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Dec. 11, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 11, 2015, Friday, Hour #2
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I guess you're right here it is.
I found a couple of apps for the guy on the Mac App Store.
One of them's free.
It's called Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto and gets rid of dupes in iPhoto.
There's another one that's a buck ninety-nine that costs duplicate finder for iPhoto, and they both specifically get rid of duplicate photos in iPhoto, which will then clear them out of iCloud if well, you have to do one more.
Never mind.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's a iPhoto's not tied to iCloud.
That's why there's photos.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, open line Friday, Rush Lindboss serving humanity.
Rhetoric and resonance.
Vocal vibrations, coast to coast, serving humanity.
Great to have you here.
Damn right.
I'd get rid of iPhoto the first minute I could.
It's an albatross.
It's so old, it's it's cluttered, it's slow, it's just El Yucko.
iPhoto, they've stopped upgrading it, they've stopped supporting it, you can still use it and so forth.
Now what you do on your Mac, and you're already doing this on your devices, the iPad and the iPhone.
Just get the new Photos app.
It's part of the OS now.
And you open it up and you turn on the iCloud Photo Library.
And the first thing it'll before that even happens, you'll be given an option.
You want to import your photos from iPhoto to Photos.
And you do that, and then you're done with iPhoto forever.
Well, you're not, you can still use it if you want, but the great thing about photos, there's now extensions.
You can import all kinds of photo editing apps right into the photos app and have much more editing control than you ever had in iPhoto.
This is the kind of stuff I'm Apple is so remiss in telling people what all they can do with their products.
You ought to see the blank stares I'm getting from people across.
You know what I'm gonna do?
You know what I'm gonna I'm gonna actually gonna do?
I'm actually gonna start a little tech section at Rushlinbaugh.com with little tit hits, hints and tidbits and advice and little tips how to do things now and then.
I mean, it's one of my passions.
I love it, and it's actually amazing what is possible to do now.
Anyway.
Dawn says you're really ticking people off keeping talking about this.
Is like the stick to the issues crowd, right?
Josh Ernest grab audio soundbite 25.
This is how the Democrats in chapter 89,000 in the Democrats trying to help the Republican Party.
This afternoon, White House press briefing.
CNN reporter at Infobabe, Michelle Kaczynski said 25% of Americans in a poll support Trump's plan to halt allowing Muslims into the country temporarily.
Now, in other polls, it's much more than 25%.
In many polls, it's a majority.
But I guess she's talking about her own poll at CNN.
Anyway, 25%.
Does that number surprise you, Josh?
I mean, as much as you can separate out one particular view from the majority view of the numbers, no lie.
That's a big chunk of people, Josh.
And to what would you attribute that amount of support for something that you described as morally reprehensible?
What we are seeing here is a pretty cynical attempt on the part of one Republican politician to capitalize on people's fears and anxieties.
And divide the American public solely for personal political gain.
And it's offensive.
The continued insistence on the part of Republican candidates for president and other leaders in the Republican Party that they would vote for somebody, potentially, for president of the United States who holds such offensive, divisive views that run counter to the very values of this country.
Is in and itself alarming.
And does not bode well for the future of the Republican Party.
Really?
Really care about that, huh?
Really, really care about the future of the Republican Party, eh, Josh.
Uh I Josh, I think practically every one of them has denounced him.
Haven't they?
Except Ted Cruz, every other Republican candidate, every Republican that you can name has denounced Trump on this.
Uh, Paul Ryan, Dick Cheney, there isn't a Republican outside of Cruz that hasn't denounced Trump.
What more do you want here?
But here again, I have to listen to this guy start preaching to us about American values.
And I'm sorry, the Democrat Party just doesn't hold them as far as I'm concerned.
A party that openly promotes the slaughter of babies in the womb, and then dissecting them for body parts for sale, does not have any credibility with me talking about American values.
Because I'm sorry, those aren't American values.
And I could list a bunch of things just like that that are reprehensible to me.
Go back.
It's Josh Erns, this is un-American, it's unacceptable, it violates American values.
Grab signbite number two again.
This is Sam Donaldson, ABC News back on April 7th of 1980.
