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Nov. 15, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 15, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Right, so okay, so I've been promising, I've been assuring everybody we're gonna get to the audio sound bites Obama in Greece, and then stuff keeps happening that takes precedence over it, like this.
They wrote this with a straight face.
This is a quintessential classic example of how the media just doesn't get it.
As you know, the Trump transition team is in full speed mode trying to come up with secretaries of state.
Secretary of Transportation, Attorney General, you name it.
And one of the names being bandied about is Rudolph Rudy Giuliani.
And Rudy's being bandied about for attorney general first, and then his name's uh being bandied about Secretary State.
And they asked Rudy about Bolton.
John Bolton's name's been bandied about for Secretary of State, and Rudy said, well, boldly okay, but I'd be better.
Oh, do you there are reports that the Trump transition team is in turmoil?
It's not.
It's not, don't believe it.
I'm telling you, don't believe it.
I just said that, and Snardley smiled, really like it's a what a great story.
Yeah, they're in they're not in turmoil.
In fact, everything I've heard, Pence is running it, and it is a smooth transition, and everything's just fine, with a lot of people wanting to be appointed positions.
But they they they what do you mean they purged Christie like they're Stalinists?
Who said that?
MS Stalinists purge Christie?
Are you kidding me?
Well, look, when I read this headline to you, this is from the politico.
I want to know what is the first thing that comes to your mind.
It's a story about how Giuliani may not be suitable, may not be qualified to be secretary of anything.
Are you ready for the headline?
Giuliani took money from Qatar, Venezuela, Iranian exiles.
His foreign clientele could present conflicts of interest as Secretary of State.
Are you kidding me?
These people write this story.
Have you ever heard of Hillary Clinton political?
What is who wrote this?
Isaac Arnsdorf.
Hey, Isaac, have you ever heard of Hillary Clinton?
You want to talk about conflicts of interest?
Half of the half of the of the third world, half of the criminalized third world has underwritten the Clinton Foundation.
The whole reason for her private email server was to cover up what they were doing, taking money from people who were buying it.
Hillary Clinton sold this country's foreign policies as Secretary of State and was selling them on the cum as a presidential candidate.
It is still being investigated by the FBI.
And they write with a very straight face.
I mean, they're dead serious here.
Rudy Giuliani's paid consulting for foreign governments would present conflicts of interest as the nation's top diplomat that would make the Clinton Foundation look trifling.
Rudy has taken a hundred million dollars and given away half the uranium supply of the country to Kazakhstan while enriching a Canadian industrialist.
CNN is talking about the Trump transition team as a bunch of people jockeying for top jobs, just like in Game of Thrones.
Now what happens in Game of Thrones?
You watch Game of Thrones, if you don't, Game of Thrones is one of the most violent, gory dramas on TV.
The headings are—that's the least of what could happen to you if you run afoul of a king.
Comparing it to Game of Thrones.
Did they actually say at MSNBC that it was a Stalinist-like purge?
that got rid of Chris Christie because of Bridgate?
This is too much fun.
Now, I laugh with reservations, because folks, these people are dead serious.
They're going to pursue Rudy Giuliani like they never pursued Hillary.
That's what they're signaling here.
The whole point of this story, Rudy, you try for this stuff, or we're going to come after you, man, we're going to destroy you, and we're going to expose everything we can find about who has hired you to do what.
While we've covered up every bit of that that we could find for Hillary, we're going to expose you for it.
Make no mistake.
And this is the kind of stuff I feel confident saying this.
I don't want to give too much of what I think Trump is doing away because it would alert the opposition.
But I think behind the scenes, this kind of stuff that Trump would say, you go right ahead.
It isn't going to matter.
One hill of beans.
I don't care what you say about my appointees.
They're my appointees, and if I want them in there, they're going to be there.
When it comes to Trump appointing his team, the people are going to be doing the work that he wants done.
He's going to have the people he wants in there.
