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November 21, 2016, Monday, Hour #3

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	Right here on the EIB network, Rush Linbought Thanksgiving Week, where once again on Wednesday we will tell you the true story of Thanksgiving.
	I was driving around yesterday.
	I was I was on the way to play golf, and I I once again heard somebody describing the purpose of Thanksgiving as to give thanks to the Indians for saving the pilgrims, as uh as what it was.
	And I just remind that that story has stuck, it is ingrained in the minds of at least, well, I don't know how many different generations of people, but we're starting to change that now.
	You know, the Rush Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans book series, that was our first book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
	A true story of the pilgrims, who they were, where they came from, why they came, what was the first Thanksgiving, and who was the object of the thanks.
	It was God.
	And the real Thanksgiving, first Thanksgiving, Pilgrim Thanksgiving was the pilgrims thanking God for showing them the way to survival and success.
	They originally landed and they tried what was known and wasn't known.
	They tried what essentially was socialism.
	Everybody got a fair plot of land, same amount, and they pooled everything that they made, and they sold it, and everybody got the same price for whatever.
	It was a total commune.
	And what quickly happened was human nature.
	A bunch of people figured out they were going to get as much as anybody else, no matter what they did, no matter how hard they worked or if they didn't work at all.
	And William Bradford didn't take too long to figure out this wasn't working.
	So instead they scrubbed it, and they basically let the colonists, not the colonists, the pilgrims produce what they wanted on their land and as much as they wanted, and they got to keep essentially what they made.
	And there was bounty and abundance beyond their wildest dreams.
	Now the Indians have been helpful in a lot of ways.
	The first Thanksgiving, the pilgrims thanked the Indians for some of the assistance, but they had so much food they shared it with the Indians.
	It wasn't thanking the Indians for saving them and showing them ways.
	It was it was thanking God.
	But the the point of all this is how much literal BS that people now believe in the media, and I think, you know, our last caller said, I hope this keeps up.
	I think the media is why we won.
	And I really understand the thinking, but folks, I think what really happened was I think a majority of people who voted for Trump finally tuned them out.
	I think people just stopped watching them.
	I think people stopped reading.
	I think they just got fed up and they realized that whatever they were watching did not reflect what they think or the country in which they live.
	The things they cared about, it just wasn't there.
	And I think they just turned it off.
	And they found what they wanted within themselves, social media, radio talk shows, wherever they went, they found it elsewhere because it's plentiful out there.
	There's all kinds of stuff other than the drive-by media.
	They just ignored it.
	But we didn't know that at the time.
	The fear during the entire year and a half of the campaign was the media was wildly succeeding.
	The media presented a picture every day of Trump falling apart and crumbling, and Hillary just triumphing and soaring, reaching new heights.
	And that's what I think a lot of Trump voters didn't even see, because they had tuned it out.
	And it was gradual over the course of the campaign, uh, to the point that I think millions of Americans just didn't watch it.
	Middle America flyover country elected Trump despite all the efforts of the drive-bys, and I think it's a trend.
	And I think it's going to continue.
	The media is not going to change, folks.
	The media is going to double down and intensify, in fact, on the way they have been.
	The media, I have pointed it out countless times.
	The only business I know of where the customer is happily wrong.
	The customer's dumb.
	The customer's ignorant.
	The customer is stupid.
	In fact, it's even worse than that.
	The mainstream media doesn't even care.
	Their audience is each other.
	It really is.
	Take your favorite drive-by media person.
	They go on the air with a report.
	They're not reporting to you.
	They're not trying to inform you or raise your level of awareness.
	They're showing off to other people in the media.
	Hey, look at my report.
	Look who I know.
	Look what I got out there.
	Look at the news I found.
	Look how I'm moving the neat the meter or what have you.
	It's all insider stuff.
	This is the thing that has amazed me because I'm the exact opposite.
	The audience is everything.
	And gaining as big an audience as possible as a true measure of success has always been my metric.
	It obviously is not theirs.
	Their metric, their success, they absolutely measure it by who wins and loses elections.
	And some other factors, but they're not market-oriented factors at all.
