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Oct. 18, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 18, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Well, there seems to be some confusion where these hundred pages came from.
They are official.
And the best I have been able to determine is that the FBI released these 100 pages that everybody's talking about.
Some people.
Well, I am usually am.
But some people are saying, no, no, no, the FBI didn't officially do it.
Somebody at the FBI did it because they're ticked off.
And they think Hillary should be arrested, and some that some in other words, somebody's trying to tell me that a rogue element released the documents.
Everything I've seen said the FBI itself did this.
And that Comey was not aware or involved, not always.
Comey wasn't involved in this all-agency meeting that took place.
Look, let me summarize this.
Welcome back, folks.
Rush Limbaugh here at 800 282-2882, and try to tell you why this matters.
This is standard operating procedure for Bill and Hillary Clinton.
This is a woman who destroyed subpoenaed documents in a court case way back in the 90s.
These are the people that that hid billing records and other relevant documents sought by a court for years that mysteriously turned up on a table in the map room in the White House during their first term in the White House.
And then the whole Lewinsky scandal happened, and we know how everything was mistaken.
If it hadn't been for that blue dress.
Seriously, folks, I'm not trying to be funny here.
If it hadn't been for that blue dress, Bill Clinton would have gotten away with saying, I never had sex with that woman.
Not a single time, not ever, and I never asked anybody to lie.
He would have gotten away with that.
We would have never known the truth.
If it hadn't been for the fact that Linda Tripp, I think it was, convinced Lewinsky to give up that blue dress.
And she kept the blue dress because it was historical, it was a souvenir.
She loved the guy.
And having his seaman was, I guess, a memento.
So there it was.
This is how the Clintons operate.
They accuse this is a woman who was thrown off the Nixon Watergate Committee.
As a Democrat lawyer, she was thrown off by Peter Redino, the chairman, because she was trying to engender things that would deny Nixon and his legal team constitutional rights during the Watergate investigation.
This woman is every bit the Alinskyite that Barack Obama is.
She was an Olinskyite before Obama was.
Her thesis when she was at Wellesley was on Owinsky.
But the woman is dishonest.
She is dishonest and she is corrupt.
Look at the Clinton Foundation.
This is an organization set up to take donations.
Excuse me for a second.
To take donations in the multiple millions of dollars from foreign governments and foreign wealthy individuals while she was Secretary of State and while she's campaigning for president.
Now, folks, there's there's the people giving the Clintons money are not doing it because they like her.
They're not giving her $300,000 mixed speeches at banks because, wow, she says such interesting things.
They are buying the Clintons.
They are buying access because the Clintons have made it known their entire public life.
can be bought.
The Clintons do not do much of anything above board.
I need to take a swig here And of course, can't allow the dead air, so pardon me a minute here.
I'm sorry, folks, but you have to do that.
Dead air can trigger some of our stations to go to commercial break.
I can't permit that, so pardon the rudeness.
It's kind of like rattling the papers.
At any rate, um there's a there's a history, a documented history now.
If you're a millennial, do you know what I saw about millennials the other day?
It was last night doing show prep for today.
Millennials do not know of the Existence and the nature and the truth of Soviet communism.
It's not been taught to them.
So Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall, the Berlin Wall falling, the cold war and its meaning and relevance all during the 60s, irrelevant to them.
They simply don't know.
They haven't been taught about it.
And that's, of course, by design.
If you're not going to teach communism, if you're not going to teach what it really is, it makes selling socialism easy.
Which is exactly what they've done.
Same token here.
These millennials, a young group of people, do not know of the Clintons of the 90s.
To you and me, we know it like the back of our hands.
But young people don't, and some low information people don't as well.
So in addition to all of the things, starting with Whitewater, the whole thing forward, and it's everything the Clintons have done, well, I say everything, vast majority of what the Clintons have done has had many purposes, but at the top of the list is personal enrichment.
Personal.
Do you know that she also stole furniture from the State Department when she left?
That's in this document, no.
