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Dec. 19, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 19, 2016, Monday, Hour #3
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It's a thrill, a delight to have you here.
And we're going to be here all week.
This is one of my favorite weeks of the year.
There's no way I would want to be on vacation or away this week.
I know a lot of you will be.
A lot of you are going to be up and about moving around away from work some this week and maybe traveling.
And it's a golden opportunity for some of you to listen to the program.
You normally don't have a chance to.
And when you have that chance to listen to the program, I had better be here, which I am.
800-282-2882.
If you want to join us on the phones, the email address, lrushbo at eibnet.us.
Played a soundbite in President Obama moments ago where he started complaining about talk radio.
This is from his press conference on Friday and from an NPR interview today where he complained about me by name as a domestic propagandist and said that my focusing on political correctness like Trump does is phony because we all have our own version of it too, where we run around and act like victims.
And it was really disjointed and convoluted and a typical Obama answer of meandering, wandering, aimlessly looking for vain search of a thought that the drive-bys tell us is erudite brilliance and hyper intelligence and so forth.
And I said during that that I had a great example of political correctness, a new one out of control, University of Kentucky.
Are you ready?
Do you remember the song from the Beach Boys called California Girls?
You do.
Sure.
Song from the 60s.
A harmless, fun little pee into the magic that is a California girl.
And believe me, if you're a kid stuck in Missouri, California girl is an intriguing prospect.
Something you never think you're going to see when you're growing up, little town of Missouri.
So the Beach Boys have their song out there, and it's universally popular.
The University of Kentucky has punished a professor in a sexual misconduct case in part for singing a Beach Boys tune covered by Alvin and the Chipmunks.
His name is Buck Ryan.
And singing a Beach Boys tune got him punished for sexual misconduct under Administrative Regulation 6 colon 1, discrimination and harassment.
University of Kentucky's Title IX coordinator ruled that the song California Girls included language of a sexual nature and was somehow offensive, though no victims were identified.
The same regulation prohibits making an intentionally false accusation.
So the question arises, how competent is the University of Kentucky's Title IX office?
Here we have a 30-year, is it 30-year or 30-year-old?
We have a college professor at the University of Kentucky, was ruled to be engaging in sexual harassment for singing a few lines from California girls.
He used names of Chinese cities and areas.
He was using the song in a class that was being taught to Chinese students.
So he was using California girls as a way of reaching Chinese students, and he substituted Chinese cities and areas.
It wasn't Chinese girls.
He changed the names of the cities from California cities to Chinese cities.
The occasion for the song was the closing ceremonies for an inaugural education week at a Chinese university as part of a University of Kentucky program.
The professor taught a class called Storytelling, Exploring China's Art and Culture.
And for his Chinese students, he sang a song to teach the many differences in Chinese and American culture.
The Beach Boys song was one of three takeoffs of popular songs.
He also sung Sting, the Wizard of Oz, in his closing remarks.
And here were the lyrics that got him in trouble.
Well, Shanghai girls are hip.
I really dig those styles they wear.
Shanghai, that was considered to be sexually harassing the Chinese female students in the class under Title IX, and the university upheld the allegation.
These poor little college snowflakes, they're so weak and victimized, they can't even hear the lines from a classic song.
California Girls by the Beach Boys now qualifies as sexual harassment when sung by a professor.
Attempting to, you think there has to be something else.
What are you leaving out?
I'm not leaving out anything.
The professor's name is Buck Ryan, and he wrote an op-ed about this at the website kentucky.com.
The dean who issued his punishment never talked to him.
He learned of his fate in a letter dropped on him by two assistants just before he was to teach a class.
His punishment, in this case without victims, bans him from receiving international travel money and strips him of a prestigious award worth thousands of dollars.
Well, Shanghai girls are hip.
I really dig those styles they wear.
Gets him a sexual harassment charge at the University of Kentucky.
According to him, he's written the op-ed at kentucky.com.
So somebody had to be offended by this in the class.
Some student, some female who maybe was unfamiliar with the song, never heard California Girls with the Beach Boys.
I mean, it is from the grooveyard of forgotten favorites, way, way, way, way back there in the 60s.
So a song like this is considered sexual harassment.
If this guy had picked anything by Jay-Z and had begun singing about hoes and BI itches and who knows what else, he would have been applauded for being a cultural leader and a cultural icon.
Back to the audio soundbites.
Want to take you back to me on this program back on October 20th.
This was before the election.
I made a prediction.
I'll tell you what.