	And they're just, they're going to continue this, and they're going to continue to alienate people as time passes here.
	And if you're holding out hope that they may one day see the light and report on Trump and his administration honestly, I wouldn't put a lot of money on that if I were you.
	It isn't going to.
	Their mission is going to take Trump out.
	It's like this Gallup poll that just came out.
	There's a Gallup poll out that uh 77% of Americans believe the nation is divided on the most important values.
	But it's not Obama's fault.
	77% of Americans, a new high, believe the nation is divided on the most important values.
	21% believe it's united and in agreement.
	So they're trying to say that Trump has divided the country.
	The timing of this poll after the election, 70 some odd percent.
	You can't fool me what they're trying to portray here.
	So after Trump wins an election that nobody thought he was going to win and wins it decisively.
	Guess what?
	The country thinks we're more divided than ever.
	Well, caveat.
	The country may think that, but the Gallup poll is attempting to say Trump's election is the cause of their thinking that.
	And nothing could be further.
	Trump was elected because of the divide.
	Trump was elected because of the cast of Hamilton.
	Trump was elected because of Black Lives Matter.
	Trump was elected because of Occupy Wall Street.
	Trump was elected because of Obama.
	Trump was elected because of what the Democrats have been doing.
	And there are other positive reasons why Trump's been elected too, because who he is, what he stands for and what is voters all believe is going to happen.
	Henry Kissinger had an interesting take on Trump.
	He said Trump's the most unique president elect in his lifetime, and Dr. Kissinger has lived a long life.
	He's an old guy now.
	And he said, this president-elect, it's the most unique that I have experienced in one respect.
	He has absolutely no baggage.
	He has no obligation to any particular group because he has become president on the basis of his own strategy.
	And you know where he said that?
	He said that to Farid Zakari's GPS.
	Oh, Farid, I'm sure I didn't see it, but I'm sure Fareed been baddied.
	Farid Zakaria, global positioning satellite show on CNN.
	And here's Henry Kitchen.
	The president elect is the most unique that I have experienced in uh in one respect.
	It's absolutely no baggage whatsoever.
	What else in the world going to form a stormtrooper becomes?
	But he's exactly.
	He's exactly right here.
	Trump owes nobody anything.
	He doesn't have any fingerprints on any policy in Washington right now.
	He's not obligated to anybody.
	Not donors.
	Not lobbyists.
	Not foreign governments.
	So as such, Kissinger says, I think we should give him an opportunity to develop the positive objectives that he may have and to discuss those.
	We've gone through too many decades of tearing incumbent administrations apart, and it may happen again, but it shouldn't begin that way, he says.
	A rule change pushed by Dingy Harry could allow Donald Trump to get all of his appointments confirmed.
	Senate rule change that uh Dingy Harry championed could leave the Democrats powerless to stop any of Trump's cabinet appointments.
	I think the word is should here, not could.
	Well, now the only thing that would stop this would be the Republican leadership throwing this advantage away.
	But it's it's uh they had two years to throw it away.
	Well I I know, and but the Republicans have a way of throwing away their power when they get it in order to show that they're fair.
	Like Jim Jeffords, you remember Jim Jeffords?
	Well, I'm not trying to scare you, I'm just reminding you of how Republicans have acted in the past.
	They think that when they have an advantage, the American people are gonna think it's not fair, and they openly think they can show they're not whatever they are by giving back their advantage.
	Now, I don't think it's gonna happen here because of Trump and Prevus.
	I don't I I I think uh it isn't gonna happen, but it's it certainly has.
	In 2013, Dingy Harry pushed forward with a rule change dubbed the nuclear option that eliminated filibusters for all presidential nominations except Supreme Court justices.
	This means that a simple majority of 51 votes instead of 60 is necessary to confirm executive office appointments.
	Dingy Harry did this so that the Republicans could not stop Obama appointments.
	And this is just one of the many things the Democrats did that everybody is gonna come back and bite them now that the Republicans have won.
	So now the Democrats cannot stop with the votes they have, any of Trump appointments, and they can't do the filibuster because it's gone because Dingy Harry did away with it.
