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Feb. 22, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 22, 2016, Monday, Hour #3
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Yeah, that's the I've got nothing to hide argument.
What are you afraid of?
Guy asked me, what's on your phone you care so much about?
Why not let them see it?
What's the big deal?
Yeah, you've got nothing to hide argument.
That's well then put your bank account information out there, sir, and let whoever wants in your house.
And remember, sir, they don't have to find anything.
All they've got to do is say they do.
You know, politics is not about what is.
Politics is about what it seems to be.
Jury trials are not about guilt and innocent and fact and non-fact.
Jury trials are what you can make the jury feel.
Look at the OJ trial.
Criminal justice system, so much of life in America is not as cut and dried as Civics 101 makes you think it is.
Something is innocent.
Look, I think there's a philosophical statement that explains Trump.
Everybody's breaking their back trying to figure Trump out, pulling their hair out.
What is it?
Simple.
Very few people remember for very long what you say to them, but they never forget how you make them feel.
Now, if you make people feel good and confident and safe and secure, it doesn't matter what you say.
They're not going to remember it, but they'll remember how you make them feel.
It works both ways.
If they scare you, if they make you feel like you can't trust them, if they make you feel like then you lose them forever, no matter what they say to you.
Politics is not about what is, it's about what seems to be.
How do you think Democrats have gotten where they are?
Democrats are all about emotion, not intellect, not words, not things, not what people say or think or remember any of that.
It's what the words make people feel.
Like all these millennials want Bernie Sanders because he's going to give them stuff.
That's all that matters.
Don't stop to think what it means, how it's going to be paid for.
It just feels good.
So if somebody says, what do you got to hide?
Well, if they're looking for you, it doesn't matter what you've got to hide.
All they've got to do is tell somebody they found something.
It's all it takes.
What do things seem?
So you don't care what's on your phone.
Fine.
Let them look at your bank account.
Let them look at the source of every dollar you have.
Where did it come from?
You think you haven't committed a crime?
There are laws out there you don't even know exist.
It all depends on whether they're looking for you or not.
And even when they're not looking for you, if they see something or find something that facilitates something else they want to do, the right to privacy is not guaranteed in the Constitution.
It is assumed in the Fourth Amendment on search and seizure, but it's not specifically spelled out.
It's been something that has evolved in a legal sense.
It's one of the things that concerns me about all this social media.
I've said forever that you've got people out there vomiting everything there is about themselves.
They want fame.
So they're putting every picture of themselves they can find, embarrassing or not.
They're divulging all kinds of personal information as teenagers and young adults.
And 20 years from now, when they want to do something serious in their life, it's going to be findable.
And who knows what somebody can do with it?
Careers, futures can actually be destroyed with innuendo, depending on how big a target you become and so forth.
Now, if you as a citizen are nothing more than a statistic and nobody knows who you are and nobody's going to care and you think that isn't going to change, fine.
But understand that it doesn't work that way for everybody.
Anyway, folks, I have to tell you, I'm sitting here, I'm fighting off pangs of guilt because there is so much here that I want to get to that I'm not going to be able to get to today.
And it seems like this is happening each and every day.
Now, you don't know what it is.
If I never told you, then you wouldn't think anything's up.
If I don't play a record, you'll never really know.
But, you know, you can never get hurt by something you don't say.
You can never be hurt by something you don't do.
You can never be hurt by not playing a song.
But if you play a record nobody likes and they tune out, then you're finished, at least for a while.
There's so much here, and it's scatterbox.
It's all over the place.
Some of it's about the political racists.
Some of it's about Apple.
There's one here that's just mind-boggling.
For example, Brown University students.
Quick, where's Brown University?
You don't know where Brown University is?
Providence.
Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island, which is where visiting teams flying in to play the Patriots land and stay.
They don't stay in Boston.
They go to Providence.
Little trivia for you there.
Brown University students are complaining their homework is interfering with their activism.
They are reportedly upset that the university wants them to keep up with their academics amid their protesting.
