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Oct. 12, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 12, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I have continued to watch Trump and his personal appearance here.
Now I want to be very accurate here what I'm saying.
I'm not hyping anything.
I've never seen him like this.
I've never seen him this informed off the cuff of what he's talking about.
He's he's rolling off statistics on what's wrong with Obamacare.
He's talking about how much premiums have gone up in terms of percentage and dollar amount.
Um I've I've never I've never seen him with this immediate grasp of fact.
I've never seen him articulate what he's trying to say this well.
He's been at it for an hour in a place I don't think the air conditioning's working.
Everybody is sweating themselves silly.
He's in O'Cala, Florida, he's commented on the heat in there twice.
Um everybody in there's glistening, uh, it looks like.
He hasn't skipped a beat.
He hasn't taked take taken any kind of a pause.
Um in in the entire time I've been checking, I haven't heard him mention Paul Ryan but one time, and it was a casual sort of a glancing blow.
Uh it is focused and it's informed.
Some of it's boilerplate when he starts talking about the the trade deals and saving the coal industry and the steel industry, but it's still relevant.
Uh by boilerplate, I mean it's it's things he says all the time that I've heard before.
I guess that's what it is.
I'm hearing him go places I haven't heard him go before, sounding knowledgeable and up to speed, and he's not off rhythm.
He's not pausing to think about where he's gonna go, and he's not distracted by things.
It's uh you know what it's like?
This is the what usually we get, I remember in 2012, this was what we were getting with Romney in the last four or five days.
And everybody said, man, there's something happening out there, and the crowds were huge.
And everybody thought, well, man, finally we're getting some energy here.
Things are changing, things might be looking up.
What do they know in their omnicamp that we don't?
What are their internal polls showing?
These are questions we were asking.
And of course it meant nothing.
Romney ended up losing by whatever it was, six to eight points.
Uh Trump is down anywhere from five to nine points, depending on the poll you look at.
And I'm not putting anything substantive or not in the polls.
I'm just ignoring them, folks.
That's all you can do.
Um we know so many things are corrupt now, and so many things are rigged, and we know that so many things are coordinated that we know why would the polls not be.
But then again, they have uh in in in on balance, they've been right, not universally so.
I just I'm just trying not to let the polls distract me and determine my attitude about things, which would be uh my advice to you.
Now, naturally, if we were leading in the polls, we'd have a different attitude about them.
I understand all of that.
And I'm not trying to hype anything uh here, uh artificial enthusiasm or any of that.
I'm just telling you, this is a different Trump here today.
You haven't seen his Trump in the debates yet, for example.
You haven't seen it.
Even what everybody thought was a great performance on Sunday night was nothing compared to what he's been doing, and he's not been distracted, and he's not been talking about himself, and he's about not been whining about what people are saying about him.
He has been focused now.
I haven't watched the whole thing.
I get you know three and four-minute uh little blotches of it when we have stoppages here.
So he may have done all these things, and I just haven't seen it.
But it's it it seems just in the four or five little segments that I've been able to watch, different.
Upbeat.
I mean, he's actually said things, I'll give you a couple examples.
I'm gonna be really disappointed if I lose this election because it'll mean it was for nothing.
And I don't want to think this is all for nothing.
If we lose this election, I don't know what I'm gonna do.
I don't know what we're gonna do.
I don't know where we're gonna be.
Our country, we can't afford to lose this election.
He's saying things like this, and these people are going nuts.
In response.
And then in that sense, he is sharing the personal Commitment he has to this.
And I think it's somewhat important because a lot of people think, because there's wealth involved here, that if he loses, he's still sitting fat and pretty.
He's got his clubs, he's got his golf courses, he's got his penthouse, he's got uh his life, even if he loses, but he made it clear today that he doesn't intend to lose, and that all of this would be a total waste of time and money if he loses, and he doesn't waste time and money.
Now, back to our caller Margot from Iowa.
She said that she watched Hillary's America, the Dinesh de Souza movie, she had to go out and get it on DVD.
And it confirmed what she already knew, but it was still had some stuff in it that was new that she hadn't.
She's panicked now.
And I know, look, folks, I understand the emotion and the circumstance.
I'm the same way.
I have emotions identical to yours, and then some, that I don't want to share or express here, because it would not be classy to uh to do so.
But this, you know, I uh I'm I'm angry, I am frustrated.
I'm not panicked, uh not in the sense of the of the word.
I mean, not to the point that I would tell you it's time to panic.
