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Nov. 25, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 25, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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Yes, Rush is back Monday for a full week of authentic, full-strength, all-American excellence in broadcasting.
I am honored to be here today direct from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
If you're a Democrat celebrity fleeing the country for Canada, do swing by and say hello.
You can't miss us.
We got a big sign up on the highway saying Last Rush guest host before the border.
Breaking news.
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The grown-ups are back in charge.
She is a grown-up, a very shrewd and savvy person about what is going on in the world.
And Katie McFarland will be the new deputy national security advisor.
I mentioned earlier when I was on the phone with Stacey that I've been prevailed upon.
I've been like guest hosting this show for a decade, in fact.
And every so often, I mean, not that often, like once every three, four, seven years, I get an email saying, why don't you get your own show, Stein, instead of just working, you know, three days every quarter.
I mean, what kind of work ethic is that?
And I don't want to compete with Rush on the radio because nobody can compete with Rush on the radio.
He's absolutely the king.
And this medium of talk radio would not exist if Rush was not the anchor holding this thing down.
He, in a sense, invented a whole new genre when he launched this show.
And you can't compete with that.
And this is the only radio show I like being behind the mic of.
And it's a great honor.
But I thought TV was a little different.
So I had some facial surgery, reconstructive surgery, and I decided it was safe to do a TV show, which launches on December the 5th.
And if you want to sign up for that, you can call 1-800-282-CRTV or go to CRTV.com slash book club all one word.
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It's a hardcover book and it's a great Christmas gift.
And don't take my word for it, because Rush himself was very complimentary about that book.
And Rush said it's a must-read new book from a guy who's gutsy and courageous as hell.
And I will buy that quote.
I will take that quote.
That is a money quote, as they say at Hamilton on Broadway.
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And, you know, I haven't done television for actually quite a long time on a regular basis.
And I'd forgotten all the things that can go wrong and the new things that can go wrong.
We're launching on December 5th.
The other day, the town that they built this lavish studio for me, and the town they built this lavish studio in, decided to back up the sewage system.
So suddenly, all the contents of this sewage network came bubbling up.
Fortunately, they're late building my set because otherwise the entire set would have been covered in this sewage from the municipal sewer, which has got to be some kind of metaphor for my new kind of show.
So I wasn't expecting that.
But we basically sent in the guys to hose the place down, clean it, demo it, and we will have a pristine.
We've hung up a few air fresheners and the set will be absolutely beautiful.
The other thing about the set is, as I mentioned earlier, we're having some live music on there for the Christmas show, which is why we were looking to get a flute player.
So we ordered up a new grand piano, a grand piano.
It was stolen en route.
The grand piano was made in California and was stolen somewhere from the truck it was in was stolen en route.
When people say, oh, America's lost its mojo, America's finished, America doesn't innovate anymore.
I've got to tell you, as a foreigner, I am amazed.
There were crimes I'd never heard of that Americans are pioneering.
I didn't know there was such a thing as piano theft, but these this truck which had my incoming grand piano in and 11 other grand pianos apparently was stolen en route.
I don't know which state it was.
I don't know whether it's one of these evil racist bigoted Rust Belt states that just voted for Trump, whether it's Pennsylvania or Wisconsin, whether it's Michigan, whether it's one of these trumpy, bigoty states where they hijacked my truck and stole my piano.
But somewhere between California and New Hampshire, my piano was the victim of an unprecedented piano heist.
It was a piano jack.
That's right.
A piano.
You know, and it's like it's infuriating to me.
I mean, they wouldn't have been able to steal the piano if we'd had a better set of keys.
And it was a pretty big heist.
They got away with 12 grand.
They just hit the pedal and took off.
We got the stool back because one of the gang turned stool pigeon.
Okay, that's enough.
They don't, you can't do a rim shot on a piano.
That's one of the drawbacks of them.
Anyway, until they can build us a new piano, we've got us a loner piano on my new set.
And well, I don't know how you fence a piano.
Mike just asked me how do you fence a piano?
