{"id":214421,"date":"2016-09-15T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/09\/15\/words_of_wisdom_from_general_powell\/"},"modified":"2021-10-26T09:26:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:26:40","slug":"words_of_wisdom_from_general_powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/09\/15\/words_of_wisdom_from_general_powell\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of Wisdom from General Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH:  You know what\u2019s funny to watch?  What\u2019s funny to watch is the Drive-Bys trying to portray Colin Powell and his hacked emails as devastating to Trump.  It\u2019s… Folks, this is hilarious! They\u2019re doing everything they can to ignore the negative things Colin Powell said about — and, by the way, this is gonna change the day for Colin Powell.  Colin Powell is not thought to speak this way.  People don\u2019t think that Colin Powell even thinks this way.Colin Powell is not a “partisan.” He doesn\u2019t say mean things about people except the people who deserve to have mean things said about them, like me.  But, other than that, he doesn\u2019t criticize establishment types.  And look what\u2019s in these emails.  My God, we could make at least two T-shirts with nothing but Colin Powell quotes on the front!  In fact, that may be an idea.  They\u2019ve been trying to push the idea that Powell won\u2019t be voting for Trump because Powell called Trump” a national disgrace.”Ha! Who saw that coming?No, the news is (laughing) Bill Clinton is still… (pause) (interruption) Well, I know he said it, but we… You know, we have standards. We have standards on this program.  But the thing is, if you look these emails it\u2019s a safe bet that Colin Powell is not going to be endorsing Hillary Clinton.  I mean, that\u2019s the message here.  There\u2019s a guy named Jeff Leeds. He\u2019s a huge donor.  He emailed Colin Powell on July 24, 2014, to tell him he\u2019d gotten Rudy Giuliani to admit that President Obama\u2019s a decent guy and that Hillary is not stoppable in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what this Jeff Leeds guy told Powell that he got Giuliani to admit.  Powell said, “You know, I\u2019d rather not have to vote for her, although she is a friend I respect.  She\u2019s a 70-year-old person, long track record. She\u2019s hampered by being greedy, not transformational, with a husband still dicking bimbos at home.”  But he got out of that one by credit that goes to the New York Post.  I know what he\u2019s talking about.<\/p>\n

The New York Post ran a story about some babe that Clinton knows and who visits Chappaqua when Hillary\u2019s not around.  Just… (interruption) The Energizer, right, right. The Energizer Bunny, whatever her name is. But there\u2019s a whole slew of these women, and everybody knows it, and here\u2019s Colin Powell referring to it: How can you vote for Hillary, how can you respect her, when her husband\u2019s “still dicking bimbos up in Chappaqua at home!”<\/p>\n

“Still dicking bimbos at home.”  Colin Powell, Colin Powell saying this in an email.  Do you ever think your email\u2019s gonna hacked?  You know what you ought to start doing? Everybody, you ought to… Every email you write, you better write it with the thought in mind, “What if the world saw this someday?” Another email Colin Powell describes Hillary as “hubris.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to go back to these Colin Powell emails, because, folks, let me tell you something.<\/p>\n

We actually learn a lot here.  We learn more than you think.  If you know how to read these things — if you know how to attach the meaning in these emails to the real-world lives of the people writing these emails and commenting on them — you can learn a lot more than just what Colin Powell thinks of Bill Clinton.  Let\u2019s go through them.  “Former secretary of state Colin Powell ripped into Hillary Clinton in several personal emails over the years,” while the Drive-By Media is trying to say that Powell really ripped into Trump.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re doing that to try and not report what Powell said and wrote about Hillary.  This according to a document dump of hacked emailed on the website DCLeaks.com.  CBS News, no less, waded through the documents.  They picked out some of the most interesting emails blasting Hillary.  “In one blunt…” I mentioned this to you before the break at the top of the hour.<\/p>\n

<\/a>“In one blunt 2014 email with Democratic donor Jeffrey Leeds, [Colin] Powell had this to say of Clinton: ‘I would rather not have to vote for her, although she is a friend I respect. A 70-year person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy,not [sic] transformational, with a husband still dicking bimbos at home (according to the [New York Post]).” So that\u2019s one email that Colin Powell sent describing Hillary.<\/p>\n

That is quite an accusation, especially at Bill\u2019s advanced age. It\u2019s no wonder the Drive-Bys are trying to concentrate on what Powell said about Trump, because these are devastating.  And this is Colin Powell.  He\u2019s as close… Well, he\u2019s as close to untouchable, Mr. Pure, Mr. Clean as Washington, DC, has to offer.  Or he was.  In another email to the same guy, “mega donor” Jeffrey Leeds — this is August of 15 — Colin Powell weighed in on his own use of private emails for State Department business.<\/p>\n

Quote: “Agree, press has started asking Peggy and me about our use. We have answered 3 IG questionnaire…” That\u2019s inspectors general. “We have answered 3 IG questionnaire and are clean,” he told this guy. “A newsie asked today to interview me on my use. Told them to read my book, Chapter on ‘Brainware.'” So he calls journalists newsies.  “A newsie asked today to interview me on my use” of private email servers. “Told them to read my book, Chapter on ‘Brainware.'”<\/p>\n

