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Dec. 13, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 13, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Right on, Rado, Rado.
Great to have you with us, my friends, L. Rushbow behind the golden EIB microphone, doing what I was born to do.
And having the time of my life.
It's great to have you as part of all of this.
Our telephone number, if you want to be with us, 800-282-288-2, the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.us.
Pardon me for a minute, folks.
I just have to say one clarifying thing to people today who have been uh given brand new iPhone 7 Pluses.
That's what the uh four that we've given away today have requested.
Every caller this week, last week, week before under our fourth week now, every caller gets a free iPhone or iPhone 7 Plus, whichever they.
Oh, you know what I want to add to this?
We've we've got these people's address.
I want to give them all a subscription to Rush 24-7 as well.
I meant, I meant to start that yesterday, and I it just it slipped my mind.
So we've got the data to make it happen, so you give it to whoever can make that happen, and we'll start these people.
Limbaugh Letter Rush 24-7, one year, plus the phone.
Now, to those of you who have one, the phones that you're getting are unlocked, which means they'll work on any carrier.
And I told all the people today that the uh the phones will have no SIM card.
It is possible.
So I don't know how old all the phones here are, and I can't check this for the opening of them, and I don't want to open them.
I want you to have them still in the cellophane wrapped, shrink wrapped uh boxes like brand new.
They might have a Verizon SIM card in them.
And you told me you wanted ATT.
It's not a problem.
All Verizon phones, Verizon iPhones are unlocked.
They will work on any carrier.
They don't become locked until you actually make a deal with a carrier.
Well, these phones don't have any deal attached, so the people that I told today, just take the phone to ATT and tell them you want your number moved to the new phone.
You might, I don't think it's likely, but you might, there might be a Verizon SIM card.
And I don't want the ATT people to tell you, well, this is a Verizon phone, okay.
They can.
You just have to tell them it's unlocked, that the phone was a gift, and just to put an ATT SIM card in it and it will work.
I told them all that there's no SIM card, and it's probably true, but there might be a couple of them that have Verizon SIM in them.
So, but it doesn't matter.
If yours has, if your if your gift iPhone for me has a Verizon SIM card in it, it'll work on any carrier.
Unless you sign it up with Verizon, then it becomes Lockbeer.
But before you do that, it'll work on any carrier.
Uh one more thing here about Rex Tillerson from this this story in the New Yorker, and then other things.
Although ExxonMobil hires former State Department, former Pentagon, and CIA officials from time to time, in order to bolster its political analysis and negotiations.
Some of the Exxon executives that the author interviewed spoke about Washington with disdain.
If not contempt.
Some of the Exxon executives that uh Steve Coll at New Yorker spoke with regarded the State Department as generally unhelpful.
A bureaucracy of liberal career diplomats who were biased against oil and they were incompetent when it came to sensitive and complex oil deal negotiations.
They managed Congress defensively, and just as one capital among many in the world, a place more likely to produce trouble for Exxon than benefits.
Now, let me translate this for you.
Again, I I don't know Steve Kahl.
I don't know if he's liberal conservative, if it's a New Yorker, tend probably to be liberal, but his piece here I think is going to end up having more people like Tillerson than maybe he intends.
What he's basically saying here is, and I don't know how many people, when you think of Exxon, you know, because of the success that the left and the media have had in poisoning the minds of people about corporate America.
I mean, the the Democrat Party's enemies list.
Look at it.
It's every major, not just corporation, but industry, big oil, hated and despised.
Big pharmaceutical, hated and despised.
Big retail, that'd be Walmart, hated and despised.
Go down the list.
Liberals instinctively hate big corporations.
They don't even think they're people.
And they proudly say that.
That's who liberals are.
And that's who's in the State Department, specifically now, after eight years of Obama.
So Exxon hires a bunch of former government workers to help it do business.
It hires former CIA agents.
It hires former State Department employees.
Exxon hires people that used to work in the Pentagon.
This is serious business.
The oil business is serious business.
The world could not survive without oil.
Our world as we know it could not survive.
The United States standard of living would plummet if the left succeeded in getting rid of oil.
Airplanes would not fly.
Automobiles would cease to be useful.
You couldn't heat or air condition your home for long.
