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Jan. 23, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 23, 2017, Monday, Hour #3
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All right.
Greetings and welcome back, my friends.
Rush Limbaugh.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The press briefing's going on.
Julie Pace of the AP just asked a question.
I'll tell you what's happened so far in a moment, but let's listen to a little bit of this together.
John Roberts.
A couple of things, if I could.
Later this week, it was executive actions.
Does the President plan to take action to green light the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines?
And on TPP, John McCain says it was a serious mistake to do what the president did for America's economy and for a strategic position in the Asia Pacific.
Why John Robert of Fox News asking this question?
Why was it the right thing to do to re to repeal TP?
Oh, I think I said it.
I mean, because I think the multilational when you enter into these multinational agreements, you're allowing any country, no matter of the size, any one of those twelve, including us, to basically have the same stature as the United States in the agreement.
So we're basically on par with some very small companies who are getting access to an amazing market with the United States.
And in return, we're negotiating at the lowest common denominator.
And I think that when you look at big multinational agreements, multilateral agreements, they're not always in the best interest of the United States.
The beautiful thing about a bilateral agreement is that if any one of the two parties in the agreement decides that at any time uh they want to get out of the agreement or they're not being treated fairly, they can renegotiate it much easier.
in a multinational agreement.
Take this down for a minute.
Let me explain so far what has happened.
Spicer has called on the Evangelical Christian broadcast network news for a question.
And you imagine the exploding heads over that.
Uh the question was about abortion.
He's called on a Fox business news reporter.
He's announced the White House is adding four Skype seats to the briefing room for news outlets that are fifty miles or more away.
He's got a pre-selected list of reporters to call on Obama regularly did that at his press conferences.
His press secretaries never did.
So this is new.
The press secretary with a list.
They're probably going to whine about that.
Okay, let's jip it here a little bit more.
It's good for economic growth, it's good for jobs, and it's good for American energy.
Jonathan Carl.
Thank you for being here for ABC News here.
Thank you.
Um before I get to a policy question, just a question about the nature of your job.
Yeah.
Is it your intention to always tell the truth from that podium and you never to knowingly?
Did we tune in at the right time or what?
It's an honor to do this.
And uh yes, I believe that we have to be honest with the American people.
I think sometimes we can disagree with the facts.
There are certain things that um we may miss uh we may not fully understand when we come out, but our intention is never to lie to you, Jonathan.
Um our job is to make sure that sometimes and you're in the same boat.
There are times when you guys tweet something out or write a story and you publish a correction.
That doesn't mean that you were intentionally trying to deceive readers of the American people, doesn't it?
And I think we should be afforded the same opportunity.
There are times when we believe something to be true or we get something from an agency, uh, or we act in haste because the information available wasn't complete, but our desire to communicate with the American people and make sure that you have to do that.
I wouldn't give them an inch on this.
I wouldn't go.
But again, I I think that when you look net, um we we're gonna do our best every time we can.
I'm gonna come out here and tell you the facts as I know.
Damn straight.
We're not gonna lie to you, you clown.
Uh but I I don't I think that's a good thing.
Well kind of question was that it is a two-way street.
There are many mistakes that the media makes all the time.
Right on.
They misreport something, they don't report something, they get a failure.
Why not?
I don't think that's always an inten the you know, to turn around and say, okay, you are intentionally lying.
Yes, it is all go try to do our best job and do it with uh degree of integrity.
No, they don't in our respective industries.
Do you have any corrections that you would like to make or clarifications of what you said?
Well, ask away, Jonathan.
Well, you know, for I mean, just for instance, I don't want to get into relitigate the whole issue, but like just take one like the issue of Metro ridership.
You made a statement about it.
We did.
And at the time, uh the information that I was provided by the inaugural committee came from an outside agency that we reported on.
And I think knowing what we know now, we can tell that Womatta's numbers are different.
Um, but we were trying to provide numbers that we had been provided.
Uh that wasn't like we made them up out of thin air.
And can you stand by your statement that that was the most watched inaugural address?
Sure.
