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Dec. 29, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 29, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yes, we are in the midst of a plague of guest hosts ravaging the airwaves.
Buck Sexton is going to be here tomorrow.
The good news is that Rush is guest hosting for the pre-scheduled guest host on Monday with a best of Rush show.
And then I'm not sure how it's all worked out in the rest of the week because Buck Sexton and I had to re-jiggle a bit.
So the guest hosts are now guest hosting for the designated guest hosts.
But there's going to be a few of us around for a while.
Rush returns, I think it's August 23rd, September 19th, November 4th.
We're going to try and nail it down before the end of the show and get a hard date for Russia's return.
But we are in the midst of the season of guest hosts, and we've been talking about looking back on this year and looking ahead to what's going to be coming in 2017 under the new Trump administration.
I was asked yesterday whether the so-called globalists would actually try to scuttle the dollar in order to prevent the success of the Trump administration.
And I'm not sure whether it's possible to do that because a lot of other countries are going to be sliding off the cliff before America does if you were to collapse the global currency.
But I think it's worth looking at that Tom Perez statement we made, I quoted, and making it clear that these guys are going to do their best to obstruct any genuine change.
Because the whole idea of the two-party state in modern times is that the Democrats get elected and introduce radical changes like Obamacare.
And then every so often the pendulum swings and a Republican gets elected and he keeps the seat warm until the Democrats get elected again.
But that in the end, nothing changes.
That's why the Republicans in their platform have been committed to abolish the Department of Energy and the Federal Department of Education ever since Jimmy Carter set them up in the 1970s and nothing ever happens.
And so the Democrats don't mind Republicans keeping the seat warm once in a while as long as nothing ever happens.
And then, to use the line I always use, the Democrats are in power, the Republicans are in office.
And when they cease being in office and the Democrats get elected, the Democrats go full throttle at ramming a lot of stuff through, regardless of whether anybody wants it or not.
And Trump is different.
We don't know yet in what ways he's different.
We don't know yet what compromises he'll make, but he doesn't want to be a seat warmer.
He doesn't want to be a seat warmer president.
And for that reason, he's a threat to the guys who just want everything to go on in a certain way.
The people for whom the present system works very nicely.
Which, as I said, is like professional career politicians, the permanent bureaucracy, people in high-tech, high-skilled computer-type industries, celebrities who get $20 million a movie, the kind of folks who gather at Davos each year, the Davoisie, Davos man.
The system works very well for them.
For much of the rest of America and beyond, what it means is that there's nothing to do.
There's no mills, there's no factories, there's no blue-collar jobs that you can lead a nice middle-class life on.
Instead, you're stuck with six-figure college debt for the privilege of doing some worthless, crappy service job, and that's all there is.
And Trump wants to change that.
And they are going to.
There is going to be a sustained attempt to prevent him changing anything.
And again, just as Brexit foretold the Trump victory, what has happened since Brexit, where you have had court decisions attempting to tie the hands of those who wish to just pull out of the European Union as quickly as possible and enact the wishes of the people,
and you have had this preposterous Luxembourg bourgeois figure, this Jean-Claude Junckers, who purports to be, quote, president, unquote, of quote, Europe, unquote, this obscure Luxembourger, who's now an obscure Luxembourger with President of Europe on his business card.
These people are determined that nothing should change.
To use the phrase John Bolton used to me, these people want the European unionization of the world because they don't think the people are qualified to determine how they want to be ruled.
And so the only way you can do that is to enact an apparatus that is impervious to the whims of the electorate.
Because the electorate are, in Peter Jennings' famous words after Newt Gingrich's victory, the electorate are just two-year-old children prone to tantrums.
So you have to enact a structure that makes it impossible for the will of the electorate to make any difference.
And they've had a huge success doing that in Europe.
They've had not quite as much success, but an impressive amount of success doing it here to the point where it's now a guy can have 18 months of legal torment, be arrested, be taken to the county jail, and then have a year and a half of legal hell because he drank a cup of coffee before getting into the car.
That's no law.
That's no nothing.
That's just the state getting more and more brazen in its exercise of power.
And that's what will be interesting to watch in the year ahead.
