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Oct. 21, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 21, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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Okay, folks, it's it's Friday, and we've only got an hour left.
Until Monday.
No big deal.
But we just got to hurry here, so let's go.
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Live from a Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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Trump and Clinton tight race Pennsylvania.
Trump and Clinton tight race Colorado.
Trump and Clinton tight race Georgia.
Poles.
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What doesn't work here?
The news today is how every state, battleground states are tight.
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Okay, folks.
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Audio soundbite time.
We're going to start here at the top.
Um, my reaction yesterday to Trump's statement on Monday night that he was going to withhold any action until the election results are actually in.
This is where this unanimous hysterical reaction all over Washington, New York.
Hell, all over the country.
Trump said, Trump said he's not going to accept the results of the election.
Trump's Trump's gonna just, he's he's gonna, he's gonna Trump, Trump, Trump's gonna, he's just gonna, he's gonna pee on 200 years of American tradition.
Remember the reaction to it.
So I was among the most prominent voices expressing incredulity and shock over this unanimous hysteria.
So naturally, on some of these networks, my comments were played for reaction by expert analysts.
And Fox was one of these places, Dr. Crowdhammer reacted, and then the Fox and Friends crew.
So let's go.
This is from the special report with Brett Bayer last night.
Red Bear introduced a clip of me criticizing.
Did I criticize Krauthammer by may have, because it says here I criticized Krauthammer by saying Charles, Brett Bayer says, Charles, we heard your comments last night after the debate about this whole rigged comment.
There's a lot of fallout back and forth today.
Here's what Rush Limbaugh said.
There isn't anybody who really thinks Donald Trump doesn't respect the traditions of America.
Or American elections.
There isn't a soul out there.
This is people trying to convince low information voters and others who aren't paying attention that Donald Trump is some alien from outer space who wants to blow up the greatest traditions of American elections and politics and so forth.
Pretty self-explanatory.
It's pretty much what I said.
I mean, is exactly what I said.
I said more.
I extrapolated and added to it.
And basically said, look, this hysteria here is a little bit over the top.
Because they all know what Trump said.
I'm I've now revised my thinking.
I think they heard Trump say something else.
That's there has to be something along those lines explained.
What if, let me just repeat this.
What if what they heard Trump say?
You all heard it.
He said, check with me later.
Mr. Trump, will you accept the outcome of the election?
Check with me later.
Panic ensues.
What if what they actually heard was Trump saying, Look, you know you're cheating, and I know you're cheating.
And I'm not gonna be your average Republican Patsy, just lay down if it happens.
Something has to explain it.
Anyway, here is Crowdhammer's reaction after Brett Mayer plays that.
For days, he's been telling rallies.
This election is precooked.
It's rigged, it's unfair, and it's about to be stolen from us.
Now, when you say that and you couple it with, I won't know what I'll do, I'll figure it out at a time.
Then you have a threat to the tradition.
The idea of a national election stolen, which would require an enormous conspiracy, which of course Trump is also invoking, a global conspiracy Involving the banks, the Democrats, and who knows who else.
To rig an American election.
It's not plausible.
He has not presented any facts, and he's shaking a fundamental principle of our democracy, which is the peaceful transition, which requires the open recognition of the legitimacy of an election by the loser.
And that is something that he obviously threatened.
Oh, they think he did.
They obviously think he did.
They obviously think he threatened to not accept the fact that he lost if he does.
I just I know for a fact.
Well, I don't know for a fact.
I'm fairly almost on the logical certitude certain that if Trump had answered that question the way they want, the whole story that night and the next day would be Trump essentially conceded the election last night, Megan.
We all heard it right here on the Fox News channel, expertly moderated by uh Byron uh Chris Wallace.
You heard when Trump answered the question, it's pretty much admitted he didn't have any prayer here.
If he's already conceding the election, what must he really know in terms of how bad it's gonna be?
You know they would have run with the story that way.
Sides he didn't say it.
Anyway, so now we go to a different sector of Fox.
Fox and Friends this morning talked about basically the same thing.
The set it up.
Here's the co-host Pete Heggseth introducing and playing the clip.
The American people, again, they hear at the debate something very different than the media freaks out about.
And as he oftentimes does, El Rushbow, Rush Limbaugh does a great job of channeling uh what I think the American people read from Donald Trump.
This is what Rush Limbaugh had to say.
Anyone 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 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 wiki leaks, emailed dumps, insisting of things from John Podesta.
Smart thing to do.
And here is the response from the Fox and Friends crew.
We have Steve Ducey, uh Hegsith again, uh Ainsley Earhart.
