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Nov. 22, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 22, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Now let's not forget something.
On this prosecuting Hillary business, it's not just Trump supporters.
Bernie Sanders supporters are going to be among those who are not happy to hear this.
Trump just said that he thinks his supporters will be okay and understanding with his decision not to prosecute the Clintons.
He says that he doesn't want to hurt the Clintons.
He's now saying he might not pursue prosecuting Hillary because he doesn't want to hurt the Clintons.
It's the same thing that he said a few months ago when he refrained from bringing up Bill's affairs and all the women.
Even though Hillary was blasting him for being a sexist and so forth, Trump refrained from bringing up Bill.
But anyway, the Obama administration took four years to say they weren't going to do anything on George W. Bush.
There were all kinds of people who want to prosecute him over the torture, quote unquote, at Guantanamo Bay.
And there are a lot of Trump people.
I mean, Trump, he was, I remember hearing him at some of these rallies that he had, talking about a special prosecutor, and his audience was responding wildly positively to it.
So we'll see.
Look, I do not think that Trump supporters are going to abandon him over this.
And I don't think he's going to lose any of them over this.
But I do know, I know a couple people are going to be livid that it's not going to happen.
There's a, folks, I'm telling you, there's a lot of anger on our side.
We've been lied about.
We have been lied to.
We've been mischaracterized.
Hillary calling people deplorables and this.
There's some people really livid out there about this.
And the Clintons, what?
Oh, there's Trump is arriving.
Oh, now Trump not taking Clinton probe off the table.
Is that what you wanted me to see?
Because I was sitting at the picture with Trump arriving at the New York Times building.
That's interesting, too.
Trump, this is fascinating to me.
There was a meeting of well-known media max headroom types at Trump Tower yesterday.
All these big-headed anchors and infobabes showed up for a meeting.
It's a bunch of max headrooms with Trump.
And the first report was, and it was in the New York Post, it turned out that Kellyanne Conway wanted everybody to know that that story is not true.
And that story was that Trump just took them to the woodshed.
He just gave them what for.
He called them out.
He told them they were engaging in falsehoods and untruths and mistreating him.
And everybody, yeah, right on.
Kellyanne Conway comes out and says, didn't happen that way, that it was mostly cordial.
And then the final report on it was a combination of the two.
But as part of the report, the New York Times, of course, bigger than all the max headrooms, was going to have its own meeting.
The New York Times is going to have its own exclusive meeting at Little Pinch Schulzberger.
And some of the editors were going to meet Trump all by themselves.
And then that meeting got canceled because the New York Times, according to Trump, had assured Trump that the first part of the meeting would be off the record and then they would go on the record.
And Trump said the New York Times changed the terms of the deal and said they don't do off the record, that all of it was going to be on the record.
So the Trump people put out that, okay, well, then we're not meeting with the New York Times.
Screw them.
Then that changed.
And now they are meeting with the New York Times and Trump's going over to their headquarters to do it.
And I don't know how it ended up with off the record on the record, if a portion of it's off the record or not.
What's happening now is that a lot of the networks are going back to Trump rallies and finding sound bites of Trump promising to prosecute and his rally crowds shouting, lock her up, lock her up.
So the media is trying to portray that Trump supporters are on the verge of abandoning him right now by highlighting how many of them wanted Hillary locked up, prosecuted, convicted, and all that.
And so the latest news is that Trump is going to look into the notion of prosecuting Hillary.
CNN has a graphic up there right now.
Trump, some human activity linked to climate change.
Some human activity linked to climate change.
That bothers me much more than whether or not we're going to be prosecuting Hillary.
But again, I'm looking at CNN, and I don't trust any of these people.
And this is just a graphic.
It's just a Chiron up there.
And I don't know.
You know, give me time to look into this study because I don't believe anything these people say right off the bat, especially CNN, New York Times, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC.
So I've made it a point here that I'm not going to knee-jerk react to anything.
And especially before Trump is inaugurated.
Just wait and see this stuff play out as it does.
But if, for example, if Trump, why would he say some human activity linked to climate change when he has gone on record as saying that he doesn't believe it?
