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Oct. 20, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 20, 2016, Thursday, Hour #2
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And we're back.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you with us, Rushland Ball behind the Golden EIB microphone.
And yet another excursion into broadcast excellence hosted by me, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, despair, hypocrisy, out and out lying, all of that, and even the good times.
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Okay, Trump is in Delaware, Ohio, and he's continuing to tweak the media.
Look, for those of you just joining us, I want to run through some things very, very quickly here again, at the risk of repeating myself for those who have been listening since the beginning of the program, top of the previous hour.
This is so overblown, and it is so out of proportion.
I'm here to tell you that I would wager that everybody acting so outraged over this knows full well that Donald Trump was not promising to blow up this country if he loses the election.
He was not saying that at all.
And for these people to try to characterize what he said in that fashion, they're the ones that have explaining to do, not Trump.
Trump is simply behaving according to common sense.
He couldn't have answered that question any other way.
There's all kinds of cheating already going on aimed at him.
The Democrat Party from the White House on down to the Clinton campaign has tried to screw up his rallies, has tampered with things that have been portrayed as Trump protesters going off the rails and becoming unhinged.
The WikiLeaks email dump of John Podesta shows coordination at the highest levels of the Democrat Party to engage in chicanery and other kinds of cheating and fraud.
And they openly strategize about it.
In a way, it kind of makes you jealous when you read how organized these people are.
And when you realize our side doesn't have anything like this, they don't leave anything to chance.
And the reason they don't leave anything to chance is because they know they're in the minority.
They still are in the minority.
So they have to do everything they can to mischaracterize us and their opposition and impugn and destroy.
And classic is what they're doing here with Trump and his answer to that question last night, whether he would accept the results.
These people are already, we know they're meeting at the White House to discuss and discuss and plan efforts to upend Trump personal appearances.
We know, go back to 2000 and the Bush-Gore election.
You know, these people are trying to portray themselves as clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.
And whatever happens, they accept it.
No questions asked.
Well, in 2000, George Bush beat Al Gore in Florida, and Al Gore conceded.
And then somebody said, no, wait, Gore, maybe not, maybe not.
So Gore withdrew his concession.
And then we had a recount start that went on until December with Al Gore and Bill Clinton both maintaining that election had been stolen from them, that that election had been rigged.
And for the next eight years, they treated George W. Bush as an illegitimately elected president.
They didn't let it go ever.
They used his illegitimate victory in Florida, and they blamed that on the Supreme Court.
They said the Supreme Court was rigged.
They accused the Supreme Court of being rigged for Bush.
They accused the state of Florida for being rigged for Bush.
They didn't accept that result ever.
It's one of the reasons they couldn't ever let go of their hatred for George W. Bush.
Because once the recount started, that's when they thought they would prevail.
That's when they thought they knew best how to win by cheating.
And they weren't able to pull it off.
They had a very helpful Florida State Supreme Court, which kept giving them opening after opening after opening to keep counting, to keep counting, even after it was established that Gore did not have the votes in Florida.
They wanted time to re-examine hanging Chads and try to change votes.
And finally, the U.S. Supreme Court shut them down.
And they're running around like stuck pigs.
The Democrat Party top to bottom, running around like stuck pigs, claiming they had been cheated.
The election was illegitimate.
George W. Bush was illegitimate.
And for eight years, everything Bush did was illegitimate.
And they used the Florida recount as the basis for their opposition to Bush.
And they had every American they could possibly convince thinking Bush was illegitimate.
The damage these people have done to this country is unquantifiable.
They engaged in efforts to sabotage the Iraq War, to sabotage the war on terror.
They have done everything they can to sabotage the U.S. economy.
They ruined and destroyed the life of General Petraeus.
Before he even testified, they called him a liar.
And Hillary Clinton was right in there, running an ad calling him General Betraeus.
Yes, sir, read the angelic Mrs. Clinton, who is in truth Nurse Ratchet, along with her husband and Al Gore and everybody else in the Democrat Party running around delegitimizing everything that happened in the George Bush president.
It doesn't matter what it was, because he was illegitimate.
They wouldn't let it go.
