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RUSH: No, no, no. I've not forgotten where I was in the Trump story about the Trump campaign. And a mistake that the Republican Party is making is thinking they need to improve their standing with Latinos and Hispanic voters to win. Now, there's nothing wrong if they do that, but that's not the road to victory. That's not what they have to do. Romney's already proven it. And when you hear me run the numbers, report the numbers that already had been run on what it would have taken... I'll cut to the chase. For Romney to have won,...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I've been thinking about this. We are all inundated by each other, every day, with e-mails, phone calls, texts, what have you, of utter incredulity over what's happened to the Republican Party. It's just too weird, folks. There just isn't any serious opposition to anything that the Democrat Party wants. Remember Angelo Codevilla? He's back. He had that great place on the ruling class that I read in its entirety to you when he published it, and he then turned it into a book. He's back with his thoughts on Trump, and I found it at the...

RUSH: To the audio sound bites first quickly. I want to remind you just to hear it from my own lips. Last Monday on this program. RUSH: That was last Monday. I was warning everybody that Trump's not playing by the rules, and it really is an important point. I know I've made this over and over again, but it's required, particularly to make impressions on low-information voters. The fact is when the media, Washington establishment, whoever, starts acting outraged over something a public figure said... They're doing it now with Huckabee, by the way, over what he said about...

“In the land of the blind,” so goes the saying, “the one-eyed man is king.” Donald Trump leapt atop other contenders for the Republican presidential nomination when he acted on the primordial fact in American public life today, from which most of the others hide their eyes, namely: most Americans distrust, fear, are sick and tired of, the elected, appointed, and bureaucratic officials who rule over us, as well as their cronies in the corporate, media, and academic world. Trump’s attraction lies less in his words’ grace or even precision than in the extent to which Americans are searching for...

RUSH: It's Open Line Friday, folks. That's another element that we want to squeeze into today's programming content, that is, phone calls from you, and on Friday pretty much whatever you wish to talk about is fine. We're also gonna add another element to the program today, which we very rarely do, and that is we're going to have a guest. Yes indeed. The guest is going to be on the phone. Senator Ted Cruz from Texas went to the floor of the United States Senate today and called Mitch McConnell a liar numerous times. He called Mitch McConnell a...

RUSH: Carly Fiorina was on CNN on Tuesday night The Lead with Jake Tapper. Setting this up, I want to go back and repeat, air something I said on April 7th of this year. Think of it as advice for the Republican presidential candidates. RUSH ARCHIVE: The ultimate reality is that every Republican in the primary has a common enemy, and it's Hillary Clinton. All 14, 15, or 16 of them simply make it an objective to begin the campaign against Hillary Clinton during the Republican primary and not wait until after the primary. I think the sooner these candidates...

RUSH: Today is Thursday. Last weekend was four days ago. Depending on which day of the weekend you go back to, it could be five days ago. And if you have wishful thinking about weekends it could be six days ago, all the way back to last Friday. What happened last weekend? Donald Trump supposedly took himself out of the presidential race with one sentence about John McCain. I mean, that's what the conventional wisdom told us. From the moment it was reported that Trump said he wasn't impressed with McCain because he's not impressed with people that get captured,...

“At noontime, if you look at a glancing angle, you can see what seems to be haze,” said Christopher Russell, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Dawn principal investigator. “It comes back in a regular pattern.” According to Russell, who was speaking at a NASA exploration meeting at the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., the haze covers about half of the crater and reaches as far as the rim. So far, scientists have theorized that the bright spots could be concentrations of minerals or salts. Or they might be icy deposits; potentially evidence...

Jul. 17 Jul. 16 Jul. 15 Jul. 14 Jul. 13 Jul. 10 Jul. 9 Jul. 8 Jul. 7 Jul. 6 Rush Limbaugh Rallies Listeners to Donald Trump’s Defense 3:25 PM ET 3:25 PM ET Maggie Haberman Photo Rush Limbaugh was inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians in 2012 in Jefferson City, Mo. Rush Limbaugh was inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians in 2012 in Jefferson City, Mo.Credit Julie Smith/Associated Press The conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, who has a substantial following among grass-roots Republicans, came to the defense of Donald J. Trump on Monday as prominent leaders in...

RUSH: As I knew we could, we've gone back to the archives, the Grooveyard of Forgotten Sound Bites, and we have from 2007 the opening of the bit that parodies exactly what's happening in the Drive-By Media this moment, today and last night. This is on the Fox News Channel's 1/2 Hour News Hour. By the way, I starred in a number of episodes of this program, as president of the United States, as myself, it was a lot of fun. But, anyway, this is from the pilot episode, episode number one. It's 2007. FEMALE ANCHOR: Six men have just...

