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Nov. 21, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 21, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 Podcast.
It's exactly what I said was going to happen on Friday, folks.
The arrogant condescension of the American left is now on display for everybody to see it.
People that used to pay no attention to it, people that used to not even notice it, people that never knew what liberalism is are now getting a front row seat to finding out exactly who they are and what they are and what they do and how they do it.
Greetings, my friends, great to have you.
Hope you had a great weekend.
Rushland boy here behind the golden EIB microphone for yet another three-hour excursion into broadcast excellence.
My first observation about the Hamilton episode with Mike Pence.
I don't think the cast of this show has the slightest idea who Alexander Hamilton is.
I frankly think they know their lines, and that's it.
And that's typical liberalism.
They know the lines that have been written for them, but they don't know the man, they don't know the history, they think they know what they're talking about.
They think they're authorities, just like an actress will play a farm wife in a movie in a Great Depression farm here will be called to the Senate to testify about dire straits on the American farm, which she has no idea.
She played in a movie.
Well, these clowns in Hamilton are playing a role.
They have their lines, they sing their lines and their songs, and that's it.
And they think they are experts.
And then you add to it that they are liberals, and that makes them think they're experts, and then you add the arrogance and condescending nature of liberalism, and you have a totally offensive manner of behavior.
One of the especially hilarious parts of the cast of Hamilton lecturing Mike Pence was all their talk of diversity.
And how scared they are.
Because, you know, they're all gay or they're all transgender or they're all lesbian.
And Mike Pence and Trump are coming for them.
And we don't want to be put in the camps.
Please don't put us in the camp.
They literally think this.
Because this is how they've been educated.
It's how they've been taught.
They really do think this stuff, folks, just like they really think the planet isn't going to be habitable by the time they're 65.
They really, I can't emphasize this enough.
They believe this stuff.
But not only do they believe it, they think they're the only ones who know it.
And that makes them experts in this stuff.
Now, their talk of diversity, I don't know if you've heard this about this show, Hamilton.
The producers of Hamilton got into trouble back in March because their casting call for an upcoming touring company specifically stated that they were seeking non-white performers.
They did not want anybody but people of color in the cast in one of the touring companies of this show.
It's against the rules of actors' equity.
It's against state law.
It's against federal law.
But somehow everybody has forgotten about that.
Somehow it was never investigated by the Department of Justice or Obama or anybody else.
It's just, it's, it's, you know, I I once appeared on Broadway.
Tell you a little story.
The Will Rogers Follies were playing on Broadway.
And the it was a musical, and it it uh had as part of the show Wiley Post, the ghost of Wiley Post, who was the pilot.
He was he was Will Rogers' great friend and pilot.
And they died in plane crash.
And during the play, the ghost of Wiley Post seated in the audience would stand up and repeat a couple of lines, and the actor playing Will Rogers would react.
And it was a revolving door.
The people they asked to play the ghost of Wiley Post sitting in the crowd, sitting in the audience.
It changed every night.
It was uh it was an honor.
And I was invited to be the ghost of Wiley Post.
One night.
Mac Davis was the star as Will Rogers.
In fact, every time I go out to play golf in Los Angeles, I run into Mack Davis on the golf course.
And he shout whenever you see, hey Wiley!
That's how he knows me.
As Wiley.
I mean, we'll sit down and we'll have a drink and talk to me about Wiley.
It's that formative of it.
Anyway, it went fine.
I stood up and I repeated my lines during the show.
The audience always looked.
It was up in the uh up at the balcony where the ghost of Wiley Post sat.
The audience every night looked up to see who was portraying the ghost of Wiley Post.
So after the after the show went backstage, uh one of the one of the people with the with the play had invited me backstage to meet people, and it was very icy back there.
Which I thought it would be the case, and it's a New York theater crowd.
It was very icy, very cold back there.
But nobody said anything.
It was just, it was, they looked at me and harumphed or looked away or looked irritated or whatever.
But the uh the guy shepherding me through it was uh a great guy, very nice guy, and introduced me to a few people, walked out the stage entrance, the private exit, the entrance, the actors and actresses used to get in and out of the out of the theater.
