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Dec. 14, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 14, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
As I sit back and I examine the landscape, the political landscape, it is really striking how pathetic, out of step, marginalized, childish and whiny.
The Democrat Party and the drive-by media appear.
Now, I know, I know they're ticking you off.
I know they're making you mad.
But folks, and they're making me mad too, by the way, greetings and welcome back, another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence where all expectations held by the audience are met and surpassed on a daily basis.
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I watched Trump last night in Wisconsin with another one of his appearances as uh thank you rally.
And there's just no comparison.
There's literally no comparison to the images of Donald Trump and his entire aura, his team, his it's just action, action, action.
Trump last night was just brilliant again.
Uh, weaving himself back and forth from improv and ad-lib to the teleprompter and not missing a beat.
The thing that that stuck out, stuck out to me last stood out to me last night uh was a very short sentence that Trump uttered, and he repeated it two or three times.
We're gonna work so hard for you.
We are gonna work so hard for you, and I have no doubt that that's exactly what's gonna happen.
I don't think even Trump supporters, I don't believe they really anybody has the eye an idea yet of what is going to happen here because we haven't seen it in our lifetimes.
We have not seen this kind of action, this kind of can do spirit, this kind of throw out all of the ways it's always done and forging a new way.
We haven't seen it.
The Democrat Party by comparison and the media just look inept.
They look irrelevant, they look pathetic, childish.
They are whining, they look small, they have become marginalized.
They don't even appear to be on the same playing field that Trump is on, and they don't even appear to be in the same league.
Now, folks don't misunderstand me.
I'm I'm not saying that they've been vanquished or defeated or any of that, and I'm not saying that they're irrelevant.
I'm talking about the appearance of things, and I think it's becoming more and more obvious to more and more people.
Nobody likes a whiner, and nobody likes losers making excuses and blaming other people and unable to accept the reality here.
And I know there are a lot of them.
There are a lot of losers out there.
There are a lot of people that wanted Hillary to win, and they can't get over it.
They can't come to grips with it.
They cannot accept it, and they won't.
And the childish, pathetic, whiny business about the Russians stole the election from them.
The New York Times has something like an 8900-word story that starts on the front page about this today.
And it's all about how the mean bad Russians in Putin made the Democrats look bad.
If you read this whole thing, you will find the New York Times admitting that Hillary probably lost this because of her ineptness, because she was a bad candidate who ran a poor campaign.
But that doesn't matter.
The Times is looking past that.
They can't get over the fact that the Russians cheated.
They think the Russians hacked both the RNC and the DNC, but they didn't use any of the RNC stuff.
So they think it's unfair.
It's kind of like the way we react to the drive-by media.
The Russians didn't play fair with the Democrats.
The media never plays fair with us.
In a way, the Democrats are getting a dose of their own medicine.
But let's it's obvious, folks, that this Russian hacking story and it stole the election from them.
This is it.
This is what they've settled on.
Get Get ready, because it's going to be a month's long story.
It isn't going away.
It's going to be what they will use to fundraise.
It's going to be their method of delegitimizing the Trump election and the Trump presidency.
They are digging deeper on this.
They are not going to let this go.
It's going to look even more pathetic.
It's going to look even more childish.
They are going to marginalize themselves even more.
They're going to look incompetent and whiny.
They are going to appear out of step.
They're going to have every aspect of the sore loser character attached to them.
While Trump is going to burn and beat a new path, unlike any that they're going to be left in the dust.
They're going to be left in the wake.
They are not going to know what hit them.
While they still prosecute the election and try to convince people that Trump is illegitimate, amazing, dramatic change is going to be happening in the United States of America, and it's going to be along the lines of exactly that which people voted for.
Now, don't misunderstand.
Trump's going to tick you off too.
He's going to make some things, do some things that will appear to be contradictory.
Things he said in his campaign because nobody's perfect and nobody hits their stride and remains on stride as everybody makes a misstep here and there.
But folks, let's let me ask you a question.
