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Nov. 20, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 20, 2015, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings once again, music lovers, thrill seekers, really.
You music lovers hang in there.
Thrill Seekers and Conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
It is Friday on the EIB network.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Open line Friday, yesterday.
One of the greatest career risks ever taken by a major or minor media figure.
A minor media figure is a risk.
Telephone number is 800 282-2882.
What's the risk?
Well, when we go to the phones today, the callers are totally in charge of what we talk about.
Meaning, whatever you want to talk about, you can.
There are some restrictions, but they're not worth mentioning.
They're pretty minor.
So here's the telephone number, 800 282-2882 in the email address, L Rushbo at EIB net.com.
I will be appearing on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace this Sunday.
Just just confirmed that.
And this just in case I forget to mention it the rest of the day.
I uh I wanted to have it out.
I think I'm gonna be up first.
I don't know.
But if it's like last time, I'm up first, and then the rest of the show will be about what I said.
And if that's if I do my job right.
Yes, sir, Reed.
Now the drive-bys are trying to destroy the two leading Republicans again today, Donald Trump and Ben Carson.
They are doing a terrific job of taking Trump out of context.
He's leaving the stage.
Uh, I guess it was last night he was uh doing a personal appearance somewhere, is leaving the stage, he's finished, and a drive-by gets amongst the autograph seekers and starts peppering him with questions.
And he answered a question that and and it's it's how the reporter is purposely misinterpreting it to say that Donald Trump last night said that he's in favor of a registration database of all Muslims in the U.S. And everybody in the drive-by says run with it, and he didn't say it.
And we have the audio soundbite coming up to illustrate it.
Jimmy Ivine, who uh used to be at Beats Music with Dr. Dre, personal friend of Mr. Snertley's.
Apple Music, Apple Apple Incorporated purchased beats, and now they've got Apple Music, and Ivine is one of the one of the brains behind it.
And I guess they put together a really class, really appreciated TV commercial for Apple Music that debuted at I guess the Grammys or the Emmys or some such thing, and they replayed it on CBS this morning, yesterday, I think.
And then they had Ivine on there with Mary J. Blige, and Ivine said some things about women and their inability to find music.
To explain why Apple had set Apple Music up the way they have, and that got Ivane into big big trouble.
He's had to apologize for insulting women and their supposed inability to find music.
To search for and find music.
Wait till you hear what he said.
It's it's folks, it's purely generational.
It's it's not the guy's not a sexist or a misogynist, it's just generate when you hear this, it'll it'll be perfectly understandable and clear what the what the poor guy was trying to say.
Here I am defending Ivane is probably well, I don't know.
I I don't know anything about him other than his reputation in the um in the music business.
Uh, well, let's you know what?
Let's go.
Here's audio soundbite number one.
And it is CBS this morning, I guess it's yesterday morning.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yesterday morning this happened, and it's uh Ivine and Mary J. Blige being interviewed by Gail King.
And it's about this This TV commercial.
It's her and Carrie Washington.
By the way, I think Scandal has jumped the shark.
Did you see Scandal last night?
Anybody in there see Scandal Last Night?
Have you ever seen have you ever watched Scandal?
Oh, you never have.
Oh, okay.
Well, Carrie Washington is the star at.
And she plays Major Washington, D.C. fixer, named Olivia Pope.
Styled after an actual person.
And anyway, for the entirety of the series, she's had a running affair with the sitting president, A.J. Fitzgerald, whatever the hell his name is.
And I haven't seen any episode this season.
I I've got them T-V'd, but I I think they jumped a shark a long time ago.
It's gotten, it's gotten beyond the so far out, it's entertaining still enough to watch phase for me.
But apparently last night she got pregnant by by way of the sitting president A.J. Fitzgerald or Fitz, whatever his name is, who cares?
And she has an abortion.
To the tune of Silent Night.
Yep, she has an abortion, and it's it's glorified.
It's celebrated, it's heralded.
She has an abortion, smiling.
It's it's a it's a P into Planned Parenthood, it's a tribute to Planned Parenthood.
