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Nov. 1, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 1, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hi folks, welcome back.
It's a delight to have you here.
It's a thrill and honor.
It's great to be with you.
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Let's let's review uh where we are here.
Some polling data today from actually starting yesterday.
We have Trump plus 11 in Indiana with a Monmouth University poll.
We have uh Reuters Ipso's Hillary plus five.
We have an ABC tracking poll, Trump plus one, with vastly more enthusiasm on the Trump side than the Hillary side.
And in this ABC poll on October 23rd, Hillary was up 12.
Today Trump is up one.
ABC news reporters are depressed and in a panic as they report this today.
Interestingly, at ABC and their poll, the breakout of their sample, 37% of the sample was Democrat, 27% Republican.
So they roughly, it's not actually 10%, but 27% Republican, 37% Democrat.
There's a lot more Democrats they sampled.
And it was 37% or 36% independent.
So of their entire sample, only 27% was Republican.
Trump is up one.
And then this is new.
Just in Donald Trump has surged to a 12-point lead in Texas.
This is from CBS in Dallas.
Real estate mogul and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump surged to a 12-point lead in Texas over Hillary Clinton in the latest KTVT CBS 11 Dixie Strategies poll.
If the election were held today, 52% of likely general election voters in Texas would vote Trump.
39% say they would vote for Hillary.
This marks the first time that Trump has polled over 50% in Texas, and it casts doubt on any Democrat victory on November 8th.
But let's not forget something.
Hillary was so confident of winning.
She went to Texas a week or so ago.
Do you remember the drive-by zole telling us that Texas was in play?
All of these supposed red states are in play.
Remember this last week?
The election was already over.
It was wrapped up, and Hillary and her keem were going into all these red states to batten down the hatches to win the House and the Senate.
They were going in there to nail every last coffin or nail in Trump's coffin.
Just last week, just last week they were going to Texas and other red states because it was already over.
Hillary was so far ahead in the general election polling that Trump had no prayer.
And then they were going in.
That's what the media told us.
So now we have Trump plus 12 in Texas.
Channel 11, Dallas, the Dixie Strategies poll.
There's something happening out there, folks.
You just get this sense.
I don't want to say any more than that.
I'm being brazenly honest sharing that with you.
There are some who would say, don't go there yet.
Uh And that is a reasonable little piece of advice.
Don't go there yet.
But I'm just getting a sense.
And it's it's it's based on real world events.
It's not based on what I want, not based on hope.
I'm just telling you, last week the Clinton campaign is acting like this is over, and they're going into red states to win the House of the Senate.
Oh, and let's not forget statistics on early voting in Florida.
Trump, by the way, up by a point in Florida now.
In a Fox News poll, I believe it is, but the early voting African American turnout, way below what it was in 2012 for Obama.
And Hillary cannot win without that.
And all last week they were telling us that the early voting enthusiasm is all Hillary.
It's all Democrat.
There's none of it out there for the Republican.
There's none of it out there for Trump.
Well, apparently there isn't all that in much enthusiasm for her in Florida, plus 11 Indiana, plus plus 12, Texas.
Now those are red states.
You would expect that to be the case, but Trump hadn't been plus 11 anywhere any time in the general election.
And never forget that as we get closer to the actual election day, polling tends to tighten or get more accurate representative.
Something I had in the stack yesterday didn't get to it.
Kellyanne Conway, the campaign manager for Trump, was looking at a poll.
You know that question that I pointed out to you in 2012 in the exit polls when I saw it that I knew the election was over.
Cares about people like me.
Obama won that 81 to 19 in the 5 p.m. exit polls 2012.
I saw that.
Cares about people like me, 81 Obama, 19 Romney, and then 60% still blame Bush for the economy.
I said, okay, I don't need to watch the returns tonight.
This is over.
If these exit polls are right, they turned out to be.
Kelly and Conway cited, she said that question's still relevant, she said, and they have been polling it.
The Trump group's been polling it, cares about people like me, and he and Hillary are tied on that question.
According to a bunch of different polls out there, Romney was never close to being tied with Obama on that question, cares about people like me.
And I don't think there's any confusion as to why.
That's what in fact I think the essence of Trump's campaign cares about people like you.
The other side doesn't, no matter what they say.
Now, there are other things here in the news in the stack that I have had prepared since the program began, and I just want to start getting into this.
I don't want to leave anything on the table today.
I walked out of here yesterday feeling horrendously bad because there's so much I intended to impart, and I didn't get to it just because the way things fell out.
