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Oct. 27, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 27, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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Talent on loan from God, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the most listened to radio talk show in America, the most talked-about talk show, the most talked-about host of the most talked-about talk show.
Great to have you with us, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, I'm going to start with phone calls in this segment.
I'm really, really guilt tripping here, folks, over not having gotten to the phones early.
I mean, I invite people to call, and I I just we're just so loaded with things, and I feel compelled to share some of these things with you.
We're down, we're down to the uh nutcracking time here.
And nobody knows.
Nobody knows what's going to happen.
The polls are starting to tighten.
Exactly as somebody said they would.
And it's exciting.
And there is still potential out there.
I know I'm I'm surrounded by pessimists, uh, just like you are, and they're frustrating and irritating, and at times I want to, well, then why are you bothering to pay attention to any of this stuff every day if that's the attitude?
But I think there's every reason in the world here to try and stay engaged and up here because nobody knows.
And I'm telling you, like I said countless times before, when you watch the news today, folks, literally, when you read the news, when you watch the news, when you hear the news, except for here and a couple of other places, you are actually watching, reading, listening to the Hillary Clinton campaign.
And you have to tell yourself that.
Every time you watch the news, a story, particularly if it's about Trump and it's negative, you have to understand.
You're not watching the news.
You're not watching the media, you are watching the Clinton campaign.
There is evidence, as you know, ladies and gentlemen, I have often described the news every day as actually a scripted soap opera.
The Daily Washington soap opera, reality TV.
It is scripted.
There are narratives every day that are not based on the news.
There are narratives based on advancing the agenda.
Uh the agenda of Obama, the agenda of the Democrats, and in this case, the election of Hillary Clinton.
The WikiLeaks email hack is producing incredible evidence.
Here's a website, the free thoughtproject.com, but it's anybody could have had this stuff.
I mean, it's just people pouring through the emails.
Revelations from the WikiLeaks release of John Podesta's emails yet again prove mainstream corporate media serves as Hillary's personal cheerleading squad and is devoid of any iteration of journalistic integrity.
Thanks to WikiLeaks and the Intercept, in fact, we now have a list of no less than 65 mainstream so-called reporters, whose campaign coverage constitutes propaganda for the Clinton campaign.
And no wonder, considering the obscenely lopsided drivel presented by their outlets.
As journalist Glenn Greenwald and Lee Fang reported on October the 9th, the Intercept exclusively, and this is a left-wing outfit, by the way.
Glenn Greenwald is the guy that was uh sympatical with Edward Snowden.
Greenwald, I think he's written for Salon or Slate.
I forget which.
Point is it's a bunch of leftists, and even they are fit to be tied.
See, they don't think Hillary is left-wing enough is is their grievance.
But they have uncovered documents from hackers that illustrate the Clinton campaign tactics to court journalists to portray Hillary in a positive light.
There are dinner invitations to all of the named journalists, dinners at Podesta's house and at other places throughout the campaign year.
These are for coordination.
You might think, well, Rush, that's understandable.
I mean, you worked for a sports team, didn't they court the media?
Yeah, but you didn't.
You didn't, you didn't host dinner at your house for them to come over and you fed them before games and that kind of stuff, because everybody has to eat, but you don't do what this is this is actual collaboration.
Sixty-five reporters.
You know the names, you know the pictures, if you would see them.
Maggie Haberman, Politico is one, she's now at the New York Times, Stephanopoulos is another.
Uh, in fact, specifically named as a suggested journalist plant is Maggie Haberman, then of Politico, whom they note will assist in doing the most shaping of the narrative they have in mind.
So here's an internal memo.
Linda Clinton campaign, and it's called Placing a Story.
As we discussed on our call, we are all at agreement that the time is the right, place a story, that the time is right, place a story with a friendly journalist in the coming days that positions us a little more transparently while achieving the above goals.
They're listed in a different section.
For something like this, especially in the absence of us teasing things out to others, we feel it's important to go with what's safe and what's worked in the past and to a publication that'll reach industry people for recruitment purposes.
So they admit here that they choose journalists who are read by other journalists, who will then spread narratives within journalism.
And that's how they get everybody on the same page, with the same phraseology and the same take on everything.
We have a very good relationship with Maggie Haberman of Politico over the last year.
We've had her tee up stories for us before and have never been disappointed.
While she should have a larger conversation, we should have a larger conversation in the near future about a broader strategy for re-engaging the beat press that covers Hillary.
For this we think that we can achieve our objective and do the most shaping by going to Maggie.
