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Oct. 21, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 21, 2016, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
I knew it was going to be the case.
I knew it was going to happen because I was the only one yesterday saying what I was saying.
At least outside the establishment, I was the only one saying, and so the establishment picked up on it, played sound bites, and I it's it's quite it's quite a teachable moment.
And I'm gonna spend some time on it today and and and whole gobs of other stuff to do today, folks.
So let's just get going here.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Open line Friday.
That means we try to take more phone calls than usual.
That won't be hard to do if we take three calls today.
It'll be more than usual.
Now, seriously, Open Line Friday is about whatever you want to talk about.
It's hard to imagine anybody could want to talk about something I haven't brought up, but if there is, have at it, folks.
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We'll get to the Al Smith dinner in a couple of seconds here, folks.
I've got audio sound bites from it.
And I have my own interpretation and characterization of it.
First, I got a note from somebody, I have to share this with you.
Hey Rush, when did being a Christian get a get become a get out of jail card?
And I said, But what do you mean?
Well, look at Donna Brazil.
Donna Brazil said, I'm a Christian woman and such.
I know what it is to be persecuted.
I'm not going to answer questions.
Kelly, screw you, Kelly.
Coming out here in the middle of the night, stuff has been stolen.
I'm a Christian woman, and I know what it is to be personally.
So she invoked Christianity as they get out of jail cards.
You can't ask me this.
You can't demand that I answer this.
You can't force me on this because I am a Christian woman.
How does that work out for Christian bakeries?
How did that work out for Christian photography shops?
Playing the Christian card got Donna Brazil out of jail, but it doesn't help anybody else.
I thought that was an interesting point to make.
And I wanted to throw that out before I forgot anything else.
Also, ladies and gentlemen, I found something uh via Stanley Kurtz at National Review has been doing some great, great work for the past eight years trying to alert people to what the Barack Obama agenda actually is and what it means for specific people, such as people that live in suburbia.
Uh he has been doing yeoman's work trying to inform the reader base at National Review of the real dangers and pitfalls posed by this cabal of Chicago Olinski ice that has really taken over the Democrat Party.
And his recent article has unearthed a recent column of Stanley Curses unearthed a um uh a quote from this Robert Kramer guy.
Now Kramer is the guy that that James O'Keefe videotaped a secret video, Project Veritas.
Uh for those of the real Linda Project Veritas, and he's the guy that that is an Alinsky eye, Obama.
Go his roots go back to Obama's community organizing days.
He's the husband of Jan Shikowski, the Democrat Congresswoman from Illinois.
He's the guy that it has been learned visited the White House 340 some odd times, and 42 of those visits were with Obama.
And he's the guy we found out via O'Keefe's videos that was that was arranging and orchestrating buying and paying for the hiring homeless people and other activists to go disrupt Donald Trump rallies.
He's the guy.
And then there was another guy named Scott Fovell, who was working for him.
They both supposedly have been fired.
But Robert Kramer's not going to be fired from anything in the Democrat Party.
He's going to be moved laterally or promoted or what have you.
He's not going to be fired.
These are the people who essentially hire and pay for agitators and protesters to make it look like average normal, everyday people are appalled by Republicans.
So the Democrats hire, in many cases, homeless people or immigrants, people that really don't even know what's going on.
They give them provocative t-shirts to wear and tell them provocative things to say, and they send them, say, for example, to a Trump rally.
And they are to cause trouble.
They are to cause violence.
They are to instigate violence, making it look like Trump supporters are a bunch of lawless rubes beating up people they don't like.
And this has been, but it's not exclusive to Trump.
These people have been doing this for as long as I've been doing this program.
That's why there's a term for this rent a mob.
We find it that George Soros.
We don't find out, we confirm George Soros pays for all of this via his donations and his various packs.
But the point of it is it's all fake.
It's all an illusion.
It is made to look, and the media plays right along.
It's made to look like your average ordinary American is appalled by your average ordinary Republican or conservative.
And it's made to look like the average ordinary American is so disgusted that they just can't handle it, and they show up and they protest because the Republicans are just unacceptable.
And none of it is real.
