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Dec. 16, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 16, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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Now I'm I'm gonna begin the hour here with a personal apology.
And every time I do this, the staff on the other side of the glass starts giving me weird looks and and well, what are you apologizing for?
And what I I want to apologize for my near loss of composure in the first hour of this program.
And I my memory there two or three times in the first.
I literally was on the verge of screaming in here, which I never do.
I pride myself on having a uh good governor on these things and always trying to find the humorous and lighthearted aspect of things.
But I'll tell you, with with Michelle Obama, and I just saw this right for the I I didn't know this had happened.
I mean, literally two minutes before the program begins, somebody puts a piece of paper in front of me, and Michelle Obama says we've lost all hope.
It just sent me off.
Set me off, and I was already irritated.
This this whole Russian hacking.
I'm just I'm just ticked.
I've been ticked ever since Monday, having to even talk about this, because that means I'm being sucked in and roped into it like everybody else is, and it's just it's one big gigantic bogus piece of fake news because Donald Trump won this election.
It was a legitimate election.
The Russians didn't have a damn thing to do with it.
The Democrats here, see here I'm going again.
The Democrats lost this election because they deserve to lose this election.
They have election.
They have presided over the last eight years of misery.
Nobody in their right minds.
Here I go again.
Just would want any more of it.
The idea that that Hillary Clinton lost this because there was some sort of cheating.
That Vladimir Putin wanted Trump in the White House because Trump is some kind of wacky.
You wait.
The lackey is Obama.
The lackey is Hillary Clinton.
The wacke is the Democrat Party, which thinks the United States is the problem in the world.
They are the people that pose the great threat, not us and not Trump.
People that want to make America great again, people that want to restore this nation to superpower status for the goodness of the world.
For the benefit of everybody in the world, that's exactly the proper order of things.
And the Democrat Party simply doesn't believe that that's the role for the United States because they think we are the reason for the problems.
Starting with the destruction of the planet, and then wherever you go from there, you're just going further insane.
They deserve to lose in a sane, reasonable world.
Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and every one of them deserved to lose.
In fact, it was a great reinforcement that common sense still lives and exists in this country.
And I just, I was near the boiling point when I listened to these crybabies whine and moan about how it's not possible for them to lose.
There has to be some chicanery involved.
There has to be some cheating involved.
It had to be the Russians, and if it wasn't the Russians, it'd be this new guy in the Philippines.
And if it wasn't him, it'd be Castro from beyond the grave.
And if it wasn't him, it'd be the Chicoms.
And if it wasn't him, well, who knows?
It would be somebody.
Because Lord knows.
Nobody would say no to Democrats, Despite the fact that that's exactly what voters have been doing since 2010.
The Democrat Party has been shellacked every election starting in 2000.
All it took was two years of Obama, and this country saw the light.
But nobody reported that because the Democrat Party is the media.
This election was legitimate.
It makes sense.
It is entirely warranted by virtue of events.
It is restorative.
It restores confidence in the American people.
My confidence in them, it restores confidence in a number of American institutions.
And in my view, the country has been saved.
And so that's every reason to be upbeat and except for everybody.
This is a benefit for everybody, including these unhinged lunatics on the left, who unfortunately are the product of propaganda and disinformation and indoctrination, starting, I mean, for crying out loud.
George Stephanopoulos' 14-year-old daughter, when Trump is proclaimed president, starts running around the house shouting no abortion of 14-year-old.
What are they doing to their kids?
Much less ours.
Fourteen years old.
Trump wins in the first thought of a 14-year-old little girl's mind.
No abortion, no abortion.
What must this little kid be taught?
This is sick.
Every bit of this deserved to be defeated.
Everything about the Trump campaign was uplifting, and I realize that people don't like Trump, and I realize that they're conservative, think Trump's come along and blown the conservative movement, the smithereens.
I'm sorry that had already happened.
That's a that's a discussion for a different day.
We'll get into that at some point, I'm sure, down the road.
But for now, the Electoral College, we should delay it.
We need we need intel breathe.
This is just insulting one day after the next in this never-ending drumbeat of fake news designed as real news that in itself is a lying presentation of what the majority of American people think.
I'm just sick of it.
And seeing Michelle Obama say, we're hopeless, we're out of hope.
So I apologize.
Uh because I oh, I know.
I I know he's coming.
Uh he's he's coming out to his what is this his final press conference of his final of the year.
Well, you know damn well what this is gonna be.
I can I can predict what this is gonna be.
Well, you know what?
I knew the Russians were trying to affect the election all the way back to September, and uh the reports have been I didn't know anything about it, but I did I I told Putin.
I said, What?
