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Jan. 20, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 20, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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What the heck is happening here?
Never mind.
No big deal.
Greetings and welcome back.
My watch gave me an alert that a couple Steeler players and surgery.
So what?
See.
It's an ESPN alert.
It's an ESPN alert.
I guess Steelers alerts.
I mean, it didn't.
And I felt a little taptic buzz, and what the hell?
I looked at it and it had this big flashing red thing.
Ooh, what's this?
And it was just that.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, folks.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh and the cutting edge of societal.
No, it's not having it, Jeff Bush.
Is that what I look like?
No, no, no.
I was not surprised that my phone works.
I just, what what is this alert now?
What the hell it was what what why why get an alert that a couple players are having surgery?
Anyway, big deal.
Um we're back at is another one.
What is this?
Oh, they finished putting in satellite dishes at home.
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Well, he had to upgrade the direct TV dishes.
They were getting, you know, the salt air out here.
You need to replace them often.
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Oh, there's Slick Willie.
Slick Willie.
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Cut himself shaving.
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Um actually email Rush.
What is this battery problem?
Folks, I'd love to explain it to you, but there's nobody can help me because nobody knows as much as I know.
And I know the stick to the issues crowd would just have a fit.
It's a challenging tech problem, however.
I would love to tell you the steps I've taken to try to isolate the problem, but anyway.
Um I I think folks, the the um the thing, the thing that that's happening, the the awakening that's taken place, and it's I think it's a serious awakening that is taking place within the Republican Party and the so-called conservative movement.
Now, when I talk about the conservative movement, to me I'm talking about Washington.
I'm not talking about you and the grassroots.
I'm talking about the establishment, conservative uh media, the uh, I don't know, the brainiacs, the think tanks, the uh professors.
And it's not bad.
Don't miss it.
I'm just I'm just saying that there is a new understanding of who out in the country is actually conservative and who isn't.
And I think I think what's actually being revealed here is that the Republican Party itself and even some of the conservative intelligentsia has misjudged and overestimated the conservatism of the base.
Negatively.
They think have a negative connotation of conservatism.
They don't like it, obviously.
And they they think it's uh the pro-lifers, the social issues, that that's what they think conservatives are.
And that that's all they are.
And they're embarrassed of them and like going to convention with them, and their wives nag them about it, and they just being discovered here by virtue of the Trump candidacy is that this misunderstanding is being exposed.
And it's now out in the open that the Republican conservative base is not monolithically conservative.
It has lots of components that have been lumped together as conservative, maybe for the past 30 years.
And there are some people who think that this masquerade's over, be is good that it's over.
That that the idea that conservatism is one type of thinking and one person and a monolithic thing.
Uh some people think it's a great idea to have this this blown up.
I I think the best way to explain it is that there are a lot of people in this country who are conservative.
There are a lot of those people that won't admit it for whatever reason or don't want anybody to know it for whatever reason or another.
And therefore, they live and vote and they do things for the most part, which are conservative, certainly not liberal, but that's not the glue that unites them all.
If it were, if can if conservatism, this is the big shock, if conservatism were the glue, the belief and understanding of deep but commonly understood conservative principles.
If that's what defined people as conservative, and was the glue that made the conservative movement a big movement, then Trump would have no chance.
He literally would have no chance.
Because whatever he is, he's not and never has been known as a doctrinaire conservative.
But neither is John McCain, neither is how half 90% of the Republican Party said, no, it's not a criticism.
It's not an allegation.
Point is that if conservatism were this widely understood, deeply held belief system that united conservatives, and united people as conservatives, then outsiders like Trump wouldn't stand a prayer of getting support from people who call it.
he is.
Therefore, it's safe to conclude that there are other things at play here.
That make people conservative.
And I'm looking to go back to it.
It's it's it's the thing that just front everybody's face, and it's apparently so hard to believe, it's this united, virulent opposition to the left and the Democrat Party and Barack Obama.
And I, for the life of me, don't know what's so hard to understand about that.
Now, Sarah Palin and her speech.
Oh, there she is in Tulsa.
She's out making a campaign appearance in, I guess Trump's in Tulsa.
Oh, really.
I just was told she looks better today.
See, these poor women in politics like Hillary, they can't get a break.
She looks better today.
What did she not look good yesterday?
Well, you didn't like that cowboy jacket or whatever it was.
Why are they in Tulsa on the eve of the Hawkeye Cockai and the uh New Hampshire primary?
Why are they there?
Oh, the answer's easy.
Answer's easy.
Just asking it rhetorically.
