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December 9, 2016, Friday, Hour #2

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	You know, I don't know why certain companies do things the way they do.
	I have an example of what I'm talking about coming up here in just a second.
	I just don't understand.
	Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
	Yes, a big wrap-up to a big week.
	In all the years I've been doing this show, I do not remember a month of December as jam-packed, as intense, and as much fun as this one is.
	Normally, after a November election, this is a doldrums, baby.
	The only time it wasn't was in Florida 2000, that aftermath.
	And that was wrapped up by now, or very close to now.
	Anyway, 800-282-2882, the email address, lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
	So I don't understand how some companies do business.
	They have to have a reason.
	I just can't figure this one out.
	There is a TV provider that I signed up for when they first offered service some years ago.
	Now, not that many, it's because it's relatively new.
	It's like in the last two years.
	And at the time, the only service you could get featured commercials.
	You could watch anything this particular provider had ever broadcast from their archives and their current offerings, but you had to watch commercials.
	And it cost a nominal amount each month.
	Well, they just allowed and offered an upgrade for commercial free.
	You can upgrade and pay twice what you're paying for month and get everything commercial free.
	So I just downloaded the upgrade and I clicked on upgrade and it says, you got to go to the original device you ordered our service on.
	Well, I'm sorry.
	That device has been out of service for two years.
	There's no way I can go to the original device to upgrade.
	I want to pay these people money and they're making it impossible for me to because the only recourse is to call them.
	And I can't call them because I cannot hear people like customer service people on a phone.
	And no matter how many times I tell them I can't hear them, they continue to read from their script.
	And so it's impossible for me to talk to customer service people on the phone.
	So I'm stuck.
	I can't, there's no way I can upgrade.
	I cannot give this company the money that I want to give them.
	And I don't know of any other outfit likely.
	If you want to upgrade, doesn't matter what device you have the service on, click on upgrade.
	Things happen.
	Your account gets upgraded.
	Your billing cycle is new with the new amount and you're done.
	They've got their reasons here.
	Obviously, I just can't figure it out.
	But they're not going to get any upgrade for me because it's not possible.
	I'm not going to go back and find a device.
	I don't even know which one it is.
	I've got them all, but I haven't the slightest idea which device two years ago I used to originally purchase this service.
	You'll never have this happen to your RushLimbaugh.com.
	I'm just telling you, if you want to upgrade at rushlimbaugh.com, you can do it from wherever, whenever.
	It doesn't have to be the original computer that you signed on with us.
	It doesn't have to be the original phone, tablet, or anything else.
	Same way if you want to buy the Rush Revere books, just buy them.
	You don't have to go back and find the original device.
	I know it's probably security related, fraud-related, and so forth.
	But anyway, you know the contretant, the controversy that erupted earlier this week, when Trump tweeted out that $4 billion was just too much to pay for a new Air Force One.
	Actually, two of them.
	So let's be accurate.
	Two new issues, editions of Air Force One, 747 8s, the biggest 747 Boeing makes.
	They're not selling well, by the way.
	They've had to reduce production.
	And we went into a long, drawn-out discussion of what Trump could be up to.
	Did a history of Boeing and their relationship to the Iranian nuke deal.
	The fact they donated to Republicans, and that's why the Republicans didn't stop Obama doing the Nuke deal because Boeing wanted the sanctions lifted so they could sell new aircraft to Iran for their national airline.
	And then the ChiComs are involved because Boeing makes a lot of aircraft for the ChiComs, even have a factory there.
	And so the drive-bys in the media and the know-it-alls, the know-it-alls, the experts in nothing and the drive-by media immediately started making fun of Trump, saying he was lying and making it up.
	There's no way two Boeing 747s cost $4 billion.
	And then I went to my little tech blogs and I found the same ignorance and idiocy making fun of Trump.
	He can't possibly be this stupid.
	What a Dumkoff, what an idiot that we've elected.
	And they started looking at the retail price for a Boeing 747 if, say, Japan Air was going to buy one.
	And I'm sitting here.
	It's amazing the number of people today who are willing to express their genuine new kind of stupidity.
	Willing to express in public their total ignorance of things.