He is such a pro.
He talked right up to the commercial.
He did.
It reminded me of that first Fox debate when he raised his hand.
It was just honest.
I don't know if I'll be able to.
Are you going to contest the election?
Maybe.
If it's rigged or there's things that are wrong, who knows?
Yeah, I mean, you can't hold it against him if he's being honest.
Right.
That's Ainsley Earhart.
You can't hold it against him.
Well, not to beat a dead horse.
But you heard Dr. Crownhammer.
They heard Trump say that he was not going to accept if he lost.
That's that's what they heard him say.
Well, Crownhammer, you you say he's an avowed never.
Oh, he's had his column today is he's not vo Oh, okay, okay.
He's not going to vote for either of them.
Dr. Crow.
Oh, I didn't see that column today.
So Dr. Krauthammer doesn't know who to write in.
Um, all right.
Anyway, then then it's it's clear that that certain members of the establishment for some reasons feel really threatened here.
And by the way, you heard Dr. Krauthammer say it would require a massive conspiracy to do this.
And it would involve too many people just couldn't be done, and he doesn't have any evidence of it.
Well, Mrs. Clinton apparently does.
Because the Democrats are running around.
They've got this this story from Reuters today.
They're running around making it look like that we should look for leaked documents in the future that the Russians have hacked or rigged the election.
They're already setting up the premise.
Why do this if you think you're gonna win?
Why in the world?
They th they actually their polls show them winning in a landslide.
Why would you even put it out there?
Why would you go to your buddies at Reuters and say, write us a story that the Russians are planning on leaking some documents that will purport to show how the election has been rigged.
Why would you do that if you're going to win big?
Why would you even introduce the idea?
It's not just Trump talking about it.
But I think they're misunderstanding the way Trump's keeping his people fired up, the way Trump is trying to keep his base together.
He knows who they are.
There's a great piece today.
Selena Zito is back, and she has a piece in the New York Post, why Trump's Fall Will Hit Hard.
Populism isn't ideology, it's energy.
It is entitled and noble, naive and skeptical, goodwilled, dangerous, and is not going away anytime soon, all at the same time.
Both the Republicans and the Democrats experienced populism in the primaries.
But Republicans actually nominated a populist candidate in part because their party leadership was seen as insufficiently concerned about the issues driving a large segment of the party's grassroots.
Yet if if folks think that this current variant of populism is just based on economic resentment or racism, they're vastly oversimplifying it.
Instead, they should be spending the time to understand all of the populist forces at work here.
Why are many people, particularly white working class men attracted to Trump?
Is it economics?
Is it racism?
Is it something deeper?
Well, there's an important social and cultural element to this populism that's often misidentified as simple racism.
It is more what one might call patriotic chauvinism reflected in Trump's America First Rhetoric.
See, she's they're trying to impugn Trump supporters by saying just a bunch of white racists who are fed up with the fact that people of color are becoming a demographic majority.
That's what that's what the Democrat Party is putting out there.
That's what Hillary, her campaign, the whole Democrat apparatus in the media in trying to explain Trump, they say his supporters is much racist.
They're a bunch of old, toothless white hayseeds worried that colored people, brown people, red people, black people are taking over the country.
They're a racist, that's what they're saying.
That is how they characterize the Trump voter.
And Selena Zito is saying they're missing it as badly as it can be missed.
It's not about race.
It's about what kind of country we're going to have.
It's about what they are doing to this country.
It is about how we define America in the early 21st century.
It goes on to describe who Obama really is as a community organizer, was graduated from elite universities.
Spent a lot of his youth growing up overseas, abroad, first president to begin his term by going to Europe and declaring himself a proud citizen of the U.S. and a fellow citizen of the world.
And while Obama is out there wanting to be president citizen of the world, we're losing to China, we're losing to Japan, we're losing our jobs, we're losing our border, while Obama and the Democrats seem happy about it and think it's progress.
A lot of Americans don't think it's progress.
They think it's disaster.
It isn't about racism.
Democrats like to reduce everything to racism.
She writes that today's populist backlash began with the rise of the Tea Party in 2009, whose own attempt to make America great again focused on constitutional restoration.
Much of the media sneered at that movement, too, using the sexual innuendo of teabaggers and dismissing critiques of Obamacare as naive.
The Tea Party movement arose spontaneously without any centralized structure or figure.
And because of this, it scared the hell out of people, and it seemed to be dissolving on its own.
So there's no leader whose fortunes we can track, so the Tea Party seems to have dissolved on its own, but the anger and the sense that some things are not right has not gone away.