I mean, it's just sickening, apparently.
And she has an abortion and lying on the table with the actual abortion taken and then camera shots showing you what it would look like with the doctor making the move from behind her head.
And and there's a there's a couple other things added to it that apparently it's just sickening.
I mean, just genuinely literally sickening.
Again, I haven't seen it.
I've just had a bunch of people tell me about it.
I haven't seen a single episode this season.
I've got them all T-voed in there.
Well, I don't actually have them T vote.
Well, they are T-vote, but I actually have them on Apple Apple TV.
So if I ever get really, really bored, I've got them in reserve.
You know, get sick and can't leave the house for whatever reason.
But I haven't watched them.
Anyway, she is in this commercial with Taraji P. Henson of Empire and Mary J. Blige.
And the commercial is just three friends, and they're trying to find music to listen to while they're in their kitchen.
And they find Carrie Washington finds a great song, and they all start dancing and jiving and loving it and so forth, and that's the commercial.
It's over, they come back to Ivine and Mary J. Blood talking about the commercial, the concept behind it, who put it together.
Gail King said, What was your thinking behind the ad, Mr. Ivine?
And what was the story you were trying to tell?
This is where he stepped in it.
Women find it very difficult at times, some women, to find music.
And this helps make it easier with playlists, but they're curated by real people.
But your creative concept, Jimmy, was what?
How did it start?
I just thought of a problem.
You know, girls are sitting around, you know, talking about boys or complaining about boys when they had to heartbroken or whatever.
And uh they need music for that, right?
So it's hard to find the right music.
You know, not everybody has you know the right list or knows a DJ or something.
Okay, so there he is.
Now Ivine is 50, at least 50 years old.
I'm guessing 45, 50.
Are you what look yeah, yeah, I knew it.
See, I knew it.
I knew it's see, Snerdley said, what's so what's so bad about this?
What's the wrong?
I'm just telling you that the women the at least the women in the drive-by media are outraged over what he said.
I don't know how many other real women are upset by it, but the story is that women all over the world who heard this are outraged.
Ivine's already done a Maya Culpa.
He's already apologized.
What he said was women find it very difficult at times, some women to find music.
And and ample music helps make it easier with playlists.
They're curated by real people.
And then Gail King says, but your creative concept, Jimmy, was what?
How did it start?
He said, Well, I just thought of a problem.
You know, girls are sitting around talking about boys or complaining about boys.
And Gail King says, Yeah, that too.
You know, Ivy, You know, girls when they're heartbroken or whatever, and they need music for that, right?
So it's hard to find the right music.
I mean, where do you search heartbreak music?
What do you search for here?
Not everybody has the ability to search for that, but we at Apple do.
So the sexism is that Iveen believes that girls sit around and do nothing but talk about boys.
Well, depending on the age you're talking about, he's pretty right.
And when they're talking about boys, they're usually complaining about them.
Are they not?
Okay.
They're heartbroken or what have you.
So here's the the sexism is that this is a guy from the he's an adult now, 4550, and to him, women are so singularly focused and so one-dimensional that all they do is care about boys, talk about boys, whine about boys, and they run around with their hearts broken all the time.
Jimmy Ivine 62.
That's his impression of So he's saying what they've done is they've set up a system at Apple Music where your average girl, heartbroken, whining and moaning about boys can go find music that fits the mood.
And there was outrage, and he had to apologize for it.
I think what Iveen means, you know, and most men miss this.
Let me just let me that I have become an expert in this.
Let me ask you guys a question.
You're sitting wherever you're sitting, and you're you're not doing anything.
You know, you're watching television, you're reading, but you're not, you're not bothering anybody, and you haven't said anything to upset anybody.
And all of a sudden your wife's spouse girlfriend walks in and starts complaining, not you, starts complaining about something.
Or just starts talking about something.
You know, let's add complaining to it.
Most guys make the mistake of thinking that they've got to fix it.
That they have to offer a solution or advice, and that is the absolute wrong thing to do because women in that circumstance are not looking for solutions.
They're not looking for advice, they just want to talk.
