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Sept. 22, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 22, 2016, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
We are back at it behind the golden EIB.
Microphone, Rush Limbaugh at 800-28282 and the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
So I got an email last night.
You better turn on a TV.
You won't believe what you see in Charlotte, so I turned on the TV.
And my first thought I looked, I thought it was an otake from a Beyonce video.
And then I figured out it was more rioting that was going on.
Yeah, it's just amazing.
And all of this, you know the thing that amazes me about this, it's predictable.
Like I said yesterday.
Protests, these are not protests.
These are riots.
Riots are become the new norm.
We now expect them.
I don't with expectation comes tolerance.
And I don't know how far down the road we are on that.
But folks, this is none of this.
Well, a lot of this doesn't make any sense if you don't have a foundational understanding of what's driving these things.
Some of this isn't going to make sense.
We'll get to it all in um in due course.
But I want to make some observations here right off the bat.
Trump was in Pittsburgh, is in Pittsburgh, just finished making a speech.
In fact, may still be making it works uh have bumped out of it.
But he was talking about a theme.
He was speaking about a theme that he has been on a lot lately.
We need to fix our wounded country.
That is very succinct.
It's very true.
And it even possibly a unifying message.
Trump has been talking a lot about unifying lately.
Same time he talks about the need for law and order.
And I hope that he means that we we have to unify on the need for law and order.
And of course, unify means we all need to come together, but I don't know where the commonality is here.
This has always been my beef with people who say that we we need to come together and work together.
Okay, well, what do I have in common with some of these people on the left?
Where do, where does our different world views overlap?
Where is the commonality?
You look at what's going on in Charlotte here, and and the black police chief, you have a black cop, you have a largely African American city council.
They're all being hung out to dry by the civil rights community.
Well, now I should say the rioters, the protesters, the black lives matter.
And they're running around talking about how white people are the devils, white people not involved in this one.
This particular police shooting didn't involve white people.
You see, it doesn't matter.
What if it should, because when this stuff first started, what they wanted us to believe, what white cops were in essence murdering innocent young black men, like in Ferguson, don't you know?
Which of course now we know was a total lie.
Everything about that was a narrative that wasn't true.
But from then it it goes, even they even went so far as to have to call uh uh the the guy down in Florida, what was his name?
The hurt the white Hispanic.
They George Zimmerman, yeah, it in order to make it racial.
They took his Hispanic guy to call him a white Hispanic.
So the narrative they have built is this is a white power problem.
White power as exemplified in the police departments.
White power as exemplified, illustrated in city governments.
But we're talking about the South now, where many of these states and large cities are run by African American governors and mayors.
And in this instance, that has uh that has turned Charlotte into a uh well, whatever you want to call it.
We we now have uh no racial component at all.
So what's driving this?
Well, there you get to the real answer of what this is really all about, and you see that uh race is the pretext, but even when race isn't a factor, it doesn't stop any of this, does it?
So everybody pushing for racial harmony, well, there wasn't any racial disharmony here.
Not in this specific incident.
Not denying that there is legitimate racial disharmony elsewhere, but in this specific incident, there wasn't.
So the ingredients necessary for black lives matter to exist are not present here.
The ingredients for the angry civil rights coalitions to be fit to be tied and want a riot, they're not present here.
And these clowns even went in and they they looted or raided the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
You know, that's according to Hillary, people go in there to deplorables.
This is why I think that this kind of thing is going to end up backfiring on Hillary and the Democrats.
Because when you get right down to it, folks, when you get right down, we're in the second term of the first presidency, African American presidency in a country.
First, we're in the last year.
So we're in eight years of the first presidency of an African American.
And they are madder than I can remember them being since Watts in the 1960s.
How?
Why?
Where's all the hope and change?
At some point do these people rioting not have to start asking their questions of different people.
Because you see, folks, when you get right down to it, I can understand some of the rage these people feel.
I damn well can.
I can understand why a lot of these people are mad, but I think their anger is misdirected.
Particularly as illustrated by this incident.
If I were African American in this country, and if I lived in an inner city neighborhood, like a lot of these people, I would be fit to be tied to, because I would have been voting Democrat all these years on the premise that those people are going to help me out of here.
