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Nov. 28, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 28, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings, my good friends, and welcome.
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So an armed attacker has been shot dead by the cops after mowing down some students with a car and stabbing them with a knife at the Ohio State University.
Nine people are injured.
An assailant was reported at the Columbus campus this morning.
Federal officials told CNN that a knife-wielding attacker went on a stabbing rampage at Watts Hall around 10 a.m.
Their witnesses said that somebody pulled a fire alarm in the building and that the man mowed them down with his car as they were evacuating.
Just after 11, a little over an hour ago, police confirmed that the suspect was dead, nine people injured, one in critical condition.
That is summation of what's known at the time.
If you heard anything on Modi Vin there or who the guy was, we don't know anything more than this.
So we keep a sharp eye on this.
You know, it'd be easy here to speculate what's going on, but we're not going to do that.
We'll wait patiently and find out what we are told, and then we will decide whether or not we believe it.
I have never in my life, ladies and gentlemen, never in my life ever been in a situation like this where I literally doubt everything I see in the news.
You know this fake news business, this fake news business, the Democrats, I warned everybody, and it's going to continue every day for the next four years.
Everything that you see, this Jill Stein recount, all of this attention to fake news.
The Washington Post has made a fool of itself with a massive story on fake news, as though there has never been satire or parody or lies in the media.
Thomas Jefferson wrote about it, about how all the lies, so many lies appeared in the daily media, way back in the earliest days of the founding of the country.
To pretend that it's something new and from Russia.
I mean, these are the people, the Soviet Union, back in the days of Soviet-sponsored communism.
When any of us in this country tried to point to the Soviet Union and ring alarm bells, it was people like the Washington Post who made fun of us and poo-pooed us and said, come on, are you the kind of person that sees a communist behind every rock?
You are insane.
You're a lunatic.
The communists are not that bad.
And they just did everything they could to lampoon and impugn anybody who wanted to point out the dangers and rigors of communism.
They're doing the same thing now with people trying to tell the truth about Castro.
Now, those people are now pointing fingers of blame at the old Soviet Union, Russia, and claiming that Russia is behind the election of Donald Trump because Russia sponsored fake news all over social media and so forth.
They are doing everything they're doing to delegitimize the Trump election right now, and then they will move forward to try to delegitimize the Trump presidency.
That's what all of this is about.
Now, with the Jill Stein recount, there's much more than that going on, but that's part of it.
The delegitimizing of the Trump election, his victory, and his upcoming presidency.
Just look at it as a replay of Florida 2000 with different circumstances.
This recount that she's mounted here is such a scam, and it's such a fraud on so many levels.
But its secret purpose, and there might be two or three secret purposes, the overall primary reason for it, outside of raising money for Jill.
So you know what this also could be?
It could also be a trial balloon for Obama to see how easy he could get rich like the Clintons did when they left office.
I mean, if there are this many ticked-off Democrats willing to send in thousands of dollars at the first conspiracy note, imagine how Obama might be salivating out there at the opportunity he's got to become Obama Inc.
Now, this fake news business.
Let me tell you why it's even a factor.
Let me tell you why.
It's the same thing I said here at the opening of the program.
I don't know what to believe in the mainstream media anymore.
My instinct is to not believe any of it.
And it's their fault.
They got this ball rolling.
They are the people.
I hate to say this because I like this guy, Jim Rutenberg at the New York Times.
We highlighted the story he wrote sometime this past summer, a front-page article in the New York Times, pretty much encouraging journalists to throw objectivity out the window.
Throw it aside because the circumstances are so dire.
The candidacy of Donald Trump, Trump, and the potential election of Donald Trump, so dire, circumstances so extreme that they had to throw out all the rules, all the objectivity, all the fairness.
They had to become activists.
They had to become advocates.
They had to become opinion journalists.
And they did.
The New York Times urged the media to throw, and they never were objective, and they never were fair.
All that was a pretense and an illusion, but they threw the illusion out the window.
