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Dec. 19, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 19, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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So today is Electoral College Day.
However, folks, we may not know the exact count today.
The uh the tradition here with the Electoral College is that they all gather today in their state capitals.
In some states, deranged lunatic leftists have actually surrounded state houses in an attempt to prevent the electors from arriving and casting their ballots.
We may not know the actual count.
They don't do it all at the same time.
I don't know what the procedures are, but but uh there is not a requirement that all the electors show up at their state capitals at the identical hour and uh and cast their votes, their votes at the same time.
And it's also likely that we might not get a full tally by that.
We could, but it's it's a formality.
And in fact, the election will not actually be official until January, when the next Congress certifies it.
It will be for all intents and purposes today.
But the reason I mention the House is if by some odd quirk of fate, the lunatics are able to deny the Trumpster 270 today.
It just means the House of Representatives would elect him on January 6th.
So the I imagine that among the left there are many knuckleheads who are harboring the hope and actually believe that Trump could be denied the presidency today.
He can't.
It won't happen.
In fact, I don't expect there to be that many defections.
I think I think all of this has been hyped by a by a media that is just out of control.
And there's a there's an aspect of this too that you need to stop and consider.
While every drive by media outlet is reporting the historical electoral college vote today, and they are reporting various aspects.
They are not reporting.
That is a fine line here.
They're talking about they are not reporting the acts of extreme behavior and violence being perpetrated by protesters and harassers.
You can read the New York Times and the Washington Post and watch CNN and all that, and you will not see a single news story nor read one about the threats.
Uh the death threats about the emails, the hundreds of thousands of emails these people have sent, and these coordinated spam attacks.
You'll not see any of that.
And the point here is that, for example, if you live in New York City and your only source of news is the New York Times, you have no idea.
Your only source is the New York Times or the network newscaster.
You have no idea of the death threats.
You have no idea of the acts of potential violence, the threats, the harassment, because the media is not reporting any of that.
In a clear demonstration of worse than bias, a clear demonstration of just the fact that they're not even media.
All they are doing is reporting the fact that there is a possibility that Trump will lose the Electoral College vote.
They're reporting as though this is an historic story that it is unprecedented that the nation is so upset that Trump won that many electors are rethinking their vote.
That's what the drive-bys are telling people.
And the left that does not say, listen to this program or read Drudge or any other website other than the New York Times or Washington Post.
They don't know what's going on.
They really don't, folks.
You sit here and you think it's wide spread, the knowledge is everywhere of the death threats and the protests.
No, no, no, no.
This story has an entirely different cast in the mainstream media.
It's valorous.
It is hopeful.
It is revolutionary.
It is the essence of democracy.
It is conscience presiding over emotions.
All kinds of great things that are being said about this.
But all of the negative aspects are being ignored by the drive-by media.
They do not want this effort sullied in any way.
They do not want low information voters or people to have any idea the depths of depravity and panic that exists on the left.
You know, it's got to be tough for these people on the left because I think – Some of them are in full-fledged denial and will never ever arrive at the truth.
But I think a portion of the truth is beginning to creep into some of them.
And that is that they aren't the majority.
And that this has been an illusion.
And I think this is the last eight years, and I think it's one of the reasons why there's abject panic out there.
And there's many reasons for abject panic, but none of them rational.
This is one of the most irrational things I have seen in American presidential politics.
And the irrationality extends to the way the media is giving props to this movement and encouraging it and praising its high-mindedness and its devotion to civics and so forth when it actually is an outrage and an aberration.
I have never in my life seen a more petty, childish, bitter, soon to be ex-president of the United States, Barack Obama, is in fact participating in this effort to undermine the Trump transition, the Trump election, and the Trump presidency.
And it's unprecedented in U.S. history.
Ex-presidents have never engaged in the kind of behavior Obama is engaging in.
And this is accompanied by just these tear-jerker stories, one after another about how they're all going to miss him.
He's so smart.
He's so cool.
He's so measured.
He's so reverential.
He's so what we want to be like ourselves.
This man is unflappable.
He's a brilliant intellectual.
When he speaks, we practically have orgasms because of how high-minded and erudite he is in all of this.
And in fact, Obama is none of that.
He's a street corner community organizer who is using the office of the presidency here to virtually undermine it.
And one of the predictions that I was the first to make is now materializing.
And that prediction was that Obama isn't going away.
That Obama is going to hang around Washington and do everything he can to undermine the next president, particularly if and when the next president tries to unravel any of the gigantic web of deceit and debauchery that Obama has implemented as president.
