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Dec. 11, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 11, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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Yes, sir, Rebob, back we are Rush Limbaugh.
A lot to do.
Always happens.
Get to the third hour.
Some stuff haven't gotten to it.
Want to zoom through it.
Gonna do that right now.
Stand by.
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San Bernardino shooting Farouk tried or tied to journal jihadist recruiter.
This is a CNN story by Evan Perez and Pamela Brown.
The San Bernardino mass shooting caught authorities by surprise.
Neither of the two shooters were on law enforcement's radar.
One week later, the investigations turned up that while the possibility remains the couple were self-radicalized, the terror plot did not happen in a vacuum.
Here we are with this radicalized term again.
You know, I mentioned yesterday I had a little bit of a problem with this, because I think the term, the way it's being used by people like this, it's almost to make these people victims.
Yeah, I mean, a normal, happily married couple seeking the American dream, working at the development center for whatever what, having a baby and going out there and buying cars and then somebody radicalized them.
Oh no, how sad.
Somebody radically were perfectly fine normal people.
Then some SOB got hold of them and made them mean.
Folks, can I give you a undeniable truth of life here?
Every one of these people has been radicalized.
I don't know anybody comes out of the womb asking for a bomb to be strapped to them so I can go blow up a bus.
Do you?
Every damned one of them has been radicalized.
That's that that, of course, is the whole point.
But yet we're using it to explain one-offs.
We're using it to explain what we really don't want to admit.
And by we, I mean Obama and the Democrats and the establishment, and you name it.
You and I are perfectly willing to admit what we face and want to do something about it.
So now we have San Bernardino shooting, Farouk try or tied to jihadist recruiter.
So now they're finding out, wow, this guy, he might have known somebody in jihad that recruited him.
Well, they all do.
Nobody's born this way.
Every one of these people has to meet somebody that radicalizes them.
It could start with their mother, it could start with their father, it could start with an uncle.
It could start with the Imam in the mosque.
Then every one of them does.
ISIS may have passport printing machine and blank passports.
ABC News Brian Ross, out looking for Tea Party connections to the San Bernardino massacre, instead found that with the U.S. and other countries on high alert for ISIS attacks.
American authorities are warning that terror groups' followers may have infiltrated American borders with authentic-looking passports that ISIS has printed itself with its own machines.
According to an intelligence report obtained by ABC News, and Brian Ross is looking for a Tea Party connection, no doubt, and stumbled upon the fact that ISIS has a silly a passport printing machine.
Yeah, somewhere in the ISIS compound, there's a passport print.
You go pick one up yourself.
What do you do?
Order it from Amazon.
This headline, ISIS may have passport printing machine, blank passport.
This headline is classic.
It is a textbook example of how the state controlled media do not report things in order to help the regime.
Now, in this case, our media have basically ignored the fact that ISIS has been making fake Syrian passports for 17 months for crying out this is not news.
The idea, the concept of fake Syrian passports, has been reported and discussed here for a year and a half, folks.
And the reason they don't want anything to undercut Obama's plan to import thousands of supposed Syrian refugees, which 70% of whom are going to be future Democrat voters to the United States.
But in reality, the British press has been reporting on this fake passport production line that ISIS has for a long time.
British press reporters have even bought them.
But you notice how even the headline of the story pretends that still might not be true.
ISIS may have passport printing machine.
This is I'm telling you, it's classic.
This is how the media refuses to report things that are already out there in other places in order to protect Obama.
From the Washington Times fiance visa program will continue as feds review its weaknesses.
Now bear in mind, see the people don't know this.
Do you know in 2009 Obama streamlined the visa, the fiance visa program?
Do you know how he streamlined it in 2009?
You can now do, starting in 2009, because of an Obama proclamation, foreigners can obtain a fiance visa entirely online.
They do not even have to show up for an interview.
There is no long since 2009, the last six years, folks, there is not one interview required for a fiance visa.
And you will not find that fact in this story from the Washington Time.
No, no, no media is reporting that.
White House said Thursday that it will not seek an immediate suspension of the fiance visa program under which the female terrorist in the massacre entered the U.S. Now this is something that is under careful review by the administration, said Josh Ernest.
He added that if the review by the State Department, Department of Homeland Security recommends changes to the K-1 visa program, President Obama will not hesitate to order those reforms, but he said there are no plans to halt the program.