It's all bought and paid for.
It's all orchestrated.
It's scripted.
It is strategized and planned.
The media plays along by making it look like it's organic and spontaneous when it's nothing more than a script that is being followed by activists.
And in many cases, they're not even really activists.
They're just people plucked off the park bench or the street in whatever city the activity is planned.
They are paid in some cases $1,500, in other cases $50 to just go out and raise hell and start fights and engage in violence.
And the media's role is to tell the story that the Republicans at the rally caused it.
Well, in Stanley Kurtz's column at National Review Online, it was either yesterday or the day before, he had this quote from Kramer in 2007.
Robert Kramer, who published Stand Up Straight, How Progressives Can Win.
It's a tactical handbook for the left that he wrote while in prison.
The guy is a convicted felon, and he is at the top of the food chain of the Democrat Party planning all of these so-called organic protests.
Robert Kramer, the husband of Democrat Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, the guy, 42 personal face-to-face visits with Obama in the Oval Office, 340-some-odd visits to the White House in general, while in jail in 2007, while in prison writes a tactical handbook for the left called Stand Up Straight, How Progressives Can Win.
By the way, he's in jail for tax evasion and bank fraud.
And this, from pages 74, 75, and 76 of the handbook, is Kramer's advice on how to handle conservatives.
And the reason I'm choosing this is because it's exactly, it is exactly what I've told you one of their techniques is, and they're using it at this very moment.
In general, writes Mr. Kramer, our strategic goal with people who have become conservative activists is not to convert them.
That isn't going to happen.
It is to demoralize them, to deactivate them.
We need to deflate their enthusiasm, to make them lose their ardor.
And above all, their self-confidence.
A way to demoralize conservative activists is to surround them with the echo chamber of our positions and assumptions.
We need to make them feel that they are not mainstream to make them feel isolated.
We must isolate Republicans and conservatives ideologically and use the progressive echo chamber, meaning the media and the blogs and whatever.
By defeating them and isolating them ideologically.
We demoralize conservative activists directly.
Then they begin to quarrel among themselves or blame each other for defeat in isolation, and that demoralizes them even further.
This is exactly my instincts never fail me.
This is exactly what I've known.
This is all about.
It's all about deflating you, demoralizing you, depressing you, suppressing you.
And it's created the infighting.
Look at we can't unify around anything on our side.
Not even the concept of beating them.
We've got factions at war with each other.
We've got conservatives saying vicious things about other conservatives that they never even say about Democrats.
We have conservatives in the media.
We have conservatives in politics, conservatives in elective office, who sometimes say more caustic critical things of fellow conservatives than they ever say about Democrats.
And this guy Kramer says that this is what we hope to achieve.
We want.
So how does this manifest itself?
Okay, so they hire a bunch of people to go protest the Trump rally in Chicago.
They go and they get in, they start fisticuffed.
Media shows up.
Media shows up.
What?
Indiana, the Indiana religious freedom law.
They make it look like the entire country is outraged at whatever it is Republicans are doing.
Religious freedom law, simple laws saying that some your constitutional right to believe in whatever religion you want cannot be abridged.
Well, the left must make you change your religious belief if they're going to force various culture things on you.
So they go into Indiana, after that law is passed, a majority of people vote for it.
It's legitimately democratically passed.
The left can't put up with it, so they flood the zone with people that are made to look like normal average everyday Americans, appalled at what Republicans are doing.
It's five or ten people, 15 or 20, echoed by the media, amplified by the media, and it's made to look like the same thing with the Trump rally.
It's made to look like the whole country's appalled, the whole country's outraged.
You end up feeling, my God, I'm losing my country.
Oh my God, I'm in such a minority of people.
Wouldn't this happen?
When did the left overtake us?
And they haven't.
It's all by design to dispirit you, demoralize you, and now it is confirmed from this clown Kramer that that's exactly.
And that is the reason my instincts are right on this is because this is part and parcel of Olinskyism anyway.
You isolate the target, you chop the head off, you keep chopping whatever it takes.
But the it's it's psychological operations, psyops, warfare, whatever you want to call it.
