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November 1, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #2

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	And we are back in a cutting edge.
	L Rushbo having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
	A telephone number if you want to be on the program 800 282-2882 email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
	I got requests.
	EIBNET.us.
	I'm sorry, L. Rushboard, EIBNet.us.
	I'm not trying to screw this up.
	It's called syllabic memory for 25 years or however long we've been doing email.
	It's been L Rushborn E.I.B. Now you just say the syllables.
	So I've got this giant sign in front of me called Brian.
	And any time I say it wrong, he shouts at me through the glass.
	It's L Rushbow at EIBNet.us.
	Number request in the email to play the Ken Star James Carville parody on C SPAN about Ken Star.
	I guess it might not be a bad thing to do.
	We've got to try to put Carvel in perspective.
	Mike, grab that.
	Let me know when you have that.
	Yeah, that should not be too long because it's in our archival stack that is uh readily available.
	Now here you go.
	Investigating Donald Trump, FBI.
	We got it going.
	Hang on.
	Investigating Donald Trump, FBI sees no clear link to Russia.
	It's on page 21, but it's there.
	Investigating Donald Trump.
	FBI sees no clear link to Russia to the KGB, the New York Times reports it independently as well.
	On the front page of the New York Times, you know what the headline is?
	I'm going to read to you this headline verbatim.
	Donald Trump used legally dubious method to avoid paying taxes.
	So the front page of the New York Times above the fold is a story that Trump legally used the tax code in paying his taxes back in 1992.
	Donald Trump used legally dubious.
	What do you mean legally dubious?
	What is it dubious?
	If it's legal, what do you mean dubious?
	It wasn't a loophole.
	If it's a law, it's a law.
	There aren't any loopholes in the tax code.
	What they are trying to tell you that a loophole is that you have people that write the tax law, which is the House Ways and Means Committee and other committees in the House.
	They write the tax law.
	And then what they want you to think a loophole is that some rich guy somewhere has had a battery of lawyers go through the tax code and find ways to beat the law and illegally not pay taxes that they should be paying.
	And they call those loopholes as though the people who write the tax laws enable illegal activity.
	Well, folks, that's not what a loophole is.
	There are no loopholes.
	You use the tax law as it's written, and if it results in you not paying any taxes, there hadn't been any loophole.
	You are, and there's nothing dubious.
	You're following the law.
	Legally means follow the law.
	Donald Trump used lawful method to avoid paying taxes, but they throw the word dubious in there.
	That's not much, folks.
	That's not much.
	That's not a headline that Donald Trump breaks law in avoiding paying taxes.
	That's not what the headline says.
	Now, some low information people in the Upper West Side, they might interpret it that way.
	But it's not what it says.
	Okay, let's go through the polling data that I that I mentioned.
	This is uh well, it's all it's all interesting, and there are depends on how you look at these things, folks.
	I mean, I I'm I'm spotting trends.
	Uh other people are too.
	Some people don't.
	It's just it it's really hard to separate your your desire, your prejudicial desire from static analysis of what's actually happening.
	But I can just tell you that where we are right now is not where anybody of expert status anywhere thought we would be.
	But it is where a lot of people thought we would be.
	A lot of people on the Trump side, a lot of people who are not part of the Republican or Democrat hierarchy in Washington, always thought this was possible.
	And I can quote People from last fall, who, before it was risky to make such a prediction, felt confident Trump could win this in a landslide back last fall.
	Now, don't have those people saying that now, but I mean the point is there have been all kinds of believers that Trump could win.
	You've had pessimists too.
	I mean, you've had the never Trump crowd beside themselves over any prospect of Trump winning.
	Uh, but I'm just telling you that where we are right now with the news and the way it's falling out, and Don and Brazil being let go and the New York Times exonerating clump Trump on Russia and Obama not trying to savage Comey.
	This is not where anybody, particularly on the Clinton side, thought they would be.
	New York Post.
	Hillary already planning her giant victory celebration.
