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No, it never has fallen.
In fact, never has.
I don't think that's an interesting question.
If it has ever fallen, I don't remember.
You know what?
I'd have to look that up.
That is an excellent question, Brian.
I don't know if my opinion rating, my accuracy rating is ever plummeted.
Even by a tenth of a point.
Anyway, great to have you back here, folks.
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Look, there's some other things going on out there besides the Republican campaign and Trump specifically.
And let me get into a little bit of it here because it in its own right is uh interesting and relevant.
The first from the Hill.com, the White House yesterday, opened up a new fight with Republicans in Congress, challenging them to pass laws to prevent suspected terrorists from purchasing firearms.
Now I want you to stop and think about that for a moment.
This is purely political, and it can be blown to smithereens with simple logical questions, maximum of two.
The White House on Monday opened up a new fight with Republicans in Congress, challenging them to pass laws to prevent suspected terrorists from purchasing firearms.
Now let's ask some questions first.
Is this a ploy by the regime to label gun owners as terrorists to set up the ability to take guns away from Americans by simply calling them terrorists, domestic terrorists?
But the other thing here, this is a glaring admission that the vetting process of immigrants and refugees is a sham.
Because he says in the story that terrorists already in the U.S. can buy guns.
What do you mean terrorists already in the U.S.?
Why are you letting terrorists in the U.S.?
Why is it all of a sudden the responsibility of Republicans to pass a new gun control law because you and your regime have permitted terrorists to enter the country?
The way I look at this, you can't have it both ways.
Either the vetting process is intense and accurate, therefore no terrorists get in, or it's not, and they do get in, and we need to be vigilant with our gun control laws.
Josh Ernest, the White House press secretary, at a pull quote from the story, said, I think it's a pretty clear indication that Republicans in Congress are more interested in playing politics and more scared of the NRA than they are concerned about doing the right thing for our national security.
So here he is.
The Obama administration, which is admitting that there are terrorists in the country that have been permitted in.
And now laying off on the Republicans a responsibility to pass a law saying that they can't buy guns.
Wait a minute.
Wouldn't background checks already prevent that?
Isn't there a terrorist checkbox on the verification?
Or if you're a terrorist, don't you have to check off the box and admit it when you try to buy a gun?
And if you check it, then you don't get the gun.
I'm being facetious, of course, but folks, this is this is almost profound in its audacity.
The White House on Monday opened up a new fight with Republicans, Challenging them to pass laws to prevent suspected terrorists from purchasing firearms, while at the same time they're telling us they've got this vetting process and for us not to worry about terrorists being among the refugees entering the country, say from Syria.
They're telling us they've got it handled.
They're telling us there's nothing to worry about.
Nothing to fret over.
Don't be xenophobic, don't be don't be bigoted, don't be racist.
We got it handled.
Now all of a sudden, there's political pressure on Republicans to pass a new gun control law.
Don't for a minute think that this is not possibly a ploy to label current American gun owners as terrorists with a statute newly passed, if Obama gets his way, be able to send the authorities out there and take their guns away from them.
You know this regime from Janet Napolitano on already thinks that right wingers in this country are potential terrorists anyway.
After suffering a defeat with a House vote to clamp down the flow of Syrian refugees, the Josh Ernest press secretary said, Congress's response to the Paris terror attacks has been misguided.
He said members at Congress are prepared to allow those individuals who are already in the U.S. and are suspected of having links to terrorism of going and purchasing a gun.
Oh, is that right?
The NRA wants terrorists to have guns.
And the Republican Party supports the NRA and vice versa.
So both the NRA and the Republican Party want terrorists to have a gun or to be able to get them, and so now the Republicans have better fixed that by passing a new law saying terrorists can't get guns, with Ernest here acknowledging that terrorists have already made it past our border.
How about that?
I think it's pretty clear indication Republicans in Congress are more interested in playing politics and more scared of the NRA than they are concerned about doing the right thing for our nationals.
What an insulting joke.
To blame national security weakness on the Republican Party because they won't pass a gun control law that permits the regime to go get guns in the hands of terrorists admitted into the country by the regime.
John Kerry, who served in Vietnam.
The Hill.com.
