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Sept. 29, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 29, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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You know this independent business.
Well, you shared with you before we before we get back to Ron and Shreveport's suggestion.
I haven't forgotten that.
I'm gonna get back to that just a second, but I said I went a Lexus Nexus search.
After this uh call we had on a guy not believing so many people are undecided, and the independents out there.
And the political story I found with the headline, New York Times to No, no, take it back, take it back.
It was the uh Wall Street Journal.
Wall Street Journal, undecided voters react coolly to Donald Trump during debate, and the Washington Post said when Trump said that not paying taxes makes me smart, undecided voters in North Carolina gasped.
I just I just remember we had a story.
Was it post-debate?
The debate was Monday.
I can't I think it what didn't McClatchy had a focus group watching this thing in North Carolina, and they ought to overwhelmingly went for Trump in this debate.
Oh gosh, my mind is playing.
I don't know if that focus group was something else or if it was about the debate.
But it was a McClatchy story, McClatchy convened a focus group of independents, and they all ended up, the vast majority of them really, really dug Trump and McClatchy couldn't believe it.
That was the story, the reporter, whoever did it, could not believe it.
They were shocked and stunned.
And yet here's the Washington Post reporting that independence in North Carolina, when Trump said that he was it it was smart not to pay any taxes, they openly gasped.
At any rate, uh was it I know it was McClatchy.
Was it about the debate?
Was it okay?
So it was this week.
Okay.
I it's you know, so much runs through here.
I don't know when I can't remember exactly when something happened.
The debate seems like yesterday, so I'm trying to think in my mind that we cover that about the debate.
Apparently we did.
The official program observer has found it.
So it was a McClatchy story.
They had a Clinton falters among swing uh among some voters, independent voters swing states, and it was McClatchy in North Carolina specifically.
So this Washington Post headline is caca.
Anyway, folks, greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
So we just had Ron from Shreeport, Louisiana.
Do you know who's famous from Shreeport, Louisiana?
Two people have come to mind.
There's many more, but two people come to mind famous from Shreeport, Louisiana.
Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw and Hal Sutton of the PGA Tour.
Well, he's now probably on the champions tour.
Hal Sutton's from Shreeport.
And uh uh there's another pro David uh looks like a male model.
Can't remember his name.
David David David David is all from Shreeport, professional golfer, good too.
I can't think of his last name, Metalblock.
Anyway, um, because I once went, I did a in fact Bradshaw had to cancel.
He was, they they have a they had some kind of a fundraiser every year for their foundation.
And I think it was to build a children's hospital, that's what it was.
And Bradshaw was through the speaker, he couldn't make it, and they called me at the last minute.
Can you come down and do it?
And I did it.
And then and that I met uh Sutton at that thing in uh David Tom's, David Toms is his last name.
Which reminds me the writer cup starts tomorrow, and Davis Love the Third is the captain.
Davis Love the Third uh I didn't know my mother had friends in North Carolina.
Uh after I'd left home, I was in uh in Pittsburgh and Kansas City, and she had a friend of hers from our hometown of Missouri had moved there, and one of her friends had met Davis Love the Third's mother.
And my mom knew Davis Love the Third's mother, and I never knew any of this until I met Davis Love the Third, and I saw him one year at Augusta at the uh at the Masters, and that's when he he was walking, I think 14, and he came over to the ropes and said hi.
And that's when I learned that my mom knew his mom.
His mom was walking the gallery, and I met her.
That's what it was.
That's what it was.
Anyway, he's a great, great uh guy, and He's the captain of the team, and it kicks off at Chaska, Minnesota.
You know where Chaska, Minnesota is, it's outside Minneapolis.
The golf course is Hazel Teen, and it's tough.
It's a tough course.
And it starts tomorrow, I think, at 8:30 or 9 o'clock on the uh golf channel.
Oh, that was that was look, this is Danny Willett.
Danny Willett, the guy that won the Masters.
Uh he's a partier.
Danny Willett is a, and he's got a brother who is even bigger part.
His brother just went off on slothful Americans.
Not the players, but fans.
Bunch of the way we talk about bloggers is the way he described.
Well, not bloggers, but the common the pajama clad crew.
He just went after them.
Danny Willett's brother just went after American golf fans.
A bunch of fat slobs that sit around eating Cheetos and Doritos all day, yelling at their computers while wearing their pajamas, thinking they can do anything when they can't do anything.
And he got so Darren Clark, the Brit captain, uh, had to say how embarrassed he was, and how he wasn't going to put up with that.