And there were four or five members of the cast waiting for me when I exited the back door, and they started yelling.
We didn't want to go on stage tonight, knowing you were here.
We do not agree with anything you say.
We think you want to hurt us.
I am just totally taken aback by this.
I have no idea.
Remember now, this is the early 90s, so it's many, many moons ago.
And uh there was one member of the cast, a woman started poo-poo it.
Go shut up, take it somewhere else and leave us alone.
She happened to be a big fan and was talking to me out there, and she started laughing at them, which made them even angrier.
But it was, it was five or six of them.
They had waited out there for me to exit to make that point.
So that this is actually it's uh it's it's nothing new.
And it's but it's it's it's instructive, folks.
It's entirely informative as to just what the left is, who the left is and and and everything about them that I have spent the last 29 years going on 30, attempting to um explain to people.
And now the job has gotten much easier because by virtue of the election, these people have become more visible and more marginalized.
And I I do think it's a positive.
And to be seen by people who uh normal course of events may not even think about people like this in the way they act.
They just pay it no attention.
Now you can't miss it.
So in in many ways, it's a positive.
Other ways you wish it wouldn't happen.
I mean, you wish this kind of division didn't exist in the country, but it does and it has for quite a while.
The actor portraying uh, well, the actor who spoke to Pence, Brandon Victor Davis, said, We hope to Pence, and we hope this uh this show has inspired you.
You know what the show's about?
I mean, it's Hamilton.
It's about a vice president who shoots a political rival who gets away with a burr.
And a duel.
But you know what?
Alexander Hamilton was an immigration hawk.
I wonder if the people in this cast have any idea who they are lionizing and celebrating.
This guy's Donald Trump.
Alexander Hamilton was a huge nationalist.
He did not like states' rights.
He wanted a massive federal government.
He wanted uh Thomas Jefferson and John Adams didn't like the guy at all.
They were agrarians, they were farmers.
They believed in states' rights.
Alexander Hamilton, he just he didn't want anybody getting in a country he didn't personally approve of.
I mean, he it's uncanny.
Well, he yeah, he did a lot of he founded the New York Post.
The guy was amazing.
He and he wasn't he was born out of wedlock.
He was born out of wedlock in the Caribbean.
He grew up in Nevis and St. Kitts.
Uh he was uh uh he had a what would you call it in modern day terms?
He had came from a broken family.
And he was uh it was in the Dutch West Indies, where he was uh where he grew up.
And and he went to what were called the 13 colonies.
He wanted to go to the 13 colonies to make his fame and fortune.
Do you know the Federalist Papers?
The vast majority of the Federalist Papers are the best thing we have to interpret the Constitution.
The Federalist Papers, the short version of them, the short definition, the Federalist Papers are where the founders explained their thoughts on practically every aspect of the Constitution, including what kind of person they envisioned as president.
It gets into things like uh the character of the executive and so forth.
It's very, very structured.
Alexander Hamilton wrote the vast majority, I mean James Madison, the other.
James Madison considered the father of the Constitution.
But Alexander Hamilton was uh uh a profoundly unique uh individual, and I don't think he is at all the kind of guy that people in these casts would actually in this cast would celebrate if they literally knew who he was.
I think they know their lines and that they're dangerous this way.
Leftists are dangerous, they're actors and they they portray roles and they learn lines, and they think they're then experts.
I mean, you see it still today.
The entertainment media will go out and interview some actor that's just portrayed somebody famous, and that actor becomes an expert.
And we get to hear from the actor what they did to dig deep and learn the character and immerse themselves into what and as such, they became they become, with this within our media, experts on either the character they're portraying or the subject line and the storyline of whatever movie or TV show they are appearing in.
But Alexander Hamilton was a he was a primary influence in the U.S. Constitution.
He was the founder of the nation's financial system.
He founded the Federalist Party.
He founded the Coast Guard.
He founded the New York Post.
He was the first Secretary of the Treasury under the first president, George Washington.
He was the author, he was the economics guru for George Washington's first administration.
He uh he was responsible.
The states were in considerable debt at the founding, and it was Alexander Hamilton who took the lead in having the federal government fund their debt.