They just want to share whatever it is that's upset them or ticked them off.
And if you fire a kiss, fine.
But if you and if you in if you at all respond in any way that says, well, here's what you should do, then you've blown it.
And you're she's gonna storm out on you because she's not telling you she's incompetent.
She's not telling you she's helpless.
She just is talking.
So the thing to do is sit there and lose.
Now, Ivine needs to incorporate that kind of philosophy into his heartbroken playlist suggestions into his curation and algorithm and so forth.
Solutions are not, maybe not, but look, sometimes maybe.
But women just want to come in, they just want to talk about.
They just want to share the stuff.
They're not looking for fixes or solutions.
And it's, and if you treat if you if you offer one, you're essentially saying, okay, you idiot.
Well, here's what you ought to do to fix it.
Now most guys screw it up unintentionally, they're trying to be helpful.
It's one of these Mars Venus things.
Trying to be helpful, but that's not what the woman's looking for.
She just wants to bitch.
To complain about whatever it is.
Could be some driver that cut her off.
It could be somebody that stole something out of the shopping cart or the grocery store.
Does anybody go to grocery store anymore and they have deliveries?
All right.
So anyway, I've been...
Well, that's true.
That's a good example, okay?
I just lost the pictures on my phone.
Oh, my God, I just...
Don't say, are you backed up?
Don't say, have you turned on don't say anything that's going to be interpreted as you think she's a fool.
You just listen, guys, just listen.
That's all.
I am an expert.
We'll be right back and continue after this.
And back we are.
Open life Friday, Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by showing up.
I don't know if you have seen it yet today.
There are stories all over the drive-by media.
The associated press, Yahoo News.
I mean, it's everywhere.
That Donald Trump supposedly is calling for the registration of all Muslims in America.
Trump is demanding that they all be registered and that a massive database be corrected.
And CNN is all over reporting this.
Even the Wall Street Journal has picked up on it.
There's a problem, though.
Trump didn't say it.
Now I'm going to tell you what happened.
At a recent public appearance, Trump's coming off the stage.
The usual one of his 90 minute, one hour to 90 minute appearances.
He's probably worn out and spent, and there's the usual crowd of autograph seekers and supporters and fans.
And amongst them is a drive-by media reporter who says to Trump, should there be a database system who tracks the Muslims that are in this country?
Trump says there should be a lot of systems beyond databases.
We should have a lot of systems.
And today you can do it.
But right now, we have to have a border.
We have to have strength.
We have to have a wall.
And we cannot let what's happening to this country happen again.
Reporter.
Is that something your White House would like to implement?
There's no specificity there.
The question is just is that something your White House would like to implement?
Trump has given a multifaceted answer.
She says, is that something without specifying what she's asking about?
Trump said, Oh, I would certainly implement that.
Absolutely.
And that's how they report that Trump demands a database and registration for all Muslims when he didn't say it.
He never said it.
It's a journalism trick 101.
It's right out of the manual.
They treat, they teach you it the first year of journalism school in how to destroy political opponents or powerful people you don't like.
It's that common a technique.
Audio soundbite proof coming up.
Okay, back we are.
Open line Friday, Rush Limboy here at 800 282-2882.
Now, I'm not sure, but I think that the reporter that has that asked Trump the question and has totally, totally twisted this purposefully to convey something that did not happen.
I think the reporter works for business insider.
I think the reporter is Hunter Walker.
If that's who it is, you need to know that this guy is a major backer of Hillary Clinton, as most in the drive-by media are.
He has uh written endless articles championing her, and now I think he uh he writes for Yahoo News and is the business insider politics editor.
So here is how this happened.
This is in Newton, Iowa.
Yesterday after a campaign event, and again, Trump's leaving the stage, and a reporter says, should there be a database system to track Muslims in this country?
Now, nobody has suggested that.
Keep in mind.
Trump has not suggested it.
Uh so the reporter's not asking a question, bouncing off anything Trump has said.
It's just a question thrown at Trump, and it comes to him in the midst of autograph seekers and fans and supporters wanting to meet him after his performance is finished.