AP story, Justice Department vows to quickly review emails related to Clinton.
This is a story the LA Times hyped last night, and they indicated that there might be a preliminary review announced this week.
Now you put that in context with Obama praising Comey.
Uh and the New York Times saying there's nothing to see here with Trump and Russia.
Uh there you could look at this one of two ways that either Obama and powerful entities in the Democrat Party know that they've got the goods on Hillary.
Look, what are the odds here that there's nothing?
They've got 650,000 emails.
They're 33,000 emails that Hillary supposedly deleted, that others say, no, no, no.
They're there.
We can get a wiki leaks, alluding to the fact that they have them.
Huma Abaddon's not acting like somebody who is unconcerned.
I mean, if they if they grab your your computer that you've been sharing with your husband, and if there's nothing on there, and if you've been truthful with the FBI all along, your reaction is I don't care, there's nothing to see there.
I gave the FBI everything I had, I told them everything I knew, and there's nothing to see.
She didn't say that.
Huma's reaction is I don't know how those emails ended up on my husband's computer.
She did not deny that there's something there.
And of course, we know there is, because Comey's original list of Clinton offenses back in July was deep and phenomenal.
The only reason there was no prosecution, he said, is because they couldn't find that she intended to break the laws that she broke, but that she did break them.
So if they found something else, the idea that it exonerates her, that's the stretch, but it could be.
Remember who we're talking about.
We're talking about the most powerful people in the country who have the power on a daily basis to arrange everything for their benefit.
Because they do.
So they do have the power, they exercise it.
So it's it's um risky proposition to make predictions.
But if the FBI, let's go the other way, if they've got this preliminary announcement or an announcement of a preliminary assessment of the emails, and if it is, sorry, we haven't found anything yet, then Obama could see I knew Comey's a man of integrity.
I knew, and they've they've totally therefore endorsed If the FBI says uh tomorrow or Thursday, preliminarily, nothing to see here.
And how would you feel if that happened?
I mean, that'd make you feel pretty depressed, right?
And that's what these people specialize in doing.
Just keep a sharp eye.
Okay, so there's that.
John Podesta's best friend at the Department of Justice will be in charge of the Justice Department's probe into Huma Abaddon emails.
Now, this is the guy by the name of Peter Hadzik.
Kedzik, Peter Kedzik.
And this he is the assistant attorney general.
Lifelong friend of Podesta's.
They went to law school together.
Kadzik defended Podesta during the Lewinsky days.
Kedzik also lobbied Podesta to get Mark Rich his pardon.
I'm telling you this there's this group of establishment types, the elites, it's an incestuous group.
It's a small group.
Everybody knows everybody.
They go from media to Congress to legislative aid back to media to think tank to lobbyist.
They change jobs and they change roles, but their objectives are all the same.
More recently, Kadzik asked Podesta for a job for his son on the Hillary campaign.
And this is the guy who'll be in charge of DOJ's probe into Huma Abaddon's emails.
Now you're probably saying, what about the FBI?
Well, the FBI investigates.
The FBI has Wiener's computer.
The FBI, looking into a Wiener case, found state.gov emails on Wiener's computer, meaning there's commingling here.
They want the computer, they've got it, they got a warrant for it, they're looking to see if there are emails between Hillary and Huma or whoever, whatever.
The FBI will then turn over whatever they find.
Not this week, but whenever this investigation actually ends, they'll turn it over to the Department of Justice, at which point this guy, Podesta's friend, will get it.
Podesta's best friend will be in charge of the Department of Justice probe into Huma.
That's months from now.
There's anything to do with what Comey announced.
The Comey announcement and its impact will or will not be felt between now and election day, or has already begun to be felt and and uh factored.
But the FBI will eventually turn over whatever they've learned of the DOJ, and they decide whether to prosecute or not.
They decide whether to impanel a grand jury or not.
That's the area where the DOJ guy would get involved.
He's not.
I suppose he could be involved now.
He could be telling Comey.
Recuse himself?
Are you kidding?
The establishment doesn't recuse itself.
Republican members of the establishment would.
But no, no, this guy's not going to recuse himself.
Recuse himself.
That would recusing himself would violate every principle of being in the club.
The reason you're in the club is so you don't have to recuse yourself.
The reason you're in the club is to be able to affect the scales of justice for your benefit and your friends.
That's the point of the club.
The point of the club is to be immune from the daily law, the daily rigors of life that all the rest of the people of the country have to deal with.
Recuse himself?
No way.
There's no way he's going to recuse just because Podesta's buddy.