That these people are going to get even with the people that put me here.
That these people and Democrats are going to get even with the people that won't let me out of here.
And after eight years of the most power African Americans have had in this country ever, it's worse.
It's caused more anger, and it's understandable.
You have to admit, folks, the anger in many cases is legitimate.
You've been voting for the same people for 50 years and you are regressing?
You've been voting for the same people for 50 years, and you have the same complaints, amplified and multiplied, I would be mad too.
They're not mad for the reasons I would be mad.
They're mad for made-up reasons.
But it doesn't take away the fact that they're mad.
And it doesn't take away from the fact that in many cases the anger's legitimate.
What's Hillary Clinton done for anyone?
What has Barack Obama done?
I don't think did Obama even ask for calm yesterday.
I yeah, me too.
If he did, I missed it.
Most presidents, in an event like this where day two or night two is thought to be potentially even worse, you try to do what you can to tamp it down.
I don't think Obama has done that at all.
It's just like we've asked about Ferguson and elsewhere.
We have to ask, where is Obama?
Why hasn't Obama spoken out and actually told the facts about what actually happened in Charlotte?
You know, the president could have could have shut down Ferguson if he would have just come out and said, Look, hands up, don't shoot, didn't happen.
I know, folks, I know, I know he wasn't gonna do it.
I'm making a point here.
I'm not longing for what could have been.
I'm trying to illustrate a point to everybody here.
Obama isn't interested, apparently doesn't show any in stopping this stuff.
He doesn't show any interest in correcting massive misunderstandings, which are easily disproved by existing facts.
All Obama had to come out and do there wasn't a white cop involved here.
Black lives matter, what's going on?
Who you mad at?
You met at cops, you met at white cops, you're mad at white people, the brother of the victim in Charlotte claims all white people are devils.
there wasn't a white person involved here.
The Nation of Islam guy came out yesterday and said that everybody starts to need to start boycotting white businesses.
Well, fine, but they don't have anything to do with this.
There's not a white person involved in this incident.
Is turning out the black vote so important to Obama and Hillary and the Democrats that they are willing to sacrifice another city to do it?
And therein, ladies and gentlemen, lies the answer.
Hillary Clinton's having trouble mobilizing the African American voting constituency that has showed up for Obama.
The Democrats, particularly Hillary, can't win.
How about Obama going out there and imploring black people to vote for Hillary for him?
You know what?
You gotta save my legacy.
My legacy's in deep trouble because nobody likes it.
Well, you know what?
I'm really worried that my presidency isn't going to amount to anything in history books if you don't vote for Hillary.
You gotta do it for me.
Really?
What has he done for any of these people whose anger is legitimate?
You see the black unemployment rate?
Black teenage unemployment rate?
I mean, nothing to brag about here.
Serious questions.
So another city on the ropes, another city's police department being gazed at from afar by the Department of Justice, they can go in and take over another one.
And while we're asking questions, where are all the moderate black leaders decrying the rioting and the looting in Charlotte?
Or is that like asking where are all the moderate Muslim leaders decrying Islamic supremacist terrorism?
Seriously, is every African American leader as radicalized now as Black Lives Matter, or is it such that they're just too intimidated to be moderates in the face of all of this?
Where's the so-called fear of the police we keep hearing about?
And we keep hearing that there's massive fear of the police in these neighborhoods.
The protesters seem to me to be so unafraid that they are going up and grabbing cops when they aren't throwing rocks or fireworks at them.
Did you see UK Daily Mail has a story that a guy drove through one of the protests armed?
He had a gun.
He was white.
He had a gun, his left arm's out the window of the car, the gun's hanging down, he's got it in his hand.
And the story is they let him through.
Now there's an open carry law in Charlotte, but not during a protest.
Or riot.
You cannot carry when there's a protester riot going on.
And strangely enough, that law seems to largely be obeyed.
There's some exceptions, but this guy, his little car goes right through just driving around.
Nobody did a thing to him.
They backed out of the way, they made a pathway, and on he went.
What are we to make of that?
