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Nov. 23, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 23, 2015, Monday, Hour #2
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That's right.
The exact Obama quote on ISIS.
They're a bunch of killers with good social media.
That's all.
Just a bunch of killers, good social media.
None to see here.
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Paris attacks have only made Donald Trump stronger.
This is polling data here from Washington Post ABC News.
I want to give you some of the numbers here because the drive-by media and the Republican establishment have all believed that Trump's comments on Muslims and on Islam.
And there's another controversy running around now that Trump says that he saw thousands of Muslims cheering in New Jersey on 9-11.
You know, this is quite instructive, too.
Trump has said it before, and they asked him about it, and he insists he saw it.
And so the drive-bys, the AP, the New York Times, the Washington Post, every one of them got their fact checkers in gear and up to speed, and they searched every news database they could find, they said.
And they can't find any evidence by way of news stories that Muslims were cheering in the United States, particularly in New Jersey on the day 9-11 happened.
Except the Washington Post did have a story, chronicling the fact that Muslims were cheering in New Jersey on 9-11.
And their own fact checker, a guy named Glenn Kessler overlooked it and didn't think to include it in his fact check.
So you have all these drive-by people scouring the Lexus Nexus database.
They're looking at everything they say, they tell us they're scouring everything they can find for any evidence that there was what Trump saw.
And they conclude that Trump was getting 15 Pinocchios here or whatever, because they can't find any evidence.
And the Washington Post's own fact-checker didn't even check his own paper.
A lot of people have found the link in the Washington Post.
They had a story about cheering Muslims in New Jersey on 9-11.
Now it wasn't the tens of thousands that Trump said he saw, but it was cheering Muslims on 9-11.
Trump said he saw it.
He said he knew it happened.
They're trying to say Trump's making it up to impugn and insult Muslims.
So all these drive-bys begin their fact-checking, and they can't find any, and it right there it wears in the Washington Post.
It was right there, and their own fact-checker decided to not look at his own paper.
Or maybe he did and saw that story, said, well, this tens or thousands.
Trump made it up and just didn't even bother to include it.
But the point is, every time they try this, Trump goes up.
None of this hurts Trump.
Violating political correctness has not hurt Trump.
Voicing opinions that the inside Washington establishment finds reprehensible does not hurt Trump.
It only helps him.
Republican Party in its own way is blind to what is happening.
I mean, Trump is broadening the base of the party all the while the Republican base is worried that he's shrinking it while claiming they want to broaden the base.
The Democrats and the left are just hoping that, like anything, that Trump's going to embarrass himself and say something that causes people who are supporting him to abandon him.
And they're applying their own sensitivities to this.
Meaning they would they would be profoundly embarrassed.
And they would be terribly angry if any of them ever said what Trump said about Muslims.
So they think everybody would react the way they do.
Let me give you another example.
Remember when Mike Pence, the governor of Indiana, signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Okay, well, and then it was it was uh fascinating to watch because the media ran stories making it look like the entire country Was outraged at Indiana and at Governor Pence.
And then when some reporter found this mom and pop pizza store that said they would not cater a gay wedding, the media wrote about it as though everybody in America thought that this little pizza store family should be put in jail.
I mean, everybody disagreed, and it wasn't the case.
The vast majority of people did not disagree with what Indiana had done, but the media juxtaposes their own point of view on the whole country and assumes the whole country thinks and feels the way they do about things.
Ergo, when they think Trump says something that's the equivalent of stepping in it, they think everybody reacts that way.
And so when it doesn't happen, when Trump is not harped and when he's not hurt, in fact, when he gains ground, they are left stymied.
And in those circumstances where we are right now, they become even more committed to taking taking him out just to prove they can do it.
Because after all, that's one of their objectives.
Destroying powerful people with whom they disagree.
That's how you get a gold star.
That's how you get your merit badge as a media Cub Scout.
That's how you climb the ladder of success.
One of the things that you prove you're able to do is destroy somebody in power, particularly if they're Republican or conservative.
