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Nov. 24, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 24, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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You know, a lot of people have been asking me, hey, Rush, Rush, what what are your little tech bloggers saying?
Oh, they're miserable today, folks.
They are uniformly.
I I they're just this side of suicidal.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
Still so much to do in our final busy broadcast hour here, uh 800-282-2882 in the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
For those of you new to the program, I have a hobby, and that's staying up to date with uh technology, high tech.
It's a it's a passion, it's a hobby.
Try to stay as as current with it as I can.
As such, I read a bunch of blogs that have to do with uh technology, and I've learned quite a bit.
Uh these are basically millennials.
They think they are experts in matters of science.
They have been poorly educated.
They are the product of a public school and institutional higher learning propaganda in terms of what they think is real and what they believe, and it's just an eye-opening experience when they delve into politics to read what they think.
For example, they all believe that we are destroying the planet, and many of them, I've read this on how many places really think the earth will not be habitable when they are 65 years old, that we are destroying it that fast.
But they are uniformly, they hate Trump, they hate Republicans, they have the stereotype version.
Whatever the Democrats and media have told them that Republicans and conservatives are, they are it, and they uniformly think identical things.
It's really a case study in Pavlov's dog in in groupthink, uh, in and in how indoctrination and propaganda actually work, and they think that we are all products of propaganda.
They think they're the open-minded thinkers and the enlightened ones, highly educated, super intelligent, very perceptive, uh, light years ahead.
They have that in common with many young people.
But I just picked one story here to give you an example.
They're just, they're they're beside themselves.
They thought Trump was a buffoon, they know what everybody else thought Trump was a buffoon.
They thought Trump might get 20% of the vote.
They thought Donald Trump was the way he was portrayed on Saturday Night Live.
If they wanted to get a dose of Trump, they watched YouTube videos of Saturday Night Live and Alec Baldwin portraying Trump.
Likewise, they thought Hillary Clinton's smartest person in the world, smartest woman in the world, eminently qualified.
But the thing is, 95% of Silicon Valley think the same way.
From the executives on down to the employees.
So I just randomly grabbed a story, just to illustrate, and it's from Gizmoto.
Gizmoto happens to be the the so-called science and tech side of Gawker, which has been creamed by Hulk Hogan, if you recall.
And this story was posted this morning in the headline, Don't Give Up on the Planet.
Now, your kids, if you have millennial kids or younger, I'm sure your kids believe a lot of this.
Despite what you think, they've learned at school and at kindergarten, watching Planet Cabinet or Planet Captain Captain Planet cartoons when they were kids.
They have bought hook, line, and sinker.
The idea that oil single-handedly will destroy the atmosphere and the climate, and that they are going to die.
And they believe it's scientifically proven when it isn't, and that it's infallible.
And it's it's really kind of frustrating and humorous at the same time, because there is no data.
The only thing that supports the entire premise of climate change is computer models that predict things 30 and 40 and 50 years into the future.
They never predict them for two weeks from now, because we'd be alive to know they're wrong.
So they make these predictions for decades in the future where nobody's going to be around to know if they were right or wrong.
We'll be dead by the time Their predictions come true or not.
Welcome to the future, this piece begins.
A future that me and many Americans who put their faith in science have been staring at in bewilderment, denial, and abject terror for the better part of a year.
Donald J. Trump, a climate denier, is the 45th president of the United States.
As such, he poses a unique, unprecedented threat to our shared global environment and nascent international ambition to transition off fossil fuels.
It is not an international ambition to transition off of fossil fuels.
There's nothing to replace fossil fuels.
It may be an ambition, but it's not realistic.
The implications of this election for the future of our fragile biosphere cannot be overstated.
But I'm not here to tell you the world has ended.
Just open any mainstream news outlet or social media channel if you'd like to slather yourself in apocalyptic rhetoric today.
I'm here to tell you that now more than ever we need to put our noses to the grindstone and fight for a better, safer, cleaner future.
And let's start with the good news, and then they go to the good news.
Then they get to the bad news and they talk about how we need to put all of our faith in the United Nations and we need a carbon tax, and we need to start spending and taxing on the American people to prevent them from following their impulses.
We need more, more people not driving.
We need more electric cars, we need people.
It even goes so far as to recommend the kind of meat that people should eat or stop eating, if they can find that passage.
What can you do?
You can eat less meat and dairy, especially factory farmed beef.
