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Oct. 11, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 11, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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So you've heard the conventional wisdom about the Trump campaign.
From the left, he knows he's not going to win.
He knows he's not going to win.
What he's doing now is trying to destroy the Republican Party, maybe because he's been working with the Clintons all along.
I'm just telling you what some of the conventional wisdom that you'll find on our side is.
Some people on our side are saying Trump knows now he's going to lose.
And so it's scorched earth.
It's take the Republican Party out and set up his brand maybe for the Trump News Network.
That's what all of this is, is establishing the Trump Party, the Trump segment of the American voting population, which would also make a very large audience if Trump started a news network.
It's to take out and destroy the GOP.
And there's some people on our side who are saying they wouldn't be surprised if they found out down the road that this was all part of a conspiracy that Trump hatched with the Clintons years ago.
And when I say years, two years, three years, something like that.
That's one theory that's being bandied about.
Another theory has everything in there but the fact that it's a Clinton-Trump conspiracy.
The most popular conventional wisdom now is that Trump knows it's over.
He doesn't, he's not even any pretense that he can win, and he's not trying to win.
His objectives now are to save the Trump brand, to set himself up for his next media engagement, be it his own show, be it Trump News Network, be it whatever it is.
But he knows he can't win.
He knows he doesn't have any.
He knows he's going to lose in a landslide.
He knows it.
He also knows he can't drop out.
If he were to quit now, it would destroy every post-election business idea he has.
For example, if he quits now, that's the end of any Trump news network.
There aren't going to be any loyal people to hang around with him.
If he quits now, he's destroying every aspect of his potential business few.
I'm just sharing you with things that things that I hear.
The left has their own theories.
Their popular theory is that Trump knows he's going to lose and is so mad that the Republican Party's throw him overboard that his mission now is not to destroy the Democrats or Hillary, but to destroy the Republican Party.
Now, I think that theory, that's what they hope happens.
That's what the drive-bys and the Democrats hope is going on.
But it's all part of the attitude that they're running around with that it's in the bag, that it's over.
But you know, folks, the polling data doesn't say this yet.
Even the polling data they cite, the NBC News Wall Street Driddle report, their point, a poll that shows Hillary up 11, it's an incomplete three-day poll.
It's two days of a three-day rolling average.
It is a very small sample compared to other NBC Wall Street Driddle polls.
The two days it does have are the two intense immediate days following the release of the audio of Trump walking around out there with Billy Bush on the lot at Access Hollywood.
We find out that this particular poll was also conducted by pollsters with direct ties to the Hillary campaign.
The, what is it, there was a poll that just, did I put this at the bottom of the stack?
I've got, folks, I can honestly tell you that, yeah, here it is.
I have never, in the 28, 29 years I've been doing this, it has never been this intense from a prep standpoint.
In other words, everything I worked on last night and this morning prepping the program, I haven't gotten any of it yet because everything is so fluid and happening while the program is on the air that it is a challenge to keep up with it.
It's a challenge.
I mean, I've got four minutes here, three minutes there to basically learn what's going on while I am hosting the program.
And it's just intense.
Every bit of it is intense.
And it's changing and flowing at a rapid rate, such as this.
This is from the UK Daily Mail.
This is the first full poll after the debate shows that Clinton gained nothing, even though voters think she won the debate.
75% of Republicans want to keep Trump on the ticket.
They're starting to ask this question in polls now.
And Republicans don't want Trump to quit.
Now, the Democrats would say that's a low note.
75%, it ought to be 99%.
It ought to be 100% don't want him to quit.
You think you've got a good poll there with 75% of Republicans want to keep Trump on the ballot?
No, that's not.
They're not asking whether or not Trump should cede the slot to somebody else.
They're not saying the Republicans are quit.
Anyway, this is the political morning consult poll.
And it was conducted the day after the debate, published today.
Clinton 42, Trump 37, it's five points.
Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party, 10%.
Jill Stein of the Green Party gets 3%.
Gary Johnson?
Liberty?
10?
10%?
Come on, folks.
Can we get serious here?
10%, a percent for the Libertarian candidate in this?
Who admits he doesn't know where anything outside the United States is?
He admits it proudly, happily, because it doesn't matter.
We're libertarians.
We don't care about Aleppo.
Aleppo Shalopo doesn't matter to us.
So anyway, the point of the polling data is, outside of that NBC Wall Street Journal poll, which the drive-bys are totally hanging their hats on, there isn't any polling data that shows that Trump got trounced or that people are abandoning Trump in droves after the debate.