So when the drive-by media, led by the New York Times, openly encourages itself and others to cast aside the time-honored traditions and rules and principles of journalism, when they admit they're going to become fake news, how can you blame anybody else for getting into it?
I really, fake news has been so blown out of proportion anyway.
What it largely is, is satire and parody that liberals don't understand because they don't have a sense of humor, particularly if it's about them.
You just, you can't laugh at them, you can't mock them, you can't make fun of them like they can laugh at and mock and make fun of everybody else.
But you try it against them and you've got, well, you've got potentially dangerous situations wherever this happens because they just can't take it.
And of course, they can't come to grips with the fact that they were rejected in this election.
So they have to come up with some sort of excuse.
And you won't believe what some of the things are coming up with.
Try this.
There's a guy in the Washington Post who wrote a story that, well, you know, this election, you guys may have won it, but do you know that 64% of the economic activity in this country voted for Hillary?
In other words, in the areas of the country where 64% of economic growth is, the Coast, New York, California, Hollywood, they voted Democrat.
And 36% voted Trump.
So the economic engine of America actually voted Hillary.
And they've come up with a couple of other weird, oddball examples, and they're going to come up with more.
And that's genuine fake news because they cannot acknowledge.
They cannot accept that they've been rejected.
What is it?
I'll get to it in a minute.
I've got all this laid out to get to it in order.
I'm just getting a here's a tabletop view of what's coming today.
But they've got all kinds of stories they're telling themselves to, in effect, lie and tell themselves they actually won this were it not for the Electoral College.
In fact, CNN has a poll.
You ready for this?
Did I put it on the top?
CNN has a poll showing that eight in ten voters want the Democrat agenda enacted.
80% of people who vote, yes, sir, Ebob, 80% of the people who voted in the election want, here we go, CNN ORC poll, nation divided.
And is it ever, after a bruising presidential election featuring the two least liked major party candidates in recent history, more than eight in 10 Americans say the country is more deeply divided on major issues this year than in the past several years.
And more than half say they're dissatisfied with the way democracy is working in the U.S. Nearly 80% overall hope to see the GOP-controlled government incorporate some Democrat policies into its agenda.
Classic.
They can create a poll that produces whatever result they want, but this, you want fake news?
Here you've got fake news.
80% of the people in America want the Republicans to incorporate a lot of Democrat policies into its agenda.
Eight in ten say the Republicans should make an effort to include Democrat policies in any legislation they pass rather than sticking to a GOP-driven agenda.
This happens every time the Republicans win.
Every time a Republican wins the White House, whenever Republicans win control of Congress, the drive-bys always claim that the message is voters want a balanced and divided government.
This is going to lead, mark my words, it isn't going to be long for the first six months of next year that we're going to start seeing people like Chuck Schumer and the like start bleating about the rights of the minority.
It's going to be something you're going to need a real stiff spine to deal with.
But the fake news, believe me, folks, if you want to get to the root of this current iteration of it, they're trying to blame the Russians for it.
See, the Democrats can't lose on their own.
There always has to be some trick.
They can't, it's impossible for them to be rejected, even though they've lost over 1,200 seats since 2008, since they ceased to be a national party.
They really are not a national party.
They have been decimated, but they're lying to themselves and telling them they actually outnumber us and they overwhelm us and they're more powerful than we are.
And it's just the Electoral College that made this an oddball result.
So Trump is not legitimate.
And one of the great comforts they point to is fake news.
And I'm just telling you, they are responsible for it.
When they, led by the New York Times, announce publicly that they are going to throw in with Hillary Clinton, that they're going to use every bit of power, all the resources they have to trash Trump and elect Hillary.
You can say bye-bye journalism.
You can say even bye-bye to the pretense of it, even though there hasn't been anything but a pretense of journalism, objective journalism for years, but they made it official.
So when they throw away the time-honored sacred principles of journalism in a public way, well, then there is no legitimate journalism to be found anywhere.
Therefore, everything is fake news.