She stole furniture from the State Department when she left, just like they stole furniture from the White House when they left.
She just picked up and took what she wanted.
Violates all kinds of protocols, would not hang around with ambassadors, would not travel with them, would not give them the perk of appearing with a Secretary of State, would not let them fly in a plane, would not them ride in a limousine, only Huma Abaddon was allowed body contact.
Nobody else's the secret the uh uh security agents for the State Department all wanted to quit her detail.
She was so rude, mean, disrespectful, none of them wanted to work for her over the course of her four-year term as Secretary of State, which comports with everything we'd heard about the way she treated Secret Service agents in the White House and Marines and other uniformed military personnel.
The woman is a viper.
And she's dishonest and corrupt.
And it's the way of the world in that in that world the Clintons occupy.
So just a review.
Hundred pages released by the FBI yesterday, clearly detail an all-agency meeting wherein the State Department and a guy named Patrick Kennedy attempted to persuade other government agencies,
including the FBI and the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency and others to go along with changing the classification of, in this case, one particular document detailing Benghazi from classified to unclassified, so that Mrs. Clinton could go out and do a press conference and ad and claim that she had never trafficked in classified information.
And in exchange for doing this, the FBI was offered, in exchange for doing this, an increased presence in foreign countries to do investigations and other things.
The FBI does have presence in foreign.
You remember when the Cobar Towers in Saudi Arabia were blown up.
The FBI is right there investigating because U.S. American citizens were dead.
So the FBI can go, but they are limited in what they can do.
State Department has purview.
So a carrot was dangled that allowed the FBI a little bit more access and power in exchange for going along with declassifying a classified document.
Four people, two state, two FBI, have added to what's in these hundred pages, claiming they were pressured to go along with this.
Now, President Obama just had a press conference, concluded recently at the White House with the Italian Prime Minister, in which he was asked about this.
Now there's two sound bites.
I played one, I'm going to play it again, and then the second bite because they go together.
So here's the question, Mr. President, does it distress you that people of the FBI and the State Department talked about Proper level of classification of emails that were on Secretary Clinton's server.
Would you acknowledge the appearance of impropriety?
And should the State Department look into this further?
You've heard directly from both the FBI and the State Department that the notion or the accounts that have been put out there are just not true.
And you can question them again, but based on what we have seen, heard, learned, some of the more sensational implications or appearances as you stated them, aren't based on actual events and based on what actually happened.
And I think derived from sort of overly broad characterizations of interactions between the State Department and the FBI that happen a lot and happened between agencies.
The short version of that is it didn't happen.
It's all made up.
Not true.
These things happen all the time.
And people say one thing.
So he's denied calling people liars.
Thank you.
This is an FBI document.
This is not.
This is not something that some right wing website found and is publishing.
This is from the Obama.
FBI.
And he's claiming everybody involved, and there are independent people, as I say, four others who are claiming they have been pressured to go along with the declassification of classified documents on Mrs. Clinton's server.
Rush, what does it matter?
There's so many other things.
What is it?
It matters because, folks, it's a culmination of things.
The cumulative effect of behavioral patterns here that indicate this woman is dishonest, is corrupt, and has no business even taking the oath of office because she cannot honestly do it.
She has no business being president of the United States.
She has she uses the power that you get as a elected official or appointed official at the upper echelons of U.S. government to artificially alter and change things in her favor outside of courts of law, things that no one else could do or try to, and things for which we have forced a president to resign simply because he thought he wanted to.
Richard Nixon and Watergate, this what that's nothing compared to what has actually gone on here.
But it gets better.
During the same press conference, the Reuters White House correspondent says Donald Trump is telling his supporters the elections rigged, and he's asking them to monitor certain areas on election day.
How concerned are you about the potential for violence?
And what about after election day?
Are you worried the results of the election may be distrusted?
I have never seen in my lifetime or in modern political history any presidential candidate trying to discredit the elections and the election process before votes have even taken place.
It's unprecedented.