	It is, it's almost an epidemic, if you ask me.
	The number of people, entities, be it journalists, be it bloggers, be it anybody willing to broadcast their stupidity and ignorance.
	And this was a great example of it.
	Well, what do you mean?
	Even the Air Force, they're not going to be overcharging like $4 billion for a 747.
	Do you know what this 747 is?
	You know the way to understand Air Force One.
	It's not a 747.
	That's just the shell that it's in.
	There isn't an airplane like this.
	This airplane will withstand the radiation from a nuclear blast.
	This airplane can stay in the air indefinitely as long as there are tankers around.
	This airplane has communications devices and defense mechanisms and shielding devices, technology for communications that nobody even knows exists.
	It has a full-fledged medical operating room on board, should there not be anywhere nearby and the president needs surgery.
	The idea that two of these planes might cost $4 billion is entirely reasonable.
	The only thing about this Air Force One that makes it look like a 747 is that that's what the shell of the device looks like.
	It happens to be the largest, which is what's needed, domestic aircraft made.
	The only one larger is the Airbus A380.
	And there's no way Donald Trump is going to buy an Airbus for Air Force One.
	So a Boeing 747-8 is it.
	Well, it turns out this is from the UK Daily Mail.
	Headline, Trump was right about Air Force One.
	Pentagon budget documents show Boeing programs slated to cost more than $4.2 billion.
	Government budget and procurement documents show that President Trump, President-elect Trump, was right to insist that the new Air Force One jets will cost taxpayers more than $4.2 billion.
	How many people do you remember going on cable news, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, trashing Trump for being an ignoramus on this?
	I'm sure if you watch cable news, you've seen countless people laughing at, mocking, and making fun of Trump.
	And how many people are surprised that it's a UK paper that unearths the truth, which is right here in readily accessible Pentagon contract documents?
	UK Daily Mail has obtained documents showing long-term research, development, test, and evaluation costs alone running to $2.872 billion.
	I actually heard some people, these things only cost $189 million.
	What are the $4 billion as Trump is doing?
	$189 million was the first payment of the first contract that was simply a we're going to do it deal.
	It had nothing to do with the actual cost of the airplane.
	This is, folks, it's a serious problem.
	And it may sound funny to you when I say it, or it may sound cruel, but there's just way too much stupidity out there among people who ought to know better.
	There's too much stupidity.
	And the reason the stupidity is there is because these people cannot get rid of the blinding partisanship and bias they bring to their existence.
	They're not even trying to.
	Fake news is what the news is today.
	You don't have to go looking for it.
	You don't have to go looking for it in blogs.
	You don't have to go looking for it in obscure websites.
	Just turn on your favorite news network or tune on or tune into or listen to or watch, read your favorite newspaper.
	And fake news abounds.
	Hands up, don't shoot.
	Fake news.
	George Zimmerman, white Hispanic, fake news.
	A video caused the terrorism at Benghazi.
	Fake news.
	The Democrats lost because the Russians hacked the election.
	Fake news.
	But it's not stopping Obama from conducting an official investigation into how the Russians hacked our election.
	Now, I don't actually mind that because the more these people end up in denial and the more they keep lying to themselves about why they lost, the greater length of time it's going to be before they modify.
	If they're content to still have people like Pelosi out there as the face of the Democrat Party, and if Hillary Clinton and Obama are not going to go away, continue to be the face of the Democrat, bring it on.
	The longer these people continue to live in denial about why they lost, that just means the longer it's going to be before they start making the changes they have to make if they're going to win elections at the local level again, which is where they're going to have to go.
	Let's go to the audio soundbites on this.
	Hillary Clinton, this was late yesterday afternoon in Washington on Capitol Hill.
	She went up there.
	I guess there's two things.
	She had her own, no, her bash is, her bash was last night for her donors, right?
	There was two things.
	The Harry Reid thing, but when is this party for her donors?
	I thought it was last night or it's tonight, or maybe it's next, maybe it's next Wednesday.
	I've been confused about the date.
	But the interesting thing about that, here's Donald Trump running around doing free rallies.