Let's, excuse him, woman.
Let's look at her endorsement speech.
Don't have the whole thing here, but I've got most of it.
It's not getting very much attention.
Her jacket is getting more attention to what she said.
Her I've seen people criticize her delivery.
She lost her place.
Look at cue cards.
Trump looked kind of out of place, being not behind the podium.
That, by the way, just I said this in the first hour.
I was surprised that Trump went the endorsement route.
I mean, I'm not surprised that he would accept it, but Trump just doesn't look like Trump giving up the podium and standing aside, I don't care who it is, for.
And endorsements are kind of the way it's done, right?
In by the book politics, and I've and Trump's not by the book politics.
But what is by the book politics is win at all costs.
So if you have to, if you have to suck it up and say you support ethanol, and if you want to accept endorsements from somebody that's going to undermine cruise, I guess you'll do it.
But she, in her speech yesterday, she explained why conservatives are angry about what's happening to the country and why they are as angry at the Republican establishment as they are at the Democrats.
And she explained how the permanent political class has been created and corrupted by what's now known as the donor class.
And she made it plain that what she wants to do now is participate in a movement that holds every one of those people accountable for the damage they've done to the country for the failures they continue to mount up and be.
When asked why I would jump into a primary, stirring it up a little bit, maybe, and choose one person over some friends who are running, and I've endorsed a couple others in their races before they decided to run for president.
I was told, warned left and right, you're gonna get so clobbered in the press.
You're gonna get beat up, chewed up, and spit out.
I'm thinking, and like you guys haven't tried to do that every day since that night in 08 when I was on stage nominated for VP.
Her point is, and where she she got close to saying this in her own words, but didn't.
But really what people are complaining, you know, why would you do this?
What is what is the concern?
What's the Republican Party ever really done for her?
I mean, besides nominate Payton McCain chose her.
But members of the Republican establishment did their best to destroy her, to impugn her reputation.
The people that were assigned to handle her were out leaking to the press how stupid she is, and how it was so bad that she's so stupid that she these people couldn't vote for their own candidate, McCain, because if something happened to him and she became president, they couldn't live with themselves if they'd made that.
So they were going to vote Democrat or not vote at all.
These are the people responsible for shepherding her through the campaign.
So she's a legitimate question.
What if, you know, um I've already been clobbered.
I've been clobbered by the people who are going to clobber me today before.
So like you all, I'm still standing after being clobbered.
So those of us who have kind of gone through the ringer as Mr. Trump has, it makes me respect you even more that you're here and you're putting your efforts and you're putting your reputations, you're putting relationships on the line to do the right thing for this country because you're ready to make America great again.
I think it's a salient point.
It wasn't just it wasn't just Sarah Palin who was smeared by the media and the rest of the Democrat Party and even the Republican establishment, it was her supporters, by extension, who were smeared and insulted.
And now the same suspects, same usual suspects, are trying to do the same thing all over again, this time to Trump and his supporters.
But Trump is fighting back where she couldn't, because she was part of the organization trying to win, so she couldn't fight back again, even though I'm sure she was tempted to.
I think this explains why so many Tea Party supporters and other conservatives are drawn to Trump, even if he doesn't broadcast or display a bunch of conservative credentials.
I mean, people have a bond and a connection here to people who are laughed at, made fun of, criticized, ripped to shreds and so forth just because of what they believe and who they are.
She said, now eight years ago I warned that Obama's promised fundamental transformation of America, that it was gonna take more from you and leave America weaker on the world stage, and that it would soon be unrecognizable.
Well, that's one promise Obama kept, but he didn't do it alone.
And this is important to remember, especially those of you like me, a member of the GOP, this is what we have to remember in this very contested competitive, great primary race.
Trump's candidacy, it has exposed not just the tragic ramifications of a betrayal of a transformation of our country.
But Trump has exposed the complicity on both sides of the aisle that has enabled it.
Okay.
Well, Trump, what he's been able to do, which is really ticking people off, which I'm glad about, he's going rogue left and right, man, and that's why he's doing so well.
He's been able to tear the veil off this idea of the system.
The way that the system really works.
And please hear me on this.
I want you guys to understand more and more how the system, the establishment works, and has gotten us into the troubles that we are in in America.
So she's doing you don't think she has wanted to do this for years.
You don't think she's wanted to launch back at these people who tried to ruin her reputation and destroy her.
And she wasn't able to because of the obvious requirements of party loyalty, loyalty to McCain and all that.
