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Sept. 22, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 22, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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Okay, here it is from the Hill.com.
NFL may move game out of Charlotte due to protests.
Greetings, my friends, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh behind this.
A golden EIB microphone here at the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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The National Football League and the Carolina Panthers are considering moving a game out of Charlotte this weekend.
Excuse me, due to mass protests that have overtaken a city.
The Panthers are in contact with the Charlotte Police Department, local and state officials, and the league office in New York over how to proceed, according to a statement released Thursday by the team's front orifice.
Now, USA Today and the Washington Post are reporting they're not moving the game.
They are going to play the game.
If they have to get the spets in there of whatever security services to protect people, they're going to do it.
They don't want to move this game.
last thing in the world they want to do is move this game.
You know, I say that, but I'm not...
I'm actually...
The way things are going and the trends that are...
You know, I'm just going to say, I wouldn't be surprised if they cave.
And move this game.
That would not surprise me.
I don't, I don't think it's going to happen, but I just want to get on record right now that if it does, I will not be the least bit surprised.
And I think you'd have a lot of sports drive-bys applauding the move.
And crediting the rabble rousers for making it happen.
I don't have any doubt about that.
A Charlotte Panther spokesperson said, We're in contact here with government officials, the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department and the NFL.
And we are continuing to monitor events as we prepare for Sunday's home games.
Don't you love that?
Everybody's monitoring it.
Yeah, we're monitoring events here, and we're taking a temperature of everything, and we're looking very closely.
What do you mean monitoring events?
What do you what more do you need to know?
The Panthers, as we learned mere moments ago, are scheduled to face the Minnesota Vikings at one o'clock at Bank of America State.
That's a reason to protest right there, the name of the stadium.
It's Bank.
An evil bank.
Bank of America to boot.
Ooh.
Double reason for getting mad.
Double reason for hatred.
You realize that they did uh you think I'm laughing a joke in Major League Baseball.
You remember they canceled two Baltimore Orioles games in the in the Freddie Gray aftermath.
And they played you they played one game and didn't allow the fans in there.
They played a game at Camden Yards, no fans in the stands, as a security measure.
The NFL is basically a television sport anyway.
So I can see that.
Can you see that doing this game with no fans allowed in?
What a message that is.
Hey, Baltimore, we're gonna let the teams play, but you can't come in.
You people in Baltimore, you're too prone to violence, and we can't let you come in for the safety of whatever.
So they canceled two games and they played one without the fans.
Don't laugh at the idea that they might move this game or take some other step because nothing makes sense.
Here's here's the Snerdley just whispered something to me in the IFB.
And it is true.
It is true.
This could be shut down in one night.
You could end this whenever you wanted to end it.
But we have, I think collectively as a society.
We have what's the word?
We have shrunken away, shrunken back from those kinds of measures because.
Well, yeah, we could shut it down if we do that, we're gonna make them even madder.
So they might, the next riot, they might even be worse than they are now.
The prevailing opinion is let's let them get it out of their system.
You know that was in play in Ferguson.
You're one of the nights in Ferguson.
The decision was made to let the looting happen and let the rioting happen.
Just let them get it out of their systems.
And remember, everybody's, what about those stores?
I mean, that's the job of the cops to protect people's property, and they're just letting these places be burdened down and looted?
Yes, under the pretext that this is how you let them get it out of their system.
So how would you shut it down in one day?
Just arrest, just start arresting people left and right for every violation that you see.
Ever.
Everybody acting outside of law, you arrest them and do you put them in jail?
You put them in jail.
So you add to the African American incarceration rate.
That, well, because the Jesse Jackson cares.
I mean, that's one of the big beefs here that there are innocent black men all over the world in jail, it shouldn't be.
Most of them here in the United States.
Everybody has a right.
You heard, you heard, you heard uh Janet Janet Lynch, not Janet.
Loretta Lynch say that she feels their pain.
When the Attorney General comes out and says, We respect your right and we feel your pain.
What's the message?
Keep torching.
Keep marching.
Hey, you want to see where this stuff can end up?
I have a story here from the UK Express.
It's a it's a London paper.
And the headline, Sweden in Chaos, number of no go zones increased as police lose control over violence.
Here's the lead.
In February, the Express UK, the newspaper, reported Sweden has seen a huge surge in crime since the start of the migrants crisis in Europe, with a rise in sex assaults, drug dealing, and children carrying weapons.
The forces increased lack of control, police forces increased lack of control in the country was revealed in a report by Sweden's National Criminal Investigation Service, where attacks on officers were detailed, including police cars being stoned by masked groups.
