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Dec. 29, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 29, 2016, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, on the third day of guest hosts, Rush Limbaugh gave to the an EIB anchor baby.
Hey, it is the season of guest hosts, wall to wall.
It's beginning to look a lot like guest hosts everywhere you go.
Rush, don't worry, don't worry.
The season of guest hosts will eventually end.
Rush is going to return.
I think it's January 26th, February 17th, March 8th.
We're going to try and pin it down and get a definitive date on it.
Yesterday I mentioned all this controversy about the Rockettes appearing at the Trump inauguration.
That I had had a couple of Rockettes on my Christmas show back in, I think it was 1993, 1994, and they actually taught me how to do the leg kicks.
So if no Rockettes show up for the Trump inauguration, I could actually fill in and do the thing.
And I could hear Mr. Snerdley in New York going, what the hell?
How did we get some guy who is high-kicking with the rockets?
How did he end up guest hosting for Rush?
Don't worry about it.
Buck Sexton.
Buck Sexton is going to be here tomorrow.
He doesn't do any.
You don't have to worry about his leg kicks.
He's ex-CIA.
So he's all man, and he's going to be guest hosting tomorrow.
He's licensed to kill.
I'm licensed to kick.
That's the difference.
If you're having a bit of difficulty keeping up with the guest hosts, I asked Mr. Snerdley, who's in on Monday, and apparently Rush is in on Monday.
And I thought, wow, this is great.
Rush is now so many guest hosts.
Rush is now guest hosting for the pre-scheduled guest hosts, but it's a best of Rush on Monday.
And then I think it's Buck after that, or maybe it's me.
We've had a little bit of a confusion.
So we now have a situation where the guest hosts are guest hosting for other guest hosts.
That's how crazy it is.
But Buck is here tomorrow.
All man, all CIA, all super butch.
So you don't have to worry about any sinister foreigners when Buck is behind the mic.
1-800-282-2882 as a momentous year, 2016 draws to a close.
This was the year, as I said yesterday, when the peoples of the developed world said enough.
They may not be clear on what they want to happen next, but sufficient numbers of them have decided that the old ways no longer work for them.
So the American voter said enough to a choice between Hillary and Jeb.
They said we'd like something else.
The British voters said enough to the European Union.
The French voters didn't even get to vote.
Francois Hollande decided he was completely unviable and decided he couldn't even run for re-election.
All over the Western world, people are saying the post-Cold War consensus doesn't work for millions and millions of us and we would like something else.
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I just want to start with a bit of unfinished business from yesterday.
I mentioned Brandon Icke, who was the CEO of Mozilla, who was forced out of the company because it was leaked that he donated $1,000 to a pro-non-gay marriage initiative in California.
And I said basically it had a hellish time since then, and the guy's unemployed and he's sitting at home twiddling his thumbs on the couch.
And Brandon Icke actually tweeted that that was not the case.
He's developed a whole new browser, which I think is called Brave.
That's the name of Brandon Icke's new browser.
So congratulations to him on finding life after Mozilla.
The reason I said what I did was because a few months back, I happened to see a Twitter exchange between Brandon Icke and one of his former colleagues, a fellow called Hampton Catlin, a Silicon Valley guy who was among the first to demand that Ike be booted out of Mozilla.
And this guy, Hampton Catlin, said, it's been a couple of weeks since I've gotten some sort of Brendan Ike hate mail.
How are things going over there on your side, Brendan?
This is from last year, 2015.
And Brendan Ike tweeted back, you demanded that I be completely removed from any day-to-day activities at Mozilla and got your wish.
I'm still unemployed.
How are you?
So that's where I got the idea that he was unemployed and sitting at home all day from.
And Hampton Catlin, the guy who destroyed this, Brenda Nike's career and cost him his job, said, I'm married and able to live in the USA and working together on open source stuff in like a loving, happy, gay, married way.
So it's not enough to cost the guy his job.
You've also got to go and taunt him on Twitter and humiliate him.
And as Anne Coulter said about the whole gay marriage thing, it's not enough that they won.
They have to go door to door shooting the survivors.
And that's what this guy, Hampton Catlin, was doing with Brenda Knight.
And there's a double standard with all this.
The whole point about the gay marriage thing, when they find some pizza guy to torment and they go and ask the pizza guy if he'll cater a gay wedding, like anyone wants pizza at a gay wedding, or they go and ask a florist to do the flowers for a gay wedding.
We're told it's a public accommodation.
You don't have any right to say no to it.
Here's a public accommodation in Hawaii, Cafe 8 in Honolulu, which is owned by Robert Warner and his wife Jalli.
