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Jan. 4, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 4, 2016, Monday, Hour #3
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Isn't it great to have me back, folks?
Face it.
I know it's great to be back, and I know you think it's great that I'm back, so it's good to all be here.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushmow at EIB net.com.
Now, I mentioned Bill Clinton earlier.
He made his first solo campaign appearance for Hillary in New Hampshire today.
Now, I I mentioned I wasn't able to listen to the whole thing.
It was rambling.
It was it was.
It was not compelling.
You know, the idea that Bill Clinton has this magic and this charisma and so forth, and I guess the Democrats, he probably always will.
But this was not vintage Bill Clinton.
This now, granted, I didn't hear it from the beginning, and I didn't listen to the whole thing at this point.
I couldn't.
I had the chance to.
It was before the program started.
I'd listen to a couple minutes of it.
I don't even know what this is about or where this is going, so I would turn it off and focus on show prep other things.
And I decided to check back in with it later.
You know, some few minutes later.
And again, I had I could not tell what he was talking about, even by listening to a two-minute segment.
One thing I did know, he did not lash out at Trump per se.
He took it, he took an indirect swipe at Trump.
And he did something that has become a popular technique that is employed by Obama all the time.
And predominantly Obama, but but Democrats as well.
But Clinton essentially said how great it is that we have always been an open country, and that we should not do anything to compromise our values.
And that we must always stand up for our values.
You know, Obama's always talking about this.
His line is uh, that's not who we are.
Well, whatever he's talking about, Republicans want to do, that's not who we are.
We have got show our values.
And it always seems to manifest itself in order for us to show our values, we must compromise them.
We must abandon them.
In order to show the world what we don't have to prove ourselves to the world anymore.
This is another thing that kind of burns me up.
The world already knows what we are.
That's why they all want to live here.
We don't have anything to prove to anybody.
We don't have to prove freedom or liberty.
We are it.
That's why people want to come here.
We're not some new country trying something that's never been done before, and we gotta go out of our way to show it and prove it and live it by example.
We've done that for over 200 years.
We're not a mystery.
And yet to listen to Obama and Hillary and now Bill Clinton today, somehow it is a mystery, and the rest of the world can't figure us out.
We have got to show constantly our values.
We cannot succumb to whatever it is the Republicans in this case might be proposing, or Trump, uh be it on immigration or refugees coming into the country or spending or whatever.
And folks, it frosts me.
You know, w we do not have to commit suicide in order to demonstrate that we are an open country or a nation of immigrants or whatever, and that's what they're trying to get us to do.
There it continues to be a record number of undocumented children that now have to be housed and fed, and that's more spending, and no efforts made to stop it.
Because that would be that would be violating our values, being an open country.
Well, just as it's said the Constitution's not a suicide pact.
Well, neither is any of the rest of this.
We do not have to commit national suicide in order to show the world our values.
We're not in a contest with Iran or Saudi Arabia when it comes to liberty and freedom.
That's already been decided.
The rest of the world knows where they'd rather live.
This idea that we have to keep proving ourselves, even if it means watering ourselves down and diluting ourselves, and there's Bill Clinton talking about it.
Have we got to remain an open country.
What he means by that, anybody wants to come in, we gotta let them, because that's who we are.
Well it isn't who we are.
It's never been who we are.
We have always controlled who got in and what happened to them after they got here.
We have asked them their religion.
We have let them in or not based on that.
We always have to listen to Obama and now Clinton thought that would be discrimination.
We couldn't do that.
That's a violation of our values.
It's not maintaining who we are is priority number one, not allowing that to be watered down, diluted or destroyed.
These people want it to be watered down, diluted and destroyed who we are in the name of preserving our value.
It burns me up and they act like at all costs we must do that because we every day, we're the ones who have to prove to the world our values.
We're the ones who have to show the world that we're not what people think of us.
It just burns me up when the rest of the world already knows what the rest of the world what they're you know what they're really doing?
They're wondering what in the world is the United States doing to itself is what they're asking how in the hell can the United States be permitting itself to be attacked and dismembered this way.