The figure has now been increased to 55 areas.
Fifty areas at the time are put on a blacklist, which are then divided into three categories from risk areas to seriously vulnerable.
It's now 55 areas on blacklist.
The Swedish police force are facing a crisis with three officers handing in their notice every day.
In other words, a uh uh a no-go zone is essentially where the cops just that whatever it's too dangerous to go there even for the cops.
They don't just let them what happens happens.
There's no attempt to arrest, there's no attempt to keep order, and the number of these no-go zones in Sweden continues to climb.
And because it is three cops a day are resigning.
This is what happens when you give into it.
This is what happens when you confer upon it legitimacy.
We are not investigating crimes, said a police officer in Sweden.
We don't have time to cover the call outs that we're tasked with.
So that's all due to the migrant crisis.
Now, in a related story from the Washington examiner, from our former old buddy Byron York, headline Clinton campaign, yes, the world has a right to emigrate to the United States.
Say, what?
Do people around the world have a right to move to the U.S.?
It's a bedrock belief of most conservatives that There is no such right.
The U.S. sets its own immigration policy, admits whom it chooses, and foreign nationals in foreign countries have no right to enter the U.S. But now Hillary Clinton says there is such a right, at least if a tweet from her campaign headquarters can be taken as a policy statement.
Here's what happened.
In his Monday speech on terrorism and immigration, Donald Trump said, quote, we want people to come into our country, but they have to come in legally through a process.
No one has a right to immigrate to this country.
It is the job of a responsible government to admit only those who expect to succeed and flourish here and really be proud of what they've done and where they came from.
They have to love our country, quote unquote.
Does anybody have a problem with that?
I remember back in the 90s, I announced a limbaugh version of foreign aid.
Back in the 90s when budgets were the subject of the day and how spending was out of control.
Notice how by the way that's now a new norm, too.
Out of control spending, yeah, you just expect it.
And a lot of people said, well, we really need to cut back into foreign aid budget.
We're giving way too much money away these foreign countries that don't like us.
And I said it's not that much money.
We can eliminate it, and it wouldn't make a difference anybody could notice.
But I said, theoretically, I agree with you.
I said, here's what I would do to revise foreign aid.
You want to get foreign aid?
You have to love America.
You have to openly profess your love for America.
You have to respect America, and then you have to express your gratitude for the aid we give you.
And if after we give you aid, you start criticizing us or undermining us, we're going to pull the aid package away, and you're going to be on the excrement list, and you're going to be on for a minimum of five years.
You have to have five years of great pro-American behavior and statements before you can get back in our good graces and get back in the foreign aid gravy train.
That's what I said I would do.
It was met with resounding applause by my TV audience and virtually anybody I shared it with.
And I hear in what Trump's saying much of what I said.
Hey, we love immigration, but we want people to come here who want to be Americans.
We want people to come here who love America, who want to be part of this country, who are proud of who they are and love America.
Is there anything wrong with that?
Is our immigration policy because of our Constitution?
Does it have to be a suicide pact?
Do we have to allow people into this country who hate America to show what great people we are?
To demonstrate our principles, to demonstrate our commitment to freedom.
Do we have to open our country up to people who hate it and want to undermine it?
I don't think so.
But many on the left think that's the test.
Yeah, you really committed to freedom?
Yeah, are you?
Well, will you let people in this country hate America?
If you won't, then you don't believe in freedom.
That's what some of these cockamamy local weeds on the left say.
After this speech that Trump gave, the Hillary campaign in Ohio tweeted out the story of a Libyan who came to the US United States on a student visa in 1994, was not able to renew it, and simply stayed in the country illegally.
He didn't live in the shadows.
He settled in Dayton, founded the Islamic Federation of Ohio, and the Islamic Center for Peace.
After 20 years, he received permanent residency in 2015.
In the story headline, Donald Trump would have kicked my family out of the country.
The man's son, whose name was given as Mohammed G, wrote, There was no way that I can let a person that disrespects my father and other immigrants win the White House.
On Monday, the Clinton, Ohio campaign tweeted Mohammed G's picture with Trump's quote.
No one has the right to immigrate to this country.
The campaign added, we disagree.
So the Clinton campaign suggests everybody does have a right to immigrate to America.
Where is that right given?
What other country has such a right that anybody who wants to come can come?
Hillary means I assume she means through the legal.
No, she can't mean that because she's all for illegal immigration.
She wants even more refugees and more illegal immigrants to flood the zone.
Speaking of.
Oh, you gotta hear this.
Just got this.
Maxine Waters of the Congressional Black Caucasians.
