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Nov. 23, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 23, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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All right, so I went and looked at the Facebook post that Reuters cited that had 4,000 responses, and they were not all livid.
The Reuters characterized as livid.
And there were some responses to my question about, are you upset that Trump says he may pull back on prosecuting Hillary?
There was some people not upset about it.
So again, the drive-by's mischaracterized what's on my Facebook page, which I and here, look, this is the AP.
Trump begins backing off campaign vows on Clinton claimant.
Folks, do not believe this stuff.
I am imploring, and I know how hard it is.
It is axiomatic.
It's almost automatic to believe what you see in the news.
Even when you know who they are, it takes a conscious effort, particularly if these stories are designed.
If they make you mad, if they make you think that, well, this Trump guy's lied to me, do not automatically believe these stories.
Trump did not walk back his claims on climate change.
He did not do it.
He argued with them about it at the New York Times.
They get first dibs.
They were live tweeting, so they get to tweet whatever they want to tweet that he says.
And then they did the report since the interview was with them.
And they, whatever they say, the other news agencies automatically pick up and run with.
I know it's hard.
For example, here's a post from the Global Warming Policy Forum.
Reality check, Donald Trump on ClimateGate and the Paris Agreement.
And it's a reassuring story.
They detail how he did not cave.
He did not walk back.
He did not back off, as the AP says.
They point out the people that are really wrong on climate change are people like Thomas Friedman, the columnist at the New York Times, who sits there and salivates over the prospect that we would have a government like China where the smart people could just implement everything without having to go through the democratic process, which is exactly what we've had.
Most of the reporting on this has come from the tweets that the New York Times tweeted out during the actual interview.
That's where AP, CNN, Reuters all get there.
Trump walks back, Trump backing off.
Trump's doing no such thing yet.
I'm begging you.
I'm begging you to make a conscious effort to resist believing this stuff and either wait for me to set it straight or try it on your own.
Now, I'm going to have Coco up at the website post this link because I've got to get into other things here.
But this is the Global Warming Policy Forum.
It was posted today.
It's the, here's the site, www.thwpf.com slash Donald-Trump dash on.
We'll find it.
We'll post the link at rushlimbaugh.com and you can read this for yourself.
The bottom line is the transcript of his New York Times interview shows it's far too early to know what Trump's going to do about climate and energy policy.
Wait till we see his nominee.
For example, his nominees, you ought to see my little tech bloggers.
They are paranoid that Trump's going to do away with net neutrality.
They are paranoid at the names Trump's bandying about for the FCC.
They want net neutrality.
They want the government in charge of the internet.
They want the government punishing cable providers and ISPs who overcharge these little millennials who don't want to have to pay for anything.
If you take a look at the reaction to Trump's cabinet appointments and regulatory board appointments so far, there's nothing to complain about other than Romney.
And we don't know if that's going to happen.
The Dow Jones has surpassed 19,000.
The Trump rally, it's being called.
Remember Paul Krugman of the New York Times the day after the election, actually election night said that the market was going to plunge and we may be headed to a depression because of these guys do not know anything, folks.
They are historic for being wrong.
Real story of Thanksgiving.
It's tradition on this program.
I have to tell you, I'm with holidays anymore.
I am just overwhelmed with so many different emotions.
I have the this is my favorite time of year, starting now and going through Christmas.
I just absolutely, and it's because of my childhood and memories of my childhood and being in Sacramento and Pittsburgh and then moving to New York in 1988 and my mother and father passing away.
It's nostalgic to the hilt.
Nostalgia reminds you of the good times.
But now it's become guilt-laden because I can't be everywhere.
I've got family all over the place.
And they all, are you coming here for Thanksgiving?
I'm going to try.
Well, everybody hopes you can make it.
And then another, are you coming here for the, you haven't been here two years?
I'm going to try.
Everybody's hoping you can make it.
And you can't be everywhere.
I end up feeling guilty.
I'm sitting here feeling guilty right now.
I'm not complaining.
I'm sharing.
I don't complain and I don't whine.
I'm sure many of you have the same problem.
Where do you go?
Do you try to rotate it each and every?
Even that doesn't work because the people that you missed the previous year, well, anyway, so you try to be in as many places as you can.
So if you can't go Thanksgiving one place, you try to go to the other place, Christmas, or verse visa.
That's the one good thing about living in a small town and never leaving.
When the holidays come around, everybody's still there.
But the true story of Thanksgiving, written about chapter six, see I Told You So, which is book two, chapter titled Dead White Guys or What the History Books Never Told You.
And by the way, this chapter and this story served as the foundation for the first book in the Rush Revere series, which was Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, where, in addition to the true story of Thanksgiving, we have the true story of the pilgrims,
who they were, where they were, why they risked everything to get on a rickety little ship and travel the Atlantic Ocean to a place that was foreign and unknown.