That's what many responsible people around the world are asking I found a piece that sort of goes where I was talking about the first hour my generalization realization that we are we we've lost any kind of moral boundary.
We've certainly squandered our own moral authority we we act like we don't have any moral authority.
We're guilty of this guilty of that Obama runs around apologizing for so we don't have the authority to stand up for what we think is right anymore.
And that's what this all you know we must be true to our values crap means it's a piece interestingly enough in a UK telegraph by a over there a famous column by the name of Christopher Booker the headline is our spoiled emasculated despiritualized societies in the West are in terminal decline.
This is exactly what I had in mind.
As we enter this new year, writes Mr. Booker what is the most significant feature of how the world is changing that went almost unnoticed in the year just ended two events last autumn might give us a clue one was the very peculiar nature of that state visit in October when the president of the ChICOMs was taken into a golden coach or taken in a golden coach to
stay at Buckingham Palace down a mall lined with hundreds of placards waving pro China signs.
Well the only people manhandled away by Chinese security guards were a few protesters against China's treatment of Tibet and the ChICOM abuses of human rights.
Led by David Cameron, our politicians could not have fawned more humiliatingly on the leader of a country whose economy before its recent wobbles was predicted by the IMF to overtake that of the U.S. as the largest in the world in 2016 while Britain once led the world in steelmaking and the civil use of nuclear power the visit of the CHICOM leader coincided with the crumbling of the remains of our steel industry before
a flood of cheap Chinese steel, as our politicians pleaded for China's help in building to an obsolete design the most costly nuclear power station in the world.
What we are seeing in 2015, more than ever before, were the signs of one of history's great geopolitical shifts, as the centuries-old hegemony of the West gives way to the new powerhouses of the outside were
world in the face of every kind of new external challenge the leaders of the European Union and the United States have never looked weaker or more bemused as over how to deal with the flood of refugees and the terrorist threat unleashed from a Middle East reduced to chaos by our vainglorious interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.
And I would take issue with that.
I I folks, you want to know what's causing the Middle East to it's Obama.
For crying out loud, the West led by Obama has sidled up with bad actors in the Middle East we've never sidled up with before.
We have sidled up with militant Islam.
We've sided up with the Muslim Brotherhood, and now our best buddies in the Middle East is not Saudi Arabia and not Jordan.
It's Iran.
You don't think that's messing things up?
You don't think that's causing people panic?
Look, I'm not going to make any defense here, Saudi Arabia.
I mean, it's it's despicable.
But look, in terms of allied status, picking the lesser of evils and so forth, which you must do in foreign policy when you're dealing with people that have different circumstances, values, and objectives than you do, you still nevertheless have allies.
And the Saudis, to one extent or another, flawed though it may be, have always been allies.
We have now changed that allied status.
We are allied because of Obama with Iran.
We have seen to it that by virtue of Obama's nuclear deal that Iran now has 150 billion dollars to do with whatever it wants, including shore up state sponsored terrorism, rebuild their national airline, whatever it is, while getting the permission from us to go ahead and nuke up.
You want to talk about something that destabilizes a region?
Let the state sponsor of terrorism in the world have clear free access to nuclear weaponry.
The Saudis weren't pursuing that.
Jordan was not pursuing that.
Egypt was not pursuing it.
Al Qaeda is, but not from the standpoint of becoming nuclear power.
They just want a couple of nukes for suitcases or however they can use it as a terrorist weapon, ditto the Muslim Brotherhood and what have you.
But the king of that hill is Iran, and that's who we've signed up with, and that's why this ISIS problem is a problem, because Iran is an ally of ISIS.
And that's why we're not doing anything to ISIS.
We don't want to tick off Iran.
So the Saudis, yeah, they go execute some sheikh and it causes problems with the Saudis' real problem is that we have now allied with Iran.
And Iran is their feared neighbor and enemy in that region.
This is Shi'ite versus Sunni in one sense, it's nuclear versus conventional in another.
It was bad enough the U.S. had ties with Israel.