Maxine Waters in Washington, D.C. today.
Describes a moment when truth revealed itself to members of the congressional black Caucasians while they were having lunch.
At our regularly scheduled luncheon for the black caucus, as we sat there trying to do business, we decided we just couldn't keep going on business as usual.
We couldn't just have our lunch and talk about an agenda that really does have to do with a lot of our work while our minds and our hearts are so heavy about the killings of all of these men, women, and children.
So we decided at that moment that we were going to take an extraordinary step, that we were going to leave the House of Representatives, and we were going to come here to the Department of Justice, and we're going to deliver a letter.
Wow.
Wow, how powerful a move is that.
By the way, the killings of all these men, women, and children.
What is she talking about?
Syria.
What is she talking about?
Well, I know that, but where the what what women and children were killed in Charlotte?
Oh, she's not which Oh, she means collective.
Oh, all of the men, women, and children killed all over the place all the time.
Oh.
Okay, so whatever.
She and the Congressional Black Caucasians were in their private dining room.
They were having lunch.
And apparently a wave of guilt swept over them.
Because they were having their fine lunch in the Congressional Black Caucasian dining room, which probably the congressional dining room in a private room of the congressional dining room.
And some guilt swept over.
You know, here we are.
We're having our foie gras and our lobster-laced coconut covered shrimp bites.
And men, women, and children over the world are being killed.
We don't deserve to be here, so we're gonna we we're talking about an agenda here that, yeah, but it pales in comparison to these murders going on out there.
So we decided to do something.
We ordered something else.
It was a Chateau Le Tour 82, and then we wrote a letter and we walked over to the Justice Department.
Because we had to do something.
Okay, here's Frank in Long Valley, New Jersey.
Back to the phones we go.
Hi, Frank, great to have you here with us.
Uh, great to talk to you again, Russ.
I have the answer for you and for all the establishment Republicans and Hillary Clinton on why they all lost and why she's gonna lose.
The reason that Trump is winning is because he's the first Republican to run a progressive democratic style campaign.
See, the ideas, the Republican ideas will win, but what we've lost, and the reason we've lost over the last three, four cycles, is because we we don't separate the election from government.
You've got to win the election first.
Yeah.
You can't govern unless you win.
And he is slashing and burning and destroying everybody around them to win.
That's what progressive democrats do.
They use propaganda.
It's propaganda first, idea second.
Yeah, I'm not saying he's propagandizing and he doesn't believe in his ideas, but what he's doing is he's using the propaganda short-term slogans.
He's running a progressive democratic style campaign, and Hillary doesn't know how to react to it.
Sixteen governors, Congressmen, and Senators have no clue.
They got blown up because of it.
And no one reacted to it yet.
And he's going to win because of that.
Because the majority of the people want conservative Republican ideas.
The problem is we didn't so like I told Ron you had a private breakfast with Romney.
I said, if you don't separate the election from governing, you're going to give a great concession speech, but there's never been one concession speech.
Never been one policy in that with a concession speech.
Okay, I get it.
Folks, he's answering a question that I asked in the first hour of the prayer.
You might be scratching their heads, so, but he's got a good answer here.
I will I will explain the context of this after we get back from the break here at the bottom of the hour.
It's worth it as it always is, so hang in there.
Okay, our last caller, Frank from Long Valley, New Jersey.
He said he thought that I had said I didn't understand what Trump was doing, how Trump was winning his campaign, and that's not what I said.
I was commenting that we just played some soundbites about Bill Crystal, who was on the Brit Hume show last night on the Fox News channel.
I didn't see it last night.
I was advised it was happening, but I wasn't given any details, so I didn't check it out until today.
Crystal is obviously for Hillary, and he's he's very, very concerned that she's blowing it.
Yes, you heard right.
Bill Crystal of the Weekly Standard is very concerned that Hillary's blowing it, and he doesn't understand why she's running her campaign the way it is.
Yes, Bill Crystal, yes, that's what I said.
Yes, the same one and the same, exactly right.
Okay, so I was endeavoring to explain that these establishment people do not understand what Trump's doing because they live in their bubble where campaigns are run by consultants and candidates do what's expected.
They come up with policies that are expected, they do personal appearances expected, they have consultants, they run ads.
Everything is expected, and Trump is not part of that.
He's never been in that world, and he's not functioning that way.
And it's like a game plan from an opposing team that they can't plan for.
They they've not seen it, they've not planned for it.
And so Hillary is stuck running what's always worked for Democrats, and it's not working on Trump, and they're all flummoxed by us.
I was attempting to explain why.
They don't understand the Trump campaign.