There should be a lot of systems beyond database.
We should have a lot of systems.
And today you can do it.
But right now we have to have a border.
We have to have strength, we have to have a wall, and we cannot let what's happening to this country happen in the White House would like to make it.
Oh, I would certainly implement that.
Absolutely.
What do you think the effect of that would be?
How would that work?
It would stop people from coming in illegally.
We have to stop people from coming in to our country illegally.
It would be just good management.
What you have to do is good management procedures.
And we can do that.
Do you go to mosques and sign his people up?
Different places.
You sign them up or different, but it's all about management.
Our country has no management.
Okay.
Now, two things about this.
The first is, as I said, everybody in the drive-by media is running with this because they think they've got Trump again.
They are at they're salivating out there, folks.
They are hoping they got their fingers crossed.
They've doubled down there.
He'll put in his story everywhere.
Trump steps in it, Trump racist, Trump bigoted, Trump anti-Muslim wants database, wants to go to their mosques to sign them up, wants to have them carry around symbols on their clothes to tell everybody who they are and what's and he never said it.
And this reporter, Hunter Walker, retweeted the headline from the AP, the AP headline, Trump says he would absolutely implement Muslim database.
This little know nothing reporter is so proud of his work today.
And this is I say journalism 101.
This is what they teach you when you want to take out a political opponent or a powerful person you don't like.
This is how you do it with any window.
Again, here's what happened.
Trump comes off stage.
Should there be a database system tracks Muslims that are in this country?
It's a setup question from the get-go.
Nobody has suggested it.
Trump says there should be a lot of systems beyond databases.
We have a lot of systems.
We should have.
And today you can do it right now.
We have to have a border.
We have to have strength.
We have to have a wall.
And we can't let what's happening to this country happen again.
He has not confirmed a database.
He has not confirmed registration of Muslims.
He's changed the question to his favorite subject, the wall and the border and keeping illegal immigrants out.
The reporter says, is that something your white house would like to implement?
Not specifying.
If anything, the guy's talking about the border.
The last thing Trump said in his answer was talking about the border, strength, a wall.
The reporter says, is that something your white house would like to implement?
There is nothing specified.
The use of the word that the reporter then can say, well, I meant Muslim registration.
Look what Trump said Trump knew what I was talking about.
But Trump's answer was, oh, I would certainly implement that.
Absolutely.
Reporter, what do you think the effect of that would be?
It would stop people from coming in illegally.
Trump's still talking about the border.
He's still talking about the wall.
He says we have to stop people from coming into this country illegally.
So how in the world can Trump be talking about the registration of Muslims or anybody when he's still talking about keeping people out of the country?
Muslims are here.
This is a just good old-fashioned hatchet job by this low-rent reporter named Hunter Walker, who's got everybody in the media reporting it the way he wants, because this is what they want people to believe about Trump.
This is what they believe about all Republicans.
We're bigots, we're racist, sexists, and so forth.
And Trump's just come along and confirmed it.
And I guarantee you there's a contest inside the drive-by media to see who can be the one to take Trump out.
Here is what they are forgetting.
This isn't going to hurt Trump.
Even their journalistic malpractice is not going to hurt Trump.
They haven't figured that out.
They keep applying standard ordinary everyday tactics on hit pieces to Donald Trump, and all that happens as a result is that Trump increases his support.
Trump's support gets stronger.
It gets deeper every time they try something like this.
Because Trump is dead serious About protecting this country and its borders and keeping terrorists and so forth out of the country.
He makes no bones about it.
He's one of the only candidates that's unwavering on it.
It's the number one issue.
And you combine what's happening with ISIS and Paris and border security, national security, protecting and defending the country and the people who live here is far and away the number one most important issue because everything descends from it.
The economy descends from it.
Jobs descend from it.
Everything that matters descends from this country remaining a country.
It has to have a border.
That border has to be enforced.
Trump's the only guy talking about.
They think they've got him.
They're going to be crying, and whatever it is they drink.
This is not going to rip the bottom out of Trump's campaign.