From our buddies at campus reform, student activists at Brown University are complaining of emotional stress and poor grades after months of protesting, and they blame the screw for insisting that they complete their coursework.
There are people breaking down, dropping out of classes and failing classes because of activism work that they're taking on, said an undergraduate student, going by the pseudonym David, told the Brown Daily Herald last week, My grades dropped dramatically.
Like my health completely changed.
I lost weight.
I'm on antidepressants and anti-anxiety pills like right now.
And counselors call me.
I had deans calling me to make sure I was okay.
I can't do both.
I can't be an activist and do my homework at the same time.
More proof that liberalism is driving people insane.
Literally driving them insane.
I got an email.
This is an excellent question.
It's an excellent question.
We're going to talk about Apple and security, encryption, and so forth.
Dear Mr. Limbaugh, would you say at this moment the safest way to communicate without the government being able to easily capture it is text messaging?
What if text messaging is also on your desktop?
You know why this is a great question?
Because text messaging is not instant messaging.
Let me stick with Apple because that's what I know.
People on Android, I don't know what they use, WhatsApp.
I don't know what the messages program on Android is, but in Apple, it's iMessage.
And when you're using that, it works like text, you think, but the bubbles are blue.
Apple says, and the DOD and the CIA and everybody else has concurred that those messages are encrypted front and back, meaning the only people who can read what you are sending is the person you're sending it to.
And consequently, the only if unless no, meaning if you don't have access to their phone while they're telling me, you're looking over their shoulder, you can read it.
But only the phone's software decrypts each message as it's sent and received.
Or if it's in a group.
However, text messaging is an entirely different thing and is in no way secure anywhere anyhow.
Text messaging on your iPhone is green bubbles and those go through the phone company.
And that's actually called texting, SMS or and MMS.
But if you're texting blue bubbles, you're not texting.
You are iMessaging and it's encrypted.
And you can iMessage on your desktop or your laptop if you open the program called iMessages, just like the program on your iPhone or iPad.
And if you're signed in to the same Apple ID, it syncs to every device that you're running.
Your iPad, your iPhone, your computer will all have the same identical messages, recipients, people you're chatting to.
If your bubbles on your iPhone are green, then you're text messaging over cellular.
And if the FBI or the government wants to find out what you've been texting, they have to go to your carrier.
They're already hoovering up all that metadata of your phone calls, or maybe they stopped that recently.
Yeah, that expired.
But with a court order, a carrier will give up the data on your phone calls or on your texting.
Bottom line, if you want encryption, blue bubbles for those of you that use iPhones.
Now, Apple has done some amazing things.
A couple of software versions ago, system software versions ago, they introduced two things called handoff and extensibility.
Basically, what it means for this discussion, You can now, on your laptop or your desktop, send text messages over your cellular phone line as long as your iPhone is close by.
So you can send text for people that don't have iPhones, and you do, and you want to message them, so that's green bubbles.
You can text them on your laptop, as long as your phone's in the same room.
But now there's something new.
It's called Wi-Fi calling.
You know what this is?
Wi-Fi calling is super cool.
Wi-Fi on your phone will make cellular phone calls over your Wi-Fi network if you have a weak or non-existent cell signal.
And the quality of those calls is high definition.
It's incredible.
It's better than FaceTime audio.
To illustrate how this works, I was on the, I was on EIB 1 back in January, 47,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean.
I picked up my iPhone and I called my brother in Missouri, not the sat phone on the plane, picked up my iPhone using the Wi-Fi network on the plane, and his caller ID had my cell phone number.
He thought I was calling him on, which I was.
I was calling him on the phone.
That's Wi-Fi calling.
Now you want to add a new feature that AT ⁇ T has added called NumberSync.
Add to that, you can now make a phone call from your laptop, from your iPad.
Neither of those have cellular modems in them.
You can make an actual cell phone call from your number on your laptop or your iPad over Wi-Fi if your phone is off.
Encryption, I don't know.
