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Nov. 17, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 17, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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Has FedEx shown up for crying out loud?
Well, they've got an hour.
And then I take drastic action.
Yes, I'm sure I ordered.
You're hearkening back to the first hour.
People may not even remember that.
Folks, guess what?
Not only did this clown, Colin Kaepernick, not vote in the last election.
He's not even registered to vote.
He's never registered to vote.
Big social justice warrior, so concerned about the oppression of minorities in America.
I guess the most he's willing to do is take a knee during the national anthem, but he's never even registered to vote.
Greetings, my good friends, and welcome back to the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
The phone number, if you want to join us, 800-282-2882 from Bloomberg News, automakers are going all in on SUVs.
So while Obama and the left are trying to force everybody into these silly electric cars and tiny little compacts and subcompacts in order to save the planet, Americans are busy buying SUVs.
You know, it's actually kind of amazing when you stop and think of all of the PR there has been against big cars, against big oil, against SUVs, that people are not listening.
They're buying what they want.
And it's also, look at the things Obama has been pushing that everybody's rejecting.
His approval number is still a matter of great mystery to me.
It's not a mystery I don't think I can solve.
I mean, I can solve it.
I can explain it easily.
But it's still, they said his latest approval number is 57%.
And yet everybody's opposed to everything he's doing.
Vast majority of people opposed everything he's doing.
Automakers going all in on SUVs.
And this is going to cause quite a degree of upset among our young millennials and college students who are going to think that the earth will now become uninhabitable 10 years earlier.
Don't doubt me.
You may think these are wild claims for the sake of humor.
They're not.
They used to be, but they are not.
Trump out-campaigned Hillary Clinton by 50% in key battleground states in the final stretch.
This is an NBC news story.
You know, folks, about this.
We had a story earlier about how members of Hillary's campaign team are now leaking that they were way overconfident.
What's happening is that people on the staff don't want to take the blame for this.
So they're starting to leak what was going on at the upper echelon of the campaign with Podesta and with Hillary and so forth.
And it's clear from what these leakers are saying that there was so much arrogance and overconfidence.
They thought Trump had no prayer.
They thought the election was over.
Even as far as as late as 9 o'clock on election night, Hillary thought she was going to win in a landslide.
And if you go back and look, 8 o'clock, if you look at the raw vote totals in many important states at 8 o'clock, I'll never forget this.
Hillary was up 10.
She was up 8.
She was up 7.
In one or two states, Trump was up.
But at 8 o'clock, when the polls had been closed either at that time or for an hour in Eastern time zone and the count started coming in, the early reporting of the actual counting of votes had Hillary way up.
And I'm sure that's what they were looking at, too.
And it was about 9.30 when it began to change.
About 9.30 when enough states began to report that the drive-bys, you could see them start squirm.
Even on Fox News, they were starting to squirm.
And it was a beautiful thing to watch.
So now all of the leaking is going on about what was really going on.
Arrogance thought they had it in the bag.
And this story on top of it, Trump out-campaigned Clinton by 50% in key battleground states in the final stretch.
What that means is that Trump spent roughly 50% more time in six key battleground states than Hillary did.
Get this.
Trump made a total of 133 visits to Florida.
You've heard of the word indefatigable.
That's Trump.
He's 71 years old, gets up at 5 in the morning.
He sleeps four hours a night and he doesn't stop.
Donald Trump has never smoked and he has never consumed adult beverages.
You know when I first met Donald Trump?
I'll tell you a little story.
It was 1989.
I moved to New York in July of 1988 and did my first radio show in New York on July 4th and the first national show, this show on August 1st, 1988.
And I was living in a hotel for the first six months there, which was part of the deal, so I could focus on getting the show up and running and have to worry about finding a place to live, relocating, all that.
And as the six months came to an end, I'd met some people.
And one of the people I had met was Senator D'Amato, Al D'Amato, and good friend Dick Tarik and Lazard Ferrer.
And I was telling him my plight that I needed to find some place to live, preferably in Manhattan, gave the particulars.
So D'Amato got involved.
Somebody called D'Amato.
In fact, it was at dinner at 21, in fact, where D'Amato said, oh, gosh, this is going to be easy.
I'll get this taken care of.