It's still out there effervescing and soon to break to the surface if it hasn't already.
Then here's the here's the meat of this.
She says a Trump defeat will be incredibly difficult for his supporters to accept.
Not that all of them admire him as a person.
It isn't going to be that they are personally devastated if Trump loses.
Because, and as I have pointed out continually on this program, it never really has been about Trump.
Trump is the vessel for what this is really about.
And that's why they are not going to succeed, the left in stripping Trump's supporters away from him, because it isn't about him.
It's about what his candidacy presents as an opportunity, and they're not going to let the left dispatch it and toss it aside like they're able to toss every other Republican candidacy aside.
Therefore, because Trump's campaign is much more about what he represents than it is about him.
Pushing back against what those supporters see as nothing less than the end of the United States as they know it.
And that's why this, if Trump loses, it's going to be profoundly tragic to him.
It's going to hit hard these people.
It's not, they're not going to be sad Trump personally lost.
They're going to be devastated that this candidacy represented nothing less than the last chance to preserve the country as they know it.
I think she's right about this, as regards many people who are supporting and planning on voting for Trump.
And I will guarantee you that the elites in the Republican and Democrat parties, this is foreign language that the idea that what kind of country we're going to have is at stake here.
They laugh at that.
It's absurd, they believe.
They think that's insane.
They don't think there's any kind of crisis at all, particularly like that.
That's why they've never really extended a lot of effort to stopping Obama.
They just they don't think there's a crisis.
And for them there isn't.
I mean, they're gonna have their exalted membership in the establishment, no matter who wins.
Even if they on our side will be the Washington Generals, they will still be in the club, and they will still have their connections and their kids' futures will be okay.
So for them, the idea that this campaign is about the future of the country and and preserving it as we've known, they laugh at that.
And just another reason why the whole Trump persona and campaign totally escapes them.
We will be back, folks.
Don't go away.
Open line Friday.
It's back to the phones we go.
We got audio of Trump's appearance in Ohio coming up.
But first, uh Mike in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
It's it's quite an honor.
Uh I have a question for you, but I'd like to give just a tiny bit of background first, if that's okay.
Sure.
It's all relevant.
Uh I'm a longtime student of yours.
Uh thank you for all the insight and the wisdom over the years.
Thank you, sir.
Uh I as a well-informed voter, I am absolutely terrified at the prospect of Hillary Clinton winning the election.
And as such, I use that terror.
I am a get-out the vote volunteer.
And I I do a fair job of that.
I I talk to people and get them to, you know, undecided voters to vote for Trump.
I've even gotten a couple of Democrats to vote for Trump.
I turned them into Trumpocrats.
Very cool.
I uh and it's surprisingly easy.
All you have to do is uh a little bit of insight and information.
Uh it's amazing how many people do not know about uh the the scandals, uh the Clinton scandals and so forth.
Uh for example, the the uranium scandal with the Russians, where Hillary uh gave away 20% uh of the production of uranium in the United States away to the Russians.
Okay, as an example.
Nobody knows about that.
When I let them know about this, uh they they convert rather easy.
Okay.
Um that is one of the many scandals that that was produced by the book Clinton Cash by Peter Schweitzer.
And by the way, these wiki leaks dumps are documenting practically everything Schweitzer wrote.
Everything in Schweitzer's book, and we didn't need it, Doc.
We knew it was true.
Uh that that book is nails the Clintons, but you're right.
The drive-by's are not reporting it.
They don't have him on as a guest to explain it.
They ignore it or try to ridicule it.
A man, a legend, a way of life.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Trump and Fletcher, North Carolina, this afternoon.
We have three sound bites from the big rally.
Press Houston, Los Angeles Times, and Investors Business Daily.
We're leading.
And by the way, the last one was, as they tell me, the most accurate poll of the last cycle.
Oh, that's a good sign.
That's a good sign.
Because I honestly I believe we're going to win.
This is what's going to happen.
This is what's going to happen.
I think we're going to have beyond Brexit.
I think we'll call it beyond Brexit.
You know about Brexit.
I think we're going to have.
We have something.
We're so close.
It's a movement like they've never seen in this country before, never ever seen.
Don't blow it on November 8th.
Together we're going to deliver real change that puts America first.
I don't know how many of you watch these rallies.
Uh uh Fox now and then carries a decent portion.
Sometimes all of them, but you can you can watch all of them on uh YouTube, various channels on the world wide web.
Of those of you, and I know many of you in this audience watch them.
Do you wish Trump would go a different direction at times in them?
Are you satisfied with them?
I mean, here we are in what, 18, 19 days away.
