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Sept. 29, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 29, 2016, Thursday, Hour #2
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Yeah, that's a good point.
One thing to keep in mind, and it's actually a reminder.
You remember way back some months ago, we learned that the New York Times, no, it was the Washington Post and assigned 20 reporters to dig up dirt on Trump.
And I imagine the New York Times has done the same thing.
The point is, just like they they assigned all these reporters dig up dirt on on Sarah Palin.
And and and the best they can come up with is a porn star, who was a Miss Universe that Trump once allegedly called Miss Piggy.
That's it.
That's the best thing to come up with, apparently.
And of course, I wonder who came up with this first.
Did the Hillary camp find it and then give it to the drive by sort of the drive by's find it and give it to the Hillary camp?
You really think that?
You think the Hillary campaign found her first, made her an official part of the campaign, and in the drive-bys are playing copycat and they're feeding off.
Okay, fine.
Well, hunky dory.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
How are you?
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Just listen to this.
This is it it it it I don't need to.
I don't I don't need to prepare you for it.
I don't need to lead into this.
It's Nancy Pelosi on Capitol Hill during her weekly press briefing today.
And a reporter said, There are reports now, Congresswoman Pelosi, that the train in Hoboken did not have positive train control.
And I know that Congress last year voted to extend the deadline for implementation of that technology.
What do you think about that?
And is that something that you believe should be revisited in any way?
Do you have any idea what's coming here, folks?
Here we go, folks.
I don't think we should have extended the deadline.
The trains were still running.
If you're going to extend the deadline to stop the trains because the risk is there.
It's about time.
And it's about time Congress faced its responsibilities when it comes to the safety of the American people, when it comes to the security of their families in every way.
These people have no shame.
Here we have a train wreck, a derailment in Hoboken.
And the first thing she in fact I bet that question was planted.
I refuse to believe that a reporter has that knowledge at the top of his mind.
That's so esoteric and down in the weeds.
You telling me a reporter knows that Congress didn't vote to implement some self-control program.
So the Pelosi camp tips a reporter.
I was just answering a question from an informed member of the press.
Right.
And the answer gave her the opportunity to blame the Republicans for this.
So we have at least one death.
Hundreds of people injured, and the Democrats are already politicizing this and blaming it on the Republican Party.
The party of open borders and who knows how much crime added to our streets because of illegal immigration that they sponsor.
How about the crime that they sponsor with all of the politicization they've engaged in in race relations in this country?
And now Miss Pelosi wants to come along and claim the Republican Party has been lackadaisical in the security and safety of the American people.
This is the party that just engineered the largest state sponsor of terrorism, obtaining nuclear weapons.
That'd be our friends, the Iranians.
And look, I could go on and on with a list of all of the things this party has done that has put at greater risk the American people.
But I point this out because we have a lot of millennials out there.
We have a lot of people in general.
I just like politics, and this Haiti, it's always arguing, it's confrontational.
And I want you to understand who politicizes everything.
You know, the it's it's sadly, the Republican Party ends up being blamed for all the so-called politics.
Politics when you use a dirty word.
The Democrats are the corrupting agents.
There is nothing sacred.
There's not, there's nothing.
There's no loss of life.
There's no accident.
There is no event that they will not exploit for political gain.
I haven't heard one Republican come out and try to blame this on the Democrats or on Obama or on terrorism policy or open borders or any because nobody knows anything yet.
But boy, whenever one of these happens, bees a shooting that what you watch, if there's a single person responsible for this, the next thing they'll try to do is show that this guy or girl, whoever did a Tea Party member.
Or worse, a Trump supporter.
Or somebody who was rejected for membership at one of Trump's clubs.
Well, I don't think if they could tag it if somebody listens to me, sure they would do that.
But there are bigger fish right now.
It's a presidential campaign.
If they could tie something, if they could relate this to Trump, they're already relating it.
They're blaming the Republicans for it.
Thank you.
Now, you people that claim to hate politics, you millennials and you those of you who think you're apolitical, you're just going through life and you don't like all this.