	And his purpose is to thank the people who voted for him and to continue to explain his agenda.
	What he's doing is brilliant, folks.
	I don't care what you think of Trump.
	I don't care what you think of his agenda.
	I don't care if you're never Trumper, Republican establishment, Democrat.
	You're watching a master at work in Donald Trump.
	I don't care if you disagree with what he's doing, saying, you're watching a master.
	He's continued.
	Okay, December 15th is their party.
	Okay, so six days.
	He is reinforcing why they elected him.
	He's thanking them.
	He is explaining his agenda day in and day out.
	Remember the mistake the Republicans made in 1994?
	They stopped teaching after they won the House.
	They assumed everybody had gone conservative.
	The whole country had gone conservative.
	Trump's making no assumptions.
	He knows exactly why he won, and he's going around continually reminding people.
	And he's going to these states that the Democrats laugh at and make fun of.
	He's going to the states where many of his cabinet pics are from.
	And meanwhile, the Democrats are sitting out there in their usual hovels lying to themselves about why they lost, and it has nothing to do with them.
	No, no, no, no.
	Fake news, the Russians, stupid voters, Trump lied, any number of things, except the truth.
	And here's Hillary.
	She went up to the, it was this, the, the Harry Reid photo or portrait unveiling and goodbye to Harry Reid.
	And I'm told that when she was seen walking into this thing, that young women in the Capitol literally started crying.
	Hillary, thank you for running.
	Oh, my goodness, man.
	I haven't had sex since the election.
	They're saying that, by the way, no sex.
	They're even writing it.
	Some babe at the Atlantic out there, whoever it was, I don't know.
	I haven't had sex since the election, and it's Trump's fault.
	Well, I don't know if it's on strike.
	They're just a special kind of stupid.
	They're in the throes of depression.
	You know what other young women are doing?
	They're dying their hair black instead of wearing veils.
	Lamenting the defeat of Hillary Clinton.
	Anyway, here's Hillary on Capitol Hill speaking at the unveiling ceremony of the dingy Harry portrait.
	The epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that flooded social media over the past year, it's now clear that so-called fake news can have real-world consequences.
	Lives are at risk.
	Bipartisan legislation is making its way through Congress to boost the government's response to foreign propaganda, and Silicon Valley is starting to grapple with the challenge and threat of fake news.
	It's imperative that leaders in both the private sector and the public sector step up to protect our democracy and innocent lives.
	I'm just going to tell you again, Mrs. Clinton, the reason fake news even lives is because people like you have abandoned all authority and credibility.
	You've got none.
	People think you lie.
	Your husband lies every time you open your mouth.
	I think the drive-by media lies and tells falsehoods and is biased irreparably and incorrigibly.
	There isn't any source authority for anything out there now.
	So whatever goes, goes.
	There is no, in fact, you know what the proof of this is?
	The proof that the drive-by media no longer is source authority.
	No longer is they have their own fact-check operations to fact-check themselves.
	We put together a little montage of Hillary Clinton as a purveyor of fake news herself.
	The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband.
	We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.
	I did not know that Vince had any of the documents related to our personal business in his office until after his death.
	This video is disgusting and reprehensible.
	It appears to have a deeply cynical purpose to denigrate a great religion and to provoke rage.
	I thought using one device would be simpler.
	1975.
	I decided that I was very interested in having some experience and serving in some capacity in the military.
	And he finally said to me, he said, you're too old.
	You can't see.
	And you're a woman.
	I remember landing under sniper fire.
	And to my husband, I mean, you know, he woke me up Wednesday morning and said, you're not going to believe this, but, and I said, what is this?
	That's just a brief montage of the fake news that Hillary Clinton has been responsible for her.
	So every one of those is a lie.
	Every one of those little montage ingredients is fake news.
	Not to mention the story she tells about being named after the mountaineer, Sir Edmund Hillary, first man to climb Mount Everest.
	The only problem with that is that when she was born, nobody ever heard of him.
	He didn't climb Mount Everest for six years after she was born.
	Anyway, I take a break, but there's much more of this in your phone calls.
	Hang in there, be tough, my friends.
	We're coming right back.
