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Jan. 24, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 24, 2017, Tuesday, Hour #2
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So I checked the email during the break.
And there's a couple of emails.
Why aren't you spending more time talking about Trump and what Trump's doing?
Hey, I am.
And here's the thing.
One of the emails said, why don't you talk about how they're mistreating Trump's cabinet nomin?
Let me tell you what's going on there.
Trump's gonna get his nominees.
They're going to be confirmed.
The daily soap opera, the narrative of the day.
Would you take the music down?
So I have to yell.
The daily narrative of the soap opera so far is Trump's nominees are weird, oddball, and kooks, and the Democrats need to spend a lot of time with these people because they're really dangerous.
I'm sorry, folks, but I'm not going to give my precious broadcast time to that narrative.
These nominees are going to be confirmed and they're going to do a fabulous job.
They're going to be fine.
You know, if I wake up every day and every cable news network is focused on, like right now, they're talking about Tom Price, and he's undergoing his questioning.
And he's being asked, we got some soundbites of this.
Some of the stupidest questions in the world is being asked that have nothing to do with his job at Health and Human Services, all about the left and the media trying to identify these people and tag them as extreme right wingers.
And I'm sorry, I'm not going to help.
I'm not I'm not going to focus on this.
If everybody else in the media is focused, now why should I anyway?
Of far more interest to me is the collapse of the Democrat Party.
Because this Trump stuff's going to be fine.
It's going to be we talk about that too.
I've spent half of the first hour detailing Trump and his success stories from uh from yesterday.
And we have more of that coming up.
But I'm dead.
The Democrat Party is imploding right in front of us, right before our very eyes, and I, for one, absolutely love it.
And I don't want to sit here and become a um.
Well, just because they're talking about confirmation hearings today on every cable network, that tells me don't do it.
Because there's a narrative every day of the news and what gets covered.
The highlights, the things that are important, the way they try to destroy these guys, be patient, and you will hear me explain it.
When the time is right and in uh in due course.
Now, some of the let's see transgender stuff.
Is there something else in this stack that I had here that I wanted to?
Cisgender explained that.
No, that's pretty much it.
One of the organizers of the big feminazi march has fought for Muslim holidays in New York City schools.
Her name is Linda Sarsur or Sar Sour, I'm not sure pronunciation, S-A-R-S-O-U-R, but she is a massive Islamic sympathizer.
And in fact, her twote some of her Twitter posts, she has proclaimed that Saudi Arabia's treatment of women puts the United States to shame.
Now, this is just lunacy.
Sheer abject lunacy.
They behead women in Saudi Arabia.
If a woman in Saudi Arabia is raped, she gets punished for it.
Women in Saudi Arabia can't drive.
They have to run around covered head to toe.
I mean, it's absurd here.
But they really believe this stuff.
See, I think, folks, I really believe we have a unique opportunity.
Maybe the best opportunity in my life to expose liberalism to more people than ever before, with the help of the left.
They're actually doing the exposing.
Here we're sitting here when with with a with a Trump victory, and this Trump victory has driven them insane because the media is in sync with the left.
They're giving them all kinds of TV airtime.
And they are treating what these people say and do as normal.
Well, bring it on because it's abnormal.
It is in many cases deranged.
In other cases, it's sick.
The more Exposure this gets, the greater the opportunity for low information people and casually interested in politics people to learn who and what liberals and liberalism is.
It's been one of my primary tasks since beginning this program in 1988 is to expose the left for who they really are and to and to increase awareness of liberalism and expand people's understanding, education, and knowledge of it, which means helping people or turning people into more ideological observers.
And it's a great, great opportunity.
I mean, this is a great opportunity for so many things, and you don't know when it's going to happen again.
Let's look at tax policy.
We have the best opportunity since Reagan of serious, meaningful, productive tax policy that is going to stimulate growth.
It's going to expand and increase wealth.
It's going to bring wealth to far many more people.
It is going to actually increase revenue to the Treasury at the same time.
We have an opportunity to shrink the role of government in people's lives.