Getting rid of oil would take us back to the 17th or 18th century.
It was an absolute disaster.
It is serious business.
Oil is also very serious geopolitical issue.
It's not just a game.
It's not just oil wells and J.R. Ewing in Dallas and it is very, very and it's highly competitive.
It's cutthroat competitive.
You can't make oil.
You have to go find it where nature has made it.
In some places it's hard to get it, other places it's easy.
There's all kinds of competition to get it.
Everybody wants to have as much of it as they can.
The United States, as you know, has been dependent on foreign oil for the longest times.
We're now approaching a point in time where that will be unnecessary.
We have, now that we can get oil out of shale, and now that we can get oil via via FREC and natural gas.
We are becoming a net oil and energy supplier.
We have everything we need or soon will, and then some.
And it changes the game dramatically.
OPEC has never been weaker.
OPEC and the oils, the Saudis are cutting back on production to try to maintain price.
I mean, it is a cutthroat business.
And you have to go where the oil is.
And it's going to take you to places that you'd rather not go.
It's going to take you to countries that are run by absolute reprobates, but that can't stop you.
It's too crucial.
It is much too important.
We can't survive as we know survival without oil, the free flow of oil at market prices.
Practically everything else in this world is dependent on that.
And so these people at big oil who risk capital and time and people in trying to get it are not the bad guys everybody thinks they are.
And Exxon is its own little entity.
It has its own State Department, for example.
It does its own negotiations with other countries.
And it cooperates with the United States when necessary, the State Department, and so forth.
And what this passage here means is that all of these experts that Exxon has hired.
They've got plenty of oil executives.
They got plenty of people who know oil.
They've got injured.
I went to a guy, I went to high school with a guy that works for Exxon Mobile.
He's what he does is secret, he can't tell us.
I've been to two high school reunions where he got an emergency call and had to split and go over to Vietnam for some reason.
It's it's um it's cutthroat.
And no, this is after the Vietnam War.
This was just, this would be sometime in the in the uh early 90s.
My point is that Exxon staffs itself with people who know.
They probably have their own version of tax defense partners.
I'll bet you the IRS has an office at Exxon Mobil.
I'll bet you the IRS is there every day.
In fact, I know they are.
The IRS in major corporations has agents actually on site.
Taxes have to be prepared on a daily basis.
It's a whole different world, folks.
And so they've got these people that have experience working with foreign governments all over the world, from the Pentagon, from the CIA from the State Department.
And this passage in the book says that many of these people just do not trust the current State Department because it's populated with a bunch of liberals and leftists who despise oil and suspect anybody in that business.
And they're right.
Why would that they don't need to be surrounding themselves with people that want to harm them or retard what they do or have an animus against them.
So they have to work around it.
And I will guarantee you that Trump, in listening to Rex Tillerson describe how he has to succeed, what he has to do.
I guarantee you Trump was blown away.
I'll bet you anybody would be to hear what actually is required and necessary to succeed in that business.
And once you hear what's necessary to succeed in that business, then you say, well, is that experience worth anything to me for somebody a Secretary of State?
That's for Trump to decide.
We'll find out as if if Tillerson's confirmed it if he gets the job.
But the idea that the people opposing him are these lifetime career bureaucrats and diplomats who've never done what Tillerson's done, who may resent what Tillerson does, who may have an animus against Exxon, and we're supposed to pick people like that.
This is what Trump's election means is that we're not going to be governed by people like this anymore, at least for a while.
We're not going to be held back.
We're not going to be governed by a bunch of egghead nobodies who haven't accomplished anything in the real world.
You can have all the academicians and theorists and faculty lounge lizards you want.
But until you have practical real world experience doing things, you really can't say that you're qualified.
But the left thinks that all you need for qualifications is for somebody to be an appropriately educated egghead and an intellectual with theoretical knowledge about how things work, but who have never actually done it because the people who actually do it, well, they're suspects.
We're very suspicious of them.
So I'm not one of these people that's just instinctively opposed to people like those that Trumpers.
I mean, if you voted for Trump, this is what you voted for.
If you're excited about Trump, this is what you're excited about.
You're excited about doing this a different way.
Folks, we've had eight years of abject failure, eight years of adjects abject stagnation.