And it's going to be very telling who he puts in there.
There's a name being bandied about for A.G., by the way, you may not have heard.
Let me run it by you very quickly.
Chris Kobach.
Name ringabell, folks.
For those of you in a certain state, I mean, I know you know who he is.
Chris Kobach, attorney general Arizona.
Chris Kobach.
Author and chief implementer of Arizona's immigration law that Obama filed suit to stop.
He is an up-and-coming rising conservative star.
If he ends up being the AG, it will be good.
It would be a great example of Trump getting the people he wants to do what he wants done, and that would be a telltale sign of uh of what Trump wants done.
I don't know if he's going to get it.
I'm just, he's a name.
There's all kinds of names being bandied about right now.
And so while it's Game of Thrones up there in Trump Tower, and wonder who Trump is in the Game of Thrones cast.
Who who is Trump?
King Joffrey.
No, I'm just who are they on top of who they would portray him as being?
And who would who would be Peter Dinklage?
The uh the dwarf.
Who would that be?
Who would the media say is Peter Dinklage?
They could have fun doing this.
It reminds me of a little game we did called Gulf War One, casting our movie after the first Gulf War.
Okay, let's get the audio sound bites.
I'm I'm not I'm not gonna allow any other news to set this aside.
This morning in Athens, Obama, joint press conference with Alexis Cyprus, who is the Greek prime minister, joint presser, uh, and the first questions from the French news agency.
A lot of people in Europe are still struggling to understand what happened, Mr. Obama on November 8th.
Does it have to do with leaders struggling to read the mood of the country?
Do you have the feeling that while in power you used underestimated anger or resentment or fear in America?
Did I recognize that there was anger or frustration in the American population?
Of course I did.
First of all, we had to fight back from the worst recession since the Great Depression, and I can guarantee you if your housing values have crashed and you've lost your most of your pension and you've lost your job, you're gonna be pretty angry.
I was also aware of it because of the fact that uh you've seen some of the rhetoric among Republican elected officials and activists and media.
Some of it pretty troubling.
Yeah.
And not necessarily connected to facts, right?
But being used effectively to mobilize people.
So can I translate this for you?
Well, you know, the Great Depression, that worst recession, it wasn't really nearly as bad as we made it out to be, but I succeeded in making people think that it was the worst that we've ever had, and I was doing everything I could to stop it.
People did lose their homes and they lost their pensions while I was president because I didn't know how to really come out of that recession because I don't understand capitalism.
And all the while there were people telling the truth about this.
There were Republican media people, he didn't name them, but who does he mean, I wonder.
There were elected officials and activists who were telling the truth about the damage my economic policies were doing, and that effectively mobilized people.
I know you're thinking he said people lied.
He did.
But what he means is people were telling the truth about his leadership.
And that's what offends him.
Why I say to understand these soundbites, folks, you have to understand this.
Obama is like all self-absorbed people who in their own minds are great, unique and great.
They live in a little cocoon that they create themselves, a bubble they create for themselves.
They live inside it, and the day, and they're surrounded by people who also tell them how great they are, and how dumb and how ineffective opposition is, and how insignificant everybody else is.
And so, whatever happens, it isn't your fault.
You're the best guy ever.
You're working harder than anybody, and you really got better ideas than anybody, and and and so it's really good what's happening out there.
It just people are too stupid to see it.
So essentially you have somebody who I think, just being honest with you here, folks, I'm not trying to be provocative.
I think we have somebody here that is not able intellectually or even emotionally to honestly assess what's going on around him.
If it's negative, it's ignored, or it's recast as a positive.
If it's negative, it's somebody else's fault.
But it usually isn't even negative.
It's all good.
But if people don't realize it's good, it's because the enemy is lying and is convincing people to believe the lies.
And in Obama's mind, he's the center of the universe.
I mean, he can't make a speech without mentioning himself at least a hundred times, not exaggerating.
