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Sept. 21, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 21, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Greetings.
And welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being, should be allowed to have here behind the golden EIB microphone.
Here's another story.
This is actually it's a it's a column, I guess, by Chris Steirwalt, the political director at Fox News.
And he starts his piece today.
How many times?
How many times have I said to you, in fact, even on today's broadcast, when talking about Hillary and her campaign, it wasn't supposed to be this way.
They were supposed to have this wrapped up.
Trump was going to be, don't you understand, a cake walk?
Those dumb Republicans, they stupid idiots.
Look at what they've done.
They've nominated the absolute worst cupcake they could ever throw up.
They looked at this as like Ohio State versus West Overy University.
It wasn't even supposed to be a contest.
This was not how it's supposed to be.
And they are panicking in the inner sanctum of the Democrat Party.
And they're panicking over a lot.
They're panicking over the fact that Hillary is not liked and respected and popular.
They're panicked over the fact that still being a Clinton is not enough to get her with a 10-point lead or greater.
They're panicked over the fact that she's not trustworthy.
They're panicked over the fact that she doesn't have the stamina and the energy to even get on the campaign trail.
They are panicked and worried that she's going to have something go wrong physically during the debate.
They are worried about a lot.
And they never saw it coming.
This is the beautiful thing about it.
They were so cocky.
They were so certain.
They were so self-absorbed.
Man, I'll tell you that the attitude the Democrats copped and many Republicans in the primaries are the attitudes that anybody worth their salt teaching you when you were a young person tells you never, ever, ever think it's over before it's over.
Never ever think you have won something before it's over.
Never think it's over until it is.
Never ever cop an arrogant attitude, because it's always likely to come back and bite you.
And this is Steierwalt in his piece today, has let me give you two pull quotes from it.
The possibility, and he has to write this stuff.
I mean, this is in journalism 101, this is this is you have your premise, and then you allow that you could be wrong.
The possibility still exists for the kind of election that Clinton expected.
But with five days until the first debate, that's not how it's shaping up.
Instead, preceding her coronation, Clinton finds herself in a daily dog fight against a rival who will say or do anything to win.
Does she still have enough energy left to win?
Does she have enough time?
Who knows?
But don't ask her and her campaign.
If they could forecast the future that well, they wouldn't be in this fix in the first place.
You know that question about energy?
Does she does she still have the enough energy left to win?
How long do you think they've known she's got problems?
They have to have known for a long time.
They have to have known that she's got a stamina problem.
They they have to have known.
I mean, she's not been a hermit in the sense that she hasn't lived such a way as to hide all this.
So they have to have known.
So I would think that the fact that Trump won the nomination was probably a huge sigh of relief, because I will bet you that along with his arrogance and cockiness with Trump ending up as the opponent, I am sure they said to themselves, boy, this is the best thing could have happened.
She's not gonna have to campaign every day to beat this guy, because this guy's gonna defeat himself.
This guy's gonna implode, he's may not even be in the race by the time we get to election day.
So they were probably breathing a huge sigh of relief.
And with every one of these episodes, and I'm gonna tell you something, folks.
The media is downplaying this as, of course would.
How many of you, let me just ask you this.
How many of you are old enough to have remembered or have seen it perhaps replayed?
That moment when John Hinckley attempted to assassinate Ronaldus Magnus, and there was chaos, and they hustled him into that into the limousine.
I mean, literally shoved him in the limousine in the Secret Service did, and that limousine took out of there at full speed.
Do you remember the if you if you were around then, maybe the early 80s and you saw this, that's a powerful image.
Your president just got shot.
And you have no idea.
And the first reports were that it wasn't serious, that the shot may have even missed the president, that James Brady took the brunt of it, and then you learn later that Reagan is in life-threatening surgery, life-threatening circumstances and surgery.
Well, I'm here to tell you that video on the Sunday of 9-11.
Media is going to de-emphasize this or going to downplay it, but I guarantee you the people in the intersanctum of the Clinton campaign are not.
That video where she seizes and nearly collapses and is bobbing up and down and nearly falls to the ground, just trying to enter a van, which is there because she has to leave a 9-11 event early because she has fallen ill or something.
People who have seen it, and that thing has been recycled and replayed on YouTube gazillions of times.
And this is one of these things that drive by sense, they're not playing that video.
They are allowing themselves to, they're fooling themselves into believing it has no impact in it.
We're not playing that video.
Nobody really saw that.