And she's just one of sixty five.
Oh, I know she should be totally embarrassed.
She should be livid at these people.
She should be angry as hell for her reputation and her integrity now being called into question.
And there's no anger.
This is, by the way, the the this dinner invitation in the 65 journalists that was out two or three weeks ago.
That's how long it's been out.
It didn't cause a volcano.
The journalists are not, they're proud.
The journalists are honored to have been on the guest list.
But you're right, they should all be livid that this has been exposed.
That they're not journalists, that they're hacks.
So it's conclusive beyond any doubt, folks, that when you watch the news, you are watching the Clinton campaign.
Here's a list of the progressive helpers and columnists and pundits that the Clinton campaign has that they are considered friendly and will place narratives for them in columns and news stories.
You want to hear some of the names?
These are these are this is in the Podesta Email dump from WikiLeaks.
And again, these people come from internal memos, the Hillary campaign.
These are the people that are sympathetic.
We've had them to dinner, they've been invited to Podesta's house.
These are the people, if we need to get a narrative established about Trump or about Hillary, these people will do it for us.
Dan Balls, Washington Post, Wolf Blitzer, CNN.
Gloria Borger, CNN, Mika Bzinsky, MSNBC, David Brooks, New York Times.
The conservative columnist for the New York Times is considered a great resource for the Clinton campaign to place a narrative.
Gail Collins, New York Times, John Dickerson, CBS, E.J. Dion Jr., Washington Post, Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Ronan Farrow at the time, MSNBC, Howard Feynman, MSNBC, Ron Fournier.
Now he's at National Journal and a number of other places.
But Fournier has been all over Hillary in the early stages of this campaign, telling everybody that she's going to go nowhere if she doesn't stop lying.
So in next to Fournier's name, in parentheses, it says, not sure this is worth it.
Because Fournier has not been a loyal bend over Grammy Ankle support Hillary guy.
He's been calling her out.
Not recently, but year ago and nine months ago.
Mark Halperin, Bloomberg, Chris Hayes, MSNBC, John Heileman, Bloomberg, Jonathan Carl, ABC, John King, CNN, Mara Lyerson, Fox News and NPR,
Rachel Maddow, MSNBC, Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, Chris Matthews, MSNBC and the Asylum, Dana Milbank, Washington Post, Andrean Mitchell, NBC News and Washington, Nora O'Donnell,
CBS, Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, MSNBC, Charlie Rose, PBS, CBS, April Ryan, Formula, yeah, that's right, Radio One, George Stephanopoulos, Clinton Campaign, Clinton War Room, ABC News, Robin Sproul, don't know where, I think New York Times, Karen Tumulty, Time Magazine, Washington Post, Jeff Zelony, CNN, formerly New York Times.
Progressive helpers, people that will help us reach others, David Brock, Mo Elithay, Judd Legham, partial lists.
Alex Wagner MSNBC, Beth Fuey, MSNBC, Phil Griffin, President, MSNBC, Savannah Guthrie, NBC, Ryan Liza, New Yorker.
Jonathan Martin, New York Times, Maggie Haberman, New York Times, Sandra Westfall, People Magazine, Glenn Thrush Politico, Mike Allen Politico, John Allen Vox.
I mean, they've got them covered, folks.
These are people in these emails in the drive-by media, the Clinton campaign feels very confident they can call and place a narrative.
Do you know what place a narrative means?
It means create a story.
Tell the Clinton version of a story, get a story out there.
Nothing to do with the news.
If the Clintons want a story that Trump's a reprobate, call these people, give them the narrative, they write a column, do a news story, interview people, and they're off and running.
That's why you can't avoid watching the stuff if you watch the news.
You just have to realize you're watching the Clinton campaign.
Here's Robert in Southampton in New York.
Great to have you on the program, and I appreciate your patience.
Hey.
Hey, thanks for uh taking my call, Russia.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
My question is why, and and this has been one of the greatest campaign seasons, or the greatest one I've ever seen, but because it's ripped the mask off so many of the so-called people on the right who call themselves conservatives.
But why question is why does Trump get zero support from the z from the neoconservative wing of the party when he promotes things like you know keeping Syrian refugees out, building a giant wall, um, nationalistic trade policies, when these are the same exact policies pursued by Netanyahu in Israel, they don't say they're like Ben, it's great.
But when Trump says these same things right away he's a nativist, he's a xenophobe, or if they're particularly salty and butthurt, right away he's you know uh a Nazi or a white supremest or some other garbage.
Why the double standard?