First place, there is nobody can provide you any evidence that the Russians hacked the election.
As I have been trying to point out for many, many moons now.
Hacking the election.
There are two ways to cheat in an election.
There are two things that happened in an election involving ballots.
The first phase is that ballots are cast, i.e., people go out there and they vote.
And then the next aspect is that those ballots are counted.
So where did the Russians cheat?
What did the Russian hack affect when it comes to ballots?
Is anybody alleging anything?
They aren't.
The whole point of the Russian hack is the Podesta emails were made public, and it's not fair because the Republicans'emails and whatever the Russians discovered in the hack of the Republicans, even though Priebus says that they weren't hacked, that doesn't matter.
The drive-bys and the Democrats are continuing with the narrative that both parties were hacked and that the Russians have been doing it for years, but for some reason Putin cheated and he didn't expose all the dirt on the Republican side.
And that's not fair.
And they want to know why.
And that will be explained by Trump's close ties with Putin, which they're going to tell us is increasingly dangerous and inept and the and the result of inexperience.
Never mind.
This is the party, the Democrat Party that literally was in bed with Soviet communism.
What we are witnessing here is a reversal.
Everything that used to be is 180 degrees out of phase, and what we're seeing is the Democrat Party doesn't know how to deal with it when they are on the short end of unfairness.
They've never had to deal with it, so they have no experience at it.
They've always had the media on their side, destroying Republicans, running interference for the Democrat Party, because the Democrat Party and the media are essentially the same entity.
And the Republicans have never gotten what anybody considered to be a fair shake.
And I mean, now look at the Democrats are whining that they're not getting a fair shake.
That's really what this is about.
They're really upset.
Nobody's denying what's in the Podesta emails were true.
And if you want to say that what was in the Podesta emails affected the election, go right ahead.
You know, the Democrat National Committee rigged Its own primary.
They rigged their own primary and screwed Crazy Bernie.
This has been discovered.
But nobody seems to be upset about that hack.
Nobody seems to be upset about the hack that revealed that information.
Nobody, even the electors.
This is crazy.
There's a Harvard professor, a law professor named Lawrence Lessig.
And I think this guy runs for president every year.
Nobody knows about it because nobody cares, but he does.
And he has predicted, ladies and gentlemen, that 20 electors will abandon Donald Trump.
That'll take him from 200 or 306 to 286.
He is predicting at least 20 will abandon Trump.
And we have come to find out that it is the White House and a Clinton PR firm that are behind the effort to convince Trump electors to abandon him.
Megaphone strategies, whose stated mission is to use PR as a tool to diversify progressive movements, typically works with progressive causes like Black Lives Matter.
That's the firm that's representing a handful of quote unquote faithless electors, close quote, trying to keep President elect Donald Trump from winning the electoral college vote.
This firm, again, megaphone strategies co-founded by Van Jones, the former Green Jobs czar in the Obama White House, who later resigned after it was revealed that he had signed a statement questioning whether the Bush administration had a role in the 9-11 terror attacks.
Van Jones, a conspiracy theorist extraordinary, now works as a CNN commentator.
So we have the the and and oh by the way, Obama is now all in on the Russian hacking aspect and the resulting unfairness and thus fraudulent election result.
After saying on November 26th that it was silly to even think this, our election was solid, there's no evidence that it wasn't, we've got to move on.
Despite Trump praising Obama, despite Trump talking about how much he's learning from Obama, despite Trump praising Obama's willingness to help him and all that, Obama has decided to throw the knife in.
Along with Van Jones and along with Lawrence Lessig, and along with the Clinton campaign to try to sabotage the electoral college.
It looks pathetic.
It looks, it's maddening.
Don't misunderstand its man.
I've point of getting mad at it at this stage.
The reason to get mad at it or just the energy it takes to get mad at it is not productive to me.
I think it just astounding how out of touch and how willing they are to look pathetic and childish.
You will know how bad it's gotten.
This is uh this from a UK website.
Russian hackers.