	Okay, I want to get back to the phones when we have a break here at the bottom of the hour, and we'll get back to your phone calls.
	Always try to take more calls on Open Line Friday just to get a cross-section of what it is people are interested in and what they wish to talk about.
	Plus, we'll review Trump's thank you address last night.
	I will back after this, folks.
	Don't go away.
	You want another example of fake news?
	Folks, this is starting to really irritate me because of the lifespan this stuff is getting.
	Fake news, when you rip it apart and you strip it down, fake news is actually that which exposes the fraud that is mainstream media news today.
	And that's really what they are upset about.
	Anything that exposes how they are fraudulently reporting and lying to you, they call fake news.
	They have lost their moral authority.
	They've lost their source authority.
	They have lost their credibility.
	That's why any of this is happening.
	And they know it.
	And so they are attacking anything other than them as a means of trying to reclaim that authority that they've lost.
	But you remember the white Hispanic George Zimmerman and the event that ended in the death of Trayvon Martin.
	Remember that?
	There was a 911 call.
	Zimmerman called 911 after the event.
	And the EMS people, the operators at 911, are asking him questions.
	And they're asking him to describe Trayvon Martin.
	And so Zimmerman describes various aspects.
	And then the people on the 911 end of the call, is he black?
	Is he white?
	And he says, no, he's black.
	NBC edited that call.
	They edited the 911 call and omitted Zimmerman being asked to describe Trayvon Martin.
	And the 911 call that they aired made it look like the first thing Zimmerman said about the guy was that he was black.
	And that allowed NBC to claim that Zimmerman was a white racist as a white Hispanic who had killed Trayvon Martin only because he was black.
	Fake news par excellence.
	Fake news exists no different than when NBC blew up a pickup truck on Dateline NBC to make it look like manufacturers were selling defective vehicles that could blow up on you.
	There is a long history of fake news and lying news and distorted news from the mainstream media.
	And they're now being called on it.
	They are the ones who announced via our old friend Jim Rutenberg.
	I couldn't believe this when I saw it.
	Front page of the New York Times: we in the media have got to abandon our principles of journalism in order to defeat Donald Trump.
	His potential election is such a great threat to America that we have to abandon our principles of fairness and objectivity and truth and do whatever it takes, including use our opinions to destroy Donald Trump.
	From the moment they did that, they just threw away the primary ingredient they had always been thought to have, and that is objectivity and fairness and not bias.
	And there was a lot of people who thought they were non-biased and fair and all that.
	Don't doubt me on that, low information crowd.
	I mean, you wouldn't believe, folks, the number of young people to whom the New York Times is a Bible.
	I could show you stories of 25-year-old, 30-year-old tech people who think the greatest day in their lives is when the New York Times removed the paywall and became free.
	They were so excited.
	They wrote about it for a week.
	Now, to me, the New York Times is worthless, literally worthless.
	Angrily, literally worthless to me.
	But to them, gospel.
	And they've thrown it away.
	Here's Troy in Enid, Oklahoma.
	It's great to have you with us on the EIB network.
	Hi.
	Oh, my gosh, Maharashi, what an honor.
	Look, Trump being elected and now getting through to you after 27 years of listening.
	To quote Matthews, has a thrill running up my leg.
	Quite literally.
	Oh, you're happy about it.
	Okay, cool.
	I'm sorry, I'm having trouble understanding you, so I was waiting for you to be transcribed.
	That's the delay.
	Well, look, I tell you, I'm just going to get right to the point here.
	Trump supporters need to remember why they voted for Trump in the first place.
	You need to have a heart and just be patient because for me, it was the fact that Trump's a businessman.
	Wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	Are you getting worried?
	Are you thinking Trump supporters are on the verge of abandoning him?
	Yes, I do, because my wife, my mother-in-law, a lot of the guys that I work with are questioning some of the things you're doing.
	They're worried about the cabinet picks, some of the things he's doing, the Boeing thing.
	And, you know, they just need to remember that he's a businessman.
	And to me, I feel the country is a business and should be run like one, which is why I supported Herman Cain when he ran.
	You know, and I think it's especially true for those questioning his cabinet picks, like you said.