He established a national bank, a system of tariffs, and he was very friendly with Britain in terms of trade, which angered the French, and it angered a bunch of his fellow founding fathers.
There was no love lost for the UK.
Well, it wasn't the UK for Britain, but Hamilton did.
He believed in a vigorous president, a vigorous executive branch.
National bank, national support for manufacturing, strong military.
Uh he was in, he was he was uh not so much big on the states having independent power.
And it was but this is the kind of thing that made our founding and makes our founding just absolutely uh I don't know, fascinating if people get into it.
But at any rate, I submit that these clowns on Broadway don't even know who the guy really is.
And they they preach to Prince, Pence coming in.
But the thing about this, folks, when when when they say they're afraid, you scare us uh it's hard to understand, and it's easy to say, well, they're just making a political statement.
But in fact, I think there is a tremendous amount of fear on the part of you look at college campuses and this whole snowflake phenomenon and the safe spaces areas and the geez, I don't I don't want to have anything controversial that I don't agree with be spoken.
I don't want to have to hear it.
All that's real.
They have they've been protected.
Like Daniel Hannon, the uh member of parliament from the UK, who's noted conservative and has become a famous face on American TV, has a piece, and he basically thinks that the modern Era left attitudinally is nothing more than a bunch of six and seven-year-old children.
Now, they're not children when it comes to what their capabilities are, determining the action they take and the mean-spirited extremism they exhibit and so forth.
But attitudinally, they're kids.
And he cites as an example.
All these anti-Trump protesters marching in front of Trump Tower.
Donald Trump, go away.
Donald Trump, go home.
Donald Trump, go away.
And he says they really don't expect Trump to come out and quit.
They don't expect Trump to leave.
So what are they doing?
They're acting out their childhood impulse.
Donald Trump, go away.
Donald Trump.
They're just a bunch of kids, except they're far more dangerous than kids because they're adults, but they have attitudes and a mentality that's almost stunted as six or seven-year-olds because of the very protective way they've been raised and the lies that they have accepted, both in the news and the anecdotal lies that are passed around from people to people, person to person.
And it's a uh it's a challenge.
The thing is, we've all been worried that we were losing the country to this group of people.
We really were.
I mean, the last eight years, everybody I talked to, myself included, asking, have we really lost the country?
I mean, is this and we haven't.
We're not even close to it, as it turns out.
Well, that's not the best way to say it, because we could lose it at any time.
The forces are out there trying to cause that to happen.
But we we we have not.
Remember what I kept telling you, I'll tell you what's time to panic, and I told you it's not time to panic.
It was never time to panic with this bunch, because they were never really ever the majority.
It was just an illusion that we happened to believe, or that we feared was close to becoming reality.
At uh at any rate, here's a you want a great example of the I I just think it's general stupidity.
I I think the left is everything you're hearing people.
Oh, Alexander Hamilton, by the way, get you know who invented the Electoral College?
Alexander Hamilton.
Forgot to, yeah, Alexander Hamilton is the father of the electoral college.
In fact, Alexander Hamilton was one of the people begging George Washington to accept the role of king.
Alexander Hamilton believed in monarchy.
He thought monarchy was one of the most effective ways of getting, as long as you had a morally decent person as the monarch, then it was the best way to go.
And Washington refused.
He said, We didn't fight the war.
These are not his words, but essentially he said, we didn't fight the war and all this for make somebody king here.
We just got through opposing a king and what tyrants become.
But yeah, he was a big aristocrat.
He he loved the aristocracy.
He Hamilton, he wanted them to be.
I mean, everything these people on stage profess to hate right now.
He was there, either creating, inventing, or founding.
That's why I don't think they have the slightest idea who the guy really was.
And here they are, highly acclaimed.
And it's a good show from what I I can't go to shows like this because I can't hear them.
My deafness.
I mean, I can hear it, but it doesn't make any sense to me what I am hearing.
Anyway, try this headline feminist snowplowing system brings Stockholm to a standstill.
They're just stupid.
They're entertainingly if you stand back, entertainingly humorous stupid, except they do destructive and damaging things, as I shall point out when we get back.
Democrat actors have been attacking Republican elected officials in theaters, I don't know what since 1865.
