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Dec. 10, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 10, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3
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Alrighty then, here we are back at it.
The Rushlin Baugh program, the most listened to radio talk show in the country, a program that has riveted the people of this nation for 27 years and counting.
Always great to have you here.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800 282-2882 in the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Okay, so the theory is that Donald Trump has made a secret pact with Hillary Clinton to go out there and engage in a phony campaign, not designed to win, simply designed to get enough supporters to verify and qualify Trump to go third party, thereby electing Hillary Clinton.
Now this possibility has been alluded to in tweets from Jeb Bush and Carly Fiarina.
CNN dutifully picked this up and began reporting it recently.
And I'm sure that more drive-by outlets will also pick it up and begin to have panel discussions on it with the appropriate expert guests and analysts and strategists and so forth.
And they will all discuss the likelihood, the possibility, the various aspects of this, and could it possibly be true?
And you will hear, hey, it could well be because look, Trump invited a Clintons to his wedding, and he's given money to him, and he's given money to the Democrats, and he's really said great things about the Clintons over the years.
It could well be that Trump is just he hates a Republicans, he's a New Yorker, he's a New York Liberal Democrat, people will say.
He hates a Republicans.
He's making a mockery of them.
He's single-handedly trying to destroy the Republican Party, get Hillary Clinton elected, and what's great is all these idiot Trump supporters are falling right in line, falling for it, hook, line, and sinker.
This is what they're gonna say.
My prediction.
Depending on how how widespread this gets.
But look at what theory is asking us to believe.
Who is Trump to these people?
I'll tell you who he is to these people, to the media, to the Democrats, to many in the Republican establishment.
Donald Trump is a mono maniacal egotist vulgarian.
He is rude, crude, bad hair, he's embarrassing, he's racist, he's a bigot.
But the things that dominate people in their pondering and thinking of Trump is that he's a monomaniacal egotist.
And what's he done?
He's done something that nobody in modern American politics can say they've even gotten close to doing.
He has commandeered the entire domestic media and made it his own.
Donald Trump has conquered the media.
He owns the United States media and much of the global media.
He has done all of this, he's acquiring all of this unique power.
He's acquired all of these millions and millions of loyal supporters, all for one purpose.
To transfer it to somebody else.
Hillary Clinton?
That's what you think Trump is doing.
This monomaniacal egomaniac vulgarian is doing all of this to transfer all this power to Hillary Clinton.
That sounds like a stretch to me.
But I just want to warn you, since CNN has run with this and given life to the Jeb Bush and Carly Fearina tweets.
Don't be surprised if you see quote unquote serious discussions of the possibility on various cable networks.
Los Angeles Times headline, middle class families, pillar of the American dream are no longer in the majority, study finds.
Thank you.
Folks, that's all you need to know if you want to explain the current American political system or climate.
If I may repeat, a majority of the American people are appalled at what is being done to their country, to our country.
A sizable majority of the American people did not vote for any of this that is happening.
They don't support it, they never have supported it, they never wanted it.
They are angry, they are appalled, and they are scared at what is happening, at what is being done to their country.
Their health care system is being blown up.
The immigration system is failing.
The country is being swarmed with people who many don't even think are interested in becoming Americans.
A majority of the people of this country are suspicious of the motives of those who support open borders and amnesty as seeking to empower and enrich themselves while endangering the country.
We have a president who's openly promised and proclaimed that he wants to transform this country.
We have a president who has openly admitted in various ways that he doesn't believe in the greatness of this country nor its exceptionalism.
And he doesn't believe that half of the greatness that's happened here we deserve it.
So he's about cutting us down to size.
A majority of the American people want no part of this.
A majority of the American people are livid, appalled, angry, whatever you want to say over what they witness every day being done to their country.
And their frustration is amplified and multiplied because in Washington, D.C., they can't find any representation for what they believe.
The people they vote for are not representing them, are not standing up for them, are not pushing back against all this.
There are some individual people who are, and they happen to be leading the presidential primary on the Republican side.
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
Real clear politics, the rolling average of polls over the last 30 days.
Only two candidates are showing upward movement.
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
The establishment's preferred favored candidate, Jeb Bush, is at 3% here, 4% over there, 5% over there.
Not a factor.
The establishment refuses to learn from this.
They refuse to see the reality or the handwriting on the wall.
The American people feel like no matter where they turn, this country is being governed against their will.