It's not going to destroy Trump's campaign no matter how much they're lying.
No matter how they try to distort this.
Because Trump did not say he's in favor of registration or a database of all Muslims in America.
And once again, what's going to happen here is an ever increasingly aware and sophisticated public is going to just get angrier and angrier at the usual childish tactics of the very unrespected drive-by media.
Once the public learns what's happened here, the anger is not going to be at Trump.
There wouldn't have been that much anger at Trump anyway, among his supporters.
That's what they don't understand.
You people in the media have got to understand something.
You're going to have to go about this a different way.
You didn't make Trump.
You can't destroy him.
There's nothing you can do.
And look at the links they're now going to to try.
Exactly what they did to Romney, by the way.
This is this is no different than Harry Reid saying, Hey, Mitt Romney hadn't paid his taxes in ten years.
Hey, look at Mitt Romney putting a family dog on top of the station away.
Hey, Mitt Romney, one of his employees' wives died of cancer.
Romney didn't care, went ahead and canceled the health care plan.
Didn't care.
Didn't care.
I don't think Trump, I don't think this guy's questions were even registering with Trump.
I think Trump continued to talk with his own framework in mind, meaning his focus on the wall.
Because if you continue on with the soundbite, keep in mind here that Trump's never talked about registering or having a database of Muslims.
The reporter asks a fake question.
Is that something your White House would do like to implement?
Trump answers, yeah, under the context.
He keeps talking about the wall.
He keeps talking about the border.
Oh, I would certainly implement that.
Absolutely.
Trump's still talking about the border.
The reporter says, what do you think the effect of that would be?
How would that work?
Trump, it would stop people from coming in illegally.
He's still talking about the border.
He's still talking about his wall.
We have to stop people from coming in illegally.
Reporter, for Muslims specifically, how do you actually get them registered in your database?
Trump has never said that he wants to register them in his database.
He's talking about the wall.
He's talking about the border.
This idiot, talentless reporter says, whoa.
For Muslims specifically, how do you actually get them registered in your database?
Trump says it'd be good management.
What you have to do is good management procedures, and we can do that.
He's still talking about the wall.
He's not even listening to this kid.
He's walking out of there.
He's answering the question.
He's got it answered.
He's on the wall.
He's on the border.
That's what he's talking about.
When it's all over, the reporter makes it up that Trump's talking about registration of Muslims and a database.
Totally makes it up.
Anyway, I gotta take a break here.
I just wanted you to see this.
I wanted you to hear it.
Reporters on words, Trump's own words, because it's been picked up everywhere.
And mark my words, the next poll that comes out, Trump's gonna have he's just gonna jump even higher, and they're not gonna know what to do with themselves in the drive-bys.
But you people in the media are gonna have to learn something.
When you don't make somebody, you can't destroy them.
And you haven't made Trump.
The media has nothing to do with why Trump's where he is.
And therefore you can't take him out.
You can try.
You may think you can, but he's got a bond, the connection with his supporters and his audience that you people are not going to be able to break, no matter how hard you try.
So you know how this works.
I just got an email from a from a friend of mine who plays around on Facebook, and he sent me a screenshot of his Facebook post that he sent out.
And he uh he wants me to know that he's on top things.
He says, Yeah, Trump wants to register all Muslims.
The last guy to want to do that was Hitler and a Jews.
Come on, folks, we're going backwards.
So I just had to write him back.
Hey, buddy, you've got it 180 degrees wrong.
Trump didn't say it.
This is a guy who reads the news all day.
This is exactly how this happens.
You've got every drive-by news source now reporting this.
I'm not sure who the reporter was actually got this whole thing started, but there are the the suspects that have taken what that kid did and expanded it all over the place.
You could mention any drive-by name out there, and you'd be pretty close to being accurate about who did this.
I'm not exactly sure who the reporter was at the Trump event.
I was told one thing, and now I'm told that that's not necessarily true.
Um but the the guy's name I gave you is still responsible for expanding, amplifying, and leading this.
Um that Hunter Walker is who kicked it all off.