They had no idea what they would encounter.
And it was all for religious freedom.
And the real story of Thanksgiving, I wasn't even taught it.
And I was in school back in the grade school in the late 50s and early 60s, and I wasn't even taught it.
I was taught that Thanksgiving was about the pilgrims being saved from starvation and deprivation by the Indians and learning to grow food and thanking the Indians for saving them, the Native Americans.
Everybody was taught this.
But it's not true.
The story of the pilgrims begins in the early part of the 17th century.
Church of England under King James I was persecuting anybody and everyone who did not recognize its absolute civil and spiritual authority.
Those who challenged ecclesiastical authority and those who believed strongly in freedom of worship were hunted down.
They were imprisoned and sometimes executed for their religious beliefs in 1600, England, 17th century.
So a group of separatists first fled to Holland and established a community.
After 11 years, about 40 of them agreed to make a journey, a perilous journey, to the New World where they would face hardship, but at least the promise was they could live and worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences.
It's a powerful belief.
It's a belief, freedom of religion, to engage in this kind of activity in order to be able to do it, travel across an ocean to a place you have no idea what to expect.
So on August the 1st, 1620, the Mayflower set sail, carried a total of 102 passengers, including 40 pilgrims, led by William Bradford.
On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established essentially socialism, just and equal laws for all members of the new community.
Didn't matter what their religious beliefs were.
The Bible provided the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact.
The Pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of both the Old and New Testaments.
They looked to the ancient Israelites for their example.
Because of the biblical precedents set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work.
They were people with incredible faith.
The journey to the New World was long and arduous.
When they landed in New England in November, they found, according to Bradford's own journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness.
No friends, no houses, no hotels, no inns.
And the sacrifice they made for freedom was just beginning.
During the first winter, half of these pilgrims, including Bradford's wife, died of starvation, sickness, or exposure.
When spring finally came, the Indians, the Native Americans, indeed taught the new settlers how to plant corn, how to fish, how to skin beavers and other animals for coats.
And life improved, but they didn't prosper, not yet.
This is important to understand because this is where modern American history lessons often end.
That's where the traditional story of Thanksgiving is.
The Indians helped them, and they learned how to plant corn.
They had a big feast, and that's what we celebrate today.
No.
Thanksgiving is explained in way too many textbooks as a holiday for which the pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives rather than what it was.
Thanksgiving is a devout expression of gratitude to God.
And if you doubt that, go look at George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation.
When Thanksgiving became a national holiday because of George Washington, you cannot escape the fact that it was a national holiday rooted in thanking God for America, for the blessed nature of our country.
And this is exactly what the pilgrims did.
That's what they were thankful for.
Here's the part that's been omitted from the traditional textbooks and was omitted when I was in school.
The original contract the pilgrims had entered into on the trip over on the Mayflower, they had merchant sponsors.
They didn't have the money to make this trip themselves.
There were sponsors, merchants in Holland and London that paid for it.
They had to be repaid.
So, the contract that they had called for everything the pilgrims produced to go into a common store.
And each member of the pilgrim community was entitled to one common share.
All of the land they cleared, all the houses they built, belonged to the community as a whole.
It did not belong to any individual.
And everything they produced, they were going to distribute equally so that everybody would have the same and everybody would be the same.
All the land they cleared, all the houses they built belonged to the community.
Nobody owned anything.
Everybody had an equal share in it.
It was a commune.
It was a Humboldt County, California commune, minus the weed.
Indeed, it was a forerunner of the communes we saw in the 60s and 70s out in California.
Organic vegetables.
Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this collectivism wasn't working.
It was destructive, particularly in the first winter after settlement.
So he decided to take bold action.
William Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage, and it was theirs.
Whatever they produced was theirs.
Do whatever they wanted with.
Sell it, keep it, use it, but it was theirs.
Well, you know what happened?
This was in effect the unleashing of the power of competition and the marketplace.
The pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism, and it failed miserably.
It didn't work.
Drastic action taken by William Bradford got rid of it.
And what Bradford and his community of pilgrims discovered was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anybody else because no matter what you produced, you got the same as anybody else.
If you didn't produce anything, you still got the same amount that everybody else got.
They tried to refine it.
They tried to perfect it.
The rest of the world's been doing that since the beginning of time, but there's no way to refine it and perfect it.
They dumped it.
The pilgrims dumped it.
What Bradford wrote about this should be in every schoolchild's history lesson.
He said, The experience that we had in this common course and condition tried sundry years that by taking away property and bringing a community into a common wealth would make them happy and flourishing as if they were wiser than God.
For this community, so far as it was, was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort.
For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives.
What he's saying is, why should we bust our ass working for people, not doing anything?
