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RUSH: To the phones we go. This is Jeff in Boyne City, Michigan. Great to have you, sir, I\u2019m glad you waited, I appreciate that. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush, decades long listener, first-time caller.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a wee bit confused with the criticism over Donald Trump making comments about Carly\u2019s looks. What I\u2019d like to know, if you could explain to me, where the geopolitical lines are drawn anatomically because people make fun of his hair, the spittle in the corner of his mouth, the colors he wears. I mean, he\u2019s under the microscope.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Yeah, here\u2019s the thing, though. You see, you know this as well as I do. There are double standards in this with a man. I mean, how many — how many — no, I don\u2019t want to go about it that way. It is considered fair game to attack a guy\u2019s looks because it\u2019s not a guy\u2019s looks that are considered to be the most attractive aspect. Well, it used to not be. You know, with the low-information voters and the pop culture crowd and their surface interests, it may well be now. But men are judged in entirely different ways. Meaning if you want to make fun of Trump\u2019s hair color or hairstyle, it\u2019s fair season, it\u2019s open season, fair game, whatever. Men are not allowed to complain about that. <\/p>\n

But women, you can\u2019t do it. You\u2019re not supposed to go there. Nobody can control the way they look. Nobody had a right to choose whatever genes they got, no matter the fact that people go DNA shopping before they get married. Now, I\u2019m convinced of that. I could name names. I\u2019d get in trouble if I did. I could name a big name right now that went DNA shopping. Get married, just before she had reproductive sex with some clown. But you can\u2019t do that with women. Are you suggesting by the way, Jeff, are you just being provocative here or do you think this is no big deal and people should not be holding Trump to any kind of serious account for this?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I honestly think it\u2019s no big deal. He\u2019s just simply firing back over all the criticism he receives.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but did she criticize his hair, did she make fun of —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. She individually did not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. So in the circles —<\/p>\n

CALLER: All is fair game. If you\u2019re gonna play in that arena be prepared for it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I understand that, but do you work in an office?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How much latitude do you have to run around the office and start making fun of — say there\u2019s a horse faced woman that works down the hall from you and you start talking about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Well, I certainly don\u2019t tell the, “Why the long face” joke.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) I mean, but you wouldn\u2019t do it anyway. I mean, you\u2019d be run out of the place. Or you\u2019d have a serious HR problem.<\/p>\n

