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Jan. 28, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 28, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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Now the safest, believe me, the safest thing could do be to shut up about it.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, everything in my gut said, don't even go there.
But I I can't.
This is a strange day, folks.
I I have felt constrained.
Well, partially distracted by my battery life problem all day long.
Ah, don't even get me going.
I'm I'm just so dispirited about that.
You can't, I can't convey it to you.
Anyway.
Um I've been asking, Snurley, I've been asking all you guys, what do you think possibilities are that Trump shows up tonight?
Before it, during it, what it everybody's poo-pooing it.
Nah, Russia's got disadvantaged CNN.
CNN's carrying us in the thing with the troops.
It's uh they're announcing it's sold out.
He's got Huckabee showing up.
Santorum says that he's gonna be there.
I hear all that.
I'm just telling you.
I probably makes no sense to say this.
Come back and bite you.
But I'm just telling you.
No, I just know he's not gonna be two places at the same time.
Unless unless the CNN thing ends up being tipped.
No, I I'm just folks, I don't think this is my only gut's telling me this isn't over.
There are other shoes that are gonna drop here.
I have told you we're watching the way Trump negotiates, this is happening in public.
The walking out, the telling Fox to pound sand, I'm not showing up, the old Riley begging him to come back to forgive Meghan Kelly.
I think this is exactly what happens.
It's the kind of thing that happens when Trump's negotiating a business deal.
We just don't see it.
He's written how he does it.
He's one of his rules is you start out with three times what you want.
He says, now that's easy to say.
It's easy to say you're gonna do it, but when you're in the room and you're on the other side of the table, it's very hard to seriously tell somebody you want three times what you really want.
With commitment and belief.
He said the only way he has found you really get what you want is to shoot so high at the start, because you know you're gonna have to come down from your original, so you better make your original sky high.
I'm talking technique.
I'm not relating that specifically to what is happening here.
I'm simply opining that I think what we're watching here is Trump negotiate.
We just happen to be seeing it in public rather than how it normally takes place behind closed doors.
Nobody sees negotiations.
You you hear about the be they between a team and an athlete.
Uh what is that?
We got a weather alert coming.
Is that what I hear on an amber alert?
Oh, is that what it was?
I'm sorry, folks.
We've got you can't believe stuff going down.
Tornado warnings, flash flood warnings, and now an amber alert.
Um I I thought it was a leaf blower.
It's so like a leaf blower.
I said, what did somebody get a leaf blower in my studio?
How'd that happen?
So I'm just I'm just telling you what's in my gut.
I have nothing, I don't know anything.
Uh I just don't think this is over.
That's all I'm saying.
I don't know what's gonna happen, but I don't think this whole debate thing is settled.
And I guess I'm saying I can see Trump showing up at it.
Don't know.
I call it a gut feeling, instinct, what have you.
I have never denied my instinct.
Well, no, I have denied them, but I I they've all they've never betrayed me.
Um what is this?
CNN's reporting Carly Fearina has offered Trump two million to attend.
You people joking with me now.
Two million dollars, Carly Fearina is offered two million dollars.
Cruise backers offer a million and a half for a cruise Trump debate.
You see how this uh no, not in Canada.
Trump said he would debate Cruz in Canada.
He said this at his South Carolina appearance last night.
You should have seen this.
There were there was a mile long parade of cars, people waiting to get in to wherever Trump was speaking last night in South Carolina.
It wasn't on YouTube.
I watched a little bit of it.
But um, I don't I can't, I'm not making specific predictions.
All I'm telling you is I just don't think this is over.
I don't know what it means.
But I know for a fact that that people I don't know for a fact, I mean I'm just I'm I'm I'm saying with with ontological certitude, I'm very confident that the powers that be at Fox are still trying to get him there.
I don't think anybody's given up on trying to get him there.
This is the kind of situation he always tries to put himself in in terms of negotiation.
Anyway, uh welcome back.
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This is the Huckster.
Mike Huckabee on Wolf Blitzer this afternoon.
Blitzer said, Now you're you're taking part in a so-called undercard Republican presidential debate.
What time is that?
Seven o'clock?
The main event's at 9 p.m., right?
Eastern time.
So the undercards at seven, what I call a pregame meal.
And Blitzer said to the to Huckabee, you know, you're taking part in the in the undercard event.
You plan on going over to Trump's event for veterans?
Is that what you're gonna do?
It's to honor the troops.
You know, it's not an endorsement of Donald Trump's candidacy.
I'm still running for president.
We've got the caucuses Monday night, but I'm delighted to uh join with Donald Trump in an effort to salute veterans.