It's exactly what it is because they know they're in the minority.
At a Trump rally, you've got 10,000 people who want to be there and another 5,000 that can't get in.
You've got 15 or 20 paid reprobates inside, and at the end of the event, the media tells us that the 15 to 20 represent the country, and the 10,000 inside are the minority, the screwballs, the oddballs, and we've got to get rid of them.
And people believe what they see in the media.
And it's, you know, pessimism and negativity are easy.
It doesn't take any work to be pessimistic.
It doesn't take any work to fail, but but success and optimism require applied effort.
And this has been going on for I don't know how long, but intensely since Obama hit the United States Senate before Obama even began to ran for the pres run for the presidency is when all this began to happen.
So the point of all this is you now, at least those of you listening to me know full well that all of this so-called opposition to Trump during the campaign, it was fake.
It was contrived, it was made, it was designed to create these circumstances that we have today.
And what are those?
The circumstances we have today that Trump is my oh my God, this is the worst thing that's ever happened to American politics.
Trump is dangerous, Trump is insane, Trump is unhinged, Trump is Trump is is is is off his mess, whatever it is, and the people that support him are too.
Whereas the vast majority of American people are all in for Hillary Clinton and all in for the Democrat, but it's not the case.
Now, I don't know, I'm not saying any of this in terms of the election and how that's going to turn out.
This is independent of that.
But but except for the fact that they have succeeded, they always do succeed.
They succeed in turning us against each other on the right.
They succeed in depressing and dispiriting people.
They succeed in taking themselves, who I believe are still a minority of thought and bodies in this country and converting themselves into what appears to be a massive majority where we all think we're losing the country.
Not losing it, we've lost it.
One day 80% of people oppose gay marriage, and the next week 80% support it.
When did that happen?
How did that happen?
Well, it didn't.
It was made to look like it happened, and the people who had been rendered pessimistic and fatalistic caved.
They stopped opposing it because they didn't think they had the numbers.
We're being steamrolled on all this stuff.
And good old Mr. Kramer here has, as they always do, if you can find it, they'll spell out exactly what they're doing.
Therefore, when they start bellyaching about things, they generally are bellyaking about the things they are doing.
When they start accusing us of stuff, it's almost uh without fail that you can make book on the fact that they are engaging in those very actions or activities.
I think this is a huge point, folks.
No, not because I have been predicting it or because either my instincts.
This is crucial to understand that all of this that comprises liberalism, progressivism, the left, it's all psychological operations.
It's all illegitimate.
Well, they've got their supporters, no misunderstand.
They've got plenty of people that buy into this stuff, too.
But but they their technique here for quelling opposition, their technique for forcing people, just give up.
I wonder how many elected Republicans think that they're so outnumbered, it's senseless to fight back that they'll never win another election if they fight back because they're going to be angering people, say moderates and independents, that they need to win their next election.
But they don't because they've assumed the Democrats have already hoovered all those people up.
You know, pessimism and defeatism and fatalism are deadly things.
And this is exactly what these people have tried to do.
They couldn't do it without the media.
I know they could not do this.
They could not pull any of this off without the willing accomplices in the media.
But again, you must realize that we don't have a media.
We call it the media, but that's not what they do.
It is not who they are.
I still maintain to you that the establishment, whoever they are, whatever you're going to call them, This degree of panic and fear that they are obviously facing over Trump and his claim to wait till the election to actually decide whether he's gonna contest it.
This is irrational.
This is the teachable moment thing that I learned.
I have not enough time to talk to you about it right in this break because I've got to go to a break.
But you sit tight.
There's much more, as I know you can tell.
Okay, now what are we to make of this?
Timothy Cardinal Dolan says that Trump and Hillary were civil in private.
The Al Smith dinner last night, I've you know what, folks, uh we're gonna be getting into this in more detail as the program unfolds.
But you know who was in that room last in that room was the New York establishment and the elites.
And they every, I mean, they all must have been wearing corsets and whatever else to constrain movement.
I never saw a bigger group of uptight people in my, you know, this is The teachable moment.
Over the course of my career, as you people well know.
