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Oct. 13, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 13, 2016, Thursday, Hour #2
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You know, I guess I guess Michelle Obama wasn't there when the Reverend Wright was talking about Bill Clinton.
You know what he said?
Remember what Reverend Wright said about Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky.
That no.
That's not what he said.
And Bill!
When Monica Lewinsky was red and dirty.
Yeah.
Chickens have come home to roost, baby.
Bill was riding dirty, man.
The population, the congregation went nuts.
But Michelle Obama, guys, don't talk that way.
I imagine children in the pulpit till the church.
Mommy, mommy, what does riding dirty mean?
What does it mean?
Just Bill Clinton does it, son.
That's all you need to know.
Bill Clinton does it.
Rides them dirty.
Greetings, welcome back.
Look at this.
AB Stoddard is on Fox right now, warning people do not believe the polls, yet they may not be as predictive as they look.
And it is exactly as I said last hour.
Folks, I implore you to do your best here not to get dragged down to the depths of depression and defeat and fatalism.
Do not do it yet.
Now I don't know what A. B. Stoddard said.
I just saw the graphic underneath her while she was speaking, and the graphics said that she was warning people that polls may not be as predictive as they look, which is a way of saying that this race may not be nearly as one-sided for Hillary as it looks right now.
Don't forget there is an undeniable truth in politics, and it is this.
Polling data is used to shape public opinion.
Polling data, whether it's presidential races or anything else.
If it's a poll, it is being used to make news.
Polling has become the mechanism by which the media can write their own stories, can set their own agenda, and make it look like they've got nothing to do with it.
The polls have these reputations of independent, nonpartisan, bipartisan, uninterested in the outcome.
Why, we don't do anything funny with our polls.
We just go out there, we try to find the best sample we can, and we try to give you the most accurate presentation we can, and that's it.
But they use polls to make and shape public opinion.
And they will do so until a week before the election.
Pay attention to the polls in the last five days.
That's where the pollsters will want to actually have it right.
And I'm just telling you, I don't want you to be surprised if we get down to ten days and five days, and these polls show a sudden surge by Trump that they can't figure out.
They'll say.
They'll say something's happening out there to each other.
Something's going on, we're missing something.
What's going on?
When in fact it isn't going on, it's always been this way.
They are constructing an entire narrative that Trump's losing it, that people are turning away from Trump, that Trump supporters are abandoning because Trump is guilty of whatever crimes against women.
He's the sexual abuser, he's a sexual assaulter.
This is what they're trying to say, and people are abandoning Trump in droves.
They're trying to make that happen.
Who knows?
We don't know yet whether it's being effective, but they are trying to, but I'm telling you, what A. B. Stoddard out there warning everybody to be a little suspicious of the polls.
Look, Trump just began a rally.
He's a West Palm Beach right across the bridge here, and nobody knows what he's gonna say, but the drive-bys have been alluding to the fact that he's gonna fire both barrels at the New York Times for reporting that he was an octopus on board.
By the way, can I ask a question?
I can't answer this.
I need to ask those of you who fly first class and have been flying first class for 25 or 30 years.
This woman who said it Trump octopused her, said that it happened after dinner in first class and that he raised the divider, the armrests between the two seats.
Now, my memory of first class is that you can't raise those dividers.
You can do that in coach.
There are armrests in coach you can raise, but in first class...
But I don't know.
It's been a while.
Well, I don't know.
I mean, I the the most crowded first class I can ever remember being on was an American Airlines Boeing 767.
And I was coming back from New York from San Francisco, and it was the late 80s, and Charlie Rose and Willie Mays were up at first class in the same and and it was it really was business class.
They called it first class, but the seats were very small.
I don't remember if the armrests you can lift out of the way.
I've not seen a first class seat where the armrest you can raise it and get it out of the way.
That's why I'm asking if any of you have, because I haven't.
But I I haven't been on a modern airplane in first class.
I know in a modern airplane you can't.
Thirty years ago is the question.
And that would have been Boeing 727.
Uh maybe Boeing 757, maybe 747.
Don't know.
Uh let's jip a little bit of Trump here.
Our microphones are across the bridge of West Palm Beach.
Let's just see what's happening here.
We'll get a little listen to it.
And going down.
Workers in the United States are making less than they were almost 20 years ago, and yet they are working harder.
But so am I working harder.
That I can tell you.
That's true.
It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.
Just look at what this corrupt establishment has done to our cities like Detroit, Flint, Michigan, and rural towns in Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, and all across our country.