I want you to know who's responsible for this.
You bought a whole bill of goods, thinking the Republicans are the bad agents and the bad actors here.
We wish that some of what your allegations were true.
They're not.
I mean, the Republicans aren't even.
There's a movement in Congress after the override of the presidential veto on uh families being able to sue the Saudis.
There's a group of Republicans that's already making a move to soften it.
Led by Lindsey Graham.
The 20 Republicans, this they cannot.
If when they win, it's like, oh my God, oh my trouble.
Now we oh they're gonna hate us.
It's like they think any time they win politically that the American people are gonna hate him.
Okay, I mentioned earlier I have a just a little excerpt here from one of Trump's books called The Art of the Comeback.
And he deals with Alicia Mochato.
Now I want this is what Trump wrote in his book, and I want you to hear this and measure it against what you are hearing the drive-by's report about Trump and this former misuniverse.
Trump writes, having a broadcaster as my partner was a terrific strategic advantage.
No other bidder had guaranteed television viewing.
The other bidders were scared and their bids were low.
The pageant in Miami Beach, my first as owner, was a huge success.
We sold out the house.
It was a mob scene.
From my position off stage, I was able to glance up at the green room occasionally.
I could just see Alicia Machado, the current Miss Universe, sitting there plumply.
God, what problems I had with this woman.
First, she wins.
Second, she gains 50 pounds.
Third, I urge the committee not to fire her.
Fourth, I go to the gym with her in a show of support.
Final act, she trashes me in the Washington Post after I stood by her the entire time.
What's wrong with this picture?
Anyway, the best part about the evening was the knowledge that next year she would no longer be Miss Universe.
What's maddening is that I supported her.
Even in Palm Beach, where I haven't always gotten the greatest press.
Shannon Donnelly, Society Columnist, Palm Beach Daily News, known here as the shiny sheet, wrote, here's a new one for the Donald, protector advocate for large women.
His acquisition from ITT has put Alicia Machado under the Trump Aegis.
The Donald, bless his heart, doesn't want to fire her because it will be a terrible message to send.
He's instead bringing her to the spa at Mar-a-Lago, where can she can work out in earnest, eat sensibly, and generally decompress.
That sounds pretty gentlike to me.
That's what's in the book about that's what Trump wrote about Alicia Machado.
Now, what have you heard?
He goes, what?
He called me McPiggy.
He humiliated me.
He embarrassed me.
He kept her from being fired.
He had to go to the board of the pageant, kept her from being fired, took her down to Marilago, put her in the spa, or try to help her, it sounds like.
But that doesn't that doesn't sound like the art of the comeback, this is written years ago, folks, before anybody knew this was ever going to be any kind of a controversial presidential race.
So you can't you can't say he revised it, Rush.
You know, he went in there, he wrote it in a publisher republished that page.
Doesn't work that way.
John Hindrocker at Power Line.
This kind of captures my sentiment on all of this.
The issues disappear from the presidential campaign.
Funny thing has happened as we approach election day.
The issues have more or less disappeared, or at least the press has stopped talking about them.
It's true, I was fit to be titled going on said yesterday, you know, it's always this unexpected crap that comes out of nowhere that has nothing to do with anything that drive-by's just love to harp on and obscure everything else.
Mr. Hindrocker continues.
Donald Trump raced to the front of the GOP pack by focusing on the illegal immigration.
For months, liberals inside and outside the press denounced Trump's immigration views, accusing him of being a bigot.
But immigration has now disappeared from the news.
In the first Clinton Trump debate, the moderator Lester Holt never mentioned the subject.
Why?
The Democrats understand that most voters side with Trump.
Likewise with trade.
Here, in my opinion, Trump is vulnerable.
The issue is still too risky for the left, therefore the less said the better.
How about our declining military, the Iran deal?
Hillary Clinton's criminal mishandling of classified information, the weakest economic recovery since World War II, stagnant wages, the war on cops, and a suddenly rising crime rate, the Libya fiasco, Obamacare, a failure by any accounting.