	But don't tell me that you haven't heard some Republicans thinking it needs to be reinstituted.
	You haven't heard that.
	Well, hell's bells.
	I it was last week that I heard somebody suggest that we put it back.
	I can't, I don't remember who.
	In the way, many Democrats have publicly displayed a lack of regret for the rule change, and Uh Dingy Harry's spokeswoman told the Washington Post, Senator Reed has no regrets on invoking the nuclear option because of Republicans' unprecedented obstruction.
	If Republicans want to go on record supporting radicals, that's their decision, and they'll have to live with it.
	Uh so Dingy Harry, no regrets, and if it results in a Republican advantage, we're just gonna chalk it up to their inherent racism and bigotry.
	Is what he's uh saying that they're gonna do.
	Obama has halted his push in court on amnesty because of this judge, this judge is a hero.
	You remember this story.
	The Obama regime has already taken the first step to accommodate Trump's positions, supposedly.
	I know I say this under advisement, agreeing on Friday to take a timeout on President Obama's push to kick start the 2014 deportation amnesty.
	Remember this case.
	In documents filed with a federal judge in Texas, the Justice Department said that in light of new management that'll take over next year, i.e., Trump, the case should be suspended.
	Accordingly, the parties respectfully submit that further proceedings on the merits of the case should be stayed until February 20th, 2017.
	Bear in mind, the media, New York Times assured us for years there was no way any legal challenge would stop Obama's amnesty.
	But a an appeals judge, well, actually, a district judge, Andrew Hannon, halted Obama's amnesty in February of 2015, two days before it was to go into effect.
	He said the administration broke the law in doing that, that the law did not permit Obama to do it.
	And he he nearly held prosecute, well, Justice Department lawyers in contempt.
	He pulled back on that, but he demanded that they show cause for why that what they were doing was legal.
	And they couldn't.
	They appealed it.
	They remember they went and shopped for a favorable appeals court, and they were shot down there.
	This judge, I mean, this is all the way back now in, you know, we're coming up on it's a year and a half, maybe two years in February.
	This judge was standing alone.
	Other judges in other states had signaled that Obama had free reign to do this, but this judge stood up and stopped it.
	And openly said the administration didn't have the legal foundations to do what they were doing.
	Nobody else had the guts to stand up to Obama, but this judge did.
	So now Obama, the story is halting amnesty push in court, bowing to incoming Trump administration.
	Now, people chalk this up with the Trump effect, like on uh Ford and uh and Apple.
	But if this holds, this could be the best Trump effect of all.
	Yeah, but I also believe this story at arm's length.
	Obama standing down on something like this.
	I think I'll believe it when I see it.
	But anyway, that's what the uh that's what the regime is saying that they are going to do.
	One judge stood up to them.
	But I should point out there is a caveat to this, and that is while Obama's standing down.
	Guess who else he's told to stand down?
	Border patrol agents, something like 1,500 illegals are crossing daily.
	So while everybody's looking over here at Obama, essentially accepting what the court said over here, the border remains wide open.
	Back after this, my friends, with much more.
	Don't go away.
	Your guiding light through lies.
	People out of their minds telling you things they have no idea about.
	Rush Limbaugh here, and also your guiding light through even the good times.
	So here's another example that I just love.
	This is right up there with the what happened at uh at the Hamilton show with Pence.
	A little bit different venue, but it's the same mindset.
	Our old buddy Joel Pollock, who is one of the reporters at Breitbart, accepted an invitation to appear on NPR, a program called what's the name of the program because it's uh it doesn't matter.
	Whatever the pro he he went to appear on the program live.
	And he ended up telling the truth about Hillary and Trump.
	And in other words, he said a bunch of things that leftists do not believe.
	He defended Steve Bannon, who uh ran Breitbart.
	He turned the tables.
	He pointed out that NPR has racist programming, including a story called the 2016 election results nostalgia for a whiter America.
	And NPR was so upset that the opposing point of view has been heard that they have banned live interviews of conservatives.
	NPR is now going to pre-tape any interviews with conservatives and edit out the conservative lies, quote unquote, before.
