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Dec. 15, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 15, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Well, somebody was saying somebody had some common sense at New York Public School.
What was it?
Well, it doesn't say here where I can easily find a public school yesterday that banned Thanksgiving, banned Christmas, banned Santa Claus, banned Christmas trees, banned uh Thanksgiving.
Pledge of allegiance, they told a teacher to principal to whatever take a hike.
Sanity and Santa have been restored at a Brooklyn public elementary school where Santa Claus was banned, a Pledge of Allegiance was dropped, and Thanksgiving was replaced with a harvest festival.
The good news arrived.
Yeah, PS 169, Sunset Park, on Monday morning, a day after it was reported of this bizarre PC extremism of the principal Eugene Jalek Kim.
The District 15 superintendent Anita Skopp stormed in the front door at 9.50 a.m.
Minutes later, two fifth grade boys were brought to the main office to lead a recital over the PA system of the Pledge of Allegiance.
The New York Post reported on Sunday the pledge had not been said over the loudspeakers since the beginning of the school year.
The principal, Kim, 33, became principal in May 2014.
Santa Claus also reinstated at the school.
And the pledge will be recited over the PA system every morning in response to concerns from the community.
Until they try this again.
Well, that's the thing about the left.
You think they're going to end with this?
They'll come back.
And they will do everything they can to reinstitute this because this is who they are.
This is what the multicultural curriculum is.
And believe me, this is not the only school where this kind of stuff is happening.
It may not be school-wide, but I guarantee you you've got teachers who are telling their students what a bunch of evil murderers the pilgrims were.
And how Santa Claus is this an old fat white guy from ancient Christianom that has no place in America in 2015.
And that the country doesn't deserve to have allegiance pleaded to it because this country's rotten to the core.
You know kids are being taught this crap each and every day, from school to school, city to city, country to country, state state.
So they may have stopped it at this one public screw in Brooklyn.
You know, this this next story, folks, this is um it's it's kind of presented as just a another news story.
This has caused so much damage to our society.
It has caused so much harm.
It has resulted in genuine pain and suffering and violence.
That was totally unnecessary.
It's a politico story, and the headline is Hands Up, Don't Shoot, ranked one of the biggest Pinocchios of 2015.
Now that is a reference to the Washington Post Fact Checker article.
Columnist, a guy named Glenn Kessler, and he is a supposed fact-checker, and he assigns, I think it I may be confusing things, but but somebody in a drive-by's report stories and and reports how much of it's true or false with the assigning of Pinocchios.
And four Pinocchios is the absolute worst.
That's a I mean, it's just chock full of lies.
So what they're saying here is Campaign Trail Whoppers dominate the Washington Post's annual list of the biggest political Pinocchios of 2015 published yesterday.
But among a collection of dubious statements that earned four Pinocchios is the phrase that launched countless protests and calls for police accountability and reform.
Hands up, don't shoot.
Those words rose to the public consciousness following the August 2014 shooting Of the gentle giant in Ferguson, Missouri.
Well, now you know and I know that hands up don't shoot never happened.
What hands up don't shoot is an out and out lie that was promulgated by the civil rights coalition in this country and supported by the very media that now months later calls it a lie.
The very media that helped amplify this knew it was a lie from the get-go.
But now, at the end of the year, in one of the usual predictable end of the year summary stories, things that happened in the preceding 12 months.
Yeah, you know that little thing in St. Louis Hands Up Don't Shoot?
Yeah, that's one of the biggest lies.
Who made it a lie?
Who helped it along?
Who promoted it?
I mean, you had in a St. Louis Rams football game, you had two St. Louis Rams defensive backs during player introductions, come running on the field with their hands raised.
No doubt they thought hands up don't shoot really happened.
What hands up don't shoot is is the lie.
That the gentle giant was walking down a St. Louis street one afternoon on a Saturday.
And he was pondering his first days at college and his bright future.
And a racist cop happened to drive up in his cruiser and order the gentle giant who was harassing nobody to please get out of the street and move to the sidewalk if you're gonna walk.
