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Dec. 15, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 15, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
The poor drive bys, they're so confused.
They mean they're really writing the roller coaster of emotions.
The seesaw of emotions.
Up, down, up, down.
Where are we going?
When's it gonna stop?
Is it good?
Is it bad?
They just can't quite figure it out.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you here.
As we head on down the tracks, Rushlin Baugh from the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Look at what is happening in Los Angeles.
Either way this goes.
I mean, what whatever is the case here.
This is folks, this is this is.
If it's a hoax, look what they've pulled off.
If it's real, look what that is.
We've got the second largest screw district in the country shut down on the basis of a credible threat phoned in to a member of the school board or some such thing.
They get threats there all the time, the guy said.
Yeah, we get threats every day.
Something about this one, he said, made them take action.
They have shut down the entire screw system.
There were people already at scruol.
There were people already on their way to school.
They had to close and shut down the buses and send them back to the parking lot.
They had to clear people out of the schools that already gotten in there.
Had to get the word out that school was closed.
This is going to make cause all kinds of problems during the day-to-day with parents who normally send their kids to school to get rid of them.
Now gonna have to deal with them.
I mean it just it's it's it's a it's a major thing.
But the point is, however, if this is a hoax, uh look what's happened.
A hoax has shut down.
What's to prevent this from happening every day?
No, no, seriously.
I mean they get they say the crest threatenable.
Something about backpacks.
They cannot inspect every backpack.
They can't inspect every scruol, they can't inspect every boiler.
You could they can't inspect every nook and cranny of every school or bus or what have you.
Uh everybody obviously on edge.
San Bernardino's not far from Los Angeles, obviously, San Bernardino to the east.
Uh so that's clearly on people's minds.
Officials closed all LA unified scruel district campuses this morning after receiving a credible threat of violence involving backpacks and packages left at campuses.
The authorities said they're gonna search all of the 900, more than 900 schools they have to search.
More than 700,000 students are going to miss their liberal indoctrination today.
They're going to miss their exposure to propaganda.
You might say that's an upper.
But we don't want to go there right now.
I'm just giving you the facts.
The LA Unified School District Superintendent Ramon Cortina said, I think it's important to take this precaution based on what's happened recently and what has happened in the past.
This is just two weeks after the San Bernardino massacre.
Fourteen people were killed.
Many others wounded, fearing safety of scruals and students, Cortines said that he could not take a chance.
So he asked police to search all campuses, adult school, and early education centers before reopening tomorrow.
Officials said the threat came in electronic form and was made to numerous but unspecified campuses.
As a result, they made the decision to close them all for the day.
The FBI and the LAPD are assisting here with the threat investigation, said the police chief in Los Angeles.
The school police chief, Steve Zipperman.
So again, uh They say the threat's still being analyzed.
We have chosen to close our schools today until we can be sure the campuses are safe.
Students who were already at school will be supervised until parents can uh can pick them up and get this.
The school district said in a statement, Parents and Guardians, please bring proper ID when picking up your child at school.
They will be required.
Now I understand, folks, I really do.
But I can't help.
There's no way, and I know I grew up in a much, much smaller town, but no parents needed IDs to pick up their kids at school when I was there.
You gotta show your papers to get.
But look at I understand it.
I mean, I'm not I'm not criticizing it.
I'm noting how things have changed.
Parents need ID.
Otherwise, anybody could show up and pick up the kid.
I understand it.
It's it's a different world, it's a different country, it's uh it's a different age.
Ladies and gentlemen, there's a lot of attention.
I mentioned something yesterday.
What?
Oh, yeah, yeah, I'll get to the debate tonight in a little bit.
What?
Yes, I'm gonna get to the media coverage of what happened here.
I'm gonna get to all that.
But as you know, I never want to make this program about me.
Well, I know, but but I didn't know it.
You know, I I got a um I got a note from my brother at at midnight last night.
He said, Have you uh you had any feedback on what you said about Trump and Cruz?
And I said, No, not a word.
I said, but I never do get any feedback.
And I never go searching for it, so I haven't seen any.
But remember, I don't have cable news on at night.
I mean, last night I had the football game on, and I watched a couple of their TVs.
I never have cable news on at night.
It's not an active thing, it just evolved.
I just don't turn it on anymore.
I don't know why.
Well, yes, I do know why.
I stopped learning things on it.
It's like I used to watch the Sunday shows religiously, and now everything it's it's predictable.
I know what each guest is gonna say, and I know who's gonna frustrate me, and I know what both sides, I just I just don't subject myself to it.
The point is, I didn't know any of that was happening last night.