It isn't going to be easy because the bureaucracy is entrenched with career leftists.
But you know, you talk to people in the Republican Party, the Ways and Means Committee, and I they get it.
They realize what a once in a career opportunity this is.
And the opportunity is the fact that the Democrats don't have the votes to stop anything.
That's the opportunity.
The challenge is for the Republicans to realize they won, to keep realizing they won, to act like they won, and to not have any guilt about it.
Those things require a major attitudinal shift on the part of the Republicans.
They've been winning, but they've never been able to feel totally free with it.
There's been some guilt, there's been some shame, there's been some fear of the media, fear of the left, the need to feel like they have to share power and to not gloat or any of this.
All that stuff has to be shelved.
And winners need to start acting like winners and implement the things that we all believe and they claim they believe too, and have claimed so in campaign after campaign all of our lives.
It is a unique opportunity to accomplish one hell of a lot here.
Now the left doesn't want that to happen, and the media doesn't want that to happen, so their focus is on delegitimizing Trump's win, delegitimizing Trump personally, delegitimizing Trump's presidency, delegitimizing his agenda, delegitimizing everybody who works for him, while at the same time, time to establish as normal and common the losers here.
So that is the grand vision that I have as I approach the program each and every day, because it is a and it's it's multifaceted.
But one of the things that I think in addition to the positive opportunity to grow and expand and implement meaningful uh political and cultural and social change at the same time it is to defeat and diminish the left.
It's a rare opportunity.
I just I would like to see that maximized.
So just the second day of his presidency, Trump is dismantling the Obama legacy.
Bloomberg reported today that Trump, this is before it actually happened, uh, intended to sign two executive actions that would advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
Trump did sign both executive orders in a ceremony at 11 o'clock.
You know what's brilliant about, you know, Trump is a media master.
He's second only to me in media mastery.
You know what he's doing here with these executive orders?
It's very simple.
Trump realizes that for many people, and it's not new, but it's talent to be able to use it, execute it properly, realizes the importance of pictures.
I am unique in the media world, not needing Pictures to succeed or make my point.
But many people do.
Trump, let's just look at this.
The actual signing ceremony for an executive order.
He's got all these people around him.
That shows massive support and agreement.
Friendship positive.
He's got the document.
It's open.
He is seen reading it.
Then he reads it to the camera.
And then in front of the camera, he signs it.
And all of that equals one word.
Progress.
Action.
Agenda item checked off.
Trump accomplishing whatever.
All in just the televising of one signing ceremony.
And the pictures are out there, and low information people and others are watching it.
And you don't need to listen to the drive-bys tell you what Trump did.
You don't need to listen to them tell you what he's gonna do before it happens.
Just see it actually happen, and you're watching, in effect, change and progress take place within the confines of the Trump campaign.
He's doing the exact things he said he was going to do.
In fact, one of the one of the primary slogans of the Trump presidency is now you know I meant it.
Everything he said he was going to do, he's off and running on it.
And the pictures are there to support it, and it just spells, it visualizes, it equals progress and action on so many things that Obama and the Democrats have been stonewalling.
And Trump explains why they've been stonewalling and explains why it's going to be good for the country and good for people when he does these things.
Now he's meeting with car executives, too, this morning in Washington.
Now stop and think of this.
As most people would what do you mean, auto executives?
Didn't Obama save the auto industry?
I mean, you go back to the 2012 Democrat Convention, and uh what was the slogan?
GM is something and Osama is dead.
I forget the exact slogan, but you know, Obama took over General Motors, supposedly gave it to the unions, saved the auto industry by having the government by what in the world is Trump doing meeting with these guys.
Well, here's a little bite.
Trump promising car makers he's gonna help them.
This is at the White House.
We're going to make the process much more simple for the auto companies and for everybody else that wants to do business in the United States.
I think you're going to find this to be from very inhospitable to extremely hospitable.
I think we'll go down as one of the most friendly countries.
And right now it's not.
I'm gonna have friends that uh want to build in the United States to go many, many years, and then they can't get their environmental permit over something that nobody ever heard of before.
And it's absolutely crazy.