	You know, trust that he's choosing these people on merit and for no other reason.
	I don't know, Rush.
	I don't think the loyalty through the process, you know, through the whole primary season was a deciding factor for him or even appeasing the establishment as far as that goes.
	And I'm tired of these reporters and commentators trying to lump Trump supporters together.
	Okay, now, wait a minute.
	I'm looking for something here that I had prepared for just this, and I can't find it.
	You're telling me that you have friends of yours who supported Trump who are beginning to doubt him now because they're believing what they're hearing in the media about his cabinet picks being no good or because of the Air Force One deal?
	Yes, that's correct.
	You know, this is.
	I don't know if this, they're not, it's not that they're not questioning the support for him, but they're questioning his picks.
	They don't want, they don't want, they're wondering why they're calling why he's calling Romney in for all these interviews.
	Okay, that's it.
	That's it.
	I was, that's why I was being patient here, folks.
	There had to be some explanation for this.
	And Romney, I'm sure, is it.
	But you know what?
	I also don't doubt.
	This is why I said earlier that I think it's brilliant that Trump continues on these thank you tours because when he's out there, he continues to hammer his agenda and he advocates for his cabinet picks.
	He explains to people who they are.
	He thanks the people for voting for him.
	And he continues to articulate his agenda.
	And it's the best.
	He's got the entire media apparatus arrayed against him.
	Fake news daily about Trump, lying about him, lying about his cabinet picks.
	And I think he's got to keep doing this.
	You like his cabinet picks because they are business successes.
	Obviously, you said that's why he supported Herman Cain.
	No, that's not necessarily true.
	I mean, that may be to me, it's funny.
	You listen to even guys like Krauthammer and others speculate as if they even have a clue.
	You know, Trump is a businessman.
	He got to where he is because he's busy.
	He's a businessman.
	That's why I've voted for him.
	That's why I supported him.
	That's why I try to get all the people that I know to support him.
	And he's doing exactly what I thought he would do throughout the election process, which is he's betting these people.
	He's taking his time.
	And I don't give a rip why he chooses the people that he chooses because I don't even pretend to know.
	Wait a minute, though.
	You're telling me, friends, you just did Krauthammer.
	Now you're confusing me.
	Who is it that's ripping on Trump that you don't like?
	It's in the media.
	Okay.
	The left-wing media.
	It isn't going to change.
	It isn't.
	It's not going to change, Troy.
	You've got to ignore this.
	I do.
	No, you're not.
	You're not.
	You're calling here.
	You're worried about it for some reason.
	No, I'm not worried about it.
	I'm trying to get the people that are listening to your program, the people that I work with, because I tell them every day, I said, don't worry about this.
	The reason he got to where he is right now is because of his success in business, and that's why we voted for him in the first place.
	And the reason that he's picking these people is because he's running the country the way, or he's planning on running the country.
	And the reason he's picking these people or betting him the way he is is he's doing it exactly like he did when he was.
	Okay.
	Look, folks, I'm going to explain.
	I've got to take a break here.
	I'm going to explain.
	I know exactly what you're talking about.
	I know what your fears are.
	I know what you're worried about.
	I'm going to address them.
	But I've got to go here quickly.
	But before I do, as you know, Troy, every caller is offered a free brand new iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus.
	Would you like one of the two?
	I absolutely would, sir.
	Which one?
	Well, it'd be for my wife.
	And like the previous caller, I'd like the plus in the rose gold.
	What's your carrier?
	ATT.
	You got it.
	Rose Gold ATT iPhone 7 Plus.
	Hang on.
	So, Mr. Snurdly get your FedEx address.
	It's 256 gigabytes.
	When we give things away here, it's top of the line.
	And none of this three weeks of shipping.
	You'll have it tomorrow.
	Don't hank.
	Yes, they may be doing their Christmas shopping, but not everybody's going to get through here.
	Why do you want to cast a paw on it?
	Quick timeout.
	Back with more after this.
	Don't go away.
	Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
	Rush Limbaugh, your guiding light.
	Look, I'm going to answer Troy in the monologue segment the next hour in just a few minutes.
