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Oct. 26, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 26, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Man, I just I have to share this with you folks.
The other day in the mail, well, I guess it was the mayor doesn't matter.
In the arriving stuff, there was this envelope for an in from an inventor out in Irvine, California, and it was for something called a perfect draw.
P-E-R-F-E-C draw.
Perfect, no T in there, perfect draw.
Look at that guy in Fox.
Looks like Ted Kennedy as uh J.R. Ewing with a black cowboy head.
Look at that guy.
Is that not look like Ted Kennedy?
And J.R. Ewing?
I don't know who it is.
Doesn't matter who it is, it's irrelevant.
I'm sorry to get distracted.
Anyway, so open this thing up.
For you, cigar smokers, what is the number one problem you have?
For me, you never know whether a cigar is going to be any good or not till you clip it and you draw on it, and I don't know about you, but 30%, maybe more of the cigars have to be thrown away because the draw is so tight, you get a hernia trying to smoke it.
And in the past, wizards of Smart have said, Rush, get a meat thermometer, and just jam that meat thermometer down there into the cigar, and it'll drill a hole in there.
It never works because the hole just fills in.
What this thing is, this thing's got I don't know how to describe it.
It's uh it's like a miniature bunch of propellers on it, and you screw it in there, and when you take it out, it actually brings some of the tobacco out.
And I have so far saved ten cigars I would have had to throw away.
You can even use the darn thing like a cigar I'm smoking now.
I'm halfway through it and all of a sudden it plugged up.
It just happens because the humidity and the heat, things expand, and the draw just got tight.
I would have had to throw it away, then so I got an hour left, so go get a small one, light that one up.
No, I can finish it.
Just take that perfect draw thing in there, screw it in there, and then slowly draw it out, bring some more tobacco out, save the cigar for the rest of the show.
Now, for us cigar smokers, that is a big deal.
And that's why I am mentioning I'd never heard of this thing.
I think they're advertising in cigar aficionado, and I haven't seen the latest issue.
So whoever sent me this thing, I thank you from the bottom of my it's 3995.
I just told Snerdley I ordered him one.
Snerdley loves the padrones.
The Padron people are so great, they send me cigars and they're they're just the best.
And Snerdly loves them.
You know, I'll I'll open this sentence this big box and I'll open the box and I'll see there's three or four missing from the last time I looked at it, and I said, aha.
Snerdly snuck in here when I wasn't looking.
But I don't care because I like sharing the things.
Who is this?
Sid Miller, Texas Agriculture Commissioner.
I guarantee you, this guy, that is exactly what you take J.R. Ewing and add Ted Kennedy and his weight to his face, and that's who that guy is.
It's uncanny.
Anyway, folks, greetings and welcome back.
It's great to have you here on the Rush Limbaugh program of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Donald Trump was just interviewed.
Oh, that reminds me, folks.
Um I admit here I'm I somewhat surprised, maybe a little frustrated when I keep hearing people accusing Trump of going off the issues because he doesn't that much.
If if your only access to Trump is the media, they can make it look like that's all he's doing is complaining about people that attack him.
And it's late in the game, and I'm sorry, I should have suggested this earlier.
But some of you ought to really take the time to watch one of these Trump rallies from start to finish.
You can do there are YouTube channels, you can do it on Facebook, and every well, not every rally, but seems like every rally, Drudge has a link.
Trump in Ohio, Trump in Pennsylvania, and it links to the YouTube channel that carries Trump.
And I would suggest that you watch One front to back.
Now, Trump does stream of consciousness.
He will remind himself of something halfway through a sentence and start talking about it.
But he stays on point.
I saw one of these Trump rallies last week, and I even said here on this program that if the media were to cover these things, he'd be leading by ten points.
Because he is on issue.
And he is on point and on message.
And what he's saying has got his crowds going crazy and going nuts.
And when he deviates and starts responding to some of the challengers or some of the critics, be it the women who've come forward or whoever, it's funny the way he does it.
It's enjoyable.
It's not somebody that makes you nervous.
It's like he's lost his place.
And come on, Trump, get back on point.
You You don't have that reaction to it.
Now, if all you do is see snippets of Trump as presented to you by the media, then you're gonna you're gonna get the impression that he's off message a lot, but he's actually not at these rallies.
Now we had a call earlier from uh a woman, Alicia from she was in New Jersey, and her point was that uh there's an automatic ground game at every Trump rally just waving to be employed, is waiting to be energized and motivated.
And I was kind of surprised she was saying a lot of people don't know what to do.