	Law enforcement officials and the FD and White Fire Department of New York have been told to prepare for a barge-launched firework display off the Javits Center in Manhattan, where Clinton and Tim Kaine will join their supporters, supporters for the November 8 vote count, sources said.
	The aerial detonations would last for two minutes, with the triumphal celebration permitted to start as early as 9.30 p.m., a mere half hour after the polls close in New York.
	Hillary's blueprint for lighting up the sky was sketched out before last week's revelation that the FBI had revived its probe of her private email scandal.
	The FDNY, the Fire Department memo, ordering its Marine One company to provide standby protection for the fireworks show, was sent out Friday, the same day that FBI Director Comey alerted Congress that agents would check to see if the new emails contained any classified information.
	a retired firefighter said that the fire department's rank and file is outraged that they are being forced to do political work.
	And, Quote, this will make it seem like the firefighters endorsed Hillary, the source said.
	The only fire-related union to back a candidate is the fire marshal's benevolent association, which has endorsed Trump.
	Okay, so Hillary already planning her victory celebration in New York on a barge with fireworks at 9.30 next Tuesday night.
	That's the kind of stuff.
	I mean, look, you can go ahead and plan it, but to report it, that's the kind of stuff that comes back and bites you.
	Can I give you an analogy of this?
	I forget the year, but it's early 2000s.
	And in fact, it might have been Tom Brady's first year as quarterback of the Patriots after Drew Bledsoe got hurt.
	Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots are playing in the championship game in Pittsburgh.
	And there's only one week this year celebrating the championship games in the Super Bowl, not the traditional traditional two weeks.
	I may have the teams, I I think it's right, I think the Patriots were told by their coach Bill Belichick that the Steelers already think they've won the game.
	They're already making hotel reservation plans and ticket plans for their families at the Super Bowl.
	They're not even, they're not even concerned about the game coming.
	They've already won the game in their minds.
	Belichick told the Patriots this.
	They've already won the game.
	You guys are just incidental.
	They're already planning for their families and their friends to go to the parties to get hotel reservations tickets to the game, and that fired up the Patriots players, and they skunked the Steelers in the championship game that year.
	Now, the fact of the matter is both teams were doing that with only one week, both teams in the championship game, are making plans for getting their families to the site of the Super Bowl, but Belichick, psychologically told his team that the Steelers were doing it to such a degree that they weren't even worried about the game, and it fired them up.
	It made them think that they were underdogs and forgotten at a road team to begin with.
	And any time something like that happens elsewhere, I always remember that.
	So here we've got the news that Hillary is already planning with Tim Kane their fireworks celebration next Tuesday night on a barge off the Javet Center.
	They've already won this.
	Now, look, both teams, both both campaigns are making victory night celebration plans.
	That's not the point.
	The point is, you don't go out there and start bragging about it before it's happened.
	There's nothing good that can come of this.
	Only bad can happen from this.
	Karma-wise, any otherwise.
	And Hillary's out there doing it.
	Try this.
	Let's get to the actual polling data now.
	This is from the politico.
	What have you heard about early voting?
	Let me ask you that before I get to this.
	My guess is.
	My guess.
	No, I'm talking about specific early voting this year.
	What have you heard about it?
	Here's what you've heard.
	You've heard that the early voting is just skunking Trump.
	The early vote, the Democrat enthusiasm, why it's not been seen anywhere near this throughout the campaign.
	Because it hasn't.
	There hasn't been any enthusiasm for Hillary.
	She can't draw crowds or any of that.
	But the early voting, the news is, oh my God, the Democrats are dwarfing the Republicans in early voting.
	This isn't phenomenal.
	And they're reporting this.
	Drive by Media is reporting it.
	All over the country.
	Florida, where we live, you was you wouldn't believe it.
	The story's day in and day out.
	The early voting, hardly any Republicans are voting at all in early voting.
	It's Democrats, and it's just, it's, it's, it's like nothing anybody's ever seen before.
	Well political today.
	Weak early voter turnout among African Americans hurts Clinton in Florida.
