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Dec. 2, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 2, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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Okay, so I get his note from Cookie.
You know, we have a ban on MSNBC.
I do not play audio soundbites from MSNBC.
And the ban goes back many years.
So why in the world should I create an audience for this bunch?
I mean, they're nothing but a bunch of deranged leftists.
And they have uh they literally have have libeled and slandered me over the years.
Why in the world should I focus anybody's attention?
So I decided not to.
And the moment that we instituted the ban is when the bottom began to drop out of their ratings.
And now they are they are well, I was going to use a colloquialism involving a pig, but I will just say they're hurting.
But but Cookie listens to them.
She watches them, she's looking for anything that might be a good soundbite.
So occasionally she'll hear something and beg me to lift the ban.
And she just did.
She said she's got this great soundbite here from Andrea Mitchell, which she says maybe the best, one of the best Andrea Mitchell soundbites she's ever heard.
Okay, so that that's raising expectations, is it not?
I haven't heard it.
All I have is a transcript, transcript for it.
Right here, but I've not heard this.
Now, let me set it up.
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Washington, married to Alan Greenspan.
Um one of them smiles.
Did I say that?
Excuse me.
Anyway, she goes back many many moons.
She's been at NBC News when I but before I I mean I think I was a teenager.
And she's with NBC News Washington.
Anyway, um, she is totally devoted to Hillary.
She'd been in the Hillary camp for as long as Hillary has been public.
And she's like many on the Hillary camp.
What is that?
Oh, never mind.
That's I just saw a picture of of something on MSNBC, and I didn't know if it was male or female.
No, I'm not gonna tell you who, because then that'll end up being reported and they'll call me some name or something.
It was just I couldn't tell whether the person I was looking male or female, it was an MSNBC host.
And I did a double take at it.
What is that?
And I have to explain why I interrupted myself here to the audience.
That's what happened.
So apparently she was on her, she has her own show, Andrea Mitchell, MBC is her own show at MSNBC, talking to Chuck Todd of Meet the Press about what went on at Harvard yesterday at the postmortem of the election and the big knockdown drag out between Jennifer Palmer and the Hillary campaign and Kellyanne Conway, the Trump campaign.
And the bite, it's only about 32 seconds.
Remember now, Cookie said this one the best Andrea Mitchell soundbite she's ever heard.
So let's listen to it.
They were very protective of her.
And the reason was they were hurting because, not only because she lost and she's in pain, they're in pain, but because it was so nasty coming from the other side.
People don't like her, you know.
She's that's what they were saying.
Your candidate is not relatable.
And what Mandy Greenwald said is that all of her focus groups showed that people related to Hillary Clinton as a man.
As though she was a commander of chief.
She said, I've elected six women senators.
I've never had a candidate.
People view her as a man.
They did not see the humanity in her.
Okay, so oh.
What uh you need me to translate this for you.
Well, as I say, it's setting it up.
You have to understand, Andrea loves Hillary and thinks Hillary should be president.
Thinks Hillary is God's gift to humanity.
Thinks Hillary is smartest woman.
She She's bought all the buzz in PR.
She thinks the sun rises and sets on Hillary, that Hillary is just far and away the best human being on Earth, bar none, okay.
And she's distressed that nobody else sees her that way.
And Mandy Grunwald, who is a pollster, has run campaigns for a bunch of Democrats, went out and focused grouped Hillary, and found out that what Kellyanne Conway is saying is true.
People don't like her.
They don't relate to her.
And the insult, the insult to injury was that Mandy Grunwald says she has she has focus group.
She's she's elected six women senators, and Hillary is the only Democrat where people view her as a man.
Now that in these people's world, you might be so big deal.
She wears pantsuits.
Why shouldn't she be considered a man?
You've got to understand.
In these people's world, it is men who are the archenemy.
It is men, the glass ceiling.
It is men who have held Hillary back.
First, her her phlandering husband, and then Obama coming and stealing her thunder.
And now Trump, the reprobate of all men.
It's men that have denied Hillary Clinton.
Men and Hillary's done everything for men.
She gave up her life for her husband.
