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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: You go over to the Democrat side, folks, I made it a point to listen to Bernie Sanders and Hillary last night. I think one of the things that happens in the primary season is that -- and I think it's true of both parties -- you really ignore the other party because you have your own internecine battles going on, and the immediate objective is to win the nomination of your party, which means win the contests against your fellow party members. And what the other party is doing kind of gets shunted off to the...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I got an e-mail this morning, "Could you tell me why you are endorsing Rubio?" I said, "I'm not endorsing Rubio. I haven't endorsed anybody. I haven't endorsed Trump, I haven't endorsed Cruz, I haven't endorsed anybody." "Well, okay, why are you...?" Is it really that complicated, folks? What I happen to be supporting is: When people say something that I think needs to be said, I'm going to amplify it. To me, all of this is about ideas, and it certainly matters who wins. And it certainly matters the ideas that they have. Now, if Rubio...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Folks, this is classic. I have to tell you, this whole Trump-Ted Cruz thing is classic. And I'm gonna tell you how it's classic. For those of you who have any remaining doubts or maybe have never even considered this, Donald Trump has a performer's sensitivity, a performer's ego. It is in his blood. He instinctively is a performer, and he gets it. What he did with this yesterday... I mean, everybody's talking about it. Whether they approve of it or whether they don't, they're all talking about it. Which may be Trump's objective. I don't know....

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: We have an audio sound bite here from Obama, the press conference I mentioned an hour ago. He went out there and he was praising his economy. He was heralding first-time unemployment rate as being under 5% for the first time in seven years. That's essentially since he took office. The first time. When have you ever heard that referred to: "The first-time unemployment rate is now at 4.9%"? What's that? Does anybody have any memory of hearing the unemployment rate referred to as "the first-time unemployment rate"? Well, there's a reason he said it. It's because...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Folks, I have a question. Barack Obama, he goes into this radical mosque in Baltimore yesterday, he talks about how Islam has always been part of the fabric of America, and I stopped. I said, "Really?" I didn't know that. I didn't know that Islam had always been such a major, major part of America. But, anyway, he's constantly talking it up, is he not? President Obama is routinely defending it, talking it up, promoting it. He talks about how awesome Islam is all the time, one of the most beautiful sounds he's ever heard is the...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Man, are we loaded today.  I'll tell you right now, it's going to take all three hours and then some.  I'm gonna try to get it all in here in three hours.  Much of today is gonna build on points that I have been making the past two days, evolving, growing, adding evidence to it, all rooted around the question, who is and what is the conservative movement, and why is it apparently behaving so oddly?  I think I can explain this and much else to all of you as the program unfolds today before your very...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Hi, folks. I'm gonna try to start the program here, but I have a feeling the door is gonna open here in a moment and whatever I am in the middle of will be interrupted. So why don't I just wait for the door to open like it always does, despite every year asking that it not happen. Here it comes. Oh, now it closed. Maybe they're not gonna do it. Anyway, greetings, my friends, and welcome. It is the Rush Limbaugh program here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and here they come. Exactly as predicted....

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Look at this. Right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. Politico: "Doctors Can Report Some Mentally Ill Patients to FBI Under New Gun Control Rule -- Delivering on its promise to deliver 'common sense' gun control, the Obama administration on Monday finalized a rule that enables health care providers to report the names of mentally ill patients to an FBI firearms background check system. "The action was one of a series of steps that President Barack Obama had called for in January 2013 in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings. ... While the 1993 Brady law...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Dinesh D'Souza. Name ring a bell? Dinesh D'Souza is a well-known conservative journalist and a well-known conservative filmmaker now. Dinesh D'Souza has made two movies about Obama which attempt to explain things about Obama that no one else in the liberal media will say about his background, why he is the way he is, the way he is, what he is doing to the country, motivations, why he's doing it. All of this time... I've interviewed Dinesh D'Souza two times for the Limbaugh Letter about his two movies and about one of his books. I think he's...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I'm gonna try to explain something today, a question that has a lot of people flummoxed. So they just announced, CNN led the pack, but now everybody is reporting that Syed Farook, which means global warming in Arabic, climate change, and his wife have been influenced by ISIS. You've heard that. And yet have you noticed the government still is not calling this terrorism. Have you noticed that? ISIS inspired the couple, but this is not yet terrorism. And they're now angling further down the road of workplace violence or postpartum depression. Have you heard that one?...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: They are worried. The Democrat Party is worried. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise. They are worried. Hillary Clinton's wearing a wig? We always knew she was fake, phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock 'n' roller. Now the big news is Hillary's wigs? By the way, who was first to observe that she might have been wearing wigs and pointing it out? That was me, your guiding light El Rushbo, weeks ago. Her hair didn't look natural. But when you know how to look at Hillary, it's not hard to figure out, find out she is wearing...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Did you see what Bill Gates did? Did you see what Bill Gates said? This is one of the craziest, nonsensical things I have ever in my life heard. I understand why he said it. But it is just over-the-top unbelievable. Bill Gates says that capitalism cannot save us from climate change. Bill Gates says that socialism is the only thing that can save us from climate change. "The world's richest man, Bill Gates, has said that the private sector is too selfish and inefficient to produce effective energy alternatives to fossil fuels. While announcing his plan...

