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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.
A telephone number if you want to be on the program.
We're still an hour to go today, 800-282-2882.
And if you want to send an email, lrushbo at EIBnet.us.
Now, we'll be here all week, so we still have 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 drilling 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 these people immediately just out there saying so because they're 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 that 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 Michelle Obama on with the Opera talking about how cooperative they're going to 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, but we're going to be cooperative.
We're going to do everything we can, peaceful transition, and to help the new president.
And it out there sabotaging Trump on the coal miners and now with offshore drilling and stuff.
This is just classic.
And of course, the drive-bys are right in there talking what great people Obamas are.
Like Michelle, who's the greatest first lady that's ever been, fashion icon, 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 going to 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 going to be on TV complaining about it.
Make no mistake about this.
I don't know how long it's going to take him to get into gear, but he's going to do it.
Unprecedented.
Not even Bill Clinton did it with George H.W. Bush.
George H.W. Bush didn't do it, Bill Clinton.
And even Obama didn't do it with George W. Bush.
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 rescinds these executive orders or regulations.
What do you think happens next?
Take a look at your TV set, and the odds are you're going to see Barack Hussein O there.
And you know what he's going to say?
I'm so sad to see this happening after all the progress we've made in cleaning up the air and the water 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 rescnds 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 going to happen.
That's what Obama's setting up with both of these: the drilling of oil off the East Coast and north of Alaska into this coal business.
And there's this.
Wait, this thing.
Sorry, there's this from the Washington Free Beacon.
Anti-Trump millennials plan to open permanent protest space near the 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 Limboy inspires youth, youth copycats, and all that.
But this is the Occupy movement being resuscitated, folks.
This is just 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 going to 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 nicesties there, like at midnight and go steal their food and take it back like they accused Reagan of doing.
They 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 Sheen weren't looking.
So 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, it 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.
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 Bashur 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 nuclear program.
They are really ramping up one of the developmental aspects of the centrifuges that are necessary for the production of nuclear material.
It has to do with the injection of certain gas.
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 $3 million.
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 $3 million to whoever did it.
Hope they don't find out we did.
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 nuclear weaponry.
Then there is the political story that I briefly alluded to.
Trump posse browbeats Hill Republicans.
And this is a story about how 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 just unbecoming.
It's mean-spirited, extremist.
And since it runs at political, it 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.
And by the way, 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 Rouani 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 covers international Jewish and Israeli-related news.
It's very, very small publication.
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-bys 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 centric fuel 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 is 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.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Honor to speak to you.
Thank you, sir.
I've been fascinated with all of the people going up and down the golden elevator in the Trump Tower.
And most fascinating to me was the Carlos Slim meeting.
And I was just curious if you, what's your take on Trump's ability to persuade Carlos into having some influence over the New York Times?
And seeing how he's a majority citizen, Zero Nada.
In the first place, Carlos Slim owns the kind of stock that's not controlling interest.
The Schulzberger family is the only controlling interest.
They're only voting shares in that company.
Sleem is, and that's the correct pronunciation.
It's spelled S-L-I-M, Carlos Slim, but you pronounce it Slim, I believe, in Mayko.
He is the largest investor, and therefore it gives him some power.
But I don't think he has a whole lot of editorial power.
But you're right.
Here's the thing.
Trump did have dinner with Carlos Slim here, not at Trump Tower, but at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday night.
And let me read to you one of the accounts of this from thehill.com.
Trump confirms he met with Mexican billionaire Slim, 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.-Mayco border that Trump vowed Mexico would pay for.
During the campaign, Carlos Sleem 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 Sleem 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 and jobs, that'd be fantastic for Meko.
If the U.S. grows 4%, increases infrastructure, and lowers taxes, that's good.
Look, Stan, same thing I said to 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 charismatic figure, but they're just waiting to pounce 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.
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 done, that's what's going to happen.
Okay, quickly, I got 30 seconds.
iPhone 7 Plus.
You want a 7 or a plus?
The big one.
Oh, a plus.
Yeah.
And your carrier?
Verizon.
Verizon, perfect.
And your color?
My wife loves the gold.
Then that's what you will have.
A gold iPhone 7.
It's actually going to be sim-free, meaning it's unlocked.
It'll work with any carrier.
So make sure you hang on to give us your address so 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 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 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 wait to see.
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 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.
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 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 tinhorn dictator in the effort to bring peace, 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 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 going to throw up.
They will not do the victim card.
Yeah, I can't agree more.
I'd also say to add on to that is just the great intentions, right?
It's always what can we do, not what did we do?
Absolutely.
Everything's intentions.
Yeah.
How they handle Bill?
Well, I guarantee you that in a legacy writing, Hillary's going to 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 says she's, she's, I mean, she's going to be a saint by the time they finish with this.
And Bill's going to be the guy who was a good president.
He really cared, but he just couldn't keep it in his pants.
And 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?
I can just see all this now.
Clinton's going to be, he'll have a great legacy, but it won't match Hillary's.
Yeah, okay.
So I got to go, but before I do, it's your turn now to choose an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus.
Oh, that'd be great.
I'll do the iPhone 7 Plus.
7 Plus.
And who is your carrier?
My carrier is Verizon, but does it matter if I get a Sim3 or a Verizon one?
You can.
What color do you want?
White, please.
White, okay.
I think the only color I have left is, if you want white, is gold.
Yeah, that's fine.
There'd be gold on the base.
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, gold, if you want SimFree Verizon, it's going to be a gold one.
I'm out of silver.
So we're now back to jet black being the best-looking iPhone 7 Plus, folks.
And by the way, for those of you today and Thursday and Friday, there's the iPhone 7.
I know I'm, 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 7 Plus, that must be the one.
They're all the same.
And you should choose the one that you really, really want.
We're getting, I'm not going to run out of supply, but 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. Snirtley 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.
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 someone who backs one party so heavily, 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 you.
I appreciate that, sir.
You're very shrewd.
I thank you.
Well, good.
I'll make a quick point.
In my opinion, the biggest obstacle that our country faces is congressional gridlock.
And so I'm very hopeful.
I'm not hopeless at all.
I feel very hopeful that this president-elect, by his personalities, he seems to be such 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 public support by virtue of the elected representatives of the people doing their bidding.
Not all the time.
There are exceptions to it, of course.
But Trump coming in, I've got this story from the Politico that I've been thinking about delving into today, but there's not enough time.
But 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 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 need to get done.
Yeah.
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 CDMA network or GSM?
Does that make any sense to you?
You know, I actually don't know that offhand.
Do you know if it's a if it's related to T-Mobile, Sprint, ATT?
I believe it's, I'm pretty sure it's connected to ATT.
Here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to 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?
Well, that's very generous of you.
Thank you so much.
Do you have it in Matt Black?
I do.
That would be good.
Absolutely do.
iPhone 7, write it down in there.
iPhone 7, Matt Black, unlock, SIMFRI.
It is an AT ⁇ T network.
So I've got you covered either way.
I can send you a GS.
I'll send you the unlocked SIMFRI.
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 SIMFRE, 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 because we are back the next day.
I have this sound bite from Peter Beinhart that I just didn't have time to get in.
Maybe Cookie can keep it for tomorrow.
He was on See it.
He's a newsweek guy, and he's just freaking out.
Trump may be the most ignorant man ever to enter the White House.
He's just paranoid here.
He's scared to death what's going to happen.
And I think it's typical of many people on the left who just still are gobsmacked and have no idea what hit them.
And they're not going to realize it for quite a while.
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