It happens to be based on no facts.
Every expert, regardless of political party, regardless of ideology, conservative or liberal who has ever examined these issues in a serious way will tell you that instances of significant voter fraud are not to be found.
It's not true, folks.
Really showed the kind of leadership and toughness that you'd want out of a president.
He started whining before the game's even over.
So I'd advise Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.
Right.
So see, Republicans are supposed to wait until the Democrats steal elections and then complain about it.
But here once again, Trump's out.
We all know that voter fraud goes on.
We all know that dead people vote.
We all know that Democrats oppose voter ID.
We know that Democrats oppose purging the voter registration roles.
We know the Democrats want amnesty for illegal immigrants to put them on voter registration rolls.
We know all of this.
We know that the Democrats have gone to great lengths to prevent steps that would ensure fair elections.
And you talk about are you worried that there might be suppression?
Does anybody remember Philadelphia?
And the new Black Panther Party standing outside a polling place, intimidating people into not showing up into not going in unless they were going to vote for Obama.
That episode was proceeding along the way towards a conviction.
And then the FBI, I should say the Department of Justice, Eric Holder dropped the case.
And the lawyers in that division, the civil rights division, resigned.
J. Christian Adams resigned.
He quit over the reluctance of the Department of Justice to pursue legitimate voter fraud on behalf of Democrats.
So again, I say this is what it looks like.
This is what fighting back looks like.
This is what accusing perpetrators looks like.
Of course they're not going to roll over and admit it.
So here the president in a press conference, ostensibly to signify great relations with the Italian prime minister, calls everybody involved.
This uh all agency meeting on declassifying declassifying Hillary Clinton's emails a lie.
It didn't happen.
Nobody should believe this.
And then the next question allows him to go after Donald Trump for making it all up about voter fraud.
He's never seen anything like it.
And here come the phantom strawmen.
Experts.
Political experts from all parties, political experts from all ideologies, political experts from every.
That's not true.
There are all kinds of political experts who have John Fund, who writes at National Review has made practically a career writing about voter fraud that is undertaken for the benefit of Democrats.
Now, of course they're going to deny it.
Of course they're not going to admit it.
They are immune from the law in their minds.
They're above it.
The law doesn't apply to them.
They're special.
They are our betters.
They are the establishment.
They are allowed to escape the law here and there, all for the good of the nation, they say.
But it's filthy.
Folks, it is literally filthy.
What the left is doing and has already done to all of these great institutions that people used to believe in, that used to have credibility and authority, moral authority.
Now nobody believes in anything anymore.
Everybody thinks that something this or that at some level of government is rigged or is structured in such a way that certain people are not held accountable while other people are.
And there's the IRS targeting Tea Party fundraising groups, denying them tax-exempt status.
I mean, the examples fill a program.
You know, Obama says things aren't rigged.
Didn't the Democrat Party rig the primary election against Bernie Sanders?
We know that they did.
The Democrat National Committee rigged the primary elections.
Bernie Sanders was never going to win the Democrat nomination.
I told you that from the day, the first day of that campaign.
It was all rigged.
The game was set.
It makes what Bernie is doing now even more suspect, because Bernie is now learning of Hillary's close ties to the banks, which he was ripping her to shreds on during the primaries.
Scheduling debates on Saturday night that nobody was ever going to watch.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Blabermaus Schultz had to resign the Democrat National Committee because it was learned during the week of their convention how she had rigged the game against Bernie Sanders.
And they want to come out and say it's ridiculous for Trump to run around and say these things happen before the elections even happened.
He's never run a presidential, seen a presidential candidate do anything like this.
That's probably true in a lot of areas in this campaign.
But I think it's really, really rich for Barack Obama to tell somebody to toughen up, and if you can't handle a criticism, don't get in the game from a guy who is babied and pampered and supported and protected by what ought to be a media demanding accountability.
We will be back.
He doesn't know what tough criticism really is.
Really, really rich for our young president to tell Donald Trump to toughen up.