Uh does it bother you Trump's still talking about trade deals and China and Japan?
You wish Trump would try to move the needle with some other topics, particularly telling people who she is.
I'm just asking.
If I were telling you what I thought you would know, I'm just asking.
Here's the next bite from the She was given the questions to a debate by Donna Brazil, who is now under pressure to resign.
She should be.
She should resign.
But I asked you, why didn't Hillary say I can't do this?
I can't do this.
I can't take, I can't take these questions.
Nobody from the media is asking that question.
Why didn't she say I'm not allowed to do this?
Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt politician ever to seek the office of the presidency.
This goes on for 20 seconds.
Lock her up.
Lock her up.
This embarrasses the establishment.
Lock her up!
Well, let's do this.
Let's do this.
November 8th, let's win.
Let's win.
And the third soundbite for the Trump rally today at Fletcher, North Carolina.
There are two other rallies like this the rest of the day.
Maybe, maybe a third.
Maybe a total of four today, but here's this one.
It's time to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C. I am going to push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.
Thank you.
Not only will we end government corruption, but we will end economic stagnation.
My plan for the economy can be summed up in three great, beautiful, powerful words.
Jobs, jobs, jobs.
They've been taken away from us.
Okay, so those are the three bites from the Trump rally today.
Fletcher, North Carolina.
It's dangerously close to uh Asheville, which is the equivalent of Moscow on the Hudson in North Carolina.
It's a toss-up, Asheville and Chapel Hill.
So Trump's the point is he's gone to the belly of the beast for these uh for these rallies.
Here's Kenan Lake County, California on Open Line Friday.
You're next, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Limbaugh.
How are you doing?
I'm just fine.
Thank you very much.
Oh, that's nervey's a great guy.
I love this uh open line Friday format, Rush.
Last time I think we talked, I was on the tarmac with Jeffrey Epstein.
Last time we talked, you were on the tarmac with Jeffrey Epstein.
Yeah, I did get Clinton back there.
Okay, let me get my point.
I'm sorry.
Uh don't believe the polls.
Trump's going to win.
And here's why.
He did something Romney and McCain couldn't do.
He has shored up the single issue voter base.
The convert conservative base is all Trump's.
They didn't turn on them.
The pro-life people, when he said he's going to nominate pro-life judges, they're on the bandwagon.
The immigration, the walls, get the drugs out and the bad hombre, they're all over him.
And military.
Peace through strength and take care of our vets.
Trump has shored up that conservative base.
And number five, he's going against the most despised, the most hated person ever to seek office in the United States.
Some in the establishment think that's you mean Hillary, obviously.
Definitely Hillary, and her negatives are too high.
Okay, now that's true.
Her negatives are higher than any Democrat who has ever been elected and ever run.
But let me ask you a question based on your theory that the base has come together and been unified.
Because it's a good way of looking at it.
You think he's wrapped up the pro-lifers, the evangelicals, he's got the Second Amendment crown, he's got the basic ideological conservatives, you think wrapped up.
He's got the military.
When I talked to Mitt Romney, and when I talked to Marco Rubio, Rubio in um late last year, Romney back in 2012, they both told me, and and and Rand Paul ran Paul.
Three different Republicans told me, Ken, that the Republican Party cannot win the White House anymore with just conservative and Republican votes.
Now that's what's going to get them elected.
There aren't enough of them.
Those three guys told me Romney Rand Paul and Marco Rubius, they're not enough.
We're outnumbered.
We can't win this without picking up a bunch of independents.
Well, they stayed home on single issues for those for Romney McKean, okay?
They're not staying home.
They're behind Trump.
Big time.
And Hillary ticked off a big voting block, Reagan Democrat, when she ticked off Catholics.
She doesn't know what she started there.
Because in Illinois and Milwaukee, it's a huge Catholic population.
And if she loses Illinois right around Chicago, she ain't gonna win anything.
Well, you're the first I've heard say that she can lose Illinois.
Well, there's a huge Catholic population.
Yeah, but hell Metropolitan.
But look, for example, the Catholic people of Catholic faith are not you you would expect them to be pretty unified on the pro-life side, but they're not.
They're all kinds of choice Catholics.
So what is it about what is it about Hillary that's causing Catholics to unite for Trump?
Because of what she said, the emails come out, the WikiLeaks, how they look at Christians, how they really singled out Catholics.
And, you know, if they had access or the uh media reported what she said, she would be toast.
Did you see the debates, Rush?
The last two.
Yeah.
Okay.
Every time Trump hit a nerve.
Yeah, he brought up the you know foundation or this and that.