It's not time to panic, it's time to stay focused.
And it's time to make sure that you do everything you can to be unaffected by the tripe that suffices as the so-called news every day.
We now have learned enough to know that our instincts have been confirmed, that it's not the news.
It is a coordinated effort to coronate Hillary Clinton.
It's a it's a coordinated effort to get her elected and to suppress opposition, to depress opposition and turnout and all of these things.
Uh my frustration is boundless at many things.
You know, I've always uh I've always tried not to be frustrated with the American people.
I've not wanted to join the fray of people that say the American people are dumb and stupid, but clearly there's a lot of ignorance out there, meaning in the strict sense of the word, lack of knowledge.
But then they don't know.
And I don't know how many Americans it is that don't know.
We've got this USA Today story today, a survey, 60%, yeah, maybe 61% of the American people, number one fear they have is corruption in government.
Well, that doesn't jibe.
If they have fear of corruption in government, that cannot include Donald Trump.
He's not in government.
He never has been, whatever.
Corruption is taking place in government.
The one guy that has no fingerprints on it is Donald Trump.
And by definition, the corruption that exists today is who's been running the show for the last eight years.
And who's been openly flaunting the Constitution and the disregard for it?
And who's been lying to people about their health care and what Obamacare is going to be?
I don't my frustration is how does this never seem to attach itself?
How is it that these lies, public distortions and lies, to our face?
Why does it never attach?
I'll I'm I'm I don't know that I'm ever going to get that question answered.
And for me, that's personal.
I have spent whatever number of years here trying to educate and inform people.
And for a majority of people still to not get it, and apparently they don't.
And I'm not convinced that it's just solely because the media doesn't report it.
I think that the left has been so successful in damaging the brand, and this is a means of expressing this.
You just mention the word Republican, and it doesn't matter.
To certain people, it's just automatic yuck, and they don't even listen to what comes next, no matter what they know about the Democrats.
And that leads to further frustration because then it realize that the Democrats unify around defeating us, and part of that effort is impugning us and destroying our reputation and their credibility.
And our side doesn't engage in any of that.
They shy away from it, in fact.
And we can't even unify.
And then I get up and I look every day at all of the so-called conservatives who are beating their chests in happiness that Trump is losing in the polls because they get to say they were right.
And did they not share with us the absolute horror of what it means for this woman and her party to have another four years minimum with everything they believe, starting with immigration and open borders and what they're going to do to the military and our national security?
Does it not matter to them?
Is being able to say they were right, they're the smartest people in the room.
And all of these Republicans publicly wanting accolades for abandoning the party nominee.
From whom are they expecting these accolades?
And what and these accolades they get from whomever, how does that benefit them?
What do they think?
Their future holds.
Do they think they're going to be more electable?
Did they think they're going to have more respect because they stood up and abandoned the nominee and helped Hillary Clinton get elected?
And that means they stood up for what?
Morality?
They stood up for conservative principle by allowing Hillary Clinton a cakewalk into the White House.
And they think this benefits them.
How?
Down the road?
I don't understand it.
Except that I do.
It all has to do with the established.
You know, Jeff Jeff Lord had a piece, The American Spectator, about this.
About these Republicans abandoning the party.
And he he made an he made an interesting analogy that I should point out that many other conservative columnists and bloggers and journalists are just ripping to shreds, by the way.
This piece that Jeff Lord wrote in the American Spectre.
I don't have it in front of me, but I'm going to paraphrase it.
He said, and remember, Ronald Reagan was everything to him.
He worked in the Reagan administration.
Reagan has the answer for everything conservative in Jeff's life.
It's how much he respects and reveres Reagan.
And Thatcher.
And he quotes Reagan defining what a political party is.
And makes the point that a political party is not a fraternity.
It's not a fraternal order.
It's not a club.
It is a collection of all kinds of people, not just certain people who are qualified and permissible.
All people of certain ideas and certain principles who believe in those things as the best for the country.
And it doesn't matter if you're from Mars, if you're from California, if you're Mississippi, Arizona, it doesn't matter what your race is, it doesn't matter what your orientation or your gender.
If you are a believer in these things, then you are a conservative, and you are a Republican.
But today, in his view of the Republican Party's abandoned all of that.
There's no connection to principle or philosophy or ideology.
It's just a club of like-minded people of the same class.
And that is what permits these people to just abandon the nominee of their party because they don't really look at the Republican Party's party to look at it as a club.
And it's a club they don't want Trump in.
