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Jan. 1, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 1, 2016, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Some days they just tee me up.
Some days they're just too easy.
Okay, question has has Loretta Lynch arrested Trump yet?
Well, isn't that the kind of stuff she said she's going to start arresting people for?
Why hasn't he been arrested?
Greetings, my friends.
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Everybody, everybody.
Now Paul Ryan has joined in.
Everybody condemning Donald Trump.
The conventional wisdom is that Donald Trump's insane.
He's a lunatic.
He's crazy.
This is unamerican.
It's unacceptable.
He's got to go, except he's leading.
A big problem.
I mean, even Dingy Harry.
By the way, for all of you Republicans getting on this gravy tane gravy train condemning Trump, I want to show you what good it's doing you.
Dingy Harry, Donald Trump standing on the platform of hate, and I'm sorry to say, hate the Republican Party as Bill Forms.
You Republicans, you can denounce Trump all day, all week, all month, and the Democrat Party and the media are still gonna say you laid the table for it.
You can condemn Trump all you want, but it is not going to buy you any love or respect or admiration from the drive-by media and the Democrats.
Now, folks, the conventional wisdom is that Trump is scum, that Trump is a reprobate, that Trump is dangerous, that Trump is obscene, Trump's insane, Trump's a lunatic, Trump's dangerous, Trump's got to go.
Why join that phrase?
Why join that crowd?
We never fall in with conventional wisdom here.
I want to look at this in a little different way, as I'm wont to do.
Uh, and I want to look at the politics of this, and I want to remind you late last week, middle part of last week, and into the late last week, I started what I intended to be a pretty in-depth discussion of how it is that Donald Trump owns the media.
And I made the point to you last week that that is the one factor that has upset everything else in this presidential campaign.
Despite what you might think about the Republican Party being the opposition party to the Democrats, and the Democrats being the opposition to the Republicans, inside the beltway, the Washington establishment, the establishment is aligned and unified on a number of things.
Republicans and Democrats alike, and one of those things on which they're aligned is that the drive-by media is an acceptable co-equal branch of what they do.
And they accept the media as, for lack of a better term, uh the the great equalizer.
The media is always the institution that makes or breaks people.
If the media wants to make somebody, they can, and it's allowed.
If the media wants to take somebody out, it's allowed, and they try and oftentimes get away with it.
You do not hear the Republican Party condemning the media much.
And the reason for this is that inside the beltway within the Washington establishment, the elite, the ruling class, whatever you want to call it, the media is a co-equal member.
And members of the media are co-equal.
That fact and the fact that Trump now owns the media, and this episode is just more proof of it, is one of the things that is the phrase again.
It's the one aspect that has everything else in this campaign turned upside down.
The great equalizer, the media, the great leveler, the media, the institution relied on to keep things within the guardrails, as the establishment wants it, can't do it.
And that's why there's panic.
And that's why there's outrage, and that's why there is anger.
Evidence of what I'm saying is found here In the Washington Post, Donald Trump has gotten more nightly network news coverage than the entire Democrat field combined.
Let me repeat that to you.
According to the Tyndall report, which tracks the airtime that the various flagship news programs on NBC, CBS, and ABC dedicate to a variety of stories, the 2016 election has received 857 minutes of combined coverage through November 30th.
With a month ago, that's already the second biggest total of any pre-election year in the last seven presidential cycles.
Donald Trump, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is the most covered candidate in the race.
In fact, Donald Trump alone has gotten more airtime.
234 minutes out of the 857 minutes are Trump's.
He has gotten more airtime than the entire Democrat field.
Democrat field, the chosen field of the media.
Trump has gotten more time combined than all the Democrats in the race.
Hillary Clinton is the second most covered candidate at 113 minutes.
Trump is twice the coverage that Hillary has gotten.
Why?
Why is Trump still in the race?
This is not the first outrageous thing he said by far.
It's not the it's not even the most outrageous thing he said, depending on who you ask.
Why is Donald Trump still a candidate?
Why hasn't anybody been able to force him out?
Why hasn't anybody been able to humiliate him?
