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Dec. 21, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 21, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Breaking news, breaking news.
Authorities believe Tunisian suspect may be linked to militant ISIS cell.
Oh, really?
You mean that's news?
That the Berlin criminal might actually be a jihadi.
Why, who would have thought that?
Man, oh man, the things you learn, paying attention to the drive-by media.
Greetings and welcome back.
You are tuned to the most listened to radio talk show all across the fruited plane.
That would be this one.
It's great to have you with us, folks.
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Now we'll be here all week, so we still have two maze, two days to go, and it has picked up.
What started here as sort of not really a slow day, those don't exist anymore.
But the intensity has all of a sudden here picked up.
Let me share with you a couple of things.
Washington Times headline, Obama rushes out 11th hour regulations targeting the beleaguered coal industry.
Now, as you know, yesterday, Obama issued executive orders that forever we were told, in perpetuity, ban offshore driven for oil and natural gas off the Atlantic coast, the eastern coast of the United States and north of Alaska, near the Arctic Circle.
You should know that neither of those two areas are even being explored right now.
So it's not as though existing drilling must be shut down.
But the drive-by is made certain to include that this can't be undone.
And in fact, by virtue of an act of Congress, Obama's regulations in this regard can't be reversed.
Yes, they can.
Congress doesn't write laws that take themselves out of the equation on things like this.
Number one, they just don't surrender that kind of power to the executive branch.
Obama and his people immediately just out there saying so because they're this is their goading Trump here.
And so is this story here.
Obama rushes out 11th hour regulations targeting beleaguered coal industry.
At the 11th hour, the Obama regime rolled out regulations of crackdown on coal mining across the country, a parting shot against the industry as the president leaves office.
It makes perfect sense.
Obama does this while Trump at his rallies is promising coal states and coal miners that they're going back to work as soon as he's inaugurated.
So what does Obama do?
Here's here's Michelle Obama on with the Oprah, talking about how cooperative they're gonna be, how nobody was cooperative with them, and how so many people said they wanted Barack to fail.
What do you mean so many?
There was only one.
And that was me.
And I still wish that he had not been as successful as he has in implementing the leftist agenda.
That's what I wanted him to fail at doing, but he didn't.
So here's Michelle and Barack, and they're both out there talking about how, well, you know, we weren't treated fair, we were treated me, but we're gonna be cooperative.
We're gonna do everything we can.
Peaceful transition and to help the new press.
And it out there sabotaging Trump on the coal miners and now with the offshore drilling and stuff.
This is just classic.
And of course the drive-bys are right in there talking about great people Obamas are.
Like Michelle, it's the greatest first lady that's ever been fashion icon uh and all these other things, and working desperately hard to be cooperative with the incoming Trump administration, blah blah blah.
Here's what's going on.
Obama himself has said he's not going anywhere.
Obama himself has said that when our ideals and our values, when they are under assault, I'm gonna be there.
Meaning, when Trump tries to implement anything that involves rolling back the Obama agenda or even implementing something Obama doesn't like, Obama's gonna be on TV complaining about it.
Make no mistake about this.
I don't know how long it's gonna take him to get into gear, but he's gonna do it.
Unprecedented.
Not even Bill Clinton did it with George H. W. Bush.
George H. W. Bush didn't do it, Bill Clinton.
Uh and even Obama didn't do it with George W. Or George W. Bush didn't do it to Obama.
In fact, George W. Bush hadn't said anything about anything.
And because he has this reverence for the office of the presidency, and there's certain things that you don't do, and he served his presidency, he left, and it's Obama's, and that's that.
But that's not how Obama looks at it.
That's not how leftists look at it.
So what this is.
I mean, Obama specifies the coal industry.
In this story at the 11th hour, Obama rolls out regulations to crack down on coal mining across the country.
Well, right after Trump at his Alabama rally last Saturday and previous rallies, shouts out to all the coal miners in Colorado in Pennsylvania that you're going back to work and the mines are going to be opened back up.
So, the objective here is the moment Trump resends these executive orders or regulations.
What do you think happens next?
Take a look at your TV set, and the odds are you're gonna see Barack who saying, oh, there, and you know what he's gonna say?
I'm so sad to see this happening after all the progress we've made in cleaning up the air and the wall.
And working so diligently on environmental matters to see the incoming president not care about pollution and death.
You watch.
He's goading Trump into turning into reversing these executive orders.
The way Obama looks at it, he can't lose.
If Trump ignores these and leaves them intact, then Obama succeeds in destroying the coal industry.