And I am to a large extent an environmentalist, I believe him.
But it's out of control.
And we're gonna make a very short process, and we're going to either give you your permits or we're not going to give you permits, but you're going to know very quickly.
And generally speaking, we're going to be giving you your permits.
So we're going to be very friendly.
There we go.
So Trump and the auto executives, and that seems to be going along just fine.
Now I want to go back to the union guys for a second, because I'm well aware that there are many of you out there who have some trepidation over it.
I mean, let's be honest.
Up until this year, if you mention a name Richard Trumpke or Jimmy Hoffett Jr., I mean, this is like this was bad news.
These guys were aligned with the Democrat Party.
They donated to the Democrat Party.
They propped up the Democrat Party.
They elected the Democrat Party.
They were for big government.
They for everything that we opposed as conservatives.
They raised money, they campaigned, they did uh television production commercials for Democrats.
They excoriated Republicans.
They had made these these ads showing Paul Ryan pushing his grandmother over a cliff in a wheelchair.
They did some despicable things.
They hated the Republican Party.
They hated conservatism.
They hated the idea of small government.
They were in bed almost Literally with the Democrat Party.
Now, all of a sudden, these same guys are singing the praises of Donald J. Trump.
Are any of you worried about this?
Or is there some cautious reservation about this among any of you?
I mean, have they changed?
Are they still the same people that love the Democrats?
And loved big government, and loved anybody that opposed Republicans, these are the same people that whatever the issue was, abortion, immigration, whatever the Democrat Party's position on it was, these union guys lockstep.
Have they changed?
What's changed?
What has made them abandon the Democrat Party?
Is it substance?
Is it Trump and these trade deals and actually opening up job opportunities for labor unions?
What the didn't the Democrats do that?
Or was this another instance where, like the Democrats get 93% of the vote of the African American community, but really never do anything for them?
Angry African Americans have been angry for as long as they've been voting Democrat.
Their lives haven't improved.
The Democrat Party hasn't made that big a difference in their lives and their fortunes and their futures, but they keep voting Democrat.
The unions were the same.
The unions were constantly angry, constantly enraged, always ripping a new one for Republicans and so forth, just total locks up with the Democrat Party, even though all the Democrat Party did was talk a good game.
The thing that united union workers and Democrat Party seemed to be a common hatred of conservatism, small government, you name it, with the mistaken belief that the Republican Party was inexorably tied to big business.
The Democrat Party is the party that's become inexorably tied to big business and big Wall Street and Big Bank.
So all of a sudden, these same guys just can't get themselves enough of Donald Trump.
They just love an em some Donald John Trump.
Who's changed?
And depending on how you answer that.
Is there any concern?
I'll let you ponder that.
We'll take a brief time out, and then to open the phones.
We'll do that right when we get back.
This is Briel.
Brielle, great to have you.
I'm glad you waited.
And welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Thanks so much, Rush.
I uh I am the uh while I acknowledge uh I'm a big fan of your show, and we think a lot alike, and why I acknowledge that you are correct 99.97% of the time, I am the point oh three where you are now.
Okay.
And what I mean by that is that transgenderism, I'm a transgender woman, and um transgenderism is definitely not a liberal phenomena.
Well, I it may not be, but as far as the media and the Democrat Party and liberalism is concerned, it is.
I mean, they have transgenderism is not political, they have commandeered it, and they have made it every bit as big a liberal uh facet as is homosexuality, gay rights, transgender rights.
You may not be a liberal, but I'm telling you, they want as many people as possible to think that transgenderism is tied to liberalism almost exclusively.
Oh, I agree with you that that's their game.
But the right plays the same kind of a game in reverse.
Uh and you do it too, Rush.
I have to say, you do it.
I do not play games.
You have to member folks.
I don't play games.
Um well, this is what I mean.
Um, earlier on, you were speaking in a somewhat disparaging voice about trans folks.
And um, my take, honestly, is that the left, as you say, tries to prove how inclusive they are, how compassionate they are by championing our cause, as long as it serves them.