	It's it's, and this is federally funded.
	This is national public radio.
	Live interviews with conservatives, according to Breitbart, will no longer be permitted on NBR.
	It's the only way to stop them from telling the truth.
	This next story is funny.
	From the Hill.com, Obama did not discuss Russian election meddling with Putin.
	These people really think, they really think that Russia was behind the leaks.
	The exploitation of the email account of John Podesta that ended up at WikiLeaks, the things they tell themselves.
	Folks, really, they don't know what they're talking about.
	These people in the media do not know what they're talking about.
	It's it's in addition to everything else.
	I have never met a larger collective group of like-minded robots, mind-numbed robots, who don't know anything, and they are the people who think they know it all.
	They are begrudgingly admitting they don't know what happens outside of New York and Washington.
	I actually saw, can I share this with you?
	Yes, I can because it is my show.
	I'd love to mention the name here, but it wouldn't be useful because then people would focus on the name and not what I'm saying.
	But it was an infobabe who appears on Fox News.
	Now she's a strategist, she's not uh an anchorette.
	She's a strategist.
	And she was after the election.
	Yes, you know, some of us are going to have to realize those of us who live on the upper West side, we don't have any problems with our health care, and we don't have any problems with sending our children off to private schools and daycare and paying the bills.
	Why, that's not a problem for all of us on the upper West side.
	But we made the mistake of thinking that everybody was like this.
	We we assumed we didn't realize that there are people that can't afford to send their kids to private school.
	And she was she was speaking as though she had just discovered this.
	She was not speaking from the standpoint that, boy, you know, a bunch of us have got to get real here.
	She was actually, I think what it was, she's not a professional media person.
	She is a political strategist that Fox hires to come in and do TV appearances.
	So she's not by nature a media professional.
	But I think what she was doing was trying to build a connection with her audience or with the audience to this program.
	She's one of like 15 or 20 that appear on the show.
	Anyway, I think what she was doing was trying to relate to people in the middle.
	You know what?
	We now get it.
	We we didn't realize that other people were having such trouble with just day-to-day expenses.
	She was approaching this from the standpoint that she had just figured it out that it was an eye-opening learning experience for her, and she was going to be better in the future now.
	She really was under the impression that everybody had the health care they wanted, and that everybody had the educational choices that they wanted, and uh everybody had the disposable income.
	Why would anybody think this?
	How would anybody think this?
	You in order to really think that, in order to really think that there is not a lower middle class that's suffering, you have to believe the government's unemployment number number one.
	You you have to believe pretty much every bit of propaganda that the only people suffering are the illegal immigrants, the only people suffering are gays and lesbians and transgenders, the only people suffering are African Americans, the only people suffering are people who are different by virtue of behavior, by virtue of skin color, by virtue of sexual orientation.
	Those are the only people suffering in America.
	According to and this is a classic limousine liberal, you know, wine and brie, cocktail party liberal living on the upper West, who thinks that there is no suffering.
	That Obama has been so successful, that Obama's economic recovery has been so successful that she was stunned.
	And never again would this kind of detachment happen to her.
	She was going to make a point of finding out how other people are living and not assuming that everybody was doing as well as those of us on the upper.
	She kept saying it that those of us on the upper West side of Manhattan.
	Oh, it's a Democrat strategist, of course.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Oh, our our kids go to the good schools that we choose.
	And she she professed to be shocked, but never again, she assured the audience was she ever, ever again going to make this mistake.
	Next election, they weren't going to be blindsided by the reality that there were suffering people out there who might be white, who might be heterosexual, who might have 2.8 kids, who might have lost their she's never again going to be shocked by this.
	In their world, the only people suffering are prisoners, African American men in big cities who the cops are trying to murder, gays who want to get married and the country doesn't support it, transgenders who can't use the bathroom they want to use, and whatever other pet leftist cause, that's the only suffering there is out there.
	And that suffering is not economic.
	That suffering is because of Republicans.
	That suffering is because of the bigoted closed-mindedness of conservatives.
	I'm telling you, they if she's being honest, that's that's worse than being biased.