	I don't think I squeeze it all in with the precision that I want within the remaining time.
	I want to get a call or two in here.
	But I understand what people's fears are.
	Trump's, in many people's eyes, a once-in-the-lifetime opportunity, and you already feel he's being undermined, and you're worried that the undermining efforts are going to work.
	I understand it's a constant fear that conservatives and Republicans have learned to have experience guided by intelligence.
	But Trump's a different animal.
	Trump is not.
	Well, I'll explain it in the monologue signal next hour.
	Back to the phones here.
	This is Rob in Colorado Springs.
	Great to have you, sir.
	How are you doing?
	Rush, it's an honor to talk to you.
	Thank you.
	I just wanted to ask you your personal opinion on Apple and Apple losing its edge.
	I don't know what your personal experience has been with the new MacBook Pro, but I find it a little disappointing that it took over 500 days for a new MacBook Pro to come out.
	And other things, like, as you know, they just moved all of their engineers away from their airport line of routers, even though JD Power just made them number one in customer satisfaction.
	Yeah.
	Little things like that.
	Their displays as well.
	Now they're looking to LG to fulfill high-end resolution displays.
	What are your thoughts on all this when it comes to Apple?
	One question.
	Do you have a new MacBook Pro?
	I do.
	I just bought a new MacBook Pro because I've been waiting for such a long time to have one for work.
	And I do enjoy it.
	I have no complaints about it.
	I just can't believe that it took so long.
	Yeah.
	Apple has, it's a wild guess, anywhere from 115 into 145,000 employees.
	And so it's hard to understand why anything's late to market.
	It's hard to understand why, with that many people, they would have to shut down their line of airport and airport express routers and the time capsules and all that.
	I'm like you.
	I want Apple to thrive.
	I want Apple to just win and win because I love their stuff.
	I want Apple to continue to innovate.
	I want them to be on time.
	I want them to be leaders.
	And my big concern with Apple recently has been they can't build what they're designing.
	Right.
	You talk about the length of time the MacBook Pro, but let's look at the iPhone 7 Plus.
	Do you realize Apple stores could not get stock of the iPhone 7 Plus until the first week in November?
	They announced those devices on September the 15th or 6th, 17th, something like that.
	And you couldn't, if you ordered a JetBlack iPhone 7 Plus on announce day, they told you November.
	And their stores couldn't get them.
	You talk to people working at the stores.
	They didn't understand.
	I mean, it's the brand new iPhone.
	It's the same shell as the 6S.
	What in the world is the delay here?
	Then the earPods, you know, they take the headphone jack out of the iPhone and replace them with these wireless earpods, and they announce they're going to be available in October.
	Then they say, sorry, they're not ready.
	And nobody knows when they're coming.
	And so people are going out and having to purchase replacement Bluetooth wireless headphones to use with their new iPhone 7s.
	And they're missing out on the sales they could be racking up now, these new earpods.
	Your MacBook Pro story.
	How about the Mac Pro itself?
	Three years and no update.
	And what confounds all this is they don't tell anybody.
	They're so shrouded in secrecy, they may have decided to cancel the Mac Pro and haven't told anybody.
	My guess is that there's going to be a super duper MacBook Pro refresh in three or four months, and you're going to be cursing yourself for buying the one you bought.
	I just, I think they're putting everything they've got in the iPhone right now.
	I think they are just, that's their moneymaker.
	I think they're putting all their innovation in the iPhone, and nobody really knows because they are so secretive.
	But look, I'm like you.
	I wish that we knew more about why there were delays.
	I wish that they were able to more easily manufacture what they can design because the stuff they release is just super.
	It's just the best.
	It becomes iconic and the best.
	And you want more and more of it.
	But I think they're going to be, they're fine.
	The iPhone is still the only phone in the world that matters, for example.
	And their laptops ditto.
	Quick timeout.
	Back after this.
	Don't go away.
	And yes, my friends, Rob in Colorado was offered a brand new iPhone.
	He chose a Verizon iPhone 7 Plus Matt Black.
	He'll have his tomorrow.
	I just didn't get a chance to ask him on the air, but we took care of it.

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