When you do eat meat and dairy, you can support sustainable local food systems.
You can drive less, and you can walk and bike more.
You can replace all of your incandescent bulbs with energy-saving LEDs.
You can buy more efficient appliances, you can turn down that AC in the summer, get a programmable thermostat.
Yet now I get this.
If your local utility has the option of a programmable thermostat, you can opt for your household to draw power from a clean energy source.
My utility does, and my electric bill hasn't gone up more than a few bucks a month.
Since I made the switch.
Let the iPhone go up a dollar and the world's coming to an end and they hate Apple.
Utility can raise prices on these people all day long as long as the utility tells them that the power is coming from something...
sustainable.
It's kind of it's frustrating to me.
I wish these kids weren't so wrong.
I I really I wish the left were not so successful in propagandizing and indoctrinating.
These people.
No, I'm not for pollution.
This I am for reality and realism.
And look, I've spent enough time on that over the course of the many years of broadcasting.
I don't want to get sidetracked with that.
I just wanted to share with you what the tech crowd is doing today.
They're in abject panic and horror, and they really think that Trump's election means that we're gonna tell the United Nations to go to hell, which we probably will.
Trump has made it clear he's gonna take our money back from the UN on this.
It's a bottomless hole and it's a waste of money and it's not going to accomplish anything, and he's absolutely right about it.
Um, other things in the news.
Democrat Party establishment is finished.
This is looks like it is the it's slate.com.
Democrat Party establishment is finished.
From the politico, how could the polling be so wrong?
How could it be so wrong?
It's very simple I could be so wrong.
Prejudice and bias on the part of the people to do the polling.
It was very clear during this entire campaign that the people who were voting for Donald Trump were mocked and impugned and laughed at and not taken seriously.
They were stereotyped.
The pollster said we don't need to pull those people.
They're not even educated.
It was classic bubble existence.
From the Hill.com pollsters suffer huge embarrassment.
Polsters and election modelers suffered an Industry shattering embarrassment at the hands of Donald Trump on Tuesday night.
Trump had long said the polls were biased against him.
His claims turned out to be true.
And this is an admission from a site that mocked and made fun of Trump for his claims as much as any.
There is one pollster out of all of them, however.
The LA Times poll was right and the tip poll was right, but there's another polster here named Robert Cahaley, who's the CEO of a polling group called Trafalgar.
You haven't heard much about Trafalgar, but they were right on the money of this.
And you know why?
They found a way in their poll to uncover and detect the silent Trump supporter.
They found the people who were telling pollsters they would never vote for Trump who intended to.
These are the people that wouldn't tell the polsters what they're doing because they didn't want the pollsters judging them or mocking them or what have you.
And Mr. Cahaley said all it took was one question to find them.
All I had to do was devise one question.
And that question exposed all of the hidden support for Trump, and it never exposed any hidden support for Hillary.
And that would have happened if there was a bipartisan and equal reluctance to reveal voting preference.
But people voting for Hillary fully were open and honest about it to pollsters.
The trick here is a lot of people who voted for Trump would never tell the pollster.
Mr. Cahaley here at Trafalgar found a way to uncover those people.
And his question is very simple.
His question probes for hidden preferences by asking people who their neighbors are supporting.
After asking people who they are supporting, he then asked, Well, what about your neighbors?
Do you know how they're voting?
And when they answered Trump in a preponderance of the preponderative times and so forth, Mr. Cahaley said that after series of polls asking this question, we were confident that we had found the undercover or undeveloped Trump voter.
Cahaley said on Wednesday, meaning today, I'm either going to be the guy who got it right or nobody's going to listen to me anymore.
That's why I take this craft polling seriously.
He said his polls are designed to capture opinions from people who otherwise avoid lengthy interviews on the phone.
He said that's difficult under normal circumstances, but it is especially difficult when many people are reluctant to pick a side and tell the pollster about it.
He keeps his questionnaires limited to a minute or two.
He relies mostly on a computer-delivered phone questionnaire, and he probes for hidden preferences by asking people who their neighbors are supporting.
That question about neighbors allows respondents to present their preferences as the opinion of others, minimizing possible fear of stigma or embarrassment for supporting Trump.
Now, when they were asked this guy, Mr. Cahaley at Trafalgar, about the reliability of a hidden vote, he offered several arguments for its existence.
He said people most likely to hide their votes are women and college educated professionals.