And you know what?
I didn't have anything going on at eight o'clock tonight.
I'll be done.
So I figured uh why not?
Let's uh show the veterans our support.
Right, Drew, it's eight o'clock Central Time.
So Huckabee says, hey, I'll finish the undercard.
I haven't, I'm not endorsing Trump.
I'm just gonna go over there and join him uh in honoring the veterans.
And Blitzer said, well, correct me if I'm wrong.
You seem to be more comfortable with Donald Trump than you do with Senator Cruz.
Is that right?
There's some position Senator Cruz has taken that I can't figure out because I feel like there are different ones that he takes in Marshalltown, Iowa than the ones he takes in Manhattan, and that's disconcerting to me.
I want people to be straight up, stand up.
I don't want them to change their view because of geography.
And I also worry that Ted Cruz's financing comes from the same corporate big business, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, hedge fund, billionaire circle that gives us the politicians that we always have, and that's why the policies never change.
No, but of course he's not endorsing Trump.
No, no, no, no.
He's just gonna go join Trump over here at the veterans event.
Here's McCain.
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This is McCain last night, also on the CNN with uh with Wolf Blitzer.
And Blitzer's question to McCain, what do you think of the Trump's decision not to attend the Republican debate on Fox?
What do you think?
Anyone who is running for office and gets to pick who the moderator is uh that's the destruction of uh free press, as we as we know.
I think that uh part of it is to blame the media.
They've basically given him a free pass.
Uh he calls in on the Sunday talk shows.
He decides which programs he's on and which he isn't.
Media, I think, in their desperation to have him on all the time to increase ratings, uh, is probably given him the confidence that he can decide to do who have a quote veterans event.
By the way, I wish we were not using a veterans event as a way to further his own uh political agenda.
That, folks, that's just that's classic El Perfecto illustration of what I have been describing as the way the elites in the establishment look at all Of this.
Did you hear what he said?
Anyone who is running for office and gets to pick who the moderator is, that's the destruction of the free press as we know it.
Translation, he doesn't get to tell the media who asks him questions or not.
When you run for president, you deal with whoever the media throws at you.
Because they're all in the club, folks.
The establishment's made up of Republicans and Democrats and media people who are Republicans and Democrats, although very few Republicans.
But they're all in the club and they're all the elites.
And this is just what you do.
He doesn't get to pick his moderator.
Nobody's nobody gets to pick the moderator.
Well, the way you guys play the game, nobody gets to pick the moderator.
But what if he doesn't want to play by your rules?
Where is it written that to be elected president you got to go through the two-party establishment to get there?
Who's to say if he doesn't like who's going to ask him questions based on what's happened before, Senator McCain, why should he put up with it?
Your own party told NBC to go pound sand after the CNBC debate.
If that's not picking your moderator, I mean that's even worse.
That's picking your network.
But according to Senator McCain, you don't get to pick your network when you're running for president.
You got a debate because that's the destruction of the free press.
My rear end it is.
Destruction of the free press.
What free press?
We don't have a free press.
Now we've got an agenda-oriented media that is simply an adjunct of the Democrat Party.
People like McCain don't help a lot by playing along with it as though it's somehow objective and independent.
But we all know that the media is an adjunct of the Democrat Party and lives and breathes to advance the Democrat Party agenda as well as destroy the Republican agenda.
So what why what doesn't it make sense that somebody would come along and not want to play that game?
Why do you have to play the game where the media gets to destroy you?
Where the same media will not try to take out your opponents.
They will not try to take out Democrats.
They will not try to embarrass the Democrats, they will not try to humiliate them.
They will not try to make them look bad, but it's perfectly okay for him to do so with Republicans, and you're supposed to sit there and take it.
And if you don't, it's somehow threatening the freedom of the press.
And look at this.
I think part of it is to blame McCain says that they've given him a free pass.
He calls in on the Sunday shows.
Now that's key.
The Sunday shows, nobody calls in.
The Sunday shows, in the religion of politics, the Sunday shows are church.
And you don't phone that in.
You put on your coat and tie and you go there.
You go to the green room, you meet everybody else on the show, you hang around afterward for photos on set with the host, you get along with the other guests, then you leave and you interview with the rest of the media waiting for you outside the studio.
That's your Sunday.
That's when you go to church.
You don't phone the Sunday shows.
It just isn't done.
You will never get in the club phoning the Sunday shows.
You have to show up.
When's the last time you were allowed to phone in church?
And McCain's admitting that.
He calls in the Sunday shows.
