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Nov. 2, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 2, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I am sick and tired of hearing Hillary Clinton tell me how sick and tired she is.
Well, you tell me something, folks.
How does somebody leave the White House?
And she's claimed they were broke.
Let's take her at her word.
Broke.
They did steal White House furniture.
They did, folks.
I'm not making this up.
It would be too easy for you to prove I was lying.
If I well, you can Google this.
Well, no, you can't.
Google is protecting these people too.
Eric Schmidt of Google has been begging the campaign to let him run their campaign for who knows how many years.
The level of corruption that exists between wealthy power brokers in industry after industry and the Democrat Party, and therefore the United States government would shock your average citizen who thinks that the Democrat Party is looking out for them.
The Democrat Party is looking out for itself.
It is keeping people impoverished by virtue of keeping them highly taxed, preventing them from getting well-paying jobs.
A Democrat Party needs people in a constant state of economic need so that they need government to live so that they keep voting Democrat to provide whatever government gives them.
It is insidious.
It destroys human dreams, it destroys human potential, and a Democrat Party, it is their playbook.
And it is one of the most frustrating things in the world for me to see so many people fall for it.
It has been one of the most frustrating things all of my, particularly when I see young people falling for when I see young people thinking you can't do anything in this world without government being involved in it, I just I almost cry.
I really do.
I read what young people write and what they think, and they want the government involved in everything.
They want the government being the arbiter of fairness and unfairness.
They want the government using the power to get even with their enemies.
They want the government to do everything.
And the government doesn't.
That's not what government is.
It's not what it's for governments, not the referee governments, not to pick sides, but certainly government is not to provide a living for people because it can't.
And if you look at the degree of corruption, how does somebody leave the White House penniless and ten years later have a net worth of 250 million dollars when all they've done is give speeches?
How does this happen?
How does somebody, how does a man and wife set up a foundation, ostensibly for the purposes of setting up charities that help impoverished people all over the world?
How do you get rich doing that?
Charities are supposed to give their money away to people in need.
How do the people running the charity get rich?
But the Clintons have found a way.
And neither of them have had jobs since they left the White.
Well, Hillary Secretary of State, but I mean that doesn't pay anything.
What's that pay?
200 grand a year, what's Secretary of State get?
It's not enough to acquire a net worth of 350 to 400 million dollars, I can tell you that.
And nobody questions it.
Whether the Clintons, the good people, the nice people they care about.
They don't care about anybody but themselves.
Anyway, uh welcome back, folks.
It's great to have you here.
Telephone numbers 800 282-2882, the email address, Ilrushbo at EIBNet.com.
Mr. Snerdley showed me some.
Damn it!
I need to put a giant sign here.
I don't, I'm tired of this.
I'm gonna stop giving me it's EIB net.us.
If I say dot com anymore, forget it.
I mean U.S. See, I've just wasted 30 seconds here correcting a stupid numb mistake.
Okay, look, Mr. Snerdley pointed something out to me.
I would not have seen this in the normal um act of show prep on my own.
Washington Post.
Uh it might even be just website only.
I don't know if it's even ran in the newspaper.
The Inspired Life section Of the post.
What is this election missing is the headline?
The answer, empathy for Trump voters.
I say, whoa, what's this?
Empathy for Trump voters?
You know what empathy is, not sympathy.
It means we need a little bit more understanding of who these Trump people are.
So the story is about a sociologist at UC Berkeley, who what how many number of years?
The last five years, is it a she or he?
She, a sociologist at UC Berkeley, immersed herself in Middle America, Tea Party America, for the last five years.
As the Tea Party rose to political prominence at the end of the last decade, a liberal Berkeley sociology professor set out to understand why the white working class, once a strong voting block for Democrats, had embraced anti-establishment ideas that put them further to the right of even the mainstream Republican Party.
Arlie Russell Hoschild spent time in rural Louisiana over five years.
That's the sociologist at Berkeley, getting to know people in a state where only 14% of white voters supported Obama.
So the premise here is you have a UC Berkeley sociologist who has accepted that forever white working class people vote Democrat.
White blue-collar people, vote Democrat.
That middle class, lower middle class Americans, vote Democrat.
That's just the rule.
It's just the way it's except they're not anymore.
And they haven't been for a while.
They didn't vote for Obama in either 08 or 12, and they're not interested in Hillary.
