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Nov. 14, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 14, 2016, Monday, Hour #2
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Rince Prebis is going to be the new chief of staff in the Trump White House.
And Steve Bannon will be the Carl Rove, if you will.
He's going to be the top strategist in the White House.
And this has caused him to come unhinged, further unhinged.
I mean, they live unhinged on the left.
But now, folks, they're they're they're I think they're deranged and further and further away from sanity.
I must tell you, I do not know Steve Bannon.
I don't know who he is.
Well, I mean, I know who he is now, but I I know only about him what I have read, former Goldman Sachs banker, CEO Breitbart, the website.
I do know he was one of the earliest investors in the Seinfeld show, and he routinely participates in the in the profits from all the reruns in syndication.
It's a lot of money.
Aside from that, I don't know much about him.
All I know is that the left is scared to death because they think the guy is a white supremacist, alt-right, uh just a reprobate, and Donald Trump is none of those things.
And I don't think the left is being accurate.
I know how they mischaracterize me and have for over 29 years.
So not much to say there as far as Prebus being chief of staff.
Now, a lot of people are alarmed by this because they link Prebus to the Republican establishment.
They link Prebus to Paul Ryan and the Republican establishment, a congressional leadership not popular going into this primary season and campaign with the base of the Republican Party.
They were viewed as soft, unwilling to fight, uh, not willing to stand up for the Republican Party or its voters.
Many saw them as sellouts to the left in order to get along, and ultimately many of them saw themselves out to donors, uh, regardless whether the donors wanted Republican ideas implemented or not.
And many of these establishment people vowed to do everything they could to make sure Trump didn't win.
first the primaries, then the general.
And many of the Republican establishment openly said they were going to vote for Hillary.
Now, it's interesting, and a human nature is a fascinating thing to observe, right?
And it really to me is sharing some of my own personal views here with you.
I think it is fascinating to watch how many people in leadership positions are actually nothing more than followers.
They moisten their finger and they put it up in the wind to figure out which way the wind is blowing and make sure that they are in the same direction.
They don't want to make waves, they don't want to in any way stand out.
They don't want to venture away from whatever is viewed to be as the safe position on any issue.
And so many of these, I'm not naming names here, I'm not specifically talking about Ryan.
Don't misunderstand.
So here comes Trump, who is feared, disliked, hated.
He scared a lot of these people.
Here comes Trump winning, and folks, this Trump victory, and make no mistake, it is a Trump win.
One man persisting against the establishment of Washington and New York, both parties, one man bullheadedly Opposing it was rewarded with an overwhelming victory, and this victory has put on display a reality nobody knew existed.
And that reality is that the Democrat Party is dwindling away.
The Democrat Party is getting smaller and smaller and older and older.
The Democrat Party does not have a bench.
It does not have a youthful subset of people willing to step in and take over as the dinosaurs of this party flitter away like dingy Harry Reed and Barack Obama and the Clintons.
I mean, you know how bad it is when the thing that excites the most is that Chelsea might run for Congress someday.
I'm not serious, and I may sound funny to say, the depth of this Democrat defeat is something nobody saw.
It was out there to be seen.
The power of the media, the power of people in Washington agreeing with and buying into and thus promoting what the media was saying.
Many people, and I will count myself among them.
How many times on this program did we openly discuss the concept of have we lost our country and how this election, I know I said it countless times, we're going to find out this election, whether we're outnumbered.
We weren't.
We're not.
Traditional values have not been relegated to the minority.
Western civilization is not hanging on by a thread.
We still are the majority of this country.
The people who believe in America as founded, we still are and we have been throughout the past eight years.
We were living in an illusion that was presented daily by the media and the Democrat Party and all of the people on that side of the aisle, creating the illusion that they were ascending in ever greater numbers, and that with every leftist idea, a majority of Americans was agreeing.
A majority of Americans hated conservatives, a majority of Americans wanted no part of conservatism or the Republican Party.
None of it was true.
And it was right out there for everybody to see, and by that I mean we've been chronicling ever since the midterms of 2010, the number of Democrats that have been losing elections.
So if you add 2010 to 2012, 2014, and then this election, the Democrat Party is down 1,500 elected offices all over the country, not to mention the declining fundraising.
When you look at the cheating that was going on at the Democrat National Committee, the rigged game that it was for Hillary Clinton, when it may be true that a majority of that party did not want Hillary Clinton.
But everybody, because of the natural tendency toward pessimism, everybody, well, you may want to exempt yourself, but a large number of people were scared to do.
How many of you called me or wanted to call and asked me if it was time to panic yet?
Because you thought it was over.