I didn't know any of that was happening until I got the soundbite roster from Cookie ten minutes before the program began.
Then I see I am the first 11 sound bites.
But anyway, what I was gonna say, folks, there's a we touched on it yesterday, and that is, and there's much more that has been learned about this.
And that is the administration refusing its policy, refusing to allow social media to be used in determining potential terrorists or other criminal activity.
It's specifically outlawed by the Obama administration.
And we touched on it yesterday a little bit, and it blew up overnight.
I mean, it's become a huge issue, and understandably so because it's raising all kinds of questions about the Obama administration and just what the hell they are doing.
And why are they making it so damn hard to identify people before they would commit acts of terror?
And the example being used is uh is is the wife of the San Bernardino II.
She was telegraphing everything about herself on social media.
What is it I've always said about social media?
Well, I've said many things about it.
But one of the most prominent things I've said about it is that it is remarkable to me how everybody on social media in the quest for fame is willing to divulge everything about themselves they can.
The lack of regard for privacy until somebody seems interested in it, then all of a sudden they start demanding privacy.
But everybody in social media, Twitter, Facebook, uh, you name it, people there are just putting everything about themselves on these websites, these profiles as they can, because everybody wants to be famous.
Everybody wants a taste of fame because the way fame is portrayed in pop culture media.
Well, apparently Saeed Farouk's wife was no different.
She was telegraphing quite a lot.
She was explaining quite a lot.
She was showing her anger.
She was expressing her desires.
If they had conducted social media that she was posting about herself, they would have had a huge idea.
She passed the visa examination, which was the fiance visa, because that's all done online.
That's not even done with a personal interview anymore.
And there it all was.
In her case, it was right there on her social media that she used.
And even if somebody at the regime had gone to it and looked at it, it was inadmissible per se.
It was illegal to use it.
So the headlines on this story today have kind of blown up.
Let me give you a sample of them here.
Daily caller, Obama officials trained to focus on behavior, not religion or ideology.
Washington Examiner.
White House looks to curb anti-Muslim sentiment.
White House on Monday began staff level meetings and telephone calls with religious leaders to discuss how they could help combat growing anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S. This is suicidal.
I have a poll, right?
It's a pew poll.
I'm holding at my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
Now, I don't know what your opinion of this is going to be, but to me it's kind of shocking.
8% of U.S. Muslims.
8% of U.S. Muslims think terrorism is okay.
I don't think there's 8% of any other group in this country that would say that.
There might be one other.
But I eight percent to me is a too large number.
It's 8% and growing.
And here we are, after San Bernardino, after Fort Hood, after all these things, the regime is running around worrying about backlash against Muslims when there isn't any.
And they had a meeting yesterday.
This is just this is this is unbelievable to discuss how they could help combat growing anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S. Meanwhile, the Washington Post is out with a poll today.
Trump's got his biggest lead ever.
They can't believe it.
They are attributing it to po to Trump's comments on the moratorium that he suggested on Muslims being allowed to enter the country.
They're stunned, they're shocked, they can't believe that Trump went up.
They can't understand it, even after all the help I have tried to give them in understanding how all this is working.
They still don't get it.
Trump's numbers are up.
I mean, it's even been misreported in one place that he's got a 38-point lead.
He didn't have a 38-point lead.
He's up at 41%.
The closest to him is like 15.
Well, that may be close to 38, but it's not.
But it's it's it's massive.
And they can't help but understand and report that it is because of Trump's comments on limiting the arrival of Muslim refugees.
It's only a common sense reaction that the nation has engaged in many times prior to today, prior to this era.
Former secret U.S. policy blocks agents from looking at social media of visa applicants, former official says.
This is Brian Ross, ABC News.
He's trying to find a Tea Party culprit.
He can't, but he still looks.
But that secret U.S. policy blocks agents from looking at social media.
So the Republicans have proposed a bill that would require vetting immigrants online statements.
So this has this is blown up now, and people are noticing the lengths to which the administration has gone to make sure investigators cannot look at social media and then make judgments on what they see there in terms of learning uncovering potential terror threats.
Now, I to me that's quasi-suicidal.
You have a whole body of evidence that has just been deemed off limits because of some notion of privacy, civil liberties, or whatever.
These people are posting it themselves.
It's not that other people are finding out who they are and posting it.
These people are vomiting all this stuff about themselves.
And this has been the primary identifying characteristic of social media.
Notice me, notice me.
These people are begging to be noticed, and we're saying you can't use that though.
And the reasons make no common sense whatsoever.
Homeland Security Chief Jay Johnson.
I mean, he's leading the charge on this, making sure that none of that social media can be used.