If Trump wins this, do you think they're going to docially sit by and accept the results and start conceding all over the place?
You think they're going to sit by?
And just accept it?
Did they accept it in 2000?
Gore conceded in 2000.
Then he withdrew the concession and ended up not conceding until December.
But these are the people worried about the fine traditions of our congressional Republican representative, Republican democracy and all this.
The hypocrisy on this.
It's really getting to be a lot to swallow.
October 20th, 2016.
This is basically three weeks before the election.
Now, you might be asking, gee, Rush, you always know beforehand what's going to happen.
How are you able to do this?
Because I know liberals, folks.
That's why I implore you not to doubt me when I dig deep way beneath the surface to tell you who these people are.
What prompted this?
Remember, Trump at the last debate was asked if he would accept the results of the election.
And he said, well, not tonight.
I'm not going to tell you that tonight.
I'm going to reserve my opinion on this till I see what happens.
Because there had been talk all over the place about vote fraud, and there always is.
And it was Chris Wallace who asked the question, what they were actually, no, no, I'm not trying to Chris Wallace, tying Chris Wallace to this.
The effort here was when Trump refused to answer it.
What they wanted Trump to do, the Democrats, they wanted Trump to say, well, of course, of course I'll accept the results of the election.
What do you think I am?
If I lose, I lose.
If I win, I win.
What they wanted to then be able to report was that Trump conceded the election.
That was going to be the headline.
Trump concedes election in latest debate.
That is what would have happened.
And Trump's instincts are highly tuned.
And whether he consciously was aware that that was their desire or not, he did the right thing.
I don't think that was his awareness.
I think he was being honest.
No, I'm not going to, I'm not going to tell you tonight that I'll accept losing.
Because he already knew that all of the protesters at his rallies were bought and paid for by the Clinton campaign.
That guy, Robert Kramer, the husband of Jan Schaikowski, well-known Democrat Congress babe from Illinois.
This guy, 300 and some odd visits to the White House, 42 of them with Obama personally, and he was caught on tape hiring protesters to go out and behave violently at Trump rallies so the media could report that Trump's supporters are unruly and violent and dangerous, when in fact they were bought and paid for by the Hillary campaign.
So Trump knew that.
And he knew that other chicanery was going on.
There was no way he was going to tell those people that night, but Hillary did.
Well, unlike my good friend Donald, I am here to tell you tonight that, of course, I will accept the results of the election and the words of the American people, and they will have spoken, and I would support the peaceful transition of power.
Mrs. Clint went on and on and on about how she wouldn't behave in any way like this reprobate Trump would.
They wanted the headline the next day.
I'm saying this again.
They wanted the headline to be, Trump concedes election.
That's what they would have headlined the next day.
That would have been the daily script for that day's soap opera.
And people who hadn't watched the debate or hadn't paid much attention to it would see, Trump, what?
Trump conceded the election?
And then they would, yes, Trump has admitted that he thinks he's going to lose.
And that's what they would have said.
That would have been the narrative.
And it would have been the narrative all the way through until Trump had tweeted, responding to it somehow, some way.
But that's what they wanted.
It's like this Electoral College thing.
They are desperate.
Desperate.
Look at the way they have been reporting on this Electoral College story even now.
They're trying to make everybody think that this country is outraged.
And they don't want the Electoral College to vote yet because they think the Russians hacked the election.
That changes the outcome.
And the American people don't want Trump seated.
They don't want him elected.
They want this to be delayed.
That's what the press is reporting.
It isn't true.
They're not 2% of the American.
Well, that's low because about 25% hardcore lunatics out there.
So 25% may think that, but it's not national.
And I'll tell you what's going to happen.
The Electoral College vote is going to happen.
It's happening today.
It's going to be tabulated.
Trump's going to get his 305 to 306.
It's going to be the biggest non-story.
And you're going to look back on all of this focus for the past three weeks.
And it's not going to have amounted to a hill of beans.
Because everything that's been reported for the last three weeks has been designed to affect the Electoral College vote today and try to portray it as a further bit of evidence of the illegitimacy of Trump's win.
And then it's going to be reported, and you're going to find out there have been hardly any defections at all, maybe one or two.
It isn't going to be anywhere near significant.
It isn't going to match the intensity of the reporting of the story at all.
And that's when people need to pipe up and make the point, like I just did.
Folks, do you see the Electoral College vote yesterday?
This is tomorrow.
We're pretending it's tomorrow.
Do you see the Electoral College vote?
Yeah, Trump won it.
