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Nov. 18, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 18, 2016, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Okay, folks, I don't mind admitting it.
I'm tired.
It has been a hellacious series of months here, and an especially intense last couple of weeks.
So I'm counting on you to carry the load today.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
That's right.
Open live Friday.
We we we try to take more calls on Friday, and we lift the limits on what it is you can talk about.
You may not even know these limits exist.
There's a lot about this program that we just execute.
We do not explain it.
Just do it.
One of those things, Monday through Thursday, when we take calls, we generally there are exceptions to everything.
We generally accept calls only from people who want to talk about whatever it is that I care about.
If I don't care about it, snurdly will politely broom them and tell them to call another show.
Like C-SPAN or something.
Because I figure if I'm sitting here bored by what somebody's talking about, you're gonna be bored listening to it, and we can't have that.
And I don't mean this to be insulting to anybody.
Not everybody can be charismatic and fascinating like I am.
But on Friday, see that's the risk.
On Friday, I will take calls for whatever you want to talk about.
It doesn't have to be any of this that's prominent in the political news could be anything.
And we try to take more phone calls, though, in the sense uh if I do that, you will be carrying the burden today.
Uh I'm not I'm I'm fine.
I just had the uh the cigar snipples, I call them.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882, the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Ah, yep, there we go.
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Lrushbow at EIB net.us.
From the Deranged America stack, UK Daily Mail, ready for this.
Parents slam Texas high school after two tenth graders were allowed to perform a skit portraying the assassination of Donald Trump in front of classmates.
Two sophomores at Marshall Haskrul in San Antonio were reprimanded after a skit titled The Assassination of Donald Trump.
One of the boys made a gunfire sound effect with his cell phone, while the other boy who played Trump fell to the ground.
The teacher apologized and stopped her students, screw all officials said.
But Harold and Melinda Bean, parents of another student were upset that harsher measures were not taken.
I want you to imagine if this had happened eight years ago or four years ago, and it was Barack Hussein Obama who had been portrayed as having been assassinated.
Can you believe that I'm uh folks, I've I'm developing a theory, and I don't want to get too deep into it now, but the left appears to me to be genuinely imploding.
And I mean imploding to the point that low information people are going to see how wacko they are.
I think the nature of this implosion is going to be their marginalization.
This Trump victory is seminal in many ways, and it's got its own curiosities about it.
But with you look at the news, what Ford has announced, what Trump announced that Ford is doing, and Apple talking about making iPhones.
I mean, that those are two big things that really deserve a lot of attention.
More than just the reporting of those details of the stories.
But I I I don't want to be misunderstood.
I'm not saying the left's going to be defeated.
They will never be defeated.
Tyranny is always there.
Tyranny is always lurking.
Tyranny will make a comeback.
They're going to win again someday because of the cyclical nature of things.
But we have an opportunity Here to expose who they are to the greatest number of people we've had in my lifetime, I believe.
And I think they're going to help us with this kind of stuff.
And I got a couple other examples in the news today.
I think average ordinary people who really don't get political until election time, and then the election's over, and they and they uh pretty much forget it because it's not their passion.
It's not something that they devote a lot of attention to all the time.
This stuff is going to get noticed by these people.
And I've I don't know one of the one of my fervent desires has been that more and more people understand who liberals are, what liberalism is, what leftism is, what that ideology is.
And I think this stuff's going to end up standing out.
The better Trump does, the more success Trump has in growing the economy in creating jobs, the greater the opportunity is going to be to contrast the past eight years' dismal failure measuring those same things.
And we're off to a pretty good start, given that Trump's not even been inaugurated yet.
And we'll chronicle some of these things during the program today.
But I don't want to be missing.
I'm not saying the left's going to be defeated because that'll never really happen.
They're all over the world, and they never go away.
Obama's not going to go away.
So but the secret to this is exposing who they are to a vast, vastly great, greater number of people than at present know.
I mean, you'd be surprised at the number of people who do not see anything ideologically.
They're just Republicans and Democrats, and that's it.
They like them or they don't like them.
Why?
They couldn't tell you.