You mean the fear of the gun is what let the guy.
That's what you mean, but you think common sense prevailed in the common sense here is uh oh, that guy's got a gun, we don't want to mess with this, let him go.
That's that's what you think.
So you mean yet another sterling example of how the gun control attitudes of these leftists is also made pointless.
Because here's a guy with a gun, and nothing happened to him, and nobody made a move on him.
They backed out of the way and let the guy drive through.
Now there's some arguments on social media that he wasn't really black.
By the way, there's an info babe that posted this, and she's not a regular tweeter.
And so now they're coming after her for uh, you only saw his arm, you can't possibly know what color he was.
And she's insisting, yeah, not only was he white, but the other guy in the car with him was too.
No, there isn't any fear of the police.
What's going on here is the total lack of respect for police.
But we have a black police chief.
We have a black mayor.
Wasn't that supposed to mean something too?
I mean, in the in the in the sense of demonstrating, hey, progress is being made here.
Real positions of political power are being legitimately won by African Americans.
The mayor's being thrown under the bus.
Not the mayor is uh is a white woman, but the city council, the police chief, they're all being thrown under the bus.
The black cop, they're all being thrown under the bus here in a supposed racial riot.
So what really is at work here is that truth is not what matters here.
Black lives matter is what is going on.
And what's driving this is the need for outrage in the black community because of the need for black voter turnout.
That is why Obama hasn't made move one to tamp this down.
This is why Hillary hasn't made move one to tamp this down.
They need the chaos cabono.
Who benefits?
They need the chaos, they need the rage, they need the anger, they need all of this, the playing of the race card to generate black turnout for Democrats.
But then I know it isn't gonna happen, folks.
I'm just I'm just saying if if I were one of these people, if I were one of the African Americans living in these inner city neighborhoods, and I had been voting Democrat all these years, I'd I seriously, my anger might not be directed at a bunch of people I don't know, and the cops and this kind of thing.
I mean, because voting Democrat comes with a lot of things.
When you vote Democrat, you're voting for Santa Claus.
You're voting as a dependent, you're voting for the Democrat Party to do things for you.
You're voting for the Democrat Party to stop things happening to you.
And that's it's not working.
And meanwhile, as I say, Trump's out there literally talking about unity and literally reaching out to elements of the African American population all over this country, in inner city Democrat churches as well.
And then we learn that George Soros and the usual Democrat suspects are funding all of this.
Oh, that's another bit of evidence that this is desired.
I mean, if somebody's going to give money to see to it that this continues to happen, i.e.
donating to black lives matter and whoever, then they must want this because they must conclude that there's some benefit to them.
So turning out the black vote is so important to Obama and Hillary and the Democrats.
They're willing to sacrifice another American city to do it.
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So one of the what are the legitimate questions here of what's going on in uh in Charlotte and a number of other cities, since there's not a white cop involved here.
White cop did not shoot an innocent young black on his way to college walking down the street reading a book.
Black lives matter in this entire movement is based on white racism and prejudice, and there isn't any here.
So what's driving this?
Well, when I have puzzling questions like this, I realize that it might be wise to visit certain leftist websites to find a way of thinking that totally escapes me, and I succeeded.
I went to Salon.com, and I found a story that is devoted to this very subject.
The headline of this story that's such a column, and I don't know who wrote this piece.
Doesn't matter.
They're all the same at Salon.com except for Camille Paglia.
Anyway, the headline, why are cops okay with killing black people?
Now doesn't say black cops, but the point of this is everybody knows that this is a black cop.
Even though you went to Liberty University, it's a black cop.
This piece wouldn't be written if there's a white cop.
The headline wouldn't be written if a white cop had been involved.
Why are cops okay with killing black people?
Here you're ready for the answer?
Because American history teaches that we aren't fully human.
So whoever wrote this is African American.
And the for those of you confused why are African Americans Americans protesting when there's not a white cop involved here?
Ah, Salon can tell us.
Cops of all races are cool with killing black people because American history has taught everybody that black people are not fully human.
That's the justification for it.
So once again, America at large at fault.
America as founded at fault, and there's no way to change or fix that, folks.
