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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 Capernick not vote in the last.
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 and 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 it it it's it's actually kind of amazing.
Uh 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 look at the things Obama has been pushing that everybody's rejecting.
I the 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 here, they said his latest approval number is 57%.
And yet everybody's opposed to everything he's doing.
Vast majority of people opposed to 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, uninhabitable ten 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 outcampaigned 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 the members of Hillary's campaign team are now leaking, that they were way overconfident.
That 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 nine o'clock on election night, Hillary thought she was going to win in a landslide.
And if you go back and look, eight 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 eight, she was up seven.
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 the Eastern Time Zone, and the car and the count started coming in.
Uh 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-by-s 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 outcampaigned 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 five in the morning.
He doesn't, 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 a six months came to, and I'd met some people.
And one of the people I had met was Senator D'Amato, Al D'Amato, and good friend Dick Taric 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 DeMato.
And in fact, it was at dinner at 21, in fact, where DeMato said, Oh, gosh, that's just gonna 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 for 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 uh 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 in 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 uh pre-0.
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, I don't Mr. Trump, um, non-smoking building, right?
Yes.
These windows don't open.
Uh I there's no way I can I can smoke cigars in here.
I've never smoked.
I said, oh, really?
Okay.
And it one of the places, the bedroom was only big enough for a queen size 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 and looked at him.
But he was in full sales mode, as nice as he could be.
And well, I I thought I think it was, it was sitting a sip.
Senator DeMato 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.
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 it's 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 uh he was, he was uh he's asked, he said, there's no better building in New York.
You couldn't find a better place to live, and he looked turned to his security guy, right?
Fred, or whatever his name was, and security, right, Mr. Trump, no place better, no place safe.
See what I'm talking about?
You're not gonna 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, Zaybars 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.
Um, and and Lincoln Center was exactly right there.
Great doorman, guy named Otis.
Walk out the front door, raining, waiting to get into limo to go to work, and Otis would say, liquid sunshine today, Mr. Limbaugh, liquid sunshine.
Um, anyway, and I saw Trump periodically after that, but he's um 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 gonna have to do.
He's gonna be do you know what I saw?
Do you know what I said?
I saw that the Oval Office is gonna be renovated for a full year.
He's not gonna 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 gotta rip the walls out, they gotta put in new bulletproof glass, they've got to upgrade the uh the electronics, the technology, and it's gonna be a full year.
He's gonna have to go to the OEO, the old executive office building across the street, which is the 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 uh 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 gonna mind, because I don't think he's gonna want to spend a lot of time in Washington anyway.
I think he's gonna uh shake things up by being in in Trump Tower, and his office is there.
Uh well, his family will use it.
That plane's used for his business.
Snurdley says what happens to his plane.
He has to fly Air Force One.
That's a mandatory requirement, security and and all that.
Uh the kids, business people will use that plane uh now and then.
Trump may occasionally be on it as a decoy.
Who knows?
But what do you mean they're not gonna park it?
What do you think we just sit over there in mothballs while Trump's in Air Force One?
That that 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.
Uh 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 the plane, it was it was a Boeing 727 at the time, and the paint that he was using would not work at altitudes of 50, 51,000, where EIB 1 can fly.
So we had to invent a whole new paint.
And it's called gold rush.
And it and yeah, they well, no, I didn't take ownership of it.
Sherwin Williams.
But Trump had a 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 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 into it.
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 like that.
Oh, well then no problem.
Have at it.
I'll put my people in touch with you, I give you the number, and then you can run with it.
No, I don't want to put Trump on my 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, I she's not well, obviously.
She's not 100%.
But he earned this, is the point.
And he is, he is a well, it's it sort of undersells it to call him a hard worker.
That doesn't quite touch it.
But I think he's got uh every intention of revising how everything happens in Washington in terms of how it happens, how fast it happens, the routes to make things happen.
If I'm right, it's gonna be fun to watch.
Because people's heads are gonna be spinning, trying to catch up with it.
We'll take a brief time out, be back after this.
Do not go away.
You know that 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 Schaeffer of the Letterman Show lived in that building.
And I would I would take Schaefer some cigars now and then to give the letterman.
And Schaefer was what a poisoned.
They're gonna blow up.
I said, no.
No.
So he took him, and I got thank you notes from Letterman.
Those stopped after my first appearance.
Uh and then what else?
Uh let's see.
Oh, the the the email during the break about the airplane.
What happened was I didn't I wanted to get the goal that was on Trump's plane, so I had my people, quote unquote, call his people, uh, 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 me the number.
Fine, no problem.
He didn't say hell.
