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Dec. 4, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 4, 2015, Friday, Hour #2
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The United States government has now assigned itself the authority to define religions.
Islam is a religion of peace.
Christianity is not.
So we've got Loretta Lynch, and the sound is coming up.
Loretta Lynch, the Attorney General, promising to prosecute anyone who criticizes Islam.
Anybody who criticized the religion of peace that will be called an Islamophobe, and she has threatened prosecution.
Can you imagine the Attorney General of the United States threatening to prosecute anybody criticizing Christianity, for example?
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The people of this country have been bullied into shutting up about everything.
The Republican Party has been bullied into silence and shutting up about Obama and the Democrat Party for fear of being called racists.
And then that same Republican Party wonders why people are flocking to Donald Trump, who is not afraid to criticize the things that are destroying and damaging this country.
The Republican Party refuses to criticize the things and the people that are inflicting great damage on this country in its future, and they wonder why people are abandoning them.
They've allowed themselves to be bullied into silence on just about everything for fear of being called racists or bigots.
Loretta Lynch urges Muslim parents to contact feds if their children are bullied.
Has Loretta Lynch urged the Christian parents of America to contact her if their children are bullied.
Of course it's a rhetorical question.
Speaking to a Muslim advocacy group yesterday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch urged the parents of Muslim parents to contact the DOJ and the Department of Education, if their children are bullied at school, don't bother with the principal.
You know, education is a local thing, but now all of a sudden, if your child is bullied and you are a Muslim, you are to call the Department of Justice in Washington and ask for the Attorney General.
Other areas in which we are seeing growing areas of concern, especially involve our children and the issues of bullying in the schools, said Loretta Lynch.
She was attending, by the way, an event hosted by Muslim advocates, civil rights organization.
We saw bullying a lot in the New York area, unfortunately, where there would be a backlash against the Muslim community in general, added Lynch.
To address what she said is a growing problem of bullying of Muslim kids, she urged parents to contact the federal government.
She said, if you are aware of situations where children are involved, please contact the Department of Justice and the Department of Education.
We can provide guidance.
We can have conversations.
Now, if you happen to be Jewish and your kids are bullied, don't bother calling.
If you happen to be Christian, you have to be Hindu.
You happen to be Tutsi or hoo-hoo or whatever.
Don't bother calling.
If your kids are bullied, doesn't matter.
Only Muslims are permitted to call.
Well, because Muslims are the targets of all of this unfair bullying and bigotry that's happening out there.
And here is the Attorney General claiming, promising to prosecute anybody who engages in anti-Muslim speech.
Since 9-11, we've had over a thousand investigations into acts of anti-Muslim hatred, including rhetoric and bigoted actions with over 45 prosecutions arising out of that.
I think sadly that number is going to continue.
I think it's important, however, that as we again talk about the importance of free speech, we make it clear that actions predicated on violent talk are not America.
They are not who we are, they're not what we do, and they will be prosecuted.
There's that phrase.
You know, Obama loves to run around talk about that.
It's not who we are.
It's not what we do.
It's not in our laws.
This is incredible, folks.
Look at I know.
We watch the World Trade Center come down.
We watch an airplane fall out of the sky in Pennsylvania headed for Washington.
We watch the Pentagon.
We see the Pentagon with a hole in it after an airplane crashes into it.
We see what happened in San Bernardino.
We see Fort Hood.
We see every one of these incidents.
The perpetrator was a Muslim.
Every one of them.
And then we hear the Attorney General of the United States and the President of the United States, any criticism of Muslims, and we are coming after you.
We are going to prosecute you.
We are going to deny you your First Amendment rights because we are not tolerating that.
That's not who we are.
This would I don't know.
What's the difference in this and the government criticizing anybody that went after John Gotti as anti-Italian, and we're not going to put up with it.
Well, why this it's absurd, folks.
It's literally absurd.
And this is people, when nothing that I mean, this is so obvious what's happening here.
And when the highest levels of our government make it out to be something else, this is what causes people can't process this without coming up some of the most cockamamy conspiracy theories in the world, because this doesn't make any sense.
We are coddling the perps.
We are going out of our way to target victims and potential victims.
It is indeed mind-boggling.
Now, I asked Cookie to go find those three predictions I made yesterday that have come true today, and lo and behold, oh, and I also, for you, snurdly, I have the Republican consultant on TV today calling me right-wing me.
Will you hear this?
No, I'm not going to tell you who it is.
That's that it doesn't matter who it is.
