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Sept. 30, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 30, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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It is Friday and we are rolling.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open live Friday.
Hillary Clinton just tweeted, well, not just, she tweeted, what kind of man stays up all night thinking of insults against a poor defenseless woman?
And now we got the Machado statement.
It comes from the Hillary campaign, no doubt.
Well, that's what I'm thinking.
Her husband's up all night, except she doesn't know it because he's not home.
What kind of a man stays up all night at some other woman's place?
All right, well, let's just play tit-for-tat here.
Grab audio soundbite number eight, August 24th, just a little over a month ago, on the World Alternative Media blog website, YouTube channel, Josh Sigurdson interviewed former nursing home administrator Juanita Broderick, and he said, do you ever fear for your life or your safety?
Yes, I do.
You know, in fact, I have my home at Purcell now because I live alone in a huge home on 23 acres.
It's just an absolutely gorgeous place.
And I've loved it all these years, but I just don't feel safe anymore.
Especially if she does become president.
I'll fear even more for the retribution that I might suffer.
Why does Wolf Blitzer not find this?
I mean, I'm asking this stuff rhetorically.
Why isn't this news to somebody like Wolf Blitzer?
Here's a woman who claims that Bill Clinton raped her.
And, you know, there has not been a rock-solid refutation of that.
It continues to survive out there.
And she's explaining that she's afraid of the retribution that the Clintons are known for.
Do you think this would be news to anybody who drive by me?
Of course not.
To them, Juanita Broderick is an outlier, a little bit of, she may not even be right.
You know, she could be a little off-center, a little touched.
And that's not it at all.
It's just they're going to circle the wagons.
They're going to defend and protect the Clintons on this no matter what.
Here's Hillary Clinton back on January 30th, 1992.
Primetime Live, Sam Donaldson interviewed her.
And here's what she said about Jennifer Flowers.
If somebody's willing to pay you $130,000 or $170,000 to say something and you get your 15 minutes of fame and get your picture on the front page of every newspaper and you're some failed cabaret singer who doesn't even have much of a resume to fall back on and what's there she's lied about.
You know, that's the daughter of Willie Horton, as far as I'm concerned.
It's the same kind of attempt to keep the real issues of this country out of the mainstream debate where they need to be.
January 30, 1992, but we all know now that it was the Clintons lying about Jennifer Flowers.
But Jennifer Flowers is verboten today too.
I mean, Wolf Blitzer wouldn't be moved at all by anything she had to say, nor would he be moved by Juanita Broderick's open expression of fear of retribution, because she knows about the Benbow eruption.
She knows what has happened to the women who came forward, alleged things about Clinton.
It was Kathleen Willey.
September 22, 2000.
Hillary Clinton and her minions tried to destroy Kathleen Willey's life.
Kathleen Willey, just to remind you, this is at some point during the Clinton campaign, it might have been the campaign in 92, might have been the campaign in 96.
It might have been when he was president.
I don't remember exactly when, but I'll never forget the incident.
Clinton had landed wherever it was at the airport, wherever it was that Kathleen Willey lived.
She was there for some reason.
And Clinton called some guy over.
Hey, hey, who's that babe?
You got to introduce me to that babe.
And it was Kathleen Willey.
And one thing led to another, and her husband ended up committing suicide, right?
Yeah, that's right.
She was a volunteer for his campaign, made trips to the Oval Office or so forth.
And she has been trying to sound the warning bells about Bill and Hillary for years, and it falls on deaf ears at the drive-by media.
She held a press conference in September of 2000 to announce her lawsuit against Clinton, who was at the time president and Hillary.
Today I am suing the president, the first lady, and the White House aides because of their efforts to intimidate and harass me.
Before I testified in the Paula Jones case, a stranger approached me, mentioned my 13-year-old cat who had disappeared, my tires which had been vandalized, and asked how my children by name were and said, you're just not getting the message.