And so I don't think he's come to grips with the fact that he lost the election.
In fact, I know he hasn't, because he's saying he wasn't on the ballot.
This wasn't about him.
Hillary lost it.
She's to blame.
Democrats and Republican media people lying about things, they're to blame.
And that's why I think we're very, very dangerous.
Two months here, because the man still holds the levers of power.
And that's as far as I'm going to go.
I'm not going to say any more because I don't want to alert anybody.
Here's the next bite where Obama says that he knows that people know that he did a great job, and that none of this, including the election results, his fault.
Obviously, President elect Trump tapped into that particular strain within the Republican Party.
Having said that, people seem to think I did a pretty good job.
And so there is a mismatch, I think, between frustration and anger.
Perhaps the view of the American people was is that just need to shake things up.
Those folks who voted for the president-elect are better off than they were when I came into office for the most part.
This is exactly what I'm talking about.
Somebody who is is just has the ability to ignore reality, will not allow himself to be contradicted by truthful outside events, cannot accept what has happened.
In the midst of this, and this this is an eight-year electoral disaster for the Democrat Party.
I have detailed it every day since the election with even more detail today.
Highlights Democrats control five states, governor and state legislatures.
It's actually four states.
Democrats control four state legislatures and the governorship.
Four states.
They've lost 11 House seats, 60 Senate seats, many mayoralties.
They've lost 17 governorships or some such thing since Obama was elected.
It has been an outright disaster.
And yet, well, you know, people seem to think that I did a real good, pretty good job.
I did a good job.
so the view of the American people, I just need to shake things up.
See, it's a change election.
It's not about him.
It's not about policy.
People want new faces.
They want to see new direction.
It's nothing serious here.
But I want you to know that the people who voted for Trump.
They are better off.
I don't care what they think.
They're better off now than they were when I came into office.
And that's what he tells himself.
This is dangerous.
It's important, however, that he continue to think it.
That's all I'm gonna say.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna dial back.
For all of our sakes, it's probably better that he continue to think this.
Here's the next bite.
No, I'm not worried about anybody telling him the truth.
He thinks I lie anyway.
So if somebody tells him what I said, he's not gonna believe it.
Folks, then don't worry about it.
Here's the next bite.
Next question comes from uh Chris Jansing, the NBC White House co-respondent.
Do you feel any responsibility for the election of Donald Trump?
And in the broader context, when you see his election, when you look at a at politician like Theresa May, Marie LePun, do you believe that it is either a movement away from or an outright rejection of your worldview?
It's fair to say that I was surprised by the election results.
Uh and I've said so.
I still don't feel responsible for what the president left says or does.
Since your question's directly related to the notion of a rejection of my worldview, last I checked, a pretty healthy majority of the American people agree with my worldview on a whole bunch of things.
We know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.
So my vision's right.
Says the number one divider in the country.
The man responsible for these divisions getting wider, just said, well.
Let's not check.
Pretty healthy majority of American people agree with me.
On a whole bunch of things.
That's not what I'm for.
It's utter.
It is.
I watch this with my mouth open, folks.
This is gonna be textbook stuff at psychiatry school someday.
I watched it with my mouth.
I keep inching closer.
I've got to back off.
Right, Don?
I gotta pull back here.
Here's here's Obama.
This was late yesterday at the White House, Wall Street Journal.
As Democrats scramble to regroup after pretty shocking upset, what's your advice about where the party goes now and who should lead your party?
I won Iowa, not because the demographics dictated that I would win Iowa.
What?
Because I spent 87 days going to every small town and that's not very earned.
Stop this front.
Stop it.
I gotta go to a break.
I just I've got to get a break in here.
But he this is not that's not why he won't.
It's the right bite.
Don't misunderstand.
Just wait till you hear the rest of it.
That's not why he won Iowa.
It's not.
Okay, the question, Democrats scramble, shocking upset.