And it's a club they don't want destroyed.
It's a fraternal order, a fraternity of sorts.
But there's there's no unifying principles, the things that get you membership are the Way you think about other people in uh class-oriented ways, or but but not in terms of conservatism versus liberalism, uh constitutionalism versus anarchy, no, no, no, no, that matters today.
The Republican Party's not organized that way.
And as such, it's not worth much.
And he laments this.
Now, I'm paraphrasing a lot of this, as I say don't have it in front of me, but the comparison of the way Reagan defined a political party versus what the Republican Party today appears to be fraternal order, and to look at the way some of the Republican Party, conservative media, especially they're just saying Jeff Lord's, this is the stupidest thing that this stupid guy every day has ever written anyway.
So he must have hit home somehow.
But I'm I'm serious, I don't understand.
Can you tell me?
I mean, you you you talk to people who work for these can you tell me what do they expect to redound to their benefit from having openly denounced and abandoned Donald Trump.
It's it's it's Trump.
It's it's not that in their minds, it's not even that they're abandoning the party nominee.
They think he's illegitimate as a nominee, and so they're abandoning him.
I'm trying to imagine to what benefit.
And then some of them are running for re-election, claiming we need to keep our majority so we can stop Hillary.
And I really am dumbfounded by that.
Why is it important to elect you to stop Hillary, but it's not important for you to stop Hillary before she gets elected.
I don't understand this.
Particularly when we haven't seen much success in stopping Democrat presidents after they were elected.
Well, that's redundant.
Well, I know.
Look, because it's the club and the establishment, there's business to be done.
There are connections to be maintained.
There are donor dollars to get.
You can't you can't remove the donor aspect in any of this.
I mean, if you're if you run for office, you can't do it without money.
And if you have a bunch of donors promising you huge money, and all you've got to do is trash Trump, publicly abandoned Trump, then you think you've got your insurance policy.
Well, even if even if your voters do turn against you get mad at you still got the donor dollars.
After the fact, too, run your campaign for re-election.
But still, still to me it's pointless.
You know, why it's not important enough to stop Hillary now, but it's going to be real important to stop Hillary in January with a Republican majority in the House and Senate.
But we don't want to go so far as to have somebody other than Hillary in the White House.
I don't know.
So all of these things, folks, panic, nah, yeah, not yet, but real consternation, frustration, anger, uh, really frustration over all of this.
It's not hard to understand this stuff.
It must be hard to accept it for some, but it's not hard to understand.
Anyway, let me take a brief time out because of the time constraints.
I have no choice.
I have to do it.
Okay, we got some sound bites coming up next half hour, give you an idea of uh the way Trump appeared at the rally today, which I think was it was different.
It appeared that way to me, you be the judge.
More leaked emails.
And this, you know, I see this, and it it I boil.
I just literally start boiling over, and I realize it isn't news.
A newly exposed email exchange shows Hillary Clinton campaign manager, Chairman John Podesta, and the communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, and John Halpin, the Center for American Progress, mocking, making fun of, trashing Catholicism as backwards.
Released by WikiLeaks, part of the alleged cash of Podesta emails.
Begins with Haupin sending an email to Podesta And Palmer chastising Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thompson for being Catholic.
The Hillary guy notes Ken Oletta's latest piece on Murdoch and the New Yorker starts off with the aside that both Murdoch and Robert Thompson, managing editor of the journal, are raising their kids Catholic.
Frigg and Murdoch baptized his kids in Jordan, where John the Baptiz baptized Jesus.
Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic from the Supreme Court and think tanks of the media and social groups, and they're spitting mad over it.
Now substitute Muslim for Catholic in these emails and see what would happen.
These people in the Hillary Clinton campaign, emailing each other, mocking, trashing, making fun of, belittling people who are Catholic, and the same time warning us there better not be any backlash or disrespect for the Muslim American population.
Some of the finest Americans are from our Muslim population.
And these people routinely trash Catholicism and Christianity in general.
And they freaking get away with it.
Obamacare and that whole thing at Georgetown University by making religious institutions give out drugs that are going to further abortion, making the camp.
That's what these people do under the threat of removal of funds or other serious government oppression.
Corruption out the wazoo.
Damn right, and nothing happens to them.
Proudly, I state talent on loan from God.
Yeah, let's make fun of Catholics.
Yeah, you know what they say about yeah, these uh they they go on to say that the Clinton guy halpin, he's one of the three quoted in the emails here.
