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Dec. 8, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 8, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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I don't know, folks.
I sit here and I'm backing off from a distance, a little bit of a distance, just looking at all of this.
I'm watching the media today.
I'm not listening.
I've got close captioning.
I'm looking at the media and their pictures, and I've got the stack of Trump news here.
And, you know, on the one hand, over here, we've got Muslim terrorism, Islamic extremism.
We've got San Bernardino.
We've got Paris.
And over here, we have apparently the biggest problem the world faces is Donald Trump.
It's fascinating when you see it that way.
And I do.
I really do.
I mean, it's stunning to watch this.
I don't care what you think of what Trump's saying.
He's just a candidate.
It's just words.
And his words are not harming anybody here.
And yet Trump is being treated as the biggest threat and danger to the American way of life.
And Trump's supporters are being treated as the biggest threat to the American way of life.
And of course, right-wing radio is lumped right in with them all as the biggest threat to the American way of life.
Meanwhile, we're not even a week removed from yet another Islamist extremist terror event in this country.
We've already got the Politico magazine.
Why do these young Muslims hate us so much?
And they conclude it's because of right-wing media and prejudiced Christians.
They can't figure out any other reason why.
Politicizing everything.
I've got this stack, worldwide, Trump reaction.
This is Washington Post, the world reacts to Trump's proposed ban on Muslims entering the U.S. And it's a long story, quoting various things Trump said and people's reaction to it without any recognition of precedence.
You know, Trump wants to ban Muslims.
We are deporting Christians right now.
And we are not allowing Christian refugees from Syria to enter the country.
You don't find that mentioned anywhere.
But it's fascinating.
Huma Wiener.
I'm sorry.
You know, they never use her name.
Oh, we call her Huma Abbottin.
If I had a choice between Wiener and Abaddon, I don't know what I would do.
But she's obviously going with Abaddon.
Huma Abaddon blasts Trump's Islamophobia.
Trump wants to literally write racism into our law books.
Abaddon, the longtime Hillary Clinton associate, wrote in an email to supporters Monday night, his Islamophobia doesn't reflect our nation's values.
It goes far enough to damage our country's reputation and could even threaten our national security.
I'm sorry, folks.
I just, I have never associated liberalism with America's values.
I'm sorry.
I just never have.
And that's why this reads like a foreign language to me.
When I hear liberals talking about American values, all I can think of is the values they're trying to undermine.
The values that they're trying to transform.
Huma's not running for anything.
She's, you know.
What are you saying?
Huma can't speak?
What is it?
Huma can't.
She works for Hillary.
You say Hillary smokes people can't speak?
Who the hell is Huma?
Abedeen?
Does your missing?
Huma Abedeen is an important American.
She works for Hillary Clinton.
She's married to Anthony Weiner, who sends pictures of his member out on Instagram or Snapchat or whatever.
She's an important person in America.
That's what I'm saying.
You're saying, who is Huma Abaddon?
You are Islamophobic when you say that.
You are distorting American values simply with that question.
My point is, I just have never associated the left with maintaining or supporting or upholding American values.
I've always associated with the left with trying to tear them down.
Well, you look at the left's cultural agenda and you tell me that's American values.
I'm sorry, folks.
They're in the process of tearing them down.
So when I hear Obama talking about, that's not who we are.
That's not American value.
I just want to spit.
It makes me so mad.
These people do not represent American values.
They're in the process of trying to redefine them, tear them down, rebuild them, what have you.
Ditto, Huma Abadin.
Senator Lindsey Graham on Tuesday, blasted Donald Trump.
You know how you make America great again, Graham said.
You tell Donald Trump to go to hell.
So, I mean, everybody, everybody.
This is part of Trump's brilliance.
I think they say Trump's genius, but he's got everybody saying the same thing.
Everybody opposed to Trump has to go to great lengths to try to stand out from one another because they're all saying the same stuff.
Florida mayor has banned Trump from entering the city.
St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kreisman, Democrat, tweeted late Monday that he was barring Trump from his city until we fully understand the dangerous threat posed by all Trumps.
Again, I say, if you're a Martian and you just landed here and you turn on the American media or add an American newspaper to your reading list or whatever, you're going to think this is a Muslim country that a bunch of Christian terrorists are trying to take over and conquer.
And Huma Abaddon will tell you that.
Be able to find quotes from people like Huma Abaddon if you're from Mars.
If you happen to be from Mars, you just landed here.
