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Dec. 8, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 8, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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Right at Soundbites 9, 10, 11, and 12 are next on the agenda if we get to 'em.
Greetings and welcome back.
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I want to go back now eagerly to Rachel in Indianapolis.
She's 18 and and welcome back.
I'm really glad that you uh that you held on because your call helps him make a point that uh uh tried to make to a previous caller.
You might have heard him.
He was uh asking what we can do to make people who refuse to hear us uh and and and see the truth about us, what can we do to open them up?
And my the thing I said to him was really not much.
They're so cocooned and closeted in their bigotry and prejudice that there's no reaching them.
But you I I said there are occasionally you're gonna get some that that you'll you'll win simply because they come across it in a in a way when you're not actively pursuing them and they'll be in the right frame of mind and all of a sudden see the light, and that sounds like you, but your foundation came from your parents.
Right.
And and you were open to it when so you you you'd grown weary of hearing about me and Fox News and the founding fathers, your you're in your teenage years, uh, and then all of a sudden you got serious about about your religion and uh and the Bible, and it all came together for you.
And now it all it all makes sense, and so you're you're here substantively, not because you've genuinely been persuaded, you just you actually believe it now, and you're open.
I think that's great, and I'm really glad you called to share it with us.
Thank you.
Well, thanks for letting me tell you, because it was important to me.
Can I ask why?
What why uh uh not I'm not fishing, I'm curious.
Why was it important for you to to let tell this to us?
Because one of the things we're studying, and one of the things I've learned to understand is that when people make a positive difference in your life, it's really important to encourage them, and it's really important to let them know that they've made a difference.
When that difference is something that really fundamentally changes you, it's really important that that you share that with them, and then you let other people know that there's more out there than the negativity and and just being led around.
So I just I really wanted to get the chance to tell you that.
Well, I cannot thank you.
That is that that is really uh mature and touching.
What was it about me and Fox News that your parents kept droning on about that irritated you?
Well, my dad used to be a liberal.
He was a music student, and he hung around with a lot of liberals in Denton, Texas.
And I remember him always talking, because I was really little when 9-11 happened.
And I just remembered him talking about that was an epiphany for him.
That was a moment where he shifted and he started listening to you a lot, and he said a lot of the things just clicked with him.
Things just came in differently, and and he was able to flip from CNN, he always talked about CNN and how they were doing something and they weren't and then he flipped over to Fox and he was hearing things that CNN wasn't even covering.
And and then he would listen to the bingo.
Bingo, that's that's that's part of it too.
There's no question that is.
Because what what what these networks don't cover is almost as important to their biases as the way they do cover what they do cover.
Right.
And and he was ta he would talk a lot about how he used to be a liberal, and it just doesn't make sense.
And then he got involved in the tea party.
He and my mom were and I was just like, Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
Yeah, I can imagine.
That's a transition.
That's a full-fledged musician liberal to Tea Party.
I mean, that's a massive ideological shift.
And he watched Glenn Beck a lot and took notes, and when he was talking about the Muslim Brotherhood and all kinds of things, and and it and he just watched it unfold, and I know he used to sit and talk to a lot of his hippie friends, and he's actually working on a book right now called that he's he's really interested in doing these and he's writing it all the time.
And it just he says it's like writing music.
It's like you have this formula and and he's researching and a lot of the things he's gonna start researching this stuff from you and your show, and it just great.
I I I'm so appreciative.
I really am.
It's great to have you in the audience too.
And you can trust.
we will be working hard every day to keep you here by virtue of meeting and surpassing your expectations.
Before I let you go, uh your your choice of an iPhone 7 or 7 plus.
Even if you even if you already have one, you can you can't.
Oh my gosh, that's awesome.
I I um I think I went to seven plus.
Is that the bigger screen?
That's the bigger screen and the dual camera, yes.
And the bigger battery.
What what who's your carrier?
ATT.
Okay, so you have your choice of colors, by the way.
You can pick gold, rose, gold, silver, uh, or black.
Um I think I want to rose gold.
Rose gold.
It's a beautiful it's a beautiful phone.
It's it's just gorgeous.
And and I'm thrilled to send it to you.
I want you, it's 256 gigabytes of storage.
It's the it's the top of the line.
So Rachel, hang on so we get your address.
You will have it at uh 10.30 by 10.30 in the morning in Indianapolis.
I got an email over the uh over the break, the top of the hour, and it was from somebody in North Carolina said, Mr. Limbaugh, doesn't it worry you this make America great?
What does that mean?
So I looked at that, and uh my question is what's so scary about it?
What in the world could make America great?
How would that frighten somebody?