And did not wait for the gentle giant to move and instead shot him in the back while his hands were raised saying, Don't shoot, don't shoot.
That story was reported.
That story that was picked up by the black lives don't matter and the entire civil rights protest apparatus in St. Louis.
And it was reverberating coast to coast as though it did happen.
Low information people coast to coast, particularly in urban neighborhoods, believed it.
The media promoting it knew it never happened.
It was confirmed to have never happened after the grand jury hearing, which is where all the evidence was heard, but that was claimed to be a lie too.
I mean, this is the kind of stuff that frosts me.
Because here we get this casual story.
Hey, you know what, hands-up don't shoot.
Yeah, it didn't happen.
In one of their end of the year story, yeah, we're gonna get up four Pinocchios.
You people made it.
You people in the media practically gave that lie its life.
You capitalized on it.
You attempted to advance the agenda of the civil rights coalition, the left of Democrat Party, you attempted to besmirch and impugn Republicans as racist sexist pigs with that story.
You destroyed the life of a cop.
You succeeded in turning the Ferguson police department over to Obama's Justice Department, and now at the end of the year, on December 15th, we get a story.
Oh, you know, hands-up don't shoot.
Yeah, man, that was one of the biggest lies of the year.
Who made it so?
This is not some little insignificant misstatement of fact that happened to just creep up with a life of its own.
This was a purposely executed, conceived strategy that had one purpose, and that was to destroy a community and to misinform a bunch of people who didn't know any better and make them hate the community and the police in their city.
It was a lie from the get-go.
The gentle giant was not walking innocently down the street, pondering his first days at college.
He had just come from holding up a convenience store and abusing the owner.
He had stolen some whatever they are, swisher sweets because he wanted to turn them into marijuana joints or what have you.
He refused to pay for what he took out of the store.
He had a record of similar type activity.
He was an imposing six foot six menacing kind of guy, and he attempted to take the officer's cop away a gun away from him, lunging in the cop's car.
And yet the media knowingly helped amplify a story that the kid was gunned down in cold blood to the point there were memorials for him.
And it was equated to what happened in fur in in Baltimore.
We had an entire summer and Fall where this country was on the verge of race riots and fires, all because the media and a bunch of people knowingly promoted a lie.
All to help their political political friends in the Democrat Party.
And now we get a little story.
Yeah, yeah, man, that was four Pinocchios.
Who did it?
Why don't you do a story about who created the lie?
Why don't we find out who created it, why they did it, how you helped them promote it, and what its purpose was.
Instead of just lumping it in with all the other lies, which, by the way, the lies it's lumped in with are supposed lies Donald Trump is telling.
And lies other Republicans are telling on the campaign trail.
This is the kind of thing that does real lasting damage.
It angers people by virtue of defrauding them.
It turns people against their own country.
It turns people against their own communities.
It turns people against their neighbors.
It turns people against their police departments.
It turns people to the federal government looking for help and salvation and handouts and whatever you can get.
All for the advancement of the political agenda of the Democrat Party.
And this is by no means the first of such instances.
I have personally been involved.
I have personally been the target of similar kinds of lies that were meant to destroy various things I wanted to do.
And people that I believed in.
This is a common occurrence.
And our caller moments ago, hey, have we gotten so stupid that we simply we can't overcome the forces attempting and trying to destroy the country.
And this is exactly the kind of thing he was talking about.
What do you expect people that are marginally informed, dubiously intelligent, their towns on fire, there's a racial incident that happens.
They are preconditioned to believe that they have been unfairly targeted.
Here comes the media with hands up, don't shoot, and here comes those two Rams players running on the field.
Hands up, hands up, don't shoot.
None of it ever happened.
And long after the destructive elements of the lie have taken their toll, here come our guardians and the drive-by media telling us it was worth four Pinocchios.
I'm telling you, I get spit and mad over this kind of stuff, folks.
I just tell you one more thing about this hands up, don't shoot me.
Hillary Clinton was leading the spreading of that lie.
Hillary Clinton tried to profit from that.
Irresponsible.
