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RUSH: Now, I want to go back to these speeches, and I want to give you some points of comparison.\u00a0 I think this is shocking.\u00a0 The story is in the New York Post<\/a>, and that does not qualify as Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

It may be a little close, but it doesn\u2019t qualify.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think you\u2019re gonna see this story in the New York Times or the Washington Post. \u00a0I don\u2019t think any of the nightly newscasts are gonna make a big deal of it.\u00a0 It\u2019s gonna be the kind of thing that, if she loses, in their postmortems they\u2019re gonna go back to and say, “You know what?\u00a0 We missed this when this happened, but the exit polling will show it, that people thought she was inexorably tied to corporate America.”<\/p>\n

You know how much they hate corporate America on the mainstream left, and the reason is the Democrat Party has made corporate America its number one enemies list.\u00a0 The Democrat Party, for as long as I\u2019ve been alive, has been targeting “Big” this and “Big” that, and they have been drumming up hatred and suspicion and revulsion for all of these big corporations.\u00a0 That\u2019s why Citizens United is so despised.\u00a0 That\u2019s why you have leftists running around saying, “Corporations are not people!”<\/p>\n

They hate them.\u00a0 Here\u2019s Hillary Clinton: $21 million in two years.\u00a0 These Democrat voters? No way.\u00a0 Ten to 12 of \u2019em combined are never gonna earn $21 million in their lifetimes.\u00a0 And they\u2019re gonna ask, “What is she doing that\u2019s worth all that?\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen her speak.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t pay 10 cents for it.\u00a0 What?”\u00a0 People are gonna ask all these kinds of logical questions, and they\u2019re gonna see all the banks.\u00a0 They hate the banks every bit as much as they hate corporations.\u00a0 They despise the banks.\u00a0 I mean, Occupy Wall Street was drummed up because of the banks.<\/p>\n

They hate \u2019em, folks.<\/p>\n

I mean, really hate.\u00a0 Not just dislike.<\/p>\n

A friend of mine who was in the golf business, that managed players and so forth, sent me a note. He said that back in the days when Arnold Palmer was healthy… You know, golfers, professional golfers do outings for corporations when they\u2019re not playing in a tournament or they have a day off in a week. They\u2019ll sign up and do an outing for the XYZ Corporation and they\u2019ll go in wherever the corporation is located and they\u2019ll play golf with big clients and they\u2019ll do lunch and this kind of stuff.<\/p>\n

But you have to pay for it, and they\u2019re called “outings.”\u00a0 This guy tells me that at the peak when he was healthy, that you could get Arnold Palmer for $150,000 all day.\u00a0 Now, who would you rather spend a day with, whether you play golf or not, Arnold Palmer or Hillary Clinton?\u00a0 If you want 20 minutes with Hillary and you don\u2019t get 20 minutes with her, you get 20 minutes of you have to listening to that screeching voice lie to you, that\u2019s $225,000.\u00a0 For 150 you can have Arnold Palmer all day long and play golf with him and pose for pictures and have him tell you stories.<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s not the only golfer.\u00a0 They all do it. Did. I assume it\u2019s… Yeah, it probably still happen.\u00a0 And they\u2019ve all got different prices, but Arnold Palmer being The King… Nicklaus. What was Nicklaus?\u00a0 Nicklaus, same thing. It\u2019s 150, something like that for all day on these outings.\u00a0 By the way, Jack Nicklaus has come out for the Trumpster \u2019cause he\u2019s “turning the world upside down,” and he likes that.\u00a0 Jack Nicklaus has joined the Trump brigade. (interruption) What are you frowning at in there? (interruption) Oh, wow, you hadn\u2019t heard that, huh?<\/p>\n

Yeah, let me find it here in the Stack.\u00a0 But I just… You know, I\u2019ve been so lucky.\u00a0 I\u2019ve played golf with these guys. They\u2019re all great. All these guys are exactly like you want them to be when you\u2019re thinking of meeting them and so forth. They\u2019re humble, they\u2019re funny, they\u2019re polite, they help you.\u00a0 It\u2019s gotta be… For a pro that can play golf, it has to be torture to have to spend a day with a bunch of hackers.\u00a0 It just has to be torture.<\/p>\n