After meeting with his advisors for two and a half hours to review the decisions, Mr. Carter came down to the press room to announce them.
The militants controlling the embassy have stated they are willing to turn the hostages over to the government of Iran.
But the government has refused to take custody of the American hostages.
This lays bare the full responsibility of the Ayatollah Homeani and the Revolutionary Council.
The president ordered four steps immediately.
A complete break in diplomatic relations.
Iranian diplomats must leave the United States by tomorrow midnight.
Official sanctions prohibiting exports to Iran.
An inventory of frozen Iranian assets of over $8 billion, and a virtual shutting off of all Iranian immigration into this country by refusing new visas to Iranian citizens.
Moreover, the president warned these four steps may be just the beginning.
Other action may become necessary if these steps do not produce the prompt release of the hostages.
All right, now I've had people say to me, Rush Rush, wait a minute, there's a little bit of a difference here.
Jimmy Carter is banning people from a country.
And Trump's moratorium is a people of a religion.
You know, that that's one of the great sticking points of all this.
It's an ideology.
It is a rel this I I think that comparison kind of misses the point.
We're talking about the same types of politically motivated people here, in the kinds of people Jimmy Carter wanted to send home, wanted to register, and would permit or would deny entry to the country.
This is only a common sense that all Trump said was we need a moratorium until we can get to get figure out what the hell is happening here and how best to deal with it.
And first thing, everybody, it's it's like what's going on with Scalia.
You know, folks, our our society doesn't have much of a chance.
Have you heard what's going on with Scalia lately?
Do you know the real story about this?
Okay, Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court justice, is having a discussion about an affirmative action case.
And in this discussion, he happens to reference others who have made the point in the past, well, maybe it would be beneficial to African Americans to send them to universities where they wouldn't be pushed through as quickly and have to go as fast.
He was not uttering the philosophy or the belief himself.
He was referencing it said by others.
Doesn't matter.
The left has gone into year.
Scalia KKK, Scalia racist, Scalia anti affirmative action, scalia bigot.
Scalia insults blacks, thinks stupid, unable to learn fast, shouldn't get into university of Texas.
When this kind of purposeful misunderstanding or the inability, maybe maybe I'm giving these journalists too much credit for too much education and too many brains.
Maybe they don't know the difference.
Maybe they're unable to draw the distinction.
You remember a city councilman in Washington, D.C. Some years ago, in a debate over the city budget, was forced to resign in shame because he used the word niggardly in discussing spending.
All that is a word to describe a penny pincher, a tight wad.
But because it sounded like the N-word, there was an overwhelming national reaction, and this poor guy was descended upon from every direction and forced out of office, and he hadn't uttered one racial thought, word, concept, period.
Neither has Scalia.
But I don't care where you go in the media.
There wasn't even an effort to understand what really happened here.
All there was was a mistake, mistaken report about Scalia offering an opinion on blacks and their ability to learn in the education system as it relates to an affirmative action case going on.
And bamboo.
Because it fit a narrative, because it fit a template, it was reported as though it had happened when it didn't.
Scalia was simply as intellectuals do.
They talk about what other people have said, they talk about what other people think, they bandy it all back and forth.
They either agree with it, mock it, make fun of it, or nothing.
They discuss it.
We've gotten the point now where, and by the way, this this whole thing was a uh this particular idea was a serious proposal by somebody who is actually interested in African American education being as good and efficient as it can be and coming up with ideas.
Well, maybe it's wrong to put them here, put them there, whatever.
It might have been offensive, but it was somebody oriented toward education, how to do it right, how to make it better.
None of that matters.
I mean, you don't even have to worry about it.
This is not even nuance here.
This is just straight up and down.
Here's what somebody said versus something they didn't say, and that distinction is not even made.
And I just, I think it's it's if if our society cannot even be patient enough or understanding or educated or just downright smart enough to draw some distinctions here and to understand what actually is being said and what isn't being said.
We don't have a whole lot of hope.
It just shows that there is an entire political class out there just waiting to jump on anything they think will enable them to silence others.
Violation of political correctness or what have you.
Furthermore, Antonin Scalia has a lifetime record.