I found myself in uh circum certain circumstances have been roundly criticized, called all kinds of names, racist, sexist, uh uh insensitive, and so forth, all because we have arrived at a moment in our nation's cultural evolution where people on the left simply cannot laugh.
They literally have no sense of humor, particularly about themselves.
I kept hearing that the Al Smith that are self-deprecating humor, right?
Means you're supposed to make fun of yourself and you make fun of others, but they can't they just they cannot handle it.
They don't think anything is funny, particularly if it's about them.
And their reactions are just off the charts, like booing Trump and demanding he get off the dais last night for for quoting what Hillary has said in these emails.
Open line Friday, L. Rushmore behind the golden EIB microphone.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
Here's Robert in Champagne, Illinois as we head to the phones.
See what I'm doing.
I'm getting the phones early.
We've got some good ones lined up here, and I want to get to them because they're going to provide transitions to other areas.
Robert, in uh in Champagne.
Great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Hi, how are you?
Very well.
Thank you very much.
Good.
Uh I just wanted to comment really quickly on what you had said earlier about uh how well they make the conservatives feel isolated.
So I'm a young guy in a college campus, and they do it really, really well here.
And I think for the past like months since the big uh release of the uh sexual whatever um tape from the the hot mic.
Since then it's just felt like, gosh, I'm really alone here.
Like there's nobody who feels the way I feel about politics at all.
And it just makes me, you know, you don't even want to really go out and vote.
Let me tell you why that is, Robert.
Um some of it's attitudinal, and some of it's psychological.
But the practical effect of it is to silence other people on that campus that you might be in total agreement with.
They s they they really frighten people into speaking up.
So you you you you cite the uh the Access Hollywood tape, and it comes out, and you think you know what it is.
It's politically timed, it's questionable, it's you know, where's it been for the last 25 years of Trump's life?
What 10 years, whatever?
Why now you're skeptical of it, but you seem surrounded, you seem overwhelmed, you seem outnumbered.
And I everybody else that thinks the way you do too feels the same way.
Say, shut up.
Don't say anything.
Because if you do, that mob comes after you.
They zero in on you, they focus on you, they try to humiliate you, and it's it's it's a it's a it's uh now your students on campus, I'm not accusing them of being part of the organizational structure.
They are, if you will, the sponges.
They're the people that soak all this up.
They see what the strategists that the Democrats want to see.
Remember, they've been educated, their minds are skulls full of mush anyway by now, because of the public education system they went to and the professors they have on campus.
Their minds are already mushed up now.
So they buy into all of this that they see, but they end up feeling superior.
They feel like they are in the majority, and therefore they laud that over you, and it makes you feel in the minority, makes you feel really outnumbered, and you start doubting yourself, and you start going through all this pessimism and fatalism and so forth, and it's exactly how it is designed to work.
And it's it's then meant to also stoke controversies among people who agree with you.
Because some of them are gonna say, just, you know, Robert, just shut up.
Don't cause any trouble.
It's not worth it.
And you're gonna say, no, no, no, this is outrageous.
We can't permit this.
So you end up squabbling with your own side, not against them, but against yourselves.
And I think the more people can become aware that all of this is orchestrated.
Now, again, it's I'm not saying that these these fellow students don't believe this.
They do.
Remember, they're the sponges.
They're the objects of this effort here.
And it makes them insufferable because they're arrogant and they end up being conceited.
And their attitude is one of superiority over you.
But I think the thing that you have to keep in mind, or try to, is that you are not outnumbered.
Maybe you are on campus.
And maybe you are in a classroom or two, but in terms of the country, you're not.
And that's what they really want.
They want you feeling like you're such an oddball.
And the things that you think are so out of the mainstream that you can't possibly hold on to them.
Remember, they admit they don't expect to convert you, Robert.
They're not trying to convert you.
They're trying to shame you.
They're trying to humiliate you.
They're trying to silence you.
They're trying to make sure you are not a factor.
They don't talk to you and say, hey, join it.
Come on, man.
You can't possibly think that they're out for blood.
They want to destroy you.
They want to humiliate you.
They're not trying to convert you.
The left knows that that's a losing proposition.