She said a permanent political class has been doing the bidding of their campaign donors, and that's why you see that the borders are kept open for them for their cheap labor, they want to come in.
That's why they've been bloating budgets for crony capitalists to be able to suck off of them.
It's why we see these lousy trade deals that gut our industry for special interests elsewhere.
We need somebody new who has the power and is in the position to bust up that establishment to make things great again.
It's part of the problem.
His candidacy, which is a movement, it's a force, it's a strategy.
It proves that as long as the politics they get to keep their titles and their perks and their media ratings.
They don't really care who wins elections as long as they get to maintain what they've got now.
She's not wrong.
Pretty that's more right about that even she may know.
All right, brief time out, my friends, as we keep chugging along here.
Hang in there be tough.
No, no, it's not important to go through the details of the battery life problem that would bore people.
The important thing is that I got nowhere to go when I have a problem because there's nobody that knows any more about this than I do.
That's what's frustrating.
All right, here we go back to the phones.
Woodbridge, Virginia.
Jay, great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Jay, testing one, two, three.
Uh uno dos tres.
Nobody's there, so where are we going to?
Bob in San Diego.
Great to have you, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Oh, thank you.
Uh isn't it a right isn't it ironic that the fear of the GOP establishment two months ago was Trump losing and then running as a third-party candidate.
And now, lo and behold, the GOP establishment, which to me is becoming desperate, irrelevant, and a very uh entitled minority, they're now threatening to do the exact same thing to Trump.
Well, it's George Will is, and he's he is he speculated possibility it was in an interview.
I I I don't yet think we're ready to say that the entire Republican establishment said they're gonna go third party, unless you want to unless you want to try to make us believe that George Will's speaking for the establishment, and not just himself.
I think Trump can at least ask, I think it's legitimate for him to ask the other candidates to do the pledge that he was forced to do.
No, no.
Now that they did make a big deal about that.
It was the first question, and he was that they were all asked at the first Fox debate.
Um and Trump said it was no, I won't sign the pledge, and of course, all hell erupted.
But not it you're right.
I mean, Trump was forced to make the pledge, and here these other guys now it looks like Trump might win.
Well, they're gonna take their toys and go home.
It won't matter.
That's the thing.
That that is I guess is another way of trying to make my point is that it won't matter if the conservative movement, if you will, previously defined, not to include you or me.
I'm talking about the specific uh East Coast corridor, Washington is look, folks, where those people live, everything's fine.
Lowest unemployment Rate in the country, practically full employment.
The per capita income is sky high in in Washington and surrounding counties.
Everything's cool there.
And nothing happening there that is at all similar to say what's happening.
Flint, Michigan, or Detroit or a number of other places out there.
But I think what they're all, and I'm looking, I'm I'm skating on some thin ice here in a sense.
Because I don't have any animus toward these people or anybody.
But I think they could all cry third party, they could all claim, and it wouldn't matter.
It's not going to make people get scared and abandon Trump.
And that's I think what this is demonstrating to them is that they're not the oracles that they thought they were.
I could be wrong about it.
I I think it's still up for grabs as to what really explains all this, but I don't think some things are disputable now.
And I think from this day going forward, I think it's forever changed.
The definition of what and who is a conservative and what and who is the right is now much more broad-based than it has ever been thought to be.
And therefore it's gonna be eye-opening to a lot of people who thought they understood it.
The saga continues, a man, a legend, a way of life.
So I got a um I got I got a note from my good friend today, Andrew McCarthy of National Review, former federal prosecutor, and he sent me a story from the Politico.
Breaking news, 2015 sets new global temperature record.
Sends me the story, yes, there's a one-word comment, the word sigh, as though.
You know, no matter what we do, no matter how much truth we explore and expose, these leftists just keep coming at us with lie after lie after lie.
And here's the upshot of the story is the Earth's temperature reached the warmest level in more than a century of records, breaking the previous high mark said in 2014, federal scientists said Wednesday.
I have already seen stories where these data have been manipulated that this is not true, and it isn't true.
It wasn't the warmest year in a hundred years.
They've been saying that.
Anyway, that's that's why he sent it.
It's it's it's uh, hey, Rush, look at the latest BS we have to they just never stop.
So I wrote him back because interestingly, I was reading my tech blogs last night, and I ran across uh one of them is Gizmoto, which is part of the Gauker.
And that you really don't want to go there, folks.
You're really just and I like the Gawker guys, I have I have fun with them.
But it's anyway, the Gizmoto guys are they're the tech branch of Gawker, and they deal strictly in tech, but global warming is tech to them.
And they were all excited.