He sent Danny Willett to talk to his brother about it.
Yeah, yeah.
You you you didn't think I knew about that, did you when you brought that up?
But I knew so the writer cup starts tomorrow.
Okay, now back to Ron in Shreeport, Louisiana.
Shreeport, Louisiana.
He said that he thinks Trump should just bag these next two debates.
Just blow them off.
There's no point.
There's nothing to gain by showing up at these things.
The deck is stacked.
No matter who the moderators are, the deck is going to be stacked.
There's no way Trump can really, when he doesn't have to, is his point.
If Trump just forgets the debate, there are going to be people applauding him left and right for doing so.
He can stay on a campaign trail and just do a rally after rally after rally with media coverage of that and build his base out the wazoo.
And control every event he goes to rather than go to a debate where he surrenders control and by definition is constantly on the defensive.
Screw that.
So my mind was working overtime in the break because it jogged a memory in one of the deep dark crevices of my fertile mind.
Do you remember Trump bagging the debate in Iowa before the Hawkeye Cockeye?
Trump bagged it in lieu of, because Megan Kelly, I think was going to be a non uh moderator or something.
Or not yeah, I think it was.
Something to do with the moderators.
That's right, because Fox was holding out hope that Trump would change his mind.
There were high-level negotiations going on all day, and Trump finally said, screw it, I'm gonna do a personal appearance and salute the military.
Which he did.
He won the Hawkeye Corkeye.
Didn't he?
He won the Hawkeye Cockeye by blowing off the cockeye debate.
Or did he lose the Hawkeye Cockeye?
Did Cruz win the Hawkeye Cockeye?
I'm trying to uh I thought I had this down, Pep.
No, I'm not I'm not sure.
Trump, the only primary Trump won in the early days of the prime was the I'm told he's the Hawkeye Cockeye that he won.
But I'm not so sure of that.
But anyway, it didn't hurt him.
The bottom line is by bagging the Hawkeye Cawkeye and the debate leading up to it, he didn't hurt himself.
And the theory here from John and Shre from from uh Ron and Shreeport is that there's no downside.
Now let's imagine this.
Let's say Trump, and they've announced that he is going to do it.
No, I'm sorry.
He lost the Hawkeye Corckeye.
The only primary that Trump Lost in the early days of the primaries was the Hawkeye cockeye, which happened after he skipped the debate.
That's what I remember.
He didn't do the bait and he lost the Hawkeye cockeye.
Remember the media was saying these people in Iowa, they don't like it when you were disrespect them that way.
Trump said it wasn't important enough for them to learn about him personally.
He didn't go to the debate.
And so people in Iowa didn't vote for him in the caucus.
He didn't win the Hawkeye Coconut.
So that it would be an argument for not skipping the debate because I know he didn't have a ground team in Iowa.
Doesn't have much of a ground team now.
What are you snickering at?
He doesn't have a ground operation.
What why why is that controversial?
I'm not even being critical.
He just is not invested.
How many Trump campaign headquarters offices are there?
There aren't that many.
He doesn't have many.
I think he's got one in Florida.
But he's he's running an unconventional campaign.
Anyway, so he didn't do the Hawkeye Cocay.
He skipped that debate.
He lost the Hawkeye Kokai.
So could you extrapolate from that that if he doesn't do these debates, it could be harmful?
You know what the media's going to do.
By the way, folks, you should know I have a couple here of truly in the tank Trumpsters, Trumpists.
And they don't think Trump should ever appear with anybody in the media.
And they think Trump ought to bag this debate and the next debate and any forum that's anything like a debate where Hillary Clinton is there, because they think there's absolutely nothing to gain.
Because the deck is constantly stacked.
Trump is by definition going to be on defense.
They hate the media.
They don't think there's any possibility Trump could get a fair shake, shouldn't do it, waste of time, can actually help himself more by bagging these and continuing to stay on his exhaustive campaign schedule.
Now, if he bagged the debate, and by the way, they're announcing he's going to be there, because this has come up, but they're announcing his teams announced he's going to be there.
Let's just say he cancels it.
Do you can you imagine what's going to be done with that?
They would drop Alicia Machado, like the hot tamale she is, and they would they would veer in the Trump's a coward.
What's he afraid of?
He's admitting that Hillary skunked him in the first debate, and they would do everything they could to say that Trump is admitting he can't even stay even with her.
And you don't think that would hurt?
You don't think you don't think what the media would do with Trump canceling his appearance in the next debate.
You don't think that the accompanying media firestorm over this would hurt him?