Even Mr. Snerdley tried to trick me into answering that question by feeding me certain phone calls that wanted to ask that.
And it was it was emblematic of how many people had bought this is how difficult it is to resist the daily narrative or narratives of the mainstream media.
When it's everywhere, with every guest agreeing and signing on, when it's everywhere, and when these people purportedly in the majority and purportedly winning are happy and gloating, it's not difficult to conclude or assume that we're losing and losing big, and we weren't.
Well, Obama got reelected, and that that was a devastating blow after the 2010 midterms and the rollicking success.
Obama's approval number.
I frankly, to tell you the truth, I don't think it is 53%.
I don't think people have said, how can he have a 53% approval rating and yet his presidency personally rebuked and repudiated in this election?
I don't think he had 53% approval.
If you ask people about Obama, and then ask Obama about or ask people about Obama's policies without mentioning his name, you get two totally different takes.
If you ask people, and they like Obama, and they said 53%, yeah, we think he's doing a good job.
Okay, what about Obamacare and just go down the list of Obamacare policies, the Iran deal, the economy, jobs, universal disapproval when he's not part of the question.
When he's part of the question, 53% approval.
I think it's the Wilder effect again in polling.
I think it's people simply afraid to say anything critical of Obama for fear of how they will be thought of as racist or whatever.
I actually think that the election of the first African American presidency created total paralysis of legitimate opposition in this country.
It totally paralyzed legitimate opposite for the first time, I think in all of our lives, and for the first time, maybe in American history, it became incorrect and unacceptable to criticize a president of the United States.
That has never happened, but it became that way here because of race and everybody's fear of being called racist or being thought of as that way.
But when Obama's not on the ballot, when it was Hillary instead, when his policies were on the ballot, as he put them there.
Look what happened.
A total repudiation.
It was, it was, it was striking what one election has exposed the degree of illusion and fraud, which is why the reason I'm going through this is that I I don't I don't want anybody in this audience reverting.
I I don't want you to fall back on negativity and pessimism as it relates to all of this.
Don't misunderstand.
But we have every reason to be upbeat and optimistic and confident of what we believe as the best for the country because we can now rest assured that a majority of people, at least voters, and for this discussion, that's what counts, a vast majority of voters are with us on this.
And that includes even these people that want to try to say that Hillary won the popular vote and then take away certain meanings from that.
I I reject that as I did explain how in the first hour of the program.
Therefore, the lesson that has been learned here is one of total doubt, disapproval, disbelief of what you hear in the media.
Later in the program, I want to read to you the letter that the publisher and editor of the New York Times wrote to their readers.
It's astounding what they try to make people believe.
They actually say that they're going to go back now to covering the news.
But they really don't.
They want people to think that's what they're saying in their letter, but they're not actually saying that.
So there's reason to rejoice here.
And all of these riots and protests, again, the purpose, and there are many, but the primary purpose of this is to make you think that a majority of Americans is unhappy.
And they look, we want to be as unified as possible.
We want a great country Made up of people, extraordinary people doing extraordinary things.
We want people who are happy and productive and making it.
We want people getting ahead.
We want people enjoying success.
Everybody, as many as possible.
They are still in the business of trying to create illusions with all these riots and protests.
What they want you to think is that a vast majority of people is unhappy and doesn't want any part of this, and that you are still in the minority.
And that this was nothing but a quirk.
Something strange and odd that nobody can explain.
And it's not that at all.
The Democrat Party is in deep, deep trouble.
They have been rejected and repudiated now for three elections in a row.
The outlier is the re-election of Obama in 2012.
But I think that is also due to the racial component.
As much as is it may if it probably more so to do with the racial component than it is with substantive policy.
It has to be.
The policy, every time it was on the ballot, was rejected.
2010, 2014, 2016.
In those, there were four elections in that period.
The only one of them, when Barack Obama was on the ballot, what he believed and appeared to win.
And I think it's the racial component that was behind this.
As we speak, George Soros is meeting with Nancy Pelosi and other Democrat leaders.
On strategy to deny Trump his first hundred-day agenda and beyond.
They are meeting as we speak to devise ways to block and obliterate the Trump agenda.
Anyway, another brief timeout, my friends.
You hang in there, be tough.
We will continue.
Start with your phone calls when we come back.
And then back to the audio sound bites, and then back to the stacks of stuff here.
As I say loaded, I don't think I'm gonna be able to get it all in today either.
You might have to continue listening tomorrow to find out everything I intended to discuss today.
It's that busy.
Okay, we start on the phones here as promised.
We have Kelly in Uba City, California.