Person was speaking for all of them, I'm sure, but before that, yesterday, this was me predicting that something at the Christmas party would be said to have caused Saeed Farouk climate change to go berserk, get radicalized, and commit acts of terror.
That's what the left is going to try to do.
We don't know what it was that happened at the Christmas party to defended the guy.
That to me seems like the biggest wild guess of this whole bunch, this whole thing.
Let's say that they eventually conclude here.
Yeah, he was radicalized, and yeah, he was a jihadist.
But at the same time, he may not have done anything if something happened hadn't it worked to really tick him off.
Well, what was that?
Well, obviously, he's a Muslim and he was forced to go to a Christmas party.
That was yesterday on this program.
Have you heard anything like that in the news today?
I said this.
Here's the here's the next one.
I predicted that someone would say it was the wife's fault.
Yeah, this guy, he was a nice, normal, red-blooded American, whatever, and then he got radicalized.
He's ended up talking to some of these international terror people.
And they inspired him to go on this spree.
Right.
Now I didn't mention the wife, I guess, specifically In the prediction, I thought I did, but regardless, they're now saying that he was a nice guy.
He wasn't, he wasn't a terrorist.
He happened to get radicalized.
By the way, that's key.
Understanding the use of the word radicalized is an exoneration, folks.
It's not an accusation.
The way our government looks at Islam and terrorism and the media to say he was radicalized excuses what he did.
It does not prove that he was engaged in Islamic terror.
So I'm sure when you saw CNN report today that they found linked to ISIS, all right, all right, we're getting no, no.
No, that's an exoneration.
That he was radicalized by ISIS means he was essentially innocent.
Because he was a Muslim before that.
I mean, he wasn't radicalized by the nation and the religion of Islam.
He's a practicing Muslim, he's going to the highs and doing all these things.
It wasn't until he encountered ISIS that he became radicalized.
And ISIS is not part of Islam.
See how this works.
And I made the observation yesterday that the drive-bys in the media would do everything they could to humanize our victims.
Our big story here about how he had all of this wonderful stuff.
His beautiful wife, new baby, great job, wonderful friends.
And they're asking us ringing it, what could have gone wrong?
What happened?
CNN now running a little Chiron graphic at the bottom of their screen.
Suspect male shooter apparently radicalized.
So they're getting closer at CNN to admitting what went on here.
But see, even he, he started out as a good guy.
Yeah, great guy came here 20 years old, ended up being radicalized, and so he's not really at fault.
We got to go find the people that radicalized him.
And earlier today they did.
It was ISIS.
Because he was a peaceful Muslim before then.
So see, it can't be Islam that forced him to do this.
Therefore, there's no Islamic terrorism involved here because there isn't any Islamic terrorism.
Let's see, what else?
Uh you know what?
Let me let me hit the break here.
We'll come back and start getting into your phone calls.
Got some political questions, presidential calls, comments, and that'll take us into that area and a whole bunch of other things as well.
So sit tight.
We're coming back and be back before you know it.
Yeah, stand by sound by 27.
I have you seen what the landlord of the building did.
The landlord of the building where Saeed Farouk climate change lived.
Let the media in.
I mean the media trampled in there like a herd of buffalo.
You can say Syanar to whatever evidence was in there, if there was any that still had to be processed, it's contaminated now.
Cameramen, grubby reporters just chomping Trump and all through the place.
Landlord lets him in, cameras and so forth.
It was there's still shots of it and video.
And if there was anything left in there, the investigator still needed its history now.
I don't know if it's history.
I don't know if the media took anything out.
I mean, knowing the media wouldn't you.
Landlord lets you in there.
Up close and personal to see where Saeed Farouk got radicalized by the militant wife.
Okay, because Snerdley is livid over what I told him I saw earlier today on a cable news channel.
My new name is right wing media, and I have I have I was just excoriated today for not denouncing Trump.
And here is the bite which explains why I was being excoriated for not denouncing Trump and the theory.
She's a consultant for the Republican Party, probably voicing the opinion of many of them.
The question that she was asked, Carol Costello said, Robert Gates, the former Secretary of Defense, Wrote an op ed saying that we need a president who understands that there are three branches of government.
That coalition building is important, that our new leader should appeal to the better angels of our nature.
He was quoting Abraham Lincoln.
And you gotta believe he was talking about Trump.
I'm sorry, 23.
I missed sound by 23.
Three, two, one.
Here we go with sound by 23.
I think it's clear the field needs to narrow.
We now have a clear top four.
I think the lower tier people need to stop their vanity campaigns and drop out.