And the next day, Donald Trump called and said, I understand from Senator D'Amato that you're looking, why don't you come by Trump Tower?
There's some vacancies and I want to show them to you.
And he personally showed me three apartments, homes in Trump Tower.
And he was in full sales mode.
He was telling me the price.
He was telling me what was going to happen to New York real estate.
He was, you can't afford not to.
You can't afford not to buy a place here.
And I said, and they were beautiful places.
They were all furnished.
They were pre-owned.
One was owned by Andrew Lloyd Weber.
It was not for sale, but Trump had permission to show it to me.
And I asked him, I said, Donald, Mr. Trump, non-smoking building, right?
Yes.
These windows don't open.
There's no way I can smoke cigars in here.
I've never smoked.
I said, oh, really?
Okay.
And one of the places, the bedroom was only big enough for a queen-sized bed.
I said, that doesn't look big enough.
He said, what are you going to do in here besides sleep?
And I kind of cocked my head, looked at him.
But he was in full sales mode, nice as he could be.
And, well, I think it was sitting Senator D'Amato said that, look at my memory.
It could be that he gave me a number to call.
And the number was Trump, somebody.
But whatever, a meeting with me and Trump was set up.
Somebody called me and told me to meet Donald Trump at Trump Tower, X amount of time.
And I went over there and did so.
And that's where I first met him.
And he showed me three or four different places.
And he said, look, look at if the cigars are a deal breaker, I'll let you use the park on the roof that I use.
And he had his security guys with me, and he was going through the security of the building and how that's very important and anything you need.
And he said, there's no better building in New York.
You couldn't find a better place to live.
And he turned to his security guy, right, Fred, whatever his name was, and security, right, Mr. Trump, no place better, no place safe.
See what I'm talking about?
You're not going to find any place better.
You can go to that building across the street.
It's nothing.
Let me tell you, it's nothing.
You can't get anywhere near what you can get for the price.
You can't afford not to.
It was full court press.
But the deal breaker was no way to smoke cigars in there.
So I, well, I didn't even, yes, I moved to the upper, it was not the upper west side.
It was, it was on, it was on the border.
I mean, Zabar's was a trek.
It was not, it was, it was, well, it was, it was West 60th Street.
No, it was, it was right across the street from Fordham, right across the street from Fordable Law School.
Exactly right.
And Lincoln Center was exactly right there.
Great doorman, guy named Otis.
Walk out the front door, raining, waving to get into limo to go to work, and Otis would say, liquid sunshine today, Mr. Limbaugh.
Liquid sunshine.
So anyway, I saw Trump periodically after that, but he's never smoked.
He's never drank.
He works hard, gets up at 5 a.m., sleeps four hours a night, and this is what people who work for him are going to have to do.
Do you know what I saw?
Do you know what I saw?
I saw that the Oval Office is going to be renovated for a full year.
He's not going to be able to use the Oval Office.
I think Rove mentioned this on Fox News: that Obama has resisted renovating the Oval Office as much for security upgrades.
They've got to rip the walls out.
They've got to put in new bulletproof glass.
They've got to upgrade the electronics, the technology.
And it's going to be a full year.
He's going to have to go to the OEO, the old executive office building across the street, which is now called the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which people don't know this.
The Nixon tapes, the 18-minute gap, are from the executive office building in addition to the Oval Office.
But many of the tapes that got Nixon in trouble were recorded in the office he had.
Every president does over the old executive office building.
The West Wing's a tiny place, really, when you consider all the people that are in there.
It's really cramped for everybody's got an office in there.
It's cramped.
And Obama's renovated it with new carpet and wallpaper and stuff, but it needs to be completely renovated.
So for the first year of Trump's four-year term, the Oval Office may be unavailable, which I don't think he's going to mind because I don't think he's going to want to spend a lot of time in Washington anyway.
I think he's going to shake things up by being in Trump Tower.
His office is there.
His family will use it.
That plane's used for his business.
Snurdley said, what happens to his plane?
He has to fly Air Force One.
That's a mandatory requirement, security and all that.
The kids, the business people will use that plane now and then.
Trump may occasionally be on it as a decoy.
Who knows?
But what do you mean?
They're not going to park it.
What do you think he would just sit over there and mothballs while Trump's in Air Force One?
Trump's airplane is a Boeing 757.