RUSH: This is Bill in Warner Robins, Georgia. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello. CALLER: Rush, quantitative easing and the threat of stopping it or tapering off, I think, is the reason why Republicans are afraid to have a government shutdown. I think either explicitly or tacitly, the Republicans have been told that the Fed would stop quantitative easing, 'cause it's the quickest and most direct way to go ahead and illustrate the impact of the federal government on the citizenry if you have the stock market takes a major hit. That's the only reason why I...

RUSH: Okay, Donald Trump. Okay, Trumpsters, I need to know what you're thinking here. Donald Trump said that he had to say it, that 9/11 happened while George W. Bush was president. He wished it didn't, but it did. And the implication was clear that 9/11, if you're gonna start blaming politicians for things that happen while they're in office, then how do you not blame George W. Bush for 9/11? And then Democrats immediately picked that up and applauded Mr. Trump and said, "Exactly right. "So if the Republicans are not going to acknowledge that George W. Bush was...

RUSH: Now, there are some vulnerabilities for Mrs. Clinton notwithstanding. This is something you have to hear. You have to hear this to believe it. You can't read about it and get the flavor. You have to hear it. You don't have to see it. I can paint the visual picture for you. Mrs. Clinton is being interviewed by Jacob Tapper on CNN. This happened last Friday. It was during a discussion about the controversy surrounding her private e-mail server. Remember, this is just shortly after the Democrat debate where she supposed skunked the field. She supposedly mopped that stage...

RUSH: Mrs. Clinton. Ladies, by the way: When did Hillary start wearing a wig? (interruption) Just what I said. When did she start wearing a wig? (interruption) Oh. Well, all right. I'm just asking. Ladies and gentlemen, regular listeners of this program should know I have been saying lately -- in fact, I've been saying for many, many moons here -- that I refuse to get sucked in to the daily Drive-By Media soap opera. I just refuse it. And it's hard to do. As somebody whose job is based on what's happening out there, I have to interact with...

RUSH: In the last couple or three days I have been reading more and more stories about how much trouble McDonald's is in that they may not make it. It's gotten to the point now where McDonald's may not make it. And the last story that I have here is from Business Insider, and the headline is, "McDonald's Franchisees Say the Brand Is in a Deep Depression and Is Facing its Final Days." And everybody is trying to figure out what happened. You know, McDonald's dates back to -- well, in its current iteration -- the mid-sixties. It wasn't Ray...

RUSH: Now, this Hillary e-mail story. Let me just do a brief timeline of this. Under the umbrella that, how many times have we, over the course of the last 25 years, how many times have we been treated to news stories that the Clintons are precariously balanced on the edge here and they could go over the cliff, this could be it, and each and every time not a thing happens? I can give you one example, I give you many of those, but one example specifically of how we end up being played. During the Monica Lewinsky episode,...

RUSH: This is KUSA-TV. This is their website. This is in Denver. They released clips from an upcoming Balance of Power show where the host, Brandon Rittiman, interviewed Hillary Clinton, and they had a discussion about her e-mail scandal, and here is Brandon Rittiman, the local reporter for Denver's KUSA-TV. Here's the setup... RITTIMAN: You used a small Denver company called Platte River Networks to manage your private server. It appears now that data off of that server got backed up to a cloud server somewhere else without your knowledge or consent. Platte River told me if it knew --...

RUSH: You know, there's unemployment news today. And I want to it read this to you. This is from the Zero Hedge website, which we quote frequently on this program. The headline: "Initial Jobless Claims Plunge to 42-Year Lows, Despite Surging Job Cuts." Now, that doesn't make any sense. The number of people filing unemployment claims is at a 42-year low? Sorry. No, there has to be something else to make that true. That just can't be. Then the second part of headline: "despite surging job cuts," meaning layoffs are happening all over this country. People are losing their jobs...