He decides which programs he's on and which he isn't.
What's wrong with that?
Does he not is everybody supposed to just sit there and exercise no choice whatsoever over where you go in the media?
See, this guy's making my point for me that I spent so much time on yesterday.
And McCain says, the media, you know, they're selling out here for ratings.
Trump gets ratings, so they'll take him any way they can get him, any time they can get him, whether he comes in here or calls in on the phone or not.
And that burns them, folks.
Because these are the guys that have put on their coat and tie and have gone to church every Sunday.
And they've hung around with the pastor, and they've met the rest of the congregation.
And when it's over, they go out the front door and they meet the junior pastors from the rest of the media and they answer their questions.
And Trump's not doing any of that.
Who gives him the and now added to all this as an insult that Trump is going to do a counter event for veterans, and McCain's even offended by that.
I wish he were not using veterans as a way to further his own political agenda.
Seriously.
Like he's the first.
Anyone remember the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth?
Anyone remember John Kerry reenacting the taking of Boston Harbor again.
The night of the Democrat convention, his turn to make his speech there.
He got on board, it was reenacting the Swift boat guys over in Vietnam.
They crossed Boston Harbor all the way over to wherever the convention hall was.
It was a it was a full-fledged effort to capitalize on the military.
And the fact that the haughty John Kerry, who had served in Vietnam, seeking to remind everybody that he had.
Here's Ted Cruz's on Good Morning America today, speaking with uh Tom Yamas.
Uh L L A M A S. And uh Yamas said, You think Donald Trump is afraid to debate you personally?
Saturday night, and we have a venue at town hall.
And at the end of the day, I don't think he's afraid of Megan Kelly.
I don't even think he's afraid of me.
I think he's afraid of the people of Iowa.
He doesn't want to answer their questions.
He doesn't want to defend his record.
Doesn't want to answer questions, doesn't want to defend his record.
What record would that be?
Could it be that he doesn't want to be fade?
Mr. Trump uh wasn't that long ago that you were on record as saying you're in favor of amnesty.
Maybe he doesn't want to get those questions.
I don't know.
But I'm just gonna reiterate, folks.
I don't think whatever's going on here is over.
I think the negotiations are still going on, and we're watching them take place.
And I don't I have no idea what what I mean by this, because I'm not making any firm predictions.
But as showbiz and politics combine into one entity.
If you think something might happen tonight that you would only see in a movie or only see on television, you better start realizing that that means you can see it for real in politics, too.
Be back after this.
Don't go away.
Say, folks, there's other lot of other interesting stuff out there, and I'm gonna try to weave some of it in the next half hour.
Some things going on involving the immigrant invasion in Europe, uh, particularly uh Denmark and Sweden.
It is.
Well, it's it's fascinating.
Well, but I'll get to that next half hour.
Let's stick with the phones here.
Where uh who's next?
Where are we uh?
We'll try Harry, Stevensville, Michigan.
Harry, I'm glad you called.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Uh hi, Rush, uh, Megadettos.
Thank you, sir.
Um you've already covered it, but I called to say that I really think we're being played.
It is uh played by who?
By Trump, who uh is the master negotiator, and he is playing his game of walking away, and just as you walk away from a rug salesman, um he's looking back, and I think he'll show up tonight uh having won some concessions.
I would go further and say that what Fox News ought to do is tell him um that it's over, that it takes too long to redo all the questions and the organization of the program and that he's out just to ensure that doesn't happen.
Oh, okay, so there's two prongs here.
You think Trump is going to show up and has made demands that certain things change, and you hope Fox tells him no.
Yes.
Well, if Fox tells him no, then he won't show up because he's not gonna show up on a contingency.
Would you think he'd show up with the hopes that Fox will make the modifications he wants?
Uh no, I think uh he is still negotiating, as you say it's going on.
Right.
And I think Fox News auto-announced that they're not going to allow him to come.
Okay.
Well, it's interesting.
Everybody, I know that's why I was asking.
I asked this question of people here on the staff about a half hour ago, and I just want to tell you from all three of them.
No way.
There's no way Trump can show up now.
Impossible.
He's already set the thing up at CNN.
He's already told Fox to go pound sand.
CNN's televising the Trump event.
No way.
You now you have a more specific, Harry, you have a more specific image of what you think is going down.
I just have something in my gut that says, and I don't know how it manifests.
I just don't think we're being played in the sense that there's a well, we're being played, but I don't think that's the objective here.
I don't I I just I think there's a genuine negotiation going on here, and Trump is trying to get the best deal he can, whatever that is, I have no clue.