Fear and anger are two very key motivators.
The American people, a majority of the American people, see their children's and their grandchildren's futures being frittered away, spent away, whittled away.
They haven't voted for any of it.
They haven't supported any of it.
This fear, this angry attitude they have is not rooted in bigotry or racism or hatred or any of the sort.
It is rooted in love.
A vast majority of the American people, the people I'm talking about, dearly love this country.
They understand what American exceptionalism is, and they are proud of it.
They love the fact that this is the greatest country ever in the history of humanity, and they want it preserved, and they want it to be even bigger and better.
And they don't see anybody in Washington engaged in making that happen, nor even talking about it.
Instead, they look to Washington and they see the country being undermined.
They see their children's futures being undermined.
They look at the American pop culture and they see perversion rearing its Head each and every day, no matter what they turn on.
Television, the internet, radio, it doesn't matter.
Perversion and depravity are rewarded.
And they're scared.
I've spoken some today of moral authority.
It's a very key component, and the American people, a majority of the American people don't see anyone with any moral authority.
There is no leadership they respect.
And that's not good.
The American people want great leaders.
The American people want people they think are really, really good at what they do.
They want people leading them who they believe love the country as they do, want the same things for the country they do, want the same things for their children that they want for their children.
They don't see that reflected at all.
In the leadership of this country right now.
It scares them and angers them.
And they don't need the LA Times to tell them that middle class families are no longer in the majority.
They know that that's the case.
They are the middle class.
And they see themselves losing ground.
And they know exactly why.
They have the education, the experience, and the knowledge sufficient enough to tell them that all of this is happening because of the policies of Washington, D.C. over the last seven to ten years.
They don't want any more of it.
It really isn't hard to understand why the American people, a majority of them, are angry and want what is happening at present to stop.
A government that tells them the unemployment rate is only 5% when they know 94 million Americans are not even working.
When they know that their work hours are being cut back so that their companies don't have to provide them health care.
They are worn out hearing the Democrats wring their hands and whine and moan about income inequality.
How the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and the gap between them is getting greater.
And then they look at Washington and they see that Washington's in bed with the Uber wealthy.
Even the Democrat Party.
Members of the American middle class do not even feel represented.
They don't even feel stood up for.
They don't sense themselves being spoken for.
Thank you.
Except by one or two people.
And they are happily to invest in the possibility these one or two people are being honest with them.
Because they're very much aware.
Or they very deeply believe that they have not been dealt with honestly for the last number of years, and they clearly don't trust the current leadership of this country, whom they most likely incorrectly see as doing great damage.
None of this is hard to understand, but everything I've just said to you, the people in the Washington haven't the slightest clue, folks.
One of two things.
They either do understand all this and just don't care and feel powerless to do anything about it, or else they genuinely are clueless and really do not understand how a majority of the American people live today.
Great leadership understands the hopes, the dreams, and the fears of the people they lead.
Leaders are invested in great responsibility.
Great leaders engender this by virtue of the power and force of their personality and their moral character.
And none of this the people of this country see in Washington, D.C. at the moment.
It's really striking, too.
And so they're doing whatever they can.
They've voted.
They have done, in their estimation, as much as they can to demonstrate their desires, their wishes, their preferences.
They have behaved properly according to the political guidelines and laws of the country.
And they just don't trust their leadership anymore and feel betrayed by it.
They don't trust the media anymore.
haven't for a long time.
They're sick and tired of being told they're the problems.
Or they are the problem.
They're sick and tired of being every day labeled something because of their love for country, because of what they believe.
They're sick and tired of being told they're racist or they're bigots or they're homophobes, Islamophobes, you name it, when none of that is applicable.
What they are is patriots.
And they're wondering why there are so few patriots in leadership today.
None of this is hard to understand.
None of it's hard to see.
It's there every day.
And yet the establishment, the ruling class, whatever you're gonna call them.
Washington, New York, Boston, the whole corridor, the media don't see it.
Everything's hunky dory.
Everything's fine, everything's great.
Everything's cool.
Meanwhile, the Iranians are getting a nuclear weapon terrorism is on the rise.
Domestic terrorism is a greater possibility day in and day out.
The American people are fully aware that people responsible for it are being coddled and protected and encouraged by their own leadership.
It doesn't make any sense to them.
It doesn't make any sense to them.