I mean, the whole Middle East Muslim region was outraged at that word, but now picking of all those Middle Eastern states picking Iran to essentially get in bed with.
I mean Iran and us aligned is as damaging, if not more so, than whatever has happened in Iraq and Afghanistan, you know, the terrorist recruitment tool.
Anyway, back to Mr. Booker here.
Everywhere we see Western illusions colliding with reality, as when the reckless bid to suck Ukraine into the EU and NATO inevitably provoked a response from Putin, left us looking pathetically impotent.
And that really is it.
We look pathetically impotent in places we used to be the dominant player.
And we were the dominant player because we had the moral authority to be the dominant player because we were looking out for the best interests of everybody.
You can't say that about Iran.
Now all of that is coming into question.
But we've lost whatever moral authority we had.
It's been squandered.
Likewise, in his support for Basher Assad, Putin has run rings around not just Obama, but the European Union too.
Just as the murderous regime in Iran ran rings around us in that recent so-called nuclear deal, so meaningless that Iran's moderate President Rouani never even bothered to sign it.
another thing?
That deal hasn't been signed and it doesn't have to be signed.
This is the strange we have just tacitly agreed to let Iran nuke up at their pace, whatever they nothing's been signed, which means nothing has to be ratified.
As long as Obama's in office, he can do whatever he wants.
The Republicans have said they're not going to take any steps to stop him.
Corker bill, notwithstanding it was designed to further this along.
So the nuke deal doesn't even have to be signed.
In fact, the better that it's not, since it isn't signed, it cannot be re rejected or repealed.
It's just there as a statement of principles, quote unquote.
We then saw that even more meaningless, non-binding deal in Paris, supposed to save the world from global warming.
The very fact that it was the West that had dreamed up this scare in the first place.
Climate change was yet another symptom of how easily we fall for illusions.
And again, it was the outside world led by China and India that refused to buy such nonsense.
And that's the key.
The ChICOMs are sitting back and watching us implode.
They are watching us shackle ourselves with political correctness, preserving our values.
They are sitting around watching and they're betting betting that they're going to be able to pick up whatever pieces.
And make no mistake.
The ChICOMs consider us, if nothing else, an economic enemy.
The ChICOMs want to dominate the world.
They want their economy to dominate the world, and they're just like any other communist regime.
They are willing to pounce whenever they see any kind of weakness.
Weakness that they can inspire, weakness that they can sponsor, weakness than they could capitalize on.
It's not like the millennials of these, they just want to get along and not have anybody's feelings get hurt.
It's not the real world that the millennials live today, where nobody's insulted and nobody's feelings are hurt, and everybody just gets along and so forth, and no judgment on anybody ever takes place.
There's a real world still out there made up of bad actors and vicious mean people who do not intend us anything but ill.
And in the past we've always recognized it, and we've always been able to defend against it and be prepared for it.
And now it appears we're squandering even being prepared for it.
Just because we're we're jettising our own morality.
We're jettising our own standards.
We are diluting and watering down our own institutions that have defended and protected this.
It's just mind-boggling to me.
I'll take a break.
Back after this, folks.
Here's Sarah in Billings, Montana.
Sarah, glad you waited.
I'm uh happy to welcome into the program.
Hi.
I'm a conservative.
My family members are conservative.
Several family members said they will not vote if Donald Trump gets a nomination.
I'm concerned the same thing will happen like the last election.
Just wondering what your thoughts are.
Uh well, my thoughts are I need to ask you some some questions.
Uh let's see, you won't vote Trump if he gets a nomination, and that a lot of Republicans won't show up if he does, and that we'll just lose again.
What what what about Trump do you not like?
It's not me that's saying this, it's my family members.
They think that he is very rough around the edges, that he's unpredictable.
At least with Hillary, you know you can't get any worse than Obama.
So because Trump is unpredictable, they're not willing to vote at all.
You know, people that are that are not willing to vote.
Um that's that's to me that's a that's quite a threat.