And they have posted a sign on the door saying, if you voted for Trump, you cannot eat here.
No Nazis, right?
So that's everyone.
Half the population of the United States are Nazis, according to Honolulu's Cafe 8.
Nobody's bothered about the professional, the public accommodation there.
You're allowed to tell half the population of the United States that they're Nazis.
Don't Nazis have the same rights as gays or transgender?
Don't they?
What bathroom do Nazis get to use in America?
So we have this point I made yesterday.
It's all one way.
It's all one way.
And nobody pays any price.
Nobody pays any price if you're intolerant towards people that the left has decided it's okay to be intolerant about.
Another thing I mentioned yesterday, Steve Martin, he posted a tweet about Carrie Fisher.
And Claire Lansbaum, a humorless, talentless plonker at New York magazine who can't write, wrote a piece complaining about the way Steve Martin had remembered Carrie Fisher and then tweeted about it.
Steve Martin's tweet about Carrie Fisher is extremely bad.
And some no-name, talentless, millennial dweeb hack who can't write got Steve Martin, a big A-list celebrity, to back down and delete his sincere, affectionate tweet about someone he knew.
This is the nuttiness of it.
Some no-name millennial twerp at New York magazine who's never gotten anywhere near Carrie Fisher somehow gets to decide what is the appropriate official reaction to the death of Carrie Fisher.
You're only allowed to memorialize Carrie Fisher in this official approved way.
And so even if you knew her, even if you knew her, it doesn't make any difference.
You still have to subscribe to the official approved way of memorializing her.
And I was thinking, as I mentioned this story on air yesterday, how nutty this is.
Because one of the great things about that particular family, by which I mean Carrie, her mother, Debbie Reynolds, and her father, Eddie Fisher, is that they were all completely unsparing and plain spoken about both their foibles and their family members' foibles.
I had one encounter with Debbie Reynolds back in the early 90s.
I just met her briefly.
And actually, she was the only celebrity I've ever met that my father was impressed by because he'd been sweet on Debbie Reynolds ever since he was a boy in Dublin and he went to see Two Weeks with Love in which she and Carlton Carpenter sing Abba Dabba Honeymoon.
And so I was thinking, you know, Debbie Reynolds would be the last person in the world to go all po-faced and pious about the official approved way to remember her daughter.
And the show ended and about an hour later there were pictures of Debbie Reynolds being rushed to hospital.
She'd been with her son planning her daughter's funeral.
It's a terrible thing.
No parent should have to bury a child.
It offends against the natural order.
And a couple of days, a couple of hours later, the news came that Debbie Reynolds had died a day after, a day after her daughter's death, which is almost too sad for words and particularly sad for Debbie Reynolds, who had a great, almost 70-year career.
She was a terrific survivor, terrific trooper.
She was indestructible.
She survived everything.
And the idea that she survived long enough to live in a world where people who never met her daughter are allowed to bully her daughter's friends into decreeing that there's only one way in which to memorialize her daughter is absolutely insane.
And she would have been the last person to sign off on that sort of idiocy from Claire Lansbaum of New York magazine.
By the way, the reaction of Charlie Sheen, the reaction of Charlie, this isn't a political thing.
There's no partisan point here, except that it's one particular side of the spectrum that is enforcing ideology, even in something as intimate as memorializing a dead friend.
Charlie Sheen, Charlie Sheen's reaction to the death of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds was to post out a tweet saying, dear God, please take Trump next.
Please take Trump next.
Now, I found this very interesting because the one thing that strikes you about the death of a mother and daughter within 24 hours of each other is how, first, how sad it is, how bleakly sad it is, that the Debbie Reynolds last words were, I want to be with Carrie, and then she collapses and she dies a day after her daughter.
And you'd think the one person who could relate to this is Charlie Sheen, because he's the son of Martin Sheen.
So they're also a parent-child celebrity family.
Instead, he doesn't even get that.
He doesn't think, oh, my God, that would be like me dying and dad dying the following day.
He thinks, ha, ha, ha, ha, this is a great opportunity to make an anti-Trump tweet, wishing that God takes Trump.
Eventually, eventually, civilized life becomes impossible when you fail to see even the humanity that your fellow human being in a situation as uniquely appalling as that.
Even when you're the son of a famous star, I mean, granted that Martin Sheen and Charlie Sheen haven't got an ounce of the talent that Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher have in their little fingers.
But granted that, that you couldn't even say, you can't even think, oh my God, oh my God, that's like me dying and then my dad being overcome with grief and dying the following.