Secretary of State John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, said Monday the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is not invincible, and its members will eventually face justice.
He was on the Today Show.
He said, ISIS is not 10 feet tall.
There's a very clear focus by everybody as a united front, and I'm absolutely convinced that they'll be defeated.
There will be increased steps in order to do so, Kerry said.
People need to not panic.
There's a strategy in place.
It's growing by the day.
Don't worry, be happy.
We're in control.
Meanwhile, we have a travel alert over there.
Don't go anywhere through February.
Really?
They just put out this travel alert saying, hey, if you're outside the country, don't go anywhere.
You don't travel, you stay where you are through February because terrorism's on the march, John Kerry.
No big deal.
No need to panic.
There's a strategy in place.
ISIS isn't 10 feet tall.
We're not afraid of them.
We can beat them back.
The conference board, which is an economic study group for the most part, reports its gauge of consumer confidence dropped in November.
Almost 10 points from 99.1 to 90.4.
Economics experts expected the month's gauge to rise to 99.4.
Why what in the world is there out there that would cause experts to think consumer confidence would increase?
The fact that we're beating ISIS.
The fact that ISIS is a contained, that ISIS is the JV team.
A man who just two years ago was the poster boy for the media's attacks against the U.S. government's no-fly list for unfairly targeting Muslims.
This man finds himself and several family members sitting in a Turkish prison arrested earlier this month near the Turkey-Syria border as members of an ISIS cell.
This guy's name is Sadig Long.
And his case was being championed by a whole bunch of people at MSNBC.
Let me tell you what this is about.
Sadig Long is a U.S. Muslim who is an Air Force veteran.
He was put on the U.S. no fly list back in 2013.
Being on the no-fly list kept him from returning home to the United States after he left to go visit Qatar.
That outraged care and many in the drive-by media, including MSNBC.
The drive-by media used Sadig Long's case to rail against the injustice of the no fly zone.
Thanks to care, Sadig Long was removed from the no-fly list and was able to return home to Qatar.
And now he's been arrested by Turkish officials on the Turkey-Syrian border for belonging to an ISIS cell.
So far, nobody in the drive-by media has reported his arrest.
I wonder why.
So again, we have a U.S. Muslim who was an Air Force veteran, and the bottom line is this guy's an ISIS member.
He was put on a U.S. no flight list back in 2013 because he was suspected of being tied to terrorists.
He visits Qatar.
He wants to come back to the United States.
The no-fly list prevents him from doing so.
CARE and MSNBC and the media wail and moan and whine about how unfair.
So he's removed.
The pressure from the media got him removed from the no fly list.
And he was able to return home.
But he's been arrested in Turkey as a member of ISIS.
He should have been on the no-fly list.
He was tied to terrorism and has been arrested, but drive-by media pressure in MSNBC made sure that his name was taken off the list.
Thereby placing the country at risk.
A poll here, this is CBS poll.
Barack Obama's handling of ISIS.
A new low, 23% of Americans think that Obama has a clear strategy for defeating ISIS.
Only 23% think that Obama has a clear strategy.
There's another way of looking at this.
Twenty-three percent of the American people are just dead-blamed idiots.
You can look at it one of two ways.
23% think Obama has a clear strategy.
Holy cow, that means Obama's strategy is pretty bad if only 23 people percent of the people think he's got one.
On the other hand, who are these 23% who think he's got a strategy?
Diane Feinstein says, oh, there is no strategy, whatever strategy is, it isn't working.
Have you heard about this intelligence snafu involving the United States Central Command CENCOM?
Folks, this is the Limbaugh theorem in action.
This I mentioned this at the top of the program.
This is one of the most glaring examples of the Limbaugh theorem, and we haven't had many recently, but this is a glaring one.
Here are the details from the estimable New York Times.
When ISIS fighters overran a string of Iraqi cities last year, analysts at CENCOM wrote classified assessments for military intelligence officials and policymakers that documented the humiliating retreat of the Iraqi army.
But before those assessments were final, the analysts' superiors made significant changes.
And in the revised documents, the Iraqi army had not retreated at all.
The soldiers had simply redeployed.
