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Sept. 30, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 30, 2016, Friday, Hour #2
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Hillary Clinton had another coughing.
Well, our cough came back.
I haven't heard this yet, so until I hear it, I don't want to really characterize this.
It was this afternoon in Fort Pierce, Florida.
You ever been to Fort Pierce?
So have I. Yeah, I've been flown in there a number of times.
Great, great customs office in Fort Pierce.
Fort Pierce, Florida.
Yeah, right up the coast.
Well, I don't know about that.
That's I've got great.
It's a great place to clear customs.
That's all I'm telling you.
Some of the finest customs agents I've ever met are up there.
At any rate, she's up there in Fort Pierce at a campaign event.
This is about 28 seconds.
Let's listen to this.
I have not yet heard this myself.
I'm trying to end the campaign, focusing on issues that are really close to my heart.
And this is one of them.
You can see part of the creed I like to follow behind me.
Do all the good you can in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
Alright, so the coughing appeared as she appeared to get past circa lozenge in there, I'm uh I'm told.
So we I think we got a new slogan here.
Do all the good you can in all the ways you can and all the places you can, all the times you can, do all the people you can as long as you ever can.
Man, we gotta have this woman as president.
Isn't that what that slogan says?
Man, oh man, is that just hot?
That hot man, what a slogan!
I don't know if we've ever had a better slogan.
So that's that.
Since we're on the um soundbite roster, since we got started, let's just go to the top here.
Uh we have uh an ad.
A Trump pack, actually.
A pro-Trump anti-Hillary PAX.
It's not technically the Trump campaign has hit the ground running with four different ads using the Obamas.
And I have the audio of one of these ads.
Three of them are with Barack Hussein Obama and one with his uh with Muchel my Bell Obama.
The Muchel Obell uh Obama My Bell Obama ad apparently is the most relevant, considering that Bill and Hillary's marriage is now at issue.
So the title of this ad is Can't Run Your House.
See if you remember this.
One of the things, the important aspects of this race is role modeling what good families should look like.
And my view is that if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House.
Can't do it.
You remember who said that was Michelle.
You remember when she said that?
You don't?
She ran that was in the primaries of 2008.
She was talking about Bill and Hillary.
This was during the primaries of 2008.
That's what the title of the ad is, Can't Run Your House.
It's video featuring uh Michelle Obama On the trail in 2008 talking about Hillary Clinton.
There's an on-screen graphic.
If you really want to know who Hillary Clinton is, let's hear from those who know her best, like Michelle Obama.
And let's now, since you know what this whole thing is, let's listen to it again.
Here's the graphic at the bottom of the screen when the ad starts.
If you really want to know who Hillary Clinton is, let's hear from those who know her best, like Michelle Obama.
One of the things, the important aspects of this race is role modeling what good families should look like.
And my view is that if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House.
Can't do it.
Wow.
Well, now you might ask, okay, so how do you put something like that back together?
I mean, here's Obama running for the nomination in 08.
Hillary's running for it too, and he sends his wife out to basically talk about the marital infidelities and Hillary being the most cheated on woman in America, unable to run her own house.
And how can we dare let somebody like that in the way?
Now these two are supposedly the best of friends in Obama and Michelle run around saying that nobody more qualified ever to be president than Hillary Clinton.
So what do you think?
Explains this is this is classic white people hate politics.
Because they think everybody in it is phony.
They think everybody in it is dishonest, because what most people are going to conclude here is that all of this tripe that we have heard from this cycle from Obama and Michelle about how great Hillary is, they don't really believe it.
And I happen to believe that.
I think all of this is about party loyalty, preserving the Obama legacy, or what have you.
And I think they're out there promoting Hillary Clinton with clenched teeth.
I think there's really a lot of friction in this couple, these two couples, and I think it does date back to 2008.
I'm going to tell you, human nature's human nature, and human beings are human beings.
In 2008, Hillary Clinton had been veritably promised the nomination.
And then Obama came along, and well over half the Democrat Party instantaneously threw her overboard, dumped her, and chose the attractive guy, which is exactly what happens in her own marriage.
And I guarantee there was this friction.