And for these people and the people in the media to be running around Donald Trump poses the problem when we have, we're still living through the nightmare and the ramifications of the Democrat Party refusing to accept the legitimacy of the 2000 election.
Do not doubt me.
It is what they still use.
Michael Moore is still out there making lying documentaries like Fahrenheit or whatever it was, 911.
Republicans even participated in that just for the chance to be in a movie.
Yes, it was so cool.
Never mind the fact the whole point of it was to establish that Bush and everything about him was a liar, an unqualified, disqualified, illegitimate.
It's still causing ramifications in our politics today.
They will not let it go.
They did not let it go.
And this is why I am so righteously indignant.
I really am, over the way they are mischaracterizing Trump's answer to the question when the behavior is already on the books and continues to this day by them.
It is, it is, I can, you know, all the adjectives you want to come, unconscionable, unacceptable, but it frosts me that the hypocrisy and the unison of everybody in the Washington establishment acting like Donald Trump poses the greatest threat we've ever had to our great democracy.
These people pose a threat to it.
They're trying to transform it for crying out loud.
The modern-day Democrat Party is itself trying to unravel and transform the founding of this country.
And they are doing it, having not been elected to do it.
And well over half of the fundamental transformative changes happening in this country are being forced on the American people.
They didn't vote for it.
A bunch of ill, unelected bureaucrats issuing anonymous regulations that are imposing burden after burden on small business and humanity in general and just everyday ordinary people impacting their freedoms and reducing them.
Political correctness is running rampant people, afraid to tell you what they really think about anything.
Donald Trump blows it to smithereens and look what happens when you do.
They set out to destroy you.
And all the while they get to occupy the perch of cleanliness and purity.
They are the protectors.
They are the guarantors of all that is precious and virtuous in this country.
B freaking S. They are the exact opposite.
These are the people systematically tearing down the traditions and institutions that have defined this country's greatness.
And finally, somebody has decided to stand up and fight back against it.
And that's not acceptable.
So we have to lie about what he says, mischaracterize what he says, and start acting like a bunch of stuck pigs over it.
You would think that Donald Trump had promised to start a civil war last night.
Does anybody think that's what he said?
He was simply reserving the right.
And by the way, intelligence guided by experience.
These people stand in the way of every effort to reduce fraud, to eliminate fraud in elections.
They oppose every effort.
Photo ID is the greatest example of photo ID.
Everybody must have a photo ID to vote.
Nuh uh uh uh can't do it.
You know why?
Racism.
Yes, African Americans are afraid to get a photo ID because they're afraid it's going to be used against them and their welfare be taken away or whatever is going to happen.
I don't even understand it.
But they've got Reverend Jackson and all these people running around.
Photo ID is the epitome of racism and it's a violation of Voting Rights Act.
I mean every time they open their mouth it's a violation of Voting Rights Act.
Meanwhile the Department of Justice is going to reduce the number of poll observers.
Why do we have poll observers if there's no fraud?
Why do we have poll observers in every election?
It's clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.
Why do we have observers in the UN?
Obama, Jimmy Carter, all these clowns bring in election observers in this country as though we're a third world country.
Why?
If our elections are so above board and only Donald Trump threatens them, why?
And then the new Black Panthers don't forget we had legitimate vote fraud at a polling place in Philadelphia.
The DOJ drops the case because Eric Holder says we're not going to pursue people of color on my watch.
No, people of color have a little bit of leeway here to behave illegally because they've been so mistreated in the previous years that to make up for it, we're going to let them have some leeway.
So we're not going to prosecute them for intimidating people who wanted to vote in Philadelphia.
I mean, the evidence is all over the place that the Democrats do everything they can to stop any serious effort at cleaning up vote fraud.
Ask the Democrats to purge voter rolls to get rid of people who have died.
The sanctity of the voter rolls must not be tainted by the American political system.
All right, so we can't purge dead people.
So we must obviously still want dead people to vote.
You got Florida 2000.
We got JFK 1960.
They counted dead people.
They needed whatever number of votes they could get in West Virginia and Illinois to put JFK over the top.
We know that it goes on.
That's what's so ridiculous and outrageous about this hysterical, out-of-proportionate reaction that we are getting from seemingly everybody that has anything to do with politics, media, commentary in New York, Washington, and Boston.