Antonin Scalia has written more words, articles, opinions, pieces, columns on what he thinks over the course of his life than most people will ever even ponder.
And there's not a word of racism or bigotry or any of the sort in Scalia's opinions, writings, opinions, columns, you name it.
So this I think is the same kind of thing.
Here Trump has proposed a moratorium on Muslim refugees until we get a handle on who the hell we're letting in this country.
We've got to have a way.
We just found out from the administration that they a whistleblower unveiled the fact that his investigation that would have revealed some things about the San Bernardino massacre was shut down because the administration didn't want anybody to know what this guy had learned.
Philip Haney's his name, whistleblowers on Megan Kelly's show on Fox last night.
Anyway, let me take a brief time out and we'll come back and resume with your phone calls because it is open line Friday.
Sit tight, don't go away.
I want to go back to the 1952 law.
Ladies and gentlemen, I mean, I just this smarmy, snarky, arrogant, condescending, morally superior Josh Ernest, and people like that just rub me like fingernails on a chalkboard.
All of this period and we're smarter and we're better.
this arrogance combined just grates me.
I want you to listen to this.
Because you people have called, hey, wait a minute, Rush, Carter banned people from a country.
Trump's talking about a whole religion.
Eight U.S. Code, Section 18 or Section 1182, inadmissible aliens.
Are you listening?
It's the law of the land, 1952.
Passed by Democrat Congress, signed by a Democrat president.
Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by president.
Whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may,
by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
This is during a period of time, 1952, when we had shut down immigration.
The only immigration was illegal.
And a law was passed to give the president proclamation power to throw them out to prevent them from entering its entirely American values.
This is United States statutory law, Mr. Ernest.
Any class of aliens as immigrants, any class pretty much covers it, don't you think?
Anyway, we're talking about common sense here.
We're talking about common sense and people want to deny it.
I'll tell you this this is.
This is roiling the people of this country like the people of Washington, I still don't think they know.
And they're about to get a taste and find out.
Back to the phones anyway.
John in St. Paul, Minnesota, your next open line Friday.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Hello.
Megan did most Rush.
I cannot stress the watershed party when I think establishment.
I have no idea what cells breaking up.
John, we're going to try to come back to you when you've got a better connection out there.
This is Tom in Sarasota, Florida.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
We're not doing too well here.
No, Rush, I'm here.
What's that?
Rush.
Yeah, you're there.
Yes.
It's great being able to speak with you.
Yeah, I was uh watching the TV the other day and saw all those reporters tramping through a crime scene.
Just uh a day or two after the San Bernino shootings.
I wonder.
You know, and tying that into uh the whistleblower from land security.
No, I don't know.
I know what you're talking about.
The FBI cleared the crime scene after only two days, and the landlord turned it loose, and people were allowed to run through there.
And we had a story from a former New York police department detective, NYP detective, who just could not believe what he had seen.
He couldn't believe that a crime scene would ever be allowed to be overrun like that.
But then what he also saw, he saw no trace of any fingerprints having to take.
He'd say he fingerprint dust.
He didn't see he said there were loose documents and pieces of paper running around.
He said this was the wanton destruction of a crime scene that he just has never seen before.
He couldn't understand it.
And what uh what Tom here is wondering about is maybe this is purposely done and it coincides with the whistleblower.
And I don't think they're I don't I don't think they're linked, I think, but they they all are an indication.
They both are an indication of what we're up against here.
Uh it is clear, bottom line, we now know because of the whistleblower last night in Marin uh Meghan Kelly.
Well, just listening to Obama.
We know he does not want people to think that the people doing this are doing it.
And he believes he can convince us otherwise.
And it's not just Obama.
This government goes to great lengths to deny what everybody can see.
The religion of peace would never engage in activity like this in mass murder, no.
As uh religion of peace, Islam, there is no terrorism in Islam.
I don't care.
I don't if the political correctness, I I don't care if there's a solidarity that we don't understand or or know.
What I do know is that none of this is working to fool or to calm the American people.
They're not falling for this.
And the evidence is abundant all over the country.
We will be back.
Don't go away.