If they manage to stop Brexit in Britain, if unelected forces, if bureaucracies, if European bureaucrats in Brussels, if courts manage to obstruct and delay Brexit and render it meaningless, that will tell you what the same kinds of people are going to try and do to Trump here, to make the will of the people essentially irrelevant.
Oh, you can go to the polls once every couple of years and we'll get all excited and we'll have an election night special and we'll put up some special graphics and we'll pretend it means anything, but in the end it won't mean anything.
A couple of other stories.
I mentioned earlier that when you look at how excited the French are about this anti-Israeli Security Council resolution, 82 people, you remember a year ago, all those people died in those Paris terrorist attacks at the sports stadium and at the Bataclan rock theater and at restaurants.
They discovered some 82 people among the staff at that soccer stadium were actually connected to the terror watch list, were on the terror watch list in France.
One of the people who slaughtered that French priest that I mentioned earlier actually worked at Chard de Gaulle airport.
In other words, we have all this elaborate security so that your grandmother has to take off her leg caliper, her leg brace when she goes through security and all the rest of it.
And the people they're hiring to staff these airports are in some cases on the terror watch list.
Now we have this whole thing about this revelation, latest revelation about the New Year's Eve sex attacks in Cologne, when hundreds and hundreds of women were sexually assaulted in Cologne out celebrating New Year's Eve in front of the main square.
This is the equivalent of being in Times Square on New Year's Eve and as they drop the ball and they sing New York, New York, an old lang sign.
Hundreds and hundreds of women are sexually assaulted and there's a big state cover-up, which is what happened on Cologne on New Year's Eve.
Now it's just been revealed that it wasn't just the refugees, so-called, who were assaulting, sexually assaulting these women, but that 59 so-called refugees had been hired as special security guards for the night.
So in other words, in other words, it's not just that these women are sexually assaulted by refugees, but that the people who were there to protect them, 59 so-called refugees who were hired as security guards, they just melted away into the crowd and didn't protect them.
And that's exactly the same as in the French situation, that now we have a situation where the people who are likely to attack you have been hired to be the people who prevent you from being attacked.
The security guards at Charles de Gaulle Airport, the security guards at the French soccer stadium, the security guards at New Year's Eve in Cologne are actually the people who want to attack you and want to sexually assault you.
And it was with that in mind that I saw that the New York Police Department is changing its rules to be more friendly and more diverse.
So it's going to allow officers to wear turbans, to practice their religious beliefs, to grow facial hair, to wear headscarves.
The NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill flanked by officers in navy blue turbans.
I'm assuming they were likely Sikh officers To make the New York Police Department as diverse as possible.
And this is one of these things.
People think, oh, that sounds so nice, doesn't it?
We're now going to celebrate diversity.
There won't be a standard police uniform anymore.
There'll just be all kinds of people who are wearing different kinds of headgear.
And somewhere or other, somewhere on the uniform, you'll see a small police badge that will enable you to identify this as a genuine police uniform.
And it's fine to celebrate diversity, but they've done it in Europe.
And what they've wound up with is a situation where, objectively speaking, at Brussels Airport, in the Belgian police, at Charzegael Airport in Paris, among the security guards in Cologne, there are people there who are on the side of the terrorists within the security apparatus of the state.
German intelligence just had a story where there was some guy in German intelligence was on the take from ISIS.
We are going to be seeing more and more and more of this in the future.
You won't be able to tell because we love celebrating diversity so much that when we hire police officers and security guards, we let them decide which team they want to be on, which team they want to play on.
Mark's time for Rush.
We'll take your calls straight ahead.
Hey, Mark Stein on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Let's go to Chris in, it says Fulsom Lou.
I think I used to date Folsom Lou back in the 70s.
She certainly knew how to fill her show.
Anyway, oh, it's Folsom, Louisiana, I think.
Folsom, Louisiana.
Hey, Chris, in Folsom, Louisiana.
Great to have you with us on the show.
Chris?
Hi.
Oh, hi.
What's on your mind today?
Well, I was calling about, first of all, I want to thank you for filling in for Rush.
When you do, I know it's always going to be a great day afterward for me.
