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Nov. 10, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 10, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yes, sir, Rebob, we're back at it.
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You got him.
Is that what that means?
Okay.
Ladies and gentlemen, normally we don't do guests on the program.
When the vice presidential candidate calls the ones on Governor Pence, we accommodate, of course.
I reached out to the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, Reince Priebus today.
And I think we have him now.
Mr. Priebus, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
It's great to have you here.
It's a complete honor to be on your show, Rush.
Thank you for having me.
You bet.
I want to talk to you for a number of reasons.
But first and foremost, on election night, I was one of the many who stayed up until beyond 3 o'clock to listen to Mr. Trump's speech.
And he was effusive in his praise for you, and you're essentially creating the ground game operation for him to get out the vote effort.
And it was such a shock to a lot of people.
And it turns out, if we go back and we look at the magnitude of this win, Mr. Priebus, it's stunning.
The Republican Party, it turns out, has more power in Washington and throughout the country in terms of just elective offices at all levels than in any time since the 1920s.
Hillary Clinton had 6 million fewer voters than Barack Obama had in 2012.
We have, since Obama campaigned for her on the basis that her election meant the continuation of his legacy and agenda, we could say that it was repudiated.
The American people showed up in droves and repudiated the Democrat Party agenda.
And it was a shock to, I mean, Trump winning was a shock to many, not me, but it was a shock to many.
And the depth of the Democrat loss was really a shock to everybody.
Well, you predicted, and by the way, you put your neck out back in May.
You predicted this.
You felt it.
And you said it a long time ago.
And, you know, really, it just comes back to a couple things.
One, you're right.
The ground operation at the RNC was the biggest operation I think either national parties have ever put together.
We had way more people on the ground than anyone understood or gave credit to us for.
We put over $120 million in data, understanding everything about voters, what beer they drink, what car they drive, what motivates people, how many kids they have, and all of that information made a difference.
But let's just put that aside.
The reality is, is that we had the right candidate.
Donald Trump was the candidate that authentically captured the vehicle where everyone wanted to go as far as being the change candidate, but being a candidate that people actually believed would go to Washington and do what he said when he said drain the swamp.
When he said drain the swamp, you know, if anyone else said that, at least a lot of these folks that were running, it may not be believable because there's, you know, politicians say a lot of things.
But when he said we're going to drain the swamp, people believed it.
He represented something bigger than the day-to-day stories in Politico and other magazines that just have to fill space.
And that was authentic because it was a change election.
We had a change candidate that was authentically making the case.
And we're running against someone who has spent their entire life and made millions upon millions of dollars in politics.
It was just a classic case of momentum and running with the flow of the river and having the infrastructure in place to capture the moment.
Now, I would be remiss if I didn't mention something.
I was struck, honestly, by the complete 180-degree turnaround by Speaker Ryan yesterday in his effusive praise for Trump.
I mean, I'm not making things up here.
There were many, many Republicans.
Not you.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm the elected Republicans who really thought Trump was going to finish this party by losing in the biggest landslide since Barry Goldwater.
And they made no bones about it.
And they made public their lack of effort or desire to help him.
And they lost some of those.
A couple of those people lost.
And when Trump comes around and wins, why all of a sudden he's the greatest candidate we've ever had.
But they didn't think that until he won.
And this is obvious to people.
Now, I know everybody wants to get on a winning train and everybody wants to shine in the light of a winner.
But is this belief in Trump?
Now, is it, do you think it's ⁇ I know it's putting you on the spot.
Is it legitimate with some of these people who disavowed Trump?
Not just elected, so we got some conservative, so-called media people that just none of this was supposed to happen, and they didn't want it to happen.
There were some, Mr. Priebus, hoping for a Republican landslide loss.
Yeah, no question.
I mean, there are some.
There's a few out there that really had no excuse doing what they did.
And I've talked about that, and I agree with you on that.
But I can tell you, I think it's important for Republicans to come together now, regardless.
And it is good to show a positive public face and that we do get this party together, and we are together.
And we're bigger, like you said, we're bigger than ever.
But it's important that leaders and elected officials get on board.
But in regard to the other comment, I will tell you that in regard to Speaker Ryan, totally, totally on board and wanting to work with President-elect Trump.
They just had a positive meeting just right next door.
I just saw them out there on the balcony.
And he's genuine.
It's totally genuine.
And by the way, especially, you know, the last few weeks he's been on the campaign trail with Mike Pence.
