'd asked him to wait to start the event and he said, no, he was going to start without them, which is as it should be.
You don't keep the American people waiting because some reporters have managed to get there late.
So this morning, after getting rolled, as John King put it, they got played with this whole Trump, giving him a free half hour of airtime for this Bertha announcement.
The press corps now has decided that they're not going to show any of the video of Trump's new hotel.
Just to show him, just to teach him a lesson, just to show him.
And you compare this to the Hillary press corps where they're saying, what's that TV show she likes, the good wife?
So their question, when she finally agrees to take their questions, instead of asking her about this foady below the flim flam about what her health issues are, they say, oh, were you resting up at home enjoying the good life?
It's the good wife.
It's pathetic.
It's pathetic.
Mark Stein for Rush.
We'll close it out in just a moment.
Hey, the great man is going to be back behind the golden EIB microphone on Monday.
Don't miss that.
As for me, I get to flee back across the border.
It's worrying to me because, as usual, celebrities are threatening to move to Canada if the election doesn't go that way.
And normally it's just Alec Baldwin you have to worry about.
But Lena Dunham is threatening to move to Canada if Trump wins.
They always want to move to Canada, by the way.
They never want to move to Mexico for some reason.
I don't know what that, I don't know what that reason could be, but it's always Canada that they're going to move to.
And Lena Dunham is currently threatened.
So it's not just you.
Usually, you have to worry about Alec Baldwin and Barbara Streisand, or you think, well, I don't really want Alec meeting Alec in the laundry room of my condo building or whatever.
But I could just about put up with it.
But if Lena Dunham is actually going to flee to Canada, then I think the first Canadian political party that proposes building a Canadian border wall and getting the Americans to pay for it is absolutely going to sweep to power.
But we shall see.
My bet is that on November, whatever it is, Lena Dunham and Co.
will all be here.
It's not just that they, but I think you should ask them this: why don't you move to any of the places you talk up all the time, like Mexico?
Why do you only ever decide you're going to move to Canada?
It's been a great show for me.
A great honor to be here behind this microphone talking about a very consequential election.
Think seriously.
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