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Jan. 13, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 13, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I haven't seen it.
I haven't heard it.
I've got the networks on here, and apparently there's a video of the capture of the American sailors and soldiers.
And apparently one of the videos shows a captured soldier apologizing to Iran to the captors, saying, sorry, it was our fault we were where we shouldn't have been, or or or what have you.
Now, I that's all I know about it.
That's uh I I don't know if the sailor, the soldier was under orders to say that from whoever ran the Benghazi operation.
Uh just another way of saying the administration.
Or I don't know if this is the way the military is being trained now.
Enemy captures you apologize.
I have no idea.
But it certainly is right in line with how Obama does business with uh enemies and foreign countries, the apologizes left and right.
So anyway, we will get the details.
It right here it is, the Hill.com White House heaps praise on Nikki Haley after State of the Union response.
Dennis McDonough, the White House chief of staff, who, by the way, was having a little meeting with the press yesterday before Obama did his uh State of Obama speech last night.
And apparently the press was asking, so what are you gonna do?
I mean, this is the last year, you've got uh basically twelve months to go here, and it's gonna be less than that because once the primary start, everybody's gonna be focusing on the presidential race.
And this McDonough, the chief of staff said, we are going to do executive orders and executive actions, the likes of which nobody has ever seen.
We are gonna stay irrelevant, we're gonna continue with our transfer transformative change, and if it requires executive orders all over the place, then that's what we're gonna do.
And I totally believe him.
But I want to ask, what do you think the reaction to this is wherever the Republican establishment is headquartered, and whoever those people are, and I I don't when I say Republican establishment, I have a group of people in mind that are basically faceless.
You know, just it's primarily that when I think of Republican establishment, I think Chamber of Commerce, I think donors, I think elected Republicans who receive that money, uh not necessarily the RNC, but maybe they're part of it.
Okay, so Obama goes out there, and he sends his chief of staff out there, McDonough, who says, I have a lot of adma admiration for Nikki Haley.
I think some of the things she has done over the last year are remarkable.
And I think the speech that she gave last night during anxious times, things like this, and calling out these loud voices, I think it was just great.
What do you think the Republican establishment reaction to that is?
I will tell you what it is.
They're happy.
They consider it progress.
And they think the American people are gonna see it as progress.
They're gonna see it as the Republicans demonstrating that they can cooperate.
The Republicans demonstrating that they can work with the Democrats, the Republicans demonstrating that they can be bipartisan and have things in common and get things done for America and make Washington work.
That's what they're gonna see.
Meanwhile, while they see that and think that, and while they think the American voters are gonna think that, the Republican primary is being conducted, and the people leading that Republican primary have a singular message, and that is we have got to stop letting the establishment in Washington run this country and run the show, and we have got to distance ourselves from it.
I mean, the the message of the Republican primary is the people running the country right now are the problem.
The message in the Republican primary right now is the Democrat Party and Barack Obama are the problem.
The Republican Party sends Nikki Haley out.
She doesn't an answer to Obama.
It gets universally praised from the drive-by media, so-called conservative media some quarters, and now the White House, and I guarantee you, the Republican establishment thinks that a majority of the American voters are going to think this is the greatest thing, and they're going to think great things about Republicans and Nikki Haley, because we've demonstrated this ability to be bipartisan to cooperate.
And the same token, by definition of that, the Republican establishment is going to have to think that what's happening in the Republican primary race is tiny and small and represents a minority of thinking in the country.
They have to.
If they are, there's a caveat here.
I'm assuming, we all are assuming that they are ecstatic with the White House praise of Nikki Haley.
If they are, then by definition, folks, it follows that they have to think what's happening in the Republican primary is insignificant and not representative of a majority of thought in the country, and is almost irrelevant.
And if all of that is true, it is a microcosm of why and how they are in trouble.
And actually don't seem to have the slightest idea why.
Now, in the Republican primary, the gloves are coming off from Trump and Cruz.
Both campaigns are starting to go after each other now.
And it's interesting to note that the drive-bys all said this wouldn't happen unless somebody got to go ahead from me here at Talk Radio.