Open line Friday with El Rushbo.
Is this the guy we just got back to the lost momentum in the cell call?
John in St. Paul, Minnesota.
We fortunately had his number able to call him back.
How are you, John?
Hi, Rush, Megadiddos.
I see the mug Muslim immigration issue as a real watershed moment for the Republican Party.
The Republican establishment have their political slide rulers out over this issue, and I think that they need to instead put them away and be real leaders on the issue.
If they wake up, Americans are going to follow them and vote for them.
But I think if they push if if they push Trump out, either at the convention or before it, that uh folks like myself are gonna follow Trump because we want to have a real leader who's got our best interests in mind.
Well, yeah, but you your your larger point here is a watershed moment for the Republican Party, uh the Muslim immigration issue.
But it's not just Navy, there's a whole lot of things in this campaign uh that Trump is talking about.
Immigration as an umbrella issue, immigration would cover this uh what to do about refugees, say from Syria or uh Islamic or Muslim uh immigrants as well.
But there's Obamacare, there's any number of things.
There's spending.
Believe me, there are a lot of issues that Republican base voters have split from the Republican Party.
Well, actually, it's the Republican Party that split from the base voters, and they've been doing so since about 2010.
But you think if this goes the wrong way, the Republican Party could end up dooming its existence as a viable political party for a generation or two, right?
That's what you're saying.
I absolutely do.
When I see that also when they uh are working to pass the repeal of Obamacare, and I hear there's a bunch of pork in it, that's again the same things that we're concerned about in Middle America.
It's like, what are you guys doing out there?
Well, here let me give you the one today.
The the the whole subject of Syrian immigrants, uh uh Syrian refugees, given everything that we know, with ISIS uh infiltrating these refugees, ISIS promoting them, ISIS training them, ISIS instructing them to fan out all over Europe and now to the United States.
There is a question that maybe we ought to be really careful and limit these people coming in too until we can properly vet them.
The regime tells us, oh no, no, no, we're vetting them.
We we got a great Against what?
There's nothing known about them.
Oh, we're surely they wouldn't lie when we ask them if they're terrorists.
Surely they wouldn't be so low as to lie to us when we ask them that, right?
So we can trust them.
We ask them, are you terrorists or are you gonna be a terrorist?
You know any terrorists, oh no, not me, never.
Fine, come on in.
Well, clearly, the Republican base wants to proceed with caution on all of this.
Jeff Sessions, Senator from uh Alabama, has uh released a well, he's written a piece or he's made a statement that the House and Senate Republican leaders are preparing right now to ram through a spending bill that would allocate the money to emigrate and allow in these Syrian refugees.
That is a direct slap in the face to these Republican leaders, voters.
So it is ongoing.
It's not there, there's no lesson being learned here.
The confrontation continues.
And I think you're right.
It's it's gonna come to a head at uh at some point.
And it's there, I think in this whole campaign, there are things happening that are not even being reported yet that are.
For example, I think Trump's doing better than even the polling data suggests.
I talked about this yesterday.
I think there's a um remember the Wilder effect where people did not tell polls the truth about their intention to vote or not vote for black candidate.
Doug Wilder was a governor of Virginia.
He's on a, he's running for election, of course, people are polling it.
And what was learned was that in the the polling data uh suggested he's gonna win big.
He was gonna win maybe a landslide.
And so everybody in the campaign was happy about it.
His opponents kind of thought it was over, didn't put a lot of effort into it, and then they had the election, and he lost.
And they went back and they compared all the polling data, which showed he was going to win big to the fact that he lost, they concluded a bunch of people lied to the pollsters because they didn't want the pollsters to think that they're racist.
So here comes, you know, pollster Johnny Polster.
Oh, I'm here to ascertain how you're gonna vote in upcoming governor election.
We have the African American black candidate Doug Wilder, and we got this white guy.
Well, how are you gonna vote?
Oh, I'm voting Wilder.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, I'm not racist, don't tag me as a race.
I'm voting for Wilder.
Good.
They recorded polling selection for Wilder.
Same person goes in to vote, does not vote for Wilder.
I think there's something similar going on with Trump right now.