Where have all the issues gone?
Off the front pages, every one, and so far out of the debates.
The issues that voters care most about appear to be off the table until the election is safely over.
Instead, editors and reporters are feeding us a steady diet of Trump's tax returns, a reprise of burfferism, and Alicia Machato, a person evidently of great significance.
Trump, of course, bears some responsibility.
He's not a skillful candidate, and sometimes he doesn't have the sense to come in out of the rain.
Or to stop talking about Ms. Machato.
All too often he's gone along with reporters who are obviously trying to throw him off his game, but it's not too late.
If Trump gets back to the issues, if he stops rising to debate every time a reporter tries to distract him, he can still win this thing.
The problem is that to do this, he's going to have to keep his ego in check.
Trump needs to remember that the election is not about him.
It's not about his business dealings.
It's not about his petty rivalries.
It's about the United States of America and the future.
Whether he can rally, whether he can do this.
Remains to be seen.
That's John Henrocker at Power Line.
I subscribe to a lot of this.
I think it's like the same what Trump said after the debate that bring up the foundation, bring up the emails.
No, they didn't.
You're gonna have to.
And you're gonna have to get them off this Machado business.
And the longer you stay on it, trying to protect your valor or get the truth out.
See, I think one thing has got to be understood here.
You're gonna lose the battle if it's for the truth with the drive-by media.
They don't care about the truth.
You cannot shame the drive-by media.
You cannot share the leftists.
Shame them.
You can't.
They have a totally different measure of success.
Do I see a scenario where this Machado thing can backfire on the Democrats?
Well, yeah, if somebody would start using the talking points I let off this program with.
Okay, so you want to talk about bullying, you better focus on Hillary Clinton.
You better look at the Bimbo eruptions, and you better go start talking to Kathleen Willie and Paula Jones and Juanita Broderick if you're going to talk to at least the Machado.
If you're going to do that, you better go find them.
You better talk to them.
You better find out what role Hillary Clinton played in destroying the lives.
Grab of women who had cheated with her husband.
You had better find out everything Hillary Clinton did to bully and intimidate and threaten those women who either came forward or were thinking of coming forward.
There's a whole bunch of Clinton women that have not come forward that were bullied and threatened into staying silent.
You need evidence.
Grab soundbite number 20.
This is from the documentary film called The War Room about the Clinton 92 presidential campaign.
George Stephanopoulos and James Carville ran the Clinton war room.
He now is at Good Morning America.
And here's a portion of Stephanopoulos talking with an unidentified person about information they have that would be harmful to Bill Clinton.
Thank you yourself.
I guarantee you that if you do this, you'll never work in democratic politics again.
Nobody will believe you.
And people will think you're scummy.
The alternative is don't do it.
It causes you some temporary pain with people who tomorrow aren't going to matter.
And you have a campaign that understands it in a difficult time.
He did something right.
This is how they, to one degree or another, dealt with the bimbo eruptions that have yet to erupt.
Just threaten them.
That's in the war.
They were proud of this.
They made this documentary bragging about how they did all of this.
Back in just a second, my friends.
Phone calls coming up, and we'll get back.
Both nerdly, the official program observer asked me moments ago if I thought it possible the Alicia Mochado make it backfire on the Democrats.
I guess, I mean, it depends on how you look at it.
I do think that it has the ability, it had potential to make Hillary look desperate.
Look, Hillary has this rep that they've built about strongest woman out of tough as nailed, smartest woman in America, more qualified to be president than anybody.
Including Obama, including her husband.
She more qualified, she got a better resume than George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, FDR.
This is how they're selling her.
She is the Feminazi.
She is the glass ceiling breaker.
She is the trendsetter, the pace setter.
She's all but won the election.
And she has to bring in her own bimbo eruption to divert attention.
She's the why why would you want to divert attention if you're all these wonderful things?
Sterling Feminazi, strong woman, glass ceiling breaker, smartest woman in the world, more qualified than why would you want to do anything to take away from that?