And call Podesta and ask him to get job for his kid in the Hillary campaign.
There's no way he's going to recuse himself.
That would be a tantamount admission.
Hey, you know, I'm glad you guys have let me in the establishment in a club, but I I'm not going to do anything for you.
That's the end of him.
This this is in fact, Snerdley, that question is the greatest way to illustrate what this club's all about that I can think of.
Of course he's not going to recuse himself.
The reason he's there is to see that the deck gets stacked in favor of other members of the club.
That's why it's so corrupt.
And this is whether people know it specifically or not, they the people of This country have gotten a sense that this is not how the country's run.
That it's not fair, that it there's not a level playing field, that certain people get certain advantage that others don't in the justice system.
Not you know, equality before the law is one thing, and equality of opportunity is another.
But the deck is stacked.
That's why these people exist to stack the deck in their favor, to stack the deck in favor of their kids, like Chelsea Clinton.
Six hundred thousand dollar a year job at NBC and has never done a single thing in that business.
That's exactly how membership in the club works.
Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton have not paid, I saw a story, and they have not paid serious money for any private jet travel in the last ten years.
They are constantly flying on other people's jets, donors to their foundation.
People who are paying them to show up to do speeches, people attending Clinton Global Initiatives, the Clinton Foundational call.
Thank you so much for the use of your plane, King Abdul.
And so King Abdul donates.
Bill Clinton flew from uh uh what was it uh I think cutter.
Somewhere in the Middle East to Ethiopia on the king of the country's Boeing 747, another potentate flew him on a 3,700 mile trip on a Boeing 767.
The Clintons don't pay for any of this.
And they have the gall to demand it of people already donating to their charity or to the Clinton Global Initiative or what have you.
Anyway, that's a caller referred to this Peter Kadzik guy and wondered if uh if this investigation, if whatever Comey's doing about the FBI, whatever they gather on Huma's and Wiener's laptop, it Kadzik will then don't think Loretta Lynch won't have a role either.
Um determine how far the investigation goes, whether it goes anywhere or not.
Here in another story, UK Daily Mail, Hillary Clinton staffers knew five years ago that Anthony Wiener was talking to underage girls that he was sexting.
Hillary's staffers knew as early as uh 2011 that Anthony Weiner had been messaging an underage girl, but they did nothing about it, according to WikiLeaks emails published yesterday.
John Podesta and Nera Tandon, another advisor, were forwarded news of an investigation into Wiener's online contact with a high school student, 17 years old, by Jennifer Palmieri, the current campaign communications director, in June of 2000, and they did nothing about it.
Huma's boyfriend, and I don't know how long they've been married, Huma's boyfriend or husband, whatever was sexting with a 17-year-old, the Hillary campaign knew it.
At the time he was married to Huma, who is now at the center of the small detail, lurid claims of private messages to underage girl being investigated.
Police met with a response of oof by pedestrians.
I mean they didn't do anything about it.
A piece by A. B. Studdard, formerly of the Hill.com, now at real clear politics, Clinton owns it all.
Meaning all of this is her fault.
Don't try to blame it on Comey or anybody else.
I've got to go to a break.
I want to get more of your phone calls in.
Still lots to do, folks.
Don't go anywhere.
Do you remember George Lackoff rhymes with?
His divorced wife, 74-year-old woman named Robin, has a piece in Time Magazine.
Hillary Clinton's email gate is an attack on all women, and I get blamed on this.
I'm gonna I'm gonna share this with you the next half hour.
Just it's it's a riot.
It's hilarious.
And I think it shows the depths to which they've sunk to try to explain things.
But here is Robert in Southampton in New York.
Great to have you, sir.
Glad you waited.
I appreciate your patience.
Oh, thanks for taking my call again.
I appreciate it.
You bet, sir.
My question is uh having to do with Kasich.
Now, Kasich just wrote in John McCain's name, completely, you know, throwing away his vote.
But doesn't don't stunts like this illustrate the way nothing else can, the way the GOP and perhaps maybe even much of the conservative movement is really just controlled opposition whose real concern is to virtue signal to the left while the country burns.
I mean, is it any surprise that with people like Paul Ryan and Kasich and you got Egg McMuffin out there in Utah basically running a shadow campaign for Hillary?
I mean, is this a good indicator of why nothing of any consequence has been conserved over the last 50 years, not our borders, not our demographics, not marriage, not even women's bathrooms.
I mean, they can't even hold they can't even hold the line on that.
I mean, it's it's just I mean, is there any is there any hope for these people?