We've had, and longer than that, actually.
But certainly focused in these last eight years.
We know how to fail.
We know how to retard our growth.
We know how to put the country in decline.
We know how to penalize America.
We know how to run around and feel guilty about America.
We need people who look at America and love it.
We need people who love and respect America and believe that America's greatness is the best thing for the world.
Because it is.
It always has been.
It's not a braggadocious statement.
We are the people of the world who, because of our freedom, have created a standard of living and a technological innovation record of progress unlike any that has ever been seen.
And it is because of our documented freedom in the founding of our country, the belief in the power of individuals pursuing excellence and the best they can be.
Doers, shakers, people that make things happen.
As opposed to people who look at the United States and think that it's the problem in the world.
Want some names?
Madeleine Albright.
John Kerry.
Barack Obama.
Valerie Jarrett.
Samantha Power.
Practically anybody in the Obama administration thinks the United States is the problem in the world and that we're guilty of something, well, maybe a lot of things.
And we have a lot of apologies to make.
And we have a lot of crow to eat.
We have quite a bit of our size that needs to be knocked down, a peg or two, so that we learn what it's like.
We don't need to be led by people like that.
We've we've already we've been there and done that.
If you voted for Trump, you voted for a different kind of greatness, a different kind of action.
And that's what this administration is going to be.
My hope is the left isn't going to be able to keep up with it.
We shall see.
Uh Reuters has a story at the top U.S. spy agency has not embraced the CIA assessment on Russian hacking.
The top, what do you think the top U.S. spy agency is?
It's the office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Guy works for the president.
This guy, his name happens to be James Clapper.
But they are suspected to be ahead of the CIA in certain assessments and so forth.
And so they're not necessarily embracing the CIA assessment.
What this really boils down to here's what the left wants you to believe happened.
That the Russians have been hacking us for years, trying to and succeeding.
And in the last election cycle, they hacked both the Republicans and the Democrats.
But because Putin didn't want Hillary to get elected, he wanted Trump to be elected, they didn't reveal anything that they had uh they had hacked from the Republicans.
They only revealed and released to WikiLeaks what they got from Podesta, his emails and other things.
Now the Republicans, we were not hacked.
The story is fraudulent.
We were not hacked.
The story is fake news, anyway.
And frankly, I am shocked.
I don't mind admitting this, I'm shocked to see the numbers of people from across the political spectrum that are signing on to the premise that the Russians had something to do with this election.
I'm stunned to see it.
It crosses the spectrum, folks.
There are people, yep, it's very bad.
We need to get an investigation.
We need to seriously look into, shouldn't we?
I mean, everybody would want that, right?
If the Russians have been involved, I'm so sick and tired of Democrat Party created narratives becoming accepted without any question.
And then everybody signing on.
And I think one of the reasons so many people that when I'm talking about establishment types and others is because there's still so much resentment for Trump everywhere.
Resentment that he won, resentment of his personality, resentment that he continues to be loved and adored by the people that voted for him.
It's there, folks.
It's simmering, even among people who want you to think they've seen the light and are big Trump supporters.
Don't doubt for a moment that that crowd still hoping and thinking Trump will implode is still there.
Quick timeout.
Your phone calls are next when we get back.
And look at this, the NFL.
No longer going to do pink October.
The NFL's league-wide commitment to breast cancer is over, but it there's gonna be a replacement for it.
Instead, individual teams will be able to choose their own cancer cause to support next season.
The NFL has informed its teams in a league-wide conference call at Pink October.
It was a three-week period in October in which teams dressed up the fields, the sidelines, and the player uniforms in pink to raise awareness and money for breast cancer will not continue next year.
Our morning update today, folks, was about the Trump administration sending a questionnaire to current employees.
These are federal employees at the DOE, the Department of Energy.
And one of the questions asked which of you.
I'm paraphrasing.
Which of you have worked on climate change?
It basically asked, who among you buys into the Obama version of climate change?
Raise your hands.
Who among you have worked very hard on this area?
And these employees are having a fit.
They claim that it's a breach of privacy.
And they have refused to provide Trump's transition team with the list of names of people who have attended various climate meetings.
