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Nov. 16, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 16, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Meeting and surpassing meeting and exceeding all audience expectations every day right here on the most listened to radio talk show in America, hosted by me, America's real anchor man, Rush Limbaugh, here behind the Golden EIB microphone at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, telephone number 800 282-2882.
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It's L. Rushbow at EIBNet.us.
You know, Hillsdale College is one of our sponsors here at the EIB Network.
And in uh telling you about Hillsdale, I've often regaled you with stories about Dr. Larry Arne.
He's the president of the institution, used to run uh Claremont uh institute out in uh California.
He's a brilliant man.
He's a uh he's the guiding light behind the Hillsdale Foundation of the Constitution being taught to every graduate, regardless of major, they have to be proficient in it, or they don't get out of there.
Uh they don't graduate.
And he's uh serious believer.
And his his name has been uh mentioned in his in the running for education secretary, which I think would be exquisite.
I think it would be close to perfection.
I don't know if it's gonna happen, but I've heard it.
He was on Fox today, and I want to play just a couple sound bites so you can hear him.
I've often said that the reason I like to meet Dr. Arnes because I don't have to talk.
He gets rolling, and you just sit there and listen and learn.
He's an expert on Churchill, has written books on Churchill, uh, many other famous figures in the world who have been uh instructive and influential, and why.
Now they brought him on to discuss the Electoral College.
One of the one of the movements that's out there, we haven't discussed this yet, so now's a good time.
There is a petition out there that now has four and a half million signatures.
Have you heard about this petition?
It's a petition designed to get as many signatures as possible to tell the electors to elect Hillary Clinton president when they meet in December, because she won the popular vote.
Now the electors can do what they want to do, but tradition and custom mandates they vote for the person who won their state.
And they always have.
It would be I can't think of a word to describe it if if what the signers of this petition want to happen.
But they're dead serious about it.
So Fox went out and got Dr. Arne on to react to this.
And it was uh Eric Sean that was talking to him.
The question, the petition on change.org, about four and a half million have signed that petition calling for the end of the electoral college.
They want the college to anoint Hillary as president when they meet on December the nineteenth, because she received a million more votes than Donald Trump.
Why do you say, Dr. Arne, that they are wrong?
Those are foolish people, at least in this respect.
Just think what the United States of America achieves and has to achieve.
It controls a wonderful land going all the way across a continent, and it spread across that land without benefit of colonies, and that's because people can control things in their states and exercise their very important control of the federal government through states.
And so it's a shame that Donald Trump didn't get the popular vote.
But think what a shame it would be if the president could be elected from ten pockets of population, they'd be like capitals, maybe like in the hunger games, and the rest of us would be like colonies, right?
So it matters where people live in America and the whole country gets represented.
Let me add something to this, because this is, I think, crucially important.
In the first place, I do not yet accept that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.
And I'm not trying to be obstinate or stubborn about it.
My reasoning is that when it is finally all in, and when it's all counted and when it's all checked, I'm not going to be surprised if we find out that a million or two million illegal immigrants voted, non-citizens.
I will not be surprised if that happens.
And the majority of them would have voted for Hillary.
But here's the other thing about this electoral college business.
Right now, let's look at California and New York, and if you are a Republican living in either state, in the presidential race, it doesn't matter if you vote.
You are so outnumbered that the Democrat, no matter who it is, could be Bugs Bunny, is going to win those two states simply because of the vast majority of Democrats that there are.
As such, presidential candidates don't campaign in those states.
Trump didn't go to California much.
I mean, he had a couple of rallies out there early on during the primaries.
Hillary didn't spend any time in those states other than to go fundraise.
But other than campaigning, people don't do it because it's a waste of time, waste of money.
They didn't spend much advertising out there except as it might be run nationally if you buy certain California markets and New York markets.
But there are no campaigns in these states.
Instead, we have battleground states, which are toss-ups based on the electoral vote, and so that's where the bulk of campaigning takes place, every presidential campaign.
And those battleground states are pretty constant, but they change, like North Carolina has become one because of all the Yankees that have left the Northeast and moved in there.
Used to be a reliable red state, now it's up for grabs.
Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania became a battleground state.
Unreal.
Trump wins Pennsylvania, by the way.
So many things.
Michigan, Wisconsin, Hillary's blue wall crumbled.
And all of that could be undone if you go ahead and just count people in in New York and California where Republicans didn't even vote.