She gave up her future for her husband, and she's been nothing but the most cheated on woman in America.
And it just, it just destroys them when they find out that average ordinary Americans don't see a woman when they look at Hillary.
Because did you hear the end?
Andrea Mitchell said, yeah, they see her as a man.
They do not see the humanity in her.
So what must in these people's world, what must a woman who is seen as a man mean to them?
Well, you know what that's what the real question is.
What does being a man mean to them?
This should this is an eye-opener, because apparently being a man in these people's world is so bad.
It's almost the worst thing could happen to Hillary is to be viewed as a man.
It equals no humanity.
Men have no touchy feely.
Men have no humanity.
And Hillary is seen like that.
She's devastated.
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Washington.
Devastated.
Why not?
I know.
You're trying to make sense of it, and you can't.
You're saying we we elect men, people, people like men, not in this crowd.
Men are the problem in this crowd.
It's a small crowd, but I'm telling you, men Trump especially is reviled and despised because he's really a man.
He's really a man.
He's really what's wrong with men.
And they just can't stand this.
And that's why they've conjured up all these excuses to explain this reprobate beating her.
Well, you know, it's white supremacists and it's the KKK and it's the alt-right.
Because they just can't come to grips with the fact that people do not relate to, nor do they like Hillary.
They love Hillary.
They think Hillary is God's gift, but nobody else does.
Other than the people who pay Hillary, donate to Hillary.
So with that, let's go back to more from Harvard and the dust up between Jennifer Palmieri and Kellyanne Conway.
When we left off, Conway had just explained how they won the presidency.
They flipped over 200 counties.
And she explained, you ever think, Jennifer, that maybe the problem is that people just don't like your candidate?
That Hillary doesn't connect with people?
That maybe people don't have any common with Hillary.
That Maybe they see Hillary as a man.
So up next is Robbie Mook, who was the Clinton campaign manager.
And he gets into it.
I guess this is a uh this was during the Q and A. No, it's during the discussion, but there's an unidentified guy who gets into this somehow.
Anyway, let's listen.
It will be self-explanatory.
I would just say Hillary did win the popular vote.
So we're talking about a majority election.
No, no, no, just purely factual.
He was a better candidate.
That's how we have a debate.
Well, actually, actually, two and a half million more Americans thought she was a better candidate.
We're going to talk about the number.
No, I don't.
I just want to go back to the 270 or the 306 that we won, because that's how you win the presidency and we did it.
Right.
So here again, they're falling back on the irrelevancy.
Well, more popular vote.
People love Hillary more than Trump.
She got more popular vote you can look at.
Yeah, well, that's not how you win the presidency.
You dumb cops.
You get 270 electoral votes, and we got 306.
And Kellyanne now explains how Republicans crush Democrats all over the country.
This is the thing that I don't think they've come to grips with yet.
I mean, they know it.
But I don't think that they fully realize this.
If they fully realize this, well, I'll just when the day they do, it's going to be a different day.
They have been shallow.
Folks, they are no longer, when you when you get right down to it, the Democrat Party in one election.
Stop a thinking this.
Up until 9 o'clock election night.
Everybody who matters in Washington, Republican, Democrat, pollster, consultant, media, Hillary wins in a landslide.
Trump has no coattails.
The Democrats are going to win the Senate.
They're going to get close to winning the House back.
They're going to keep the White House for three terms.
It's going to be Nirvana.
Then the actual count comes in.
And not only does that not happen, Trump wins, Hillary loses.
They don't get anywhere near the House.
They've lost the Senate.
They've lost 1,200 seats in the last three elections.
They don't have a national party, just one election.
And in this next bite, Kellyanne Conway is pointing this out to them.
Listen, you guys won.
That's clear.
You won the electoral college.
That's the currency.
So be honest.
Don't act as if you have some popular mandate for your message.
The fact of the matter is that more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump.
So let's put it in the world.
And there was nothing that said the road to popular vote.
Hey guys, we won.
You don't have to respond.
I mean, seriously, hold on.
Why is there no mandate?
You've lost 60 congressional seats since President Obama got there.