We are moving quickly to a third world model where you have a few really wealthy government connected people, cronies, and a whole lot of average ordinary Americans with dwindling hope, dwindling wealth, dwindling opportunity.
Thank you, Barack Hussein O. It wasn't like this before he became president.
The institutions and traditions which have defined this country's greatness have been under a daily assault for the last seven years.
And it hasn't appeared that anybody is willing to stand up and try to stop it.
So if you want to understand what's happening in the presidential primary campaign at this moment, all you need to know is what I just told you.
We'll be back after this.
Flagstaff, Arizona.
This is Dory.
You're next.
It's great to have you here on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Hey.
I I've spoken with you once before, but it was long ago and far away in another lifetime.
I could not have been that far ago.
I'm pretty old, Rush.
But what I wanted to say was, um Well, now wait a minute.
You say you're you say you're pretty how old do you feel?
That's what counts.
Oh, well, I don't feel as old as I am, and that's the fact.
All right.
That's all that counts.
Okay.
Yeah, then you're not that old if in reality.
No, I guess not.
Not in my mind, anyway.
There you go.
All right.
But um, what I was telling Mr. Snurtley, and oh, I do love Mr. Snerdling.
I really do.
But what I was telling him was that liberals hate the Constitution.
They call it old and outdated and moth-eaten and worthless.
But when it's hits their ideology, when it's going to work in their favor, suddenly we're duty bound to follow the Constitution into oblivion.
And delivered is their way.
They're total hypocrites about this.
These people of Second Amendment ought not even be in there.
The Second Amendment wasn't intended to be a First Amendment.
They're even they don't even like the First Amendment.
But then all of a sudden, when it comes time to criticize one of their enemies, they hold up the Constitution as a great thing.
When everybody knows that if they can erase it, they would.
Hell, Obama, I think Obama believes that legislation exists when the president writes a law and then signs an executive order to implement it.
And then the Supreme Court exists to affirm it.
And Congress is just there because you gotta give the elected representatives of people Something to do.
No, I uh they're clearly hypocrites about the Constitution.
There's no question about it.
Thank you, Dory, for the call.
I appreciate it.
Yeah, it's a good question.
I checked the email during the break, and and people said you um mentioned your brother's book, and I don't know how to find it.
What did you say it is?
It's the Emmaus Code.
I should spell that.
The Emmaus Code is the name of my brother's book about his scholarly belief the old testament is filled with indications and clues of the birth of Christ, which is a radical view for for some.
It's not unique to him, but he's decided to explore it, see if he can prove it to himself.
And he's written an entirely entire book about it.
And it's been out a couple of months.
His birthday's tomorrow, so I'm just joking.
If you want to celebrate my brother's birthday with him, go out and get a copy of his book.
He really believes it's fascinating for what it is.
Uh it's exhaustively documented and researched, and I know that this audience contains a tremendous number of Christians.
And if that's at all intriguing to you, um, well, it's an excellent treatise on the whole.
My my dad was.
My dad was uh d I don't was to say devout.
Um, but yeah, he was reading the Bible constantly.
Not a holy roller, uh, in in the in the sense that that term is applied.
But yeah, he was intellectually just challenged by it, fascinated by it.
Um much as the way Pascal was.
Uh great French philosopher in the Ponce.
At any rate, it's EMA US or EMM A-U-S, and it's pronounced a Mayus.
And it's at Amazon and Barnes and Noble and all the other uh other places.
Was was he gonna be, let's see, I'm sixty.
He's sixty-three or sixty f no.
Yeah, sixty-three, I think he's gonna be tomorrow.
I'm not sure.
What's it when you get 62, 63, 60?
What difference it make?
You know, it's it says it's within an acceptable range.
Still not getting social security checks, so it's okay.
Nolan in uh in El Dorado, Arkansas.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Russ, how are you today?
I'm good.
Thank you, sir.
Yes, uh, thank you for taking my call.
I just want to um thank you for all you do on the radio show.
I I enjoy listening to you.
And uh I have a an article that I was reading this morning on the Putico about uh linking Donald Trump to the Ku Klux Klan, which I think is just ridiculous.
But is that the politico?
Yeah, yeah, the Playgo.
Yeah, I saw that too.
I think I've seen it in two different places, Politico and so But yeah.
This is this is classic.
The drive-by media has gone out.
Here here look.