Remember that?
What happened was that Trump goes after Cruz, but he did so using liberal language.
I forget the specifics of what it was, but he attacked Cruz the way liberal Democrats would.
And at that point, Donald, that's if you want to get Cruz, go ahead, but it's not going to help you to do that.
Not that way.
And Trump backed off.
And so the media started running around saying, well, isn't it interesting?
Limbaugh gets mad at Trump and Trump backs down.
So is it going to take limb approving of Trump's behavior before he gets back into gear?
And now Trump and Cruz are going at each other without regard for what's being said about them here on Talk Radio or anywhere else, which is fine.
It's the natural evolution of a political competition.
The two frontrunners are going after each other.
Now, the way it is manifesting itself now, real clear politics has a story here that the Cruz campaign is making phone calls in primary states that are the equivalent of testing various lines or criticisms of Trump.
They're running them by people on the phone to get a reaction to it.
Here's how the real clear politics story begins.
Although Ted Cruz has insisted that he will not personally attack Trump as the race for the nomination heats up, supporters of Cruz appear to be weighing how best to target Trump in Iowa, where Cruz holds a narrow lead.
A message testing phone call in Iowa on Monday floated seven distinct lines of attack against Trump, asking whether each one would make the listener more or less likely to support him.
Kidron Bardwell, a political science oppressor at Simpson College in Iowa, received one of these calls, and he made detailed notes, which he provided then to real clear politics.
One potential attack noted Trump's recent remark to a Christian audience in Iowa that he has never asked God for forgiveness.
So apparently what's happening is that Trump people or Cruz people are calling people in Iowa and say, hey, Donald Trump said to a to an audience, a Christian audience in Iowa that he's never asked God for forgiveness.
Does that make you more or less likely to support Trump?
Another question depicted Trump as a New York liberal pretending to have conservative values.
And Trump's even, or Cruz, rather, has even gone public with that the other day.
He said, Look, everybody knows Donald Trump is uh New York.
And he didn't characterize New York what, but the message is clear New Yorkers are liberal.
Uh two other potential attacks target Trump's loyalty to the GOP.
One noting that Trump had changed his party ID, the other mentioning his reform party candidacy for president 1999 and 2000 and his prior financial support for Democrats.
Three other attacks cited Trump's stances on eminent domain, abortion, and single-payer health care.
In other words, the cruise people are calling people up, say, do you know Donald Trump one time supported single-payer health care?
Do you know that Donald Trump at one time was pro-choice to you know one time, and and even now Donald Trump believes in imminent domain, oh, what's that?
Well, that's where the government come take your property and pay you a little bit for.
So the theory is that there's a cruise people making these phone calls, engaging the response on the phones in advance of preparing attack ads against Trump.
So for all of you who have called here or written me, sometimes nice, sometimes caustic emails, accusing me of giving Trump a pass on the premise that Trump's not a conservative and I am, and why am I not calling him on it?
Why am I letting him get away?
Well, why are you supporting Trump?
Trump's not a conservative, blah, blah, blah or another on that.
The answer has always been, don't worry.
The candidates will take care of that in due course.
At some point, there's been a it's been a hands-off toward Trump now for all the obvious reasons.
I mean, Trump fires back when you hit him.
For one thing.
The other thing is, there are still people who think Trump's not going to make it.
There are some who think that Trump's supporters are not going to caucus.
They're not going to show up and actually vote.
There are some who think that after Iowa and New Hampshire, that Trump actually isn't going to win any of them.
And when that happens, the whole dynamic is changed.
And the long version of the story is that Trump may end up getting out of this, and he's got a lot of voters out there.
So I don't want to be too hard on Trump, somebody's candidate to say, because I want his voters if he doesn't make it.
There's all kinds of reasons why people aren't criticizing Trump.
But with every day that goes by that Trump doesn't get out, with every day that goes by that Trump does not weaken, with every day that goes by that nothing changes, well, then the people who want what Trump wants are going to start hitting him.
And it appears the Cruz campaign is getting ready for a I don't want to want to call it an assault, but they're getting ready for an ad campaign that is actually going to focus on the fact that Trump may not be a conservative.