Why not?
No, the better question is of course they're not gonna change the program.
Here you have any number of potential Muslim terrorists able to get into the country on it.
Why would we change it?
Because we're back to this again.
Apparently, anybody who wants to come to this country should be automatically allowed in.
And what the American people think about it is of no consequence whatsoever.
Immigration is a subject about which the desires, preferences, political preferences of the American people are what should be dominant.
But they aren't.
President Obama tells Syrian refugee, you are part of what makes America great.
This is ABC News.
This will make you sick.
President Obama still is not directly engaging Donald Trump's recent proposal to bar Muslims from entering the U.S. That's not what Trump suggested.
Suggested a moratorium till he understands our leaders can figure out what's happening here.
But a Facebook comment posted from his official account overnight could be the closest Obama has come so far.
The post was at the end of a Twitter thread about a Syrian refugee currently in Istanbul.
According to quotes attributed to the unnamed man, he is an inventor, and he is quoted as saying, quote, I have several inventions that I am hoping to patent once I get to America.
I just hope that it's safe and that it's a place where they respect science.
Well, isn't this wonderful?
So a Syrian refugee, unnamed, has invented a lot of stuff.
He has several inventions.
He is hoping to get them patented once he gets here.
He just hopes that it's safe.
You know, America's such a dangerous place now.
He just hoped that it's safe, and it's a place where we respect science.
Because of course you know we oppose the whole concept of man-made global warming.
So this backward place, known as the United States, might not grant me my patents because they're so backwards where science is concerned.
Speaking of which, I've got funniest headline here from of all place Gawker Gawker news, and it is that UN officials pull an all-nighter trying to save planet.
UN officials pull all nighter trying to save planet.
This is a reference to the global warming BS in Paris.
So anyway, back to the Syrian refugee who has these great inventions.
He wants to come here and patent.
He just hopes it's safe.
And that the United States is a place respect science.
Obama responded Wednesday evening, assuring the man he would be welcomed with the compassion and support he deserves.
Here's the quote from Obama The Message.
You will be welcomed with the compassion and support you deserve.
You are part of what makes America great.
Well, here we go again, with Obama imposing his definition of American values on all of us as though we are the ones corrupting them.
You are part of what makes America great.
Not even here.
He's a Syrian refugee unnamed.
It's a Twitter feed.
Obama responds on Facebook.
You are part of what makes America great.
And people don't understand.
They can't understand the Trump phenomena?
Really?
Back after this, dogs.
This CBS New York Times poll that's out that shows um Trump up to 35 points.
And it's just one of many polls that are out there today.
In fact, the uh here's the headline Fear of Terrorism lifts Donald Trump in New York Times poll.
He's at 35%.
You know what else is in this New York Times poll?
You have to go way, way to the end of this story, which most people are not going to do, which is why I am here.
All of this, every bit of this reporting by the drive-by's on Trump and on the San Bernardino mass, all of it combined, has now resulted in one of the biggest backfires against the drive-by media and the Democrats.
Because now this CBS New York Times poll where Trump is up to 35 now shows that for the first time in I don't know how long, a majority of Americans oppose a ban on assault weapons.
Not a majority of Americans support a ban.
A majority of Americans now oppose the Democrats' idea of banning assault weapons.
This is a huge item.
It represents a huge backfire.
At least as expressed in the polling data, everything is backfiring on well, you'd have to say at least the media.
It's almost becoming cliched to say the Washington establishment, but it's true.
Here's Tim in Petaluma, California, as we head back to the phones.
It's Open Line Friday, and great that you are here.
Hello.
Yeah, hey Russ, thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Um I just wanted to point out I remember last month you were saying that um it was like right before the democratic debate that um it was like on a Saturday evening, and you're saying how that's pretty much what like hardly anybody's watching TV, I think.
That's right.
Yeah, and uh it looks like um they're they're doing the same thing um it's like next Saturday.
Every every Democrat debate, the remaining Democrat debates are all on Saturday.
Yeah, because like hardly anybody watches it, and then it's just you know the liberal media on the weekends, you know, like the next morning.
That's right.
That that is why all the candidates aside from Hillary are mad at Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz because they think that that's rigging the game for Hillary.
Why even do the debates if you're not gonna have an audience?