And besides, we've explained it.
She just lost a shoe.
She was fine an hour and a half later.
It was no big deal.
But it it was and remains so.
I mean, a person's running for president.
Forget who it is.
Anyone in that video.
That's a two or three gulper when you see that.
And you don't forget it.
And then in every day following when Mrs. Clinton can't make a campaign, she got canceled, a campaign appearance yesterday.
And now the Clinton campaign says, well, yeah, she's resting up for the debates.
Well, the debates are what?
Ten days?
Five?
I forget.
It's at least a number of days.
I mean, you don't rest that long for a single event.
But she is.
She has to.
Then there was another video yesterday, and I didn't put in what Stockham is at first.
But then last night I looked at it a little bit.
Have you seen this with Mr. Mr. Sterling's got back from a very important conference?
Hillary was speaking someplace, I forget where, but her eyes appeared to be darting independently of coordination.
It's a strange you you might not even notice it unless you're told to look for it.
And then after you're told to look for it, you can't miss it.
The left eye and the right eye are going at different directions at the same time, a couple or three times, and the eyes are darting left and right while the head is not.
And then you start remembering, yeah, I remember that other episode where all of us she's talking to a reporter and she starts nodding her head up and down and laughing and so forth, and it's unless she was just telling a joke.
Oh, okay, and so you probably forget it.
But when you see all these things, all these other things come to mind again.
You remember what you've seen.
My point here, they are worried about all of this.
This stuff has a cumulative effect, and Mrs. Clinton is not running a campaign that looks like somebody filled with energy and desire and really, really wants this.
This is looking more and more like somebody who feels entitled, Like it is a coronation, like it's expected, and doesn't really have to do that much for it.
Or it looks like somebody who's just not up to it.
Yeah, I that picture of her on the plane where she that's an I could not believe that her handlers allowed her to walk to the back of the airplane looking like that.
The same thing.
I couldn't believe her handlers allowed her to continue that four-minute coughing spasm without, you know, Tim Kane should have stood up there and grabbed the microphone and taken over, been a little chivalrous instead of standing there clapping and laughing like she's cracking jokes.
Yeah, they sent her back to talk to the little press gaggle there on uh Hillary Force One, Hildebeast one.
And uh I I forget what even she was talking about.
But she's trying to look somber and everything, but man, it did it didn't work.
So uh rather than contemplating her cabinet, Clinton is instead working desperately to prevent panic in Democrat quarters as weeks of poor performance leave her with only a whisker of a lead in the national contest and trailing in some key states.
Remember, where this was supposed to be a blowout.
There was supposed to be an obliteration of Donald Trump.
So I'm glad other people are catching up on this.
This is not how it was supposed to be.
And it just means that there's panic out there in the Democrat sectors, then you're not going to see it.
You just have to know it.
Now I want to go some soundbites here because I I mentioned the NFL in the last hour.
We've had two weeks of the NFL now.
Uh opening night ratings down, the Thursday night opener between the Broncos and the uh and the Panthers down.
Then the first Sunday night name down.
Then the first Monday, even a Steelers, the Steelers are normally ratings gold.
They have the biggest national fan base outside the Cowboys.
It's close nip and talk.
That game, Steve, there's Redskins was down.
Either and compared to last year and compared to previous years.
Week two comes along.
All the primetime games down again, the Sunday night primetime game on NBC down, Monday night NFL.
That was a yawner.
The Bears and the Eagles.
And so now we've got two weeks of data.
The NFL's numbers are down between 11 and 12, 14%.
They tell you that they're no, no, we're not panicking.
Yeah, of course not.
Because they're still miles ahead of anything else on TV at the time, but you still can't miss the trend.
And you know, it's funny because all these these sports writers are wringing their hands trying to explain it.
What in the world?
Why why what we don't quite understand it?
And so they're asking, is it because Brady is suspended?
Is it because there aren't that many stark quarterbacks like who is Dak?
What's his name in Dallas?
Dak Prescott, right.
And uh, and then they'll start running back in Dallas, and then there's no.
I mean, there's that's what the sport writers are asking.
The answer is right in front of their face.
I mean, the sports writers, if you if if you really want to know, the sports media is contributing to the ratings decline by virtue of the way they've decided to report on a game.
The NFL front office is the Republicans, and the players are the victimized minorities.
The referees are the cops, and that's how football's being reported today.
And football, sports, is where people go to get away from that garbage.