So this sociologist sets out to find out why.
What I wanted to do was take my own political and moral social alarm system.
I wanted to do it.
This doesn't make sense.
What she's flower link.
I wanted to get rid of my biases and prejudices and go out there and actually try to objectively learn who these people are.
The main thing I was trying to do was to really see if I could make friends with people, if I could really get close to them.
Now stop and think of this for a second.
This is a woman, and you know, kudos to her, don't misunderstand here.
She is a professor of sociology, which means she is teaching kids whose parents are spending 30 grand a year to send them there about sociology, and she feels totally disconnected with white middle class people in Middle America, and she wanted to go see if she could actually make friends with them.
They're that strange to her, they are that odd, that she wanted to go see if she could make friends with them.
If she could really get close.
For certain people, these are her words that she got.
For certain people, I asked, would you show me the school you went to?
Could we visit the church you went to?
The cemetery where your parents were buried.
They were wonderful people who I came to know in this way.
She shocked.
She was shocked that white people voting Republican were normal.
She was shocked that they were real.
Five years.
She wanted to become their friend, and she was stunned at how open they were, and how accepting of her they were, and how welcoming to their world they made her feel.
What she discovered and then wrote about in her book, Strangers in Their Own Land is the title of her book.
It's by the way, a National Book Award finalist this year.
Did you know that?
Oh yes.
A national book award final.
I won one one year for Rush Revere.
I will never win it again.
They got it out of the way, but I did win it one year.
What the sociologist discovered and wrote about is that in America, neither side, Republican Democrat, conservative, liberal, were not making an effort to understand each other.
But especially progressives, she said, like her.
The progressives, the left, the liberal, they are really not making any effort whatsoever to understand other people.
She was one of them, she knows.
What I expected was a self-centered people, she writes, but I found people who were nothing like that.
They were the opposite.
They were open hearted.
They were communal.
They were very eager to be known.
They'd say, thanks for coming.
We're the flyover state.
People don't care about us.
They don't know who we are.
They think we're racist and homophobic and sexist and fat.
There was gratitude toward me, and I would tell them exactly who I was.
I'd tell them I think I live in a political bubble and I'm trying to get out of mine and into yours.
Will you talk to me?
Stop and think about this now.
And this woman brazenly open and honest about who she is.
She really expected a bunch of zombies.
Normal white people Louisiana.
She expected a f of a foreign race.
She expected people that she would instantly dislike and worse would instantly hate her.
She could not believe how nice they were.
She could not believe how open they were.
She couldn't believe how unselfish they were and unself-centered.
This woman, I submit to you, is typical of everybody in the media today, is typical of pretty much every college professor today, is typical of pretty much every Democrat today.
And certainly Everl's every social media liberal.
And I don't know where it came from.
This is but this is classic.
This is she thinks she's talking.
She went out to find out who the Tea Party is, and she thought the Tea Party was this bunch of zombie, mean spirited, unaccepting, intolerant attackers.
She thought she was gonna be attacked by showing up in their neighborhood.
And she writes about how overwhelmingly shocked she was at just how opposite they were.
Welcoming, nice, tolerant, eager to get to know her, eager to tell her who they were.
They understood who she was and what she was doing, and they wanted her to know the truth.
Then you get to page three.
She's being interviewed by this reporter at the Washington Post to question, do you think that they had preconceived notions about you too?
She's already shared that she thought they were zombies and intolerant.
Racist sexists make it home home.
So the writer says, Well, do you think they thought certain preconceived notions of you too?
Answer from the sociologist.
Well, you could see brows knit up when I spoke.
One woman said that I was her first Democrat friend.
I met another woman who said, I love Rush Limbaugh.
And I said, the sociologist in Berkeley, I said, I would love to talk to you about that.
Meaning she runs into a woman who tells her she loves me, and now the sociologist, now I really want to talk to you.
That really I I have to understand.
How in the world can you like Rush Limbaugh?
The impressions these people have of me, well, you know what they are, you encounter it on social media all the time.
So anyway, this woman said to her, well, we love Rush Limbaugh because he defends us.
Rush Limbaugh defends us against all the attacks that we get from other liberals and the media and the Democrats limbaughs out defending us every day.
And this sociologist at Berkeley was stunned speechless.
She says that reversed the picture of limbaugh to me from accuser to defender.