What what must you conjure when hearing Trump or anybody talk about making America great again is actually the phrase.
Why would that scare you?
Or why why would alarm bells go off?
What could that possibly mean?
Well, you'd be surprised to a bunch of people on the left.
You know what it means?
You know what they will tell you they think it means?
And I'm not making this up.
They will tell you they think it means a return to slavery.
Do you realize the Democrat Party?
I've watched it on television.
I watched these Democrat guests.
Reasonable people, Democrat strategists, not off-the-street Looney Tunes, who literally believe they lost because Trump mobilised a racist white supremac majority in this country.
Now stop and think of this for a moment.
When any racial group seeks political power, and the left looks at people by group, by the way, we don't.
They do.
So when Hispanics, they're all thought to be monolithic, by the way.
Every Hispanic thinks and votes the same way, according to liberals.
Every woman thinks and votes the same way.
That's how they approach them.
Um every African American thinks and votes the same way.
And to the left, they are all victims.
They're victims of various American grievances and discriminations.
And and they they believe two of the most outrageously untrue, false things that are a special kind of stupid to believe.
A, that white supremacists elected Trump.
And the second thing they believe is that the Russians tampered with the election.
They believe those two things are why they lost.
White supremacists and the Russians tampering with elections.
They really elected Democrats literally believe those things.
Now, see, Mr. Snerdley just said to me in the IFB, they have to know better.
I used to think that they knew better.
They were just saying that.
I have revised my thinking.
I think they really believe it.
I you're looking at logically.
You're looking at this logically.
You're saying there aren't enough white supremacists to influence anything.
Absolutely true.
They're not looking at this logically.
These people are rooted totally in a very convoluted series of emotional illnesses, I believe.
And so emotion governs their reason.
It is their reason.
There actually isn't any reason.
And they they cannot comprehend a legitimate society rejecting them.
And so it has to be something aberrant.
It has to be something racist.
It has to be something impure that would reject them because they're not wrong and they're not flawed, and they're pure and clean and just the best.
Logic would say there aren't enough white supremacists, but what are there any?
When you get right now, white supremacists I mean, you can put them in a phone booth for crying out loud.
However, there are black supremacists, there are all kinds of minority supremacy, and they are perfectly fine in that state, according to the left.
But whenever white people happen to vote their interests, have you have you picked up on the fact that that's somehow illegitimate?
But when any minority votes its interests, whether it be economic or cultural, whenever any minority votes its interest, why that's perfectly fine.
It's justifiable, makes perfect sense.
So when white people do it, it's unacceptable, it's white supremacism and it's racism.
Well, that's just absolutely absurd.
So when you start talking about making America great again, the people I'm talking about literally quake with fear.
They literally do make America great again.
It's the again.
They get lost in their in their emotional swirl, thinking that we want to take the country back 200 years to the founding and the years shortly thereafter.
That's when we've can I tell you what America make America Great Again is to Trump?
I'll tell you exactly what it is to Trump.
Yesterday was Pearl Harbor Day, and I was not here.
I had to take the day off.
And we commemorate Pearl Harbor Day every year on this program by offering a few moments of reflection to remember it.
Now I've talked about what happened in the 1930s in this country in the midst of the depression.
You look at what we built in less than seven years in the Depression in the 1930s, the Golden Gate Bridge that's still like brand new today.
The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge went up at the same time.
It doesn't get nearly as much as attention as a Golden Gate Bridge is just iconic for bridges.
The Hoover Dam.
Prior to that was the Panama Canal.
Building things, expanding.
If you look at World War II, look at what happened.
People don't stop to think about this, particularly now.
And it's largely because we're never going to fight wars anymore the way we fought them in World War II.
Technologically, we are so far beyond that.
We don't need Rangers repelling up a 200-foot cliff to take out German gun installations at the top of Puandu Hoe.
You simply send some drones over and wipe them out.
But back then we didn't have the technology we had today.
World War II, we're not on a war footing at all, and we're attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor.
World War II had been going on in the European theater for quite a while.
We had studiously avoided it, uh, which produced its own controversies at the time.
And then the Japanese attacked us in Pearl Harbor, we couldn't stay out any longer.
But we were not on a war footing.
We had a large Navy, but it was largely wiped out.
Will you look at what this nation did in order to be able not just to fight World War II in two theaters, the Pacific Theater and the European, and win in seven years.
The things that we built in order to make it possible, from all of the aircraft to the ammunition, to the tanks, to the Jeeps, to every bit of military and construction equipment that was necessary.
You've heard the story of Rosie the Riveter.