Because all the hackers want “the secret.” All the hackers hope the pro — the Nicklaus, the Palmer — can unlock the one thing they\u2019re doing wrong to turn their game around. Of course they can\u2019t.\u00a0 But they try.\u00a0 Every time I\u2019ve been with them, they try.\u00a0 They\u2019re helpful, and they put the game of the hacker they\u2019re playing with first.\u00a0 They all do.\u00a0 It\u2019s amazing.\u00a0 Well, I\u2019ve put it in… I\u2019ve got two different Stacks here, and I obviously put the…<\/p>\n

Yeah, it\u2019s gonna be in this Stack.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even know why I need to find it.\u00a0 I just told you it\u2019s true.\u00a0 Jack Nicklaus. (interruption) Yeah. (interruption) Yup. Here it is.\u00a0 Jack Nicklaus. I just want to give you the source. It\u2019s Washington Post.\u00a0 “Jack Nicklaus Says Donald Trump Is ‘Turning America Upside Down\u2019 — in a Good Way — Jack Nicklaus is the latest member of the sports world to endorse Trump, the presumptive… And Trump, by the way, is a competitor of Nicklaus .\u00a0 Nicklaus designs golf courses. Nicklaus has clubs.<\/p>\n

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Like the Bear\u2019s Club here. Trump has his own. They\u2019re modified competitors.\u00a0 “‘I like what Donald has done. I like that he\u2019s turning America upside down,\u2019 Nicklaus told Jim Axelrod in a\u00a0‘CBS Sunday Morning\u2019 interview. <\/a>‘He\u2019s awakening the country. We need a lot of that.\u2019\u00a0 Nicklaus said his business experiences with Trump, who attended the ceremony when Nicklaus was honored with a Congressional Gold Medal a year ago, had been positive and that he ‘didn\u2019t want to get political about this.\u2019<\/p>\n

“Reluctantly, he said he knows how he is likely to vote in November even though he says Trump probably isn\u2019t ‘as smooth or as politically correct as he should be.\u2019\u00a0 ‘I like the guy. He\u2019s a good man,\u2019 Nicklaus said. ‘And certainly — if he\u2019s the one that\u2019s on the ticket, I\u2019ll be voting for him.'” Jack Nicklaus.\u00a0 You could have Nicklaus at your corporate outing for 150 grand all day, same thing with Arnold Palmer, same thing with Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 I\u2019m just to put this stuff in perspective. (interruption) No. (interruption) \u00a0I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, folks: $21 million over two years for 20 or 25 minutes?<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing that screeches “out of touch” more than that.<\/p>\n