Tell you what's going on here, Nolan.
I have a story here from Breitbart.com.
Trump beat reporters.
We cannot find supporters who will not vote, who say they won't vote for him now because these Muslim comments.
The drive-by media thinks that everybody's just shocked and angry and appalled at what Trump said.
So they've fanned out all over the country trying to find Trump supporters who are also mad, so much so that they will no longer support him, and they can't find a single one.
So what they did, they went to some clown who claims he's a grand cleague in the KKK.
And this guy said he loved what Trump was doing.
And so it's just the opposite.
Now we got the media saying, oh no, this is what we worried about.
Trump, Trump is energizing racists and bigots and white supremacists and so forth.
That's what you're seeing.
That's what you saw, right?
Yeah, and I I can't understand.
Well, I know I I know why, but it's just frustrating when I see something like this, but yet you don't see articles, you know, coming out saying, oh, you know, the Clintons or Obama supports or defends the Ku Klux Klan, but they uh you don't see that anywhere.
Well, no, you don't see the equivalent, that's true.
Well, but this is this is the media at its wit's end.
This is the last ditch.
This is throwing the excrement up against the wall, hoping something sticks out there, Nolan.
I mean, this is pathetic.
It's embarrassingly pathetic to have a serious story.
KKK Grand Kleagel encouraged by Trump.
It's just, it's laughable.
I think part and parcel of this Trump phenomenon, folks.
This is the kind of stuff the media gets away with with other people, but it's not affecting Trump.
This is one of the myriad reasons why they're so frustrated.
They can take out any Republican they want with things like this.
They can take out a Tea Party person, they can take out anybody they want with shenanigans like that.
But they can't hurt Trump.
And they're going to leave no stone unturned, so to speak, in their effort to do some damage.
They have totally lost control where Trump is concerned.
He owns them.
And it is something they just can't abide.
They are beside themselves.
They are at their wit's end.
And so what you're seeing here is the last desperate act of a bunch of deranged people.
Perfectly understandable you'd be mad about it and the hypocrisy, no such connections are ever found between Democrats, even though the last KKK member to be a member of the Senate was a Democrat.
Sheets Byrd.
Robert Sheets Bird of West Virginia was a grand Kleagel or whatever in the Ku Klux Klan.
And you can't find a Republican member at a KKK elected to office, national office.
Only Democrats.
It's that hypocritical.
But look, that takes us to the next soundbite.
Don Lemon, Trump was on with Don Lemon on CNN last night.
And Lemon is one of these guys with the rest of the media out there desperately trying to find Trump supporters mad at him over the things that he's saying.
And it it's fascinating.
This Trump phenomenon is real, and these journalists know it.
See, this is a this is not a flash in the pan.
It's not some temporary thing.
It's it's it's real and it's deep-rooted.
And they've done everything, and they're going to continue to try to do everything they can to stop him.
So here's Don Lemon, and he's he's uh you know Trump appeared with him uh last night, but here's here's Don Lemon just with a one of his statements on CNN last night.
I'm being honest here, as I walk around New York City and other places, because I travel the country, as I'm at the barbershop, or I'm in a bar, or I may be shopping and I'm in the drugstore, whatever.
People will walk up to me and say things privately about Donald Trump, which they will tell me that they will never say publicly that they support him.
They actually support what he says about banning Muslim immigrants temporarily.
These aren't all Republicans who are saying things like this.
I'm not the only person who is an interviewer who is a journalist who said this.
I've heard many different uh journalists say this.
So what Don Lemon's saying here is that there are more people that support Trump than we even know.
What he's saying here is that Trump's support is underreported, underestimated.
No matter where he goes, people come up to him and say, hey, Don, you know what, I really like what Trump's saying there.
I want I don't want to be on camera.
I don't want you to quote me.
Some people still fear that the media can harm them.
So they come up and they tell and Lemon is saying that a lot of other journalist buddies of his same thing is happening.
People are approaching them.
Because they know these guys are out there trying to harm Trump.
They know these guys and the people are they know these journalists are out there trying to dig up dirt on Trump.
So they're approaching these journals.
Hey, I like the guy.
Hey, I agree with what he's saying.
You know what?
I don't want to go on camera.
I don't want to.
I'm just telling you.
And a lot of my friends do too.
You guys are way off the beaten path here, Don.
A lot of people really, really dig what Trump's saying.
