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Jan. 12, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 12, 2017, Thursday, Hour #2
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Hi, folks, so welcome back.
It's great to have you with us.
Rushland baugh here behind the golden EIB microphone with broadcast excellence.
I am America's real anchor man.
I tell you the news that's going on everywhere, and I tell you the right thing to think about it.
But it's not just one sided here.
No, no.
I probably do a better job of explaining liberalism than they could explain themselves.
You know why?
Because I'm honest about who they are.
They don't have nearly the uh ability to be.
Here's the phone number, 800 282-2882 and the email address L Rushmow at EIBNet.com.
I got an email during the break, and I want to I want to deal with this.
The email says, Rush, I notice you're taking fewer and fewer callers.
Why?
That is not, if that's true, I'm not aware of it.
It's not a conscious thing.
It's not a programming format change.
Um but I thought about it.
I thought, okay, we just had an hour go by, and I didn't take a call.
We have full board of people.
The reason why this concerns me, and it's it's it's people on hold here for a long time.
I mean, you give the number out, the program starts, and they call and snurdly screens them.
And it generally takes them the first half hour of the program to fill up the board, and then say from 12 30 on, people are waiting.
And and many of these people will wait two hours, which I don't like.
I mean, it makes me feel bad.
Sometimes we get their numbers and call them back if if they can't wait that long.
Um, but that's risky because they may not be there when we call them, so we we really don't encourage that, but it is an option that we provide as a as a top flight program.
But I'll tell you, if if that is the case, I'll tell you what's driving it.
It's real simple.
It is the desire that when this program is over, after three hours of it every day, that nobody out there says, but you didn't talk about X. Why didn't you bring that up?
Or, you know, you need two more hours.
Look at all the stuff you didn't get to today.
I hate when people have that reaction.
And so since I I feel compelled, is I know that many of you watch cable news, you read on your own.
And I really, I'm sitting here, if I I do not like imagining you coming across something, say at five or six in the afternoon after the program's over or later tonight.
Say, Rush didn't mention this one.
I hate I just I can't deal with you having that reaction.
I I some of you think I might have missed something or didn't get to it.
And so it is actually, if I'm taking fewer calls, it's not on purpose.
It's the result of trying to make sure this is a one-stop shop for you.
That you don't need anything other than this, that whatever is actually important, we hit it here.
Because I just could not deal with it.
I just don't want it to happen that every night people say, well, I didn't hear about the Rush didn't bring this up.
Uh so it's it's not purposely trying to take fewer callers.
If anything, it's trying to leave as little as possible on the table.
So what I I uh just have to make a more concentrate concerted effort here to increase the number of callers.
So and it it's an ebb and flow thing anyway.
I'll tell some folks, we've also got another phenomena going on.
Ever since this campaign started a year and a half ago, there has not been a slow news day.
I mean, we haven't even approached the slow news day.
In the old days, after the election until the inauguration, every day was a slow news day.
So when you have a slow news day, that's maybe when you spend more time taking calls, finding out what's on people's minds.
Well, wouldn't this I mean I'm overflowing.
I the stacks every day of things I don't get to.
You don't know because I don't tell you, but I assume you know because I assume you are profoundly Massively informed and know it if I don't get some.
So I'm trying to avoid as little of that as possible.
So we're gonna, after the monologue segment here, we'll come back and we'll start on the phone.
Plus, I've got all these sound bites I have to get.
They have people working their tails off, producing these sound bites for me every day.
And if time doesn't permit, get it.
I don't want staff saying, you know what?
You're not using any of my work.
Screw you.
You know, and they move uh, you know, down the hall trying to find some other show.
That wouldn't happen.
There is no other show.
But I mean, all these people are spending a lot of time you on hold, other people uh preparing the sound bites and not to use any of it is um well, not just it's just it would be thoughtful to use some of it just to acknowledge the time and work people are spending trying to put things to and they're good every day.
It's just the inability to get to everything and the attempt to try is really what explains it.
Now, I want to address a couple things here before this segment ends, and we get back to calls in the next segment.
