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Jan. 1, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 1, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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This moral superiority that the media thinks it has is key to understanding them, folks.
And I I wish there were a more effective way of explaining my opinion here.
I just keep getting taking stabs at it.
When I when I say moral authority, they do believe that they are the smartest, the best, and the brightest, the most informed, and they do believe that they are uniquely qualified to proclaim anything good or bad, good or evil, right or wrong or what have you.
And their arrogance is such that they believe that a majority of the American people are just like them.
So it is an arrogance combined with a phony, by the way, moral superiority, because they really don't have any, but they strut around thinking they do.
So for example, in that example in Indiana, when the little pizza shop owner, a 25-year-old woman says, no, we wouldn't cater a gay wedding.
Well, the media just goes berserk.
I mean, wherever you tuned, the media went berserk, trying to destroy that little woman and her little business.
And they did it under the guise of a moral superiority that made everybody think that a majority of Americans also thought the same thing.
It's part and parcel of the media's coverage of events.
It's why they are able to so easily destruct the destroy the Republican brand when they when they want to.
Because they carry with them this attitude that all they're doing is reflecting majority thought in the country, when in fact they are a very tiny minority of thought in the country anymore.
They represent a really tiny pocket of radical liberalism that they believe is a majority of where the country is.
And they believe this because Obama got elected, so it must be.
They will never acknowledge the phony or negative reasons that people voted for Obama that have nothing to do with agreeing with him or his policies or what have you.
So if the media thinks that the country's racist, they think everybody else agrees with them that the country's racist.
And this is how they cover news events.
So here comes Trump, and when Trump gets going on his so-called formula of saying something, the media or the Washington establishment, which is the same thing, just outrageous.
It's just so mean or it's so radical or it's just so, oh, my.
You can't keep a whole religion.
I'm like, crazy.
They think Trump is over here in a small little pocket.
Uh and a tiny number of really crazed lunatic supporters.
It's almost as though they think Trump is operating in a vacuum, and that the support for Trump is not real.
It's hero worship or celebrity worship.
They just they're not open enough about things to even understand why certain people think what they think, believe what they believe, or act as they do.
And all of this has now been exposed by virtue of the Trump candidacy.
And in the process, he has ended up owning them.
He has the media wrapped around his little finger.
Some of them are aware of it and are just livid and panicked and trying to figure out how to change this.
And in far as they're concerned, the only way to change is to destroy Trump.
And the more they Try, the more support he gets.
The more they try to take him out, the more coffins they try to nail shut with ever increasing number of nails.
The higher Trump goes in the polls.
It's just the exact opposite of the way things are supposed to happen when they get into gear.
See, the Republicans have been neuterized, so they play along with it.
When the media tells them, you know, you guys better support Amnesty or you're never going to win the White House.
Again, the Republicans go, oh yeah, okay, okay, well, we support Amnesty.
And then the Chamber of Commerce comes in with their money demands, and so you end up with no difference.
And the Republicans and Democrats and the Republicans think they've bought off the media, bought the media into sign.
And the media is used to being able to control people this way.
Here comes Trump.
And he's controlling them.
Never seen it, folks, in my lifetime.
Never seen anything like this.
I I've I am relishing it.
I am reveling in it.
And I'm still in the process of analyzing it and trying to explain it to myself.
It's it's that unique.
And I appreciate your indulgence and your patience following me along here as I engage publicly here in my open-ended thinking about what the heck is really going on because I think it is phenomenal and unique.
And I think it is.
Well, it's it's significantly changing the rules here is what I'm looking for, and it's it holds out significant uh potential.
This in fact has always been my dream when all this began was that the Republican Party would see what's going on here and learn from it.
And clearly they aren't.
They haven't the slightest idea that what's happening any more than the media does.
I mean, there's a they are being taken to school.
They are being schooled.
They are having it demonstrated for them how to get out of this rut that they are in.
And they don't see it.
Anyway, you got your phone calls coming up in some audio sound bites I want to start with now.
This is inside edition, pop culture, low information voter TV.
Correspondent Meghan Alexander reporting about Donald Trump's call to temporarily stop admitting Muslims to the U.S. Listen to this.
While many are condemning Trump's Muslim proposal, conservative talk radio is standing by him.
Here's what Worsh Limbaugh said.
He's confident that a lot of his voters are going to be stripped 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.
Even though Trump signed a pledge not to run as a third-party candidate, speculation is running wild that he may change his mind if he fails to win the Republican nomination.
See, there's a classic, and then this is a low information show.
I mean, it's it's it's pop culture, it's uh what is it, entertainment inside edition.