Take a look at what's going on.
Take it down for you.
Folks, these gonna go on for an hour here.
We're not gonna be able to carry the whole thing.
I just want you to know we're just gonna get a flavor for this here for two or three minutes.
So pick it back up.
I'm elected president.
Microphones are everywhere.
The Clinton machine is at the center of this power structure.
We've seen this firsthand in the WikiLeaks documents in which Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in China.
In order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and that's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
He's exactly right about that.
So true.
There's a huge crowd at this thing, too, folks.
Honestly, she should be locked up.
Should be locked up.
And likewise, the emails show that the Clinton machine is so closely and irrevocably tied to the media organizations that she listen to this, is given the questions and answers in advance of her debate performance with Bernie Sanders.
That's true as well.
Hillary Clinton is also given approval and veto power over quotes written about her in the New York Times.
That is true.
That's from the WikiLeaks dump.
They do definitely do not do that to me.
That I can nor anybody else.
And the emails show the reporters collaborate and conspire directly with the Clinton campaign on helping her win the election all over.
That is true.
That is all true as well.
With their control over our government at stake, with trillions of dollars on the line, the Clinton machine is determined to achieve the destruction of our campaign.
Not gonna happen.
Which has now become a great, great movement, the likes of which our country has never seen before, never ever.
By the way, they were saying lock her up, not locker room.
We've never seen a movement like this in our country before.
Yesterday in Florida, massive crowds, people lined up outside of big arenas, not able to get in.
Never happened before.
It's one of the great phenomena, one of the great political phenomena.
The most powerful weapon deployed by the Clintons is the corporate media, the press.
Let's be clear on one thing.
Okay.
What is it?
The corporate media in our country is no longer involved in journalism.
They're a political special interest, no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with a total political agenda, and the agenda is not for you, it's for themselves.
Right on.
It's about time.
I don't feel so alone now.
And they're not.
Is to elect crooked Hillary Clinton at any cost, at any price, no matter how many lives they destroy.
For them, it's a war.
And for them, nothing at all is out of bounds.
This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.
Believe me.
And this will be our last chance to save it on November eighth.
Remember that.
This election will determine whether we're a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system, and our system is rigged.
This is reality.
You know it, they know it, I know it, and pretty much the whole world knows it.
The establishment and their media enablers wield control over this nation through means that are very well known.
Anyone who challenges their control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe, and morally deformed.
Yep.
They will attack you.
They will slander you.
They will seek to destroy your career and your family.
They will seek to destroy everything about you, including your reputation.
They will lie, lie, lie, and then again, they will do worse than that.
They will do whatever's necessary.
The Clintons are criminals, remember that.
They're criminals.
Lock her up, not locker room.
Well, there it is.
There it is.
There it is.
This is well documented, and the establishment that protects them has engaged in a massive cover up of widespread criminal activity at the State Department and the Clinton Foundation in order to keep the Clintons in power.
Pretty much.
Never in history have we seen such a cover-up as this.
One that includes the total destruction of 33,000 emails, 13 iPhones, some by hammer, laptops, missing boxes of evidence, and many, many other things.
Trump is not supposed to be doing that.
People who are capable of such crimes against our nation are capable of anything.
And so now we address the slander and libels that was just last night thrown at me by the Clinton machine and the New York Times and other media outlets as part of a concerted coordinated and vicious attack.
It's not coincidence that these attacks come at the exact same moment and all together at the same time as WikiLeaks releases documents exposing the massive international corruption of the Clinton machine, including 2,000 more emails just this morning.
Thank you.
These vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are totally and absolutely false.
And the Clintons know it, and they know it very well.
These claims are all fabricated.
They're pure fiction and they're outright lies.
These events never ever happened, and the people that said them meekly fully understand.
You take a look at these people, you study these people, and you'll understand also.
The claims are preposterous, ludicrous, and defy truth, common sense, and logic.
We already have substantial evidence to dispute these lies, and it will be made public in an appropriate way and at an appropriate time very soon.
Okay, that's it.
I've got to get out of here, folks.
I just want before we go to the commercial break, and we'll keep monitoring this.
Uh we'll keep rolling it and we'll have sound bites as they unfold.
Trump.
When I said he's not supposed to be doing this, Trump's supposed to be defeated.
Trump is supposed to be have gotten the warning.
He's supposed to have slinked away or begun to slink away.
He's not supposed to be fighting back this way.
And it's only going to ratchet things up as far as the left is concerned.
