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Jan. 5, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 5, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Now, I'm just sitting here thinking, the CNN's interviewing a gun owner.
And where do you think the gun owner store is?
Geochey.
Yes, they're going to go find gun shops in the South, and they're going to talk to gun shop owners in the South.
Now, you might be rushed CNN is in Georgia.
It would make sense they'd find it near.
They're also in New York.
But they sent somebody out to find a gun shop in Georgia.
It fulfills the image that they have of Second Amendment supporters and gun enthusiasts, hunters, and so forth, a bunch of hayseeds.
Obama, I mentioned this.
He had a tear.
He cried at the end of his show today in the White House.
And he said, I think, you know, I got nothing to prove in my last year.
And I really don't, I don't know why we have to impugn people's motives.
I don't know why we have to impune.
Well, sir, I'll tell you, your motive is all that matters.
Because your motive tells us the why, obviously.
The motive is what's crucial here.
The motive tells us how serious you are about this.
The motive and the objective are all we need to know.
You know, they've tried this with alcohol.
As you well know, mothers against drug drivers, I mean, they've tried to penalize, punish bartenders and bars for selling adult beverages to people who later had accidents.
Well, DUI.
I mean, don't think that they're not going to go to doctors here.
You know, folks, who do you think might be, as far as the left is concerned, a prime target for somebody a family member could claim is mentally ill or a doctor could decide is unstable and not all there.
How about veterans returning from the theater of combat?
I mean, as far as many Americans are concerned, they're all upset.
How many movies have there been portraying returning veterans as incapable of adjusting to peacetime?
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
I would wager that many Americans think that your average returning soldier from Afghanistan, Iraq, anywhere where there are hostilities comes back and cannot cope for some reason or other.
Insomnia, flashbacks, undiagnosed and diagnosed PTSD.
And by definition, these returning vets need medical treatment, and so they go to doctors.
And now doctors required to call the FBI, report to the FBI about any patients that might appear to be upset, mentally unstable, maladjusted, whatever term you want to use.
And many of these veterans, of course, have firearms, do they not?
They have been trained in their usage.
The very people who are most familiar, trained, and proficient with these weapons would be among the prime targets for having their guns taken away from them simply on the basis that they're not mentally competent to possess them anymore.
And all it might take with Obama's new regulations here is their doctor calling the FBI And saying, Staff Sergeant so-and-so Kowalski just left my office.
And I don't know, FBI.
I'm very, very concerned about the mental state of Staff Sergeant Kowalski.
Thank you, Dr. FBI.
We appreciate your call.
Leave it to us.
We'll take it from here.
Liberal members of your family who know that you have a gun and don't particularly like it.
Might they now have avenues.
And you think the doctor might not cooperate?
Well, how many doctors can no longer afford malpractice insurance simply because of Obamacare?
And do you think that the doctor is ever going to claim that any member of a minority group is unstable?
Can you imagine a doctor reporting?
What's her name?
What are the prosecuting attorney involved?
What's her name?
Not Staples, Mavis Staples.
What is her name?
Mosby.
Marilyn Mosby goes to the doctor.
She's obviously unstable.
She goes to the doctor.
You think a doctor's going to report to the FBI that the DA was just here, and I don't know.
She didn't seem right.
Or that Mahmoud Sahib Skyhook was just here.
And Mahmoud didn't seem to be all that right to me.
You think that's going to happen?
No, it isn't because the doctor is not going to want to be accused of bigotry.
Or religious prejudice or racial prejudice.
So guess who's going to get reported on here?
At least the odds are.
And Obama's crying.
I have nothing to prove.
I mean my last year.
I'm just doing what I think right.
Well, these leftists, folks, Obama's quest to transform the country is not going to end with him leaving office.
He's not just going to sit around idly in his post-presidential days and watch people dismantle what he's done.
He's going to try to preserve it.
We haven't seen anything yet.
I'm telling you that the next 12 months and then the aftermath, when Obama's out of office, he's still going to have his media cadre on his side.
Whoever the next president is, Trump crews, whoever it is, is going to have Obama on their case and the media every day.