But in this Washington Post, ABC News poll, Donald Trump leads among most demographic groups.
He leads with men by 10 points.
He leads with women by 11.
You realize that's not supposed to happen.
Women are supposed to hate Trump.
You know why?
Well, because he's braggadocious, he's too sure of himself, he's too confident, and he wants to have too much power.
Yeah, it was anti-woman.
Well, all that means that he's anti-woman.
Here he is leading with women by 11.
He leads among the very conservative by one point.
He leads among moderates by 16.
If you ask, if you ask me, Donald Trump is the ideal Republican establishment candidate.
Let me repeat myself.
I'm sorry to be redundant, but remember you got Ed Rollins and all these establishment guys thinking that what Trump's saying and doing is harming the Republican brand.
They think they need to broaden their base.
They need to get Hispanic votes.
They need to get people besides Republicans voting are never going to win the White House again.
Well, that's what Trump is doing.
The Republican establishment thinks that Trump's support is 100% from the conservative Republican base, which the Republican establishment resents.
When you break it down, Trump's demographics are all over the place.
Blue-collar voters, he leads by a significant margin.
So let me go through this again.
He leads with men by 10 points, with women by 11.
Among the very conservative, he leads by one point.
The very conservative are divided between Carson and Cruz here, folks.
You know, if I met Rollins or anybody in the Republican establishment, I look at this ABC Washington Post poll and see that Trump leads very conservative by only one point.
Man, this is what they wanted Jeb to do.
Moderates, he's winning by 16.
I mean, that's orgasm material for these people.
Moderates, independents, oh my God, they can barely keep their pants up.
They're probably so excited.
He leads among those with a college degree by two points.
He leads among people without a college degree by 14.
And there is the rub.
That's where it all breaks down.
That gets translated.
Trump has the deliverance vote by 14 points, but the Harvard vote by one.
And you can't support a guy that doesn't have the support of the Ivy Leave Ivy League intellectuals.
Because that's who the drive-bys think they are.
That's who they think their friends are.
And not the deliverance crowd, but the pro-lifers, think of it that way.
The only group where Trump trails is...
Evangelicals, Ben Carson leads with evangelicals by eight points Over everybody else.
Now, part of that is certainly that Carson is plummeted.
I mean, this is the story here by Philip Munterson.
One of the reasons that Trump has this significant lead in all these demographic groups is that Carson is losing support since the day before the Paris terror attacks.
Carson's polling average has fallen nearly five points from 24 to 19.
Trump has risen three points, 24.8 to 27.5.
So the Paris attacks have not hurt Trump.
They have made Trump stronger.
And he is coming on, coming down hard on all of this, and he's taking no prisoners.
And he is shocking the establishment by getting away with it.
The Hill.com.
Donald Trump remains atop the crowded GOP field in a new Washington Post poll with 32%.
This is overall.
This is above and beyond the demographics and the uh splits that I just gave you.
Here's the politico.
Why the Muslim database comment won't doom Trump.
They don't like writing that headline.
They like even less writing the story.
In the last 24 hours, I saw the story begins.
In the last 24 hours, Donald Trump has said he absolutely would implement a database of American Muslims, and that participation would have to be compulsory.
He did not say it.
He was not don't make me go through.
I'm bored explaining this.
Trump's leaving the stage.
He's signing, he's he's a amidst autograph seekers and supporters, and some media guy worms his way in there and starts asking Trump about his wall and the Mexican immigration in the middle of it starts asking a question about registering Muslims.
Trump thinks, for all intents and purposes, Trump thinks he's still answering questions about the wall and southern immigration.
Now, one thing has to be said.
Trump was set up.
This was a total setup, and Trump fell for it.
At some point, Trump's gonna have to be aware that this kind of stuff.
Right now it's not hurting him, but this was a total setup.
And he just wasn't paying attention to the guy.
And I look, I know what he doesn't think the media can hurt him.
He really, he's not like your average Republican or average citizen who is reduced to paralysis when the media shows up.