It's more than just that Hillary's stuck in a time warp, which she is, it's that they really don't understand it.
And and the the hubris they have, the arrogance and conceit that they enter this, is that they are the establishment, and they are the experts, and they are the professionals.
Trump's this outsider bumbling idiot boob, has no idea what he's doing.
That's why she's running around saying, Why aren't I 50 points ahead?
She means it.
So I was endeavoring to explain it.
Now, Frank's stated reason, he was trying to explain to me because he thought I didn't understand it.
He said, Trump's doing what the left does.
They're running Trump understands that the campaign is different from governing.
You do whatever you have to win, it doesn't matter, and then when you get into office, then you do what you're really gonna do.
And you don't campaign on stuff that's gonna lose, like Romney did and like McCain do.
You don't campaign on things that are gonna lose for you.
Campaign on things are gonna win.
So Frank's point was that Trump's running elements of a progressive or Democrat campaign in terms of uh government action here to do this and government action doing that, because the conventional wisdom is the majority of Americans have now concluded that that's the purpose of government is to do things for people.
Um implied, maybe I inferred, but I think he implied that in the process, Trump may be skirting around the edges of the truth.
Uh I think that's one of the things Trump isn't doing.
I think Trump supporters think he's telling the truth.
I think Trump's supporters believe he means what he says, with latitude.
Yeah, they have a lot of latitude, but they they trust that Trump is who he says he is, that he wants to make America great again, and they trust that Trump understands why America isn't great for the same reasons they think it isn't.
Trump has a lot of latitude and leeway on.
If he if he uh makes a gaff.
His gaffs are not held against him because his supporters are not interested in finding flaws and disqualifying him.
Whereas establishment people, I mean, that's one of the ways you run a campaign.
You try to force your opponent into a gaff, then you build the gaff up as meaning this guy doesn't know diddly squat, he's not qualified.
Get rid of him.
And the gaff is the end of the campaign.
The gaff is never going to end Trump's campaign because his supporters don't care.
Trump supporters actually realize it's a it's much, it's it's about much bigger stuff than even Trump personally or Trump's gaffes or anything else.
But regardless, whatever it is, it is very accurate to say that Hillary doesn't understand it, and her consultants don't, and I venture to say that many longtime political professionals don't understand it, including pollsters and consultants.
It's not that it's hard to understand, it's just so foreign to them.
Remember, these are the people that honestly believe Trump didn't have a prayer, especially after his opening day announcement.
He was finished.
Before that appearance was even over, he was finished.
And they've spent every day since thinking that he's going to talk himself out of the race or implode some other way.
But now that his message is tightening, his discipline is.
By the way, can I give an example of his discipline really in creep?
You want to hear.
What do you think Trump would have done three months ago with the story that George H. W. Bush had confided to Kathleen Kennedy Townsend he was voting for Hillary?
My guess is that the Trump of three two months ago might have fired back at George H.W. Bush.
But the Trump of today let it go.
And the only comment we got that I heard anyway was from Kelly Kellyanne Conway, his campaign manager, who had a very, I think great response to it.
But Trump himself didn't even pay it mind.
And that's an example of the what are you going to call it?
Maturity, discipline or what have you.
And we've got some sound bites here of Trump in Pittsburgh today speaking on uh on law and order.
Let's give you a flavor of this.
While Charlotte is having happen to it what is happening, and while Hillary's out there whining and moaning about why she's not fifty points ahead, and while Bill Crystal is wringing his hands over the fact that Hillary's blowing it,
and while others are worried about other things, Trump continues his outreach to black churches and other black groups on a law and order premise.
He was at the Shale Insight Conference in Pittsburgh to the United States.
We have to respect our flag.
We have to respect our flag.
We all have to walk a mile in someone else's shoes, see things through their eyes, and then get to work fixing our very wounded country.
I mean, we have some real problems, and we do have a wounded country.
Many Americans are watching the unrest in Charlotte unfolding right before their eyes on the TV screens.
Others are witnessing the chaos and the violence firsthand.
Our country looks bad to the world, especially when we are supposed to be the world's leader.
How can we lead when we can't even control our own cities?
Well, it's a good question, but you see, Charlotte has been deemed sacrificial.
It's okay for whatever happens to Charlotte, if it means African American turnout for Hillary will get a bump, then whatever's going on in Charlotte is worth it.
Here's the next Trump.
We honor and recognize the right of all Americans to peacefully assemble, protest, and demonstrate.
But there is no right to engage in violent disruption or to threaten the public safety and peace of others.
Every single American in our country is Entitled to live in a safe community.