He bought it from Paul Allen.
Paul Allen owned that plane originally, and Trump bought it from him.
I know this because I had to negotiate with Trump to use the gold paint that he uses on his plane.
I did.
And it turns out I couldn't use his gold plane because the plane was a Boeing 727 at the time.
And the paint that he was using would not work at altitudes of 50,000, 51,000 where EIB1 can fly.
So we had to invent a whole new paint.
And it's called Gold Rush.
And yeah, well, no, I didn't take ownership of it, Sherwin-Williams.
But Trump had a trademark or something on the gold, it looked like gold leaf on his 727.
It was largely automotive paint, which is okay when you fly at 35,000 feet.
If you go higher than that, it starts to peel off and so forth.
None of this I knew until I wanted to get in use.
But I remember calling him and asking about, what do you want to use it for?
I said, I just put a little strip of it on the, oh, is that it?
You don't want to, you know, you're not one to put Trump on your.
No, no, no, nothing.
Oh, well, then no problem.
Have at it.
I'll put my people in touch with you.
I'll give you the number and you can run with it.
No, I don't want to put Trump on the plane.
Anyway, where all this started is this story about Trump out campaigning Hillary.
He went, for example, 133 visits to Florida.
This is in the last few weeks.
133 visits to Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
In that same time period, Hillary visited those states 87 times.
Now, part of that is because I'm sure the Clinton team's overconfident and thinking it's in the bag.
But I also think there's another reason.
They had her on the shelf for preservation.
I don't think Hillary has the energy that Trump does.
I don't, she's not well, obviously.
She's not 100%.
But he earned this, is the point.
And he is a well, it's sort of undersells it to call him a hard worker.
That doesn't quite touch it.
But I think he's got every intention of revising how everything happens in Washington in terms of how it happens, how fast it happens, the routes you take to make things happen.
If I'm right, it's going to be fun to watch because people's heads are going to be spinning, trying to catch up with it.
We'll take a brief time out.
Be back after this and not go away.
You know, that building I lived in that you say is on the upper west side.
You know who else lived in that building?
Macaulay Culkin lived in that building.
And Paul Schaefer of the Letterman Show lived in that building.
And I would take Schaefer some cigars now and then to give Letterman.
And Schaefer was, what are they poisoned?
They're going to blow up.
I said, no, no.
So he took them and I got thank you notes from Letterman.
Those stopped after my first appearance.
And what else?
Let's see.
Oh, I got an email during the break about the airplane.
What happened was, I wanted to get the gold that was on Trump's plane, so I had my people, quote unquote, call his people to find out what the number of the paint was.
And what I got back was: Trump wants to talk to you about this.
Here's the number.
I called the number.
What do you want to use it for?
It was not in any way suspicious or mad.
He was just curious.
And for some reason, thought that I wanted to put a T or something on the airplane.
I said, no, no, no, you're misinformed.
I just want the color.
Oh, well, hell.
I'll have my people give you the number.
Fine, no problem.
He didn't say hell.
He doesn't curse either that I've ever heard that I've, uh, No, let's see.
What else is it?
Oh, here's this.
Look, where did I?
I thought I had this.
Yes, here it is.
First story, CNN money, media winter continues as layoffs hit Univision.
This news, Univision's late a lot of people is Jorge Ramos.
Not him, but I mean his company.
The news arrives at a time mounting economic anxiety in the news business.
The Wall Street Journal began a significant round of layoffs this month, has cut entire sections of the newspaper as part of cost-cutting efforts.
Employees at the New York Daily News were informed last week of a voluntary departure program as the Daily News reportedly eyes $6 million in budget cuts.
And then there's this: Bloomberg TV is canceling with all due respect.
That's the TV show hosted by John Heilman and Mark Halperin.
These are guys that follow the campaigns around and write a book about it afterwards, not having released any of the information during the campaign.
Oh, I think some people are complaining about that to Megan Kelly.
She's got a new, I think it's Megan, because she's got a new book out, and I think she's being criticized for withholding a bunch of stuff from her book, for her book, rather than, I mean, the hypocrisy of these people.
But look at all of these leftist news organizations that are firing people downsizing after the elections.
Like they kept the staffs up to do everything they could to stop Trump, and that didn't work.
And so now they're downsizing.