You're probably going to say, how the hell do we get back to Mars?
Dick Cheney has slammed Trump's Muslim idea.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney joining a chorus of voices slamming Trump's proposal to bar Muslims from entering the U.S. Jeff Bezos.
This is the headline, you know, Jeff Bezos of Amazon owns the Washington Post.
This is a story from theHill.com and the headline, Washington Post owner floats sending Trump to space.
Bezos is in a competition with Elon Musk over a private rocket company.
Elon Musk has SpaceX.
I think Bezos just beat Musk on.
Bezos just successfully landed, retrieved and landed a rocket that his company had launched.
Jeff Bezos on Monday responded to an attack from fellow billionaire businessman Donald Trump by suggesting that the GOP presidential candidate be sent to space.
And the CNN story is the GOP ready to unite against Trump for his Muslim ban.
Oh, they're trying.
They are.
Everybody's trying so hard to take Trump out.
Headline, this is in the politico.
Trump not bothered by comparisons to Hitler.
Excuse me.
The billionaire businessman refuses to back off his proposal to temporarily ban all Muslims from entering the U.S. Donald Trump went on a series of rhetorical rants on Tuesday morning saying he does not mind comparisons to Adolf Hitler and tussling with morning show anchors about his proposal to temporarily ban all Muslims from entering America, calling his approach more akin to what Hitler's American contemporary did during World War II would be FDR.
He says, FDR is a great American.
FDR is one of the greatest presidents in the world.
Look what FDR did.
And by the way, by the way, Baghdad Jim McDermott, did you see this?
Here's another thing Trump has done.
It's the first time I have ever seen a Democrat come out and rag on FDR.
And Baghdad Jim McDermott today did.
Baghdad Jim McDermott, who's a member of Congress in Washington State, came out and ripped into FDR for the internment of the Japanese.
I've never seen that happen.
Trump, it's another thing he's pulled off here.
George Stephanopoulos, you know, Donald, you're increasingly being compared to Hitler.
Doesn't that give you any pause at all?
Trump said, no, no.
Invoking what he termed FDR solution for Germans, Italians, Japanese many years ago during World War II.
This was a president highly respected by all Trump said.
Pressed on whether he would then advocate the establishment of internment camps for Muslims.
This is so absurd.
This is just the media.
I'll tell you, it's fascinating to watch.
Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, would you be in favor of internment camps?
What about the comparison to Hitler?
I don't mind.
Bring it on.
The media just cannot figure this out.
They can't stop it no matter what they do.
They can't shame Trump.
They can't embarrass him.
They can't distance Trump from his supporters.
They can't separate Trump supporters from Trump.
Pressed whether he would then advocate the establishment of internment camps.
He hasn't said anything other than we need to have a temporary stop, a temporary hold on any more Muslims coming into America.
And look at the excrement fit.
And now you're being compared to Hitler.
Does that bother you?
Not at all.
What do you think about internment camps?
You for those?
Trump said, no, no, no.
No, I'm not.
But he said, you look at Paris and London.
They don't look like they used to.
And they don't.
The Paris you've always dreamed of going to, by the way, isn't there.
Well, I mean, little pockets of it are, but Trump said, look, I hope it'll go quickly.
I hope we can figure it out.
We'll have many, many more World Trade Centers.
Sure as you're sitting there, George, our country's never going to be the same if we don't get a handle on this, George.
Let's take a break.
We'll come back and listen to some of Trump's reaction to all of this, some of the things he's actually saying out there.
In addition, we've got other news.
We have other news, folks, like this, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Remember him?
The Terminator?
I'll be back.
Former governor of California.
Arnold Schwarzenegger said we all need to go part-time vegetarian to protect the planet.
Arnold says people should go meat-free one or two days a week to protect the climate.
Said that meat eating is an environmental problem with farming creating an estimated 28% of global greenhouse gases.
By the way, there's a story on Drudge that all of a sudden, scientists have noted the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is flat.
It hasn't increased all year.
And so scientists are being asked what it means.
They're saying, well, it's just a blip.
It doesn't mean anything.
Our computer models show.
Well, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Your computer models, the data, the real data, CO2 is not increasing in the atmosphere all of a sudden.
I don't care what the data is.
Our models say that in 2050, that's the only response they've got.
Schwarzenegger said that asking people to go totally vegetarian, that'd be too demanding.
It would be better to suggest giving up meat once or twice a week.
