Nov. 25, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your official EIB Anchor Baby clinging on before the wall along the northern border is built. | |
| Great to be with you on Open Line Black Friday. | |
| Hope you had a uh a terrific Thanksgiving and that the uh and the political talk didn't get a little didn't get a little too out of hand and you were all hurling pumpkin pies at each other. | |
| Hope you made it back in time for Thanksgiving, because uh under the genius system we have here now, TSA has a uh an acceptable consistency level for pumpkin pie. | |
| If you've noticed in recent Thanksgivings that the pumpkin pie tastes lousier than it ever used to, it's because uh when your Auntie Mabel flies in with her homemade uh pumpkin pie, she can only actually take it with her on the plane. | |
| If it's if it's a certain thickness, if it's too kind of moist and uh and liquid, uh then it counts as a liquid, and you can't take it on the plane because you could weaponize the pumpkin pie and and blow up the plane with it. | |
| So the pumpkin pie has to be all hard and dried out. | |
| It has to be like the Nevada Desert, that thing, with great big cracks and crevices all over it. | |
| Uh and that's why uh pumpkin pie, there's been a general deterioration in pumpkin pie uh over the course of the post-9-11 era in the United States. | |
| That's TSA rules. | |
| Uh Mark signed in for Rush. | |
| Rush will be back Monday. | |
| The big news today, we've been talking you can talk about anything you want, because it's open line Black Friday. | |
| So I have no control over the show. | |
| Uh the subjects up for discussion are entirely the ones uh you bring up. | |
| We have uh touched on uh Trump cabinet appointees uh at Homeland Security and State Department and uh and other appointments, and we've discussed the Democrat meltdown. | |
| The big news today is that yesterday on Thanksgiving uh the Brady Bunch matriarch Florence Henderson died. | |
| Um she was taken ill very suddenly and uh and and died of uh a heart attack. | |
| She was actually a guest, uh made a cameo appearance on Dancing with the Stars uh just on Mon uh on Monday, but she died yesterday. | |
| Uh great uh iconic television character Carol Brady um and uh uh and uh she's uh I I met her I met her a few years ago. | |
| She was actually as a beautiful had a beautiful singing voice. | |
| Um Richard Rogers of the Richard Rogers Theatre, uh, where uh Mike Pence says I didn't come here to get insulted, and then the cast of the show said, Oh yes, you did. | |
| Uh Richard Rogers of the Richard Rogers Theatre uh thought she had a one of the most beautiful singing voices that he'd ever heard, and uh she taught in a lot of Rogers and Hammerstein musicals. | |
| Uh but but most people know for that uh uh what is the fantastic iconic uh sitcom theme. | |
| Uh what is it uh here's the story of a lovely lady who charged two point seven million for a speech. | |
| Oh no, wait, that's the uh that's the Clinton bunch. | |
| That's an entirely different uh kind of show. | |
| But Florence Henderson, uh great lady, great career, wonderful singing voice, and uh and very pleasant on person on the uh one occasion we met, she died over Thanksgiving very suddenly, but a great gal the way to the end. | |
| Uh I mentioned earlier it's uh Open Line Black Friday, and if you go to my website, Steinonline.com, and that's Stein S T E with a Y, Stein with a Y, as in Why Do I Have to Listen to this sinister foreign guest host. | |
| Um every so often someone's kind enough to say, Well, uh we quite like these uh once every three month appearances on the Rush Show, but why don't you try working a bit more regularly? | |
| And and nobody you're a fool to get into talk radio because no one can compete with Rush, and uh this is the only show I want to sit behind the microphone of. | |
| I love uh making guest appearances on the show. | |
| But TV is a kind of different matter, and I uh am launching a TV show on December 5th, and you can read more about it at Stein Online or if you go to CRTV.com. | |
| Uh just to confuse people, it's called the the Mark Stein Show, and we've got lots of stuff on the show, but we happen to have one guest coming in for our Christmas show. | |
| Uh and I I was talking uh earlier about how this guy uh Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan University in Connecticut, has declared that uh that Wesleyan is a sanctuary camp. | |
| So if you're an illegal, undocumted alien all over the United States and you want a roof over your head, go and move into President Michael Roth's house at uh Wesleyan University in Connecticut. | |
| He's got spare bedrooms for you all, and he can't wait to have you. | |
| And in theory, he's breaking the law, just like all these Sanctuary City guys are. | |