The thinking behind this, like the because the FBI's piano division, which is investigating this crime, thinks the guy just stole it for the truck.
He just thought it was a nice-looking truck and he stole the truck.
And he didn't realize there were a million dollars worth of pianos in the back of the truck.
And he probably doesn't know they're worth a million bucks.
So he probably just backed all the pianos into the landfill.
But he's got himself a nice truck.
And at any rate, that's because fencing a hot piano is extremely difficult.
It is, it's for a start, it's hard to maneuver.
Well, it's hard to maneuver into the, if you go to the, you know, the low waterfront dive around the back of the freight yards in Jersey, where all the lowlife scummy people meet, it's hard to actually get a grand piano around the back there to fence it.
So it's difficult.
I don't know.
I don't know how they did it.
But anyway, my piano was stolen.
And so we've got a loaner now for our show.
And if you were at the Art Garfunkel gig in Keene, New Hampshire.
a couple of weeks ago, it's that piano.
If you remember the 16-bar intro to Bridge Over Troubled Water, if you're in Keene, New Hampshire, to see Art Garfunkel, that's the piano they've got for my new show.
But that's the crazy, sick world that the Trump administration is taking over.
And there's no shame.
There's no shame anymore.
You know, they're stealing pianos.
If they can do that, they can steal anything.
You know, they say ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony.
Tell me about it.
Tell me about it, pal, because somebody has just stolen my grand piano en route from California.
That's the crazy world we're in.
Anyway, that's the piano for the Mark Stein show.
I'm making do with Art Garfunkel's piano now.
I've got the hair.
I've kind of got the Art Garfunkel hair.
I've got more hair than Paul Simon anyway.
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And Rush himself said that that is a must-read book from a guy who's gutsy and courageous as hell.
That's what Rush said about my book.
And then they told him it was by me, and he said, oh, sorry, my mistake.
It is Open Line Black Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
And we are taking your calls.
Let's go to Nick in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Nick, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark, it's an honor and a privilege.
And it's Nick, by the way.
Oh, Mick, my mistake.
Mick with an M. Thanks for taking the call.
A big fan of yours.
I just, yesterday was Thanksgiving here, I guess, in candidates today.
And with that in mind, I just kind of wanted to get your thoughts on how monumental November 8th's election was and how drastically things would be different if it had gone the other way.
I know what a big fighter for First Amendment free speech rights you are.
I just wanted to get your thoughts.
Well, Nick, you're right.
I mean, I like the First.
I'm a big fan of the First Amendment because I've watched free speech under threat in a lot of other places around the world that have free speech traditions like Australia, Canada, Britain, and Europe.
And I think the First Amendment would have been imperiled if Hillary had been elected.
Let's not forget that a majority of Democrats in the Senate voted in effect to gut the First Amendment.
So a Hillary presidency with Senate Democrats would have been no friend of free speech.
Don't forget that the basic truth about the left now, as we see in all this safe space nonsense, is they don't want to win the argument.
They want to ban the argument.
They want to criminalize the argument.
So you're not able to have a disagreement about transgendered pronouns or whatever it is.
They just say, no, this is the law.
And if you say anything against it, you're a hater and you have to lose your job and you have to be kicked out and you have to be publicly shamed.
So we would have wound up, Hillary was a big part of this.
Hillary was a big part of this.
We would have wound up with a world four, eight years down the line in which the culture of free speech, which is already dead at American campuses, so you think of the most stupid, blinkered, and repressive college campus for free speech rights.
And that's the Democrats' model for the whole country, Mick.
That's what they're wanting to do.
Secondly, we would live in a more corrupt country.
Basically, Hillary was a corrupt candidate, and she ran a pay-for-play operation.
That's the purpose of the Clinton Foundation.
The Clinton Foundation, they set up a charity to enable them to live like heads of state during the few years that they were temporarily out of government power.
And that would have been their model for how they governed.
This is a corrupt, cronyist administration that Hillary would have been running.
And we already saw how Obama in the Obama years weaponized the IRS against his ideological enemies.
They basically became the paramilitary wing of the Democrat Party.