Uh but this is all upbeat and positive from the standpoint of supporters.
I have to take a break.
We will continue.
Don't go away.
Not enough time here to rejoin Mr. Trump.
You would just get mad when I had to take the next break.
But let me repeat a story that he just told, because this will blow your mind.
Twelve years ago, People magazine did a story about him and Melania, his wife, first year anniversary pregnant, and Trump said it was a great story.
It was a lovely story.
It was a beautiful story.
The story uh was written, and the interview took place very public place with a lot of people around.
And it was one of the best profile stories.
He was big at the time, starring in The Apprentice, uh huge TV show with a huge audience, and it was taking off.
And the writer of that story, twelve years ago in People Magazine has come forward and has said that Trump made advances on her during that interview.
And he just said 12 years ago, read the story.
It's one of the most beautiful stories about us that's ever been written.
Why didn't she say it happened then.
The apprentice was big.
The readership for the story was going to be huge.
If it happened, why didn't it appear in the original story?
Why is it only appearing now, twenty-seven days before the election, especially when it didn't happen?
The people magazine author of the story is claiming that during the interview with Melania there that Trump made advances on her.
And he is calling them horrible, horrible liars, and part of the Clinton team, which everybody in media is, for the most part, other than, of course, conservative media.
A number of flight attendants, I must say, I have checked the email.
A number of flight attendants say they have never seen in first class seat dividers that raise or armrests that raise.
We will be right back.
The Donald Trump rally continues across the bridge here in West Palm Beach.
Sounds like a massive, massive crowd, and they are jazzed and they are fired up.
And uh Trump just after acknowledging the slander and the libel of the New York Times and People Magazine.
He just said that he's not going to permit them to derail his campaign.
His campaign is not going to be comprised of refuting all of this slander each and every day.
He's going to stick to issues and so forth and making sure that he can do everything he can to see to it that the country is rescued from the corrupt clutches of the Clintons.
And the crowd is going absolutely bonkers.
Now, I just I just want to review a few things here.
The media, remember folks, uses polling data to make news, not reflect it, not at this stage.
The media is not the media.
I'm so happy to hear Trump say this, that there's no journalism happening today.
They're not journalists, they're party hacks.
They are political hacks, and they are working to advance the Clinton agenda and to protect, to defend and protect the Clintons and the state, the government.
Anybody comes around and opposes any of that, they're gonna be destroyed, ridiculed, impugned in any which number of ways.
A.B. Stoddard on Fox from The Hill.com mentioned about a half hour ago that the polling data that we see right now may not be entirely predictive.
It's her way of saying that she doesn't think the race is this far in Hillary's favor and is nowhere near over.
And I want to take her occasion in making that comment to remind you again that all of these polls are being used to suppress support for Trump.
They are being used to encourage people to abandon Trump.
They're being used to encourage Trump to abandon his campaign.
Their purpose is to dispirit and depress everyone and convince as many people as possible that it's over, that Trump is a buffoon and has no chance whatsoever, all of it's a waste of time.
They might as well concede now, and you might as well concede now.
That's the purpose of it.
The pollsters about five to seven days out when they issue their last poll or the couple of uh the last two polls before the election, those are the ones you really look at, because they are the polls, their reputations will be staked to.
And every polling unit at the end of a campaign wants to be trusted and reliable.
They want to be shown to be right.
So if the polls a week out show the race much closer than the polls today show it, what the drive-by's will say is that there has been a massive shift in public opinion, that Trump is coming on strong, and there'll be stories trying to figure out why.
Uh stories filled with analysts, and now analysis and commentary to explain where Trump turned the corner and what it was about and so forth, when in fact it may never have been as bad as they portrayed, and it may never have required such a huge turnaround as they will say is taking place.
All of this is still possible, is my point.
There is nobody who knows how this is going to turn out.
The pollsters want you to think they do know.
The Democrats want you to think they do know.
Republican consultants and establishment types who have no interest in Trump winning, they want you to think the race is over.
They want you to think they know what's going to happen.
And all of these people want you to believe that they know why it's going to happen.
And the reason Trump's going to happen is because Trump's a reprobate and a loser and a just a general wandering shred of human debris.
Because the real point is they can't convince people to vote for Hillary.
This is a race where their objective, the Clinton campaign, which includes the media and the White House and the Department of Justice and every other government organization and affiliate, their objective is to make Trump more unlikable than Hillary.
Her negatives are already higher than any other candidate who's ever been elected president.
They can't turn that around.
They can't make her liked.
