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Dec. 7, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 7, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
It's just past midday on America's East Coast, which means it's just past 7 in the morning in Hawaii.
And at more or less exactly this moment, three quarters of a century ago, two young men, Private George Elliott and Private Joe Lockhard, were on top of a cliff at Opama with nothing but a couple of thousand miles of ocean to look at.
They weren't actually watching the water.
They were in a monitoring van.
Radar was in its infancy back then.
In fact, the acronym Radio Detection and Ranging Radar had only been coined the previous year, 1940.
It wasn't yet a word.
And these guys' main responsibility was not to use the equipment, but to guard it, to make sure that no curious locals swung by to monkey with it or steal it or smash it.
And they'd been up since a little before 4 a.m.
And their shift had ended at 7 a.m., about six minutes ago.
They were there to monitor the system as this or that American plane took off for a training run at dawn's first light.
Joe Lockhart, 19 years old, was from Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
He was in charge, so he got to run the oscilloscope.
George Elliott, 23 years old, was from Chicago, Illinois, and he was the new guy.
So he had to track the occasional plane's position and enter it in a log.
That was the boring part of the job.
No playing around on the fancy new equipment.
And so the shift ended.
And because George was the new kid, he asked Joe if he could get to practice on the cool gear.
And radar in those days wasn't a blip on a screen like it is now.
It was an oscilloscope.
And a plane showed up as a little spike rising out of a flat line, a bit like the monitor at the end of your hospital bed.
And so George and Joe swapped chairs, and thus the quirks of fate, they might have just cleared off at the end of the shift, might have just gone for breakfast, and the machine would have been switched off.
Instead, Joe left it on, and as George settled into his seat, he saw the oscilloscope spike.
And not just any spike, but the largest spike he or Joe had ever seen.
Not one plane or two on a training run, not three planes or five or ten or twenty, but 30, no, 40, 50 planes, more, and all heading their way.
And so began a day that will live in infamy.
At this very hour, 75 years ago, December 7th, 1941.
Rush is out today.
He'll be back tomorrow.
But this is Mark Stein, your undocumented anchorman.
Honored to be here on the anniversary of one of the great hinge moments of history.
The most consequential decision of the 20th century was Winston Churchill's after the fall of France in May 1940, that the British Empire would not sue for peace with Germany but would fight on alone in hopes that America could be persuaded to join the war.
And the most consequential act of the 20th century came 18 months later, the Japanese Empire's attack on Pearl Harbor, which brought about Churchill's wish and brought the United States into the war.
And all of us born since 1945 live in the world.
Those two decisions ushered in.
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We will talk about the America that was, the America that is, and the America that can be on a day for honoring the past, acknowledging the present, and committing ourselves to the future.
There's a little bit of controversy attaching to the anniversary observances.
Later this month, President Obama and the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be in Hawaii.
And people think Mr. Abe ought to apologize for Pearl Harbor.
And apparently he has no plans to.
Just for the record, Shinzo Abe didn't bomb Pearl Harbor.
And I'm not generally in favor of politicians apologizing for things they didn't do, which is very much the fashion of our time.
Tony Blair apologized for the Irish potato famine and Bill Clinton apologized for slavery.
And Hillary Clinton apologized to the people of Guatemala because way back when the U.S. government infected Guatemalan mental patients with syphilis and gonorrhea.
And just for the record, Tony Blair didn't cause the Irish potato famine and Bill Clinton isn't responsible for slavery and Hillary Clinton never gave anybody syphilis and gonorrhea.
Bill Clinton is another matter on that and that's something he might apologize for.
Apologizing for stuff you didn't do is an act of moral narcissism and in the case of all the politicians I just mentioned there, they've all got plenty of stuff they did on their own that's worth apologizing for as opposed to apologizing for things that some predecessor of yours did in the middle of the last century or the middle of the century before that.
So I think that is an act of moral narcissism, an act of exhibitionism, and I'm not bothered by that one way or the other.
But if you feel differently, do give us a call.
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There's lots of interesting things happening out there.