305, 304, whatever it is.
Hillary got her 232.
You remember the last three weeks when you were led to believe that it was in doubt, that there might be massive defections because there were all kinds of Trump electors upset over the Russians hacking the election and might have voted against Trump?
Didn't happen, did it?
We just have gone through three weeks of fake news here.
We've been immersed in it.
And we are the objects of the fake news.
And the fake news has been led by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the New York Times.
Those are the architects.
Those are the authors of this three-week-long fake news story.
John Podesta.
Remember my prediction October 20th when I said they will not accept it.
They will protest.
Here's Podesta on Meet the Press.
Yesterday morning, F. Chuck Todd said, do you believe this was a free and fair election?
The Russians clearly intervened in the election.
So I think that people went to the polls.
They cast their votes.
Hillary Clinton got 2.9 billion more votes than Donald Trump.
But, you know, Donald Trump is claiming the Electoral College victory, and tomorrow the electors will get to vote.
You didn't answer the question.
Do you believe this was a free and fair election?
Well, I think it was.
I think it was distorted by the Russian intervention.
Let's put it that way.
No, it wasn't.
And Donald Trump didn't claim anything.
You know, I have always hated the media using the word claim.
Way back in the early 90s, when they would call here and ask us what our audience was, and we would tell them we had the exact figures as reported by, back then it was Arbitron.
And the story Limbaugh claims an audience of claiming anything.
I'm telling you what it is.
Trump did not claim an electoral college victory.
He earned one.
Despite your best efforts, Mr. Podesta, the Russians didn't hack any election.
The Russians hacked the Democrat Party.
And you know what we learned in the Democrat Party?
You know who did rig an election?
John Podesta and Hillary Clinton.
They rigged the Democrat primary against Bernie Sanders.
And it's really rich to listen to these crybabies and giant whiners out there talking about how the Russians stole the election from them.
Nobody stole the election from them.
They lost the election fair and square because they ran a horrible candidate and a horrible campaign with a bunch of arrogant, condescending hubris.
They deserved the outcome they got.
And we are claiming their defeat.
Happily so.
Yeah, yeah, I'm going to get to that.
Michelle Obama and her hopeless, feeling hopeless.
There's a little bit more reaction to that I need to make than what I had on Friday.
I kind of lost my temper at the beginning of Friday's show.
They just dropped that soundbite to her in that interview with Oprah.
And I admit I lost it.
I had to apologize in the last hour because I actually started, sounded like I was really, really angry yelling.
And I try to keep a governor on myself here at it.
I know, I even got mad during the apology.
So a couple of things I want to add to it, but I need to get back to the phones.
I got a lot of sound bites here.
Once again, I'm just feeling hemmed in.
So I just need to keep going here.
Michael and Fort Worth, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
How are you?
Hey, Rush.
Merry Christmas.
It's such a pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you, Harry.
I wanted to share an inspiring story about how your Rush Revere books are changing the life of a young boy in one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in Fort Worth.
Wow.
This I want to hear.
Fort Worth, Texas.
Fort Worth, Texas, Craig.
Okay.
And so I mentor a 10-year-old boy named Jeremiah.
He's a fifth grader, and his family, he was born into generational poverty.
His family's been in poverty for many generations.
He doesn't really like school, doesn't have any passions, really, and he's not even taught history.
And so I bought the Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims book for him for Thanksgiving, and he absolutely loved it.
Now, wait, before now, wait, I would normally like to hear that, but I have a question.
He's been taught no history.
You have discovered no passions, generational poverty.
Fort Worth, Texas.
How did you come to mentor this young man?
So my girlfriend and I are actually starting a nonprofit to educate at Risk Youth.
And I was in one of these schools volunteering, and I came to love this kid mainly because I saw the dire need that he was in.
I mean, he lived, no father, seven-plus family members living in a tiny, cramped home, and it's also one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in all of Texas.
And so I just had a heart for him, and I wanted to try to help break the chain of generational poverty.
So generational poverty, no passion, no real education.
10 years old.
What grade is the 10 is 10 years old?
Fifth grade, did you say?
He's a fifth grader.
Fifth grade.
So you decided to make this kid a project.
You began mentoring him, and you grabbed a Rush Revere book.
Which one?
Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
I got it for Thanksgiving.
You got it for him for Thanksgiving?
Correct.
And is he able to read?
He is.
He struggles in reading, but he is able to read it, yeah.
Wow.
So, and you say he likes it.
He loves it.