Depends on how he explains it.
Doesn't matter what he says, why.
If he goes out and says, I'm not doing the debate because I have learned how rigged it is.
I have learned it's not productive.
I have learned I am not going to be able to get my points across because I'm going to be interrupted by moderators and distracted and talk about things that don't matter.
I can do a better job staying focused if I stay on my own campaign trail.
No matter what he says, if he says that, the media is going to translate it for people as as meaning that Trump is afraid.
So my question to you.
A never-ending media narrative that Trump is a coward.
Because that's what it would be.
That would be the narrative.
That would be the spin.
There wouldn't be anything else.
They would take what Trump says and they would accuse him of lying, of making it up, of making excuses, and then he would hunt down people close to Trump in the campaign who would say, yeah, he just, after that first debate, he knows he's not going to get a fair shake.
And he just doesn't want to put up with it anymore.
They're going to translate that as cowardice.
You think he should bag the debate, give a great reason, and you think the great reason will be reported fairly and honestly by the media with a degree of understanding.
It won't be the case.
What if Hillary canceled the debates because of her health wouldn't think would happen?
Okay, right, she'd lose the election.
But you don't think Trump would be hard by quitting the debates?
You don't think Trump will be harmed at all?
*sigh* Uh...
Uh...
I know our people hate the media, but are there enough people who hate the media who will vote for Trump because of that?
I mean, you're basically saying, if you think Trump should quit, that a vast majority, or a simple majority of the American voters, would applaud because they hate the media.
And if if you think that there are enough of those people who would applaud Trump and vote for Trump for doing that, then I can understand your thinking.
But I don't think I agree with your thinking.
Yes, media, media ranks lower in trust, and yet people still watch them and quote them every damn day.
You see what I saw in the New York Times, you see what I saw in the NBC Nightly, did you see what I saw?
They might say they disrespect them, but they quote them left and right and they send out news stories that are published on these websites.
If it if it is interesting to them one way or the other.
So you better think really hard about that.
I know it's an unconventional campaign.
That'd be a very unconventional thing to do, and I can understand the thinking that it might resonate with a lot of people, but would it resonate positively with enough?
And I don't see that.
Look, folks, let me just put something to bed here real quick.
Donald Trump is not going to bag the next debate for one reason.
The media has proclaimed him the loser.
He is not going to pull out of this debate with the drive-bys saying he's a loser.
He's too competitive.
If he had won the first debate, maybe.
Maybe.
But that would be pulling out as a winner, and he could easily say, look, and it was so bad, I don't think Hillary has any.
I hope I don't want to humiliate her anymore.
But he can't do that because the drive-bys around saying he lost the debate.
Now, interestingly enough, the left-leaning polling unit, known as public policy polling, actually asked respondents this question in their latest poll.
The question is this do you think Donald Trump should participate in the remaining debates for president this fall or not?
76% of the respondents in the public policy polling poll say Trump should participate.
76% say should.
17% say that Trump should not.
And 7% were not sure.
Now you have to ask yourself something.
Why in the hell was public policy polling asking their respondents this question?
Where does this come from?
You have to admit this is a weird question.
I'll tell you where it's coming from.
These people think that it was so bad for Trump, they think Hillary should.
Actually, what they think is that Trump was horrible.
They think Trump was embarrassingly bad.
They really think these people on the left in the media, they think Trump was an abomination.
They think it was embarrassing.
He was unprepared.
He didn't take it seriously, and he let down his supporters in that regard.
So they're out.
Do you think he just maybe should not even do any more of these?
He was so bad.
That's the underlying unstated tone attached to the poll question.
Did Trump do so badly that he shouldn't even participate in the remaining two debates?
That's why they asked the question.
That's my opinion on this.
And 76% of their respondents said that Trump should.
Now I went back and I got this McClatchy story.
It's presidential debate surprise as Clinton wins polls but loses Votes in swing state.
And this is the focus group that McClatchy put together to watch the debate.
And everybody agreed that Clinton won the debate.
But all of these people, these independents in the focus group said it didn't matter.
They're voting for Trump.
K. Roberts, John Eardley were leaning toward Hillary Clinton before Monday night's debate.
By the end, they had pulled away.
John Cocos and Hank Federal were undecided going in, potential Clinton backers.
By the end, they had ruled her out.
Indeed, while Paul said that Clinton won the first general election debate with the Trumpster on Monday, she may not have won actual votes.
And she may even have lost some, at least in the battleground state of North Carolina.