He weaponized the Justice Department ideologically.
And had Hillary succeeded, that would have continued.
Basically, Hillary committed.
Usually the way it works is that you have to remind a head of state that he is not above the law.
That the greatest temptation for a head of state once he's been in office is a year, two, three, five, seven years, is he starts thinking he is the law.
The law does not apply to him.
Hillary would have been the first candidate who would have declared that the law does not apply to her before she took office.
That's basically what the FBI and the Justice Department had told her.
So Hillary, even before she took office, had corrupted the Justice Department and had corrupted the National Law Enforcement Agency.
And we would have seen, I think, one of the most corrupt administrations in American history, and it would have been corrupt.
She's not explicitly ideological to the degree that Barack Obama is, who genuinely believes a lot of this nonsense.
She doesn't care.
She does what makes her rich and keeps her in power.
And in the cause of keeping herself rich and keeping herself in power, she would have corrupted other agencies.
She put foreign policy up for sale.
She corrupted the Justice Department, the National Law Enforcement Agency.
She would have accelerated the corruption of the IRS against her political enemies.
We dodged a real bullet there.
And the question is, the question is whether this is going to be another Republican administration that's just a seat warmer, or whether Donald Trump is not just going to be a Republican seat warmer administration until the Democrats get their act together and get re-elected next time round.
Whether Donald Trump is going to make a serious effort to reverse the left-wing ratchet effect in America's political culture.
I don't think a guy as wealthy and successful as that becomes president at the age when he could be retiring to the Gulf Links if he wasn't serious about reversing the left-wing ratchet effect in American life.
And I think that's what he'll do.
Mark Stein for Rush, lots more straight ahead.
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History Dean tweeted, I was complaining earlier about that I needed a real world-class flute player for my forthcoming TV show and the difficulty I was have trying to get one past U.S. immigration.
It's costing a huge amount of money.
Just to get someone into the country for two hours on what's supposed to be the Express program is like a nightmare.
And I was contrasting this with the way if you just want to come in here illegally, you have no skills, you want to go on welfare, you want to clog up the emergency rooms, you want to send your kids to the local public schools so they have to introduce English as a foreign language programs, you can do it.
And all the Democrat cities and now Wesleyan University in Connecticut are all saying, come on down, where sanctuary campuses, where sanctuary cities.
And I was complaining about trying to, the amount of trouble I was having to do to get a flute player into America for two hours.
And History Dean tweeted, every time he says flute player, I lost hope that Mark Stein Online would settle the debate between flutist and flautist.
Because I'm sensitive.
I'm sensitive to that issue.
I deliberately avoided saying flutist because that's like American English and flautist is what they say in most parts of the British Commonwealth.
And it's not flautist.
Mike thinks it's flautist.
Now we've got a third option.
This is like multiple choice now.
Is it A, flutist, B, flautist, C flautist?
I'm flautist.
If you've got it, flaut it.
And I'm looking for a flautist and that's clearly why American U.S. Immigration Department of Homeland Security is baffled because the category is flutist and I'm trying to bring in a flautist.
But thank you.
Thank you for that.
On the other side of the ledger, Dennis Owens, Mr. Dennis Owens, writes emails to say, why don't you stay the F in Canada, you effing know-it-all?
There are just a whole lot of people who don't give an F what you say, except he spells out the F word.
And actually, Dennis Owens, I made that point earlier.
I don't, and most conservatives know.
We know that there are a whole lot of people who don't care what we say and don't agree with what we say.
We are aware every time we switch on the television and we watch one of the main networks, every time we pick up most American newspapers, that our views are not universally accepted and that we have to be able to argue them.
And your point, the fact that you've degenerated into nothing but babbling obscenities, you make the other point, that, in fact, for liberals, you're living in a bubble.
And you're so unused to people disagreeing with you that you're stunned when you lose an election.
Rush knows about this.
Most people who talk about Rush as, oh, he's angry, he's bitter, fulminating, spewing, they've never listened to Rush, because if they did, they'd hear him sitting here laughing his head off.
But that's the difference.