After my testimony before Judge Stark's grand jury and my appearance on 60 Minutes, White House aide Sidney Blumenthal boasted that my reputation would be ruined in a matter of days.
Now, why is this not news?
Why, this has never been of any interest whatsoever to Wolf Blitzer or F. Chuck Todd or anybody else at ABC CBS NBC, New York Times, Washington Post.
Never been any interest.
And here comes Alicia Muchado.
She was last on the stage 20 years ago as a Miss Universe who did gain a whole lot of weight, which is not good.
And Trump wrote about it in his book, The Art of the Comeback.
And he expressed when nobody paying any attention to this, he expressed how he had tried to help her.
He went to the gym with her.
He brought her down to Mar-a-Lago.
He did everything he could to help.
And he described working with her was really a pain.
And so Hillary brings her up.
And look at now.
She is the story of the campaign.
How does this happen?
It happens because of collusion between the drive-by media and the Clinton campaign.
It's the media-Clinton complex.
They're inseparable.
It is one and the same.
That's why we now jump forward to this morning on CNN's newsroom with the infobabe Carol Costello.
She found a former Miss Wisconsin, Melissa Young, and she spoke to her about Trump.
Costello said specifically, how did Mr. Trump help you and your son?
I was in the hospital really fighting for my life.
That day I was actually given my last rights.
And a delivery man came to the door of the hospital and said, here, I have an envelope for you.
And handwritten by Mr. Trump, it said must be delivered by 8 a.m.
And I opened it, and there was a message from him saying, to the bravest woman I know.
And in that moment, it lifted my spirits where I knew that God was not done with me yet.
And he continued to do that, to reach out, to check on me, to check on my son, personally calling me on the phone in his busy life.
My son is a Mexican-American, and he has treated us with nothing but just the generosity, utmost respect and dignity.
And he has never spoken about it and tooted his own horn about it.
He really has been just such a wonderful support system for me and my son.
So do you think Carol Costello at CNN was touched by that?
I think he was moved by that.
Well, she wasn't moved by that at all.
Carol Costello, if anything, was a little irritated by this.
Well, Melissa, you've heard all that is going on right now.
And the other women who participated in Trump-sponsored beauty pageants, they tell a much different story.
Are there two Mr. Trumps?
Are we just not knowing him?
Where do these other things come from, these insults about women's weights and these pageants and his continued attack on especially Alicia Machado's character?
And Melissa Young does not back down.
Yes, ma'am.
I don't know that there's two sides to Mr. Trump because I don't know that side of him.
I only know him as being a gentleman.
He has supported me in my life as a woman, as a mother.
And I've seen it also with my fellow Miss USA contestants that they were treated with the utmost respect during our time competing at Miss USA.
He has been nothing but just, he's the greatest man I know.
And until my last breath, I will say that I want people to know I know a man that has a heart of gold, and I just, I think he's a tremendous human being.
Okay, we can't do that.
Throw her out.
Don't get her back here.
We can't have it.
That doesn't, that's not what we wanted, is the attitude among the producers at CNN.
Okay, get rid of that.
That's not what we thought it was going to be.
Okay.
Kodak, we couldn't, we couldn't turn her.
Couldn't turn her.
Couldn't get her.
That's not useful.
That's not helpful.
I don't know who booked this babe, but whoever it is is going to get to talking to.
This is an absolute desire.
Who brought her in here?
That's the reaction to this interview at CNN.
Now, I alluded.
Well, I don't, I'm guessing that that's what it's something like that.
I'm making the point here that that did not move anybody at CNN.
That's not going to make them question what they hear from Alicia Machado at all because they're not in the media, my friends.
I mentioned earlier in the program that F. Chuck Todd, the host of the program Meet the Depressed on NBC, is very, very, very upset that despite the almost total unanimity of focus for the drive-by media to destroy Trump, that they haven't been able to do it.
Well, here we go.
It was the Today Show Today that co-host Matt Wauer, the disgraced Matt Wauer, has F. Chuck Todd on there.