Bloomberg reported that Trump's team had sent a questionnaire to the employees at DOE asking about a variety of programs and activities.
Some of the questions asked for a list of employees or contractors who've attended United Nations climate meetings, as well as meetings on the social cost of carbon.
Employees of the Department of Energy said this request was alarming and intimidating, and they are refusing to answer.
I need to give you people in the Department of Energy a little lesson on the real world.
And how it works when we come back, and about regime change.
So hang on for that.
Okay, energy department.
Very simple.
The Trump team is a different team.
They don't believe man-made global warming, and they don't want secret employees in the Department of Energy undermining.
This is a mistake Bush made.
Bush left a bunch of Clinton people in office in 2000 to show goodwill, trying to mend fences after Florida 2000.
So he left a bunch of Clinton appointees in various places, including the Justice Department, State Department.
It's never a good idea.
But it's Bush's business, and it's the way he wanted to do things.
But it's not Trump.
Trump wants to clear the stable.
He wants people who think the way he does.
It's his entitlement.
He won the election.
These are appointed positions.
These are government employees.
They are employees.
And if you don't like the way the boss runs, you've got two things you can do.
You can either button down and accept it or you can quit.
I've told people I was fired, been fired, maybe eight times, seven or eight times.
One time I got fired in this business.
A lot of times for nothing to do with behavior, insubordination.
I was working at a station that played oldies, and the owner decided he wanted to sell it, and he did, and the new owners decided to change format to Chinese opera or some such thing.
We all got fired.
Not because we were bad people, but we didn't want to play Chinese opera.
I wouldn't have stayed anyway.
What kind of future is there?
It was not Chinese opera, but it was some cockamami music format that wasn't going to take me anywhere.
And these people had they they were under no obligation to keep me.
Well, you people at the DOE, and you resent Trump's questions to try to find out what you believe and what you think in there.
This is his Department of Energy now.
He was elected by the people with specific reasons.
He told people what his energy policy was.
These government bureaucrats, in many cases, act like they're untouchable.
Yeah.
And that they can't be forced to do things that they don't want to do.
It really is a kind of an ignorance of the way the world works.
Now some people might be nervous at the Trump questionnaire, trying to find out, okay, who among you has traveled to the United Nations?
Who among you have participated in the intergovernmental panel on climate change?
Who among you have traveled to various climate change and global warming conferences?
They're trying to weed out the ramble.
I don't know about folks.
This is the kind of stuff that needs to happen.
The Democrats do it.
When they win, they don't leave opponents in positions of power.
Clinton fired all 93 U.S. attorneys when he took office.
All 93 of them.
Nobody said a word.
When Bush did it, they all had a cow.
But it's tradition.
The president puts U.S. attorneys in office that see things he as he does.
And it ought to be that way at state, and it will be.
And it ought to be that way at the Department of Energy, and it will be.
And it ought to be that way at the Department of Commerce, and it will be.
I don't care that the media has a cow.
I don't care that the left and the Democrats have a cow.
I don't care that young little tech bloggers and millennials who think that government is God worry that Trump is going to get rid of the Department of Energy.
We only have the Department of Energy because Nixon created it to try to curry favor with the left, the same way with OSHA.
Who says we need a department?
Why do we need a Department of Education?
When you get right down to it, why does the federal government need to be in charge?
That's why we have states.
Because we need regulations to rein in killer capitalists.
Yeah, right, that's why.
Hey, look, the idea of big intrusive government has not gone away, and it needs to be paired way back.
And we don't need people inside government sabotaging and undermining the duly elected president when he comes in.
And if the duly elected president wants to make sure that he or wants to try to get rid of all the potential ne'er do wells, more power to him.
These are employees.
They're not bosses.
They didn't run for election and they didn't win.
Here is Carol in Las Cruces Numaico.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
How are you?
I'm great.
Thank you.
Uh I'm calling to make two comments on your Rush revere book series.
Oh, yes, ma'am.
Thank you.
I the first one is the thank you for writing the series.
I'm uh the grandmother of a child who has dual citizenship.
Her uh father is from Great Britain, her mother is an American.
So and this child attends a British international school, and your books give us the chance to tell our side of the story.
And for that, uh I'm thrilled.
Oh, thank goodness.