And now that the mask has been ripped off, do you see any future for these people in the Republican Party going forward?
Well, that's a whole different question.
Your first question, let me why do you think it is?
I mean, you're I let me name the names I think you're talking about.
When you say neocons, you're talking about people like Bill Kristol and uh Charles Krauthammer, uh I don't know, John Pedoritz.
Uh you're you're talking about when you're talking about the neocons, you're talking about actually former liberals who became conservatives.
Do you know that Krauthammer was a speechwriter for Mondale?
Oh, yeah.
Oh yeah.
So that one of the traits of many neocons, not all, but they they are former Democrats who became conservative, many of them during the Reagan uh years.
But why do you think they are so uh repelled or disgusted by Trump?
Because you know, I hate to describe motives to these people because I don't think that's fair to them.
I'd rather have them explain why, you know, tribalism seems to be good for some and not for others, but I just don't think the facade of the double standards, I mean, you know, diversity is our strength.
Well, wait a minute.
If if diversity is a strength, why is diversity only a one-way street?
I mean, there's a whole war on noticing a whole host of things where you are not allowed to notice these things, and if you do, if you do, oh no, now you're really a deplorable.
And I just don't think that this is this is why you have Trump, because there's so many of these double standards now that we're not even supposed to talk about or even notice, let alone, you know, have a conversation about that it just the system just broke down and immigration was the straw that finally broke the camel's back, because look, in ten years' time, Texas is probably gonna be a blue state if this keeps up, and then you can never win again.
And we're all just supposed to take our dispossession, you know, lying down and so what is your question?
If you if what what are you asking me then Well, you know these people better than I do.
Why do you think they push these double standards?
Well, you're at you wouldn't answer when I asked you what their motives were, you think it wasn't fair to comp and unmotives.
Why is it fair for me to?
Because you know them and you travel in these circles, and you're do not lifetime.
I do not travel in those.
I hate to tell you, but I am going to be among the people these people aim at when this is all over if Trump loses, as the main reason why.
I don't travel in these people's circles, and I never have.
I have I've known this for quite a while, by the way.
Uh there is a look, I answering this is not hard.
I mean, factually it's not hard.
Um, but how much value it has right now, I don't know.
I just I just think some of it's class related.
Some of it establishment versus outsider is uh an aspect of it.
That that's a huge part of this.
It is a huge part of it.
Um the establishment's made up of people with a certain pedigree.
It doesn't matter, you can be wrong about everything.
But if you sound smart saying it, and you have the right resume, and you've taken the correct path in life, you're you're cool.
Okay.
Um it's more complicated than that, but it's I think largely related to um hi i here's what it boils down to.
This is this is where people don't understand it.
Real question is that people are asking, why do not the people you're talking about see the election of Hillary Clinton as a disaster?
Why do they not see the country in a literal crisis for its very survival as founded?
That's what you're really why do they not think that?
Whereas most of the Republican base does think that.
That's really what.
Back to the phones, Michael Southern Illinois.
Great to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, uh I'm honored to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
I'm caller.
I uh I'm a registered Democrat.
But I am voting for Donald Trump.
And I know many more like me.
Somebody needs to tell the associated press about you.
There's lots of them out there.
I uh they found it they found a Republican voting for Hillary to save the Republican party.
Yeah, well, sir, I'm gonna re-register next year as a Republican.
Why are you voting for Trump?
Because of policy.
Because of the judicial system.
About voting necessarily on his character, but I think he will do great for women, for African Americans, for the Latinos.
They will be very happy if this man gets the presidency.
He made a direct pitch to African Americans yesterday that I've never, I don't think I've heard made from a Republican before.
I've been searching my memory.
I'll detail that in the uh in the next half hour.
Um I wonder how many people there are like this guy like Michael in Southern Illinois.
I mean, AP's got this story.
They did.
They found one Republican 29 years old voting for Hillary, made a whole story about.
Anecdotal.
One guy, big news.
17,000 people, Trump rally, no big thing.
It's anecdotal.
You can't go by that.
Bunch of prigs.
Hey, do you see that ratings for the baseball world series are up?
Yeah, I'll stand by for soundbite on that.
Now, Trump, uh, where was he yesterday?
Wish was uh I guess he's in Charlotte, North Carolina.
And he made a direct appeal to African Americans.
Donald Trump went where no Republican has gone before.
Little Star Trek reference there.
He made a direct appeal.
He said, My deal is grounded in three promises.
Safe communities, great education, and high-paying jobs.