Why would you want to divert attention from that and using your own bimbo eruption to do it?
It's working.
I mean, the the drive-bys are clearly more happy to talk about that than they are any of Hillary's achievements.
So, yeah, could it backfire?
You tell me.
Back to the phones as promised.
This is Ronnie in Everett, Washington.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Hi.
Rush, it's a pleasure talking to you.
I love your show.
Thank you so much for what you do.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Um, you know, there's so much talk about the debates and the polls and uh people on the fence and such.
But in a race where the candidates are diametrically opposed On ideology on every issue out there, you can't tell me people haven't decided.
They know who they're gonna vote for.
Why isn't this a question on the polls?
You know, I hear you.
I hear you.
You would be amazed, however, at the number of people who will tell you they haven't made up their mind yet.
It's the most mind-numbing thing.
I agree.
You couldn't have two greater differences here.
And for somebody, well, you know, I'm I I wait till I hear on the issues.
Don't give me that.
You're not waiting on there's nothing more you're gonna learn.
Right.
There's nothing more you can learn.
So why are you remaining undecided?
I think they're afraid of the challenges socially.
I mean, from their family, their friends, or what have you, just by me putting a bumper sticker on my car in Washington, what would you expect?
I've never been flipped off, cursed at, yelled at more, but the ones that come up and actually talk to me say, hey, I like that.
Where can I get a sticker and such?
I think people are socially challenged to actually talk with other people that they say, well, I just haven't decided.
Oh, you decided.
You have.
You just think they won't admit it.
Exactly.
So you think the debates are a worthless exercise in terms of actually changing voters' minds.
Right.
I only feel sorry for my candidate that he may look bad, or or her, you know, the other candidate that she might look bad or good or what have you.
But I really don't care.
Uh it's the issues that I'm right.
But let me try this on.
Let me try this.
There isn't much overlap, really, although some would argue with you, but I don't want to get into weeds here.
Listen, you get two stark differences here.
And but people who tell you they're undecided will come up with what they think are really brainy things is the reasons.
I'm waiting to see who does better under pressure.
I am waiting to see who seems more presidential.
I'm waiting to see all these nefarious things.
No, they're not.
That's the intellectual, so-called intellectual left.
They're so sophisticated that, well, I want to wait until all the uh the information is in and whatnot.
No, you've decided.
Come on, just admit it.
Well, we're told that the undecided are 20% out there, Ronnie.
I think it's more I I don't think it's that high at all.
It's gotta be down in five.
I don't know.
Well, I'll tell you it's 20% is is uh uh higher than it was in 2012 or 2008.
They're more undecided in this race than in the last two.
And they would tell you probably they're undecided because they they don't know what to make of this Trump guy yet.
How can you not?
He either speaks the issues that you're after, immigration, um uh Obamacare, those two alone will shut people, uh direct people one way or the other.
I mean, it's that simple.
You either shut the borders or you kill Obamacare.
Well, no, I have to go for Hillary because I believe in social health care.
Well, yeah, yeah, but but then you're gonna have people yeah, that's what Trump says, but I don't believe he means it.
And you're gonna have people say, she's not gonna do anything.
I don't believe you're gonna have all kinds of reasons offered because remember, we lionized the undecided.
We lie we put the undecided and the independents, we put them on a pedestal because they're told the election turns on how they vote.
And so everybody targets this is the great trick the Republicans have been suckered into falling for.
Targeting your campaign toward the undecided rather than your base, because you figure you got them locked up.
So you target for the undecided of the independents, and that's one of the reasons why they're always held up as better voters.
They're more open-minded, they're not as closed-minded as people like you, Ronnie, who've already made up your mind no matter what you hear.
These people, we need to court them because they're waiting until they have as much data as they can get before they make the all-important decision of how and who is going to get their vote.
I think that's a futile approach.
The percentage is so small, in my humble opinion out here in Radio Land.
That's five percent, if that are undecided.
I can't even believe anybody's undecided.