And if there's just the slightest shred of evidence that anything they're doing is to unraveling Obama did, look out.
Don't doubt me.
In fact, make a note of the prediction.
Speaking of the Republican presidential race, let's get into it.
Here's me on this program yesterday talking about Trump in Biloxi, Mississippi on Saturday.
There were 15,000 people at this event in Biloxi.
And Trump, now this is an indication.
Nobody else does this.
Trump spotted a CNN photographer.
And he had the presence of mind to know that the CNN 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 crowds stood up and cheered.
They loved it.
Because to 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've got to beat the media because they're one and the same.
So here is Trump last night in Lowell, Massachusetts.
And by the way, I'm looking for the, I wonder what stack I put this in.
I thought, yeah, yeah, yeah, here it is.
Chris Salizza, our old buddy at the Washington Post, is starting to change his mind.
Maybe a lot of leftist reporters.
Remember, I told you yesterday that a lot of people reporting on Trump in the drive-by media are saying, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's got a lot of crowds.
I mean, his crowds are showing up, big crowd, but I don't think they're the kind of people going to vote.
I mean, Trump's supporters, they're showing up because he's a reality TV star or because he's a celebrity.
But I don't know how many of them are going to go vote.
This has been a standard inclusion now in the last two or three weeks in every Trump story.
It's a way that drive-bys are attempting to defuse the importance of the size of the crowds gathering to hear Trump.
Well, yeah, of course, but most of them aren't going to vote.
And Trump doesn't have a get-out-the-vote effort.
He doesn't have any ground game.
I don't think it's going to be debated.
Now they're starting to change their mind because the media is showing up at these events and standing in line to get in.
And they're finding out that people are standing in line in 19 and 20 degree weather for hours.
And they're not even assured they're going to get in.
It may fill up before they get in there, but they're willing to brave that.
So now some reporters, you know what, maybe I've changed our thinking on this.
Maybe Trump's people are committed enough to vote.
When Obama was drawing these large crowds in 2008, was anybody saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, but these are not the kind of people going to show up and vote.
Now, how unique that is with Republican primary crowds.
But Chris Salizza here in the Washington Post, this crowd shot from Donald Trump's Massachusetts rally is absolutely mind-boggling.
He was in Lowell, Massachusetts, five miles south of the New Hampshire border.
Had a big arena rally last night, and it holds 8,000 people.
It was at the Sangus Arena, named after Paul Tsongas, well-known Massachusetts politician, Democrat candidate for president.
8,000 people is capacity.
It was overflowing.
People lined up unable to get in, 20 degrees.
There was a picture of the crowd.
Saliza saw it.
That's what his piece is about.
This crowd shot from Trump's Massachusetts rally is absolutely mind-boggling.
And these crowds are nothing new.
Trump's been drawing these crowds for months now, but to the drive-bys, they're all of a sudden noticing it.
And you know what else they're noticing?
Hillary doesn't come anywhere near crowds this size, nor do the crowds that show up for Hillary have anywhere near, not even half as much of the enthusiasm as Trump's crowds.
Bernie Sanders attracts bigger crowds than Hillary does.
Bernie Sanders people are more enthusiastic.
Some drive-bys, by the way, I saw it today.
I'm doing show prep, some drive-bys now thinking that Bernie Sanders may actually do better in Iowa than the polls indicate.
They're really starting to get worried about Hillary.
And you know something else that's worrying about Hillary?
Bill yesterday in New Hampshire was a bomb.
Exactly as I thought.
He was rambling.
It was almost incoherent.
And there are stories today about how women in the audience were rolling their eyes as though they couldn't believe what they were hearing.
There were looks of boredom all around on the faces of women at the first event.
Bill Clinton shows up solo to campaign for Hillary.
And they make the point that Bill is afraid to attack Trump because that's a non-starter.
And when he was asked questions about Trump going after his piccadillos with women, that Clinton's answer was, again, incoherent and off-subject.
You couple that with stories that we had yesterday of a rising fear in the Democrat hierarchy that Hillary is not a shoe-in is not automatic, as they've believed all this time.