This is this, and then you you remember when uh Bill Clinton told Teddy Kennedy they were in South Carolina during the 2008 campaign, and Clinton thought that they had thrown the race card down on him.
First black president stuff and lying about having seen all these black churches burn.
And Clinton is with Ted Kennedy and says, hey, Ted, you know, the truth of the matter is, in the real world, this guy would be getting us our coffee, talking about Oban.
Now, these people don't forget this stuff.
I guarantee you they don't.
But they sweep it aside for the greater purpose, the greater good, which is the never-ending power and control of the Democrat Party.
Say it's an effective ad.
We'll just have to wait and see.
Sticking with the audio sound bites.
Uh, yesterday on NPR, you know, I have often imitated for you the uh the way intellectuals speak.
And I'm told I haven't heard this either, but Cookie tells me that it's a perfect example of the practiced and perfected intellectual stutter.
All genuine intellectuals stutter on purpose.
It is designed to convey thought.
That that that I'm enmeshed in deep thought and doing everything I can.
And then while I work on how I want to express it, I occasionally will uh wait, wait just a minute before I actually say it to convey that I'm smarter than you are.
Well, this is the Leonard Lopate show on NPR.
And he's speaking with Oxford University professor of European history, Timothy Garton.
Timothy Garden Ash, excuse me, I forgot the last name.
Timothy Gotton Ash, about his new book, Free Speech, Ten Principles for a Connected World.
And Leonard Lopate says people seek out other people who agree with them.
Exactly, and reinforce their prejudices.
And I think one actually sees that in the current presidential election here, and that is very worrying because the essential of free speech for democratic self-government is what you saw in ancient Athens.
I think if you look at the way for example, in this president election campaign, Trump supporters and Clinton supporters are almost separating out into their separate echo chambers.
We watch Fox News, look at Breitbart, listen to Rush Limbaugh, we read the New York Times, listen to MSNBC, and dare I say NPR.
I would say there was almost a market failure in the marketplace of ideas.
And what we're seeing is the erosion of the public square.
So I think we really have to think about how we get the public square back.
Yeah, how we get the public square.
The public square is eroding, much like did the Grand County.
We know what happened there.
Very, very deep gorgeous.
And uh so failure.
Failure is all around, and uh there's marketplaces of ideas, and people segregating with one another rather than exchanging the wide, wide marketplace of ideas.
And what we're really worried about here, this uh hardwired Neanderthal conservatives just can't seem to find a way to agree with us, despite our obvious superiority and our intellectual superiority and our just general all right better people than those cretents, and they still will not see it our way.
And that's basically what.
I've got these people down, Pat.
So, um, next up, we're just taking a little tour here of the audio soundbite roster, Kelly file.
Meghan Kelly last night on the Fox News Channel speaking with Democrat strategist, Robert Zimmerman about Trump's campaign, and this was said by Zimmerman.
Donald Trump can run his campaign with Rush Limbaugh on the National Inquirer any way they want.
The bottom line here is women are standing up in record numbers in support for Hillary Clinton.
It's not that she's calling herself the champion of women, but women are recognizing her by 51 to 32, I believe, in the most recent Wall Street Journal MBC News poll.
See who all of a sudden is to blame again.
So Trump wanders off the reservation talking about Miss Universe.
Somehow it's my fault.
What this means, look, this Zimmerman guy, this Zimmerman guy is a Democrat power broker.
And what this, when they throw my name out, they're fundraising.
That's what they're doing.
They have so successfully cultivated hatred for me within the inner circle of deranged lunatic leftists.
When they hear my name, they run for their checkbooks.
They are so afraid that I, what I believe is going to win and become dominant.
They throw my name out there, and Democrats run their checkbooks and send money in to the to the Democrat Party.
That's how I get one.
I'm not part of Trump campaign.
I don't talk to anybody in the Trump campaign.
They don't call me, I don't call them.
But now I all of a sudden am running Trump's campaign, or Trump's running his campaign with me, and the national inquirer.
Um, moving on to I've got this.
I mentioned this Molly Hemingway piece.