I don't know if I can do this a straight face.
Russian hackers probably, quote unquote.
This is a headline, headline of a major news story at a UK website.
Russian hackers probably swayed the EU referendum in favor of Brexit.
According to a former Labor Party minister who claimed this in the Commons, leading remain campaigner Ben Bradshaw, questioned the validity of the Brexit vote in June, claiming that the Russians were responsible for it.
So the Russians hacked the Brexit vote.
The Russians are responsible for the vote in Great Britain to leave the European Union.
The Russians are responsible for everything now.
The Russians hacked Hillary's Blackberry.
The Russians hacked Hillary's teleprompter.
The Russians were able to rewrite Hillary's speeches.
The Russians put the word deplorables in Hillary's mind with a mind war pack.
It's getting absurd what these people are maintaining now.
And these last ditch efforts to derail what happened are becoming laughable.
The Democrat Party has become a standing joke.
They are not in on it.
They don't know it.
They're almost in prison on this in the sense that their lunatic fringe base is demanding this.
And so the Democrats in part have to do this in order to fundraise for upcoming elections.
But it's if if I were if I were I'd be embarrassed.
I'd go about stopping Trump different ways.
I would go about trying to sabotage the Trump administration in different ways.
I mean, they've got half the Republican caucus in the Senate has as its primary strategy surrender.
So you got some allies over there say if you want to stop Tillerson or something.
But no, they're choosing this path of claiming the right.
Almost 9,000 words in the New York Times, and even the Times admits it's practically in microfont, but you can see it, that it really had nothing to do with the outcome of the election.
They're just focusing on the fact that the Russians hacked Podesta's emails, and their big stories how this happened, by the way.
You know what happened?
According to experts, Podesta fell prey to a phishing attack.
This is the story they're asking us to believe.
Podesta saw an email, and it was from some outfit asking him to uh confirm his user ID and password, and he had to click on the link to change the password just to be safe because there'd been some hacks.
So Podesta, he called an IT specialist.
And the IT specialist wrote back, this is a legitimate email.
Go ahead, do it what so Podesta did.
That is supposedly how everybody got their way into Podesta's email.
The IT specialist is claiming he didn't do it.
He meant to say it's illegitimate, but his autocorrect on his device instead of spelling illegitimate spelled legitimate.
He meant to tell Podesta that the email was illegitimate to ignore it, don't click on a link, and instead his email told Podesta it was legitimate.
And so the Russians are behind the fishing attack.
The IT specialist goofed up, or his autocorrect goofed up.
And Podesta ended up making a major, major mistake that he shouldn't have made, and fell prey to a fishing attack.
And that revealed everything going on.
People are forgetting.
All these electors that are being pressured to abandon Trump.
What about all these electors for Hillary?
Why aren't they being pressured to abandon her?
Because you want to talk about hacks?
The DNC was hacked, and that hack discovered that Hillary Clinton and the DNC had rigged the primary against Bernie Sanders.
And there is thousand times more evidence for that than there is of any evidence the Russians hacked the election.
Nobody's alleging that they hacked the vote, and nobody's alleging they hacked the count, and nobody's alleging they hacked the machines.
So what did the Russians hack?
How did the Russians throw the election to Trump?
There's no way.
I have to take a brief time out.
My friends are off and running.
We'll continue here in mere moments, back before you even know it.
To be clear, ladies and gentlemen, I'm not denying that the Russians try to hack our computer systems, nor the Chicoms both do, and others.
The Israelis try to hack.
It is part of intelligence gathering.
We're prepared for it.
We look for it.
But the way Podesta's emails were exposed is not how the Russians hack.
Was it really a hack?
It was a phishing.
It was a cheap phishing attack.
It was an email that Podesta clicked on, urging him to change his password at this site because it had been corrupted, and he got a note from an IT guy in a campaign that it was legitimate.
Now this IT guy says, no, that's a typo, my autocorrect screwed up.
I meant to tell Podesta it was illegitimate.