Now they have been brainwashed to think conservatism equals a bunch of things it doesn't believe uh it doesn't mean.
I don't know that they necessarily equate liberalism with greatness as a as a contrast.
They've mostly the conservative and Republican brands have been tarnished.
Anyway, long way of saying that I think there's an opportunity here is that things like this.
In the Obama years, this kind of action against Republicans was mainstream, it was applauded, entertainers celebrated it, did this kind of thing, and everybody just accepted it.
We now know that millions of people resented it and were offended by it and sent the Democrats and their sponsors packing.
But now we're going to have a different mindset and a different uh uh makeup here attitudinally of the country.
So I think there's an opportunity for these type of things.
Parents slammed Texas high school after two tenth graders allowed to perform skit portraying the assassination of Trump in front of this is just this is this oddball cooked stuff, but it's who the left is, see, the opportunity to expose them.
Um let me go through the rest of this stack.
Obama will not call off anti-Trump protesters.
And stand by here on Audio Sunbite 13.
It was either earlier this week or late last week where I attempted to calm the nerves of several who thought Trump was moderating a bit, and they weren't happy about it,
as evidenced by his appearance with Obama at the White House, praising Obama as a great guy, saying he was gonna seek Obama's counsel uh and his advice uh constantly during his own administration and blah, blah.
And I warned everybody not to necessarily believe that, because I had a theory about what was going on, and I do still have that theory, and I think it's even more relevant and correct today, and it's getting more dangerous.
The theory is that Trump knows that what just happened is a gigantic personal defeat and humiliation for many Democrats, including Obama.
It's only Obama's narcissism that gets in the way of him admitting his role in this massive defeat.
Uh and by saying massive defeat, his policies are repudiated.
The Democrats have lost state houses and governorships and state legislatures to the point they only control five now.
Political scientists like Larry Sabato are finally figuring this out and writing about it with all of their charts describing the complete collapse and total weakness of Democrats as you get closer and closer to the grassroots level of American politics.
But over here you have Obama and his agenda was on the ballot because he put it there.
And his re-election, Hillary's election was the same thing as his re-election, to continue what he had done, and it was sent packing.
And my theory was that we are at a very, very dangerous time because the left's entire transformation of this country in their minds has been brought to a halt for the moment, and by virtue of a resounding defeat.
When you get to Obama, it's personal.
If he can get if the narcissism fades and he sees it.
But the next two months, we are in a very precariously balanced set of circumstances, because while Obamaism has been rejected, Obama still controls all the levers of power.
And if he wants to go out with a flourish, uh, speaking politely, if he gets mad, if he gets a okay, I'll show them kind of attitude, that Katie Barr endorse.
I think that's why Trump was not being provocative.
I guess why Trump was being polite and uh adult and all that was just because he fully aware of the very dangerous nature situation in which we now find ourselves.
And I think I was highly prescient in telling you this because it's starting to crumble now.
Obama is beginning to display across the oceans on foreign soil.
He is now beginning to display his peak, his anger, and his unhappiness and dissatisfaction with this.
and I didn't think it'd be long.
I didn't think he would be able to...
Go along this magnanimous track for very long.
Obama won't call off Trump protests.
It was specifically that he won't do it.
In fact, he did the exact opposite.
He encouraged this, encouraged these people to continue doing this.
He is perfectly fine with all of the chaos and as many obstacles being put in Trump's way as he can.
And as there are.
He is all of this talk about magnanimity and coming together and smooth transition.
I don't think he ever meant it, and I know for sure he doesn't mean it now.
And if you still doubt me, I want you to listen to this.
This morning on CBS this morning, the New Yorker magazine editor, David Remnick, a leftist extraordinaire, highly arrogant, and condescending to anybody not in his little clique of people.
And he's one of these people distraught and in agony over this election, and he can't believe that the rubes and the hoy polloy and the idiots of this country actually triumphed.
So he's on there, and he's being interviewed by Nora O'Donnell, and she says, that 90-minute meeting between Obama and Trump.
You know, I think you're the closest to a fly on the wall as we could get, Mr. Remnick.
So what did you learn about what happened inside the Oval Office and at 90 minutes with Trump and Obama?
