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Getting ready for the first debate coming up Monday night.
Expect an audience of between 80 and 100 million people.
I mentioned earlier in talking about previous debates and the things that happen that end up being harmful that nobody anticipates.
In all these people that predict these things, all these analysts tell you what to look for.
More often than not, it's things that nobody is expecting that end up not derailing, but for somebody maybe derail, but anyway, cause people to look at this differently, which is pretty much the case.
I mean, all these predictions of pretty much anything are always overwhelmed by the unexpected.
And I mentioned back in 2000, there was a debate between, it was the first debate between Al Gore, the sitting vice president of George W. Bush.
Now, back then, the popular consensus in the Washington establishment was that George W. Bush was a hayseed idiot.
Yeah, he'd been governor of Texas.
And yeah, he'd raised a lot of money.
But the way he talked, it was just embarrassing.
He just sounded, you know, he had Dan Quayle eyes, like deer in the headlight eyes.
He just, he just dumb.
And Al Gore, oh, what brilliance.
I mean, so much smarts, so much intelligence, it would be difficult to contain it all in one skull.
And of course, it was all BS, but this was the manufactured run-up.
Don't forget, Al Gore was the guy in the first Clinton term.
They're touring Mount Vernon, and there's all kinds of busts of famous people in there.
And Al Gore is being given the tour by the curator.
He looks up there, and who would that be?
That's George Washington, Mr. Oh, yes, of course, George Washington.
Yeah, you're only in his house.
And yet, Al Gore was brilliant.
He'd come from the Ivy League.
His father had been a great, great Democrat segregationist senator.
They had lived in an upscale hotel in downtown Washington.
Al Gore was everything.
And so Al Gore bought into that too.
And his attitude in that first debate was, why do I even have to do this?
This guy I'm up against, George W. Bush, is a hayseed.
He's an idiot.
It's beneath me to have to even be here.
And he betrayed that, portrayed that by sighing.
Every time Bush said something that required Al Gore to respond, it was so noticeable.
We put together a montage to illustrate this.
Social Security surplus for $900 billion.
It's going to go to everybody.
There's a lot of shutting up.
This is a major problem.
America's meant to be.
FDA's made its decision.
That's what a governor gets to do.
You're making $50,000.
There's differences.
You hear all the sighs in there from Al Gore.
And it just, it was the whole debate.
And the next day, even Al Gore promoters were talking about how distracting and condescending it was.
And it didn't help him.
And he didn't, none of the other debates did he.
He stopped sighing in the other debates, but he didn't never was said to have dominated in any of them.
Now, since Mrs. Clinton is a woman, the female drive-bys have decided that it's necessary here to pre-publicize these debates and pre-characterize the ways Mrs. Clinton will be treated that demonstrate sexism.
And Leslie Stahl of CBS 60 Minutes decided to delve into this.
She was guest hosting Charlie Rose on PBS last night.
And she had as her guest a professor of linguistics from Georgetown University by the name of Deborah Tannan.
I know who this Deborah Tannin is.
I would recognize her if I haven't seen this, but if I saw her, I would recognize her.
She's a well-known PBS guest, a linguistics professor.
And so, Leslie Stahl, we've got two bites.
Here's the first one.
The question is contained on the bite.
The quality of a woman's voice and how much that is playing into I Just Don't Like Her.
The one we hear all the time is, why does she yell?
And I have heard people say, this has nothing to do with sexism.
I just wish she'd stop yelling.
Well, if you listen to any public speaker who is addressing a crowd of thousands who are yelling back, they have to raise their voices.
They have to yell.
And all candidates yell because they're talking over a crowd.
But it just doesn't sit right when it's a woman.
The worst thing for women is we're expected to be emotional, but the emotion must not be anger.
It just doesn't sit right when it's a woman.
A woman just can't yell.
It's just so unfair.
These crowds are big.
Crowds are big, and I got to yell to overhear them.
Early candidates yell.
It just doesn't sit right with a woman.
It's the worst thing for a woman.
We're expected to be emotional, but the emotion can't be.
So you see what they're doing.
They're setting it up so that when Hillary becomes the shrill nurse ratchet she is, you're not supposed to think it's anything other than sexism.