I don't know how many of you fall into this camp, but there are a lot of people who think what Trump did yesterday was horrible by the way he treated CNN by calling them fake news, by refusing to take their question.
They think it was non-presidential, they think it needs to change, that it's a sign of uh political amateurism.
And I have a different take on it.
So I there's no doubt in my mind, this is an adversarial relationship for any of us who are not liberal Democrats, dealing with the media is by definition, and it's always the case, adversarial.
And if they're gonna disrespect Trump, if they are showing up every day with the effort, the objective to entrap Trump, why should he help them?
Why should they be rewarded?
Where is it written that just because they're the media, they are automatically granted respect?
Why do they not have to earn it?
And I don't mean respect by uh never challenging or just bowing down and agreeing with everything, but you you have to uh uh admit, we all understand, that the relationship the media has with Republicans, they want to destroy us.
It's not there's no comedy to it, there's no goodwill about it.
If these people, if one of the networks which is responsible for trying to sell a pack of lies for the purpose of destroying Donald Trump, why is he obligated to take their question?
Now, some of you might say it's not a matter of that rush.
He's president, president elect, he's gonna be president.
He's bigger than all these.
He's got to take their question.
He's got to.
He can't just diss them the way he did.
Well, I understand that thinking, it has been the thinking since the beginning of time, at least since the beginning of our country.
That presidents, and in fact, the theory is that the more power a public figure has, the more deference he shows to the media.
Because the media is ostensibly is keeping powerful people accountable.
But we know that that's not what the media is.
The media is there to grease the skids of whoever the Democrats are.
The media is there advancing the Democrat Party agenda.
Why do you have to make it easy for them to trip you up to harm you, to perhaps destroy you.
Let me give you another example.
I want to take you back to 2009.
Obama has been elected.
And I'm sure many of you will remember seeing and hearing about, either from your friends or maybe obscure places that you visited on the internet.
You could see stories about how Obama was continuing to smoke dope in the White House.
You could see stories about how Obama had a drinking problem, how Obama was gay, uh the stories that Obama didn't write his book, that Bill Ayers wrote his books, that Obama's a phony, that Michelle My Bell Obama was not everything she was.
I mean, you remember all these stories, right?
No, I'm not talking about the berther thing.
I'm talking about the even the more obscure things that were out there.
Various degrees of truth and fiction abound.
They're all over the place.
And we on the right have our own underground, just like the left does too.
I think theirs is worse and more extreme, but you remember these stories out there.
I can remember getting emails.
Why don't you talk about the fact that Obama didn't write his books?
Why don't you talk about all of this stuff?
Why aren't you mentioning Obama's tool smoking dog?
That's the point.
We didn't.
We didn't, Fox News didn't, nobody, quote unquote, in the conservative media that you consider upstanding, respectful, authoritative.
We didn't do it.
It remained out there.
It remained on the fringes.
It remained obscure.
We didn't touch it.
I know I didn't, and I know for a fact that the vast majority didn't, because it never entered the conservative mainstream.
But it doesn't mean it was out, it was all over a bunch of websites, some obscure, some distant, some wacko, but it was there.
The difference is that now that Trump is elected, those same kinds of stories about Trump are out there.
The difference is the media just ran one of them.
That Trump hires prostitutes to urinate on beds in hotels where Obama has slept.
That's the kind of stuff that was out there that we didn't touch.
I'll say I. CNN
runs with it.
What happened next was BuzzFeed?
Well, okay, it's out there, so Katie Barredor, they publish the entire 30 35 pages.
And they admit when they do it that none of it's confirmable, none of it has been verified.
We don't know if a single word of this is true, but you have a right to know.
They do what we don't do.
We recognize what our fringe cook stuff is, and it stays out there.
They are gonna use it.
Now, that is why I'm asked why in the world should Trump or anybody else show those people respect.
Why shouldn't they pay a price for what everybody knows they're doing?
They're trying to destroy his presidency.
We know it, and they know it.
And they have been trying to find a way to do so even before he won.
After he has won, they're continuing with his whole lame brain narrative that the Russians hacked the election.
The Hill.com remedy for Russian meddling should be new election.