And we're going to get people out of the EPA who do and we're going to stop playing games with this.
Why would he say it?
And the answer to that question, well, you know, he wants to build a bridge with the opposition.
He wants to throw him a bone here or there because he really does want some unity.
And he want that, I hope that's, you know, that's conventional wisdom.
That's inside the beltway thinking modes.
And I don't want any part of that.
This is why, folks, I'm not going to say anything more.
I'm not going to jump the gun.
I don't even know if it's true.
But this is why you don't see me at Trump Tower going up and down the elevators.
And I keep all this stuff.
Long ago, I decided that this program has nothing to do.
The success of this program depends nothing at all on who wins or loses elections.
Are you abandoning Trump?
No, no, no, no.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm just explaining.
I should have told you.
I get emails constantly, people asking me, when am I going to Trump Tower?
Well, I'm not going to Trump Tower.
I've been to Mar-a-Lago.
I am not going to Trump Tower.
Is he coming in tomorrow?
Oh, no.
Wait, are you kidding?
Yes, it does.
Well, not if they close the airport.
Wait a minute.
Where did you see that?
I've just been told that there's a new airport restriction that if you fly VFR under 3,000 feet, you can't take off.
But if you fly over 5,000 feet, the airport's open and you can leave.
No, but if you fly over 3,000, you can get a okay.
Are you sure that's the airport and not the traffic pattern over Mar-a-Lago as the whole airport?
Oh, it's a local TV.
Well, then we still don't know anything if you're getting it from local TV news.
Yeah, because I, well, I know the airspace is going to be restricted over Mar-a-Lago, yes.
But normally what happens is, I told you the story, when Air Force One is at an airport on the ground, that airport is closed.
And that they're going to have to change.
They can't shut down this airport if he's here for four days.
Yeah, okay.
Well, I wasn't allowed to leave Houston when Air Force One was on the ground.
I was in there for Poppy Bush's 80th birthday, and I couldn't leave until George W. Bush left.
I wanted to get out of there early, so I left the party two hours early.
I'd seen everybody I wanted to see.
And I went back, and I think I'm going to be jetting home, beating everybody out of there.
And I got back, and I said, we're grounded until Air Force One leaves.
What?
Yeah, airports closed until Bush leaves.
And that turned out to be two and a half hours.
So I looked it up, and sure enough, commercial airports, Air Force One's there, it's closed while Air Force One's on the ground.
Now, maybe that was, I was not properly informed.
Maybe it's a period of time where the president's expected to depart, that the airport's closed and all that.
Because sure, they can't.
No, but he's the president-elect, and it'd be the same thing.
He's not using Air Force One, but his, it would be the same effect.
He parked his plane, but right next door mine.
Have you seen the two of them park side by side?
I just went FBO apart.
Yeah, but I have to, I'm going out of here on Thanksgiving.
Hey, wait a minute.
You know, this might be a great excuse that I have to leave.
Sorry, sorry, I can't get out.
They've grounded everybody here.
Trump's here and we can't leave.
Well, can't you reposition the airplane?
No, the airplane can't leave even if there's nobody on.
I'm sorry, I'm stuck here.
Even if I wanted to use that, I can't use it now since I've given it away.
Anyway, I'll play.
I'll play if he calls and wants to play golf.
I'll play.
Hell yes.
Anyway, what a show open.
Greetings and welcome back, folks.
Rushland Boy, you behind the Golden EIB microphone, stream of consciousness radio at 800-282-2882.
Okay, let's go to the audio soundbites.
Trump has a two and a half minute video.
This is called Going Over the Media.
This is called Going Over the Heads of the Media, a Trump-produced video to explain how the transition is going.
Drive-bys hate it.
And look, I want to be clear about something.
Say it again.
Pardon the redundancy.
I just want you all to be aware of the purpose of the left.
And it's made, I knew it instinctively.
It has been made clear to me by virtue of some things I've seen in the New York Times, which leads everybody else in news.
Whatever the New York Times puts on the front page, guaranteed you're going to see a segment and a lot of coverage of that story on CNN and ABC and CBS.