Okay, so given that you believe people say they're undecided or not, then how do you think this is gonna end up?
You think most people have made up their minds, so who's gonna win?
I think It's going to be a popular vote versus the electoral vote issue.
I think Trump will have a uh largely maybe even larger than in history popular vote.
But still won't win.
But I'm also in belief that the system is corrupt.
I know here in Washington State, it's been proven in our uh governor race several years ago.
Yeah, that's true.
That's he's not that that there was real provable actionable fraud in that governor's race the state of Washington.
That he's not making that up, folks.
That's absolutely true.
And so you're thinking Trump could win the popular vote and they can play games with it, the Electoral College.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, I don't know about that.
I mean, we could we could hear, you know, wheeze all day long about that.
But the idea that people are undecided.
My entire adult life, I've been curious about people who say that at this stage, especially.
How could you be undecided?
I mean, especially for the reasons they give.
I'm waiting to see what they say in the issues.
What do you mean?
It's not even about issues anymore.
It's about a porn starter that was Miss Universe.
Well, it is an issue.
It's how I'm waiting to see how Trump deals with it, how Hillary deals with it.
What do you mean how Hillary deals with it?
Well, it's controversy on both sides.
I'm waiting to see.
So they tell you they're waiting for something.
Now, Ronnie here is essentially saying he doesn't believe them, that they have made up their minds.
They're just not comfortable in saying so to pollsters or anybody else.
I think if you want to play modified conspiracy games, because look, folks, I am of the same frame of mind Ronnie is in this undecided.
I I I have a tough time understanding how you're undecided, but people claim that they are.
Let's not forget now what benefit could there be to the media, which means the Hillary campaign, exploiting the whole notion of the undecided.
Well, one of the ways, one of the benefits, they could cite the high number of undecided, and they could point out that there are more undecided in this election than there were in 2012 and 2008.
And they could do it in such a way as to make that look like trouble for Trump.
Such a high percentage of undecided, they would say, could indicate that people are afraid to commit to Trump.
They don't like Hillary, but gee, they're just afraid.
And so it could be a subtle Attempt to make Trump dial back on his positions.
The premise would thus be from the drive-by's perspective, in explaining the high percentage of undecided, they're just not comfortable with Trump's extremism.
And of course, Trump's extremism is what he says about immigration and vetting refugees and law and order.
So it would be an attempt to get Trump and his campaign to dial themselves back, which would end up hurting Trump.
But if I could just remind you of something, folks, because you're observing all this, and as you do, I want you to try to keep something in mind.
I would say 80%, if not more, of every news report that you see on the election and on the campaign from ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, is essentially coming from the Clinton campaign.
Thank you.
You would be much safer.
You would be much closer to understanding the motivation behind whatever news report you're watching, if you understand, if you suspect, let's put it this way, have your doubts and suspect that everything you hear particularly negative about Trump is coming essentially from the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Because that's who the drive-by's are for.
And that's who they are essentially working for.
And so make sure that as you watch any mainstream media news story or coverage, interview, round table discussion, understand that the objective here on the part of people participating is to raise doubt and to cause concern about Donald Trump.
And that will help you understand it and resist it.
And in the process of understanding it, you'll be able to learn to spot what is not news and instead what is campaigning and propaganda.
Because clearly, that is what the news has become in this campaign.
And the most recent evidence is all of this focus on fact checkers on Monday, before the debate began.
You couldn't turn on the news, you couldn't read anything on the web without encountering a story on how the fact checkers are going to be out in force monitoring Trump during the debate.
And then you watch the debate and you hear Hillary.
Well, the fact checkers are going to have fun.
I guess we all heard what we just heard.
The fact checkers are going to be all over that.
Fact checking is nothing more than a technique for journalists to input their opinion under the guise of being objective.
So understand that the vast majority, this Machado thing.
It's coordinated.
Coordinated.
Hillary comes up with some allegation about Trump, the media like lap dogs will run with it.
Because it's coordinated.