It was the most watched inaugural.
When you look at you look at just the one network alone got 16.9 million people online, another couple of the networks, there were tens of million people that watched that online.
Never mind the the the audience that was here, thirty-one million people watched it on television, combine that with the tens of millions of people that watched it online on a device.
There's it's unquestionable.
Come in.
I don't I don't and I don't see any numbers that that dispute that.
When you add up intendants, viewership, uh total audience in terms of tablets, phones, uh on television, I'd love to see any information that proves me that proves that otherwise.
Obama was on his blackberry watching it with that.
Well, I I don't want to get into numbers.
I I do.
You brought it up!
What do you mean you don't want to get it in the numbers?
I have a right to say if you add up the the network streaming numbers, Facebook, YouTube, all of the various live streams that can we have information on so far.
I don't think there's any question.
It was that that it was the largest watched inauguration ever.
More than Ronald Reagan's in 1981.
I'm pretty sure that Reagan didn't.
Take it down a minute.
What's gonna happen now from now on from the rest of the day into tomorrow, the subject's gonna be Did Spicer lie?
Did Trump lie?
They're gonna focus on the most watched inaugural.
That's what's been set up here.
Okay, bring it back up.
That's a little higher.
So I'm just saying, I'm not you're asking me for numbers.
There's just two entities together.
And and and the the uh the approach that you took on Saturday, any any second thoughts on that?
I think we're gonna Jonathan, look, I I I want this to Huh?
I came out to read a statement and I did it.
We're here today, I'm gonna stay here as long as you want.
So uh I want to make sure that we're these clowns ever asked Josh Ernest if he was lying to them.
But look, we I I want to make sure that's the thing.
If he was telling them the truth.
And I'm not trying to rehash history, but you're asking the question, so I'm gonna answer that.
Right, that's right, they are.
We had a tweet go out about Martin Luther King.
Think about how racially charged that is.
And someone rushes out and says to the entire press corps that the President of the United States has removed the bust from his office.
Do you I mean think about what the signal hold on please off an apologize?
No, no, he actually applies to quote my colleagues.
That's the exact quote.
Okay.
That quote, that report got tweeted out around.
And to report where was the apology to the president of the United States?
There has the apology to millions of people who read that and thought how racially insensitive that was.
There hasn't been a lot of people.
There hasn't been one.
Okay, I'm asking, where was that apology?
And sir hasn't.
I'm just saying that when you when things like that happen, when John Lewis says that he's never approached never missed an inauguration.
Right.
And we find out actually he did under he skipped George W. Bush's.
Right.
That there are points at which we have a right to make sure that we correct the record.
Yeah, but you're talking about integrity and you're talking about telling the truth and facts.
I don't know that it wasn't malicious at all, and I'm not saying, but there's a point at which we have a right to go out there and correct the record.
And I think that over the key.
You don't have that right.
You're supposed to sit there and eat whatever lie they do.
That can't be true, and that's not right, and the numbers weren't there.
And there's a rush to judgment every time.
And it's a two-way street.
We want to have a healthy and open dialogue with the press corps and with the American people about what he's doing to help this country and to unite it.
But at a time when he's trying to unite this and he keeps talking about uniting this nation, bringing people together.
And then a tweet goes out in a pool report to what, a few thousand people, saying that he removed the bust of Martin Luther King.
How do you think that goes over?
Sean, did did the media invent the feud between the president and the Intelligence Committee?
I'm not I think that you saw from the response the other day.
He walked into the CIA, people were hooting and hollering, they gave him a five-minute standing ovation.
That doesn't look like a relationship that's I mean, that's a they they were excited about.
This is exactly right.
The misreporting at the CIA today.
Then the people and the men and women who toil every single day in our intelligence community.
And it was reflected at the CIA.
I mean, they came there, they were so excited.
There was a thousand people that applied for three hundred plus seats.
We ended up taking in four hundred people.
That doesn't sound like a huge feud.
They were excited, they were clapping, they were cheering when he walked in.
And to see reports that made it sound like there was some you know fence mending that had need to happen that sure didn't look that way when you walked in.