He would have been, I know firsthand because I know what the scheduling and the planning was.
He was planning on being at the rally in Waukesha with President-elect Trump.
And then, of course, you saw Sunday night he put out the statement and continued throughout.
The point of all of this is that I agree with your assessment.
Some of the things that went on I thought were wrong, and I made it clear that they were wrong.
And I think some people were very shocked.
You know, I was on the side of understanding what my job was, and I did it, and I was loyal, and we built the biggest operation we could build, and it helped, and we got it done.
I'm proud of the work that we did, but I'm proud of our candidate.
Well, I don't want to speak out of school, but I know how people tend to sometimes hear people in politics.
I just want to vouch for what Mr. Priebus just said.
He came, Scott Spicer, they came to meet me here in the Sean Spicer back in the spring.
It was April or May.
And I tell everybody, you have been on board the train of the nominee from the get-go.
You've never been anywhere near trying to undermine anybody's candidacy.
Whoever the nominee was, you were all in.
I just want people to know you're not just saying this today.
Yeah, no.
And you know what?
That's the job of a competent national party.
I mean, you go look at what the DNC is going through.
It's a total mess because, number one, they have had a lot of problems lately, but they've been trying to tip the scales and doing all the things that I know a lot of grassroots people are always worried about.
And I always try to explain to people that, and I understand some of the negative mystique that a national party brings with it, but I just tell people there's nothing controversial about a national party that has its act together on the ground and with data.
It's a lot of boring stuff that I'm in charge of.
Most of it's not exciting.
But we all can at least understand that if we're competent on the mechanics and we're competent on the work that we need to do, and we're not playing favorites, but we're offering our work to our eventual nominee to take advantage of that work product, we can be more successful.
We could not win elections without a competent national party.
As irritating as sometimes the party can be to people, it's a necessary function that we serve.
Well, yeah, the irritation oftentimes has been rooted in promises on a campaign trail that don't eventually governance.
But look, a little time constraint here, and I do want to ask you about one other thing that we are hearing a lot of.
And I just want to admit to you that I've got my flags are pink right now.
They haven't turned red.
I'm hearing, of course, the Democrats common.
Every time they lose, the first thing they do is sue for peace and start demanding unity.
And we all must come together.
What they mean is we need to pretend we didn't win, and we need to make sure that we don't tear apart whatever their agenda and their achievements have been.
And we work together going forward.
And I expect them to do that.
But I get nervous when I hear Republicans start talking about the need for magnanimity and unity and coming together.
The American people didn't vote for that.
The American people defeated Hillary Clinton.
They voted for Trump to defeat Hillary and defeated Democrats.
They have less power than they've ever had in the 1920s.
We've got greater opportunities today than at any time in my life, Mr. Pribus, since the 1980s at least, to really, really implement the agenda that the Republican Party and the conservative movement have always been known for.
Low governments, the low-degree.
100% agree.
100% agree with you.
I agree with you.
It's important to make peace.
I'm all for that, and it's important to stop the campaign.
But I'll tell you what, it's also the opportunity to do the will of the people.
And the will of the people is exactly as you outlined.
We have won everything, up and down the ticket.
We've got the House, the Senate, the White House.
The people of this country voted for that.
And we have to deliver the change that was promised.
And that, you know, it starts with tax reform.
It starts with a conservative Supreme Court.
Every single thing that was talked about on that campaign now needs to be delivered.
That's exactly the way there's no excuses for not doing it because we've got a pathway to do it.
That's exactly right.
And there were a myriad issues that Trump discussed.
Immigration, refugee status, any number of things.
He had a whole host of issues that made it part of his campaign.
When you say that we want, I think you used the word peace.
I might.
Well, I mean, we don't want what's going on out on the streets.
I mean, what you're seeing across the country, I mean, it's just the elections are over.
That's not real.
I don't believe, because of what we learned with the Project Heritage videos, they're buying that.
They're paying for those protests.
Yeah, understood.
Don't let it affect you.
That's all made to look like that there's genuine outrage that we won, but there isn't.
There's happiness that we won.
Yeah, absolutely.
I'm with you on that.
I guess that's what I was referring to.
But, you know, look, we're going to move forward.
We've got an agenda that needs to be fulfilled, and we've got no excuses not to.
We've got the leadership in place.
We've got the White House.
Look at what's happening in the states and the legislatures.
I mean, there's a lot of flips in state legislatures that we've also have succeeded in across the country.
So now it's time to do the will of the people.