What's your advice?
Who's the leader of the party now?
And DFW Hall.
And there were some counties where I might have lost, but maybe I lost by 20 points instead of 50 points.
Well, it's not true.
There's some counties maybe I won.
Because people had a chance to see and listen to you and get a sense of who you stood for and who you were fighting for.
Um I'm sorry.
I thought he was throwing Hillary under the bus in that.
Where does it?
Uh, but he didn't uh look.
I'm I'm confused.
Here, the thing about Iowa.
The people forget.
He's talking to here about 2008.
How he won oh.
You know how he won Iowa?
It's a caucus state.
He busts people in from all over the area.
Everybody the the the Clinton campaign was shell shocked.
They had no idea what hit them.
But it was not an organic Iowa victory for Obama, but here he is.
I won Iowa, not because of demographic, but but now let me find the um I I know that he described Hillary as lazy.
Where is that?
What?
Some counties maybe I wanted people to because people have a chance to see you get sense of it.
That the question's not about Hillary and his answer's not about Hillary, so I'm looking at the next one.
Right.
Well, okay, so that's I guess what hill well Hillary did Hillary lose Iowa by 50?
Hillary.
Look, you guys can tell me he's talking about Hillary, he doesn't mention I know he said that Hillary was lazy, and I just I don't see it in this bite.
And I thought it was here.
Uh I'm looking at there's two other bites here, so I'm scanning to look for the name Hillary in his answer, and I don't I don't see it.
Well, anyway, that's neither here nor there.
The answer still is odd.
I mean, the question, Democrats scramble to regroup after shocking upset.
What's your advice where the party goes and who should lead your party?
And he talks about how he won Iowa eight years ago.
I mean, this it makes my point here about the little bubble in the cocoon about how all this is about.
He knows this is about him, and he's trying to tell people why it shouldn't be, because in his mind it isn't.
Anyway, another brief obscene profit break.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, I have been brought up to speed.
I'm sorry, my friends, but I'm not gonna make any excuses for the way I interpreted this.
Not to make a big deal about this, but here is the question asked by somebody from the Wall Street Journal.
As Democrats scramble to regroup after a pretty shocking upset, what's your advice about where the party goes now and who should lead your party?
Answer.
I won Iowa, not because the demographics dictated that I would win Iowa, it was because I spent 87 days going to every small town and fair and fish fry and VFW hall, and there were some counties where I might have lost, but maybe I lost by 20 points instead of 50.
There's some counties maybe I won that people didn't expect, but because people had a chance to see you and listen to you and get a sense of who you stood for and who you were fighting for.
And everybody's saying that that's throwing Hillary Clinton overboard.
They're even right now they're talking about it.
They were during the break on CNN.
Did Obama throw Hillary overboard?
I heard that answer in an entirely different.
I I if if if people hadn't told me he had thrown Hillary overboard, that's the last thing I would have thought he was talking about.
Now, she wasn't in the question, and this answer is not connected to anything in the question.
It's not what did Democrats how they scramble to regroup.
It's not about advice about where the party should go, and it's not about who should lead.
His answer has nothing to do with this question.
Which is not uncommon.
I mean, don't misunderstand.
But you have to assume quite a lot here to believe he's trashing Hillary.
I'm hey, if he's trashing Hillary, it's fine and Danny would be.
I don't care.
Um, but I think the answer says more than that.
I think this answer goes right to the thing I have been putting.
This this question is really simple.
What should the Democrats do going forward?
And who should lead your party?
And he goes back and tells the story about 2008.
So I know how to do it.
I want.
Here's how I did it in one state.
I want Iowa, and I did this and I did that.
So we then infer that he disagrees with whoever, I guess that's how we get to Hillary's saying that he knows how to campaign and the Democrats of today don't.
but he still makes it all about him.
And he can't, he can't take himself outside of this bubble that he's in.