You put a smile on my face.
The other thing I wanted to ask you about was your new gig over at CRTV.
I have subscribed, and I thought your Christmas special was just that very special.
Well, that's very cardio.
I always love doing Christmas shows, Chris.
It's like I've done them for a long time, and I always like doing them.
And we were pretty pleased with this, the way this year's Christmas shows.
The first show we actually did in the brand new television studio.
And I think it looks pretty neat in there.
It's still up there at CRTV.com.
And I'm glad to know that you have actually subscribed because it's a lot of great content on there.
You enjoying things so far?
Well, I've only seen one of yours and several of Crowder's and, of course, Michelle's.
Great stuff.
Looking forward to it.
Which brings me to my question for you.
Well, first of all, there's a couple of questions.
The first one is, how often are you going to be on?
Once a day, once a week?
And then I want to ask you about Dame Sean Phillips.
Okay.
Well, I'll tell you, we're supposed to be on daily, Monday to Friday, and I think it airs at kind of around about 8 p.m. Eastern every night.
That's the idea of it.
So it's going to be, and it's tough for a guest host, you know, because normally I save up enough material, and then every 10 or 11 weeks I've accumulated enough material.
So I come down from the hills and guest host for Rush for three hours.
And at the end of three hours, I've exhausted all the material I've got, and I go away and spend the next 10, 11, 12, 13 weeks accumulating enough for another show.
So whether I can actually pull off a daily show and this new television venture, I don't know.
But it's television.
So by the time you've got distracting ground, it's not like radio, which is super intense.
You've got all this distracting graphics, dancing girls, the Radio City rockets.
There's a lot of things that cover some of the wobblier bits of the show when you're doing TV as opposed to radio.
But it's supposed to be every day, five days a week, Chris, each new episode going on air at about 8 p.m.
Eastern.
So there's that to look forward to.
Yep.
And so that brings me now to Dame Sean Phillips.
I was listening to her give the rendition of the Child's Christmas in Wales.
Right, that's right.
And I'm looking at it, I think she, this woman looks so familiar, and I put my finger on it.
That's Livia Drusilla.
Yeah, that's right, from the I Claudius, which was a big television hit in the 70s.
And she was also in the movie Dune that is big with all my kids love Dune.
She's also in that.
And Sean Phillips, I've known Sharn for many, many years.
And she's a great actress, Tony nominated for her performance as Marlena Dietrich on Broadway.
But she has the most gorgeous Welsh speaking voice.
And a Child's Christmas in Wales, Chris, as I said to Sean, nobody knows anything about Wales in America.
They know about the English, the Irish, and the Scots.
It's always an Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotsman who walks into a bar.
And you never hear about a Welshman walking into the bar.
They're the forgotten man of the British Isles.
And so that story, A Child's Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas recorded it for a New York record label in the 1950s, and it started the entire audiobook industry.
And if you know anything about penniless, starving authors like me, you'll know that audiobook royalty is extremely small, but you're very grateful to Dylan Thomas for inventing a whole new industry in which people listen to books on tape and listen to authors read books on tape.
So I'm grateful for that.
Chris, where is Folsom?
You live in a town called Folsom.
Let me ask you a question.
It's north of New Orleans.
Okay.
Okay.
How many people?
Oh, it's about 600 good folk.
Oh, really?
What a fantastic name for a town.
I think it's great.
I love America.
No, no, no, it's not Folsom.
It's Folsom.
Oh, right.
Like Folsom Prison Blues, but there's no prison here.
Oh, right.
Oh, it's F-O-L-S-O-M.
Yes, sir.
Okay, okay.
Then that's just our drunken call screeners mistyping all these names.
That's great.
So it's the Folsom Prison Blues, but you have no prison there, and that's why you got the blues.
Okay.
Well, that's good.
Thank you for your call, Chris.
I hope you have a great new year.
And I'm going to look at a map and find where your town is.
And I'm going to do a Johnny Cash Folsom Prison type concert from down there, even if there's no prison.
We'll get some federal boondoggle to build a prison just so I can do a Folsom Prison Blues concert in there.
Thanks.
Thanks a lot.
Have a terrific new year.