Asked him about that naturally, as any of you would.
And he smiled and he said, um, I'll tell you all about it over a beer off the record.
Meaning for the moment now, certainly for the next couple of months, he's playing it close to the vest.
What I do know about that meeting is let's just say that Donald Trump did not show himself to be any more sophisticated about policy than he seemed to be in the debates or in the campaign.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
It was all off the record.
Nope, nope, nope, not off the record.
So Obama told Remnick that Trump showed up unprepared.
That he didn't know anything, that he's not sophisticated.
He's exactly who we thought he was.
This is not magnanimous.
This does not promote unity.
This is not anything about Obama helping Trump hit in the ground running.
This is not about uh helping a smooth transition.
All that was B.S. poppycock and I knew it was when I first heard them say it, because I know who they are.
So Remnick, I guess, got an interview with Trump or with Obama, and Obama winks at him.
Yeah, guys, what a rube.
Oh man, what an unsophisticated jerk.
He doesn't know.
And so this is how rumors got started.
Trump didn't know he had to staff the West Wing.
You know, the latest out there, Trump doesn't know that he needs a Department of Transportation Secretary.
You heard that one?
Oh, yeah, Trump's so stupid.
It's the Washington Post.
I think Trump's so stupid, he may not know that he needs a Department of Transportation Secretary.
So it continues.
Now Obama won't call off anti-Trump protests.
Anti-Trump protesters release personal info on electoral college members.
Straight on voter intimidation.
A national anti-Donald Trump group called the Not My President Alliance distributed the personal information of dozens of electors.
Members of the electoral college to their supporters on Wednesday through a Google Doc spreadsheet.
The Google spreadsheet was first posted by a Twitter account at vote Hillary2016, whose administrator Steve Rasinski, a guy reportedly connected to the Clinton campaign.
The Clinton campaign is behind a move to intimidate the electors at the states that are going to actually cast votes on December 19th.
And they are attempting to get them to change their vote to Hillary.
They're threatening them with things, public exposure of secrets in their lives.
They are doing everything they can to intimidate them.
And Obama and Hillary are fully aware of it and not stopping it.
They are encouraging it, folks.
So when they say they want a smooth transition, Trump hit the ground running.
You knew that wasn't true when they said it anyway, but I'm just documenting it for you.
And then another story, Obama will not call off anti-Trump protesters.
So just some of the things out there that indicate I think we still are in a very precarious, dangerous time.
And the objective here of not provoking Obama and not gloating.
That's what magnanimity really means is not gloating.
Magnanimity doesn't mean you let the losers come in and share power.
Magnanimity just means you don't gloat.
You don't taunt.
Taunting these people right now would be not doing going the other way.
And I think actually that may even be part of what this you've heard this little tribal loon that uh Trump is meeting with Romney.
We heard this yesterday.
Remember your reaction?
You didn't like it.
It could be it could be something else going on with that than actually trying to fill a cabinet post.
But that's all to be discussed as the program continues.
You hang tough, folks.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has announced three people for his uh cabinet.
You got Jeff Sessions over to attorney general, not not Ted Cruz.
Sessions is great, folks, and this is a this is a personal, a hugely personal.
He would never admit this, by the way, but this is a hugely personal achievement for him.
Jeff Sessions was long ago nominated to be a federal district court judge.
I think by Nixon, if I if I'm not mistaken, and the Democrats rejected his nomination on the basis that he wasn't qualified for the usual racist sexist from the South.
So and that's when Jeff Sessions Decided to run for office, and this completes the loop for him.
It's been a long time coming.
Congratulations to Senator Sessions, Mike Pompeo, the CIA.
This is extraordinary.
This is a Tea Party guy.
Mike Pompeo from Kansas is a West Point grad Harvard.
This guy is just awesome.
Pompeo.
And if any of you worried about conservatism not being displayed prominently in the Trump administration, this alone.
And Mike Flynn, National Security Advisor.
Those are the three so far.
Of course, the media's fixated here that they're worried that Trump might not appoint enough people, proper race, proper agenda, might not be the proper diversity.
It might not look like America.