And that's going to happen Because Trump is going to immediately start canceling some executive orders and repealing Obamacare.
The agenda that the Republicans, it is, it's going to be breakneck pace here.
Obama is not only going to reside in Washington and be on call, essentially, with the drive-by media.
He's setting up what essentially is going to be a shadow government.
Now, I don't know how that's going to manifest itself and how it'll appear what it what it's going to be, but it's not just going to be Obama.
There is going to be, and this electoral college business is the model.
It's the blueprint.
This stuff isn't going to end.
It's the subject matter is just going to change.
Trump wins the electoral college today.
They're going to move on to whatever Trump does in his agenda.
And they'll not stop here even before the inauguration.
And it's going to be bought and paid for by George Soros and other Democrat donors, and Barack Obama is going to be the intellectual leader of this movement.
I mean, these are these are leftists, folks, and these last eight years in reality have been an abject disaster.
But to the left, they have been part of building the foundation for transforming this country away from that which it was founded to be.
They don't want these eight years to be a waste.
They don't want these eight years to be erased, so that when they get back in power, they have to start over again.
So they're going to do everything they can to undermine and delegitimize Trump and the Republicans and the media is going to be right in there helping them.
I accidentally saw last night, I don't know how I ran across this doing show prep.
But apparently at the Huffing and Puffington Post, they have a poll there, or they're reporting on a poll that I think, if my memory serves, is a poll taken by the UGov people, Y O-U-G-O-V.whatever org.
And this poll purports to say that a large majority of Americans do not want Donald Trump inaugurated after learning the Russians hack the election.
Now the politico has a poll out today that says the American people don't care about this.
This is much ado about nothing.
And if anything, they're amused by it, but they wish it go away.
So there's a fake news poll out there, even that nobody but leftists will see.
And they're going to end up, probably if they've seen it, they do think that a majority of the American people think Trump should not be inaugurated because he was illegally elected because of the Russian hack of the election.
Saw that last night.
This got to be fake news.
This has to be a fake.
There's no way.
There is literally no way.
If anything, more and more people are behind Trump today than after the election.
It's interesting column by Selena Z the other day, which I will get to in uh in details of program unfolds.
She makes a point.
I've thought this myself.
I think Trump won this election last September.
I mean a year ago.
I think this election, I don't think the debates mattered.
I don't think any of those things that the Democrats threw at Trump mattered, like the Axis Hollywood video.
I think Trump had this election won a year before the election.
I really do.
I think I think it was done.
And the only people that didn't know this were the professional politicians in the Washington establishment who to this day still believe Trump is going to implode and destroy his own presidency.
But I have always believed that this thing was already over.
Just based on my being in touch with the American people and my instincts and being able to read things.
And the first sign to me that something was really different was when Trump built his support after saying things that would get a normal politician erased.
Like McCain, I don't really like admire military men that get captured.
All of these things, the first debate performance, the Megyn Kelly questions...
When none of that hurt him, I began that this is this is Something's uh something's really, really different here.
The left will never admit it.
They think the election was stolen from them.
They have not the ability to get into reality in any way, shape, manner, or form.
But this is a profound thing that's happened here this election, and I think they're gonna hit the ground running.
And I, as I said last week, and I'm gonna continue to say it, I don't think the political class has the slightest idea, even yet what is in store for them.
And I'll tell you something else, too.
I'm not, I'm not sure, based on a couple things, that even the Republicans in the House and Senate are ready for this.
Uh I mean, the breakneck pace with which Trump is going to attempt to get his agenda implemented and the techniques and the methods that he will use to uh to do so.
Let me give you one example of what I'm talking about, and we'll take a break and come back.
I want to get into this electoral college business just a bit because this is a great day.
This Hillary Clinton's gonna have lost four times after today.
I mean, what a great day this is going to end up being.
Hillary Clinton lost in 2008.
She lost in 2016, she lost the 2016 recount, and she's gonna lose the electoral college today four times.
Hillary Clinton has lost the presidency in eight years.
A modern American record.
Okay, try this on for size.
Mr. Snerdley, you're gonna you are you are intertwined with the workings of Washington.
So this is going to be fascinating to you.
I'll try to make it fascinating to the rest of you.
In fact, just saw the clock.
Let me take a break.
And I'll come back.
So I have a little bit more time on the other side of this break to make this point because I don't have I'd have to chop it up and do it real quickly here if I did it before the break.
Better to wait, hang in there, be right back.
Tell you what I mean.
Russian ambassador is dead.
Russian ambassador shot dead in Turkey.
Gunman opened fire at a photo exhibit in Ankara.