They're bringing all of this on themselves.
By the way, for those of you concerned, yeah, we'll get to Conway and Romney.
That's interesting what's happening.
Kellyanne Conway and Romney and Trump.
Really fascinating what's going on.
I think we're in store for a presidency even more unlike any that people have been imagining.
I just, I don't, I think it's going to be tough to predict this and to analyze it, certainly in contemporary traditional terms.
But many of you still, I'm sure, upset over the possibility that Trump will not pursue an investigation of Hillary Clinton.
Now, that could be all off, too.
What with Hillary getting behind this Jill Stein effort on this phony fake recount?
However, little story of the New York Post from yesterday.
Don't know how many of you saw it.
Trump administration will pressure foreign states to probe Clinton Foundation.
Do you see this?
Foreign governments will be encouraged to investigate the Clinton Foundation's finances as many are already turning off money spigots to the scandal-scarred group.
You know what that could be?
Another thing going on, Jill Stein.
You know what else could this be about?
It could be, I mean, she, do you know this?
Jill Steinbabe has raised more money for this recount than she raised for her campaign.
She has raised more money in two or three weeks than she raised in months for her entire presidential campaign.
And the fascinating thing about this recount fundraising scam, she started out saying she would need a million and a half dollars to do the recount in three states.
And as donations kept coming in, the amount of money she said she needed kept increasing.
Now she's up to needing four and a half or five million dollars.
The more money she gets, the more money she says she needs.
It's clearly a scam.
What if some of the donors are indeed Clinton Foundation donors who have been hoodwinked into thinking this is a genuine effort to get Hillary elected president so that the money they sent to her foundation could actually be worth something?
What if they think it's just costing them?
There could be any number of possibilities to explain why so much money is flowing into this recount effort.
And there may not be any need to really complicate it with a bunch of different theories.
Probably staring us right in the face.
The left can't accept rejection.
They can't accept defeat.
And they're going to spend the next four years telling themselves they didn't lose, that Trump is illegitimate.
And they're going to have the media just dumping all over the Republicans each and every day.
And who knows what role Obama is going to play in that, but he will be playing one.
Yeah, the Castro stuff.
This is fascinating, too.
The way the left is reacting to the death of Fidel Castro up against the incontrovertible facts of who he was.
You want to talk about a disconnect?
In fact, I don't think it is a disconnect.
I think the left, the power brokers, the leaders, I think they actually did admire the guy.
I think this is what they think Castro's power.
I've always said, you know, people have asked me, how come all these actors and people and these leftist politicians, how come they admire people like this?
And I said, they envy their power.
And I think that there may be a lot to that.
Let me take a brief time out.
We've briefly set the table.
We'll come back and continue here as we're back to normal on the EIB network.
Don't go away.
Here are the two greatest examples of the Democrats lying to themselves about how they actually won.
And there will be many more of these as time unfolds.
But here's Ezra Klein, who is at Vox.
Vox is this millennial publication where they claim to explain the news.
They don't report the news.
They explain what it means because audiences are too stupid to understand it.
Ezra Klein, more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than Trump.
More Americans voted for Democrat Senate candidates than for Republican Senate candidates.
So why aren't Democrats acting like it?
Why aren't the Democrats trying to force Republicans in the media and Trump to act like it?
Why?
We won!
We won that more people voting for Hillary.
We won.
Why aren't our people acting like Ezra?
You didn't win.
We elect presidents via the Electoral College.
The popular vote's not a factor.
And if it were, this campaign would have been entirely different.
And rather than 16 states being campaigned in, three or four would have been.
That's why the Electoral College is set up.
But this is really unhinged.
More Americans voted for Democrat Senate candidates than for Republican Senate candidates.
Yeah, the New York Yankees scored three times the runs the Pittsburgh Pirates did in the 1960 World Series, but the Pirates won the World Series.
Ezra, the Democrats have lost 1,200 seats.
The Democrats have lost something like 69 House seats, 11 Senate seats, 39 governorships.