They can't raise her favorable numbers.
She can't do it herself.
She's had two debate appearances, and there's nothing there that makes people go, Yeah, yeah, man, I want this.
I want more of this.
Yeah, I want what she's saying.
She doesn't inspire any of that.
So everything here, as far as they're concerned, in terms of strategy, opposition research, is to try to make Trump hated more unliked, more suspected than Hillary is.
You'll even see them acknowledge that the campaign is actually at times a campaign of the lesser of two evils, because they know on the Hillary side that they can't turn her into a net positive.
It just can't do it.
She she doesn't have those characteristics.
She doesn't have that track record, she doesn't have that resume.
So that's why the pylon on Trump, uh, plus the fact that that's the standard ordinary everyday operating tactic anyway, with any Republican candidate.
Now we gotta get to the phones.
We have to start.
We're gonna start in Clearwater, Florida.
Jack Willem, you're first.
It's great to have you.
I'm glad you're out there.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I first want to thank you for your honesty and how much you mean to me, because I no longer can watch the media.
I cannot.
I'm like 69 years old, I'm retired, I pay a lot of attention, and until I put you on, it's the only time I get a straight answer from anybody.
I am done with it.
I am a Trump fan, I believe in him, I believe he can make a difference, and I just want to thank you because I will no longer have that TV on ever again.
Jacqueline, I appreciate it.
Let me tell you something.
I say frequently here that I don't watch news, cable news, any of it.
Anywhere near regularly.
There are a host of reasons, all of which I have shared.
The primary reason is that I never discover anything I don't already know.
I never hear an opinion I haven't already considered.
And too much of it is predictable.
Formatically, it's predictable.
Content is predictable.
I can't, I haven't read the New York Times in 15 years.
I don't have to.
And every time somebody calls attention to a story in the New York Times, I'm reminded why I don't read it.
The New York Times has no effect on me.
The New York Times cannot change my mind about anything.
The New York Times is not a newspaper, at least when it comes to the sections on American politics.
What they do with foreign policy stories and sports, I couldn't tell you.
But when it comes to the American domestic political scene, uh I know what I'm gonna read before I read it.
And I don't want to get mad.
I don't want to get depressed, I don't want to get ticked off, and I don't watch CNN for the same reasons.
I just don't watch any of it.
I don't haven't watched World News Tonight or a Sunday, uh, the evening news or a Sunday morning show, and I can't tell.
Last Sunday Morning show I watched was one I was on.
Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
Other than that, I just don't.
And it's it's for a combination of reasons, as I say.
Number one, it isn't news anymore.
I know that the things I believe in and the people I believe in are going to be savaged.
They're going to be unfairly criticized.
I know that I'm going to be.
I know that if I ever show up, I'm going to be savaged and lied about and besmirched, you name it.
But the main thing is it's predictable.
You know what it's going to be.
Because it isn't news.
News ought not be predictable.
The news is something that happened that you don't know about.
Journalism is people telling you what happened where you weren't, so that you know what it is.
Well, how in the world can it be journalism if you know what's coming?
You know what's going to happen when you turn on CNN.
You may not know who the guests are going to be.
And you may not know specifically what they're going to say, but you know what the tone of it's going to be.
Ditto PMSNBC.
In fact, if I do watch it, I get even angrier because I'll see what I happen to see today.
There is an absolute reprobate leftist who is responsible for more character assassination and damage via his website than almost all of them.
And I watch Republicans and conservatives regularly sit next to him and appear with him and agree with him.
Why do I want to watch this tripe?
Why would I want to read establishment Republicans sidling up to Democrats so that they can maintain their proper membership in the establishment?
Who won't even unify around the concept of defeating Hillary Clinton.
Why do you want to read that?
Why do you want to watch it?
Why do you want to expose yourself to people who want to be treated with great respect and get great accolades?
Because they cannot, because of principle.
They cannot join the effort to defeat Hillary Clinton because of the reprobate Trump.
Sorry.
I I just don't want to watch it.
I don't want to read it.
I don't want to explain.
I don't want to have them explain why, because I already know.
So I'm a lot happier.
If you want to know why I remain optimistic, is because I do not immerse myself in the single greatest source of pessimism and depression that exists in American media, and that's today's news media.
I avoid it.
Well, who do you prep?
Sure.
I have my ways, folks.
But most of show prep today, you know what it really is?
It's catching up on events and then remembering what I already know about the people and what they mean and what they want.
The left.