We're talking about the phone company, AT ⁇ T in this case.
Verizon and T-Mobile have Wi-Fi calling.
NumberSync is exclusive right now to AT ⁇ T, but the others are working on it.
But the bottom line is, it wasn't that long ago you couldn't text people on your computer.
You couldn't text people on your iPad.
You needed a phone for it.
But now you can use your laptop or your iPad.
The beauty of this is you don't have to drop your iPad or laptop if somebody texts you and pick up your phone.
You can continue it or answer it right there on your phone.
Ditto phone calls.
You can make a phone call from your iPad without touching your iPhone.
You can make a phone call, a voice call from your computer, desktop or laptop, without touching your iPhone.
Part of the Apple operating system.
And it's things like this that you'd be amazed.
The number of people I tell, they have no clue.
They have no idea.
And it's not their fault.
Apple doesn't advertise this stuff well.
You really have to do what I do, read constantly about the latest and greatest in this stuff to know that this stuff's possible.
Nobody knows about NumberSync unless you happen to run into it being described on the AT ⁇ T website.
And frankly, how many people are going to end up there during the day?
Right, Brian?
And Brian, why would I go to AT unless you have a billing problem?
And even then, it's a whole different section of the website.
You might not even see Number Sync there.
But because I care about this stuff and I want to know everything and then some what these phones will do, that's why I learn it and I test it and it all works.
Bottom line, encryption.
Blue bubbles, you're cool.
Green bubbles, no encryption, and anybody can get to it with a court order because it's phone company.
It's not encrypted anyway.
The phone company doesn't encrypt anything in those text messages.
Don't encrypt your phone calls.
But BlueBubble iMessage is encrypted by software both ways it goes, sending and receiving.
Hope that helps.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
Yes, yes.
Wi-Fi calling also from your iPad or your laptop if they're on a Wi-Fi network.
It's all related to your Apple ID and you have to be running iOS 9.2 for any of this to work.
And 9.2.1 is the current release version of the operating system.
And the way you turn it on, you go to settings, phone, Wi-Fi calling, and turn it on.
It's simple.
And after you do that, then you'll have a chance to turn on NumberSync.
It doesn't, yeah, it might say NumberSync, but what this is, NumberSync allows you to make phone calls from your iPad, your laptop, over Wi-Fi when your phone is off or lost or in a different room.
It's amazing stuff.
Here's Abraham and Pembroke, Pines, Florida.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Good afternoon, sir.
Thank you for taking my call, Mr. Limbaugh.
You bet.
It's an honor to speak to you.
I was wondering if maybe you could please opine on this hypothetical where maybe Bernie Sander righteously wins the Democratic delegate count, and Hillary Clinton does a number on him and uses her superdelegates and takes it away from him.
What he happens.
And then he goes independent third party.
I don't see it.
I don't see it.
Bernie's 74.
He likes walking.
I just, I think they would find a way to take care of Bernie if he decided to do that.
That'd be instant death, political death for Hillary.
That won't happen.
Bernie's going to end up being a loyal soldier when this is all over.
Bernie Sanders has never had a dime.
He was a bum until he got his first paycheck at age 40.
He's still a bum.
They're going to take care of him.
Bernie Sanders is going to have a life of Riley, which he's never had.
It'll be somebody else's money.
They'll take care of him.
I can't see him going third party.
I wish he would.
Abraham, I would love it if he did.
Have you ever stopped to think of something?
Speaking of third party, you ever notice that when Clintons are on the ballot, billionaires decide to run for office, too?
Just putting that out there.
Here's Ken in Boston.
Ken, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Thank you, brother, for being an inspiration to all of us out here.
Well, I appreciate that very much.
Even am I confused?
Here's my question.
What is a chance the media is promoting Trump?
He doesn't need much, but they're promoting Trump because they believe they can destroy him coming the general election.
You saw what they did to Newt to Mitt Romney.
Wait, wait, wait.
Wait, is your question, why do I think the media has gone easier on Trump?