It's just, it's breathtaking to watch this.
The unison, the similarity, the identical words that everybody's writing or speaking.
And just one more observation again.
They're acting like Trump had this election won.
Folks, don't misunderstand me here.
The reaction to Trump that they're having over his lack of proper answer to that question last night, they're saying Trump blew it.
Well, that's it.
That's it.
I mean, Trump is thrown in the way now.
I thought he had no chance anyway.
I thought going into the debate last night it was over.
I mean, they cite their polls that show Trump down 10, down 11, down 12.
He doesn't have enough time left.
He's a reprehensible guy.
He doesn't have any opportunity to win this.
It's over.
And then all of a sudden, he answers the question the wrong way.
And they're acting like he was going to win until he did that.
None of this, if you follow it logically, follows.
It doesn't make sense.
Until you understand who they are, what they're doing, and how.
Okay, we have sound bites from Trump in Delaware, Ohio.
He's still tweaking them.
He said, I don't want to be misunderstood.
I promise I will accept the results of the election if I win.
Ladies and gentlemen, I want to make a major announcement today.
I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if I win.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Somebody, somebody call paramedics.
Somebody get hold of the first responders.
They go 911 the media's having vapors.
They can't believe it.
He's even joking.
This man's ego is so out of control.
He's even joking about something as precious as our election and results.
No sense of humor.
No understanding at all of how Trump connects with his supporters.
None.
No understanding of that at all.
That's the thing that really, really makes me laugh.
After over a year, they still don't know why Trump supporters support him.
Or if they do, they're just in a state of denial.
He then laid out the corruption that he knows and we've all learned about in this campaign.
John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, was quoted in WikiLeaks as saying illegal immigrants could vote as long as they have their driver's license.
What I'm saying is don't be naive, folks.
Don't be naive.
One of the big issues that came up last night was the fact that the Clinton campaign has paid people to disrupt violently our rallies and to incite absolute total bedlam.
This is criminal behavior that violates centuries of tradition of peaceful Democratic elections.
A campaign like Clinton's that will incite violence is truly a campaign that will do anything to win.
By the way, something I noticed last year, she didn't deny any of this.
All she said was, it's the Russians.
It's the Russians.
The Russians are trying to steal our election.
The Russians are trying.
I've never seen it before.
The Russians have released these emails, and it's not fair.
It's not right.
People bitching and moaning at Trump are actually at the same time complaining about a rigged election.
And it's the Russians doing it.
It's Putin.
If I'm Putin, man, I've got to be having a time of my life.
I'm sitting in the Kremlin smoking a cigar, having some vodka, and I'm watching the American Democrat Party give me credit for screwing them up.
The Russians are interceding in the American election.
The precious American election has never happened before.
They don't deny anything.
Hillary didn't deny it when Trump even accused her of being behind all these imaginary women that came forward who said Trump was grabbing them and doing this and that to them.
Didn't deny any of it.
Didn't deny what was in the WikiLeaks.
Just Andon of Brazil.
That stuff was produced by a criminal.
I'm used to being persecuted.
I'm not answering that.
For once, these people are having to deal with the stuff they dish out.
And there are a lot of people celebrating that.
There are a lot of people on Trump's side applauding that.
It's worth it for that alone.
Now, I mentioned earlier that anybody in their right mind knows that Donald Trump was not promising a civil war.
He was not promising to blow up the country.
He was not promising to not accept the results if he lost.
And these people know it, folks.
The people stirring this up know full well.
And I know this because I know how they really know things I say when they act totally outraged and make a big two-week deal out of various things.
They know.
And here is Trump demonstrating it.
This is from today in Delaware, Ohio.
And this is, you can't say it any better this existence.
I was asked a question about whether I would agree in advance to concede the results on election night if for some reason we should lose, which we're not going to lose.
And that was sort of an unprecedented question.
If Al Gore or George Bush had agreed three weeks before the election to concede the results and waive their right to a legal challenge or a recount, then there would be no Supreme Court case and no Boer, Gore versus Bush or Bush versus Gore.
And there have been numerous other cases.