Why hasn't anybody been able to destroy him?
Why hasn't anybody, and by anybody I mean the media, because that's who both parties rely on to do this.
Why can't the media touch the guy?
He's given them all kinds of ammo.
Anybody else says what Trump says and their history.
They're shamed.
They're humiliated.
They are forever forgotten and they have gotten so low they could never recover from it.
Trump is leading the Republican presidential primary.
Why can't they touch him?
Why do they keep covering him?
Why don't they just ignore him?
They can't.
And that, and therein lies something fascinating.
Trump has direct access to his voters, his supporters, the American people.
Trump has direct access to people around the world.
I've got the Trump stack of outrage today.
It's comical.
It's predictable, it's sameness.
United States around the world.
Even I, El Rushbow and blamed for it on the BBC.
If you can believe that.
Yeah, I'm responsible.
You know why?
Because I have been saying this kind of 25 years or more.
Trump is just picking up where I left off, according to the BBC.
Meanwhile, I've never said anything like anything Trump says.
But despite it all, they can't take him out.
They can't stop covering him.
They can't humiliate him.
They can't embarrass him.
They can't diminish his support.
They're powerless, and this has them in a panic.
The media that can make or break anybody cannot touch Trump, and every time they try, all they do is make him bigger.
They can't explain this.
They are frustrated to no end, and so are both political parties who rely on the media to be the great equalizer in all of this.
Nothing's working.
No matter what Trump says, the media is there, and every member of the media is there.
Every network, every camera, every microphone is there.
Last Friday night, Trump was in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Reuters lied.
Reuters even tried lying to destroy Trump.
They ran a story claiming that Trump's performance and his appearance were shut down by Black Lives Matter protesters.
MSNBC ran with it.
I happen to see it, little blurb on Apple News.
While I was sitting at home minding my own business bothering nobody.
I said, wait a minute.
Why isn't this all over the place?
This is what everybody's been dreaming of.
Trump humiliated Trump shut down Trump forced to leave the stage.
Why have I heard this anywhere?
The reason it didn't happen.
Reuters made it up.
People who were there have now testified to what happened.
They can't even get rid of Trump by making up bad stuff about him.
But what really frustrates them is they can't get rid of Trump by simply repeating what he says.
Trump has direct access.
Trump does not need the media.
In order to be heard, in order to have his message flavored and formed for proper receptacle or proper receipt by the audience.
He has direct access.
He doesn't need them.
He can go right over their head.
It may be true to say that the drive-by media has covered politics for better or worse in a predominant way for years and years and years, and that's the horse race aspect.
Who's leaving?
What are the polls say?
Who's losing?
Who is surprised by who's winning, who's surprised by who's losing, but it's the it's the horse race angle.
And that's completely backfired on them.
Their primary technique, their primary way of reporting these campaigns and thereby shaping the outcome of them is bat firing totally on them.
There is a deep panic, I believe, in the drive-by media.
Because in their world, in their mind, they control the horse race.
They are the ones that are the greatest factor in determining how people vote or what they say in polls, and the fact that they are having absolutely zero impact on Donald Trump is blowing their minds.
Donald Trump has a more loyal audience than the media has at this point, which is also what this is showing.
And it is causing a lot of people in the establishment, the elites or ruling class would have been to call them both parties, the Washington crowd.
It's causing them to come unglued and unhinged while they think it is Trump who is unhinged and coming unglued.
Now let's look at the politics of this.
Take the events of a recent past.
Last week, last month, last six months.
And then add the presidential campaign to those events.
Those events have been dominated by Islamic terrorism.
And illegal immigration.
And the failing U.S. economy.
And the absolute disaster that is Obamacare.
On the Democrat side, you don't have any recognition of any of that.
And on the Republican side, after Trump's statement here, there's only one guy.
Just addressing the politics of this, folks.
Forget substance comments, whatever, the politics of this.
There's only one guy in all of the presidential campaign occupying the position he occupies.
Everybody else sounds the same.
Everybody else, I don't care if it's Hillary or if it is Carly Fiorina.