I think there are a lot of people who are not telling the pollsters that they're gonna vote for Trump, but they intend to.
Because they think that the pollsters are coming from the regime or the establishment or whatever, and they're gonna mock them or argue with them or what have you, or else they don't trust the polls, or else, even more there is a sophisticated behavior with polsters now to purposely lie to them because people have such distrust in what they do anyway.
The dynamic here, in other words, is much broader and larger.
It's not as slam dunk simple as it used to be.
But the media, the Democrats, the establishment are stuck in their sandbox of days, weeks, months, years ago, thinking this process is clean and pure as the wind-driven snow as far as they want it to be, because they control it.
And they have not concluded that voters have become more sophisticated.
So the idea that voters would not trust the pollster and maybe lie, it's happening in exit polls now.
People are purposely trying to screw polling companies by lying to them in exit polls.
Here's a sample here that sort of makes my point.
It's it's uh in the hill.com.
It's a Rasmussen poll.
70% of Republican voters believe Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee.
31% say Trump is very likely to win, just 21% say he is unlikely.
So if you if you combine the somewhat likely, very likely, you get 71%.
70% think that Trump's gonna be the nominee.
Those who support Trump's call for a temporary ban on Muslims among the U.S. are even more likely to think that he will be the nominee.
Now you might be, well, that contradicts exactly what you just said.
No, because this is not a poll of what these people, this is people being asked who they think the nominee will be.
Not how they're gonna vote.
So the pollster is getting hold of them.
Who do you think the Republican nominee is gonna be?
Oh, I think it's gonna be Trump.
Well, do you agree with that?
That question isn't asked.
So when you ask them, not how they're gonna vote, but how they think the vote's gonna go.
70% say they think Trump is the man.
This is the Rasmussen reports Poll.
This polling data today.
Trump is up all over the place.
And for all of these to be wrong, you know what I'm amazed at, Mr. Snerdley.
I haven't had, you may have had them, you haven't put it through.
I have not had one call for this whole cycle claiming that the pollsters are setting us up.
In every other campaign, we get somebody, at least a couple three people who think Rush don't believe these people.
They're setting us up for a big disappointment.
They're sandbagging us out there.
Like we heard during the 2012 presidential campaign.
The polling data showed Romney winning.
People call to hear, don't believe it, Rush.
They're making it up.
They're not going to have that happen.
They're just trying to get everybody to stay home and not vote, trying to make everybody think it's a slam dunk.
I'm not hearing anybody.
I haven't had a single person in this entire primary process since last May tell me they think the polls are rigged or otherwise not true.
And I don't care what poll you look at, particularly every poll that has been taken since Trump's Muslim comments.
He is up either a lot or somewhat, and in one a little.
But in every poll he has gained ground.
Now, if we're being sandbagged here, this is a pretty mammoth conspiracy between ABC, NBC, CBS, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.
And not to mention Monmouth and all the others who are reporting the same thing.
It would have to be a massive conspiracy.
But I don't think it is, because I think these people are totally 180 degrees off their game.
They've been knocked totally out of face by Trump.
I don't think that they have the slightest idea what's hit them yet.
Now, some some sound bites here.
To illustrate the point, let's uh start with number eight action.
Here's Frank Luntz last night on Hannity, who said, Frank, you said that you've never seen anything like this.
That there's no sign of the people in the focus group leaving Trump, that he's created or found some magic formula.
So you don't think he's going away.
What we saw was remarkable.
And it is time for the Republican establishment to accept the fact that Trump is not only a viable candidate, but this lead is real.
His candidacy is real.
This support is real.
We showed them both positive and negative.
And the responses when it was over, even after showing them negative information on Trump, his support went up from when they walked in three hours earlier.
And they don't understand that.
This is how they've taken people out.
This is how they've taken Republicans out.
They almost, you know, show you how easy this has been.
They almost, on the Friday before the election in 2000, remember that report that Bush had a DUI?
And that he had covered it up or nobody knew about it.
He almost lost the election because of that.
So the drive-by's media, they are very comfortable with the idea that they can take people out.
All it takes is opposition research and this type of stuff that they report about Republicans all the time.
