http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/09/29/the_alicia_machado_story_is_so_absurd_it_s_hillary_clinton_who_bullies_womenThe Alicia Machado Story Is So Absurd! It's Hillary Clinton Who Bullies Women!
September 29, 2016
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RUSH: Well, my friends, it's taken a train wreck to get another train wreck off the front page. I'm not happy about it. I'm not happy about a lot. I'm sitting here, I'm ticked off today. I'm a combination of ticked off, if I said depressed, you people would get worried, and I don't want to get you worried. I'm a little depressed. This is just absolutely absurd that a 20-year-ago Miss-whatever seems to be dominating the presidential election all because the Drive-By Media need it to dominate the presidential election because if we get back to issues there's no way Hillary Clinton can compete.
And the Drive-By Media is happy to go sewer. They are happy to go tabloid. Anything they can do to protect Hillary. Anything they can do to avoid dealing with the issues that need to be fixed if we are going to save this country as founded. They seem to be just happy and fine with the downward spiral this country is taking, as long as the Democrats continue to occupy positions of power, which is why we're in a downward spiral.
So now we've got somebody that's absolutely irrelevant to anything, some woman named Alicia Machado who was a Miss Universe who happened to gain a lot of weight who Trump happened to try to help out, actually. He owned the damn business. It wasn't doing good for the wearer of the crown to be looking like she was looking, but for it to become the number one issue in the campaign and because of the itinerant controversy -- and the thing that's ironic about this, they're claiming that Donald Trump bullied this ex-Miss Universe.
Has anybody asked about Hillary Clinton bullying all of the bimbos that have erupted during the course of her and her husband's political career? This is so screwed up. If there is anybody in this campaign who doesn't pay women what she pays men in her office, it's Hillary Clinton. If there's a woman in this campaign that bullies other women and has been acclaimed for it, it is Hillary Clinton.
On the one hand, we have Donald Trump, who supposedly loves women too much, that he's a Don Juan, that he was a playboy, the guy loves women too much. All of a sudden now some unhappy woman hired by the Hillary campaign running around making some stupid allegation about whatever happened some years ago becomes the focal point and the means by which they can try to lay the label of bully on Trump. When Hillary Clinton saved her husband's presidency and perhaps the Democrat Party by bullying and trying to destroy every woman that had an affair with her husband.
She ran and directed the bimbo eruptions team. She doesn't pay the women in her office what the men in her office make. She runs around and whines and moans about unequal pay. She needs to start in her own office. You can talk to any number of women who've been bullied and worse by Hillary Clinton and the entire Hillary campaign. We're not even supposed to talk about that. The Drive-Bys say, no, we cannot bring up Lewinsky or any of the women because Bill Clinton is not running, and that's not the story, and it's not useful, and it wouldn't be wise, and it wouldn't be helpful. Of course it wouldn't be helpful. But we can go after Trump all day long.
Now, Trump could do something about this, damn it, if he would stop toying around with this. If Trump would take this back to the issues, if Trump would get back on the stump and keep talking like he has been for the past three weeks and stop taking the bait on this stuff. He's got the crowds, the crowds are showing up. Because the crowds are showing up, the media is showing up. So if Trump wanted to steer this back to the issues, he could.
It wouldn't be easy because the Drive-Bys are gonna try to prevent it. I know Trump's instincts. He's got somebody out there attacking him, wounding him, trying to, he's gotta stand up and defend himself, but it's just prolonging this asinine story until this unfortunate train wreck in Hoboken took place.
By the way, in case you're wondering, Governor Christie's made a statement. Grab sound bite number 19. This was moments ago on CNN, John Berman talked to Governor Chris Christie. He said, "You told us this is being investigated by several local state and now federal agencies. At this early stage is there anything to indicate this was anything other than an accident?"
CHRISTIE: Nothing at this point. But, again, remember we are at the very earliest stages of this, and so it would be inappropriate for us to draw any conclusions at this time. We don't have any indications of anything other than an accident, but we are not going to preclude any possibility because it would be irresponsible to do so.
RUSH: Okay, so they don't know what happened here. The train left the tracks, it flew into the terminal building, it was the brakes, essentially. One person dead, a hundred people are injured. A passenger that they found said it felt like an eternity. I can imagine the horror that must have been involved in this. So they're gonna start investigating and looking into it and try to find out what happened. So that train wreck has come along and derailed the Drive-By Media train track that is Alicia Machado. I still have a whole Stack of Stuff on this woman today. Grab audio sound bites number one and two just to show you.
Our old buddies -- I think we got something back and forth going here. I mention these guys, they mention me, they of course love me mentioning them on this, the most listened to media program in America. So they love me, Heilemann and Halperin, talking about things. Last night on their TV show With All Due Respect on the Bloomberg TV network. I have no idea what channel that is on. I've never watched the Bloomberg network. I really don't know. I assume it's in the 300s which CNBC is and Fox Business, but I've never -- (interruption) No, no, I'm not try to cut. I just never watched the network.