You lost more than a dozen senators, a dozen governors, 1,000 state legislators.
No, no.
We're talking about this election, Kellyanne.
See, they're in permanent campaign mode, and they haven't come to grips with the fact that they lost.
It was stolen from them, or the alt-right did something, or the white supremacists came up or did something, or what they didn't lose.
They won the popular vote.
They're still in denial.
And Kellyanne's pointing out, you people, you don't say we don't have a mandate?
You don't have a party.
You've lost a thousand legislative seats.
You only have five states.
Democrats, folks, only have five states where they have the governorship and the state legislature.
Five.
It's actually four because the fifth state, they get the advantage with a tie.
It's literally four states out of fifty.
57 if you're Obama.
Four states where they have the governorship and both houses of the legislature.
That's it.
They have lost seats.
They are not going to win the House and Senate back any time soon.
They don't have a prayer.
Even if the Republicans implode, the numbers just work against them.
They got too many seats that they have to defend.
They can't stop Trump.
They are in the exact position that the Republicans were in in 2009 and 2010 with Obama.
The only tool the Democrats have is in the Senate, and it's the filibuster.
But outside of that, they can't stop anything.
It's why everybody's so confused why they re-elected Pelosi.
I mean, Pelosi is the Pelosi personifies this party's repudiation.
Pelosi personifies what people detest and dislike about this party.
They don't have anything.
One election has exposed the true dire straits of the Democrat Party.
It really is.
Profound.
But they're sitting there thinking they really were they won a popular vote.
They won.
We're only talking about this election killing.
You don't have a mandate.
You don't have a mandate.
Trump has more of a mandate than any president since Ronald Reagan.
Obama did not run on anything.
Obama ran on I'll be whatever you want me be.
If you want me to reduce the sea level, I'll do it.
If you want me to cool the planet, I'll cool the planet.
You want health care, I'll do it.
Reagan had an agenda, three agenda leg items.
Uh George W. Bush has a but Trump, because people weren't listening.
Trump has the longest agenda item list I have seen in modern American politics.
And he keeps talking about it.
He has a huge mandate.
And they're still in denial and do not even know it yet.
Back after this.
Donald Trump also last night in his remarks near the end.
Again, with the humility and establishing the connection and this really was that establishing the connection.
Near the end of his remarks, Trump, after a raucous and upbeat and optimistic night, looked all around the room and he told people how tough it's going to be to effect these changes.
He didn't want anybody misunderstanding.
He told them how hard it's going to be, but then he did something else.
He asked for their help.
Will you join me?
Will you help me make America great again?
He was asking people to stay as engaged as they were in the campaign.
As he's inaugurated and becomes president, he told them he needed them.
There's no greater way to get people to respond to you than tell them they're needed.
And by the way, you are, folks.
You are going to be needed.
NBC News.
Just sent out this exclusive email.
Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense, Mad Dog Mattis.
NBC Reporting has just been accused by an ex-Army Special Forces officer of quote, leaving my men to die in Afghanistan.
This is the kind of thing that this is all they know how to do.
I mean the media, this is all they know how to do.
They hate Mad Dog.
They hate the name.
They hate that he's a warrior general, not a political general.
They hate that he wins wars.
They hate that he's patriotic.
They hate that he is going to expose them for the pacifist that they are.
So they are out to destroy him before he ever even gets to a hearing.
NBC News.
Trump's pick, accused by Army Special Forces officer of leaving my men to die in Afghanistan.
This is why Donald Trump told you all last night he needs you.
He's going to need every one of you that showed up as all of his rallies and voted for him to continue to demonstrate your preferences.
That's not something that an arrogant, condescending power monger does.
It's another dose of humility, another expression of the deep connection and understanding he has for his audience.
Here's another example.
This is David Rodham Gurgen losing it on CNN last night.
After the Trump speech, Anderson Cooper said, you know what's interesting, David Rodham Gurgen.
Trump sometimes used the prompter, then he reads from it as a touchstone, then he improvs for a while, goes back conversational style.
He's always been doing that.
What do you make of this guy that goes from the prompter to impromptu and doesn't seem to lose a step?