They don't know how to tell people to go get an absentee ballot or where to go to early vote or register, and that kind of struck me.
There's some things I just assumed had been going on.
Maybe they haven't been.
But you've got at every Trump rally, you're gonna have a minimum of five to seven thousand people.
Whatever the venue is, it's going to be filled.
If it's the airplane hanger, if it is an arena in a city, and now some of these rallies are 10,000 with 5,000 outside wanting to get in.
I just assumed that there were people registering Republican voters at these events.
But with that call that we had from Alicia in New Jersey, I'm beginning to question, maybe.
So whose responsibility, Mr. Snerdley, whose responsibility would it be?
You got a Trump rally, say in Tampa, you've got say 12,000 people.
You would think that there would be somebody there registering those people that are not registered, registered, but who would be doing who's state RNC, the state party, the Florida.
Well, that's what I would think too.
That that that's unless they're saying, well, that's Trump's job.
I just assumed that all of that was happening.
Anyway, try to catch one of these things on the internet.
The networks were televising them in total during the primaries, but they're not doing that now.
Of course, they can't do that now.
They wouldn't, they'd be caught dead doing it now, but you can see them at various lengths on the web.
Now, Trump is in Washington today to participate in a grand opening of his new hotel there.
And the conventional wisdom is, see, see, what an idiot!
Doesn't this guy know that we're less than two weeks out?
He doesn't have time to be doing this selfish, just greedy.
The only thing Trump's doing cares about himself.
I honestly, folks, I understand that reaction, but it's so dead wrong.
I honestly can't recall somebody who seems as indefatigable as Donald Trump.
The guy is doing four rallies a day.
The guy is traveling all over this country.
The guy is meeting with individual groups, large and small, then going out and do a rally, and then he has lunch and dinner on the day of debates with people and then goes and does the debate and leaves for the rally in the next city the next morning.
Uh I don't, especially when you compare to Hillary Clinton, how in the world can you say that Trump Is not working hard enough at this?
I mean, takes the time from his campaign to celebrate the grand opening of his hotel.
He turns that into a campaign appearance of sorts, too.
What's wrong with that?
Again, this is what it looks like when somebody from the outside is challenging.
In fact, Dana Bash, CNN, asked Trump about this.
She interviewed him at the grand opening of Trump International Hotel.
And she said to him, So, to people who say you're taking time out of swing states to go do this at your hotel, what do you say?
And Trump said, I say the following.
You've been covering me for the last long time.
I did yesterday eight stops, three major speeches, and I've been doing this for weeks straight.
For you to ask me that question is actually very insulting because Hillary Clinton does one stop then goes home and sleeps.
I think it's a very rude question to be honest with you.
And then they reply, they report that Trump was very defensive.
Very, very defensive.
As something else, by the way.
This Meghan Kelly Newt Gingrich dust up.
I mentioned today at the opening of the program, CNN spent twenty minutes on what happened on the Megan Kelly show on Fox last night.
CNN spent twenty minutes essentially, they gave their competitor twenty minutes of airtime.
I've never heard of that.
Now I know that the lines of demarcation are different than they used to be back in the old days.
But I'm a dinosaur when it comes to that stuff.
The competition to me doesn't exist, and you don't talk about them.
One way or the other, you don't build them up, you know, but you just don't mention them.
That's the way I learned, that's the way I was taught, and that's what my instincts are.
CNN, twenty minutes.
And you know why they did?
Because in their opinion, Megan Kelly made Newt look silly and therefore made Trump look silly, so CNN said, we don't care if we're ending up promoting our competitor.
The bottom line is we want to smack Trump, and Trump got smacked last night, and we're happy to show it.
And then another thought hit me.
It's not a new thought.
It's something that really bugs me and irritates me, and that is that people in the media consider themselves above criticism.
Here's Dana Bash telling Trump and everybody else, man.
Oh, Donald Trump, he was really defensive when I asked him why he showed up at his hotel.
You want to talk about defensive, criticize somebody in the media.
You want to talk about childish immaturity and defensiveness?
These people, you're not entitled to criticize them.
Why, they're journalists.
They're just the messengers.
You must be having anger issues if you criticize me.
You can't criticize me.
Who do you think you are?
They think they're above all of that.
It's one of the many things about that profession that's always irritated me as they carve out these special places for themselves.
And they are experts in dishing it out.
But boy, you turn it around on them and they can't take it.
And furthermore, they don't think they should have to take it, and they're gonna punish you for daring to criticize them.
Yet they can sit there and try to destroy you day in and day out.