| And in theory, uh the government, the incoming Trump administration could take away, say, Wesleyan's right to issue Form I 20, which is some bit of uh bureaucratic paperwork that entitles them to choose foreign students and invite those foreigners to come and study uh at Wesleyan University, | |
| which is very lucrative for American universities to bring in foreigners who study there, and you have to be able to issue the government has to let you issue this Form I 20, which makes you uh eligible uh to uh uh to to accept foreign students. | |
| So the Trump administration could kill this guy, say, okay, you want to be a sanctuary campus, good luck to you, but you now can't have legal immigrants by using Form I 20. | |
| In other words, if you've declared your if you declared that US immigration law is uh no longer applies at your campus, we will take you at your word and deprive you of the right to issue US immigration documents. | |
| Trump administration could do that, and I hope they do to make President Michael Roth of Wesleyan University uh an example and do that. | |
| But as I mentioned, I'm starting this TV show, the Markstein show, and we have somebody coming in to sing a song on the Christmas show, and the arrangement happens to call for a rather skilled uh uh flute player. | |
| And we're up here in the north country of northern New England, and it's hard to find session musicians here, because it's not a it's not a lucrative session musician market. | |
| So there are not a lot of uh skilled flute players capable of playing for you know Grammy winning artists and uh all the rest of it uh round here, because it's it's just uh, you know, it's a low population base. | |
| And I'm sure out there we've tried to find someone who combines flute playing with a little light logging and uh or flute playing with uh a little bit of uh making plaid underwear, but we can't find anybody. | |
| We can't find anybody. | |
| So the nearest place to find a session musician is Montreal, which is a couple of hours north. | |
| And uh and we need to find this fruit player in a hurry. | |
| And so I speak to an immigration lawyer, and she says, uh great news, there's a special immigration program that allows Canadian musicians to play within fifty miles of the US border. | |
| So in other words, if you're within fifty miles south of the border, that's like a safe space for Canadian musicians. | |
| So she goes, that's an express check-in. | |
| So I say, fine, what do I have to do? | |
| And she says, print out three copies of the application form. | |
| And my poor uh assistant here, Catherine, uh prints out the says, uh goes to print out the form. | |
| She says, You really want three copies? | |
| Because like US paperwork is the last uh place on earth that still does the we needed in triplicate thing. | |
| And uh and I say, yeah, what's the problem? | |
| She goes, Well, it they're each 36 pages. | |
| And I say to her, this is the express check-in. | |
| This is the super premium form. | |
| If it was a just a regular US immigration form, it'd be 336 pages. | |
| And so we get it, and we fill in the 36 pages to bring a what we're talking about here is we're bringing a highly skilled flute player. | |
| He like won the Oscar Peterson Award at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, which is the biggest jazz festival in the world. | |
| Trying to bring this guy down for two hours. | |
| That's all. | |
| He's just gonna play, he's just gonna drive down, uh, play, uh, do a rehearsal with the singer, then drive back for two hours. | |
| And that's what we want to do. | |
| We he's not gonna stay here. | |
| He doesn't want to move into the president's dorm at Wesleyan University. | |
| He doesn't want to go on welfare, doesn't want to send his children to the school, he doesn't want to clog up the emergency room because he got a hernia picking up his flute. | |
| But we have to go, we have to go through uh we have to spend thousands of dollars uh and fill in a hundred pages, over a hundred pages of paperwork to bring a skilled world renowned flute player uh into the United States for two hours. | |
| And at a certain point you think it would be better just to put him on a plane from Montreal to Mexico City and have him walk across the Rio Grande and just stay here for free. | |
| When you walk across, you you you go in a flat bottom skiff across the Rio Grande, uh you get there, they uh basically give you a tag and they say we'll check in with you in ten, fifteen years' time. | |
| Twenty, thirty years' time, uh we'll be uh serving you with the deportation order, but don't worry, there's 20 years of appeals with that. | |
| And that is the insanity uh of the American immigration system. | |
| That uh I I'm having to to to to bring in a skilled worker to this country for two hours for my forthcoming television show. | |
| Uh I have to go I have to spend a five-figure sum and I have to uh and and I have to uh go through a hundred pages of paper and all the rest. | |
