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Jan. 9, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 9, 2017, Monday, Hour #3
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No sooner do I say it, Mr. Snerdley said, I don't understand Merrill Street.
She gets a lifetime achievement award, essentially.
And instead of expressing gratitude to her peers and for the Hollywood Press Association for so honoring her, she takes all of that time and starts bashing Trump and getting into politics.
And I said, What's so strange about that?
Well, don't you think those people are offended?
I said, No, they're applauding her.
The people that gave her the award are applauding her, I'll bet you.
Lo and behold, here's the story from Entertainment Weekly.
Headlines all you need.
Hollywood stars tweet praise for Merrill Streep's Golden Globe speech.
I'm telling you, folks, they live in a different world.
They they they they they really do.
Anyway, enough on that.
I I knew when this happened, I was gonna have to talk about it, and just being honest, I resent that I have to spend so much time on this.
But every call today has been about I understand why it irritates you, and I understand, especially after the election, you you know you ever we all want the country to come together.
I think one of the things that upsets people here is that we want the country to come together.
We don't like these divisions.
Uh I know I don't.
I understand them, though, and I understand we're always gonna have them.
I don't live under any illusion that the left is gonna change.
When they lose elections, they just get even meaner and more partisan and they become even barter removed from reality, uh, as this indicated last night.
And I knew people were gonna want to get it uh off their chest and talk about it, and I just I resent that these people uh can so occupy time on this program.
But it was a public demand that did require some explanation, and I always know that you're going to get a take on whatever we're talking about on this program that you likely will not get anywhere else.
So I understand that as well.
But it's easy to say after your side wins that you wish everybody would come together.
I understand that.
But what we're talking about here is love or hate for the country.
I I probably am speaking for a lot of you, when I say I wish we didn't have nearly the number of people that hate this country who do.
And what's more frustrating to me is that the people that hate this country don't even really know why they do.
They've just been told to.
They've been lied to by professors or teachers in school.
They're continually lied to about the media, by the media, uh, about this country and what it is and this country's heritage, and it's just frustrating as all get out.
And you wish it didn't exist, but it does.
And so the idea of getting along with these people, we're not there yet.
They have to continually be defeated.
I referenced this earlier in the program.
And finally, finally, I told you I had come across something in the media while I was gone that pretty much confirms almost verbatim things I have said to describe the people on the left.
This is a story, a column, a piece, a post, whatever, at slate.com.
Well known Uber leftist website.
And the writer, it doesn't matter who it is.
It could be anybody that works there.
It could be anybody at NBC writing this.
Anybody at CBS, ABC, CNN, take your pick, salon.com doesn't matter, they're all the same.
Headline 2016 was the year white liberals realized how unjust, racist and sexist America is.
How many times have you heard me tell you, have you heard me describe for you the way Obama and the left look at this country?
They think it's unjust.
It is immoral from the days of its founding because it was.
It was founded as a racist and sexist and homophobic country.
It is unjust and we need to be cut down to size.
We're not a deserving superpower.
We're never a legitimate superpower because we acquired our superpower status by virtue of stealing from the rest of the world or by oppressing the rest of the world.
This is what they believe.
How many times have you heard me say this?
Over the course of the many years here.
Well, right here it is, in the words of somebody named L. V. Anderson, I don't care who it is, as I say, it could be Chuck Todd.
It could be any take any you pick.
Just two paragraphs.
The sense of disillusionment white American liberals woke up with on November 9th was powerful enough to taint the entire year with a sense of doom.
So many illusions were shattered by the election of Donald Trump.
Illusions about the media, illusions about polling, the Democrats' vaunted ground game, the fundamental character of our fellow citizens, the viability of the American experiment.
After Trump's election, it is more or less impossible to believe that we are making meaningful progress.
White liberals who woke up horrified on November 9th were not horrified because the world had suddenly changed.
We were horrified because the scales had finally fallen from our eyes, and we could at least see our unjust racist, sexist country for what it is.
Well, that's who they are, folks.
And I've been trying to tell people for as long as I've had the honor and privilege of sitting here behind the golden EIB microphone.
That's how they view America.
And these last eight years, they, and we fell for this too, folks.
The last eight years, they thought they had arrived.
They thought they had overcome.