I told you I needed more flexibility.
Not have it after the election 2002.
You didn't wait, Bland.
He's gonna, he's he's gonna.
Whatever he does, it's gonna confirm this fake news narrative that's out there that the Russians did this, and that that he uh I don't know how he's gonna handle it happen while he's in office, and he either tried to stop it or didn't.
Uh but but believe me.
He's gonna continue this theme.
He's not he's not gonna go against his wife, but his wife says it's hopeless, then he's gonna continue the theme in his own way, and he's gonna do what he can to erode confidence in the election outcome.
He's gonna do what he can to continue to portray Trump as a questionable and dubious, maybe dangerous figure.
Uh is this was this thing supposed to have started already?
When's it slated to start?
I see the cameras are eagerly waiting for the guy show up.
I can't believe he's gonna do this.
He's he's not gonna do this and finish it before this program's over.
That will not happen.
I wouldn't be surprised if this thing doesn't start like 245, 250, and we're getting fire ready, our final commercial break, give away our final iPhone of the day, and that's gonna come out there and start, or maybe not even until after 3 o'clock.
But I know what we're gonna get from this guy.
That just it just and I know that it's it's pointless to get mad about it.
I'm just apologizing because I normally don't get that.
Uh shall we say loud?
Now, Obamacare and the and the Democrats, the Senate Democrats say that uh they may want to help replace Obamacare.
Folks, this is a really, really legislatively, this is going to be a pretty important thing.
Now, Trump has been running around we're gonna repeal Obamacare, we're gonna replace it.
The Republicans have said we're gonna repeal and replace it.
And people believe that Trump is gonna do that.
But that's only the beginning.
Repealing it is one thing.
But then there's that word replace.
And that's where all of the potential danger resides.
Repeal and replace.
Now, as the free market advocate I am, what do you mean replace?
Just get rid of this monstrosity and let the markets take care of this.
But people are too afraid to let that happen.
That's putting too much faith in the insurance companies, which everybody is supposed to hate.
And that's just too risky.
There has to be a replacement.
Why does there have to be a replacement?
Isn't the fact that the federal government's involved in the first place one of the reasons nobody can afford health care?
Shouldn't the objective be the long-term objective to have health care price like anything else is?
There are various levels of it that you can afford, and that's what you get.
Like there is in hotels, like there is in airline seats, like there is in cars and TV sets and whatever.
There's a higher tier middle class.
Left's no health care should not be any different.
The poor should have the same access as the rich.
Well, I understand the emotional aspect of that, but then why shouldn't the poor have access to every car in the rich do?
Well, that's not health care.
What do you mean?
It's what do you what's what's magic about health care?
Well, health care is an entitlement.
We're all entitled to not get sick.
Really?
And then we're all entitled to get well.
Really?
Really, okay.
Well, that's what people think.
And that's what I mean, even a lot of so-called conservatives do not go to want to go to war over market characteristics in health care.
But I'm just going to tell you that it's never going to get resolved until we devise a system where the vast majority of health care is priced according to what people can pay for, like everything else in the market is.
We don't subsidize airline tickets.
We don't subsidize cars, except for Elon Musk, who's one of the biggest corporate welfare beneficiaries in the history of corporate welfare, not just Tesla Motors, but that solar city outfit of his, which he's going to buy.
This guy's gotten over six billion dollars worth of subsidies.
He didn't make a profit in anything, and everybody talks about what a great.
It's because of the left-wing prejudice and bias on electric cars, and somehow that's clean energy.
They never stop to think that coal is being burned.
Sorry, I don't mean to be shouting.
To charge these marvelous vehicles.
But we don't subsidize airline tickets.
We don't subsidize hotel rooms.
We don't subsidize groceries up, up, I'm sorry, food stamps.
So we subsidize cigarettes, we subsidize booze, we subsidize.
But you get my point.
There ought to be insurance for catastrophic health incidents, uh major like an automobile accident or an active God type of thing, or or a uh acquiring a terminal disease that takes years.
But even not talking insurance when you go pre preexisting conditions, it's not insurance.
You're talking something entirely, and I'm big believer that words mean things.
And it's not insurance to insure against pre-existing conditions.
We don't let you buy insurance when your house is burning down.
We do not allow people to buy insurance in the middle of a catastrophic event.
If we're gonna say we do that in health care, we've got to call it what it is.
It's a subsidy, it's this, but it's not insurance.
But everybody wants to think they have health insurance.
So we'll call it that because it makes it easier to make people think that officials are doing something good about it.
But I'm just telling you, take care of the catastrophic side on the insurance side and get this, get this whole thing down to where the vast majority of daily ordinary visits to the doctor and even some ordinary tests are things that you could put on your master card and deal with it.