Whenever he asks the neighbors question, the answers consistently show a hidden vote for Trump worth three to nine points.
You might say it's a trick question.
This guy called Pennsylvania, called Michigan, he called a number of states correctly.
And I find it fascinating if his question produced that many of the people who were going to vote Trump that wouldn't tell anybody, women and college educated professionals.
Which takes us to the next audio soundbite.
We have a smart people montage here.
Drive-by is experts, Republican establishment elites, all saying Trump would never win, predicting a Hillary landslide.
This is a series of bites November 15th through October 2016.
Trump is going to get killed in the general election.
Trump is going to suffer an embarrassing loss this fall.
Unless this election happens on Mars.
Donald Trump will lose.
Republicans are not going to win this next election.
It's a landslide for Hillary.
No question.
You're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency.
Trump is on his way to lose in the biggest loss since 1984.
His strategy is to win the White House without Latinos.
I don't think he can do it.
Donald Trump is destroying the Republican Party's chance.
If we nominate Donald, Hillary beats him.
I don't know any consultant who privately believes that Donald Trump's going to win.
Trump would very much be able to get 35 to 40 percent of the vote and not win.
He's a demagogue and a neo-racist.
I hope he loses.
He deserves to lose.
A landslide defeat is very possible.
Could be headed for a landslide defeat.
Donald Trump will just choke.
I don't see how he can win.
I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be president.
It was broke.
We had in there Dr. Krauthammer, we have Bill Kristol, we have Mike Murphy, the leading consultant on the Republican side, Lawrence O'Donnell, a PMS NBC, Dana Perino, David Axarod, Lindsay Graham, Jorge Ramos, Ryan Lizard, Jeb Bush, uh Rachel Maddow, Carl Roll, Mark Cuban, all the smart people.
And they were all predicting a Trump landslide, not I. See, these are the college-educated smart people, and they knew that people like them would never ever vote for Trump.
And what they're going to say is, no, let's say people that didn't go to college and voted for him.
We don't have to listen to this.
I mean, we don't want to turn our country over to the idiots.
The idiots voted Trump.
We're not going to succumb to that, and that's their attitude today.
Here's James Carville.
NBC special coverage last night, F. Chuck Todd, who has admitted they need to open a bureau in Racine, Wisconsin, to find out what Wisconsin people actually think about things.
F. Chuck said, James, there'll be a lot of Democrats are going to complain about WikiLeaks, a complaint about James Comey.
Had some impact, but on the other hand, Donald Trump's basic message never changed, James.
You gotta realize the Democratic Party has the least amount of power that you can imagine in this democracy.
The Republicans have like 30 state legislatures, governors.
We're gonna lose the Federal Federal Courts, the Senate, the House, the Presidency.
I mean, it is a utter disaster if you're a Democrat in terms of having any political power in the country right now.
How about that?
Is that not stunning?
So just on the basis of what here's the guys, these are the guys that have been running the country for eight years.
Implementing all this stuff the American people didn't want the majority didn't want.
And now all of a sudden, the Republicans had 30 state legislature, governors were gonna lose the Fed, the federal courts, the Senate, the House, the presidency.
I mean, it's utter disaster.
It's an utter disaster for the Democrat Party.
Yes, sir, rebob is exactly what it is.
We'll be back here, folks.
Back to the phones we go.
This is Ginger in Tucson.
Welcome.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Well, the purpose of my call is to hopefully make you look good.
Um but my comments is about how the supposedly uneducated blue-collar workers have voted for Trump.
And I say hardworking common sense blue-collar Americans have never sat in front of William Ayers.
And they haven't been brainwashed like the millennials have.
And when you send your kids to school, whether it's kindergarten through college, it's a risk.
And I'm glad that Common Sense America came out and voted.
This is actually a very brilliant point.
You are very, very shrewd.
What she's saying here, and by the way, it's white collar uneducated that we're talking about.
Blue collar is union in terms of the lexicon.
What we're talking about, the Democrat Party, openly, I'll never forget this.
A guy named uh uh former Washington Post columnist, it was in November 2011, is working for the Obama campaign, actually wrote a piece how the Democrats are abandoning white working class people.
And and it made the decision to to focus on all the different minorities.
And this it's come home to roost now.
And you're right, there is a prejudice against them because they quote unquote are uneducated.