It didn't work.
It was a resounding failure.
Why should you work for other people when you can't work for yourself first?
From his own journal.
The pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive.
So what they tried next was to unharness the power of good old free enterprise.
They let every family have its own plot of land to work, and they were permitted to market the products, the crops that they grew.
And the result was, Bradford wrote, This had very good success, for it made all hands industrious.
So as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.
Have to take a break, but you can see where this is going.
I'll finish it up when we get back.
Don't go away.
So the result of free enterprise after the pilgrims had tried socialism.
Well, William Bradford wrote about it: this had very good success.
It made all hands industrious.
So as more corn was planted than otherwise would have been, Bradford doesn't sound like you're committed leftist, and he wasn't.
So the Thanksgiving that was had, pilgrims found that they had more food they could eat themselves.
Now, this is where it gets good.
If you're under the misconception that I was, they set up trading posts, they exchanged goods with the Indians.
In other words, there was capitalism going on.
There was buying and selling going on.
The profits, there were profits.
A group of people arrives on a boat committed to being equal and the same.
It fails.
They end up turning out industrious activity, creating that by virtue of competition and being able to keep what you produced.
They produced more than they needed.
They ended up setting up trading posts.
They exchanged goods with the Indians, and the profits finally allowed them to pay off the debts to the sponsors, the merchants in London who had sponsored them.
The success and the prosperity of what was the Plymouth settlement is what attracted more Europeans and began what came to be known as the Great Puritan Migration.
In other words, the Pilgrims had such overwhelming success at growing their community.
Word spread all the way back to England, and it began this humongous migration of people.
Remember, the Pilgrims preceded the founding of the country by hundreds of years.
They really were the ones that got it started and showed how it could be done.
And it was, I don't want to use the word rich.
It was so plentiful.
This was what they were thankful for.
They thanked God for the guidance found in the Bible for restructuring their community and shared their bounty with the Indians who did teach them how to do things they didn't know how to do, basically be farmers.
That's the true story of Thanksgiving.
We'll be back after this.
Great to have you with us, folks, on our Thanksgiving show, annual Thanksgiving show here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Here's Sydney in Marietta, Georgia.
She is 11 years old.
Hi.
Hi, how are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
I could not be better since you've called.
Thank you.
I just wanted to say that I think that your books make history really interesting and fun to learn.
Well, thank you very much because that's exactly what we're trying to do.
I am so happy, Sydney, that you like them.
Have you read them all?
No, not yet, but I'm almost done.
So do you have them all?
No, I usually get them from the library.
Oh, okay.
The library.
Well, you know what?
I can send you a set of all five since the fifth one just came out yesterday.
I can send you, I would love to send you a set of all five.
And you know what else?
I would love to send you a stuffed Liberty doll.
Thank you.
Oh, yeah.
It's really, it's really well done.
It's really a great replica of Liberty.
So do you have a favorite of these books yet?
My favorite one is the one with the Patriots.
Ah, yes.
That's great to hear, actually.
Well, look, Sydney, I want you to hang on, and Mr. Snerdley here is going to get your address so that we can send the books out to you and the Liberty doll.
We'll put together a whole little goodie package for you and get that out to you as quickly as we can because we, I, we are all very grateful for people like you who read the books and like them.
Thank you.
Thank you, Sydney, very much.
That's Sydney in Marietta, Georgia.
This is Tony in Lawrenceville, Illinois.
You're next.
Great to have you.
How are you doing?
I'm doing fine, Rush.
How are you today?
Very well.
Very well indeed.
Thank you.
Okay, I want to get to the point on the fact that if we don't prosecute Hillary Clinton, aren't we setting the precedent for every higher up in politics that it's okay to cheat America, which is basically what she did on the pay-for-play and the Benghazi and all this?
I mean, I mean, this has to be done.
Everybody knows the difference between right and wrong.
It was wrong.
You think everybody knows the difference in right and wrong?
I don't think they do anymore.
But that's off the beaten path.
You know, there is an FBI investigation that's still ongoing of the Clinton Foundation.
And I think with Trump's Attorney General, I don't think it's going to be shut down.
I really, I wouldn't put too much stock in what you hear about this investigation being canceled right now for reasons I've explained earlier during the program.
But let me ask you something.
What about people who say that an investigation and an actual prosecution where Hillary Clinton and maybe even Bill are charged with whatever they find, what went on at their foundation and other things?
Do you think that that would cause even further divisions in the country and roil our society, R-O-I-L, in such a way that we could never put it back together?
Does any of that bother you, or do you stay to hell with that and just do what's right here at Investigator?
No, I think it would be a bonus to the people of America.
I voted for Donald Trump.
I am a staunch Donald Trump supporter.
And I think it would prove a point that it's time to put an end to this nonsense in politics.
