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Oct. 17, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 17, 2016, Monday, Hour #3
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Greetings, welcome back.
Great to have you.
L. Rushbow executing assigned host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
Kicking off a brand new week of broadcast taxes.
Man, oh man.
And over the weekend, Catherine Herrich at Fox had a uh story of a pay-for-play quid pro quo story involving the State Department of the FBI.
And essentially it was that if you look the other way, and all this Clinton email stuff, the FBI, they would give you plum overseas appointments.
And then fast came the denials.
Oh no, no, no.
They said, That's just not true.
People, people not understanding that that didn't happen.
Nobody ever got any appointments.
Nobody ever said anybody did.
What they said was it was offered.
It was talked about.
And if it all it has to be is discussed and talked about for there to be near criminal activity, they'd have to follow through on it here.
Um there's that we're looking what we're finding as more and more comes out is that there was collusion between the Clinton campaign and the FBI and the State Department, DOJ rather on these emails that it was never ever going to be a prosecution, primarily because Obama was using an alias and was chatting with Hillary on her server while lying to the American people.
He claimed he didn't know about it until he read about it in the news, but he did know about it, and he was using her server under an alias.
And when ever when it when the story was about to break, there's all kinds of stuff flashing today.
We're learning in an email thread from the from the WikiLeaks dump that the Clinton campaign was working with state over this Benghazi story.
And basically what they engineered, they got hold of a friendly AP reporter, and he's named in the email to plant a narrative on Benghazi before the congressional hearings began, so as to create an entirely different story before members of the committee actually knew anything for sure about Benghazi and who had asked for help and what Clinton's status was and where she was.
I mean, the fix is in on all of this.
In so many different ways.
Now you've got the allegation that the uh FBI was being offered, agents are being offered various plumb assignments if they would look the other way on this thing.
I think it's it's close to what this is.
It's just and people denying it uh left and right too, but it's not going away.
But you won't see it in the mainstream media.
You won't see any of this discussed in the in the mainstream media.
You'll only see it in what we call the uh new media conservative media opposition, but it's out there.
And it's the kind of thing that the the media, if they don't report it, it didn't happen.
And if it didn't happen, then nobody knows about it.
Except the problem is a lot of people are learning about these things.
And as much criticism as there is for social media and the sewer that it is, it still exists as a pipeline to inform people of things they're not learning elsewhere.
Trump has 27 million followers.
He can put any story on twist Facebook or Twitter that he wants and give it a life.
And he's doing that.
And of course, they're not factoring any of that.
The arrogance and conceit of media people is if they don't talk about it, it didn't happen.
And if it didn't happen, nobody knows about it.
And they go through the busy broadcast day and the busy news day with that attitude.
And yet people are hearing and learning things that they are not reporting.
Now, it's not nearly enough.
I mean, a lot of the WikiLeaks email dump.
I I don't know how much of that has reached the general population.
We just don't know.
That's why it's so many question marks about all of this, and we're not gonna know until election day.
And I don't think anybody really does.
I think the pollsters, I I think I think there's enough in this campaign that's unprecedented, and therefore you can't factor it in, you can't poll it, you can't get actual uh confident data on a lot of it.
So again, it's it's it's what this has always been.
You have on the political side with the the real top one percent that everybody needs to be concerned about, and that's the media and the Democratic establishment has some Republicans in it and uh certain Wall Street banks.
That's that is the one percent that everybody needs to be worried about.
And these people are running this campaign as they always have.
They have their their handbook, their blue book, and there are plays that they execute how they want, but they're up against somebody to about whom it may not apply.
Trump's an outsider, he doesn't have political fingerprints, a political record, he doesn't have they they can't tie him to any failing policy, for example.
They can't tie him to any Republican action, so that all they can do is claim he's the usual average everyday Republican, which is racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe and now abuser, and that's it.
And so we'll we're long way of saying we really don't know how things are shaking out.
We really don't.
We don't know what impact all this is having on a large group of Americans who generally don't vote.
What if they decide to this year?
You realize half the eligible voters in this country don't?
That's why the left's always wringing its hands about, oh, democracy is threatening.
Look at how little our public is participating.
We need more participation.
And then when we get more participation, they start bitching about that.
Is there too much democracy going on?