That is just huge.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Michael in Glastonbury, Connecticut.\u00a0 Great to have you on the program, sir.\u00a0 Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Rush, great to talk to you.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been listening to you for a little over a year now, recent college grad, actually signed up for Rush 24\/7, got my two years. I love it, listen to you every day.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 I had to call you today.\u00a0 I spent about the last about hour trying to get through because I had commencement a little over a week ago on Mother\u2019s Day, and you\u2019ve been talking a lot about the liberal speakers that come to these commencements, and a funny thing happened at my commencement.\u00a0 A guy… I can\u2019t remember his name. He was nobody big. He was getting an honorary degree.\u00a0 And he suggested that… He was talking about the nineties, and he said we had a Clinton that was president back then.\u00a0 Perhaps now this year we will have a Mrs. Clinton as president.\u00a0 The whole crowd, the whole gymnasium — Gampel Pavilion at the University of Connecticut — blew up, erupted in boos.\u00a0 It was the craziest thing.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t believe it happened.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Really? The whole crowd booed, is that what you said?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 The whole crowd booed.\u00a0 I have a video of it on my Twitter page.\u00a0 I put it up; it got over a thousand retweets. The amount of messages I got… The whole place — student section and people watching — just erupted in booed.\u00a0 It was insane.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 And that surprised you?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 It only surprised me because it\u2019s Connecticut, and the University of Connecticut.\u00a0 We\u2019re by no means a conservative school.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Well, I know, but Connecticut\u2019s close to Vermont. This is where Bernie Sanders is from.\u00a0 Connecticut —<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Connecticut is… You know, they\u2019re no question that they\u2019re dominant Democrat, Democrat leftist, Democrat dominant liberal and so forth. \u00a0Mrs. Clinton is not individual.\u00a0 It\u2019s why your guy… I guarantee your commencement speaker, the nobody that spoke to your class had to mention Bill first.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 And even mentioning Bill first, Hillary still gets booed.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 She got booed and the video, too. You could see the guy. He was in shock seems like.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Oh, I\u2019ll bet.\u00a0 Who was this? Who was this guy? Do you remember his name?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 I can\u2019t think of his name.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 You\u2019re kidding me. You can\u2019t remember your commencement speaker?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 There were a couple of them.\u00a0 He was a former CFO at a Fortune 100 company.\u00a0 So that\u2019s who he was.\u00a0 And… Yeah, so the people behind him, they looked shocked.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Let me ask you: Were inspired by what he said outside the Hillary stuff?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Rush, nobody was inspired by what he was saying.\u00a0 People were shaking their heads, people talking in the stands.\u00a0 It was not inspiring.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 It\u2019s been going on a lot, too. \u00a0I talked to a couple friends. A couple friends graduated from Southern Connecticut State University and one at West Conn, and Dick Blumenthal, I guess, gave a couple speeches there.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 No wonder the place was asleep, if Blumenthal was there.\u00a0 Hey, look, thank you, Michael, I really appreciate it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Jesus in Seattle.\u00a0 Great to have you, sir.\u00a0 Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Mr. Limbaugh, greetings to you, sir.\u00a0 First-time caller.\u00a0 I really appreciate you.\u00a0 I learned a lot from you.\u00a0 I got a quick question, if I may.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 About Hillary Clinton making the $21 million for speeches: Was she on a taxpayer dime while giving the speeches?\u00a0 And if so, did she, you know, not pay attention to government rules?<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Well, let\u2019s see.\u00a0“Mandatory financial disclosures released this month show that, in just the two years from April 2013 to March 2015, the former first lady, senator and secretary of state collected $21,667,000 in ‘speaking fees,\u2019 not to mention the cool $5 mil she corralled as an advance for her 2014 flop book, Hard Choices.” So the years are April 2013 to March 2015.\u00a0 I think she was… The years run together.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think she was secretary of state.\u00a0 I think she had left, she was gone by now.\u00a0 I think the haughty John Kerry had moved in.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 I just thought I\u2019d ask the question.\u00a0 I thought I\u2019d appeal to the all-knowing Maha Rushie.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t matter. \u00a0She was doing this stuff while… Let me tell you something.\u00a0 Forget this for… Well, don\u2019t forget this.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 There\u2019s $100 million, Jesus, in another account, the Clinton Family Foundation.\u00a0 That\u2019s what we jokingly here, affectionately refer to as the Clinton Crime Family Foundation. She and Bill and Chelsea — who says she doesn\u2019t care about money. She tried but she just can\u2019t care about it. They are the beneficiaries there, and they supposedly make charitable donations. But there haven\u2019t been very many. That foundation collected $100 million, part of which while she was secretary of state.\u00a0 That\u2019s the money that came from foreign governments and individuals and who knows who else.\u00a0 So your point is: Was she doing all this speechmaking on government time?\u00a0 I doubt it.\u00a0 But she was… I mean, people are not just sending money because the foundation\u2019s there.\u00a0 She and Bill had to be soliciting it.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 While she was secretary.\u00a0 In fact, they were playing off that, and all of this has been donated on the come, on the premise she\u2019s gonna be president someday.\u00a0 So the point is her presidency has been purchased.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Exactly my point.\u00a0 She is more preoccupied about making money. Her mind is gonna be there, not in the welfare of the country.<\/p>\n