I'm gonna move on.
Yeah.
Sean, can I ask, what is the U.S. strategic interest in moving the M US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?
And also in the chat with uh President CCCD was the uh status of the Muslim Brotherhood discussed.
Well I I think the readout, I just gave you the readout uh on the call with President of Sisi, and I think that that speaks for itself, what was discussed.
Uh that's that's enough.
We got a good flavor for this.
Uh the first question, by the way, the the first media organization that Spicer called on was the New York Post.
Not the New York Times.
The New York Post.
And he called on a Christian broadcast network.
And uh some other conventional media, but nowhere near the top of the list.
But you you heard the exchange that starts at did Jonathan Carla BBC ever say to Josh Earnest, Josh, are you going to commit to telling us the truth from this podium every day, or are you going to lie to us?
They ever asked Jay Carney that question.
And Spicer just shoveled it right back at him, and the story on the Martin Luther King bust being removed, that was Time magazine that did that.
And this CIA, we already talked about this earlier today.
The Trump visit to the CIA was not the disaster they're portraying it to be.
He was well received over there, and he went over there to show his support for the organization.
You've got people in there, like I say, you have at the Defense Department.
You've got a lot of people opposed to Trump in all of these cabinet agencies.
They're career Democrats, career leftists, and you've got some people that support him.
And the people that don't are the ones that leak to the media that report to the media, the media eats it up and can't wait to report the negative stuff.
Um that's that's why I folks, Trump doesn't have anybody backing him up here.
Spicer is out there all by himself.
Everybody in that in that room, the drive-by meeting may be some media exceptions in there, but he doesn't have support in the media like Obama had.
He doesn't have support in the Washington establishment like Obama did.
Not that he should, don't misunderstand.
I'm just saying that it's really, really, really going to be crucial for Trump supporters to maintain that support and to show it to demonstrate it.
As uh as this war continues to rage and unfold.
Let me grab uh James here in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Great to have you.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
What's happening?
What's up?
Hey, Russ, you know, thank God.
I've been waiting for somebody to get in there to attack the media and thank God for Donald Trump.
We the people have his back.
I'll tell you that right now, like you were saying, nobody had his back, these idiots are saying.
But we the people have his back.
I am so glad he tweets and he responds to everything the media goes and puts out there because they do want to lie to us.
They want us to they want to tell us lies every time.
And I'm so glad about it, because these people that are trying to tell Trump what to do, no, don't listen to him.
You continue to tweet, you continue to respond, and that's what we the people, that's why we voted for him.
He's not a politician.
We're so tired of the politician.
Then you know what?
As far as I'm concerned, he already has drained the swamp by getting rid of Obama because Obama was at the bottom of that swamp and he's out.
So thanks for taking my call.
All right, now wait, I just want I just because you're answering my question, but I just want to clarify.
You don't think there's let me let me make it a positive.
You are totally supportive of Trump responding to every example of media lying or distorting that there is.
You think every time it happens, if Trump responds with a tweet or send Spicer out, you're a you're all for it.
You don't think he can overdo that.
No, I'm all for it.
And that's why we've been waiting for this for so long, because you don't want every other politician that gets in there, they allow the media to dictate To the people what what they want to tell us, not what we want to hear, and we're hearing it straight from the horse's mouth.
And that's from Trump.
And I am about that.
Since I can't talk to every Trump supporter on this program, I mean you are one.
Do you think most Trump supporters are with you on this?
Or do you think some of them have a limit thing?
Okay, Donald, we got it.
We got you can't respond to every one of these damn things.
Yeah, they love it.
The ones that uh that I know, my family, the majority of my family, they love it.
I mean, not the majority.
All my family that voted for Trump and our true conservatives, we love it because we're tired of the media.
They're at the bottom of the swamp also, and Trump is just going after them.
And it's something we've I'm you know, I'm 52 years old.
I've been waiting for this for a long time.
Let me tell you, a lot of a lot of people are, and and and have been as well.