Everybody went to work in the factory to start manufacturing what was necessary to fight the wars.
We could not do that today.
Not as we did then.
You look at, I don't mean this to be critical, just illustrative.
Look at how long it took to simply decide on what was going to replace the World Trade Center after 9-11.
Both of those towers, had it been the 1940s, would have been rebuilt inside of five years.
Again, not a criticism, it's an observation.
But the whole, I think with Trump, the whole idea of making America great, some of it's rooted in industrialism, clearly, but it is largely about having and being and building the best with whatever we decide to do,
be it airports, be it a space program, be it a welfare program, be it a healthcare system, whatever it is, it's gonna be the best.
And we're gonna make it the best, and we're gonna do it, we're gonna roll up our sleeves, and we're gonna start to work and we're gonna do it.
Now, in from his perspective, there's a lot of things, there are a lot of things in this country that have been allowed to slide that are not in tip top shape, that are deteriorating and about to fall over and fall down in our infrastructure.
And in a lot of other places.
And I think it's simply unacceptable to him.
And he's simply referring to things like that.
But he's also talking about human capital.
Whatever we decide to do, we're going to be the best.
We're going to find the best to put in charge of these programs that are going to end up being the best when we complete them.
But there's so many people on the left.
That whole concept escapes them.
They don't even, that doesn't even show up on their radar.
Make America Great means a return to the days of slavery and white supremacism and the KKK and women with abortions in the back alley.
It is a special kind, a new kind of stupid.
Make America great means we're going to, oh my God, we're going to let the we're going to let the ice caps melt, and there isn't going to be a New York, and I'm not going to be able to survive on the planet when I hit 65.
That's what make America great means we're going to abandon all of these wonderful new projects to fix non-existent emergencies like climate change, which used to be global warming, but it's climate change because now we've got this massive cold front sweeping in from Alaska.
You know, it's a football game tonight.
The Oakland Raiders at the Kansas City Chiefs.
And it's going to be about 20 degrees.
15, 20 degrees below normal.
It's going to be colder than a witch's upper torso out there.
And the place is going to be full.
The rate is.
It's a short week.
They have to travel three hours, 1,500 miles after having played a game on Sunday.
They're at clear disadvantage because of that.
But this is such an important game tonight.
And it's going to be played in weather so-called it should not happen because of climate change and CO2 warming the planet and all this kind of stuff.
I think that's all make America great means.
It means what common sense would tell you it means.
And the fact the left is so afraid of that ought to open a lot of people's eyes.
So no sooner did Snertley think that I was exaggerating, maybe, talking about how the left really believes they lost the election because of white supremacists, and he turns on PMS NBC, and there's Maxine Waters.
And Maxine Waters is going to be yelling and shouting, going on and on about all the white supremacists and how they reasoned that Trump won, and it's up to Trump to tame them in.
It's up to Trump to tell them to behave.
It's up to Trump to get these white supremacists to understand that they do not run the country or some such thing.
Folks, do not doubt me.
Now, granted, you're you're going to have some Democrat strategists go on TV who are going to pander.
They're going to figure that, you know, the collective IQ of the audience may be that of a pencil eraser.
So they're going to tell them what they want to hear, and that is that they didn't lose for any reason other than white supremacists.
But I'm telling you, there are a whole slew of Democrats that believe this garbage, and they believe that Putin tampered with the election.
They believe it.
They have it's inarguable.
I want you to hear a sound by Jeff Bukes is the guy that runs Time Warner.
Time Warner may merge with ATT, uh, depending on what the Trump regulatory agencies think about this.
I can tell you that the left hates it.
Uh the left hates cable TV, they hate cable companies, they hate anything you have to pay for, essentially.
Or they resent anything you have to pay for.
And the idea of Time Warner merging with ATT just scares them because they think that's another giant multinational conglomerate.
There would be no competition.
There'd be rapists here and rapists there.
Abject fear of bigness.
Anyway, Jeff Bukes is a lifelong Democrat donor.
He's a lifelong Democrat voter as you would expect.
Guys in charge of HBO.
He hires or oversees the people of HBO hires, and they hire liberal nutcases.
And that makes what he says here all the more remarkable.
He was on a business insider program called 2016 Ignition Conference.
Ignition conference.
It reminds me when I was in my twenties.
United Airlines, I'll never forget a United Airlines changed the flight attendance uniforms.
They got skimpier and skimpier and so forth, and people were, instead of fly the friendly sky, oh, is United, yeah.
Fly the friendly skies of United became fly the friendly skies of ignited because they were hot.
Anyway, he's being interviewed here by a guy named Henry Blodgett at Business Insider who says President elect Trump's threatening to effectively change the First Amendment.