We understand that not everyone agrees with us and we have to argue our corner.
And you guys think that your stuff is the law and no one disagrees.
Yes, it's Boogie in Black Friday on the Rush Limbaugh show, 1-800-282-2882, Open Line Black Friday.
We were just talking about whether it's flutist or flautist, and we've now moved on to whether it's pianist or pianist or penist, which Mike says.
Actually, I think penist is what you are if you're a cisgenderist biased against trans women.
But that's a whole other issue.
We're not going to get all into Mike was wondering if a penist can also be a flute player, but we're not going to get into all that.
I was talking about this ridiculous email I got from this guy called Dennis Owens, who just sent me a blizzard of F words saying there are just a whole lot of people who don't give an F what you say.
And that's actually what the Democrats have failed to understand since the election.
There are people who disagree with you.
We are in a pluralist society.
The whole Democrat project is to say there's a correct way to think about climate change.
There's a correct way to think about Islam.
There's a correct way to think about transgendered bathrooms.
And if you have a different thought, you're not, you don't just have a different difference of opinion.
You are beyond the pale.
You don't count.
Your views don't count.
And nobody who's on the right thinks like that.
Because those of us who are on the right understand every time we switch on the Today Show or Charlie Rose or switch on even most motion pictures and sitcoms and all the rest of it, that there are millions and millions of people out there in the rest of America who have an entirely different view.
Every time our kid comes back from school and we say, what did you do today?
And they learned about how climate change is going to destroy the planet.
We are aware that there are a multiplicity of views out there and that our views are not universally shared, which is why we come prepared to argue our corner.
And Dennis Owens emails me to point out as if it's a revelation that not everyone agrees with me.
There are millions of people who disagree with me.
Of course.
There are millions of people who disagree with Rush.
But the fact of the matter is that Rush, as we're saying earlier, when you say, oh, Rush is bitter, angry, spewing vitriol, you're saying you've never listened to Rush.
Rush is laughing behind the microphone, having a good time.
And the only time that liberals are ever exposed to him is when they take their car to the shop and the grease monkeys working on the car retune the radio and so the guy comes in, picks up his car, drives it away from the shop, and instead of those nice, nasal, whiny-voiced women on NPR, suddenly Rush is coming out the radio at them, and for the 45 seconds before it takes them to press the button and change the station, that's the only time they are exposed to other views.
And I made the point earlier that Christian Amampo and Hillary Clinton and Katy Perry, it's like this three-way dance between the media and the Democrats and the celebrities.
Christian Amampore tells Hillary it's going to be a landslide.
Hillary tells Katy Perry it's going to be a landslide.
Katy Perry tells Christian Amampo it's going to be a landslide.
And they're all living in their self-reinforcing bubbles.
And one consequence of that, and one reason why they want to just ban debate and tell you there's only a correct position, and if you have a different position on transgendered bathrooms or climate change, you have to lose your job and be cast into outer darkness, is because this self-reinforcing bubble is depriving them of the ability to argue their corner.
And I'll give you one example of that.
I see in The Hill today, which is the big Capitol Hill newspaper, that Nigel Farage, there's some story that Nigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit campaign in the United Kingdom, he's the leader of the UK Independence Party, and he came over here for a Trump rally.
And there's this story because he was seen going into Trump Tower during the transition.
And he made a joke that he was hoping to be appointed as Trump's ambassador to the European Union.
And so there's this story in The Hill that Nigel Farage may be moving to the United States.
Nigel and I, Nigel has done something that most elected politicians never do.
He's more important than any Prime Minister in the UK.
He did something more consequential than any Prime Minister or Foreign Secretary or Chancellor of the Exchequer or any of these office holders did.
He totally reoriented the entire focus of British foreign policy post-Second World War and got Britain out of the European Union.
That's something that he did something on a scale.
He decided 20 years ago that's what he was going to do.
He's never going to be Prime Minister.
He's never going to be Foreign Secretary, but he's had more impact than any of the useless seat warmers who have held that position.