Because Hillary has to yell.
Because women have to yell to be heard over the noise and the racket created by men in the audience.
All these candidates yell.
But only when Hillary yells do they talk about it and call it out and make it sound like it's shrill.
Trump doesn't yell.
I've never heard Trump yell.
Hillary doesn't yell.
I ain't no way tired.
And then she goes on these shouting sprees.
But you see what they're doing.
She can't help but yell.
It's her natural predisposition.
And when it happens, we're now supposed to make it sexism if you think so.
If you think you're hearing her yell and be shrill, you're being sexist.
So Leslie Stahl then continues this line of commentary.
I read it recently that when men hear a woman who's speaking just a tiny bit harshly, what they hear in their heads is their mother saying, Henry, get back in this house right now.
You know, that scolding voice, scolding, strident, and shrill.
Again, I've heard people say, you know, this is not anything to do with her being female.
It's just she's shrill.
Well, when is the last time you heard the word shrill applied to a man?
When is the last time you heard the word shrill applied to it?
So here we have Leslie Stahl and this Deborah Tannin linguistics professor.
You see, they've got chips on their shoulder.
It can't be fair.
It can't be fair.
Because when Hillary, she's going to sound like your mom.
No, it's like your ex-wife.
Could you people get this straight?
People do not hear their mother when Hillary Clinton starts talking.
Believe me on this.
Let's review, shall we?
Let's go back to the grooveyard of forgotten soundbites.
This is Wednesday night, a video conference with the Laborers International Union of North America.
And Mrs. Clinton, it's just three seconds, but here you go.
Why aren't I 50 points ahead, you might ask?
Why aren't I 50 points ahead?
There was no audience that was shouting there.
There was nobody.
She's on video.
Nobody's making any noise.
And even if they had been, she couldn't hear them.
It's a one-way video feed.
She wasn't even in the room.
April 18th, 2003, Hartford, Connecticut, the annual Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner.
This is when Hillary was a senator.
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic and we should stand up and say, we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.
No, if you think that's yelling and if you think that's shrill, then you are a sexist pig.
According to Deborah Tannin, linguistics professor at You'll take the sexism charge?
Yeah.
Nobody, I know nobody wants to hear it, but you're sexist if you think it.
That's what Deborah Tannen, professor of linguistics at Georgetown, says.
You're a sexist bigot if you think that that was shrill.
You would never criticize a man for sounding that way.
And that just, that, of course, just proves it.
Nigel Farage.
Remember Nigel Farage, the Brexit Brexit guy?
Well, he was Lou Dobbs last night, Fox Business Network.
And Lou Dobbs said, your mind has to wander a bit at what you're witnessing across the pond, meaning watching the presidential campaign here in this country.
What I'm witnessing across the pond is exactly what I saw here during the Brexit referendum.
I see what's happening in the States very much as a sort of mirror reflection of the kind of thing that happened here a few months ago.
It's perfectly clear to me, his campaign has got momentum.
He's got the big M now going with him, and you will get dire predictions that awful things will happen to ordinary Americans if Trump becomes president.
And I would just say to people, don't listen to the so-called experts.
Look at the two candidates that you've got in this election and ask yourself a question.
Do you want things to stay exactly as they are or do you want change?
Well, they're not going to stay exactly as they are.
They're going to get worse.
I mean, we're going to get more of the same, which is destructive.
These last eight years have been destructive and it's going to continue if she wins.
But listen to what the guy says about Hillary.
Lou Dobbs says to Nigel Farage, you caught Mrs. Clinton's attention when Trump introduced you.
I haven't heard your assessment of her as a president.
I was always told that it was a very good thing in life to be judged by your enemies.
And if Mrs. Clinton is now my avowed, sworn enemy, I must be getting something right.
Look, she represents so much that has gone wrong over the course of the last couple of decades.
She represents a kind of privileged elite that pretends at election time that it represents ordinary folk and their aspirations, but actually is about self.
So I think that Hillary Clinton is a truly awful candidate.
Frankly, I think the worst I've ever seen.
And if she were to win, all the same bad old things would just continue.
Well, that's not pulling any punches, calling her an awful candidate.