| And this is, as I said, this is the express check-in service. | |
| This is the special premium processing. | |
| Whereas if you just want to walk in to America, if you have no skills, if you want to make no contribution to the economy, if you if you simply uh want to avail yourself of the lavish welfare of Democrat cities, Democrats will prioritize you over their own voters. | |
| Uh it's to the point where Rahm Emanuel says we want Chicago to remain a sanctuary city. | |
| It's not a sanctuary for those American, for those U.S. citizens and lawful residents who are getting gunned down on Rahm Emanuel's streets and Rahm Emanuel can't do a damn thing about it. | |
| But he says that's no reason why millions more shouldn't come to American cities. | |
| And President Michael Roth of Wesleyan Universities that says that's no reason why uh we shouldn't uh declare ourselves a sanctuary campus. | |
| And yet you cannot bring a skilled person into the United States for two hours' work uh without jumping through impossible hoops. | |
| That is that that is the insanity of the system, and I hope Donald J. Trump blows it sky high, because it's ruining America and it's and it's what drove a lot of his support. | |
| So I hope he acts on that on day one uh when he takes over. | |
| I hope on January 21st, wheels are moving uh on this because it's a it's a mad system. | |
| As I said, that's uh but but I'm going through all this trouble because as I said, I'm starting a TV show and I want it to be a premium quality TV show uh offering uh only the best in uh insight and information and entertainment. | |
| And if you want to find out more about it, you can uh go to CRTV.com uh or you can go to Steinonline.com and get yourself a great Black Friday deal on uh on the Mark Stein Show and a lot of other things. | |
| Uh Mark sign in for Rush. | |
| Rush will be returning on Monday, but uh it's 1800-282-2882, open line Black Friday. | |
| If you want to talk about an insane immigration system uh that actually uh makes it all but impossible to bring in skilled people but but but declares the Rio Grande an absolutely dissolved border, uh then we can talk about that. | |
| If you want to talk about Trump's appointments to his cabinet, if you want to talk about the meltdown of the Democrat Party, if you want to talk about the media, we can do all that. | |
| And if you want to talk about anything else, it's all yours. | |
| Open line Black Friday on America's number one radio show. | |
| Mark Stein in for Rush. | |
| Great to be behind the golden EIB microphone. | |
| Let's go to uh Stacy in uh Senaioa, Georgia, is it? | |
| Senior Georgia, Sennoi, Georgia? | |
| How do you pronounce it, Stacey? | |
| Hey, Mr. Stein. | |
| It's Sanoya, Georgia. | |
| Sonoya. | |
| I I had three goes and was struck out every three strikes I was I was out. | |
| Uh but uh let's uh I just wanted to call you today and let you know that I have been listening to Rush since I was a young girl, and whenever I turn it on and his voice is not there, I turn it off unless it's your voice, because I really enjoy listening to you too. | |
| So I wanted to encourage you today. | |
| Oh, well that that's uh super kind of you. | |
| And I I don't know, Mike. | |
| Uh you know Rush when uh he keeps his list of uh his ten favorite ladies' names. | |
| Is Stacy uh on there or is it just bubbling under the top ten? | |
| It's uh I I haven't heard him say that. | |
| It's just bubbling under the top ten. | |
| Well t I tell you what, Stacy, because I love I love the I love the name Stacy, so we're gonna give you a couple of extra bonus points uh while Rush is out today and boost you into his uh top ten favorite ladies' names, because it's it's uh it's one of mine. | |
| You're very you're I'm sorry, I hope I didn't interrupt you. | |
| But I um I also just want to thank you for your part in um just having a voice on the air to fight for freedom and to speak truth to all of us that are listening, and we're very grateful for you. | |
| Well, thank thank you, Stacy. | |
| But you uh what what's interesting about what uh is happening here is that it's it's a pushback by ordinary people. | |
| That was the message of November the eighth. | |
| It's that uh the the elites, uh however you want to define them, but it certainly includes all the people like uh Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan University, and it includes Christian Amonpore at CNN, and it includes uh the major figures in both political parties and the whole consultant industrial complex uh that uh that that runs U.S. elections and uh what has happened is that uh is that despite those overwhelming odds, | |
| uh people pushed back and they prevented the most corrupt candidate uh in in modern US electoral history from from uh securing a grip on uh the White House and national government for the next eight years with all of her cronies. | |