That's just how it works.
And the drive-by media is going to be devoted to getting Trump out of office.
Not just bottlenecking his presidency and not just ruining it.
Their objective is going to be, I don't care whether it's impeachment, resignation, I don't care what.
They're going to do everything they can to destroy his presidency.
And if they can't force him out of office, the next thing they're going to do is make sure that he fails at everything he wants to do.
They'll do this for a bunch of reasons.
Among them, and at the very top of the list, I think, is so they can prove to themselves they can still do it.
They have awakened on election day to realize they're not the majority they thought they were.
They awakened to realize they actually had failed in creating a majority for Obama and his transformation of America into something it was never intended to be.
The last eight years, they were living the illusion, and so were we, that they were winning magnificently, that they were just smoking us, and that they were marching with their agenda just over everybody and leaving dead bodies in their wake.
And they were having massive, overwhelming success in getting rid of the vestiges of the founding of this country.
And they wake up the day after the election to find out all of that was an illusion or much of it.
And these are not people who, when they lose, start getting introspective and say, hey, where did we go wrong?
What do we need to do differently to rebound?
What do we need to do differently to recapture some of the readers that we've lost?
What do we need to do differently to recapture some of the sponsors we've lost?
What do we need to do?
They don't look at it that way.
They look at it as everybody is dumb and stupid and that they failed to convince people because they're too stupid.
So they will recommit themselves to the proposition that Trump and the Republicans will not succeed.
And it is going to be constant war.
The Trump presidency is going to be under siege.
And I'm going to tell you this, and I hope the Trump people learn this.
There's nothing they can do to stop it.
The Trump administration, Trump himself, nobody in it will be able to do a thing about it.
Trump will not be able to stop it.
He will not be able to halt it.
He will not be able to slow him down.
There's no amount of agreeing with them.
No number of meetings, no degree of common understanding, nothing that you would traditionally try to do to make amends or to close distances and build bridges to enemies.
There's none of that.
They don't want it.
Total destruction of any opposition.
If it's the Republican Party, if it's Trump, their objective is to eliminate opposition.
Well, the opposition won and just shook them to their core because they believed they were winning a landslide and they believed they were on their way to establishing a brand new America that was not founded to be what they were taking it to, the direction they were taking it.
And they're going to be hellbent to get even with people who made this happen.
So the Trump people are going to have to understand there's no common ground.
Just like the Republicans are going to have to understand, there's no crossing the aisle.
There's no mutual understanding.
Trump is going to have to continue his campaign of defeating them every day because his administration is going to be under siege.
He's not going to be given a fair break.
He's not going to be given fair coverage.
He's not going to be given any honeymoon or anything like that.
It's going to be destroy, destroy, destroy, impugn, tarnish whatever every day, all day.
It's going to be that way from the New York Times and from the networks.
It's going to be that way on campus.
It's going to be that way colleges, high schools, wherever there are activists.
The activists are going to grow.
The protests, they're going to pay for even more.
It's going to make the effort is going to be to make it look like that the vast majority of this country is opposed to Trump, that Trump shouldn't have won the election, that that was something that went wrong.
It was stolen.
It was a result of cheating.
The effort is going to be to create another illusion.
And that is that the people who voted for Trump, say on the second day of his administration, are so mad at him that they regret it and they wish that Hillary was in there.
You're going to see stories.
You're going to see the New York Times is going to go out and find people.
They'll risk it.
They'll risk going to Iowa.
They'll need to look it up on a map to find out how to get there.
But they'll go to Iowa and they'll find somebody and they'll put them on the front page.
Trump voter, sadly disappointed.
Trump voter angry.
Trump voter let down.
Trump.
It's going to be a never-ending series of stories like that.
People supposedly voted for Trump who are ready to see him impeached or thrown out of office or what I'm just telling you.
It's going to be brutal.
And add to it, Obama is going to be in the news frequently describing the American people how horrible what Trump is trying to do to all the progress that occurred with his eight years.
So everybody involved in the Trump campaign is going to have to be loaded with steel to deal with this.
Back to the phones.
This is Joe in Mawa, New Jersey.