You get away from fantasy football, the word fantasy, what the hell be football, sports, that's where you go to get away from all of that that you can't escape the other days of the week.
But with the media bringing all of this cultural and Societal stuff straight into the league and the players, players helping out by acting like victims and perpetrators, gives the media the perfect opportunity to write about football as though it's not football.
It's just another element of American culture where there's racism and bigotry and rich Republicans who don't respect people and what have you.
And they wonder, and then so you have guys like Capernick.
Stop it.
Colin Capernick, if it weren't for football, would have to go out and get a loan to buy a car like anybody else.
It doesn't wash.
Colin Capernick, a second string quarterback trying to become famous for wanting everybody to know he doesn't think this is any great place, and he doesn't think it's any great flag.
And they think that people are going to just ignore this or embrace it, and then other players want to get on any action and they start copycatting this.
And then you've got members of the military say, you NFL players, you really want to compare yourselves to what we do.
You really think you're brave sitting down for the national anthem?
You really think you've got courage by putting your fist in the air when the anthem's playing?
You think because you put on shoulder pants and a helmet that you're brave and courageous?
Try body armor and an AK-47 at minimum wage with people shooting bullets at you instead of throwing footballs at you.
This is what people are saying.
And I, Il Rushbow, ever prescient back on 9-11.
Well, this is actually August 30th, when when Capernick first started this Caper.
I want to repeat, I want you to listen because I issued the following warning, which looks like, after two weeks of data that it might have been on to something.
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 and go do something else.
It's not that hard.
And people apparently now, after two weeks are demoing that.
We'll see when Brady comes back in Cleveland in a couple of weeks, whether he can revive the I'm being facetious, of course.
Let's take another time out, folks.
Be right back.
Look, lest anybody misunderstand you in the heat of battle and the pitch of emotion.
I'm not when I when I sit here and chronicle the at the moment problems of Hillary and her campaign.
I don't want anybody thinking I think this is over by any stretch.
I don't.
I have no idea what's going to happen here.
And I don't think the pollsters do either.
And the polling, as we've demonstrated, can be interpreted in in any number of ways.
All we know is for certain that this is not the way the Democrats thought this was going to go.
It's not anywhere near where they thought Hillary was going to be.
And all these other negatives that are attaching to Hillary are things that were unexpected and maybe not accounted for or planned for.
But it doesn't mean that this – I don't want anybody to infer from what I'm saying here that I'm predicting a Hillary loss and Trump win.
I'm not at the point of doing that on either side here.
But I do.
I have a soundbite coming up.
You're going to hear it.
Um it's a Washington.
Well, here, let's just play it.
I got time to squeeze it in.
This is another thing they didn't have to plan on.
This is Wolf Blitzer's show this afternoon.
He's talking with uh Washington Post reporter Abby Phillip about the African American vote and how it's not energized behind Hillary.
And oh no, what are they going to do it?
Turnout in general is going to be important, and how are they going to fix this for Hillary?
When I talk to people who are close to the White House, they say the president and the first lady are pretty sure at this point that they're going to have to take this on themselves.
They're going to have to be out there in Philadelphia and in those suburbs and in North Carolina and in other places where she really needs African American turnout to be close to the levels that he had them at in 2012 in order to compensate for what is likely to be a loss among white voters going into this election.
So the president, we saw that from him in the last week.
He is really fired up about this because he knows that his entire legacy is on Hillary Clinton's shoulders right now.
Right.
Now stop and think of that.
That cannot be a comforting thing.
If you're Barack Hussein, oh, and you're sitting there with your wife telling you what for about your legacy, and you realize that it's on Hillary Clinton's shoulders, you're not going to leave it at that.
So this is a Washington Post reporter saying, look, the Obamas know that in order to save his legacy, they're going to have to go out and get the black vote for Hillary because she can't do it.
I don't think this was part of the original plan, if you ask me, I think.
But Obama will be happy to do it.
He loves to go out on a campaign trail and make it all about him.
Just say it.
Okay, time to head back to the phones.
This is Bill in Los Angeles.
Bill, great to have you with us here on the EIB network today.
Hello.
Hey, how are you?
Just I'm I'm one of that 11 to 14 percent.
You are one of the 11 to 14 percent of what?
The NFL dropped.
Oh, oh, you are, you've stopped watching.
Oh, yes.
And uh the games that I did kind of tune into, I refuse to buy any of their products.
What brought this on?