And if Trump resends the executive orders, Obama gets to go on TV and level allegations at Trump for not caring about the environment.
And that's what's gonna happen.
That's what Obama's setting up with both of these the drilling of oil off the East Coast and north of Alaska and this coal business.
And there's this.
Uh wait a second.
Sorry, there's this from the Washington Free Beacon.
Anti-Trump millennials plan to open permanent protest space near White House.
A group of millennials who oppose Donald Trump are planning to open a permanent space near the White House next month to protest Trump and to ensure that, quote, he doesn't succeed, close quote.
As in these millennials with a permanent protest area, hoping Trump fails.
Now, what's the point of this?
Well, yeah, Rush Limbo inspires youth, uh, youth copycats and all that.
But this is the Occupy movement being resuscitated, folks.
This is this the new version of Occupy Wall Street.
That's all this is.
It's going to be bought and paid for by the Democrat Party while they're trying to look like they're making nice with Trump on Capitol Hill.
And while they're making it look like they're doing everything they can to get along with Trump, their agents are gonna be out trying to undermine Trump at every opportunity, and now with this permanent protest site across the street from the White House.
What Trump ought to do is sneak out of the White House one of the nights that he's there, like at midnight and go steal their food.
And they take it back like they accused Reagan of doing.
He said Reagan left the White House and walked to Lafayette Park and stole cans of pork and beans from the homeless when Mitch Snyder and Martin Sheehan weren't looking.
Hehehehe.
So this is this is made to order for Trump.
These people can't come up with anything new.
Everything they're doing is right out of their 50 year old handbook and playbook.
But it actually may be a godsend for parents of millennials.
It might get them out of the house.
You know, so many of these kids are still living at home with mom and dad, but now the permanent protest site in Washington might get a lot of them out of the house.
Depends on how much they're being paid to protest.
We'll see.
It's just these clowns.
And did you hear about this?
You probably didn't.
That's why I'm here to tell you that which you don't know.
Ambassadors from Russia, Iran, and oh, oh, oh, wait.
Before I forget, Aaron Hernandez, tight end New England Patriots, in prison, being convicted for murder.
He wants an appeal or something based on the fact that the Russians had something to do with his case.
Do you realize the Russians are responsible for everything that's going wrong today?
Thanks to our buddies in the Democrat Party, who are apparently every day admitting how the Russians snookered them and outsmarted them and got into their computer networks and leaked all this stuff.
The Russians have just been running rings around the Democrats, and it sounds so good to other liberals that they're now saying the Russians are responsible for Aaron Hernandez being convicted of murder.
Anyway, excuse me.
The headline for this story, Kerry, this would be the haughty John Kerry who served in Vietnam, is currently our Secretary of State, was so bad at negotiating in Syria, he wasn't invited to the latest talks.
Ambassadors from Russia, Iran, and Turkey met in Moscow yesterday to engage in negotiations regarding the ongoing crisis in Syria, intentionally excluding John Kerry.
No U.S. representatives attended the talks, nor was the United Nations invited to attend.
The lack of any U.S. or Western representation is yet another sign that the Syrian president Basher Al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies will have their way in Syria.
You imagine Trump, if any of this happens, they don't invite Tillerson.
Can you imagine what's going to happen?
But they didn't invite Kerry.
By the way, the Russians are ramping up their uh their their nuclear program.
Let me they are really ramping up the uh uh one of the developmental aspects of the centrifuges that are necessary for the production of nuclear material.
It has to do with uh uh the injection of of certain gas.
Uh oh, yeah, here Russian hackers stole millions from video advertisers, according to an ad fraud company.
Russian hacking operation created fake users and fake sites to scam online advertisers out of more than three million dollars.
I thought it was Google that did that.
But now the Russians, the Russians have a phony ad agency that's selling phony online ads to nothing.
And advertisers paid three million dollars to whoever did it.
Hope they don't find out weak.
Oh, let's see.
What is this?
I must not have kept the story on the Russians and the Anyway, they're ramping up their nuclear development.
They're way ahead of schedule.
And what's fascinating about it is, of course, Obama told us that because of his Iranian, there wasn't going to be any nuclear Iran, that he had staved them off.
The point is they are and have been speeding up the actual enrichment process that takes them further and further down the road to uh nuclear weaponry.
Then there is the political story that I briefly alluded to.
Trump Posse browbeats Hill Republicans.
And this is a This is a story about how the uh the Trump team is really being mean and rude to Congressional Republicans and laying down the law to them and telling them how things are going to be.
It's it's it's it's just unbecoming, it's mean-spirited, extremist.