He said, you can get protein many different ways.
Well, you know what this means?
It means whoever Schwarzenegger is dating thinks this.
Tim in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Yes, sir.
What's going on?
Johnny Ramon, Republican here from Raleigh, North Carolina, a coin or term that I coined, actually.
I was at the Trump event the other night, and man, that was a rock show like I have never seen, my friend.
That place was fired up.
And the one thing that disappointed me was when I got home, my friend called me up and said, oh, I heard Trump stormed off the stage.
I said, what are you talking about?
It was front and center.
He didn't storm off the stage.
Well, that's not what Rachel Maddow, Mad Cow, said on MSNBC.
And I said, no, she's lying.
So I went and I looked at the clip, and she said, quote unquote, and this is the lie.
After the end of the 10th interruption, Mr. Trump ended the speech and exited the stage.
That did not happen.
He spoke for at least an hour plus a few minutes, then afterwards took a Q ⁇ A session, then wrapped it up, and then came down and shook hands, signed autographs.
He actually signed a girl's shoe that I saw.
And his handlers finally, after.
You know, Johnny Republican, I saw that same report.
I saw that same report.
I saw it was on Apple News on my iPhone.
And I saw that and I said, whoa, this ought to be huge.
I couldn't find it anywhere else.
It turns out the original source for that story was Reuters.
Yeah, I don't understand where they got that from because, like I said, I was basically front and center and I was just kind of like covering it sort of, you know, in different events a little bit indifferentially, just kind of observing.
And when I saw that kind of coverage from a, I guess they would call themselves a major media source.
I mean, we're getting into like in FOC 1984 territory when it comes to media coverage of things.
He didn't storm off stage.
He didn't abruptly just walk off into the sunset.
He was fine.
Well, I've got here, I have a story from a guy in, it's called Civitas Review, who was there, too.
And the headline, Reuters lied about Trump in North Carolina.
The source for the lie is Reuters.
They made it all up.
It didn't happen.
And they know it didn't happen.
Reuters still hasn't corrected it, I don't think.
Let me ask you this.
Were the two soul sisters there who are on Twitter and love Trump?
Did they do a routine?
Yes, they were.
Oh, yes, they were.
And they owned it, right?
I mean, they kicked butt, right?
Oh, yeah, for lack of a better word, absolutely.
Absolutely.
And I just want to point something out, Rush.
There were every demographic there.
I mean, you name it.
There were old people, young people, college kids.
There were Latinos there.
There were other nations.
And everybody was fired up.
And it's kind of like even the rock shows I've taken, all right?
This place, like a rock con.
It was rocking.
I know.
I know that everybody has talked to me that's been there has told me the same story in refuting the Reuters story, which was an out-and-out lie.
Anyway, Tim, thanks.
We'll be back.
All right, Grab Soundbites 2425.
The White House press spokesman Josh Ernest has opened up maybe, yeah, 26 as well.
We have three of them here.
This is a daily press briefing.
And an Infobabe reporter at Unidentified here said, Donald Trump, his proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S., can you say if President Obama will be doing anything more beyond what he said in the speech on Sunday, maybe traveling to a Muslim community to sort of counter the sentiment against Muslims that seems to be growing in the U.S. So the question is, look, Trump's out there saying ban them all for a while.
Is Obama going to go anywhere where Muslims live in order to comfort them?
The first thing a president does when he or she takes the oath of office is to swear an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
And the fact is that what Donald Trump said yesterday disqualifies him from serving as president.
And for Republican candidates for president to stand by their pledge to support Mr. Trump, that in and of itself is disqualifying.
It's just going to drive more people to Trump.
These people keep talking this way.
What Trump says is not unconstitutional.
Again, if anybody is flirting with violating Constitution, it'd be our beloved Barack Hussein, oh, Mr. Ernest.
And there's a whole slew of Americans who think so.
And so when you guys talk about fealty to the Constitution, people smirk and laugh because you guys don't mean it.
That's why when you people talk about this isn't representative of American values, neither are you.
Today's Democrat Party is no more representative of the values that founded this country than any foreigner is.
You're not.
That's why it's laughable to listen to you people talk about it.
Then the unidentified Infobabe reporter at said, well, let's say that Trump does end up winning a nomination.
Would you like the Republicans not to support him?
These questions.
Anyway, here's what Ernest said in earnest.
They should say right now that they would not support Donald Trump for president.
What he said is disqualifying.