Is it the Capernick type stuff?
Absolutely it is.
My dad served in the military for this case for 29 years.
You know, I'm not gonna take that stuff.
I um I put myself in the position of people in the NFL office who, in this incarnation, are the rich Republicans in terms of the way the media treats them.
And uh and and Roger Goodell is George W. Bush, literally hated and despised, may as well have taken the NFL into a rock.
I think I wonder if they I I don't think they understand when the Capernick stuff starts and their players pick it up.
I I wonder if the people in the NFL office think, you know, we should allow it because it's where the culture's going and we gotta be hip and we've got to be open to free expression or all that.
Well, I don't think they understand that most of their fans expect owners, coaches in the leagues to stamp that stuff out.
Well, they're the ones who are paying them, so they should.
Well, that's another thing.
I don't uh And that leads me into what I, you know, uh what I call the talk about.
Go ahead.
It's just a case of lawlessness.
You see, I'm one of I'm I'm African American, and I never voted for Obama.
And I told friends not to vote.
And and do you know how many people who voted for him?
Well, friends of mine who call me back and apologize to me.
Really?
Yeah, and I knew exponentially that the nation would get worse because of the culture of lawlessness.
This guy was a community rabble riser.
You know, uh he's anti uh constitution.
He he's an abortionist.
So that spirit is gonna, you know, fed over the nation while he's president.
Yeah.
And look at it today.
It's a spirit of lawlessness.
That's how community agitation and organiz organizers accomplish what they accomplished, get people to behave inside the law.
In fact, you know, to make your point, let me tell you a little short short story.
What when I first started this program, and I we first got our affiliate in Los Angeles.
And I went out there to do the show from there for a week and to get to know the people and uh let them know they'd made a very wise choice and so forth.
And they set up newspaper interviews, which is what they thought they would do.
And I'm talking some it was not the L maybe it was the LA Times.
I had I had a coffee or some of the LA Times, and they were at the point the AIDS and and gay activism was was going nuts and they were invading uh St. Patrick and throwing condoms at the Cardinal and and and general unrest.
And this reporter was totally sympathetic to it and thought that I was the meanest worst SOB on earth for not understanding it.
And she said it's the only way they can be noticed.
And I said, let me turn this around you know I'm a I'm I'm in the get noticed business.
I've got a radio front.
You seem to disapprove of what I do to get noticed.
But why do you think whatever I'm not breaking any laws all I'm doing is talking and you think I'm a reprobate and an irresponsible dangerous character.
These people are out there actually impacting lives whoever not not just this group, but every public protester like what happened in Ferguson you're talking about community organizers.
And it all boils down to ideology if the left is engaged in doing it the lawlessness then it's justified because that's what they have to do to be seen, to be heard and and to make so-called progress and so forth.
That's all they understand.
Yep.
But your point was we're going to elect a president who sanctions it and and pretty much promotes it or authorizes it or looks the other way at least so that's going to be the spirit of over the nation.
Now I have to do disagree with you with the riots if Trump gets elected.
I believe the whole spirit will change of the nation and I think people will come uh you know more American citizens wait a wait a minute let me make sure I understand you because I like the you th you think that so can I infer that you're a Trump supporter absolutely okay good that's what I thought.
So unequivocally you think when Trump wins that there's going to be this massive happiness this overwhelming spirit of positive change that is going to accompany Trump's win and because the number of people supporting Trump is huge I'm sure you believe the polls are not catching it.
The number of people that are going to be enthusiastic about this are going to dwarf the people opposed to it.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And I believe there are many people who vote Democrat will vote for Trump.
I took several people to see D'Souza's movie.
Yeah.
And they said they had no idea.
And these were black.
They said they had no idea.
And they said they would never vote Democrat again.
Well, unfortunately, that's not data.
I'm glad to hear it.
what we you know I can tell you a story you can tell me it's called anecdotal it's not data but it's encouraging not try you but you know the interesting thing is I I think not only is that happening I think the real hidden possible hidden so-called silent majority out there supporting Trump is really in this group of people that hasn't voted in a long time because they're so fed up in addition to the people who vote and who are registered.
I do think that Robert Costa of the Washington Post was right about the fact that there's a whole slew of people so fed up they haven't voted for a long time but they are registering now as Republicans.
You you disagree with that Mr. Snerdley are you yelling at a caller?
Okay.
Okay.