The alpha mail reappeared tonight.
I think there was any doubt that we're putting an end to one chapter in American history, moving on to a new one.
He dispelled that doubt tonight.
This was goodbye to American leadership in the world.
It's goodbye to globalization.
He's bringing America home.
He is going to lead a nativist, nationalistic populist movement.
And if you want to join up with him, fine.
But if you don't, forget it.
That kind of speech will fire up his base, and it's going to leave a lot of other people.
I knew I didn't like the son of a bitch.
Whoa!
Ho!
David Rodham Gurgen, the Dean of Conventional Wisdom, the arbiter of collegiality, the leading light of being civil.
I knew I didn't like this son of a B.I. itch.
Except he said the word.
I'm telling you, folks, they're discombobulated.
They think Trump is becoming a protectionist, build walls around the country, and we're not going to go anywhere in the world.
Goodbye.
You heard him.
Goodbye to America leadership in the world.
No, no, no.
No, it's just exact thought.
Mr. Gergen, we're entering a new phase of American leadership in the world.
Where we're actually going to lead instead of acquiesce to a bunch of Nambi Pambi linguini-spined leftists at the UN.
We're going to start leaving again, Mr. Gergen.
You s we're going to lead, not follow.
Before we go back to the phones, I want to play this David Rodham Gergen soundbite one more time, because there's a lot in here.
This is actually another very teachable moment.
And I'm not playing it because of the way he ends it.
It's because of what he says before that.
He's reacting to Trump's amazing rally.
I haven't played very many sound bites from it, but it was it was a fantastic night.
There's everything in the world to recommend it.
America first, jobs first, uh working the crowd over the media, working over the heckling the hecklers, laying out a very bold conservative plan, announcing uh mad dog mattis, replace, repeal Obamacare, rebuild the military, build a great wall on the border.
We're gonna stop letting people we don't know who they are come into the country.
Uh the government's gonna answer to the people, only our people.
He's I'm asking you to believe in America again.
The script is not yet written.
The pages will be authored by each one of you.
You are the movement, I am the messenger.
That was Donald Trump last night.
As I say, it was humble.
It was filled with love and appreciation for his voters and the people in that hall.
It established an even deeper bond of connection between those people and Trump, and he asked them to continue working to help him achieve what he wants and what we all want.
So somebody like David Rodham Gergen, who believes the United States has never been a justified superpower.
I mean, we were, but we shouldn't have been.
It's not, it's too destabilizing.
Soviet Union went kerplunk, and that's bad news.
We we didn't have anybody to stabilize us.
They believe in globalism.
They believe in the United Nations.
They believe in us becoming just one of many nations.
And Trump doesn't believe that at all.
Trump believes we lead nations.
Trump believes we set the example.
Trump believes that American exceptionalism means just that.
And anybody wants to come along with us is more than welcome to.
But they got to understand who we are.
We're not gonna define ourselves by telling ourselves we're no good or we don't rate, we're gonna be more like you.
Anyway, Gergen, Council Foreign Relations, Globalism is the answer, and he's just livid over what Trump said.
I want you to hear this one more time.
The alpha male reappeared tonight.
I think there was any doubt that we're putting an end to one chapter in American history, moving on to a new one.
He dispelled that doubt tonight.
This was goodbye to American leadership in the world.
It's goodbye to globalization.
He's bringing America home.
He is going to lead a nativist, nationalistic, populist movement.
And if you want to join up with him, fine.
But if you don't, forget it.
That kind of speech will fire up his base, and it's gonna leave a lot of other people.
I knew I didn't like the sound of it.
Right.
What I think what Gergen is saying is that it's other people who were saying I knew I didn't like the Son of it.
I don't think he's actually saying that himself.
What he's saying is that it's gonna confirm for people who thought Trump was in SOB that he's in SOB.
But this is not the point.
The point is this.
This really is a a dividing line.
You and me.
They see Trump.
They listen to Trump.
And look at how Gergen describes It.
America's coming home.
It's goodbye globalization.
That means goodbye, United Nations.
That means goodbye, Paris Accords.