I mean, but she's still a product of J School.
And you hear how she opened this?
While many are condemning Trump's Muslim proposal, who are these many, Megan?
It's people like you.
Most are not.
That's what the news of the day is, Megan.
Pole after poll after poll, a plurality, a majority, no matter how you define it, happen to agree with Trump.
Yes, she opens her report.
Many are condemning what meant to convey that most people condemning what Trump says.
You know, he's in a vacuum, he's in a small little island of support on there he is out there, and he's got these wacko supporters like Limbaugh, blah, blah, blah.
Totally missing it.
Failing royally and grandly to understand it.
By the way, this third party pledge business.
Here we get, folks, your host looking awfully prescient.
You remember when this all happened, Trump's out there, Rince Previs had just gone to Trump's office at Trump Tower.
Rince Prebus comes down from the tower, waving the agreement.
Look what Trump did.
Trump signed the pledge.
He signed the pledge.
I said, Wait a second.
That's not the only thing that just happened here.
Yeah, Trump pledged not to go third party, but there was another part of that pledge.
And that pledge was that the party would support Trump if he got the nomination.
And already, John Kasich, whose dad was a mailman, the governor of Ohio, is out talking about how I don't think I could support Trump if he's the nominee.
Other nameless Republicans, I don't think I'd rather vote for Hillary.
Republican consultants, nameless, running other campaigns.
There's no way I'm voting Trump.
No, no, if he's a nominee for even if it's Cruz to know, I'm supporting Hillary.
That's another funny thing.
The media is really caught here, and so are the Republicans, because they desperately don't want Trump.
But who's in second place?
Somebody they actually fear more.
They hate Trump.
They feared Cruz.
And old Ted has been out there by this time, and he has uniquely positioned himself while the whole Republican Party, practically all of it's over there with the Democrats and the media.
Here's Trump.
And then just off to the side, there's little Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz waiting to pick up whatever pieces there might be.
And the media is over here, damn!
Damn, we're surrounded.
Oh my God.
Look, and if we take Trump out, what do we got?
We got Cruz.
Oh my God.
Where's Jepp?
Where's Jeb?
5%.
Oh no, how much we got left.
50 million.
Oh, that's plenty.
That's all they can think of.
And in none of their strategic rising, is anybody coming up with any ideas?
They're just trying to come up with strategies.
Uses of the money, but ideas, we're not hearing any ideas.
Well, that's a strategy.
Mike Murphy.
He's he's running Jeb Bush's uh pack.
What was the name of that pack?
It's Rise to Rise or Run to Rise or Rice to see the 75 million dollars in the pack, and Mike Murphy openly leaked.
I mean, he announced he's thinking of a strategy.
And that is to just take every other Republican out.
Just start Oppo research, negative TV ads, negative campaigns, negative spots on every Republican except Trump.
And people said to Murphy, well uh why why do you think of doing that?
Because we want a two-man race.
We want it, Jeb and Trump.
And when it's just Jeb and Trump, you wait.
Republican primary voters, no way are they not going to elect Jeb.
And everybody looked at him and said, Really?
Your evidence for this is.
Well.
And hey, Mike, have you thought about if you really do this, if you go scorched earth on all these guys, Rubio and Christie and Fiorina and whoever else?
Cruz, if you if you really do go scorched earth, you are taking those people out forever.
You're going to destroy their potential forever if you really embark on this.
Is it worth that much?
And the answer is, yeah, if we take out a bunch of potential conservative Republican nominees down the road, yeah, it'd be worth it.
Republican establishment, I think it'd be fine with a Hillary Clinton presidency if it meant the end of conservative dominance relevance within the Republican Party.
Even for 25 years.
I think there's that much animus for conservatives and conservatism throughout the elites, the ruling class, not just the Republicans.
Fox and Friends, this was this morning, Brian Kilmead and Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Steve Deucey are talking uh about Trump's call to temporarily stop admitting Muslims, and they had this little uh chat that you'll hear next here.
Rush Limbaugh put it great yesterday.
If every Republican is outraged and everybody says it's such a disaster, why is He beating you.
If everybody is so upset about this, why does he continue to beat you everywhere?
The prediction was that he would make these comments, he made these comments, and then afterward his numbers would plummet.
But that's not what happened.
Will those comments hurt him in the primary from what we've seen so far?
Doesn't look like it.
Now to remind you what happened, the first voice you heard there was Brian Kilmead.
And I was I was bouncing off a comment from Carly Fiorina yesterday, who in her efforts to seek and win the nomination herself was running around saying that Hillary Clinton would mop the floor with Donald Trump.