The Liberals seem not to be taking to the new world terribly well.
There's now talk even as these recounts, the last I heard from the Wisconsin recount is that Trump was actually up 19 votes.
So they're now pinning their hopes that the Electoral College will produce a slew of faithless electors.
They're calling themselves Hamilton electors, trying to persuade Republican electors to defeat Donald Trump and toss the decision on who should be next president into the House in hopes that it will produce a victory for John Kasich or Mitt Romney or John Huntsman or whoever the hell it happens to be.
So we can talk about that.
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Trevor Noah, who hosts the Daily Show, who knew?
But Trevor Noah, who is a comedian from South Africa and was signed to take over the daily show from Jon Stewart, has said, let's not be divided because divided people are easier to rule.
And so he doesn't want, he wants to bring us all together.
He thinks the nation should unite in the cause of hating Trump or whatever.
No, no, I don't know what he is.
He's like trying some outreach in the hopes that we can all be friends.
There's continued speculation on who is going to be Donald Trump's Secretary of State.
Rush was talking about this, that Trump is operating under Machiavellian principles that keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer and hanging the collective responsibility for the next four years around the necks of all the guys who tried to sabotage him is Trump's way of doing that.
I'm not so sure about that.
And if you think that the responsibility of the Secretary of State in a Trump administration should be to affect the foreign policy on which Trump campaigned, then you might feel differently about that.
So call us and talk about that too.
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The health insurers are now issuing a list of their demands if Obamacare is killed.
Now bear in mind that most of these health insurers have started leaving the market and that actually they are no longer insurers.
They are some kind of strange cartel whose prices bear no relation to the actuarial chances of you getting any particular disease or anything.
But some of them have benefited from the Obamacare gravy train, and they're happy to charge more and more money with higher and higher deductibles for essentially worthless plans that only if you're incredibly sick will you ever get to avail yourself of in the closing months of the year, November and December.
Then January, you're back to the start of your big new five-figure deductible or whatever it is.
But apparently the health insurers are now issuing a warning shot to Republicans.
So just as these – they got on board the Obamacare train, and they deserve to take a hit actually for going along with that because they turned the term insurance into something that is no longer insurance in any meaningful sense.
But we will talk about that too in the three hours to come, 1-800-282-2882.
And whether we will see any progress made between Donald Trump and tech leaders.
The one group of people who haven't got anywhere near the Trump train are the Silicon Valley guys.
And he's apparently sitting down with them today.
They are more uniformly hostile to him than any other demographic group you can name.
More than African Americans or millennials or the transgendered.
Silicon Valley is like 100% anti-Trump.
And they essentially have declined to warm up to him in the weeks since the election.
So the question here is: what are they going to be meeting about and why is it important?
And is it part of this more this fake news thing where the media essentially reacted to totally screwing up their coverage of the election, misleading their readers and traumatizing their poor readers?
I mean, we're now hearing that Hillary supporters are no longer able to engage in sexual Congress or they're putting on weight, all because the Trump victory has come as such a shock to them.
So there's no end to the disaster that has been afflicted on these poor liberal readers by believing what their newspaper editors told them.
And instead, the media companies are now doubling down with all this fake news stuff.
We've got to get control of fake news, fake news this, fake news that.
Fake news is the approved term for the stuff that the so-called media does not want to cover, for real news that the media does not want to cover.
That's what they mean by fake news.
Just as when they say Donald Trump is, quote, a divisive figure, it means he keeps proposing things that are in danger of being hugely popular, like building a wall on the Mexican border or ending Muslim immigration to the United States.
That's the problem.
And now he's meeting with these Silicon Valley companies to see where they're going to go.
But don't expect anything to come out of that meeting.
He might just be there to ball them out, like he did with the media when he called them all to Trump Tower.
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On this historic day, 75 years ago, this very hour, two young American privates on a very primitive radar system saw the biggest spike in activity that they had ever seen on that screen as dozens of Japanese planes emerged approximately 130 miles off the North Shore in Hawaii.