I don't care if it's Bernie Sanders or if it's John Kasich.
They all sound the same.
What do they all do?
They are condemning Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is condemning ISIS.
Donald Trump is condemning illegal immigration.
Donald Trump is condemning a weak, stupid United States leadership.
Over here, everybody else is not.
They are condemning Donald Trump.
In a political sense, Donald Trump leading the presidential Campaign is the sole occupier of his position.
He has no competition for it.
Just in a political sense, that's pretty brilliant positioning to me.
He owns the media.
They can't stop talking about him, and what's it costing him?
Zero.
He's not spending a dime.
What did we hear yesterday?
The Jeb Bush super PEC, Rise to Rise or Dump to Right, whatever it is that Murphy's running.
They're preparing 75 million dollars to do what?
Take out all the Republicans.
Except Trump.
They're not going to attack Trump.
Don't know if it's going to happen, but it was a rumored strategy.
Mike Murphy, well-known Republican consultant who loses more than he wins, said to get Jeb Bush back in the race, we got to take out every other Republican.
So we're going to take 75 million in our super PAC, and we are going to destroy Rubio and Christie and Kasich.
We're going to destroy Fiorina.
We're going to destroy everybody, Carson except Trump.
And when it's all over, we will have a two-man race, Jeb and Trump, and then it'll not be a contest.
The theory says that when it's just Jeb and Trump, the vast majority of intelligent, reasonable, responsible Republican primary voters will choose Jeb.
Now, if they try that, big if.
If they try that, they have just destroyed, if they succeed, Rubio, Carson, Fiorina, the whole field, not just for this campaign, but for the future, because it's a negative campaign they're going to run.
And they're not going to touch Trump.
None of the 75 million to touch Trump.
You would think all of it would be used to take out Trump.
But none of it's going to be.
Why?
It's not that they want the last two standing to be Jeb and Trump.
It's that they know they can't.
They have listened to this program and they've heard Trump callers, Trump supporters call here and say there's nothing Trump can say that will make me abandon him.
Now, about what Trump is saying, about these outrageous, unacceptable comments, for which he should be put in jail, I guess.
And again, I ask, why is what's her name?
Loretta Lynch not pursuing him, investing in arresting him.
I mean, she just said this is the kind of stuff the DOJ is going to go after people for.
Ah, looky here, folks.
I just saw the clock.
Aw darn.
I have to take a brief obscene profit timeout.
Hang in there, folks.
Be patient, because we'll be back.
Welcome back, Rush Lynboth, serving humanity simply by showing up.
This latest Donald Trump episode is a glittering, glaring example of how he is playing the media like a stratavarius.
And I'll tell you, folks, it's you know, for all of you people who have complained and whined and moaned about the media over the years, and how unfair they are to Republicans, and how unfair that makes the whole process.
And what are we gonna do?
You need to be studying Donald Trump.
Care whether you think what he says is outrageous or wrong or whatever.
That's the wrong way to look at this right now.
This latest quote-unquote outrage from Trump is a perfect example of how he plays the media.
How he knows exactly what to do and how to do it to own their attention and airtime.
He says things that he knows will drive them crazy.
He says things over and over that he knows will drive them insane, and then when they go insane, he doubles down on it and drives them even crazier.
he also knows that his audience is in on what he is doing.
He knows that a lot of Americans agree to a certain extent with things that he says.
He also knows he's the only one reaching those people.
And then he sits back and watches, no doubt with a huge smile.
The media cover what he says over and over and over and over again.
Then they analyze it over and over and over, and they talk about it over and over and over again.
He's confident that a lot of his voters are going to be strip away the bombast and be able to get to the nuts and bolts of what he's saying, the kernel of truth of what he's saying.
In the meantime, he ends up occupying political positions exclusively.
And many support back in a second.
Happy to have you here, folks.
Grab a call quickly.
George Kingwood, Texas.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Hi, Rush Megadiddo, big fan.
Thank you much.
Look, Rush, what Donald Trump is doing, uh, what he's talking about is what he talked about in the art of the deal.