Um, but the right will then make fun of uh lampoon, call crazy, call nut jobs, which I've heard you do.
Um and use us in a different way, use us to uh strike back against the liberals.
Well, I'm here to say is that we don't belong to the right or the left.
We just are who we are.
Well, in your mind, you may this is the point.
Brielle, I'm telling you the left is attempting to co-opt transgenderism as an exclusive belief, political belief that it is inexorably tied to liberalism.
It's like they did homosexuality.
I know there's all kinds of gay people at a right wing and conservative, but they never get talked about, they never get mentioned.
But I'm trying to make the point that's never made, which is the right will disparage us in order to strike back at the liberals.
And honestly, I've heard you do that too.
How?
And um I when you were describing the uh the march that took place the other day, um, you're talking about the nut job uh transgender activists.
And you're right there.
You don't have to do that, Rush.
All you have to do is make the point that the left is trying to co-opt transgender false.
I didn't call transgenders nut jobs.
I called the whole March nut jobs.
It didn't matter.
The whole thing is a bunch of looney tunes.
Um I'm not disagreeing with you.
Well, then you see, we're we're on the same page.
See, the transgendered Brielle and I have patched up our differences here.
And I'm very happy to have participated in this outreach, Briel.
I appreciate your call.
I really do.
I get what you're saying.
Thanks much.
I gotta go out of time.
We'll be back after this.
Here's Mary, Castroville, Texas.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hey.
Hey Rush, how are you?
I'm fine, thank you.
I feel like I'm back in school.
That good info on the pipelines.
You feel like you're back in school?
Yes, I'm getting so much information from you.
Oh, oh, good.
Oh, well, thank you.
That was a compliment.
I hated school, that's why when I um have a question.
So uh maybe I've been asleep for a long time, but when did we become such a racist society?
Well, see, we're not.
We're not.
We have made so many advances in race relations in this country.
That's that's the thing about what the left has been doing, Black Lives Matter, Ferguson and Baltimore.
This what enrages me is that they're trying to make it look like we haven't made any advances since slavery.
They really are trying to make that point.
And uh it if that's a bit too extreme, maybe they're trying to say that we haven't had any advances since the sixties in civil rights, but all of it is purposely divisive.
We're not the racist society.
The Democrats want everybody to believe that we are.
Do you think we are?
Um no, but you know, listening to all these celebrities, uh I mean, I d I'm telling you, it makes me I'm not even watching movies anymore.
My music is very limited.
I mean, if they want if they're talking about equal pay in Hollywood, why aren't they protesting there?
Why did they have to wait until now to to talk about equal pay amongst them?
I mean, I'm sure that's not something that just happened overnight.
Well, you talked about uh your learning and getting so much information here.
The Hollywood people, for the most part, are genuinely ignorant.
I'm not saying stupid.
They don't know half what they think they know.
They are used mouthpieces.
It is and by the way, that isn't working.
I I would think the people using Hollywood uh celebrities to sell things would realize it's backfiring on them.
Uh it's not working.
It's not changing anybody's mouth.
Hillary didn't win, and she had every meaningful Hollywood celebrity there was behind her.
The celebrity quotient, the celebrity factor issue by issue by issue, it isn't working.
People have lost respect for them.
This is not what they want out of actors and actresses and other celebrities.
They don't want to know what they think about politics, it's none of their business.
And it these the the celebrities approach people as though we're the idiots.
We don't know what we're doing.
They're the smart ones.
We should listen.
Is Martin Sheen and his buddies trying to tell The electoral college what to do.
Uh you know, I I think you're right to be offended by it, but the your question is great.
When did because it's rhetorical, when did we become such a racist society?
We're not.
And we're not the sexist society that they want you to think that we are.
We are not the discriminatory society.
There has been all kinds of progress.
And the left is out there at the same time they're decrying all this, claiming credit for all the advances.
You know, Bomba's talking about what great advances we've made in uh in our cultural evolution.
We've not got gay marriage.
I mean, we just elected the first black president, the richest TV personality in America is a black woman, and yet at the same time they want to tell us what racist we all are.