Look, the the bias here is incredible, but your point about the fact they're uneducated means they're unbrainwashed.
It means they haven't been fed a bunch of poison by the likes of uh Howard Zinn, who owns the history education in public schools, and and Bill Ayers.
In other words, they haven't come under the spell of the liberal indoctrination and propaganda that is the public school system today, and as such, they're actually common sense smarter than people that come out with a formal education.
That's your theory, right?
Well, and just because somebody doesn't have a college education, I mean, some of the smartest people in the world don't have college education.
They're the most common sense down-to-earth types of people, and they're what makes our country great.
And I mean, I myself have have an education, but you know what?
I'm the same.
You know, I just I was lucky because I didn't go to school during the time that the kids were indoctrinated.
Yeah.
And fortunately, I have a two daughters that have, you know, uh obviously I I raised them, right?
And I I taught them about politics, and they haven't.
I know, I know.
This is why, this is why we write the Rush Revere history books for young people to counter what they're learning there.
Back in a sec, folks.
So I just checked in with CNN and the info, babe there, Brooke Baldwin was asking Bill Burton, a former spokesman for Obama.
By the way, this guy was on Fox last night, too, uh, during this period of time where Trump was a was coming back.
Uh about 7 o'clock, Trump was losing in a landslide.
About nine o'clock, Trump was making a move.
That's how they presented it.
It's all BS.
And they asked us, there's nothing.
Nothing Trump's not going anywhere.
Jad doesn't have a chance in Virginia chance.
Now worried, we're not nervous, yeah, yeah.
So today he's on there, of course, they just got shellacked, and she says, Is there anything?
Bill, is there anything?
Is there anything Obama can do to protect the things he's done from Trump?
When Trump gets in there, and in the house is I'm watching this, so they're worried.
All these great things Obama's done.
Trump's gonna go in there and just rip it all out.
And Bill Burton said, uh, sorry, no, Trump will have the keys.
Uh do what he want.
Because here's the thing you leftists are going to have to live with.
You stood there and you stood silent when Obama was ignoring the Constitution and doing all of this garbage, the executive order.
And you applauded that use of power by the president.
It's gonna be very difficult for you guys to start piping up and whining and moaning about a president using powers he doesn't have when all Trump is probably gonna do is grab that.
Nope, that's not legal.
Nope, that's not rip that out, rip that out, nope, can't do that.
And Burton said there's very little the president can do.
Uh he knows that this stuff's not etched in stone, is the point.
That's why Obama wanted Hillary in there to leave his stuff in there.
But stuff that's not enacted via legislation, uh, it's up for grabs.
They know this.
And that's why when Trump starts this, you're gonna see Obama pipe up, folks.
Mark my words on all of this.
You're gonna marvel when all this stuff starts happening, you're gonna remember that I warned you and predicted it.
And the reason I'm warning you is so that you can help join the effort to stop this when it happens.
I'm not just informing you so that you know it.
We want to be able to put this stuff to good work.
Mexican government probably figure out how they can they can they can uh uh make it look like They're not paying for the wall when they are.
That's what I think the Mexican government is doing.
The Mexican government probably asking just how worth it to us was to have Jorge Ramos out there.
Carlos Slim is saying, what good does it do me to own part of the New York Times?
Anyway, how many of you were up lately?
How late were you up, Snertley?
You didn't go to bed.
I I vowed to stay up until they called it.
And I knew, do you know Fox was among the latest to call it?
None of the networks had, but AP had called Pennsylvania an hour before the networks did.
So I they didn't want to repeat of Florida 2000, where they had to withdraw call.
So I vowed to stay up.
Here's Jim, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Glad you waited, sir.
How are you doing?
Yes.
How are you, Ross?
You know, it's from the mountain state.
We understand the uh power of centralized government up here via the EPA.
Let me get to my point.
Donald Trump didn't beat Hillary Clinton last night.
Donald Trump beat the media.
What I'm saying to you is he beat politically, he beat political correctness.
He beat the thought police.
He beat this idea that Trump was something he wasn't, that he's a racist, he's a bigot, he's a xenophobe.
Trump smashed through all that stuff last night and proved the media is wrong.
Well, there's a lot there.
You're right about some.
I makes me want to make another observation.
To again share with you just how bewildered and angry and frustrated anti-Trump people and forces are today.