You have to be able to watch this stuff and discern that, to understand it, to not doubt it.
Eight, ten, eight times out of ten, it's exactly what is happening.
I just decided to do a little Lexus Nexus on undecided, and this man, oh man, are my instincts so on the money.
Listen to this, my friends.
From the Wall Street Journal, a little blurb, undecided voters react coolly to Donald Trump during debate.
Washington Post.
When Trump said that not paying taxes makes me smart, undecided voters in North Carolina gasped.
And from the politico headline, New York Times to undecided voters don't hand Trump the White House.
So undecided voters are thought of as real, and they are programmed and campaigned to, and they are used by the drive-bys as a hammer against Trump.
This is all bouncing off Ronnie, who called moments and goes, he doesn't believe anybody can be undecided.
In this race, he doesn't know how it is humanly intellectually possible to be undecided.
I'm here to tell you there's some people who genuinely are.
I don't know if it's actually 20%, but there's no question that some people are.
Folks, you ought to know this from living your life.
The one human characteristic, and there are many, but one of the human characteristics that just rubs a lot of people raw is self-confidence.
Particularly on matters that many people think are complicated and complex.
And anybody comes along and is dead certain what he or she thinks, and is very confident.
People don't like that.
You're not supposed to be that sure yourself.
That's not normal.
So you either end up being arrogant, conceited, or closed-minded, whereas the undecided is open-minded and non-bigoted and clearly has a superior mind.
And that's how it's all promoted.
Because the person, and this comment about Trump is a perfect illustration.
When Hillary says, could it be that he hasn't paid any income tax?
Yeah, it's because I'm smart.
And suppose that rubbed independent voters in North Carolina raw.
They just gasped when they heard that.
That's exactly I can believe it.
That's the kind of thing that doing its one thing and then bragging about it as though it's an achievement.
That's a because they can't do it.
And you're not supposed to be able to be able to do it.
You're not supposed to be that confident about being able to it does.
And particularly, I'm gonna really step in it here.
Particularly millennial women.
You are just not supposed to be sure of yourself on much of anything.
It's not a good character trait.
It doesn't matter what the issue is.
Not being open to all possibilities, not being open to fairness and equality.
You can rub people the wrong way.
See, I can't help it.
I'm right about most everything.
And you wouldn't believe the number of people who are offended by that.
Rather than, gee, you know what?
I'd like to learn how to do that.
That's not how people react to it.
They get offended.
And then they start making disparaging comments.
I mean, not to my face.
Not to my face.
And not just me, it's just anybody who is is uh sure of themselves.
On political now, I don't mean sure of yourself and just self-confidence about your being.
I mean complex political issues where you know you're right, and those those creepy leftists are wrong.
They don't want to hear that.
Not supposed to be that sure of yourself.
It's too complex.
You could be partially right, but you might be wrong too on some things.
And they can be right there.
So every thing is an adjustment.
Anyway, here's uh here's Ron at Shreeport, Louisiana.
Ron.
Ooh, I just looked at it.
Go ahead, Ron, we'll see what we can do with this.
How are you doing, sir?
I'm doing good.
Thanks, Rush.
Um, I'd like to make just one point on the media and then get your opinion on what I believe is the best course of action.
Okay.
Um, the point on the media is that I don't think we should be surprised with what the drive-by's are doing at uh witness the fact that they got Obama elected two terms with their ability to put out and cover whatever they want the talking points to be and forget the truth.
Um having said that, I think that the real course of action for Trump to take going forward is to completely ignore these follow-up debates.
He has nothing to gain and everything to lose.
I mean, I really believe that you and all the other conservative talk show hosts are gonna be able to convince better any undecided voters that are out there than he's ever gonna get from any of these debates.
Um it's a great way to end it, and I've got a clock problem too.
Do I understand you, yes or no?
You think he should not attend the next two debates?
That's correct.
I mean, he has he has no benefit to gain from it.
Okay, all right.
We'll leave it at that.
We'll take a brief break here while you steam up about it, and we'll be back in just a second.
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