That ought to be the objective.
I know it's not something that can happen overnight, but ought to be the objective.
People that's silly, you'll never be able to get there.
I know that that attitude will make sure we never get there, but it ought to be the objective.
But I digress.
The replace part of this.
When do you replace it?
Let's say the first thing that Trump does within a week of being inaugurated is repeal Obamacare.
Well, that doesn't get rid of it.
Repealing it just simply says but that doesn't get rid of it.
The argument that there's two arguments being circulated on the Republican side.
Repeal and replace it with something in two years, or repeal it and replace it with something in three years.
Because the argument against repeal right now in the United States Congress is we don't have anything to replace it with.
That's comforting.
We have we have intellectually, since this thing was signed into law in 2010, we have told ourselves that the first chance we get, we're going to repeal this.
And you mean to tell me that since 2010 there's not a single Republican that's put together an alternative idea?
That's what they're telling us.
So we can't just repeal it because there's nothing to replace it with, and we just can't repeal it and turn everything back over to market because people just can't do that.
That's horrible.
If you repeal and replace in two years, the idea there would be to come up with a plan that you could pass before the next midterms in 2018.
But what if you come up with a plan and nobody likes?
And then the election comes in 2018, and a bunch of members of Congress and the Senate are thrown out because they don't like, the public doesn't like what the replace plan is.
So, okay, let's wait for three years.
Let's not replace them.
We'll repeal it, but we'll keep everything as is for three years, and then we'll replace it.
We'll replace it after the midterms.
The argument for that is, well, we might even have 60 seats in the Senate by then.
Why, the midterms, the Democrats have 25 seats to defend.
They don't have a prayer.
Many of them are in red states.
Why, if we wait until after the midterms and don't do our new replacement plan until 2019 or 2020, we'll be able to do anything because we will own majority houses in the House and Senate, and we will be veto-proof.
But the danger of that is what if you don't win in the midterms?
What if you don't get your 60 in the Senate?
Um this is a recipe for disaster here.
And the reason it is is because the replace crowd doesn't want to do anything anytime soon.
Meaning repealing Obamacare doesn't mean jack.
You know, I'm sitting here thinking this all of this fake news about the election, Obama's press conference coming up about what the Russians did to tamper with our election.
This is a great opportunity.
You know, an election figures prominently in the latest Rush Revere.
Time travel adventures with exceptional Americans series.
In fact, it's a rush revere in the presidency.
I am Rush Revere, I'm a substitute teacher at Manchester Middle School, and I have a horse that was struck by lightning uh way back long ago in his life, and the lightning strike did something.
He can Talk, and he can time travel.
It's amazing, named Liberty, and Liberty can only travel back in time to American history, cannot go forward, and can miraculously take people with him.
So Rush Revere takes some of his students and they time travel back, and this is the vehicle that we use to actually teach the truth of American history.
And the reason we did this is precisely because of what's going on here.
You know, there was a story yesterday from Washington, D.C., where the school board wants to get rid of all white men that have anything to do with education in Washington.
That that that kind of thinking that has polluted education today, and I I believe that the American American children need to know the truth of this great country.
They need to have the appreciation and understanding of the miraculous aspect of this country, how unique it is, how great it is, what American exceptionalism is, because they're not being taught this.
And it's like, you know, Larry Arne at Hillsdale says that he believes that if people had been consistently taught and really taught and learned the Constitution, there wouldn't be a black lives matter.
I mean, there would be, but they would have nearly the number of support.
There's always going to be protesters and malcontents and so forth.
Uh but the idea that all of these groups are based on the lack of equality, equal rights.
If people understood, there's no better place in this world for liberty and freedom.
And the idea that this place is denies liberty and freedom and fundamental civil rights to people is absurd.
So these are the things that we try to tackle.
They're books, but they're for young people.
Anywhere from from like eight to twelve, they're not picture books.
And so the the latest book, Rush Revere and the Presidency, is actually about an election.
One of the students wants to be class president, but for all the wrong reasons.
Wants to be popular, wants to be hip, wants to be cool, wants to get noticed.
It's all about me, me, me.
And he even runs around and tells people this.
And Rush Revere is very alarmed by this.
These are nowhere near the reasons that somebody want to be president of anything.
So they travel back in time and talk to George Washington, first president, his election, what it meant to him, why he wanted to do it, what the important cast aspects are.
And of course, the young student goes back in the time travel and learns it and comes back.
And the whole campaign in this school is part of the story.
And it's dirty and it's got uh it's bad actors in it.