CALLER: True that, depending on the relationship you have with that person.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Even if you don\u2019t, somebody who is a friend of that personal who may not like you is gonna hear about it and take you right down to HR and you\u2019re not gonna have any defense for it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s true. I mean, it\u2019s thin ice.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So why is it in politics everything\u2019s fair game but in the office, the firehouse, the police station, or wherever else you want to go it\u2019s not?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s where the PC has all seeped into.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you, let me tell you something. This has necessity flabbergasted in a lot of ways. I mean, people have said far less than this kind of thing and have been destroyed by the media, have been run out of their lives, their businesses or what have you. On CNN they\u2019re actually debating today, while they\u2019re laughing about it, whether or not this is a new day, whether it\u2019s okay, whether Trump can survive it. There was no condemnation.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Jason, Fort Myers, Florida. Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. Longtime listener, first time successful caller, and I also want to comment on Trump\u2019s recent comment about Carly Fiorina. To me, that\u2019s not presidential at all. I told, Mr. Snerdley: In my mind, at least, that reminds me of a kid in fourth grade that\u2019s losing an argument and can\u2019t come up with anything better. They just resort to, “I know you are, but what am I?” That\u2019s all he\u2019s doing. He can\u2019t articulate any position, really, as (garbled) Ted Cruz\u2019s four points. That\u2019s what a president does. Donald Trump has a day or two to think of a comeback, and he just comes up with: (paraphrased) “Yeah, well, you\u2019re ugly.” That\u2019s not presidential material.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you think, if I heard you right, that Trump is doing all of this stuff because he doesn\u2019t really have positions that he can explain on issue after issue, so this is how he\u2019s dealing with that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an intelligent comeback, and I don\u2019t even think it\u2019s a mature comeback in any way. I don\u2019t think he has any points compared to somebody like Ted Cruz. Bobby Jindal pretty much, after you played… You know, I\u2019ve been on the line for a while now and you played Bobby Jindal\u2019s remarks, and he kind of summarizes my feelings, too. Trump\u2019s just not presidential at all. Presidents don\u2019t — presidential candidates don\u2019t make remarks like that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, that\u2019s an interesting question. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not debating. I\u2019m not disagreeing. I\u2019m observing. When you say, “It\u2019s not presidential,” I know what you mean. But to me, Obama isn\u2019t either. I mean, if presidential is he gives off the air of confidence, okay, he is. But, my God, he\u2019s a disaster.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s an absolute disaster. You know, it\u2019s like talking about defining somebody as intelligent or smart. Really? Are they smart because they can use words and phrases, and pause the right way to make themselves sound intellectual when they\u2019re absolutely blooming common-sense idiots? You know, what is “smart”? So what is presidential? You think name-calling is petty and childish.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I think even further that your man-child reference to Obama can be continued into Trump\u2019s term, should he win. But I think Trump, like it or not, is gonna have to work with Democratic senators and congressman and diplomats and all kinds of people. What\u2019s he gonna resort to, just petty little remarks like that when he doesn\u2019t want to deal with somebody?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know. It could… Some of that actually could be fun. I mean, frankly, is it really…? For example, is it really impolitic or in the shallow end to refer to Anthony Weiner as a perv? Or is it true? And is it presidential or not presidential? I mean, you know what Anthony Weiner did, right?<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Okay. Trump says, “He\u2019s a perv. He\u2019s a he\u2019s a sick perv. His wife has got secret classified data and is probably sharing it with this perv. It\u2019s a situation we shouldn\u2019t have to deal with,” blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Perversion\u2019s a choice, though, but your hair… Well, I guess your hairstyle\u2019s a choice. But how Carly Fiorina\u2019s born or anybody else is born?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s not a choice and it\u2019s… I don\u2019t know. To me, it\u2019s just the same as a fourth grader that can\u2019t come up with any better argument so just resorts to, “I know you are, but what am I.” He even had time to think out a better response than that and after a day, he still couldn\u2019t come up with something better.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. I get your drift. I know what you\u2019re saying. This is not the kind of stuff that you want to hear a president saying, and so you don\u2019t want to hear a presidential candidate saying it. It\u2019s beneath what you believe the station of the office is. I suspect a lot of people agree with you. But, on the other hand, there are a lot of people who think all of this enforced politeness and propriety is what\u2019s leading the country astray because it\u2019s preventing people from being honest about the things they actually see and believe from high positions of leadership.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re being done to destroy the country. <\/line><\/p>\n

At that point you throw politeness out and you call a spade a spade, whatever it is, and that\u2019s why Trump — one of the many reasons why Trump — continues to grow his support. We\u2019ll see. You know, I guarantee you the establishment is probably rubbing their hands together today wherever these people gather. You know, I don\u2019t know where their clubhouse is. It\u2019s not a clubhouse. I\u2019m sorry. The Grillroom or the country club. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know where the establishment goes, but I guarantee that wherever they are, they\u2019re rubbing their hands in glee. “He\u2019s done it now! You just don\u2019t call a woman ugly and get away with it, not in American politics. You just don\u2019t do it.” They\u2019re rubbing their hands; they think this is it. They think the next series of polls are gonna show a bunch of people abandoning Trump because of this. Here\u2019s Mike in Salt Lake City. You\u2019re next and it\u2019s great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I think that Trump is a big fan of your show. He\u2019s acknowledged that. He\u2019s said that. I think he\u2019s taking a page out of your playbook, Rush. I think you can take credit for this one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve been waiting for this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It was several months ago I remember listening to your show and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I\u2019ve been waiting for this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — you were stating that you didn\u2019t want to particularly look at Hillary Clinton for the next eight years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s not exactly what I said. I asked the question. I was speaking, actually, sympathetically.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s not buying that out there. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I can tell. I can hear him laughing about it. I asked the question, \u2019cause men can age and they are assumed to be maturing and becoming smarter and more powerful. When women do, it\u2019s not the same. So I asked, “Do the American people really want to watch a woman age dramatically in office when it\u2019s the Oval Office?” I did. I asked that question. You\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not Hillary Clinton, Rush. I mean, Carly Fiorina. Fiorina, I could watch her age. I think she\u2019s an attractive woman. But not Hillary Clinton, not for the next four to eight years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Well, yeah. (chuckling) I\u2019ve been waiting for somebody to remember that. I knew it was gonna happen. But I did offer that when it… The context of that was… I don\u2019t know if it was exactly during Operation Chaos. But it was around that time, and we were trying to keep her candidacy alive just for the sake of material here on the show, \u2019cause the Republican nomination was over. McCain had it wrapped up, and how exciting was that? We needed the Democrat campaign to go on.<\/p>\n