And Matt Wauer said, What about this USA Today thing?
How big a deal is it?
The USA Today thing is they editorialize for the first time in 34 years.
They never editorialize in favor of any presidential candidate.
USA Today came out today and say, we've got to stop Trump.
Trump is a disaster.
We've got to stop Trump.
Which is what the drive-bys have been saying.
So that's a setup for Matt Wauer asking F. Chuck Todd, what about this USA Today thing?
How big a deal is it?
It's bad news for Trump, but they said there was no consensus to endorse Hillary Clinton either.
USA Today, yeah, we hate Trump, but they didn't endorse Hillary.
Well, big deal.
What else are they doing?
They might not say so.
Anyway, here is what the Chucker said.
What's amazing here, Matt, is it's more of the collection of first times.
The first time USA Today has ever done this.
We have the Arizona Republic, the Dallas Morning News, the Cincinnati Inquirer, first time they've ever endorsed a Democrat instead of the Republican.
There is this collective, the American intelligentsia, right?
Not a single Fortune 100 CEO is for Trump.
You have all these people that are collectively saying you cannot support Trump.
What's amazing is how little impact all of this is having.
It's not as if he's collapsing right now.
They can't understand it.
My God, we've fixed it so that everybody who we think matters is coming out against Trump and he won't collapse.
It doesn't matter.
It's not, it's not working.
So they are frustrated.
And now Hillary has pulled out of Ohio and the New York Times dutifully says that's okay.
Ohio doesn't matter anymore.
I mean, right here, Ohio, long a bellwether, is fading on the electoral map.
You know why?
Because it's too white.
Ohio is no longer the great predictor.
Ohio is no longer the great indication.
It used to be that you couldn't win the presidency without winning Ohio because Ohio had collectively a microcosm of the country's population.
But now, now, Ohio doesn't matter since Hillary is not doing well.
And they say it's just too white.
It's too white.
There aren't enough illegals there.
There aren't enough minorities.
And so we can't use Ohio the way we have in the past.
Ladies and gentlemen, I neglected to tell you something about the New York Times and this Ohio story.
The story today, which is September, well, it ran last night.
It was dated September 30th.
Ohio, long of Bellwether, is fading on the electoral map.
The New York Times headline, July 4th, a couple of months ago, when Hillary was thought to have Ohio in the bag, Trump finds himself playing catch-up in all-important Ohio.
Just two months ago, when Hillary was leading Trump in Ohio, the New York Times headline was, Donald Trump finds himself playing catch-up in all-important Ohio.
The New York Times headline yesterday, now that Trump has pulled ahead in Ohio, is Ohio long of Bellwether is fading on the electoral map.
That quickly?
Back on July 4th, it was the all-important bellwether.
It was the single most important indicator.
And now two months later, it's fading in importance on the electoral map.
Hmm.
How does that happen?
How, seriously, how in hell does that happen?
And I want to tell you something.
You know, we had the sound bites here from a former Miss USA, Trump owned that pageant too, Melissa Young.
I will never forget this.
I just got a reminder about this because this happened while this program, I think we're in show prep.
Do you remember the name Tara Connor?
Tara Connor was a, she was either a ranking contestant or she had been crowned Miss USA.
No, she was crowned.
Miss USA.
And after she had been crowned, she was discovered to, well, she was alleged to have used drugs and consumed adult beverages and had sexual indiscretions while underage.
Before she was the beauty pageant queen, Tara Connor faced allegations of drug use, underage drinking, and sexual indiscretions.
And that happened late in the afternoon on a particular day.
Trump said that he would have an announcement the next morning after having thought about it and deciding what to do.
And the crowd that gathered at Trump Tower was much like the crowd that gathered on a day last July that Trump came down the escalator and announced his candidacy.
And I will never forget this.
Trump walks to the microphone and he says, I talked to Dara.
I had a long talk with Dara.