That's very sweet of Chris to say that.
We've had a few technical issues in our building that have delayed the site.
I think they've just delayed it.
We're going to be starting any day now.
Actually, I heard an ad for CRTV, what was it, in the break just a couple of breaks ago, and they didn't mention that I was going to be on it.
So I don't know whether I've been fired and the pink slip's just been delayed by the Christmas bail.
But, you know, I tend to get taken by surprise by things like that.
But we are going to be launching the show with a lot of big-time guests early in January.
So if you're interested, do go to CRTV.com and it will be there for you every night.
And I'm looking forward to it.
I always say, ever since I've been guest hosting this show, people have said, why don't you do a radio show?
Well, why would you do a radio show?
This is the number one radio show in America.
It's a great privilege for a foreigner, an unassimilated foreigner, to be allowed to be behind the golden EIB microphone.
This is the only radio show I want to do.
So I've resisted any entreaties to do radio shows.
But TV, I thought, well, Rush doesn't compete on that turf.
So maybe there's a little bit of space there, and I'm going to give it a go.
But I love being on this radio show.
And this new TV show is an adjunct to that.
Yes, it's guest hostapalooza at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Buck Sexton will be here tomorrow.
Don't forget, if you've had it up to here with guest hosts, he was going, oh, it's the third day of guest hosts.
I'm already sick of it.
And we've still got to get to the 12 guest hosts are leaping.
It's going to be days and days, weeks and weeks of this stuff.
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Obama is expelling 35 Russian diplomats for, quote, hacking, unquote, the election in the United States, which basically means, in this case, revealing stuff about the Democrats that the Democrats didn't want you to know.
No one has said that any of these emails are false.
All they're saying is that the Democrats don't want you to know what they really think.
And we don't even know, in fact, whether Putin is the guy behind that.
But Obama is getting tough on this.
He's not taking it.
And he's expelling 35 Russian diplomats.
This is fascinating in a way because the Russian reset was just about the first thing that the incoming Obama administration did.
It was a joke, including the reset button, which meant something else in Russian.
They couldn't even get that right.
But basically, Putin has rolled Obama every which way.
And Obama is now doing this sort of strutting little bantam rooster thing in the last few weeks of the administration where he's saying, Bring it on, Vlad.
Gone.
You want to have nuclear war over this thing?
He's expelling 35 Russian diplomats.
Putin doesn't really need an embassy.
He's inside the DNC.
What does he care?
He doesn't need consular facilities.
He's got guys inside the DNC.
He's inside Obama's head.
But he's now up the stakes, Obama, and 35, 35 Russian diplomats are to be expelled from the United States.
I mentioned just earlier talking to Chris, she was mentioning Shad Phillips, who's a Welsh, very distinguished Welsh actress.
And I said, the Welsh aren't really known in the United States.
It's always the Englishman, the Irishman, and the Scotsman who walk into a bar.
I've never heard a joke in which a Welshman walks into a bar.
And somebody tweeted, well, what about Tom Jones?
He's a Welshman, and he's well known.
You know, it's not unusual to be loved by anyone.
I tell you this: if Tom Jones walks into a bar, the Englishman, the Irishman, and the Scotsman aren't going to be able to get an order in because that is one serious drinker there.
But yeah, that's true.
Tom Jones is like the most famous Welshman.
Deplorable octopus tweeted me that Tom Jones is Welsh, and every American knows that Tom Jones is Welsh.
So he's the most famous Welshman.
Trump, if the president-elect is listening, get Tom Jones to perform at the inauguration.
I would love to see him singing It's Not Unusual on the Washington Mail, especially as it's going to be so unusual after January the 20th.
That's great.
But actually, Clinton had Tom Jones perform at the millennium.
If you remember December 31st, 1999, as the clock struck midnight, Bill and Hillary were there, and Tom Jones was singing It's Not Unusual at the stroke of midnight, which is directly contrary to what Paula Jones testified about the president's distinguishing characteristics when she said that they were extremely unusual.
Tom Jones took a different view.
It's not unusual.
Kellyanne Conway has observed that private schools in the District of Columbia, which voted for Obama 90%, 90%.
This is the swamp that the president has to drain.