This before I got the email from Andy.
I'm reading this, and I'm just cracking up.
I'm just crazy because they are all excited.
They say they've got this big post on their blog that the jet propulsion laboratory and NASA just released a scientific paper explaining where all the heat that didn't happen in those 15 years, where it went.
You saw the story.
You saw remember remember folks for for for 15 years, everybody, even the global warming hoaxers admit there was no warming for 15 years.
And they're they they come up with various explanations.
Well, there was a pause or this or that.
But but these Gawker guys or the gizmoto guys, it's just ecstatic because the JPL and NASA, I think it's JPO, they have discovered, you know where the heat went?
The heat that didn't happen, the heat that should have happened, but didn't.
The oceans ate it, folks.
The oceans ate the heat.
Yes, NASA has discovered it.
That's where the heat is.
We didn't feel it.
It didn't make the atmosphere because the ocean ate it.
And you know how bad it is.
The heat got so deep it went deeper than the sunlight penetrates in the ocean.
And that's how we missed it.
It's as far as 700 meters down there.
And you know why that's bad?
Because when salt water warms up, when the deep cold ocean starts getting warm because all that heat was eaten by the ocean, salt water heats faster than freshwater.
And this is a brand new threat for coastal flooding now.
Something nobody had ever considered.
Coastal flooding was going to come from glacial melt and this kind of stuff.
But now there's a brand new reason for it that nobody ever thought of.
The oceans ate the heat, thereby keeping it out of the atmosphere, and the heat, which somehow sunk to 700 meters, is now warming what should be ice cold water, and that's going to be bad for the lobsters and for the plankton and for everything, and it's going to be bad for us because the Maldives are not going to exist very long because that water's going to heat up, and when heated water heats up, it expands and rises.
Oh no, we're going to have coastal flooding, a brand new threat.
Icebergs can melt from the bottom now that we won't see, and they're ecstatic because this destruction is now confirmed.
They are ecstatic that the heat has been found.
And the guy that wrote this ends it by saying, take that deniers.
Take that.
You can read it.
And you and I just, you know, folks, what what what's what's amazing is that I don't know how we live with these people who are so devoid of any reality whatsoever.
And they just don't stop.
They they get this stuff in their heads and and they end up wanting it to be true.
Not just this, any other number of crisis-related hoaxes and abnormalities that that my point is I don't know how we can ever coexist with with this kind of brain dead.
Abandonment of sensible reality.
Anyway, here's Scott, Oklahoma City.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call today, Russia.
I do appreciate it.
Um it's great to speak to a uh personal hero of mine.
Um I want to say is if the Republican Party really wanted to kill the Trump campaign, or the establishment anyway, they would jump on board for him.
I mean, look what they've done to say Bush's campaign.
He came out flat on his face.
They jump over to Rubio, Rubio drops to the poles.
I think it's the people's anger at the establishment that they almost have they're almost drawn in to defend Trump against the attack level.
Hmm.
This is an interesting theory that you have here.
I appreciate that.
So you think that the fastest way to kill Trump would be for the establishment to join him, sing his praises, promote him, say this is the guy we've been waiting for.
We want Trump, Trump's our guy.
And that would force people to abandon Trump.
You know, it's a great idea.
But believe me, the donor class couldn't do it with any credibility.
They wouldn't be able to sustain this.
They might be for a day go out and be believable, but they wouldn't be able to keep this up.
Uh and and other Republicans, everybody on Jeb's team.
Jeb would have to abandon Jeb, go over to Trump.
Trump wouldn't believe it, number one.
Then the other people, they'd have to go out and try to convince everybody they're serious about it.
And Trump would, well, he probably might play along and believe them and hail them as the greatest people in the world.
Then when they abandoned him again, because they would have to they couldn't stick with it.
But I like the theory, it's the old reverse psychology theory.
By the way, minor correction, the Gawker piece I just read, but was written by a woman, Maddie Stone.
I I kept calling the writer he a guy.
There was no apology from them for lying to us about the warming for the last 15 years.
Remember the warming last they they admitted there wasn't any.
Everybody admitted there.
They were perplexed.
They wondered whether models went wrong.
But now they found it.
Yes, the oceans ate it.
Here, let me just read you a portion of this post.
It's easy to overlook the deeper layers of the ocean beyond the zone where light can penetrate.
Yet this murky region of our biosphere has a key role to play in regulating Earth's thermostat by carrying currents that redistribute heat and energy everywhere.
Even small changes in the temperature of the deep ocean could have dramatic global feedbacks, which is why scientists recently started asking whether anything has changed.