In fact, the the last debate they did on a Saturday, it ended ten minutes early because they covered everything.
Yeah.
I remember uh when I watched it actually uh like oh listen, you um during the weekday and like in the evenings, but you know, on a Saturday evening, like I watched it, but I you know it didn't really it was just the time you know, it's just uh kind of a trick they use, I think.
What, the Saturday broadcast of it?
Yeah, 'cause just like it's not really a time that people are you know watching TV.
By design.
They don't want people to watch it.
Now don't it it's not because the Democrats are afraid of what people will think of Hillary, it's they're trying to prevent Bernie Sanders and O'Malley and any of the others from gaining any ground on her.
The perp there's no more what.
Yeah, that's just O'Malley and Sanders because what's his face, Link Chafee pulled out, but he was never in it.
The guy's was face was buried in the mud from day one anyway, is never standing up in this name.
Jim Jim Webb dropped out because Jim Webb's realized, you know, he's not a Democrat anymore, but he can't say so.
He didn't want to be a Republican, but he knows he's not he's not one of this crowd, so he he bummed us.
So it it it maybe it is to protect Hillary a bit, but the primary purpose of Saturday debates is to make sure that that nobody opposing Hillary gets noticed and gets any traction.
Because this is hers.
You know, it was hers in two thousand eight, and then Obama came along and everybody threw her overboard.
And she's not gonna let that happen this time.
So she got together with Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz and they have a pact.
Here's uh here's Elaine in uh Nibley, Utah.
Hi, Elaine, I'm glad you called.
It's open line Friday.
Welcome.
Hello, Rush.
Hi, Elaine.
Hey, I need your expert Apple opinion.
All right, I'm happy to provide it.
I need to update one of my Apple devices.
I have a old iPhone 4 and uh mini iPad, and I need to get a bigger version because my vision is getting bad.
Which would you suggest?
The iPad Pro or to get the iPhone uh 6F.
Well, uh how you really should get both, one of each, but that may not be possible.
Right.
But I uh the first I would get the iPhone 6 S Plus and and upgrade from your iPhone 4.
You j you will not believe the difference.
But here's the thing that you can do.
It it really there's a uh the the uh iOS 9, it's been this way since iOS eight, there's a zoom feature, Elaine, that you can zoom the the the entire screen, everything on the screen you can zoom it one, two or three times.
Uh and then you can even be on that enlarge the text.
So the size of the display is really important as to how much information you want on it at one time.
But you you can make you can make the text and what you're reading plenty large enough, even on an iPhone six or six S. You wouldn't even need the plus.
But the six S Plus is the best iPhone in the world.
So that's that's what I would that's that's the direction I would go.
Okay.
Perfect.
That's what I wanted to know.
All right.
That that's you bet.
Now the iPad Pro It is a just over the top fabulous machine.
But you don't need it you I I mean, I use reading glasses, cheaters.
What did she call them?
Readers?
I use reading glasses.
Um and it's the again the size of the display is only relevant in terms of how much data you can have on it.
But you can.
You just go into settings, uh, display and and so settings display, and then turn on the zoom, and it'll even show you samples of what things look like at various Zoom settings.
And you're off and running.
You can make things as large as you want on whatever screen.
You can make things so large that there's only three words per page if you want to.
So that's just pick the device you want.
Most I think the iPhone 6S Plus, you've got to have a phone.
You want a phone.
You've got day and a half battery life.
You've got a great big screen.
You've got the best camera that Apple offers.
It's all wrapped up in the 6S Plus.
Are you trying the Zoom in there now, Mr. Snerdley?
See, this is another thing.
People don't even know this stuff exists.
But check it out if you have an iPhone.
I mean, in fact, let me get the exact setting what it is here.
It is display and brightness.
Settings, display and brightness.
Go in there and turn on the Zoom and test which Zoom works best for you and set it, and you're done.
A Reuters story.
A majority of U.S. millennials support troops to fight ISIS.
Folks, there is unbelievable news all throughout the drive-by media today, and it is news that they are, I'm sure, uncomfortable reporting, and I'm sure it's news and polling data that stun them.
A majority of U.S. Millennials support troops to fight ISIS.
I guarantee you, media, Democrats, White House would this is the last thing they would believe.
Millennials.
But a majority do.
A majority of Americans, no matter how you slice it demographically, support Trump's proposal for a temporary moratorium on Muslim immigrants.