They're not even going to try.
If it happens, it's a bonus.
But it's not what they're trying to do.
They're trying to make you feel the exact way you do.
And it's hard.
We all face it.
We all face it.
Oh, yes, even I, uh, in ways that you you wouldn't even believe.
Hell yeah.
We all do, folks.
We all face being ostracized, feeling ostracized, feeling like uh we're loons and oddballs.
That's the objective.
And when you get to our side and their membership in the establishment, they don't want to feel like that.
They don't want to think people think they're loons.
So they go along with these people.
What are things that make me feel oh I don't know.
I mean, I it just it's it's it's um if I thought long and hard enough, I gave you an example.
I'm not uh uh.
Oh, I don't, I don't no, no, no, I don't care what they think.
I'm not telling you care what they think, but I can give you examples where um I the top of my head, uh I I can't think of any.
But they're all over.
Have you ever seen me invited anywhere but Fox News?
Doesn't happen.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not talking about being invited to be a guest.
That's let me let me save this.
You're distracting me here.
I'm not trying to run out on this.
I'll give I'll be happy to give you examples.
My only point, it happens to all of us.
They work this technique on everybody.
That's the whole point of it.
Your fellow students, Robert, on on campus, they're dupes.
They're not independent thinkers, they're just their followers.
And they they want to be the cool kids, and that's that's that's what they think is cool, is their way of thinking and all that.
Uh see, one more before we have to go to the break.
It's Bob in Spokane.
Great to have you on the program, Bob.
How are you?
Hey, Rush Gray, good morning.
How are you doing?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
I can fully understand why yesterday you were beside yourself and right up toward the limit.
Here we have these people who are present themselves as guardians of the sanctity of the results of elections.
And now we know they're getting random mobs and what the accomplices in the media trying to overturn an election and make it look like the people, the 80% who who said yes are a bunch of loons, and they're in the in the in the in the right in the majority, and they thump their chest talking about oh, the sanctity of elections and well you promise to follow it, and in the background, they're doing exactly the opposite.
Exactly right.
They're the ones monkeying with it all, like this guy, Kramer at at uh at at uh Obama headquarters at the Clinton campaign, they're the ones you I've got a story here you're not gonna believe coming up right after your call.
But I want to expand on something.
What he's referring to is yesterday.
I really was.
I even for me, if you know, folks, I am normally a a reserved, I have my energy.
And I have uh my my days where I will raise my voice, but yesterday, I was barely able to stay within my own boundaries.
Because I just found it incredible that no one, not a single person at any of the TV networks, at any of the cable news networks, at any of the newspapers and their websites and blogs, not a single person allowed for the fact that Trump was engaging in showmanship, that Trump was sending a message to his supporters and trying to keep them bucked up.
Not every single one of them thought that Donald Trump was actually going to try to get the military on his side and launch a military coup if he lost the election.
And I don't know what it takes to believe that.
All Donald Trump said was that he was going to wait until the election to decide whether or not it makes sense to take a look at it.
And knowing what he knows, or what we all know about the WikiLeaks emails and the Project Veritas video and so forth, that's the only common sense thing to say.
But they went out and said that Donald Trump said he will not accept the results, and they're out there saying it's the first time in American history that somebody has actively said they will not accept the results.
He didn't say that.
It's not what's gonna happen.
The willing suspension of common sense here is breathtaking to me.
But this is what I keep referring to today as the teachable moment.
It is highly instructive.
There's got to be some fear that is behind all this.
There's got to be a lack of confidence on the Hillary side or the establishment side, whatever you want to categorize it, characterize it, there's got to be some real fear here that this may not go the way they all want it to go and are telling us with their polls and everything else how it is gonna go.
And I I'm I the the idea that they have no ability to know when somebody is yanking their chain, they have no ability to know when they're being toyed with, they don't have the slightest bit of ability to crack a smile and laugh something off.
It really is instructive.
And it's something that's happened to them, not us, to be so tightly wound.
I must, by the way, change.
I said everybody looked like they were wearing a corset last night, other than Maria Barcheromo.
The wreckage on display there obviously was not constrained by a corset.