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I mentioned that people seem to be going a little bit nutty since the result of the election.
There was a piece in the Washington Post the other day by Monica Hess and Dan Zach about whether a particular haircut that the young people favor is the haircut for a hipster or for a Nazi.
The headline in the Washington Post, does this haircut make me look like a Nazi?
And you may have seen this, like a lot of the young guys have it.
It's short on the sides and the back, and it's long on the top.
So it makes you look a bit like a mushroom or a muffin, I guess, because you've got this little bit on the top that's overhanging and then these short sides and short back.
And it's supposed to be a hipster haircut.
And the picture in the Washington Post shows on the one hand these young metrosexual hipsters leaving their soul cycle classes in their I'm with her Hillary t-shirts.
And then next to it is like these young supposed white nationalists, white supremacists, neo-Nazi Trump supporters leaving some event in Washington, D.C. where they went hail Trump.
And these two groups of young men have got the exact same haircut.
And so the Washington Post has devoted a big in-depth analysis to trying to discover whether this haircut is a hipster haircut or whether it's a new Nazi haircut.
Because you can see how confusing it is.
You might see a bunch of people walking down the street and you might think they're hipsters.
You might think they're hipster Hillary supporters, Bernie supporters, but they might be Nazi Trump supporters.
And that's the problem for everyone.
If you're a hipster, if you're one of these strange people who likes these hipster men, these pajama boys, and you see this hipster haircut, and it turns out, in fact, that it's a Nazi haircut and all the hipsters are secretly Nazis.
Well, what about it from the other side?
If you're Trump and you're plotting the new Trump Reich, and all the fellows you think are the young Nazis and are going to be your Trump youth and they're going to be singing Tomorrow Belongs to Me.
And in fact, they're not Nazis because they're in fact secretly hipsters.
So the Washington Post has a big in-depth analysis called Does This Haircut Make Me Look Like a Nazi?
And in fact, while we're thinking of Pearl Harbor today and the fall of France in May 1940, we should remember that Neville Chamberlain said when he landed at Hendon Aerodrome with Peace in Our Time, said, I have here a piece of paper from Herr Hitler, Herr Hitler.
Hitler understood the power of hair.
And the Washington Post is concerned.
Are the hipsters secretly Nazis or are all the Nazis secretly hipsters?
We don't know, but they have the exact same haircut.
And this is the kind of, this is the way the Washington Post, and Washington, I gather, I understand I'm a foreigner, I may not be up to speed here, but I gather this is America's capital city and this is the newspaper of record of the capital city of the global hyperpower.
And they're terrified lest what they thought was a hipster haircut is in fact secretly a Nazi haircut.
And all the little pajama boys, all they're sitting with their mugs of cocoa in their big onesies, their plaid onesies, sipping their cocoa and advertising Obamacare.
If all the hipsters with the hipster haircuts are secretly Nazis.
I'll add another wrinkle to this too.
I was in Germany over the summer and I noticed that all the, I was in Reutlingen and I noticed that all the young Muslim men also have that same.
All the young Muslim men claiming to be Syrian refugees and in fact not in the least bit Syrian and not refugees.
But they all had that same thing, shaved at the back and sides and then with that sort of mushroom effect on top, like all florid on the top and a little thing.
And the hairdresser I had said, yeah, all the Muslim guys come in for that.
And they all walked out.
So it could be that all the Syrian refugees are in fact pajama boy hipsters.
Or it could be that all the pajama boy hipsters are all Trump Nazis.
Or it could be that all the Trump Nazis are Syrian refugees.
We don't know.
But the Washington Post is doing its in-depth analysis on this very issue.
And they're burning up.
By the way, have you seen, this is, I put this into the Mullers Can't Nuke Us Soon Enough files.
A couple of the kind of hipsters with the pajama boy haircuts have decided to do a safe space version of Baby It's Cold Outside.
And we will talk about that more because it is one of those small signs of cultural collapse.
And instead, the first lines are, you know, you hear it all the time at this time of year.
I really can't stay, but baby, it's cold outside.
Instead, they're doing, I really can't stay.