And since it runs at political, could be fake news.
We always have to keep that in mind.
But I'll give you some details of this after a break, and I want to get back to more of your phone calls at the same time.
So hang in, lots still coming up.
Don't go away.
Yeah, okay, here's the Iranian story.
It's and it, by the way, it's it's it's from an Israeli news source.
This is not in mainstream media anywhere.
You need to understand that this is not anywhere in mainstream media.
This is an Israeli news source and a small one.
Iranian president Hassan Ruani announced on Monday that he had fulfilled his promise to replace his country's nuclear centrifuges with the most advanced and modern ones, and that the plan to make a nuclear propulsion system operative is underway.
This is a New York-based newspaper, but it it it covers uh international Jewish and Israeli related news.
It's very, very small publication.
No, I mean it is nowhere.
This news that the Iranians have sped up their nuclear program is nowhere in the drive-by media.
And I'm surprised.
I'm surprised that drive-by's are not reporting this.
If only so they can blame Iran for the new militancy that's going on in the Middle East.
But it shows what a joke Obama's nuclear deal is in the first place.
I mean, we were told, we were specifically told, folks, that Obama's nuclear deal with Iran would delay Iran using these new centrifuels just for 15 years, and then it became no, we're going to delay them 10 years.
But it turns out it hasn't been delayed at all, and Hassan Rani's out bragging about it.
Trump presidency looming, Obama flittering away, the Iranians are flexing their muscles in the interim.
Another example of how we're at a very dangerous moment in time here.
Stan in Yorktown Heights, New York, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you with us on the program, Sir Hive.
Hi, Rush.
Honor to speak to you.
Thank you, sir.
I've been uh fascinated with all of the uh people going up and down the uh golden elevator in the Trump Tower.
And uh most fascinating to me was the Carlos Slim meeting.
And um I was just curious if you what's your take on uh Trump's ability to persuade Carlos into uh you know having some influence over the uh New York Times.
And uh, you know, seeing how he's a majority stakeholder shareholder.
Zero nada.
Yeah.
In the first place, Carlos Sleem owns the kind of stock that's not controlling interest.
The Schultzberger family is the only controlling interest, they're only voting shares in that in that company.
Sleem is uh, and that's the correct pronunciation.
It's spelled S L I M. Carlos Slim, but you pronounce it slim, I believe it may echo.
He is the largest investor, and therefore it gives him some power, but I don't I don't think he has a whole lot of editorial power.
But you're you're right.
Here's the thing.
Trump did have dinner with Carlos Slim here, not at Trump Tower, but at Merilago on Saturday night.
And let me let me read to you one of the accounts of this from the from the Hill.com.
Trump confirms he met with Mexican billionaire Sleem.
Uh mostly through Sleem's mouthpiece, the New York Times has Trump been ridiculed and lampooned and made fun of and ripped to shreds.
And in addition to the Times, Carlos Sleem himself was a vocal critic of Trump's promise to renegotiate NAFTA and to build a wall on the U.S. Maico border that Trump vowed Mexico would pay for.
Uh during the campaign, Carlos Slim was a, when he did speak, he was a vocal critic of Trump and in many ways mocked him and made fun of him.
Now, after dinner, this is why Stan's Calling because the news after the dinner is that they had a great time at dinner, and Carlos Slim saw a different side of Trump, and they've got a new line of communication open.
And it says here that Carlos Sleem has softened his rhetoric about Trump.
They quote Sleem in the Washington Post as saying if Trump is able to grow the United States economy in jobs, that'd be fantastic for Mehiko.
If the U.S. grows 4%, increases infrastructure and lowers taxes, that's good.
Look, Stan, same thing I said to the previous caller.
Right now, everybody loves Trump because everybody wants to be perceived on his side.
He's universally overwhelmingly popular among the people who voted for him.
He's a singularly uh charismatic figure, but they're just waiting to pounce if he if he slips.
In this world, you know, your friends are the people you knew before you got there.
Not the friends you make after you got there.
And Trump knows that better than anybody.
Uh the New York Times is not going to soften on Trump.
The New York Times is still going to try to salvage Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and destroy Trump.
Whatever Slim wants, Don, that's what's going to happen.
Okay, quickly, I got 30 seconds.
iPhone 7 Plus.
Do you want a seven or a plus?
The big one.
Oh, plus.
Yeah.
And your carrier?
Uh Verizon.
Verizon, perfect.
And your color.
Uh my wife loves the gold.
Then that's what you will have.
A gold iPhone 7.