Irresponsible on the same parallel as irresponsible as she was in Benghazi.
It's despicable what the Democrats did with that.
And this Washington Post story on all the four Pinocchio, I guarantee I just read the majority of lies that they call out are lies told by Huckabee, by Trump, by Trump, and by Trump.
It's a list, the biggest lies of the year happen to be told by Republican presidential candidates.
Oh, and by the way, we're going to throw in this thing, not really political, but it was a really four Pinocchio and hands up don't shoot.
What do you mean wasn't political?
It was the biggest political lie of the year.
Look, it really ticks me up.
Now, folks.
The first 11 sound bites in my soundbite roster today are me.
The news media, cable, and otherwise broadcast networks, discussing something I said on this program yesterday.
Eleven sound bites, ten of which I would air.
I hope, and people have been asking me this entire program to play them, to air them.
And I I hope you will understand, and when I tell you that when I come here every day, I have never intended to use this program to promote me.
I always tried to focus on the events of the day, issues, other things that are happening at the forefront.
Uh, and not make this all about me.
I I've had that as a policy since I first started this program.
Uh I've seen it, I've seen other people do it, and it grates on me.
And it's transparent, and it's it's just it's to me it's low class.
I always put the audience first in what I think they really want to hear about first, and that's where my empathy comes in.
But I have been overwhelmed with requests to air some.
Well uh Mr. Snerdley is saying, what do you mean?
It was a big news story.
It was a big story because you made it a big news story.
You owe it to your audience who didn't see I guess I I just it's folks, it's always been, it's just a it's a it's a product of I don't know what a manners uh just.
Anyway, enough explaining.
Let's just get started with some of them because this is the first eleven, and I didn't know any of it was happening last night because I did not have the news on.
And my brother sent me a note at uh at midnight.
You getting any feedback on what you uh said about uh Trump and Cruz said, No, I'm I haven't heard a word.
And I said, but I don't go looking for it either, so he didn't reply.
So I I didn't know about it until I got sound bite roster ten minutes before the program.
Here's the first, a montage, which clearly indicates that the drive-by's have just been waving for me to what they could report as abandoning or turning on Trump.
Rush Limbaugh, who has previously praised Trump's courage and guts, wasn't seeing either of those qualities in this latest dust-up.
Rush Limbaugh, this is the long-planned pivot of right-wing media to now switch from Trump and move to Cruz.
It's a very complicated, sorted little love triangle between Trump and Cruz and Rush.
You heard from Rush Limbaugh.
Attacks from Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh criticized Trump for going after Cruz.
Rush Limbaugh, talk radio titan.
Rush Limbaugh really upset Rush Limbaugh, very widely listened to and respected.
Rush Limbaugh is very proud of that.
Interesting, listening to that from Rush Limbaugh.
Ted Cruz actually is more ideologically, you know, acceptable to people like Rush.
What does Trump do with these clear lines in the sand being drawn by Limbaugh?
Okay, so the last there was Meghan Kelly.
The uh uh uh second it was was Sherry Jacobis, who's on, I guess CNN uh Rush Limbaugh, this is the long planned pivot.
She's a Republican establishment strategist, by the way.
Uh Rush Limbaugh, this is the long planned pivot of right wing media to now switch from Trump and move to Cruz.
As though I'm sitting here playing a symphony and orchestrating a battle plan that is mapped out by the day.
And yesterday was the day for the long planned pivot.
And she's a Republican strategist.
She's the one that referred to me as right wing media two weeks ago.
She's the one that was saying that right wing media wouldn't mind Hillary being re-elected because right wing media got rich writing anti-Clinton books.
They all think they know what happens here and how it happens.
And it's amazing after twenty-seven years how how how so many literally many know so little about what happens right before their eyes and ears for three hours a day.
Next up, CBS this morning, Major Garrett reporting on the big item of yesterday.
Donald Trump has been living a charmed political life, floating atop the polls and untouched by the mandarins of conservative talk radio, but no more.
Polls indicate Trump faces serious competition in Iowa, and now two of Talk Radio's right wing elite wonder if Trump understands what it means to be a conservative.