I'm I'm I'm torn as to whether or not to even devote time to this, since so many people think that Trump is off the reservation here, ought to get back to the issues instead of being sidetracked and defending himself against whatever the charge is regarding the former Miss Universe.
But Molly Hemingway has written a great piece here at The Federalist.
And the headline of, let me just touch on a little bit of this.
By the way, this is, I think a first.
This is a story about Sandra Fluck that does not mention me.
I mean, I'm not even alluded to in this story, which I didn't think was possible.
But Molly Hemingway has done it.
Alicia Machado is 2016's Sandra Fluck, a Democrat public relations scam.
Democrats and the media work together seamlessly to push the idea that innocent, random young women are victimized by mean old Republican men.
Now this piece starts with a little history about who Fluck was and how she came to be.
In February 2012, the House Oversight Committee held a hearing about how an Obamacare mandate would harm religious liberty.
These religious liberty concerns have been upheld at the Supreme Court all the way down, but were dismissed as illegitimate by Democrat leaders and their many allies of the media back in 2012 at the time.
Democrats on the committee, the House Oversight Committee, wanted to have a Georgetown law student testify in favor of forcing religious groups that provide student health plans to violate their conscience if they don't sponsor abortive fashions and birth control.
In other words, re you now remember this was all about making Georgetown supply aborta fashions in violation of their religious beliefs, the Catholic school.
Well, the members of the committee refused to seat the Georgetown law student in the committee hearing, and Democrats walked out in protest, later holding an event that was made to look like a congressional hearing.
It ended up being an ad, but the Democrats scheduled a fake committee hearing.
If it was made to look just like a real committee hearing, and the Georgetown law student was testifying.
And that's when the Georgetown Law School student claimed that she needed $3,000 a month of free birth control pills, which you can get for 12 bucks at Walmart.
And she was demanding that Georgetown looked the other way and that they didn't, that it was sexist and racist and all of this.
And she was demanding that Obamacare include and pay for every form of contraception that any woman wanted, for the most part.
And that the Democrats ran that, and it looked like it was a genuine congressional hearing.
And thus that Georgetown law student became the centerpiece of the Democrats' war on women messaging that they pounded throughout the year.
The media ate it up.
Hook, line, and sinker.
Within minutes, she was on every major network and cable outlet.
The media ran with stories about how women were not allowed to testify at the hearing, even though two female college administrators did testify.
The facts were no barrier to the headlines, which included CBS headline, Democrats decry all male house panel on White House contraception rule.
CNN's headline was angry lawmakers challenge lineup of hearing.
That's how it all started, and it was planned, and so is Miss Universe.
She has been planned.
This has been something that's designed to be injected in the campaign after the first debate, actually at the debate.
And a lot of people are saying this is what somebody needs to tell Trump this whole thing has been jigged up.
It's not legitimate, it's not real, and he shouldn't give it any more time.
Anyway, I'll take a break.
Again, up against the boundary here, back after this.
Don't go away.
And here's a uh story, CBS News, the headline, Trump Clinton duped and used by former Miss Universe.
Sorry, Mr. Trump.
No, the Miss Universe is being duped and used with her approval and acknowledgement.
Hillary is not being duped.
Mr. Trump, it's important you realize you were being duped.
This is a scam that they've already run once or twice, and they're running it again.
This one's on you.
Here's uh Roger in Williamstown, Connecticut.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Rush, thank you.
Uh it's an honor, and uh thank you for your respect and appreciation for your viewers that you show every day.
I am one that says we must push the issue and show the uh American people talk about the discretions of the Clintons in the past and the way that Hillary has handled that because nothing shows her naked quest for power and the way that the Clintons and particularly her handled that.
And I think there's evidence that it they don't want uh the Trump campaign to do it because he hit them in the primaries when he she was running against Bernie about this issue.
And if you notice they everything went real quiet over there on the Clinton campaign, and I think they just tried to get a sucker punch in uh on in the debates about this uh this beauty queen, and I think that he needs to hit back in the voice of the victims with Clinton.
So I think that's a common view in Trump supporter land, folks.
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Okay, the last caller said that it's important for Trump to bring up or the campaign to bring up the Clintons past indiscretions because it is a great illustration of their unfitness.