So Operation Chaos was to keep Hillary alive, keep that campaign alive. And it required me to be somewhat sympathetic here and there, and supportive within bounds of what she was trying to do. And then something has happened. Somebody had made some comment about pantsuits or some such thing, and I remember coming into the studio that day with mock outrage over how anybody could be so rude and impolite to such a valiant woman who has given everything she had (which wasn\u2019t much) for this country.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me take a brief departure, change of direction just a bit before we get back to phone calls and Trump and Carly Fiorina. I have to tell you, folks, I am still capable of being surprised, and I will admit that I\u2019m being surprised by an overwhelming number of reactions to Trump\u2019s references to Fiorina\u2019s appearance. One of the common threads that I am seeing is, “Hey, everybody wants equality. Well, come on! This is what happens in politics. This is what happens the primaries. Everything\u2019s fair game. What\u2019s the big deal?”<\/p>\n

So we\u2019ll see. My evidence here purely anecdotal, nothing scientific to it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Here we are back to the phones. We\u2019re gonna go to Swansboro, North Carolina. This is Maria. Great to have you with us. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. I\u2019m a Donald Trump supporter and a Ben Carson supporter. And I\u2019m trying to vacillate between the two, and I\u2019m starting to get a little soft on Donald Trump because I\u2019m just getting a bit weary of always having to worry about what some crazy thought he has in his head that he feels the need to verbalize out loud. I know he likes to boast about his approvals of 30%, but the truth is I don\u2019t think he realizes this, but I think he would be at 40%, 45%. <\/line><\/p>\n