Do not doubt me.
They're not going to give this up.
And anything they can find out there, since the access Hollywood video didn't do it, they thought this would.
This 35-page dossier with the golden showers.
Which, by the way, I'm given now to understand you can actually order from some high-priced prostitution firms.
I had never heard of them until yesterday.
But apparently everybody at a left is intimately familiar with golden showers.
I'm just telling you, all this fringe stuff, they are going to use.
They concoct ways to get it from the fringe into the mainstream.
While sitting there telling us, you birther people, you're just a bunch of phony.
You can't accept it, so you're meant to make this birther stuff.
Big difference.
Now Trump is paying hookers to pee on hotel beds.
Trump does this.
Trump does that.
They can't wait to use any and all of it.
Thank you.
So why should why should they be shown respect?
You wouldn't in in in any other avenue of life, if you're if you're working with somebody, if you're Trump and you got a vendor, contractor working for you saying this stuff, he's gone, right?
You in your personal life.
Somebody treats you this way, says this stuff about you.
Well, you show them respect.
You uh continue to give them an opening to deal with you this way.
Why should Trump?
Well, he's president, Mr. Limbaugh.
It's a big difference.
This is not personal.
Damn right it's personal.
That's the point, it's personal.
Well, there are better ways to do it than to shut them down and tell them no and say they're fake news.
Why?
They are fake news.
The fact that they're fake news, the daily show was fake news.
The left thought it was real.
That the whole the whole concept of the daily show.
John Stewart, fake news.
They thought it was real.
Our biggest trouble with these people.
Now it's hard to say our biggest trouble.
One of the insoluble, ongoing areas where there will never be any common understanding is these people have no sense of humor when they are the butt of the joke.
And Trump has already this business.
Remember Trump telling a joke.
Maybe the Russians could find Hillary's emails.
And maybe if they do, they can alert the media, because you guys seem so desperate to find Trump was mocking the fact that they weren't trying to find the emails.
So Trump says, maybe the Russians can find, because the media is already obsessed with the Russians, so Trump says, maybe the Russians can find them.
He's mocking them.
He's ramming it right down their throat.
He's telling them a joke.
They don't see anything funny.
And that has now become Trump begged the Russians to hack the election.
That's what this Hill.com story is based on.
Since Trump asked the Russians to hack the election, maybe we should do it again.
They have no sense of humor when they are part of the joke.
And it's going to be one of the biggest ongoing divides that we have.
They don't have a sense of humor anyway.
Do you ever see any of them even smiling?
Welcome back in a squeeze and a call here in our segment leading in the bottom of the hour.
Bob in Coronado, California, make it quick.
How are you doing, sir?
Hey, Rush.
Happy birthday.
I hope you're having a nice premium cigar for your birthday.
Thank you, sir.
Yes.
Hey, um, I called one other time and I told you that I believed a Trump rally was more exciting than an NFL playoff game.
And what I my point that I wanted to make is um what happened yesterday, the press conference to me was it was it was a Trump rally.
It was unscripted.
It gave me the it gave me the fix I needed.
I I think the people in the Midwest were just stood up and cheered like they did at a Trump rally.
Wait a minute.
What do you need a fix for?
You're starting to go wobbly on us here?
I was getting no, I'm getting uh I'm just having a little withdrawal, and I'm thinking, you know, he's the president, and I love that, but it's like I I just needed I needed the I needed to hear him waving.
You needed Trump to be Trump.
You needed Trump to go out there and rally the troops.
Yeah, I I needed to do what he to get the biggest cheer at a rally.
Trump, when he was really looking for a cheer, he would just say, and those people in the press, they're horrible or whatever.
And the place, you know, I've been to two rallies, and the place would explode.
Right.
And uh, you know, and I think that's what I missed.
And it's, you know, it was so reassuring to see that yeah, he still has the mojo.
He could go.
Well, of course they are you that's you're worried.
You're worried that you're not going to get what you got in the camp.
I can sense it when you said you're in withdrawal out there.
Um, I think I think get ready.
I mean, he's president elect.
Uh, there is a standard decorum uh that we may have even blown to smithereen's uh so far.
