{"id":5658,"date":"2015-08-10T19:42:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T19:42:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-08-10T19:42:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T19:42:53","slug":"your_host_s_thoughts_on_the_clinton_trump_phone_call_and_roger_stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/08\/10\/your_host_s_thoughts_on_the_clinton_trump_phone_call_and_roger_stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Host\u2019s Thoughts on the Clinton-Trump Phone Call and Roger Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: We go to Fort Collins, Colorado. Hi, Pat. Great to have you with us on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much for taking my call, Rush. I just had two questions that I have kind of mulled over my mind over the weekend, and I haven\u2019t heard anything about them so I thought I\u2019d come to you and find out the answers. One was the details of the whole Bill Clinton-Donald Trump phone call that supposedly took place. It seemed like the news of that came and went and nothing ever was talked much more about it.<\/p>\n

And then the second thing was on Saturday morning something flashed over my tablet said that Donald Trump had fired his campaign consultant. And nobody\u2019s talked about that, either. And my question was: If he\u2019s doing so well and if all these things are going so great for him, what\u2019s actually going on? And during listening to your show, the only other thought that came to my mind was: Are we in the process of totally giving a new definition to the term “trumped up”?<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Well..<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Why don\u2019t you just tell us what you really think out there, Pat?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t know. No. That\u2019s why I\u2019m calling you. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m like, “Okay, these stories came and went, and then they were gone, and nothing ever happened.” So I was just curious about them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me explain the best I can here. I think the news that Clinton had called Trump was planted prior to the debate so that it might end up being used as a question to embarrass Trump. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The only person in either debate to reference it was Carly Fiorina, and she made a joke about it in her opening statement.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She asked anybody else if they had received a call from Bill Clinton. Nothing more came of it, because I think it was designed to come up during the debate, to be asked of Trump. They never got to it, and so it just went away. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think had it come up, the answer to it would have been, “Bill Clinton calls everybody! Bill Clinton probably called Jeb. Bill Clinton\u2019s the brother the Bushes never had. Bill Clinton is loved and adored by the Bush family, and there\u2019s constant back-and-forth conversation.” This story was that Clinton called Trump and said, “The conservative movement needs some energy. They need you in the campaign,” and it was obviously designed to embarrass Trump should the be asked, but I think it was designed specifically for the debate and it didn\u2019t happen so it went away.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The campaign manager that quit, I can\u2019t remember why — or that was fired. Are you about Roger Stone?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I think that\u2019s the gentleman, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Roger Stone. (chuckles) Well, this is… This is two sides to this one, too. Roger Stone. Roger Stone is a well-known Republican consultant and flamethrower from way back. He was formerly married to a woman named Ann Stone, who used to head up Republican Women for Choice way back in the early nineties.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Ah-haaaa!<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was his wife who was leading the movement to get the Republican Party to drop abortion from the formula. Now, they\u2019re since divorced. I\u2019m going back now the eighties and so forth.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: When Roger Ailes was Bush\u2019s campaign consultant, Roger Stone was always trying to secure a top candidate for his similar kind of services. The fact that he was working for Trump was unknown to me, but he resigned. He claimed he resigned over Trump\u2019s comment about Megyn Kelly, and Trump claims he fired him.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So take your pick.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s six of one, half a dozen of the other. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s the truth about that one.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But Roger Stone plays hardball. Roger Stone is in it for… When they say politics is a blood sport… I don\u2019t mean to be making a pun here.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: (laughing) But Roger Stone, he\u2019s a tough, tough competitor. He has worked a lot for New York gubernatorial candidates, Republican candidates, and he\u2019s a flamethrower. He\u2019s tough as nails.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure. Sure. Okay. Well, that\u2019s the best I\u2019ve heard from anybody anywhere I\u2019ve been able to look at those two things.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, do you think that Roger Stone quitting or being fired should mean something and the fact that not a lot of news is made of it is interesting or curious?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I didn\u2019t know. I didn\u2019t know. But to me it seemed odd that you would have someone who was supposedly rising so much or staying where they were in quote\/unquote “the polls,” usually that\u2019s not when somebody fires somebody. (chuckles) You know, usually if things are going well and you\u2019re going up in the polls even if it\u2019s a point or two, you must be doing something right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n