Conservative talk radio hosts Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin both questioned Trump's decision to call Cruz a quote maniac for helping shut down the government in twenty thirteen.
Here's Limbaugh.
That's a huge mistake.
Genuine conservative, even in the Republican field, would not go after Cruz this way.
Cruz stayed out of the fray, telling a Vegas radio show he would avoid a debate confrontation with Trump.
About that, I'll just predict you the confrontation if there's going to be confrontation on it.
But keep an eye on Cruz and Rubio tonight, not Cruz and Trump.
Cruz and Ruby is where the action is going to be.
You like that.
You're like the man.
The men the Mandarin of talk.
Yeah, you like that, the Mandarin to talk radio.
Uh the next one I'm not going to play because it it slights another talk show host here, and I I could not.
I cannot.
I just can't refuse to do that.
Well, if I told you that, I might as well play the bite.
I'm not going to play it.
Just it it's a mild insult of yet another host, which would make no sense for me to play.
That's not what this is about.
Um don't worry.
There are eight more, even if I don't play one of these.
...
The next one uh was Megan Kelly and the Kelly file, but it runs almost 45 seconds.
And it includes Stephen Hayes, Guy Benson, Chris Steyrwalt, and Howie Kurtz.
Actually, it's two or three bites after this one, too.
Not time now to get those in.
So they're coming up after our brief obscene profit break here at the bottom of the hour, plus more of your phone calls on tap.
So don't go anywhere.
So get this cookie told me she could have given me ten more.
She just stopped it at eleven because she knew I probably wouldn't get it.
So she could have given me twenty-one and twenty-two of these.
And I didn't have any idea it was happening.
So here you go.
This is we're we're jumping forward to number four here now.
Whatever you do, don't goof up and play number three.
All right.
So here we're starting out.
This is the Kelly file last night.
Uh Meghan Kelly and Stephen Hayes talking about what happened on this program yesterday.
You've wondered all along when people like Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh would turn on Donald Trump.
I mean, Donald Trump has not been a lifelong conservative, certainly not a part of the conservative movement, and he's made a series of errors and gaffes and offensive statements, misstatements that haven't won the ire of both Levin and Limbaugh.
But this, the attack on Ted Cruz, seems to have done that.
And I think that could really mark a turning point.
If Levin and Limbaugh and other conservative talk radio types turn on Donald Trump right now in favor of Ted Cruz because they think Trump has gone too far.
That really could signal to others who have supported Donald Trump that this is sorted the end of it.
Now it's time to get behind a real conservative.
It's amazing to me to listen to this.
It's it's.
Every time I'm in the news, I learn things about myself that I didn't know.
It's the most amazing thing.
Wait till it happens to you, folks.
Someday you will be in the news.
Some day there will be news about you.
It may be in your local newspaper, but I guarantee you you will learn things about yourself that you didn't know.
You'll learn things about the way you were thinking.
You'll learn things about who you were planning something with.
You will learn about things that you've done that you didn't know you did.
Really, it's fascinating here.
Here's Guy Benson, also on the Kelly file.
Uh Meghan Kelly said Cruz is surging.
Support for Cruz up by 13 and a half percent.
Support for him in the latest Paul Des Moines up twenty-one points.
Trump support seems to have peaked, so this is happening at an important time in the race.
This goes to a pattern of behavior from Donald Trump that we see.
He attacks conservatives from the left routinely.
He did it to Scott Walker using left-wing talking points on the budget.
Just this week he came after and joined the left-wing pylon on Justice Scale.
Of course, this should raise red flags for someone like Rush Limbaugh.
Up next on the same show is Chris Steirwalt, the political editor at Fox News, the digital political editor.
And she said, Megan Kelly said, Hey, Chris, if you put those polls in perspective for us, it would help.
Cruz ahead of Trump by ten in Iowa, but wow, what a poll for Donald Trump by Monmouth.