He was uh shouting Alahu Akbar while shouting about Aleppo.
So the uh Russian ambassador to Turkey shot dead in a photo exhibit.
And what do you bet when this is all said and done?
It's gonna be because the Russians hacked Turkey and Turkey got mad at Russia hacking them, and so they sent somebody out to kill the Russian ambassador.
Since Russia hacking seems to be the excuse for everything.
Okay.
The way the game is normally played, you have Donald Trump, the newly elected president, got Mitch McConnell over in the Senate, and he's got a two-seat majority and would like it to be bigger.
So a deal was arranged, everybody thought, and Trump would choose a woman by the name of Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat senator from uh from North Dakota, and give her a cabinet slot which would open up her Senate seat that a Republican would probably win in a special election, giving Mitch McConnell an additional seat in the Senate, and it would give Trump a Democrat female in his cabinet, and everybody would be happy, except Trump said, I don't want to do that.
So Trump went out and he had a meeting with a guy named Ryan Zinke from Montana.
Now, before he had the meeting with Ryan Zinke of Montana, the word had been put out that he was gonna name Kathy McMorris Rogers, who's in a Republican leadership, she's from Washington, gonna make her Secretary of the Department of the Interior.
You know, she's a big, you know, hunting and fish babe and knows the outdoors up there, state of Washington and so forth, perfect pick and all that.
And uh replacing her, her seats, district is safe, would be not a loss in the House.
And so Trump would get a woman and get her at the Department of the Interior, but then somebody said, You need you need to talk to this guy, Ryan Zinke.
And Trump did, and he loved the guy.
After one meeting, he loved Ryan Zinke and picked him for the Department of Interior, thereby putting a kabosh on Mitch McConnell's plans to get an additional Senate seat.
Because Zinke is from Montana, and he's he was He's being such a great guy, he's being tailored for higher political office.
And Trump said, you know what?
I want the guy in my cabinet.
So Mitch is now stuck with Heidi Heitkamp, still in the Senate as a Democrat.
And Paul Ryan doesn't get Zinky in the House, and Kathy McMorris Rogers is staying.
Now, I guarantee you, if this were any other Republican president, Heidi Heitkamp would have been shook.
There would have been coordination between the new president and McConnell and Ryan, and they would have come to this understanding.
We can get rid of a Democrat in the Senate and get closer to 60.
Yep.
We can get a Democrat in the cabinet and a woman to boot.
Yep.
So all this identity politics stuff would have been the order of the day.
And then, and then Paul Ryan would have had his chance at Zinky in the House and promoting him to whatever great lofty heights they had planned for him.
And Trump comes in, and after one interview with Ryan Zinke says, You are my man for the interior.
I would hate to be the person who had to call Kathy McMorris Rogers.
Because as far as somebody was concerned, that was a lock that was done.
I mean, it's close to a lock and done as you can get.
Now, the illustration, the point of this is Trump is not doing anything in this example.
It is the exact opposite of the way the so-called game in the establishment and the way party politics and all of that is played.
And the look that the establishment people who are looking on this move very disapprovingly are privately cussing Trump for being selfish, not being a party man, not having long-range vision, and so forth.
And Trump sitting up there, I love this guy.
He'd be perfect for the Department of the Interior.
What I understand.
And so Mitch McConnell is kind of left hanging over there.
This wouldn't happen if it were any other Republican.
Correction, correction.
The UGOV poll is this.
The Huffing and Puffington Post poll.
52% think the electoral college vote should be delayed so that the electors can be given intel briefings.
And a question that was asked was a stupid, dumb, incomplete question.
I mean, these people are not even granted security clearances.
There's no way they can be given a security briefing or an intel briefing.
They don't have the security clearance.
It's just absurd.
And the way that Ugov got to 52% on this is by asking a uh really strange question with not nearly enough options from which people can choose.
It's just another example of how the left and the media are playing mind games with uh with people.
I wanted to give some some facts and figures and a little history, too.
Because the again, this is this is crucial.
You think Russ, this is going nowhere, it's much ado about nothing.
It's not much ado about nothing.
There aren't nearly enough people on our side taking this seriously, not as a self-contained effort to deny Trump, but just what it means about what we're in store for and who it is we're up against.
They have been defeated, but they have not been vanquished.
And by the way, I think that should be our objective.
I think this is a it's turning out to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to really relegate these people to obscurity.
And that means going on offense and staying on offense and not allowing ourselves to go on defense every day as we deal with absurd allegations and media narratives that these people come up with.
They have become a party that is not national, and it is time to stomp them into the dirt now.
It is time to relegate them in an electoral sense to political irrelevance.