Then Hillary Clinton would just wipe the floor with Trump.
Trump can no way beat Hillary Clinton, so we've got to make sure we don't nominate Trump.
And I said, well, if Hillary can mop the floor with Trump, why aren't you?
And that's what the Fox and Friends people took and built upon.
I mean, if beating Trump is so easy, how come nobody seems to be able to do it?
If beating Trump is so easy for the Democrats to do, if it's so automatic that Trump is going to lose in a landslide, why is he beating all of you?
By the way, Killmead.
You know, I like Kilme.
Killmead's got a he's writing a bunch of books.
He's got a uh a history book out.
You know, I love people that tell the truth about American history.
As long as they leave the young child audience to me, they're fine.
And so far, Killmead has not encroached on Rush Revere.
And time travel adventures with exceptional Americans.
He's got a great book, Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, The Forgotten War That Changed American History, and this is r the Tripoli Pirates.
Do you know who they were?
That was Thomas Jefferson that was United States' first involvement with Islamic terrorists.
The Barbary Pirates.
Tripoli Pirates, whatever.
You ought to go back and read what Jefferson has written about them.
Anyway, that's what Kilmeade's book is about.
And I think the last I heard Kilmeade's book in the list that he's on, nonfiction, I think he was at number two, and climbing.
It's a good thing he didn't say killing Jefferson.
Then people would have been confused.
I'm just kidding.
Thomas Jefferson, the Tripoli Pirates, Forgotten War that Changed America.
This is this is crucial.
This is really Jefferson was so on the money about this, and he was the first American to be aware of and concerned about and do something about the Triple Air, the Barbary Pirates.
You ought to read what he enough said.
He was um well, he got it.
Let's put it this way.
He got Islamic extremism.
I gotta take a break, we'll come back and get to your calls after this, folks.
Hang in there, be tough.
Talent.
More talent than I even need.
On loan from God.
Your guiding light through all of it.
Rush Limbaugh in the afternoon on the EIB Network.
Well, it's in the morning out of the left coast.
Here is Carolyn Hazelton, Pennsylvania, as we start with the phones.
Hi, Carol.
How are you?
I'm fine, thank you.
Uh merry Christmas to you.
Same to you.
Rush, and I was in the middle of baking cookies when I had a thought.
Wow.
Um, you were talking earlier about moral authority, and I'm thinking there is one person who has the moral authority, but because he is moral, he won't use it against Trump, and that's Ted Cruz.
And heaven forbid that the establishment or the media would ever go to Ted Cruz, because as you said earlier, they fear him as much as they dislike Donald Trump.
Well, I think I think they fear Cruz more than they dislike him.
Well, probably.
Let me see if I understand what you're saying.
You're you you you think that Ted Cruz has sufficient moral authority that if he were to condemn Trump on any whatever it is, that he that he could damage Trump's support?
I think so, but he won't do it because he is a moral man.
And he refused to attack Any Republican to begin with.
And he says what he he does, what he says he's going to do.
He promised that.
He said he would tell us the truth.
And that he would do what he says he's going to do.
And I think that applies even in this election.
That he said he would not attack any of his fellow Republicans on anything except policy.
Right.
And he won't.
He attacked the press plenty, as we know in the last debate.
And he has it certainly attacked policies of various candidates, but he will not attack them personally.
Well, how do you think this is going to end up, Carol?
Who do you think is going to be the Republican nominee?
I think Ted Cruz is.
I thought so from the get-go.
And I know he has a lot of hurdles to get over, mainly the Republican establishment, because they are out to destroy just about anybody except Jeb Bush, seems like to me.
At least when I'm watching television, you can almost you can almost hear the dislike of some of these commentators when they are speaking directly to Cruz.
Sean Hannity.
He's smarter than they are.
See, that's not supposed to be.
He's smarter than they are, and they know it.
And that's just not that's not tolerable.
Not at all.
Oh, yeah, here we are, December 10.
You know, tomorrow's my brother's birthday.
Tomorrow my brother David's birthday is tomorrow, December 11th.
And you know what you could do for him, folks?
He loves this latest book of his, the Emmaus Code.
And if you and it's it's such a great book for Christmas time, because it's it's all about m my brother has is become a scholar on the Bible, and he has evolved a well, it's not his theory, but very few um have ever explored it to the extent that he has, and that is that the old testament actually contains evidence of the coming of Christ.
And it is something he fervently devoutly believes and is trying to share with people.
And his book's been out a couple of three months now.
His birthday is tomorrow, and uh he's running around buying Christmas cards.