Is there too much information that people have?
Is it too confusing out there?
So no matter what happens, if it goes against the grain of what they want, it's a threat, it's a problem.
And we'll just have to see.
Now, a couple things I got to do here, and then we're going to get back to your calls.
I said I had some questions for Hillary Clinton that I would love to hear asked.
And if I ever had the chance, she would never appear on this program, and I would never be invited to be a moderator.
But if either happened, I have a list of questions here.
And they're not complicated, they just haven't been asked.
Mrs. Clinton, when you were Secretary of State, why did you let a Russian company purchase one half of the United States uranium reserves in coordination with your and your husband's foundation?
How much money was donated by Russian companies to your foundation in exchange for your moving half of our uranium supply to Kazakhstan?
Mrs. Clinton, when you work for the State Department, how did you conduct secret classified business without using a secure email server?
And don't say it's a mistake that you won't do again, because you still had to conduct business.
How did you conduct secret classified business on your public server?
What kind of assault weapons were we funneling through Benghazi?
And where were we sending them before Ambassador Stevens was murdered?
Mrs. Clinton, why were you interested in the overthrow of Basher Al-Assad in Syria?
Mrs. Clinton, when you left the White House after your husband's last term as president in the year 2000, why did you steal 200,000 worth of furniture and China and artwork that you were forced to return?
Mrs. Clinton, when you were Secretary of State, why did you solicit contributions from foreign governments to your family foundation after you promised President Obama you would not?
Mrs. Clinton, why do you and your husband claim to contribute millions of dollars to charity for a tax write-off when it goes to your family foundation that gives less than 15% of the money you collect?
And you use the balance to support yourself tax-free.
How do you do that?
How could other Americans set up similar arrangements as you have?
What would you tell them?
Mrs. Clinton, why are you unable to account for six billion dollars of State Department money that seemed to have disappeared while you were Secretary of State?
Mrs. Clinton, you said you were broke when you left the White House, but you purchased a two million dollar home.
You built an addition for the Secret Service.
You charge taxpayers of the United States rent in an amount equal to the entire mortgage.
Why do you say you were broke?
Mrs. Clinton, how is it your daughter Chelsea can afford to buy a $10.5 million apartment in New York City after you left the White House when you were broke?
I might throw that one out.
I might leave out the question about the daughter.
Mrs. Clinton, I here's Mrs. Clinton, could you tell the average American how their child could get a $600,000 a year job at NBC with no experience like your daughter did?
That's a better one, right?
That's a better one.
Yeah, because at 10.6, that comes from the Ms. Vinski's.
You know, she married it.
So, but yeah, the 600 grand a year.
Uh and it not having done it before.
Uh Mrs. Clinton.
Why did you lie to the American people about the terror attack in Benghazi, but you managed to tell the truth to your daughter the same night that it happened?
Mrs. Clinton, why did you lose or why why did you fail the bar exam in the District of Columbia?
Why did your husband lose his law license?
Take your time, Mrs. Clinton.
We're here for a couple of hours.
I mean, this is just scraping the surface.
I mean, there's all kinds of other things that could ask.
But these are the kinds of things that are asked of Trump that are not asked of her, is my point.
Okay, yeah, okay, you do that.
Mrs. Clinton.
For the past two weeks we have been treated to accounts of Donald Trump and his supposedly abusive women, treatment of women, many of whom have now been exposed as not having told the truth.
Why did you feel it necessary to tarnish the reputations of women who had alleged that your husband had abused them, and in one case raped them?
Tell us about the bimbo eruptions unit that helped your husband survive as president.
I mean, any number of ways you could go with this.
You know, Trump is routinely asked about that she's not.
That's that's the point that I'm trying to make.
I mean, the questions, you know, they're not specific here, they're generic just to indicate they're all kinds of places, all kinds of areas that the moderators are not going with Mrs. Clinton.
No, I wouldn't ask her what her relationship is with Huma.
I I no, no, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't.
I wouldn't touch on that.
Um That's that's inside stuff.
I don't think the vast majority of people even know who Huma is.
And so I would leave, I would leave Huma uh alone.
I might express condolences.
Would you pass on my sincere feelings for Mrs. Danger over the embarrassment of her husband and sending pictures of his nakedness to teenagers?