And any Republican who's too fearful of the Republican base to admit it has no business serving as president either.
Now they're really throwing down the gauntlet.
And once again, the Republican base means right-wing media, folks.
See, if those Republicans remain afraid, if they keep being afraid to react to Trump or right-wing media or the right-wing base, I think every damn one of them has denounced him.
I don't know what Ernest is talking about.
We've got Paul Ryan, Dick Cheney, Lindsey Graham.
They've all spoken out one way or the other against Trump.
Oh, yeah.
Rinch Priebus, the Republican National Committee, they've all done so.
The only one that has it is Ted Cruz.
Well, Ted Cruz didn't, he said he doesn't agree with what Trump said, but he's not going to attack Trump.
And another reporter, unidentified, said, to follow up on Donald Trump, his proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S., can you say if the president will be doing anything more beyond what he said in a speech on Sunday in terms of calling for more tolerance for Muslims?
Will he be talking about this more?
Let me just step back and say that the Trump campaign for months now has had a dustbin of history like this.
Stop it.
You see what I mean?
Folks, can you go back to my first day?
See what I'm talking about here.
They can't even get Obama's press spokesman to talk about Obama.
The media is trying to move it off of Trump here.
They're trying to make Obama look good.
Is Obama going to go out and comfort the Muslims?
Is Obama going to go out and tell them, don't worry, I got you covered?
I don't care what President Donald Trump did to Donald Trump there.
Donald Trump said Donald Trump is Donald Trump.
I'll tell you, it's mind-boggling to watch this happen.
As I say, from a step back position, you know, my objectivity campaign, just watch all the, it's fast.
Here, go, beginning of a bite here.
Question again, is Obama going to go out, do more than he said in his speech, going to comfort these Muslims who are obviously feeling attacked now.
Let me just step back and say that the Trump campaign for months now has had a dustbin of history-like quality to it.
From the vacuous sloganeering to the outright lies, to even the fake hair, the whole Carnival Barker routine that we've seen for some time now.
The question now is about the rest of the Republican Party and whether or not they're going to be dragged into the dustbin of history with them.
Which you would love.
Do not say it otherwise.
You don't care the Republican Party save itself.
These clowns hope to hell the GOP dies.
They would love nothing more for the GOP to implode.
You're not worried for the GOP.
Josh Ernest doesn't really hope the GOP emerges from this stronger.
Here's Dingy Harry.
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Now, this, again, this is an illustration, too.
I'm not going to condemn the Republicans denouncing Trump, I'm sure, mean it.
I'm not even going to challenge their motives, but I do want to say this.
Every time something like this happens, the Republicans think they can score points with the media by condemning whoever the so-called Republican or conservative in question is under fire, whoever it is.
If the Republicans join the Democrats in condemnation, they think that great things will happen to them.
They'll be respected anew.
They will be treated with more respect.
They will be acknowledged as not these extreme right-wingers.
And my point doesn't matter who what anytime a Republican gets in trouble, quote unquote, you cannot, as a Republican, buy love and affection from the Democrats and the media by denouncing your fellow Republican.
You cannot do it.
And Dingy Harry proves it here.
On the one hand, we have every Republican under the sun except Ted Cruz getting in line to denounce Trump.
Everybody.
Lindsey Graham going as far as to tell him to go to hell.
And here's Harry Reid.
Donald Trump is standing on the platform of hate.
And I'm sorry to say hate that the Republican Party has built for him.
It was just last week I came to the floor here and said that the Republican Party is running on a platform of hate.
Yesterday, Donald Trump provided the strongest evidence yet that it's true.
Trump's proposal to bar Muslims from entering this country is hateful, despicable, and really vile.
Donald Trump is not America.
Sadly, however, Donald Trump has become the Republican Party.
See?
See how this so no matter what you Republicans do, you're not going to be able to escape being a Republican.
Dingy Harry said here, you guys, the Republican Party made this possible.
The Republican Party paved the road of hatred for Trump to drive right down.
See how this works?
Well, no, my point is, it's a losing effort and game to try to join or cooperate or be bipartisan with the Democrats because it's never going to work.
The Democrats aren't interested in it.
The Democrats are interested in one thing, and that's eliminating all opposition.
Republican Party, right-wing media, I don't care what it is.
Their objective, their agenda is in part to eliminate opposition.
Do we have time for one?
Yeah, we do.
Here's Susan in Fairbourne, Minnesota.