But it's amazing how relevant and prescient the book turns out to be given how an election has so roiled our uh country.
So we're really excited about these books.
There are five of them now in three years.
And they're, I mean, there's standards in it, 200 plus pages.
They have illustrations in them, they're really works of love and art.
When you get right down to it.
This one's Rush Revere and the Presidency.
It's been out since November 24th, and it's you wouldn't believe RushRevere.com, Facebook.com slash Rush Revere, if you want to see the kind of feedback that we're getting.
Facebook.com slash I mean Rush Revere.
Students, kids dressing up as the characters and sending us photos and videos, and we we publish those at the Facebook page and at the rushrevere.com webpage as well.
It's been really a great, great thing, opening up this program and me, which is a great thing to young people who otherwise would never listen to talk radio.
It's been it's been it's been really rewarding.
And I'd be remiss if I didn't take the occasion here to tell you a little bit about what this book is, because it it absolutely relates to what's happening out there now, given that all of this controversy is about an election.
Do you know, folks, that I am responsible for fake news?
That's right.
Your host, Rush Limbaugh, according to NPR, I actually began the whole problem.
The idea of fake news back in the 1990s.
Here is yesterday on NPR, University of Virginia history professor Brian Ballow about the recent problems with fake news.
The host says, you know, we've been talking about fake news.
How long has fake news been a problem, Brian?
It's been a problem since the 1990s.
What really makes fake news fake news, as we call it, is the rapid dissemination and acceleration of that news.
Today, that's Facebook, for instance, or social media.
Back in the nineties, it was conservative talk radio that took print stories that were often made up of whole cloths, such as Hillary Clinton's aide, Vince Foster, who was found dead in the D.C. Park four years that he committed suicide.
Yet the story that started going around was that somehow the Clintons had killed him.
That originated in a small little newspaper.
What really was different was this new venue, conservative talk radio.
People like Rush Wimba disseminated that story, and that's why you and I are talking about it today.
Nobody was talking about it today, so you brought it up.
So then you have I'm responsible for everything.
I'm to blame for everything that's gone wrong for liberals, and I wear that award proudly.
Man, oh man, I am responsible for fake news.
By the way, it wasn't a little newspaper.
It was the New York Post that alleged that Vince Foster may have been murdered.
It didn't say by Hillary, just that he'd been murdered.
Just reported what was in the paper.
And it it went from there.
I remember Ted Koppel had me on nightline and and uh a bunch of guests thought that I should have been drawn and quartered for this, which I just poo-pooed.
But look at fake news.
And then there's a I I didn't print this out, so I don't even remember where it's from.
It's some sports website.
Some guy is wringing his hands.
He's all worried that Donovan McNabb is not going to be voted into the NFL Hall of Fame because of me.
I have so tainted McNabb's reputation because of my comments on ESPN.
That Hall let me I f I I don't remember this guy's name, but let me say McNabb is not only going to get in the Hall of Fame, he's probably gonna thank me for it.
McNabb will get into the Hall of Fame just so the Hall of Fame voters can do what they think they're doing and ramming it down my throat.
He's gonna get into Hall of Fame, maybe first ballot.
I guarantee you, he's not gonna not get in a hall of fame because of me.
He's gonna get in because of me.
And he may end up thanking me.
Well, that's a stretch.
Um not to the minute.
He's four minutes before I thought he'd come out.
Obama just started his presser.
I predicted 245 or 250.
He started at 240.
Anyway, Skyler in Bartlett, Illinois.
We head back to the phones.
How are you doing?
Welcome to the program.
I am well, Rush.
How are you?
Thank you very much.
Very good, thank you.
It's uh it's an honor to talk to you.
So uh my father of 56 years and myself of almost 23 years have uh really wondered why there hasn't been an effort on behalf of conservatives to get in the national network news.
We have Fox News and talks radio, but the average American doesn't listen to those.
They go home and read uh uh listen to the lies the left has been spewing.
Uh well, but but Fox News is an effort to do that.
It was when it when it started, it was a conservative news number.
Um the facts but it it didn't replace NBC CBS.
What you're basically asking is why don't a bunch of conservatives buy one of those networks that already exists.
Essentially, yes.
Or or create a new one even.
Well, they did Fox Cable.
Fox News was not national network.
No, Fox News was created.
It's a national network.
Right, but I mean it's not it's not on like local channels where you don't need to have like a package to see Fox.
Uh oh, so you want it to be available as one of the network.
Correct.
Yes, now it's correct.
Right.
Well, I think that's what Trump was going to do until he won.
Isn't that what people are saying that Trump was going to start a big media channel and then the news channel, Trump News or something?
I haven't heard that.