| And that's a great victory, Stacy, and all the sweeter uh because it was done in the teeth of what everybody at NBC and the New York Times was was telling you uh should happen. | |
| I tell you what, Stacy, uh because you were very kind to say that uh kind enough to say that I was a favorite fill-in host of yours, uh we will give you a free subscription to the new Mark Stein show. | |
| Stay on the line and give your email address to Greg. | |
| And after after the show, we will send you a free subscription uh to the new Mark Stein show. | |
| Because if everybody who thinks uh agrees with Stacy that I'm the favorite fill-in host for Rush, uh i i if everyone then goes out and buys a subscription, that should be um I think three subscriptions will sell. | |
| So that'll be that'll be great. | |
| We'll be on our way. | |
| Uh but stay on the line, Stacy, and just uh just give Greg your email address and that will be uh terrific. | |
| Uh let's go to John in uh seven Maryland. | |
| So John, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show. | |
| Uh what's on your mind today, John? | |
| Well, I'm I want to get your opinion. | |
| I'm I'm very worried about the listening to this uh recount thing. | |
| Do you think there's any chance that uh something could happen? | |
| And uh uh he has a chance to lose now? | |
| I'm a little worried about it. | |
| Uh I that that's not that's not gonna go any that's not gonna go anywhere, John. | |
| And and yeah, Democrats would be mad to pursue it. | |
| I I used a phrase, I think in 2004, uh, that when Republicans win, they need to win beyond the margin of lawyer. | |
| Uh because otherwise the Democrats will sue themselves into victory, as they did in Minnesota, uh, where that uh fellow, what's he called, Al Franken, Norm Coleman won on election night, and then Al Franken demanded a recount and they did the usual thing where they find, you know, an extra seven hundred votes in a dumpster uh around the back of uh Democratic Party headquarters, uh and then suddenly the guy who won an election night is no longer the winner. | |
| Uh but this is the most insane argument that I've heard. | |
| They're they're saying uh that they can't prove that there's any fraud, but they just think there's something vaguely iffy, and so they're going to have a recount uh and so they're going to have a a legal recount. | |
| It won't matter because Michigan is gonna go for Trump. | |
| So that even if they have a recount in these three states, they're not gonna win. | |
| But it's worse than that. | |
| I mean, if we were gonna have electoral reform, I would be in favor of a uniform paper ballot for presidential elections, exactly the same from Maine to Hawaii, uh, where X marks the spot and it's exactly the same. | |
| But that's not how it works here. | |
| We have diff basically every county runs its own elections uh differently. | |
| And if you it and and what they're doing here is they're not just uh doing what they accuse Trump of doing, which is delegitimizing the electoral process, it's beyond that. | |
| They're actually uh undermining the very possibility of politics and saying that it's not about winning, it's not about votes, it's not about the constitution, it's about raw naked power and who's got the will to do what it takes to seize it. | |
| The people be dang. | |
| Yes, Rush is away today, but never fear he will return uh for premium full strength, authentically all American excellence in broadcasting uh live on Monday. | |
| Uh but if you uh if you if you're missing Rush, one way uh not to be uh discomborated by sinister foreign guest hosts is to get out a subscription to the Limbaugh Letter. | |
| Because uh the Limbaugh Letter is direct from Rush. | |
| It comes every month. | |
| You can get it in uh print form, you can get it in digital form, makes a great gift for Christmas, um, and it's got a whole mix of articles plus uh interviews with uh leading uh conservative figures uh uh every month. | |
| Uh Rush has been kind enough to interview me a couple of times in there. | |
| Uh but this December he's got the the the must get uh conservative interview. | |
| Rush interviews himself. | |
| He interviews himself for a full five pages. | |
| Uh it's incredible. | |
| I haven't seen anything like it. | |
| I think they do it with CGI. | |
| It's like uh because they got uh Rush on the left hand side of the picture interviewing Rush on the right hand side of the picture. | |
| It's amazing. | |
| It's a technological marvel. | |
| You've not seen anything like it since uh The Prisoner of Zender, 1938, the film version. | |
| Uh and uh it's it's brilliant. | |
| Rush interviews Rush. | |
| Uh it's like I was talking earlier about how we've got an EIB do it yourself microaggression kit uh just available for open line Black Friday, whereby if you're a Mexican, uh we will send you a sombrero so you can culturally appropriate yourself. | |
| That's in effect what Rush is doing. | |