It's actually gonna be sim-free, meaning it's unlocked, it'll work with any carrier.
So make sure you hang on to give us your address.
We can get it out to you.
And if all goes right, you'll have it tomorrow.
Back in a sec, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from God.
And as usual, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Here is uh Ben in St. Michael, Michigan.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi, Russ.
It's an honor and a pleasure to speak with you.
I'll get right to it.
My question is what do you think is going to be the legacy for Hillary Clinton?
And I'll give you my thoughts first.
I'd like to hear what you think.
I think she's going to play the typical card of the victim.
In whatever situation.
So I think that's that fits her for her legacy.
Well, when we talk about someone's legacy, let's first ask ourselves who will write it or produce it or set it.
Who will be responsible for it?
In the case of Hillary Clinton's legacy, she will have a large part in defining it in cooperation with who?
The drive by media.
So in that sense, let me ask you, what do you think her legacy is going to be after a combo effort of her and her buddies in the media crafting it?
Yeah, I will wait to see.
I just I know she's going to play the victim of, you know, it's the glass ceiling that was never broken.
It was the Russians, like you've been saying that they have a part in everything, so it just seems like she's going to keep playing the victim card.
No question about it.
But I think that the victim aspect is going to be de-emphasized.
Because now we're talking about history and posterity and forever.
So now we're going to go back smartest woman in the world, hardest working, smartest woman in the world.
Uh, gave everything for the nation's children, gave everything for her country, cared so much that she set aside her own life to run for the presidency two different times.
And in both instances, she gave it everything she got.
The first time she lost to an historic candidate, the first African American to run, and she easily and readily embraced him and blah, blah, blah, vomit, vomit, vomit.
The second time she was a victim of identity theft and hacking by a foreign government working with the director of the FBI to sabotage her campaign.
And then there will be some derisive comments of Trump.
But overall, her legacy is going to be one of the most uh sacrificing, one of the most selfless, one of the smartest, one of the most accomplished, one of the most caring people ever to walk the planet.
With a list, she braved sniper fire in Afghanistan to try to bring peace.
She worked hard in Libya, overthrowing a teapot tin horn dictator in the effort to bring peace.
Uh sacrificing an ambassador even for the effort of making the Middle East a peaceful place.
Mrs. Hillary Clinton devoted her life to people and peace.
I mean, I can I can I can write this now, and I can be damn close to what it's going to end up being.
And I guarantee you, if you see it, you're gonna throw up.
They will not do the victim card.
Yeah, I can't agree.
Well, I'd also say uh to add on to that as just the great intentions, right?
It's always what what can we do?
Not what did we do?
Absolutely.
Everything's intentions.
Yeah.
How they handle Bill.
Well, I guarantee you that in legacy writing, Hillary's gonna end up on a higher grade than Bill is because Hillary is going to get credit for saving her husband's administration with her loyalty and her effort to discredit these evil Republican women who popped out of everywhere claiming that Bill had banged them.
And she said she's she's I mean, she's gonna be a saint by the time they finish with this.
And Bill's gonna be the guy who was a good president, he really cared, but you know, he just couldn't keep it in his pants.
And they they they tried as hard as they could to get a zipper that wouldn't open, but nobody could invent one.
But Hillary, she did her best to keep the family together, keep the country together.
If it hadn't been for her, who knows?
Uh I can I can just see all this now.
Clinton's gonna be he'll have a great legacy, but it won't match Hillary's.
Are you you yeah, okay.
So I I gotta go, but before I do, it's your turn now to choose an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus.
Oh, that'd be great.
Uh I'll do the iPhone 7 Plus.
7 Plus.
And who uh is your carrier?
I'd say there's Verizon, but does it matter if I get a sim 3 or a Verizon one?
You can.
What color do you want?
Uh white, please.
White.
Okay.
Uh I think the only color I have left is if you want white is gold.
Um, yeah, that's fine.
That'd be gold on the it's a perfectly look, they're all the same on the inside.
Right.
I mean, email and surfing and messaging, it all looks the same no matter what color the phone is.
But if you want a white one, uh it it gold, if you want sim free verizon, it's gonna be uh it's gonna be a gold one.
I'm out of silver.
So we're now back to to jet black being the best looking iPhone 7 Plus, folks.
And by the way, for those of you uh today and Thursday and Friday, this the iPhone 7.
I know I'm I I don't want you people to make the mistake of not getting what you want because you're trying to well, if Russia has a silver seven plus, that must be the one they're all the same.
And you should you should choose the one that you really, really want.
