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Jan. 12, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 12, 2017, Thursday, Hour #1
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My friends, the drive by media cannot get over itself.
They are still having kittens over the Trump press conference yesterday.
And specifically, they are having kittens over Trump's treatment of the CNN reporter Jim Acosta.
And this is the guy that during the press conference yesterday kept trying to ask Trump a question and then eventually demanded that Trump answer his question.
And Trump said, No, I'm not taking your question.
I'm giving you your fake news.
And I loved it.
And the drive-bys have just gone purple over this notion of fake news.
And you want to hear an example of success.
Dean Baket, who is the executive editor at the New York Times, has announced that they are going to ban the term fake news.
Said he's planning to ban the term fake news.
He said, I never Really liked the term.
It's an oxymoron.
I think we should retire the term.
It's become a shorthand for a whole range of stuff.
Grab soundbite number 12, Seth Myers, last night on his uh NBC late night entry.
Uh the eponymously named late night with Seth Myers.
He had this to say about it.
Trump called these new reports fake news.
So despite an incredibly short run, I think it is time to retire that term.
It used to be one thing, but now everyone is using it for everything.
Fake news as a term is busted.
Let me tell you what's busted.
What's busted is the left's attempted exclusive use of it to describe me, to describe Fox News, to describe conservative media anywhere.
They set up the term fake news to discredit and impugn anybody not themselves.
And they are things are not going their way.
They're stepping in it no matter what they do.
So the term fake news, we actually used that term fake news ten years ago.
We've got audio sound bites, we've got parodies where we've used the term.
But they think they invented it, and they think they invented it to discredit and impugn anybody but them.
And it's backfired on them because now the president-elect has called them fake news.
And that's why they're banning it, because it's backtracked on them.
It's boomeranged on them.
And they are the ones now accused of in the public mind of broadcasting, harboring, reporting fake news.
So of course they want to get rid of it.
They want to get rid of it because it's been used to describe them.
Let's go back in time because this was so good.
Let's go back in time and relive this.
This is the segment yesterday.
It's an iconic moment.
We will preserve this as a as a historical item in our groove yard of forgotten sound bites.
This is how it happened about 24 hours ago.
We were we jipped that press conference and it happened near the end of it.
Since you're attacking us, can you give us a question?
No, Mr. President Elect.
Go ahead.
The president elect since you are attacking our news organization.
Not can you give us a chance.
You are attacking our news organization.
Can you give us a chance to ask a question, sir?
Go ahead.
Sir, can you state?
Mr. President Elect.
Go ahead.
Can you say categories?
President elect, can you give us a question?
Don't be attacking us.
Can you give us a question?
Don't be ready to question.
I'm not going to give you a question.
Can you state categories?
You are fake news.
Yes, I just love it.
All during that bite, that bite runs 28 seconds.
Were you able to hear everything you needed to hear in all the crosstalk?
Because the one guy that kept shouting was Acosta, the guy from CNN.
Mr. President Alex said you're attacking our news organization.
No, not you, not you.
Can you give us a question?
Give us a chance.
Your organization's terrible.
You're attacking our news organization.
Your organization is terrible.
Can you give us a chance to ask questions, sir?
Go ahead.
Sir, can you quiet, quiet?
Don't be rude.
Quiet.
He told reporter to be quiet.
And then said, no, you don't get a question.
You are fake news.
Does anybody remember the name Neil Monroe?
Yes, you do.
You remember the name Neil Monroe.
Neil Monroe was a reporter, I forget for whom.
Let's see.
Neil Monroe was a daily caller.
And it was a press event at the White House.
Now, admittedly, we will be honest and upfront about this.
At this press event, there were no questions.
It was one of Obama's.
I'm going to speak, but you can't ask a thing.
And if you do, I won't answer.
One of those kind of things.
And the press duly, when Obama says no questions, they bend over and say, how many no questions?
When Obama says no questions, yes, God.
Yes, our savior.
No questions.
You want no questions.
We will not ask you any questions.
Whatever Obama wanted, Obama got.
But you want to hear something fascinating.
You know, Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.
What, in March of his first term?
You know that Wendy had been immaculate for two months.
They gave him the Nobel Peace Prize.
They gave it to him on the come.
They thought, oh my God, this is great.
We got a guy here.
We have the the Prince of Peace right here in the White House in the United States of America.
They gave him Nobel Peace Prize.
Well, here's some stats.
2008's Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Hussein Obama will leave office as the first.
Are you ready for this?
The first two-term president in all of American history to have been at war every day of his president.