Liberalism is never going to be that tiny or small.
Don't I'm not misunderstand here.
I'm not living under false delusions myself.
But there is an opportunity here to crush these people.
And that's what they have been doing to us for as long as I can remember.
That's their objective.
And, you know, this, well, we won, we're going to be nice guys, we won, we're going to reach across, we're nice, we're going to be the it's not time for that.
These people are showing who they are, and they're demonstrating the threat they pose to this country as founded.
They remain that threat, and they are not going to learn, they're not gonna have their minds changed.
There's too much money involved here.
All of this is many things.
Fundraising is a part of what's going on.
The delegitimizing of the elected president is another thing going on.
The attempt to freeze any implementation of Trump agenda items is what's going on here.
It's not enough that they've been beaten.
They need to be defeated each and every day.
And as they bring up things that they hope to make narratives out of, they need to be beaten back.
Trump's instincts on this are right on the money.
Trump's instinct, he fights back the minute these people do something.
He'll tweet something out, his instincts on this are perfect.
And they are perfectly timed for where we are in the country because Trump does what everybody who voted for him wishes would happen every time the left pipes up.
Now let's go back.
I've mentioned this a number of times, but I want to go through it again.
Politico, this is November of this year after the election.
This was November the 26th.
The headline, White House insists, hackers did not sway election even as recount begins.
The Obama administration said it has seen no evidence of hackers tampering with the 2016 presidential election, even as the recount proceedings began in Wisconsin.
An Obama official told a politico on the 26th of November we stand behind our election results, which accurately reflect the will of the American people.
So what changed here?
I mean, here you have Obama back on November 26th saying, hey, we lost, it's good.
Everybody get get get with the program here, understand it.
The election was not fraudulent.
It was fair and square, and we lost.
But then Obama in his press conference on Friday did a 180 and did everything but name Putin as the guy behind Moscow's alleged attempts to meddle in the election.
You know what the funniest part of Obama's press conference on Friday was?
He said that he personally confronted Putin about the hacking way back in September.
It was at the Group 20 summit in the uh in in China, hosted by the Chikoms, and Obama said that he took Putin aside, and he told Putin to cut it out.
And then Obama said there hasn't been any hacking since September, when I told Putin to cut it out.
Are you kidding me?
Big bad brave Barry Obama confronted Vladimir Putin of the KGB and said, Hey, Blade, you want to cut it up?
Just cut it up, bro.
And Putin quaked in his boots.
Okay, this is President V in Russia.
We'll cut it out.
Is that what happened?
Because Donna Brazil's on TV yesterday saying the hacking continued all the way through the election and beyond.
Yet Obama says he told Putin to cut it out.
In just excellent community organizer lingo.
Cut it out.
But the point is, November 26th that Obama was saying, and the whole administration, hackers did not sway the election as the recount began.
Now, here's some facts and figures on this.
The popular vote disparity.
Hillary Clinton now, I think the latest tabulation has her at plus 2.3 million popular votes more than Donald Trump.
And this is part of the fuel for those who think the electoral college electors should pause and not vote for Trump.
Because Hillary won the popular vote, it's not fair.
She should be the president.
That 2.3 million popular vote advantage that Hillary has came from a single state.
And this fact illustrates why we even have the Electoral College.
In California, Hillary Clinton has a greater than 4 million vote vote.
advantage.
In California, Hillary has four million more votes than Trump does.
If you take California out of this election, Donald Trump won the popular vote by 1.7 million.
Well, you can't take California out, Rush.
What do you mean?
I know you can't.
I'm illustrating something here.
This is part and parcel of why we have the Electoral College.
Hillary Clinton has a four million vote advantage in California.
The only state.
If you take California out, well, it's not the only state, but there's so many more votes in the fact that California is the only reason she won the popular vote.
Without California, Trump won the popular vote by 1.7 million.
Well, this is exactly why the Electoral College is set up the way it is, so that one state would not elect the president.
And if one state, if if in fact we did campaign with popular vote being the objective, where do you think the candidates would have gone?
There's no way of saying, for example, today, that the vote would have been the same.
If the electoral college weren't there, because the campaigns would have looked much different.
The candidates would have gone a bunch of different places than for than where they went.
So there isn't any automatic, there isn't any conclusion.
Well, the popular vote Hillary would have won.
No, she might not have won the popular vote if that's how this election would have been determined.
So the point is, with a 4 million vote majority in California or lead, and a 2.3 million vote lead in the popular vote, you can say that California is the only reason Hillary Clinton has the popular vote lead here.
Pure and simple.