Trump's cabinet might not look like America.
And frankly, I don't care.
I don't want it to look like America.
I want a cabinet that thinks like America and works like America.
We've needed that for so long.
I knew Nixon wasn't right.
Jeff Sessions was nominated by Reagan as a federal judge, and he was rejected by the Democrat Senate at the time and began his uh process of I would I call it getting even, but this is how he reacted.
Oh, yeah, you're telling me I can't be on Supreme Court, fine, I'm gonna come be one of you.
And he runs for the U.S. uh.
Senate eventually and wins it.
Now he has been named Attorney General, and I without having to rush it here because of the constraints of time, I want to really sincerely and heartily congratulate uh Attorney General Sessions.
He's a fine man.
He's a extremely helpful when necessary when needed.
He's uh just a general all-round fine man, a great guy and a and a good person, and no greater honor could be more deserved here than Jeff Sessions.
Now, Mike Pompeo, another solid choice CIA, he uh House Intelligence Committee member.
Select Benghazi Committee.
He was first in his class at West Point.
He is a graduate of Harvard Law, a third-term congressman for the Fourth District.
Graduated West Point in 1986.
He is uh also has roots in the Tea Party.
Now the meeting with Romney, well, let me set that aside.
I'll get to that in due course.
Uh just a little bit more time here on the on the criticism that Trump is getting.
Now that he's announced three people, he's got Sessions as Attorney General Pompeo at CIA Mike Flynn as national security advisor.
He he's done this now in in his second week since the election.
It puts him ahead of every modern president except Bush 41, who he kept on a couple of Reagan people, which allowed him to say that he had made two appointments in his first two weeks.
So Trump is ahead of appointments when it comes to other presidents.
He's got more now named than say Obama did at the same time.
And they're using all of these criticisms to once again go after the fact that Trump's not bright, that Trump's not smart, but Trump's not sophisticated, which is precisely the mechanism the left uses on any successful Republican or conservative.
Most specifically conservative.
Reagan was portrayed the same way.
Lazy, takes naps, doesn't know what's going on around him, unsophisticated.
And they're saying the same things now about uh about Trump.
And one of the reasons for the drive-by fixation on the transition is that they are guarding very carefully the idea that Trump must put together a cabinet that looks like America.
So they're openly worrying that Trump will not appoint enough people of the proper race, the proper gender, the proper sexual orientation, and what other spurious Ways liberals use to classify, qualify, and judge people.
And as I said, folks, I don't care what Trump's cabinet looks like, I don't care if Trump's cabinet looks like America.
You know, I think that's a specious way of looking at things anyway.
Looks like America.
What's got mountains in it?
Got rivers.
What do you mean looks like America?
No, Mr. Lamborghini, we're talking about the diversity of rape.
No, we're not talking about that.
We ought to have broomed that.
There's no meritocracy when you talk about diversity in terms of things people have no control over.
What we want is a cabinet that thinks like America.
We want a cabinet that works for and like America.
We want a cabinet that is going to put America's interests first.
And to us, it doesn't matter what they look like.
That's not among the top concerns that anybody has.
You know, not only if we could look at this, assess this honestly, I know the popular vote's what it is.
But my friends, despite this popular vote, it may well be, we're still not through counting yet.
It as we sit here right now, it may well be that the entire popular vote advantage Hillary ends up with, if she does end up with one, could be due exclusively to voters in California.
Which, if you get into it deeply, will highlight the real value and importance of the electoral college.
Can you imagine a presidential election where only the voters of New York and California and Texas mattered?
I mean, those are the population centers, and if you have to win the presidency by virtue of popular vote, well, you've got to go where people live, it would mean 80% of the country and their votes wouldn't matter.
It's one of the many aspects of the brilliance of the electoral college.
But aside from whatever it ends up being, and let's not forget, there's going to be a certain number, I'm certain of it, certain number of illegal aliens are going to have found to be voters in the popular vote here, and they're going to largely maybe have voted for Hillary.
So if you take those out, we don't know.
But despite that anomaly, the depth of the Democrat defeat cannot be overestimated.
It cannot be ignored.