But I meant attitudinally.
I've never seen so many people so uptight.
I've never seen this this kind of inability to apply any kind of common sense and to react hysterically.
There was a national media hysteria, and it's still going on over this.
It's not warranted, it's way out of proportion, and it's got to stand for something.
It's got to be a reason for it.
And I think it's fear, maybe some other things rolled in.
Anyway, let me take another brief time out so I don't lose place here in the programming format.
We will be right back.
You know, the I just checked the email.
Rush, how do you know Trump didn't mean it?
Come on.
How do I know Trump didn't mean it?
There's not there's not a moment in time, a shred in my body.
There's not a molecule, there's not an atom in my body that ever, ever thought what Donald Trump said what he said meant that he was going to refuse to accept the outcome of the election.
It's not what he said.
That's what they want people to think he said, but they must be afraid of something.
The next day, this is my my point about them, then no sense of humor.
Trump goes out, and how does he react to the controversy?
There's a number of ways you can react to this.
You can, after the debate, when everybody in the media, everybody, I mean, everybody.
Even people you think are friendlies are just practically having cows over this.
You can go back to your hotel or get on your airplane, fly away, start ringing your hands.
Oh my God, I really blew.
Oh, geez.
And you maybe think you call a press conference.
Hey, you guys misunderstood.
I didn't say that.
I didn't mean that.
I didn't know.
You could do that, you could uh sleep on it, and then do a press conference the next morning.
What did Trump do?
He waited till his next rally, and he went out and confirmed.
What do you say?
He said, I want to pledge to you, lest there be anybody who doesn't understand what I'm talking about.
I pledge, I promise I will accept the results of the election on November 8th.
Pause.
If I win, crowd gets it, laughs uproariously.
That was Trump tweaking them.
That was Trump sticking it in a little further.
He's toying with them.
They don't get it.
The lack of sense of humor, the being wound so tight to not understand satire parody or to understand somebody's personality.
We all have different personalities.
I've I understand Trump from the day he came down that escalator.
And it's not because I played golf with him a couple of times.
I just I know the way he thinks and the way he says things to people, talks to people the way he makes points.
The way he tries to tell people what he thinks, the way he tries to be persuasive.
It isn't hard.
But it's a, as I say teacher moment for me, because they don't understand.
For example, when I in talk about myself for a minute, when I do this program, there's a whole heck of a lot of it here where I'm just trying to be funny.
Outrageously funny, a little over the line funny, push the envelope fun.
That's where they lose it.
We're not allowed to push the envelope anymore.
We're not allowed to cross the line of propriety that they define.
There isn't anything funny.
There isn't anything funny about any whatever it is I'm talking about.
So they take things that are intended as humorous comments or a joke, and they attach serious political meaning to it, and then proceed to get profoundly deeply outraged and say it's unacceptable.
This is intolerable.
This will not stand.
And they're doing the same thing to Trump.
Or trying to.
But his supporters all get it.
But Mither Limbo, it's not his supporters that are the problem Trump must engage in outreach and try to explain to the people who don't get it that what he's trying to say.
Well, I understand all that.
I understand that thinking.
But that isn't my point.
My point is that all of this near unanimous belief in something that genuinely is.
You talk about unhinged.
To believe Trump said what you think he said what he didn't say it.
Didn't even say it.
To go out, then believe he said it or try to convince other people he said it, convince yourself what he really meant.
It's unhinged.
If these people had been around in the 1700s, we'd have never had a revolution.
They would have never tolerated the founding father's objections to King George.
They would have wanted to put in jail people like James Madison and Patrick Henry and all that, because they dared speak out against the establishment.
We'd have never had the revolution of people in the Democrat Party today had been ruling La roost in the media back then.
And the time just keeps zipping by here, folks.
I have to take another break.
So Trump is uh at one of his three rallies today, three, maybe four rallies is in North Carolina, and the crowd is on fire.
The uh crowd is just electric.
Uh our microphones are there.
Uh, we're rolling tape.
We'll have audio sound bites as we get into the next hour of open line Friday.
And lots of other stuff to go yet, folks.
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