It's a terrible thing, and we feel for would you pass that on for us?
Thank you.
Nah, nah, no, look, trying to keep this above board here.
This is this is with the Clintons, you see how easy it is to get to the gutter if you want to go there.
Now I mentioned also earlier that there is a story at the Hill.com, Lane Filler is the writer.
Donald Trump looks different when you See him.
So you have a writer here for the Hill who went to a Trump rally who was expecting to see a bunch of people from deliverance.
Missing their two front teeth, drinking cans of three-year-old beer unchilled, hunting caps on pickup trucks in the parking lot, gun racks in the back window.
People that say, Git forgetting yours see a journalist and start shouting epithets.
And it turned out that this reporter didn't see anything that he expected to see.
Donald Trump looks different when you see him in person.
This guy's a member of the News Day editorial.
I said the Hill, it's Newsday, the Long Island newspaper.
He's a member of the Newsday editorial board.
Trump estimated the crowd at 7,000.
New Hampshire police said it was closer to 3,000, and there wasn't a whit of deplorable behavior.
No racism, no sexism, no xenophobia, not even any nasty t-shirts.
Nor was there a surly or a grieved mood coursing through the pack.
Trump supporters were upbeat and they were there to have a good time.
What inspired the 300-mile drive Friday night from Long Island toward a noon rally up north was the sense that after a week of access Hollywood tape replays and sexual assault allegations, Trump might finally be ready to completely blow his stack.
Start roaring and foaming and biting the heads off of members of the media.
So I wanted to go up and see it.
What transpired was foundationally different.
Most of Trump's speech focused on specific problems facing the people of New Hampshire and the United States and the steps a Trump administration would take to address them.
Trump spoke at length about the opiate addiction ravaging New Hampshire.
He called for lifting the limit on prescriptions for medication-assisted treatment drugs that doctors can write, an important, intricate fix.
He also decried the way Chinese drug manufacturers are moving deadly fentanyl into and around the U.S. But at the root of the rally was the kernel of an idea that made his campaign catch fire when few thought that it would.
It's not going well for you in terms of jobs, addiction, security, family structure, retirement, or your feelings about the future.
And it's not your fault.
Trump told them that people in power don't care, and in fact have benefited from the situation.
None of the politics as usual people from either party having caused the trouble or allowed it to happen can be trusted to fix it.
He said that was the message at the Trump rally.
He said, well, you heard.
There weren't any rabble-rousers.
There weren't any insulting shouts.
There weren't any bad behavior at all.
So you have a re and and this is your average Trump rally.
Oh!
The O'Keefe, James O'Keefe, the latest video.
He claims to have proof that all of the unrest and protests and dangerous activity at Trump rallies has been committed by Democrats and Hillary supporters.
Anyway, another timeout, obscene profit break, and we will go back to the phones when we get back.
Mrs. Clinton, you made 21 million dollars in two years giving speeches to, among others, Wall Street banks, often at 250,000 per 30-minute speech, and in some cases, $350,000.
Why is Wall Street the problem?
And why are you in such close relationships with Wall Street?
And what are they expecting for what they paid you?
Somehow get the question out there.
Tie her to the close relationships we have she has with Wall Street while her voters think that she's out to destroy Wall Street.
Some of the WikiLeaks document dumps indicate how close she is to these bankers.
Lloyd Blankfine did Goldman Sachs just one example.
Here's uh here's Ellen in False Church, Virginia.
Glad you waited.
I really appreciate it.
How are you doing?
Oh, well, thank you for taking my call.
Listen, Rush, I have this theory that there's going to be an October surprise of a different sort, and that is I'm a self-employed person who got a letter on Friday telling me my health insurance premium is going to increase by $1,082 per month.
It had already doubled since the Affordable Care Act was put into place, and my deductible went from $2,500 a person to $6,000.
But now my insurance premiums are practically going to double effective January 1st.
And if enough people like me, self-employed or small business owners, get letters like this, there is just no way you can support the continuation of a policy that is it's not going to bankrupt me, but it is seriously going to impact our standard of living.
Yeah, but you are going to be outnumbered by the people who do not have small businesses.
I mean, you're a you're a you're in a minority of people, and the insurance rates for Obama are skyrocketing.