Once you understand who they are, once you understand liberalism, once you understand what big government leftists are, 90% of your work is done.
The rest of it's just applying what you know to whatever events of the day are taking place.
And then trying to find a way to explain that to people who don't see it.
And that's what we do here.
And we will be back.
Sticking with the phones, we go uh back to Naples, Florida.
Gary, great to have you.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hi.
Hey, Russ.
Thank you for taking my call.
Thank you for everything you do and uh keeping my day uh sane, to say the least.
Um I just wanted to share with you, I am an independent.
Um, and I am clearly voting for Trump.
Um I I have to tell you my clear understanding of how the media has portrayed this whole campaign is an absolute disgrace.
Um, to think that the American people are that stupid.
Um they should be ashamed of themselves.
Um, and personally I hope they all go out of business.
Um it it's I can't uh just like your caller called before, I can't even watch the TV.
And I'll just recall an instant.
I think it was a week ago Saturday night when his taxes got released.
They put out uh like a special report alert.
Trump's taxes hadn't paid taxes in X amount of time.
I'm just gonna be frank with you.
I could care less about Trump's taxes.
I really could.
Um I do care that his competitor, uh Mr. Clinton has violated just about every criminal law that you can imagine uh related to government and uh the whole system in Washington is broken.
And uh I think he is the one and only option that can go in there and and knock some heads around.
You know, you reminded me of something.
Gary, I I I uh I appreciate the call.
Let me ask all of you something, by the way.
Some of you, I don't know where you are on all this.
He's an independent and he's just had his fill of it.
How many of you have have come to realize that every four years, every presidential election, that in the last 30 days the Republican candidate alone is exposed as a sleaze ball reprobate?
Does that not make you wonder?
How is it every Republican candidate?
They did it to Mitt Romney.
They did it twice to George W. Bush.
They did it to George H. W. Bush.
They did it to Ronald Reagan in two different elections.
Actually, three, he sought the Republican nomination in 76 and didn't get it.
Every Republican candidate turns out to be, isn't it amazing?
A low rent scumball.
Isn't that interesting?
Do any of you ever pause and ask yourself how can that be?
While at the same time, the Democrat candidate is clean and pure as a virgin in the wind-driven snow.
This is the thing that I ask.
How do people continue to fall for this?
Also, I got an email from somebody who who doesn't understand how the Clintons were able to profit or steal money from the Haitian earthquake.
And it was in the context of the Clinton scandals, and he had the emailer had heard this happen.
Can't imagine how how that would happen.
Let me tell you how it works.
The Haiti Hurricane, not Matthew, but the one prior that was so destructive.
When it happened, Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.
The Department of State is where the decision is made on aid money and where it goes and how much.
Now there's a budget item, and the line item happens to be the Department of State.
That's the area of diplomacy and uh foreign aid and this kind of thing.
So, with Mrs. Clinton in charge, she allocates money for, say, rebuilding of homes and other structures, rebuilding of roads.
Okay, well, who's gonna do it?
They don't have any construction companies in Haiti.
They've all been destroyed, too.
Well, the way it works is Hillary appoints government money and then hires donors to the Clinton Foundation, who run construction companies, energy companies, uh, supply companies, and I mean the people that donate to that foundation are huge.
They get the contracts, federal money from Hillary Clinton State Department to their donors to go to Haiti and do the work.
They do the work, but as you can see, the second hurricane goes through and everything's destroyed again.
So these donors get the original contracts to do the repair work in Haiti.
Now what do they do with the money?
Well, clearly they keep some of it and they donate some of it right back to the Clinton Foundation.
And that way the Clintons can say they're not personally profiting.
And then when you learn that a full 7% of the Clinton Foundation budget is salaries and travel and entertainment.
No, I'm sorry, 9%.
7% what's getting donated to charity.
So that's how it works.
So money from the Federal Treasury ends up at the Clinton Foundation, goes through Haiti, and then to contractors and suppliers hired by the State Department, i.e., Hillary, who are donors to the foundation, And then they, with some of that money, turn some of it around in additional donations to the Foundation.
So it's a circuitous route, but that's how your tax dollars end up at the Clinton Foundation.
And she gets to do that anytime there's a disaster where we are spending money around around the world, and she is Secretary of State.
And that is how it's done.
Yeah, Michelle Obama says she doesn't know men that talk like Donald Trump.
She's forgotten Reverend Wright.
Talking about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
Reverend Wright from the pulpit.
The Obama's church said Bill!
Bill was running dirty.
He chickens have come home to Ruth.
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