They thought they had finally put the founding of this country behind them, and we were on the way to transforming this country into a more just and fair society, which it never has been.
And then along comes this campaign, and Trump wins, and they're now feeling like everything was an illusion.
You know what?
It turns out that it was.
It turns out they weren't the majority.
It turns out, and don't give me this popular vote business either.
That popular vote advantage Hillary has from one state.
The fact of the matter is, when the issues of this campaign were put before the people, the way presidents are elected in this country, it wasn't close.
Barack Obama, here's another thing.
You know, Obama's out there saying, I saw this when I was away, and I got a great chuckle over this.
You see this?
Obama essentially said, you know what?
If I were on the ballot third time, I would have won.
I could have beat Trump.
Hope and change would have beat Trump.
Well, now how do we know that that's a crock?
No, no, seriously, how do we know?
We know that that would not have happened.
Well, well, it's it's hard to say what would have happened.
But I if if if he says that hope and change, i.e., his agenda would have won again.
Well, we know it wouldn't have.
Because it already is what got defeated.
Barack Obama put his agenda on the ballot.
He put his eight years of his presidency on the ballot.
He campaigned not for Hillary Clinton, but for his agenda.
Hillary Clinton was an afterthought.
On the campaign trail, he's actually saying, you talk about delusions of grandeur like Meryl Streep, how about this?
This guy's actually sitting out there believing that a majority of the country is personally invested in him, personally connected to him, personally connected to his agenda.
The American people have never been connected to his agenda.
I don't even think the American people have been connected to him.
Not like they're connected to Trump.
This business of connection, it's important to understand what I'm talking about.
I think Obama does not have the personal connection with voters that a Reagan had or that Trump has.
What Obama had guilt.
He had years and years of guilt that could potentially be assuaged by voting for him.
Racial guilt.
He did have in the first year hope and change, and he had this empty canvas.
He could be whatever you wanted him to be.
They had drummed up sufficient hatred for Bush.
But I don't think that there's a person let's put it this way, aside from the Merrill streeps and the hardcore left.
I don't think there's any tears Obama's going away.
I I don't think people have the sense that a great eight years of our history and legacy is going away.
It's a sad thing.
I don't think there's that attitude at all.
In fact, I think largely there is, and most of it still suppressed happiness that Hillary lost, happiness that Obama's going away, and there's still lingering fear that he's not through.
But he never had that, but he doesn't know.
I think he thinks he had that connection.
I think he thinks that he's a personal star with the American people.
And I just I don't get that sense.
I had a lot of people voted for him, but he put his agenda on the ballot.
And he's out there campaigning not for Hillary, but for him.
If you want a third term of me, if you want, if you want my agenda to connect you, you have to vote for Hillary because I can't run.
He wasn't out there extolling her virtues, other than at the convention when he said something nobody believed.
She's the most qualified person to ever seek me off.
I mean pure caca.
But he put his agenda on the ballot and it lost.
His agenda and his eight years were personally repudiated left can't.
That's another thing.
That is a stark reality, and they can't abide it.
They think that's a construct.
They think Trump's win is not real.
It's a construct.
Something happened, and so it's got to be changed.
And that's why they do these foolish stupid things like make videos to the electors and make videos to the Senate.
Don't confirm Trump's nominees.
You look at it and get stupid.
But it's not.
If you understand that they don't think reality is real.
They think reality is just a contest that they lost.
So they have to change it.
But I'm talking about what really is reality.
Trump won the election.
That's real, but not to them.
The Russians did it, or something happened.
But it's not real.
They got, they got cheated, they got snookered, they get tricked.
Something, but it isn't real.
And that's what explains their totally discombobulated.
So Obama, I would have won.
Oh, I would have.
What's the point of even saying that?
How insecure must you be?
You know, if I'd have been on the ballot, I would have I would have beat Trump.
A year ago, Trump was so bad.
Trump was such a joke.
Trump was so this or that that he didn't even have a prayer.
And you're laughing at him and mocking him, and now they actually well, I think I could have beat Trump.
Yeah, no, I would have beat Trump if I was on the ballot.
That's a, by the way, not only is that a delusion, think of the insult that is to Hillary Clinton.
What an insult to Hillary Clinton that is.
So what do you think about Newt?
What's the date of this?