As you heard from Rush Limbaugh, as you heard from others, they want Ted Cruz protected because if Donald Trump is not going to be able to go the distance, if he blows up Ted Cruz tomorrow night, if he comes out with hatchet swinging at Ted Cruz, and bad things happen to the arguably most conservative, viable contender in this race, conservatives will be out of luck.
Right.
So that's another thing I learned about myself.
This is all about circling the wagons of protecting Cruz.
It can't be about what it was about.
There is a deeper, deeper meaning here.
There's a much deeper story than what appeared on the surface of this program yesterday.
It's about much, much more than what you heard.
Here's Howard Kurtz, same show, Kelly File.
She says, what does Trump do with these clear lines in the sand being drawn by Limbaugh?
I would put my chips in the Vegas casino on Donald Trump, not calling Ted Cruz a bit of a maniac.
He tends to be on better behavior at these big televised debates.
I think Trump may not attempt to deliver the knockout blow.
Uh this was not a knockout blow that he hit on Cruz.
This that was a miss.
That's the whole point.
But I'll just repeat what I said earlier.
If I were to advise, which I'm not, but I think Trump should do what he's done in every one of these debates, other than the first is back off.
Just you know, answer questions when they come to you.
You know, forget Rand Paul's up there.
Don't don't ask why Rand Paul's still there.
Don't do any of that stuff.
Just shut up.
You know, just answer the questions and move on.
These debates, Trump has been the least uh what is it bombastic of all.
I mean, it's in his appearances where where Trump becomes the uh charismatic candidate that he is.
These debates, I mean, you get eight people up there, you get an hour and a half or two hours, you're talking a max eight minutes combined.
So I I I think oh, just one more time.
Because of the way things have shaken out here, and because Jeb's sitting there can't move beyond five, the establishment needs somebody to support in case it looks like this is it for Jeb.
And Rubio, I think is their guy.
And as such, they gotta, you know, Rubio and Cruz will know that.
I mean, Cruz uh will want to Rubio is much closer to Cruz than Cruz is to Trump.
And that's why I think if there is any so-called action tonight, that's where you're going to see it.
To me, that's what common sense would say will happen.
Now, the CNN people are gonna try to create fisticuffs here between political fisticuffs with Trump and Cruz, because that's what they think they stumbled across here yesterday.
Uh, here is CNN's Aaron Burnett out front talking to one of their contributors, S. E. Cup.
And the question, nothing Trump has or has not done on that stage has hurt him so far, right?
None of this hurts him.
Latest poll 41%, 13 percentage points up since October, 27 points ahead of Cruz after the Muslim comments.
That's pretty stunning.
If Rush is suddenly seeming to side with Ted Cruz and defend Ted Cruz against Trump, that might put Trump in a very, very precarious position.
You know, as loyal as Donald Trump's supporters are, they can't hold a candle to Russia's supporters.
Well, you like that.
Snerdley likes that analysis.
That that uh that got their attention in there on the other side of the glass.
And back to CNN, Anderson Cooper 360, talking to the former Ted Cruz communications director, Amanda Carpenter.
Question Do the Iowa numbers worry you at all?
I mean, you look at Ted Cruz doing very well in Iowa, given it's only one poll, a lot can change.
Does that concern you at all?
I mean, Ted Cruz, your old boss.
Ted Cruz has cracked the coat.
His bear hug strategy of saying I'm not going to go negative has forced Donald Trump into making a very big mistake in the GOP primary.
Donald Trump has attacked Ted Cruz for opposing ethanol subsidies.
He's attacked Ted Cruz for not playing nice among the Republican establishment.
And that is having a negative effects already today, and seeing Rush Limbaugh going after Trump and saying, stop attacking Ted Cruz from the right.
This is not how we play in the GOP primary.
And I think that's going to cause many people to question what Donald Trump really stands for, and if he's a conservative at all.
Just just to refresh it, what happened was that the Trump hit Cruz for not being able to cooperate and get along with people in the Senate.
And that's that's the kind of criticism of Cruz that you get from the Democrats and for the media.
I mean, that's the kind of stuff McCain says.
We got to be able to crush.
You gotta be able to work for the that's not what people are supporting Trump for it, and not with the sporting crews.