She arrives in this little airy Louisiana, expecting these zombies and thinking that I am their spingali.
I'm the one teaching them how to attack and how to be mean and how to be intolerant.
Then she finds out they're not at all what she thought.
Then they find out they love listening to me.
And the reason is that I defend them against all the personal assaults they get.
And she's had a total change of heart about me.
And all it took was she used, she no longer thinks I'm an attacker.
I'm a defender.
And to me, that to her, that changes her entire perception of me and everybody else like me.
Now, what do I do here?
I've even been open and honest what I do.
I get up, I mind my own business every get up, and I see the things I believe in under assault.
I see people I cherish under assault, and I come here and I defend them.
It's exactly what I do.
It is exactly, and I've made no bones of it.
I defend the things, traditions, institutions, people that I value and hold dear.
Somehow, that has been, I bet this woman never even listened to me.
She just accepts whatever else is said about me and all the rest of us, folks, to form this opinion of I'm the kind of guy that if I walked into a room or a church, the first thing I'd do is be scouting for all the liberals, and I walk to them, you pig, you get out of here.
I'm Rush Limbaugh, and you're a liberal and you don't deserve to live.
Get on.
That's what they think that I do when I walk into a room.
It has to be.
But where does it come from?
I have no idea other than the usual answers you would give to something like that.
But it's deep.
Here's a woman who's written a whole book about, well, not a whole book about how wrong she was, but about how her eyes have been opened about white middle class people that used to be died in the wool Democrats and aren't anymore.
And to me, what's fascinating about it is you expand this to Trump supporters and what they think of Trump and Trump supporters and so forth.
These are the people that are in the media.
These are the kind of people that are opinion leaders.
These are the people who write columns at newspapers and online.
These are the people that teach your kids.
They're closed-minded and they're wrong about everything when it comes to who we are and values.
And they're also very afraid.
That's the thing that I really got.
They're scared to death of what they are wrong about.
I found it fascinating, but it explains and illustrates what we are up against.
And she admits her intolerance.
And how shocked she was the people she thinks intolerant were just the exact opposite.
Anyway, we'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, you're gonna walk me through this again.
Where is Obama?
Okay, oh, that's, you know, Obama's in North Carolina.
North Carolina, uh, folks, wait till you hear what Obama is saying in North Carolina.
Get to it just a second.
But North Carolina is interesting because I have two different stories about how Trump is way ahead in North Carolina.
W-R-A-L, a TV station in Raleigh has him up seven, another, a relatively new poll in North Carolina has Trump up seven.
The other polls, the PPP and all the usual that you've heard of ABC, Monmouth Habit, toss up leaning Hillary, right?
I mean, the divergence in polling data in North Carolina is indecipherable.
You've either got Trump really, really gaining ground and up seven and black turnout falling away, or you've got just the opposite, depending on which poll you listen to.
But Obama went there.
He's there today.
That tells me that they're worried about North Carolina.
Wait till you hear what Obama.
Do you know what Obama's telling the audiences that he spoke to today?
He said the day Trump takes office, Medicare checks stop, Medicare Medicaid.
Medicaid will stop day one.
Then Trump is going to slow down Pell grants.
And then he said Trump they'll probably even dig up Michelle's garden.
Now stop and think about this for a sec.
This is Democrat playbook from 60 years ago modified.
Republicans are going to kick you out of your home by cutting your social security was what every four years they said to elderly people.
It finally stopped working because there were never any social security cuts.
And old people never never were kicked out of their homes.
Now this is desperation.
Do you happen to know was it a black audience?
Was it a university audience?
I think it was at Chapel Hill.
I think it was Chapel Hill, which is Moscow West.
University of North Carolina Chapel, I guess where I thought, yeah, that's where he was.
To tell people Trump's first day in office, Medicaid is effectively over.
Medicaid.
That's health care for the poor, the infirm, the elderly, Medicaid.
Medicare is elderly, Medicaid for the poor.
It'll end.
Pell grants slowed down.
I mean, this from a guy who said he didn't want to get involved in the FBI stuff.
There are desperate.
I don't know how else you categorize this.
And it's dead lies.
This is unbelievable.
So Obama is at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
That's her main campus in North Carolina, and it is as leftist as any institution in this country is.
And here's what he told the crowd there.
And it's made up of students and who knows what the mix is.
If Trump's elected day one Medicaid checks stop, Pell grants slow down.