	Black voters cast ballots in higher numbers in 2012 for Obama.
	Hillary Clinton has a black voter problem in Florida.
	After the first full weekend of in-person early voting ended on Sunday, African American turnout failed to meet expectations or even historic precedent, leaving top Democrats and activists fuming or worried that Clinton's campaign is not living up to the hype in Florida.
	So they're admitting they have been hyping early voting.
	They have been hyping demographics of the early voting, particularly they've been talking about Democrat early voting and African American and Hispanic and Latino early votes.
	It's off the charts.
	We've never seen anything like it.
	And now it's one week before, and it's time to start getting real.
	The black vote is way underperforming compared to 2012.
	That is a quote from somebody named Smith.
	I've got the pull quote here, and it says Smith said I haven't read the full.
	Oh, it's it's uh uh Dan Smith, University of Florida Political Science Professor.
	University of Florida political science professor.
	Black vote way underperforming.
	Well, yesterday we had Indiana plus in the Monmouth poll.
	Trump plus eleven.
	Yeah, I know it's Indiana plus eleven.
	Unheard of.
	Reuters.
	Clinton holds a five-point lead as the FBI looks at more emails.
	Reuters Ipsos poll.
	Hillary held a five percentage point lead over Trump, according to a Reuters Ipsos opinion poll released yesterday that's down only slightly since the FBI said last week it was reviewing new emails.
	Clinton held a six-point lead over Trump and the five-day tracking poll last Thursday.
	However, if you move over here to the ABC tracking poll, Trump leads Clinton by one point in new poll as enthusiasm for Hillary declines.
	She was up twelve in this poll on October 23rd.
	Now Trump is up by one.
	Is that really what's happened here?
	Has Hillary lost 13 points in this poll?
	Is that that's what they want us to believe?
	There's more on this, but I have an obscene profit timeout I have to take.
	More coming up.
	Don't go away.
	Just a couple of uh internal notes here from the ABC poll.
	Trump now leads Clinton by eight points in the share of voters who are very enthusiastic about their choice as of Friday, but compared to past elections, it's low for both.
	53% for Trump, 45% for Clinton.
	But Trump is still beating her eight points enthusiasm.
	Uh strong enthusiasm for Clinton has lost seven points since started tracking, especially Friday through Sunday.
	So October 23rd, she was up by 12 today.
	Trump is up by one in the ABC tracking poll.
	And how does that happen?
	I mean, this is do we actually believe somebody can lose that much in what?
	Seven, eight days?
	12 points?
	Maybe so with this WikiLeaks and then the the FBI, who knows.
	But my real thinking is the first number, the plus twelve was never right.
	I don't think Hillary's ever been plus twelve over anybody at any point in this campaign.
	I just don't believe it.
	Now, I'm not suggesting the polling has been purposely wrong.
	I just don't believe it's been accurate and catching public sentiment for whatever reason.
	Now this, this just in from Zero Hedge, the 25th WikiLeaks release of hacked emails at John Podesta.
	A new one has been discovered, March 2nd, 2015.
	This is an exchange between Podesta and Clinton AIDS Cheryl Mills.
	And it this email says on another matter, and not to sound like Lanny, but we're gonna have to dump all those emails.
	That's Podesta talking to Cheryl Mills.
	Now this email happens at the same time that the New York Times ran the story about Hillary Clinton using a personal email account and a private server in her basement at home instead of the State Department servers.
	So that but the almost at the same time there's an email from Podesta to one of Hillary's aides that says we are gonna have to dump all those emails.
	What emails is he talking about?
	This same day the New York Times reports he's got a private server.
	The point here is that this email might actually go to intent.
	Podesta telling a Hillary aid we're gonna have to dump all those emails on her server.
	Okay, to the phones we go.
	People have been patiently waiting.
	We're gonna start in Stafford, Virginia.
	This is Karna, great to have you.
	Hi.
	Hi, Russ.
	Thank you so much for taking my call.
	Well, you're more than welcome, you bet.