He is an incredible person. He\u2019s captivating, he\u2019s exciting, and he\u2019s pouring cold water on his own campaign by talking the way he does. I don\u2019t want my president to sound like he\u2019s in sixth grade. I\u2019m sorry, but I don\u2019t. And I think a lot of people who support Trump also support Ben Carson. I know people may not understand that, but I think, you know, Ben Carson might end up being the far better candidate, and I think that if he does win the nomination, for three reasons, I think he\u2019s unbeatable. Donald Trump, if he wins the nomination, could end up sinking his own campaign with this rhetoric. Carson will not, and no one else is gonna sink him, either.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You just said something interesting here to me, when you said that you think if he hadn\u2019t dispensed or if he hadn\u2019t uttered all these childish insults of people, he\u2019d be at 40 or 45%.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, what\u2019s fascinating about that is he\u2019s at 32 now, which is way ahead of everybody in the latest Quinnipiac. And most people are thinking that\u2019s great. Most people are thinking he\u2019s gone way beyond what anybody\u2019s expectations were, probably his. You\u2019re the only person I\u2019ve heard, this is an interesting point, saying he would be even higher were it not for this, while other people think, they\u2019re confused, they can\u2019t believe he got to 32% while doing this. So look, Maria, hang on. I want to explore this further with you. I don\u2019t have time here. There\u2019s the ear-splitting tone even as we speak.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, we\u2019re back with Maria in Swansboro, North Carolina. I think a lot of people gonna agree with you when they hear you say that Trump would be at 45% or maybe even higher if he had not, say, had the spat with Megyn Kelly or at least the prolonged spat with Megyn Kelly.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s any one particular thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it\u2019s a cumulative thing, but —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve talked to a lot of people. I live in a very conservative area, Rush. I talk to a lot of people and I hear people say, “I love Donald Trump. I really like Donald Trump. But I\u2019m worried. I don\u2019t know. You know, I\u2019d like to support him, but I\u2019m just not sure.” And, you know, Donald Trump is a smart guy. He likes to boast about 30%, but shame on him. He shouldn\u2019t be at 30%. A guy like him should be at 40%.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s my point. I think it\u2019s cumulative. You say you don\u2019t want to focus on one thing, but he has had these personal comments about people. Some people, many times; others, just once or twice. But your overall point is, if that hadn\u2019t happened, he\u2019d be 45%, maybe even higher. So my question to you is: Can he walk it back? Can he…?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, how? How would he do it? I mean, you can\u2019t take back what he said. What would…?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Now, wait. He has survived everything he\u2019s done so far. And he\u2019s a smart guy. And when he\u2019s on TV and he\u2019s talking issues, he is captivating. It almost makes you forget everything he\u2019s done in the past, everything that he has said. And if he would just stay on that from here to election, to the nomination to Election Day, he\u2019s our next president.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: So you are saying he needs to just stay on issues?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that just sounds… I know it sounds so cliche, but Donald Trump, it isn\u2019t even just about issues. Just talk to us. Talk to the people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He can be an excellent communicator, and he just doesn\u2019t need to step into the gutter. You know, just stay out of there. That\u2019s for the blogs. That\u2019s for the… That\u2019s for the, you know, the comment section when people read articles. Stay out of there. That\u2019s not where you need to be. He needs to be sitting there on interviews. I love listening to him. I can\u2019t leave the TV. I just want to listen to him. I can listen to him all day long. So he can recover from this. <\/p>\n

RUSH: How?<\/p>\n

CALLER: He just has to stop.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How? For you personally, how? You\u2019ve got, it seems to me… Like, this is out there now. Therefore it is real. Therefore it\u2019s part of who he is. How does he walk it back? He just stops doing it and let inertia take over?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. Absolutely. Because I… Look, I like to read the comments on certain things and people want to support him. A lot of people do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re not —<\/p>\n

CALLER: A lot of minorities do. Sure they do. They do. And I just believe that, you know, they just want to see who he is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, he\u2019s getting 25% of the African-American vote in recent CNN or Quinnipiac. One of the two, I forget which, but —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, there hasn\u2019t been a vote cast yet.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that\u2019s key here, and a lot of people who support Donald Trump, I believe they also support Ben Carson.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I think there\u2019s a lot of vacillating going on between the two, and I think that Ben Carson is gonna start creeping up more and more.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, let me ask you a question, but I\u2019ll tell you how this Fiorina thing happened, and I\u2019m not… There\u2019s no test, so there\u2019s no wrong answer. I just want to know what your genuine reaction to this is. The way this all happened, he\u2019s granted an interview to Rolling Stone — which, to me, is a waste of time. This is the bunch that made up a huge story about rape at the University of Virginia. Just literally made it up!<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why they rated, but he did it.<\/p>\n