In a focus group of 21 voters from around Charlotte, conducted by McClatchy and the Charlotte Observer.
Four who were up for grabs before the debate, undecided, moved away from Hillary by the end of the debate.
I went back and got this because I distinctly remembered it.
Because if it premise here is that Trump won a lost the debate, that Hillary looked and didn't just comported herself much better.
And yet, people tending to Hillary decided not to go with her.
And I the reason she just she's not likable.
She's not trustworthy.
She had that smirk, that arrogant, condescending look on her face that nobody is still talking about.
It's one of the great uncommented upon things.
I got to take another break, sorry.
Folks, I don't want to sound any alarm bells or anything here, but I have to tell you something.
What do you what's wrong, Ryan?
What do you want to point to something?
Oh, I thought you were pointing it like my hair being rolled or something.
Um just teasing.
I thought he was looking over my head.
Something behind me was wrong.
Chris Christie, who is the governor of New Jersey, was just doing a press conference on the train derailment in Hoboken.
And Governor Christie during the press conference said that he had just received a call from the White House.
White House had called him, offering him their assistance in the aftermath of the train derailment in Hoboken.
Does that conjure up any memories?
Ladies and gentlemen.
Does it remind you, maybe say, of a hurricane that happened?
Hurricane Sandy.
Does it remind you that President Barack Hussein Oh showed up after having offered Governor Christie assistance?
What was it, a week or two before the election in 2012?
And Governor Christie was at the beach they were walking or something close to the beach.
And it was the hug, was it not?
Do you recall people being infuriated over this?
Two weeks before the election, Christie had been the keynote speaker at the Republican convention.
It looked like a slap at uh at Romney.
So just wanted to share with you before you hear it yourself.
I don't, I don't, I don't, it's look, it were much farther from the election this year than the Hurricane Sandy aftermath.
But Christie was clearly trying to reassure people that uh the White House had called him and had offered assistance.
Wayne in Columbia, South Carolina.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh.
Let me say that I have a nine-year-old daughter and she loves her book.
I also want to say that I think uh Donald Trump.
He needs to reinforce what people already know about Hillary Clinton.
I think in the next debate he should go in with a theme.
How can you trust her?
And he should also have a theme that I work for Americans first.
I think before, when she did finish talking, he should always start off with how can you trust this woman?
This is a woman who lied about sniper fire.
This is a woman who lied about her emails.
Every time he has the time to speak, he needs to drop another line.
How can you trust her when she lies about this?
And I think he should also go through debate, making the point that she's working for illegal immigrants.
I'm working for you.
She's working for refugees.
I'm working for you.
I'm putting America first.
I'm putting hard working Americans first.
I'm putting our security first.
She wants to make sure that the rest of the world is okay.
She seems really, really excited about doing stuff for people that are not Americans and that are not working hard to try to raise their families.
So I think if he continues that narrative and pushes that narrative, how can you trust her?
And I'm working for Americans first.
I think it'll be somewhat of a a different debate.
He did some masterful things in the first debate.
The first 30 minutes, he knocked it out of the park, and he was saying things that Americans know are true.
We're on a bubble right now.
And as soon as the next president come in and they start messing with the interest rate, all this is going to come crashing down.
And Trump was hitting that note, and I think people felt it.
And she knocked them off balance.
That's pretty much what I wanted to say, and I would love to hear your thoughts.
Thanks again for you.
Don't hang up yet, Wayne.
I first thing I was gonna say is a campaign needs to find you and hire you.
I wish they would.
They need to find you for debate prep.
You need to find we need to find a way to get you in the inner circle for debate prep because that is perfection.
That would rattle her, it would keep him on offense.
Uh the moderators would come after him on it, but that's something you can't lose on because he'd be telling the truth about her.
Absolutely.
The thing about this that you've nailed, all he's got to do is remind people of the truth about her.
The things that she has done going all the way back, this email server to Bengazi to her lack of success running health care the first time, how healthcare today is a disaster, and how she was part of everything that's gone wrong in these last eight years.
It's ideal.
I mean, big lies, small lies.
She lies about where her name came from.
She lies about everything.
And as long as he pushes that, there's really nothing she can say.
She can try to move on, but he needs to come right back to it.
Well, you know that's right.
She will try to respond by accusing him of uh lying and doing other things.
As long as he just ignored her and didn't take the bait of what she retorts with or what she offers in advance, like on offense, just ignore it and focus on her and then take every one of those and relate it back, like you said, to what he wants to do to make America great again.
And how he can be trusted to do it.