Most of the Trump people watching thought that he won that debate, truth be told.
Maud Behar has apologized, ladies and gentlemen.
Earlier, we reported to you that on the View today, Maude Behar referred to the women Bill Clinton has assaulted as, quote, those tramps that slept with Hillary's husband.
Apparently, she has apologized now, and these are her words.
I want to clear something up about yesterday because during a political conversation yesterday, I made a joke, and I want to apologize.
I never, ever intend to belittle sexual assault or the women who were victims of it ever.
But I made a joke.
I'm sorry.
Apologize.
Right.
I understand this.
I understand I tell jokes all the time that get misinterpreted as serious political commentary.
But should we accept Maud's apology?
They're not accepting Trump's.
You know, Trump's apologized for his locker room talk.
He's apologized.
He said he's not going to do it again.
He said he's not going to engage in it again.
He said it bothered anybody.
If it offended them, he's sorry.
But the left is not accepting his apology.
They're continuing to run this as though he hasn't apologized.
So should we accept Behar's apology or not?
She sounds.
You think we should?
Well, I know they very do rarely apologize.
But look, as a powerful and influential member of the media, often accused of being an entertainer, which is used to discredit me when I get serious, I know exactly what she means.
She's a comedian, and she starts telling jokes because she wants to get involved seriously in these stuff, but she can't avoid it.
She tells everything as a joke.
People took it as a serious political comment.
They thought, man, she really called these women tramps.
See, the left is allowed to joke about people.
I don't think it was ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC complaining about Behar's joke, though.
Do you?
I don't think they care.
They probably were applauding it.
Today's show, tonight's show, late show, whatever, probably applauding it.
Okay, back to the audio soundbites.
This is to illustrate the fact that the drive-bys think it's all over.
We have a montage here.
And this is their NBC poll, NBC Wall Street Journal, 11-point lead for Hillary.
As far as they're concerned, that's it.
It's over.
Nobody has ever come back from this far down and won the presidential race.
An unprecedented implosion on the Republican side.
Hillary Clinton is most likely the next president.
You know he's going to lose.
He's losing and probably has lost the election already.
This is an unwinnable election by Donald Trump.
The election ended today.
This election's already lost.
The civil war in the Republican Party, a flood of GOP lawmakers abandoning their nominee.
The worst may be yet to come with Trump.
They may be staring at a total collapse of the party by election day.
The cumulative effect has finally caught up to him.
Hillary wins and wins big.
You want the names?
Does it matter who that you do?
You want the names here?
Okay, in order, Matthew Dowd, former Bush campaign aide.
You'll hear from him again in a minute.
Jeff Zelany, formerly New York Times, now CNN.
Nicole Wallace, formerly Bush administration, now drive-by media.
John Heileman, Bloomberg News, Charlie Rose of PBS, Donny Dutch, Deutsch, whatever.
NBC, MSNBC, Jonathan Carl, ABC, Lester Holt, the forehead junior from NBC.
F. Chuck Todd is the guy who said the worst may be yet to come.
They may be staring at a total collapse of the party by election day.
And Dan Senor, former PR guy in the green zone for Paul Bremer in Iraq after we took over there in the Iraq war.
Senor was the PR guy for W. Paul Bremer.
He's a Bush appointee, now married to Campbell Brown, formerly of the Today Show.
Drive-by media.
So the media, a couple of Bushes throw three Bushies, Matthew Dowd, Nicole Wallace, and Dan Senor, joining the drive-bys in Clinton.
And it is over.
Never before has it been over like this.
Never before has it been over so soon.
Never before has it been so humiliatingly over.
Never before have we been this happy, they are saying.
ABC's Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos, Clinton Hack, speaking with former Bush campaign aide, Matthew Dowd, now an ABC News reporter or analyst or what have you about Trump's campaign.
Stephanopoulos says to Matthew Dowd, we heard from Donald Trump on the stump last night that he's going to continue with his scorched earth approach.
What scorched earth approach?
Who is scorching the earth?
Seriously, who is scorching the earth in this campaign?
How is Trump scorching the earth?
No, no, I want somebody to tell me.
How do you arrive at scorched earth campaign with this?
What is he doing that they think is scorching the earth?
Is it trashing Ryan?
Trashing the Republic.
What is it?
All he's doing is campaigning for president.
He's running around trashing Hillary.