They know it all.
They have all the answers.
They started asking, has anything changed?
But it was a report this summer from the jet propulsion laboratory, two decades of observational data to show how the oceans have been redistributing heat since the early 2000s.
The researchers found that heat has been sinking from the surface of the Indian and Pacific Oceans into deeper layers.
Well, then how in the hell do we have an El Nino, which is the warming of surface temperatures?
How does heat sink?
Doesn't heat rise?
I realize these are questions of a novice, and I'll be lambasted for demonstrating my scientific ignorance by asking.
But I couldn't help it.
Sit tight, folks, back after this.
Okay, back to the phones.
Ed in uh in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you.
Rush, uh thank you for having me.
Long time right-wing Christian conservative dudes.
Thank you, sir.
Um I was told to get right to my point.
I hope you can hear me.
Um I uh I believe that the Republican established man has made Trump who he is because if they had kept some promises, he wouldn't be what he is now.
He wouldn't have the power he is.
But but uh I'm not planning on voting for him in February or February 9th, because I uh I don't really trust him.
I'm not sure that uh that he hasn't given any reason to believe that he would keep constitutional principles, but would act more like uh using executive orders that I that concerns me.
I um I uh intend to vote for crews.
I wasn't tossed very much between crews and cars because the boats met of integrity, and I believe that they would stick to the principles and do what is right.
All right, well, that's that's I mean, that's that's cool.
Uh understand your point uh extremely well.
You know, here's a here's a example.
Trump the other day said, and I'm gonna make sure who's gonna make it something like this Apple make their damn computers in America.
Now, does anybody really believe that Trump is gonna do that?
Does anybody really believe that Trump thinks he can do that?
It would not solve the battery problem.
The battery problem is not related to where things are manufactured.
There is no way Apple products could be manufactured in this country, not with everything else staying the same.
I don't think people have stopped to think there's no reason they would.
What it takes.
I mean, these factories over there, they have do you know the the iPhone factories have 700,000 people working in them in every factory?
Some have 350,000.
They're cities.
They have hospitals, rec rooms, all this sort of it's it's i i i i everything that's in the supply chain is there.
It's down the next block.
You couldn't iPhones would cost $2,000 minimum if they were made here.
And and standard minimum wage was.
But anyway, the the question does Trump know this?
Or does he I mean some people really seriously is he this ignorant?
Does he really think that a president is a king and can just order companies to change their manufacturing process and location?
Or does he just say it?
And if he's just saying it, then how does he explain later when it doesn't happen?
How does he explain to people who believed him that he was going to bring Apple manufacturing here?
Now that's the long-term view you've got to have.
How's he gonna get out of this one?
Are people taking him seriously in the first place on it?
You don't think so?
I don't either.
I think they understand that he's that's his way of being pro-America.
I don't think anybody, I mean, I don't think the thimbleful of people think that he actually intends to do this.
It's symbolic.
But it's for another day.
Quick phone call here, Robbie, my adopted hometown Sacramento.
Welcome, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rose Lindbach.
Hi.
Um, thanks to my mom's good taste in men, I am a rush baby.
Oh I've been listening.
I've been listening to you since the 1980s here in Sacramento.
And I got your autograph when I was 10.
I think you're in there with a couple of gold medalist Olympians.
And I was just calling to let you know that I would drop you in a second.
It would drop you so quickly if you stopped being a champion of truth.
If you stop if you started to confuse truth from fiction, and you started to compromise, I would be so done.
Yeah, and I believe that I speak Wait a minute, Robbie.
Where's this?
Are you thinking I'm on the verge here?
No, I'm just calling to tell you something that you well know.
You are not the glue of the conservative movement.
And we love you for that.
Uh I'm not the glue, you mean not the glue.
You're not the glue.
But you you you love truth, and that's why we love you.
I appreciate that.
I I uh See this, by the way, Robbie, I can't think of it because that's exact you're exactly right.
This is my whole point.
The media can't make you drop me.
Nothing in the nothing the media could say could make you question your loyalty, but boy, I could.
I could I could I could make the wrong move over a couple times it wouldn't take much.
And that's the point.
No, I don't.
I don't have enough time to explain the battery thing.
Uh maybe on Friday.
I'll explain the battery thing.
Okay, folks, that's it.
Super secret meeting.
Pow wow that I have to attend.
And uh then back to the battery life.
I think I got it nailed down to PDF uploads conflicting with iOS 9.3 and 9.2.1, but I'll fix it.
See you tomorrow.
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