But it's it's gonna be fine.
Mark mark my words.
You're gonna be fed very frequently.
Learn it, love it, and live it.
The saga continues.
Get this, folks.
The inspector general of the Department of Justice has announced that they are investigating the FBI and the Justice Department over the way the DOJ and the FBI conducted the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
In other words, Obama has ordered the people that police the DOJ to investigate the DOJ and the FBI, that means comey, to find out exactly what they were doing and what they were thinking and why they did it in the Hillary email investigation.
Now you might be saying, but wait, but wait.
I mean, they leave office here on January 20th.
Now these are career people in there.
These are that's another thing, folks.
Trump can't clear out everybody, get rid of the U.S. attorney, he's got a new attorney general in there, and it's gonna matter.
Uh sessions is gonna matter, but there's gonna be in the Department of Justice, there's gonna be an EPA.
There is going to be.
In any number of these cabinet level departments, there's gonna be saboteurs.
There are going to be career and Democrat appointed positions in there.
And not all of them are going to be swept out.
There will be, I can't begin to predict the number of efforts that'll be made to undermine the incoming new cabinet secretaries and uh and President Trump.
Hey, that's part of the way the game is played.
That will not be anything new.
Now the difference is say when George W. Bush came in, because the acrimony had been so vicious in the recount in Florida that W came in and thought that he could unify and bring people together by leaving a number of Clinton appointees, say at the Department of Justice or over at the EPA.
Um, or at the State Department, you name.
And what happened was a bunch of Clinton appointees stayed in there to undermine George W. Bush.
Same thing with the intelligence communities, I have to tell you, CIA, DIA, you name it.
I mean, there are a lot of career leftists in every one of these bureaucracies.
And their purpose is going to be to undermine.
Their purpose is going to be to make sure Trump doesn't succeed.
And that's not new.
That's common.
The difference largely the Republicans.
Well, when Bush came in and fired a number of U.S. attorneys, the media and the Democrats acted like he'd committed some kind of crime.
And they focused on it and accused Bush of trying to uh become an emperor uh and a king and deny voting rights and civil rights and all.
Yet Bill Clinton fired every U.S. attorney.
His first month in office.
All 93 of them.
They didn't say a word.
They said, well, standard operating procedure.
Presidents want their own lawyers in there.
When W did it, you would have thought it was the end of our republic.
That's why we're here, folks, to keep a sharp eye on all of this stuff and to clue you in on it.
I give you another example.
We're just talking about fringe news and how we left it alone.
Fringe news about Obama, we left it alone.
They on the left will not.
Look at John McCain here.
John McCain is a seasoned veteran Republican senator from Arizona.
And he is up to his eyebrows in this fake dossier.
John McCain's fingerprints in getting this dossier into the mainstream media are glaring and obvious.
John McCain.
I can't remember John McCain ever engaging in similar kind of energetic behavior to discredit a Democrat.
This is one of many people's problems with Senator McCain.
Also, Senator McCain, along with Senator Rubio, have said they may not be able to vote for Rex Tillerson.
You see, McCain's claim to fame is this Maverick persona where he goes against the grain of his own party and the drive-by media eats it up and loves him and puts him on a pedestal, of course, till he wants to be president and they destroy him.
Run rumors on the front page of New York Times he was having an affair.
He couldn't believe it.
Thought the media was his base.
Rubio's questioning of Tillerson was vicious.
I mean, well, not vicious.
It was it was I would categorize it as intolerant.
Will you agree that Putin is a war criminal?
Will you agree?
And I'm thinking, Senator Rubio, he can't say that.
If even if he does think it, he's he's the nation's number one diplomat.
You don't talk that way when you're a diplomat.
The media can talk that way.
Senators can talk to it.
Secretary of State's got to speak in this obscure diplomatic lingo.
Can't come out and say that.
But this is all part and parcel, folks, of Trump is illegitimate because the Russians tampered with our election.
Now McCain's just doing it.
Look, you understand McCain, too.
I mean, after all, Trump said of McCain that he had no admiration for him because he got captured.
He prefers generals that don't get captured.