Some of you people supporting Trump may think he is, but he's not.
I don't know for sure that's happening, but that's what this real clear politics story sets up as a possibility.
It says that the message testing telephone calls come as the race to win Iowa has narrowed to Cruz and Trump.
Both of whom lead Marco Rubio by double digits.
And this story is from yesterday.
Washington Examiner.
This gives a different side of it.
This story, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump captures 45% of the vote in a three-way race with Senators Cruz and Rubio, which this is Paul Bedard writing in the Washington Examiner, which says is the latest sign that Republican voters are ready to accept Donald Trump as their nominee.
A new Ugov.com poll finds that in the three-way race, a potential situation after the first several primaries, Trump support from those backing other candidates surges equally with Cruz and Rubio.
This is another factor.
There are going to be people dropping out of this after Iowa, after New Hampshire.
I mean, some of these people sitting out there with one, two, four, five, six, they're gonna drop out.
They've got voters.
Where are they gonna go?
That's what this poll attempted to find out.
And they're shocked.
The conventional wisdom was that Trump was not going to get any more support than what he already has.
They say, well, Huckabee gets out of Christie, and I don't not predicting anything, I'm just mentioning names.
When Gendal, any of them fear fear when they get out.
The theory has been those voters are going to go somewhere else, but not to Trump.
They might go to Cruz, they might go to Rubio.
They might go to Jeb, but they're not going to go to Trump.
This poll shows uh uh uh uh a lot of them are gonna go to Trump.
And so the upshot of this is, and this cannot be good news to the Republican establishment, is that when this thing gets narrowed to three ways, Donald Trump still cleans up.
When it's Trump cruising Rubio, Trump's still in the lead.
In other words, he doesn't get watered down.
The theory was that Trump would get watered down as people leave because their supporters would go elsewhere, Rubio, crews, but some of them go to Trump and keep him where he is.
This, I guarantee the establishment is is going to lose its mind when they find this out.
See, this is another thing the establishment has been hoping would happen.
That when some of the other candidates drop out that others would strengthen, but Trump wouldn't gain it because they've they've been convinced themselves that Trump's support has maxed, that it's Trump peak has happened, that he can't get any more popular, that if he were going to have more support, he would already have it.
People supporting other candidates are not going to go to Trump under Cannabis dropout.
Not true, apparently.
So they're gonna be beside themselves.
And they clearly are on the way, even as we speak.
Be right back, folks.
Don't go.
Okay, grab Grab Sunbite number, what is it, number seven, and Raya Mitchell, NBC News Washington, over the moon, just could not contain herself.
So excited over Nikki Haley's response last night.
I think she killed it.
A very effective Republican response.
She called out Republicans for being partly responsible for the broken system, the lack of trust in government.
Also took a real shot at Donald Trump when saying that the loudest voice in the room being loud and being noisy doesn't mean that that's the way you have to vote in politics.
Did you hear that?
Oh, I thought she killed it.
I thought it was great.
She blamed the Republicans for everything.
Exactly.
Why wouldn't you think this was great if you're a Democrat, if you're in the media?
She's doing your job for you.
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, taking the day off today because of Nikki Haley doing it for me last night.
She didn't have to work today.
She went out there, she did Andrea Mitchell's job.
No wonder Andrea Mitchell likes it.
She killed it.
A very effective Republican sponsor calling out Republicans for being partly responsible.
She did.
There wasn't anything anti-Obama in this speech or very little.
And here is David Brooks, he of the slart, the smart crease in the slacks, qualifying Obama to be president.
This was on uh PBS special coverage, the Republican response last night.
An excellent uh response to the Trump campaign.
She did sort of mention Barack Obama in passing, but it was mostly a response to Trump.
Uh, it was a response to some of the xenophobia and mostly the style, the loud voices.
If you want the Republican establishment fighting back on Trump, there you just saw it.
I thought she hit one of the high water marks.
Oh, yeah, that was great.
That was an excellent response.
Trump campaign uh sort of mentioned Obama and passed, of course.
That makes it even better.
She didn't mention Obama.