Then he must be yelling at a caller in there because he looks like he's chewing me out you know as I'm as I'm speaking here.
But I'll tell you something, Bill.
This is, well, I know, but this is so interesting.
Here's this guy calls from Los Angeles, and he's heard me predict what's going to happen if Trump wins.
And he's coming at this from, as a Trump supporter, this could be the greatest thing to happen to this country in 30 years, Trump getting elected, which a lot of Trump supporters think.
And so it would be quite natural to assume it's going to be a party.
And so he's worried I'm putting a damper on this.
I knew, see, I knew that I was trepidatious about making this.
prediction because I don't want to affect anybody's vote by predicting mayhem I don't want to cause people to become afraid to vote for Trump.
That's not but at the same time I was you know another caller asked me the question and I wanted to indulve in it and delve into it and answer it honestly.
But I just I'm fascinated by all this today.
We had two really great questions, and this guy, this guy Bill from Los Angeles, with the opposite perspective.
Bill, the only thing I I was not trying to put a damper on Trump's potential eventual win by any stretch of the imagination.
I'm simply simply doing what I always do, and that is deconstructing liberal Democrats and explaining to people who they are.
And they are going to be – well, it's really not predictable.
But the odds are they're going to be out of control.
But I don't want that to be a damper on anything.
that In fact, I think all these riots actually end up hurting Hillary.
I think they end up helping Trump.
If you must know.
That's what I think is happening.
I don't think any of this stuff's hurting Trump.
Despite the media trying to make it look like Trump is somehow responsible for it.
I think it's the exact opposite of that.
But please, you you you Trumpsters out there, I I've by predicting a the dissatisfaction, let's leave it at that, that the left would have over Trump victory.
I'm not arguing against a Trump win.
Don't misunderstand.
I just they've thrown everything they have at Trump.
And they're not through throwing things at Trump.
And if if they might folks, I'm talking about people going to lose their minds, is what I'm talking about here.
I'm talking about people are going to lose control.
I'm talking about people that are going to be just on the short side of insane.
Hillary Clinton's going to need to be nurse ratchet in defeat to help control these people, is what I'm talking about.
Lee in Kirkland, Washington, great to have you with us on the EIB network, hi.
Yes.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
Yes.
Thank you.
Hey, you asked a question at the beginning of the program here about who needed change to make things work better in race relations.
Yes.
The answer to that is Obama.
If he had held to his words of start with before he showed his final uh what he really was, uh but he started he stirred racial tensions and anti-police narrative all along.
And I think he's got two objectives.
One of us divide and conquer, and the other is uh he stated he wanted to have a federal police department as strong as our military.
He's well on his way to making that happen.
Yeah, and he wanted national health care, and he wanted a global economy that he basically ran, a global government and so forth.
And he believed the U.S. had created all kinds of t uh uh inexcusable errors since our founding it needed to be corrected.
Let me you're exactly right.
You're you're there's there are a couple of answers to the question I asked, and yours is number one.
And I want it for those that didn't hear the question, I've got a limited amount of time here, Lisa, I want to repeat it.
The setup is this.
You elect Obama, you vote for Obama 2008 because you believe the election of first black president's gonna mean an end to racial strife, or at least we're gonna be reversing our direction.
We're gonna have been on a road to where it's all gonna get better.
Because we will have made a statement.
America, how could we possibly be racist if we just elected an African American as president?
Well, my question was, well, for that to all happen, somebody has to change.
I mean, just because somebody's all of a sudden in the Oval Office of a different race, what has to change for race relations to improve?
Who has to change?
What is going to change, and who's gonna change just because Obama's there?
And if you start honestly thinking about that, you can go pretty deep with it.
And what Lee is saying here, well, obviously Obama was the guy that was gonna have to leave.
He was gonna have to hope and change was gonna have to mean something.
Hope and change hasn't it it hasn't.
There isn't a soul who believed that hope and change was something positive that has any idea now that it was.
But I mean, who were the racists that were gonna stop being racist after Obama was elected?
That's what was gonna have to happen.
Who who was okay, yo, you know what?
I'm racist, but since Obama won, I'm not.
Who was gonna do that?
Was a Klan gonna surrender and quit?
No.
How was it gonna happen?
That was the think peace question.
Well, that's it.
Uh, folks, sadly, three hours of the day where this country and life seems normal.
Over.
For today.
We'll do it again tomorrow.
Same time, 21 hours from now, as always.
Thank you so much for being with us.
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