You know, it's almost I wouldn't I wouldn't put it up there with uh with blackmail, but at the same time, if somebody says I'm not gonna vote, one of my reactions, well, then why should I listen to you?
I mean, you're you're you're willing to take yourself out of the process.
You're willing to make yourself a non-factor.
In fact, if anything, you may be furthering the election of that which you profess to dislike.
I mean, it doesn't make any sense to me in in that sense, given the importance of this election coming up.
I mean, I understand people don't think Trump's conservative.
Uh, but do they see no value whatsoever in what's happening here in this campaign?
You know, I think it's about Trump's morals and his presentation.
They don't like him.
Okay, that's interesting.
Well, we'll deal with that when we get back.
Thanks, Sarah, very much.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I heard what she said.
I just we had limited time there.
I actually am lucky Sarah was uh talented enough to say what she wanted to say in a limited amount of time, and I didn't have any time to respond to her.
I heard what she said.
I'm checking the email.
Right, she said Miles, Trump Miles, what about the Clinton's morals?
I heard it.
All right?
Let me let me react to this here.
Uh I I think you're misunderstanding.
When somebody like Sarah calls, and remember, she wasn't talking about herself.
No, no, no.
She was talking about her friends and family.
And she said her friends and family don't like Trump's morals, and they don't like it rough around the edges, they don't like the way he talks.
And so if he gets a nomination, they're gonna take it out on the Republican Party by not voting.
They're not saying, look, I know these people.
They're not saying that they prefer Hillary's morals.
They want to punish the Republicans.
It's like the the four million that didn't vote in 2012.
You know, and by the way, the Republican Party and the drive-by is that they're engaging in pushback now.
You know, they're trying to tell us that the four million that didn't show up in it in the first place there weren't four million that didn't show up, they're trying to say.
And the next thing they're trying to tell us is, no, no, no, no, there weren't people upset with Romney because he wasn't conservative, but that's not what happened.
It is.
And those people didn't show up because they're mad at the Republican Party.
What it's not that they are doing what they do because they prefer the values of the Democrats, they want to punish everybody by having the Democrats win.
That's the objective here.
When you say harumph harumph, I don't like Trump.
He's rough around the edges, I don't like the way he talks, and he's not a conservative.
And if he's the nominee, I'm not voting.
It's just another way of saying notice me, no, hey, I'm important out here.
I'm important, I'm gonna I don't like Trump, and if I don't like Trump, then you're not gonna get what you want.
And and if that means you get the Clintons, then deal with it.
It's not that they think the Clintons are more moral in Trump.
I mean, I don't think anybody would make that if we're gonna talk about morality.
There's nobody on a Democrat side, folks, that's that's gonna Trump.
Anybody on the Republican side here.
I don't think anybody's preferring Clinton's morals.
This is more like if I don't get what I want, I'm gonna punish you by making sure you don't get what you want.
And she said something about she didn't like her, not her, not her.
Not a very important, it wasn't her, it's her family.
That didn't like Trump's presentation.
Which is another way of saying they don't like the way Trump insults people and he calls people losers and third rate.
Uh and all that.
You know why I don't mind it?
It's uh because of it's uh uh for the most part I happen to agree with what he's saying about the people he's describing when he's talking about the Democrats and Obama and all these others.
I don't think there's any mystery why why Trump is doing well.
Well, you know what I'll tell you the couple of very, very interesting things that I have seen uh over the break.
And this one is fascinating.
And again, it's the drive-by media pointing outside.
I don't know how much of it you can believe.
But the nuts and bolts of this are that a lot of Trump's voters supporters have no plans to vote.
Have you seen those stories?
You see those stories last week?
That the biggest challenge the Trump people have is actually getting their supporters to go vote.
They love the guy, they show up at his rallies, they're cheering, but a lot of them, why they don't really plan to go to the trouble of voting.
This is what these stories said.
I have never seen that written or postulated about any other candidate supporters.
I've never seen that.
Not that I can remember.
Yeah, Reagan's got a whole bunch of supporters out there, but the big challenge is going to get them to show up at polls on elections.