The District of Columbia is 90% voted 90% Democrat.
And Kellyanne Conway is getting pushback at finding a private school to push to put her children in when she moves to Washington to be counselor to the president.
She has two twins, I think it is, George and Claudia, who are currently at school in New Jersey, and she needs to find a school in the Washington, D.C. area for her.
And all the private schools are saying, celebrate diversity, except with anybody who's a Republican or a Trump voter.
Whoa, that's way too diverse.
way too diverse.
And so even something, the incident with Ivanka Trump and her husband and her kids on the jet blue plane, this is how these guys think.
They don't mind.
Oh, wait, wouldn't it be nice to, if my child sat next to a nice Muslim like Ahmed bin Jihad?
That would be a nice boy for my kid to sit next to.
Or what about if my kid got to sit next to some transgendered child who could perhaps introduce my kid to some experiments in gender identity?
That would be nice.
But if you say, well, why don't you sit next to Kellyanne Conway's kids or Ivanka Trump's kids?
Holy cow, are you serious?
You're nuts.
That's way too diverse.
We can't possibly have that.
We're not going to have that kind of diversity.
No way are we going to have that kind of diversity.
And That's what happens when politics consumes everything.
So Kellyanne Conway, and Kellyanne is being amused and relaxed about it.
Her children right now are in a private, because private schools are, for the most part, left-wing, actually.
All that happens is that they've got all the same left-wing craziness as the public schools do.
They just don't have the budgetary constraints, so they can do it at like warp speed.
So she's well used to having her children learning amidst the children of left-wing parents, and she's used to it in New Jersey.
But in the District of Columbia, they're apparently being resistant to having Kellyanne Conway's kids at school.
While the Posh private schools, handbooks, and websites all preach diversity and open-mindedness, Kellyanne Conway says, for some, there is a comfort in sameness.
And that is one of the most depressing aspects of what happens when you politicize every aspect of life.
That even you can't even be in the same room as the kid of somebody who works for somebody you don't want to be president.
You can't even get on a plane with the grandchildren of a guy whose opponent you supported politically, which is what happened to Ivanka Trump.
While I'm on that subject, the guys who berated Ivanka Trump said she shouldn't have been on a commercial flight.
I think it's great she's on a commercial flight.
There's a story in the papers today that the combined cost of the Obama vacations over the last eight years, this is one guy, his wife and two girls, is over $85 million.
For purposes of comparison, if you go to the royal family's website, which I think is royal.gov, royalroyal.uk, something like that, you will see from the keeper of the privy purse at the 2015-2016 travel expenses for the entire royal family.
That's not just the Queen, that's not just the Prince of Wales, that's not just the beautiful, lovely Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, but that's for all kinds of members of the royal family that Americans haven't heard of, the Princess Royal and all that kind of thing.
For flying them all over the world between their various realms, the entire cost for a year's travel for all of them is £2 million, which is shy of $3 million.
And every single trip that is less than £10,000 is itemized by the keeper of the privy purse.
And yes, I know the keeper of the privy purse is some medieval title, and you're all tittering because I said the word privy on radio.
The Queen's travel budget is done by some guy in an outhouse.
Yes, yes, yes, I know.
Keep of the privy purse is pretty funny title.
But every trip that costs more than £10,000, that's just shy of $15,000, is itemized.
For $15,000, you can't take the President of the United States to the bathroom across the street.
You can't move him around anywhere.
The cost of moving Obama and his kids around is more than the cost of every single European royal family put together.
And I salute Ivanka Trump for fine commercial.
Even with boorish guys like this gay guy and his husband deciding to berate Ivanka and her children.
I want the President of the United States is supposed to be a citizen representative.
He's not supposed to be an emperor flying around.
And one of the great things Trump did was complain about the cost of the new Air Force One.
One of the best things he could do is actually mothball Air Force One.
After all, we now, if you just want to, never mind Air Force One, if you just want to take some crummy little puddle jumper from Boston to New York, you have to go through this super security because no way can anybody can get anything onto a plane.
No, you can't get nothing onto a plane.
You can only have three fluid ounces of this, three fluid ounces of that, whatever the hell it is.