RUSH: Sadly, ladies and gentlemen -- portions of yet another heavy, heavy portion of the program as far as what we learned yesterday about Planned Parenthood selling harvested body parts from the aborted babies that they kill. I'm shocked. I really am shocked. There's all kinds of people on our side just astounded that, A, the media hasn't covered it. They are astounded that Planned Parenthood supporters are still Planned Parenthood supporters. Really? I can't emphasize this enough. The story was such yesterday, I think a lot of people thought that this was gonna be such a story, the left...

RUSH: This is Charles in Martha's Vineyard. Welcome, sir. It's great to have you with us. CALLER: Hello. How are you? RUSH: I'm fine, sir. Thank you for the call. CALLER: Thanks. I'd like to just mention that I know you can knock down this deal as much as you want, but at the same time it does give the United States the means to at least have some check on Iran. You know, just, uhhh... The system before with no deal didn't give us anything like it. RUSH: Well, this is essentially no deal, because there's no check. I...

RUSH: Big deal about the Confederate flag coming down. It happened just... I think it was just after 10 this morning or just after 9, something like that. It's just the beginning. As I have said countless times over the course of this amazing broadcast career that spans now 26 years: A liberal solution to a problem is never the end of anything. There are never liberal solutions. A liberal solution is actually the beginning of a new problem or a continuation of an existing problem. But they never solve anything. The reason they never solve anything is because they're...

RUSH: Have you heard about MTV? Have you heard about this? MTV has hired, I guess, a renowned illegal immigrant by the name of Jose Vargas Sanchez Gutierrez, whatever. MTV is doing a documentary that essentially is devoted to the problems with white people, and this guy specifically interviews young white people and asks them what's wrong with them and how it feels to be white. What "white privilege" has meant to the country and means to them, white guilt and all this. MTV, of course, is a network... I don't know how popular it remains anymore. It was. At...

RUSH: Have you heard this? By the way, it's true. It is being said that gay marriage is superior to heterosexual marriage. I can't believe we're even using language that signifies the difference, but, anyways, we have to. The militant gay community says that gay marriage is superior because they get to pick their children via adoption. Therefore, they -- having chosen the exact kind of child they want-- have a much better chance at raising that child than a hetero couple who simply have to deal with whatever the sperm and the egg produce. Do not doubt me on...

RUSH: Donald Trump continues to dominate the news and the news cycle. He is not backing down. Yesterday we got the news. You know, it's amazing to witness cowardice. It's all over the place. Emmitt Smith was a judge in one of Trump's beauty pageants. I guess it was Miss USA. Emmitt pulled out. Says he doesn't want to be associated with any of this stuff. Trump said, "Who needs Emmitt Smith? Judges are easy. I'll go get another." (laughing) You just got to love this. (imitating Trump) "Who needs Emmitt Smith? He's a loser anyway. He isn't a big...

RUSH: Now, obviously I can't play video here. We can link to it at RushLimbaugh.com, which we will. I could play the audio, but the audio alone is not good enough because it will not supply you the pictures. I, as a highly trained broadcast specialist, can do a better job conveying this video, describing it to you, than just playing the audio. Our buddies at Campus Reform shot it. I don't know where this is. It looks like it's in a park across from the White House, but I don't really know where it took place. It doesn't matter...

Yesterday ISIS released video of their latest execution techniques. In one scene the Islamic State strapped a string of bombs around the necks of a line of prisoners – then blew them up. Today Rush Limbaugh explained how the left sees conservatives as more of a threat than the Islamic State. From the Rush Limbaugh Show: RUSH: Now, isn’t it interesting, however, what is the one thing, when you read about ISIS in news coverage in this country, ISIS can run around — the latest news of ISIS is the methods they’re now using to kill people, mass murders. For...

RUSH: I wish somebody would ban all of the stuff from Club Gitmo. Can you imagine the license merchandise sales that I could rack up? They ban the Confederate flag and everybody matches it, says, "We're not gonna sell it! We're not gonna sell it!" Walmart, everybody getting out of the Confederate flag business, NASCAR, and yet some enterprising entrepreneurs are saying, "Well, hell, we'll sell it." There's a market for it and people are buying it up left and right. I made a prediction yesterday on this program that The Politico actually writes a story about and got it...

RUSH: We have learned a little bit more about Dylann Roof, and it may mean that such venerable institutions as Budweiser and Seagram's may be called into question here, because, as you know, anything that has to do with Dylann Roof has now been labeled racist and racist, racism, and all other kinds of horrors, such as the Confederate flag and anything with the flag on it. We are in a race to rid our society of all of it, are we not? Well, it seems that the UK Daily Mail has been doing some journalism, a random act of...