American politics is caught on a time loop.
We keep electing the same people over and over and over, Trump said.
Every day I'm out on the trail proposing fresh solutions and new thinking.
Every day, the same people getting rich off of our broken system say we can't change it.
We can't try anything new.
And the reason they say that is because it's not good for them.
Now people tell me that Trump's appeal is not well, people.
The Republican establishment types say that Trump's appeal is not productive.
That it it it's not helpful.
I've always believed that an approach like this could work.
Now, maybe not.
I'm open to being wrong about this.
But as you know, I've I've you look at this, let's say you're you're a Democrat 65 years old, and you've been voting your entire life for Democrats.
You're African American, how have things improved for you?
If if your life is predicated on waiting for the Democrats to fix things or to end things or to increase prosperity or what whatever it is you expect them to do, they haven't done it because the anger is still very high.
The dissatisfaction is very high, the the demands are still there.
Nothing changes.
The only thing that the Democrats really go to town on is by scaring every one of their constituency groups, not just African Americans, but women and gays and lesbians that the Republicans are out to really, really harm them, really harm them.
And the Democrats are gonna protect you, the Democrats are gonna keep you safe, and Democrats aren't doing anything for anybody but themselves.
I've I think Trump pitching them that anybody pitching them that the objective here is for America to be great for everybody, that we want everybody to prosper and to seek and pursue happiness.
We want it for everybody.
And that there's a better way than what the Democrat Party has been offering.
I know the obstacle overcome is the branding for 50 years.
The Democrats have branded Republicans as the racists, the discriminators, and so forth.
And it's in the blood of parents, genetic here that that minorities believe this.
But really, what has what what progress can people credit the Democrat Party for?
A bunch of government programs that supposedly I don't even know what those do.
I just think it's a shame.
I just think it's an abject shame what people who invest in and believe in the Democrat Party is going to do for them.
I do.
I have I have great sadness for those people.
Because they're being let down every day.
Cities run by Democrats.
Look at the state they're in.
Look at areas where Democrats are in charge are crime infested and lawless.
That's just it's it's it's well to me it would be unacceptable.
Uh you remember, this is how the Democrats do it, by the way.
Remember Obama back in 2008 during the campaign.
We had all the audio sound bites warning you people in coal country that Obama's objective was to put you out of business.
And you all know it now.
And Hillary Clinton ditto.
They're gonna put the coal business out of business.
Coal is destroying the climate.
Coal is dirty.
Yeah, and here's the news from Reuters headline Obama administration sends 28 million dollars to aid coal regions.
U.S. government released 28 million dollars in federal grants to 13 coal producing states yesterday to help them cope with the decline of the coal industry driven by the move toward cleaner energy.
Driven by the that is just BS.
This is how they do it.
The Democrat Party comes along and forces coal workers out of their jobs and onto the government dole.
How generous.
Under the guise of cleaning up the climate.
That's not what this is about.
This is about the Democrats shutting down the coal industry to get rid of competitors for their buddies in the solar and wind industries.
That's all it is.
It's cronyism again.
Plus, coal is a big dirty thing that they can point to it's just filled with pollutants and if they've got half the country believing in this climate change rigmarole, then it's just made to order.
And then for everybody they put out of work, what do they do?
They expand the government and start passing out welfare checks.
And get all of this credit for great big hearts and big amounts of compassion is just obscene.
Remember yesterday on this program, ladies and gentlemen, I said, look at this guy on TV.
He was on Fox, he looked like he looked like J.R. Ewing and Ted Kennedy wearing a black cowboy hat.
Remember that?
Well, here's the guy.
Audio soundbite number eight Friday.
This guy is Sid Miller.
And he was speaking with the infobabe Shannon Bream.
He's a Texas agriculture commissioner.
She said, How do you guys move from solidly GOP to just leaning GOP?
She means Texas.
That's something I never thought I would see in Texas, Texas getting closer to the Democrats running the show.
Do you think that's what's got people riled up?
I mean, what is it out there, Sid?
We're having record turnouts the first day, the second day of early voting.
And it's not uh Bernie Sanders supporters coming out to support Hillary, and it's not Barack Obama supporters coming out to support Hillary.
But it is a new surge of Trump voters.
Many have never registered to vote, many have not voted in eight or ten elections, so they're not recorded in the polls.
I know for a fact that the polls are off because they oversample, they're oversampling women five to eight percent.
So the Republican vote is underreported.
Plus, there's no way to sample this extra 20 or 25% of new voters that are Trump voters.