It is a great illustration of their weaknesses and of their uh moral turpitude, whatever you want to say.
And it it what one thing I I just saw a little headline on Fox, it doesn't matter where I look.
When the subject of the Clintons passed, be it Monica Lewinsky, be it any of the Bimbo eruptions, when that guy it seems like everywhere you go in the drive-by media, every analyst out there is saying Trump should not bring this up.
Even Newt.
Newt is saying Newt is saying he was appalled that Trump has even gone there, that it's not helpful, it's not wise.
Some people say once you go after somebody in their personal life, you are bringing yours into play.
You're exposing your personal life and all the vulnerabilities that might be uncovered there.
Well, they're gonna go on th they're gonna hit that on Trump anyway, and they already have.
And I think it's it's accurate to say.
When you when you watch the drive-by media and they suggest that Trump ought not go there.
One of two things.
They're either trying to bait him into going there, or they don't really want him to.
Could be either or in this instance.
I have to think that the Clintons.
Tell me, Mr. Snerdley, if you think this has any credence.
The Clintons attitude on all this may be, go ahead and come at us.
We've survived this for 20 years.
You people have been trying to get us for 20 years on this, and you haven't even gotten close.
You haven't even nicked us.
So if you want to go after Bill sleeping around, do it again.
It ain't gonna hurt us, it's never hurt us.
And you couldn't blame them for thinking that.
There has there's not a mark on them because of any of that.
They have openly lied.
Bill Clinton has openly, they openly lied on 60 minutes about it about Jennifer Flowers.
They've op I never had sex with that woman, not a single time ever.
And I never told anybody to lie.
That's a lie.
They have been exposed.
Bill Clinton was convicted of lying before a grand jury.
And one of the frustrating things to a lot of people is it has not hurt them at all.
Bill Clinton is still the rock star in the Democrat Party.
I got this Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative, and it seems like people all over the world cannot wait to send people, these people their money.
In fact, it's worse than that.
If you want to know the truth, it's worse than that.
It seems like the entire Democrat Party and all of its donors have circled the wagons around the Clintons.
And have done their best to say, you know what?
We don't see anything wrong with it.
It's their business.
If Bill wants to cheat on her, we don't really blame it.
But if it's once to happen, none of our business, and it didn't affect the way he did his Job, and you all should just shut up about it.
But you have to admit it hasn't hurt them.
They they haven't been.
I mean, yeah, within a certain segment of population, their reputations are dirt, but it hasn't hurt their wealthier than they've ever been.
They have more prestige than they've ever been, they've ever had.
Uh in fact, it's one of the things that have so many people so upset about the general moral circumstances in our country today.
So think of it how you will.
Here's Trump talking about it.
This was last night in Bedford, New Hampshire.
The American people have had it with years and decades of Clinton corruption and scandals.
Impeachment for lying.
Remember that?
Impeach.
They're tired of the lies.
They're tired of the trivial politics.
They're tired of being talked down to, looked down upon, and treated like second-class citizens.
The Clintons are the sordid past.
We will be the very bright and clean future.
Well, Newt Gingrich said, oh no.
Tell me he didn't do it.
Yes, he didn't.
Oh no, he shouldn't have done it.
Newt says he shouldn't have done it.
A lot of other people, no, don't, don't go there.
And I think one of the reasons that Newt and the boys are saying it is because they did go there once and it didn't work.
It hasn't, it hasn't worked.
But then we've I I guarantee you this.
There are, don't know what percentage, no what the number is, obviously, but there are a lot of Trump people who are so fed up, they are happy he's going after it.
And a lot of them think that it hasn't been done the right way, and it hasn't been done seriously, that the house managers were never really into it.
And the criticism has never been full-fledged and meaningful.
It was more perfunctory.
And there are a lot of people who think that it's it's an area of great vulnerability for the Clintons.
And it seems like the Republicans always pay a price when this kind of thing is exposed about one of them.
So tit for tet.
So last night in New Hampshire on NH1's news, the political director Paul Steinhauser interviewed Trump.
And he said, if it does come up in the next debate, do you think maybe your past marital history is also fair game?