Trump just doesn't care.
So this, you know, this little little guy's asking him questions, and Trump's signing autographs, and he's just finished an hour and a half on stage, and he's wanting out of there, and he's answering the questions almost in a generic rote form.
Not even aware the guy's asking him about a Muslim database.
Trump's answers don't even specifically mention the Muslims or database.
When he does get specific, he talks about a wall and the border and keeping them out.
This story is devoted to the premise of why Trump making remarks on the Muslim database will not doom him.
Even though he didn't say it.
Here's the paragraph of note.
Is Trump's campaign imploding?
Fat chance.
Just as Trump's provocations aimed at Mexican immigrants and John McCain's war record have fueled his presidential run rather than destroyed it.
His latest demagoguery on Muslims plays straight into his populist appeal.
In other words, these people think that it's the Republican base propping up Trump, supporting Trump, and that they're haters.
This is the way, and this is the value of this story to these people.
Totally made up story, totally made up suction uh uh uh subject line, so that they can then impugn Trump supporters as hateful racists and bigots.
That's what they want to write, and that's what they did write.
And the reason Trump won't be hurt is because all you Trump supporters are basically Crow magnans and Neanderthals who hate everybody that doesn't look like you.
That's what they want to write.
Back to the phones we go.
Oh, Rushborn, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
This is BJ in Westchester County in New York.
Welcome, BJ.
Happy to have you here.
Welcome.
Thank you so much, Rush.
And my question basically is I noticed that our friend Donald Trump is very much of an egotist, similar to the present dictator in chief.
And my concern as a Republican, but more as a pro-life conservative, is that he's going to act in a very similar way to the man who's in the office now.
And that's the last thing we need.
And I'm very concerned, especially as a prolifer, since he said he would be very happy to put his sister who's a pro-abortion uh judge as a Supreme Court person.
What's your thought?
Yeah, sister Mary Ann is uh judge.
I met her once at a uh at a Trump event.
Well, it wasn't a Trump event, it was uh Marine Corps law enforcement, of course it was at a uh uh Atlantic City uh casino ballroom, Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, I met his sister there.
She never struck me as a dictator, nor Trump has, but you know, you raise an interesting point, nevertheless, BJ.
And it's a clear example here of why I only use half my brain, folks.
One of the risks that the Obama presidency presents is its aftermath.
Obama has blown through the Constitution like a tornado and has in the process set precedence.
And there have been people seeking office who have said that they are going to fix the things Obama has broken themselves, using the singular powers that Obama has appropriated for himself.
In other words, Obama's wanton overstepping the Constitution has created precedent where future presidents, if they're inclined, might feel that they could or should do so as well.
Uh I know Trump.
I mean, I'm not intimate friends, but I know him well enough.
He's he's just he's a get things done kind of guy, not a dictator.
We have a dictator now.
Ha, how are you?
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
So I checked the email during the break, and there's uh let's just say there's more than a couple emails from people accusing me of making it up or just being wrong when I say that Obama considers Republicans a greater enemy and threat than he does ISIS.
And a couple of them even take me to task for even daring to think that.
That is so unpatriotic.
That is such an attack.
How could you ever think that any president would consider the opposing political party a greater threat than ISIS or any terrorist group?
Because he does, folks.
And I'm not asking you to believe me.
Listen to him.
Listen to him, him and haw and make excuses for ISIS and call him a JV team and tell people they're worried about nothing.
and then when he gets engaged about Republicans.
: Yeah, you hear it.
Hey, you know, they go up there complaining about moderating on CNBC, they're worried about orphans coming in from Syria.
And, you know, I met with John Boehner, I said, "You need to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh, it's not how things get done in Washington." He is totally opposed to.
It makes sense.
We, conservatives, Republicans pose the greatest threat to the Democrat Party.
We're running against them.
We're trying to beat them.
We're trying to take their power away.
ISIS isn't.
ISIS isn't trying to get Obama out of office.
We are.