So just to give you an example, we used to come over.
He just wanted to put a football around.
That's really the only thing that sparked his interest is football, which is pretty normal.
And he comes into my house now.
He doesn't have a computer at home.
He runs straight for the computer, and he will search anything and everything about history.
Wars, world leaders, what countries are like.
It was a change that was day and night after I came back from visiting my family in Thanksgiving that I had never seen.
And just so you know, in breaking generational poverty, one of the most important things is that a child has a passion.
And he has a passion for history that I fully believe was sparked by your books.
Wow, I'm almost speechless.
I would be, except we're going to have to take a break here.
Please don't hang up because I need to learn more about this.
Now back to Michael in Fort Worth, Texas.
I happen to agree with you about passion.
You know, using myself as a personal example, I knew when I was eight that I loved radio.
I knew when I was eight I wanted to be on radio.
Who cares why?
Although it is interesting, but I'm not going to waste the time.
I knew.
And I've wished that everybody could find their passion because when you find your passion, that becomes your energy source.
And that becomes what you commit yourself to.
And if this young man at 10, you don't know the favor you've done for him by helping him identify a passion at his age, especially given the other circumstances of his life.
Well, I'm thankful for you, too, for having that passion yourself, for wanting to educate the youth the proper way.
And he doesn't get that education.
You gave it to him.
Well, true, but you had to, if it hadn't been for you furnishing the book to him, I'm just glad that he, at 10 years old, it's right.
That's the sweet spot, you know, for 10, 12, 14 that we write the books for.
And I'm just gratified beyond my ability to tell you that it connected with him.
That is so great.
Do you happen to know what it is about history or about the Rush Revere book, Ray Pilgrims, that really connected with him?
You know what it is?
Doing a little market research here.
Yeah, that is a good question.
We haven't really delved into it, but my guess is the fact that you connected to it on a level that he cares about.
And so I think that educators have a hard enough time trying to connect with kids, period.
And so when you're able to connect something that he never gets to hear in a way that he loves, I just think that that resonates with you.
In general, this is fascinating because you've described a 10-year-old in abject generational poverty, which means he's had nothing.
And he's in a large family and he had no passion and he didn't know any history, which means he's just basically existing.
And there's no point to his life as far as he's concerned.
He's just, he knows he's alive and he's got to go to school every day.
But he hadn't really connected with the world.
And that's, man, that's horrible.
That is just, and I can understand it.
So the first thing that he glommed onto that gave him something that he didn't have that fired him up to want to know more.
I mean, that's just awesome.
I'm just, I'm so blown away by this.
I'll tell you what I want to do.
In addition to your new iPhone, whichever one you want, I'm going to send you the other four books in the series for him.
Oh, my God.
Thank you.
He will love.
In fact, I want to put together a whole bunch.
We've got a little gift package we put together for young readers from Rush Revere and Liberty.
And I'm going to put one of these together with you plus, and the audio versions too.
They're on CD.
So you could get him some kind of a portable CD player and he can listen to them and read them at the same time and maybe get a different take out of them.
But if he likes the first one, he will guarantee like the next four.
I'm sure you can imagine how much that means to a kid who doesn't generally have Christmas.
So thank you so much.
Well, I think I have a pretty good grasp of the situation because it's unfortunately the case for way too many young people.
When you have no, this is why people, I've always said that people are desperate to find meaning in their lives.
Everybody wants their life to mean something, whether it's a conscious awareness or not.
And that's why I've always known that the way liberals sell climate change works, because they tell people it's their fault, but then they offer them redemption.
You can save the planet if you join us in doing X, Y, and Z. And that gives their lives meaning.
And I mean, what could be more important than saving the planet?
And so that's how they get them.
It's because it's crucial that people think that their lives have meaning and a purpose and that there's a reward or some sort of reality to achieving something and to learning something and becoming functional.
So you are doing more for this kid than he could ever possibly understand at this age.
So let me ask you, what kind of phone do you want?
Seven or seven plus?
Seven plus would be great.
Thank you so much.
Who's your carrier?
AT ⁇ T?
AT ⁇ T.
So take your pick of colors.
Well, it'll be for my girlfriend, and I think the white on white would be wonderful if you have it.
The closest to white on white is silver.
So silver white, AT ⁇ T 7 plus.
No doubt.
Thank you so much.
Hang on.
No, we need to get your address so that we can get the phone out to you.
The phone will come under separate cover from the books and the package of stuff that we put together.
But give Mr. Snerdley that address, and we'll get all of this out to you.