I remember once being a remote broadcast from Ubis City.
I was working in Sacramento.
Uba City was named one of the top ten worst places in America to live.
It's right up the road from Sacramento.
Remember that, Kelly?
Were you were you there when that happened?
No, I'm actually uh new to the area.
But first of all, I'm I'm so privileged to talk to you today and be able to get through.
And um, I just want to tell you that um I've known about you for years, but I'm not a talk show radio person.
But when Trump decided to become um a candidate for the president of the United States, I was talking to my 25-year-old and 22-year-old children, and they said, I go, I want everything about these candidates.
Well, I already know about Hillary, but I want to know everything about Trump.
So my two children who are very big fans of yours, that mom wanted you tune in to Rush, and you will always get the truth.
He is very factual, and if he doesn't know it, he'll find out.
So when this campaign started, I turned you on.
I'm in the car all day long.
And I just have to say it's a breath of fresh air, as of always been a Republican, always knowing that people aren't telling the truth, that you're out there telling the facts.
And now every day, Russ, I was passionate.
I couldn't wait to turn it on, turn you on, listen to your program.
Um I felt the same way.
I am so thankful.
I watched 60 minutes yesterday, and I was so thankful for the first time in eight years.
I have hope for this country, and I saw a man who had full compassion.
We have not felt that.
I have not felt that in eight years.
And Donald Trump, he wants to make this country great again.
That's why he won.
And let me tell you, Tuesday night, I kept praying, Lord, please do not let that lady get into the White House.
We want somebody that's I'm a middle class American.
I'm actually in traffic control on the highways.
I wanted a president who cared about what I do.
And I'm so thankful that he is in, he's our next president of the United States.
I want to thank you for every day you were educating me on what was going on out there in the crookedness in this world.
Well, Kelly, I appreciate that.
I I I really do.
And you're right, Donald Trump does want to make America great again.
Donald Trump, and that's not from his vantage point as an insider.
You know, making America great again as a member of the ruling elites means a lot different than making America great again for somebody like you, who's in charge of traffic control on the highways out in California, uh, or any other average, ordinary, everyday American.
Making America great means something entirely different.
And I'm telling you, Trump is of the same mindset as as you.
Trump Trump is not defined greatness any differently than you do when it comes to talking about the nation and its greatness.
He is entirely honest about that, and it is a sincere desire that he has.
And what one of the things he means by it, he wants it to be great for everybody.
I I'm here to tell you folks, those of us, whether we call ourselves conservatives or just Republicans or whatever, the truth of the matter is we want it great for everybody.
We are not exclusion.
We're not people that want it just for ourselves.
We want it great for everybody because we want a great nation, and a great nation requires everybody doing the best they can.
Ha!
Are you welcome back?
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
That's me, my friends, Il Rushbow here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
This is Alan in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
We own Allentown.
By the way, what I was going to say about UBA City, I didn't mean to insult the caller.
It was a funny thing.
This is right when I got Sacramento.
It had to be the first three months, 1984.
One of the top ten worst places in the in the country to live.
While Chico, California was one of the top ten party places in the world because of the university there, Chico State.
So the mindset of self-esteem of Uba City was horrible.
I had to go up there and do a remote from City Hall, and people wanted to leave and go back to Sacramento with me.
I had a train of refugees actually leaving Uba City.
It was um it was one of the first remote and only remote broadcasts I did.
But uh it's it's one of those just funny things that happened that gave me all kinds of uh uh opportunities to ingratiate myself.
Uh Rio Linda was yet to come uh uh out there in in the Sacramento area.
And I you know, I I will Sacramento's always gonna be my adopted hometown.
That'll that'll never change.
But here is Alan in Allentown, which we also own.
Great to have you, sir.
How are you doing?
I'm doing great, Rush.
It's uh wonderful to talk to you.
I've been listening for a very long time.
Used to watch a TV show.
Actually, as a kid, I uh introduced my father to your program when I was.
I know.
I there was somebody from Allentown in the TV audience every show.
I'm not kidding.
It was a wonderful program, and I was sad to see it go.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
I really I really do.
I'll get to my point.
Uh what I wanted uh maybe you could elaborate on is that we I seem to remember Democrats uh reminding Republicans that immigration is federal law.
And uh I just wondered if you could elaborate on that and maybe uh kind of refresh my memory.
I just remember there was a big do of about that a couple of years back where Republicans were trying to do things, and we were reminded, hey, step aside, it's federal law.
I know exactly what you're talking about.
You I give you an example.
You're talking about Arizona, state of Arizona, federal law is not being enforced, immigration law.