These grandy establishment GOP immediately should know Donald Trump is about business what he wrote.
This is fabulous.
What he's leading with is a bombastic.
This is absolutely great.
George, thank you.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate the service that you just performed.
Let me explain to you what it is.
George here is a Trump supporter.
You know what that means?
George supports Trump.
George has undertaken to understand as much about Trump as he can.
And one thing he's done, he's read Trump's book called The Art of the Deal.
What does Trump talk about constantly in this campaign?
He's going to do great deals.
We got stupid leaders doing bad deals, doing dumb deals, but he's going to do the best deals his country's ever had made.
He's the best deal maker, he's the best negotiator.
And everybody just sits around and goes, What a braggart!
What a bunch of bob ass, and they either laugh at it or they condemn it or what have you.
But old George here probably knows something that most in the establishment or ruling class don't know because they haven't read Trump's book.
They wouldn't stoop to such depths.
They wouldn't be seen reading Trump's book.
Right in the art of the deal, Trump says, if you're serious in a negotiating in a negotiation about wanting something, and by the way, being serious is the only time to enter it.
And if there's something dead certain you've got to have, you have got to start out with the most outrageous position.
The opener has got to be so outrageous that the compromise is exactly what you want.
The opener is the outrageous, the most outrageous demand that you can make.
So what old George is doing here is extrapolating Trump's negotiating skills and his technique with his political statements.
And old George here is convinced that Trump isn't really going to deport every Muslim, and he really isn't going to keep every Muslim out of here, but he thinks Trump wants to wake everybody up.
He thinks Trump does have some pretty serious ideas, and to get there, he's got to start out with one of these outrageous things, so that when Trump backs off of it is when he appears reasonable, which is when you can finally make the deal with him.
It's a strategery.
Trump is bringing his business acumen to politics.
Something that politicians don't have business acumen, many of them.
And so they don't recognize it and they don't understand it.
So what would be the manifestation of this?
How would this manifest it?
Okay.
Well, let's go back and remember when Trump said that he's going to deport every Mexican.
Every illegal Mexican that's here is gonna get sent back.
They've got to go.
He said they gotta go back.
They gotta go back.
His own son Eric Trump said just yesterday or the day before.
My dad believes in amnesty if it's earned.
Once they're sent home, they can come back if they'll do so legally.
That's what his own son says the plan is.
Trump hasn't said it.
Well, maybe he even has in certain ways.
The point is that all of this bombast and all of this outrageousness is owning the media.
It is shaping the media day.
The media day is being determined by what Trump is saying, where Trump is, what people's reactions to Trump are.
He owns it, as you just heard, more coverage than the entire Democrat presidential campaign, all those candidates combined.
He has over twice the amount of news coverage that the media's own candidate, Hillary Clinton, is getting.
And this is why I've been dancing around the edges of this theory I've been working on since late last week about the phenomenon of this campaign is that Trump owns the media, and it's the media following along like puppy dogs.
And wherever he goes, they're there.
And whatever he says, they cover it.
And the more outright far as he's concerned, the more outrageous the better.
Calls attention to the to the point that he's making.
And he ends up being the only person occupying his position.
He's got no competition.
Everybody else, everybody, is saying the exact same thing, but none of them are saying what Trump is saying.
So it's, you know, just in a in a political sense here, as I sit back and literally objectively watch this rather than get all bent out of shape and emotionally attached to all this and just sit here and study it.
It is literally fascinating.
I have never seen anybody owned JFK did not own the media like this.
Bill Clinton did not own the media like this.
Nobody has ever owned the media.
And when the media figures this out.
The real fun thing to watch is going to be whether or not they can change the way they're covering Trump.
But I don't think so, folks.
You know why?
They need his voters as audience.
His support base is so huge.
The cable networks want as much Trump as they can get.
For their ratings.
Forget what they think about what he's saying.
Forget their outrage.
Forget the fact that they can't believe somebody actually believes this kind of thing.
Just as long as he's saying it on their network.
The thing they fear most is Trump's voters not watching.
Trump's audience may be bigger than, well, there's no question it's bigger than CNN's.