Well, it's uh it's I'm the man with a bit it's i i it was bandied about I don't know if he was going to uh if he was going to do it either.
Um the reason I I I couldn't tell you why conservatives, a conservative, a wealthy conservative hasn't hasn't tried to buy one of these uh one of these networks.
I wouldn't have the I wouldn't I mean I could guess uh answers might not satisfy you.
They may not think it's profitable, they may not think it would matter, they may not think uh there may not be that many really that wealthy people who are conservatives who would spend their money that way.
I I I really don't know.
Okay.
Is it is it let me know what you think of this.
Is it possible they're you know afraid, kind of kind of like um the establishment Republicans, they're afraid to stand up to the left?
Is that is that a possibility?
No, I don't think it's that.
I uh when you get into that kind of money, people with that kind of money.
I don't think there are that many idiologists.
I think people with that kind of money are mostly interested in putting their finger in the air and finding which way it's blowing and staying out of the way.
That's why people look look at all of these Wall Street banks, Skyler, who before the campaign made it known they just loved Hillary Clinton.
They couldn't wait.
They were paying her all these money to do speeches, and now that Trump has won, they're all coming out in full-fledged support of the guy.
So I'm asking myself, why weren't they honest during the campaign?
Why were they actually trying to elect this woman they apparently really didn't want to win?
And that's because they thought she was going to, and they didn't want to be on her bad side.
Plus corporate people tend to like to coexist with power, not take it over in this sense.
I just don't think you have that many multi, multi-billionaires who are conservative like you and me are.
Okay.
That's that accept that that's it.
It's a wild guess because there have been opportunities.
NBC was up for sale and Comcast bought them.
There's all been there's been I mean, ABC's been merged and sold a bunch of times.
And you don't see anybody that's uh uh very wealthy conservative.
The closest to it was Lawrence Tisch when he bought CBS.
And he wasn't even really conservative, but he was not uh he was not the fashionable left-wing ideal that we know today.
Look, it's it's down to nutcracking timer.
What kind of iPhone 7 do you want?
A seven or a seven plus?
Uh regular seven, please.
What's uh your carrier?
Uh T-Mobile.
T Mobile, that's cool.
Okay, and you have a color preference?
Uh do you have any glossy black for T-Mobile?
Uh I don't have any glossy black iPhone 7.
I've got the matte black that's that's it's j on the front, it's just as pretty, and there's no fingerprints on it on the back, and it doesn't scuff.
That'll work just fine.
Thank you so much, Rush.
It may have an ATT SIM card in it, but it doesn't matter.
The phone's unlocked, and it'll work on T-Mobile.
What kind of phone do you have now?
I have a regular iPhone 6.
Oh, your SIM card in the six, you can put it in this phone, and you'll be up and running on your on your same number, same T-Mobile network if you want to do that.
Oh, wonderful.
Thank you so much.
Merry Christmas, Rush.
Same to you.
Stand by, we get your address and get it right out to you.
Back in just a second here, folks.
Don't go away.
Here is uh Timmery, Nashville, Tennessee.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Mr. Limbo.
Hi.
I love your show.
Well, thank you very much.
I'm glad that you called.
Thank you.
Um I'm a Rush baby.
I'm 13 years old.
And um My dad actually read your first book to me and my brother.
God bless him.
It's a great dad.
Yeah.
So I just started my first business.
Um can I say can I say the name of it?
Um, sure, yes.
Yes.
Okay.
It's called um it's called Giraffe Kissing.
Um, and I'm really super excited about it.
I just I just got my web website up and an Etsy, and my question is, um I was wondering if you think that Donald Trump will create a good environment for my business to be successful.
I do.
I absolutely I think Donald Trump is going to create an environment for any business to thrive and prosper if they have what it takes.
I I think Donald Trump is going to be getting regulations and obstacles out of people's way.
I think he's gonna do everything he can to help the engine of freedom purr along and grow and thrive.
And if you're part of it, you will too.
That's so awesome.
Oh, yeah.
I would be utterly confident, Tim Marid.
Now, look, I want to offer your family a new iPhone or iPhone 7, but I don't have time to do it on the air.
I have to go on out of time.
And maybe the rest of the Rush Review books if you don't have them all.
We'll find out here.
Mr. Snerdley, don't hang up.
We'll get your address and ask you the right questions.
Man, what a week.
What an intense week.
And it continues next week.
Yes.
Well, many people have decided to pack it in for the year.
I, L Rushbow and the EIB team will be here.
Until what?
What's our last day next week?
Wednesday, whatever it is.
We're going to be here next week, folks.
We'll make it worth your while.
We get in there, get it, and make it count.
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