So the governor at the time, Jan Brewer, uh, all right.
Well, we're we're gonna do our own set of laws here that are gonna mirror federal law, and we passed them and they implemented them, and Obama sued them.
Obama's Department of Justice sued the state of Arizona claiming you don't have any control over immigration.
That's a federal purview.
That's federal law.
We run the borders.
We protect the borders.
We do all that with the board.
And you don't have anything to say about it.
Our law trumps yours, no pun intended.
And they rendered Arizona's law, and a judge backed them up.
Every Obama judge they could find backed them up.
So he's got a great point here.
Federal government told a governor you.
You have nothing to say over immigration.
Now he's asking, well, how can the governor of New York, and how come the governor of Chicago and the mayors of New York and Los Angeles get away with defying federal law by establishing their states and cities as sanctuary cities, expressly for the purpose of housing and paying for illegal immigrants.
And the answer is according to the law, they can't.
But Obama chose not to enforce it.
Obama chose not to enforce very much of immigration law.
Which is why I said if I were Trump, I'd call these guys.
And I would say, if you don't renounce this, then every penny of federal money you get is going to be impounded until you do.
Now, uh let me address something here.
Uh, because I've had a couple of emails from people.
I opened the program by saying that.
And I also opened the program by, I mean, literally, before I even greeted everybody, say hi, welcome to the program.
I said, if it were up to me, if I were Trump, I would call Obama and I would call Hillary, and I would demand that he tell those protesters and rioters to stand down, or I will, and that I will call local law enforcement all over this country, and I'm going to tell them do what you have to do.
I have your back when I'm inaugurated in January.
And I've had a couple people email me.
You realize Trump can't do that right now.
And I've had a couple people email me and say, are you worried that Trump is softening Russia?
Are you worried that Trump's going to eventually kill?
No, no, no, no, no.
I also said that I'm not Trump when I made those suggestions.
I did say that if Trump called me and asked me, that that's what I would say, but that Trump hasn't called me.
Let me tell you what I think is really going because I've had some emails from people, saw Trump on 60 Minutes and they're worried.
And I've had some people who have heard, like there's a story out there that is from NBC News.
And the headline of the story is Stop It.
Trump calls alleged harassment by supporters terrible.
President elect Donald Trump said Sunday he was aware of reports that some of his supporters may be harassing Latinos, Muslims, and other minority groups.
A development he said must stop immediately.
This was on 60 minutes.
He said that such behavior represented only a very small amount of his support, but that any was unacceptable.
Now, folks, I look.
I will admit that I was busy yesterday, and I didn't devote my usual 100% to the news.
So you need to correct me if I'm not entirely correct here, but I haven't seen a story about Trump supporters harassing protesters.
I've seen the exact opposite.
Mr. Snerdley, have you seen any stories of Trump supporters harassing protesters?
No, no.
Oh, you have seen this, but you're not certain.
You mean the people are plans, the people, okay.
I haven't.
Snurtley says he's seen the stories.
I haven't.
All I've seen are stories about rioters and protesters beating up people they think are Trump supporters.
But you've seen these stories where Trump supporters are harassing the rioters, and you think that their plants are not legitimate.
All right.
Well, anyway.
So I've had emails from people about this particularly, Trump calling out his own supporters and having them stop.
It's not a lot of emails, it's just people that are worried here that Trump is softening on this and that he's not going to remain the guy he was in the campaign.
And it's going to be the same old story.
Same old story.
Republicans win, promise they're going to do all the stuff in a campaign and don't.
And folks, I don't think that's what's going on here.
I tell you what I think is really going on.
I would not change anything I said.
If it were me, you know, I I would take the bull by the horns here.
But there may be things I don't know that Trump does know.
And I'm not Trump, and he's not me.
But I think there's a pattern of behavior by Trump, and there's enough of it that we can gauge it, and that we can assign a philosophy or a strategy to it.
Let's start with the Trump meeting with Obama in the White House and going out of his way to praise Obama and to talk about what a fine man Obama was or is and how he is going to seek Obama's counsel in his own presidency.
How many of you saw that little little pink flags began to raise, not fully red yet.
You did that didn't worry you.
Didn't worry you.
Well, then I could add other instances, such as Trump telling his supporters to back off and uh appearing to be open and conciliatory, even to some of the rioters.
Here's what I think is actually actually, folks, I have to take a brief time out, otherwise I'll lose control of the length of segments here, which the longer the better, the shorter the worst.
I'll come back up to the break table what I really, really, really think is going on here.
Don't go away.
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Okay, here's what's really going on out there, and I think why Trump is behaving as he is.