Well, more than that, I believe they're promoting him because they think they can destroy him the same way they destroyed Mitt Romney with all his business dealings and everybody who got hurt with his four bankruptcies.
I believe they destroyed Kylie Feelinery because they thought she would be a big challenge to him.
Maybe, but I don't think they're looking at Trump that way yet.
Number one, these people all like Trump.
He's been going on their TV networks and shows for years before he became a candidate.
They never liked Romney.
They hated Romney from the first moment they heard of his dad.
They've never liked Romney.
They're giving Trump a pass to the extent that they are, I think, because they're scared of him.
And two things.
They want the ratings he brings.
I guarantee, folks, these people are not going to tick him off.
They are not going to run the risk of getting on his bad side because they need him appearing.
They need to be able to promote Trump appearances on their networks for ad revenue.
That, by the way, is another reason why I think the networks are going to be interested in prolonging all of these primaries as long as they can for the ad revenue that's going to be coming in.
But I would also posit you were frowning at me, Mr. You think they're not being all that restrained with Trump?
Mm-hmm.
Well, well, I know the beat reports, like this woman here that I have comparing him to Hitler.
We're finding out now how Hitler did it with Trump.
Yeah, some of the beat reports.
But the TV people love the guy.
They're fascinated by him.
He's defying every definition of political gravity they've ever thought existed.
They're mesmerized by the guy.
They all want to be traveling with him.
Wouldn't it be neat?
Wouldn't it be neat to be a rich guy like Trump?
What is it like to be Eric Trump, Harry Trump, the son of a rich guy?
Man, could I maybe just be Trump for a day?
I'd love to be a Trump for a day.
Yeah, yeah, I'd be a rich guy just for a day.
Travel with Trump on a Trump jet and see what that's like.
And the Trump women, my God, look at the Trump women.
They're all beautiful.
Man, I would love to have a Trump paid too.
Ooh, ooh.
I think they're a little afraid of him at the same time.
But if you want to know who the press really goes easy on, the names are Bill and Hillary Clinton.
And that's really the way to ask that question.
Why are they going so easy and why do they always go so easy on Bill and Hillary Clinton?
But Trump will get his when he's a nominee.
Just like McCain did.
It's in the cards.
You'll see.
I thought there's something else, too, with these TV people and Trump.
I think a lot of people, not all of them, but a bunch of TV people put him on television thinking he's making a fool of himself and thinking that he's making a fool of the GOP.
So I think early on that's what the Republican establishment, I think, oh, let's hear more of this guy.
He's just helping us left and he's digging his own grave here.
I think a lot of the drive-bys think that Trump embarrasses himself and makes a fool of the GOP and his supporters every time he opens his mouth.
And so they certainly want to amplify that as well.
I mean, it runs the gamut.
Like this piece, The Moment of Truth, we must stop Trump.
Danielle Allen, political theorist at Harvard, contributing columnist Washington Post.
To understand the rise of Hitler and the spread of Nazism, I have generally relied on the German Jewish émigré philosopher Hannah Arendt and her arguments about the banality of evil.
Somehow people can understand themselves as just doing their job, yet act as cogs in the wheel of a murderous machine.
Arendt also offered a second answer in a small but powerful book called Men in Dark Times.
And in this book, she described all those who thought that Hitler's rise was a terrible thing, but chose internal exile or staying invisible and out of the way as their strategy for coping with it.
They knew evil was evil, but they too facilitated it by departing from the battlefield out of a sense of hopelessness.
And so you see, Trump is Hitler.
And a lot of people know it, but they don't want to get involved.
So they're just backing off and they're trying to blend into the invisible, hoping nobody ever comes for them or notices them.
Watching Donald Trump's rise, I now understand.
Leave aside whether a direct comparison of Trump to Hitler is accurate.
That's not my point.
My point rather is about how a demagogic opportunist can exploit a divided country.
We must stop Trump.
Why?
He's going to lose?
Danielle, all the polling data says that Hillary's going to mop the floor with him.