He also said that grants to predominantly black colleges will be systematically reduced and then cut off.
Yeah, Trump's gonna defund government funding of black colleges.
He's gonna end Medicaid.
And then and Trump, Trump is gonna, then he's gonna dig up Michelle's garden.
I'm still trying to, I'm still processing this scare tactic that Obama is using.
The scary thing is there can be people believe it.
That's always been the thing that blows my mind about the leftist message is that people believe it.
Show up and say that uh Obama goes shows up and says that Trump's gonna end Medicaid on day one.
Whoa, whoa!
Can't have that.
No, no, no.
It wouldn't be possible.
No president can do that.
Congress.
And it's never gonna happen, sadly.
It's never gonna happen.
Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security all need to be reformed and reworked.
But nobody's gonna ever wipe them out.
But who knows how many in that crowd believe it.
And then dig up Michelle's Garden and then slow down Pell Grants and then funding for all black colleges.
Oh, oh, and he ended up yes, uh Trump is going to cut taxes for the wealthiest.
Yes, that old standby.
Donald Trump's gonna cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans and go back to trickle down, which didn't work in the 80s, never worked, and it's been proven we're gonna go back and try it again.
Nothing but lies.
Born, I think, of panic.
Trump is only down one in Michigan.
Hillary cannot be all the places she needs to be, folks.
All these states that were supposedly in the tank, in a bag, these states, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Trump's only down a point in Pennsylvania, up seven, North Carolina, up in Florida, up in Ohio.
Hillary cannot be in every state she needs to be, so they've got the surrogates out there, Obama.
But man, this is bottom of the barrel stuff.
It also tells you a lot about the audience that Obama thought he had there at uh UNC Chapel Hill.
Okay, audio sound bites.
Um, this is let's start with number five.
Let's just go in order here.
I do have a couple of Trump bites I want you to hear if I squeeze them in before the program ends.
This is last night Bloomberg Television, What You Miss, the name of the show, co-host Matt Miller speaking with uh media correspondent Jerry Smith about the Republican nominee starting his own TV network, Trump.
They're obsessed with this.
I think Trump's gonna start his own TV network.
They didn't want to win.
He's just doing this to build up an audience for the eventual Trump TV network.
And that's what they're discussing.
And here is this Jerry Smith guy, the media correspondent at Bloomberg.
Maybe Ivanka could have an hour, Rush Limbaugh potentially.
So, you know, those are sort of the ideas that are getting thrown out there.
But um, you know, Donald Trump obviously says he's still focused on the election and doesn't have any interest in a Trump TV network at this point.
Right.
Um I've been waiting for this.
I've been waiting for my name to be included in all of this.
Um I don't know how many times I've been asked over the assistant.
Well, Fox debutted in 1997, debuted, debuted for those in real Linda.
And since 1997, I can't believe you don't have a show on Fox.
If they not asked you do a show.
No, uh I get you wouldn't believe the number of offers.
Really?
That's right.
Well, why don't you have a show?
I don't like television.
Oh.
Why not?
And I go the reasons why I don't like TV.
I just're obsessed with that.
That's how that's how they're trying to comfort themselves.
Trump doesn't really want to win.
Trump's setting up Trump TV.
Fr everybody that I've talked to on the Trump network, the last thing on his mind is that is a news network.
I mean, this has been manufactured out of clean air.
Pat Cadell, who worked for Jimmy Carter, is on record this week as saying that this is starting to look like 1980, when Reagan came out of nowhere in the last week and he was down nine and ends up winning with a 10 state, 10% landslide.
Cadell is on record.
Yes, it's starting to feel like that.
Well, Ed Rollins is joining Cadell in that.
This is uh Neil Cavuto last night.
Uh, and he says to uh Rollins, hey Ed, what's going on out there?
Anything?
What do you what do you sense, Ed?
Yeah, definitely there's a momentum shift, and you always want to be on the side of momentum.
And my sense is it started uh before the FBI thing, and very similar to Reagan in 1980.
We were eight points behind.
Uh we went ahead uh after that debate and finished uh with a very strong finish.
Right.
So same show, Cadell is there, and Cavuto says, hey, Pat, were Reagan supporters seminally jazzed like Trump supporters are right now.
I'm trying to see whether this is a tip off of something that we might be missing, or whether people are just hopeful this is uh happening.