Back in a sec.
So what we're gonna see here, we're gonna see a um, we're gonna see an increased media presence in Charlotte.
Uh, even when we reach the time where tensions have subsided a bit.
Uh there are plain loads of drive-by's, even as I speak, probably on the way to Charlotte, even now with their cameras, because they just they can't wait to get there.
Because this is all about black turnout.
This is in in a specific sense.
This is about winning North Carolina for Hillary.
Hey, can't believe it, folks.
They can't believe where they are.
They can't believe this is happening.
They can't believe that Hillary isn't running away with.
In fact, grab audio soundbite number.
It's uh the effort to keep things organized.
Yeah, it's number one.
Here we go.
The effort to keep things organized has already begun.
Um this is Mrs. Clinton last night in a video conference with the Laborers International Union of North America.
Why aren't I 50 points ahead, you might ask?
Well, the choice for working families has never been clearer.
I need your help to get Donald Trump's record out to everybody.
Nobody should be fooled.
Why aren't I 50 points ahead?
Can you believe she said that?
I mean, they are all thinking that.
Why aren't I 50 points ahead?
She doesn't think she should have to do a job.
That's the point.
She doesn't think she should have to be working at all to affect this 50-pointly because Trump is such a reprobate, such a bad guy, and so horrible and so unprofessional and so out of it and so not an insider that Trump wouldn't not even stand a chance.
She shouldn't, it shouldn't matter she stays in bed four out of every seven days.
It shouldn't matter she seizes up.
It shouldn't matter she has to go to ER.
It shouldn't matter any of this.
Why aren't I 50 points ahead?
You gotta get the word out.
I need your how much money she already spent trying to get the word out.
Who in the world doesn't know about Donald Trump?
Donald Trump's got more name recognition than she's got.
Or at least as much.
There ain't anybody who doesn't know about Trump.
This is, if I might succinctly remind you of something.
All the way back in the primaries, I tried to tell everybody opposing Trump That you can't do it by trying to tell people who he is.
They already know.
Trump is more well known than anybody else in the Republican field.
He's as well known as Hillary, uh, as well known as Obama.
There's nothing anybody you that in other words, that's not ammunition for you.
Telling people who Trump is.
They already know.
And yet what's Hillary want to do?
And of course, it doesn't matter.
She's continuing to run this this playbook that is decades old, that does not account for the fact, I mean any of the specifics of her opponent.
It really is fascinating.
Folks, to watch this, to watch the Democrats and all of their super consultants like Bob Schrum.
They really don't know what to do.
They build their campaign playbook, as do the Republicans, based on time Honored experience and tradition and focus groups and marketing and demographics, all kinds of historical references, and none of that applies here, but they don't know how to adapt to it.
They've never seen a game plan like this.
Trump doesn't even know from day to day what the game plan is, although he's getting a little bit more disciplined about it lately.
They don't know how to go up against this.
And Hillary is displaying this with her shrieking plea to these union guys.
Why aren't I 50 points ahead?
And part of that is she blaming them.
But mostly she's plaintiffly asking, why aren't I 50 points ahead?
Don't they know?
This is mine, it's my coronation.
None of that applies.
But let me take a stab at this.
Nevertheless, Hillary wants to know why she's not 50 points ahead.
I'm sure you could help her as well.
Let's see if I can help explain it to her.
Benghazi, four Americans dead, and your reaction was to lie about a video being responsible, and then to say, what difference does it make now that four Americans died?
People heard that.
Libya, absolute disaster.
Syria, where Mrs. Clinton wants a hundred thousand additional Syrian refugees pouring in the country.
By the way, you ready for this?
Little trip back down memory lane before I tell you.
Remember the negotiation period when uh Obama was working with John Kerry, working with supposed moderate Iranians on a on a great deal with the Iranians that ultimately was going to allow them nuclear weapons.
Remember the Corker bill.
And remember the original thought of the Corker Bill, most people like you and me thought, ah, the corker bill.
That's the Republicans are gonna step in there and they're gonna stop this from happening because there's no way.
It doesn't make any sense.