	Okay, I want to say that I want to thank you uh so much for being a voice for millions of us who are completely fed up with the corruption and the dishonesty in our government and media.
	Uh it's unthankful that you have the platform and you can be our voice.
	Well, I'm I'm happy that that's how you see me.
	Yeah, I just uh I come here every day and I share with you what I think about things and the fact that it dovetails with what you think is that's awesome.
	I'm I'm I'm glad to hear it.
	Oh, I I don't trust the polls at all.
	I feel the media is so dishonest, and uh I just feel that the we it's this election truly is about we the people versus the corrupt political establishment, and we just want our voices to be heard and throw our vote that will happen.
	It really is.
	You know, it that that that's not just a bunch of words.
	Folks, let me make a little deviation here for something.
	I around the holidays each year I try to take a brief moment to tell you how much I appreciate all of you.
	A couple of weeks ago we had a um an advertiser, a sponsor dinner uh here, where as many of our sponsors, we try to pick a date where as many of us possible you got here.
	And I made remarks as I usually do, and I want to tell you something I told them.
	I they they all have phenomenal success on this program, and that's because of you.
	And I I I told them that I gave them my philosophy of of this job, my program and how I go about it, what I think the objectives are that have to be met, the business objectives.
	And I told them that what enables them to have success as advertisers and sponsor of this program is you, and how the uh relationship that I have with you is what makes everything work, and that I do this program for the audience.
	It's it's uh it's a focus in mind that I've I've had since since day one.
	That everything here is done, everything's for the show, not not for outside interests or not for uh anything other than you.
	Uh service, the reasons you're here, and and to meet the expectations you have of what you expect to hear the level of competence, the talent, the inform, everything you expect, I try to meet that and surpass it each and every day.
	And I told them in uh no uncertain terms that the wonderful aspect of all this is the connection that I have developed with the with you, the people who who listen to the program, and it's what makes uh their advertising work.
	And I said it's because there is a mutual respect and a sophistication on the part of people listen to this program, who understand how things work.
	They understand why there are sponsors, and they understand the role sponsors play in the success of a commercial enterprise like this in the free market.
	We don't have donors, we don't have underwriters, we don't have people making pledges.
	I mean, this all has to make it or break it within the market.
	And I praised to the hilt those of you in this audience for your sophistication and your understanding of how things work and your loyalty.
	And I just I really do I consider it to be a matter of great fortune for me that just by virtue of the fact that I can come here every day and just shoot from the hip and be totally honest about what I think about things that are happening that resonates with so many of you is a godsend.
	It is a blessing, and I have never taken it for granted.
	Meaning I never assume that you're gonna be here no matter what.
	Uh there's a deep amount of respect, and I'm just I was reminded of this because uh Karna, our first caller thanks me for uh speaking up for you.
	Uh I just appreciate that she has that attitude about what goes on here.
	Because it really is we've reached a crossroads here.
	I mean, in the 29, 28 years I've been doing this, I've had massive attitudinal shifts about government and about people in it, and about how the country works.
	And I used to have a misguided perception of how things work.
	And as I've done this more and I've gotten older and acquired more experience and knowledge, I've had I've developed a greater understanding.
	It's not an us versus them thing per se, but it's close to that.
	There is a ruling class.
	There is an establishment.
	There is a collection of elites, and like any collection of powerful people, they arrange things so that they benefit constantly.
	I mean, that's what any powerful group of people do.
	If you run your family, you have a family.
	You want to arrange things so your family does well.
	It's human nature to do this, but the collection, the assimilation of power that has occurred in this establishment has has now resulted in their interests, their selfish interests superseding by a lot the interests of the country at large.
	And so there is this battle for the kind of country we're going to be.
	And we're in a battle with the with people who don't care what kind of country this is because they've they've got it made already.
	They've got it jacked.
	They've arranged things so that they benefit no matter what happens out there.
	And by that I mean in the rest of the country.
	They don't live out there, and what happens out there doesn't affect them and the way they live and the way they manage their future for their kids and their friends and themselves.