In effect, I'm being asked to waive centuries of legal precedent designed to protect the voters.
Of course, I would accept a clear election result, but I would also reserve my right to contest or file a legal challenge in the case of a questionable result.
Of course.
Why should he concede that?
Why should he foreclose that?
Why should anybody running against the Democrats foreclose that?
Given what has already happened in this cycle, given what we've learned from the Project Veritas videos of James O'Keefe, given what we've learned from the WikiLeaks email dumps insisting of things from John Podesta, smart thing to do.
Okay, we're going to get back to the phones and steadily in just a moment.
I just have to make one or maybe two more observations.
First place, let's go to 2004 and the presidential election between John Kerry, who once served in Vietnam, the haughty John Kerry, and George W. Bush.
George W. Bush running for re-election.
The Democrats still had not accepted the legitimacy of the recount in Florida 2000.
Bush was an illegitimate president conducting an illegitimate war in Iraq that they had all voted for the first time around.
This is another thing that keeps popping up.
I'm going to give you the history on the vote for the Iraq war.
The first time the vote came up, the vast majority of Democrats voted against the authorization of the use of force.
After Bush had spent a year and a half, folks, traveling the country, making speeches, appearing at the UN, assembling a coalition.
He didn't ramrod anything down anybody's throat, spent a year and a half building up support.
The first vote in the Congress in the Senate, 72 Democrats, well, the majority of Democrats voted against it, except Hillary Clinton.
She voted for it the first time.
Public opinion polls came out showing that people were livid at the Democrats for not supporting the president in a retaliatory effort for the war on terror at 9-11.
Whether it was Iraq or Afghanistan, people wanted butt-kicked, and the Democrats said no.
So the Democrats asked for a second vote.
They asked for a second vote.
And on the second vote, they unanimously voted for the use of force authorization in Iraq.
This is after they had blown themselves up with the Wellstone Memorial in 2002.
Hillary Clinton again voted for the war in Iraq.
Starting in 2004, the Democrat Party began to undermine it, tried to sabotage it for political purposes, and that was part of the theory of the John Kerry campaign.
Bush didn't know what he was doing, but Kerry did.
He'd served in Vietnam.
He'd run the Swift votes.
He'd done all this great stuff.
He'd come back and thrown his medals across the White House fence because he was so opposed to what big government does, committing young kids to war, doesn't care about it.
There's a whole big rig-amarole.
Kerry loses in 2004.
But let's remind ourselves of exactly what happened.
The first wave of exit polls hit at about 5 p.m., between 4 and 5 p.m. on Election Day in 2004.
And the first wave of exit polls showed that Kerry was going to win.
And Bob Shrum, who was the campaign manager for Kerry, walked into Kerry's office, waving that first batch of exit polls and said, may I be the first to congratulate you, Mr. President.
So starting at 5 o'clock Eastern Time, Election Day 2004, the Democrats thought John Kerry had won based on exit polling.
And then the polls closed, and the real votes began to be counted.
And it was obvious very early in the evening that John Kerry was not going to win, that the exit polls were not accurate.
And in fact, we found out some weeks later that the exit polls had been rigged, they had been tampered with by virtue of exit pollers lying about what they had done in the ballot box.
And we came to find out that the false reporting of exit polls, by the way, that's not supposed to happen.
The exit polling data in terms of actual candidate preference, that data is not to be released or discussed on TV in the media until the polls close in the Eastern Times in the States, where the data is being discussed.
The Democrats blew that to Smither Reed.
They started discussing.
They didn't give actual numbers, but they let it be known.
It was all over Fox News.
It was over.
I remember a bunch of Bush supporters being depressed as hell because the media was reporting, looks like exit polling data.
Looks like that's it for George W. Bush.
We can say and project early here that it looks like it's going to be John Kerry.
And this was basically ABC, CBS, NBC doing this.
You want to talk about rigging?
I mean, they were lying.
They were using exit poll results to try to suppress voter turnout among people at five in the afternoon who still hadn't voted in the eastern, central, and western time zones and mountain time zone, obviously.
They used felonious, they used incorrect exit polling data to try to impact votes that had yet to be cast.
They didn't give numbers.