These changes are at the heart of an expanding internal Pentagon investigation of CENTCOM, where analysts say that supervisors revised conclusions in order to mask some American military failures in training Iraqi troops in beating back the Islamic State because Obama didn't want to have to admit that his policy had failed.
Obama did not want it reported that his policy of training Iraqi troops to beat back ISIS had failed.
So they revised the intelligence.
This is interesting.
This is exactly what the left accuses the Bush administration of doing regarding weapons of mass destruction.
This was all happening at a time when Obama was claiming to have terrorism on the run.
So here's the Limbaugh theorem aspect of this.
Intelligence says...
That the Iraqi army retreated because it was not adequately trained and prepared to deal with ISIS.
That's what the original intelligence said.
Obama ordered that intelligence changed to take out the idea that they had been defeated by ISIS and were retreating to instead say, no, no, no, no, they were just repositioning for future battle.
But there was no retreat and there was no defeat.
So Obama secretly orders the intelligence reports to be doctored and then publicly pretends to be upset about not getting accurate intelligence.
That's another aspect of the story.
While Obama and his regime demand the intelligence be changed so as to avoid any embarrassment.
Obama goes out and starts complaining publicly about the bad intelligence he got, as though he had nothing to do with it.
Obama had already decided that the intel reports he received were not scrubbed, so the outcome of this probe has already been decided.
They're not going to find any any smidgen or corruption here.
Guaranteed there's not going to be anything come of this.
I'm just passing on to you here that the investigation is ongoing.
The original intel added up to U.S. policy failures in training the Iraqi soldiers to deal with ISIS.
Rather than have that reported, the intel was changed on the orders of Obama to say, no, no, no, no, no retreat.
The Army just repositioning here for future battle.
Then Obama went out when the story broke, he went out and started complaining about these rotten intelligence reports he was getting.
As though he had nothing to do with it.
It's no different than Obama promising your premiums to come down $2,500 on Obamacare.
And your copay not changing and your deductible going down.
And then when all of that doesn't happen, when your premiums skyrocket and your deductible skyrocket, Obama goes out and says, I don't know what happened.
I'm as outrageous as you are.
I cannot believe how much these prices are going up.
I'm not going to put up with when in fact it's his policies that make it happen.
And it was Obama who lied about it in the first place.
Classic, classic illustration.
The Limbaugh.
Well, here it is in the Washington Times.
Obama insists he wants the truth from intelligence reports.
That's the companion story.
After all of this doctoring and fudging of the intel, Obama's out there enraged demanding the truth.
And the purpose of that is to distance himself from what happened as though he is the screwy.
So he's just intel people we couldn't trust him with Bush.
Can't trust him now.
Probably a bunch of holdover right wingers in there for all Obama knows.
And quickly to the phones.
Andrew Cleveland, you're next.
It's great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hi, how are you?
I'm great.
Thank you.
First off, I'd like to say I'm a I'm a new listener, but listener, but I've became very avid at listening to you, and I appreciate you taking my call.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Appreciate that.
Um, my my main question and concern is is the vetting process with all these Syrian refugees.
And I've heard all over the place and read about it that Obama wants to bring in 10,000 refugees over the next over the next year.
Um, but again and again they're saying that it takes 18 to 24 months to vet these people properly before they're allowed in the country.
My question is um, has have they already begun to allow them in if they're planning on bringing in 10,000 more over the next 12 months, or um what's really going on?
Well, actually, that 10,000 figure is a little low.
Um there are reports that Obama actually wants it to be 40,000 refugees in the next year, maybe even uh maybe even more.
Uh the vetting process we don't have anything to vet them against.
I mean, these people are not in any Syrian database.
You can't go to the Damascus Hall of Records and find their driver's license data and anything about them, whether they have terrorist ties or whatever.
So that's what they say takes the uh the time.
No, they're gonna let them in while the vetting process goes on, and then claim if they find it and you'll track them down, find out where they are, keep both track, and then um deport them and get rid of them.
I mean, they they're they're they're not gonna keep them in a holding cell somewhere for a year and a half before they're permitted into the country.
Uh Andrew, hang on through the break if you can.
A little bit more and we'll get back.
That's right, a man, a legend, a way of life.
And we're back to uh Andrew in Cleveland.