Uh we're getting I I'm not gonna run out of supply, but I'm I'm running out of the colors.
Because frankly, I stocked up on black.
That was the hot color until I happen to mention that one of mine is silver run on silver began.
So don't worry.
Everybody today, tomorrow, and Friday will get whatever style, or whatever color.
Not color, but whether you want a plus or regular one.
So hang on out there so Mr. Snertley can get your address.
We get this out to you.
Now time for a quick obscene profit break, and we'll be right back.
Greg in Cleveland.
Great to have you with us, sir.
How are you?
Rush, thank you so much for taking my call.
Merry Christmas to you.
Right back at you.
Appreciate your call, sir.
Well, thank you so much.
Um I want to make a quick point, but I want to mention what I like so much about your show, and that is that you say your objectivity.
For uh, for someone who backs one party so heavily, when you report the when you give your reports, it's objective.
And that's exactly what you don't get from the mainstream media.
So I appreciate that about it.
I appreciate that, sir.
You're very shrewd, I thank you.
Well, good.
My I'll make a quick point.
Um, in my opinion, the the biggest obstacle that our our country faces is congressional gridlock.
And so I'm very hopeful.
I I'm not hopeless at all.
I I feel very hopeful that uh this president elect by his personality, he seems to be such a a doer and just a non-politician.
I think that that's the type of person that it would take to break up the gridlock.
I know what you mean.
And when you talk about Trump being an outsider and not a prisoner to the systems that entrap everybody.
But I have to tell you about gridlock.
I happen to love it.
I think gridlock is the greatest invention the founding fathers gave us.
The less Washington does, the better.
The fewer laws we make, the more freedom we have.
The more they're busy doing things, the more money they waste, the more freedom we lose, the more regulations we face.
I love gridlock, and gridlock was built into the system.
It works exactly.
That's what the separation of powers is all about.
Gridlock is designed into the system so that what happens is really the result of popular and and the the public support by virtue of the elected representatives of the people uh doing their bidding.
Not all the time, there are exceptions to it, of course.
But Trump coming in, I uh there's I've got this story that from the politico that I've been thinking about delving into today, but there's not enough time.
But I w you try to be here tomorrow, Greg, because this story, Trump posse browbeats Hill Republicans.
This is all about how people on Capitol Hill are bracing themselves for Trump and the things they're leaking already to the media about the Trump team.
It's in the politico, which means it could be fake news, but it's it's a fascinating piece, not enough time to deal with it now, but it's right up the alley you're talking about here.
I know what you're saying.
You're thinking an outsider like Trump can come in and run rings around people that don't know what he's doing to actually get things done, and that's what you mean by defeating gridlock.
In that sense, I agree with you.
Right, to get things done to get things done that that need to get done.
Not not yeah.
Now now what kind of iPhone do you want?
Seven or seven plus?
The regular seven.
Cool.
Okay, and your carrier?
It's consumer cellular.
All right, consumer cellular.
So do you happen to know if it's a C DMA network or GSM?
Does that make any sense to you?
You know, I I actually I don't know that offhand.
Do you know if it's a if it's uh uh related to T-Mobile Sprint ATT?
I believe it's uh I'm pretty sure it's connected to ATTs.
I can't here's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna send you I'm gonna send you an I'm gonna send you an unlocked iPhone 7, no SIM card in it.
It'll work wherever you hook it up.
Very good.
What color do you want?
Um that's very generous of you.
Thank you so much.
Do you have it in Matt Black?
I do.
That would be absolutely do.
iPhone 7, write it down in there, iPhone 7, Matt Black unlock sim free.
It is an ATT network.
So I've got you covered either way.
I can send you a GS.
I'll send you the unlocked sim free.
And that way you can take it to them and have it set up as a virgin phone, and it'll work.
After that, it'll work on any network you want if you ever want to change.
That's the beauty of the sim-free unlocked phone.
You hang on so we get your address, and we'll be right back here, folks, to wrap it up.
Well, another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence has sadly come to a screeching.
Well, it actually doesn't come to an end.
We just have a longer than usual pause.
Nothing ever ends here.
As we are uh we are back the next day.
I have this soundbite from Peter Vinart that I just didn't have time to get in.
Maybe Cookie can keep it for tomorrow.
He was on C and he's a newsweek guy, and he just he's just freaking out.
Trump may be the most ignorant man ever to enter the White House.
He just is just paranoid here.
He's scared to death what's going to happen.
And I think it's typical of uh of of many people on the left who just still are gobsmacked and have no idea what hit them.
And they're not gonna realize it for quite a while.
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