Of course, we're gonna weaken, but I'm telling you, in the real world, we are a bigger threat.
They don't like opposition.
But if you don't believe me, have you ever heard of a guy named Mike Rawlings?
Do you does the name ring a bell to anybody out there?
I'm getting a bunch of blank stares.
Mike Rawlings happens to be a mayor.
He happens to be a mayor in a city in Texas.
Which would be Dallas.
He happened to be on a TV network on Saturday morning.
By the way, is a big liberal Democrat.
He told the Dallas Morning News and the hosts of MSNBC that he would welcome Syrian refugees to Dallas.
He said, Quote, I am more fearful of large gatherings of white men that come into schools and theaters and shoot people up than I am of Syrian refugees.
I rest my case.
Mike Rawlings, Barack Obama, Liberal Democrat, doesn't matter.
I'm not kidding.
Folks, it would be well worth your while not to doubt me on these things.
I've got no reason to make any of this up or lie to you.
You have everything to benefit by learning it and accepting it, because it will help you in deciding who to support, what to support, oppose, vote, not vote for whatever down the road.
The Democrat Party today, need I remind you that the Obama administration.
Who was it?
Was Janet Nabolitano when she ran whatever she ran, Homeland Security, first couple of years of the Obama administration to put out this uh memo warning law enforcement all over the country to be on the lookout for right wing conservatives because they are a public nuisance and a public threat.
Don't doubt me.
It certainly is true, and it is the case.
And if it if it wasn't, I wouldn't make it up.
I don't say things here just to get people riled up.
I don't have to make it up for that to happen, but I wouldn't anyway.
Now, before we get back, we I haven't started on the soundbice yet.
I've got a couple things here.
Um Breitbart News headline, CNN caught selectively editing Trump's Muslim comments.
CNN has been caught red-handed selectively editing Donald Trump's comments about a Muslim registry and doing so in order to make it sound as though he is agreeing with the registry, but he's not.
When you listen to the video, and this is the this is the video of the you know post-appearance interview.
Reporter, should there be a database system that tracks Muslims who are in this country?
Trump says, and we had this for you last week.
We dissected it last week, but I'm telling you what CNN did with it.
Should there be a database system that tracks Muslims who are in this country, says the little snivelling reporter Trump.
There should be a lot of systems beyond databases.
We should have a lot of systems, and today you can do it.
But this next CNN left out.
They edited this out like NBC edited.
George Zimmerman and the Trayvon Martin 911 call.
Trump next said, 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 any longer.
They edited all of that out.
They edited out Trump indicating he was being asked.
He thought he was being asked about Southern immigration and the wall and the border.
They edited that out so that they could make it look like Trump was answering a question specifically about Muslim registry, which he was not and did not do.
Thank you.
Let's go to Linda Daytona Beach, Florida, back this up.
Linda, great to have you.
Welcome to the EIB Network High.
Happy Thanksgiving and Megadiddles Rush.
Thank you.
Same to you.
Oh, no problem.
Anyway, uh, I just wanted to say that there isn't anything that Trump could say or do at this point that would make me not vote for him.
Nothing?
No.
He is the first candidate in years that I can remember who has put the needs of the American people and America before anything else.
Are you worried that he would become a dick?
Oh, by the way, I need to add something.
I did during the break, you know, this we had a call in Westchester County.
He said Trump's going to appoint his sister as a judge who's pro-choice.
And her name is Mary Ann.
She doesn't want the gig.
She's already said she doesn't want it.
Trump himself is pro-life.
He's he used to be pro-choice until he saw an abortion or saw video or pictures.
He's become pro-life now.
His sister doesn't want the gig, so she won't be appointed.
You know, that's the kind of stuff that takes on a life of its own and becomes real, like this fake Muslim registry story and CNN fake edits, well, no real edits to fake up what Trump supposedly said.
But in your case, Linda, there's nothing, and I'm not asking you to imagine anything.
I'm just there's nothing that could shake your support for the Trumpster.