If there were no electoral college, you'd have an entirely different electoral vote count and picture in New York and California.
Because Republican votes would matter.
Candidates would campaign there.
The entire shape of the campaign, the entire appearance would change dramatically.
But because it didn't now go out and erase the electoral college results for whatever reason is exactly what Dr. Arne here suggests.
It would be foolish and not representative of the campaign at all.
This I think is the brilliance of the founding fathers in the electoral college.
It's the brilliant.
Because of the way it set up and the way it worked, that's where the candidates went.
The battleground states are battleground states for a reason.
And the elected president won them.
He won where he campaigned.
Enough said.
He won where he campaigned.
Hillary lost where she campaigned.
She didn't even go to Wisconsin.
She thought it was so in the bag.
That's why you don't get rid of the Electoral College.
It's the same principle of why in the House states have proportional representation based on population, but every state gets two senators.
It doesn't matter, every state gets two.
But the House of Representatives is proportional to population.
That's how things are balanced out.
It really is a miracle, this entire setup that the Founding Fathers gave us.
And it makes perfect sense that a bunch of spoiled little losers want to go out and change the rules after they lose.
They expected to win in a landslide.
They expected this was going to be a landslide win, that Hillary was going to be coronated, And since that didn't happen, these little spoiled brats want to go out now and change the rules post facto.
And they want the electors in these states to ignore the vote in their states and vote for Hillary.
And that's what the purpose of the petition is.
But the whole, I mean, Dr. Arne's exactly right in everything that he said here.
You would have these population centers that would end up electing the president.
You'd have New York, you'd have California, uh, Chicago, you'd well, you would have San Francisco and Los Angeles, maybe San Diego, you'd have Chicago, you'd have Seattle, maybe Portland, you would have New York.
Those would be the states, the cities.
He called them colonies.
That would elect the president every year if you did away, and that means everybody that lives in flyover country would not count no matter what they did.
Now, doesn't that make the Democrats lost the middle the Democrats?
You go look at this county by county map, you can't find any blue on it.
The Democrats have lost.
This is why I've spent so much time and I'm not finished, detailing the depth of their defeat since 2010.
It is monumental.
They threw away the white working class vote.
They announced it, they did it on purpose, going back to 2011, and they they got what they deserved.
Those people voted against them.
Now that that's happened, they want to go back and say those votes don't count.
We didn't campaign for them anyway.
These are the some of the most selfish, self-centered, spoiled little children, masquerading as mature adults that I have ever encountered.
Your modern-day Democrat Party and its associated constituencies on the left.
One more Dr. Arne soundbite, Eric Sean said.
Well, what do you think should happen, Dr. Arne?
And what are you calling for on December 19th when the electors from different states actually meet?
They should do their duty as it is established both in law and in custom.
Most states require by law that the electors vote for the person who won the popular vote in that state.
And they should continue doing that.
But also remember this.
You called it venerable.
Just think what a miracle it is that you can appoint a great executive, powerful enough to rule the most powerful nation on earth and one of the biggest ones, and have him be accountable to the people he governs.
We have an old, the oldest successful system for doing that.
And people want to change that.
That's just so much hubris to me.
His point is if you do away with the electoral college, you're doing away with the notion that the president is accountable to all the people.
If you do away with the electoral college, you're doing away with national campaigns, by the way.
And all of the people would not have a role.
Now you might say, well, look, Republicans in New York and California don't.
True, but it's up to them to fix it, not the rules get changed.
If the Republicans can't mount a challenge in New York and California, it's time they figure out how to.
But you don't go around after you lose, going, and demanding the rules change to accommodate your loser status, which is exactly what they are doing.
Since we're on the sound bites, grab audio soundbite number, what is it, uh, number 27.
And number 28.
And I may not play number 28, depending on what I hear here in number 27.
This was outside Trump Tower in New York City today.
This socialist mayor, Bill DeBlasio held a press conference to talk about his meeting with Trump.
And here's a little bit of what he said.
My job as mayor is to be their voice and to give him perspective on what New Yorkers are feeling right now, what their concerns are, what their fears are.
I thought it was very important, particularly as the president elect begins his transition for him to hear the voices of the people.
He did.
And to get some perspective from outside the transition bubble.
He did understand what's being said in the streets and subways of our city and why people are so deeply concerned.
He knows.
He doesn't need you of all people to tell him.
Now here's the hubris of this.