It's imploding.
Everybody knows it.
Here's here's the pro I wish what you say is true, and I hope it ends up being true.
My experience has been that the public does not associate Obama with Obamacare.
He shouldn't be at 55% approval alone, given where Obamacare is.
They end up blaming the insurance companies.
It's the insurance company's fault these prices because not Obama.
Obama's trying.
He's really trying, but these evil forces just will not help him.
Uh building expanding on what Ellen in False Church, Virginia just said, our last caller.
She's a small business owner.
She's getting um letters acknowledging that the um premium and deductibles are skyrocketing on her Obamacare policy.
Individuals are getting these letters too.
And in some cases, like I read the example of a family in Minnesota, I think they're farm family.
Not sure about that.
But anyway, they're monthly.
Are you ready for this?
The monthly.
Monthly.
This is incredible.
For the family.
Monthly premium costs are 40,000.
I think that's no, that's I guess.
Wait a minute.
I'm getting it sounds more like yearly.
And the deductible is $13,000 per person.
It's it's it's they can't afford it.
And even if they could afford the premiums, they would never trigger the coverage because the deductible is like $13,000 to $14,000.
Now the point is, people are getting these letters.
Not just small business owners.
Individuals are getting these letters, acknowledging the cost.
Here's look, this is the sad thing.
It's by design.
Obamacare is supposed to fail, and it's supposed to fail in a way that people perceive the insurance companies as being at fault.
Not Obama.
Remember now, there's the limbaugh theorem, which explains why Obama hasn't been held accountable for anything that's gone wrong from the economy to the stimulus not mattering to the international foreign policy of this country.
We are in we we're in more wars under Obama than we ever were under George W. Bush.
And in almost every instance, it's because of Bush.
The economy, if you listen to the Democrats, the economy, we still are feeling the effects of the Bush financial collapse in 2008.
Poor Obama, man, he's tried so hard.
He's worked so hard.
He's done more than anybody could have possibly done.
It was so bad it was worse than anybody knew.
And it's just gonna take a lot longer.
And that's how Hillary gets away with running against the economy.
It's still Bush's fault.
I mean, look at folks, you're gonna Obama's sitting there with a 55% approval.
So whatever you hope about all this stuff attaching itself to him is not happening.
In the case of Obamacare, these rising premiums and deductibles.
Insurance companies.
Typical, typical, unfeeling, hatred, citizen united type big corporations, which are not people.
Corporations don't cry.
Corporations don't bleed.
Corporations, companies are not people.
It's just evil.
They kill people.
They're not people.
They kill their customers and they don't care that they're not people.
And Obama is perceived as just this one guy trying so hard to reverse this when, in truth, everything that's going wrong in health care is the result of Democrat Party implemented policy.
This is the thing that frustrates me about millennials.
I look at it I've mentioned this before, and I know it's being redundant, say it, but here you have these millennials graduating college or have graduated.
They are saddled with student loan debt that's going to take, in some cases, over ten years or more to repay.
While that's going on, there aren't any career path openings.
woefully inadequate.
There are all kinds of part-time jobs available.
That's what people want to fill for because of Obamacare.
But being able to start out your your your course on a career, it's not there.
It's not happening.
We don't have a robust and vibrant and growing economy.
And the young people facing this do not blame.
Nobody's blame Obama, they don't blame government.
They just think it's a confluence of events that happen to occur at the time they reached adulthood.
It's just an accident of fate.
You can't convince them that their circumstances are the direct result of implemented Democrat Party policy.
Now, again, I'm going to tell you one of the reasons why, and it's more complicated than this, one of the reasons why is the opposition political party has not tried to make that case.
The opposition political party has not been much of an opposition party.
They have been silenced by virtue of Obama's race.
They've been neutered.
And so it's it's the first election in my life.
I this is really true, folks.
To show you how different things are, and how you can't playbook and blue book this stuff.
This Snerdley, correct me if I'm wrong.
I mean, there may be an exception here, but I can't think of it.
This is the first election of my life where the economy is not even a factor in the election.
If if it were Hillary Clinton would be in deep doo-doo because this is her party that did this, and people associated not just the president, but his party and the economy, the back pocket kitchen table issues were always the issues that dominated and determined electoral outcome, but this one doesn't.
