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Oct. 7, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 7, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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And say greetings to you, music lovers, drill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
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Live from the left post at our satellite studios in Los Angeles.
It's open line Friday.
Yes, sir, we here we are in Los Angeles for our final remaining big broadcast hour.
Everything looks good for being back to the EIB Southern Command on Monday.
But again, it doesn't matter.
Because as long as I'm here, it doesn't matter where here is.
And open line Friday means whatever you want to talk about is fine.
Does not have to be like that.
We don't do topics.
Then somebody called Rush, what I have a little off the topic of global warming.
We don't do topics.
We do the news, whatever's hot, whatever's happening, whatever I care about.
But on Friday, I don't have to care about it.
You can call.
Like if you want to speculate why the NFL, I mean, that's it's serious.
Why they're losing audience.
It's big time.
They're facing advertiser refunds.
It's major, and a lot of people think that they're not honestly assessing what's wrong.
You know what the most popular reason given is over-exposure.
The Thursday night games.
Yep, that's it, folks.
Tell me, you're not watching football on Sunday and Monday night because they play Thursday night, too, right?
Now there are other factors.
I think it's a cumulative coalition of things just happened at one time, and with the the the crossing of the T being Colin Capernick and the boys deciding to take the occasion of the NFL stage to let everybody know they're not happy with the country in which the game is being played.
That's got to be having some impact on people.
But the NFL doesn't want to admit that.
Anyway, if you want to talk about that or whatever it is, feel free.
The phone number is 800-282-2882.
And if you want to send an email, do that.
I check it.
It's L Rushbo at EIB net.us.
Okay, if you just join us, there's a there's a brewing little controversy over Donald Trump and his commercial ad buys.
The New York Times, Maggie Haberman, who used to be at the politico.
But these places, it's all state-run media.
They're just incestuous.
They go from one place, they marry each other, they have affairs with each other, they they go from elective office to working for a candidate back to the news and so forth.
So she was at the political.
She's not the New York Times.
She tweeted out that Trump is canceling ad buys in North Carolina, Ohio, and Florida.
Well, if that were true, that would that would not be good.
Because of conventional wisdom, which I'll get to in just a second.
The way the establishment is going to think of that, oh my God, if Trump's canceling ad buys, he's conceding, it's over, and they'll start celebrating and doing handstands at the drive-bys.
And then another tweet, can we find out that the original tweet that got this started was Maggie Haberman tweeted in Sam Stein at the Huffing and Puffington Post.
And that place is home to a special brand of stupid.
You have to be a special kind of stupid to be working at the Huffing and Puffington Post, which we discussed earlier with the way they're reporting on me and this climate change business.
But anyway.
This guy Sam Stein reports that, well, wait a minute now.
We find out that Trump is canceling about a million and a half dollars in these states in small markets.
And then it got updated again to where Trump is canceling $100,000, not a million and a half, in rural areas in Maine, Iowa, and North Carolina, not Florida and Ohio.
But the original tweet was, and the from the New York Times, which is the Bible, Trump pulling out of North Carolina, Ohio, and Florida.
Turns out he's he's canceling 200,000, as best we can tell.
Now, 200,000 in rural markets.
Places where spots cost what, Craig, eight bucks.
Because the population is small.
He owns the rural areas in these states.
He doesn't need to uh reinforce it with ad buys because there's other places where the money could be used.
So it's happened about an hour ago.
They got it out there that Trump may already be admitting defeat because you see, the establishment of both parties has this it's part of the the political structure we talked about yesterday, the way they play the game in their business.
And remember, Trump is not in their business.
He doesn't he doesn't prepare his tax returns to be publicly released like they do.
He hasn't lived his life for public consumption the way they do.
And so he's a genuine outsider, but they try to plug him into their formulas and analyze and cover him the way they would cover any elected official.
And they're doing that with this ad by business.
Now, to the establishment of both parties, there is a in their world an undeniable truth, and it is this.
Whoever has more ad buys is winning.
It's dogma to them.
It's inarguable.
If Hillary is spending more money in advertising, she's winning.