Bloomberg to end with all due respect as company reorganizes Bloomberg politics.
All due respect political program coming to an end.
Its ambitious Bloomberg politics team will be rejiggered and woven back into the company's overall Washington coverage.
A source.
We used audio soundbites from this show now and then.
So we'll have to find a replacement.
But it's not going to be MS NBC.
You remember back in the days where the media would report in a traffic accident that the SUV was at fault?
SUV drives off cliff.
SUV powers through guardrail drops two levels in parking garage.
SUV wipes out woman on sidewalk and balls.
And we made the media was so attuned to destroying and promoting climate change that the SUV became a humanized object.
Not the drivers.
The SUV as though it was acting on its own.
It's happening again.
Fox News, Massachusetts authorities searching for SUV in relation to Jogger's murder.
Really?
The SUV committed murder?
Massachusetts authorities searching for SUV.
Not driver.
The car.
Here's Dale in Fargo, North Dakota.
I'm really glad you waited.
Great to have you with us, sir.
High.
Thank you, Rush.
God bless you, and thanks for taking my call.
First of all, I want to thank you for your Russian Revere books.
I lost my son about two and a half years ago, and I like getting together with the two grandsons to sit down in the evening and read some of your books with them and talk about the adventures that you covered in your books.
So thank you for that.
Just wanted to get to my point.
You mentioned a while back, and I totally agree with you, that there was no way Barack Obama was going to leave Washington once he left the election.
Even if Hilly got elected, he was going to stay there and keep his finger on the false and make sure his agenda didn't change.
My feeling now is that he's still going to do that and double down on it.
But I think more and more you're going to see Michelle's face in front of a camera.
And I think they're going to groom her and get her ready for 2020 so she can be the first woman president.
Your thoughts on that?
Hmm.
Well, it's an interesting thought.
And by the way, my deepest sympathies to you, if I heard you right, that's terrible.
I'm also deeply grateful for your comments on the Rush Revere books with your grandchildren.
Really, really, really appreciate that.
As it relates to Michelle My Bell, Obama, you might be right because there's already scuttlebutt that they are going to groom her for elective office of some kind.
Now, she can't, well, that's all blown out.
I was going to say you can't run for president out of the box, but Trump's done it.
I think what I read was that they are planning on maybe having her run for Congress or the Senate, some such thing.
And maybe I can see running for president.
I think once these people, these people get a taste of this kind of power and the time comes to let it go, it's a very, very difficult thing to do.
So I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that they're trying to groom Michelle Mybel.
I just don't know if that's, I don't know her at all.
I don't know what her ambitions are.
I don't really know what her role has been.
She could be intimately involved in all this Obama policy.
We just don't know.
What we do know is that Valerie Jarrett is there at Obama's right hand.
But look, she's the wife.
And as we all know, the wives are predominant.
They have great influence.
And I don't doubt that she does, but how much, who knows?
And I don't have any idea what her aspirations are.
But I do know this.
People that want that kind of power and get it have a real tough time, most of them letting it go.
Not all, not all, but many, many do.
The Clintons couldn't let go of it.
And let me put something in perspective for you here.
It may be a somewhat crude way of saying it, but let me put it to you this way.
It has taken 30 years to vanquish the Clintons, if we have.
You and I first heard about Bill Clinton.
I'd never heard it other than governor of Arkansas.
But the first person who ever regaled me with what a great guy Bill Clinton was was Peggy Noonan.
Peggy Noonan had visited one of these restoration weekends.
I'm going way back here now to the very early 1990s.
And these Democrats had set up this Restoration Weekend thing.
The Republicans have copied it.
There are two different versions.
There's the David Horowitz has one every November.
I think still does it here.
Just had it.
Well, they must have had all the people he needed to present awards.
That's when I get invited to present award.
What's the name of it?
It's the oh, that's right.
The Democrats call it Renaissance Weekend.
Okay, Horowitz is the Restoration Weekend.
And there have been a couple others that have been tried.
And the Democrat version was all these hoi paloi from the Democrat establishment, young people would get together for a weekend where they would hatch ideas and coordinate strategeries to advance the cause, whatever the cause or causes were.
And Peggy Noonan went to one of these Democrat things and just came back singing the praises of Bill Clinton.