The White House spokesman Josh Ernest said after the meeting between President Obama and President-elect Trump, which went 90 minutes today, not the usual 15.
But Ernest said, oh, yeah, we want to do everything we can to make sure President-elect Trump hits the ground running and has a good shot at accomplishing what he has to succeed.
Really?
Right.
I think that'll hopefully that'll last, but my guess is that they'll be coming pretty strong, pretty hard soon.
Yeah, okay.
Well, at least then you know.
I mean, it's such an opportunity, and the Democrats are in a position they're not used to being in.
Yeah, we were the party that was supposed that the media had already written that we were going to be in crisis today.
And if you open up most of the Washington rags, it says the opposite.
And we ought to take the advantage of our position, which was given to us by the people fairly and squarely and do our job.
Well, I just don't, I hope a lot of people on our side realize it isn't mean to be happy when we win.
It's not mean to advance our agenda because that's what we were elected to do.
I hope they don't think it's mean or offensive if we don't include the Democrats in our Obamacare plans unless they agree with us.
And we're happy to welcome them aboard.
But I hope we got too many people that seem guilty if we win, and they don't want people mad at them.
And so they try to water it down and dilute it a little bit.
And I hope it doesn't happen.
No, I agree with you.
You can pursue your agenda with happiness and enthusiasm and with a lot of energy to get it done.
100% on board with that.
And I agree with you.
Well, thank you so much for the call.
I appreciate it.
And I do, Chairman Rynch Priebus of the Republican National Committee.
And he did.
He came here with Sean Spicer.
And it was, I don't know, I think it was March or April somewhere.
It was at a point in time where it looked like Trump was owning this, but they weren't sure.
And a lot of people were at that time in official Republicandom.
They were afraid.
What did this mean?
And I can tell you that during the, they were here for an hour.
And at no time did I hear them say or have any doubt that if Trump was a nominee, they were all in.
In fact, they stood out that way as not being part of the crowd that couldn't accept Trump.
In fact, both he and Spicer were intrigued about Trump and the possibilities of Trump's being elected.
It was refreshing, actually.
And I just wanted to mention that to those of you.
I didn't at the time because it was an off-the-record meeting, and we had not met.
I had never met Chairman Priebus, and that's really what the purpose of it was.
And so then we began discussing the Trump campaign and what it all meant and how he was handling it, how I was handling it, and what we thought was going to happen.
It was a good conversation.
But at no time was he ever that I detected in the club that could not stomach and would not tolerate Trump.
It was just the exact opposite.
Let's take a brief time out.
We'll get those soundbites I promised you and your phone calls and a lot more happiness continues when we get back.
Talent on loan from God.
So you heard Chairman Priebus, the Republican National Committee, acknowledge no excuses now.
About the only excuse they might have is the filibuster in the Senate, but they don't have, you know, and maybe if McConnell, oh, you know, yeah, you gave us Senate.
Yeah, you gave us the House.
And yeah, you gave us the White House, but we don't have 60 votes.
Isn't that funny?
Think about it.
What good times that would be.
But he said it.
No excuses.
And it's true, folks.
The Democrats, they can huff and puff, and they're immediately going to make it look like they are still the majority in the country, but they are not.
That's my whole point.
We have been governed by a minority against our will, made to look like we're dwarfed and outnumbered.
And now those people are demanding unity.
And we know what that means.
It means we forget that we won and we pretend that things haven't changed.
And then we might not criticize you.
Anyway, Dory in the Chicago suburbs, you're next.
I'm glad to welcome you to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Well, I'm happy to be here, Rush.
I'm a 75-year-old great-grandmother, wife of a veteran, and I live in the Chicago suburbs.
I have four adult liberal Hillary supporter kids that were so shocked and saddened.
And this is our time.
And now we can be happy because the eight last years have been sad for us.
I was afraid to put a sign in my front yard for fear of retaliation.
And I speak for the silent majority white women.
I wanted to bring up the fact I've always been a Trump supporter.
And Michael Moore put out a statement yesterday saying, hey, tell them she won the popular vote.
Well, let me tell you what that popular vote was.
It was the illegal who voted with Obama's approval.
It was the absentee fraud ballots, and it was the dead people.
And I am so happy today, Rush.
Don't forget the 60,000 felons that Terry McAuliffe legalized to vote in Virginia.
And isn't it fascinating that Hillary wins Virginia by 60,000 votes?
Isn't it?
And that was her buddy.