If Trump cancels advertising, he's losing.
That's the rule of thumb.
That's dogma in traditional politics.
Now, the main reason that Hillary is assumed to be a shoe-in by the establishment of both parties is well, there are many reasons for it, but one of the things they focus on is her larger ad buys and the fact that she has more cash on hand.
And that tells them that she has much more support.
Because the more money you have, the more donors are giving you money, and therefore that equals, well, you know the whole phrase money is the mother's milk of politics.
That was actually created by a famous, now late but campaign expert here in California named Jesse Unru.
Willie Brown pronounces his name UNRWA, but it was Jesse Unru.
And he came up with that phrase: money is the mother's milk of politics.
And that's how the establisher of both parties assess these things.
Now, Donald Trump, if you ask me, has already blown that model out of the water.
In the primaries, he didn't spend any money.
And another reason why the establishment's fit to be tied.
He didn't spend any money, meaning people's skids didn't get greased.
He didn't have to spend any money.
He used free media.
Remember all the complaints.
Remember all the warnings Trump got?
You can't do free media in the general.
You may be able to get away with it in primaries, but you can't just rely on free media in the general.
But he is.
And I know some of you say, yeah, but Russia's down in the polls.
Well, we think I don't think you can assess anything with Trump the way you would assess, say, a Romney or Rubio.
Any Republican politician in elective office or formerly who is running, you just can't plug Trump into these into these strategies and formulas you have to judge success.
Here's another one.
Mike Pence today is at a rally in Pennsylvania, and it has got ten times the people that Hillary Clinton and Tim Kane are drawing.
Trump's rallies still overflow every arena.
And what do they tell us?
That's meaningless.
That's all anecdotal.
You can't judge that.
You don't know how those people are going to vote.
You don't know how many of them are registered to vote.
That's not science, like climate change is.
So they discard it.
And then they'll point you.
And I myself have even been guilty of this appointment to Romney.
And they'll talk about his large crowds.
The thing with Romney, his large crowds occurred in the last five days of his campaign.
Remember, he's in Colorado.
And even I, I was, whoa, look at this.
And the Romney supporters, well, something's happening here.
Something, but it wasn't.
He's still not losing by six or eight points, whatever it was.
But Trump, it's not the same thing as five or eight thousand or twenty, whatever is showing up for Romney.
Because Trump's have been consistent wherever he goes.
Everybody shows up knows what he's going to say.
You don't show up because of the unexpected.
Don't show up because of the drama.
You're showing up because you want to be part of it.
But they discount.
Whereas Hillary cannot draw flies to a book signing.
She can't.
I mean, Hillary's crowds are not even numbering in the thousands.
I remember Hillary went into Kansas City.
They got this giant convention center in Kansas City.
And they had a court and off 95% of it to make it look full for TV cameras at her rally.
It was a public employee union or teachers or something, I forget what it preachers.
Might have been Baptist conventions.
If they had to re-for her speech, nobody showed up.
And they tell us it doesn't mean anything, doesn't mean anything.
I mean, that does it.
Look at the money she's generating and all that.
Again, folks, it it takes a really supreme effort, but as we discussed earlier, the media has become defenders and protectors of the state.
It's stunning to me.
The more I think about it, it used to be they were the ones that questioned authority and held them in accountability and were suspicious, and still are if they're Republicans.
But now they're just echoes.
I mean, it's it they are there's no pretense.
And if you don't fall into full acquiescence with the state, then they come after you.
If if for example, if you don't buy into what they're telling you about climate change, making this hurricane what it is, they're going to come after you to ridicule you, joke about you, make you do everything they can to destroy your character and your credibility.
And they do so they are agents of the of the state.
And as as Trump isn't, and Trump's supporters aren't, and they're plugging Trump into all this, and I you've just got to resist.
What did I do?
Just to use myself as an influence.
I first reported Maggie Haberman's tweet.
What the first thing I said, if this is true, because I'm telling you, my initial reaction to anything in the New York Times about this campaign, doubt.
First thing, confirm it.