It's incredible what the Democrats are lost.
You're not winning anything, Ezra.
You're losing to the point that all you are is a coastal party.
Here's the next one.
It's from this guy as Jim Tankersley, Washington Post.
He talks about how divided we are as a country, but that the real division is economic.
According to a Brookings Institute analysis, the less than 500 counties that Clinton won nationwide combined to generate 64% of America's economic activity last year.
The more than 2,600 counties that Trump won combined to generate 36% of the country's economic activity.
So less than 500 counties, 64% economic activity, voted Hillary.
Mr. Tankersley, you think it would make sense if you looked at this the right way: 36% of the country's economic activity is located in something like 2,600 counties.
That's not good.
Those people there were ticked off, Mr. Tankerly.
Those people want an improved economy.
That's the Obama economy you're talking about.
It makes sense they would vote against it.
Welcome back, my friends, Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone.
You notice that when the attacker at the Ohio State University attacked, the people did not call Black Lives Matter.
They call the cops.
Imagine that.
They called the police.
They didn't call Black Lives Matter and they didn't call Barack Hussein O. And I also happen to note that the bad guy at the Ohio State University was killed by somebody with a gun.
Yes, somebody with a gun got the bad guy and potential victims, the terrorized at Ohio State did not call Black Lives Matter.
Real life lessons, as observed here on the EIB network.
By the way, I know of the Jill Stein recount, everybody involved, Hillary, Hillary's campaign, Jill Stein, everybody involved says they haven't found one shred of evidence of any chicanery.
They haven't found any evidence of tampering with votes.
They haven't found any evidence that anything is illegitimate or criminal.
And now I was wrong.
Jill Stein's up to needing $7 million.
Her original claim was that she needed $1 million and a half.
Now she needs $7 million.
I mean, I just, there's so many things wrapped up in one here.
It's a fundraising scam.
It's a trial balloon, I think, for perhaps Obama to see just how fluid and angry Democrat losers are and how freely they will part with their money, depending on what they're being asked to pay for.
And that's another thing, folks, about all of this.
All of these stories designed to tell Democrat voters that they actually won, that it was just the quirks of our democracy and maybe some chicanery and the Russians and fake news, which led to Trump's victory, that it's totally illegitimate.
And then you go out, send us some money, send us some money so we can continue our efforts to establish and prove this.
Democrats are writing checks left and right.
Democrats are being scammed by the people responsible for their loss.
It's an amazing thing to see.
But I want to go back to this because you're going to see all kinds of these examples as the effort to make the Trump win illegitimate and his presidency illegitimate.
Numbers, I know, are hard to follow on the radio, but I want to go through this because this is the Washington Post.
The Washington Post is quickly trying to become the safe space for Donald Trump deniers, for the Trump won the election deniers.
I think the Washington Post is establishing itself as the safe space for anti-Trump delicate snowflakes to go.
And this guy, Jim Tankersley, says that the divide in America is real and it's big, but that it is economic.
And he cites a Brookings Institute analysis.
Hillary Clinton won, and they claim the popular vote.
She won in less than 500 counties.
And those counties who number less than 500 generate 64% of economic activity in America.
Trump won 2,600 counties.
And all of those counties, I mean, Hillary, less than one-fifth of the counties that Trump won.
And yet those counties generate 64% of the USA economy.
And the 2,600 counties that Trump won only generate 36% of the country's economic activity.
So doesn't it sort of make sense that people who can't get a job and can't find any economic activity and can't get a raise and have it, doesn't it make sense that they would vote for Trump?
They're not participating in the Obama economy.
They're not participating in the Democrat economy.
It makes total sense.
And yet they want to turn this number.
And what they're trying to say here is that, well, the brains and the engine of American prosperity, the smart people, they voted for Hillary.
The rubes, the idiots, the out-of-work, the lazy, the people who are not making America work, the people not contributing.
They voted for Trump.
They're idiots.
That's what is being said here.