The phone you'll have tomorrow, the other stuff, a couple, three days, but you will have it.
And thank you, Richard, or Michael.
I'm sorry.
Thank you so much for the call.
I really, really appreciate it.
So does Catherine.
I know she's going to hear about this and she's just, she's going to be doing hoops.
Thank you.
You bet.
Don't go away, folks.
I'll be right back.
Breaking news, breaking news, Associated Press.
A Democrat elector in the state of Maine has gone faithless.
Meaning he did not vote the way he was supposed to have voted.
A Democratic elector in Maine has voted for Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton.
But wait, I need to check the validity of this.
Did Hillary win Maine or did Trump win?
The reason I'm asking is because there's a guy in Maine who provides heating, oil, and gas for homeowners, and he has vowed not to sell the stuff to people that voted for Trump.
He's in Shaoheagan, Shaoboken, Shaohegan, Wayne, Maine.
60% of the people in this guy's area of doing business voted for Trump, which means 60% of his market he says he's not going to sell to.
What is ABC is – too hard to find it.
There's another defector.
Okay, so Trump got elected.
So Hillary won the vote over the state overall.
Anyway, so what happens?
One of the Hillary electors voted for Bernie, and there is another ABC News is reporting that one elector in Minnesota attempted to vote for no candidate, but the state invalidated his vote and swore in an alternate who voted along with the rest of the electors to deliver all 10 electoral votes to Clinton.
So the two faithless defectors we've heard about so far have abandoned Hillary.
Isn't that great?
Trump, by the way, I've been following the count, and we're up to Trump at 240 now.
As the reports come in, Texas could put Trump over 270 in the next hour.
But the whole thing is going to bomb out on him.
It was never going to amount to anything.
And I just, when this happens, when Trump is clearly the Electoral College winner, when all this is said, I want you to go back and remember what the media has tried to make you think the last three weeks, that a bunch of Trump electors were being pressured and were maybe thinking of defecting.
And the New York Times ran this op-ed by this Trump elector in Dallas that was not going to vote for him.
You just please remember how far out they went to try to make you believe something that was never, ever even close to being accurate or true.
Henry Kissinger.
You know what?
Screw the kissing.
Kissinger has a soundbite here where he's talking about Trump as a phenomenon that foreign countries have not seen, and that this represents an extraordinary opportunity.
Henry Kissinger is jazzed by the Trump victory and the way he's putting together his cabinet.
Very quickly, Dale, Williamsburg, Virginia, great to have you, sir.
How are you doing?
Hi, you Rush.
Merry Christmas from Williamsburg.
Thank you, sir.
Let me get right back to my point.
I was thinking that for two years we've been hearing about Hillary's email account, and she's been telling us that there's no need to be worried about hacking.
It wasn't hacked.
And now it seems like she's the one worried about all this hacking, and it just seems this is how Democrats win, no matter which way you go, it's their side of the story.
Yeah, but you know, here's the thing about that.
And you're absolutely right.
Hypocrisy is dripping all over the Democrats on this because they're the ones that were out there claiming, no, no, no, Hillary's server wasn't hacked.
Nobody got, we have a great relationship with Russia, Hillary and her plastic red reset button and so forth.
And then they started in with this concern that Trump is too soft on the Russians and so forth.
But you're right, Hillary's server and her emails unhackable.
Nothing to worry about.
And now all of a sudden, since they lost the election, the Russians have become bad guys and we're hacking everything in sight.
Now, this kind of hypocrisy, the Democrats have never been harmed by it in the past.
But I think we are entering.
I don't think they realize what fools they're making of themselves to many more people than have prior, on prior occasions, seen it.
So this to me is its own opportunity to illustrate these people for who they are.
One more point, Rush?
Quickly.
Now that a Republican's back in the office, I think you can probably start breaking out your Slim Whitman song again.
Una Paloma.
Yeah, that was the nuclear threat parody.
But look, Mr. Snirdley will have to get the information from you on the kind of iPhone you want because I simply am out of time.
Just hemmed in.
I just can't escape it.
You don't have to tell me.
I know.
I didn't get to the Michelle Obama business and I didn't get to Loretta Lynch regretting meeting with Clinton on the tarmac and a couple of other things.
But I really wanted this Michelle Obama thing and her hopelessness and she now feels hopeless.
I need to put this in perspective for everybody and I'm going to make sure this happens tomorrow.
It's got to lighten up as we get toward the end of the week.
It just has to.
Doesn't it?
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