The Democrat National Committee, there's a woman seeking the chairmanship who claims her job is to shut up white people.
If you go to college classes today, you'll find that white privilege is one of the predominantly taught courses, and white privilege seeks to explain how white people have had all the advantages from the founding and they've taken everything for themselves.
They've left scraps and crumbs for everybody else, and that means it's time to take it back, take it away from the white majority.
And losing and losing.
The American people for the longest time bit their tongues and went along with all these silly ideas that we're racist and sexist and bigoted and all those things are techniques whereby the left can divide people and primarily dispirit people like you, depress people like you into giving up, thinking you've lost your country, thinking it's pointless in fighting back, and it's backfiring on them big time.
We're not racist, as they believe.
We're not a misogynistic society.
We're not a sexist society.
Um we it just it's it's it's embarrassing and it's insulting.
So I'm glad you asked the question.
I really am.
Thank you.
Here's Raul.
Raul in Fort Lauderdale, you're next to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
How you doing, Rush?
Just fine, thank you.
I just wanted to first of all thank you because um I am I live here in Florida, real close to you on West Palm, right?
Close enough.
Okay.
Uh so anyways, uh, I uh been listening to you for the last maybe nine months, and I've become I've become somewhat of an authority around my house.
And um i it it's just been really eye-opening.
You have really schooled me in the art of um uh speaking politics and breaking things down and translating.
Thank you very much.
How did you find the program, Raul?
How did you find it?
I actually listened to WOR in New York, um, and listened to um Mar Simone and and um and um uh Todd, Lennon Todd in the morning as I drive a truck along for Lauderdale in West Palm.
Right, right, right.
Um I ran into you.
I did not I didn't look for you.
You just came on at noon and you started speaking uh it's somewhat of uh it was something about Trump.
Uh I mean I've been supporting Trump since the beginning, which by the way is really ironic that I am an immigrant, I am black, I'm I'm Dominican descent.
And um, and I I married an Anglo-Saxon uh wife.
But you know, according to the liberals, I should be I should have been voting for uh Hillary, but never mind.
I voted for Trump and everyone in my house uh uh supported Trump.
But aside from that, my son is 26 years old, and he he he sits upstairs in a in a loft that we have, and he's into computer games.
He's 26, he makes a good living, but he was pretty liberal.
I had you on um from twelve to three, and I mean, me and my wife would just walk around, laugh, we would get to understand things that were going on, and before you know it came time to vote, uh he voted for tr for Trump, and he was a Hillary supporter.
And uh it would it means he basically owed it to you.
I would hear him giggling upstairs when you would break things down and and and just lighten them up, you know, just uh make him understand where we're well let me just Raul, I thank you because I know you know what what what you're what I what I hear you say, correct me if I'm wrong, but the way I explained Trump and his supporters resonated with you and your son, is that right?
Yes.
Yes, definitely.
He understood he it was layman's terms, and also just the common sense, how things were you when you explain things?
I wish that Trump would find someone to be uh the press secretary to put him up there and just have someone like you that pretty much says it like it is and and would answer the press.
Sometimes I think they joke.
You know, and as good as they've been doing lately, man, if we if we could clone you and send someone up there with the same guts that you have to just try and tell people how it is, it would be amazing.
Well, let me Sean Spicer's pretty good.
Sean Spicer came over from the Republican National Committee, and he's pretty good, and he's exhibiting a fearlessness that is very much needed.
And he's doing great job.
I you're very kind out there, Raul.
I really, really uh appreciate it.
Uh and you're very shrewd and observant.
Um there aren't very many people.
I'm just gonna say this.
You still there, Raul?
I am still here, yes.
I don't think it was I sometimes I don't do this often, but I do get introspective now and then.
It's necessary to do a good job.
And I always try to be honest with myself and keep everything in perspective.
Yeah, but sometimes honesty means calling somebody a looney tune the same way you just call someone a looney tune.
Well And you call them a loony tune, and I appreciate that.
I are just a fresh beat that everyone's been getting from Trump and yourself.
Yeah.