Anyway, he gave her a second chance.
He did not broom her.
He did not fire her.
He said, walking in this morning, in no way did I think it would be possible for a second chance.
I've had a very big blessing bestowed upon me.
This is what she said.
I will never know how much I appreciate Mr. Trump for saving me on this one.
He could have said, you're fired.
He's a very, very compassionate person.
Trump said after he had talked to Tara that she had made some very, very bad choices as she left a small town in Kentucky.
She got caught up in the whirlwind of New York and she just let it all hang out.
And it was brought to bear after she'd been crowned.
And he could have thrown her overboard and he stuck by her and gave her a second chance.
You're not going to see this in a drive-by media, but they were all there.
Their cameras were all there.
Their microphones were all there.
Trump Tower.
Here's Mark in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
We get back to the phones.
Hey, what's happening?
Good day, Rush.
Hey, last week when, or two weeks ago, when you were talking about the NFL of their viewership being down, I think you didn't complete the analysis.
First, I want to say there are a lot of great men in the NFL.
You see that every year when they have the Walter Payton Awards, that people really do good.
But we always hear about the thugs and the bad guys.
So when the NFL turns down the Dallas Cowboys, giving them permission to put the sticker on their helmet to honor the five slain officers, I really left a bad taste in my mouth.
And then when you watch the beginning of a football game, they're doing the anthem, and they highlight those people who aren't kneeling or putting their fists up.
Personally, I wish they wouldn't do that.
Don't give them that platform.
You know, you want me as a viewer, you know, see what you're doing.
Let me tell you something about that.
Normally, television doesn't televise the anthem.
We never see the anthem.
We've never seen it, except at the Super Bowl.
We never see it.
Right.
All of a sudden, we're seeing the anthem.
Every time one of those guys takes an ear, raise a fist.
By God, we're going to see it.
We're going to see highlights of the anthem.
And we do.
And they're naming these guys.
Like I said, they're giving them the platform.
You know, to me, the NFL is putting a bad taste in people's mouths by allowing the networks to do that and by not, you know, why couldn't they honor those officers?
Give us a good explanation.
Well, don't make me explain that.
Come on, you can come up with that on your own.
If I explain that, then Alicia Machado me.
Meaning they'll trump me.
The subject of NFL ratings.
Now, There's a lot going on in the NFL to its detriment.
I've been amazed by much of it.
And much of the harm being done to the NFL is actually being transmitted by sports media, which can go either way.
I mean, on the one hand, you can say they're doing their job.
On the other hand, they are literally attacking the hand that feeds them in many ways.
The other sand is sports drive-bys are every bit the leftist radicals that their brethren in the so-called straight news media are.
Now, the NFL, as far as what it's officially saying about the ratings decline, is to really not acknowledge it, except to say that they think there have not been great marquee matchups.
They have gone on to say they've been up against different kinds of competition, the presidential campaign.
They're blaming presidential politics for a lot of this.
And indeed, on Monday night, the Saints and the Falcons' Monday night game had the lowest Monday night football audience in years.
Now, it's decades, actually.
But it also must be pointed out that even though the NFL's numbers are down, they're still dwarfing traditional broadcast television.
But nobody likes a downward trend in numbers because at the NFL's level, at these networks' level, they're looking at make-goods or free commercials for sponsors.
If you're guaranteeing a certain audience and you're charging X amount per commercial on the guarantee of an audience, if that audience isn't there, you owe the sponsor a make-good, enough free commercials or reduced rates for the rest of the flight to make up for what you're not delivering that you promised.
And at those levels, that's a big deal.
So it can end up being expensive for the broadcast networks that are paying through the nose for the rights to broadcast these games.
So it's in nobody's interests to be lackadaisical about this decline.
What's fascinating is to listen to people talk about it and not even mention what are likely the real culprits here.
Now, I could list a bunch of things that I think might be contributing to a decline in ratings in the NFL.
And I think there are a lot.