David French at National Review had a fascinating post on the corner last night.
That's their blog, the hidden reason why Americans dislike Islam.
What is this?
This week, UGO and Huffington Puffed and the Huffing and Puffington Post released a poll showing that large majorities of Americans, 58 to 17%, and pluralities across every political demographic have an unfavorable opinion of the Islamic faith.
And the numbers are not even close.
Again, it's it's a combo poll.
YouGov and the Huffing and Puffington Post.
Here's the question.
Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the Islamic religion?
Democrat, 45% unfavorable, 27% favorable.
Independent, 58% unfavorable, 15% favorable.
Republican, 75% unfavorable, 11% favorable.
Total combined of all three, 58% unfavorable, 17% favorable.
Again, the question: do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the Islamic religion?
So Mr. French saw the numbers and evolved a theory.
One of the theories is we have thousands of soldiers, thousands and thousands of soldiers who have been deployed since 2003.
Well, actually, before that, I mean, for decades, we've had maybe two million soldiers deployed in the Middle East who have seen this religion up close and personal.
David French was one of them, the author of the piece at National Review.
And he admits here that when people see this poll from Ugov and the Huffing and Puffington.
And by the way, the Huffing and Puffington Post is not in any stretch of the imagination a conservative poll.
Neither for that matter is Yugov.
He says there will no doubt be some hand wringing about Islamophobia and further calls to continue the American elite's 14-year track record of whitewashing Islamic beliefs and culture.
And by the way, that's exactly right.
That is exactly the way to put it.
A whitewash of what Islam is, a whitewash of Islamic beliefs and culture.
That's what this administration has been engaged in.
The media, it's a total whitewash.
So that all of this terrorism is just one-off outlier type stuff.
It's not normal.
It is not representative.
It's just that's what they whitewash.
That's what they try to tell us.
And the American people are not buying it.
The media has failed.
Obama has failed.
The Democrat Party has failed in their propaganda effort here.
Anyway, Mr. French's point is with two million soldiers having been deployed and then returned home and have told stories to people about what they've seen.
His point is that there are eyewitnesses.
There are people who have been amongst believers of this religion in their home countries for years and years and years and years, and they've seen it up close and personal.
And they've come back and they have told friends and family and so forth what they've seen and what they heard, and the stories have grown exponentially.
And therefore, these opinions on the favorability or unfavorability of the Islamic religion may have deep roots in eyewitness accounts, not just what the media wants to chalk up as bigotry and bias and prejudice.
And it is an interesting point.
Back to the audio sound bites.
This is NPR, the Diane Ream show.
Diane Reem still has it.
Wow.
Okay, cool.
Well, anyway, oh, there's a fill-in host.
Okay, Melissa Ross.
And E.J. Dion Jr., the Washington Post columnist is a guest.
They're talking about the presidential campaign and Trump, and the guest host says, now some people are saying, E.J., that this split in the Republican Party is only between professional politicians and the people.
That Trump is within the law and saying what our president should be saying.
We are talking as if Donald Trump is speaking for the people in a big way.
Let's look at his numbers.
If he is getting 30 percent, that's a high end of the average in the polls of the Republican and Republican leaning independent 40% of the electorate.
That is 12% of Americans.
Now, 12% is a lot of people.
It can support Rush Limbaugh's radio show very handsomely.
It can win a bunch of Republican primaries, because the proportion of Republicans who call themselves very conservative has almost doubled, very conservative, is almost doubled over the last 20 years.
So yes, he can win in primaries, but that doesn't mean he is speaking for anything like a majority of the country.
Oh, they're so hoping that's true.
Oh, they just man, they're talking amongst themselves and they're assuring themselves that Trump is still really just a speck on the wall.
He's just a minor player.
It's just this extreme base of the Republican Party.
How do I end up in this?
Twelve percent of Americans, that's a big number of people.
I can support the Rush Limbaugh show very handsomely.
But EJ, you you better I think recalculate some of your some of your data here with some of the polls that have just been released today.
This is, you know, poll data came out after E.J.'s appearance last night on uh or yesterday on NPR.
Carly Fiorina jumping forward to sound by number 12.
She's on CNN's New Day Today with uh Chris Cuomo who said, Look, uh, Trump seems to be connecting with voters in the way that you and the rest of the field are not.