But but one of the things I was gonna say is I I I don't know, like you have identified something that was uh crucial and important to you and your son, and that is the way I uh dissected Trump and explained who Trump is and who his supporters are from the get-go and why he was appealing to people.
And I think you probably took it to a great greater detail of understanding than than uh many first-time listeners do.
So I would just wanted to thank you for that and uh wish you the best.
I'm glad you called.
I hope you stay in the audience out there.
What do you do for a living, Raul?
I uh I drive a talk at the weekdays, and then I'm a DJ on the weekends.
And uh just by the way, I have a grandson just came new, and uh I'm gonna get him started on the on the rush um revere books.
Oh, cool, cool.
How old how old is the grandson?
How old is he?
How old's a grandson?
But thank you so much.
From on behalf of my family and everyone here, you really have you know put everything in layman's terms and have really opened our eyes.
You've made my day, Raul, thank you.
I really appreciate it.
Rush Review books.
Get his get get his contact data.
We'll send a set of the books for the upcoming growing grandson.
We'll be back after this, folks.
Do not go away.
The daily press briefing underway.
Sean Spicer's second day.
They announced that they're gonna name the new Supreme Court Justice nominee next week.
It appears it's gonna be this guy in Colorado named Gorsuch, who is a um uh very, very down the middle conservative, a good good good pick, if that's who it is, uh, details and explanations on some of the uh previous rulings that he's been involved in in due course.
Also, Trump has been invited to give a joint uh speech before joint session of Congress on February twenty-eighth, and he has accepted it.
It's a quasi State of the Union.
Um State of the Union speech, president's first term, uh it'll be sort of what it is.
I don't know if it'll actually be titled as such, but uh February twenty-eighth is when uh that'll happen.
The press room is overflowing, it's crowded as it they are gonna have to expand this place because no matter what the left wants to think, there's more more interest in Donald Trump than there has been in any president in a long time, outside of first six months of Obama, and that was of course the uh because of the historical nature and aspect of it.
Quickly, Greg in Elo, Missouri, I'm glad you called, sir.
How are you doing?
That's Elo, Michigan, Rush.
I'm sorry.
That's okay.
I'm not gonna keep anyway.
Uh I don't know if you saw the cover of National Geographic this month.
That's one of my favorite magazines.
I uh I've been reading it since I was a kid for the nude photos.
Yeah.
Well, I get it, but now they have uh the cover was a uh little transgendered boy this month, and I was just perplexed as to Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, a transgender boy.
Yeah, and the cover of National Geographic in January.
Uh he I I didn't read it, but it it looks like he's about maybe nine or ten.
And with pink hair.
And it says uh look, I rest my case.
If you're asking me what they're doing, they are politicizing transgenderism, and they are converting it to one of the uh aggrieved groups that will now be championed by liberalism.
You know, liberalism is the politics of grievance.
The liberals try to make victims out of every supporter they've got.
They take supporter could be anybody, anything, any belief, and they will assign a group based on that supporter's skin color.
Uh gender, uh, gender orientation, ethnicity, whatever works best, and they'll put them in a group of victims.
And as far as liberalism concerned, everybody is a victim.
Is a victim of white America, the America from our founding, a victim of Republican conservatism, a victim of capitalism, you name it.
And so this is an attempt to further the idea that transgender people are victimized by the white majority, the tyranny of the white majority, and victimized by the tyranny of the Christian majority.
Make no mistake about it.
And it's this doing nine or ten-year-old transgender?
Stop and think of that for a minute.
With everything you know about transgenderism and gender confusion, or what I mean, nine or ten years old, fine.
It is all about attempting to co-opt the entire population of transgenders, and not convince them, but convince the rest of America that transgenders are discriminated against and are thus victims, and the liberals are their protectors and guarantors, and that's all that cover is attempting to say.
During the break, I found out what National Geographic is saying about this issue.
You you'll probably believe it, but it's unbelievable.
So that's coming up.
Spicer just told the media that Mr. Trump thinks a lot of people illegally voted this election, and the media is fit to be tied.
I love it.
We will continue after this.
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