Trump gets defensive when asked why he took time off from the campaign to open his hotel.
It just goes to show that you cannot, you cannot count on the media seeing things your way, even if they do, they won't report it.
Rather than see Trump working hard and combining all kinds of you know, I'd say my takeaway is, and all of this frankly.
I don't know how many of you have stopped to think of this.
How many Republicans do you know who would have caved into all this pressure and criticism by now?
Just said to hell with this, I don't need this.
And they Would have changed their campaign and do whatever necessary to stop the criticism.
Trump has not.
He has not given up.
He has not at one moment acted like he believes any of these polls.
And in the process, he's not permitted his supporters to give up.
He's kept his supporters engaged and enthused.
Some of them may be nervous because of the polls, but Trump is not acting like he's bothered by it.
He's continuing to do all these appearances.
He's scheduling more of them.
He squeezes in the grand opening of his hotel because it allows him to say it came in under budget and on time and early.
And this is the kind of efficiency our country needs and our government needs.
I guess the difference in being a natural pessimist than a natural natural optimist.
Okay, you gotta hear this.
We've we've played these bites uh previous occasions, but I want to let you hear them again.
Obamacare is on the table, and what it was designed to be is now being questioned.
I mean, there's some people like Kevin Williamson, I think is the name at National Review Online wrote a piece last night essentially poo-pooing the theory that Obamacare was designed to fail as it is failing, that it was designed to so as to speed the process toward single payer.
He thinks that's an incorrect conspiracy theory.
The alternative, the thing he believes is that they really designed this because this is what they think works.
That they're this dumb, that they are this inexperienced, this incompetent, this unqualified.
They actually thought this would work.
Either way, I mean, they deserve to be criticized.
I do think that it is designed to fail to get us to single payer, only because Obama has said so.
And we have a bunch of those times on tape, which you will hear when we get back after this.
All right, audio sound by number 25.
This is a montage of then Senator Barack Obama.
This is from the month of November in 2007.
He's talking to a couple of different audiences here because it's a montage of comments that he has made about his plans for health care reform.
This is again now this is nine years ago, folks.
It is my belief that not just politically, but also economically.
It's better for us to start getting a system in place, a universal health care system, signed into law by the end of my first term as president, and build off that system to further to make it more rational.
By the way, Canada did not start off immediately for the single payer system.
They had a similar transition set.
It's a transitional system building on the existing systems that we have.
Let's say that I proposed a plan that uh moved to a single-payer system, let's say Medicare Plus.
Essentially, everybody can buy into Medicare, for example.
Transitioning a system is a very difficult and costly and lengthy enterprise.
It's not like you can turn on a switch and you go from one system to another.
So here you have multiple interviews and appearances in 2007 explaining how his proposal would be an interim step.
Can't do it all at once, can't go because politically people wouldn't accept it.
That you can't go from where we were to single payer overnight.
He was warning his supporters, be patient with me.
It's going to take time.
Keep in mind, he is not knowledgeable on health care or health insurance at all.
He's a wonk.
He's never been in the health care industry or the insurance industry in his life.
He doesn't know a thing about it, and yet he presumes to know better than anybody how to reform it, how to make it work, but everything to him about it is political.
Here is another uh montage of Obama this March 2007 to a different group of people.
I don't think we're gonna be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately.
There's gonna be potentially some transition process.
I can envision a decade out or 15 years out or 20 years out.
There's no denying that part of the solution in the health care arena as we transition and deal with the legacy systems that we've inherited will probably require some additional money.
I don't think we're going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately.
There's going to be potentially some transition process.
I can envision a decade out or 15 years out or 20 years out.
I happen to be a proponent of single-payer universal health care plan.
Single payer health care plan.
Universal health care plan.
That's what I'd like to see.
That last is from 2003, when he's just diddling around in the state of Illinois.
2003, a single payer, I'm a proponent, single pair, universal health care plan.
He's telling audiences of supporters and other academics how he's going to get there.
And we're right in the middle of his plan.
We're in fact ahead of it.
He thought it would not be happening until the end of his second term.
And we're we're actually right on schedule.
Here he is from 2004.
What I'm looking at is a very specific proposal that would provide health care coverage for all children who need it all across the United States, would allow 55 to 64 year olds to buy into the Medicare system.
And I think that if we could start with children and uh those persons 55 to 64 that are most vulnerable, then we can start filling in those holes and ultimately I think uh move in the direction of a universal health care plan.
Everything that he's on record saying indicates single payer universal health care provided by government.
It is part of the plan, and it requires Obamacare to fail.