Like I have been doing.
Imagine if I hadn't dug deal.
What if I just believed her first tweet that Trump's pulled out of North Carolina, Ohio, and Florida?
Well, that's what most people are gonna do.
Except maybe we can change that here.
But it's the way it works.
You have to, as depressing as it looks, and that's what they want to do is dispirit you in depression, make you think that Trump has no chance that you have no chance, it's all over but the shadow.
You have to resist this because they are trying to uh win this thing in the court of public opinion long before uh votes are even cast.
Was um and I've got a couple more sound bites here on voter registration that we've Yeah, let's start at number 12 here.
Uh, this is Stephanopoulos, former Clinton campaign war room leader with James Carble.
He's now a uh a state-controlled journalist.
At Good Morning American ABC from the Clinton War Room.
And he's on good morning, America today, and he's speaking with the chief White House correspondent, Jonathan Carl, another so-called journalist who is the defender and protector of the state, the government.
And they're talking about the impact of Hurricane Matthew on the presidential election.
There is some concern uh in the Clinton camp who were quite bullish about early voting in the Carolinas and Florida that this might have an impact.
Absolutely, George, and we have seen in the past how close races can be in Florida.
Every single vote counts.
So the Clinton team has asked for that extension on voter registration.
They still think there are tens of thousands more who would register between now and October 11th.
Some may be uh prevented from doing so as a result of this storm, and they also believe this could have an effect on early voting.
And by the way, you note the report, only Hillary is concerned about this.
Yes, the story is, yeah, there's some concern in the Clinton camp who were quite bullish about early voting in the Carolinas in Florida.
This might have an impact.
They went to the governor Rick Scott, in case you missed this.
They were berating Rick Scott.
Hillary says, I'm sure her campaign guy, MOOC, I'm sure the governor of Florida will extend early voting and registration.
So Stephanopoulos calls the governor, get us in on TV.
So are you going to extend early voting?
Well, no, we're not.
People have had plenty of time.
I'm trying to save lives down here.
They got a hurricane roaring through the state.
So they try to impugn Scott for not falling into line.
And so now they're doubling down on this.
That it won't be fair.
It is her.
Oh my God, it's not fair.
So they're conflicted.
They love the hurricane because it's global warming.
They get to push that.
But now they think it might impact the voter registration or early voting.
So they have to try to fix that.
But it's interesting to me that they don't even consider it might be important to Trump.
It's all about what Hillary wants.
It's all about defending and protecting the state.
Not only that, if you listen to the drive-by's, it doesn't matter anyway, because Trump has already been humiliated and embarrassed.
It's over.
And you're gonna see it again in the debate Sunday night.
We have a montage of state-controlled media people.
We've got here Meghan Kelly, we got Wolf Blitzer, Charlie Rose.
Uh it's a whole bunch of them out there talking about how, and this is pre-debate spin.
Whatever happens, even if he wins the debate Sunday night, even if it's a knockdown drag out in the first round, it won't matter.
Donald Trump is getting serious about preparing for his upcoming uh presidential debate with Hillary Clinton.
But are his plans too little too late?
Is it too late?
Is it too late if he goes in and has a stellar debate?
Would that be enough at this point?
What does Donald Trump have to do in this debate or is it too late?
Donald Trump merely performing better than he performed disastrously in the first debate is not a win.
It's getting very, very late in the game if we're gonna turn it around.
He's so far behind now in so many places where he needs to be ahead, including nationally, that the bar is different for him in terms of what would constitute a win.
Yeah, this doesn't matter.
Even if he wins, it's too late, it doesn't matter.
Where do they get this?
How come they all end up saying the same thing?
I'm telling you, they're getting talking points from the Hillary campaign.
MOOC will call them up or send them a fact.
Look, we think Trump's done, can't win.
Too little too late.
They run with it.
How else do they all end up saying the same thing?
Here's Dr. Krauthammer last night on Fox special report with Brett Baer.
The most important thing here for Trump is the morning after.
He might have lost the debate.
It was pretty close.
It was not the route that people say it was.