The violence against our citizens and our law enforcement must be brought to a very rapid end.
The people who will suffer the most as a result of these riots are law-abiding African American residents who live in these communities where the crime is so rampant.
So what does he think needs to happen?
Last year we saw a 17% rise in violent crime in our 50 largest cities.
Homicides are up nearly 50 percent in Washington, D.C., and more than 60 percent in Baltimore.
More than 3,000 people have been shot in Chicago so far this year from January 1st.
Can you believe that?
Nationwide, approximately 60 percent of murder victims under the age of 22 are African American.
This is a national crisis, and it's the job of the next president of the United States to work with our governors and mayors to address this crisis and save African American lives.
Again, here is a candidate saying this in the closing months of the first presidency of an African American in this country.
Barack Hussein Obama and eight years of his presidency, and we have somebody campaigning on a premise that we've got to get together with people and and and address this crisis of saving African American lives.
Well, it must be because they need saving, and if they do, who I mean.
Why does this not register with people in and of itself?
We were assured by virtue of electing Obama that this stuff was going to end, and it was going to be replaced with mass contentment and healing, and everybody because we'd elected an African America, we're going to realize we have finally accepted our sins and we have dealt with them, and we are moving forward.
And none of that.
In fact, this happened.
And I might add, grab audio soundbite number two, I think it's the number, because I believe, ladies and gentlemen, that it was even number two.
I predicted this, February 22nd, 2008.
This is 11 months before Obama was inaugurated.
Ten months, nine months before he was elected.
This is what I said.
If Obama gets elected president, wouldn't it be good to just get this done, Russia?
It wouldn't do that.
Folks, it wouldn't do that.
It might even exacerbate them.
I was right.
It has exacerbated them.
Well, let me be generous.
I will not say that Obama's election has exacerbated.
Well, now that I think about it.
Maybe so, because the expectations.
I mean, clearly a lot of people had them.
We're nowhere near achieving them.
And that in itself leads to anger, disappointment.
Uh, many people think broken promises.
I say, you know, if you stop and think of it, you can understand a lot of the anger African Americans have.
It's just directed in the wrong places, I think.
Jim in St. James, Missouri.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Appreciate everything you do.
I appreciate that.
Thank you, sir.
Being formerly from Kansas City, self-employed, uh army vet, college educated.
I uh I want to share this with you.
I've got uh some lady friends down here, and they voted Democrat all their life.
I mean, they are true blue Democrats.
Guess what?
They're voting for Donald Trump.
Can you tell us why?
Well, one reason she fed up with the health care uh issues, uh, the law and order issues.
I think she had children going to MU.
Uh, she was totally disgusted with that.
Oh, yeah.
Uh the open borders, uh, and she said she just can't she just can't vote for Hillary, and this is a 70-year-old woman.
Now, let me ask you this.
Was she ever opposed to Trump?
Did she think Trump was this boorish bombastic bragging?
No, no.
She was for him uh back in the primary.
Oh, really?
In the Missouri primary.
Oh, yeah.
And and here's the kicker.
This woman has worked for Planned Parenthood a long, long time.
Oh, wow.
That's And that's that's Hillary's base.
I mean, and when you when she's got people jumping ship like this, no wonder the gal's going crazy.
By the way, speaking of that, you just reminded me, I had this story from yesterday.
I talked about it, but I didn't get into it in detail.
Let me, I don't have time now.
Listen to this headline.
Gloria Steinem keynoted a Planned Parenthood fundraiser recently, and she said, quote, forced childbirth is the single biggest cause of global warming.
These people have lost it.
Forced childbirth is now a cause of planetary destruction.
This is based on the fact that you know pregnancy is a sickness, it's an illness, it's uh it's the result of male patriarchal domination.
Women getting pregnant, and now it's the leading cause.
Single biggest cause of global warming.
I'm gonna have to spend some time on this tomorrow to figure out how that works.
But Jim, that's if Planned Parenthood devotee, big time Democrat abandoning Hillary for Trump.
Selena Zito uh has another piece, Pittsburgh Tribune reviewed another piece today.
She's making a career out of studying Democrats throughout the state of Pennsylvania, and how they are in mass moving to Trump.
She's really doing some phenomenal work in this, trying to explain this phenomenon in Pennsylvania.
I have to take a break now, though.
We'll be back.
Let's go away.
Phil Donahue is on CNN.
You know, he doesn't look too bad.
His relationship with Vladimir Posner must still be flourishing.
Phil actually is pretty good up there.
Better than Jerry Springer.
I mean, no question about that.
Okay, but we'll see you tomorrow.
How's Marlowe?
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