You want to hear something that is just well, it's mind-boggling, but it is just perfect as an illustration of how convoluted things are.
This is Chris Siliza, our old buddy, Chris Silizza, at the uh at the Washington Post.
And Chris Silizia is our old.
He's a nice guy.
Um I occasionally have uh email exchanges back and forth with him where he will ask me for the conservative interpretation of something when he's not sure of it himself.
And I don't think he's ever taken me out of context or misquoted me like most of them have.
He's got a piece today.
And the the headline is just incredible in what it admits.
In an alternate universe, this Obamacare news is absolutely devastating for Hillary Clinton.
And it is, folks, this that what is happening to Obamacare in any other campaign, you combine what's happening to Obamacare with the state of the economy, and the party in power would be history, the polls would show it, it wouldn't even be close, and the party in power would be scared to death how many House and Senate seats it was going to lose.
It's that bad.
The economy itself, 94 million Americans plus not working.
Unemployment rate, not five percent, not five point two, it's more like sixteen to twenty percent.
And if you go into certain demographics, it's even higher than that.
The jobs created are part-time, mostly.
Millennial college education circumstances, student loans are astronomical.
The prospect of paying them back before you can start to acquire your own personal wealth is so far down the road in the future you can't see it.
There isn't any legitimate reason for optimism unless you're a hedge funder or somebody with connections on Wall Street, where the Federal Reserve has been printing and pumping money for you.
But it it's bad.
And Obamacare what was promised and as important as health care and insurance, the Democrat Party has made health insurance, you remember how they've sold it.
Remember all these people they would parade in front of us and tell us that they're one paycheck away, or no, sorry, they're one disease away from bankruptcy, their one trip to the emergency room away from bankruptcy.
Remember all that?
And they have convinced people everything.
Harris Wafford, who ran for the Senate in Pennsylvania back in 1990, some odd, he was the guy Who started this whole health care entitlement notion?
Well, he it actually started in the 60s when they wanted all that Medicare stuff.
But he in the modern era popular popularized it by saying if the Constitution guarantees everybody a lawyer, whether they can afford one or not, then it by God ought to insure, provide them health insurance as well.
And the Democrats glommed onto that, made it a quasi constitutional moral constitutional right.
And they created in the minds of people this entitlement, and then the way they manage the health care system anyway, caused prices to skyrocket way out of proportion with people's ability to pay, so that they only hope anybody had for catastrophic injury was health insurance.
You know how it all fell out.
I mean, it health care is something that you can't afford.
Catastrophic, you can't even contemplate affording it.
And this has all been done by the people who claim they're the experts in fixing it and structuring it.
I mean, it's devastating.
This, what they have done to the American health care system should disqualify the Democrat Party for a generation.
And it would have in any other year, if it weren't for the fact that the president of this party happens to be African American, and therefore immune to any critical analysis.
And if other events had not coalesced at a moment in time where the drive-by media feds said to themselves that whatever is necessary to defeat Republicans, we will do, even if it means selling out the American people and ensuring that their economy sucks and that their health care system sucks, we will do whatever it takes.
And so here's that's where we are.
And Siliza knows it.
This guy he knows it.
The news broke Monday.
The costs of insurance premiums for those in the nationally run Obamacare Exchange would soar 25% on average in 2017, even as the number of plans to choose from would sink drastically.
This would be big news at any point in this election.
The signature achievement of the outgoing Democrat president appears to be fulfilling many of the doom and gloom predictions Republicans made when the law passed.
Costs are rising for many, major insurers like Aetna are dropping out, and the law, which has never been terribly popular, isn't faring any better in most credible polling these days.
For Clinton, now this is where it gets interesting.
Look at me, listen to this.
For Clinton, who has latched herself to President Obama throughout both the primary and the general election, this should be a very bad development.
Very bad.
If you wanted to make the case that Clinton represents an extension of the bad part of the Obama presidency, this is a gift of epic proportions.
Epic!
Here's the problem.
Donald Trump is the Republican presidential nominee.
Bye.
you.
Wait a minute, how does that change any of the facts about Obamacare?
What does it matter who the nominee is?
Why does Trump being the nominee change everything Siliza just wrote?
It doesn't change one fact.
For that matter, how does Trump being the nominee change any of the facts revealed in the WikiLeaks emails?
which the drive-bys are also refusing to cover.
Solisitin continues, he has spent the last few weeks dealing with allegations of sexual harassment from 11 women and a hot mic tape in which he made a series of lewd comments about women.