Welcome, Joe.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Hi, Josh.
How you doing?
My question is, and I'm glad you brought up the Electoral College in your opening statement.
What happens if by chance they were able to flip the votes to Hillary?
What recourse would Trump have to do?
I have asked a lot of people if they thought there was any possibility that the left's efforts at intimidating the Electoral College could succeed.
And to a person, to every man and woman expert I have asked Joe, they have all said it can't happen.
The states, many states, the electors are required by law to vote the way the popular vote in the state went.
I understand that, but from what I've read, only 21 states mandate that.
Yeah.
Look at the I think your concern is real.
I have more concern about this than the experts that I just talked about.
Everyone I've talked to, nah, nah, nothing there.
They can't, there's nothing impossible.
No matter what kind of pressure is brought to bear, death threats, it's impossible.
I don't believe it.
I'm not going to believe this till it happens.
Right.
And I think it's entirely possible that they now, if the electors end up voting in a way that elects Hillary Clinton, it would not stand at all.
That would be a change from the popular.
The House of Representatives would end up determining the presidency.
And that would, of course, be Trump.
But Joe, hang on here just a second.
Don't go away.
And we welcome back to the program, Joe, in Mawa, New Jersey.
Joe, let me, here's the way this all could possibly happen.
As various scholars here at the Limbow Institute have looked at this.
Because of the number of states, it's either 21 or 29 states plus D.C. have laws mandating the electors follow the popular vote in their states.
But if they don't, the penalties are not that great.
They're financial.
They're not that great.
But the law is the law, and most people abide by it.
Here's the rule of thumb is this, that in looking at this, experts don't believe that there are enough places where this could realistically happen to put Hillary over 270.
But, but there is a scenario, according to my scholars who've looked at this, where it could happen that Trump doesn't hit 270 either.
Right.
That's what I was going to say.
Well, if that happens, it goes to the House of Representatives, and the Republicans in the House would choose the president because they're the majority, and Trump would win.
Now, all of this is a long shot, but the effort that is being made to intimidate and threaten these electors is practically unprecedented.
And I'm told much of it is coming from the Hillary camp.
Much of it, it's being encouraged by people like George Soros and others in the Hillary camp.
I've looked, no elector has ever been prosecuted for failing to vote as pledged.
And we don't know who these people are.
The leftists have got activists planted in every institution in this country.
They are in the bureaucracy.
They are in the judiciary.
They are everywhere.
They're not just Democrats.
They're activists.
And who knows?
But again, I just want to tell you, practically everybody I've asked is acting like there's not a single thing here that can go wrong.
Everybody I've asked.
But I don't trust that because I know who these people are and I know what they're doing.
I read you the sample email at the beginning of the program of how they're threatening these electors.
Right.
And they're promising to pay their fines.
There's the fine if you don't vote as you're pledged to vote.
So until it's done, I don't trust it.
But regardless, if it happens, the House of Representatives likely would end up choosing the president.
They vote, and the Republicans have the majority there.
And I guarantee you, there would be no question now that they would all vote for Trump.
So he's still going to be president.
But if what you described happened to be unprecedented, it would be, you want to talk about Royal.
The Clinton camp would run around saying they've been cheated twice because they're probably thinking they've got this in the bag.
Some of the Clinton people, they delude themselves.
And I'm sure a lot of them are thinking they've got this electoral college thing done and that there's going to be this giant earthquake on December 19th.
I hope not.
I mean, that would be a constitutional crisis that we've never seen before.
We are going.
We're going to be in a constitutional crisis as long as there are leftists because the Constitution is their obstacle.
The Constitution is what's standing in their way of getting where they want to go.
Joe, before you go, your turn.
Do you want a new iPhone 7 or 7 Plus?
Oh, that would be great.
7 Plus, please.
And your carrier is ATT?
You know, I thought seriously about limiting all calls to only ATT users.
Well, you can take your pick of colors.
The jet black.
You want black?
You want the matte black or the shiny black?
The shiny black.
Shiny black.
Well, yep, it'll happen.
Now, your phone, when it shows up, Joe, it might have a T-Mobile SIM card in it.