The first known instance of a radical leftist Democrat actor attacking Republican elected officials, John Wilkes Boof assassinating Abraham Lincoln, Ford's Theater in Washington, 1865.
So these guys at Hamilton are following in what I'm sure they consider to be a rich tradition.
But the condescension of thinking that they are telling the vice president elect how to do it, how to be, what to think.
And the way Pence handled it.
When I first heard about this, I had not been, I didn't get the whole story.
I I was first told about it that what happened was the actors had told Pence that they didn't approve and support him and that he scared them and that they were terribly afraid and that everybody's terribly afraid.
But nobody's only what Pence did.
What Pence did, he didn't say anything.
He left the theater, and then, or as he was leaving the theater, looked to his son and said, son, that's the sound of freedom.
Meaning people can say what they want, and then everybody else can judge whether or not in good taste or what have you.
But as I say, folks, it's in the end, it's it's helpful that people are finally able now to see who these people have always been.
Did I say Pence said it to his son, his student's daughter and her cousin said that's a sound of freedom.
I also got a panicked note from a friend that did I see the note says, did I see Trump's considering a Democrat for the cabinet?
Yeah, her name is Tulsi from Hawaii.
Is it Gabbart?
She's she's uh uh she's uh she's from Hawaii.
She had a little back and forth with Hillary early on.
I know a little bit about her.
She's not, I mean, from Hawaii, she ought to be a died-in-the-wool socialist leftist, but uh, she's got some redeeming aspects.
I don't know what posts that Trump's thinking of for her, still uh still going back and forth with the idea of Romney as uh as Secretary of State.
Uh anyway, we've got four more police officers shot.
It has to stop.
But you know the one of the problems with this is that I hate to say it, but some of these people, black lives matter when they're involved, and other civil rights groups, when they start shooting up the cops, there's there's there's praise for them in certain sectors of our society.
Certain elements of the Democrat Party are supportive.
Certain elements of the media are supportive.
We've had police officers shot in Texas, Missouri with San Antonio, Sanibel, Florida, St. Louis, Missouri, and Gladstone, Missouri.
Uh and I look, remember last week, maybe the week before, I was we were discussing how the people just believe what the president says, no matter who he is, because of the respect people have for the office of the presidency, and they think their president tells them the truth.
It took the media five years to destroy George W. Bush in that regard.
Five years of constant hounding.
There has been no hounding of Obama, however.
So whatever Obama says, uh, no matter what people's politics are, they believe what the president says about things in the country.
I think it may be not the case so much with Obama now.
People know they were lied to about health care, they know where they were lied to about keeping their plan, keeping their doctor, they were lied to at a stimulus.
I think they're just afraid to say so because of the racial component here.
That's why his approval number stays high.
But you know, after after uh the Skip Gates incident up in Massachusetts, Obama, the Cambridge police acted stupidly in the Trayvon Martin circumstance.
Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago, Obama said.
If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin, Obama said.
On Ferguson, Missouri, and Mike Brown and Hands Up Don't Shoot, Obama said in a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri, where a young man was killed in a community was divided.
So, yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
It's safe to say that President Obama has not supported the police departments of this country.
And it's also safe to say that President Obama's Department of Justice has used these incidents as pretext for taking over local police departments.
Over 25 of them now have been taken over by consent decrees coming from the Department of Justice, meaning that local police departments must accept whatever changes the federal government deems necessary or else.
And the pretext for all of this is that local police, well, not all police local, that the police departments are racist.
You can go look at statements by Loretta Lynch and before her, Eric Holder, and even Obama.
And the presumption is that police are racist, that police are shooting African Americans for the fun of it.
You know, in fact, most, I saw this over the weekend, most African Americans killed by police or shot by black cops.
Would you believe that?
Would you believe that the number of white people killed by police dwarfs the number of African Americans, Americans killed by police?
But none of that matters because that's not part of the narrative.
The narrative has been, even before Ferguson, but certainly since Ferguson, the narrative has been that police are racist, that they run out and these racist cops use any opportunity they have, any excuse they have to gun down innocent young black men.
That's what, and these people end up believing it.