He's obviously got CNN in his sights.
Are you worried about that?
Now to set this up, here again.
Trump doesn't have his sights set on the First Amendment.
Here are these people.
This guy runs a sizable web conglomerate named Business Insider.
Really thinks that Trump has got his eyes set on attacking the First Amendment.
And it's all because Trump thinks he wants to tighten the label laws.
So Blodgett says to Jeff Bukes of Time Warner, he's obviously got CNN in his sights, because Time Warner owns CNN, so his Bukes guy runs CNN.
Are you worried about Trump at all in this way, Mr. Bukes?
No, I don't think that's a serious thing.
We should all worry if anybody's gonna change the First Amendment.
And remember, the Democratic Party had a campaign plank to change the First Amendment.
And they were doing it in the guise of campaign finance reform.
And that was worrying me more because the press tends to miss that because they tend to lean that way, and therefore they were supporting what they were viewing, I think, overly charitably, as something in cleaning up money in politics when in fact what it would do is restrain multiple voices.
And so I thought the threat to the First Amendment came from the Democratic side.
There's not going to be a serious effort on the Republican side.
Now, this is getting a lot of attention because this guy owned, well, he doesn't own, he runs CNN, he runs HBO.
He's a Democrat donor, Democrat fundraiser, goes to all the Democrat fundraising parties, whatever there is one, he's there.
Uh puts all that programming on HBO that advances the left in the Democrat Party.
Here he is claiming, no, no, no, it's a Democrats that attack the First Amendment.
He's talking about Citizens United.
He's talking about Hillary wanting a constitutional amendment to overturn a Supreme Court decision.
He understands that money is a proxy for speech.
Money is speech.
And the First Amendment perfectly acknowledges it that anything that restricts the flow of speech is unconstitutional, and money is a proxy for speech.
People that don't have a microphone, people who don't have access to a microphone can buy it with money and get their message out.
And he clearly understands it, and he says the Republicans are not threatening free speech.
It's the Democrats.
It's amazing.
I've, you know, folks, there are a lot of corporate CEOs.
Look at all the people.
You got guy at U.S. Steel, the soft bank guy in Japan, Mayoshi-san.
You've got uh uh the Ford CEO carrier.
Look at all the FoxCon.
Have you heard about this?
The people that manufacture iPhones, they actually assemble them.
Uh they don't really make them.
The parts arrive and it's Fox Connor.
It's it's uh Hun High Precision industry, and they're located in mainland China and Taiwan, and they and Apple are announcing that they're going to uh perhaps build factories here to make some manufacturing process of the iPhone in America.
Is it a is have you noticed all of these CEOs who be and Wall Street people who before the election were vocal being opposed to Trump, vocal in favor of Hillary.
I've noted how practically all of them can't wait to sidle up.
Particularly some of the Wall Street people.
And it is it is aroused my curiosity.
Because if they're all and they're singing Trump's praises, and I'm saying, well, if if that's true, why were you on the side of Hillary?
What in the world were you doing donating to Hillary, paying her all those speech fees?
And the answer is obvious.
It's one of two things.
It's either fear or a desire for cronyism to sidle up to power or or what have you.
But I think it's it's profound.
That none of these people have the courage of their convictions.
If if they really do mean what they're saying now, that they're excited about what the future holds for Trump, why didn't they get behind him?
No, I'm serious.
I need to look into this further.
I mean, I want to expand the discussion point on this because I think it's a teachable item, but it'll have to be for another day.
To the phones we return, David in Prunedale, California.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Well, it's good morning here, Mr. Limbaugh.
I I'm a longtimer, been listening for about 28 years.
Wow, that's almost your lifer.
I first heard you on KFI when I was uh living and working in Los Angeles.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
I I I'm not sure what year that was.
Well, that would have been that would have been 1989.
89.
Yep.
Okay.
And uh my son used to listen to it to you with me.
I was working nights at the time and babysitting the kids.
Uh anyway, I I called about Judy Rudy Giuliani.
I that's a man I I have high esteem for and I love and I I really would like to see him.
What are you wondering why Trump's uh not choosing him?
Yeah.
Well, I you know, I addressed this in uh uh possible reasons on Monday of this week, there is the Machiavellian uh explanation.
Yes.
There is uh and I I think that's actually maybe closer to the actual answer.
There's some people are saying the media saying that Trump was was kind of put off by the fact that Rudy was openly campaigning for it, and saying that that put Trump in a bad position because then if he chooses Rudy, it looks like he'd been not bullied, but but sort of influenced, and it looked like the choice wasn't his.