You know, folks, in one sense, she is.
She can't last long on the campaign trail.
The more she's out there, the more unlikable she becomes, and the greater her poll numbers decline.
The longer she's out there, the greater the risk she's going to have a medical episode.
When she is out there and the things she says and does, they're not lighting anything up.
This is a candidacy of expectation.
I'll tell you exactly what this is.
The Democrat Party, the Clinton campaign, assumed from the get-go that she's president, and all of this that they have to do right now is one of these necessary evils.
This isn't necessary to win.
Trump is so bad.
He's a horrible candidate, rotten guy, despicable human being.
Everybody knows it.
I'm Hillary Clinton.
I'm the world's smartest woman.
I got loads of experience.
I got a Democrat Party.
I've got everything rigged that needs to be rigged.
I've got this.
So this campaign is just a bunch of BS that she has to do.
She has to put in the time, but it's not a factor.
In their minds, this campaign is not relevant.
She's going to win no matter what.
So having to do any of it is just a pain in the royal butt is her attitude about it.
As such, she comes across as uninterested and even above all of this.
She's not a good candidate.
No matter how you slice it, she doesn't engender excitement.
She doesn't have this anything infectious about her.
There's nothing about Hillary Clinton that makes you want to join her.
It makes you want to join whatever she's doing.
There's nothing that makes you want to be part of what she's doing unless you are a donor who wants a payback for all the money you're giving.
But I'm talking in strict human emotional terms.
There's no magnetism.
There's no charisma.
And she's an awful candidate because she resents even having to do it.
Don't doubt me on this.
If that doesn't appear obvious to you, and it may not, it's just you haven't studied these people as I have for all of these years.
When they talk about a coronation, they're only half laughing about it.
And it was supposed to be that back in 2008.
One of the most surprising things in the entire Soundbite roster is this.
This happened yesterday, sorry, Wednesday at the Hudson Institute in Washington.
They hosted a panel that was entitled U.S., Mexico, and Latin America, 2016 and Beyond.
And during the discussion, the former Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs, a guy by the name of Jorge Castañada, spoke about Trump's plan to build a wall along the border and have Mexico pay for it.
And this is what the guy said.
If he really wants Mexicans to pay for the wall, he has many ways of getting many Mexicans to pay for the wall.
Increasing the fee for visas, which is a decision made by the State Department, not by Congress.
Increasing the toll on the bridges, again, done by CBP, et cetera, not by the Congress.
Taxing remittances.
That's more complicated in terms of congressional approval or not, but there are ways of doing it.
It's transaction fees, commissions, et cetera, et cetera.
Special fee for blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, that's it.
Dr. Jorge Castañeda, the former Mexico Secretary of Foreign Affairs, saying, hell, yes, Trump can get Mexico to pay for the wall, and he wouldn't even have to get Congress to do it.
I take it back.
Trump did yell in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention.
Did you think it was shrill when Trump yelled at the Republican National Convention?
I didn't associate it with the kind of yelling Hillary yells, but he did yell.
I mean, I can't deny.
He raised his voice, and he was being emphatic.
There's no question about it.
Trump just tweeted something out also that in his opinion, Hillary's just blown every chance to pick up any voters voting.
She's come out.
She did.
I meant to mention this earlier.
She has proposed a 65%, what is it?
65% death tax or estate tax.
65% estate tax.
I'll tell you, when I tell you she's stuck at a time warp, that's in the 90s and even the 80s, she really, but this is a tax the rich.
There's a word that rhymes here I'm not going to use.
She is a tax the rich babe.
Oh, Obama is too, but they don't talk about it.
They just do it.
They're not talking about it.
She, in that time, taxing the rich, punishing the rich, punishing the achievement.
She is into that.
And it is going to hurt her.
Here's Ron in Crown Point, Indiana.
Great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
God bless you.
Thanks for everything you do.
Keep for a long, long time.
Thank you, sir.
Of course, Donald Trump should be the way he normally is, a decent person, and help Hillary in an appropriate way.
I guess stopping short of the mouth-to-mouth.
Yeah, we draw the line-to-mouth to mouth recessation.
Okay.