We have many right wing media figures supporting him, and I think that uh you know many of these people know that a Trump nomination means a Hillary in the White House, and that means selling a lot of anti-Hillary books.
Yes, I said that out loud.
I'm sure I'll get flat from that.
Uh, but many of these people made their careers and their fortunes with the Clinton in the White House.
They'd like that again.
There was only one.
There was only one at the time writing books.
Anti-Clinton books, and so I guess, folks, because your host has not denounced Trump.
I want Hillary back in.
This is a criticism a Democrats have always offered.
This is the Democrats have claimed that I don't want my side to win elections.
You know, I even after doing 25, 26, 27 years, I still am insulted with this question.
You really want the Democrats to win, don't you?
You don't want your own people in there.
There's nothing to talk about.
You can't criticize your own people.
If the Clinton's in there, you can go to Democrats in there.
I said, I'm destroyed.
I I am miserable with this country being destroyed by Democrats.
It's the last thing in the world I want.
It genuinely affects my mood to have this country under assault from within.
It affects my mood to have so many Americans not see what's going on right in front of their faces.
But yet again, here comes the simpleton explanation that I secretly want Hillary to win because that's the only way I can maintain my audience and whatever else.
So that probably, as I say, is a is a composite view of the Republican consultant class, showing again how out of touch they are, how they do not understand even here's a here's a media program ostensibly on their side, and they still, after all these years, do not understand its value.
Or me, or how I do this or why.
It's just stunning how out of touch these people are.
Anyway, it's open line Friday, always try to get a little more phone action in on this program in normal Colorado Springs again.
Mark, it's great to have you.
Thank you for waving and hello.
Oh, Megan Diddle was from uh the foot of uh America's Mountain Pikes Peak in beautiful Colorado Springs.
Thank you, sir very much with you, sir.
Appreciate that.
I was reading our paper yesterday, and there was an article.
Uh Republican strategist who's concerned that Trump might actually win.
And uh the quote out of his mouth was actually something to the nature of uh uh the problem with Trump is that uh he says whatever comes out of his mouth.
And I'm thinking, ah, Russia's right again.
There it is.
Everything that you've been talking about is there.
And my one question to you, sir is do you ever get tired of being right?
You know, I'm gonna when I play golf with people who play it well, they hit the ball straight every time I ask them, is it ever get boring?
And they say never.
I love being able to play this game well.
I wish I could play like that.
I saw Bush this morning on uh Fox, and just as this guy Ward was sitting on his little shoulder, he's uh he was talking about uh how he's the adult in the room, and the words that came out of his mouth just astounded me.
He says, uh well, to be honest with you, and I thought, there it is.
There it is.
There's the one time you're gonna be honest with me, and the rest of the time you've been lying to me.
Well, no, it wouldn't go that far.
I that that's politicians speak.
They say clearly.
Let me let me be really honest with you here.
Some people think that's an admission that they're lying some of the time.
I think it's just uh in uh Benefit of the doubt here, I think it's just a figure of speech that says, look, really want you to hear this.
I mean, this is important to me.
I don't think it means that they're lying most of the time.
See, I can be a charitable nice guy here.
But he brought brought up the memo that I've been actually two of them.
The Senatorial Campaign Committee and the RNC memo, both of them written in panic over what to do because it looks like there's no stopping Trump.
Hang on.
Open line Friday, Rushlin bore half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
I alluded to this yesterday.
I'm not sure I'm going to get to it today.
I thought I would be able to, but uh I may have to save this for Monday, but I'm going to give you a little heads up.
There are many reasons why the Republican establishment hates Donald Trump.
And some of them are legitimate.
I mean, and there are a lot of people have sensible reasons for being afraid of Trump, Republicans, conservatives.
But I think that there is, in addition to all of the specific things that Trump says that irritate people.
And I'm I'm speaking exclusively here of Republicans.
Because I don't think the Democrats, I don't think he's on their radar yet.
They've got their own focus with Hillary and whatever her problems are.
So the Trump phenomenon is something that's for the most part localized in the Republican Party, but the Trump phenomenon is a phenomenon in one area at least.
Trump is doing something that has in my lifetime never been done.
He's pulled something off that I have never seen pulled off.
And it is, I think, at the root of the frustration that Republican consultants and the Republican establishment, and anybody else in the Republican Party's anti-Trump.
And that is Donald Trump owns the media.
The media have literally no negative effect on Donald Trump.
No matter what he says, no matter how he says what he says, no matter what he does, it gets covered.
When there is any criticism of Trump, what does he do?