We love Obama.
We hear PBS.
Republicans say, we love Obama.
She didn't uh hit Obama at all, but as a response, uh, xenophobia, loud voices, limbo, Trump, you name it.
She went after them all.
We love it.
It's kick ass.
That's what they think.
And these are Republicans.
Brooke supposedly, Republican establishment.
Uh, Lori.
Uh we got a little Laurie and Orlando coming up.
Lori's not enough time here to be fair to you before the end of the break.
So hang on through the break.
Just a couple more minutes and we'll get to you.
In the meantime, controversy explodes over Iranian images of U.S. sailors.
Iran today released a series of pictures and videos showing the ten U.S. Navy sailors it apprehended yesterday in flaming the American debate over their capture, including the question of whether the U.S. had formally apologized for entering Iranian territory.
The Iranian media made up of the Islamic Republic of Iran broadcasting news agency and Tasnim News Agency published roughly two dozen pictures in five videos, a couple of which feature a male sailor apologizing and praising Iran's treatment.
The purported American sailor says it was a mistake that was our fault, and we apologize for our mistake.
The Iranian behavior was fantastic while we were here, and we thank them very much for their hospitality and their assistance.
We had no problems here.
Think of it what you will.
That's what the Iranians released as having transpired.
We apologized and praised them for treating us well, and the whole thing was our fault.
Right.
The saga continues, a man, a legend, a way of life.
Okay, this this Iranian business.
Folks, uh you you can think what you want, but I'm gonna tell you something.
This kind of story where we apologized, and boy, the Iranians were so nice.
Oh my god, it was so much fun being with it.
It was so nice.
It was our fault.
It was up we shouldn't have been there.
We apologize.
They treated us so well.
You might think that's cool.
I'm telling you, that's one of the biggest propaganda victories that this satanic country could get.
And they it's gonna, it's gonna, in Middle East, where this is the kind of stuff that matters, it's gonna make it look like they totally dominate us.
It's gonna it's just it's gonna come across as another huge victory over the great Satan, the United States of America.
Now, last night, last night, in his State of the Union speech, Obama's going on and on.
We're the most powerful country in the world.
We got the best fighting force in the world, we got the best military in the world.
We spend more on our military than the first eight nations behind us, combined spinning.
We did the greatest battle machine.
Ask yourself a question.
All of that may be true.
We may be the most powerful nation in the world.
What kind of rules of engagement are they saddled with?
But but more importantly than that.
Why?
I'm dead serious about this.
Why?
Given that we have the most powerful military, the greatest fighting force ever, we can project more power than any nation on earth can even dream of.
Why are all of our enemies growing in power?
Why are they getting bigger?
Why are they stronger?
Why are our enemies more dangerous than ever?
Why are they bigger, more dangerous, and wreaking more havoc than ever before under Obama?
That's how you measure it.
We can have the best, most powerful fighting force in the world, and if it's led by a wuss or somebody who thinks that it's the problem in the world, what good is it under his command?
And make no mistake, Barack Hussein Obama is one of these people that thinks the United States military is one of the greatest problems in the world, historically and at present.
Do not doubt me.
It falls right in line with this whole belief system that the United States is not the solution to the world's problems.
We are the problem.
Henceforth, we've got to get out.
We've got to ex extricate ourselves because we have caused all these problems, we've caused all this animosity, We have caused all this angst out there.
We've done it.
Well, the U.S. military is our agent.
So you can brag about the military all you want, Mr. President, but how come every enemy of consequence is more powerful than it was seven years ago?
Bigger and stronger than it was seven years ago, and more successful than it was seven years ago.
That's the question.
Okay, now here's Laurie in Orlando.
I really appreciate uh you holding on, Laurie.
Thanks very much.
And welcome to the program.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Um I I'm a single mom and um I'm I'm uh I'm depressed.
Um, you know, our our health care system was supposed to be more affordable and it's not.
I got to see firsthand how poorly Obamacare works um while I watched my elderly father die last month.
Um and uh watching the State of the Union message last night uh gave me even less hope um for our country.
And um, you know, I uh where where does our hope lie?