Do not doubt.
This is only human nature.
McCain's probably been seething about that from the day it happened.
And McCain has probably been eager for Trump to lose since that happened.
So if they want to make this stuff personal, it's understandable that McCain would try to block Trump in certain areas.
Tillerson being one.
When it comes to sessions, uh Joe Manchin, Democrat West Virginia, has announced he's going to vote for Sessions.
So I don't know that he'd be Republican defections on sessions, but there might be on Tillerson.
And if there are, they're going to need some Democrats to vote for Tillerson if he is to be uh confirmed.
But they're asking him all kinds of questions that he really can't answer because he wouldn't he wouldn't speak that way normally.
You think you think Putin's a war criminal?
You understand that Putin's a mass murderer, you look.
I'd need to check the record, Senator.
I don't know.
What do you mean you need to check the record?
Can't you tell a guy murder something?
You've ever heard of Crimea?
Well, Senator I need to check the record on that.
I need to.
What do you mean you gotta check the record?
Can't you just tell me what do you think Putin is a war criminal?
Well, I don't want to.
Tillerson's got a he's got a very narrow road that he has to walk.
Let me get back to the phones.
Uh, this is Thomas in Huron, Ohio.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hi.
Hi.
Uh can you I have it on speaker phone because I have trouble hearing.
Uh but uh uh many dittoes, I'm longtime listener.
Thank you, sir.
And I, you know, uh ever since November eighth, it's been Christmas every day uh in my house, the between my wife and myself.
And we still have the Christmas tree up, and I want to tell you it was a super gift.
Uh Uh when Trump uh talked to the CNN reported the way he did.
I, you know, I thought to myself, this guy is going to respond.
He is not, he is he's gonna imply he's gonna do instantaneous retribution is what it amounts to to anybody that uh false news or whatever it is, or you know, and it and I was so happy at that moment because I haven't seen that ever.
And I'm 74 years old.
I got a lot of pretext, you know, on what people do and what people don't, and I'm also an ex-policeman, and I can tell when people are lying or trying to, you know, uh change the story or slant it or whatever it is, you know, and in their favor or against somebody.
But that was just great, and I agree with everything that you said about this.
I also think the McCain's fingerprints are all over this.
Yeah.
They are.
I mean, it's it's obvious, you know, that he did.
He he finally admitted, well, I turned it over to the FBI.
I didn't know whether it was true or not.
Yeah, right.
Right.
Just being a good citizen.
Yeah, just a good citizen.
I just doing what any good citizen would do.
I found this story that Trump has prostitutes urinating on Obama's bed.
I said, I gotta give this the FBI.
Anybody would.
Right.
You know, this is so ridiculous, but anyhow, uh it I've been frustrated for eight years, and now I'm elated for the time that has happened since November.
When do you normally take the Christmas tree down out there, Thomas?
Well she got the ornaments off today, but the lights are still on.
Way to go, I like that.
It's still January.
I like that.
Yeah, oh yeah, we keep it up sometimes a long time.
Uh Christmas is pretty meaningful around our house.
Right.
Uh, you know, I mean, uh, we got three children, they're all adults now.
It it makes for complications in trying to celebrate Christmas when and where and with whom.
Just be thankful they're out of the house, Thomas.
I mean, it all even.
Well, that's okay in one way, you know.
I know, I know.
And we have grandchildren and we love that.
Right, I know.
Once they become self-sufficient, they come back anytime they you want, right?
Sure.
Exactly.
All right, Thomas, I appreciate keep that tree up at least through Sunday for the Steelers game.
It's the one o'clock, one o'clock game on set.
That tree is going to be good luck.
And we'll be back, folks.
Don't go away, sit tight.
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Uh a couple of the things in the uh in the news here.
Uh the World Bank group.
Now, this is a this another left-wing bunch like the IMF, the World Bank, the State Bank.
How many of these damn world banks do we have?
Well, what do they do?
And where do they get their money?
What are you frowning at me for?
What do you think they get?
Where does anybody in the world get their money?
Us.
And what do they do with it?
They pass it around, they supposedly make loans with it.