Doesn't really matter.
I mean, they're all the same stripe and they've all got the same objective here.
And this email I just got from a friend of mine who's not an idiot.
You know, he's not a casual consumer of news.
Because it's in the Wall Street Journal.
This guy's a financial guy.
He read it in a Wall Street Journal.
A Wall Street Journal, these guys is gospel.
I have tried to tell.
I can every friend of mine, and it's probably gone for naught.
I've tried to tell every just based on the way I get covered, and they know me, and they know what's written about me is all bogus.
I say, could you not apply that to every story you hear, particularly about people you support?
Could you just learn to not believe anything you read if it's defaming Republicans in the drive-by media?
Could you just learn to be suspicious of it and try to confirm it on your own?
But it doesn't work that way.
People believe it.
There it is.
It's in print.
It's right there, or it's on my screen.
Rush, it's true.
I mean, you can't write stuff.
They can't write stuff that isn't true.
Can't tell you how often I hear that.
So Trump's gonna, I don't know how he's gonna deal with this.
He will, but let me join.
You know, I'm gonna go ahead and get in trouble myself here.
Can I can I give you what I think might have happened with a lot of people when they first saw this BS story?
What do you think?
You're driving around or you're reading or whatever, and you hear Trump wants to register all Muslims.
Yeah.
Getting my drift.
So I I'm just I marvel here.
I I'm I'm thankful for the opportunity.
I'm thankful I haven't retired.
I'm thankful I've still got this program and a chance to come here every day and illustrate the the dishonest, the reprehensible, the the just scummy way these people work.
And each time I see something like this, I just it it I focus even more on they're not media.
This isn't media.
This isn't the news.
The media is the Democrat Party.
The media is all part of the left-wing establishment that's trying to advance the Democrat Party agenda.
Every time he see a story like Trump has to fight media here or overcome media, why would you have to overcome the media?
The media is just a bunch of journalists telling people what happened who weren't there.
Of course, it's this exact opposite.
Everybody knows now, many people.
And even people who know what the media is still get sucked in and believing this stuff.
But when you read the transcript of what Trump said, when you actually read it or hear it and then compare it to the news being reported, you can't escape the fact that the media is making it up that Trump never said.
Here's let me grab a phone call.
We always try to get one in in the first hour at Open Line Friday.
It's Leo in Northern Virginia.
Hey Leo, I'm glad you called.
Hello.
Hey Rush.
Hey, uh, you know, this whole database thing, you can take it one of two ways.
Either it could be good for us, and we should all be in some sort of database.
I know my wife and I, she doesn't even have a clearance because I do.
Her records got breached through OPM.
So who's gonna keep these records and keep them safe?
These guys have already proven that they can hack into wherever they need to.
They can forge any kind of document they want.
Excuse me.
So what's to say they don't go in there and maybe delete their names out of the database or add it in if it's the safe, you know, Muslims, however they label it.
Wait a minute, you're accepting the premise here.
And you know it isn't true, and yet you're accepting the premise.
No, no, no, no, no.
Quite the contrary.
I think it'd be a big mistake to create a database.
Because the bad guys can hack it.
Absolutely.
Well, let me ask do you think there aren't such databases in this country?
Who the hell do you think has them?
If you th if you think there are databases of people, and we know damn well there are, it's called metadata from your phone calls.
It's a database.
Now, whether it's a database by virtue of your religion or your conservatism or liberalism or whatever, there are databases all the way, and who's got them?
The Obama administration has them.
Not Trump.
And Trump hasn't even suggested it.
Remember, Maxine Waters, Obama's gonna have the biggest database anybody's ever seen.
We're gonna know everything about it.
Nobody knows about it, and we're working on it.
It's gonna be the best thing.
It already exists, folks, and Barack Hussein oh has it.
Wake up!
Even Ted Cruz has gotten in on this.
Ted Cruz disagrees with Trump on Muslim registries.
I'm a big fan of Donald Trump, but not a fan of government registries of American citizens.
Even Cruz fell for it.
A Republican Party, the establishment may not let go of this.
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