The same people that go on stage at Hamilton and preach to Mike Pence.
The same people who believe that fossil fuels are destroying the habitable aspects of Earth.
The same people that believe all of this nonsense end up believing that.
The people that think Trump's coming for them.
The people that think Trump's coming for him, Pence is coming for him and are going to put them in in concentration camps.
They're actually Americans who believe that.
Well, when the Obama administration, the Department of Justice starts attacking local police departments like this.
This is what you get.
I don't think you can separate it out.
Obama at the funeral, the memorial for five Dallas policemen who were murdered on the job.
Quote, I see people who mourn for the five officers we lost, but also weep for the families of Alton Sterling and Philandro Castile.
These were two men killed by police, not involved in the Dallas murders.
So an occasion to memorialize five dead Dallas cops, Obama converts it into a well, he hijacks it and asks people to remember people that behaved in other incidents.
Black lives matter.
What do we want?
Dead cops.
When do we want it?
Right now.
Obama on Black Lives Matter, after he invites them to the White House.
They are some serious young people.
I told them they are much better organizers than I was when I was their age, and I'm confident they're going to take America to new heights.
Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter, all of these things factor in to what is happening.
You want these police shootings to stop, but how do you do it when the drive-bys and the left amp up these anti-cop sentiments and promote them and carry this idea that the cops are racist and that they are unfair and so forth.
A quote from another St. Louis shooting by the black mayor.
The policeman was targeted because he was a police officer.
Mayor Francis Slay said at a press conference at Barnes Jewish Hospital.
He didn't stop anybody.
He didn't point a gun at anybody.
The Sergeant 46man shot twice in the face, was conscious, was in critical but stable condition, expected to live 20-year veteran of the department.
So these are one of the things that uh one of the type events that Trump ran on, law and ordered that these things must stop.
And they must.
But the Lionizing and the singing their praises and promoting the thinking that goes into these shootings, by the meet just has to stop.
Story I was alluding to earlier.
Feminist snow plowing system brings Stockholm to a standstill.
This is classic.
I mean, this is exactly who these people are.
A feminist strategy for clearing the roads of snow in Stockholm, Sweden, ended in failure as the city ground to a halt in recent days.
Now you might be saying to yourself, what is a feminist strategy for clearing the roads of snow in Stockholm?
What in the world is that?
And I must confess, I had no idea what it was till I read the story.
What in the name of Sam Hill is a feminist snow plow system?
And who comes up with this stuff?
Well, somebody came up with it and then had the ability to enact it in the city of Stockholm.
Feminists in Sweden decided that the long practice snow plowing routes, the ones that had existed for a long time were sexist.
Snow plowing routes were sexist.
Because they said the snow plowing routes favored men.
Men who drove to work over women who walked in their neighborhoods while taking children to school and bikers.
Women ride more than men apparently in uh in Sweden.
So the feminists of Sweden embarked on a uh less sexist way to plow snow.
Instead of clearing the main roads so that the men could get to their jobs, they first cleaned sidewalks and bike pads.
I'm not making this up.
This was considered fairness.
This, in fact, not only fairness, it was considered getting even because these people were running around feeling offended and discriminated against because of snow plow roots.
In a sexist way, they were looking at this.
It's not fair to the women how they're plowing the streets.
So then the perfect storm hits after they succeed in rewriting the snow plow routes.
A once-in-11-year snowstorm hit in November, right as the new gender plowing plan went into effect.
And the results were that the city of Stockholm was paralyzed for a week.
And everybody in Stockholm was pointing fingers of blame at everybody else.
This new system, suggested by progressive politicians in Stockholm, tore up, tried and tested snow there was nothing wrong with the snow plow routes.
The snow was getting plowed.
Commerce was occurring, traffic was enabled.
People were getting where they needed to go, but the feminazis in Sweden said it's sexist because not as many women drive as men do, and the roads were being plowed first.
And they made it so that the streets were second or third after sidewalks and bike paths.
And so the city ended up being paralyzed.
Public transportation failed.
Traffic piled up, and injuries requiring hospital visit reportedly spiked.
This is the kind of stuff that's been happening in this country in health care.