In saying, oh, let's hope Trump gets killed next.
There is an inhumanity to this that is just appalling.
So do yourselves a favor, if you ever want to cheer yourself up, in that film I mentioned that my dad saw at the movie theater in Dublin when he was a kid and fell in love with Debbie Reynolds.
She and Carlton Carpenter do Abba Dabba Honeymoon.
And I used to sing that with my, I learned it because if it ever came on TV, my dad always wanted to watch the movie.
And then I used to sing it with my daughter in the car when the car journey would get a little long and we get a little bored.
And when Debbie Reynolds, we heard about Debbie Reynolds' death last night, my daughter said to me, oh my God, she said, she'd been singing, she said, she was singing that song to her friends all during the last semester.
And they were all going, what the hell is that song?
Where did you get it from?
Well, look it up.
Debbie Reynolds and Carlton Carpenter doing Abba Dabba Honeymoon.
And it'll put Charlie, the talentless Charlie Sheen and his hack tweets and all the, and this talentless millennial hack at New York magazine, Claire Lansburne who can't write.
It'll put it all out of your mind and perk you up no end.
Abba Dabba honeymoon.
It's the cure to whatever ails you.
That's the footnotes to yesterday's edition, 1-800-282-2882.
We will get on with all the news of the day and today's show momentarily on America's number one radio show.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
Yesterday in the final hour while we were on the air, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who was responding to what John Kerry had said about his speech, and he basically blew that Kerry speech out of the water.
The phrase that struck me that Kerry used was that America can't stand idly by because of these Israeli settlements, right?
Can't stand idly by, can't stand idly by has been the Obama modus operandi since he took office in that region.
He has stood idly by as half a million people have died in Syria and Iraq has been swept by ISIS and millions and millions of people have been set loose across the region,
so-called refugees, destabilizing American allies in Europe, allowing ISIS to take control of the ports in Libya after Hillary decided she wanted to topple Colonel Gaddafi because he hadn't ponied up enough cash to the Clinton Foundation or whatever the reason was.
And every single port on the Libyan coast has been taken over by ISIS.
There's beheadings.
They stand idly by in Afghanistan where a woman was beheaded in Afghanistan on which Americans have expended a decade and a half of blood and treasure.
A woman was beheaded because she went into town shopping without her husband.
So basically the modus operandi of the Obama administration is to stand idly by for everything that happens everywhere.
You can't get a rise out of these guys.
They stand idly by for everything.
Oh, say, can you see as we stand idly by?
That's the national anthem of Obama's America.
But the one thing they won't stand idly by for is a few Israeli settlements.
And Netanyahu was dripping with contempt, dripping with contempt.
For reasons that we all understand this, we now have a situation where the United States states takes the position that as John Kerry puts it, it's in accordance with America's values that you can't have a Jew living in not just Judea and Samaria, but you can't have a Jew living at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, apparently.
And we know the reason why.
The reason why is in Obama and Kerry's thinking is that it's provocative.
Because if there's a Jew near the Palestinians, then the Palestinians go all crazy and want to kill the Jew.
And it makes it more difficult to present this as just a land dispute for which there's a two-state solution.
And I share Netanyahu's contempt for this.
I was in the West Bank, the so-called Palestinian territories, just over a decade ago.
That was the last time I was there.
And it's fascinating to me.
You walk into a convenience store.
Everyone's very pleasant.
Everyone's very nice.
The Palestinian kids, they're the cutest, most photogenic little Moppets in the world.
But you go into a convenience store, they've got the martyrs of the week pinned up behind the cash register.
The guy is perfectly affable.
You exchange pleasantries.
And it's no different in that respect from a New Hampshire general store or a Vermont general store.
In fact, the chap was rather more friendly to me than some of these Vermont general store guys are.
But nevertheless, he's got the Martyrs of the Week pinned up behind the cash register.
While I was there, the Ministry of Education was holding a national letter writing competition throughout Palestinian schools.
And the first prize winner was 12-year-old Mahmoud Naji Chalila, who won with, My heart has turned into a sad block of pain.
One day I will buy a weapon and I will blow away the fetters.
I will propel my living dead body into your arms.
So you win a school prize in the Palestinian territories by pledging to become a suicide bomber and kill Jews.
And that's why John Kerry's obsession with settlements is idiotic and embarrassing.
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And one of the things I mentioned yesterday about the archive, by the way, is that it's got all this great stuff.
And I mentioned just off the top of my head, because I happen to like it, the Broke Back Mountain parody featuring John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
Return to Saddlesaw Canyon.