Here is the mayor of New York City, who is largely considered to be kind of a laughing matter.
And he wants to meet with Trump because he, de Blasio, is the voice of the people.
And he, as the voice of the people, needs to tell Trump what people on the buses and the streets and the subways are thinking and doing and saying.
So once again, presumption is Trump's an idiot.
He's blind, deaf, purposefully, not listening, and he's got to know how we're hurting.
He's got to know the pain.
Trump's gotta know.
Somebody know Trump, we're hurting.
We're in pain.
Do something.
Something about it.
Now de Blasio decides he's going to carry that message.
Yeah, I think let's play the next uh soundbite.
De Blasio continued with his um recounting of his education.
I told them that we were very concerned that we had to show all New Yorkers, including Muslim New Yorkers, that they were welcome.
I also raised concerns about some of the messages and some of the rhetoric that for so many people have been hurtful.
And I let them know that so many New Yorkers were fearful.
And more had to be done to show that this country can heal, that people be respected.
Well, this guy lectured Trump on everything.
But here's I know he's not popular.
He's not popular.
But but this guy presumes to tell Trump.
Notice what it is.
He's gotta know how people are feeling.
He's got the fever, it wasn't feeling I told him.
I told him.
And he knows now.
And that's what we are dealing with.
All these people are feeling rejected because they have been.
Massively so.
Media, establishment, uh big-time Democrats.
Also, Chuck Schumer.
We have this no sound bites.
Well, I do have a soundbite for Schumer, but um Schumer, this is incredible what Schumer, he had a little press conference today.
I mean, uh I I know these people like the back of my hand.
This guy is this exactly the kind of stuff they did following their 2002 midterm loss.
I don't even know if I'm a waste of time with it.
I have to take another obscene profit timeout now.
And while that happens, I'll figure out what I'm gonna do next.
So don't go away.
Okay, Chuck Schumer was elected a Democrat leader in the Senate today.
That's not a surprise.
He's replacing Dingy Harry.
We had a little press conference here today.
And uh this some of the things that uh Senator Chuck U Schumer had to say.
He said, first, we heard the American people loud and clear.
They felt that the government wasn't working for them.
They felt that the economy was rigged against them in many places, and the big government was too beholden to big money and special interests.
Well, this sounds like he agrees with Trump.
He says we heard the American people loud and clear.
They felt he didn't now don't be fooled by this.
He says we heard what they said.
They think the government wasn't working for them.
The economy was rigged, big government too, be holding to big money.
Then he said we will unite our caucus and speak to the blue-collar worker in West Virginia and Michigan as well as the people who live along the coasts.
We can unite the disparate factions of our party and country.
Our whole leadership team is emblematic of that.
Our team is ideologically and geographically diverse.
There it is again.
Diverse based on skin color, diverse based on whether you have a penis or vagina, diverse based on your gender and your orientation, diverse based on a bunch of things that don't really matter.
There is a debate going on, said Chuck Hugh.
There's a debate going on whether we should be a party of the diverse Obama coalition or the blue-collar America in the heartland, Schumer said.
Some think we need to make a choice.
I believe there does not have to Be a division.
In fact, there must not be a division.
We need a sharper, bolder, stronger economic message.
We needed to let the American people understand that we all believe that the system is not working for them and that we're going to change it.
I mean, this is this is exactly in the 2002 midterms, the first George Bush, George W. Bush term, this is the Wellstone Memorial.
These people got shellac.
Now, in midterms, the party out of power, in the case Democrats, always picks up seats in the House.
It's just the way it works.
And they didn't.
The Republicans gained seats, and it was shocking.
So the Democrats were, and the reason the exit polls was given that value voters wanted no part of the Democrats.
So they went out after the election and two weeks after it and said that we're gonna examine how we're seeing on values questions, or we're gonna make the necessary adjustments and changes, and they didn't.
And they're not gonna do this either.
The Democrat Party is in the position it's in, largely because they govern against the will of a majority of people.
By definition, majority of the people we now know and are assured are not believers in big government and socialism and all this.
They oppose it dramatically.
And the Democrats aren't going to give any of that away or change any of that, but they're gonna try to make tracks here by saying that they hear people and are going to make necessary adjustments, but don't look for it.
It's not who they are.
And they're not gonna change.
They think you need the chance, not them.
That's right, my friends.
This saga continues.
A man...
A legend, a way of life.