And I think it's been slowly developing.
I don't think the ratings decline, even though it's showing up this year, is strictly because of things happening this year.
I think, as you know, if you've been a regular listener to this program, these things have been trending.
And they are many.
I think the overall apparent.
Let me give a real-world example.
The playoff game this past January between the Steelers and the Bengals.
Now, to many people, it was great TV.
It was a great game.
You had action.
You had an unexpected outcome.
The Steelers coming back and winning after being down with no time left to actually come back on the field.
It was only because of personal foul penalties committed by the Bengals that ended up putting the Steelers in field goal range to kick a field goal to win.
They had no business winning the game.
It was one of the most outrageous losses I have ever seen.
It should have been embarrassing.
It should have gotten people fired.
It should have gotten people reprimanded.
It was an absolute disaster for the Cincinnati Bengals organization.
They hadn't been to the playoffs since 1991 and they were destined to go.
And what happened because of on-field behavior, both during play and outside play?
In other words, teams are standing around while penalties are being marked off and players are whining and moaning to the ref.
And one of them hadn't made contact with the rep. That's another 15-yard.
There were 30 yards in penalties.
An unnecessary roughness hit on a defenseless receiver to the head.
And then a cornerback, Adam Peckman Jones, complaining with the referees about something and touched one of them, and that's another 15 yards.
I think viewers see this kind of thing, and this is not the kind of football they want to watch.
They might, the people that advocate for it, it's great TV, man.
It was great TV and it was great hitting, but it wasn't football.
It looked like something you see not on the football field.
And it makes people nervous.
This is a slow build.
It's not that one game, that one incident.
There is no one game or one incident that's going to be responsible for the decline.
The league, at the same time, would you, have you, you fans, I'm sure, note all the suspensions?
You can look at that one of two ways.
You can say that the league is going overboard here on penalizing these players for putting performance-enhancing drugs in their bodies or human growth hormone.
And you can think that the league is being too restrictive here.
The other way of looking at it is, are there this many cheaters in this game?
Are there this many guys violating the rules?
And what that does is make people question the legitimacy of what they see on the field.
Now, you know what?
One of the biggest arguments in football is what the heck is a catch anymore.
I don't know about you, but I don't like waiting five minutes for a referee to review video to declare something was a catch or not when it clearly looked like it was to the naked eye and even in the replay.
But there's this rule: well, it didn't maintain control through the play.
The number of replays and the length of time they take, coupled with the commercial breaks.
You can, depending on the game, you can see three plays take 10 minutes.
You score a touchdown, commercial break.
That's the point.
Commercial break, kickoff, commercial break.
So you have three plays there, and you've got at least eight minutes of commercials.
Slow little things.
Now you add to it Colin Kaepernick and the open disrespect for America.
I don't care what you think about how great that is, how honorable that is, what great free speech it is, what great civil protest it is.
This is not where people want to see it.
This is not why they tune in.
They don't tune in to a football game to be told how rotten their country is.
They don't want to hear.
They hear that every elsewhere day in their lives.
They don't want to hear it Sunday afternoon, Sunday night, or Monday, now Thursday night.
It's a number of things I think that are accumulating.
The suspensions of star players, the flategate, look at a lot of people think that it was a legitimate suspension because it's a Patriots and everybody thinks it knows they cheat.
Other people think, my God, you took your biggest star off the field for four weeks.
The NFL is a television show.
That's what it is.
And the NFL is a stage.
Those fields, those stadiums are stages, and the NFL owns the stage.
And now you have players trying to commandeer the stage that they didn't build, that's for their own purposes, political purposes, nothing to do with the game.
The NFL has made no bones about its devotion to America and its patriotism with so many big American flags on display and military groups participating in the national anthem and God bless America.
And now the focus is on a bunch of players who are making millions of dollars talking about how oppressed they are in the greatest country on earth and it's not washing with a bunch of people.
So it's not just one thing.
It's a trend that is occurring with a whole lot of elements in it.