This was uh, well, I guess it printed out on January 1st.
So I guess it was, yeah, New Year's Day, Trump's on this week.
Newt is on uh uh this week, Stephanopoulos' show.
He was asked what he fears the most during a Trump presidency.
Newt said that they will lose their nerve.
I mean, look, they're going to arrive in Washington, and for them to be successful, they have to stake out positions that Donna Brazil.
How is that woman still on TV an acknowledged cheater?
I mean, it's a rhetorical question.
I'm just trying to make a point by asking it.
How in the world is that woman still on TV with any credibility?
But she's right there, with as much credibility as she's ever had for people on the left.
Anyway, so Newt says they're going to arrive in Washington, and for them to be successful, they have to stake out positions that Donna Brazil will not like and that the left is gonna hate.
My deepest concern is that they're gonna arrive.
You're gonna have the environmentalist wackos going crazy over the EPA and interior, you're gonna have the government employees going crazy about civil service reform, you're gonna have the teachers' union going crazy over school choice.
And these are pretty non-negotiable.
I mean, if you're serious about school choice, if you're the Trump team coming in, there is no agreement with the teachers' union.
There is no compromise with the Environmental Protection Agency.
There is no common ground with the Department of the Interior.
I'm worried, Newt said, that when they realize how big the problem is, that they're gonna decide, you know what?
We don't want to work that hard.
It's too massive.
We're just gonna try to nibble away here every day, do the best we can and essentially give in.
Now, what prompted Mr. Newt?
Do you share that fear, by the way, Mr. Snerdley?
You do.
You share the fear that the Trump people are gonna cave.
Oh well.
All right, all right, all right, all right, but this is the point.
He said the Trump people, they're gonna arrive.
You're gonna have the Greens going now.
If he's talking about the Republicans in Congress, yeah, we all gonna, but the Trump people caving when they fear when they realize how tough and big the job is.
Look, this Obama, I warned everybody before the break about this.
I don't know how many people were now looking, I gotta take another break.
We'll do it, we'll be back.
All right, look, I'm gonna get into this stuff in detail tomorrow.
This has turned out to be just a get reacquainted day, sort of set the table, so much going on out there in the Meryl Streep thing and basically hijacked the program.
So the uh the Russian hack this is Obamacare, that stuff will all wait till tomorrow for detail.
But I just want to share you some headlines on this on this hack business.
U.S. intelligence report does not say whether Russian hacking helped elect Trump.
And it doesn't.
Now the drive-bys are out there trying to tell you that these intel reports prove that Putin hacked the Democrats so that Trump could win.
The truth is the Intel report says that the Russians thought Hillary was gonna win.
But no report, there's nowhere in this report where it is confirmed that whatever the Russians did helped Trump.
Even one of my left-wing millennials slash communist tech blogs.
Headline, White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with election.
Boy, and they it pains them.
They admit that they hate having to write this.
White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with election.
But you know there's an upside to this.
And I mentioned this at the top of the program.
All my life, from the time I was a young kid starting to become become aware of these kinds of things, uh, up through the 1980s, well, hell, even through the 1990s.
Soviet communism was something that the Democrat Party and the American left always downplayed.
And I can remember, I can't tell you a number of times that people would talk about how the Soviets had a plan to infiltrate the American education system or infiltrate American churches.
The Soviets had a plan to infiltrate this institution or that, and the left and the Democrats would poo-poo it, and they'd make fun of people, and they would accuse you of seeing a communist behind every rock.
And basically anybody who came, even if they had the evidence that the Russians were propagandizing education, they would just mock you and laugh at you, and now they've admitted it.
So out of sorts by the loss in this election, they have lost their perspective and they have forgotten their own history.
And the FBI and the CIA and the NSA, which are all now populated by political liberals, undeniably so, they are now on record as admitting that the Soviets,
because they document this, and the Russians have carried out propaganda and a bunch of uh similar type of campaigns for decades trying to influence American politics.
Stop and think of the momentousness of this.
All because they're so discombobulated by this election result, so intent are they in altering reality and they couldn't have lost.
No, no, no.
They didn't really lose.
They were cheated.
This reality is a construct.
And what happened is the Russians came in and the Russians used propaganda and the Russians damaged Hillary and the Russians hacked Hillary, and the Russians released pedestrians' emails, and it led to Trump winning.