And Nigel and I took part in a debate up in Toronto on all this European refugee, so-called refugees from Syria and elsewhere.
And we were appearing before an audience of big-time Toronto liberals.
And we were appearing against the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and a distinguished British historian, Simon Sharma.
And they did the usual refugee bleeding heart thing.
And overwhelmingly, they polled the audience when they went in.
The audience was overwhelmingly on their side.
And by the time Nigel and I had made our case, that audience had had one of the biggest swing backs that they've ever recorded in that debate series.
That's not because I'm a brilliant debater.
Nigel is a brilliant debater.
I'm not as good as Nigel Farage is.
But it's because those of us on the right are used to having to argue our corner.
And too many people on the left assume, A, that everyone doesn't everyone agrees with them.
B, if you don't agree with them, you're somehow a moral reprobate.
And C, that therefore you should be banned, hounded from your job, kicked out of college.
And D, if all else fails, you just write illiterate, half-wit emails that are blizzards of F-words as Dennis Owens does.
And all that got you on November 8th is you lost.
You lost everything.
You lost the House.
You lost the Senate.
You lost the Oval Office.
You lost governorships.
You lost state legislatures all over the country because you've lost the ability to argue.
So don't be an idiot for the next four years.
Don't be a chump.
Don't be a schmuck, Dennis Owens.
You guys need to learn how to get back in the game and argue your corner the way those of us on the right have to do when we live in a profoundly hostile culture where newspapers, television stations, the universities, the grade schools all take the same assumptions you do, that our positions are not just a difference of opinion, but illegitimate.
And in the case, and in fact, hate crimes that should be criminalized.
And it's not doing you any favors.
Because it's like occasionally, for example, you'll see, if you watch Al Jazeera or Al Arabia, occasionally they'll invite an apostate via satellite, like Wafa Sultan, who's a very brave Muslim woman who lives in California.
And they invited her on to debate a big shot Imam on Al Arabia or Al Jazeera.
And she kicked the big shot Imam's butt clear across the floor.
Because like most of those big shot Imams, he wasn't used at having to argue his corner.
Over there, those guys say, if you disagree with me, we'll chop your head off.
The Democrats aren't going there yet, but they are saying if you disagree with me, you're committing a hate crime.
You're a racist.
You're a bigot.
You deserve to lose your job.
You deserve to be kicked out of university.
They're not chopping your heads off yet, but they're on that continuum.
They're on the light, easy listening end of the continuum at the moment.
But who's to say when they won't decide to go nuclear and actually want to decapitate you for disagreeing with you?
And as we saw when Wafa Sultan debated the big shot Imam, when you're like those useless Imams and your beard is bigger than your brain, or that's all you got, you got a big beard, a big turban, a big robe, but your brain is this tiny little shriveled pee because you no longer take it out and exercise it, you lose the ability to argue your corner.
And that is what is and that is why Democrats, instead of entering a period of introspection after this catastrophic loss, are instead saying, oh, it must be all the fake news.
No, it must be the Electoral College.
No, it must be because Putin got into and hacked into all the voting machines in Pennsylvania.
And no, it must be anything except us.
It's on you, Democrats.
It's on you.
You lost.
Why aren't you why aren't you talking?
Churchill, after he lost the 1945 election, someone asked him what was the Conservative Party to say to the British people now.
And he said, the Conservative part, the British people don't want to hear a word from the Conservative Party for the next two years.
I'm going to go away and paint.
And he was right.
What he meant is when you have lost on the scale that the Democrats lost last Tuesday, You should be sitting down and considering what it is you did after controlling all the levers of power in our society,
controlling the press, controlling the television, controlling the universities, controlling the broad pop culture so that even Miley Cyrus and Lady Gagger and all the rest of it are automatically assumed to be on your side.
When you lose on the scale you did, the appropriate response isn't to double down and to say to look for external explanations.
The appropriate response of someone who is not entirely deranged, as Rush was saying the other day, is a moment of quiet introspection to think: what the hell did the voters just tell us?
And that is not a mistake people on the right make.
We are always aware that our ideas are not the coziest, not the fluffiest.