It might have an ATT SIM card in it.
And it might not have either.
The point is, your phone is unlocked and will work on ATT, no matter what SIM card is in it.
So if you're going to take this to an ATT store to get your phone number moved to the new phone, you take it in the box and you tell them it's a gift.
And you tell them that it's unlocked, and they'll set you right up.
You can switch SIM cards yourself if you want to try, but if you're going to go to ATT, don't let them tell you it's a T-mobile phone.
It'll work on both, and it's unlocked.
It'll work on ATT.
Well, that's great.
All right.
You stand by so we get your address and send it to you.
I just, I don't take the shrimp wrap off, folks.
I don't open these to see what's in there.
So I'm just giving you heads up as to what you're going to find based on what I know is inside the box.
And, Joe, I appreciate the call.
Who's next?
Celeste in Inman, South Carolina.
Next up, great to have you.
Hi.
Hi.
I'm so excited to talk to you.
You are a superstar in our household.
I am a first-time caller.
I am a first-time voter.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Well, thank you very much.
I listened to that little girl that's struggling with friends, Michelle, that was in California.
This was yesterday.
Yeah, we had a 15-year-old girl who called yesterday who wanted advice on how to talk to her friends that are pro-Hillary and hate Trump.
And so that's what Celestia is talking about.
So what's your comment?
Well, my comment is that I'm dealing with this with my three teenage boys.
We have twins that are sophomores and a senior.
They're at a small country school.
They wear their Trump shirts proudly.
We have big signs all over our yard.
After the election, the twins have a homeroom class with this young lady, and they are allowed to talk quietly amongst themselves.
And she just went off on them because they were talking about Trump and how excited they were that they got in.
We have you on as much as we can, or we only watch Fox News.
So they're going to be a little bit more.
Wait, wait, wait, hold it.
Is this young lady a student or the teacher?
Yeah, she's a student.
She's a student.
She's in their age group.
And she just went off on them.
And this went on for days.
And they were just, they didn't know what to do.
And I said, well, again, there's freedom of speech.
Just try to ignore her.
You know, try to redirect your conversation to something else.
Well, a few days go by.
She's decided she's not standing up for the Pledge of Allegiance.
And that just, they lost it.
They have a grandfather that's a veteran, you know, that went to Vietnam.
They were just so upset.
And they came home and they said, you know, she won't stand for the pledge.
Well, apparently they went back and said something.
And they got dragged into the principal's office.
And I just don't know.
They don't want to rock the boat and they don't want to make a lot of trouble.
But I just don't understand how it is that she can do this, bully them because of who their family voted for.
And she can walk away from this.
This is not worth anything.
This woman is, this 15-year student is not worth their time.
Right.
She doesn't have an open mind.
The best, you know, what I would, what I would advise, if that's what you're asking, if they're going to engage with her, if they're going to engage, I would just don't.
It isn't worth it.
They're not going to change her mind.
It's just going to be, unless they can find a way to have fun with it.
But to seriously engage her and make her a project, it's going to be a waste of time.
I would, if it were me, I would just tell her how ashamed of her I am.
I would and let it go at that.
They're very passionate about this year, you know, learning everything that they've learned along this walk that we've taken this last year.
And it just really disheartens them that, you know, she can do all of this and say all of this about Hillary.
Look, she's in a school.
Tell them it's life.
As long as you're in a school, people like that student run it.
The teachers, the principal, everybody is just like her.
And it's just, it's a place that they have to get out of with the best grade they can.
So just it's not worth it to tackle.
I can't think of a scenario in which it would be worth it unless they want to perfect debate skills if they're on the debate team, unless they want to use it as a teachable opportunity or a learning opportunity for other things.
But in this case, just let time pass.
I mean, there's, and look the other way.
Really, these people are so closed-minded that there isn't anything they're going to be able to do about it.
Right.
And that's hard because we've always told them to stand up for what they believe in and to have a voice and be confident.
And it's hard for them to just sit back and say, okay, I'm going to take this.
And I'm an honor student, and I'm getting sent up to the principal's office.