Man, this guy has got it.
This guy is a communicator, extraordinary.
He's going to be president someday.
That's the first time I heard of Bill Clinton.
So that he's easily been in the public arena here, if you count the Arkansas governor days, 30 years.
And it's taken 30 years to vanquish them, if we have.
What if it takes 30 years to vanquish the Obamas?
Now, he says he's going to go back to community organizing.
That means agitating, rabble-rousing, and organizing, rabble-rousing, and agitating.
But what Michelle's role in it is, I don't think anybody knows.
But I'll tell you what's going to hit their daughters when their daughters grow and leave and go to, that's going to change too.
That will give them new freedom, more time as the kids leave the nest.
So you may be right.
Dale and presidency might be what she's grouped.
If so, it's because they don't want to give up that power.
Okay, would you describe this as trying to heal the party?
Donald Trump is meeting today with Romney.
Romney is going to meet with Trump.
As I understand it about a possible cabinet, it's over the week.
He's going to meet with Romney over the weekend about a possible cabinet position.
What?
Trump ed is shouting at me that that's crazy.
And then he's meeting today, I think, with Dr. Kissinger and Fred Smith of FedEx.
By the way, FedEx showed up, right?
Good.
So, Fred Smith and Dr. Kissinger, Trump's meeting with, and meeting with Romney.
And look, this is the first I've heard of it.
It may not be entirely correct.
I always throw that caveat out when it's okay.
Okay, since it's being reported ever, find it, Andy.
I just like to be very careful, you know, when I haven't seen it myself and I'm told about it.
I've been burned a lot of times, not purposely, it's just happened.
So he's meeting with Romney over the weekend about a possible cabinet position.
Would you call that attempting to heal the party?
You wouldn't.
You'd call it nuts.
Okay, Romney, Romney has done everything he can to defeat Trump, except run himself.
Yeah, you might say he's done everything he could to destroy Trump.
I think I won't get alarmed at that unless I hear he's putting him in charge of health care.
That would disturb me if Trump put Romney in charge, because even if he's going to dismantle it.
So some people are looking at it as healing.
Some are looking at it as Trump doing what he can to unify the party.
We'll see.
Time will tell.
Here's Patrick in Las Vegas.
You're next, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hey, Rush, how you doing, man?
I'm doing great, dude.
How are you?
I'm doing fantastic.
What's the member of the United States Navy CV?
He builds new fights, can be scary ditto.
And I do have a good cabinet position for Romney.
I think it'd be dog catcher.
It'd be a good one.
Dog catcher.
In case your dog jumps off the roof of the station wagon when you're on vacation.
Exactly.
Yeah, there you go.
Good.
What I wanted to say was this candidacy of Trump and his whole thing, I think it's a lot like what the founders originally envisioned.
Because that's why I think they never really included term limits in the Constitution was because who would want to go through what Trump just went through?
And to not have to structure his entire life and everything that he does based on what somebody else is going to think of.
So that look, this is an interesting subject, the presidency, and what the founders envisioned.
You're absolutely right in how they envisioned the House of Representatives.
They envisioned citizens going there for two or three terms and then going back home, and that it was going to be a revolving door.
They never envisioned the House of Representatives as a career, but it's become that because largely of the power you acquire and for some members, the wealth that you acquire or have the opportunity to acquire.
If you look at the presidential qualifications in the Constitution, it's not much.
It's got to be a citizen and you have to be a certain age and a couple other things, but nothing in there about experience, nothing in there about background, nothing in there about achievements.
You don't have to have much of a resume to run for president at all.
I think the founders were historians.
They were very, very aware of centralized command and control governments and how human nature just gravitated to that.
That's why they built in the separation of powers and the stops, and that's why they specifically limited the government, limited the power of government in the Constitution, not the people.
You think a Trump candidacy is exactly what they had in mind.
And meaning a non-professional politician, a citizen, I think they'd be, as you do, probably thrilled to buy it, my guess, based on my understanding of their Federalist papers spell out what they thought qualifications were in terms of character and this kind of thing.
Anyway, it's a good subject, but I have to stop it here because of time.
We just could run out.
Well, boy, this went by pretty quickly.
Didn't take much time at all today.
And Open Line Friday tomorrow, folks, we will look forward to it and see you then.
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