Uh and it may be publicity stunt, I don't know.
I don't know anything.
I just could be dead wrong, too.
I just it isn't over.
It's all I think.
All right, back to the phones in just a second here since I mentioned this.
Denmark is one of these European Union countries that welcomed some of the Syrian uh metal blob up refugees.
The migrants, whatever.
Uh, not refugees.
Maybe it's from one of my things, not immigrants, not illegal.
Syrians and Syrian, Syrian, well, we refugees.
Anyway, they welcomed them in, along with Germany and a lot of other other European countries.
Because it was the compassionate thing to do.
They're coming from strife and thirsty hunger and war-torn parts of their native homeland.
They're just seeking a better life.
And who are we to deny them the better life?
Most of them are military age young men.
So they welcomed them in, and then the military age young men, much as happened in Germany, Colonna started sexually abusing a wide number, wide birth there of the female population, Germany and in Denmark and so forth.
And the authorities in Germany and Denmark said, Well, what do you guys do?
You can't do that.
And the migrants said, Well, we're being invited to.
I mean, these women are not wearing burkas, and and and they're they're coming up and they're shaking our hands and they're winning where we come from, that's that's that's like saying, uh, make a move on me.
So both countries have been doing seminars, assuming it's their fault that the Syrian refugees are raping their women, and they've been doing they have.
I'm not making doing seminars with these immigrants to tell them what's behaviorally permissible and what isn't.
But now they have reached their limit in Denmark.
They're getting close to it.
The Danish Parliament has backed a con waitle Bertie Sanders here's this is gonna be flabbergasted.
The Danish Parliament has backed a controversial proposal to confiscate the possessions of asylum seekers to pay for their upkeep.
Police will be able to seize valuables worth more than 10,000 kroner, which is about 1,340 euros, a thousand pounds from refugees to cover housing and food costs.
Members of Parliament also approved plans to delay family reunions for asylum seekers.
Family reunions?
What the hell is that?
Family reunions?
Well, whatever, they canceled them.
The bill has been widely criticized by human rights groups.
The prospect of refugees having their possessions taken from them has drawn comparison to the confiscation of valuables from the Jews during World War II.
The government has said that items of sentimental value like wedding rings will be exempt.
They're not going to take those.
It also raised the amount of refugees to be allowed to keep from 3,000 krona to 10,000 following objections.
Now, what do you think it is?
Here come the refugees.
Here come the migrants from war-torn Syria and elsewhere.
And they immediately start taking things in your welfare state.
I mean, they're you're feeding them, you're clothing them, you're housing them, you're quenching their thirst.
And all of a sudden you realize you don't have the money for all this, so you know what?
We're going to take some of their property.
Help pay for this.
Why should we give it to them?
This to me is landmark for socialist thinking.
Socialists normally would write in for go go go tax everybody else, get money necessary to feed, clothe, and otherwise take care of the refugees.
But instead, they are essentially telling the refugees, hey, if you come here, you're going to pay for it yourself.
And if you don't have the money, we're going to take what you have.
We're going to steal, confiscate your valuables.
And the UN is on record as hating this.
Socialists around the world quoted in this story are conflicted.
But Denmark has had it.
And I find it fascinating.
Sweden is the other place that momentous things are happening.
Sweden may reject the asylum applications of up to 80,000 migrants and should prepare to deport them, says the Swedish Interior Minister.
Some 163,000 migrants applied for asylum in Sweden in 2015.
That's the highest per capita number in Europe.
The numbers have fallen significantly since Sweden imposed tighter border controls.
Of the approximately 59,000 asylum cases processed in Sweden last year, 55% were accepted.
The others were told, see you later, but you can't come in.
And now they are preparing to reject 80,000 more for the usual reasons.
They can't afford it.
They don't trust the people who have shown up.
So all of this left-wing socialism is collapsing on itself under the pressures of dire reality.
And there's a story here at CNBC unrelated to that, but still something that when more time permits, uh down the road, we should explore this.
The headline, why millennials are embracing socialism.
And to the extent that they are.
Now, I the story assumes that most millennials are socialists or favor socialism, big government welfare state kind of policies.
So assuming that that's true, the story postulates that the reason is crony capitalism.
That millennials are not stupid, and they see crony capitalism going on.
What they really see is businesses, groups here or there aligning with government and doing just fine.
Businesses aligning with government being taken care of, individuals in other groups aligning with government being taken care of.
So what's wrong with getting in bed with the government?
It's an interesting theory to explain why millennials are reacting to things the way they are.
It's also a teachable moment, a great educational opportunity.