So because of a fishing attack, we now know what was contained in Podesta's emails.
It's not a Russian hack.
The Russians are hacking everybody all the time.
The Russians hacked Hillary's server or tried to.
But that's not why the Democrats lost the election.
They lost the election because wherever Trump and Hillary campaign face to face, she lost.
The bottom line.
You can talk about a popular vote all you want.
But the Great Blue Wall, she didn't even go there.
She thought she had it in the bag.
Trump outworked her.
Trump outsmarted her.
Trump, everything about his campaign was innovative and revolutionary compared to hers.
She was a bad candidate.
She had no plans.
And the Democrats can't accept that they're rejected.
They just can't accept it.
It had to be cheating.
It had to be hackery or had to be something.
And I want to be very, very clear on this.
I'm not suggesting that there wasn't any hacking.
What I am telling you is the Democrats didn't lose because of that.
They're trying to claim that it was unfair.
The Republicans weren't, their dirty laundry wasn't aired.
Well, hey, Deborah, how does it feel?
We Republicans, this is what we go through our entire lives being mistreated, treated unfairly by the media.
In this case, your case, the media is not the media, it's the Russians.
The Russians mistreated you.
The Russians weren't fair to you.
If that's what you want to try to tell everybody, I think you better stop and think about how childish and immature and whiny you all sound trying to make this case.
You had a bad candidate who didn't inspire anybody, who didn't uplift anybody.
Thank you.
Had no charisma, had no agenda, had nothing but baggage, hadn't won anything other than the Senate cease, bought and paid for.
You got what was supposed to happen.
You want to know why so many Democrats are literally insane?
I'm going to tell you in a minute.
They raised them to be.
They raise their kids to be insane.
Get this.
This is my old buddy Ben Shapiro at the Daily Wire.
While appearing on a show that lowers the collective IQ of the nation by at least one standard deviation, the view.
Have you seen that show lately?
I guarantee the collective IQ of the hosts on that show you could put in a thimble.
Anyway, Stephanopoulos' wife was on the view recently.
Her name is Allie Wentworth.
And she explained what election night was like at the Stephanopoulos Wentworth House.
Allie Wentworth, the wife of Stepanopoulos, who's actually a Clinton War Room member who works disguised as a journalist in ABC.
Allie Wentworth said, yeah, it involves my 14-year-old getting upset about the election.
Apparently, what happened in the Stephanopolis house when it became clear at two in the morning when their 14-year-old was still up.
When it became clear at two in the morning at three o'clock, whatever was it, Trump was going to win, George Stephanopoulos' daughter started screaming, no abortion!
No abortion.
A 14-year-old.
And Allie Wentworth, the mother on the view, said, as she said to her daughter, What do you mean?
You haven't even kissed a boy yet.
Don't use that term so flippantly.
Now, if you're wondering why the left has gone insane, maybe it's because they're raising their kids to be insane.
Do we even believe this story?
You have to tell me, folks, I don't have 14-year-olds running around my house.
But on election night and a winner is announced, and a 14-year-old, no abortion, no abortion.
If it did happen, what in the name of Sam Hill are they doing as they raise this kid?
And if it didn't happen, look at the extent to which they will lie and make their children look like idiots in order to advance their agenda.
No abortion, no abortion.
And of course, the mother said she has to chastise the door.
Why don't we use that word so flippantly?
You haven't even kissed a boy.
Why does the 14-year-old know the politics of abortion?
And why does the election of Donald Trump trigger no abortion, no abortion in a 14-year-old?
They're raising them this way, my friends.
They're raising them to be insane, and they are succeeding at it.
On this electoral college push, uh, once again, Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard law professor, is claiming now that 20 electors will abandon Donald Trump.
And it's a Van Jones PR firm that is trying to convince electors to abandon Trump and not vote for him and to vote for Hillary.
They are urging electors to break the law.
And it is a coordinated White House and Clinton campaign effort.
This is after Mrs. Clinton said she would accept the outcome of the election, that it would be childish and damaging to our democracy not to.