What this also that's right, what this also tells me is that in his mind, he is still a leader of the Democrat Party.
There is nobody classified, qualified anywhere near him to run this party.
He's the only guy that's shown he knows how to win.
The only guy shown he knows how to get where we're going, and he's going to be the continued leader of the party.
I don't think he threw just Hillary over.
I think he threw everybody overboard.
That's how you want to look at this.
He's throwing everybody overboard except him.
I'm the only guy apparently knows how to win elections in this party.
And here's why I did it.
And so you know, you gotta let people know who you're.
And if they don't know you are, you're gonna tell them who you are like I do the whole time.
I don't know.
Do we want to hear one more?
Let's hear one more.
See if we can connect the dots on this.
White House correspondent, Mark Knowler.
How long did it take before you were at ease in the job?
The good news is that in some ways my experience is atypical.
It's hard to find an analogous situation.
By the time FBR came into office, the depression had been going on for a couple of years.
We were in the midst of a free fall financial system was locking up.
The auto industry was about to go belly up.
This is so much market had entirely collapsed.
So one of the advantages that I had was that I was too busy to worry about how acclimated I was feeling in the job.
That's not what you were at.
This is whoa is this guy.
This is incredible.
In the first place, this so-called recession, the worst since the Great Depression 2008, I don't care, folks.
It wasn't.
Do you realize there's still unspent TARP money out there?
There's still unspent bailout money.
And then after he got his stimulus bill for for rebuilding roads and bridges, and it didn't, there's not one bridge that got built.
There's not one road that got written.
Not a that was already slated to get repairs.
There wasn't any infrastructure rebuilding, and yet part of his press conference today, I saw this, I think people very much appreciate and happy about all the infrastructure repair I have overseen as as president.
There hasn't been any.
You know, the Democrats have lived off of this economic collapse narrative for eight years now, and it's horse hockey.
The truth of it is that there hasn't been a recovery from it.
The truth of it is that with all the legislative things that have happened, like Obamacare and other economic policies, we are stagnant.
There hasn't been a recovery.
Whatever happened in 2008 has not been improved on.
We have not been saved or rescued.
That's yet to happen.
And these guys running around saying they saved us, they staved off worldwide financials.
That's establishment BS.
That is establishment 101 B.S. That is classic establishment.
You go out there and you unify around a concept or a principle that things are falling apart and might disintegrate, except for us in the establishment.
What an absolute crack.
I have never bought.
It's the easiest excuse.
It's the easiest cop-out for not having succeeded at anything regarding economic growth that I've ever seen.
And it really does frost me.
Hell, the recession that Reagan inherited in 1980 dwarfs this one.
I mean, the thing that Reagan inherited when he became president in 1980, this?
This doesn't even get close to touching it.
How bad it was.
World financial collapse.
My, that's just...
World financial collapse means if I have a house in the Hamptons, I might lose it.
World financial collapse.
And if there was a world financial collapse, who the hell gave it to us?
These very people that set themselves up as our saviors and the people that can fix it.
This is this has really been a sore spot for me for all these eight years, is how supposedly bad that was, and how Obama single-handedly rescued us from it, and it was all the Republicans doing, and it all happened because of the Iraq war.
I just I have never accepted this, and I've always thought it was a weaponized bit of BS that they have used to excuse Obama's lack of economic policy progress and success.
We haven't replaced these jobs that were lost.
We have they keep talking about the unemployment rate being weighed down record lows and all what a crap.
Get this.
Gallup just published Obama's latest job approval number.
And you know what it is?
57%.
It is a four-year high.
Barack Obama job appropriate, frankly, I'm happy.
I'm glad.
If his approval number had come in under 50%, we would have a problem.
But he can now continue to live this illusion that he's created for himself that his greatness has saved America.
That believe me, believe me, for the next two months, that's okay.
But do you believe it?
57% approval.
And I'm going to tell you something.
There is one thing dangerous about it.