Well, baby, I'm fine with that.
That's the death of the song.
That's the end of the song right there.
The new safe space version of Baby It's Cold Outside.
The left wreck every single thing they touch.
Write a song of your own.
If you want a safe space song, write your own safe space song.
Some of us are unhappy in the, quite happy to be in the unsafe space.
That's called life.
Leave that song alone and write some limp, wet, metrosexual, dweeby pajama boy song of your own instead of monkeying with an American classic.
This is Mark Stein for Rush, more straight ahead.
Yeah, great to be with you.
Baby, it's cold outside has had to be rewritten to conform because to millennials, it's about rape.
And so this new version that these two, where these people, where these people from Minnesota, is it?
It's like a boy and girl singer from Minnesota.
And their new version of Baby It's Cold Outside is, I really can't stay.
Oh, baby, I'm fine with that.
I ought to say no, no, no.
I really respect your right to say no.
That's an actual lyric from this rewritten version of Baby It's Cold Outside.
So the whole idea, Baby It's Cold Outside, is you don't try to talk now because they think it's a rapey, rapey, rapey, rapey song, and that the guy is trying to pressure the girl into staying against her will.
So instead, in the new version, he sends her out into a blizzard to get raped by a guy pretending to be a Syrian refugee, who is in fact from Yemen.
And that's the new politically correct version of Baby It's Cold Outside.
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This generation really is the lamest generation.
If you are a millennial and you can't handle Baby It's Cold Outside, you're in the same category as Saib Khatoub, the intellectual colossus behind the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda.
Because when that song came out at 1948, he was at a church dance in Greeley, Colorado, which was a dry town back then.
And he was on some kind of student visa in the United States from Egypt.
And they played Baby It's Cold Outside, introduced by Esther Phillips and Ricardo Montalban.
And he watched these couples dancing around them.
And he said the sight of the bare arms and bare legs as these couples writhed around touching each other to Baby It's Cold Outside absolutely disgusted to him, disgusted him.
And he went back to Egypt and he became the intellectual powerhouse of the Muslim Brotherhood, which led to Al-Qaeda, which led to Osama bin Laden, which led to the Taliban, which led to the Global Jihad, all of which can be pinned on Saeb Khatoub's reaction to Baby It's Cold Outside.
And so if you're a millennial who wants to rewrite this song because you too are offended by it, you're in the same category as the nutball who started the Global Jihad.
But a lot of nuttiness around at the moment.
Joy Behar on The View asks, have you noticed that your wife is disgusted by the sight of you lately?
And she was reporting on a therapist who said that women have lost their sex drive since Trump won.
They don't want to be grabbed by anything.
Baby, it's cold inside since Trump got elected.
The bedroom backlash may be causing electile dysfunction, according to Joy Behar.
Madonna.
Madonna has not had a decent night's sleep since Trump got elected.
And that's not for the reason you might think, by the way.
Madonna was promising to perform oral sex on everybody who voted for Hillary.
And there are many theories about the election, but most demographic cephalological analysts agree that it was Madonna promising to perform oral sex on Hillary voters that, in fact, turned the Rust Belt into Trump country.
Wisconsin, Michigan.
No, no, she was going on the electoral college vote.
Not the popular vote, because the popular vote, she's still got, I think she's, it's going to be a long time.
She'll be halfway to the mid-terms before she's through fulfilling her electoral promise.
No, but that's what cost Hillary the Rust Belt vote.
I mean, I haven't seen, I think that's one reason for the recount, because they want to check that there's a special thing.
They've got like your hanging Chads and your dimple Chads and all the rest of it.
So you've got your Chad for Hillary.
You've got your Chad for Trump.
You've got your Chad for Jill Stein.
You've got your Chad for Gary Johnson.
And then there was a special Chad that said, in the event that Hillary wins, I do not want Madonna to come and perform all sex on me.
It's the equivalent of an organ donor card.
It's an organ non-donor card.
You don't want to donate your organ to Madonna.