And I, you know, it's just, it's been a really rough week on them to try to take this all in.
They look good.
This stuff, all of it is a learning opportunity.
This is a great chance for them to learn that not everybody's like them.
It's a great chance for them to learn how to deal with this kind of thing.
They're going to face it all of their lives.
And they're going to learn how to make value judgments on just what their time is worth in terms of who they want to give their time to.
And this woman isn't worth it.
This other student is not worth it.
Now, being called to the principal's office because of something, well, that's just the way it works.
I mean, it's a school, and you could go confront the school over it, but you don't want to do it because you're afraid they're going to dock them in their grades or whatever.
Oh, yeah, there'll be retaliation, and I don't want that for them.
Their big brother's about to graduate, and he wants to get after it.
They're going to be a lot of battlefields in their lives.
And this one's not even worth taking the field.
So I wanted your advice because I just didn't know, and they're really struggling with it.
Well, I know.
Look, I know what here's the dilemma for you.
You're teaching them to be strong.
You're teaching them to not let anybody intimidate them.
You're teaching them to stand up for what they believe.
So they did, and they get called to the principal's office.
And some brain-dead student appears to be prevailing or winning.
They're going to face this all the time in their lives.
There's injustice and unfairness everywhere.
And how you deal with it and not get distracted by it and not let it take you off your objectives in the rest of your life is the lesson to learn here.
Mario.
I wouldn't throw any part of my life away for some brain-dead student that doesn't know what she's doing or what she thinks.
Well, I do appreciate it because I've been, I, you know, want to direct them in the right way to handle this.
And then it's the mother of me wants to go up there and say, hey, look, you know, this, but I know that that isn't going to be productive for them.
Well, here's the thing.
The bottom line, and I'm going to have to go here for a summary, but you can't change your mind.
What's the objective here?
What is the objective?
For them, the objective is to, I think they want her to understand how proud they are of their country.
She knows.
She already knows.
She knows how they feel.
Right.
That's what ticks her off.
She knows how they feel.
They don't have to demonstrate any more than that.
They demonstrate who they are by the values they put into practice when they live.
And she'll be able to see all that.
I just, that's the greatest thing they can do is set the example by virtue of how they behave and how they live.
Marietta.
And there's much more life way beyond this school.
The objective in any school is to get the hell out of it.
Absolutely.
I know that.
Okay, now before you go, do you want a new iPhone 7 or 7 Plus?
Well, you're just making my day even better.
That would be awesome.
Who's your carrier?
Verizon.
Okay, so you've got to take the big one, and you've got to take black or black.
Matt Black or Shiny Black?
The shiny black.
You got it.
Okay, hang on, Mr. Sturdon.
We'll get your address.
We'll get it out to you El Quicko.
Don't go away, folks.
We'll be right back.
Say, look, I hate being in a position here of telling all of you parents with these questions about how your kids are treated in schools.
Not much you can do.
I hate having to tell you to be bigger than it and walk on.
Let me tell you what has to happen here.
The Republicans control all these states after this election.
It's time for the Republican Party to get in there and clean out these swamps.
I mean, individual parents are scared to death of what's going to happen to their kids if they try to take on these school boards, the principals, teachers, or what have you.
But there's something should be done institutionally to clean out these schools where all of this mess exists.
We could take 10 calls a day like this.
What should I do about the way my kid's being treated at school because he voted for Trump or I voted for Trump?
This kind of stuff is exactly why people vote and why there are elections and gaining control over grassroots institutions like public school systems is crucial.
A crucial part of the agenda going forward here.
Republicans won elections in a lot of places besides Washington.
Now, the left is all a Twitter here, folks, because of the reports coming out of the Trump New York Times meeting where he ostensibly did say that he's open to the possibility that humans have something to do with climate change.
The left is just all excited.
That's such a big issue to them.
It's why I harp on it so much.
And they think they've detected Trump waffling on it now.
CNN's reporting it.
CBS is reporting it.
And Trump hasn't waffled yet.
I wouldn't go off yet on what Trump tells an editorial meeting here.
Wait to see what he does is the key here, folks.
It really is.
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