And Don Lemon went on CNN last night to warn his audience that even more people than You think support Trump agree with Trump.
This morning on CNN's New Day, Chris Cuomo spoke with senior national correspondent John King about Trump's campaign.
Chris Cuomo said, what's the best current thinking about what this what this ceiling is on this group of people that resonate within the GOP for Trump right now?
How many people does a GOP have to be worried about that Trump owns?
Go back to the report you had at the top of the show.
This couple was radicalized as far back as 2012.
Why didn't the government know about this?
You ask people on the street, and they think the government would screw up a free lunch.
They just do.
They think the government is incapable of doing anything right.
And Donald Trump taps into that.
We will not know about Trump's full appeal until we get to a race between Donald Trump and two or three other candidates.
The three least spoken words in Washington, I don't know.
They scared to death, too, because it's their business to know.
Not only is it their business to know, it's their business to shape the outcome, folks.
In their minds, the media determines who wins and who loses.
In their minds, and they don't know.
Now poor old Don Lemon people coming up to him and saying hey, Don, you know what?
Psst.
I love what Trump's doing.
I really agree with what and Lemon says a lot of people.
And if a lot of his journalist buddies is the same thing.
I don't know how big Trump is.
I don't know what the ceiling is.
They are really worried.
And this little comment here, you know, a lot of people come to the government screws everything up.
It's not that the government's screwing thing up.
Let me tell you people in the media something.
John King here says, yeah, this couple was radicalized back in 2012.
Why didn't the government know about this?
Mr. King, in all candor, when when you quote people as thinking that the government would screw up a free lunch, don't make the mistake of thinking that the people telling you this think that it's innocent incompetence.
The people telling you that they don't trust the government to get anything right, they think the government's goofing up on purpose.
They think it's part of a plan to screw things up.
They do not trust.
If it were simple incompetence, Mr. King, if all it was was a bunch of people in government that just weren't bright or smart, that could be dealt with, but it's far deeper than that in most people's estimation.
The people of this country think the government is governing against their will, knowingly and purposefully.
It's not just they're a bunch of screw-ups.
They're not looked at as a bunch of screw-ups.
They're looked at as saboteurs, Mr. King.
You know what the wilder effect is, right?
The wilder effect is pollsters show up, you have an African American candidate in the race, and a bunch of bunch of uh people being polled will tell the pollster they're gonna vote for the African American, because they don't want the pollster to think that they're racist.
They actually not gonna vote for the African American, but they tell the pollster that just so the pollster won't hassle them or think they're racist.
It's called the Wilder effect for former Virginia Governor Doug Wilder, who polling data said was going to win in a landslide one year and got beat.
And they chalked it up to people lying to polls.
Well, listening to Don Lemon, there might be something going on out there called the Trump effect.
It could well be that a lot more people support Trump than are saying so.
Don Lemon says, yeah, these people come up and they I don't want to go on TV or anything, but I gotta say I love Trump.
I did a lot of my friends, we really dig what Trump's doing.
I don't tell anybody, I don't want anybody to know.
Well, that could indicate the Trump effect is out there.
There are a lot of people telling pollsters that they're not for Trump when they really are, because they don't want the pollster ripping into them or critic because they know what the media thinks about Trump.
Yeah, it it well, depending, yeah, it could make the exit polls fun.
I mean, it could be, it could be the Trump effect, could it could be in place out there.
Homely time will tell.
Diana Bridgman uh uh Michigan.
I have about 45 seconds.
I didn't not a lot of time, but I wanted to get to you.
Well, I really feel bad, Rush, because I I've got a lot I'd like to say to you.
Well, I tell you what, I'll tell you what.
If you will give us your phone number.
Okay.
Then we will call you back tomorrow.
Is that a promise?
If Mr. Snerdley will actually do it, I am committing that we will do it.
Okay.
I will sure give it to him.
All right.
Yeah.
Don't do it now.
Don't don't give your number out on the air.
What is it you're upset about?
Just give me in five seconds.
I'm upset because it seems like you and Hannity and Mark Levin and some others are really promoting promoting Trump.
I gotta go.
Okay, that's enough.
We'll deal with this tomorrow.
Don't that's it, folks.
Uh we are out of time.
Right up against it here in our final busy broadcast segment, but there is uh always tomorrow, which is tomorrow's Friday, right?
Open line for a wow.
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