Yeah, they go on to call conservatives who are Catholic an amazing bastardization of the faith.
Yeah, these conservatives that say they're Catholic, they're just they're just choosing Catholicism because they know it would be horrible to become an evangelical.
So they must be attracted to Catholicism for its severely backwards gender religion.
So the Catholic Church to these schlubs is nothing more than a political organization.
That's about 2,000 years behind at times.
So to these people in the Clinton campaign, the Catholic Church is nothing more than a political organization, needs to get with it, and needs to understand gay marriage and needs to understand whatever marriage anybody wants as long as their consent needs to understand abortion and get with it.
Needs to stop all the misogyny.
That's all the Catholic Church is.
So when these conservatives like Rupert Murdoch and others who choose Catholicism.
They assert that they must be attracted to it for its severely backwards gender relations.
So people choose to become Catholics because they're squares, because they're nerds, because they're geeks, because they like Puritanism, and they like Victorianism, and they like all these restrictions on social good times.
It's an amazing bastardization of the faith for guys like Murdoch to become a Catholic.
They must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations.
They must be totally unaware of Christian democracy.
So Catholicism, one of the first and oldest Christian denominations is, according to the left, way, way, way off the mark.
It's nothing more than an out-of-place political party.
Jennifer Palmeri, who was also with the Center for American Progress, adds that she believes Rupert Murdoch and Robert Thompson, his aide at the Wall Street Journal, and many other conservatives are Catholic because they think it's the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion.
Their rich friends wouldn't understand if they became evangelical.
So what she's really saying here is that all these Republican Catholics, they're not religious.
They're phonies.
They're choosing to be Catholic because they can't, their friends wouldn't put up with them if they became Jerry Falwell or if they became Franklin Graham or Billy Graham.
So they gotta go mainstream Catholic.
They're not even religious.
They're just doing this to fool people.
They're just doing this to make conservatives think that they're religious when they're really not religious.
It's just this is what they say to themselves privately.
This is what's leaked.
And then they define Catholicism.
And these are the people who are forcing Catholics to violate tenets of their religious faith wherever they can.
If they have run schools, if they run universities, hospitals, you name it.
They're making them give away and provide what are called abortive fashions.
For those of you in real linda, these are things that facilitate abortion.
Drugs that facilitate abortion.
They are making these religious, but they don't do anything of the sort to Islam or Muslims except make excuses left and right.
Anyway, I've got to go back to the phones here, folks.
We uh have Marsha from Crystal Lake, Illinois.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Hi, it is an honor to be on your show.
Thank you.
Okay, and I am going to get right to the point.
From this day forward, Mr. Trump needs to reinforce day in and day out that the political elite and the career politicians are ruining this country.
And they are no longer considering the will of the people anymore.
Uh a point that you brought up earlier in the show was Obamacare.
More than sixty percent of the population did not want this.
And yet, what did they do?
They voted against the will of the people.
Um, you know, it's it's time for common sense in in truth to Trump political crackness.
I think that would have been actually a great bumper sticker.
But anyway, um getting back to Margot, she should not be panicking and discouraged.
What happened this past weekend with that statement that was released added fuel to my fire.
You mean the And I am more likely now to put an X next to Trump's name because of what the political elite are doing to this country.
Well, you her she's not I don't think Margot is not to the point of giving up.
She just really worried.
She's she's I I know why she's worried.
She's primarily worried that enough a majority of uh our population doesn't see how they're being scammed.
That's what panics.
I'd like to panics everybody.
Uh that so many people seem to be ignorantly blindly going along with all of this.
Um, I appreciate the uh the call, Marcia, very much.
I uh I really do.
But you might like to know that Trump today was really hitting on this point that you like, that Washington has become nothing but a bunch of ruling elites with no interest whatsoever in actually helping the general population of the country.
He was really hammering that, which which he does frequently, but he was really, really I mean, hitting the nail on the head with it uh today.
Here's uh here's Sean in Advanced North Carolina.
You're next.
I'm glad you waited.
Hey.
Thanks, Rush.
Appreciate it.
Quick shout out to my friend Jeff Shannhol, who turned me on to you in 1992.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, he taped your television show in the middle of the night on a small station, and um just sorry, thankful Rush.
I want to go right to the point.
I really believe in this next debate uh Trump can gain momentum from him learning the debate style in debate one, I believe masterfully in debate two, taking a concept of answering questions in the way that best served his interest, and if the question didn't deserve being answered, he spent time getting to points like drawing a line in the sand and Syria and some things that I can tell he's well focused on.