You know, when you watch election coverage on election night, they have always a network, has some anchor or reporter assigned to tell you the exit polls.
There's only one exit poll, and every network and every news agency gets the same data.
They all have the same data.
They all combine and pay for one company to do exit polling.
So it doesn't matter what you watch.
The exit poll data is the same.
They can interpret however they wish.
So if you're watching, you'll recall that they'll tell you, well, it looks like women broke in Massachusetts with John Kerry.
It looks like women under the age of 45, but older than 21, all this demographic crap.
But the one thing they don't tell you is how the state actually voted.
They waited the polls close.
But in 2004, they didn't wait for the polls to close.
Well, when the actual votes started being tabulated and reported, it was clear that Kerry wasn't going to win.
And the Democrats were fit to be tied.
And on social media, they were blowing up.
And it got to the point where some in the Democrat Party actually wanted to accuse the election and election officials in the Bush campaign of rigging the election because the exit poll showed that Kerry won.
And when you start counting the real polls, they show that we lose.
So they wanted to believe the exit polls were right.
The exit polls are not even votes.
They wanted to assert the exit polls were correct and the actual votes were fraudulent.
The Democrat Party, the very same people bitching, whining and moaning about Trump last night in 2004 accused the real vote of being illegitimate because the exit poll said something different.
And then to add insult to injury, John Kerry accused Ohio of chicanery because I can remember him saying, you know, a swing of 50,000 votes and I would have won Ohio and I would be president.
Yeah, a swing of 50,000 votes.
And so the meme, the narrative was established that Ohio was fraudulent.
And who did that?
Your beloved, precious, clean and pure as the wind-driven snow skunks, the Democrat Party.
That's why I get so livid when I hear these people act like some great offense in our traditions occurred last night with Trump and his refusal to accept and concede defeat last night by people who refuse it themselves.
2000, 2004, and from 2000 to 2008, trying to say everything that the Bush administration did was illegitimate because his election was illegitimate because of the Florida recount.
And they still haven't let go of it.
My patience, I've worn out, folks, trying to be tolerant and understanding.
These people are not who they say they are.
They are not the way the media portrays them.
And you can make book on the fact that when they start complaining and whining about something, you can be sure they're the ones who are actually engaging in the activity that they are accusing us of engaging in.
Phone calls are next till we get back.
Okay, we're going to go back to the phones here.
El Rushbaugh, talent on loan from God.
And this, this is Chris in Pleasant in California.
Hello, sir.
Yeah, hi, Russ.
I think this lockstep reaction of the media to that question of Trump accepting the results is a huge mistake by them and an opportunity for Trump that is handled right.
And here's why.
When he speaks about things being rigged, there's really two parts to it.
One involves possible fraudulent voting.
But the other part of that rigged equation is the media being so incredibly dishonest and almost fraudulent.
And so without making an issue of him not accepting results, it almost throws, as you said earlier, it throws a focus onto this undercover tape where fraud, the first part of the rigged, is actually, you know, it's a smoking gun evidence of it.
As you said, a man that was in the White House over 300 times met with Obama over 40 times.
He and his co-conspirator are on tape confirming the fraud, detailing how they did it, and confirming the connection to the Hillary campaign and the White House.
So that's one part of it.
But the other part, equally damning, is the truth that the media doesn't even deem that worthy of a mention.
To say nothing of 24-7 around the clock, you know, pundit, you know, analyzing and breaking it up.
It throws the spotlight of both sides.
That's true.
That's true.
In fact, I saw Keith the other day.
He was expressing shock that the media wasn't covering his video.
Exactly.
I said, really?
You're shocked by this?
I mean, there's no way James are going to cover this.
There's no way under the sun they're going to cover this.
Their best defense against LeakyLeaks and whistleblowers and the truth coming out is to ignore it.
And by making an issue of how Trump responded to that question, they're almost forcing a spotlight onto that video and the fact that they don't cover it.
They're going to have to now cover it more and even better, have to defend themselves for not covering it previously.
Well, maybe.
I mean, they may be forcing attention on a video.
Trump did call attention to the video, but he didn't call it Project Veritas.
He called it the clips.
He said, you've seen the clips.