I've never seen that said.
But it was all over the news last week about Trump's voters.
And then there's this.
And this, I have I've tried to make this point for I don't know how long.
Well, two or three months.
Last three months of last year.
This is actually it's from New Year's Eve when I printed this out.
Um, so this is a story from late 2015.
It's in the New York Times.
They're their number cruncher ran the statistics on Trump's supporters, at least as they're able to determine Trump supporters.
And you know who the number one support group of Trump is?
According to the New York Times.
Registered Democrats.
Now, I know many of you conservatives who don't like Trump are going, yeah, yeah, yeah, see, see, I knew it, I knew it.
It's a Democrats are like, we're getting sandbagged, we're getting tricked, it's a Democrats are like Trump rush, they're running a reverse operation chaos.
I'm telling you what they're doing, and you're falling for I've heard it all, folks.
I understand.
Don't I'm not falling for anything.
A B, I remain wary of all this.
But nevertheless, let's just tell you what they say here.
Nate Cohn is the is the number cruncher here, the statistician New York Times reveals Donald Trump holds his greatest strength among registered Democrats who identify as Republican leaders, leaners.
So Trump's number one support group is registered Democrats who are leaning Republican in the polling data out there, meaning Reagan Democrats is who we're talking about here.
Trump fares best in a broad swath of the country stretching from the Gulf Coast up the spine of the Appalachian Mountains to upstate New York.
What if I told you?
What would you do if I told you that some in the deep dark crevices of both parties' establishment and apparatus?
What if I were to tell you that some of the big money meet people and powerful thinkers in both parties are starting to calculate that Donald Trump could win New York as a Republican in the presidential race.
Have you seen that?
Well, it's in there.
There's a story today, if you'll take a look.
I've got it somewhere here in a snack.
My point is that there's such fear out there in both parties that there's this guy can win New York.
Oh my God.
He may lose New Hampshire and Iowa, though.
And if that happens, and all this is out the window, and all the bets are off, but there's still sheer panic out there where Trump is concerned.
Trump's best state is West Virginia, followed by New York.
Eight of Trump's ten best congressional districts are in New York.
Trump's strength fades as one heads west.
Nearly all of his weakest states are west of the Mississippi River.
Trump leads among Republican women and among people in well educated and affluent areas.
Trump even holds a nominal lead among Republican respondents that are Hispanic based on their names and where they live.
And Trump has held the steady supportive of 26 and 32% of the vote for the five straight months that they've been polling here at the New York Times.
Now, here's the thing.
And I've made this observation before.
For all of you who are conservative and say Trump's not a conservative.
I couldn't support him.
I don't know why you are Rush.
A, I'm not supporting anybody.
I'm just telling you what goes on day to day here.
You'll know when I'm supporting somebody.
I've got two or three ways this could go.
I would not be unhappy.
I don't have all my eggs tied to one basket.
I never do.
Anyway, for those of you who are conservative, who say, I've never voted for Trump.
You better keep one thing.
That's exactly what the Republican Party wants.
You understand the Republican Party wants to rid themselves of you?
The Republican Party, Jeb Bush, Jeb Bush made it plain as day.
Jeb Bush's objective was to win the Republican nomination despite the base.
Remember this original plan?
He had so much money, he was going to have so much money, he was going to wrap up all the delegates with that money.
Even if he lost the primary vote of conservatives in in many states.
Now you know as well as I do the Republican Party's not happy with its base.
They're embarrassed of its base.
Let me I got a almost a perfect illustration.
How many of you have watched on Netflix?
The documentary, The Making of a Murderer.
You haven't?
Oh.
Folks, you have to watch this.
It's about.
I have to be real careful describing this.
It's a documentary, it's not it, but it's there's no actors in it.
It's all the real people.
It's about a sequence of events in Manitowak County, Wisconsin, back starting in 2003 up to the present, involving a man named Stephen Avery, who was imprisoned by the Manitowac County Sheriff's Department for 18 years for a crime he didn't commit.
DNA evidence cleared him.