That means goodbye, all these world organizations that punish America for its excesses.
Goodbye, Trump's bringing America home.
Goodbye.
World leadership.
Hello, nativism, nationalistic populism.
And if you want to join up with Trump, fine, but if you don't, the hell would you.
And they're missing the point.
What Trump is saying, and what all of you instinctively want is America to return to world leadership.
We haven't been leading the world in anything.
We've been acquiescing.
We've been accepting the world's charges against us.
We've got presidents running around assuming that all these allegations against us are true and that we're guilty of this or that.
So that's why Obama runs around and apologizes.
We haven't been leading anything.
We've been acquiescing to a bunch of linguini-spined leftists all over the world, at the United Nations, in NATO, wherever it is.
The people who don't even pay for their own defense, the people that don't even believe in guns and bullets to protect yourself are the people we have been acquiescing to.
And they think this is called leadership.
Leadership is sponsoring America's decline.
Leadership is administering America's decline.
Leadership is admitting that America's superpower status was never deserved or warranted.
No.
We are going to lead once again by being the best.
We're going to lead economically, we're going to lead technologically.
We're going to go back to the moon.
We're going to do whatever we're going to do.
We are going to lead by engaging in American exceptionalism, and this is going to inspire others to come along with us.
We're not shrinking away from anybody.
We are re-engaging.
That's what Trump is, and that's what they don't see.
They the Republicans are not the globalization.
Well, the establishment in Washington, both parties has become a globalization party.
That's one of the reasons that Republican voters are so fed up with the Republicans.
And the whole notion of globalization is the impetus behind globalization is that the United States should not, it's immoral to be the superpower in the world.
It's just not right.
It's not fair.
Because how did we become superpower?
We stole from that nation.
And we stole from that nation, and we overthrew that leader, and we overthrew that leader, and we've imposed freedom here, and we've imposed freedom there, and we have no right.
So America needs to be cut down.
Look at I have told everybody who'll listen since the first days of Barack Obama, what this is all about is paying America back for its supreme accomplishments, its excellence, its exceptionalism, that people on the left do not believe we deserved, do not believe was warranted, and do not believe it was justified, because they're so caught up in this idea that we have been immoral from the days of our founding.
We've been racist, we've been bigoted, we've been homophobic.
We've been all these horrible cultural things, and we never therefore deserve to be this superpower in the world.
to the left.
You know, Woodrow Wilson was the first guy to try it.
And FDR was on his way until World War II made him step up.
And so now Obama, look at the rules of engagement our military has.
The one thing we're not allowed to do is win.
So Mr. Gergen has it all wrong.
We haven't been leading.
That's been the problem.
We have been apologizing and acquiescing and acknowledging that a bunch of wimps around the world have more moral authority than we do.
And it's been eating away at people in this country for 20 years.
And they're excited now because it appears maybe.
We're going to start acting who we are once again.
Here is Nathan, someplace in the Southwest, as we head back to the phones.
Great to have you, Nathan.
How are you doing?
Mega Dados Rush.
I have been listening to you since I was 11, and that's before the Clinton administration, so I cannot tell you what an honor it is to actually talk to you.
Well, I appreciate that.
I really do.
Thank you.
What I want to I just want to make a quick comment and a question.
My comment is I want to thank you for the Rush Review books.
I'm a direct descendant of William Bradford, and you have done something with my kids that I haven't been able to do.
And that is build a connection between their ancestors and themselves.
And in fact, you think about it, your whole Rush Reviewers series does that for all Americans.
It connects them back to our wonderful heritage, which is something that liberals can't handle.
And I really appreciate that.
Well, you're welcome.
Yes.
William Bradford doesn't get the credit.
William Bradford is so relevant to America as it exists today.
You look at William Bradford's journal, which we touch on a little bit in Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, his writings were brilliant and technically beautiful.
He was obviously a brilliant man.
And had the ability to express himself in in uh in a number of different ways.
That's that's if your kids are realizing that they descend from something like that's really great.
They're gonna be the more you're able to inculcate that, the greater amount of pride they're gonna have.
That's in that's incredible.