Here's Barack Obama who in eight years has not had the kind of scrutiny that Donald Trump gets in a week.
Donald Trump gets more scrutiny, more probing, more investigation, more disagreement, more challenging, more allegations, more accusations than Barack Obama has had to endure in eight years.
Barack Obama and every other Democrat out there is essentially pampered, protected, defended by the same media that is trying to personally destroy not just Donald Trump, but anybody else that pops up in the opposition and might have the slightest bit of a chance of wreaking havoc or doing damage to Democrats.
Not just their credibility, but their reputations, their careers, and sometimes even their lives are subject for destruction by the same media that pampers.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that donates money to the 96% of all journalists.
Political contributions have gone to Democrats.
F. Chuck Todd hosted a dinner for Hillary campaign workers.
What do you think that was about?
Various members of the drive-by media host dinner parties and social events for members of Hillary's campaign team.
You wouldn't think any coordination would be going on there, would you?
You wouldn't think that, hey, you know, give me access, hey, I'm on your side, hey, treat me well, hey, I'm lit.
I'm with you.
You wouldn't think any of that's going on, would you?
I look at the kind of treatment that a Republican nominee gets, or your average Republican candidate gets, versus the pampering and the softness and the delicate approach.
The same media takes to Democrats.
You remember in the campaign of 2008, somebody in the drive-by media made a passing humorous reference to Barack Obama's elephant ears.
And he complained to Maureen Dowd.
I'm very sensitive, but my little luck people go in there.
And she shouted from the We're trying to toughen you up.
Remember that?
New York Post, August 13th, 2009.
The Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton made the bizarre comparison during a speech to a group of political activists in the capital of Nigeria.
Quote Hillary Clinton, as you may remember, in 2000, our presidential election came down to one state where the brother of one of the men running for president was governor of the state, so we have our problems too.
So Hillary Clinton's over in Nigeria acknowledging that, yeah, we've got election fraud in our country too.
And we're the guys that can help you run through your problems, because we have experience with it too.
They think they were cheated out of the 2000 presidential race by the Supreme Court.
That election had been certified.
There was no way under the law Al Gore was ever going to get Florida, no matter what they did with the recount, because the election had already been certified.
But it didn't matter.
They kept up the fight, they kept up the allegation that the election was rigged.
And when they do it, the media Falls right in line and starts finding out who's rigging it.
When Donald Trump says the election's rigged, he's accused of being insane and a lunatic and dangerous and needs to be maybe picked up by the guys in white coats, put in a little yellow bus and driven off to the padded room.
When the Democrats accuse an election of being rigged, the media gets in line and tries to find out who's doing it.
Okay, look, there's much more from this FBI drop here, but I've got to get to the phones.
And because people have been patiently waiting, and I invited people to call.
We'll get back to all this.
We've uh we've gotten pretty deep into it, but there's still some other very, very relevant, interesting stuff to go.
I want to try to also get to some of the details in the audio sound bites, James O'Keefe's video, Project Veritas, exposing George Soros bought and paid for Hillary Clinton, bought and paid for protesters disrupting Donald Trump uh rallies, trying to make it look like Trump's supporters are engaging in violence when it was actually homeless people bought and paid for by Hillary's campaign and the Democrat Party that were doing it.
But before we get to all that, Smokey in Coronado, California.
Smokey, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, sir.
In uh 2012, you noted that exit polling showed that 81% of people uh answered that Barack Obama cared more about people like them than Mitt Romney.
My question to you is how likely is it that Hillary Clinton, who's literally Rush, she's driving around in, she's not in an ambulance, she's in a hearse, and that black guy that hangs around her is an undertaker.
How likely is it that she's gonna win that exit poll that says people uh she cares more about people like me because I don't think people connect to her at all.
Okay.
My biggest fear is we're gonna lose all that.
Win that exit poll.
Yeah, it's it's a good question.
I need to review this to put it in context, but I need to also explain some things.
Uh there's you're very funny guy.