Had it been available for use, we'd have had a much better idea about the San Bernardino II.
Anyway, in process of prepping this, I have come across the actual PDF government manual on the proper use of social media.
It's a two-page PDF file.
And I am holding it here in my formerly nicotine stained fingers, and I'm sent the link up to Coco at the website, so if you want to go to Rush Limbaugh.com, give him a couple minutes and he'll post that link.
But what this is, uh it's the instruction sheet that the Department of Homeland Security uses to train agents in what they are allowed to do and not do.
It's only two pages.
Sections C and F are the money sections.
And Section F could have been written by the Muslim Brotherhood, could have been written by care.
But you know, all this stuff about a secret policy not to look at social media is BS.
It's not secret.
It's right out there for everybody.
It's a straightforward application of Obama's long-standing countering violent extremism strategy.
What this is, it's not secret at all.
It is the Department of Homeland Security's instructions on making sure there isn't backlash against Muslims and making sure that we don't unfairly target them and making sure that we don't profile.
It structs agents not to consider speech, ideology, or Islam.
All agents are allowed to do is look at behavior.
And if the behavior of a potential suspect does not indicate trouble, the suspect must be ignored.
We can't look at what they say on social media speech.
We can't look at their ideology and profile what that might mean, nor can we look at their religion.
Anyway, I'm up against it on time here.
Sit tight.
It'll all unfold before your very eyes and ears, including debate, pre-analysis.
It's all coming.
Sit tight, back with all the rest of it.
Now let me give this a stab.
Here's Section C countering violent extremism training.
This is what our agents are told to see, to see, not see, do, not do, notice, not notice.
There are three columns in every section.
Goal, do, don't.
Section C. Training should be sensitive to constitutional values.
And the agents are advised to do the following.
Review the training program to ensure that it uses examples to demonstrate that terrorists span ethnicity, race, gender, and religion.
Number two, look for training that focuses on behaviors over appearances or habits.
Number three, look for training that supports the protection of civil rights and civil liberties as part of national security.
Okay, those are the do's.
Sounds really effective, right?
Here are the don'ts.
Don't use training that equates radical thought, religious Expression, freedom to protest, or other constitutionally protected activity with criminal activity.
Don't use training that equates, in other words, do not believe that radical thought, religious expression, freedom to protest can be criminal or can even lead to criminal activity.
Don't even think that way.
One can have radical thoughts and ideas, including disliking the U.S. government without being violent.
For example, trainers who equate the desire for Sharia law with criminal activity violate basic tenets of the First Amendment.
So you had better not have any negative ideas about Sharia, and you had better not think you spot anybody believing in Sharia.
And if you do spot somebody that you think believes in Sharia, it doesn't mean anything.
So ignore it unless you see them behaving in such a way that they might commit an act of terror, like running around with a bomb.
But if you don't see them with a bomb, all you know is their sharia and their militant Islam.
You can't do anything about it.
Oh, this reminds me what else I did last night.
I finally sat down with my new iPad Pro, and I I ran the app Apple Music, and I started searching Christmas music.
Manheim's steamroller, just they've got all kinds of Christmas playlists that they put together.
Christmas cocktail, which is jazz, country Christmas.
I was just reveling.
Now, it has to be stuff that I've heard before for me to be able to enjoy, but Christmas music fits the bill.
Uh there isn't that much new uh since I lost my hearing.
So I spent some time doing that, just finding out what's available out there, and that was cool.
Um then I get here today, and and Cookie sends me the soundbite roster, and literally the first 11 sound bites are the drive-by is discussing uh my reaction to Trump's attack on Ted Cruz yesterday.
And I look no, no, no, don't misunderstand.
I knew it was gonna happen.
I just I uh I nevertheless.
Yeah, I still get surprised at the intensity and volume of it, because you know, one day I'm just an entertainer and irrelevant and then the next day I am the number one moral authority spokesman on the right.
So it goes back and forth.
But I I uh and I'm getting a lot of emails.
Why are you avoiding folks?
I'm I'm I'm I have had a policy here from the earliest days of this program, and that is I'm not the subject, I'm not the issue.
There are a lot of things out there happening.
This this program's not about notice me.
I mean, that's gonna happen anyway.
I I'm I'm already too famous.
I don't need to just spend every hour in this program promoting me while everybody else is.
I would rather spend that time on issues of substance, and I'll eventually get to all this stuff and the debate coming up tonight, and I'll just give you a little preview, in fact, of what I think is the thing to look for in the debate tonight.
It's an 815 on CNN.
And the one thing that we know, well, I'm pretty confident that CNN thinks now, as does the rest of the drive-by media.