Whether Hillary won the popular vote or not doesn't mean a thing when you look at what has happened to the Democrat Party.
I have spent the past two weeks detailing this, and people are continuing to write and comment on it themselves.
Larry Sabato has written a piece about this.
And number 16, Democrat losses in the age of Obama.
With most 2016 results in...
The damage is as follows.
The Democrats have lost 13 governorships, nine Senate seats, it's actually 10, 63 House seats, 949 seats in state legislatures, and 29 state legislative chambers.
There are only five states where the Democrats have the governorship and the state legislature.
This is the product of the massive landslide victory in 2010, the massive landslide victory in 2014, the midterms, and the election a week and a half ago.
These losses are deep and profound.
And what it means is the Clintons are gone, the Bidens are gone, the Obamas are gone, and it may be that Pelosi is gone.
Harry Reid is gone.
The depth of the Democrat defeat is massive.
Whether you want to look at it in context of a Trump victory or not, they have their own problems in the Democrats.
have been.
They have been rejected deeply and consistently, and it is their policies which have been rejected.
We now know that the last eight years we have been governed, as we suspected, by a minority.
A minority of liberal Democrats pretending to be the majority with the help of the media and governing against the will of the American people.
So not only do we have Obama's legacy a massive policy fail.
Now he's becoming a sore loser.
He's becoming such a sore loser they may want to put a sore loser wing in his eventual presidential library.
While overseas, it's a bad look.
He is actively, subtly, but actively undermining the president elect.
That is real news.
Oh, reminds me.
I meant to talk about all this this fascination with all the fake news out there, the fake news on Facebook, and the left now trying to blame their defeat on the fact there was so much fake news.
You guys have it all wrong.
I don't know what was going on.
I started calling Facebook fake book many moons ago.
The fake news is the New York Times.
The fake news is NBC.
The fake news is CBS.
The fake news is CNN.
The fake news is the Washington Post.
The fake news is the LA Times.
The fake news is USA Today.
That's the fake.
The fake news is the drive-by media.
And now everybody's whining and moaning about parody news sites that make fun of liberalism.
This is all it is.
It's people making fun of the left.
It's people parodying and satire leftist news and leftist culture, and they can't laugh at it.
They don't see the humor in it, and now they're blaming the loss on so many people being bamboozled and fooled by fake news.
When the real fake news is them.
Anyway, brief time out, my friends, open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh executing a signed host duties flawlessly so far.
That will continue, and we will be right back.
There's uh there's even more the David Remnick interview.
Essentially, Obama said that he doesn't think Trump's gonna be very successful in rolling back the Obama agenda.
Obama said that Trump will only be able to undo about 15 to 20% of his crap.
Well, Obama didn't say crap, I've I've said that.
But and the reason Obama said that's because the federal government is so bloated and it's so bureaucratic that it moves so slowly that Trump's not going to be able to do even 20% of what he wants to do.
And I am going to absolutely love it when all of these political professionals find out just how quickly government can move.
I can't wait to see this.
What did Trump Trump described his ran on the on the on the prospect of making the government a speed boat, thin, light, untethered to the swamp.
We'll see.
I am supremely confident that we're gonna have a whole lot of conventional wisdom blown to smithereens.
A lot of you can't, you can't do that.
You can't do that.
That can't be done.
What are you talking about?
You want to really reverse that?
There is no way.
I can't wait for all of these or a number of these to be blown sky high.
I saw a story the other day, something I forget the country, it might have been Japan.
A sinkhole happened.
A sinkhole took out like a thirty-foot, 30-yard section of a multi-lane highway.
And they had it replaced and repaired inside of a month, up and running, ready to go.
And the counterpart of the story was something in America, a tiny, tiny little restoration problem that took four years because of the environmental impact study and all the regulations and all the delays and all the Graft all the payoffs that you have to make to people along the way.
And it was a story unrelated to anything.
It was just a uh unrelated to anything at present in the news.
It wasn't about the campaign.
It was just something the that that was somebody decided to make a comparison that was profound.
Remember when the uh earthquake hit California and a segment of the Bay Bridge collapsed.