Well, I appreciate that, Rush, and it's something that has always been a pet peeve for me is how we miseducate people on not just him, but also the entire American history.
It begins and ends with slavery for the liberals.
So I just want to tell you how much I appreciate that.
I do have a quick question.
Yeah.
Um I work in education, and as you know, this is the belly of the beast where the societal decay is in my mind at least, it moves so fast, and it seems to me, including myself, that we hide out as conservatives because our political beliefs and my religion makes us guilty of hate speech.
And I'm not gonna hide out.
My question for you is how do you how do conservatives like me come out from the shadows and actually start fighting for education again?
Because if we don't, we're gonna see the whole generation of students.
You know, I've asked myself that if I were in your shoes.
If if if I were at a a college or university, and let's say let me pick a number that the faculty is is a hundred and fifty or a hundred professors, and I'm one of maybe two or three conservatives.
How would I deal with it?
And what I've always thought is I would not crusade in the faculty lounge.
I would not engage the professors.
I would simply teach the students in my class.
I'd just confine it to that, and I would teach them, and I wouldn't do it in an in a in a in a confrontational way, knowing how they're not gonna react to that.
I mean, they're they're precious snowflakes.
I would just teach I would just teach conservatism to them, and I would I would let it flow from the classroom.
I realize I'd have trouble there too, because some of the students in there goes squawking off to the to the to the administration or their parents.
But that's how I would do it.
I wouldn't take on the professoriate, because I don't think that would have a prayer.
No, I appreciate that.
It's just something where I'm a fighter.
Let's just put it that way.
I don't like feeling uh I don't back away from fighting.
Me too.
I I well the temptation would be to get in their face and tell them to be.
What you really want to do, the objective is to get as many students coming out of there thinking uh differently than they went in.
So that's how I would tackle it.
But look, you probably got a better handle on it than I do because I've not actually been in that circumstance, and you are.
Yeah, but you've been in the media, which is just as bad.
Uh yeah, but you know, I also have nobody can fire me.
Yeah, that's true.
And you you probably don't have that luxury.
So you have to you have to keep that in mind.
That's one that's one advantage I've got.
They I mean they can lie about me, they can they can they can ridicule me, they can lie, they're gonna falsely accuse them, but they can't fire me.
And uh you probably could encounter a hostile administration that could make your employment tough for you.
It can be.
It can be.
So you have that wonderful pool of duty to country or duty to your family.
Right.
So Well, you can you can I I I'd give it a shot, I would try for the student.
Look, before you go, I'm offering every caller today.
It's the Christmas season.
A new iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus.
Do you uh do you have a preference of which one you'd like?
I prefer the plus, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.
My current phone only has two gigs of storage, so I can only have one app at a time.
So it would be really neat.
What kind of phone do you have?
I have an old Android, but I my wife and I, since we're single income, because she stays home with the kids.
I don't buy things until things wear out.
Okay.
Well, that look, this this phone's gonna have two hundred and fifty-six gigabytes of storage.
And iPhone 7 Plus.
Well, who's your carrier?
Does it does it matter?
Right now we're using T-Mobile, but it doesn't really matter.
I'll I'll switch with whatever you got.
Okay.
T-Mobile.
And do you have a color preference?
I have all colors in the con.
Can I get Matt Black?
Matt Black is all yours, hang on, and we'll get the address to send it out.
Don't go away, folks.
We're coming right back.
Before we get out of here, I want to play a soundbite from James Mattis.
His nickname is Mad Dog, but it's really misapplied.
He's a warrior general, and he's one of the most educated, and he's a known nonsense, achievement-oriented guy.
And there's a statement going around about him uh that that is being misconstrued.
Here is the soundbite.
You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil.
You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway, so it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot 'em.
You know, I mean, it it's a good fight.
What they're trying to say, this guy, he just loves shooting people.
You see that?
He said he's fun to go around shooting people.
He's talking about shooting men who slap women around in Afghanistan if they don't have the veil on.
He is.
Uh he's a good guy.
He's one of the greatest appointments that could have happened here for Sec Defense.
And we'll have more on him next week.
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