And well, you heard me get all riled up in here just listening to Jonathan Carl, you know, basically accused Smicer of lying to him.
Will you ever come to this forum?
Will you always tell the truth?
Uh of course, the arrogance here is that the media never lies.
It's only Trump that lies.
But the media never does, and Spicer just threw a couple right back in his face, and then they start talking about audience size and crowd size.
And I guarantee if it's setting up the narrative for the uh rest of the day, and it's gonna be something like childish Trump continues to whine and moan about crowd size.
Obama no, Trump continues to whine and moan over Obama's inauguration being bigger.
That'll be the the narrative.
Something along those lines.
John, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
I got some emails asking my thoughts on the championship games in the NFL yesterday.
I was surprised uh by the Packer Atlanta game.
I I I didn't think it would be the blowout that it was.
I was not surprised at all at the Steelers' outcome.
I look, there's a bunch of things going on with the Steelers.
You can't score two touchdowns in a game and a half with a supposedly vaunted offense and go into New England and and you just can't play that way.
I mean, they they scored no touchdowns in the second half against Miami and no touchdowns against the Chiefs in the game that they won.
That's a game and a half without a touchdown.
And I don't care what anybody says.
You know, the and I understand the Steelers saying this that the Antonio Brown Facebook video in the locker room after the Chiefs went, nah, that stuff didn't matter.
The Patriots, they were just look.
It did matter.
And I think it mattered attitudinally.
I mean, these are young millennial guys in Facebook and the video, me, me, me, notice me, notice me, and the guy gets shot down.
He was humiliated, embarrassed.
Coach calls him out, calls him in selfish, and and all this stuff.
I guarantee you it had an impact on the addition.
You get fine 10,000.
Not what direct impact it had, but on the overall mental attitude.
The thing is that you you can't.
The Steelers have never beaten the Patriots in a championship game, period, I don't think, especially in New England.
But you just you don't beat the Patriots.
They beat them.
So you have to play the best you can, and they have to screw up.
And they didn't.
It's just amazing.
The Patriots have people open by 10 or 15 yards.
The Steelers don't have anybody open.
No pass.
It was just, but I called it.
You can talk to any of my buddies and friends.
That's how you called it.
I wasn't surprised by it.
I was disappointed, but wasn't surprised.
Anyway, Atlanta and New England thoughts upcoming as we get closer to the game, we'll be back.
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Back to the audio sound bites.
Uh played Ashley Judd from this uh the women, the Feminazi march on Washington, but Madonna, you know, she's she's been like I say, the elevator not hitting the top floors there for quite a while.
And it's clearly uh worsening.
You know, her mental state and acuity.
And she uh she's wearing one of those one of those stupid hats.
And we got two sound bites here.
She has since recanted um the second bite was she said her because Secret Service was looking into it.
But here the here the first one here's the first one, my it took this horrific moment of darkness to wake us the f up.
It seems as though we had all slipped into a false sense of comfort, that justice would prevail, and that good would win in the end.
Well, good did not win this election.
And two are detractors that insist that this march will never add up to anything.
You it is the beginning of much needed change.
Genuine class, right?
Genuinely classy.
Madonna Louise Shaconi, Zirconi, Zirconium, Shaconey, whatever it is.
It seems as though we had all slipped into a false sense of comfort.
It took this horrific moment of darkness to wake us up.
What happened?
At the time they were out there making fools of themselves, not a thing had happened other than Hillary had lost you know, Hillary's even out there probably.
Where the hell were you babes when I was out campaigning?
Where were you, babes on election day?
What false sense of comfort were you what you you believe your own fake polls?
These women not realize how out of touch they're making them own their own selves sound, thinking that they had this whole rip.
You know, and this talk about rights and and and what what what rights are being denied?
What rights are theirs?
They're being trampled and denied this is absurd.
And then this is the threat to blow up the White House.
Yes, I'm angry.
Yes, I am outraged.
Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
Unhappy, violent, let Americans see them and hear 'em as far as I'm concerned.
Now she's since recanted that because the Secret Service said they were gonna look into it.
I wouldn't have given it second thought.