You ready for what…? Look, folks, I\u2019m just reading what the hacked emails reveal.  They are going… I don\u2019t want to say the word. Okay, let me just tell you he didn\u2019t say “screw it up,” but it\u2019s close.  He said, “They are going to [screw] up the legitimate and necessary use of emails with friggin record rules. I saw email more like a telephone than a cable machine. As long as the stuff is unclassified. I had a secure State.gov machine. Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>(summarized) Yeah, yeah, I did but not the way she\u2019s doing it.  I didn\u2019t use State Department email on my private server. No way, no how. I never went there.  Personal stuff, yeah.  But she\u2019s gonna screw it all up with these rules. She\u2019s screwing it up for everybody.  Everything she touches, she “screws up with hubris.”  That email continues.  “I told you about the gig I lost at a University because she so overcharged them they came under heat and couldn\u2019t any [sic] fees for awhile. I should send her a bill.”<\/p>\n

Folks, that is… I can\u2019t tell you how telling that is.  Let me translate this for you.  Powell is complaining about Hillary in this email to a mega donor of the Democrat Party.  He said, “I told you about the gig,” meaning the speech opportunity, speech gig. “I told you about the gig I lost at a University because she so overcharged them they came under heat and couldn\u2019t [pay] any fees for awhile.”  The ruling class, this crowd is obsessed with speaking gigs.<\/p>\n

Hillary: $20 million in two years making 20-minute speeches to banks.  Bill and Hillary Clinton\u2019s net worth: 80% of what they have earned since leaving the White House is from speech income.  And apparently it\u2019s the same thing with Colin Powell. Apparently speech income is hugely important to these people, and he\u2019s ticked off here because Hillary went and gave a speech at some university that also asked him.<\/p>\n

She charged them so much, when it was learned how much they paid her, they got all kind of heat, and they had to cancel subsequent speeches or ask people to give them for nothing because they had run out of money, and there was so much heat on, they couldn\u2019t keep up the facade.  Now, these speeches, it\u2019s made to look like that the money is not a factor. The people who get paid try to downplay it, “Oh, no. I care about these issues from my heart!<\/p>\n

“I care about the country. I\u2019m devoted to the education of young minds.  I thoroughly enjoyed a trip to campus, spending time there at the academy, academe.  It\u2019s a great opportunity to share with the students that show up the breadth of knowledge I\u2019ve acquired over the course of the years.  It\u2019s the least I can do to pay forward.” The least you can do?  You\u2019re getting paid six figures to show up and mumble this stuff!<\/p>\n

I think this is a big discovery.<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s a big find, that that\u2019s how these people grease their skids. (interruption) Well, no.  No, no.  Not… You can make money however you want, as far as I\u2019m concerned.  I just think there\u2019s a lot of phoniness attached to this.  And how much value is it, in truth, when colleges and universities don\u2019t invite conservatives to come make speeches and certainly don\u2019t pay them to? But I just… Besides all that, look at what he\u2019s angry about.<\/p>\n

Hillary has so overcharged, has such hubris, that there wasn\u2019t any money left for him.  So he didn\u2019t get his speaking gig.  The ruling class is very, very obsessed with these speech gigs, folks.  I\u2019ve never charged for one.  Never, ever.  I even pay my own expenses to get to them.  I never felt right charging people to make a speech.  I can\u2019t.  I don\u2019t know why.  I can\u2019t tell you why.  I just felt… I\u2019ve never — and I\u2019ve been offered a lot of money and I\u2019ve never accepted it.<\/p>\n

“In a recent email, dated August 23, 2016, Colin Powell called Hillary\u2019s excuse for using an email server a ‘dumb\u2019 one.  ‘Dumb. She should have done a “Full Monty” at the beginning. She was using email when she took over. They put the personal system in the basement a few months later… She didn\u2019t need any advice or ok from me; she was already doing it. I gave her written guidance on why and how I had been doing it.<\/p>\n

“‘I warned her staff three times over the past two years not to try to connect it to me. I am not sure [Hillary Rodham Clinton] even knew or understood what was going on in the basement.'”  Now, you might think that\u2019s exculpatory.  That\u2019s not what that is.  He\u2019s saying (summarized), “I don\u2019t know how much she knows about any of this stuff.  I don\u2019t know how much she knows.   She\u2019s not even aware.”  Smartest Woman in the World, and look at all the things that she admits she doesn\u2019t understand or doesn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

“In an Aug. 21 email bashing Donald Trump, Powell talked about his frustration with Clinton, as well. ‘It could have been so easy for her just tell what she did, a “Full Monty.” Last night several folks came up to me to say, “She threw you under the bus.” I replied, “Don\u2019t be silly, she is under the bus.” The FBI guys loved me and so did the IG types. But conversation turned to: “Clintons always trying to use you.”‘”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s Colin Powell: “‘Clintons always trying to use you.\u2019  Most folks up here detest Trump and won\u2019t vote for him, but dislike her intensely at the same time. Ah, well the country will decide.'” That\u2019s his email. That\u2019s his reference to Trump, and that\u2019s what the media wants everybody to think is all he said in these emails; he didn\u2019t say anything else about Hillary or anything of the sort.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s a halfway decent treasure trove here of indications in the minds of these ruling class types about what\u2019s important to them.  And notice, notice how front and center money is.  These are the people that try to convey they\u2019re above that. “Money? (stammering)  No, no, no. That\u2019s a… That\u2019s a… That\u2019s a hoi polloi concern. I am above that! I — I — I don\u2019t need money for what I do! I — I — I\u2019m not concerned with the money.  I\u2019m in this for the good of the students and the audience and I\u2019m — I\u2019m in this for the good of the country.  Ah, money? I couldn\u2019t care less about the money.”<\/p>\n

They care totally about the money just like everybody else does.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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