By the way, Donald Trump is saying, and then Kellyanne Conway is saying too, that he did not request top secret clearance for his kids.
That was another media lie that uh is out there, and there will be more, but he set the record straight, despite reports suggesting the contrary, a transition team official says that Trump did not request or begin paperwork to have his children gain top level security clearance, according to a pool report.
CBS reported Monday that they did.
Before I get back to the phones, grab audio soundbite number 19.
I've had some emails today from people who want me to explain further why I am always so confident in telling you in the audience who the establishment is and what they're doing and what they're gonna do and how they think and all that.
And uh look, I I just folks, I've been doing this for 29 years.
Well, actually, if you count the the four years in Sacramento, 33 years, and my life prior to that was spent being highly interested in all this stuff.
It's been a learning uh process all of these years.
I mean, it's the learning never stops, as uh as I say.
And it's it's just recognizing what is.
And and part of it is is these are things I wouldn't, I couldn't know when I was 35 or 40.
I I hadn't lived long enough, I hadn't met enough people, I hadn't had enough opportunities to see and hang around people up close to learn how and who they are and what they do.
You really it does require certain number of years of experience, uh up close and from afar, and keen powers of observation that you add to the base of knowledge that's constantly expanding.
If you go back and listen to this program back in the 90s, there wasn't any talk of a ruling class, the elites, the establishment, it was there.
Um the closest we got to it was when we discussed Republican Party and conservatism and how they really don't like conservatives because they associate it with the Barry Goldwater landslide loss and how they weren't big on Reagan, but uh it it it's taken years for me to figure this out to learn it and and to be sure of it myself.
But I have a soundbite here that might help.
This is Mike Murphy.
Mike Murphy probably by reputation is the Republican Party's leading political consultant.
Um Murphy has probably been hired by more candidates for high office, And there may be others, I don't know.
I'm not trying to short anybody here.
But as far as I'm I know, Murphy ranks.
If he's not number one, he's in a very short list.
Top five for sure.
And as such, he's a go-to guy.
Murphy ran Jeb Bush's 115 million dollars.
So when Jeb Bush says that he's going to win the nomination by losing the base, that was a philosophy developed by Republican consultants.
The Republican consultants class, the people that candidates hire to organize their campaigns, put together their ad campaigns, place the advertising buys, all of that the consultants do, they're campaign managers in many respects.
And many in the Republican Party, as you well know, have a very arm's length relationship with the Republican base.
It's rooted in abortion and the so-called social issues, which the mainstream of the Republican Party and the entire establishment is deathly opposed to.
Abortion smortion.
They don't want to be part of any campaign.
They don't think they can win with it.
And by the same token, these are the people that believe the Republican Party can't win anything if it doesn't support amnesty.
Well, what they believe is the Republican Party can't win anything if it doesn't appeal to the Hispanic vote.
To them, politics has become demographics, not ideas.
This is my big problem with them.
I've always thought politics is ideas, and maybe not politics, but advancing, you know, appealing to an ever-expanding majority of peoples rooted in ideas to me, not demographics.
When you go the demographic route, you are by definition giving up on persuading anybody.
If you think you need Hispanics, for example, you'll go out and try to be what you think they want you to be.
Even if that means you have to support something you really don't believe in, like amnesty, you go out and say you do.
And if you've got donors demanding you do that, then that's even more reason to go do it.
And the idea is not.
This is my big problem with all of this.
I uh demographics are one thing, and you may factoring them, but I've always thought, and I'm it's not my business, so I can be dead wrong.
I'm not in the political consultants' business, and I'm not in the business of running elections.
There are professionals that do that, but like everybody else, I have my thoughts and opinions on it.
Um I've always believed that people are human beings, and we have some things in common, and finding them and appealing to them as human beings rather than as victims or members of a group,
is in the long run going to be far more meaningful and productive than taking your policy manual and slicing it up into a bunch of different things that may not have anything in common, but you are out appealing to this group that you're weak in, maybe you're having trouble with women, so you come up with uh things to say to women to get them to support you and all that.
I just it's losing proposition.
And it has been until Trump has come along, and Trump didn't do any of that.
I mean, Trump spoke to people as people.
And he spoke to people where they live and how they live and the reasons why.
And it didn't matter what their race was, didn't matter what their sex or sexual orientation was, and as such, the whole demographic thing didn't matter.