She's just out there blowing off steam better than the other things she usually blows off.
But blowing up the White House, I mean, for crying out loud.
Uh, but this is who they are.
These are the people that are largely responsible for Trump winning, and I don't care what you think has happened to the American culture.
This is not the kind of stuff that grows a movement of happy, contented, productive, cooperative people.
This is the antithesis of that.
Here is a chief feminazi, one of the leading organizers, Gloria Steinem, on Saturday at the Feminazi March on.
Sometimes we must put our bodies where our beliefs are.
We remember the death of the future with Martin Luther King, with Jack Kennedy, with Bobby Kennedy, with Malcolm X. Without those deaths, for instance, Nixon would not have been elected.
And there would not have been many of the wars we have had.
Oh, really?
Our great leaders like Barack Obama and Michelle Obama.
Are still with us.
And remember how much we feared they might not be, and how much threat there was.
These are the people that threaten and use violence, and there's Gloria Steinem out there actually admitting they were worried that the Obamas would be killed.
I it's fascinating.
Just this this is what passes for mainstream liberal thought today.
This is and it always has, by the way.
This isn't anything new.
This is who these people have always been.
This is why I have been just mind-boggled so many years.
How in the world can thinking like this attract a majority, and it hasn't.
That's what we have finally learned.
Now, Frank Lunz.
Frank Lunz, as you know, is a um he's a pollster.
He's a media consultant.
He helps, he helps candidates use words that work.
And he was out amongst them on Saturday in Washington.
He was on Fox and Friends on Sunday with the co-host Pete Heggseth, and they were talking about the women's march.
And Heggsith said to Frank Lunz, would you say the protests were ineffective as a response?
A woman walked up to me in the Marriott Marquee, and she shouted, You fascist, and then two other words that would get me fired from your network.
And she threw this red confetti glitter right in my eyes, and she picked up another handful, and she was no more than six inches away, and I was covered with this stuff.
And since when do you have the right or just the ability to attack people in a private setting?
These protests are out of control.
The language is out of control.
There are eight, nine, ten-year-olds watching this.
They read these horrible words from these signs.
And to have to face this personally, I mean you can see I get choked up.
I never thought this would be America.
I never thought this would happen in this country.
So I guess Franks are the opinion these are not words that work.
Uh that the feminazes are using.
But I have to, with all due respect.
Frank, I can't believe that you're surprised by this.
I mean, you're out doing focus groups of people.
And that's who these people are.
I Frank Frank said, I I never thought this would be America.
I never thought this would happen in this.
This has been happening.
This is you want to community organizing is this is it.
This is what Obama does.
This is what he used to do in Chicago.
This is exactly what community organizers do.
And the left has been doing this kind of stuff.
They've been protesting at every event they can find.
If it has anything global attached to it, world trade organization or what have you.
But vulgarity and violence and personal disrespect and in-your-face insults are exactly how they behave.
And I'm I'm stunned to hear Frank say that he never thought this would happen in this country when it is happening routinely.
This is why so many of us have been so frustrated at no pushback against it.
So many of us have been really, I mean, I know I'm speaking for you on this, so frustrated.
The media gets away with normalizing this stuff.
This kind of stuff went went on in Indiana after the religious freedom restoration act.
The bullying is commonplace on the left.
I mean, w you go in to a baker as a gay couple and ask them to bake a cake for your reception and say no, look at what happens to you.
The militant gay community comes down on you, and the whole Democrat Party joins them in coming down on you, and they sue you out of existence.
Same thing if you are a photography shop, and uh a couple gay people come and say, We want you to be the photographer for our reception, our wedding, and you say no, I don't believe.
They're targeting these people.
Go, there are plenty of other photographers to hire, but they're purposely hiring people to say no after researching it, say create the issue.
And they bully these people out of business.
It's been going on for a long time.
These kind of people, you could get them on focus groups, I would think.
They're out there.
And they do respond to Being paid, and if you're in a focus group, I mean you get paid for your time.
But these people are bought and paid for by George Soros money, Hillary Clinton money.