I guess.
I mean, they can do, but a lot different than his that I can tell you.
I mean, we have a uh situation where we have a president who was a disaster, and he was ultimately impeached over it, in a sense, for lying.
And so uh we'll see whether or not we discuss it.
You're not worried about your past history at all.
No, not at all.
I have a very good history.
Yeah, my history's the best.
I have the best history of any history in the country.
My history is great.
Everybody would love to have my history.
There's no greater history in the world out there.
I can show you my history.
See the golf course, I can show you my history.
Nobody can out history my history.
That's the way Trump plays this.
No, nothing to see, you got nothing to worry about.
I'm proud of what I am.
I'm proud of what I've done.
I'm not ashamed of anything, is his attitude.
In uh in the air, yes, to the board the Clinton campaign plane, Hillary sauntered back to the back of the plane where her campaign staff was sitting, disguised as journalists, a little QA, and one of the campaign workers, and Mrs. Clinton had this little back and forth.
Do you, as someone who presumably wants more women to run for and win office and high office, feel any obligation if Trump brings up your husband's past to speak out against uh a spouse's uh indiscretions or past being brought into a campaign like this?
No.
Okay, again, now you understand what this is.
This is not an independent journalist asking Hillary a legitimate question.
This is a campaign worker, a journalist, by definition.
Asking Mrs. Clinton, do you as somebody note the question here, by the way?
You presumably want more women to run for and win for high office.
You're such a wonderful person, Mrs. Clinton, and you're such a wonderful woman that we all know you want even more wonderful women like you uh in public life.
Therefore, Mrs. Clinton, do you feel any obligation?
If Trump brings up your husband's past, do you feel any obligation to speak out against a spouse's indiscretions or past uh being brought into a campaign like this.
Hillary, no.
She does not feel any obligation to speak out against it.
Some might say she's waving a red flag there to the Texas Longhorn Donald Trump, the bull.
We'll see.
Back to the phones we go, Steve in La Palma, California.
It's great to have you with us.
How are you, sir?
I'm great, Rush.
Decades of dittos from sunny Southern California.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate your call.
Thank you.
I address liberals with two main points.
One is that the Liberals have they changed how we argue.
They say constitutionals are right wingers, but the thing is the Constitution is the foundation of all law.
Therefore, it should be the foundation of all political measurements.
We are not right wingers.
We are constitutional centrists.
They seized the center, which helps them in the schools, and you know, just discussing politics and such.
And so we've got to bring the Constitution back.
Second thing, why is everybody forgetting about the horrible debt we're leaving to the children?
Everything Hillary proposes leaves more debt to the children.
And I I call it fiscal child abuse because these kids are going to have to pay for all these votes that the Democrats are paying for.
We've got to bring this to the front.
Trump made a big deal in the debate about the national debt and how much it has grown under Obama.
You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna mention this again.
From the moment I was old enough to know what I was hearing, I remember my parents and grandparents warning about the national debt.
I remember all the adults warning about the national debt back when it was barely a trillion dollars.
And they said the same thing.
And I'm I'm going back 50 years, folks.
I'm sixty-five years, and I've probably even before I was fifteen, I started paying attention to this stuff, and I I mean I knew what I was listening to.
So for 50 years, I have heard people warn about the ramifications of running up this debt, that it is going to provide a just a horrible, horrible burden for children and grandchildren.
And throughout the 50 years, I don't think anybody can dispute that the economy has grown, that up until about 15 years ago, wages were increasing and wealth was advanced.
Now, look, I don't want to get into an esoteric destruct the conversation here about economics.
I'm not making the case for big national debt.
I'm saying that all my life I heard how it was going to be the end of me, and it hasn't been.
I think it's a tough argument to make.
I think you can make it better on how irresponsible it is and how we don't have the money, but that doesn't seem to deter anybody from taking it.
The Democrat Party of Santa Claus, and they don't care how much in debt the country is, because they don't see it hurting them.
If you look at the number of people in this country who received some kind of government check, they take it.
They take it happily, and if it's increased, they take that.
They'll take as much as they can get, and they're not worried.