And what Luntz is saying here, you hit Trump supporters with that, and his support goes up.
Now, why do you think that is?
I know exactly why it is, and it means that the whole media formula is exploding on him.
It means that the respondents here know full well what people reporting that negative stuff about Trump are trying to do and what they're saying is screw you.
You think you can talk me out of this?
Screw you.
I love Trump even more.
Report that.
That's what's happening here.
There's a rebellion going on against the established, a rebellion going on against pollsters and the media, with Trump owning it and practically running it.
And they are beside themselves.
Listen to me, back on September 17, 2013, a little over two years ago.
This is me on this program.
What if I were to tell you that the Republican establishment doesn't want people like you and me making up their base, their primary supporters, their number one supporters.
They want to trade us in for a new base of people.
More moderate, not so pro-life, not so focused on the social issues.
So they might be willing to live in the wilderness for a few elections in order to switch out their base.
Remember me saying that?
I remember saying it.
Of course I would because I did say it.
I just heard myself say it.
I I love hearing myself, but I never get to hear myself the way you people do.
That's one of the great things about these audio sound bites of me.
I mean, I do.
I really sound good.
I understand now.
But I remember making the point, they might just be willing to live in the wilderness for 10, 20 years just to get rid of this base that they've got that they don't like.
Well, last night CNN, Anderson Cooper 360 speaking with Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker, who parades around as a conservative.
And she has for a number of years.
And Anderson Cooper said, What more?
What more, Kathleen, can the Republican Party do to stop Trump?
There are some people making the argument that let's just go ahead and lose them.
If we lose the election, let's at least keep the Senate, let's keep the House, and let's focus on 2020.
In other words, now we've got the Republican establishment saying, let's go ahead and lose.
It's usually people in this audience, hey Rush, let's let the Democrats win.
Have a country find out just what a rotten bush people we are.
Now, Kathleen Parker speaking for the establishment.
Let's go ahead and lose this.
Let's go ahead and lose this.
Maybe hold the Senate.
Got to keep our chairmanships.
But let's go ahead and lose it.
Don't ever doubt me.
You know, one more thing on this American values business that these destructive Democrats keep preaching to us as though they are the holier and thouest guarantors of American values, which makes me want to get sick.
They are speaking to us as though everybody in the world has a right to immigrate to this country.
And they're trying to shame all of us into accepting the idea that if somebody wants to come here, by God, they should come here.
And if we don't want them here, we're bigoted or there's something wrong with us.
Well, we cannot take every human being in the world that wants to come here.
We have never been organized to do so.
That is not the way this country was founded.
That's what they want to turn it into.
When it comes to immigration, when it comes to national security, when it comes to preserving the American way of life, what Americans want is what counts first.
What we want, what we express democratically via the way we vote, that's what happens in this country.
That's how it is run.
There is nothing wrong whatsoever with people employing common sense and suggesting, wait a minute, we might have a problem with certain people immigrate.
We do have got a problem.
They're coming here and blowing us up and killing us.
The people that are coming to this country and committing terrorism are coming from a specific way of life and a specific belief system with specific ideology.
We have a responsibility to keep them out of here.
It's about our preservation.
If you listen to Josh Ernest, if you listen to Obama or the Democrats, it seems like we have an obligation to let them in, and we have an obligation to open ourselves up to whatever it is they want to do, because that somehow proves that we are Americans.
And the whole notion of self-preservation, national security, whatever you want to call it, seems to get thrown out the window here.
And anybody who wants to focus on preservation, self-preservation, national security is now becoming a closed-minded bigot.
I'm telling you, everything the Democrat Party wants that people oppose, they say, well, it's bigotry or racism that is the cause of people opposing them.
And it's not, obviously.
The Democrat Party has demonstrated with its current leadership and its other candidates that it is apparently not concerned with anything but how these immigrants are going to vote down the line.
They don't care about anything else.
Yeah, the Democrat Party, anybody in the world wants to come here, should have the constitutional right to come here.
And yet American citizens don't have the right, constitutional right, to defend themselves.
Screw that, as I'm sure you already agree.
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