Anyway, I gotta take a break here, my friends, but you hang in and be tough because we've got much more straight ahead.
Right after.
Okay, quickly, Kelly St. George, Utah.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
This is how the left and the media act when they feel marginalized.
When they're being sidelined by something big happening, this is how they'll respond in the future.
I hope Trump stays on the push on the offense.
He pushes hard with a great agenda.
He doesn't pay play with their pettiness and he move ahead.
This is what they tried to do to Nixon.
This is what they'll try to do to him.
He needs to go over the head to the people just like Reagan did.
You know, that is a that is an excellent point, folks.
Uh that this is how they act when they're when they know they're being marginalized.
They try to recapture the agenda and the narrative and make themselves look normal and whatever they're covering this case.
Trump appear to be the aberrant and the odd and the uh minority, if you will, you're exactly if he doesn't stay on offense, if they i i if they relax on this, they're already trying to nix in him.
They're already trying to do this impeachment thing.
I mean, David Brock is already raising money on, they've already got the plans laid out.
They've got two or three different lines of attack on it.
They're just waiting for time to take place for for uh Trump to exist and and do his job, and in the process, they think that uh he is engaging in impeachable defenses and they're taking notes and preparing the case.
It will happen, folks.
Make no mistake.
They are gonna do it, even if they know it's gonna fail.
They'll do it for the fundraising, the politics of it.
Quickly, Adam in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
We have a millennial here with a good point.
How are you doing, Adam?
I'm good, Ross.
How are you today, sir?
Very fine.
Thank you very much.
I just wanted to say uh greetings from uh Scram, Pennsylvania, home with Scrappy Joe Briding and uh Hugh Rodham.
I uh I just have to say I can't believe I'm on the phone with you.
It's amazing.
Uh, 2010, sir.
Uh I have to tell you, um, a lot of my um friends and family, I just want to mention that the uh indoctrination is real.
It it has happened, uh, and I can tell you from first count hand that uh my friends, my family, my wife, in fact, have all been uh forced to I wouldn't say force, this is quite a strong word, but but uh have been uh persuaded to vote and register as a Democrat through high school.
Um I myself have had uh one or two teachers uh uh come up to me and uh present me with the registration form and basically say that the uh Republicans are for the rich and the Democrats are for the poor, and we don't suggest you vote anyway, but we urge you to vote for Democrat.
Right, and the point is all of these are baby boomer teachers who are indoctrinating their kids, in some cases grandkids and so forth, they're from the 60s, and you're a millennial, you see it happening.
Uh and I I know some millennials are starting to wake up uh slow process.
Indoctrination propaganda, it's uh it's a very effective thing, especially when it's made to look like it's just the everyday normality, the everyday normalcy.
Uh long battle.
I'm glad you called you, Adam.
Thank you very much.
Happy to have had you out there since 2010.
Hope you don't go anywhere.
Here's here's an exchange between a reporter and spicer on global warming, folks.
2016 was the hottest year on record in the last three years, have been the hottest three years on record.
Scientists are saying that we're getting dangerously close to the point where human civilization is being threatened.
How does President Trump plan to address this?
Well, I think I think he's gonna meet with his team and figure out what policies are best for the environment.
One of the things that he talked about during the campaign is there's a balance.
And he's trying to make sure that we use our resources appropriately, that we maximize things to make sure that we don't do so at the detriment of economic growth and job creation.
So there's a balance, and I don't think it's an either-or situation.
We can ensure that we're doing things that are smart for the environment and smart for our longevity, as well as making sure that we're doing things that create economic growth and job crazy.
You heard the question.
The question's a program lie.
Three la last three years the hottest of BS, folks.
It's flat out BS.
Don't doubt me.
Well, we are back at it, folks.
Eagerly looking forward to Monday, and here it was.
And this is uh it's gonna be continuing at a fevered pitch.
I doubt there's gonna be much what I would call relaxed downtime, but that's cool.
That's fine.
We all perform better when the adrenaline is rushing, and we are focused.
And we are can't wait till tomorrow.
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