That's scorched earth.
What is scorched earth?
Scorched earth is you destroy everything along the way.
You just throw napalm out there.
You throw a couple of nukes.
You just bomb and burn and destroy everything.
Is that what he's doing?
What?
Anyway, here's Matthew Dowd reacting to Stephanopoulos's question about Trump's scorched earth.
I think he's just adopted what the conservative talk radio is saying, the campaign they want to run over the last 10 years.
He's running the campaign they want to run.
And what it's doing, as we see from the latest polling, is now he has a double-digit deficit that it's going to be very hard for him to come back from.
There it is again, that double-digit 11 points, that blessed Wall Street Journal NBC poll.
And now it's my fault.
Dowd focuses on me.
He and Gerson, I wonder if they've got a thing going.
Because he and Michael Gerson had double-teamed me.
They tag team me.
When Gerson does it, so does this guy.
And Gerson's got a piece out.
Snerdley found it for me.
What is it?
What Trump actually did was ensure that hardcore conservatives stay with him until the end of his journey when Republicans begin the search for survivors and examine the charred black box.
Trump's performance was perfectly tuned to make a loyal Rush Limbaugh listener burst out in hell yeah.
Put Juanita Broderick in the audience, threaten to jail your opponent, throw WikiLeaks in her face, blame her for the death of Captain Khan in Iraq, dismiss all the fuss about sexual predation in his locker room.
Yeah, the Rush Limbaugh show.
And here comes Matthew Dowd, basically saying the same thing on Stephanopoulos today.
So, see, they want to kill two birds with one stone.
They want Trump to go away, and then when that happens, they want you to think Trump lost because I was the campaign manager.
Which, of course, I am not.
Had I been running the Trump campaign, it wouldn't have been anything like this.
But nobody asked me, and I don't call them.
I am not going to call them.
They've got their people chosen.
They've got people they trust.
They want to run the campaign.
I wasn't going to get within a 10-foot pole of it because I never do.
But anyway, I told Snerdly, folks, if they dispatch Trump, the next place they're coming is here.
This, the Democrat Party, if they win this, the next four years are going to be about eliminating all opposition.
However, they have to do it.
If they have to buy it off, if they have to jail it, if they have to humiliate it, whatever they have to do, the next, and it's not going to take them four years, but that's going to be their objective, is to eliminate all opposition.
That's where they're headed.
And one of the reasons they're so happy today is that they think that they're already well on the way.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
Are you ready for this?
This is Reuters.
All this overconfidence is starting to bother them.
Hillary Clinton's campaign is confronting an emerging risk to her presidential ambitions.
If Donald Trump continues to get wiped out in all of these opinion polls, many Democrats may just think they can stay home.
It's over.
The media is saying it's over.
Trump is finie.
He never was in it, but now it's a landslide.
Reuters is very worried.
And they say the Clinton campaign is very worried.
Without enough popular support, Clinton could enter the White House lacking the political capital she would need to drive through her agenda.
What an absolute crock.
There hasn't.
Don't give me.
Look, I'm going to explain this in the next half hour.
I've got to get to a phone call.
This, that is simply, it's not going to matter whether she's got a mandate or not.
She's going to do the Alenski agenda regardless.
But I do believe they might be worried about their voters staying home if it looks like a slam dunk.
You know, it can be a pain in the butt for people to go to the polls.
And if they don't think they have to, hey.
Anyway, here's Timothy in Detroit.
Timothy, great that you waited.
Thank you.
And welcome to the program.
Thank you very much, Rush.
Keep encouraging us.
But you know what Donald could have said after that tape came out?
He could have said, you know, I was a Democrat back then.
Now I'm a Republican.
That would have been kind of clever.
But anyways, Paul Ryan, I think you're right about the Huckabee theory.
I believe I thought maybe he was just incompetent, but I think he's destroyed the Republican Party.
I think it's going to overflow into the Senate races when it comes to Kelly Ayat and Toomey in Pennsylvania.
Wait, wait, wait.
You think the Republicans are going to win or lose the Senate?
I think the Republicans, sorry, I think the Republicans are going to lose now that Paul Ryan has kind of disavowed Trump.
I mean, he says he's backing him, but he's pulling the money away.
Okay, you think it's Ryan who's destroying the party, not Trump?
Absolutely.
Okay, that's what you're doing.
I think he needs to come out onto the Capitol steps along with all these Republicans that say they're not backing Trump, and they need to come out and forcefully say, we are backing Donald Trump.