And in the process, they have ended up admitting what all of us were saying all through the 70s, all through the 80s, that the Soviets were infiltrating American institutions and propagandizing American kids in school and churches and you and now they've they've admitted it.
For decades they denied it.
For decades they mocked us, for decades they made fun of us.
Whenever we would come forth and throw this out as something that we had to guard against.
Oh, there you go, the Russians, the communists propagandizing.
Well, students of democratic society, whatever leftist organization that was communist-inspired, communist-funded, we would point it out.
They'd laugh at it.
Now they have admitted it.
In their report about how the Russians and Putin screwed Hillary, not speaking figuratively here, out of winning, and how the Russians helped Trump.
They have unwittingly undermined decades of their own insistence that the Russians don't do this.
And that the Soviets didn't do this.
It's one of the great results of all this, actually.
I'm always looking for the optimistic, and they have stepped in it big time here in their attempt to convince themselves that Hillary didn't lose, that she was cheated.
Because they can't deal with reality.
Never forget that.
But as I say, more details on the actual elements of this, and some of it's quite fascinating.
I've got to get some of these sound bites that happened when I wasn't here.
Some of them are just too good, and I'm I'm I'm I just if I don't get to these, I'm gonna have so much stuff backed up, I'm never gonna get to it.
We start Monday, December 26th.
This is David Axelrod's podcast called the Axe Files, and he's got Obama on there as a guest.
And he and Obama are reviewing Obama's presidency and what he's gonna do in his post-presidency, and Obama's wringing his hands over what all's gone wrong, and Anxarod says, well, maybe we didn't spend as much time on connecting with voters while you were here.
So I'm telling you, they know Obama didn't have this connection.
They're living an illusion, thinking the country, you know, hinges on Obama, whether he's here or not.
He doesn't have that connection.
He never Hillary never had it.
It's rare.
Reagan had it.
Most politicians don't until they're long gone.
But but but they think Obama did.
But here's Axlerod in his question admitting it.
Well, maybe we didn't spend as much time connecting with voters, meaning conservatives, people that weren't inclined to agree with him.
I mean, Axelrod says we're trying to save the economy.
We're trying to save America, we're trying to do these big things, and maybe we didn't spend enough time connecting with like conservatives and stuff.
When we were campaigning, we could connect.
Once you got to the White House and you were busy governing, you are then more subject to the filter.
It was Rush Limbaugh and the NRA and there are all these mediators who are interpreting what we do.
And if we're not actually out there like we are during campaigns, then folks in in a lot of these communities, what they're hearing is Obama wants to take away my guns.
Right.
Obama cares about transgender bathrooms and not my job.
Obama is disrespecting my culture and is primarily concerned with coastal elites and minorities.
And so part of what I've struggled with during my presidency is part of what I think I'll be thinking a lot about after my presidency is how do we work around all these filters?
No.
There he is blaming me.
He's blaming me for his lack of ability to connect.
The simple fact of the matter is that Obama was about transgender bathrooms.
Obama was about gay marriage.
Obama was about things that would disrupt the culture.
He was about guns.
There's no question that if he could have found a way, and Hillary and the rest of them, that they would do away with the Second Amendment.
Nobody doubts that.
And for him to sit here and say, well, they're out there thinking I'm gonna do the damn right we were, because we were right.
And what he calls filters is simply opposition, and they can't stand opposition.
Obama and the left, that's they don't think there should be any opposition.
Um disrespecting my culture, primarily conservative coastal elites.
That's not that that that's that's how he hears the uh criticism.
Anyway, same program.
Axelrod said, no, no.
Different program, CNN situation room, the host says to, I guess this is Axelrod, did the president accept any of his own responsibility for the loss and for the tough position that Democrats are in today?
What the president said was yes, we connected with these voters in campaigns, but once in the White House, uh, with all that was on our plate, he suggested, again implicitly that perhaps there was some neglect there, but he also said that Democrats have to find a way to reach these voters and penetrate the filter of uh Rush Limbaugh and some of the uh right-wing uh talk radio internet sites and so on,
which he says has uh distorted uh the message as well.
So he said that's a project that Democrats have to work on.
Well, I'm I'm sorry, but that's been a project of theirs for about 25 years, hasn't it?