Here's what he needs to do, and I want to get your opinion.
I think he needs to say these phrases.
Check these email leaks.
This is in their words, not mine.
This is in co Hillary Clinton's campaign's words, not mine.
If you want to fact check, go straight to the facts.
Links on my website.
What do you think, Rush?
Well, I think he will.
I I think the because he talked a lot about the wiki and he had it down pat.
I have to tell you, I'm still in the process of organi I still need the crib sheets in front of me to remind me of everything that's in these leaks so far.
And he was rattling them off.
One right after he wasn't spending a whole lot of time on each one, but he was rattling them off and making a point about them.
And when he got to the one about Hillary having to be coached when to smile, he illustrated what that would be like if he had to be coached to smile.
He faked reading a teleprompter and then, and now it says to smile.
And then he smiled real big and then went back to what he was saying.
It was a great, great way of mocking her.
But you need to know something out there, Sean.
The drive-bys have already subtly begun the conversation that we don't even need a third debate.
That Mrs. Clinton should just cancel it.
The only side for her is a downside.
She's got this election won.
It's in the bag, they say.
It's over.
There's no reason to give Trump another chance to get back in it.
Another debate isn't necessary, the drive-by say.
And by the way, this is all coming from the Clinton campaign.
The drive-by's do nothing independently.
It's all from the Clinton campaign.
So the talking points are out there.
And one of the other reasons being given is that Trump is so embarrassing.
And these debates feature language is just not suitable for our children.
It's just the worst.
It's a national embarrassment to have Donald Trump with this kind of national exposure.
The only decent thing to do, they say, is cancel the third debate.
We can't subject our children to any more of this.
We can't subject our women to any more of this.
This is some of the lowest of the law that Trump represents.
He's just filth personified.
And there's no reason to have this third debate.
That's starting to simmer out there.
Have you seen this, Mr. Snerdley?
Have you seen stories like this out there yet?
He's not looked.
I'm telling you they're there.
And I don't know if it's going to reach a crescendo.
Uh because not everybody thinks it's the right idea.
Some people on the left think that Hillary would look very bad walking away.
Like she's afraid of Donald Trump.
And then they say, no, no, no, she's not afraid.
She's trying to protect America's children.
She's trying to protect America's women from having them subjected to more of this degrading.
Scum and filth.
That is Donald Trump.
So I just want you to know that there is effervescing beneath the surface.
This I think it's an effort to build up support somewhere for canceling the third debate.
And the the reason for it would be, the real reason would be that Hillary's got nothing to gain.
They look at, they think, I mean, they really do.
They think it's over.
They think she's won it in a landslide.
It's in the bag, it's finished.
So the only thing that could happen for her would be things that go wrong.
I gotta take a break.
We will continue in mere moments, don't go away.
Charlie in Sedalia, Missouri, your next sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Thank you.
Rush Limbaugh, the legend lives.
Greetings from the Clean City of the Prairies, and how are you, sir?
I'm very well, sir.
Thank you very much.
I was wondering if you would think it would be appropriate or inappropriate if next week, when Trump's hammered by Hillary about his locker room talk, if he were to reply by saying, uh, Mrs. Clinton, to plagiarize a line from you at this point, what difference does it make?
Would that work for him?
See, what that requires is the audience knowing that she said what difference does it make when she was in congressional hearings about the loss of life in Benghazi.
She actually said, Look, four Americans are dead.
What difference does it make now?
Meaning how and why.
What difference does it make?
Any time that you have to rely, that you have to assume the bulk of your audience knows, I just think that's a risk.
I see when I saw your question up there, I began to think, okay, debate strategically.
What should it be in the next debate?
By the way, folks make no buzz that the Washington Post has a story about what a waste of time it would be to have a third debate.
That that Trump is such a reprobate.
He's so despicable, that it is just it's unkind to subject the people of this country to another hour and a half of Donald Trump.
That's the theory.
But it'll happen because Mrs. Clinton doesn't want to attract the reputation of cowardice of walking away from it.
But how to go after her in that debate.
I don't look at this is just me talking right.
I could change this any moment.
I think Trump's got to appeal the American people.
And not just convince people that she's dangerous and so forth.
He's got to make himself look better, not make her look worse.
And I don't mean that he looks bad.
I mean in comparison of the two.
He's got to become more.
Look, folks, I know we want to see Hillary Clinton blown to smitharines, but that may not be the best way to affect victory in the next debate.
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