I have to tell you, you're very, very funny guy out there, Smokey.
But I just want to assure people, an undertaker is not yet following Hillary Clinton around.
Uh what he's referring to is that in each of these incidents where Hillary has had an episode, a seizure or a coughing fit or something, there is a large black man who looks like he's part of the security detail, who is right next to her.
And he's often seen whispering into her ear or patting her on the back and encouraging her to breathe and just keep going, keep talking, everything's gonna be okay.
And people are, what the hell is this?
He's not there all the time.
But he always seems to materialize when she has an episode.
So Smokey here, uh getting creative, is referring to the guy as the undertaker that follows Hillary.
And I just wanted to specify that we are not yet ready to claim that the man's an undertaker.
Okay.
We want to be factually correct here.
Now, what what Smokey's referring to is an observation I made.
I I saw the first wave of exit polls in 2012 at 5 p.m., and I saw two things under that told me the election was over.
The first one was that question.
It's an exit poll question.
Uh along the lines of cares about people like me, Obama won that 81 to 19.
Ah, screw that.
We're finished.
The second question indicated that 60 some odd percent of people who voted still blamed George Bush for the economy.
Four years into the Obama administration.
So, well, I mean, the economy and Obamacare and our plundering fortunes and the unemployment and the growing number of people out of work.
If that's not tied to Obama, then this is not going to change.
And Romney's gonna lose, and he did.
So now the question, okay, we're gonna have exit polls.
And what Smokey's asking me is is if the answer to that question, the exit polling data is the same, if it's if it's like 80% Hillary cares about people like me, 20% think it's Trump, is it gonna matter like it did in 2012?
And Smokey, I really don't know.
I understand what Hillary does not have a personal connection with people, even her supporters, like Trump does or like Obama does.
But Smokey, and I don't want to depress you, my friend, but she's still a Democrat, and as such, the Democrats have cornered the market on phony, supposed compassion.
And that question it will be asked again, I'm certain, and I uh cares about people like me after what they've done to Trump here, and the way they keep building Hillary up.
I'm probably gonna be something similar to what it was.
The question is, does this election turn on things like that?
I'm gonna tell you what this election's all about.
I'm gonna all this talk about polling data and using the standard historical traditional ways of judging a campaign, I think are different because Trump doesn't come from the political world.
Trump doesn't have a policy record.
He doesn't have fingerprints on anything that's going well or badly in the country.
So there is there is nothing that Trump, as the Republican nominee, can be tied to policy-wise.
That's why a campaign of personal destruction is occurring on Trump, because there's no other way to go about him.
In addition, all of the fingerprints on all the policy stuff, in other words, all the fingerprints on all the stuff going wrong are Democrat fingerprint.
Obama, Hillary, mean anybody who thinks we're in trouble, it's the Democrats.
Trump has nothing to do with it.
So continue the theme that actually I've been referring frequently to, but really focused on yesterday.
What I think this is going to come down to is we're going to find out just how many Americans are fed up with the status quo as defined by the establishment comprised of Republicans and Democrats, political professionals running the country.
Do we have, is there of the people who are going to vote, a majority of people who are so fed up and so angry.
We're going to find out if all of these crowds, these huge crowds that Trump rallies, we're going to find out if they represent gazillions of people or not.
We are going to find out just how many people are not bothered by what's going on in America, and are perfectly content for more of it.
Or either don't know what's going on and haven't informed themselves, and as such, will vote status quo.
We're going to find out how many people, on the other hand, are fed up.
How many people who've been for the last eight years voting Republican and being disappointed after every election?
We're going to find out how many people among those who traditionally don't vote are fired up, fired up enough to vote.
If they do, they're voting Trump.
The people that don't vote, the people who've never voted don't vote because they don't think it's going to matter, because they think they're small fry.
They think their single vote is not going to determine one single thing.
It's not going to matter to who wins or loses, and it's not going to matter to changing the way things are going.
These are people that are off the political grid.
We're going to find out to what extent they've been energized.