But he really threw it away the morning after when he went after, he went down the rabbit holes on the Miss Universe.
I think he can hold his own.
Ignore the bait.
He should just dismiss all the quotations that he hears the way that Pence did.
Deny it ever happened and then ignore the fact checkers the next day.
And then to pivot and to talk about her.
Focus in on her weaknesses on Benghazi, which he never mentioned, emails, other stuff, and then just have somebody remove the cell phone.
Overnight, at least for a week.
I think it'll be all right.
So Dr. Crowdammer thinks he clearly can still win this thing.
It's not over.
But he's one of the few.
I've got to take a break.
We're up against it on time.
Sit tight back before you know it.
Okay, here you go.
This is from Breitbart.
Trump new voter registration soars.
Two million door knocks in a week and a half.
It's a story about all of the brand new voter registration that the Trump campaign and the Republicans, I guess, working with him are creating.
In Florida, net 261,000 new registrations.
Iowa net plus 38,000 new.
Nevada, net 12,000 new.
North Carolina net 173,000 new voter registration Republican.
Pennsylvania net plus 223.
You're not seeing this anywhere.
In fact, all you're hearing is, oh man, Hillary Killing, we need the governor of Florida to extend our early voting and our voter registration.
This is exactly why.
It is not dire straits for Donald Trump out there, but boy, you wouldn't know it if all you have access to is standard ordinary everyday media.
American Spectator, great story here that maybe in the next half hour I'll get into.
How poll bias obscures Trump's likely election.
Just goes totally against the grain of what is uh being reported.
But I want to grab the phones now because it's open line Friday.
We try to take as many as we can, and we have a 10-year-old from uh from Baton Rouge.
This is Amelia.
It's great to have you with us.
Hi.
Hi.
How are you?
Good.
I'm so happy you called.
What's what's happening?
What's up?
I wanted to tell you how much I like your Rush Revere books.
Oh, that's sweet of you.
You made my day.
That's so great.
Which one do you like the best?
Have you read them all?
Yes.
And my brother read them all too.
No kidding.
How old is your brother?
He is seven.
Seven?
Yes.
Cool.
And you're thirteen.
You're ten.
Yes.
And uh well, who's your favorite character in this?
I bet I bet I can guess.
I bet it's Liberty.
I bet you like Liberty the Horse.
Yes, sir.
Well, you know what?
Uh when we finish here, don't hang up because the nice man who answered your call and screened you and put you up wants to get your address.
And I want to send you a full-fledged liberty stuff doll.
Okay.
Yeah, and a whole bunch of other stuff from uh from the whole revere uh operation.
We'll send you a whole bunch of stuff.
Since you've got all the all the books, I don't need to send you those.
No, I don't have the second one and the fourth one.
Oh, well, pardon me, I assumed you did since you'd read them all.
The second one and the four.
I got the other two I I got the ones I don't have from the library.
Oh, okay.
Gosh, they let it they let it into the library?
That's that's progress.
So you don't have the second one and the fourth one.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
Well, I'll I'll fix that.
You know, we'll just send you a set.
It'd be easier that we'll just send you all of them.
And and that way you'll have a couple copies in case you know your brother spills something on one of them.
Uh you'll you'll have some pristine copies just for you.
Thank you.
Now hold on to me, you don't go away.
Half my brain tied behind my back just because I want to make it fair for the left and the leftists that call if they ever do.
All while meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Okay, here's Chris in uh in Sanger, California.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi, Rush.
Oh, it's uh it's a f uh uh ma'am.
I'm sorry, I didn't I didn't uh mean to call you a guy.
It's okay.
Get it all the time.
Um I am just so angry.
You get it all the time?
Oh, because of the confusion in the name.
Like I say, okay, okay.
I'm thinking about the reasons why that might be, and I was curious, but we won't focus on that.
What was the reason for your call?
Well, I am just so angry because I contacted the Rush Revere group to see if they would donate some books to me so I could donate them to my daughter's school.
And she's ten years old, she goes to John Walsh and Sanger Unified.