Where what what is the the new ad administration going to have to do to turn our our country around?
What is it going to take to turn our country around?
And and I would like to hear what you have to say about that.
I also have a follow-up.
I have an answer.
I have something else though that I want to ask you though before you hang up.
Okay, just don't lose your place.
Okay.
All right.
Because I'm gonna answer you here.
Okay, you're gonna answer me.
Do you want do you want me to go ahead or do you want me to wait for you to what do you want to do?
I want uh what do I want to do about that or what?
Well, no, you want to ask the second question and get it all done, or you want to wait for me to answer your first one and then ask the second one.
Well well, my second one might I don't want my second one to get you off track.
You won't.
I don't lose my place.
Don't worry about it.
Well, my my second question to you is that I know yesterday was your birthday.
Yeah.
And so I want to wish you a happy belated birthday for one.
But I would also um like to to send you and your staff a copy of a book called The Masked Saint.
Um and in theaters now there's a movie based on that book called The Masked Saint.
It was just released last Friday.
And uh the liberals don't want that movie out there.
Um there's another movie coming that liberals are not going.
Thirteen hours.
No.
Well, yeah, but no, there's another one coming in March by my friend Cyrus Norasta, who did the path to nine eleven.
Uh this movie is gonna open on th in three thousand theaters, I think March the eleventh.
And it I I'm having a metal block in the title.
I can look it up here in a minute if I get the email, but what it is about.
It's about Jesus Christ at age seven, as he has learning what and who he is and what he is to become.
Oh, that's awesome.
It is a fascinating premise.
Cyrus and his wife wrote it.
He directed it.
He'd been working on it for two years, and it's gonna open it three thousand The Young Messiah, Young Messiahs is what it is.
Yeah, that's amazing.
Well, this book that I'm telling you about, The Masked Saint was written by Dr. Chris Whaley, um, who by the way happens to be my brother.
He was um uh a professional wrestler and he's a pastor, and um this the movie's based on his life.
It opened in theaters um around the around the United States on Friday on January eighth.
It's an incredible movie, and I would love for you to go see it, and I would love to send you a copy of that book, and I would also love to send you a screener copy of the movie if you'd like.
Uh well, you don't need to send the book, because we will buy.
I will buy the book.
I'll I'll go get it uh I read the e-version of books anyway, so I'll just get it that way.
I'd rather buy it than you give it to me.
I mean, you wrote the book to sell it, didn't you?
And you've just promoted it here, so you don't need to give me the book in order to promote it.
Okay.
Well well, thank you for letting me do that.
But I do want an answer to my question, though.
What's the No now you don't care about my answer to the question now?
You do you.
I am to your follow-up, and that's you.
I waited for two hours to talk to you.
So I'm excited.
The answer to the question is very simple.
Executing it's a different matter.
Yeah.
But your question, the answer to it's very simple.
Now and and critics of me and uh even on you know, all spectrum are gonna say that's simplistic rush.
You just that's not that's not that's not an answer.
Uh, do you want to know what has to be done to paraphrase your question?
What has to be done?
What was a new administration have to do to turn the country around, right?
Yes.
Reject liberalism.
We have got to weed out as much of liberalism from the fabric of our government as we can at every level of the bureaucracy.
We have got to do whatever we can to clean up the judiciary.
That's longer, obviously, process because we've got lifetime appointments there.
But the the the reason we are in the problems or have the problems we have is liberalism.
Liberal Democrats, liberalists, socialism, whatever.
It's got to stop.
It's got to be reversed.
And so if you really want to fix this country, we have got to begin implementing conservative values and philosophies by people who know it, love it, believe it, can explain it.
And can make it happen.
Because most the American people, I am convinced the vast majority of American people are conservative in the way they raise their kids, in the way they live their lives, in the way they hope for their future.
Now, conservatism has been so tarnished by reputation.
It's been so besmirched and impugned that a lot of people think that it's something that it isn't, which is why it's very important to have somebody who actually is and can articulate it, can promote it, explain it, because it's just common, ordinary, everyday values, morality, and so forth, rooted in individual liberty and freedom.