It just doesn't get any better than this stuff that's happening.
Here's the Peace Prize winner, the Nobel Prince of Peace candidate, gets it only two months in.
On the cum, they thought Obama was going to unite the world and bring peace everywhere, and love and all this stuff, and community organizing around the world was going to bring newfound peace and great relations.
And instead, he ends up the first two-term president in history to have been at war.
Wait a minute, yet even better.
To have been at war every day.
Do you think the left has the slightest ability to be embarrassed or humiliated here?
No, they don't.
I'm just telling you.
Oh, wait till you hear this this whole 35-page dossier.
That's another thing.
You noticed the media yesterday calling this document that they claimed Trump had.
Did you hear what this was, Wendy?
You didn't hear what they accused Trump.
Basically said Trump hired prostitutes to come urinate on a bed at the Ritz Carlton in Moscow because Barack and Michelle had slept on the bed.
That was one of the allegations, and a Democrat, turns out the Democrat Party is behind this.
A donor and a strategist for planned parenthood wrote the dossier.
A guy who has worked for planned parenthood.
Do not ever doubt me when I tell you that everything in opposition to Trump is gonna have its roots to the Democrat Party, to one of their think tanks, to one of their groups, to one of their institutions, to Hillary and Bill Clinton.
It's inescapable.
The guy that wrote this dossier.
That's another thing.
You call the report a dossier.
A dossier.
That makes it sound like really European.
Wow, must be really serious stuff.
It's a dossier.
It's like calling a piece of a white paper.
Well, I submitted a white paper.
What's a white paper?
Oh, it's a report.
Specific report, specific, it's a white paper.
No, you submitted a report.
No, it was a white paper.
Well, they did a dossier.
A 35-page dossier of unsigned memos containing charges like those are called golden showers, by the way, is a name for it.
You can call prostitute companies and order the golden shower.
And that's what'll happen.
The prostitutes will come over and that's what they accuse Trump of doing.
And a guy that has worked for Planned Parenthood wrote the dossier.
We have learned this today.
And of course, I think the media knew this, and that's why they ran with it.
The media is a Democrat.
The media is the quasi-military wing of the Democrat Party.
And they wanted to use this all during the campaign.
They couldn't find any verification for it.
They couldn't find any evidence.
And so they ran with it anyway, and they did so claiming that they got it from the intelligence agencies.
But it turns out...
Well, here's not here's the opposition firm behind Trump dossier, also a hired gun for Planned Parenthood.
The opposition research firm that hired a former British spy to dig up dirt on Trump is the same outfit that was hired by Planned Parenthood to put a positive spin on the videos showing them selling baby parts.
This is the series of videos that just...
Illustrated the genuinely disgusting stuff that goes on in Planned Parenthood.
Harvesting fetuses and essentially harvesting the body parts and selling them.
And they were caught doing so.
The New York Times reported yesterday that Washington-based fusion GPS is the firm that hired Christopher Steele.
Christopher Steele, a former British spy for MI6, it's their version of the CIA, authored the unsubstantiated 35 page Trump dossier that was published by BuzzFeed on Tuesday.
You know, these guys all know each other.
I think the people in the media knew that this was the work of a Democrat group, much like Robert Kramer did the work of hiring protesters to show up and disrupt Trump rallies with Clinton campaign money.
These people are all on the same team.
They have different groups and different names, but they're all on the same team, and they all know each other.
So I have no doubt that all of these news organizations, Buzzfeed and the like, they probably knew were the origin of this.
And they knew it wasn't intel.
This is the thing.
It was a fake made-up document by somebody that's worked for Planned Parenthood.
It was the Democrat Party, folks.
It always is going to be the Democrat Party.
And this story was made to look like some independent body of research from nonpartisan intelligence agencies who only want to take the national security of the United States and make it permanent.
B.S. No, I haven't forgotten about Neil Monroe, didn't lose my place.
Neil Monroe worked for the Daily Caller, and Obama had one of these no questions events.
And when Obama said no questions, the media said, how many no questions?
And if Obama's no questions never, that's what I'm talking about.
They say, fine.
Well, Neil Monroe either didn't get the memo or said to hell with the memo, and he asked Obama a question.
The White House press corps literally chased Neil Monroe off the White House grounds.
And then they they did.
I mean, he asked the question.
Obama looked very, very irritated.
The press was angry because the president's wishes had been ignored.
This upstart, this punk, this fake journalist from the fake news site Daily Caller had the audacity to ask a question of the president of the United States.
And they looked, the guy was so scared he ran away from him.