Nobody wants anybody to get along with the Democrats.
They want to defeat them.
And this this criticism of Cruz using left wing criticism that was it disappointed me.
Which is what I said.
Here's Anna Navarro, also on CNN, Anderson Cooper.
Did you uh you see this Trump going after Cruz tomorrow in the debate and calling him a little bit of a maniac on the stage?
If he's been watching TV today or listening to radio, he knows that his attack on Cruz on the maniac issue fell flat.
He's gotten some attacks from Rush Limbaugh.
He's gotten some attacks from Mark Levin Giants on the right wing conservative media.
So I think he's got to tread carefully because he's been very effective in the attacks that he's laid on Jeb Bush on Marco Rubio on practically everybody else.
But the right wing base likes Ted Cruz a lot.
So she was she was saying that if if Trump is watching or listening to uh radio, he'll learn that he's screwed up.
Anyway, there's more, folks, but that's that's it.
I mean, that's the flavor of of what this.
I you know, I I know that's my they are they're because they're gonna try.
They what they think they see in it and snurkly saying CNN's gonna bring this all up again in I debate.
So Russ Limbaugh said, what do you think?
So Rush Limbaugh said what does and they're gonna be making a mistake if they do that.
Because I don't think people are gonna bite.
I don't think CNN's not gonna get their fisticuffs on that.
They want it, but they're going to be disappointed.
Wild guess.
Now, and this means I'm gonna have to watch it too.
Oh well.
Here is uh Patrick in Palm Coast, Florida, as we zoom back to the phones.
Hi, Patrick.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Uh, you're the teacher, and I mean but the students, sir.
Well, I then have have at it.
I'll I'll play.
Okay.
Uh I just from your teachings, I know exactly how Trump is going to beat Hillary in the general election.
Right.
Okay.
This is not a normal election where you would have four or five battleground or swing states.
This time with Trump, I believe it's going to get to a twelve or thirteen.
In the four or five battlegrounds, you have Florida and Ohio, which are the normal winners, both with Republican governors.
This time, New Jersey, 14 delegates, Republican governor.
Michigan.
Trump says he likes to buy bad contracts.
Sixteen delegates, Republican governor.
Wisconsin, ten delegates, Republican governor.
Massachusetts, you said yesterday.
But I think Trump might be battling in Massachusetts for their 11 delegates and a Republican governor.
Nevada, Iowa, both have Republican governors, Trump.
Now, let me let me stop you here a minute.
I've got time dwindling number one.
Yes, sir.
But you are possibly on to something.
And I have been threatening to discuss this.
Snerdley will confirm this.
I have been threatening to discuss this for a couple of weeks now.
I've asked them to remind me you wanted to talk about this idea.
Trump can't win the presidency.
Can't beat Hillary.
What I actually think, folks, about this, I'm I'm still uh formulating it.
But you Trump's numbers right now, even if they are confined to the Republican primary, they're bigger than Reagan's word, they're bigger than George H. W. Bush following Reagan, they're bigger than George Bush 43.
They're huge right now.
And because these Republican governors are popular in their states or have been in the show to get elected, I actually think that all of this talk from the establishment, assuring us, well, there's no way Trump can win.
I mean, it's just suicide.
I think they're scared to death he can.
I think they're scared to death he can become president, not just the Republican nominee.
And I think the order of fear, the level, the the intensity of the fear that the entire establishment has of this guy, I fear always tells us something.
And I have never it's conventional wisdom that Trump can't win.
Yet nobody in the Republican side can beat him, and it's assumed that anybody else but Trump can beat Hillary.
Where is the logic?
Again, there's no common sense in that.
So I think Patrick may be on we'll never know until it actually happens, but he may be on to something there.
For example, they say Trump, oh, he can't win.
Look what he said about the Muslims.
There they go again.
The drive-by is in a left wing, assuming everybody thinks the way they do, and they don't on this.
They are outliers on this stuff, the drive-byers and the left are.
Anyway, debate tonight.
We'll be here tomorrow telling you what you saw, what to think about it.
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