Well, look, let me tell you, Michael Moore, he got hoisted on his own pitargia.
He's out there, got this stand-up routine video where he basically is for Hillary, but he's got this little interval in there where he explains how great Trump is at understanding the people of this country and how if he's elected, it's going to be what.
Anyway, what they're doing, one of the ways that they're trying to deny, and let me, it's not, they are trying to delegitimize this win, and they're going to continue.
And what you pointed it out, they're trying to point to the popular vote.
They say, Hillary won.
You guys didn't win any.
In terms of the numbers of people that voted in this country, more people voted for Hillary.
But the way to respond to that is, except she got those votes in states she didn't even visit their automatic California big population, New York big population.
She lost the states where she went to campaign.
This is what you tell your kids who are all died in the wool leftists.
She didn't convince the people she needed to convince.
She went to the states, those blue states that were called her blue wall, like Wisconsin.
She lost those states where she went to campaign.
Popular vote, schmopular vote.
That's not how our system works.
And if it were, they would be suing right now the Electoral College.
They know it's not close.
This is all part of their effort to delegitimize the win.
And you're right.
Do not let them do it with you.
Hi, how are you?
Welcome back, El Rushbo.
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We played what Trump said after the meeting or at the end of the meeting that he had with what Obama said with it.
Trump, here's Trump and his remarks about his meeting with Obama.
And I'm sorry, but the camera shutters are going nuts here.
Sometimes it's for me, it's hard to hear, but here it is.
This was a meeting that was going to last for maybe 10 or 15 minutes, and we were just going to get to know each other.
We had never met each other.
I have great respect.
The meeting lasted for almost an hour and a half.
And it could have, as far as I'm concerned, it could have gone on for a lot longer.
We really discussed a lot of different situations, some wonderful and some difficulties.
I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel.
He's explained some of the difficulties, some of the high-flying assets, and some of the really great things that have been achieved.
So, Mr. President, it was a great honor being with you, and I look forward to being with you many, many more times in the future.
Thank you, Sean.
I just tell you what he said.
Very good man.
He said that Obama explained some of the difficulties, some of the high-flying assets, some of the really great things that have been achieved.
And he said, Mr. President, it was a great honor being with you, and I look forward to being with you many more times in the future.
I look forward to your counsel.
So that's what Trump said.
Realize all this pro forma, but that's what no.
Trump said that very good.
Trump, and I look forward.
Oh, that must have, I was, I thought it was over, and I was talking at this.
Trump said very good man.
Right.
Okay.
Well, then, I guess my version of what went on in there is not correct.
Maybe Gloria Borger's version is correct, but Obama told Trump the way it's going to be or else.
He's a very good man.
He did what after he oh, oh, oh.
Well, that's true.
Trump did say that Cruz is a very good man, and his dad, even though he was there with Oswald, was a good man, and he said that Rubio was a good man.
And they have a great garden at the White House that somebody can dig up.
Didn't Obama say that was going to happen?
So he'd dig up.
Yeah, oh, that's right.
Trump was going to dig up Michelle's garden.
That's right.
Anyway, it's kumbaya.
I'm just, that's what happened.
That's what they, and then Ernest went out there and said, yeah, we're going to do everything we can to see to it that Trump hits or gets the ground running, ready to go for success.
Look at, folks, you know me.
I do not, I have never lost control of my ego.
If I had, you'd see me on TV all day.
I'm telling you, my ego is in total.
In fact, I don't have much of one.
But I am telling you that this business of me eight years ago saying, I hope he fails, it is living rent-free in their brains, and they are partly doing what they're doing to counter that, to show that they're better people than I am.
I guarantee you.
Never be able to prove it, of course.
Okay, Van Jones on election night said that what was happening was a white lash.
And I asked some questions about it, and I did it two different times on the day after the election.
And I predicted to you that the media would try to make hay out of it by relating me to racism or what have you.
Here's what Van Jones said: he said that this was a white lash.
He said that the reason the Democrats lost, the reason Republicans won, was that white people voted in unison for whatever reasons.
And it was a white lash.
Now, what that means, a white lash, not a backlash, a white lash.
What he means is, is that white people decided to take your country back.
So I asked a question.
I asked the question two or three different ways, and I'm going to repeat it to you here.
In American politics today, when women vote monolithically, it's fine and dandy and it's good and it's wonderful.
And the Democrats talk about it.
When lesbians and gays and transgender, when they all vote the same way, it's perfectly legitimate.