I mean, I don't think so, but I mean, when they do things like this, I mean, if it isn't controlled opposition rush, then why are there no corresponding figures like Paul Ryan or Kasich or Wait a second?
What are you are you saying hold the position or controlled opposition?
What are you saying?
I'm saying that the that conservative that much of the conservative movement isn't meant to actually win, because right here we are at the bottom of the ninth with two strikes, and we have people like Ryan, Ed McMuffin, and now no, I know I'm just I'm I'm they're putting it in.
So it's it's it's my hearing.
If you're saying conservatism holds its position, you're right about something there, which I wanted to expand on.
If you're saying controlled opposition, I don't know what that means.
So that's what I was trying to clarify.
Look, I'm gonna answer this after the break.
I think I know what you're asking me.
The FBI has pulled the hard drive out of that laptop.
They've pulled the hard drive from the uh Huma and Anthony Wiener hard drive, and for the purpose of examining Huma's work emails, there are Huma Abaddon work emails on that laptop after she had told everybody she had turned over everything.
So that's the red flag here.
So they have pulled the hard drive.
That is one thing.
Do you also Obama was on a TV show called You Wouldn't Want to See Me Full Frontal by Samantha B. Isn't that the name of the show?
You you wouldn't want to see me in full frontal, Samantha.
Well, full frontal, yeah, but I mean it must be you wouldn't want to see me full frontal.
Hosted by Samantha B. Anyway, Obama's on that show.
And you know what he said?
If Hillary's elected, people are gonna learn and describe her as moody.
Now, why in the world?
That's not that's not uh an endorsement.
He's telling this babe that hosts this show, you know, well, you know, uh if uh if Hillary Hillary wins, uh people's reaction to her, they're gonna call her moody.
What is that?
They're gonna get all oh, oh, oh.
He was he was characterizing the way she's gonna be criticized, not characterizing his view of her.
Oh.
Okay.
I'm glad you told me that, because I don't watch if you saw me in fruit funnel, you wouldn't want to watch with Samantha B. So I so I actually thought that he was throwing her under the bus with that comment.
So what he's actually saying is that if she wins, they're gonna describe her as constantly in her period.
That that's what he's saying.
Meaning just like they're telling me I wasn't born here and they wouldn't let the burger thing go, they're gonna let me talk about Hillary Nurse Ratchet constantly whining and moaning like her moody, meaning she's on her.
Okay.
Fine.
Still not an endorsement.
I mean, why of all things when you're on you wouldn't want to see me full frontal by Samantha B, why wouldn't you say, oh, yes, Hillary's gonna be great.
When Hillary's electric, she's gonna just continue sticking it to them like I have.
Instead of saying now people are gonna call her moody.
All right, as to the previous caller from Southampton's question about Kasich, uh admitting that he voted for McCain.
Folks, this isn't complicated.
He had a phrase called controlled opposition.
I had not heard the phrase.
And rather than uh assume I know what it meant I looked it up to the extent that I could.
The theory behind controlled opposition is this: that Republican elected elites work with the Democrats by controlling just how much actual opposition to the Democrats there is.
And in this way, by maintaining controlled opposition, Republicans are able to stay in close association with Democrats.
Controlled opposition is a way of limiting how strident and successful conservatives are in opposing Democrats.
Here's the bottom line.
It's no more complicated than this.
John Kasich...
Does not think that it's important to defeat Hillary Clinton.
Who cares why?
All you need to know is that if John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, who has, since he's the governor, he has the mechanisms to get ground game activity going to facilitate the Republican nominee, if he wanted to, he could do a lot to help Trump in Ohio.
Instead is choosing not to.
So John Kasich, and he's not alone.
John Kasich has made it clear that defeating Hillary Clinton and Democrats is not his primary objective.
I don't.
What more do you need to know?
The Never Trumpers have done the same thing.
The Never Trumpers have made it clear that in their worldview, defeating Hillary is not the most important challenge of this election.
Defeating Trump is.
Keeping Trump out of power is viewed by many Republicans as the primary objective.
Now, I happen to get the sense, pretty confident that I know this.
The vast majority of you firmly believe that the country is on the wrong path and has been for a long time, largely because of Democrats and establishment types, and you want them stopped.
You don't want Hillary elected because you don't want continuation of the last eight years.
You think the Democrats' priorities are not the best to maintain this country as founded.
So you don't want Hillary elected.
You don't like the leadership of the country as it's currently constituted.
You think there needs to be a change in leadership.