They gave chase, they chased him off the White House grounds.
I think he wouldn't get as far as the Washington Monument before everybody ran out of breath.
They tried to get his press credentials revoked.
But here, Trump's refusal to answer Jim Acosta's question.
Why, that's beyond the pale.
Now, here are some of the headlines from the Neil Monroe Heresy.
This happened back in 2012.
It was June of 2012.
Daily Caller's Neil Monroe interrupts Obama in Rose Garden, Politico.
Daily Caller Reporter interrupts Obama's immigration announcement, Washington Post.
Daily Caller Reporter interrupts Obama's Rose Garden statement, the UK Guardian.
Daily Caller Reporter, Heckel's President Obama during immigration remarks, media.
You know what Monroe's question was?
He had the nerve to ask Obama as he was talking about giving illegal alien dreamers work permits.
He said, Why do you favor foreigners over American workers?
Well, that was heresy.
That was impudence.
That was disrespect.
And so the press corps really went after Monroe.
They literally, folks are not making this up.
He chased him off the White House grounds.
And Monroe tried to shot another question.
Is it the right thing for American workers with high unemployment?
Why are you spending all this time and money on non-citizens, Mr. Press dumped all over Monroe?
They tried to cancel his credentials and so forth.
So let's compare that to what we all saw happen 24 hours ago.
Back in just a second.
Very quickly, grab audio sound by number 14.
We actually have the audio of Neil Monroe asking the question.
It's June the 15th, 2012.
So this is four and a half years ago now.
And again, this event in Rose Garden, Obama had mandated no questions while he announced all the new wonderful things he was going to do for illegal immigrant kids.
Which is what inspired Monroe's questions.
Obama is speaking about homeland securities announcements going to stop deporting illegal immigrants who come to the country at a Young age.
And Neil Monroe shouted a question in violation of stated protocol.
This is a temporary stopgap measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven, patriotic young people.
It is the it is the right thing to do.
Excuse me, sir.
It's not time for questions, sir.
Not while I'm speaking.
No, well, I'm speaking.
And the press turned on Monroe.
See, Monroe's not of one of them.
He's sort of the Daily Caller.
But again, the big news today, the New York Times has mandated fake news will no longer be used, which means all the other agencies will soon follow along.
Folks, it's a victory.
They intended fake news to be permanently in the lexicon to describe us, Fox News.
We turned it around on them, described them using it, it's done.
They won't use it anymore.
You know, as I sit here to observe the scene, ladies and gentlemen, I am happy to report to you that the Democrats in the last couple three days have really lost their mojo.
The Democrats normally make it appear like they are infallible, that they are unbeatable, that they're in total control of innuendo, the agenda, the narrative, whatever it is, and they've lost control of it in the last three days.
And I must say it's a beautiful thing to see.
I'll give you an example.
This effort, and by the way, there's a headline in the Hill.com here if you want to know what this whole dossier and this uh report about Trump and the blackmailable behavior in which he engaged it.
Putin knew and was holding this whole fake circumstance, the headline in the Hill.com remedy for Russian meddling should be new election.
Do not doubt me when I tell you their objective is still the impeachment of Donald Trump.
If they could prevent him from being sworn in, they would do it.
They're trying.
That's what all of this is, folks.
Everything they're doing is oriented toward destroying Trump.
And they're not trying to do it by breaking the bond between Trump and his supporters.
They're going at it in a in a in a different way.
That would be uh what would happen if they succeeded, but that's not the target.
But they are miscalculating wildly.
Let's look, this release of the Trump dossier.
This was supposed to bring Trump to his knees.
This was supposed to maybe disqualify Trump.
This was the purpose of this, and we now know that it was made up, totally made up, and paid for originally by a Republican who didn't like Trump, who paid for it.
This Republican eventually tired of the project when it didn't take all this this dossier's been out there for months.
It didn't go anywhere.
The Republican gave up on it, said he wanted no more part of it.
The Democrats picked it up and gave it legs and continued working it in their media cycles and sources.
And they started building the case for its eventual release.
They couldn't ever verify anything in it or they would have released it before the election.
They would have released it right after the election.
They could not find any verification for anything in it.
So they were trying other ways.
And the one thing that they are not going to give up on is the Russians hacked the election, and that's why Trump won.
There is, and I want to be very clear about this...
There is no evidence, and there is not a single official assertion from anyone anywhere that Russian hackery had anything to do with the election outcome in terms of counting the votes.
The Democrat Party and the media, the way they refer to this instance and the way they word it.
Russians hacked the election.