And one of the reasons why I may not believe it.
Look at how now the media could go to Trump or his 10 transition team of the Republicans and say, hey, you guys better be careful about revising what Obama's number.
Look at his job approval numbers.
And if we have some cowardice in Washington on our say, oh my God, look at his approval.
Oh my God, if we we do are we sure we want to shake this up.
This job approval number is potentially dangerous.
if people look at it and use it as a substitute for the election return results.
You see where I'm going with this, Mr. Sturtley?
If on the one hand you have the Democrats decimated and practically non-existent, well, Well, i i it it's compared to where they were.
They're a blip.
But over here you got Obama's job approval.
57%.
And maybe your average Washington established a republic.
Wait a minute now.
We really might want to rethink.
Uh and they're going to have to be told Obama's policies were sent packing.
You this is why I keep harping on it, folks, is why let off every show since the election with how badly the Democrats have done in four consecutive elections.
How badly the Democrat Party sits today.
This is why I'm talking about it, because there are going to be people doing everything they can to cloud that, to obscure that, and make people think it's not true.
Or that the Democrats are rejected not because of their policies, but for other reasons.
When it was their policies and Obama's specifically, that were repudiated.
Brief timeout.
After this.
Biloxi, Mississippi next.
Charlie, Charles, great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
It's an honor to speak with you today.
Thank you, sir.
I was calling ince this uh election fact.
I've kind of listened to your show quite a bit when I can, and I've heard you speak about your your Rush Revere series.
And American history has never been one of my strong.
I've just never been excited by it, but I realize the fact that my son's in in public school, and he might not get the version of history that I would want him to hear.
Very important.
They would have it over the slam.
I'm gonna get some fan.
So at any rate, over the weekend, I'm I take my wife and my son out.
And he's a big reader, and he knows that if he pushes for a book, all that'll get it for him.
So uh we're out at one of the chain bookstores, and I've I'm looking for your book, one of the Rush Revere series.
And of course, he comes up to me with the book that he's picked out, and I show him uh one of the Rush books, and he lights up.
And he I wish you could have seen his face.
Uh, and of course, I'm I'm asking him, where have you seen his book?
How do you know about it?
And his response to me was that his elementary school teacher in public schools is reading it to his class every afternoon.
No.
I thought that was just the wildest thing I've had.
Well, now we know that that's happening because we hear from these teachers.
Right.
That's but a caller a couple weeks ago, I believe, spoke to donating a book to a library, I believe it was.
Right.
And the library refused the donation.
So uh I thought that was just the craziest thing I've ever heard.
But he absolutely lit up, he put the book back, but he had chosen to for me to purchase the Rush for Beer book.
So I thought that was just the craziest thing I've heard, and I figured you might want to hear about it.
I do.
That is awesome.
That that is what a way to end the busy broadcast day.
Oh, with the turmoil of the day, and all you hear is negative in the news.
I I thought it was a uh a glimmer of hope in our public school systems for us.
That is.
That really well, you let me tell you something about American history.
I'm kind of like you.
I didn't fully appreciate it when I was young and it was being taught to me because I didn't like school.
And I thought all of it was being forced fed stuff.
Uh and I had a natural resistance to being part of a giant group.
Oh, a thousand people being taught this.
I don't want to learn it.
I want to learn something different.
I just was my reaction to it.
And it wasn't until I got much older that I realized how important history of the country was when I it it it delved with my uh emerging interest in politics and so forth.
So I'm glad that that that uh you've hit had it happen to you and your son.
So it's just great.
I can't thank you enough for that.
Uh I so appreciate hang on here just a second.
I want Mr. Sterdy to get an address so we can send you your sort of package of things.
Don't go away.
We had a caller I wanted to get to and didn't have time.
Want to know if I thought that we have the backbone and patience to withstand all of the opposition ahead of our way just in the next two months.
Okay, well, we'll deal with that tomorrow.
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