Yes.
She had no answer for.
That's true.
She went into that phony, phony fixed smile on her face.
And you know, I'm out here in California.
I'm on my first glass of Chardonnay, and I had to do a double take.
She looked like Alfred E. Newman with a blonde gray wick.
You know, she didn't, she didn't refute anything he said about what's in the WikiLeaks dumps.
She didn't refute anything about her campaign being responsible for so much of the like the women coming forward uh uh plaguing him and uh some of the some of the other things uh disrupting rallies that he's had.
He accused her campaign of being behind.
She didn't say anything.
She didn't defend it, she didn't try to reject it, just let it go.
No, but the biggest point he made when he said you take uh, you know, money from these countries that throw gays off a building return the money.
She didn't did she answer that?
No.
He reamed her on the on the on the foundation.
That was huge.
That was huge.
And now she wants to let in all these Syrians that are responsible for acts like what happened in Orlando.
And open borders.
She's for open borders, but she was talking about electricity.
You heard that, right?
She just voted.
Yeah, the the energizer, the energizer is up in Chapel Claw.
Right.
Electricity.
Hey Rush, I gotta leave you, man.
But I'm gonna tell you this.
We've had a huge loss the last night.
Well, see, I like your confidence.
So you think there's a whole bunch of things going on that nobody's reporting and thus nobody actually seeing that equals a whole bunch of support for Trump that's building out there underneath the surface.
Oh, he's gonna win.
It ain't gonna be a landslide, but it's not gonna be close.
He will win by a substantial margin.
This is gonna November 8th and 9th, uh the Democrats are gonna be in shock.
No, they're well, and they're also gonna be on the protest march and burning things down if if if if you're right about this.
The bigger the worse.
The bigger it is the worse is gonna be.
And you're gonna hear a bunch of stuck pigs start talking about rigged elections and fraudulent votes, all these people want to appear holier than now.
But let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Because I'm telling you, all these polls, though I mean the ones that show Hillary up 10 to 12 to 13 points.
Um I'm trying to be very careful.
I I don't want to be responsible here for false optimism, but at the same time, I I'm I do want to tell you the way I see this, or the the way I react to it.
I don't see behavior and attitude commensurate with people who think it's over and that they're going to win big to the point that Trump's gonna be humiliated.
But yet that's what they're saying is gonna happen.
Their media people are acting this way.
I mean, the people on CNN, all the guests, they're all acting cocky as they can be.
It's over and so but the campaign people are not.
And maybe that's smart.
Maybe you never count your chickens before the eggs hatched or whatever and maybe that's what they're doing.
Um but as arrogant as these people naturally are, and as conceited as they naturally are, they have to work at suppressing their contempt for us and and their arrogance.
It's something I don't know.
I'm not seeing things that aren't there, don't misunderstand.
Have to take a break, folks, back with more after this.
Once you'd hear the soundbite from Trump last night at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner?
Remember now, most of the people in this crowd resent the fact that Trump even showed up.
They're like everybody else in the establishment, they resent their New York elites.
The New York Times even referred to the audience as New York elites in its headline.
They're not even happy Trump is there.
Well, except for Rudy Giuliani, he was there.
Here is just one.
It's about a 54 seconds, so we gotta squeeze this out.
Corrupt you have to be to get kicked off the Watergate Commission.
Hillary is and has been in politics since the 70s.
What's her pitch?
The economy is busted, the government's corrupt, Washington is failing.
Vote for me.
I've been working on these problems for 30 years.
I can fix it, she says.
We've learned so much from WikiLeaks.
For example, Hillary believes that it's vital to deceive the people by having one public policy and a totally different policy in private.
That's okay.
I don't know who they're angry at, Hillary.
You're right.
For example, here she is tonight in public, pretending not to hate Catholics.
They never boo at this dinner.
Folks, they never boo at this dinner.
The reason they are booing is because Trump didn't follow protocol.
He came in there and campaigned.
And you're not supposed to do that at this dinner.
You're supposed to make fun of yourself and tell everybody in there, particularly if you're the Republican, what a joke you are.
And he didn't do it.
He got booed, and I bet it was an honor for him.
You have to remember the people at the Albert Smith dinner only read the New York Times.
They don't know about Hillary Clinton and the art of deceit.
They don't know that she's a liar.
They don't know anything about her except what's in the New York Times.
They don't know what she has said and her campaign about the Catholic Church.
They don't know.
So Trump is the reprobate for pointing it on to them.
He was campaigning.
He was still fighting in that appearance last night.
That's what that was.
See you on Monday, folks.
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