And does anybody think that we need to elect a president based on performance in one state?
No.
The numbers are even more intriguing if you get if you get deeper into them.
For example, there are 55 electoral votes in California.
Hillary has a 4.3 million vote advantage, but Trump still got millions of votes in California.
What if those 55 electoral votes were proportioned were awarded proportionately?
And Hillary didn't win all 55.
What if this and what if that?
And what if so the Democrats and the media are playing this giant what if game for one simple reason?
Power to them is an entitlement.
Elections are a formality, and they should never lose.
And especially to somebody like Donald Trump, who they think is a reprobate and a horrible guy.
Now, if where you live, this isn't the top headline in your favorite news source, then you need to continue finding another.
Because the headline, the only headline, the only story that matters today, Democrats try to steal election by threatening electors.
If that's not the headline in your local paper, stop reading your local paper.
If your local paper, if your local TV news or whatever does not focus on this story from that standpoint, then your news is worthless.
Your news source, your newspaper is not being honest with you.
Because the headline, the story, Democrats try to steal election by threatening electors.
I told you folks, this is a dangerous time.
When people were upset how Trump was being making nice with Obama, this is a dangerous time.
And, Because the people who've lost the election are deluded.
They are teetering on the brink of being all together sane, yet they still control the levers of power.
This is why Trump, did you hear his uh his appearance his rally in Mobile Alabama?
He commented on Michelle Obama talking about this is what hopeless feels like.
And he said he disagreed with her, but he really didn't think she meant that.
He extended an olive branch.
I did people started booing, and he said, no, no, no, no, no.
I I know Michelle Obama, she'd been nice.
Melania and I were in the White House who post her picture.
I really, she must have been thinking about something else.
He did everything he could to tamp down.
Because he knows, like everybody paying attention knows, that we are in a dangerous time.
And will be until January 20th.
Be right back here, folks.
Listen to this.
CNN terribly disappointed when only one protester showed up in Madison, Wisconsin.
Only one.
Here is the reporter from CNN Rosa Flores.
Just what we're expecting here to happen today is in the doors that you see behind me are for these 10 electors to come in and vote for Donald Trump because Donald Trump won the election here on November 8th, and that's what they're expected to do again today, officially, Carol.
Now I should say that the wind chill here in Wisconsin is a negative 23.
We were expecting protesters outside.
Right now, Carol, there is one brave woman outside.
Again, the winter.
Only one CNN is they're making excuses because it's so cold.
The protesters intended to show up.
There was gonna be a mob.
There's gonna be, there's gonna be thousands of them out there expressing what they think about Donald Trump.
But it's 23 below wind chill, Carol, and it's only one.
And Costello was reduced to laughing, which she nervously does.
At uh at uh at all Times Los Angeles Times editorial electoral college is unconstitutional and should be banned.
As I say, if your favorite newspaper today's lead story is not headlined with something along the lines of this.
Democrats try to steal election by threatening electors, then your paper is not what you think it is.
And the LA Times clearly is not.
Most papers in this country are not gonna run this story the way it needs to be run.
Democrats trying today to steal the election by threatening electors.
Michael Moore is out there offering to pay electors.
He's offering to pay them and pay their fines if they will vote for Hillary Clinton instead of Donald Trump.
It's deranged we are witnessing unhinged Derein lunacy in Pennsylvania from the Philadelphia Inquirer, just as disappointed as CNN just now was.
Facing a wave of calls, Pennsylvania electors sounding unshakable.
Thousands of emails land in their inboxes every day.
Copies of the Federalist papers and other books urging political courage are being mailed to their homes.
They are even getting phone calls in the middle of the night.
Such has been the life of Pennsylvania's 20 electors for President Donald Trump since the November 8th election on Monday today.
They will travel to the state capitol to cast their votes to assign Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes to Trump and Mike Pence's DeVee.
One elector, Ash Kari, said that he and all of the 19 others have been assigned a plain closed state police trooper for protection.
Carey, who's an Indian-born engineer, said, I'm a big boy.
I can handle it, but this is stupid.
Nobody's standing up and telling these people enough.
Knock it off, and that's exactly right.
And I'll tell you who ought to be telling knock it off.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
That's where knock it off.
Grow up.
We lost and get ready for the next one.
That's where that ought to be coming from.
Obama and Hillary.
But they are encouraging this lunacy.
People on the phone want to talk about Trump's infrastructure spearing spending, uh, rather.
We got some calls on uh Rush Revere series of books and other things too.
And loaded stacks of stuff.
It's gonna be a chore getting it all in, but we're gonna try.
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