So in theory, every single commercial flight is safe.
So why is there even a need for an Air Force One?
I think Donald Trump was right to refuse his salary.
I think he's right to vacation in his own homes.
And I will bet that if he serves two terms at the end of eight years, his travel bill is a lot less than that $85 million for flying one guy, his wife, and two girls around.
This bloated, and it's nothing even to do with security, because the bigger the motorcade, then it's basically like New Year's Eve in Cologne or the French soccer stadium.
The more so-called security you have, the more likely it is that there are guys inside the security detail who shouldn't be there, who are either asleep on the job or actually not interested in the job at all.
I think one of the greatest things Donald Trump could do to restore civic health in this republic would actually be to dial all that bloated excess with the president traveling around like a medieval emperor on steroids to roll all that back.
$85 million to fly the Obamas on their vacations in the last eight years.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
We'll take your calls straight ahead.
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Let's go to Bob in Coronado, California, beautiful Coronado.
Bob, you're live on the air.
Thanks, Mark.
Hey, I want to mention a couple things about fake news.
I'm going to start out.
I think fake news affected the last two elections.
First, I think in 2012, all the Benghazi lies, they weren't just to cover up what happened there.
All the lies were created for a simple reason.
This terrorist attack occurred seven weeks before a major election in 2012, and hence all the lies.
So that was fake news, and it worked very well for them.
In 2016, I also think fake news affected the outcome of the election.
And I say that in the opposite way that most liberals think.
I think in 2016, having gone to Trump rallies, if you listen to, as he goes down his menu of red meat, he goes from build the wall to lock her up, we're going to get rid of Obamacare and so forth.
By far, the loudest cheers at his rallies were when he would mention the press.
The place would go crazy.
So I think the 2016 election was in part a reaction of conservatives who finally have had enough with the press.
So when the lips say it affected the election, I say it sure did.
And if they keep up, if they want to double down and try to take Trump down with all their press activities, it's going to backfire on them.
Because people now, having seen what Donna Brazil did and having seen what the press is up to, I think it's over for them.
I don't think they can pull it off because we know what's underneath it.
No, they've lost control and they're trying to regain control, which is why they've invented this fake news thing.
But you make an important point with Benghazi.
The purpose of Benghazi, an attack on the anniversary of September 11th, the first dead American ambassador in decades, an embarrassment, humiliation for the United States on the world stage.
And the purpose of concocting a fake news story, blaming it, a seriously detailed fake news story, blaming it on some no-name schlub video maker in California, whom Hillary Clinton pledged they were going to get him and toss him in jail, was precisely to control the news cycle and win the election for them.
That was the most brazen lie.
They stood there over the coffins of those four dead Americans at Andrews Air Force Base and told their official lie precisely in order to prevent it becoming an issue in the election.
That was conscious, that was deliberate, it was fake news.
And because the American media went along with it, that's why they were so resoundly booed at those Trump rallies.
Trump used to mock them.
He used to dare them to turn their cameras around and show the crowds cheering and jeering at every put-down of the American media.
And they wouldn't.
They reacted like those cameras were nailed to the ground.
They wouldn't.
They just didn't want to show the contempt they were held in by millions and millions of the American people.
Mark Stein for Rush, we'll close it out in just a moment.
It's amazing the things that catch the ear.
I've been talking about the consequence of 2016, Brexit, the Trump election, the Islamization of Europe, the chaos in the Middle East.
But I casually mentioned Welshman, and I'm now being bombarded by tweets about famous Welshmen.
But I did like this one from Danny Statuti, who asks, The English, Irish, and Scots gave us alcohol.
What did the Welsh bring to the party?
Well, the Welsh brought leeks.
The Welsh brought leeks, which is their national vegetable and is very useful at a party with that much English, Irish, and Scots alcohol because you can't take in that much Guinness and Glenfiddick without having a leek.
So it all fits together.
It all fits together.
This has been Mark Stein in for Rush.
I will be back next week.
I forget which days it is because some of the guest hosts are now guest hosting for other guest hosts.
We're all shaking it around a bit.
But Buck Sexton, Super Butch guest host, will be here tomorrow.
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