And the low information people think that clips are things you jump off of when you're going to commit suicide.
He doesn't know what they mean.
Clips?
What clips?
So if you knew about Project Veritas, then you knew what Trump was talking about, but he didn't identify it.
He just said the clips.
He said eclipse.
So the clips of the clips were people, what clips?
What clips?
And it might make him curious to find it.
I think what it does, however, and I'm not going to say this is the result of a brilliantly conceived, flawlessly executed plan, but by focusing on Trump, refusing to go along with this, they're actually playing into Trump's strengths.
This is why Trump won the nomination.
Things like this, refusing to bow down, grab the ankles, and take whatever the establishment demands or throws at you, but instead fighting back against it and refusing to abide by their rules and their conventional wisdom, which is rigged against him.
It is focusing attention on him.
And I'm telling you that even people who are, we're told, predisposed to hate the guy.
Look, he's dominating a news cycle again.
And they think that if they can portray him as lunatic, bad, whatever, that dominating a news cycle is actually good for Hillary.
But I think things like this actually are the kind of things that backfire or have the potential to backfire.
There were some flash polls after the debate last night.
And they were supposedly from scientific outfits, not websites where you could punch in your vote numerous times, but supposedly scientific sites.
Every one of these things, Clinton was said to be the winner of the debate.
Now, I'm going to tell you something.
I don't presume, you know, my ego is not such that I believe everybody sees it the way I do when I watch anything, debate or anything, any event.
I thought Trump, once again, just missed a whole bunch of opportunities to bury her last night.
And he missed them because he's not a politician and he's not instinctively oriented toward the ideological explanations that undergird Hillary's policies.
Like this, her economic plan is the biggest sitting duck to be blown to Smith Arena.
You can do it in two sentences.
But he didn't go there for, I don't know why.
So I was cringing a lot that, oh, another opportunity missed, another opportunity missed.
One of those evenings where I was saying, damn, I wish I was there.
And if I was there, I was.
But everybody does that.
And when you are there, it's not the same as when you are watching thinking you're going to be there.
But here's the second thing.
I thought she looked not good last night.
When she started speaking, I looked at Kathy and I said, she's not, there's something wrong here.
And it's not her eyes.
Her eyes were dancing a little bit, if you know to look for that.
Her voice seemed to be really weak.
She didn't seem to be projecting well.
She didn't seem imbued with a lot of confidence.
I caught her glancing down at her podium frequently.
She looked unsure.
She looked pasty.
Somebody at the Fox Business Network claims that some technicians in the control room were monkeying with the color and contrast on Trump's face to make him look pale and pasty instead of orange.
But she, I know the smile.
The smile, the smile was a nurse ratchet smile.
Everybody saw the smile.
I'm talking about other things.
I actually thought watching this, she might, this might be the night where she doesn't make it all the way through.
It wasn't one thing.
It was a series of things.
She didn't look energetic.
She didn't look loaded for bear.
And it wasn't that it was purposeful.
I didn't detect it as a strategy to lay back and let Trump own this and step in it and kill himself.
I didn't look at it as she's in a prevent defense.
I looked, I saw her pasty.
I thought wearing white.
You ought to see the drive-bys talking about that, by the way.
They're all shocked that she wore white after Labor Day.
Do you know that in proper, proper circles, it is taboo to wear white after Labor Day?
Except for those of us in Florida, because every day is after Labor Day and every day is before Labor Day.
But when you live in the Northeast and you go to the Hamptons and places, the white gets back in the closet after Labor Day and you don't wear it.
But then they gave her a pass because she looked so good and so pure in it.
But they were worried that she was violating a fashion tenet.
But I thought, I actually thought this might be the debate where she doesn't make it standing up all the way through.
And I think it was close.
I really think it was close last night, based on the way she looked in an airplane when she got...
By the way, folks, did you hear last night Hillary Clinton announced to the world that it takes America four minutes to spin up and launch nuclear weapons?
Did you hear her say that?
Have you ever heard any president admit this?
Much less a potential president, a former Secretary of State.
Have you ever heard anybody tell our nuclear enemies how long it takes us to spin up a nuclear launch?
Four minutes.
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