They've been trying to find a way around me for 25 years, and every time they lose, they Blame me for it.
Look at that.
Of all the people to blame.
They didn't blame Trump, they blame me.
What because of the filter.
And all it means is there's one guy out there not one guy.
What this means is there was somebody out there telling the truth about Obama, and that's what they can't abide.
And that's what got the they gotta find a way around somebody who's gonna tell the truth about us.
Now, of course they can't admit that, but that's what this is.
By the way, when Obama that speech of his or that appearance or whatever it was where he said, if I've been on the ballot, I would have won.
If I if if I would have been on hoping James could have won a third term, he went through all the reasons he lost.
Did you hear him in these two answers or anywhere else mentioned Russia as the reason he lost?
You didn't because he didn't say it.
At no time in any of these postmortems has Obama blamed Russia.
And yet the Democrat Party and the American left Meryl Streep and Hollywood left.
No, they're all blaming the Russian hack for the reason Hillary lost.
But then when they talk to people in the meeting, they don't even mention Russia.
Well, if Russia was the reason they lost, why not say that instead of me?
Well, we weren't able to overcome that Russian hack.
No, the Russians, and I told, I told Vladimir Putin, I said, could it out, could it not?
And he did for a while, but then he he resume again.
Well, and then people are so full of it.
It's funny.
Lawrence Rosenthal is the uh chair and lead researcher of the Berkeley Center for Right Wing Studies.
University of California, Berkeley, they study the right wing.
And so this guy, Lawrence Rosenthal, was on C-SPAN on December 27th.
Here is a portion.
We have two sound bites.
Donald Trump had prepared himself in a serious manner for his run for the presidency.
His method was to immerse himself in right wing media.
This practice included listening to talk radio, the likes of Rush Limbo, monitoring Tea Party websites and discussions and following right-wing news sites like the Drudge Report and Breitbart News.
There you have it.
Lawrence Rosenthal of the Center for Right-Wing Studies at Berkeley, claiming that the way Trump got there is to listen to me, to study me, and to go out and emulate this program.
And he wasn't finished.
We have one more clip from the guy.
What Trump found there was a collection of themes and online memes that constituted a universe of taken for granted understandings among the populist right base of the Republican Party.
Trump stored these up like a reservoir of riffs that would be available to him.
This was the stuff of his free association style of campaigning.
And while these themes and memes resonated profoundly with crowds at his rallies to the outside world, liberals and Democrats and establishment conservatives and Republicans, what he was saying was outrageous, beyond the pale, embarrassing, offensive.
And yet he won.
So who's the minority here and who's the majority, Mr. Rosenthal?
And finally, Cory Lewandowski, former Trump campaign aide, January 4th on Hannity.
The question's longer than the answer.
Question uh what do you think the election became about, Corey?
What was it really all about?
Talk radio and Rush Limbaugh and others has been so important to the rise of the Donald Trumps of the world.
Giving every day people the opportunity to hear the other side of the aisle, right?
The other side, because the Democrats have controlled the mainstream media.
So if you're not in your car and you're not working, you're not listening to that talk radio.
Right, there you have it.
So that two different guys there.
Uh and this all happened when I'm gone.
I don't even know what's happening.
I don't even know this stuff is taking place until I get here today and cookie shoots me the soundbite roster.
And I said, Audience has to hear this stuff.
So you did.
And I was I was able to squeeze it.
Okay, now tomorrow, I'm promising we're gonna go more in depth than I did today on the hacking, because there's folks, there's some some fundamental things here that the drive-by's are not telling you that that I want you to Know about it, that further nuke their entire premise.
And the Republicans and Obamacare.
And this is crucial.
And it kind of ties in with what Newt said, but I'm not endorsing that.
We'll get into that tomorrow.
All that and more coming up.
Yeah, and there's all kinds of other stuff.
Like Jack Ma.
Alibaba, the ChICOM, Amazon, wants to meet with Trump, discuss expansion plans.
They want to uh create a million U.S. jobs over the next five years.
The ChICOMs.
Jack Ma.
So, and there's all other economic news out there that uh is is boom-oriented as well.
So, folks, it's great to be back with you.
I can't thank you enough for being here and uh 21 hours.
Be right back.
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