And there's some question about whether this is a proper thing to have on the ballot, that you can opt out, that Democrats should be able to opt out of having Madonna perform a sex act on them.
But anyway, Madonna now says she has not had any sleep since the election, which if she's fulfilling her electoral promise is entirely understandable.
But there's also stories that apparently blondes are all going brunette because they don't want to be mistaken for Donald Trump.
All over America, women are saying, I don't want to be mistaken for Donald Trump.
And they are leaving their blonde locks on the floor of the hair salon.
So these are all reactions to what has happened in the U.S. election.
Let us go to James in Columbia, South Carolina.
You're first up on the Rush Limbaugh show today.
Great to have you with us, James.
Can you hear me?
Hello?
Yeah, I can hear you.
You're live on the air, James.
Yeah, hi.
I just had a question.
You mentioned earlier about 150 miles away when they saw it on radar, right?
Right, right.
Okay, so 150.
At Pearl Harbor, would you think we'd be able to defend the attack even if they heated that warning?
No, no.
I mean, they weren't sure.
They didn't quite believe what they'd seen, as I understand it.
And they were unsure initially whether it was some kind of malfunction in the machine because the machine had never expected to register something that big.
And so they stopped and talked about what they should do about it before eventually calling it in.
I don't believe that time would have made any difference to the outcome of what happened.
Even if they had the time to prepare, it wouldn't have made a difference, you think?
I don't think so.
I mean, there's all kinds of theories about Pearl Harbor.
The great American cryptologist who had reported that the Japanese were planning a surprise attack, and then I think he went off on a cruise trip, having given the news to his superiors.
And he was surprised then when he heard on the radio that Pearl Harbor had been attacked.
He assumed that they'd been planning for it and everything had been moved out of the way.
There's the stories like that.
And then there's the reaction of people closer to the moment like this, what would have happened if they'd called two minutes earlier and whatever.
But the fact was that the ships were all there.
They made one big collective target.
The carriers that could have helped were all at sea.
And I don't believe there would have been much of a difference to the outcome on the day.
And I'm not sure where the I'm not sure going back and playing what-if scenarios is very useful.
In the end, it was a different kind of America.
Four months after Pearl Harbor, it was the Do Little raid.
And the Doolittle raid had not terribly great military significance, but it exemplified that America was audacious and daring to push back.
Again, if you look at it, it's December 1941, three and a half years from Pearl Harbor to the Japanese surrender.
We are now 15 years away from 9-11, in which 50% more people died.
And we have not done what they did at Pearl Harbor, which is determine to impose massive, overwhelming defeat on your enemy.
Because if the enemy doesn't know he's been defeated, he quite reasonably concludes that he hasn't been defeated.
And when the Americans determine to actually extinguish the ideology that spurred the attack on Pearl Harbor, that's what matters.
That's what matters, that you defeat the ideology.
And it's not, and that's something bigger than just toppling the Taliban, because toppling the Taliban and building new schoolhouses.
I don't know how much money we, the American taxpayers, spent on building schoolhouses in Afghanistan, but the buildings are great and what's being taught in them is complete rubbish because we're still teaching these, the people of Afghanistan, effectively,
the same civilizational backwardness that supported the Taliban and that ultimately led the Taliban to allow America's enemies to launch a devastating attack from 9-11.
But it's the swiftness.
It's the ability.
You look at 15 years on from December 1941.
You're like 1956.
By 1956, America and Japan had patched up their quarrels.
If you look at, I caught a clip of an old Dinah Shaw show from 1958, and she had a cute little Japanese cigar on and diners all being sweet and practicing phrases in Japanese.
And the only reason she was able to do that was because America had inflicted total defeat on Japan, total ideological defeat on Japan.
They had humiliated its leadership class.
They had destroyed Japanese militarism.
They had taken an emperor who claimed to be a sun god, an emperor who claimed to be a god, and turned him into an ordinary constitutional monarch in a suit.
And they had inflicted massive ideological defeat.
And we can't even, you know what we can't do in three and a half years?
We can't even prosecute Major Hassan in that time.