He doesn't curse either that I've ever heard.
Um that I've uh no, let's see, what else is it?
Oh, here's this.
There's look, what 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 laid a lot of people as 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 layoff 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 six million dollars in budget cuts.
And then there's this.
Bloomberg TV is canceling with all due respect.
That's the TV show hosted by John Heileman and Mark Halpern.
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 Meghan Kelly.
She's got a new, I think it's Megan Kiss.
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.
It's ambitious Bloomberg politics team will be re-jiggered and woven back into the company's overall Washington coverage, a source.
We used audio soundbites on this show now and then.
So we'll have to find a replacement, but it's not gonna 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 in Boston.
And we made the media was so attuned to destroying and then promoting climate change.
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 and Fargo, North Dakota.
I'm really glad you waited.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
God bless you, and thanks for taking my call.
First of all, I want to thank you for your structure of your books.
I lost my son a couple about two and a half years ago in uh highlighted to get together with the two grandsons to sit down and even read some of your books with them and talk about the adventures that uh you covered in your books.
So thank you for that.
Um just wanted to get to my point.
Uh you mentioned a while back, and 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 you feel he got elected, he was gonna stay there and keep his finger on the pulse and make sure it is agenda didn't change.
Uh my feeling now is that uh he's still gonna do that and double down on it, but I think more and more you're gonna see Michelle's face in front of a camera, and I think they're gonna groom her and get her ready for 2020, uh, so she can be the first woman president.
Your thoughts on that?
Hmm.
Well, it's an interesting thought, but by the way, my my deepest sympathies to you, if I heard you right, that's terrible.
Uh I I'm also deeply grateful for your uh 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 scuttle butt 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 gonna say you can't run for president out of the box, but Trump's done it.
Uh, 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 I think once these people, these get a taste of this kind of power, and the time comes to let it go.
It's very, very difficult thing to do.
So I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that they're trying to groom Michelle My Bell.
I just don't know if that's I I don't know her at all.
I 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 I who knows?
And I don't 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 know when 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 at the just had it.
Well, they must not, 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 um, that's right.
The Democrats call it Renaissance weekend.
And that's, okay, Horowitz is the restoration weekend.
And there have been a couple others that have been tried.
And the the Democrat version was all these hoipaloy from the Democrat establishment young people would get together for a weekend where they would hatch ideas and coordinate strategies 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 gonna be president someday.
And 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 rabbit uh rabble rousing and agitating.
Um 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 that will give them new freedom, more time as the kids leave the nest.
So you may be right.
Uh Dale and presidency might be what she's grouped for.
If so, it's because they don't want to give up the hour.
Okay, would you would you describe this as trying to heal the party?
Donald Trump is meeting today with uh Romney.
Romney is going to meet with Trump.
As I understand it about a possible cabinet, it's over the weekend.
He's going to meet with Romney over the weekend about a possible cabinet position.
What?
Trump, uh Trump et is shouting at me that that's crazy.
Uh and then he's meeting today, I think, with uh 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.
I admit it may not be entirely correct.
I have to always throw that caveat out when it's.
Okay, okay, so it's being a reporter ever.
Find it, Andy.
Um I just like to be very careful, You know, when I 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, Rom 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.
Um I think I won't get alarmed at that unless I hear he's putting him in charge of health care.
That that would disturb me.
If Trump put Romney in charge, because he even if he's going to dismantle it.
Um so some people are looking at it as healing.
Some are looking at it as Trump doing what he can to unify 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 are you doing, man?
I'm doing great, dude.
How are you?
I'm doing fantastic.
Well, I say uh uh maybe the United States Navy CD we bill roof right screwed ditto, Rush.
Uh and I I do have a good cabinet position for Romney.
I think it'd be dog catcher would 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.
Well, what I wanted to say was um this uh uh with Romney.
The uh candidacy of Trump and his his whole you know thing.
Uh I think it's uh a lot like what the founders have originally envisioned.
Um because you know, I don't that's why I think they never really included uh term limits in their in the constitution was because who the who would want to go through what Trump just went through?
You know, and not have to uh you know structure his entire life and everything that he does uh based on what somebody else is gonna throw him.
So that's what I look.
This is an interesting subject, the presidency, and what the founders envisioned.
You're you know, 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 gotta 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.
Um I think the founders were historians, they were very, very aware of centralized command and control governments of 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.
Uh you think a Trump candidacy is exactly what they had in mind.
And it it it meaning a non-professional politician, uh citizen, I think they'd be um uh 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 this went by pretty quickly.
Didn't take much time at all today.
And Openline Friday, tomorrow, folks, we will look forward to it and see you then.
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