They're not Republicans, they're not Democrats, they're pragmatists.
So he's talking about the voters that haven't voted in a long time.
Nobody knows who they are, but they're gonna show up for Trump in Texas.
The hidden Trump vote.
Skip forward very quickly.
Friday audio soundbite number 20.
This is from uh America's newsroom this morning on Fox.
They had a sports reporter there by the name of Jared Max.
He's talking about the World Series.
Question the series has got an enormous amount of hype as being historic and exciting for the entire Midwest and the rest of the country.
How do you think it's looking so far on that measure, Jared?
We're talking so much every week about numbers down of the NFL.
You know, several years ago, people said America's pastime.
No, the NFL is it rules the league.
Well, NFL ratings are down, it seems every week.
We had 30% larger audience than last year's Game One of the World Series.
I believe it might be because people know they're going to turn on the baseball game and hear God bless America and not worry about people kneeling for the anthem or have athletes who are going to be uh preaching about political issues.
What is more American than baseball?
Okay, so now we have something to compare.
Major League Baseball World Series Chicago, a romantic team, hadn't been in the World Series since 19 for 71 years.
The Cubs and the Indians.
Two Midwestern teams.
Chicago, a fairly decent population center, but it's not New York or LA, but it's big and Cleveland.
So two Midwestern, upper Midwestern teams, the temperatures are in the 50s playing these games.
Ratings are up 30% over last year.
So it's not that people are tuning out of sports, and there's a lot of baseball.
You know, people in the NFL side, well, we're overexposed, you know.
We have all these games on Sunday, then we got Sunday night, and then we got Monday night, and then we got Thursday night, and too much football.
You can watch every damn baseball game in the world if you want to.
Televise every damn one of them.
Ratings are up 30%.
This reporter here may have a point.
People tuning in know they're not going to watch the flag disrespected.
They're not going to watch the players during pregame introductions.
Lay down, sit down, take a knee when the national anthem is played.
He may have a point.
Back at a moment.
Jim in Virginia Beach.
It's great that you waited, and I'm glad to welcome you to the program.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Brass.
Honor and a pleasure to be speaking with you today.
Thank you, sir, very much.
So last Saturday I was doing my absentee ballot uh with my 85-year-old mother.
I'm overroad truck driver.
We're doing our ballast together, and I knew she was going to vote for Trump.
But as she penned the paper, she said, uh, and with a heavy heart.
And she's always lifelong Democrat with a heavy heart she voted for Trump, and it was simply because I think what she sees in her family, my brother, my sister, her grown grandkids that are now in college, and uh a lot of uh college debt and just how our opportunities aren't the same as how her and my dad's opportunities were, and it was just simply through all that, and I think it was her first time ever that she went from Democrat to Republican.
And she did it with a heavy heart.
And with a heavy heart.
And that's probably because she sits and watches ABC and the city.
No, look, no, I can understand it.
An 85-year-old who's voted Democrat all their life.
This is this is important stuff to people.
It really is at a lifetime of support.
It had to be a big thing for her.
But she can just see it through her prism of okay.
This is my family tree, and this is what my kids are talking about.
And, you know, maybe Democrats and Democratic, maybe maybe the kids are under something, and doggone if this year I'm gonna make a move.
Let's see if Trump can make America great again.
I believe the guy can do it.
Well, we'll see.
I again this is interesting.
I know a lot of you say it's just one woman, you can't make a big deal out of it.
I'm not.
Folks, it's the AP today that did.
This is the this is the point.
The AP has a big story.
Their poll shows Hillary up 14 today.
Every other poll's down to six or three.
AP's at 14.
And they can't they cite one guy, uh a 29-year-old guy in Warren County, Ohio, who's had it.
He had it with Trump.
He's got a vote Hillary to save the Republican Party.
And this guy, AP's treating like it's gospel.
It's just one guy.
It's anecdotal.
And they base a whole story and election on this one guy.
Same outfit will look at 17,000 people to Trump rally and discount it as unscientific.
Or this man's mother.
There's just one person.
You can't count on that.
They do these whole stories.
And get, folks, the theme for today, if there was one, nobody knows what's going to happen.
And the media, if you watch, you are watching, reading, seeing the Hillary campaign.
You are not watching the news.
What a day, folks!
I certainly hope you were able to get something out of my explanation of cronyism.
It's what the Clintons are known for, and it's what's happening to our country in addition to a whole lot of other stuff.
If you missed it, go to rushlimbod.com and find it.
It'll be on the home page today.
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