Thank you for waiting.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
I'm honored.
I guess my reaction is why these liberals, why they're so condescending to all of us that are Trump supporters.
We have college degrees.
We have investments and know the stock market.
We've worked in government and seen the waste.
And yet they call us crude and uninformed.
And they define blue collar, which I think, like you said, is defined as people who work as.
Pay taxes.
Yes.
Blue collar is people who pay taxes.
Yeah.
The talking heads on Sunday, I think it was on ABC.
One of them called Trump supporters crude.
And I, you know, they're trying to take our guns away.
They're trying to disarm our police and our sheriffs.
We're out in the country.
It takes 10 minutes for the sheriffs to make it here after a call or more.
They're trying to tell you it isn't your country anymore, Susan.
I totally agree.
That's what this, you boil this all down.
What they're trying to tell you is this is not your country anymore.
It used to be, you used to run it, he's the majority, but you're not anymore, and it's not your country, and you better get used to it.
That's, if you want to condense all this down to what the essence is, that's it.
Yeah, even the Republicans cutting down Trump.
I mean, our current system we have for letting people in, let that female terrorist in.
So why don't we have to take a look at it?
No, no, no.
See, you don't get it.
That female terrorist wanted to come in and commit that act of terror because of the Republican Party.
See, and because of Trump.
Remember, don't forget the political story.
Why do they hate us?
Why do these young Muslims hate us?
And right there in the second paragraph is represented right-wing media.
So the left is already asking, why did the San Bernardino, I mean, they were born here, they grew up here.
Why do they hate us?
Their parents didn't hate us.
Why did they hate us?
And they're trying to figure it out.
And the best they can come up with is, well, it has to be right-wing media, and it has to be conservatives who are making it very unpleasant for them to be here.
And so it's your fault, my fault, all our fault that the San Bernardino terror attack took place.
That's what's being set up now.
I predicted it, folks, last week.
I told you what's going to happen.
It's what happened after 9-11.
It's what happens after Paris, Charlie Ebdu, doesn't matter.
It's always the victim's fault.
As far as the left is concerned, what did we do to make them mad?
Grab zone by number seven.
Go back to Good Morning America today.
This is Stephanopoulos speaking with Trump.
And Stephanopoulos, okay, so you want to put a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.
How will you actually do this?
I'm calling very simply for a shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.
And here's a key, until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.
If a person is a Muslim and goes overseas and comes back, they can come back.
They're a citizen.
That's different.
We have people that want to blow up our buildings, our cities, and we have to figure out what's going on.
We don't want to figure out what's going on, I don't think.
We already know.
We just don't want to deal with it.
I mean, an act of terror happens last week.
They withhold the name for four hours or more.
They look for any possible plausible explanation other than what it is.
In this case, they were looking for workplace violence.
That's what's sort of scary about this, is that people at the highest levels of power and authority do not want to acknowledge what this is.
Whether they think it is or not, they don't want to acknowledge it.
I guess they don't want to cause panic.
They're worried about backlash.
But I've got a story here in the stack.
I wish I could find this real quick.
Here it is.
FBI stats debunk the media's Muslim backlash myth.
You know, I'm going to have to say this for tomorrow because I don't really have enough time to get into it as it deserves.
But here's the sum total of this.
And these are government numbers.
84% of hate crimes based on a person's religion in this country are not directed at Muslims.
There isn't a Muslim backlash.
56.8% of religious bias crimes were anti-Jewish.
16% anti-Islam.
That's Muslim.
They're second place.
6.2% were victims of bias against individuals of varying religions.
6.1% anti-Catholic, 2.5% anti-Protestant, 1.2% anti-atheist.
They're even keeping stats on all this.
And by far and away, the biggest group of religious prejudice and bias in violent crimes against is Jewish people.
And you never hear anybody worried about Jewish backlash when anti-Israel statements are made by this administration or anybody else.
But there isn't a violent Muslim backlash that Obama's constantly worried about or Loretta Lynch is constantly worried about.
So a lot of Americans don't think our government wants to know what's going on or wants to admit what's going on.
They rather blame the victims somehow or another.
I'll tell you, folks, it's burning a lot of people up.
Man, I don't know where the time went today.
I mean, it just zipped by out there.
But here we are at the end of the busy broadcast today, but we're back in 21 hours.
It's never really over here.
Just various breaks of various lengths.
And we'll be back revved and ready tomorrow.
Thanks so much for being with us today, folks.
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