She was talking about Trump at the time in the last presidential debate.
And as I say, and now these electors supposedly are asking for intel briefings.
These electors want to have some intel on what's going on with the Russian hack.
Because all they're doing is reading the news and they're seeing that the Russians hacked the election, which the Russians didn't do.
But if they want intelligence briefings, how about the intel on how the Clinton campaign, working with Debbie Blabbermaus Schultz of the DNC, literally rigged the primary against Bernie Sanders?
Do you know that this has been unequivocally established and proven?
It is a fact that if there was any rigging going on in this election, it was the Democrat Party and the Clinton campaign, the DNC and the Clinton campaign rigging the game against Crazy Bernie.
My instincts told me this is going on from the get-go.
I think I'm on the one of the first on the record to tell you that Bernie Sanders was never going to be the nominee of this party, no matter what happened.
It wasn't going to happen that Crazy Bernie was out there to give Hillary a fight to make it look like she can overcome opposition, to make it look like she can overcome adversity, make it look like she was a fight, because they were all worried.
I mean, everybody'd set up a coronation.
Hillary Clinton was going to be given the Democrat nomination, but they had to rig it and make it look like.
Now Crazy Bernie wasn't in on it.
I mean, he really wanted to win.
He became a useful idiot and foil.
So he goes out there and he's under the impression he could really win, and his crowds are huge and the enthusiasm is big, and meanwhile, Hillary still can't draw flies.
And Hillary's never worried.
And after every primary, when when Crazy Bernie wins and beats her in the popular vote, guess what happened?
She got all the delegates.
Does Cindy anything sound familiar here?
Well, look at the superdelegates in the Democrat convention in the same way we look at the electoral college.
And Hillary is out there losing the popular vote in primary after primary after primary.
And yet, a couple three days after each primary, the delegate count is examined, and lo and behold, Hillary's delegate count continues to climb, even though she's losing state after state after state to Crazy Bertie.
It was rigged.
Crazy Bernie didn't know it.
When he found out he sold out and threw in with the party for the sake of party unity and everything.
But they humiliated him.
And these people now run around talking about how this election was rigged and how it was uh hacked by the Russians.
Well, we know how Hillary Clinton rigged and the DNC rigged a game against Crazy Bernie's you electors?
Thinking of voting for Hillary and you want intel briefings, maybe you ought to ask somebody to come in and tell you exactly how Hillary Clinton cheated and stole the Democrat nomination from Bernie Sanders.
That's what you need to look into.
Let me answer the question for you.
I firmly believe, I don't have any doubt that parents in the upper west side of Manhattan, Both of them in the media, one of them a former member of the Clinton war room, George Stephanopoulos.
I don't have any doubt.
If they start teaching their little daughter about the evil of Republicans and abortion when they're nine or ten.
I don't have any doubt about that at all.
It makes perfect sense to me, in fact.
I mean, that's how you raise your kids to be mirror images of you.
I mean, they train them early, propagandize them, brain whatever it's called raising them.
And if you're a couple of New York City liberals in the upper west side of Manhattan, of course you're going to run around and teach your little daughter what to be afraid of in the evil America outside the safety of our little home here.
And there are people that want to deny you the chance to have an abortion.
Can you imagine telling this a nine or ten-year-old little girl, explaining abortion to her, and that there are people that want to stop you from doing that?
It has to be the reason why the 14-year-old looking at Trump on TV said, no, boy, no, no, boy.
It's just sad.
But I think that's who they are.
Now on this elector business, folks, so far, so far there's only one elector publicly stating that he is going to abandon Trump, and that's this guy in Dallas.
Having a metal block on his uh his name.
Uh it's it's what's his name?
Sulfur super something or other.
And he wrote his op-ed in the New York Times explaining it.
The there are two electors in Colorado who attempted to have a judge allow them to break the law in Colorado.
They are committed to vote for Trump, and they don't want to.
And they asked a judge to uh let them vote to uh change their vote to somebody else's.