This is the kind of stuff that's been happening all through our culture and society.
This is just, it's nonsensical.
It's hilarious, but the problem is it actually, when enacted, causes great problems.
Anyway, brief time out, we're going to get to your calls.
We have a short week this week, obviously, because of Thanksgiving, so we have to cram in here into three days, what we normally do in five.
Okay, let's start on the phones.
We we have 15-year-old Michelle from San Ramon, California.
Hi, Michelle.
It's great to have you here.
Hi, thank you for having me.
It's my pleasure.
It's great to have you with us here.
This is great.
Um, so I was calling in to ask for any advice that you can give me on how I can convince my friends that Donald Trump is really not as bad as they think he is.
And I come from a very brother and I come from a very conservative town, but the kids around here are very liberal, and so they have been protesting, and even some of our school administration influenced them to do that, and it's frustrating because we go to school to learn, right?
And people have to No, no, no.
Uh sadly, no.
I mean, they think they may think that's what's happening.
They're they're actually being indoctrinated, uh, Michelle.
Uh sadly, or propagandized rather than being taught things.
That may be a fine line.
Let me ask you, are they the same age as you, 15, 16, that around there?
Yeah, 15, yeah.
Well, what do they think of Trump?
Well, they think he is a sexist, a lying uh person.
They they just absolutely hate him.
Uh they think very negatively about him.
But for Hillary, they absolutely love Hillary.
They think um cheese better than him, and it's a little bit like yeah, it's frustrating.
Well, look, um I I don't think you're gonna be able to change their minds right off the bat because you're not dealing with people who have arrived at what they believe via a logical progression of thought.
They're not engaging in in thinking, uh critical thinking.
They're simply, I think, regurgitating what they've heard from either their parents, teachers, what they see on social media, you know, whatever's bandied about there.
And that their emotion is just taken taken over.
And I also think that there's a little peer pressure.
They probably think that a majority of people their age think the same things and they want to be considered uh I don't know what the word is, in hip, whatever you went with that bunch.
I think time will will take care of some of this as it is revealed that Trump is not what they think.
But even at that, uh depending on deeply propagandized your friends have been, they may never ever admit to themselves that they've been wrong and that Trump is not what they've been told or who they think he is.
Um I mean, the proof of what you Hillary Clinton is I think a cult figure.
I think people that ended up supporting Hillary Clinton didn't care what she was or who she was, it's what she embodied and what the Clinton mystique was as it was passed down from parents to children and and so forth.
Because it it logically, none of this makes any sense as you are encountering.
So you're trying to confront all these people with logic, and I would maintain to you that they don't have any where this is concerned.
Is it causing you to lose friendships?
Um not right now, but I feel like uh if we talk about it more, it really um it really doesn't it doesn't end well when we really talk about it.
No, it exacerbates the problem the more you talk about.
Um have you tried to convince them that what they think is not correct um well I've tried to tell them that uh I mean Hillary is not uh is not really as good as the media is uh portraying her, she also has a lot of faults.
Uh I mean Trump has faults also, but uh I'll tell you what, our time is dwindling.
I have I have a little bit of an idea for you here.
Uh since Hillary's out of picture right now, and any any lingering attachment to Hillary is purely emotional.
I think it might be interesting for you and maybe even helpful if instead of defending Trump, which you're gonna you're gonna run under brick wall there with these people.
What you ought to do is get them, challenge them to see if they can maybe question what they hear in the media, question what they see on the news, question what they see in social media.
You know, start at instead of arguing with them, try to expose what's wrong about their their process.
Ask them, well, why do you believe that?
Who's telling you this stuff?
And then as they give you examples, you will be able to know you're Wrong about that.
That's not true, and you'll be able to go to various sources to tell them that they're wrong about it.
I think maybe try to challenge what they believe are their credible information source.
Now, if it's their parents, uh, good luck with that.
But that's what I would do.
I mean, I frankly, Michelle, I only do it as a fun exercise.
I don't do it to actually try to change their minds.
I've been doing this 30 years, it doesn't happen very much.
Um, but look, hang on, I've got to take a break here, and we have uh not enough time to continue, but don't go away.
Back in a second.
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