But during the Republican convention, it became clear that he was a pretty decent down-to-earth person.
You couldn't fake the kind of quality that he has with his children.
And he's a decent person.
He would help her if she needed it.
Yeah.
This is another one of these.
Forget Trump for a second.
Look at what they were able to do.
And Victor Davis Hansen's made this point as well to Mitt Romney.
Now, in Mitt Romney, whether you know him or not, but I do, and he's one of the finest human beings.
He may be squishy, wishy, moderate Republican.
But in terms of his character, his honesty, his morality, and all that, you're not going to find a finer human being.
You won't find anybody who's more concerned about other people and helping them than Mitt Romney.
And look what they were able to do to the guy.
Tax cheat, didn't care if employees, family members got cancer, willing to kill the family dog by putting it on the roof of the station wagon, a family vacation.
So, and Trump's not a bad guy, folks.
These manufactured criticisms, he's not a bad guy.
He's a down-to-earth nice guy when you get to know him.
Hi, folks.
Great to have you back.
Here's Tony in Jackson, Mississippi.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rushie.
Hey, what's happening?
I have got some ghost bows on my computer, and I think it's a conspiracy.
I'm trying to get rid of them.
You have ghost files on your computer.
Yeah.
What it actually is, I tried to download some pictures.
Yeah.
And it says, by the way, I'm using a compact.
And I know you're not a compact guy, but that's a problem.
I mean, if you've got ghosting or any other problem, get a Mac.
That's your solution.
Wow.
Yeah, right.
I know, easy for me to say, right?
Look, I would love to be able to help you, but I don't have any experience with Compaq or Dell, or with the Windows system, with Windows or whatever they call it.
I have zero experience with it.
I regret that because I would like to be able to help you with this ghosting.
I'm sure there are people around.
We don't have anybody here that's using Windows other than we've got some software that we have no choice.
And if it breaks down, we use that as the excuse to replace it with Mac.
It's a conspiracy.
I know it.
Well, what kind of ghosting are you experiencing?
Oh, it saves the file with the name, but no extension.
Saves the file with a name, but no extension.
So you don't know what kind of file it is.
Absolutely.
And then I try to open it through a picture viewer and I get nothing.
Well, there's got to be some Windows program that opens files that have no extension on them.
I mean, what are they, JPEGs?
Are they pictures?
Yeah, they're pictures.
I tried to save as a PNG, but when it came in, it came in with nothing, with no extension.
Okay, here's what you need to do.
There may be some, this is wild guessing, and it's based only on my knowledge of Mac.
On certain Mac programs, you can save any file, like a PDF or an EXE file or PNG JPEG, without the extension being named.
The extension is there, but you can, you can, so in Mac, it is a preference setting, a system setting in the app, whatever you're using.
It's not a system setting.
Like in a number of Mac apps, you can save anything as a PDF using the print dialog box.
You say print the PDF.
And if you want it to print the extension, which is .pdf, it will.
If you don't want it to, for whatever reason, it won't.
But it's still a PDF file.
It still opens.
That's the difference.
Apparently, on your system, without the extension, it won't open.
On mine, whether the extension is there or not, it will.
But if I were you, I would investigate the system settings and then the app settings for how you're saving or duplicating these files.
And if my wild guess is you're going to find a setting that will allow your dupes to have the extension as part of the name of the file.
And if that's the case, then your problem will be solved, except you're still stuck with Windows, even if you fix the problem.
Tony in Jackson, Tennessee, a typical know-it-all Windows user has informed me that there are apps for your situation called unlocker apps, and that you can download any number of them from any trustworthy website.
Unlocker apps, and that will unlock your files there that don't have any extension names on them.
Your ghost files.
Unlocker.
First I've heard of it.
Well, I hope it helps.
There is breaking news out there, folks.
Mr. Sterdley told me he just saw the crawl go by on CNN, but it isn't there now.
But apparently, the breaking news is that Senator Ted Cruz is expected to endorse Trump and that it could happen as early as today.
Politico has rushed a story on their website about this, but there's not much more to it than that.
There will be eventually as more information is made available, and if it's accurate and if it happens today, then this is going to set off, I'd say, some fireworks in a never-Trump sector, wouldn't you think?