I happen to know that now because I just I tracked his iPhone.
When I was home, I turned on his and I know where he is now, and so he's he's at a Walgreens, he's buying Christmas.
Well, I think he just left.
And uh he's buying Christmas cards, and I just happened to tomorrow's his birthday, so this is uh Well, I this was on CNN yesterday.
Now see if you think this is goofy or not.
CNN ran a story on their so somebody postulates.
I don't I I didn't see the story, I'm only reading about it, so I don't know who on CNN believes this, or if it's somebody believes it that CNN's covering, but they explored the possibility that Trump and Hillary have a secret pact.
Jeb Bush floated this out and it's well, I don't when did this happen?
When did he tweet this?
No, you don't have to get it.
I believe I've got enough paper here.
I don't need it, I don't need to tweet.
I just if you say Jeb Bush tweeted this out, then I believe it.
I don't know that that's what CNN did.
I mean, I don't know if that's the source for CNN's story.
Oh, I'm sorry, it is, because it's very fine print here, citing tweets from Carly Fiorina and Jeb Bush, in addition to Trump's own past statements in favor of Hillary.
So I guess it is Fiorina and Jeb are putting out there the possibility that this whole tramp a Trump campaign is a sabotage.
It is designed to get Hillary elected, that Trump knew from the get-go he was gonna be able to siphon off enough Republican bigots.
This is how the theory goes, folks.
Now just I just not me.
I'm telling you this is how the left, the media, and all these other people think this is going.
Trump and Hillary get together, they agree that there's enough bigots and racists in this country that Trump could siphon off enough of them in a fake campaign.
Go out and say this outrageous stuff that knowingly knowing bigots and racists would just love to hear.
And glam on, and then a Republican Party would go ape and not support Trump if he gets close to winning.
Trump then goes third party like Perot did, which guarantees Hillary Clinton the presidency.
And CNN did all of that off of these Bush and Fiorina tweets.
And this is, I guarantee you, one of the media's tactics or techniques to try to uh shall we say weaken Trump's support by making his supporters think,
by reporting, and then having it get broadly assimilated out there that uh uh or amplified that all of this is a giant trick, that Trump and Hillary are in league, that Trump wants Hillary to be the next president, and it just to guarantee this they're setting up another third party run that will siphon enough Republican votes away from Jeb Bush, the eventual nominee to guarantee Hillary's victory.
So it's out there.
CNN's the first to do it, and I predict that you will be hearing more and more of this as more media outlets report this as a some have speculated, some are saying, not us, of course.
No, no, no.
Some are saying that, and then have expert guests come in to analyze the possibility.
And a bunch of Republican think tank types, oh, it's entirely within the realm of possibility for Donald Trump.
Are you kidding?
He does this kind of trickery and business all the time.
And he has the ability to get these Republican racists and bigots in the palm of his hand.
Everybody knows that.
Yes, it could very well be what's going on out there, Anderson, or some such thing.
So I am just warning you.
But the like that is all BS.
I have another question for you.
Spinning off Carly Fiorina saying, look, we got to get rid of Trump because Hillary's gonna wipe the floor with him.
And my response was, well, if it's that easy to beat Trump, why aren't you?
My question is this.
If Donald Trump can beat the United States media, why can't he also beat Hillary Clinton?
Hmm.
Why can't if he can beat the media, and nobody's been able to do that, then why can't he also beat Hillary?
If you beat the media, that's halfway or more on the way to beating Hillary, is it not, or any Democrat nominee.
Oh, by the way, there's another theory running around out there that I've heard.
And it has nothing to do with his third party business.
This is the theory I had this explained to me one afternoon last week after the program.
Rush, something you really ought to consider.
I said, What's that?
Trump has no intention of staying in this race, he has no intention of winning this thing, he has no desire to be president, he doesn't want to be shackled.
You better be ready for what's really happening here, Rush.
And I said, Well, what is it?
Just tell me.
Trump is pulling a prank on the country.
He's running a practical joke on the entire political system.
Trump thinks that the political system in the media is so chocked full of absolute idiots that he's demonstrating it.
He's showing how phony everybody is, how easy it is, he's trying to prove what a bunch of bigots exist in this country.
He's trying to prove how dangerous this country is because of all the races and bigots and how easy it is to mobilize them.
You better be ready for this rush.
You better be ready.
Now, when these kinds of theories surface, and otherwise intelligent, reasonable people say they believe that they are possible, then we're reaching a point where whatever it is that's happening with Trump is driving people baddie.