CALLER: So I just found it sort of odd —<\/p>\n

RUSH: (sigh)<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and my joking comment to you about being “trumped up,” you know, I guess there\u2019s just been an element of all of this that I sort of feel like there\u2019s a lot of that going on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, trumping up of things, whether —<\/p>\n

RUSH: (chuckling)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Whether it\u2019s about Donald per se or whether it\u2019s about Fox News being on the right or on the wrong, it just seems like there\u2019s so many mountains being made out of so many molehills.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No! It\u2019s because it\u2019s all new.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: It\u2019s because, I\u2019m telling you: People haven\u2019t seen anything like this before.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I guess so. <\/p>\n

RUSH: And Trump fires people left and right. He\u2019s got a TV show based on firing people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure. Sure. Sure. So to me, that sort of went along with what he does, you know? But like I said, I didn\u2019t really know if it meant anything, and I hadn\u2019t seen any other news about it. So I thought I\u2019d call you and find out what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It doesn\u2019t neither mean anything.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. (chuckling)<\/p>\n

RUSH: The bottom line is: Neither. Both were intended, if they were gonna have any impact at all, to have momentary, instant impact, and if they didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They were just going to fade away.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure, and that must be what they\u2019ve done.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think the real news is, of all of this, the oddest thing to me is that Bill Clinton did not call Carly Fiorina. I mean, she\u2019s the woman in the race!<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Steven, Greenville, North Carolina. Welcome, sir. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. I just wanted to talk about the Donald Trump-Megyn Kelly situation. It\u2019s been said before, I know, but this is all about hard-core honesty. We all grew up in times where we all knew a person that no matter how salty their delivery or how tough they put it into words, you knew that they were telling you straight up what the deal was. Now, he may not be the most articulate speaker in the world.<\/p>\n

But when he\u2019s addressing things that these other politicians are not — which are basically professional bald-faced liars — it\u2019s very, very refreshing to the public out there. They want to hear the truth. Megyn Kelly with this menstruation flap and everything? You know, a lot of the times the things that they come up with as far as defense or attack is…<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve found that 99% of the time, a left winger will always say what they would do or what they\u2019re guilty of or what\u2019s on their minds. They make an accusation against somebody when they themselves are guilty of it. So they have a habit of turning this all around and making an accusation to someone that is not guilty of it. But it is something that they would do or the person that makes the accusation would do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is a well-known practice among journalists on the left especially, yes. You\u2019re right about that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. So, I mean, I think that obviously Donald Trump is gonna have to make the adjustment. You know, he\u2019s gonna have to grow as the process goes along. But public wants to hear the truth, and so far he\u2019s addressing the issues that nobody else wants to touch. They want to just gloss it all over and move on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, is your point that all these journalists out there, many of them, make these charges against people — or raise these charges — and in fact they\u2019re guilty of maybe even worse stuff themselves?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And it\u2019s not just the journalists. It\u2019s the politicians and the operatives. When they come out with these hits like the menstruation thing, when I think that most people knew what he meant by blood in the eye, I mean, that\u2019s a very common phrase —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, wait a second. Nobody came out anything other than Trump. Trump\u2019s the one that said… The application of the menstrual cycle meaning was you\u2019re right attached by others, but not by Megyn Kelly. I mean, it was just others who assumed that that\u2019s what he meant when he later said that he didn\u2019t mean that at all, and anybody thinks that\u2019s a deviant and so forth. <\/p>\n

I think one of the factors happening here… Gee, I\u2019m out of time. I may have to save this, but I think there\u2019s a lot of people in journalism, not naming names here, who actually think of themselves as personalities and celebrities themselves (and maybe even want to be), which is one of the reasons why there\u2019s a indistinct line of separation between the news maker and the reporter anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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