Our country right now is in a very dangerous place.
Okay.
We are in a, you might say precarious situation.
We have a president who has been completely repudiated.
Now, this is this is very significant, folks.
We have a president who, for the last eight years, has operated under the illusion that he has been wildly successful in transforming America and advancing the socialist agenda, the Linskyite version of America and the world has been going along in the same direction.
This is a considerable thing that was attempted here.
A genuine I don't want to use the word coup or overthrow, but but the direction that Barack Obama wanted to take this country and was as far away from the vision of this country is founded as any elected president has intended and sought.
And I'm sure that Obama and the Democrats believed that they were overwhelmingly succeeding and probably wishing they could even move a little faster.
And they believed the election of Hillary Clinton was going to finally nail the last nail, hammer the last nail into the coffin of the original founding of this country, and that the transformation would then be irreversible,
with Hillary in the White House and in charge of future justices to the Supreme Court, and having established that the executive could simply change Laws with the stroke of his pen, that Congress wasn't necessary, and with a Republican Party that had bought into it, a Republican party that was afraid to oppose.
I think Obama was sitting there thinking that he'd done it, and they were ready to party and celebrate what leftists from the days of this founding have only dreamed of that was in their grasp.
It was going to happen.
All that was necessary was for Hillary to be re-elected.
And Obama was so confident it was going to happen that, well, maybe he wasn't confident, but he was he was confident enough that he was loved and adored and supported by a majority because he went out and campaigned on the very premise of extending him.
He told people his agenda was on the ballot.
He told people and all of his progressive advances on the ballot.
He told people that to continue this dream required the election of Hillary Clinton.
The election of Hillary Clinton was going to be Obama's third term, in the sense that his revolution, his transformation, was going to continue, and that it could not at that point be stopped.
The Republicans didn't have the stomach to try to stop it.
And even if they did, there was nothing they could do.
She was going to have the Supreme Court at executive orders and whatever other trappings of federal power that Obama had assumed for himself outside the Constitution that there was no stopping them.
And I'm sure that they were overwhelmed with joy and happiness and the sense of achievement and accomplishment.
They perhaps more than any of the Obamas and the Hillary, the Democrat leadership, perhaps more than anybody, was sitting there confident that they had, they were on the verge of actually doing it.
Actually taking this country away from the majority of people and the founding principles, and transforming this country into something that nobody who founded it ever intended it to be.
And now we know what's happened.
And what happened was a total rebuke of Barack Obama and his agenda and his transformation.
The Democrat Party could not rise up in great enough numbers to support him.
He personally on the campaign trail, begging them to, asking them to and telling them why.
And six million fewer Democrats voted in this election than in 2012.
Not only was it a repudiation by Trump, who that's another insult.
Trump's not even a professional politician to come out and get spanked and outfoxed by somebody that they revile, like Donald Trump, who is the antithesis of everything they believe and to see that it.
It had to be, folks, it had to be crushing.
It had to be unreal.
And that's why I think we are in a precarious situation.
We have a very, very defeated and maybe wounded President Obama, who nevertheless maintains control on all the levels, levers of power until January 20th.
We have a president who was on the cusp of an historical event never before conceived in this country that has just been snatched away, but he's still there.
He controls the levers of power for another month and a half, two months.
And as such, we don't know what all is threatened.
Global financial interests are threatened.
All these globalists and elites around the world are as devastated and distraught as Obama is.
They are not benign.
George Soros cannot believe what happened either.
He's been a life's fortune making all this happen.
And this mob, these rioters, I am certain have been unleashed by community organizers and the like, people sympathetic to Obama, maybe even himself.
With these mobs made to look like the whole country is upset and angry and not going to put up with this.
This is Obama saying, oh yeah, oh yeah, you think.
And Trump is a guy who operates 100% from leverage.
And if you watch his behavior right now, I think Trump knows full well how precarious and dangerous the next two months could be.
And it's therefore necessary to be soothing and certainly non-confrontational and non-provocative of Obama.
Like, yeah, I'm gonna keep some things about Obamacare.
Yeah, he's a great guy, really enjoyed me.
Yeah, I'm gonna seek his counsel.
Yeah, he and the Clinton are good people.
I don't want to hurt him, I have respect.
I found talking to Obama fascinating.
I think the flattering is done to it's an insurance policy.
We'll see.
I think come January 20th, all bets are off.
But we won't know for sure until then.
So here's a report from the Hill.com headline: Trump plans to spend more time with Obama, learning the ropes.
Report.
That's the latest headline on the Hill.com that Obama realizes that Trump doesn't know what he needs to know.
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