So put that aside for later.
Back to the phones.
Adam in Casey, Illinois.
It's great to have you, sir.
Hello.
It's really cool to talk to you.
Appreciate all that you do.
Thank you, sir.
Very much.
Uh calling from the People's Republic of Illinois.
And uh I just had uh a quick question for you.
You've been very clear that you're simply you're not endorsing any candidate.
You're just explaining what Trump is doing, what's happening, uh, and particularly between him and Fox and Megan Kelly.
But I'm curious, I know you've explained it, and I get everything you're saying, but I'm curious what is your opinion of it.
Uh what is my opinion of Trump's tactics?
What of my what is my opinion of uh of Trump's behavior, strategy, which specific Yeah, of his behavior with Meghan Kelly and Fox, missing the debate, making a big deal about his treatment and being treated unfairly, and do you think he's making the right decision?
Well, I have long advocated, and we could go back and find the tape.
We can go back to our archives and find the transcripts.
I have long advocated that Republicans in general no longer have to take it from the media.
Why do we have to sit there and let the media pick our nominee every four years, for example?
Why can't people stand up and say to various people in media when you already know how they're gonna treat you?
Why go there?
You know, I how many times have I suggested that Republicans avoid certain Sunday shows hosted by certain people.
What's gonna happen to you?
You know you're not gonna win anything there, you're not gonna triumph there.
Uh no matter how well you do, after you're gone, they're gonna portray you as something unfavorable.
Why give them the chance?
And I've asked Republicans this, and the answer I get, you have to do it.
Uh you you we we can't avoid it.
We can't run from the media.
And I've always said you're not running from them.
You're just not giving them the chance to personally destroy you, insult you, or what have you.
And I can re- I I bet you I could find on our archives over the past 25 years, after certain presidential debates or similar type programs, I bet you I can find myself saying, why do it?
Why let those people moderate?
Why agree this debate commission to choose these people to moderate?
Why don't you stand up for yourselves and demand your own moderators?
So, in in that sense, I don't have a problem with this.
I I think that this is something I've actually urged Republicans to do as a party over the over the course of the whole time that I have been doing this program, because I you know everybody knows now and agrees that the Democrats are not our only opponent, the media is as well.
We Republicans run against two opponents in in every election.
And Republicans have always just fallen back on the notion that that's just the way it is for them.
That's that's the hand that they're dealt.
That's the hand they have to play.
And so there's a there's a part of me that enjoys it, and I'll tell you why.
It's the same thing I said about Trump early on.
I think the real value of Donald Trump, and I might have said this the first week of his campaign, certainly within the first month.
Donald Trump is showing that you don't have to be afraid of the media.
That you don't and Republicans are.
Republicans are afraid of being called racist, so they don't criticize Obama.
They're afraid of being accused of the government shutdown, so they don't make a single effort to stop any of this disastrous spending.
And I've always said that the value Trump brings to this is demonstrating that you don't have to fear criticizing the first black president.
You don't have to fear criticizing Democrats.
You don't have to fear standing up to liberal Democrat policies and saying no.
And you certainly don't have to fear being accused of violating political correctness.
And I still stand by that.
I think there are valuable lessons being taught and demonstrated here.
And frankly, one of the things that has sort of mildly surprised me is how few other Republicans have sought to take advantage of this.
I was hoping that Trump would inspire similar behavior in a whole lot of these candidates, if you want to know the truth.
Now, I I'm not talking about the the reacting to criticism in what some people think is a petty way.
I'm talking about being bold.
I'm talking about being fearless.
I'm talking about shelving, getting rid of these generational fears of the media, fears of charges of racism, sexism, bigotry, and homophobia.
Just go out and tell people who you are.
Go out and be who you are.
Go out and stand for what you stand for.
Explain to people why.
Instead of thinking the only way you can get somewhere is to convince somebody else that you're not what the Democrats or the media say about you.
That's a losing proposition because nobody's been ever able to prove a negative.
You just can't do it.
So sadly, folks, not enough time here to take another caller.
Not enough time for another inane soundbite.
The GOP big debate in Iowa is tonight.
And I just want to finish here by.
Well, it is.
It's a great career risk.
The odds are I'm dead wrong about it, but I just don't think this is over.
As you know, I have a very prominent gut.
My prominent gut is telling me it's not over.
Something's gonna happen still yet involving Trump in this.
Okay, folks, I'm just telling you.
The size of the audience of this thing tonight could be huge.
And I don't know that both sides want to let go of that.
I'm just okay.
I'm an idiot.
Forget I said it.
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