The number of people supporting Donald Trump dwarf the total audience of CNN.
For example.
Just last night on Fox, Greta Van Sustran turned her show over to a Trump personal appearance where this whole Muslim thing is being discussed.
It's ratings gold.
Like me.
It's ratings gold.
Literally, Donald Trump has these people a palm of his hand.
And as I say, those of you in this audience who've been angry and frustrated and think the media is our biggest enemy and the biggest obstacle, here's somebody showing you that it's possible to neuter them.
And but I say neuter them, they're not supporting Trump, and they have not changed their hatred for Trump.
But the fact is it isn't mattering.
They cannot harm his support.
They can't take him out.
They can anybody else they want to.
They can destroy any of these other candidates any day they decide to.
And everybody in the game knows they can.
And that's why everybody defers to them.
Republicans, Democrats alike.
Republican establishments have been sitting around here waiting for the media to do its dirty work for them.
And the media's been trying.
Except the media unwittingly has been promoting Trump.
And amplifying all this supposed outrageous stuff that he's saying, they're making it even bigger.
They are taking it to an even wider audience, and it's costing Trump what?
Zero.
And here's a Trump supporter, a caller who understands what's going on.
Hey, Russia's just the art of deal.
Read the book.
He just, this is his outrageous bombastic opening position.
It's all part of a negotiation.
Trump supporters know.
They're in on the gag or in on the deal, whatever it is.
A couple of audio sound rights here before we go to the uh break.
This is Bloomberg television all due respect, John Hilman speaking with his co-host Mark Halperan about Trump's call for a total complete shutdown of Muslims entering.
By the by the way, oh, hang on to a second.
May I remind everybody.
The United States of America shut down the immigration of everybody from 1924 to 1965.
Everybody.
Everybody.
It didn't matter who, nobody legally got in.
1924, 1965.
A, we've done it.
There's precedent.
B, we can do it because we did it.
C, do you know why we did it?
Because there had been so much immigration prior, we needed to assimilate all those immigrants who were here to become Americans.
That's what's not happening now.
FDR.
FDR was Trump on steroids.
FDR actually did what Trump's talking about with the Japanese and some others.
And he's one of the greatest guys in Democrat Party history to this day.
FDR.
And then, ladies and gentlemen, can I read a headline to you from the Hill.com.
If I were Trump, I'd get this story and I'd turn it right around on Obama and Loretta Lynch.
And I'd do it today while everybody's focusing on what he supposedly said that's outrageous.
No room in America for Christian refugees.
The Hill.com.
Right here it is, folks.
Want to hear the first paragraph?
You're staring at me like you can't believe it.
We are actually, the Obama administration is not allowing Christian refugees into the country.
Two stories.
At the end of World War II, the Jewish survivors of Europe's Holocaust found that nearly every door was closed to them.
Tell me where I can go is a popular Yiddish song at the time.
Decades later, i.e.
today.
The Christians of the Middle East face the same problem, and the Obama administration is keeping the door shut.
This is not National Review.
This is not Breitbart.
This is the Hill.com.
Standard, ordinary, everyday drive-by media.
Membership card.
America's about to accept 9,000 Syrian Muslims, refugees of the brutal war between the Assad regime and its Sunni opposition, which includes ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and various other militias.
That number is predicted to increase every year.
There are no Christian refugees that will be admitted.
Why?
Because the State Department is adhering with the rigidity of a Soviet-era bureaucracy to the rule that only people at risk from massacres launched by the regime qualify for refugee status.
The rapes of Christian women and the butchery of Christian children do not count.
No matter how moved Americans were this Christmas season by the plight of their fellow Christ followers in Syria and Iraq, no matter how horrific the visuals of beheadings, enslavement, and mass murder.
The Christians fleeing death in Syria do not engender the compassion of this president.
And do not qualify for refugee status.
And you know why?
Because the Christians are being raped, tortured, and murdered by militias, not by the Syrian government.
The Syrian government is not the source of the discrimination, if you will.