And I realized about an hour and a half later that it actually exemplified a point I wanted to make about why the late night comedy shows were dying in the ratings, because you should never lose the ability to see the comedy in your own side.
And Rush has always had that through all the decades he's been.
He's never taken the position that he's just there to be a cheerleader for everybody with an R after his name.
And he has no problems mocking very prominent persons on his own side, including in this case, the 2008 presidential nominee and a 2016 presidential candidate.
And I forgot what important point I was making.
Oh, yeah.
You should always be able to see the comedy in your own side.
And that's why the minute you hear these so-called comedians say, well, of course we would make jokes about Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
But really, there's nothing funny about them, is there?
You're not in the comedy business anymore.
That's why these shows are dying on the vine.
Incidentally, before we leave the business with Israel, Australia, my old pal Julie Bishop, the foreign minister of Australia, has said that the Australian government is distancing itself from the Obama administration over its diplomatic showdown with Israel and said it would not have supported that U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank and elsewhere.
Thank you.
And so the Australians are not on board with the John Kerry Obama policy on Israel.
I mentioned yesterday that I just think I don't understand why people are not annoyed about this.
You have an election and then there's this transitional period.
And we're told that the transition period is because it's apparently very difficult to fill a cabinet.
You have to do background checks.
You have to appoint people.
It takes all a lot of time.
It doesn't take time anywhere else.
It takes 48 hours everywhere else on the planet.
But it takes months here.
If that's what the transition period is for, fine, fine.
If it just takes three months to run background checks, if it's a health and safety issue, if it's to ensure you've got the right quotas of transgendered cabinet officers, so be it.
But in fact, it's not that.
What we have is a strange interregnum in which the people have expressed their view through the electoral process, and then the outgoing administration ignores the result of the election and does things that it explicitly knows are opposed by the incoming administration, which strikes me as an affront to the integrity of the constitutional system and the electoral process.
And the latest example of that is this federal land grab by executive action, which Obama has just done.
He's taken a million and a half acres and turned it into a couple of new national monuments in southeastern Utah and southern Nevada.
And normally when you think of a national monument in most places, like in France, that's the Eiffel Tower.
You can walk around it.
A national monument in Britain is Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square.
You can walk around it.
But in this case, Barack Obama needs a million and a half acres of land for a national monument.
He said it protects some of the country's most important cultural treasures, including abundant rock art.
I don't know what rock art is.
Is it like rock music?
I don't know.
What is it?
Rock art.
And so he's taken a million and a half acres from Utah and Nevada for the Bears Ears National Monument.
Basically what that means.
And don't be fooled by these phrases like national monument.
What that means is 300 million people now don't have access to it except with the government's position.
And I was interested about this because it includes land in southern Nevada.
The federal government already owns over 80% of Nevada.
Why is it even a state if they if it's not enough?
No, that's right.
They've got to get it up to 85%, 88%, 90%.
At what point does Nevada become 98% owned by the federal government with a 2% sliver around Las Vegas where you can still operate a private business?
Just in Nevada alone, the federal government owns about 90,000 square miles, which is the entire landmass of the United Kingdom, or if you prefer, it's the size of Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic combined, which is to say it's a big chunk of the Habsburg Empire, all owned by one government bureaucracy.
It's the complete opposite of the way things are going.
In case you haven't noticed, most big countries are splitting up into smaller countries.
I mentioned the Czech Republic.
It used to be part of a country with Slovakia, and Slovakia decided being part of Czechoslovakia was too big.
They wanted to be on their own.
But the Bureau of Land Management basically operates an area the size of Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Portugal combined, just in Nevada alone.
It rules over one-eighth of the land mass of the United States.
And Obama thinks that's not enough.
That's about the size of South Africa.
It's about three-sevenths of the G7.
The Bureau of Land Management owns and controls an amount of land equivalent to the size of France, Germany, and Italy combined.
And you know the way these governors of states say, well, if California were a country, it would be the whatever largest economy in the world.
Or if Texas were a country, it'd be the, I think it's the 12th largest economy in the world.
If the Bureau of Land Management were a country, it would be the 26th biggest country in the world out of 200.
Out of 200.
You know, maybe Turkey and Russia are meeting today to declare that the Syrian civil war is over.
And I've had a couple of queries from people saying, well, Turkey, isn't Turkey a NATO member?
Doesn't Turkey need to ask the rest of NATO before it enters into negotiations with Russia over the end of the Syrian civil war?
If the Bureau of Land Management is the 26th biggest country in the world, why isn't the Bureau of Land Management a member of NATO?
It's got a big enough army.