And there are a lot of other issues like that that used to matter of a lot that don't seem to.
And so people on the Republican side who've been thinking, well, we got we got a great chance here because the economy's in a tank and it's the Democrats have been no, the people are not associating Obama or the Democrats with even his name's on the thing.
Obamacare, and they still don't blame him.
He's still seen as this valiant social justice warrior, doing everything he can to get even with these evil companies that are trying to kill their customers.
Deny their customers medicine, deny their customers, food, deny their customers, water, whatever it is.
And back to the phones we go.
This is uh Teresa in Vienna, Illinois.
I'm glad you called.
It's great to have you on the program today.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
It's a pleasure to be able to talk to you today.
Thank you.
Um, with my position, I get to travel extensively, and I get to meet a plethora of people, whether it be people that have learned through the hard knocks of life or the very well educated that are the scientists.
And the one thing that I have noticed, and I've been on numerous universities and around twelve the states this summer, there is not the Hillary for President Rush like there was when Obama was running.
There's not this impetus.
And there are numerous people out there that refuse or are afraid to say that they support Trump because of how they would be perceived by other people, you know, being called racist biggest, whatever, because of their lack of ingenuity or wanting to be able to uh uh say what they really want to say, I guess.
Well, this has been one of the curious uh anomalies that I have been tracking and following throughout the duration of campaign.
There is no energy for Hillary Clinton out there.
There is no organic excitement for Hillary Clinton.
There is for Donald Trump.
You know these bumper stickers that we have at the EIB store, they're never Hillary bumper stickers.
I have sent supplies of these to friends I know all across the fruited plain.
And you know, everybody wants one, but they are afraid to put it on their car.
Because they are afraid of vandalism or somehow otherwise being pointed out or called out.
Point is there's a lot of Trump support that doesn't want to admit it like she's saying.
But again, this is all anecdotal.
Polling data doesn't reflect any of this.
You folks, we have to the polling data today, we've got three.
Washington Post ABC, Hillary up four, Monmouth, Hillary up 11, and uh what is the other one that's out today?
I forget.
There's one that has her up twelve.
So up twelve, up eleven, up four.
None of that is reflected in what we see.
Well, I take that back.
We see it in media coverage.
If all we knew was what we see in the drive-by media, why we would think Trump is is about to be in humiliated and embarrassed, maybe get 10% of the vote.
But in terms of watching the American people, there isn't any excitement for Hillary.
There is so there's no demand for people to see her.
She's now in the midst of five days or six days off, supposedly studying for the debate.
John Podesta, by the way, was it Podesta?
No, David Axelrod thinks that she should just broom it.
Don't even do it.
There's nothing to gain.
She's got the election in the bag.
There's no reason to do this debate.
She really ought to think about backing up.
But I've noticed what you've noticed.
She can't draw flies to any of her rallies.
They look like nothing compared to a Trump rally.
This is this is one of the confusing things.
This is why people.
It's it's one thing you see all of these Trump rallies, and they're overflowing, and they're energetic, and the people have unquestionable enthusiasm.
And then you see a Hillary rally, you see 300 people, 500 people.
You don't see any organic excitement, no thrills, nothing.
Then you see the polling data and you wonder how does this work?
How does it explain?
And it it's not unique.
This kind of thing has happened before.
The polls have been right.
You understand New York and California, for example, are gone.
They're Democrat states, those electoral votes are gone.
Just whoever runs that has a D next to their name is gonna win.
They don't have to be stars, they don't have to be Exciting, they don't have to be charismatic at all.
You just need the D by your name.
And that's what she has going for.
I understand it's frustrating.
And it doesn't seem to jibe with what you uh what you see.
The polling data doesn't jive.
That's why we don't know until we're gonna know.
It's that simple.
Okay, folks, that's it.
We're off to a rocking start for this exciting and busy broadcast week.
As always, I really appreciate your being here.
I thank you more than you can possibly know.
And I attribute so much of this program's success to me and your desire to listen to me.
I'm just kidding, folks.
I've just thrilled here that you're here every day.
It's uh it's exciting, and I look forward to it each day as I am tomorrow, so you hang in.
It'll be 21 hours before we know it.
Starting all over again.
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