He doubles down, and that gets covered.
Donald Trump has the media wrapped around his little finger.
And this is a contributing factor to why so many people are bothered and upset because even in the Republican establishment, the media is looked at as a legitimate player in the power arrangement of politics.
You and I make the mistake of assuming that the Republican Party doesn't like the media.
You and I make the mistake of assuming the Republican Party is as suspicious and distrustful of the media as you and I are, but they're not.
The Republican establishment, the Democrat establishment, agree and accept that the media is an equal player in the ruling class.
Trump has blown all of that out the window, and as such, the normal ways that people in politics are controlled, the normal way that people are contained, the ways people are promoted, punished, destroyed, what have you, are all out the window where Trump is concerned.
And therefore, the media is considered by the ruling class to be one of the great leveling factors.
But none of that is in play with Trump.
Trump has his own audience, which is in many cases as big as or bigger than the media covering him.
He doesn't need the media.
He enjoys them being around.
He likes toying with them.
He likes being provocative around them.
To him, the media is a plaything.
To the Republican and Democrat establishments, the media holds co-equal position in the entire power structure of a ruling class.
Put simply, the media can't take Trump out.
And that scares the heck out of everybody, particularly on the Republican side.
Not only can the media not take Trump out, the media can't even hurt him.
And when they try, he gets even more powerful or more popular.
And this fact, this this phenomenon of a single presidential candidate owning and controlling the media is one of the greatest upsetting out of balance aspects of this whole campaign that the entire establishment is having a hell of a time coming to grips with.
They can't explain it.
They envy it and are jealous of it.
And because of all this, it just adds to the animosity that they feel.
He's breaking every rule and getting away with it.
He's breaking every rule and getting more popular.
He rises in the polls with every rule break that he engages in.
As such, there is a growing gnawing feeling in the establishment, there's nothing they can do.
The media is the great middleman.
Trump doesn't need a middleman to get his message out.
Trump's crowds are five blocks long.
Trump doesn't need to spend a dime to get his message out.
They do.
Trump doesn't have to run an ad.
Trump doesn't have to run a series.
He doesn't have to pay people to show up.
He doesn't have to buy TV advertising because he gets more coverage than the combined advertising the rest of the Republicans could buy.
And aside from the overwhelming, significant upset that is, the very fact of all that ticks them off.
Thank you.
Donald Trump has direct access to his supporters.
And you know who gives it to him?
The media.
They can't not cover him.
They would love to be able to ignore him, but they don't dare.
He draws too big a crowd.
They've done everything they can that they usually do when they try to take a candidate out, or anybody else they want to take out.
None of it works.
And make no mistake, the Republican establishment has been relying on the media to be a premier agent in destroying Trump.
And they can't.
Ergo, there's panic.
Have you noticed that there is a uh what would you call it?
It's a belief, but it's a well, I'm having a I'm having a mental block on the word I want to use to describe.
But there is a belief throughout the Republican Party.
It's a given.
That Trump guarantees the election of Hillary Clinton.
Oh, it's more than a consensus, but yeah, it's a consensus.
That Trump, as the nominee, guarantees the election of Hillary Clinton.
I'll guarantee you there's not a single Donald Trump supporter who thinks that.
Donald Trump supporters are as opposed to Hillary Clinton, probably more so than the Republican establishment is.
In these two memos I've got, we've got elected senators and others in the RNC, both on record saying they would vote Hillary if Trump is the nominee.
But ladies and gentlemen, it isn't just Trump that has them upset.
I played you the soundbite moments ago, the Republican consultant criticizing me, claiming that I have been a fraud for all these years.
I've never really been a conservative, I've never really been a Republican, never been any of that.
I've only been in it for me.
And proof of that is that I will not denounce Trump.
Why?
Because I secretly want Hillary back in.
Why?
Because that's where I made my fortune writing anti-Clinton books.
But these same Republicans criticizing me are also saying Ted Cruz will not get their support either.
They're saying the same thing about Cruz, they say about Trump.
If Trump's a nominee guarantees the election of Hillary, and then they say, and if it's Cruz, we're even worse off.
If there's one candidate of all that I have actually quote unquote promoted, it would be Cruz, not Trump.
I don't know if this consultant that lost it on the CNN today knows that or not.
But I haven't, and I have also noticed that these same Republican establishment types of these consultants, it's not just Trump they don't want, they don't want any part of Ted Cruz either.
And they've got themselves believing that it's either Trump or Cruz, and it's guaranteed to elect Hillary.
When you ask me, the Republican establishment has more experience electing Democrats than I do.