It's one, I just world bank stuff.
The thing I know about the World Bank is that whoever runs it has 25 different homes, the lead home, usually somewhere there's a ski lodge, definitely gonna have a home in the Hamptons.
They're gazillionaires.
Anyway, President elect Donald Trump's proposals to cut taxes on corporations and personal income will boost economic growth, according to a new report from the World Bank Group.
Trump has proposed cutting the corporate tax rate from its currency level of 35% down to 15%, with the intention of bringing jobs back to the U.S. The World Bank estimates that this alone will boost U.S. gross domestic product by.
You know what I'm noticing here, Folks.
It is stunning to me.
Let's go back before the election.
Corporate America lining up with Hillary Clinton, the banks, the automobile, you name it, Silicon Valley.
Trump wins the election, and the same people can't wait sidle up to him.
They can't wait.
And they actively campaigned against him.
Now, I come, I uh I've done this long enough to remember, and it's not that long ago, where corporate CEOs were really private sector entrepreneur believers.
And they thought the best thing government could do was get out of everybody's way.
Not that long ago.
But now that's not the case because cronyism has been introduced.
And now various CEOs and corporate leaders have figured out that actually it's more helpful to have a crony relationship with people in power, because then they have access to federal funds instead of having to use their own.
It's a way to get favors that their competitors don't.
And it's distorted.
I can't tell you how much.
And I could never understand why people.
It took me a while to figure this out, because I I believe that ideologically driven people are ideologically driven people for a reason and are not malleable.
And I found these guys were.
I thought once you believe that big government's a problem, you believe big government was a problem.
And it used to be the case, but now all these guys are many of them sidling up to government, using government, becoming friends and associates with people in power.
And that's what's happened here.
I'm amazed at all, like the World Bank before the election wanted nothing to do with Trump.
Now that Trump has won, they're out there actually telling the truth about Trump's policies.
But they did nothing but try to undermine his election.
So here's the World Bank who knows full well before the election that if Trump wins, it means good things economically, and yet, to the extent that they got involved, it was anti-Trump.
And you could say that about any number of other CEOs and companies, corporations, or what have you.
Look at that.
Look at all of the CEOs and the banks, and you name it that were just donating, giving money left and right to the Clintons and their foundation and donating to her campaign.
And I there's there's a lot of the way to say it is I think there's a lot more gutlessness out there than I ever dreamed there was.
And now there is fear of big government.
And I made the mistake of assuming that all these people sidling up to government were doing so because they agreed, say ideologically with Obama.
That wasn't scared to death of the guy.
And it was more like a protection scheme to get close to him.
But anyway, this World Bank is just one example.
World Bank is made up of total leftists who haven't been fans of Republicans and conservatives for years, and yet here they are.
Now, it could well be, now this is getting two in the weeds.
It could well be they don't believe this.
They're putting this news out to set Trump up for failure.
Well, we expected Trump's policies to cost growth around the world by two percent, and then when it doesn't happen, they go back and but they're they're not doing any cement they're really.
I don't think they're that far in the weeds.
I think they actually think it's gonna work.
And yet, somebody running for office on the premise of reducing the corporate tax rate, they oppose.
Then he wins, and all of a sudden they turn around and support him.
I guess what I'm asking, where were you when we needed you?
Where was your honesty during a campaign?
And then there's this from roll call.
This is amazing too.
Economy was top issue among millennial voters.
Well, hell's bells.
Why didn't we hear about that during the economy, during the campaign?
I mean, during the campaign, what we heard about millennials, they couldn't have cared less.
They cared about safe spaces, they cared about this and that maybe should they live at home with their parents and health care.
Anyway, I've more details on this that are fascinating too.
But I have to pause.
We'll be back in a sec.
Oh, damn right.
Nobody better.
A new study conducted after the election shows the economy mattered most to millennial voters.
Study by the Millennial Impact Report.
Surveyed 350 of them.
That's a big number.
Anyway, we'll have details of that coming up.
Big news on oil.
Oil production is way, way up.
Senate, big step repealing Obamacare.
Things are moving, folks, in the right direction.
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