Uh, pretty much no.
If you even listen to Bush on his commercials, he's saying, oh, what America should do for other people in other countries.
You know, I'm so sick of it.
I wasn't even gonna vote this time, Rush.
I was so sick of the establishment.
You know, fool me once, fool me twice.
Yeah, I hear you.
You know, and uh then I heard Trump speak, and I'm like, guess what?
You're my man.
I believe Trump when he said he'll build the wall, you know.
I think he's a little narcissist because he will build the wall, and everyone will call it the Trump law, you know.
But I think he's also a successful businessman.
Right.
So it wouldn't bother you if the Trump wall said Trump on both sides of it.
He's a little bit of a narcissist, and he might name the wall after himself.
Folks, this is my point.
The drive-by's had better take heed here and stop wasting energy.
There's nothing you can do, particularly bouncing off everyday news items and news events.
How long is it going to take?
Trump Trump has held the lead for more days than there are remaining until the Hawkeye caucke.
Now they're the establishment types still think they're in denial.
They still think this isn't real.
They still think it may as well be late July, early August, and Trump's not really serious.
There's something else up his sleeve, but he's gonna quit at some point.
We are approaching December.
We are well past the point of no return.
There are fewer days remaining.
Trump's had the lead in more time than remains before the first vote.
And these supporters of his, the only the only way that this support bond that's been built can be shattered is Trump.
And I don't know what it would be, but he's built up enough so-called political capital that he can afford two or three gaffes before it starts to hurt him.
Trump, Trump wall and guard tower.
You've got to call it actually name it after like a hotel, like a resort.
The Trump wall and guard towers.
And the guards would be wearing Trump uniforms because they'd be Trump employees.
But there are worries.
I must tell you from the intellectualites, the intellectuals, they do worry.
Let me see if I can voice their worry correctly.
They worry that Trump's voters would support dictatorship if Trump were addressing their complaints.
And the intellectuals say this is this is supposedly a great threat to, of course, our democracy, because when when voters are willing to tolerate democracy in their own special interest, then of course that's the end of our republic.
Well, uh, for example, repealing Obama.
If if Trump just came in and literally grabbed page by page and ripped it up on TV and said, that's it, Obamacare's finished, and there was no legislation killing it and no this or that, that Trump supporters would cheer it.
When he doesn't have, no president has the power to do that.
A president cannot rip up legislation and just routinely consign it to the trash can.
But the intellectuals here that Trump's supporters are so adamantly opposed to Obamacare that if someone came along and actually did that, they would applaud it.
And thus they would be applauding wholesale dictatorship.
And then that would be the end of our grand experiment.
That's what they're out there saying to each other.
Not realizing that they're supporting that very same garbage going on right now for the last seven years for all intents and purposes.
Okay, let's uh let's hit the audio sound bites, and again, we're we're leading off here with uh with a couple from Trump because this takes into another area.
Trump went on with Stephanopoulos yesterday.
Now, what generally happens when Republicans go on with Stephanopoulos is that Stephanopoulos is is an operative in the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Well, not by title, But that's of course it's what he does.
No, he he he works at ABC as as a journalist, but that's just his assignment.
He's a Democrat.
He's a Democrat political hack and operative who has been placed at Good Morning America.
Stephanopoulos got the whole war on women thing started with this bogus question on contraception that he asked Mitt Romney and a number of other things.
And your average ordinary Republican ought to avoid this show like crazy.
Trump went on it and is just not going to take any of the usual flack that comes his way.
And in his own way, shows how this is done.
So Stephanopoulos says you did stir up a controversy with those comments over the database.
Let's try to clear that up.
Are you unequivocally now ruling out a database on all Muslims?
You see, he never ever suggested a database.
This is a total media setup and trick.
However, we do have databases already because of 9-11.
We've got databases of all kinds of people we suspect of terrorist activity or that we know have engaged in of course we've got databases.
What the what's the NSA?
Bulk data phone collection.