He doesn't have a chance.
In the electability polls, they tell us his high disapproval numbers make it impossible for him to win the general election, Danielle.
So what are you sweating here?
You actually think he's going to talk people out of supporting gay marriage?
You think he's going to talk people out of supporting whatever it is that you think is crucial?
Is that what your fear is?
You know, there's some fake tweets.
This stuff is starting now.
Let me see if I can find it real quick.
Fake Trump tweets going around, such as, you want me to quote a Bible verse?
Fine, I'll quote a Bible verse.
Trump 2016.
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day.
Deport him and you won't have to feed him or his anchor babies ever again.
Fake Trump tweets.
Yeah, the Trump Bible, chapter 20, verse 16, Trump 2016.
Now, it's not, Twitter has a blue check mark next to the real if it's somebody that's not the real Donald Trump, but the fake Trump tweets are starting now.
And in this case, the fake Trump tweets, I mean, you can look at, you can read that one and say, well, it's either pro-Trump, agree with Trump, or not, depends.
My point is they're scared to death out there in academia and in the drive-bys.
They are scared to death, folks.
All leftists are constantly scared because they know that the victories they have are really not solid.
Their victories are the result of authoritarianism and bulliness.
They're not the result of a majority of people agreeing with them.
They know that the majority of this country is not for gay marriage.
They know they've succeeded in bullying the country into it.
And she's worried about how Trump is exploiting a divided nation.
She's exploiting a divided nation.
She and her leftist buddies, they're the ones dividing and then exploiting.
They're the ones that are imposing their will on us, and it isn't happening democratically.
They're just bullying everybody into shutting up so that the left doesn't come after them.
This is Stuart in Elizabeth, Colorado.
Stuart, glad you called.
Great to have you here.
I call Rush.
Appreciate that.
You bet.
Hey, I want to just share a few observations I have come up with concerning Trump.
I mean, I appreciate what he's brought to the campaign and voicing things, but I basically have come to the conclusion he's like Obama in that Obama always said hope and change, hope and change, but never revealed his plan.
Trump is saying we're going to win again.
We're going to win.
He's going to be greater than ever before, but I don't see real substance.
I think he slipped whenever he said I was for the mandate.
I think he was showing his true heart that he was for Obamacare.
And all he said was, we're going to get rid of Obamacare and replace him with something better.
I asked, with what?
I also see him whenever he gets cornered, he kind of reminds me of the penguin and Batman.
He always don't ran, round, round, round, round.
He just lashes out.
He has no substance.
And then another observation, actually, what he said was he was asked about his tone and will you change.
In essence, he said, oh, yeah, I can be whatever I need to be with whoever I'm with.
I want someone who has some principle who will stand all the time, constant.
I see him basically more liberal.
I equate him to Obama.
He's a lot of words, and it appeals to people.
All those words of win, big, and big, great, and everything appeals to people.
But I'm asking, where's the substance?
I think Make America Great Again is a little bit more substantive than hope and change.
I think it has a little bit deeper meaning to people.
It's certainly definitive or definable.
But why do you think so many people, if you're right, and if all of this is a bunch of tricks, why are so many people falling for it, do you think?
Oh, I think the same thing with Obama.
The terminology sounds great.
It sounds great to me.
I want America to be great again.
I've traveled in different countries of the world, and I remember when Clinton was in, it was an embarrassment to be an American, practically.
Well, who are you for?
I am for Cruz.
You're for Cruz?
Yes, absolutely.
Well, with Cruz, you don't have any of concerns, right?
You know, he's stable.
He's got a rock-solid philosophy that you don't think he's going to waver on.
Yes.
He's principled, and you know the principles are conservative.
Yes.
And he's rolled up his sleeves.
He's been in fights defending conservatism and trying to secure victories.
Yes.
And he's done it in Washington, where Cruz says, I'll make a deal.
I know you've got to work with people, but I'm concerned about how many deals he's going to make.
I think people will be disappointed in the future if he's elected.