| He's interviewing himself in the December edition of the Limbaugh Letter. | |
| You can subscribe to that uh by going to Rush Limbaugh.com and signing up or signing up a loved one. | |
| Well, signing up I don't want to cause trouble in families if you had a difficult Thanksgiving. | |
| But if you were at Thanksgiving and not someone who's like nakedly hostile to you or just bleating about safe spaces or saying you're uh a racist or a bigot or a homophobe, but if you think there's someone they might be on the cusp, might be on the turn, they might be persuadable, they might be open to reason, then do them a favor and for this Christmas get them a subscription to the Limbaugh Letter. | |
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| And if someone is slightly stunned from what happened on November the eighth, but you think they might be persuadable, you think they might be open to alternative arguments, uh then get them a subscription to the Limbaugh Letter, and they will thank you for it. | |
| Now we were talking uh before the break about all this business of recounts that uh that might be happening in the three Rust Belt states. | |
| Democrats are looking for Democrats can't believe they lost, and they can't believe they lost for the obvious reason uh that in critical parts of the Rust Belt, significant numbers of voters who previously th there's over two hundred counties that voted for Obama in two thousand and eight and two thousand and twelve, but that voted for Trump in two thousand and sixteen. | |
| So what it means is that of all these racist Trump supporters, uh some of them were sufficiently non-racist back in two thousand and eight and two thousand and twelve to vote for Barack Obama twice. | |
| And this time round they voted for Trump. | |
| That's what happened. | |
| But the Democrats can't accept that. | |
| So they're looking for uh uh an alternative now to do an end run uh around what happened on November the eighth. | |
| And this recount, which has no substantive basis uh other than that they think they think, well, we don't know, but you know, uh uh Vladimir Putin doesn't have an alibi for between 9 p.m. and midnight uh Eastern time on November the eighth when everything went south for us. | |
| Nobody saw him. | |
| There's no one who can vouch for him. | |
| He got into the voting machines in these rust belt states and he he messed everything up. | |
| Uh the alternative is this what uh Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Elijah Cummings are doing. | |
| They've called for an investigation into President elect Donald Trump's transition effort, asking whether the disarray in the transition team has, quote, affected his ability to effectively serve the American public, unquote. | |
| In other words, he's uh he's unfit to be we're gonna have uh we're gonna have him declared uh incompetent and he'll have to be replaced uh because his transition team is in quote disarray. | |
| No, they're not. | |
| They're actually making appointments quicker uh than uh the than most other presidential uh incoming presidents have made appointments. | |
| But Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Elijah Cummings are now calling for an official investor. | |
| We should appoint, we shouldn't appoint a special prosecutor for Hillary, but we should appoint one for Trump to determine whether his incompetence and disarray in transition has impacted his ability to serve the American public. | |
| So we have to rule him mentally incompetent and replace him with uh somebody else like Keith Ellison. | |
| That's that's what they're trying. | |
| Uh then there's the Electoral College. | |
| Vox Vox, which is the the great uh what passes for thinking uh on the Democrat side of things, claims that the electoral college magnifies the power of white votes, because by according by by bigging up uh rural states uh so that uh states with hardly anybody in them, | |
| like Wyoming and Vermont and Maine uh uh get uh get the same uh two uh votes per uh Senate representation as California and New York. | |
| By bigging up all these obscure uh minor peripheral rural states, they are in fact uh discriminating in favor of white voters. | |
| According to Vox, it's the Electoral College is in effect an affirmative action program for white voters, because these rural states are disproportionately white. | |
| As we heard uh the the Democrats uh Hillary Super Pack guy is now arguing that Bernie Sanders is a white supremacist. | |
| And why wouldn't he be? | |
| He lives in a state that's ninety-eight point nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine percent white. | |
| So Vox is claiming the electoral college is racist, racist. | |
| So we're just one Supreme Court suit away from having the Constitution ruled unconstitutional. | |
| That's how brilliant the Democrats are. | |