Why would we facilitate the world's state sponsor of terrorism getting a nuclear weapons arsenal?
The Corker Bill did the exact opposite.
The Corker Bill actually, by the way it was written and functioned, facilitated Obama and John Kerry getting the deal.
And then we found out why.
We found out why that Republicans and members of the establishment wanted sanctions raised against uh Iran.
Iran's infrastructure was dilapidated, collapsing.
Their national airline was a disgrace.
We learned that Boeing had, as part of the process of contributing to Republicans, had advocated for the lifting of sanctions so that the Iranians would have money to buy Boeing jet liners to replace their aging commercial fleet.
Just today or last night, I just got the news story.
Obama has given the ultimate green light for Boeing to accept contracts from Iran for the purchase of new jet liners to modernize their national air fleet.
And that's one of the many reasons why the Iranian nuke deal happened.
Because donors wanted the Iranians to have enough money to be able to buy jets.
Well, I'm just putting all this in the kill.
People know this.
People understand it.
They may not be totally up to speed on things like that, but they don't know why in the world we are helping the nuke, uh the Iranians nuke up.
We don't.
We know that doesn't make a sense to them.
Hillary's hidden email server, this could be another thing, Mrs. Clinton, why you aren't 50 points ahead, dealing in classified material that you didn't seem to care.
You didn't seem to care whether it was Private or not, lackadaisical, plus you're trying to hide things from people, you're not honest.
How about your shockingly ill health, Mrs. Clinton?
I mean, you just can't have these public episodes, seizures and near collapses and wandering eyes and all the others that we've seen.
The Democrats are living in fantasy land if they think people aren't noticing or if they think people won't care.
I actually saw a uh little blurb, I think it was yesterday, in advance of today's release of the latest NBC News Wall Street Journal poll.
And the blurb was that voters didn't really care about Hillary's sickness episode.
Didn't bother them at all.
And with the same token, they weren't bothered by something Trump said or did.
It was a it was a bipartisan, the American voter didn't care.
And I looked at it, and I frankly said, I'm sorry, I don't believe this.
I do not believe that people paying attention during a presidential year are not going to factor the health of one of the two nominees, particularly if it's as bad as Hillary's.
How about Mrs. Clinton saying that Trump's voters can be put into a basket of deplorables?
How about all these riots in the streets, smearing of local police, open borders, sanctuary cities?
Her voice.
She can't attract flies.
There was another.
She had another rally yesterday or the day before.
Folks, the number of people were in the hundreds.
The number was somewhere in the hundreds.
She just can't draw flies.
There is no magnetism.
There is no excitement to her rallies.
People don't care.
She's not likable.
She's not trustworthy.
I could go on and on.
Why aren't you 50 points ahead?
There are a whole lot of reasons.
Hurry you.
Welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limard.
Our phone's not working in there.
Well, what are you getting?
Well, just tell me.
What are you getting?
Very quickly.
At who?
At what?
Well.
Well.
Okay.
Well, anyway, uh, Mr. Sternley hasn't yet determined that a single call is worthy of being on the air yet.
We're in a 45 minutes into the program here.
So I'm asking him what what he's getting.
That's inside baseball here.
For some reason, he's very worried about those of you calling in and who you might be and what you might be saying.
I, of course, am totally in the dark because I'm not talking to you.
So grab Soundbites 19 and 20.
I was 18 and 19, sorry.
I was at home last night, as I thought I was watching outtakes from a Beyonce video before I realized it was Charlotte.
And I get an email from a friend ranking in uh Republican Party politics of some years ago, not still at the present, said, You won't believe you have got to watch Bill Crystal on Fox.
It is hilarious.
Well, I didn't have Fox on.
And it it it uh it had already happened, so I wrote back.
I said, Well, what happened?
I didn't see it.
Well, go find it and stream it.
And I said, Well, this is not helpful.
Just tell me what happened.
So I never found out last night what happened.
And I got in here and lo and behold, Cookie had it on the soundbind roster.
And it is pretty good.
Bill Crystal was on with Britt Hume last night.
This is the 7 p.m. Eastern hour on the Fox News Channel.
And Crystal is really worried.