We're going to find out to what extent they are motivated and mobilized and loaded for bear to send a message that they're fed up and not taking anymore of it.
We're going to find out.
It's not about.
Well, it is about Santa Claus in the sense we're going to find out how many people have reached their limit with paying for it.
The Democrat Party is Santa Claus.
To a lot of low information people.
That's what they stand for.
The Democrat Party of Santa Claus, and it's tough to beat Santa Claus.
I don't know that anybody's ever tried to beat Santa Claus.
Anybody ever run against Santa Claus?
And that's how the Democrat Party is seen by a whole lot of people.
94 million Americans are not working and they're all eating, and they've all got phones and they've all got TVs, and many of them drive.
And they're not working.
By that I mean they're not upset.
The job market, whatever, it's apparently not that big a deal.
The one thing is how many of them don't have health care.
See, I think having health care has become the replacement for what used to be having a job.
You didn't have a job that the economy was bad, somebody had to pay for it.
If you don't have health care today, and likely you don't if you don't work, because Obamacare is not free.
And even if you don't have a job, you still have to go somewhere to sign up for it.
It's still a pain in the butt to do it.
And then you have to qualify for the subsidies.
Then you have to go through all the papers.
It is a pain in the butt to get Santa Claus to give you health care.
It's not a pain in the butt for Santa Claus to deliver you a government check.
But it is a pain in the butt to get Obamacare.
One way or the other, it's spiraling downward out of control.
How many people upset by that?
We don't hear much about that in the campaign because it's a negative for the Democrats, so of course the press ignores it.
I think that's what this election's going to show us.
I don't think that cares about people like me.
It's not correct to say it's not relevant.
It always is relevant.
But determining how determining is it in the outcome.
Um we're gonna find out.
The Republicans are never gonna win it in this current atmosphere.
They're just not.
Their branding has been successfully damaged.
I gotta go.
Back after this.
Here's Dave in Downeyville, Indiana.
Dave, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Thank you, Russ.
It's it really is an honor and a privilege to talk to you today.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Oh, thank you.
Uh my wife and I were listening to some talk radio out of Hindi this morning.
And the guy um on that station, he was usually really good.
But it seemed like he'd given up.
My wife looked at me and said, he's thrown in the towel.
And I told her, I said, Well, tune in to Rush, and he'll renew our hope.
And you seemed a little bit agitated at the beginning, and believe me, I know why.
Um, and I know you do a lot.
You really do.
I know you don't like to advise and uh getting you don't get involved that way.
But with everything at stake, you know, I can vote and hope that it's counted.
But you I'm sure you've got Trump's number.
I'm sure that you know him personally.
You've talked about playing golf with him.
With everything that's at stake, maybe it's time that you uh did do a little advising, especially before this next debate.
Well, I am uh flattered uh that you think I would be helpful in that regard.
Uh Mr. Trump has a cadre of advisors.
And everything I hear essentially is that he doesn't listen to very many people because he's so confident in what he believes and what he wants to do.
I mean, he he hears it, and he convenes meetings, but how much advice he actually takes in implements is reputed to be not a lot.
Um look, I provide advice here every day on the program if you want to listen to it in that way.
I mean, if and I'm sure that Trump's people are scouring all media.
And I'm sure he hears things that his people might hear here who they sounds like it makes sense, and pass it on to him.
Um it's a long way around saying they know where I am.
They know how to reach me, and if if if they want my counsel, they can try but I don't insert myself in in those.
Look at I've I've I've got to go because I'm not much time.
This doesn't sound great, so I'm not finished explaining this.
Let me take it up here again when we get back in the next hour Because this is one uh one little correction here.
I may have erred in saying Patrick Kennedy at the State Department proposed the bribe.
It looks like I'm looking at the document here, uh it keeps flowing in.
It looks like somebody unnamed at the FBI floated the bribe.
Somebody at the FBI floated a prid quo quo will reduce the classification if you'll give us access in foreign countries.
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