And let's get America back on the track of real truth, real darkness.
What is the nonsense that the powerful can get away with things that the other people can't?
Yeah, I'm just a truck driver here in Illinois, but I believe that everybody should be treated the same.
And I was brought up that way.
And just because you're a high figure in politics, such as Secretary of State, let's say, if you did the pay-per-play and it was wrong, then you should be prosecuted for it.
What laws do you think she broke?
Rules to abuse the office.
What laws do you think that she broke?
Well, she did the pay-for-play thing.
I mean, that's been established, right?
It does appear so.
I mean, it's really curious.
Half the uranium supply of the United States ends up in Kazakhstan while Bill Clinton gets rich.
And one of their guys in Canada, Frank Justry, gets rich.
And then you've been another guy, 30 million donation here.
Oh, by the way, another story here in the stack about people abandoning the Clinton Foundation.
Their donors are leaving lickety.
Foreign donors begin pulling out of Clinton Foundation.
Why wouldn't they?
They're not going to get anything for it.
They never donated to this foundation because they were giving to charity anyway.
Look, Tony, before you go, you're a caller.
Every caller gets the offer today.
Do you want a new iPhone 7 or 7 Plus?
Oh, my God, that'd be great.
Okay, which kind?
The big one, the 7 Plus.
All right, from A2DT.
Right.
So what color do you want out there, Tony?
Any color you want, and that stock can provide.
There's silver and white, gold and white, rose gold and white, or two shades of black.
Do you have the glass bark?
I do indeed.
If you want the shiny jet black, then it's yours.
Hang on, and Mr. Snerdley will get the address to FedEx this thing to you, and you'll have it.
Well, it'll be wherever you give us the address on Friday.
And it's either going to have an ATT or T-Mobile SIM card in it, but it doesn't matter.
It'll work on ATT.
Take it and the box to the ATT store with your current phone.
Tell them you want to move the number to the new phone.
You tell them it's a gift, and it's unlocked, and they'll set you right up.
I'm looking for one other story here that I just, this one I don't want to leave.
Yeah, two things here.
Politico editor, an editor at Politico has resigned after publishing the home addresses of some clown that runs what's called the alt-right and was advocating for people to show up at an alt-right meeting with baseball bats and crackheads.
A Politico editor has been forced to resign.
Folks, this alt-right stuff has been so overblown by the drive.
It's a fringe bunch.
Trump does not know them.
They are not factors.
They are not part of Trump's inner circle.
There isn't a single alt-right person involved with Donald Trump.
Before this campaign, nobody even knew who they were or what it was.
And if there's an alt-right, there is an alt-left.
And the alt-left is huge.
And everybody on the left is in it.
But this group is no more mainstream than the Westboro Baptist church wackos that show up at military funerals and protest.
But that doesn't matter.
You have an unhinged editor at Politico who thinks the alt-right is what the Republican Party is.
And he's tweeting that people should take baseball bats to some meeting and crackheads.
I'm telling you, they have become insane on the left.
Clinically, even maybe.
Brief timeout.
Back with much more after this.
What did you say?
Obama's pardoning Hillary now?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You get it.
Oh, oh, why did I fall for that?
He's pardoning the turkey, and somebody tells me he's pardoning Hillary.
Okay.
Such sophomoric humor.
Laura in Bushfield, Michigan.
You're next.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Happy Thanksgiving, Rush.
Same to you.
Thank you.
I just wanted to say that I'm just so disappointed in the turn that Trump has taken in dropping this special investigation.
I feel like he's going to play politics instead of doing what's right.
Now that he's been elected, it's like he's saying, I'll do what I want rather than what you supported me for.
So he's not staying true to his word.
I feel like he's trying to make nice with the D.C. government instead of them trying to make nice with him.
And also, if he continues to be wishy-washy, I'm not voting for him again in four years.
And I think he will run again in four years because it'll take a few years to turn things around.
Oh, it's going to take more than that.
But look, I think you're a little premature yet.
We talked about it.
Go to rushlimbaugh.com today.
Look at what I've said about all this today, and you'll be comforted a little bit.
When the press reports Trump's walking this back and walking that back, he's not.
They are lying to you again about things he said and hasn't said.
Now, look, you have a chance for a new iPhone 7 or 7 Plus, but I'm out of time, so you've got to tell Mr. Snerdley what kind you want.
We'll take it from there.
Give him your address, because every caller today gets one.
I have to go.
I'm out of time.
Don't hang up, Laura.
We'll be back.
Okay, we have a best of show tomorrow, and Mark Stein will be here on Friday, and then I'll be back here on the weekend, or after the weekend on Monday.
Folks, thank you ever so much, and as always, for everything you do for all of us by being there.
We always remember it, and we'll never forget it, and always appreciate it.
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