They are trying to convince as many Americans as possible that what the Russians actually did was tamper with the vote.
That's what they want.
People they not say that, but the way the phraseology and the word choices they make are designed to create that impression.
And they have not let go, and they won't let go.
They are continuing to focus on it and to harp on it.
They will never ever, it appears, admit they lost the election.
In their minds, they didn't lose it.
It was taken from them.
It was stolen by the Russians working with and for Trump.
And that is the rubric under which every news story about Trump is occurring.
That is the foundation for every assertion that Trump is illegitimate.
His election is not legitimate.
The effort to de-legitimize Trump is rooted in the lie that the Russians hacked the election.
There are even some Republicans who are helping some conservative bloggers, some Republican-elected officials in the Republican establishment are helping to move that narrative.
Because there's so much hate, there's so much anger, there's so much disgust for Donald Trump for having done what he did.
For beating them at their own game, for winning as an outsider, and for winning the way he did it.
It's not supposed to be possible.
They, in their world, are supposed to be able to stop anybody that they don't want getting anywhere in terms of political power.
They're able to stop whatever Republican they want, they're able to stop any outsider.
Their association of the media and themselves and money interests are designed to stop any upstart, and Trump beat them and they can't accept it.
And so the meme, the narrative is out there that the Russians hacked the election.
So Trump, at his press conference yesterday, happened to acknowledge that the Russians had indeed been behind the hacking of the DNC.
And the media is having an orgasm.
Because they think and some conservative bloggers are having an orgasm.
Some of the never Trumpers on the right are having an orgasm, because Trump funny admitted it.
Trump admitted that the Russians hacked the election.
No, Trump is saying he's acknowledging and agreeing what others have said, and that is Russian hackery succeeded in penetrating the computers at the Democrat National Committee, which revealed the John Podesta emails.
Not a single bit of information revealed in the John Podesta emails has been challenged as untrue.
In fact, it's all true.
Now to the to the uh point that you know what what impact did that have on voters, nobody can ever know.
We can never know.
Polling data, there's no way of, even if you polled it, there's no way you could definitively know whether or not the publication of emails from the John Podesta account.
Remember Hillary Clinton's name?
Well, Hillary wasn't her, none of her emails appeared from this hack.
It was all Podestas.
And so it would be impossible to say that that hack, the successful intrusion in the Democrat National Committee computers by the Russians is the reason Trump won.
Nobody could ever make the case.
But the media is not saying that.
The Democrats are not saying that.
Democrats are saying Russians hacked the election.
They're lying through their teeth and they know it.
It would have been impossible for Russians to hack the election.
Most voting machines are not even connected to the internet, number one.
Number two, it would simply be too massive a project.
If you want to hack the election result, you votes consist of two things, folks.
As I have said previous occasions, you cast ballots and you count them.
The media and the Democrats are trying to convince any number of you that the Russians somehow got involved in the casting and counting of votes and ended up with Trump winning.
You realize the Russians wouldn't know where to go.
If anybody wanted to hack them, you could the voting machines are not connected, number one.
How do you know which precincts?
How do you know which districts?
How do you know which states for sure?
In fact, folks, you want the truth of the matter.
The truth of the matter is that if the Russians were attempting to do anything, it was probably secure the election for Hillary if they're if they had any desire, that was probably it.
But no way you're going to hear that from the drive-by.
Now you you may come on, Rush, we know all this.
I I know you may, but I I want to emphasize this is going to be a four-year story.
They are not going to let this go.
All of this, every bit of news that they report about the Trump presidency and the campaign the election is rooted in the narrative that Trump's election was stolen by the Russians, that it's not legitimate, the vote was flawed, the vote was hacked, it's what they're trying to make people believe.
We don't know if it's going to be successful or not.
Uh I I think I think to date it hasn't been.
I don't think there is any great sympathy for the case they're trying to make on the party of American people, but they're not going to let go of it.
For example, CNN, hardest hit by yesterday's press conference.
Totally dissed.
CNN cast as fake news.
CNN's already been backtracking and say, hey, we didn't do anything wrong, and they've been trying to distance themselves from BuzzFeed, and they're making all these excuses.
And then it got worse for them when they found out that Clapper, the intelligence chief for Obama, actually called Trump to tell him, hey, that stuff didn't come from us in the Intel community.
Now that just blew everything to Smith Arena.
Actually, it was blown to Smith Arena's yesterday when NBC reported, folks, this is fundamentally important and key.
NBC News reported, turned out during the program yesterday, that this 35-page dossier was not something Trump was briefed on.