And of course, liberal Democrats who read this are just sopping it up.
And they're actually believing that this election, and this is where they're catching themselves short.
I've read them.
I've studied what they're saying.
They actually think that the Trump election is a weird outlier.
That America will instead and without much effort will continue to trend in the direction Obama was taking it.
That most people wanted that.
And CNN's got a poll for them.
Eight in ten want Trump to incorporate the Democrat agenda into his.
And so they're telling themselves that there was some weird aberration here and that this is the last dying gasp of Republicans and conservatives.
Trump's election is a last dying gasp that we get through these four years or however many years it takes to impeach Trump and then we'll get back to what was normal.
Well, they're going to lose out on shaping the Supreme Court for at least a generation.
They're going to have to put up with so much of what Obama implemented being just ripped to shreds and ripped out.
This is much more than an aberration.
The Democrat Party has been reduced to the point it's not a national party anymore.
And these guys, citing their statistics, whether they know it or not, are proving it.
They have no representation.
They have no appeal.
They have nothing about them to recommend them to well over 90% of the geographic area of the country.
And it's huge.
And these people try to, well, it doesn't matter because there's not nearly as many people live there.
Well, you lost it.
No, we didn't lose the illegal popular vote.
We won.
We won.
They're telling themselves they won everything.
Mere aberration.
And you know the old saw.
When you have a problem, the first thing to do in addressing it is to honestly identify it.
These people can't even bring themselves to that area.
So I think they're headed for even tougher times than they even imagine.
They're also going nuts over Trump tweeting the idea that millions of illegal aliens voted.
And if you take those votes out, he's probably going to win the popular vote.
I wish I could remember.
I saw that somewhere.
I saw it was an opinion piece someplace, and I can't remember where, and I even referenced on this program when I saw it, that people looking into it, and that we will know at some point.
Do you like the Democrats instead?
They're acting like, oh my God, they're accusing fraud.
There's no evidence of any fraud.
These are the people before the election were running around claiming there already was fraud.
These are the people before the election were warning of it, and they were telling everybody to be on the lookout for it.
They had their lawyers at all the polling places.
They were expecting fraud.
They use fraud.
They have perfected it.
They oppose voter ID so that they can engage in it.
And now all of a sudden, when Trump references the possibility, these people, no, no, no, this election was clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.
Except now they want to look at maybe recounting in three states where they can't find any evidence of chicanery.
They can't find any evidence of tampering.
And yet they must think there was some or they wouldn't want these recounts.
And yet when Trump alludes to possible fraud, they laugh at it and mock it and say it's ridiculous while at the same time they're trying to find it.
Of course, not their own.
They're trying to find, they don't want to find the evidence of illegal aliens voting.
No, no, they want to find discrepancies between machine tabulations and paper ballots.
And they want to look at these variations, if there are any, and claim the machines were tampered with by the Russians, by Vladimir Putin, the Russians.
Now, keep in mind, this is the same party that got in bed with the Soviet Union everywhere it could around the world, including Cuba, including Nicaragua, including Ted Kennedy, warning and begging Soviet leaders to be patient until they could get rid of Reagan.
The same people who have done the bidding of the Soviet Union in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Yes, I know exactly what I'm saying.
The Democrat Party has had a friendly, supportive relationship with every communist regime on this planet in my lifetime.
And now all of a sudden, their buddies, the Soviets, i.e.
Putin and the Russians, have abandoned them and are now sabotaging them for the purposes of elected.
people are deranged.
They're literally losing.
I think they're out of their minds.
They've literally lost their minds.
They don't know what they're talking about.
They're talking.
They're flapping just to hear their heads rattle.
They have no semblance of substance in anything that they are talking about now.
And they're bringing along their deranged lunatic fringe, which is their base, right along with them.
And it's contributing to this whole idea of a divided country with no hope for crossing the gap or bridging the gap.
So you sit tight, my friends.
I'm wound up about all this, and I'm going to try to squeeze as many of your phone calls in.