	It's a very closed relationship, this club, this click, whatever you want to call it, and you can't get into it by simply being good at what you do, by uh excelling at what you do, merit-based things.
	That's not how you get in it.
	There are other tests that have nothing to do with the traditional ways you and I have been taught to climb a ladder of success.
	Their ladder exists and people climb it, but they don't reach higher rungs by getting better at what they do.
	Um peting other people at what they do.
	There are other ways.
	And let me, this would be a good time.
	I mentioned at the top of the program that I ran across this piece in the UK Guardian, forget the FBI cash, the Podesta emails show how America is run.
	I read this thing today.
	It prints out, we've linked to it at rushlimbaugh.com, and I really would recommend you when you have time reading it.
	It's not that long.
	It prints out to um uh four pages.
	And for some reason, it's large font here, so it's really not that many pages at a normal font size.
	But let me let me just give you three paragraphs here to illustrate what I mean.
	I've tried to explain this in my own words over the years about who these people are, what motivates them, and how they work together in stacking the deck for themselves, and it's Republicans and Democrats.
	It's not a base, it's not based on ideas, it's not based on our ideas are better than the Democrats.
	It has nothing to do with the way these people organize their lives.
	It has to do with power, total power.
	The emails currently roiling the U.S. presidential campaign are part of some unknown digital collection amassed by the troublesome Anthony Wiener.
	But if your purpose is to understand the click of people who dominate Washington today, the emails that really matter are the ones being slowly released by WikiLeaks from the hacked account of Hillary's campaign chairman, John Podesta.
	They are last week's scandal in a year running over with scandals, but in truth, their significance goes far beyond mere scandal.
	These emails are a window into the soul of the Democrat Party and into the dreams and thoughts of the class to whom the party answers.
	The class to which I refer is not rising in angry protest.
	They are, by and large, pretty satisfied people.
	They're pretty contented.
	Nobody takes road trips to exotic West Virginia to see what the members of this class looks like.
	This is a reference to a story not long ago where some of these elites, a friend of theirs bought a house in West Virginia, and they couldn't understand it.
	Some member of this club actually bought a house in West Virginia, and the others were so puzzled they had to go there to see what it looked like.
	They had to drive to West Virginia to find out why their buddy bought a house there.
	They couldn't believe anybody would do it.
	So this is a sly reference to that.
	This bunch are comfortable and well educated mainstay of our modern Democrat Party.
	They are also the grandees of our national media, the architects of our software, the designers of our streets, the high officials of our banking system, the authors of just about every plan to fix Social Security or fine-tune the Middle East with precision droning.
	They are, they think, not a class at all.
	They are, in their own minds, the enlightened ones.
	The people who must be answered to, but who need never explain themselves.
	Let us turn the magnifying glass on them for a change by sorting through the hacked personal emails of John Podesta, who has been a Washington power broker for decades.
	I admit he goes on to talk about how these are stolen emails, maybe he's not sure he's nervous about trafficking.
	So he just he acknowledges that they might be illegally obtained and gotten, but that they can't be ignored.
	So he says, with all that taken into consideration, WikiLeaks furnishes us with an opportunity to observe the upper reaches of the American status hierarchy in all its righteousness and majesty.
	High achieving colleagues attempting to get jobs for their high achieving children, foundation executives doing fine and noble things, prizes, of course, high academic achievement, honorary degrees, awards back slapping, telling each other how wonderful they are and how average everybody else is.
	Certain industries loom large in this group, and they are virtuous.
	Hillary's ingratiating speeches to Wall Street are well known, of course, but what's remarkable is that in the party of Jackson and Bryan and Roosevelt, smiling financiers now seem to stand on every corner, constantly offering advice about this and that.
	In one now famous email chain, for example, the reader can watch current U.S. trade representative Michael Froman writing from a Citibank email address in 2008, appear to actually name Obama's cabinet.
	Even before Obama was elected.
	He turned out to have named them all.