Shortly after he got out of jail, after he was released, a murder happened on the Avery property, and he has been convicted of that murder.
The law enforcement went right after him.
So he's back in jail, been in jail for a number of years now.
The documentary tells the whole story.
This poor guy's got an IQ of 70.
His family is in the auto-salvage business.
They are I'll tell you what they are.
They are what?
Elites think of the Republican base.
Maybe a bit of an exaggeration there.
IQ70, ill-spoken, hick, hayseed, maybe a little slow, not the brightest people around, embarrassing to be around.
You wouldn't want to be anywhere near them.
You give thanks every day.
You're not them.
It's a bit of an exaggeration.
So So my point is the Republican Party has done everything it can to signal that it would like a new base.
My point is that Donald Trump has come along and has put together a coalition of people that the Republican Party claims it wants.
He's running strong with Hispanics, Men.
He's running strong with women.
He's got his number one support group is disaffected Democrats.
The old Reagan Democrats.
I mean, these are the people that the Republicans tell us that's the reason they need to support Amnesty.
The reason they've got to support the Obama Jack is they're going to go out and they got to show people that they're capable of working with Democrats and getting things done.
I mean, Trump's coalition is almost exactly what the Republican Party claims it wants, and yet they're out there doing everything they can to destroy it.
Well, it must mean it's not actually what they want, or it is what they want, but they want one of their elites to be responsible for putting it all together.
I don't know.
It's all it's all fascinating.
Uh to me.
In a whole lot of different ways.
I gotta take a break here on way long.
I just saw the clock.
Sorry, be right back.
Now it's called The Making of a Murderer.
Ten episodes, about an hour each.
It's on Netflix.
It's a documentary, it's got videotape of trials.
You just you should watch this.
Uh I I don't want to prejudice it in any greater way than that, but uh I could.
And I mean, Jeff in Orange Beach, Alabama.
Uh, welcome to the program, sir.
Great to have you here.
Rush, how are you?
So good to talk to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
Well, I was in Biloxi on Saturday night.
A dear friend of mine happens to be the chair of the campaign, and I'm an elected official, and I was hesitant to go.
But when I got there, I ran into mayors of major cities in Mississippi.
I ran into some of the biggest loyals in Mississippi, and every one of them are there to die hard supporting us.
And the conversation was we were afraid to be seen because the GOP would be so mad at us, and it would have back percussions on us.
Repercussions if we were seen there.
But the truthful, I mean, what he spoke is an undercurrent going on across the country of people are tired of the political correctness, and he just says it the way it is.
And everything you're discussing about who is there and who the GOP thinks is there, they're wrong.
There's a small percentage.
But the people that I saw there were die-hard voters and diehard Republicans.
Well, I know something about this.
Uh, there were 15,000 people at this event in Biloxi.
And Trump.
Now, this is this is uh uh an indication.
Nobody else does this.
Trump spotted a CNN photographer, and he had the presence of mind to know that the CNCN photographer was not showing the entire crowd.
And from the stage, Trump called this guy out and challenged him to show the entire crowd.
You did your camera, you aim it, you show everybody who's here.
You show the size of this crowd because they weren't.
He called them out on it.
That's something that doesn't just crowd stood up and cheered.
They loved it.
Because to the many of the people in this country, you've also got to beat the media if you want to win an election.
It's not just the Democrats, you gotta beat the media because they're one and the same.
Um there's a story in the New York Post, elites and media really hate Donald Trump's voters.
I I've talked about this in my own way on a number of occasions, and that's true too.
It's uh along the lines of Republican Party not happy with its own base.
But look, I'm out of time for today.
Uh no, but there's always tomorrow, and all of this will be continued in great detail.
Hang on, we'll wrap up here in a minute.
You know, folks, nothing ever ends here.
We just have to take a little delay, sometimes a pause, but we continue everything.
So if your whistle has been wetted, hang in there and be back with us tomorrow.
We will keep going.
Thanks very much for being with us.
Great to be back, folks.
See you tomorrow.
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