What what do you really think, Pat?
Crowds were not the indicator.
This race had been close.
The reason I did not want to debate the last uh week before the election, I didn't want to step on our incumbent momentum.
Reagan helped himself enormously in that debate.
Then the race kind of went back and forth for a couple of days.
By Saturday, the race was even.
On Sunday, the race went to five points down, and on Monday night it went to ten points down.
There was something happening there, which is at once that we had been trying, as the Clinton campaign has been doing.
We had pressed Reagan's personality, those traits being too risky and being dangerous.
What happened was a break took place in the perception of the election.
Same thing here.
All right, so what he's trying to say is that the way the reason that they had the big shift in 1980 was that people stopped believing them.
The Carter campaign, when they were talking about how dangerous Reagan was.
You can't let this guy near the nuclear, but this guy's he's a Hollywood actor.
He's not very bright.
You know, this guy's he's kind of bumbling and stumbling through you.
We don't have this guy anywhere near the levers of power.
That began to change, Cadell says.
The last weekend, and he says it's the same thing that's beginning to happen here.
That all of these things that people have saying about Trump, they're not working anymore.
Here's more.
Cavuto said, so you think, Pat, you think Trump can do this?
Yes.
The other thing about these polls is the waiting problem is bad.
The Washington Post poll with Trump ahead is still showing a 10-point party margin, which I believe is twice as high as it's likely to be.
In which case, you're looking at a race where Trump really is probably in their polling four or five points ahead.
It does feel like the closing days of 80 to meet that.
It does too.
That's Ed Rollins.
He ran Reagan in 80.
And Reagan and Rollins.
And Cadell and Rollins.
Yeah, yeah, we're starting to feel the same thing we felt in 80.
That's what they're saying.
This other point that he made about the waiting problem in the polls.
He's right.
In the Washington Post tracking poll, even now that the one that Trump was up won yesterday and it's dead even today, they have a 10% Democrat advantage in that poll.
37% Democrats, 27% Republicans.
That is not changing.
There's something else in these polls.
I mentioned this the first hour I've got to mention it again.
They have assumed, all of these pollsters have assumed that the black turnout will be similar to what it was for Obama in 2008 and 12, and they have put that into their projections.
If the black turnout's the same, it votes for Hillary.
What does that mean for a poll?
But the black turnout may not approach those levels, which then further skews these results.
But you heard Cadell.
He thinks this sample is 10% more Democrats and Republicans.
That's absurd.
It's more like three points, maybe four.
You have the 4%, 3% more Democrats and Republicans.
And if you do that, you might find Trump plus four in this poll.
Look, these are experts in it.
They've been there, done that.
Take it for what it's worth.
We'll be back after this.
I want you to hear a soundbite here from Ron Brownstein.
Okay.
This was on CNN today.
He's interviewed by Chris Cuomo, and they're talking about the ABC poll, where Trump and the tracking poll, where Trump and Hillary are tied.
Listen to this.
And that ABC Washington Post tracking poll, Donald Trump is leading not only among non-college white men, but among non-college white women by more than Ronald Reagan did against Walter Mondale.
Now, if that's real, it would be an historic kind of statement.
And it would make it very hard for Hillary Clinton in uh Ohio and Iowa and probably make Michigan and Wisconsin wobble a little bit too.
I wanted you to hear that from the actual drive-bys, not just not just me.
Because this is one of these areas, if you listen to them, women hate Trump, they tell you.
Women don't want anything to do with Trump.
Women look at Trump.
And Hillary is still out there using Alicia Machado to introduce her.
Alicia Machado.
Three week old news.
It's empty in the Hillary tank.
And Brownstein points out, you look, it's not just white men.
Trump is getting non-college white women in greater numbers than Reagan did against Mondo.
That was a 49-state landslide against Mondo.
And he said, if that's real, that's that's historic.
That's Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin.
And then you put Obama in North Carolina where they're being told that Trump's going to end Medicaid on day one and then dig up Michelle's garden.
I don't know, folks.
It's risky to make these assessments and create false impressions, but I just, I don't know.
To me, this all reeks of some degree of panic out there on the part of the Hillary team.
Something else Obama said at Chapel Hill.
If Trump's elected, he'll reverse every single thing I've done on jobs, on health insurance, climate change.
Yeah, that's kind of the idea.
Is to reverse everything you've done and more.
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