	To be that ignorant of your own country.
	And that accepting of the BS that comes from government studies and unemployment numbers or whatever the president have.
	What reminded me of it is this.
	Obama didn't discuss Russian election meddling with Putin.
	This is a Hill.com story.
	So they're thinking that, okay, Obama's gonna meet with Putin.
	He's gonna give them what for.
	Obama's gonna unload on Putin.
	Obama's gonna tell him how dare you affect our election.
	How dare you make it possible for Trump to win?
	How dare you, for the first time ever try to involve yourself in an election.
	And they're blummox that Obama didn't bring it up.
	Can I tell you leftists why he didn't bring it up?
	Because Obama knows the Russians had nothing to do with it.
	The Russians didn't have anything to do with hacking the DNC computer or the John Podesta computer or the Hillary server.
	The Russians didn't have anything to do with it.
	Putin said they didn't have anything to do with it, and Julian Oshanj also said it was an inside job.
	It had to be an inside job of the DNC.
	And it makes perfect sense.
	There had to be discord at the DNC.
	Over half the place was for Bernie Sanders and they're rigging the game for Hillary.
	There had to be some people with their noses on a joint in there.
	You know, there's another illusion that we've been asked or told to believe, and that is that there's total unity and love and adoration, and there's not one bit of discord in the Democrat Party.
	They're all on the same page for everybody.
	And that when they have a contentious primary campaign, that's just part of the that's part of the show.
	But when it's all over, we all unite behind Hillary or whoever our nominee, and that's bogus too.
	There's some Democrats that really had their noses out of joint during that entire primary because the cult of the Clintons.
	I mean, the Clintons have been sent packing.
	And the Bidens are gone, the Obamas are soon going to be gone, except he's not going to go away.
	But it it really is a generational passing of the torch.
	They're frustrated Obama wouldn't wouldn't call Putin out on this.
	That's another stupid, idiotic thing that they believe.
	You know, one of the reasons they believe it is because Trump was making a joke.
	they don't recognize humor when they're the butt of it?
	And so Trump's making a joke about the Russians maybe helping find Hillary's missing emails.
	And so remember how outraged they got.
	They accused Trump of inviting the Russians in to tamper with a with an American election.
	And Trump was just laughing at them, and they have no idea they're being laughed because nobody laughs at them.
	Oh no, you don't laugh at your betters.
	You don't laugh at them.
	Trump was mocking them and laughing at them, and they heard it as Trump urging the Russians to sabotage the Democrats in the elections.
	So they expected Obama to go in there and give Putin the what for.
	And Obama didn't do it.
	The reason is that Obama knows Putin had nothing to do with it.
	Washington examiner, Obama comforted, devastated staff after Trump.
	Did you see the picture of this White House staff after the election?
	They're all standing around crying.
	Valerie Jarrett and the uh and the gang.
	Obama loyalists plot Trump resistance.
	This is a political story.
	Alumni of the Obama White House spent days mourning Trump's win.
	Now they're ready to fight.
	Politicals just excited, they're cheering, they can't contain themselves how excited they are that the Democrats are now going to band together Obama loyalists to try and stop Trump at every turn.
	Did I not tell you that they're saying they got it after it would last not even two weeks?
	They're already past why they lost and thinking and saying that they need to adapt and they need to learn what it is about them that people rejected.
	That's that's not that was never going to be uh true at the at the outset.
	It never is.
	They don't think they're the ones who have change.
	It's another obscene profit timeout.
	We'll be back after this, folks.
	Don't go away.
	Donald Trump set to take America back to the moon and ditch NASA's climate change research.
	UK Daily Mail.
	The Trump news continues to be astounding to me.
	And Trump has a plan for government workers.
	This is the Washington Post, and the headline says they're not going to like it.
	Donald Trump and the Republican controlled Congress are drawing up plans to take on the government bureaucracy they have long railed against by eroding job protections and grinding down benefits that federal workers have received for generations.
	Do you know that there are like two or three times as many people been hired to work in government as in manufacturing in this country to last forget what the number of years is, but it is astounding.