When they vote monolithically, it's legitimate and it's a good thing.
They're voting their interests.
When African Americans vote as a bloc, when they vote monolithically, it's good and it's legitimate.
When any group, when Hispanics, when they come together and vote identically and monolithically, it's legitimate and good.
When Van Jones think that white people got together and voted as a group, it's a white lash and it's not good.
So my question is, why in the realm of politics is it not legitimate for white people to vote their interests?
As far as the Democrats are concerned, and I'm not saying that that's what happened.
I'm just asking the question.
They think it is.
They think white people voting their interests is what's wrong with America.
And part of the reason they think they are progressing and succeeding is by chipping away at the white majority.
To them, the white majority is what's wrong with the country.
Every day since the founding, the white majority has to be busted up, has to be defeated.
That's what the progressive left thinks.
Whites and Christians are the two groups that you can attack with no criticism.
And Van Jones did.
I simply ask, how is it not legitimate for white people to vote their political interests?
What makes that not good?
Why is every other group able to do so with praise?
In fact, they're encouraged to do so.
The Democrats encourage every woman to think alike and vote alike.
They encourage every Hispanic to think alike and vote alike.
They encourage every African American to think alike and vote alike.
They encourage every woman, think alike and vote alike.
They encourage every Asian to think alike and vote alike.
Every gay and lesbian think alike and vote alike.
White people do it in politics.
What makes that bad?
What makes that unacceptable?
I'll tell you what it is.
What they are saying, what they are implying is that when white people vote their interests, it's racism.
When any other group does, it's not racism.
It's not sexism.
There's no bigotry at all.
But when white people do it, it's bigotry.
Otherwise, why have a problem with it?
Why are white people voting what their self-interests are?
And frankly, I don't know what those are.
I'm just, I'm not claiming to even know.
This is the whole point of my reaction to here.
What are white people voting in their interests?
It's in their minds is my point.
In the minds of the left, white people voting their self-interests is voting for racism.
And that just offends the hell out of me.
Think of the assumption that must be made in order to be serious about criticizing the white vote.
That's what Van Jones did.
My phone thinks that I said, hey, Siri.
I didn't.
Hey, shut up.
I'll ask the question in a minute.
We're in a good mood here.
So there's some reaction to it in the drive-by media.
I got to take a break now, but I want to share.
I don't know what the reaction is.
I haven't a chance to read the transcript, but it's NBC and CBS.
I pretty much guess.
Be right back, folks.
Don't go away.
Also, standby soundbite number seven.
I'm looking at Time.
Soundbite eight.
There's just one soundbite with the Rush Limbaugh on defense against white lash is the way this is titled.
It's Ron Allen.
What's this guy known for?
Oh, I don't have time to think.
He did something really.
It's almost like Don Lemon's black hole swallowing up the jetliner.
Anyway, here's the reporter.
This is how it went.
Outside the nation's African American History Museum, there's deep worry about President-elect Donald Trump's victory and the huge turnout by rural working-class white voters.
How much is it about race?
I mean, Trump has made the whole election about race, so about 100% of it.
They see what's been called a white lash.
White Americans feeling left out and deep resentment as the nation grows more diverse.
Despite the taunting written on the wall, conservatives pushing back at the charge of racism.
People who define the character and who define the values of our country were the winners in what happened yesterday.
See, they try to say that that's a racist comment.
That's exactly my point.
There's nothing racist about that, except they try to make it so.
You know what?
I tried to use the time to my best effectiveness.
I really want to talk to this Natalia.
Is it Natalia or Natalie?
Whatever, we don't have time to squeeze her in.
There's not enough.
Can you, Natalia?
Good, good, good.
She will give you her number and permit us to call her back tomorrow, Open Line Friday.
She, it's her first election, and she says she could tell by looking at the places that she frequents in pop culture that the tide was turning to Trump.
And I want to find out what she was looking at that made her sense that.
We'll talk to her tomorrow and all the rest of you who happen to get through because tomorrow will be, it is Friday tomorrow, right?
Yeah.
So it'll be Open Line Friday.
Back here to wrap it up in a minute.
Sadly, my friends, we are out of happiness.
Broadcast moments.
Our giddiness must go on a 21-hour hiatus.
Well, it actually won't.
We remain giddy even on those hours we are not here.
But it'll be Open Line Friday tomorrow, and we'll be right back at it, revved and ready with whatever happens between now and then.
Thank you so much, as always, for being with us.
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