Andrew, before I continue, I w I want to give you an in-depth answer to your question.
You deserve that.
Your new listener and you called, and I I have a much more in-depth answer I have time to give you uh give you.
But before that, are you a Browns fan?
Uh I'm not really into football.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Just checking.
I was gonna get your temperature on the latest Johnny Manzo controversy, which frankly You know, I I I don't get it.
I mean, the guy goes out and parties on the off week, and now they're investigating him again, and the head coach is saying, I don't know, I'm getting tired of this guy going out and partying.
I'm getting tired of it.
He told me he wasn't gonna go party, he's out there partying.
I don't know if he's gonna start anymore.
What they expect these guys to be monks?
Anyway, here's here's look here's here's the in-depth answer to your question.
There is no database.
We're talking about Syrians now.
There is no database to measure them against.
There's no way to vet them.
The vetting process requires us to ascertain a lot of information about them.
When anybody seeks asylum in this country, they have to tell us why they're fleeing.
They have to tell us if it's religious persecution, if it's war-torn, if it's if it's you know just uh uh being pursued by the government in violation of human rights, whatever it is.
There's always then, therefore, a religious aspect to us permitting refugees into the country.
It's not a religious test, but Obama's out there saying, that's not who we are.
We don't ask people about our religion.
We don't measure compassion, but we do.
We do.
If they're lying to us about religious persecution, then it would disqualify them from refugee status.
Now, since October of 2011, the United States has admitted 2,159 Syrian refugees into the country, according to the State Department.
With so they're here, they're beginning to trickle in now.
They probably the the vetting process involves an interview with somebody at the Department of Homeland Security who will probably ask them if they're a terrorist or not.
And of course, if you were trying to get in and you were a terrorist, you would deny it, right?
Of course.
Okay.
So here here's the vetting process on paper, Andrew.
Candidates are first interviewed by the UN high commissioner for refugees to determine their eligibility for refugee status, whether individuals have been persecuted based on political opinion, social group, race, religion, nationality.
After the UN finishes with them, the State Department then takes over the process through contracted resettlement support centers that conduct further interviews.
The State Department performs background checks using a variety of terror law enforcement and intelligence databases.
Now the problem is who do we trust at the UN?
The UN love to sabotage this country.
The UN is part of the cabal that thinks the United States is the problem in the world, needs to be cut down to size.
The UN is basically the the Star Wars bar scene.
They would love to be able to have a bunch of saboteurs in this country.
There's no love lost for us at the UN.
Um it's really Chris, it's error Andrew, it's all based on interviews because there is no database to compare what they say with evidence.
So it this is strictly compassion move, or if there's a political aspect to it, uh to wanting these people here, then you'd have to go ask Obama, okay, what's your political objective here?
And make no mistake, everything with the Democrat Party is political.
Everything is designed to advance their agenda one way or the other, whether it's hidden or not.
Of course.
So they're trickling in.
You just asked.
You heard there's a year to 18 months, and yet since October 11th, 2,000 some odd have come in.
By the way, of those 2,015, 53 are Christians.
The rest are, well, we're not supposed to notice or say or think or point out.
But that's that.
Andrew Cleveland.
I wanted to go in depth with him.
He's a new listener.
He's here for the first time, call for the first time.
Just recently found the program and uh want to let him know that his decision here is well worth it.
Next up, Robert Alamo Gordo, New Mexico.
Great to have you, sir.
Thank you for waiting, and hello.
Hello, Rush.
Mega Thanksgiving dittoes to you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Very much.
I appreciate that.
Oh, very good.
I've been listening to you for 21 years.
The reason I was uh what got me stirred up this this uh this morning, well, here it's morning time when we're when you start off, but I was uh listening to the attack ads that uh you played uh the establishment were uh running against Trump, and I'm getting all fired up again.
I think I think Trump can save some advertising money and just let the establishment guys do his advertising for him.
For example, I had forgotten about Trump mocking the Iowa voters.
You know, if I was if I lived in Iowa, you know, that wouldn't have offended me.
It was friendly mockery.
You know, back before political correctness, friendly mockery was something that we always did in America.
And uh I was I I'm I'm getting all jazzed up.
I'm I'm gonna be able to do that.