| If they can't get a special prosecutor to investigate the disarray in in Trump's transition team, uh then they will file suit at the Supreme Court to get the Constitution declared unconstitutional. | |
| It never ends with the Democrats. | |
| They are making the possibility of politics uh impossible. | |
| They're basically saying we can't do we can't just conduct politics as usual and have an election every couple of years, and one year you guys win, and one year the other guys win, and uh and and if luck we w with luck we'll win a few more than we lose a few. | |
| That's not good enough for them now. | |
| They're now saying that i if the other guy wins, there's got to be something wrong. | |
| Either the election was stolen uh or the Constitution is racist, or the guy is a mental incompetent as demonstrated by uh the fact that he's only appointed a uh an education secretary and a UN ambassador and a couple of other gigs uh in the two weeks since he won the election, so he has to be declared mentally unfit for office, and we have to parachute in Keith Ellison as the new president of the United States. | |
| You're playing a very dangerous game here. | |
| You uh uh Well, and that's and then then the other thing uh th that's that's the good cop side of their good cop bad cop routine. | |
| The bad cop side is when uh the people are actually threatening to to kill uh electors unless they switch their vote and don't put Trump there. | |
| Uh we even have a Bush lawyer who is arguing that uh Trump's failure to distance himself from uh from his business dealings uh means that uh he's guilty of breaking the emoluments clause and therefore the electors should not vote for him. | |
| Uh do you know how dangerous it is to keep telling the people that their vote doesn't count? | |
| If you don't like the Electoral College, uh screw off out of here and change the Constitution. | |
| Get the Constitution changed. | |
| That's all you have to do. | |
| But right now that's the system uh by which presidents are elected, and that's the and and it discriminates against people whose votes are co uh are concentrated in a big population centers like New York and California. | |
| Uh yes, it discriminates against them because that was the founder's intent uh that uh that whoever became president should have a significant geographical breadth of support. | |
| So if you think you know better than the founders, if you think the founders were just racists who set up this affirmative action program for white voters, then go and get the constitution changed and change it. | |
| But right now this is the constitutional order of the country under which the election was conducted. | |
| And under those constitutional rules, uh this guy won, and he's the president, and you're not. | |
| Uh and w and uh just as you said that uh what was it now, just a mere three, four, six weeks ago, that to question whether the election was rigged uh undermined the very concept and the very possibility of representative government. | |
| You guys talking about recounting and suing and uh faithless electoring your way into holding on to the Oval Office, uh, is actually after the election result. | |
| It's one thing to speculate before the election, but after you've had the election result that you thought you were going to win and you didn't win because you made the mistake of believing all your chumpy sycophant creeps in the mainstream media. | |
| Uh that the the Hillary doesn't Hillary was so so stupid she didn't understand that the media were just doing her bidding. | |
| That they they were basically saying the polls showed quite a close race. | |
| If you looked at the polls, they showed Hillary in the lead but within the margin of error. | |
| So if they just said uh the race is too close to call, it's in the margin of error, Trump could be president, that would have been one thing. | |
| But instead everybody kept saying Hillary Landslide, Hillary Landslide, and Hillary believed it so much that on Tuesday morning they were popping champagne corks on the campaign plane, uh, which meant that uh a couple of magnums of champagne down the road, she stunned that Florida goes to Trump because she made the mistake. | |
| The Democrats suckered themselves. | |
| Hillary made the mistake of believing Christian Amonpoor and Christian Amonpo made the mistake of believing Hillary. | |
| It's an entirely circular process. | |
| They both told each other this thing's in the bag, and they made the mistake of believing it. | |
| And when you find out that reality, the reality on the ground, that millions and millions of American people feel differently from Christian Armand and Hillary Clinton. | |
| And your reaction is to say, oh no, no, wait a minute, it's not over yet. | |
| Uh we can persuade the electors to change their votes. | |
| We can call for recounts in uh rust belt states. | |
| Uh we can demand a special prosecutor be appointed uh to rule that the Trump transition means he's mentally incompetent. | |