	So the Washington Post says that Trump's going to institute hiring freezes and end to automatic raises.
	A green light to be able to get rid of people that are not working well, not doing a good job.
	They're going to institute a ban on union business on the government's dime and less generous pensions.
	That's the blueprint emerging under Republican control of Washington, the Washington Post says.
	The number of people working in government who earn six-figure salaries would stun you.
	And look, we're all for people doing well.
	I don't want anybody to misunderstand here.
	But government jobs, by definition, are not productive.
	For the government to grow, the U.S. economy has to shrink.
	The pie is the pie.
	Money is generated not by government.
	All but all government does is shift it around.
	Government destroys wealth by virtue of taxation.
	Government shifts wealth, but government does not produce it.
	All they do is take it and destroy it and move it around.
	So if there is less, if there's less money, less capital floating around in what I call the U.S. economy, others call the private sector.
	Then the opportunity for growth is all that much more limited and restricted.
	And hiring government workers is a you know, growing government's a pet democrat project.
	It's blind loyalty voting-wise, and anyway, it's gotten way out of hand.
	Was never intended to be this big and bloated, and this is right on the money.
	This is exactly and I'm thinking all these never Trumpers out there.
	Trump's not conservative, Trump's not this, Trump's not that.
	You know, and and we shall see.
	This is the blueprint.
	This is what they want to happen.
	These people are going to fight this like you have not seen before, folks.
	Now we're getting this is the air and water of the Democrat Party.
	And you know what happens when they deny you air.
	You start squirming, do whatever you can to get breath.
	Water, you don't want to drown.
	That's where these people are going to be.
	It's gonna get ugly.
	More than likely.
	Here's uh here's Margaret Pokella, Idaho.
	Great to have you, Margaret.
	Hi.
	Hello, so great to talk to you.
	Thank you.
	Same here.
	So first of all, I just want to let you know that I come from four generations of Rush, and uh I'm 29 years old, so I've heard you since the beginning.
	Well and uh second of all, so I have three children, and my oldest is six years old, and she's in kindergarten.
	And my husband and I had talked to her about the election, and that we voted for Trump, and a few days after the election, she comes home from school and informed me that she voted for Hillary, and so it makes me question, you know, what what's going on at this school, or is it possible future rebellious teen I have to look forward to?
	I'm not exactly sure.
	But uh I hold here in my currently nicotine fingers, one of your books, and we are about to start reading that with her, and we're very excited to give her a proper education and what it's about to be a true patriot.
	Well, God bless you, thank you very much.
	You you Well, thank you.
	You want to know what to do about the kindergarten teacher?
	Yes.
	Um you're afraid the kindergarten teacher's already brainwashing your your the kids in the school.
	Is that what uh uh yes, I I like to call it live wash, but yes.
	Um you know, this remains one of the toughest things for a parent to confront.
	Oh is how to deal because you don't want your kid targeted by the by a teacher, by the administration.
	You don't want get grade punishment that's undeserved, yet you don't want you don't want them countermanding everything you're trying to teach your kid at home.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And I I thought I at least had you know a elementary school of normal.
	Margaret, let me interrupt you.
	I'm I'm out of time here, and uh there's not enough time to tell you what I want to tell you.
	Can we call you back tomorrow?
	Would be awesome.
	Okay, cool.
	Then if you hang on here, Mr. Snerdley will get your phone number.
	We'll call you back tomorrow at a good time for you because this is a this is a question and answer that I I hope will be of value to a lot of people out there over what what to do about a school that's that's messing with everything you're trying to teach your kids.
	So I appreciate that.
	I don't want to have to just give you a 10-second answer and hope that you get it.
	So we'll talk to you tomorrow.
	Gotta take a brief break now.
	Do not go away, folks.
	Be right.
	Did you see what Deutsche Bank said?
	Trump administration could inspire robust economic growth and the stock market to new records.
	Deutsche Bank.
	Now, they didn't say this before the election.
	I think they were in the Hillary camp, if any camp.
	We'll have more details on this tomorrow, too, my friend.
	We'll see you then.

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