But you can't read sports media today.
You cannot read it without endless stories on player here or player there accused of some crime or violating some NFL rule, abusing women, driving under the influence.
I mean, whatever it is, it may be no greater percentage of the NFL than any other population group, but it's being heralded.
I mean, it's been really pointed out.
And then you've got to add to this, the media doesn't like the commissioner.
And so they think everybody should hate the commissioner.
And so they've kind of done to Goodell what they did to George W. Bush.
Now, I'm not going to weigh in whether Goodell deserves to be hated by the fans.
It's beside the point now.
He is.
Whether he deserves to be or not.
The media would tell us that he's despised and hated because of the Ray Rice suspension.
He didn't take it seriously enough.
Ray Rice slugged his wife in that elevator and dragged her out of there like Trump and Miss Muchado.
And he only got a six-week percentage.
And they blew up.
And so now Ray Rice got a full year suspension.
They had to come back to it.
And for that one incident, that started a ball rolling on how good old is out of touch.
I'm telling you, the noteworthy news surrounding the NFL is not about great plays.
It's not about great games anymore.
It's about all this off-field stuff.
And it's just, it's not the kind of stuff that makes people want to tune in and see what's going to happen on the field every Sunday.
It just, the reporting on the game has changed in time.
You've got this concussion stuff with all these stories now about parents that aren't going to let their kids play football.
Anytime now, because the sensitivity has been raised, anytime there is a collision on the field that involves head strikes and helmets, now the public, my God, that's cheating.
How they want to throw those guys out?
It's totally changed the way people watch the game, appreciate the game, understand how it's played.
I think they've got huge problems here.
And we're seeing the beginning here of what could be major problems if they get their hand on it.
And I don't know that they know what their problems are.
I mean, believe me, they're not helping themselves when they promote all of these players taking a stand against the United States by virtue of action they're taking with the flag and the national anthem.
They may think that's a great thing.
They may think in 2016 America, as culturally aware as people are and the divisive nature we face now in our culture, that that's really good.
It shows the NFL is relevant and in touch with what's currently happening.
It's not what people watch.
Whether people know it, whether ardent fans know it, and I suspect they do, but believe me, going to a game, watching it on TV, there's a lot of fantasy involved thinking you could do it, how great that life would be.
Man, I would love to be an NFL player.
You live your life through these guys, depending on how old or young you are.
You use the time to get away from all the other days of the week where you hear how rotten your country is, or you hear how rotten you are, or you hear how rotten your candidate is, and how great the other candidate is.
You go to watch a sport, baseball too, football doesn't matter what it is.
It's an escape from all that.
And now the sport is bringing all that stuff to it and promoting it.
And we'll see if people adjust to it and end up not minding it.
We'll see.
But the early indications are people are not thrilled.
I got to take a break.
I didn't mean to go so long on this, but I can't help it.
Once I get on a roll, it just happens.
Ha, how are you?
Great to have you.
El Rushball back at it.
By the way, Donald Trump just tweeted: for those few people knocking me for tweeting at 3 o'clock in the morning, at least you know I will be there awake to answer the call.
This is in reaction in response to Hillary tweeting, What kind of man is it that tweets out insults to an innocent woman at 3 o'clock in the morning and stays up late at night or whatever Trump's answer was.
For those few people knocking me for tweeting at three in the morning, at least you know I'll be there awake to answer the call.
Trump fans applaud.
Let's see if this ends up being noteworthy in the drive-by media.
Take the music down.
The Commission on Presidential Debates revealed in a one-sentence statement today, just now, that Donald Trump's audio was impacted in the first presidential debate with Hillary Clinton.
There were issues regarding Trump's audio that affected the sound level in the debate hall.
Remember, he said he couldn't hear himself half the time.
And the sniffles and everything.
We discussed compression and how that can bring all those surface noises up.
And now they're admitting that there was a flaw in Trump's audio during the debate.
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