And the Never Trump sector may, I mean, can you see them turning on Cruise?
If they turn on Cruise, who else do they have?
I don't know.
We'll have to watch this one.
And remember, whatever you hear about it, wait until my commentary on Monday to put it in complete and perfect focus for you.
Here's Micah in San Jose, California.
Great that you waited.
I appreciate it.
How are you?
I'm great.
Thanks so much, Rush.
So I'm calling about the subject of Donald Trump expanding his base in the debate on Monday.
I think a lot of us have frustration with him sometimes because he is often a poor communicator, I think, of his basic belief systems.
I feel that he's running for president because he's motivated by his love of country.
I think he's motivated by his traditional American values.
And I think he needs to communicate that those traditional American values are not incompatible with immigration, not incompatible with security concerns, not incompatible with domestic economic policy and global economic policy, especially when the poor in our inner cities have these massive unemployment rates.
I'm very glad that there are people in Mexico that have jobs.
I'm very glad there are people in India that have jobs in the last 25 years.
But I'm upset that our inner cities are still full of rampant unemployment and this sort of bleak outlook.
I think in many respects, Hillary's deplorable commentaries, commentary on the deplorables the other day, really gave Trump a roadmap to go down and appeal to traditional American values.
You know, racist, Islamophobic, homophobic, et cetera, et cetera.
You know, I mean, the thing that frustrates me is that in 2008, both Clinton and Obama ran on this idea that gay marriage shouldn't happen.
They were in favor of traditional marriage.
And now they've turned around, of course, when the polls went the other way.
Then, of course, they get to say, okay, we're in favor of gay marriage.
Right.
You know, Al Gore and Bill Clinton used to be pro-life back in the late 80s.
Exactly right.
And see, that's the part that frustrates me because now they're going to demonize anybody that holds those, you know, any sort of skepticism, right?
If you still think, well, I'm still not sure that's a good idea.
Well, now you're a homophobe.
And so that demonization just reduces us.
Now we're politically incorrect.
Now we are being lumped in with extremists.
You know, all of that demonizing of traditional beliefs, I think that's out there.
You know, as Nigel Farich said earlier, it's the ordinary folk that swung Brexit.
I happened to be in the UK when the Brexit thing came in, and it was actually the working class people that turned that in favor of Brexit.
And I think that's the sort of thing that gets Trump over the hump in some of the swing states like Ohio and Pennsylvania.
You know, the racist angle.
Everybody's a racist who supports Trump.
That's the accusation.
Well, let me, Micah, you've got a great, great point here.
I just want to give you some little historical perspective.
I think I'm older than you are, and they've been saying that about us no matter who our candidate is.
They've been saying it about our candidate, our party at large, the conservative movement at large, and the effort to rebut it and the ways to do it have been discussed backwards and forwards for as long as I've been doing this program, and nobody has come up with a singular best way to deal with it.
But you said something that I think's the key.
You said Trump does believe in America.
He loves America and believes in its greatness and its potential.
And this is something that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama do not.
They campaign and govern expressly on the notion that America is immoral and unjust and doesn't deserve its superpower status because we have wronged so many minorities around the world.
It's time we got a taste of our own medicine.
They don't say it that way, but that's what they mean.
So Trump can contrast his view of America and the world simply by being honest about his view of the country.
He loves it.
There's no question about it.
There's no question he loves America.
And he's willing to be made fun of for sounding camp about it.
And the Democrats cannot own that.
They don't even want to own that.
And then I think you're right.
He could take it from there.
But you've got to be very careful about how you go about refuting this racist charge because the minute you address it, they're going to say, aha, it must be true if he thinks he's got to defend it.
So those are excellent points.
And I'm really glad that you got in here today.
I'm sad I'm out of time, but I really am.
But it's really, really brilliant assessments there.
Especially coming from your standpoint as a Trump supporter.
Okay, folks, great time today.
Great Open Line Friday.
And we'll do it again on Monday.
Be back here revved and ready to go.
That'll be the day of the debate.
Take even more of your thoughts on what to look for and whatever else pops up.
So have a great weekend, and we'll see you then, folks.