It was funny.
It was you know the left does not recognize jokes except when their comedians on Comedy Central tell them.
They don't.
They don't understand, like I will tell jokes or but my jokes are not no, no, they are offensive, outrageous statements.
Like, like this song that we're playing here, ISIS is just all right with me, sung by Barack Obama and the new jihadi singers.
The left is steaming over this.
They claim that I'm accusing Obama being a member of ISIS, and they're all upset.
If this had been created by somebody on Comedy Central, they'd be lining up to give them an Emmy.
Absolutely.
To me, it just shows how stupid the establishment and their strategy is.
They have no clue, they have absolutely no clue what people like me and Joe the Plumber and the rest of us out here in America, what we think and what we want.
You know, I'm actually a Chad Cruz guy.
I love Ted Cruz, but I love what Donald Trump is doing and how he's just totally upsetting the establishment guys.
Well, a lot of them a lot of people do, but I'll tell you something.
The establishment, they're starting to console themselves now.
I mean, they've launched every salvo they've got, and it hasn't affected.
So what they're telling themselves now, they got they they get their polling spreadsheets with uh with all the data.
And what they're concluding is that Trump isn't gaining any ground.
Not really.
Maybe a poll here or poll there, but when you average all these polls over the last recent number of months or weeks, you find Trump basically steady at 25 to 28.
And they're telling themselves that means that Trump's maxed out.
This is it.
He's not gonna go any higher, even though he's leading, he's not gonna go any higher.
And then they say this guarantees that Hillary will beat Trump.
If all he can muster is 28.
So we're supposed to be Trump at 28, so we've got to get rid of Trump, maybe put Jeb in there who's at three, because he's got a better chance of beating Hillary with the uh with the polling data.
Let's go back to audio sumbite number one.
Let's replay what what what Robert here's talking about.
The John Kasich super PAC, and again, Kasich has no ties to the super PAC.
It's it's a bunch of people raising money on his behalf, but by law, Kasich can't coordinate with them and he can't talk to them.
But the people at the Kasich uh super PAC have heard Kasink.
They know that Kasich is opposed to Trump, thinks Trump's nuts, think Trump's mean spirited and and uh doing great damage.
So in support of their candidate, they are starting to produce ads that are designed to uh inform Trump supporters that they're making a mistake.
They're running ads to inform Trump supporters just who he really is.
Uh that they might not really know how they've been buffaloed and fooled here.
And the first ad has been produced, and they're they've already raised I th what I saw yesterday, three million bucks.
I mean, they're I mean it's they're probably pretty happy with that.
And they're they're continuing to raise money, and they're all excited.
Here is the first ad from the brain trust of the Kasich Super PAC people in their quest to destroy Trump, and all it is, I'm gonna have the audio for we have the audio up at the video at Rush Limbaugh.com if you want to see it.
But it's just a series of assembled video clips of Trump saying things that the Kasich super PAC people think are so outrageous and so bad and so wrong that once Trump's supporters find out that he said this stuff that they will abandon him.
Here it is.
He's not a war hero.
He's a war hero.
Five and a half years ago.
He's a war hero because he was captured.
If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.
Oh, it's so weird.
I have a great relationship with the blacks.
I have I've always had a great relationship with the blacks.
The blacks.
Well, I just don't respect her as a journalist.
You know, you can see there was blood coming out of her eyes, uh blood coming out of her wherever.
Somebody's doing the raping, Don.
I mean, you know, it's I mean, somebody's doing the thing's women being raped.
Well, who's doing the raping?
It moves this way.
How stupid are the people of Iowa?
Okay, so just just a review.
It's Frank Luntz interviewing Trump.
He's not a war hero, and Lunz is a war hero.
Trump says, yeah, he's a war hero.
Five and a half years.
He's a war hero because he was captured.
Trump says Oh.
I don't like people that captured.
Then he's being interviewed by Meredith.
Oh, very interviewed.
Meredith Viera, who, I don't know where she is now.
She was hosting Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
Does she go back to the Today Show?
Well, nobody here knows.
But she was somewhere, and she was interviewing Trump, and Trump said, if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.
And Meredith Vieri.
You're so weird.
You're so weird.