You've heard the old saw that the simplest explanation for a complex scenario is usually the best.
The simplest explanation is usually what's right.
The simplest explanation is the explanation.
Well, when people come along and look at something as pretty simple and trying to complicate it and create all these different theories to explain it, you realize they are nearing their wit's end in being able to deal with it.
So they're probably going to be even more of these conspiracy theories, if you will, that will pop up.
But this business that Trump and Hillary are aligned to sabotage the Republicans and elect Hillary.
I think that one is going to have some legs in the drive-bys.
Because the drive-bys are panicked.
They've got to come up with something that would explain this that would exonerate them.
And this could do that.
Just keep a sharp eye to see what happens with this and how it unfolds if it does, but don't be surprised if it does.
And it's time to head back to the phones here in the Rush Limbaugh program at EIB network, Ray in Plainfield, New Jersey.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
I want to throw another theory out there.
Hopefully it's a simple one.
I don't believe that the Republican establishment has any interest whatsoever in winning the presidency.
Hmm.
And the reason I say that is if you look at what happened in the last election, uh Mitt Ronnie had no interest in being conservative, uh consulting with conservatives or making uh us a part of his program.
There's a platform.
To me, that's all the evidence you need.
And I think the I think Trump is created in the Petri dish of Republican fecklessness, where they go in and they tell us they're gonna do all these things and they're gonna hurrunk for up for up.
And frankly, we're just tired of it.
And I I will say it this way.
If uh those in the Republican establishments, Marco, all you guys, Jeb, everybody, you need to understand who it is that gets you elected.
Even George Bush was not necessarily a conservative, but we voted for him.
So all I'm gonna say is if we if they don't get on board and uh appreciate where we're coming from, then they know all that.
Hillary.
Ray, they know all that.
They don't want us anywhere near the reins of power.
They would be happy to gain power themselves via our votes, but that's as far as they want to go.
I disagree.
I think they desperately want to win the White House.
And I think they want to win the White House so they can please and pay back their donors.
I think they wanted to win control of the Senate so they can get their committee chairmanships and pay back the donors.
I think they desperately want this.
But at the same time, they do not want to be thought of or known as conservatives.
And that's why there isn't any outreach to the Tea Party.
There has been no effort whatsoever to coalesce a majority behind the Tea Party, starting in 2010 when the Tea Party came to life.
Um due to Obamacare.
You you say that the Republican Party's fecklessness has actually been the Petri dish that created Trump.
To a certain extent, I agree with that.
But I also think the last seven years of Obama have set the stage for somebody like Trump.
This is what the establishment doesn't get.
Let me just speak bluntly.
The people of this country are outraged over what Obama and the Democrats have done to it the last seven years.
And they cannot believe that there's not a single Republican in the establishment who even comes close to saying anything like that.
The people of this country, and I'm talking about a majority of people are livid, they are angry, and they are also scared.
Their health care system has been turned upside down and made more expensive and less good, less efficient.
The country is being overrun with people who are going to end up depressing wages, taking jobs, and harming people's ability to improve their standard of living.
The majority of the American people know full well and they don't oppose this.
None of this is rooted in bigotry or racism or any of this.
It's rooted in love of and for the country.
And they don't see any of that love for the country that they feel in Washington.
They don't see it represented, they don't see it talked about, they don't see anybody expressing the same things they feel and think about this country in Washington from either party.
So Trump comes along, says the things he says, and really all it takes is Trump saying, I'm gonna make America great again.
And that's enough for a bunch of them.
But then Trump puts icing on the cake by identifying the very problems a majority of people in this country know are responsible for the problems that exist.
And Trump says he's going to stop it and he's going to fix it.
And that's what a majority of the American people want.
It isn't about ideology anymore.
It isn't about conservatism and being thoroughbred conservative.
It's about stopping what has been put in play by Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.
A majority of the American people continue to hear Barack Obama and the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton, and they know that if this party continues to win, the things that have done, been done that damage this country are going to continue.
The people I'm talking about have elected Republicans twice, 2010, 2014, in vast majorities to stop this.
The people they voted for have not stopped it.
Their patience has run out.
Their loyalty has been shown to be one way.
They're simply opting for somebody else who is making them believe that he understands and agrees with them about everything these problems represent and is going to fix them.
It's no more complicated than that.
A vast majority of the people in this country are appalled at what has gone on the past seven years and want it to stop.
It's no more complicated than that.
No, I don't for a minute believe that Trump is in league with Hillary Clinton.
I know how seductive that might be to people who are scared to death and in panic and love conspiracy theories, but I will explain why I think that's a crock.
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