They don't see themselves as paying anything about it.
They don't see themselves as bearing any burden at all.
All they see is a government check coming in for this or for that, earned income tax credit, uh social security disability, straight-on welfare, whatever it is.
There are a lot of people on the public dole.
And I don't see any of them refusing it because we can't afford it, and it's going to be too big a burden on our kids.
So in the big scheme of things, making an argument like that as a central theme of a campaign.
I just don't think it falls flat.
It's clearly important, and at some point it is going to uh wreak havoc.
And some would say it is now.
And case could be made.
If we have a stagnant economy, we've reached the point where the government is so much of the economy, and it doesn't produce anything, that we've become stagnant.
And it's slowing down.
It's not providing great career opportunities like it used to.
College educations are more and more worthless because of the curriculum and what people are majoring in, and you add the debt they have when they graduate, which sets them back 15 years.
They've got 15 years of debt before they even start progressing on their own accumulation of wealth.
So you could but but it making the argument doesn't seem to change the way people look at it or vote.
The country, everybody gets up every day, and those who want to go to work do.
Those who want to try to find a job do.
Those who can't find a job have plenty to eat.
Those who can't find a job have a cell phone.
Those who can't find a job have a car.
They've got gasoline in it, they've got cell phones.
So I'm strictly speaking here as a campaign issue.
I don't know how effective it is.
We can all devise our own ideal campaign.
Uh I think we're sitting on it.
We're staring us right in the face, the status quo.
The only people that are just excoriatingly happy, excruciatingly happy are, for the most part, liberal Democrats, and they're happy because they're enjoying the fruits of political power.
But we don't live in a country that is unified and has a sense of contentment or even joy.
There's angst everywhere.
Trump calls it out, and people say, I can't believe he'd paint such a negative picture of this country.
It's dire and dark and so forth.
It's the exact picture the Democrats paint every election.
Anyway, again, I'm long, another obscene profit break, and we continue when we get back.
Another classic example of what you're up against, what we are up against every day.
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Listen to this.
Wolf Blitzer this afternoon on CNN.
Just he's reading a statement that has been released on Instagram today by Alicia Machato.
Ready for this?
This is this is the kind of stuff that gets you done.
This is the kind of stuff that dispirits you.
This is the kind of stuff that makes you think we have no hope.
This is the kind of stuff we can't ever.
Oh my God, this is horrible.
This is the kind of stuff that makes you want to give up.
Tell me if I'm wrong.
Alicia Machado, the Miss Universe says she released a statement this morning on Instagram.
Let me read it to you.
The Republican candidate and his campaign team are again generating attacks, insults, and trying to bring back slanders and false accusations about my life, all of these in order to intimidate me, humiliate me, and destabilize me once more.
Through his hate campaign, the Republican candidate insists on discrediting and demoralizing a woman, which is definitely one of his most terrifying traits.
Those of you who have heard this woman speak know that she didn't write this, and she may never have even seen it.
The point is that Wolf Butzer and the rest of the drive-bys, they are ecstatic to them.
This is big news.
This is a grand update to an ongoing news story.
Have they ever, ever read verbatim an Instagram or Facebook post from Kathleen Willie about Bill Clinton?
Have they ever read verbatim and heralded and made a big news story out of anything Juanita Broderick has said about Bill Clinton and her allegation that he raped her?
Have you ever heard the Democrats and the media?
Let's stick with the media.
Ever heard Wolf Blitzer or anybody else in the drive-bys read anything any opponent of Bill or Hillary Clinton has ever posted in the campaign on Instagram anywhere and read it verbatim.
You haven't.
So you see something like this if you're watching CNN, and you're going to hear about it.
heard about it now because I've informed you.
It's supposed to dispirit you.
It's supposed to make you mad.
It's supposed to just make you feel like you live in utter futility.
And it is the it is as clear a bit of evidence of the rigged nature of the campaign.
That's Wolf Blitzer reading a statement from the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Is what that really is.
Disguised as an outraged, offended statement from a terrorized former Miss Universe by a hateful Republican.
Sit tight, my friends.
Open Line Friday continues after this brief obscene profit break at the top of the hour.
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