It was not something Obama was briefed on.
One of the reasons the media said they ran with it is when they learned that the intelligence agencies gave Trump and Obama a briefing on the dossier.
It turns out, folks, it's it's even better than you dreamed.
What really happened was the CIA and the intelligence agencies were using the dossier as an example to Trump of the kind of stuff that can enter the domain.
They purp they practically admitted that a manufactured fake document was prepared for the purposes of showing Trump the kind of stuff that's out there.
And this was rooted in the fact that Trump was publicly saying he didn't need an intel briefing every day.
So they were trying to make the case to him, yes, you do need an intel briefing every day.
And that 35-page dossier was to be an example of the kind of BS that's out there.
It was never real.
This blows whatever arguments BuzzFeed presented for doing this, whatever justification CNN offered, it blows it sky high and distorts it, blows it away because it was not real, and the intel community admitted Clapper called Trump today to say this didn't come from us.
Well, if it didn't come, and the media told us it did all day yesterday, what everybody was up speed about was that what was different about this was this was the Intel community.
And the question was is the Intel community fighting back at Trump as Trump made an enemy of the Intel.
So Clapper today from Obama's security briefing agency calls calls Trump.
It wasn't from us.
Well, that leaves one suspect.
The media, which is the Democrat Party.
And now we know that the author was somebody hired by the same PR firm used by Planned Parenthood.
This was nothing but a dirty trick of political attack from the Democrat Party.
So now what CNN's doing.
They've got two, three, four, five, they've got an eight-person panel right now discussing the proposition.
Trump nominees contradict campaign rhetoric.
They're trying to say that Trump's cabinet nominees are saying things entirely different from what Trump said.
And what they're trying to do is thereby cast doubt on Trump's honesty.
Trump's out there campaigning on this, that, or whatever, but his cabinet appointees why they're they're presenting contradicting your contradictory information.
They're telling an entirely different story.
I can explain this so the first graders would understand it.
But I have to take a break.
Sit tight.
We're coming right back.
Don't go away.
No, no, no.
I didn't lose my place.
I never lose my place.
The point I was making about Democrats losing their mojo.
There are two things that have happened here that have been totally obscured by the Democrats' mistake in trying to make this dossier stick.
The two things that were supposed to be dominating the news right now.
Uh number one, actually, three things.
Obama's farewell address was supposed to get the lion's share of coverage Tuesday night and all day Wednesday.
And it was supposed to be a love fest.
It was supposed to be, oh my God, look what we're gonna miss.
Oh my god, look what we're getting to lose.
Oh, geez, he's terrible.
This wonderful man is going away.
Oh my god.
We're gonna spend all day doing that.
But nobody heard a word about it because they miscalculated with the release of the dossier.
The next thing that was to happen at the confirmation hearing is Corey Booker made history by being the first sitting president to take the witness chair to speak against the nominee Jeff Sessions for attorney general.
Corey Booker was supposed to be auditioning as the next Obama.
Corey Booker was supposed to be the focus of news during that portion of the sessions, confirmation hearings.
It turns out they're very lucky that that didn't happen because Booker was horrible.
Booker.
I mean, it became obvious to everyone, even that even the Democrat media, it was so bad they couldn't cover it.
They had to ignore it because it was so obvious what Booker was doing.
He wasn't there really to stop sessions because he didn't offer any evidence.
He makes all these claims about sessions, but there wasn't any evidence.
Even the drive-by media is going, huh?
Is that it?
And they had to conclude that he was up there auditioning as the next African American Democrat presidential nominee.
Yes.
And the next thing that was supposed to happen was full attention on all of the controversial Trump cabinet nominees in their cabinet and their nomination hearings.
Confirmation hearings.
And we were supposed to hear about what a lame brain idiot sessions is and what a threat he poses to minorities.
And then we're supposed to hear about how what a really dangerous guy to global warming Rex Tillerson is.
And we're supposed to hear all of this horrible stuff.
The media was going to be able to focus on these confirmation hearings, like it was Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas all over again.
And none of it happened because their failure to nail Trump with that dossier sucked all the media oxygen out of the room.
Now they don't usually make mistakes like this.
They don't, I mean, these are major, major goof ups.
They run the media.
They determine the narrative.
But they don't know what they're up against.
I maintain they still are making the mistake of trying to plug Trump into their system.
So what the big news is that uh McCain and Rubio might not vote for Tillerson.
and about this CNN story, oh nominees are contradicting campaign rhetoric.
I'll have to explain that in due course as we get into your phone calls next.
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