There may be there may be some truth to that, but I th I think I think the answer is uh uh a combination of that and and uh the idea that I I think Trump might actually believe that he will be better served by people who were not full-fledged supporters during the campaign.
Now that may not make sense to you at at top, but the Machiavellian explanation for this is thus.
Well, it it does it may it does make sense.
Well it goes like this.
If you if you're Trump and you choose somebody who was like Romney openly campaigned against you, and you choose him.
You you can be pretty much assured that Romney is gonna have to be loyal every day and by deed express that loyalty in order to keep the job.
Romney is on the outs, his side loses.
Trump choosing him revives him.
He's gonna owe everything to Trump, and therefore he will be totally loyal.
If Trump goes out and populates himself, his his staff with a bunch of people that were all for him, the theory goes that they'll never be happy because they'll always think they should have been appointed to something more important.
Ah, okay.
So it it's a combination of things in Rudy's case, and I don't really flatly know to tell you the truth.
So all I can do is speculate here.
You but but same thing with Newt.
I mean, there's a lot of people you would have expected to have been named already who haven't been.
Right, but Newt was very for Trump all over.
There has to be an explanation for it.
And I think we're pretty close to it.
Hey, look, before I let you go here, David, what kind of iPhone 7 do you want?
A seven or a seven plus?
Oh my God.
Uh uh.
Uh seven plus, I guess.
Seven plus, okay.
Who's your carrier?
My carrier right now is Verizon, but I I also have ATT and uh they have a free uh thing that you can watch on your phone if if uh Oh yeah, that's direct TV now.
So if you're at AT, you don't get charged data fees if you sign up for it.
Well let me let me send you a horizon now.
Uh so which one do you want?
Take your pick.
Uh Verizon.
You want a Verizon?
It's gotta be black.
So I'll send you Matt Black Verizon.
Um what do you have an iPhone now?
No, I have an old uh uh Okay.
Take this, yes, take the new phone.
Now listen to me now.
Take the new phone with the box to the Verizon store and your current phone and tell them you want your number moved to the new phone.
You tell them the phone is unlocked, which they will know, and that it's a gift.
And they will they will set you right up.
Now don't hang up so we can get your address to get this thing through you tomorrow.
Back here in just a second, folks.
Don't go away.
Here's Jeff in Orange County, California.
Great to have you on the program.
How are you?
I am great.
How are you, sir?
Fine, sir.
Thanks much.
Uh megadinners and Merry Christmas.
Same to you, sir.
Thank you much.
So I just wanted to tell you the Rush Revere books.
I have all five of them for my five-year-old.
I read to him every night.
Um it was interesting because he uh he asks for them.
He says, I want to hear liberty, I want to hear liberty.
And we for Thanksgiving, he came home from school and and talked about what they went over what they talked about in school.
And they word for word, the stuff that they sent home with him was exactly like it was in the book that I just read to him like two nights before.
It was awesome.
Holy fuck.
And I went five years old?
Yeah, he's five.
Holy cow.
That is.
Well then I went to then I went to the school and I asked the teacher.
I said, Do you read these books?
Is that how you got these?
Because it's exactly like what I just read.
And she's like, No, I've never heard of them.
So it's funny that what they were teaching was exactly what was in the book.
Well, that's good.
That actually is good.
That's that's that's that's what we're actually trying to make happen is for the truth to be taught, whether the teacher had heard of the books or not, you have, and your son is learning the truth and wants you to read to him.
You know what?
We I I want to get your name and address so that we can send your son a package of stuff from Liberty and Rush Revere.
We are so proud of these books.
We put so much into them.
The fifth one just came out, Rush Revere in the Presidency.
And I I just I'm I'm uh I'm more gratified by these than than people would believe because it's you know tackling a new demographic uh that I haven't targeted before young people and trying to teach them the truth of the history of this country, which they're not learning, except your your child.
So hang on.
By the way, what kind of iPhone do you want?
iPhone seven or seven plus out there, Jeff.
Uh I would say seven rolls gold.
Seven rows gold.
What carrier?
A T and T. A T and T. So you want a seven, not a seven plus?
Yes, sir.
Okay.
We will fix you up.
It's gonna be unlocked.
You'll it'll work with any carrier, put whatever sell sim card in it you want.
Uh And hold on so we get your address.
Do not go away.
Back after this, folks.
It's open line Friday tomorrow, my friends.
We'll be back here in 21 hours.
And it'll go by very, very quickly.
Let's see.
Every caller for the past three weeks has received a new iPhone or iPhone 7 Plus, and it will continue tomorrow.
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