What happened was the Rolling Stone reporter was granted a lot of access and followed Trump around for a week or so and gained his confidence, Trump. The longer the media\u2019s with you, the less you are aware of their presence. I can assure you that this is the case. And the longer they\u2019re around you and the more the media seems to be… Well, the less adversarial they are, then the closer you think you\u2019ll be coming to them. You begin to think you can take them into your confidence in the sense that you can wink and nod and say something and they\u2019ll know you\u2019re not serious and not use it.<\/line><\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not what happened. So Trump is being followed around by this reporter at Rolling Stone. He gained his confidence and then turned around and did a hit piece on all these things that Trump had said when Trump was of the opinion it was if not off the record, then it was… He thought he was dealing with a friendly, and he wasn\u2019t. This is it. Rolling Stone\u2019s never gonna be friendly to anybody that doesn\u2019t have a (D) by their name.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I… My feeling is that they didn\u2019t put those words into his mouth. Donald Trump wants to call — you know, wants to say something about Carly Fiorina, he can say something else. He doesn\u2019t have to sound like this is a schoolyard fight. I think it\u2019s silly to say, “You know, look at that face.” It\u2019s just silly. I\u2019ve heard him say… I\u2019m not a Marco Rubio fan, but I heard him on something say, “I hate him.” How do you…? I don\u2019t want my president to say he hates people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t want to have to worry every single day, “Oh, no, what silly thing did he say today?” You know, especially if he\u2019s president. After four years, that gets old. And I just know that… I know he\u2019s smarter than this. I don\u2019t know why… I don\u2019t know what his strategy is here. But if I could offer him any advice at all I\u2019d say, look, he doesn\u2019t need to do this, Rush. He doesn\u2019t need this. <\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, he\u2019s doing it on purpose. There\u2019s a reason behind this. These are not… I don\u2019t think they\u2019re slip-ups. I think that he really believes that part of the reason he\u2019s doing well is his blunt, politically incorrect honesty.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Do you think that he would still feel like that if he was president or do you think this all comes to an end, the silliness?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t have any idea. I don\u2019t know. If Putin does something bad to the country or tries to do something bad, I think he\u2019d make fun of Putin for running around without a shirt all the time, it\u2019s embarrassing. And you\u2019d probably love it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Yeah, probably.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If it was about Putin.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, that would be kind of fun. I think Putin might even have a little laugh at that, but I just think that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019d be cheering that. Here\u2019s another analogy, just to give you an idea. This is off the top of my head, but let\u2019s take a little hypothetical. So Trump has said what he said about Carly Fiorina. (imitating Trump) “That face, are you kidding, who\u2019s gonna vote for her? My God, freight train, dirt road, for crying out loud.” Now, if somebody in the media comes along and agrees with him, you know the person in the media is gonna be raked over the coals. If somebody, some poor talk show host out in East Overy says, “You know what? Trump has a point,” that guy is finished. Trump can say it and we\u2019re sittings here debating, “Oh, my God, I really wish he\u2019d cut it back,” but if somebody comes along and agrees with him, it\u2019s over for them, how about that?<\/p>\n

\"large\"CALLER: Well, I\u2019ll tell you what, Rush. As long as he doesn\u2019t say anything bad about you, he might recover.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But if he starts adding you to the mix —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, I\u2019ll just tell you this, if I attacked him, he would.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, probably.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s his modus operandi. If you go after him, he\u2019s gonna fire back, and he\u2019s not gonna apologize for it. Leave me alone, I\u2019ll leave you alone. Leave me alone, act like you like me, I\u2019ll like you. He\u2019s been very open and clear about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know what, he can fire back. I don\u2019t mind him firing back. I just don\u2019t think it needs to sound like we\u2019re in sixth grade and we\u2019re in a school yard fight. I think he can do it and sound more like a grown-up.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the one thing I agree with you about, and not just one, but I really do think, if he would do two things, stay on this immigration thing and keep talking about it and relate it to, say, what\u2019s happening in Europe, keep building on it, and then introduce whatever it is he thinks on some other issues. There are a lot of things out there he hasn\u2019t addressed yet. I think you\u2019re right, I think he could be at 45% by now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whether he does this stuff or not, but I think the key for him is to broaden the issue base and to appear not just conversant, but he\u2019s got to have rock solid confident ideas about all of these things that do present problems. He\u2019s a solutions guy. That\u2019s what people want to hear.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think, like I said, I think he could be a lot higher in the polls, and shame on him for not being higher in the polls.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but according to you he\u2019s still got a chance, he can still redeem himself if he just stops it. He doesn\u2019t have to address it. (imitating Trump) You know, ladies and gentlemen, I\u2019ve allowed myself to get distracted.” By the way, he\u2019ll never acknowledge he\u2019s done anything wrong. Not in the way that people do when they\u2019re apologizing. He will never, ever do that. Unless he thinks he did. He will not apologize because it\u2019s the politically correct or the supposed mannerly thing to do. Anyway, Maria, I appreciate the call. I\u2019m glad you had such time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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