They've shown they know how to do it in presidential races.
And you know what's even more frustrating when you add this to it?
Look at all these midterm elections, where the Republicans have just smoked a Democrats.
Democrats have knocked down 1,000 seats from state houses and governorships to U.S. Congress and Senate seats, all the way down to local town council seats, and Democrats have lost a thousand electoral seats in this country in midterm elections 2010-2014.
The people of this country are clearly willing to vote against Democrats.
They are clearly willing to vote for Republicans.
But when you get to the presidential election, it better be somebody that's not just part of the establishment.
That's the message, and that's what they're not getting.
And it's amazing to me they don't.
You ought to read this Republican senatorial campaign memo.
They talk about losing their chairmanships, and they talk about Trump's a misguided missile.
Trump is subject to farcical fits.
We don't want to re-engage the war on women fight, so they isolate Trump on this issue by offering a quick condemnation of whatever.
All these things, what they don't understand.
Have they not taken the time to understand why Trump has so much support?
They couldn't have.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be writing these secret memos that say what they say.
If they were being honest with themselves about why Trump has such broad-based support, and it has brought most of Trump's support, is not the conservative base.
It's all over the spectrum.
He's got support from women, Hispanics, blue-collar Democrats, the old Reagan Democrats.
The demographic support that Trump has is what the Republican Party claims it wants.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party is running around saying they want to win the nomination without the conservative base, without the pro-lifers, without the social issues crowd.
Well, that's Trump.
But the memo goes on to say what's going to happen if Trump is the nominee.
They do not appear to have even taken the time to understand why Trump's as big as he is.
I'll be glad to tell them right now.
It's no great secret.
You know it as well as I do.
You probably know it better than I do because you're out there making it happen.
Trump is popular.
Trump is big precisely because Republican voters are angry at establishment Republicans.
And establishment Republicans keep giving these people reason to be mad by continuing to insult them.
And by appearing to agree with Democrats on key issues a majority of Americans disagree with.
From amnesty to you, whatever.
Economics, Obamacare, take your pick.
Anyway, a little long here.
Let me take a brief time out.
I'm really I need to really develop this Trump phenomenon of vis-a-vis owning the media and the impact this is having because it's every bit as important in understanding this Trump phenomenon as Trump's persona and appearances as well.
So sit tight, much more straight ahead.
Don't go away.
I'll tell you one other thing, another factor in Trump's support is Trump's supporters know that the media can't touch him.
Trump's supporters love it when Trump gives the business right back to the media.
Because that's what Trump supporters have been hoping the Republican Party would do for years, instead of being allowed or allowing themselves to be held prisoner by the media.
There are explanations for all of this that the Republican Party can see as clearly as I do and learn from, but they remain obstinately.
Refusing.
I don't know.
It's all about ruling class, establishment, politics, policy, staying members of the club, and so forth.
Anyway, Chuck in Alfredta, Georgia.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Russ.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
I'll see if I can articulate my point here and trying to connect some dots very quickly.
Trying to help the Republican Party and maybe also help or the leadership.
And also help the mainstream media put some things together.
So three weeks ago, our emperor went out on one of his uh apologetic tours again and called the Republican Party a bunch of minors talking about the women and orphans that are coming in as refugees.
Now with what we've learned in San Bernardino that the women are radicalizing the men.
Can we now talk about how smart the Republicans are?
And the fact that they were worried about these women.
The media is never going to say anything like that.
But you're making a great point.
Because Obama did say is mocking the Republicans who he really got on them for taking on the moderators at CNBC in the debate and said they're afraid of women and children, orphans uh coming in as refugees.
And you're right.
Now we have the media and Obama's buddies and his government even his uh investigators telling us that this guy was an innocent little young Muslim driving around walking around having a fun life as an American.
Somehow stumbled across this radical, the Islamic woman, and she turned him into this banshee terrorist.
And uh what's the difference in a widow and a woman?
A dead man.
The women we need to watch out for, right?
What's that?
So it's the women we need to watch out for.
Well, it it you might by virtue of what our own government is telling us, yes.
A woman radicalized this poor guy who had no power to resist.
Now, Obama said Republicans are afraid of widows and orphans.
But a widow's still a woman, right?
Yeah.
All right, you gotta take a break.
Good point out there, Chuck.
Sit tight, my friends, back before you know it.
Anyway, folks, the issue no longer is about vetting refugees.
No, no, no, no.
The issue now is gun control.
Official position from our government, don't you know?
Open line Friday rolls on.
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