And we've got still to discuss Castro.
Look, this is a teachable moment, a big-time teachable moment.
The death of Fidel Castro and the way that death was treated by many, if not most, in the American media and the Democrat Party, with a couple of noted exceptions.
One of the exceptions being Pelosi.
But the most accurate take, the most accurate reaction, the most dead-on public statement about the death of Fidel Castro came from Trump.
Obama's was neutral.
You know, Obama was telling Castro, that's the kind of thing Obama, all these leftists, these social justice warriors, they admire what they think Castro was trying to do.
He had free health care for everyone.
Never mind that nobody could access it.
It's just, it's absurd.
I can't wait to share with you a story in the Washington Post about this.
It's sick.
It is dangerous how wrong, how factually incorrect, how attitudinally, how ideologically wrong this is.
It's dangerous.
It'd be one thing if it was from a kook, obscure conspiracy website, but this is in the Washington Post.
El Brian Williams.
Did you hear what Brian Williams said?
He said people in Cuba prefer donkey-drawn carts to automobiles.
The people of Cuba prefer to be driven around by donkeys in carts rather than the 1950s and 60s automobiles, which are the newest that you can find in Cuba.
They prefer it.
Quick time out, folks.
Hang in there.
Be tough.
We'll be back.
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Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone, executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
You know, Mondays after a long break are tough.
Because I've been collecting data.
I worked all four days, and I've got this gigantic stack, and I'm trying to get to all of it in the first hour.
So if I sound a little hectic, that's why.
I have to tell myself, don't push it.
Got three hours here.
And I'm going to need all of them.
I'm going to get started on the phones now with Mike in Atlanta.
You're first today, sir, and it's great to have you.
How are you?
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Well done, sir.
Very much.
Awesome.
I started listening to your show when this whole election process started.
And thank you very much.
Very informative, and I appreciate it a lot.
You're more than welcome.
I appreciate you saying that.
Yeah, my, well, I'd like to get your take on something after I, Trump's picks for the, let's see, Mitt Romney or Giuliani for the, that was the Secretary of State.
I think it would be a great pick for him to go with to bring Romney in there to show the rest of the Republican Party that, you know, let's sweep everything under a rug.
Let's join this thing together.
Well, you know, I understand that thinking.
I totally reject it, however.
The pick is too important to give it to somebody because they want it.
It's too important to give it to somebody to show unity.
It's too important a position to try to do anything other than fill it.
I mean, it's a serious position.
The Secretary of State is the president's representative to every foreign government with whom we have relations and even our enemies around the world.
A president can't talk to them all, protocol, and a number of other reasons.
Secretary of State has to carry out the policies of the president of the United States.
That, to me, is the only criteria.
Now, even we're here.
We don't know what to believe.
This is another thing you have to be really careful, Mike.
All of you.
For example, one of the things that you're reading is that Trump really likes Romney because he's got really great looks.
Romney looks good on TV.
Romney presents well.
That's what we're being told that Trump says privately about Romney.
I, for one, don't believe that.
He may be saying it, but that's not why he would pick him to be Secretary of State.
If you examine the way all of this has gone down, and if you know Donald Trump like I do, people have forgotten Romney went out in the very early stages of this campaign and savaged Trump in a way that was so sincere and deeply felt that it to me seems impossible that Romney could even apologize and mean it for what he had said.
There was no doubt that he doesn't think Donald Trump or didn't think Donald Trump should be within a thousand feet of the White House.
But now the talk about, well, he might issue an apology or the Trump camp is demanding an apology.
I have a thought about what this all is.
But sadly, I just now glanced at the clock and I'll have to wait to share my thought with you on this.
But I don't think, to answer your question, that the pick ought to have anything to do with showing the Republicans or anybody else anything.
Kellyanne Conway, Trump campaign manager, savaging Mitt Romney, just savaging him.
The question everybody's asking: has she gone rogue or is she doing this at the direction of Donald Trump?
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