It's the exact opposite of what we have had dominating and running this country for the last seven years and arguably much longer than that.
It's not an immediate fix.
There is no immediate fix.
What election is not going to fix what's wrong?
It's going to take many.
It's going to take a lot of energy and significant amount of time to A, stop the directions that we're headed and then turn it around and go the other way.
But that's – it's not a simplistic – It is a simple answer.
Others going to want to make it complicated and reject it because it's simplistic, but that is the answer.
Liberalism is why.
We have the problems we have.
Liberalism is why.
The American people are hopeless.
Liberalism is why.
The American people are uneducated.
Liberalism is why there's no economy.
Liberalism is why there's no jobs.
Liberalism is why there is no optimism.
Liberalism is why people believe in hoaxes like global warming and think they're to blame for all these things.
Liberalism is why people think they're going to die if they have a cup of coffee.
Or too much salt.
Liberalism is why there's pessimism everywhere.
It's got to stop.
It's got to be defeated.
People have to be educated to understand what it is, how to spot it, and always oppose it.
Pure and simple.
Appreciate the call, Laurie.
We'll get the book.
And uh uh I think we've got a secret address we can give it to send the screener.
Snerdly would know.
I don't know what it is.
Okay, here's that sailor apologizing.
Now, this is Iranian state TV.
They played a video of an unidentified man that they said was allegedly the commander of American naval forces captured by Iran.
So all of this comes from Iran, that these are captured soldiers, sailors, and that Iran is alleging that he was the captain.
Is Iran's alleging that they apologize?
So that's the caveat.
Here is the video from Iranian state TV.
It was a mistake.
That was our fault, and we apologize for our mistake.
It was a misunderstanding.
We did not mean to go into Iranian territorial water.
The Iranian behavior was fantastic while we were here.
We thank you very much for your hospitality and your assistance.
Hey, so that's that's what it is.
Now, what do you think the odds are somebody from the United States military got on the phone to these guys?
Said, this is what you say.
We've we've greased the skids for your release.
This is what you have to say.
Or the Iranians are making it up.
And those are not really U.S. sailors, and it's just really good English speaking people being presented as sailors.
Listen to plugs Biden.
This is from this morning on CBA.
Get this now.
One of the boats had engine failure, drifted into Iranian waters.
The Iranians picked up both boats, as we have picked up Iranian boats that needed to be rescued, and took them to uh I'm not sure exactly where.
I don't want to misspeak here.
And uh realized they were there in distress and said they were released them and released them, like you know, ordinary nations would do.
That's the way nations should deal with love.
That's why it's important to have channels open.
Should we apologize to Iranians?
No, there was no apology, and there's an apologize for.
When you have a problem with the boat, you apologize the boat had a problem.
No.
And there was no looking for any apology.
Well, then what the hell is this, Plugs?
So Biden's on CBS saying, no, no, no, no, no, there was no apology.
There's nothing to apologize for.
We didn't apologize.
You have a problem with a boat, you apologize, the boat had a problem.
We didn't apologize.
So grab number 30 uh 33 again after Plug says, no, no, no, no.
There was no apology.
We didn't apologize.
It was a mistake.
That was our fault, and we apologize for our mistake.
It was a misunderstanding.
We did not mean to go into Iranian territorial water.
The Iranian behavior was fantastic while we were here.
We thank you very much for your hospitality and your assistance.
Right.
So you figure it out, folks.
Plug said no apology.
No reason to apologize.
Nothing to apologize for.
The Iranians released a video of our guys apologizing.
The uh the GOP established got to love this.
The GOP established, this is the greatest thing we need to do.
Yeah, we were to blame.
The soldiers did one thing wrong.
They didn't actually no, they did take the blame.
Oh my God, the Republican establishment's got to love this.
The sailors apologize and took the blame for the problem.
Right.
If they had just started complaining about the loud voices on the ocean, confused them, it would have been a home run.
I don't know, it feels like Thursday to me today, but it isn't.
I guess States of the Union I always think of having on Wednesdays, but it was two.
So tomorrow is Thursday, and we'll see you then, folks.
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