And who was the he's passed away now, but there was a construction guy, a magnet uh down in Southern California some Sacramento.
CJ something.
And this guy was known for rebuilding construction projects on time, early, under budget.
That's exactly what Trump is known for, by the way.
Getting things done high quality on time, under budget.
We'll see.
I have a I have a s I have a sneaking suspicion that all of these know it alls, these egghead academic know-it-alls who've never had any real hands-on dirt under the fingernails experience in life.
Sitting on their ivory towers, pontificating of what can be done and what can't be done when they haven't even tried.
They just sit there in their regal brilliance and render judgments on everything and everybody.
I can't wait until all this is just blown to smithereens.
Or a lot of it.
We'll see.
In the meantime, Openline Friday to the phones, Nicole in Lansing, Michigan.
You're first uh up first today, and I'm so glad you called.
How are you doing?
I'm doing well.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I just wanted to call and say thank you.
I've been so upset with the election, and then my children come home.
I've got a fifth, a third, and a first grader, and they are preaching, they were preaching.
Hillary Hillary Hillary to them, and then I heard you on the radio talking about your books, and I just ordered some, so I just want to call and say thank you so much.
Well, my I can undo some of this now.
Yeah, exactly.
Did you hear the story about what went in San Antonio that the school where two kids did a little skit portraying the assassination of Trump?
Are you kidding me?
No, I just that you that was one of the first items I mentioned today.
In San Antonio, Texas, here it is.
Parents slammed Texas high school after two tenth graders were allowed to perform a skit portraying the assassination of Donald Trump in front of classmates.
It's just disgusting what the schools have become.
Oh, wait till you hear what they're doing in San Francisco.
This is this this kind of stuff, what you described and and the upcoming story San Francisco's my my point earlier, Nicole, was that all of these oddball things are going to become glaring to people.
People that didn't think a thing about them or never noticed them are finally, we have a chance anyway to finally expose the genuine insanity and kookism of the left by virtue of how marginalized it's gonna be.
And I think it's a it's a great opportunity.
This this thing, like this story out of San Antonio, it's it's just like you say, it's disgusting and it's sick.
And the only people that would support it are the people that you would expect to support it.
And they're the losers of this election.
Hey, look, before you go, before you go, I'm just taking a flyer.
Would you like a brand new iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus?
I would love it.
Thank you.
Okay.
Which would you like?
Do you know the difference in the two?
I don't know.
Okay, the iPhone 7 is the smaller of the two, four 4.7-inch screen.
The iPhone 7 Plus is the bigger one, 5.5-inch screen.
Do you have a phone now?
I do.
I have an iPhone 6.
You have an iPhone 6.
Okay.
Okay, so you're you're you're the same size as your iPhone 6.
The iPhone 7 Plus will give you twice the battery life, for example.
It's a much bigger, much bigger screen, and two cameras with a legitimate telephoto lens.
A not not digital zoom, but it's actually optical.
It's got a vastly improved camera.
What carrier are you on?
Sprint.
Sprint.
Easily done.
You have a color preference?
Say black.
I don't.
Okay, go black would be perfect.
That's what you will have.
You black seven plus what you're gonna get, Nicole.
Your phone's gonna come unlocked.
It might have a Verizon SIM card in it, but it probably is not going to have any SIM card in it.
It's unlocked.
It'll work wherever you take it.
It'll work on any carrier.
That's what unlocked means.
Thank you so so much.
You will be able to take the SIM card out of your iPhone 6 and put it in this one and be up and running in a matter of seconds, if that's how you want to do it.
But in the meantime, don't hang up so Mr. Snerdley can get your address, and you will have this phone tomorrow.
Make a note, Snurley, iPhone 7 Plus Black.
Back in just a second.
Don't go away.
So Bill Ford called Donald Trump to say they're gonna keep the SUV plant in Kentucky.
iPhone is saying they're looking into manufacturing some iPhones in America.
What does this really mean, aside from the obvious?
It's profound.
There's a lot of meaning to this.
I will be happy to explain it to you when we get back after the top of the hour break.
The Washington Post has a story saying they were gonna do this anyway.
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