We made a large, huge mistake.
If 75% of Trump supporters want Trump in there, this is definitely going to be, it's going to be bad for the Republicans.
They might even lose the House, Rush.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Oh, man, CNN's all excited now.
Obama just, it's been learned at some point somewhere in the White House that Obama told somebody that he finds Trump repugnant.
So they get to make a graphic out of that and put it all over CNN.
Obama, I find Trump repugnant.
And the report is just smiling ear to ear.
I have a question for Republicans running for the House and the Senate.
And I'm asking this question with genuine sincerity.
Why should people vote for you?
It's clear that you don't want to stop Hillary Clinton.
It is clear that many of you do not want to try to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House.
So if it's not important to keep her out of the White House, why is it important to elect you?
Now, I can imagine the answers.
The answers are, well, she's going to win because Trump is so bad, and we're the people that are going to stop her.
Yeah, but where's the evidence you want to stop her?
Where's the evidence that you want to be around to put the brakes on?
Well, Rush, we just can't abide Trump.
We can't.
We do, but we just can't do it with Trump.
We can't die with Trump.
Okay, well, I'll tell you what's going to happen.
Hillary wins, and the Republicans are going to quickly be irrelevant.
She's going to get her Supreme Court nominee.
She's going to open the borders.
The country is going to be flooded with unregistered Democrat voters that are going to end up voting anyway to go along with the dead who vote.
This is why I don't understand that Democrats worried about turnout.
They get the dead out every year.
I mean, what's the problem?
But if she wins this, it isn't going to mean anything to be a Republican.
You're going to be the equivalent of a fossil.
It isn't going to take long.
Massive, massive open borders.
She's been honest about how many people she wants to enter the country unquestioned, unvetted, both illegal immigrants and refugees.
Oh, look at this.
NBC Wall Street Journal, 38% of the American people say Trump's comments about women disqualify him from being president.
This, by the way, is the new Wall Street.
This is a new one with Hillary up nine, not up 11.
This is the full three-day poll, not the phony two-day poll they put out.
So 38% think that Donald Trump's not qualified to be president.
How many people thought that about Bill Clinton?
Bill Clinton actually did.
The kind of things Trump is talking about.
So if you are a Republican and you just can't abide Trump, which means you can't, you're not serious about stopping Hillary.
You're not serious about keeping her out of the White House, then people should vote for you because you in the House and the Senate and the governorship, that's where you're going to stop.
That's where we're going to stop the Democrats.
Is that right?
Is that the thinking?
Well, how do you do that?
How do you, on the one hand, not object to Hillary Clinton being elected, and then on the other hand, tell people, elect me to stop her?
Seems like they're giving themselves a really tough position to occupy here.
Be they governors, senators, congressional members in the House of Representatives.
They want to stop Hillary, but not enough to keep her out of the White House.
So she'll get in there, but you need to elect us to put the brakes on her.
How's that worked out with Obama?
I mean, we've had Republican majorities in the House and even the Senate for a couple of years.
How has that worked out, stopping Obama?
Hmm.
Seriously, on what basis should people vote for them?
Just asking.
I mean, look, folks, I don't know.
They know their business better than I do.
I got an email I checked during the break.
You said that you would have run a campaign totally different than Trump's.
What do you mean?
What do you mean?
Well, look, I can't go into all that, but I'll give you an example.
Trump got a question at the debate the other night.
Some kids stood up.
I mean, I can't even believe it's a real question, but it probably was.
Kids stood up and said, what are you going to do to make sure the rich start paying their fair share?
Are you kidding me?
For 28, 30 years, 50 years we've been dealing with this.
What are you going to do to me?
And Trump answered it.
My tax policy.
That's not the answer.
The answer is, young man, that's not our problem.
You think the rich aren't paying their fair share?
Do you know that the top 1% of taxpayers in America are paying over 50% of all taxes?
Do you know that the top 5% are paying 90%?
So how do you, I'd argue with the kid.
I would use it as an educational opportunity.
Maybe not argue, but I wouldn't answer it with, well, I'm going to have a policy.
I'm going to make sure those people start paying their taxes.
Hell with that.
The middle class already not paying income taxes.
The bottom 50%, which incorporates a lot of the middle class, does not pay any income tax.
What are you going to do to make sure the rich pay their fair share?
It's another teachable moment.
It was lost.