Well, you're not the first person to call here and utter the same thing.
I've had people say, you know, this hope and change business rush, it's just as dangerous as Make America Great Again and all these specifics.
And what you're really saying, even though you didn't voice this, Obama ended up being an authoritarian and ended up being supported as an authoritarian because his wacko base wanted that stuff done, i.e., they wanted conservatives humiliated and defeated and ticked off and mad and losing everything.
And they didn't care how Obama did, if he has to do it with executive orders, fine and dandy.
And what you're afraid of is that we've got people on our side who will be perfectly fine with our own version of an authoritarian as long as he's hammering those guys.
And that troubles you.
I think really the thing that you should focus on is why you're for Trump for Cruz.
Because that's, I think, probably much more persuasive.
If you're trying to change people's minds about Trump, tell them why you're for Cruz.
Because you're not going to talk a Trumpist out of it.
And the reason you're not going to talk a Trumpist out of it is because they're feeling something really good.
And they don't want to let go of that.
Okay, Andrew, San Francisco, great to have you.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, and thanks for taking my call.
I want to explain a situation that happened to my wife this past Saturday.
She was traveling from San Francisco International Airport to the East Coast on United Airlines.
And what happened was she was in the lineup.
You know how you line up into the gate.
And she actually, in a normal tone of voice, she was talking politics with fellow passengers.
Of course, a very big topic these days, naturally.
So during the discussion, my wife called Hillary Clinton a bitch.
And what happened was the gate agent heard that.
She made a D-line right to my wife, pulled my wife out of the line, and denied her boarding because she called Hillary Clinton a bitch.
We live in Nazi Germany.
This is exactly the kind of behavior that I would expect in Nazi Germany.
You kidding me?
Absolutely.
I am not kidding.
I am absolutely and totally, totally outraged and disgusted that United Airlines has employees that will conduct this.
You cannot even have a political speech now in an airport without being pulled aside.
She was denied boarding.
She missed her flight.
We had to rebook on another airline at very great expense, I might add.
You can imagine, right, if you have to make a last-minute flight change, how much you're going to have to pay to do that.
Are you going to pursue this with United?
You got witnesses, right?
Oh, you know, United is very difficult to pursue, right?
You know, you call their 800 number and you're going to be on hold for 40, 50, 60 minutes, and you're going to talk to someone to take a reservation or to handle your lost baggage.
They're not going to handle a legal complaint on an 800 number.
You know, we haven't decided how or what, you know, what action that we're going to take in this case.
But I'm actually calling to inform your listeners, you better watch out.
You better not say that Hillary Clinton is a bitch.
You better watch your speech because, you know what?
You may be denied boarding, and you can imagine what that's going to do to your travel.
Look, this does not surprise me.
I mean, not like you think it might.
These people on the left are the most intolerant people.
This does not surprise me at all.
There's no different trying to run a bakery out of business or trying to run a Photoshop out of business.
These people are into political correctness, which is speech censorship.
It doesn't surprise me.
Tell your wife, you say, B-I-I-C.
Next time, and you'll be safer.
But that's next time.
Some people are, I know, she shouldn't have been talking that way anyway.
It's implant you talk publicly.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't mean you get pulled from the flight.
And by the way, be prepared for United to call here and deny this.
I mean, this is, you know, this.
But anyway, Andrew, I appreciate that.
I'm sure there'll be follow-up on this now.
There's going to be denials left and right and requests for information, data.
Andrew, you might want to talk to a lawyer about this.
This is pain and suffering, added expense.
Don't call an 800-number spending time on hold or else go back out to the airport and ask for a supervisor.
Anyway, I'm glad you got through with this.
And I, for one, I just want to tell you, I'm not surprised, folks.
I've been trying to warn people this kind of stuff's coming for years.
By the way, Marco Rubio, Marco Rubio says that Mitt Romney is not going to endorse him.
Anytime soon.
Please don't think that.
Rubio does not want anybody to think that Romney is going to endorse him.
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