I mean, don't you have to give him his due?
Donald Trump knows how to play the media like a master.
I think he's a pied piper.
I think he says things, and you all rush to cover it.
Every single network.
I'm not being critical of CNN any more than anyone else, but he knows how to dominate the news coverage, and I think it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in the polls.
I'm not saying he doesn't resonate with voters.
Voters are deeply afraid, and voters are very frustrated.
And in a way, Donald Trump is a reaction to the unbelievable weakness and delusional nature of national security policy from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Now, that's fine as it is, but it inspires a question here.
Donald Trump knows how to play the media like a master.
I think he's a pied piper.
I think he says things, and you all rush to cover it.
Every single network.
I'm not being critical of CNN, but he knows how to dominate the news coverage, and I think it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Well, is this by accident?
This is my point that I've been trying to make, maybe clumsily, uh maybe should admit, but all week I have been trying to explain Trump's ownership of the media and dominance.
But it's not accidental.
It's not just because of who he is.
Uh it once once again, if you can sit there, if anybody can sit there and analyze this and chalk it up to, well, you know, he's a pipe piper.
Yeah, he plays the media like a master.
Well, if he can, why can't anybody else?
Trump's showing it can be done, so why is he the only one who's doing it?
And I don't I'm not putting people down.
It's a legitimate question because there are legitimate substantive answers to it.
And the answers rely in content, content, content, and substance, substance, substance, and not just theatrics.
It's not just Pied Piperism, it's not just propagandaism.
There is substance here that Trump owns.
He's the only one willing to say some things.
He happens to have an engaging personality, a charismatic personality.
Not everybody has one of those.
But even if you do, a charismatic personality, there are a lot of people who would love to be able to own the media.
It's not just something that happened and you can't blame the media for it.
They would love for it not to be the case.
They can't afford not to cover the guy.
Their ratings depend on it.
That's the dilemma, the conundrum they have.
They can't afford not to cover him.
They have to if they want to maintain an audience.
And once that's they they they have to cover him the way he wants to be covered.
Because there's so much coverage.
If somebody tries to screw him, there's a record of what really happened on the next network.
So they can't get away with the traditional ways of editing and sabotaging because everybody's covering Trump.
So, in a sense, Trump doesn't even need them.
He can go directly to the people with his Twitter count, his Facebook, whatever he can go straight to.
He doesn't even need the media.
The media is like icing on the cake for him.
But it's not just because it's happenstance, it's not because it just happened.
It's not because it's a quirk of fate.
Just like it wasn't with Reagan.
There are specific substantive reasons why somebody, Donald Trump in this case, has been able to come along and totally render the media impotent.
Listen to this.
Aaron Burnett, CNN last night, Aaron Burnett out front speaking with their political correspondent Sarah Murray about Trump.
And Aaron, please would you tell me that he's bombing up?
Would you tell me that's temporary?
Please just tell me I don't have to put it in.
How are they reacting?
I mean, are they angry?
Are they turning away from him or are they standing by him on this news?
You know, it's amazing.
Even the Trump supporters I talked to who didn't agree with him on every point, still said that they understood where he was coming from and they appreciated him bringing up this issue.
This is the amazing thing, Aaron.
When you talk to his supporters, there are, yes, a number of people who agree with him who think this is a great proposal, and the U.S. should do it.
And even the ones who don't really think that he is on to something, and he's at least proposing something to try to deal with this issue and sort of projecting an aura of strength that they say is missing from President Barack Obama.
What does all this add up to?
I mean, it no matter where you go.
This is this story is all over the drive-by media.
They're sending reporters out trying to find holes in the Trump support base.
They're trying to find defections.
They can't find it.
And even when Trump says something his supporters don't particularly agree with, they love him even more.
Why?
There is an answer to this.
And it isn't complicated.
There's an answer to why Trump has this kind of insurance.
It's all about the bond that he has built with his supporters.
There's a level of trust.
There is a degree of perceived honesty, honesty, and seriousness of intent.
And it's deep.
And it's based on human reality.
We'll explore this in future broadcasts.
You know, the media never wondered if Bill Clinton's voters were going to abandon him after they discovered the semen stained dresser.
People never ask us Hillary gonna lose her support when they find out she lied about the video in Benghazi.
They only asked this about Republican candidates.
Real creeps.
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