It took longer to bring Major Hassan before a military tribunal than the time between Pearl Harbor and VJ Day and the Japanese surrender.
And Major Hassan admitted he done it.
He stood up on the first day of his trial and said, the evidence will show I am the shooter.
Let the record show that is my gun.
He had Soldier of Allah on his business card.
He said, I did it.
Yes, I did it, Your Honor.
Strap me down.
Shoot the juice to me, Bruce.
I'm ready for my virgins.
And the judge and the prosecutor and the defense lawyers all said, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
Pay no attention to the perpetrator.
We want to delay this for another few years.
You can't even bring one soldier of Allah to justice in the time it took to get from Pearl Harbor to VJ Day.
That's how America has changed since Pearl Harbor.
And that's what I meant at the top of the show.
It's not good.
It's not good to go into.
And this is part of the reason why Trump won and why Jeb Bush and John Kasich and these fellas didn't.
Trump has written off, basically, the George W. Bush era.
He said, I don't need another 15 years of ineffectual colonial policing in some god-awful piece of real estate nobody except a few inbred goatherds gives a monkeys about.
And the reason he was able to make that argument that these wars have been a waste of time is because they were not prosecuted in the way that war was prosecuted in December 1941.
Mark Stein in for rush.
Thanks for your call, James.
We will take more of your calls straight ahead on the Rushlin boy.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network on this historic day.
I really enjoyed Donald J. Trump's tweet the other day about Air Force One.
Actually, before I get to the Air Force One tweet, I love this insanity over the Taiwanese president.
By the way, if you are any heads of government, heads of state out there, and you want to call and be on the show, 1-800-282-2882, we'd love to hear from you.
But we won't.
We're being responsible.
We're not like Trump here.
We won't take a call from the president of Taiwan because all the smart people say that if you take a call from the president of Taiwan, it will upset the Chinese Politburo sufficiently that it will start World War III.
So we will have a whole new Pearl Harbor on the three-quarters of a century anniversary of the old Pearl Harbor because the new Asian superpower will be declaring war by launching a sneak attack on Donald J. Trump's long-distance AT ⁇ T calling plan.
And that's what all the smart people are telling us.
There's an even better variation of this.
People are saying, well, who put him up to this?
Who put him up to this?
And the story in the New York Times is that Bob Dole, Bob Dole, apparently, who is a lobbyist, or as he's described in the New York Times, the agent of a foreign power.
Bob Dole is apparently, according to the New York Times, he's in the pay of Taiwan, and he has had months of secret negotiations.
Bob Dole, if you've been wondering what he's been doing since the Viagra ads went off the air, he's been working for the government of Taiwan and he's managed to do for Taiwan what he did for Viagra.
Taiwan is up and shooting out through the roof.
And after months of negotiation, he prevailed upon Donald J. Trump to take a call from the president of Taiwan.
This is nuts.
Trump, even before he entered the presidential race, has spent years saying to China that things are going to change, that China's screwing us on this, they're screwing us on that.
He's going to get China across the table.
He's going to tell them how it's going to be.
China, China, China, China, China.
We lose to China.
China gets the better of us.
Chinese deals, terrible negotiations.
Trump, Trump, the thing he reverts to when he's asked about things he's not up to speed on, doesn't care about, he always reverts to China.
The idea that it took Bob Dole.
Oh, oh, Mr. Trump, I'd like you to take a call from Taiwan.
It's somewhere near China.
Hey, China?
What's that?
I've never heard of China.
What do you mean?
What are you on about?
But according to the New York Times, Bob Dole, Bob Dole is back and he's secretly pulling the strings of the Trump administration.
Trump intended to reorient relations with China.
He's not interested in kowtowing to China, to use a good old Chinese word.
He is not interested in prostrating himself before them.
And if the Chinese are going to get twitchy and upset about everything and demand that save face saving, which is another Chinese concept, it ought to be the overriding priority of U.S. foreign policy.
There is a new sheriff in town, and it isn't Bob Dole.
Mark Steinin for Rush, lots more still to come.
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