	The far-sighted innovators of Silicon Valley are also in this club in force, interacting all the time with the leaders of the party of the people.
	He goes on to say that what orients and unites all these people, it's not it is liberalism.
	They all admit that it's all being Democrat, but it's power.
	It's acceptance.
	It's this is who runs the club.
	It's a club everybody wants to get into, and you can only get into it if you are of a certain mindset.
	If you have a certain pedigree, if you have a certain amount of money or show potential to being able to earn some and thus spread it around opportunity-wise for other members' kids, it's a closed click.
	They are not the best and brightest, they're not the smartest.
	They haven't had to prove themselves in the market in in many of these people's cases, the career politicians.
	This is the establishment.
	This is the elites.
	This is the ruling class of Angelo Codvia wrote about.
	And their concerns just have very little in common.
	They don't illegal immigration.
	To complain about it is so uninformed and so small-minded.
	They never encounter.
	They never face the consequences of their own laws.
	They don't face the consequences of their own directives or actions.
	They live insulated lives of privilege and luxury because they've set themselves up this way.
	And anything that comes along that might upset all of this, and that Donald Trump in this series cannot be allowed to get anywhere near it or close.
	So every instinct I've had about this has been borne out to be accurate.
	This is a fascinating piece to read the whole thing.
	I'm a little long here, folks.
	have to take a break, but I'm going to go back to the phone until we get back here.
	Here's Bruce in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
	I have always loved Pawtucket, Rhode Island, ever since I was a baseball fan.
	It was a great minor league town, great Great to have you, Bruce.
	How are you, sir?
	Hi, Rush.
	Rush, it's it's an honor to get to speak with you.
	I've been listening to you for years, and you have provided a great part of my equation about politics and the way the world really is.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate that, Bruce.
	I want to ask you regarding this these nice things that uh Obama and company are saying about Comey, that he is uh, you know, a person of integrity and he's doing this and that, you know.
	It and it looks as if uh it looks as if they're throwing Hillary over the side.
	Yeah, it does.
	Could this be a setup?
	Because I see that uh the Justice Department announced this morning that they are throwing in on this investigation.
	And it's all going to fall under the uh control of Peter Kadzik, who is like uh best friend forever to John Podesta.
	And is extremely con is extremely uh connected.
	I mean, Podesta he even sent his son to Podesta as a campaign.
	I if I'm not mistaken, I think Peter Kadzik would is is slated to handle the foundation investigation, the Clinton Foundation investigation.
	But you're right that this guy's a friend of Podesta's.
	They went to school together.
	He's uh he's he's uh is in the DOJ.
	And could here's let's cut to the chase of what what this could be.
	Because you're right, a lot of people emailed me last night.
	Rush, can it be?
	They're getting ready to throw Hillary overboard.
	Here's Obama backing up uh Comey.
	Uh and all these other things that I've shared with you earlier during the day.
	You to gauge this, you have to also include the LA Times story last night that somebody in the FBI said they could have preliminary results this week.
	650,000 emails could have preliminary results.
	So let's say, exactly as I hypothetically asked yesterday happens.
	Let's say that tomorrow or Thursday, the FBI says our preliminary investigation says nothing new here.
	Well, Obama is set up.
	He's already claimed Comey is filled with integrity.
	Comey is entirely trustworthy.
	So if they say nothing new to see here before the election, Obama's backed it up.
	Hey, we trust this guy implicitly.
	It could also be the other that they know that there's really bad stuff here.
	It involves Wiener and Huma has lied and all kinds of stuff, and it could well be that Obama does not want to be tied to this as it goes down through his own legacy.
	We just don't know.
	It's just there's no way of knowing what all this means right now because these people play games with us all the time.
	This Peter Kadzik guy that the previous caller talked about, this guy was Podesta's lawyer during the Lewinsky scandal.
	Remember, Podesta was charged with helping get her a job called called uh Bernard Jordan and all that, and he is still ranking in the Department of Justice, and that's making people think the game's rigged over there.

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