They've got all these SWAT teams and all the rest of it.
Why doesn't the Bureau of Land Management join NATO and send a division or two to protect the Baltic states from Putin now that Obama's saber-rattling with Putin?
You know, I don't understand that.
I don't understand how you can sit by and let huge, vast, inconceivably vast areas of land be taken out of any kind of potential use, which is what the government is doing.
BLM, everyone thinks BLM stands for Black Lives Matter.
That's some nickel and dime operation next to the Bureau of Land Management.
Basically, you drive west of the Mississippi and you're in Bureau Landistan.
It's as barren.
It's as barren as the most barren tracts of the Afghan desert.
And it's maintained at that because the government has basically takes every Obama's done this more than anybody else.
This million and a half acres is in addition to five and a half million acres he's taken through the course of his presidency.
What for?
What is it for?
Everyone gets their knickers in a twist when it comes to health care.
Oh, you know, the government is nationalizing health care or interventions in the big three automakers in Detroit after the crash.
Oh, the government is nationalizing the car industry.
The government here is nationalizing the nation.
Huge tracts of land are now controlled by the government.
And they're not controlled by the government in the way that people think they are, that it's the people's land.
People don't have a right to them.
Saw that in the last government shutdown.
When the crazy zealots at national parks, when they fenced off memorials, when they prevented people taking pictures of Mount Rushmore, it's not the government's land.
It's the bureaucrats' land.
It's the bureaucrats' land.
Why do the American people put up with the nationalization of the nation?
Mark Stein for Rush, give me a call, 1-800-282-2882.
I ought to issue a quick correction here on the Rush Limbaugh show when I said that 80% of the land in Nevada was owned by the United States government.
It's apparently up to 88.1% now.
What about the two?
Never mind the Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories.
What about these vast U.S. federal settlements in Nevada?
Why is there no two-state solution for Nevada?
At one point, at a certain point, the United States government will have annexed all of Nevada except for some little Gaza strip down the Las Vegas strip.
And then John Kerry will be able to give a speech about it.
Let us go to Rob in Dallas, Texas.
Rob, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Mark, thank you for having me.
I really love what you bring to America, Mark.
Thank you.
I wasn't going to say this, but you brought it up.
That's exactly what the Oregon standoff was all about.
And our government assassinated Lavoie Finnecum.
Yeah, and we should make the point that in many of these cases, in Nevada and other parts of the West, these families are there farming that land because the then government in the late 19th and early 20th century encouraged them to go there and build small homesteads and say they would be able to farm on this land in perpetuity.
Now you have a situation where these guys basically have fewer rights than Russian serfs in the mid-19th century because the Russian serfs at least got to farm the land.
Now they're saying to these guys, you can't even farm that land.
So you bring up a good point there, Rob.
Yes, sir.
May I get into the reason I called, Mark?
Right.
I'm going to say that I think new director of the CIA Mike Pompeo is absolutely correct when he asserts that John Kerry is a traitor.
And furthermore, I believe the demon ratt party has become synonymous with traitor.
Well, I think there's, well, I'll say this for them.
Chuck Schumer and some other, what's he called?
Stenny Hoyer objected to the Kerry-Obama shift of policy on Israel.
But there is no doubt, Rob, that you are right.
That on the far left, which Obama is a member of, and Kerry, despite marrying a ketchup heiress and passing himself off as a respectable gentleman and all the rest, Kerry's sympathies have always lain on the far left of the Democrat Party.
And in both cases, the anti-Israel animus is an expression of their broader animus against the West and Western civilization and America's role in the world.
And that's why when Kerry made his stupid remark, Rob, about standing that America couldn't stand idly by, the main reason that Obama has spent eight years standing idly by when he's not actively pouring gasoline on the flames is because he believes America has been a force for ill in the world and that and that America, the absence of American power is better for the world than the projection of American power.
And that's what his position has been consistently through the last eight years.
Thanks for your call, Rob.
We will take lots more straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
I should clarify when Rob made his point about Oregon, that I was out of the country for most of that standoff, so I wasn't, I can't claim to be following it too closely.
What I did say, though, was that the grievances of These pseudo-tenant farmers of the federal government in the West is a legitimate one because essentially the government keeps changing the terms and imposing more and more restrictions on them.
And for what reason, I have no idea.
How much land does the United States need?
As I said, it already in Nevada alone, it already is as much land as Germany, France, and Italy combined.
Meanwhile, China is saying that they will be on Mars by the end of the decade.
And they plan to make China a major space power.
They're planning a landing on the dark side of the moon by 2018.
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