Who wants to watch a bunch of business computer terminals? That's what I thought Bloomberg was and then occasionally the mayor would come out and start talking about people drinking too much Diet Coke and I said, "Okay, I don't need to see any more of this." (interruption) Channel 353. See how helpful we are? Channel 353 on DirecTV. Okay, so here we are. This is Halperin and Heilemann, and they are talking about the emergence of the former Miss Universe in 1996. That's 20 years ago, is it not? Alicia Machado as a campaign issue, Halperin leads off.
HALPERIN: Conservatives have been trying to discredit Machado by digging up stories from her past in Venezuela, involving a boyfriend and shooting and claims that she threatened a judge. Rush Limbaugh today called her a porn star, alluding to a report that may have appeared in an adult film. The Drive-By Media, as Limbaugh calls our ilk, have for the most part, given this story plenty of time for the last 48 hours. Fox News, however, different story. Will the apparent effort by conservative media either to defend Trump on this or ignore this stuff effectively discourage the Trump campaign from changing course.
RUSH: Look at all of the presumption in there. I'm not talking about it 'cause it's irrelevant and it's dumb and it's silly and it's nothing more than a Clinton distraction that these guys are happy to use for that purpose, anything to take attention away from her and anything to take the issues off the table. The issues are how Hillary Clinton loses. The issues, the last eight years of policy, and Hillary Clinton being associated with them and wanting to increase them, continue them, double down on them is how she loses. Of course these guys don't want that discussed. So with some porn star bimbo coming up from the Clinton campaign, bubbling up with all of these incendiary comments about Trump, made to order.
We're a highbrow program here. We aim for everybody, but we don't try to focus in this pop culture sewer that seems to be where many in the Drive-By Media love sloshing around. Whatever it takes to help the Clintons is what they will do. "And Rush Limbaugh today called her a porn star." I didn't call her a porn star. I was reading a news report in which she was referred to as a porn star. I don't watch porn. I don't know if she's done porn or not. I have no idea if she's a -- I read what one of your colleagues in the Drive-By Media wrote about her.
She's worse than a porn star. But because she's a woman and this is 2016 and women are getting bullied and raped on college campus, ostensibly, gotta be very, very careful here. So Trump calls her Miss Piggy. There is a character called Miss Piggy, proudly called Miss Piggy, one of the Muppets. Looks like somebody in American politics today, I might add, if you can't figure it out, I'll leave it up to you at some point to see. Miss Piggy. Anyway, so Heilemann reacts to Halperin pointing out that I'm berating the media for talking about it and Fox News not talking about it.
HEILEMANN: One of the things that is true about a lot of Republican politicians and particularly Republican presidential nominees is that eventually they start as the campaign gets longer and longer for variety of reasons, they get sucked into the conservative media cocoon and they stop talking to anybody outside that cocoon. It is understandable. You want the praise. You don't want the criticism. You want the easy questions not the hard questions. But it is not to your political benefit to do that. And in this case, I think if Donald Trump is just looking at Fox News and reading Breitbart and looking at conservative blogs. He doesn't understand what kind of resonance this story is happening out of the real world.
RUSH: These guys think that Machado story is the story of the campaign -- and, by the way, so do some of you. Some of the emails I'm getting from you from Panic City indicate that you think it is, too, and that Trump's gotta do something here to change the subject or what have you. This is what I meant yesterday by how easy it is to get sucked into the daily soap opera narrative put forth by the Drive-By Media. If you don't have the wherewithal to resist it, you get sucked into it, and you think that everybody else is getting sucked into it.
You think nobody cares about anything but Alicia Machado, and then you end up concluding that Trump's losing and Trump's blowing it. Then you get all depressed. Then you write me wanting me to do something about it. And I'm not running! All I can do is offer salient advice from my perch here at the Attila the Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. But this has not sucked me in except to make this point. I want to make it again. The irony of this...
By the way, I say "irony" 'cause the Drive-Bys love -- the journalists, so-called journalists love -- the premise of "irony." It's a close second to hypocrisy. When they find irony in something, they just can't avoid it. And the irony to me is here we have Donald Trump being accused of being a bully, mistreating this woman. Over here, we have a woman who's running for president on the basis she has learned how to destroy other women. She has done more than bully!
She has helped destroy women her husband has had extramarital affairs with. Hillary Clinton is the most cheated-on woman in America, and she has taken it out on the women who cheat. She has not taken it out -- that we have seen, anyway -- on her husband. Every action she has taken has been to excuse her husband. Everything she's done after learning of her husband's extramarital affairs has been to punish, to bully, to destroy the women involved.
Not her husband because, of course, to do that would have been destroying her own future and perhaps a large part of the Democrat Party. That's how messed up all of this is. And if we had a media that even had a grain of salt of objectivity, a grain of sand of even the pretense of fairness, once this story on Alicia Machado surfaces, they would clearly see the irony and point out that if we're gonna make a subject here of bullying women a central factor in the campaign, that it seems like the Democrat nominee for president is the record holder.
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RUSH: This Alicia Machado, she is the exact type of woman Bill Clinton would go after, the exact kind of woman Clinton would think is a hottie, and Hillary would then trash the hell out of. She's exactly the kind of woman. "This is what you get when you drag a dollar bill through the proverbial..." (interruption) Well, it is. What can I...? Colloquial.
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