And I and they graciously sent me the first three in the series.
I donated them to the school, and that was a year ago.
And I just found out on Tuesday night at our PTA meeting that the books could not be entered into the library because the librarians stated that they were politically leaning and historically incorrect.
They are specifically not political.
Here's another thing.
I'm I need to I want to clarify something.
These are not children's books.
These are history books for young adults and young people.
We did when people think children's book, they think pictures and coloring books and that.
This is it's not that.
These are full-fledged books, hardcover, and and and they are for young people, and they teach the truth of the American family.
There's no politics in this.
There's no conservatism or liberal.
You know what this is?
This is just your librarian with her own politics.
She's injecting and imposing her own political view.
And because my name is on the book, she's assuming that it's rotten and bad and wrong, and she's not letting it in the school.
That's outrageous.
It's simply outrageous.
Sanger Unified, you say.
Yes.
Where in the state where where is Sanger?
Where where in the state is Sanger?
California.
Oh, okay.
East of Fresno, June Valley.
Well, I I just I th I uh that burns me up.
Because we we went we we go to great lengths to make sure these books are not political.
Not especially not in relationship to modern day politics and what might be going on.
We're just trying to teach the truth of the founding of this country because it isn't taught enough anymore.
And we're doing it, I mean, for crying out talking horse is political.
We're trying to we write these books in such a way that the the people that read them are actually taken to these historical events via time travel, and they actually get to see the events take place, such as the debates at the Constitutional Hall and the and the pilgrims arriving and the trip across the Atlantic Ocean and all that.
That burns me up.
Oh, it makes me so angry.
Did you did you say anything to her about it?
The librarian.
Oh, yes.
I said, you know, right in front of everybody there.
I said, it is not politically leaning.
I said I've read every single one of his books.
They have nothing to do with politics, and they're historically correct.
I said Rush did all of the research.
We have a whole staff of people that puts these books together.
We've got the people that do the illustrations.
We've got fact checkers and double check when we when we make historical assertions assertions of fact uh in these books.
That's the first and foremost objective is that what we write about is true.
Not correct.
We're not propagandizing in these books.
There's no re there's no need to.
The truth of the American founding is a great, beautiful story.
There's no reason to lie about it.
They're the ones that do that.
Exactly.
Well, uh is it no change?
I mean, they're still not going to let the books stay in the library.
No, um my husband picked them up yesterday, and we are going to uh donate it them to another school, and hopefully they will put them in their library.
I suspect that you'll have some takers uh now after today.
How many did we send you?
You sent me uh the first three.
Just one copy of the first three?
Yes.
Okay.
No, you sent me three copies of the first three, and I donated them to uh Terry's house and uh another school in President Unified.
Okay.
Because I was gonna say, we usually donate a package when these when these come up.
Well, look, I uh uh I want to put you on hold, if you will, if you would give uh Mr. Snertley, nice man a screen your call, if you would give him some contact information so we can send you some more to try to be donated elsewhere, since Sanger won't take them, we'll dwarf whatever influence Sanger has by donating them all over the place if you want to try that.
Absolutely.
All right.
All right, so hang on.
You hang on just a sec, Chris, and we'll be back when as soon as we get your contact information.
We'll guess we're not gonna be able to get to this next week until next week, so be patient, but we'll we'll we'll make it all happen.
And thank you.
Thank you.
No, no, you thank you for trying to make this happen.
This is this is you you're warming my heart, and I really appreciate it.
Oh, thank you.
I'm just glad my cell phone held out to get through this call.
You did great.
You did great.
Thank you.
You bet.
And we'll uh hope to talk to you again soon.
We got to take a brief time out, an obscene profit break, and we will be right back.
Yeah, let's just do it now.
Let's just do it.
Grab audio soundbite number 15.
Bob Schiefer uh from the Jurassic Park of the Drive By Media recently retired, they brought him back for the campaign.
He's uh journalist emeritus.
And he was on CBS this morning with Charlie Rose, and they were talking about the second presidential debate on Sunday.
And Charlie Rose said, let's look at the dynamics.