So this technically, this technicality condemns Syrian Christians to continue to be victims without hope.
And this technicality is being adhered to with all the tenacity with which FDR State Department manipulated quotas and created subterfuges to keep out the Jews fleeing the oppression of Nazi Germany.
We've seen in the last several weeks that President Obama has no difficulty using his phone and his pen, as he dramatically boasts.
To circumvent the law.
When it comes to immigration, he had no difficulty enacting an amnesty that a federal judge subsequently ruled unconstitutional.
He's had no problem circumventing Congress to change a relationship with Cuba.
This president has shown that he will push back on the constraints of law when he wants to get something done.
No room in America for America's Christians.
Another story, San Diego Union Tribune.
Iraqi Christian refugees to be deported, according to ICE.
Hang in there, be tough.
We'll be right back.
By the way, folks, I made one error.
It's interesting.
Ted Cruz has not joined in the condemnation of Donald Trump.
Everybody else has.
Everybody.
It doesn't matter who you're talking about.
Everybody has condemned Trump.
Everybody, everywhere else is saying the same thing, and thus not distinguishing themselves at all.
Except Trump, but Ted Cruz has not condemned him.
Twelve of the 27 Iraqi Christians being detained at the O'Tey Mesa detention facility are set to be deported in coming weeks according to ICE.
Immigration judge ordered their removal in the last two weeks.
She declined to provide specific information about why the immigrants are being deported.
They're Iraqi Christians, Chaldeans is what they're known as.
Twelve Israeli Choldean Christians who fled ISIS are going to be deported.
The Hill.com story just closed the loop on this.
It's from January of this year.
And it's even more true today than when it was written.
January 7th of this year, this regime not permitting Christians from Syria among the refugees.
It's even worse today than when that story was written.
Meanwhile, Trump says we've got to stop the immigration of Muslims for a while.
We'll get a handle on this.
And you have seen the panicked coniption fit that's taken place.
Audio soundbites, I was going to get into this a moment ago.
Got to hear this.
With all due respect, Bloomberg TV, John Heilman talking to co-host Mark Halpern.
Said it's a huge potential consequences here if uh Republicans start to say that this is the kind of rhetoric that justifies them saying I'll not support Trump.
If he's the Republican nominee, this could be what the Republicans have been waiting for.
This could give him any out.
Mark has said this is this is what they need.
I can't support Trump if he's our nominee.
This makes it impossible.
What do you get at Mark?
The other thing that's going to be interesting is to see not just the blogosphere, but talk radio.
Talk radio tends to be more sympathetic to positions like this for Donald Trump.
Do any prominent talk radio hosts come out?
You know, Donald Trump has no history of backing off.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is the first time he backs off.
I may be wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't try to modulate this in some way.
He meant moderate, but uh so anyway, it all will depend on talk radio.
It's just really because you know, talk radio, that's where you hear this kind of talk, anyway, is what these guys say.
Which, you know, in a loosely stated fashionist defamation.
We don't speak that way here.
But it didn't stop him at the BBC list.
This is Michael Goldfarb, BBC uh world news impact show talking to Yalda Hakim, talking about Europe and all here.
Just listen to the Bible.
I think that people need to have some context here who we're watching.
Look, Donald Trump sounds like a right-wing radio talk show host.
Now, right wing radio talk show hosts in America are not a new phenomenon.
Rush Limbaugh, whose name might be known by some people who are watching, even in Asia.
You know, Rush Limbaugh's been around for more than a quarter of a century, saying stuff like this every single day.
He's the most popular radio figure in America.
Now, if you have 20, 25 years of this kind of propagandizing running ahead of you, then all you have to do is sort of reiterate what's being You see, it's not even Trump's fault.
It's mine, folks.
I'm the one that set the table for Trump to just take advantage of.
Meanwhile, I've never said anything like it.
Proving these people never listen.
They just are us, well, bigotry and whatever else.
Anyway, gotta take a break.
I'm out of time.
B Rush Limbaugh to blame for everything.
Responsible for it all.
Just a guy on the radio.
And we have to take a top-of-the-hour timeout.
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