That's so slimy.
That's so yucky.
Ooh, my God, you date your own No, I said, if she weren't my own daughter.
I have a great relationship with the blacks.
I've always had a great relationship with the blacks.
And whoever the journalist is, the blacks.
And then the Megan Kelly bit about blood pouring out of orifices and insulting the people of Iowa because they made Carson number one in the polls there.
So that's the first ad.
I mean, that's the that's the first attack ad from the Kasich Super PAC.
Designed to inform Trump supporters what they're supporting, and how once they find out, they will abandon El Drop Trump like a hot potato back after this though.
Okay, I've been told a couple of things of Meredith Vieira.
Apparently she has her own talk show now.
Well, it's syndicated by NBC Universal, so in New York, I guess it's on WNBC at two in the afternoon.
But but but that's not where the bite came from.
The bite where Trump says that if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.
That's from an old episode of The View.
It's not even from the current campaign.
The Kasich Super PAC people, they left no stone unturned in looking for dirt and data on Trump.
It's apparently because Elizabeth Hasselbeck, I'm told, is part of the is on the video.
Did you hear she's leaving Fox, by the way?
She said that she's uh she she wants it's pretty great.
Quote, I forget she wants her kids to be The first they want she wants her kids to get the first.
She wants to be there when her kids go to school.
Yeah.
She she must be first thing of their day rather than give them the rest of her day.
Something like that, as she said.
Let's see.
Is what's what I don't know if it's the best they come up with, but that's their first ad, so you would think that's what they think their money ad is.
I mean, that's that's their first effort, so that yeah, that that must be the creme de la creme of the incriminating Trump soundbites that they've got.
But they'll probably change focus.
Next, they'll go out and they'll get people talking about Trump, not just Trump quotes.
They'll get other people talking about who knows what they'll do.
And I didn't get to this income inequality story of the LA Times.
This is the craziest thing.
It makes no sense.
I was going to try to analyze it with you live and in color here on the air.
But basically, what they say is in areas of income inequality.
When the gap between rich and poor is the biggest, when the rich have even more money and the poor have even less, that's when the rich get cheater, stingier and cheaper and less generous.
Because it says they don't want the poor having any more money than they don't want the poor getting any more money than they do.
They want any of their money going to the poor.
It it's exactly these people do not understand.
They literally – these are Stanford sociologists doing this survey.
It's the other way around.
Anyway, I don't have time to get it.
Here's uh here's John, Kansas City.
Great to have you, sir.
You're next.
Hello.
Russ, megadiddos.
I've been a listener from the beginning, but only during my lunch hour.
Well, appreciate that.
Yeah.
I wanted to make a quick comment about Trump.
Okay.
Yeah.
You look at Trump, everybody's against him.
The Democrats against him.
This makes uh uh makes sense.
The Crowing capitalists are against him, the Republican leadership is almost the same thing as against them.
And I think they're against him for the same reasons, the same group of people are against the Koch brothers.
They've both been successful in this system, even with an income tax, and they've gotten so successful that they can do whatever they want to do.
They're seeing their own way.
And these individuals, the t the you know, the Colts as well as Trump, are starting to see that there's something wrong with our government.
And you know, if you look if you look at the Congress Manifesto, Marx said, progressively tax income and you will control the people.
Well, that's what we've been doing for a hundred years, okay?
And all these different groups that are against Trump realize that he could change a lot of things.
You know what I mean?
And you know, I mean, the progressive income tax punishes us, or me anyway, okay.
Well, it's the it is the greatest deterrent to the uh uh to acquiring wealth.
There's no question it is.
But I think you may be on to something with the money aspect of this.
The uh the donor class takes pride in running the Republican Party because it's with their money that they get their policy implemented.
And they have more money than the candidates, and so the candidates need the money and want everybody does.
And Trump doesn't need anybody's money and doesn't want anybody's money, and therefore there isn't any way for the money class to traditionally, as they have traditionally control Trump.
I think that's a factor.
There's not the whole answer, but it's a factor.
We are gonna do open line Friday on Wednesday tomorrow, folks, since it's the uh the last live program of the busy broadcast week.
Thank you so much for being with us today, and look forward to tomorrow.