Now remember, the note I got last night was from a former ranking, not a party official, former ranking official for a particular former ranking Republican big wig.
And the note was, you gotta see, you gotta see what Crystal did.
Of course, With no more than that.
So I don't know.
Go on.
Well, it turns out that Crystal is panicked because he's thinking Hillary might lose.
A leading Republican, conservative pundit.
Well, here, let's just listen to it.
I don't need to characterize it before you've heard it.
Brit Hume says to Bill Crystal, you have been warming warning some of your conservative colleagues that Trump's chances look better than people thought.
What tipped you off?
What gave you your view?
She's just had a very rough couple of weeks.
He made himself look more presidential and more acceptable.
When you're in a change environment, people will excuse a lot of flaws of the change candidates.
The interchange environment, the candidate of change has a big advantage.
The wind is naturally at his back, and Hillary Clinton is the status quo candidate.
I'm really mystified by her campaign.
If you ask people, and I'm really not saying this in a polemical way, just analytically, what changes will Hillary Clinton bring about?
What's the answer?
He's worried.
This is a conservative uh magazine publisher, worried that Hillary's blowing it.
And he says he's mystified by her campaign.
Bill, it's not hard to understand what's going on.
By the way, none of this means Trump's gonna end up winning.
Who knows?
I I'm not I've I'm not counting any chickens having hatched here yet.
But I'm not in the crowd that is worried if Hillary is performing poorly.
I applaud that.
I get excited when I think that Hillary is in the process of blowing it and is fading.
But these people on our side are getting concerned that she's gonna blow it.
And now they're saying they don't understand her campaign.
I really mystify it.
Now I don't I don't mean to sound condescending at all.
I'm just it's it's not.
You have to step out of the political realm that we've all been in all of our lives, because Trump's not in it.
And so a standard ordinary establishment, Washington establishment campaign with the requisite consultants and the proper fundraising and the allocation and the focus groups of the polling, and it's not applicable.
And the Democrats and apparently some of the Republicans have no idea how to adapt.
Here's the uh the next bit.
So Britt Hume said, well, it's a good question.
You know, also a good question, what her slogan stronger together actually means.
I mean, Trump's slogans make America great again.
You might not think he can do it.
You might think it's sophomoric or whatever, but it's clear and it reflects a lot.
What is sophomoric about make America great again?
What is I remember Nancy Reagan's drug policy, just say no, and they mock that.
And yet that is a solution.
Why make fun of that?
Why mark it?
Just say no.
Make America great again.
What is sophomoric about this?
Oh, yeah, that's so trite.
That's, of course, that's just that's that's meant to really appeal to the hoi polloi, but we know that's just kind of fantasy.
Make America great again.
What does that mean?
And then to add, probably can't do it anyway, but at least he's got a slogan and Hillary does it.
Hillary's slogan is stronger together.
That's Hillary's slogan is do it for her.
That's Hillary's slogan.
So Hume's question, what is your take on Trump's slogan versus Hillary's slogan?
Hillary Clinton's entire message is Donald Trump is horrible, he's terrible.
I'm not pro-Trump, so I'm not unsympathetic to parts of that message, but you can't simply, I don't think, run for president by trying to disqualify your opponent.
And what she said is in effect, Donald Trump can't become president.
It's just too horrible.
Friends don't let friends vote for Donald Trump.
She needs to have some positive message.
I'm sure she'd take your call.
Because she needs all the help she can get from people that want her to do well, and from people worried she's not doing this right.
So any of you out there know how to beat Trump.
I don't have the number to Hillary's campaign, but I'm sure somebody could get it for you.
Did you see it has gotten so bad, so desperate in a Hillary campaign that some of the cast of the old TV show, The West Wing are campaigning for her.
Did you see that?
My friends, do you realize what you have in me?
I I m I can't tell how many years ago the left, when that show was on, it was during the uh the Bush presidency, and they really fought Martin Sheen was president.
The left engaged in their fantasy land, and West Wing was the real government to them.
That's how they stayed sane.
And so now Hillary has gone gotten a cast from a TV show from 13,000 years ago to run around out there and campaign for her.
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