John Kasich obviously doesn't.
He writes McCain's name in.
McCain's not going to win, so it's not really a vote for McCain.
John Kasich doesn't want to do anything that might actually lead to Hillary Clinton losing.
That's what he's saying.
Help me out.
Am I missing something?
I mean, you can say he's making a statement of principle, Mr. Limbaugh.
He is diametrically opposed to Mr. Trump because Trump doesn't deserve to be in the Oval Office or reprobate.
Trump's this, Trump's that.
Fine.
That's fine.
But the end result of that is that we continue with the kind of dangerous leadership that we've had for the last eight years, which we don't want.
I don't think it's complicated.
You talk about controlled opposition all you want.
I mean, it's it's it's clear that the Republican elites, this guy making a joke, they couldn't even, they couldn't even make a stand for bathrooms for crying out loud.
They don't make a stand for the border.
They don't, they don't take a stand on cultural issues.
But in the specific case of Kasich, folks, it isn't complicated.
It's obvious that John Kasich is not interested in Hillary Clinton losing.
Will people forget it?
I don't I know.
Republicans won't forget it.
But you know, then what Kasich and others will rely on is all politics is local, you know, depending on what Kasich.
Can he run for re-election or is he term limited, Governor?
I know.
I don't have any idea.
Um, I'm not even thinking about what people forget.
I just in the current to me, the world is the next eight days.
I don't care about 15 days from now.
The world is the next eight days, and we got people in the next eight days who apparently are okay with Hillary Clinton winning.
People on our side who are apparently okay with Hillary Clinton winning.
I don't care.
The reasoning, I don't understand it.
They can tell me to think Trump's a reprobate that Trump's this, Trump's horrible, Trump.
Isn't it interesting?
I'm supporting the party nominee, and I'm the bad guy.
And they are, they are subordinating.
Sabotaging the party nominee, and they're the good guys.
That's what I thought.
Kasich took the pledge to support the nominee.
He took the pledge to support the nominee.
The drive-by's are praising Kasich left and right for refusing to vote for Trump.
But they forget that he promised to support the nominee.
He's also term-limited to two terms, so he cannot run after 2018.
I'm pretty sure I have to check this stuff on the fly.
I always need to put an asterisk by it to make sure.
I mentioned uh Robin Lackoff, the divorced wife of George Lackoff rhymes with, who um uh was a linguistics uh specialist for the Democrats, gave them the words they should use.
This babe has weighed in an article in Time magazine on how Hillary ought to go about dealing with her opposition.
She's a professor of linguistics at uh California Berkeley, the author of Language and Woman's Place.
And she said it's not about emails, it's about public communication by a woman.
I am mad, writes Lackoff, rhymes with.
I am mad because I am scared.
And if you're a woman, you should be too.
Email gate is a bitch hunt, but the target isn't Hillary Clinton, it's all of us.
The only reason the whole email flap has legs is because the candidate is female.
Can you imagine this happening to a man?
Clinton's guilty of speaking white female.
And email gate is just a reminder to us all that she has no business doing what she's doing and must be punished for the sake of all decent women everywhere.
There's so much of that going around.
People are demanding Clinton act like moral exemplars, thundering from the pulpit like Jonathan Edwards or Cotton Mather.
But Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, and their many conservative friends are not remotely Clinton's moral superiors.
They are simply bullies.
Using gender discrimination to give a veneer of plausibility to their accusation.
So we oppose Hillary because she's out of place.
She's a woman and she needs to be in the kitchen and barefoot and pregnant.
Envision that if you can.
That's what this woman says.
She's a loon.
She's 74 years old.
She's George Lackoff's divorced wife, and she's obviously touched.
That Hillary is in trouble because she speaks bitch.
And and speaks bitch.
Well, what that means is that that misogynists don't like a woman who speaks her mind.
A nag.
And that's what Hillary is, and she's got to be shut up for that reason.
It's totally sexism.
The only reason Hillary's not in trouble for anything she did breaking law, emails or whatever, is just a bunch of bullies who don't want Hillary to have power because she's a woman.
That's what this babe thing.
And she's advising the Hillary campaign on how to deal with this.
I hope they listen to her.
Real Clear Politics updated has reduced Hillary Clinton's projected electoral college vote.
Don't have the numbers, but she's lost New Hampshire in their projections.
And uh what else?
The betting markets.
The betting markets, if you believe in any of that, Hillary is down ten points from where she was.
So she's continuing to trend down at Real Clear Politics in other places.
We'll be right back here tomorrow, folks.
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