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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 that asks me what's on your phone you care so much about?
Why not let them see it?
What's the big deal?
Yeah, the you 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 in fact and non-fact.
Jury trials of 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 as innocent.
Look, I I think there's a philosophical statement that explains Trump.
You know, 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 that 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 uh then you've 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 get 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 or any of that.
It's it's what the words make people feel.
Like all these millennials want Bernie Sanders because he's gonna 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, uh 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 in a uh in a legal, legal sense.
It's one of the things that concerns me about 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 twenty years from now when they want to do something serious in their life, it's gonna be findable, and who knows what somebody can do with it.
Uh 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 gonna care, and you think that isn't gonna change, fine, but understand that it doesn't work that way for everybody.
Anyway, folks, I'd have to tell you something sitting here, I'm I'm fighting off pangs of guilt because there is so much here that I want to get to that I'm not gonna 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.
Like if I don't play a record, you'll never really know, but um 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.
Um there's so much here, then it's scatterboxed.
It's all over the place.
Some of it's about the political races, some of it's about Apple.
There's 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.
Prov 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 scruble 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 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 talking 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 I don't know what the 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 now meaning if you if you if you uh don't have access to their phone while they're to 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 MS. 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 under the same Apple ID, it sinks 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 your 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.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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 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 ATT is added called number sync.
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 That's we're talking about uh the phone company, ATT in this case.
Verizon and T-Mobile have Wi-Fi calling.
Number sync is exclusive right now to ATT, 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.
It's things like this that you'd be amazed.
A number of people I tell they have no clue.
They have no idea.
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 number sync unless you happen to run into it being described on the ATT website.
And frankly, how many people are going to end up there during the day?
Right, Brian?
Brian, uh, well when 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.
Just like don't encrypt your phone calls.
But blue bubble 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 uh 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 uh simple.
And after you do that, then you'll have a chance to turn on number sync.
It doesn't s yeah yeah, it might say number sync, but it what this is.
Number sync allows you to make phone calls from your iPad and 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.
Um I was wondering if maybe you could please opine on this hypothetical where maybe um Bernie Sander um rights us the um wins the Democratic delegate count, and Hillary Clinton does a number on him and uses her superdelegates and takes it away from him.
Or do you have and then he goes um independent third party?
I don't see it.
I don't see it.
Bernie's 74, he likes walking.
Uh I just I I I think they would find a way to take care of take care of Bernie uh if he decided to do that.
That'd be instant death.
Political death for Hillary.
That that won't happen.
Uh Bernie's gonna 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 gonna take care of him.
Bernie Sanders is gonna have the 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 I wish he would.
Uh Abraham, I would love it if he did.
You ever stop 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 uh here's Ken in Boston.
Ken, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey.
Thank you, brother, for being an inspiration, 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 come to general election.
You saw what they did to Newt um to uh Mitt Romney.
Wait, wait, wait.
Is your question why do I think the media's gone easier on Trump?
You know, 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 uh bankruptcies.
Uh I believe they destroyed how um Cali Feelini because they thought she would be a big challenge to me.
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 bel 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 uh restrained with Trump?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-mm.
Mm-hmm.
Well, well, I know the beat reports, like this woman here that I have comparing him to uh Hitler that we're in the we're we're we're finding out now how Hitler did it with Trump.
Yeah, some of the beat reports.
TV people loved a 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 need to be a rich guy like Trump?
What are you what do you think it's like to be Eric Trump, Eric Trump, the son of a rich guy?
Man, what's could I maybe just be Trump for a day?
I'd love to be a Trump for a day.
Yeah, yeah.
Maybe a rich guy just for a day.
Travel with Trump on a Trump jet and see what that's like.
And and 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 it's 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 uh 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 um 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 is standing.
I think, oh, let's hear more of this guy.
He's he's just helping us left and right.
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 uh 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 emigre 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 opportunity opportunist can exploit a divided country.
Why?
He's gonna lose?
Danielle, all the polling data says that Hillary's gonna mop the floor with him.
He didn'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 gonna talk people out of supporting uh 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.
Uh fake fake 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 you know Twitter has a blue check mark next to the real if it's somebody it's not the real Donald Trump, but the fake Trump tweets are starting now.
And in this case, the uh the fake Trump tweets, I mean, you can look at you could 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 the 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 a 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 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 uh Elizabeth, Colorado.