But to the Republican established, and it's Democrats too, to the to the consultant class, the establishment class, uh it's it's all about groups and the way you tailor messages for groups of people rather than having an overarching message for everybody.
So Murphy is one of these uh Republicans that believes, for example, that we don't have a prayer, didn't have a prayer of ever winning the White House again if we didn't find a way to reach Hispanics.
Now, just saying that may be true, I don't know, but it's what comes next that's the problem.
The assumption is that every Hispanic thinks alike, is the first assumption.
The second assumption is that something they all agree on is that we have to have open borders.
In other words, they believe that you have Hispanics that live in the country and they're citizens.
But if you don't open the country up to everybody with an Hispanic name, they're not going to vote for you.
So their view of Hispanics is that they care about Hispanics first, second, and third, and Latinos and getting into the country, whether they're breaking a law or not.
I just don't think that's the case.
I don't think you can take an entire group of people like Hispanics and claim that most of them are willing to be lawless while being true to their heritage.
But this is what we end up essentially hearing or believing.
So, given that, here's here's Mike Murphy was on the Bloomberg TV show with all due respect.
This is John Heileman and Mike Murphy.
Uh Heilman with with uh Mark Halpern does this show.
Here's the question.
Heilman says, Mike, why were you so confident for so long there was no way Trump would win?
What did you get wrong?
I did not think he'd do better with Latinos.
I assumed he'd get historic numbers of African American turnout in places like Detroit and Milwaukee, which she did not do, Hillary Clinton.
And finally, I knew we'd do well with non-college educated white working class folks, but I did not know he would break the meter.
I was looking at Luzerne County in Pennsylvania as Wilkesbury, which is a good working class kind of till Democrat area.
He blew away Reagan numbers there.
That kind of thing in places like there in the Michael Moore towns in Michigan around Flint and other places, Wisconsin, was enough to give them a lead of about a hundred thousand votes in those three states and pick the lock of the electoral college.
I missed that coming because that has not been seen before.
Right.
I missed it because it hasn't been seen before.
So look, this is I'm not I'm not playing this to be critical of Murphy.
It's just an opportunity for you to for me to explain to you why I say or think the things I do about this.
Um I think people get locked into can't do that.
Can't wait, we gotta do this.
And and uh even on Fox, up until 9 o'clock, election night on Fox.
There were various people saying this is gonna be a bloodbath.
You see all the late votes of Hispanics and all the Hispanic early votes.
Oh my God, you realize what a bloodbath this is gonna be for Trump?
This is the assumption.
It's simply because they were Hispanic and vote against Republican because Republicans were seen as against Amnesty.
And it just it I love it being blown to smithereens.
Now let's see.
We will continue in just a moment.
Don't go away.
Here is Jack Willin in Canton, Ohio.
Great to have you on the program, Jack Willen.
How are you doing?
Um good, how are you, Rush?
Well, welcome.
I'm glad you got through.
Thank you.
Hey, um, first of all, I want to say my family loves to listen to you, and we sit around and listen to your show, and actually um your comic relief is um uh we enjoy it.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
I want to know what you think is gonna happen now that I don't think everything has, you know, settled as far as like it all sinking in, what had happened to the Democratic Party and this election.
And I want to know what you think is gonna happen with them, like the blame game, because I I think it's just begun.
And I think you will actually get um.
Here's the thing.
Here's here's the thing to look out for.
It has been said, and I agree with it that Barack Obama will remain the titular head of the Democrat Party.
It will not be Hillary, she lost.
She's lost twice.
Hillary and the Clintons are going to retreat, whether they want to or not.
But Obama is going to continue to be the face, and I think the spokesman for the Democrat Party, he's not leaving Washington.
He will be constantly on TV analyzing what Trump is doing, trying to stop if Trump's trying to unwind Obama policies and so forth.
As such, the Democrat Party will remain a prisoner to the ego and the legacy, quote unquote, of Barack Obama, until such time as somebody surfaces as a potential new nominee that could win the presidency.
It's going to be a problem for them.
Because Obama is going to continue to be in denial.
None of this will have been his fault.
He will not have to have changed anything.
It'll be Hillary's problem for losing the Democrats' problem.
And as such, I don't think they're going to have a very easy road at doing whatever reforms they need to to reverse their fortunes.
What's then?
Oh, oh, yeah.
If Hillary had won, oh, the transition would have been the greatest of all time.
And Chelsea would be portrayed as brilliant.
No question about that.
But she didn't win.
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