So if they are reporting what they are about concerns with Bill and concerns with Hillary, then I guarantee you those concerns are at least twice as serious as they are being reported.
Meanwhile, here's Trump at the rally in Lowell, Massachusetts last night.
I've never seen so many cameras in my life.
We have a lot.
Look at all the cameras here tonight and all live television.
You're all on live.
Wave.
Hi, folks.
And I wish, you know, I always do this.
I wish they'd turn the cameras and show the audience, but they tend not to do it.
They tend not to do it.
We won't do it too much tonight.
But, but I said, oh, wow.
They're doing it.
Wow.
That is so amazing.
They did it.
They turned the cameras.
Exactly right.
Right after I called him out on it yesterday, the drive-bys turned the cameras and showed the crowd at the Lowell Arena, the Songus Arena in Lowell, where Trump was.
Hey, I'll give you a little anecdotal story here.
I was in the golf course Sunday, and it's not far from PBI, Palm Beach International Airport.
And I'm on some fairway.
I'm getting prepared to lace a three-wood, 240-yard second shot of the par five going for the green.
So I'm totally focused on it.
When I hit the ball, nobody comments on my shot.
My God, Russia, you just missed Trump.
You just missed Trump.
I said, what?
Yeah, you took Trumpster.
And they pointed to the sky.
Trump's plane had just taken off and flew over the golf course.
These are guys that six months ago couldn't have cared less if Donald Trump had driven by on a golf cart.
But there's Trump's plane.
It's big.
It's a Boeing 757's black Trump in giant gold letters on the fuselage.
You can't miss it.
It's parked next to mine when he's here in Palm Beach.
And these guys, you just missed Trump's plane.
Trump just took a wow.
And I said, you guys, see my shot?
What shot?
But my point is, the excitement over seeing Trump's plane take off.
And this was Sunday, so he was, I don't know where he was headed, maybe back to New York from the New Year's weekend.
I don't know.
But he had been at Biloxi on Saturday night, so he obviously flown back here Sunday.
This had been in the afternoon about three.
So I don't know where he was going, but maybe up to Massachusetts or New York because his appearance at Lowell was last night.
Now, this is a new riff that Trump has.
Let me take a break here because this sound bite gets a little bit.
I need to take the break before I have some time on the other side of this.
Sit tight.
We're coming right back.
As I was saying, a sound by Donald Trump last night during his event at the Sangus Arena in Lowell, Massachusetts.
I don't read the speech.
I don't do the teleprompter thing, which would be so easy.
Wouldn't that be easy?
I watched Hillary the other day.
She has the biggest teleprompters I've ever seen.
In fact, if you're sitting on that side of the room or that side of the room, you can't even see her because when they're outside, they're painted black.
So you can't even see her.
But she's got the biggest teleprompters.
We don't need four more years of Obama, and that's what you're getting with Hillary.
I believe it might be even worse if you want to know the truth.
It might be worse.
She's got big teleprompters.
Her teleprompters are so big you can't even see her.
And Trump took after Cruz.
He went after Ted Cruz last night in Lowell, Massachusetts.
He says, we're going to build a wall.
Now, here's the good thing.
He's a politician, so he wouldn't know where to start.
You know, I know how to build a wall.
All right.
Donald, Ted Cruz has said that when he's elected president, he's going to put you in charge of building the wall.
He knows.
He knows that you can build a wall.
But Trump went after Cruz last night.
Here's Ted Cruz last night.
The NBC nightly news correspondent Hallie Jackson interviewed him.
Question: The race appears to be still between you and Trump.
Two weeks ago, just about every Republican candidate was attacking Donald Trump.
Today, just about every Republican candidate is attacking me.
Why?
That seems to be an indication that something has changed in the race.
Politicians behave a certain way when they're panicked and they engage in attacks.
They engage in personal attacks.
That's human nature.
I understand that.
I'm not going to get drawn into that mock.
Right.
Not going to attack Trump.
Nobody wants to attack Trump because nobody wants to tick off Trump's voters.