They think they have a cage match between Trump and Cruz already set up for them.
So they think all they've got to do, sorry, that's the printer calibrating itself behind me.
We've tried to schedule that so that it doesn't happen during the show, but we don't seem to be able to do it.
Anyway, the they think they're all set up for this grudge match between Trump and Cruz now, largely because what happened on this program yesterday, and they are going to ask questions designed to have that actually happen.
And I think that's not what to look for tonight.
I think what you ought to look for tonight is Cruz versus Rubio.
If you want to look at it in versus terms, but we're getting to the point now, you know, no the idea that Trump's gonna implode or destroy himself, quit or whatever, that's long gone now.
So the responsible people that look at this and treat reality as it is are gonna have to come to grips with the fact that Trump is number one and he's not going anywhere right now.
So what's next?
What's available next?
What's available next is number two.
And the battle for number two right now is Cruz and Rubio.
And Rubio has a lot on the line tonight.
And so does Cruz.
Cruz has got his Iowa polling data that he's got to show that he deserves and has earned justice for it.
But Rubio also now has the added pressure of being the establishment's new choice, given that Jeb just doesn't seem to be able to emerge from the three to five-point range in all of these polls.
So I think where the real battle is going to be is between Cruz and Rubio.
If I were the Trump advisory committee, and I don't know that he ever listens to them, but if I were the Trump advisory committee, my advice would be just coast.
They ask you a question, answer it.
But don't go after anybody.
Don't don't start any fires here that's going to take the attention because there's going to be other people trying to take each other out tonight on this stage.
And I don't mean that, by the way, folks, that's normal.
I don't mean this in a negative way in any way, shape, manner, or form.
This field has got to get winnowed down.
And it will start tonight.
The winnowing of this field, in everybody's mind, that's already happened.
This stage is already crowded, way too crowded by about eight people.
There are eight more people on this stage, six more people on this stage who really need to be on this stage.
But CNN doesn't care about that because they don't care about the end result.
They're not interested in anybody here looking good.
CNN's focus, the rest of the drive-by's, is on how they can structure things to make all of these people look bad.
What can they do to cause some of these people, all of these people to trip up to screw up or some such thing?
To them, it's horse race.
To them, this is this entertainment.
They're not invested in any one of these people.
Nobody in moderating this, I don't know if who the moderators are this debate tonight, but I can tell the CNN people, not a one of them has any real interest in anybody in this stage tonight being elected president.
Nobody moderating this thing from CNN tonight has any interest in anything these people have to say, triumphing, winning, and being implemented as policy in the U.S. So to them this debate is an opportunity for other things.
Quote unquote good television.
What's good television?
Fisticuffs, verbal fisticuffs, out-of-control people calling each other names, and they'll try to inspire that with the way they ask questions.
So I believe that given Trump is in a solid number one slot, and everybody else is, I mean, he's 38, 31, the others are at 12 and 13.
I mean, that's not going to change after tonight.
But the guys at 12 and 13 and then 15 and 14, whoever separated them at two or three points, that's where the battle's going to be.
Because time's running out.
Time's running out for the people in second and third place to establish themselves in a solid second place.
Yes.
And then you throw in the entire aspect of the establishment here, and they are just beside themselves with what's happening.
However, I have a story in the stack.
That some establishment members are now saying that Cruz is becoming palatable to them.
Two weeks ago, that would have never happened.
You would have never seen such a story.
Two weeks ago, you would have never had a self-proclaimed admitted member of the Republican establishment saying they could live with Cruz.
But a couple of them are now reported to have said so.
And that represents the absolute naked raw fear they have of Trump.
As his polling numbers continue to rise and rise and rise.
So that and other things related are coming up later in the program.
But I'm telling you what this administration is doing, The school district in LA shutting down today.
The way the administration is handcuffing investigators and agents in identifying terrorists prior to their acts of terror.
This is serious stuff.
We are, we are we're handcuffing ourselves or tying one arm behind our back, however you want to characterize it.
And I've got the two-page behavioral manual for agents here.
Let me read one more of the don't sections.
Section C, training should be sensitive to constitutional issues.
I read there are three do's here that are irrelevant.
The don'ts are where you find out what this administration is made of.
Here is don't number two.
Do not use programs that generalize about appearance.
Now that what that means, don't use programs means.
Do not make a judgment on whether somebody is a potential risk because of how they appear.
Do not generalize about their national origin.
Do not generalize about other similar characteristics in an attempt to identify indicators or quote types of people likely to carry out acts of violent extremism.
In other words, deny what you know, do not notice what you see, do not act on what you know and what you see, because if you do, you are violating our constitution, and that's not who we are.