They're hard ideas.
If love trumps hate, as the Democrats say, then the Republicans are peddling tough love, the hard truths of life.
That's what conservatives are peddling, hard truths of life.
And that is something we well understand isn't always popular.
It isn't always the sentimental, fluffy, marshmallow pieties.
But when you have lost on the scale that the Democrats have, the appropriate response is a moment of humility before the people's voice before you just start going on, carrying on for the next four years as you carried on for the last year and a half.
That's not going to get you anywhere.
That will just ensure you're lining up your next defeat in November 2018.
Mark Stein for Rush.
We'll take your calls straight ahead.
Hey, Mark Stein, Infra Rush, it's not just sinister foreign guest hosts on Open Line Black Friday, but we also have sinister foreign callers.
Let us go to Tom in Kingston, Ontario, on the Empire Loyalist Parkway on the north shore of Lake Ontario.
Tom, you're on America's number one radio show.
I'm doing great, Tom.
What's on your mind from the deranged Dominion?
I was thinking of the computer experts that want to do the recall in the dress belt states.
Right, right.
Because they were saying that according to the machines, up to 7% of the votes were higher for Trump than they were for Clinton, and that went against the paper stuff.
Right.
So they think the machines are hacked.
But if the machines were right, my view on it is that up to 7% of the paper votes have disappeared.
And that would have been against Trump.
But they couldn't steal the election because in a landslide, you cannot slip in enough fake votes or hide enough.
No, that's actually a very interesting theory, Tom, because it's harder to physically destroy, it's easier to physically destroy paper evidence because when it's gone, it's gone, than it is to monkey around with the computers.
So the discrepancy could just as easily be on Hillary's side, which is a fascinating theory.
This isn't going to go anywhere.
And as I said, I would be in favor of what they have in Canada and what they have in Sweden and what they have in Switzerland, which is a uniform ballot that is exactly the same from Maine to Hawaii, and it would be a paper ballot and you'd have your ex in the spot and then everybody would have the same kind of ballot.
But Tom's point is actually a very important one.
If there's a discrepancy, who's to say it isn't in the other kinds of ballots that they have in these states.
But the point here is that the minute it goes to this kind of argument, all the Democrats do is find a judge, a friendly judge who rules that, oh, yes, this ballot is blank, but there's a faint indentation in the Chad that a qualified expert, Chad Diviner, discerns as someone who intended to vote for Hillary Clinton.
And that's the way it goes.
These problems, incidentally, always arise in Democrat states.
Republicans are always the ones who are accused of monkeying with the system, but the faults with the system always occur in Democrat states.
I mean, has California actually given a final result yet?
I was listening to Rush, I think it was two days ago, and they're still counting votes in California.
So it's now like two and a half weeks after the election, and they still haven't certified the result in Michigan yet.
This is like getting election results from the Northwest Frontier Province.
Actually, I'm insulting Pakistanis.
It's worse than that.
This is like Yemen.
This is like one of those places in Somalia where there's no functioning government at all, but they vote for who's best goat of the year.
And the goat of the year results don't come through for three weeks because it's still too close to call.
So they're waiting for the upcountry village to decide which goat is best goat of the year.
That's California.
That's California.
The election night special with Megan Kelly and Brett Baer should start at 6 p.m. on election night and go through till Christmas Eve because that's when finally the last votes will actually be counted.
Tom, viewing all this craziness from Kingston on the United Empire Loyalist Parkway in Ontario, Canada.
Thank you for your call on Open Line Black Friday.
We will close things out in just a moment.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
I've had a ball on this Black Friday.
Had a great time.
I hope you had a terrific Thanksgiving, notwithstanding political differences with your young ones among the relatives.
And things are going from bad to worse on the Democrat Party.
Accusations that Bernie Sanders is a white supremacist and Howard Dean, who proclaimed himself a metrosexual 12 years ago, is now an unwanted white male in the Democrat Party.
Rush will return live on Monday.
This has been Mark Stein.
And if you'd like to check me out on camera, I've had extensive reconstructive surgery.
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