Because it's a it's a different style of setting here.
But they're gonna be sitting, I think in this debate.
What's a round table kind of uh forum or uh whatever they call it, round table type.
They're not standing up there at podiums, I don't believe.
So here's here's what here's what Schaefer said about it.
Yes, it is, and I'm not sure who that favors.
Uh climbing up and down off those high stools that they're gonna be sitting on presents uh certain challenges, I suppose.
I've never liked his format, to be quite honest about it.
Remember Al Gore getting up in George Bush's face and it just goes off in all directions.
So heaven knows what's gonna happen this time around.
Who who in the who who is he referring to here getting on and off a stool?
You know he is not worried about Trump.
Getting off and I don't know, climbing up and down off those high stools, eh, I don't like this.
He's obviously worried about the effect of this gonna have on Hillary.
And I was just sent a tweet.
I have no idea if this is true.
It looks like a real tweet.
And I'm I'm I'm prone to believe this because it's insane out this from some Black Lives Matter member.
I'm not gonna embarrass her by mentioning her name.
But it's it's in a thread about Hurricane Matthew and how racist the hurricane is.
And I'm not making this up.
Hurricane's racist because it only killed black people in Haiti.
And here's the Black Lives Matter tweet is the death toll in Haiti from Hurricane Matthew is 339.
That's what environmental racism looks like.
Now, I'm folks that is entirely believable that somebody thinks that way at Black Lives Matter.
Whether this is a real tweet or not, I don't know.
But this is how they this is environmental racism.
So the hurricane is a product of the environment.
This is like I said at the top.
They love Mother Nature normally, except Mother Nature's now a victim of us because we cause hurricanes, global warming.
So Mother Nature's a victim, and because we are racist, we have now turned to hurricane racist.
And that's what this dimwit believes.
This is how they talk to each other.
Death toll in Haiti from Hurricane Matthew 339 is what environmental racism looks like.
And there's a bunch of people are making fun of it, too, so that's why I think it's real.
Here's uh here's Cindy in in uh Burnington, North Carolina.
Great to have you with us.
How are you doing?
I'm quite fine.
How are you today?
Very well, thank you.
I appreciate you taking my call, and I'm gonna talk fast.
I'm a native Floridian.
Over a hundred years ago, my grandmother was born there.
Wow.
And I resent the fact that on the weather channel this morning, the man calling himself the present president of the United States.
Ooh, that's vicious.
Made the statement that Florida wasn't hit as hard as it was expected.
It got Cat 4.
There is a death.
At least one.
That's important to me.
This is my country.
I pay taxes here.
Part of my taxes go to his paycheck.
How dare he solicitate to the Americans to contact the Red Cross and donate for Haiti, who's the last hurricane, their government, along with Hillary Clinton's foundation, misappropriated funds.
Wait a minute, are you saying that happened this morning, Obama?
The weather channel.
On the weather channel, check the news run.
I don't doubt that.
I sat on the phone for an hour and a half because it's that important to me.
I have a sister in Central Florida.
My parents built a house in 1950 that they lived in and still owned up until last year when my father passed.
Okay, wait a minute.
We're running it, we're running away.
We're running out of time here.
Are you telling me that Obama was soliciting donations for Haiti?
Contact the Red Cross about sending money to help in Haiti.
He did it today.
The news reels.
Okay, the newsreels.
That's where we have to find it.
The news reels.
All right.
Well, I knew that he was warning people to not get lazy because the thing could strengthen later or maybe hit land.
I did not know he'd been soliciting donations for Haiti.
Um, I can understand why that would infuriate you.
I really do.
Um, I'm out of time.
I gotta go, folks.
Back here in just a second to wrap it up.
All right, we we we checked the news reels, and it it happened.
She was right.
It's all over Twitter.
Obama urges Americans to donate to the Red Cross to help Haiti.
It's also being noted that the Red Cross raced half a billion dollars for Haiti and only built six houses after the earthquake there in 2010.
Half a billion dollars.
Have a great weekend, folks.
We will be back on Monday.
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