Even if they all think, I guarantee you, they either hope or they think that Trump is still going to implode.
I guarantee you this is still a thought out there.
And when it happens, nobody wants to have been responsible for saying anything bad about Trump's voters because they all want Trump's voters.
They all think they're going to have a shot at Trump's voters.
Marco Rubio was in hooks at New Hampshire yesterday.
This is good.
And then he was also on Fox this morning.
And Rubio's coming under a lot of attacks on this Immigration and Gang 8 bill and the back and forth he's having with Cruz.
But this is the kind of thing that we remember Marco Rubio for months and months ago.
A man was elected who condemned America for having, quote, arrogance and the audacity to dictate our terms to other nations.
A man who apologized for America and bowed pitifully to foreign leaders.
A man willing to abandon our allies and make concessions to our enemies, and worst of all, willing to make historic, devastating cuts to our military and to our intelligence capabilities.
Now, for a while, many thought this was just a result of him being naive, but it wasn't.
What became abundantly clear was this: Barack Obama was deliberately weakening America.
And he picked up on that, that this is the kind of thing Rubio hasn't been saying in a while.
He's gone back to it, and it's only going to help him.
And he really expanded on that whole theme that what Obama's doing is on purpose and by design earlier today on Fox.
Here's Cindy, Champaign, Illinois.
We head back to the phones.
I'm glad you waited.
And welcome to the program.
Hi.
Hey, right out of the gate.
I just wanted to say, I am a pro-gun individual, legally, this voice, and we follow all the statutes.
Now, wait, see, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
See what just happened?
She felt the need to add that she is legal.
I'm a pro-gun advocate.
But wait, I don't have any illegal.
Legal.
Of course, we never doubted that you were a criminal.
Okay.
Okay.
That's how they're trying to stigmatize.
I'm just sticking with you.
Okay.
The issue I have with what you said was you said as a result of Obama's today, that if you have a mentally in your home, the laws change on how you store munitions.
However, I can only speak to the state of Illinois.
I am a healthcare professional and a law-abiding citizen, and I have our Illinois statutes printed out every year because they change.
And that was on the books years ago.
So nothing changed.
And your statement of as a result of his speech today, you will have to do such and such, at least from the state of Illinois, it's been that way for quite some years.
Well, no, wait, you're getting confused because three years ago is when it began, doctors and nurses, but doctors specifically, were asked by virtue of Obamacare to start asking patients where their guns were in their houses if they had them and where the ammunition is.
No, I got that pamphlet in the mail.
So you're telling a half-truth, at least from my state.
Half-truth from my state.
You need to get the information from pamphlets that were sent out to health professionals at that time for each state.
And we weren't, it does not say you ask where the gun is.
It asks sensible things like, are you going to hurt yourself if they are, of course, stupid up to say yes?
Do you have access to a way to do that?
Are you planning on hurting someone else?
But nothing on that says that I have to ask him, where is your gun, and so forth.
I got that information.
And that was from my state, not from Obama.
That was from my state.
And I know federal trickles down to state.
But I take a little issue with some of your blanket statements when most of it was common sense prior to that, but it is state statute in Illinois a long time ago that if, say, grandma had dementia and she lived with you, that you had a certain way to store that.
And that's just called gun responsibility.
All I am telling you is what we learned in 2013 as Obamacare came online, the things that it was requiring and empowering doctors to do from the federal level.
In California, family members can report gun-owning relatives to the police.
As of this month, the police have to confiscate the guns.
I'm not making anything up here, and I'm not generalizing anything.
Do you think that's new if somebody calls the police and they say, hey, my brother's going to shoot himself?
He's got a gun in his house.
He just said he's going to hurt himself.
Do you think that there's not a civic responsibility for them to go, hey, investigate?
That's not what this is.
Yes, it is.
And it's true.
Well, it's always been the case that if you see somebody that you think is going to use a gun in a band, we call a cops.
This is doctors now being required to report mental instability or whatever to the FBI.
And three years ago, this was doctors now being asked to survey their patients on where the guns were in their house and if they had guns in their houses.