| We can abolish the electoral college. | |
| You are making the Trump case for you, that you are so out of touch that you don't even know you're out of touch. | |
| Stop talking to yourselves. | |
| Stop talking to yourselves. | |
| Stop talking about America as if it's just some foreign country uh that's out there on the map somewhere, like one of those no name stands somewhere along the Central Asian Afghan border that nobody can quite place in the correct order. | |
| You're making fools of yourself. | |
| Mark Stein and Farush, it's open line Friday. | |
| We will take your call straight ahead. | |
| Mark Stein in for us. | |
| Let's go to Gregory in Mansfield, Ohio. | |
| Uh One of my favorite places, uh, Gregory. | |
| I was in, I I did a show at that uh fabulous old theater you've got there in in Gregory a couple of years ago. | |
| And uh uh around about around about the time of the government shutdown, I I appeared in a uh Federal Park Rangers uniform, which I think is a federal crime on stage at the theater in Mansfield. | |
| Great uh great place. | |
| What's on your mind today, Gregory? | |
| Well, yes, Mr. Stein, I was now they mad at the Trump for not uh prosecuting Hillary Clinton. | |
| Now, here's the way I see it. | |
| If he don't prosecute her right away, then he's got like four years like Obama did with the ex-president. | |
| Right. | |
| And uh if Obama pardons her, then they got to they got to answer for the crimes, and then you're gonna wonder if the DMC violated any laws. | |
| From putting her in uh putting her in. | |
| Right, right. | |
| Right. | |
| Then if he don't do nothing and he waits like a sleeping dog, he'll get two with one stone because Obama used a pseudonym to do the server. | |
| Right. | |
| If he if he pardons her, who's gonna pardon him? | |
| Yeah, yeah, it's getting like Chicago governorships where that's a very interesting uh theory, uh, Gregory. | |
| Uh oh, by the way, I'm a first time caller. | |
| I've tried a call, I've called hundreds of times a day, never got in. | |
| Till well well, congratulations. | |
| It's uh it it worked today. | |
| It's a Black Friday bargain for you. | |
| Just goes to show you can get through on Black Friday if you are up and uh and dialing uh overnight in the early hours of dawn, you can get through to the show. | |
| Uh that I'm glad I'm glad to hear what for you, Gregory. | |
| Let me let me just like explore uh a couple of those possibilities. | |
| Because you're right, there's a like a there's an element of head fakery going here on here between uh Trump and Hillary and Obama. | |
| Uh Hillary and and people very close to her, like Humer Abadin, are in real legal jeopardy. | |
| Um but uh but what's what's Obama gonna do? | |
| I mean, it would be best for him if Trump were to pardon Hillary. | |
| If if if he pardons Hillary, uh then people will be going, wait a minute, and every you told us that Hillary hadn't done anything. | |
| Why are you pardoning her? | |
| The the Justice Department and the FBI said there's no crime, so why are you pardoning her? | |
| That would be a humiliation for Hillary, and as you say, the Democrats would have a lot of explaining to do. | |
| If Trump, though, were also to do it, if he were to be Mr. Magnanimous, that would also be a humiliation for Hillary. | |
| But she's got some very hard calculations to explore here about what it is that uh uh that uh is gonna be necessary to keep this investigation from going on and on and on and on. | |
| And all Trump has done actually is offer a negative to say basically, uh, you know, we might just uh well, not that he's gonna pardon her, just like he might let it sit out there. | |
| He might let it sit out there over her head, because nobody knows where this Anthony Weiner uh child sexting thing is gonna end up, and nobody knows what's gonna come out af after that either. | |
| But it would be a humiliation for Obama. | |
| The worst humiliation would be for Obama to have to pardon Hillary when all the Democrat the Democrats assured us she hadn't done anything, and they were so confident that she hadn't done anything that they made her their presidential nominee. | |
| So uh so Obama can't can't pardon her. | |
| He's absolutely begging uh Trump to pardon her, and I don't think Trump is gonna play that game. | |
| Thanks for your call, Gregory. | |
| Markstein for Rush on Open Line Black Friday. | |
| Lots more of your calls straight ahead. | |
| Uh yesterday, yesterday was Thanksgiving in America. | |
| Uh today, today is Thanksgiving in Canada. | |
| Uh Lena Dunham uh has announced that she's backtracking on her promise to move to Canada. | |
| She will not be moving to Canada. | |
| She has decided that she is going to stay, notwithstanding the Trump terror, she is going to stay in the United States. | |
| So it's Canadian Thanksgiving. | |
| Hallelujah. | |
| Hallelujah. |
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