And there have been, I don't know how many of these in this campaign, where if somebody just had a basic premise and understanding and an ability to explain it, once again, I don't know.
The whole problem of being inarticulate when it comes to a combination of conservatism and knowledge of present day circumstances, it's simply not true that the rich aren't paying their fair share.
But look, the rich won't even defend themselves.
The rich will not even say what I just said.
The rich instead will run around and argue that, yeah, you know, you're right, I'm not paying enough taxes.
You know why they do it?
Because it keeps people from knocking on their front door with a pitchfork and demanding half of the silverware.
Here's Molly in Washington, D.C. Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, thanks.
And thank you most of all for the most poignant comment of yours of all, which is America is ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Thank you very much.
Thanks a million.
I have a question.
I wonder if a lot of this election doesn't boil down to something that is between the lines, something that people talk about many times every day, 24-7, 355, and that is,
and I don't know a lot about social anthropology, but bottom, at the bottom, are people in the Democrat Party and those who are rhinos fearful of, because of Trump, the re-emergence of American manhood, masculinity, a sloughing off of men being hesitant, cautious, subdued.
You've said many times, men have been run off campus out of the professions because they're not going into them anymore, out of the military.
Witness what happened in the Navy recently, removing the word man.
Out of sport, we have women in the locker room even, in addition to the press box and on the sidelines.
Maybe you heard a clip from Hillary today saying that she gets messages, has received messages from coaches saying, men don't talk like that in my locker room.
Well, how would they know?
How would the coach know unless there's some female reporter walking around?
So the men must grab a towel and cover up.
I mean, how much more are men going to put up with?
Look at the media.
All these girls sitting around and chattering and acting as though they're experts.
So, and maybe Lance, as Frank Luntz, I think you mentioned, who said that the Republican psyche is dead.
Hooray.
Goodbye and good riddance.
Nothing times nothing is still nothing.
What we need is the re-emergence of testosterone.
Are they afraid of the strength of testosterone?
But more important than that, are they fearful of the power and might of logic?
Men have tremendous logic.
Well, boy, you are great.
You are filled with things that I would just love to react to and that men have tremendous logic.
They do.
There's a counterpart to that, too, that one is not supposed to say.
Let me start dealing with your questions here.
Number one, are they afraid of manliness?
Is the left afraid of manliness?
And is this one of the things that they're actually attacking?
Well, I think they don't like manliness.
I don't know that that's a factor in the campaign, but it clearly is behind feminism and breaking down manliness and defining manliness as predatory behavior, child abuse, wife abuse.
They've tried to categorize this as quasi-normal male behavior and that women and children aren't safe.
It's subtle to the extent that I think rather than that, I think what really, really, I don't think frighten is the right word, maybe, but what they really want to tamp down is self-reliance and individualism.
That is what causes them the greatest threat.
An individualist, rugged individualist, self-reliant person by definition doesn't need a group or the government particularly.
And these people are into total dependence, mass dependence on the part of as many people as possible.
So dumbing everybody down, which has been a long project and objective via the education system, I think is part and parcel of their purpose.
Now, to the extent that there are people that we've got to tamp down, man, I don't know.
I think they just don't want anybody to be self-reliant and individually.
Those are the people who get ripped to shreds as being uncaring, unsociable, insensitive.
Now about this, Hillary, I hadn't heard this, that she's getting letters from coaches.
Hillary Clinton's getting letters from coaches.
Isn't this a neat trick?
Democrats get letters from everybody when a cause comes up.
They got letters from school kids back in 1995 claiming they were being starved.
They were going hungry in school because of school lunch cuts.
So now coaches are writing Hillary Clinton.
I just want to let you know that if Trump's not right, the people in my locker room don't talk that way.
But there's a Sally Jenkins, or Christine, what are they?
The writer for the Washington Post has a column on this today.
That there may be this kind of talk in a locker room, but they're not the leaders in the locker room.
The leaders in the locker room do not talk the way Trump says that he was talking.
It was locker room talk.
Ladies and gentlemen, I happen to have been in locker rooms.
I was required to go there as part of my job.
And I'm here to tell you, it's unmerciful what can be said.
The practical joking, it is a man's place.
You had better be ready.
And if you have any vulnerability, it will be found and you will be teased beyond your ability to take it.
I don't mind admitting it.
I am worn out.
It's just intense like it hasn't been in a long time.
We're ready for it, no misunderstand.
We'll be back and fully rev tomorrow.
Same time.
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