It is part of Obama.
Now, you can sit there.
You can sit there and try to defend this all you want.
I've got no reason to make this up.
I'm not making any of it up.
Okay, you need to print it out then because there was nothing said today that said that they were going to take your guns if so-and-so calls and said you're mentally unstable.
They don't have time for that.
Of course it's not printed out.
This is the whole point.
Of course Obama did not announce it today.
This is what you ferret out when you learn what's in his regulations.
There are hundreds of them.
He didn't announce the details.
Here he's speaking in broad brushes about good intentions and safety and all this other folder all that's really not the motivation for any of this.
The California law is new.
As of this month, the thing in 2013 about doctors being required to survey their patients on whether they own guns or not, that's part of Obamacare.
It is federal.
And the new thing from doctors being required to report the FBI is new.
It is something that is part of the Obama regulations, executive orders that he is announcing.
There are 4,000 of them, Cindy.
There are 4,000 gun and other Obama executive regulations that have been enacted or will be in just the past two months.
There are more than anybody can keep charge of, keep track of.
Obama's not on TV announcing every detail.
He didn't dare do this.
This is the kind of thing that you're not supposed to know.
This is the kind of thing that would let you stand up and oppose it.
This is the stuff that's going to happen after the sweetness and light is all explained by Obama.
We have no reason to lie to anybody about this.
And furthermore, if I am lying and exposed, what good does that do me?
No interest in that.
Anyway, I'm sorry, I misunderstood you when you called.
You said you were a legal gun owner.
I was trying to say, look what you have to do.
Nobody here thinks you're a criminal, but you, because of the conversation on guns now, you felt compelled to tell us that you are a legal gun owner.
And I'm just telling you, that's how this works.
You are on the way to already being stigmatized, and you support the guy even back after.
Greetings and welcome back.
800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, our last caller, what's her name is Cindy in Illinois, she was saying that they already are required to store their guns safely if some mentally unfit person lives in the house.
That's not what.
So you're teething with a broad screen.
You're making it up.
We already have to do that.
It's state, not federal.
By the way, being state, Illinois doesn't give me all that kind of.
Oh, well, no big deal then.
But the fact is that that's not what Obama is talking about.
This is not about storing.
This is now doctors reporting to the feds.
A, if you have guns, and then B, where they are, not how, where they are, ditto ammunition, whether you've got mentally unstable person in your house or not.
That's three years ago.
What's new is doctors now being required or asked, I'm not sure which, to call the FBI if they think somebody's unstable.
I wasn't talking about storage and behavior.
This is about reporting.
This is about using citizens to report on other citizens to the government.
And it's part of Obama.
And it's now part of these regulations that he's announced, these executive regulations and orders that he's announcing.
All this week, today was just the party.
This was a political pep rally today.
It wasn't an announcement ceremony.
It wasn't like we've just signed a bill into legislation into law and we have all the parties that made it possible up to the White House for the signing.
So this is a political pep rally they had up there today about Obama deciding to go ahead and do this even though Congress won't and saying, I don't think that I'm violating the Constitution.
I'm pretty confident I'm not.
Really?
You're not sure?
To BS.
Some things I didn't get to today that I am going to hold over until tomorrow.
From the Wall Street Journal, a column, what should parents do if their little boy professes an intense desire to be a girl?
Or if their daughter comes home from kindergarten and says she wants to be a boy.
What should you do?
I think you may know where this is headed.
I will save this for tomorrow.
There's also some Trump stuff, the Republican presidential campaign, Washington Post, all over Trump today.
Why Trump may be winning the war on political correctness.
And they say that silent majority supports Trump.
I don't think it's the silent majority.
I think it's the silenced majority, but I'll explain that.
Also, Trump's first TV ad.
It shows people storming the southern border, except the footage is not of people storming the southern border here.
It's of people storming something in Morocco.
So Trump is being accused of a fraudulent ad.
I actually think it's genius on the part of Trump's people because it's creating additional discussion about the ad, creating more curiosity about it than otherwise would exist.
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