Two two Colorado faithless electors determined uh let's see, this can't be right not to vote for Hillary, too.
Electors want to stage a protest.
Yeah, to stop Trump from getting into the White House and a judge has ruled against them.
Two faithless electors are appealing a judge's decision to uphold the Colorado law, which requires electoral college members to vote for the winning candidate in their state.
This thwarts an attempt to stage a protest vote against Donald Trump.
The judge is Wiley Daniel.
He denied a request by two electors in Colorado to scrap the law which requires the nine electors in Colorado to vote for the candidate who won the most votes, and that was Hillary.
The two electors lawyer, Jason Wasaki, said that he will seek an emergency appeal in a last-ditch attempt to block the law before his clients must cast their vote for Mrs. Clinton on uh on December 19th.
Is this right?
It's a UK independent story.
Anyway, Judge Wiley is a Bill Clinton appointed judge, and he said no, suspending the Colorado law would harm the voters.
It would put at risk a smooth and peaceful presidential transition.
And he said, Part of me thinks this is really a political stunt to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president.
And he's exactly right.
A Clinton appointed judge, shut these two down.
So those are the three that we know about.
The only reason it's number 20 is running around is because his Harvard professor, Lawrence Lessig, is predicting that there will be 20.
And by the way, there are faithless electors in practically every election.
There was a single faithless elector in 2004, in 2000 and 1988, 1976, I think 1972 and 1968.
All of the electors who are pushing for intel briefings and rules changes are all Democrats.
They were never going to vote for Trump anyway.
So this is all a PR stunt.
Electors asking for intel brief.
That's why I suggest, well, give them the intel, since they're Hillary voters, give them the intel on how Hillary stole the election from crazy Bernie.
Chris Superin is the guy's name from Texas, who uh wrote the op-ed in the New York Times.
He cannot vote for Trump.
He just can't bring himself to do so.
The electors in Colorado are Democrats committed to vote for Hillary.
Hillary won Colorado.
They want to change the rules so that other states could change their laws.
They wanted to change the rule in Colorado, and they wanted a judge to give them permission to ignore the law.
And if the judge did it in Colorado, then they thought other states would follow suit, states where Trump was the winner.
Jim Brown, noted NFL great, told you yesterday he was at Trump Tower with uh with Ray Lewis.
Jim Brown came down the elevators after speaking with Trump and just gobsmacked the assembled media.
He said, I love Donald Trump.
After meeting with Donald Trump, Jim Brown said, I love this guy.
Jim Brown said the three most important men in my life were white.
People who gave him his first opportunity, his mentor, and his coach.
So he doesn't look at this as a racial thing, and what he heard Trump say about wanting to revitalize African American uh neighborhoods in the inner city really fired him up.
He came down that elevator saying to people, this guy is gonna do stuff.
This guy's a man of action.
I love this guy.
Meanwhile, the media, flummoxed and depressed, turned to LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers, who says just the opposite.
LeBron James doesn't want any part of Trump and is not saying so.
So using LeBron James to marginalize Jim Brown, one of the greatest running backs in many people's eyes, the greatest running back.
He amassed all of his records in just nine years.
My dad was a huge Jim Brown fan.
I'll never forget a kid watching the NFL on TV.
My dad was blown away by the fact that Jim Brown didn't wear hip pads.
And it's amazing what you remember growing up.
I'll never forget my dad telling me that about Gene.
He never wore hip pads, which meant, I mean, he was a tough, tough guy.
All of those rushing records in nine seasons.
Anyway, brief time out, my friends.
We continue after this.
We have Jim Brown coming up talking about how he fell in love with Donald Trump.
We've also got James Baker of the Bush 43 regime, the Reagan administration talking about Rex Tillerson, and talking about Tillerson on Putin, talking about Tillerson on climate change.
There will be some red flags there.
We've got all of that and much more coming up as we uh forge ahead into the second hour of the EIB network.
Hang in there be tough, my friends.
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