Stuart, glad you called.
Great to have you here.
I call Rush, appreciate that.
You bet.
Hey, I I want to uh just share a few observations I have come up with concerning Trump.
I mean, I appreciate what he's brought to the campaign and uh voicing things, but I basically 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 gonna win again.
We're gonna win again and be greater 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 he was he was for Obamacare.
And all he said was we're gonna get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something better.
I asked with what?
Um I also see him whenever he gets cornered, he kind of reminds me of the penguin and Batman, he always talks rah-rah, rah, rah-he just lashes out.
He has no substance.
Um then another observation actually, what he said was um 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, um, constant.
I I see him basically uh more liberal.
Uh I I just I equate him to Obama.
He's with a lot of words, and it appeals to people.
All those words of win big and be great and everything appeals to people.
But I'm asking, where's the substance?
I think make America grave again is a little bit more substantive than hope and change.
I think it has a little bit deeper meaning to people.
It's it's it's certainly definitive or definable.
But why do you think so many people, if if you're right, and if all of this is uh a bunch of tricks?
Why are so many people falling for it, do you think?
Oh, I I think the same thing with Obama.
The terminology sounds great.
Uh 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 with an embarrassment to be an American, practically.
Um, who are you for?
I am for Cruz.
You're for Cruz?
Yes.
Absolutely.
Well, with Cruz, you don't have any those concerns, right?
You know he's he's stable.
He's got a rock solid philosophy that you don't think he's gonna waver on.
Yes.
He's principled, and you know that principles are conservative.
Yes.
And he's rolled up his sleeves.
He's been in fights defending conservatism and trying to secure victories.
Yes.
So he's done it in Washington, where Cruz says, I'll make a deal.
I know you gotta work with people, but I'm I'm concerned about how many deals he's gonna 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 in Russia, it's just as dangerous as make America Great Again, and all the specifics.
What you're really saying, even though you didn't voice this.
Obama ended up being an authoritarian.
It ended up being supported as an authoritarian because his wacko base wanted that stuff done.
I either wanted conservatives humiliated and defeated and ticked off and mad and losing everything.
And they didn't care how Obama, if he has to do 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 that uh troubles you.
I think really the thing that you should focus on is why you're for Trump.
Uh for Cruz.
Because that's uh 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 gonna talk a Trump Trumpist out of it.
You and the reason you're not gonna 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.
Um, I want to explain a situation that happened to my wife uh this past Saturday.
She was traveling from uh 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 uh she actually in a normal tone of voice, she was talking uh politics with fellow passengers, of course, a very big topic these days, naturally.
So during the uh discussion, uh my wife called Hillary Clinton a bitch.
And what happened was the gate agent heard that.
She made a B 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.
This is this I am absolutely and totally, totally outraged and disgusted that United Airlines has employs uh that that will conduct this.
You can 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 on another airline at very great expense, I might I might add.
You can imagine, right?
If you have to make a last-minute uh flight change, how much you're gonna have to pay to do that.
Are you gonna pursue this with United?
You got witnesses, right?
Oh, you know, you know, United is very difficult to pursue, right?
You know, you call their 800 number and you're gonna be on hold for 40, 50, 60 minutes, and you're gonna talk to someone to take a reservation or to handle your lost baggage.
They're not gonna handle a legal uh you know complaint on an 800 number.
You know, we haven't decided what you know how or or what, you know, uh what action that we're gonna we're gonna take in in this case, but I'm 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 gonna do your travel plan.
Look, this does not surprise me.
I mean, it not not like you think it might.
These people on the left are the most intolerant people, Eric.
This does not surprise me at all.
There's no different trying to run a bakery out of business or trying to run a photo shop out of business.
These people are into political correctness, which is speech censorship.
It doesn't surprise Tell your wife, just say B-I-Ich.
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 implenty talking.
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.
So, but anyway, uh Andrew, I appreciate that.
We'll um I'm sure there'll be follow-up on this now.
There's gonna be denials left and right and requests for information, data.
Andrew, you might want to talk to a lawyer about this.
Um don't call an 800 number spending time on hold, or else go back out to the airport and ask for a supervisor.
But anyway, um I'm glad you got through with this.
And I for one I just want to tell you, I'm not surprised, folks.
They're 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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