We of course the it's absurd to think that we do what they're trying to do is say that Trump wants to have a database of all these Muslims and Syrians before we let them in the country and so forth.
Anyway, here's how Trump answered that question.
No, not at all.
I want database for the uh refugees that if they come into the country, we have no idea who these people are.
When the Syrian refugees are gonna start pouring into this country, we don't know if they're ISIS, we don't know if it's a Trojan horse, and I definitely want a database and other checks and balances.
We want to go with watch lists, we want to go with databases, and we have no choice.
We have no idea who's being sent in here.
This could be the great Trojan, it's probably not, but it could be the great Trojan horse of all time, where they come in.
When I look at those migrations, and when I look at the migration and the lines, and I see all strong, very powerful looking men, they're men, and I see very few women, I see very few children.
There's something strange going on.
Okay, now this next question is so predictable, and it's classic.
George Stephanop, little George, wants to find out from Trump what he thinks of waterboarding.
This is right out of the anti-George Bush Democrat Party playbook.
This is born of the belief that every American is appalled that we would ever engage in any kind of enhanced interrogation technique.
This is rooted in the belief that all Americans are sickened by interrogation techniques engaged in by the United States during the Bush administration.
And because they think everybody's sickened by it, they now ask Trump if he supports has waterboarding come up in this campaign.
Just let me ask you.
Just like when Stephanopoulos asked Romney about contraception, it wasn't even it wasn't in anybody's rear view mirror, it wasn't anybody's down the road in the future.
It was just nothing.
And now here comes waterboarding.
Out of the blue, out of nowhere.
It's a setup, it's designed for Trump to fall into a trap so they can then start doing to Trump what they think they succeeded in doing to Bush, making him pro-torture, mean, unAmerican.
I'm fascinated the way the libs define un-American, by the way.
I'm really fascinated that.
But anyway, so here's the question.
You told Yahoo News that we have to be doing things that were unthinkable a year ago.
For example, do you think we should bring back enhanced interrogation?
Like waterboarding, Mr. Trump.
And I can give a Stephanopoulos is just he's salivating.
He's just can't wait.
He thinks he's asked the question that's gonna destroy Trump.
Well, we have to be strong.
You know, they don't use waterboarding over there.
They use chopping off people's heads.
They use drowning people.
I don't know if you've seen with the cages where they put people in cages and they drown them in the ocean and then they lift out the cage.
And we're talking about waterboarding.
So you bring back waterboarding?
I would bring it back, yes.
I would bring it back.
I think waterboarding is penis compared to what they do to us, what they're doing to us, what they did to James Foley when they chopped off his head.
That's a whole different level.
I guarantee you, from Media Matters to the Daily Cause to, you know, every pajama clad left wing lunatic out there, they're just being, oh my God, oh, he just came up for torture.
He just, oh my God, Trump came out for over.
And they're scared now.
They're scared, oh, Trump's gonna waterboard her over.
And they're posed, and they're just they just can't they thought they'd done away with this, and Trump's just unapologetic.
He didn't him haw around.
And so the media, Trump pro-waterboarding, hasn't hurt.
Note the way he framed it.
It's peanuts compared to what they do to us.
What's missing in questions like this?
Stephanopoulos and his liberal buddies ask is they have no idea what the majority of the American people think about how to deal with people trying to destroy this country.
Most people think the purpose of war is to kill people and break things better than the other side does, to the point they surrender.
It's not, this is not patty cake.
There's no political correctness in war.
And these guys, Stephanopoulos, do not get it.
They think these are home run questions.
They cannot understand Trump's answer helping him because they do not understand the majority of the American people, and they do not understand the way a majority of Americans in this country define patriotism.
That is a huge divide between Democrats and liberals and normal people, particularly in the media.
Back after this, folks.
You know, we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and that's how we found out every detail we know about 9-11.
I think there were a total of three prisoners that we waterboarded, at least admitted waterboarding down at 9-11.
Club Gitmo.
Anyway, fastest three hours in media rolling right on.
We've got one left.
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