And you are violating our universal values.
So in other words, if you see somebody that would raise a red flag by their social media postings, by their race ethnicity, you are to ignore it until you actually have some sign that they might be a bad person by virtue of their behavior.
Well, uh, you know, I'm I'm not a professional criminal investigator, but how in the world are you going to spot somebody's criminal behavior before they commit it?
How are you going to spot it so that you can stop them from doing it if you can't notice all the likely indications?
This goes further than not profiling people, folks.
This is actually what this is.
This is a protection scheme for the group of people that do engage in militant Islamic acts of terror.
Countering violent extremism training, CVE training, the administration is building a cloak that covers these people and shields them from investigators.
They're not allowed to act on any of the indicators.
In fact, they are to ignore them.
Don't number three.
Do not use your training that is overbroad.
Equating an entire religion, nation, region, or culture with evil or violence.
For example, it is incorrect and damaging to assert that all Muslims have terrorist ties.
Well, now you can see where that comes from.
Now you can clearly, however, you can agents are clearly free to identify gun nuts by a gun rack in the back of a pickup if they drive a pickup, if they chew tobacco, any number of things.
It is this one religion and this one ideology that is shielded and protected, and agents attempting to engage in countering violent extremism are being trained to ignore every aspect of it.
And the only thing they can go on is behavior.
If terrorist suspect posts on social media that he or she hates some institution and is planning, would love for it to be blown up, can't use it.
Can't go there.
Violation of privacy.
Can't do it, can't use it.
If you do, it will not be allowed.
Any of the other indicators.
This is just a surface analysis of this.
But this is deadly serious stuff.
And it raises all kinds of questions about just who the people are in charge with defending and protecting the people of this country and who are they actually defending and protecting.
We'll be back.
Don't go out.
Yes, sir, we're back we are.
Rush Limbo, executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
Here is the number on the percentage of U.S. Muslims who say suicide bombing, violence against civilian targets, often or sometimes justified.
8%.
That's from the Pew survey.
The report here from Cybercast News Service.
Survey data released by the Pew Research Center in 2013, admittedly two years ago, shows that 8% of U.S. Muslims believe that the use of suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets is either often or sometimes justified in defense of Islam.
That's 8% of U.S. Muslims.
Now bear in mind that Pew is a very left-leaning organization.
They favor open borders.
They favor high levels of Muslim and Syrian refugee immigration.
So, I mean, if they're saying 8%, it could well be higher.
Now let's put that 8% in reality.
We're in the process here of rapidly Immigrating, what, a million Syrian refugees.
Obama wants 10,000 a month, 100,000 a year, uh combined with the Islamic population already here and the ones that Obama wants to bring in.
Let's just with for every one million Muslims in the United States, if the Pew survey is right, that means 80,000 people in the country.
80,000 Muslims, if the 8% number is right.
80,000 per million think terrorism is or suicide bombing, other forms of violence against civilian targets is either often or sometimes justified in defense of Islam.
Now you might be saying, well, defense of Islam, I'm a rush, that's well, no, defensive Islam could be any target that is not Islamic.
Any target where there are infidels could be considered in defense of Islam.
If it were 1%, we'd be talking about 18,000 people who think terrorism's often justified.
8% of U.S. adult Muslims think terrorism is often or sometimes justified.
But then we have people say Trump's a lunatic for this moratorium.
Trump's a lunatic, and anybody supports Trump as a racist or a bigot.
But if you run the numbers here, and then you add it to everything else that's happening, we don't have to make up events.
We don't have to say theoretically what could happen if this and this and that happens.
It's already happened.
We already had San Bernardino.
We've had Fort Hood, we've had any number since 9-11.
Domestic terror instance.
Now we've got the LA school district being shut down today.
By the way, quick question on that.
Uh is anybody else think it's strange that a potential legitimate Islamic threat would call a school board member.
These people do not do it that way.
They do the deed and then either claim credit or try to get away, get caught in claim credit, or a history of them is researched, and we find out that they've been planning it for a long time.
But this there's something, I don't know.
But it doesn't matter.
Really, it doesn't matter.
Whether this is legit or a hoax.
How do you not shut down the LA school district every day now?
I mean, if it's your job to take these threats Credibly responsibly assign credibility to them.
That's not a job I don't think I would want.
Not a job I think I would want, correctly stated.
Anyway, sit tight, folks.
Coming back much more.
As always, we never wrap it up forever here.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rushland boy half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
And when we get back, a review.
I'm still deciding on this.
But whatever.
The Republican presidential campaign, the debate tonight on CNN, and your phone calls all melded together.
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