That's not to mention his attacks on fellow Republicans as insufficiently loyal to him, his insistence that the entire press is rigged, and description of Clinton in the final debate as such a nasty woman.
So Trump doing all that cancels out the facts of the absolute Disaster that is Obamacare.
What does any of that?
Trump's lewd comments about women, the hot mic tape Republicans insufficiently.
What does that have to do with Obamacare and the facts of its disastrous implementation?
What is that have to do with it?
What does any of this have to do with the reality that Obamacare premiums are going through the roof?
Is Siliza saying that Trump defending himself from scurrilous sex allegations is keeping the media from covering this?
Whose fault is that?
Or is he saying, well, I don't care how bad this Obamacare stuff is.
The fact that Trump is a nominee means we gotta put up with how bad Obamacare is because Trump's actually horrible.
Is that what he's saying?
Trump, through those and any number of other self-inflicted wounds, has made the election a referendum on him.
Is that what's happened?
I think it's the fact that the drive-by media and the Hillary campaign have made this election referendum on Trump.
And that was the plan from the get-go.
The plan from the get-go was to say Trump is unfit.
Trump is unsuited.
Trump is unqualified.
Hillary's never wanted to talk about the issues.
Hillary's never asked to explain any of this.
Hillary gets away with saying that she wants to improve and expand health care.
Grab soundbite number 24 yesterday, Hollywood, Florida.
She was on the radio.
Notice I'm not telling you what station, because I don't know if it's mine, so I'm not.
That's just me.
But she was on the radio in South Florida.
It might be my station, in which case I'm missing a chance to plug them, but I'm not going to take the chance because I don't know.
Sorry.
That's just anyway.
This is what she said.
She was being asked about Obamacare and the mess that it is, and here's her answer.
We're going to make uh changes to fix um problems like that.
The president and I have talked about it.
Uh, and look, this is a a major step forward, 20 million people.
And actually, I'm sure you know this predominantly uh working people, African American, Latino people now have access to insurance, but the costs have gone up too much.
So we're gonna really tackle that.
Oh, yeah.
She is admitting, yeah, we don't know what we're doing, and we've really screwed it up, and the people of color in this country, and they're the ones that really need insurance, but they can't afford it.
I talked to Obama about it, and we're gonna fix it.
Right.
Uh we're gonna hand over the keys to the people who don't know how to design the car.
We're gonna hand over the keys to people that have demonstrated they don't know what they're doing.
Oh, yeah, I talked to Obama about it.
We're gonna make sure that African Americans and Latinos, poor people of color, who by the way are still poor after voting for us for 50 years.
We're gonna make sure they can't afford it next year either.
Because that's gonna be the result.
Here's Bob in Scottsdale, Arizona.
I'm glad you waved her hi.
Hello, Rush.
What a blessing to to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate that.
I I have been listening for a long time and uh uh just wanted to call in because you made a comment about the interaction between uh Megan Kelly and Newt.
And uh I've been listening to Fox for a while and watching the Kelly file because I I really thought that uh she did a good job of journalism and stuff, but I've noticed the progressive movement uh in her tone and stuff, and uh last night really was was it for me.
I'm done uh listening to her because interaction interaction with Newt uh specifically when they were talking about stuff and responded, she made a comment that just um sparked me and took me picked me off.
She she said, I am a protector of women.
In her comment, and I thought I thought, no, wait a minute.
I thought her job was to do the news, not to be an editorialist and protecting women.
And I I honest to God, I haven't seen the whole thing.
So she I didn't see that.
She said she that she was there to protect women from like predators like Trump.
Yeah.
She said, I'm a pr I'm a protector of women.
That's I'm protecting, I'm a protector of women, and he's the one that's that's the uh predator and uh Oh, and that must be when Newt said, Well, then would you say Bill Clinton's sexual predator at the same sense she wouldn't do it?
That's right.
See, that's when I if I were Newt, that's when I would have said, so you want to defend women by promoting the woman who enabled her husband in his sexual predator behavior.
That's what I would have said.
But it's easy to say that after the fact.
I'm not criticizing Newt.
I'm just No, no.
The issue, the issue that just drove a wedge for me for for Kelly, uh Maine Kelly was that here she purports to be a news anchor giving us the news, and now she is communicating.
I've noticed the people she's had on, the questions she's had.
I appreciate it.
I don't mean to be rude.
I'm out of time.
And I I do have some things to say, but sadly, I don't have the time right now.
That's it for today, folks.
Fast as three hours in media.
And we've got more in 21 hours.
Whatever happens to now and then would be up and running and rev and ready to go.
So you be here.
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