And I think you should keep emphasizing she's been in Washington 25 years with nothing to show for it, as evidenced by her agenda.
Her agenda today is what it was twenty-five years ago.
She hasn't moved it forward, she's still complaining about the same things.
Uh absolutely, Mr. Mr. Limbaugh.
Yeah.
I just want to say again, and I don't know if you heard me, I want to say thank you for your books.
Me and my child, I'm 42 years old, I'm an African American, I'm a conservative, and I want to say that me and my child, we read your books together, she loves the talking horse, and it really makes a great positive quality time with me and her.
I think it's really opened up a door in her mind that we can talk about.
She's asking me to read the book and to read the book to me.
So I really want to appreciate you for what you do on that.
Thank you.
I heard that.
I one of the reasons I wanted you to hold on is that I want to get your mailing address or uh FedEx address so that we can ship, like, well, sit sh send her a liberty doll.
Wow, that's great.
And and have you does she have all the books?
No, we only have the brave pilgrims, you know.
I'm a I'm a truck driver, and you know, we have to budget our money, so we kind of, you know, I'm just trying to space it out for Christmas and different things like that, but um, you know, nah, she didn't have them all.
We we got through the brave the brave pilgrims, and she's asking about more.
But uh, I really appreciate the doll.
You know what I mean?
And she's gonna be excited, man.
It's good.
I'm gonna look like a hero now.
Oh, well, send the uh send you all the books.
There there's there's there's there's uh there's three, four more to come.
But what what what how old is she?
She's nine years old.
Nine years old.
Okay.
Uh okay.
Well, look, don't hang up so Mr. Snerdley can get you out.
We're gonna put together an entire package for her that we will send out that'll be the Liberty doll.
And it's a nice, it's a big stuffed liberty doll.
Looks just like The talking horse liberty in the books and then some other things to go along with that, plus the books and just some fun stuff that uh because that this you made my day with this.
This is a this couldn't get any better than this.
You made my week getting on.
I just want to let you know.
I mean, it's a lot of African Americans out here that listen to your show and uh really want to raise their families the right way, man.
And I'm telling you how to arm you out here, man.
I wish you made yourself more available to African Americans because they really need to hear the message.
This is what we grew up with.
A lot of us, like I said, I'm 42.
We grew up in conservative homes and didn't know that they were conservative.
And when I heard you for the first time, it was like a light went off in my head.
Like, well, you that that's you know that's the case of so many people.
They grew up in conservative homes and didn't know it.
And then one thing or another happened and and they either confirmed it or were shamed out of it.
But you, you fell right into it.
This is this is great.
Like I said, you made my my day here, Wayne, and I I want you to uh make sure you hang on.
Don't hit don't hang up so that we can find out.
We'll get some stuff out to ASAP as quickly as if you know.
I think I've got an iPad here that that uh she would love to do you like it.
You guys have an iPad in the family.
You know, sir, we don't have an iPad.
We just got a little tablet that I purchased a couple years ago, and we've been working off that tablet, but Mr. Limbaugh, I appreciate it.
So I'll be I'd be honored to throw I'd be honored to throw one of those in there.
That I know she'll have tomorrow.
We've the other stuff we have to assemble, but uh that'll come quickly too.
You made my day here, Wayne.
I really hope somebody in the Trump campaign heard your call.
That is an excellent strategy, an excellent battle plan.
I really thank you.
Again, hang on.
Do not do the instinctive thing and hang up because we're not through.
Be right back here, folks.
Don't go away.
Have you heard France and Britain are building border walls.
France is building a roughly mile-long concrete barrier intended to separate a migrant camp from the tunnels that offer passage to Britain.
This is near Calais, or Calais, however you pronounce it.
It's a latest attempt to what has become a global effort to throw physical barriers in the way of historic streams of human migration.
France and Britain have beat Trump to the punch, and they're building border walls themselves.
From a website called Motherboard.
Goodbye world.
We have passed the carbon tipping point for good.
It's a banner week for the end of the world, it says here, because we've officially pushed atmospheric carbon levels past their dreaded 400 parts per million permanently.
Meaning it's over.
We have missed the opportunity to stop global warming, climate change.
It's over.
The planet is now destined to be uninhabitable.
We have blown it.
According to this bunch.
That's the extreme levels they are willing to get to in order to be persuasive, because they still can't reach a majority on this BS.
Okay, folks, that is it for today, but tomorrow is open line Friday, and no matter we have the widest range of issues and topics discussed in any three hour media segment, and you won't find anywhere.
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