In the realm of traditional party politics, one of the fastest ways the Democrats have found to get rid of a Republican political opponent is to find some evidence of oddball behavior or curious speech in the person's past that targets them as uh sexist or a racist or whatever, and it's easy.
They have been able to get rid of any number of Republican opponents, simply alleging things, like making up the fact that Mitt Romney hadn't paid taxes in ten years, making up the fact that Mitt Romney hated dogs because he put his own dog in a roof of the station wagon when the family left on vacation.
Or worse things than that.
And it's become accepted in establishment politics that Republicans can be ruined and dispatched with simply an allegation.
You don't even have to have the evidence.
And it's a go-to technique the Democrats have perfected in coordination with their brethren at the drive-by media.
Now, let's just put Donald Trump into this.
Let's plug him in.
And something I maintained from the beginning that was going to backfire on these people, that they ignored me again.
They tried to treat Trump as your standard ordinary, everyday lifetime Republican politician when Trump was a lifetime nothing politician.
He had never been in it.
He had not lived his life as a politician.
By that I mean he had not lived a phony public life.
You know, all these politicians, for example, tax returns are great illustration.
They all release their tax returns.
Every one of them running for the office of uh president, governor, senate, they all release their tax returns.
Why?
Because they have structured their tax returns to be released publicly.
They have lived their lives in their entirety for eventual public consumption to pass the public examination test.
And in the process, they phony.
You don't know who they really are.
This is a key point, folks.
You really don't know who they are.
And then if we ever do find out who they are, if it finds out they're tapping shoes in a stall in a bathroom at a truck stop, or if we find out what it's a shock.
Donald Trump, on the other hand, has lived his life Publicly, unashamedly, unabashedly.
There are things Donald Trump has done that all of us have done that would prevent us from going into politics.
People have said to me, why don't you run?
I said, I'd never have a chance.
And the guy invented the word feminazi.
Or I cite any number of other things.
I couldn't get past the first round of political commercials aligned to destroy me.
Because I've not lived a life designed to deceive people in order to get their votes.
Trump, same same thing, but Trump decided the hell I'm going to run anyway.
And they thought that they would be able to get rid of Trump with that access Hollywood video, or any number of women.
A constant tactic of the Democrats is to bring up people from a candidate's past with allegations that candidate manhandled them, fired them, their wife died cancer, and they didn't care, whatever it is.
And they figured, well, we got an arsenal, this kind of stuff for Trump.
We'll take Trump out whenever we want.
And none of it worked.
Why?
To this day, they don't know.
They can't understand it.
It always has worked.
But Trump has not lived his life as a phony.
There are things Trump has done that if he knew he was going to run for president someday, he wouldn't have done some of these things.
Like all the rest who have grand political ambitions.
So Trump can't hide the blemishes and the bruises and the failures and all of that.
Why didn't the usually successful Democrat efforts to take him out work this time?
The answers are easy and they are many and varied.
But at the top of the list is that what Trump represented, and the opportunity he gave people supporting him was so great and so important, they weren't going to let him be taken out.
Because this movement existed before Donald Trump came along.
This is not a put down.
He came along and captured it and capitalized on it and gave it an identity and a name and a face and energy.
And the people supporting him were not going to let the usual political dirty tricks take him out.
He wasn't phony.
When most of the political world is perceived as being just that.
And it was, I don't know if you go so far as to say it was refreshing for people, but it just wasn't a negative.
He was just like one of them with a little more money.
There wasn't anything phony about Trump.
And so the efforts that I guarantee you that political consultants and everybody else in politics are scratching their heads in total bewilderment today, how Donald Trump survived, not just survived, how he won despite everything they unleashed on him.
They are, I guarantee you, going insane trying to understand this.
Half-sound bite number 19 standing by.
Now, I know I didn't get to my third time explaining my comment reacting to Van Jones who said we had a white lash last night.
I'm going to wait and see.
They try to distort what I said in the meeting today.
I explained it twice, and if I have to come back and do it again tomorrow, do it happily so.
I just had other things I wanted to mention priority-wise.
Folks, there's still lots of stuff I didn't get to today.
Reaction to last night, I want to continue tomorrow, and I also want to remind you about or really proud of the fifth Rush Revere book, Rush Revere in the Presidency, Time Travel Adventures exceptional Americans.
This is about the presidency.
It is so timely given our election.
Now it's a it's available for pre order now at Amazon, Barnes and Noble Books a Million Everywhere.
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