Well, now where does your daughter actually attend school?
Your your granddaughter.
Uh Hong Kong.
Hong Kong.
And it's a it's a British international school in Hong Kong.
And am I correct in assuming that the American founding is not high up on the curriculum?
You're you're correct.
Yeah.
Yes.
You're correct.
But even though uh and we have a friendly rivalry with our our uh the other grandparents.
Right.
Well, they're Brits.
I mean, they're people that uh we beat, yeah.
Yeah, we have a lot in common.
Right.
Well, my husband, uh, bless his heart, uh, at the wedding reception uh many years ago uh in Hong Kong, posted made a toast to Yorktown, which didn't go over too big.
Yeah, but uh my son-in-law refers to us as the colonies.
So we do have this uh uh pit for tie.
Well, so my how do my books help?
I mean, uh because are they are they taking them to school?
No, no.
I just ordered book one.
This child is seven, so she's learning to read, and I look through the list to see which were the appropriate grade level.
Well, that'd be a good starter, and that's a great one to start with.
That that because that's well that's well my second comment is your uh five-star reviews on these books number in the thousands, like six thousand.
Isn't that incre you mean on Amazon?
Isn't it incredible?
Well, I I'm uh I'm a former uh school teacher who taught civics, ninth grade, and when I read those, I read reviews, and I'm gonna read the book before I send it on.
But what I thought after I saw those reviews is that because you have so many readers, I'm uh I don't know the legalities of of doing something like creating uh uh an internet link so that kids who have read these books in various cities can meet one another uh like a book club in a different way.
Well, we don't we don't have we don't quite have that, but there is a Facebook rush revere page where they can all go because what happens is that people kids who read the books send pictures of themselves opening the boxes dressing up as the characters in the book the families send videos and pictures of their kids acting out uh very it it's facebook.com slash rush revere and and anybody can go there now actual you know linkage one to another you
You can do it on Facebook.
Well, I'm an old school.
I'm an old person.
So I like that face-to-face because it creates conversation.
Well, we're doing that with a bunch of homeschool people, too.
But, you know, you're really – I'm glad you brought up the reviews.
Reviews are off the charts on Amazon, the four-and five-star reviews.
It's incredible.
I'm glad you remind – that's one aspect.
I never talk about that, and I should because that's actual feedback.
from readers and some of the reviews on on Amazon that people that take time to write are just out of this world.
It's extremely extremely flattering and I'm I'm really glad you mentioned that look I'm really pressed on time here Carol but every caller gets a new iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 plus if you would like one would you like one?
Oh absolutely yeah let me guess you want a black iPhone 7 plus it's for my husband.
Well what is is this is that what he wants you can take it whatever color you want whatever sucks a black mat.
The black mat S7 or 7 plus 7 plus and what what what's his carrier?
Verizon.
Gotcha covered don't hang up we'll get your address you'll have it tomorrow in Las Cruces, New Mexico back after this my friend Carlos in Los Angeles great to have you with us sir how are you doing?
Hello, sir.
Nice talking to you.
I just want to tell you my story.
I used to listen to the news only, you know, in my native language, which is Spanish.
And I used to notice that they were, you know, they were not being fair in the news.
They were talking only against the Republican Party all the time.
And I remember one day they were pronouncing a name, a name, a name as well.
Who the heck is that guy?
I said to myself, who the hell is that guy that they talk so much but in a negative way.
So one day I was listening you know to the uh to the radio station and I decided to change the radio station then there was a guy talking then I uh like uh I remember that I like what he what he was saying and I left it on for one minute and I really like the guy the way he talked you know what I said this is something you know new and I like this guy and that guy happens to be Rush Limbaugh.
Oh and I said and I said to myself oh my God this is not even close to what they're saying to us language.
This guy lost and since that day I haven't stopped listening to your show.
It's been almost one year.
Wow yeah you know Univision that's they don't have any idea the kind of favor that they did to me.
Because thanks to them well I'm glad they did it Carlos they they they talked so badly about me they made you curious you had to find out and look what happened.
Now Carlos you get to choose what you want an iPhone 7 or 7 plus I I don't have time to ask or get your answer here but Mr Snerdly will.
Whatever you want and we'll take care of it.
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