I just had a chance to answer every facet of it until I ran out of time.
The guy wanted to know what the hell National Geographic, a geography magazine, doing with a cover story on a nine or ten year old being transgender.
I'm going to get there.
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This press briefing is going.
This is just, I am loving this.
Okay, so Spicer comes out and he starts talking about all the things that Trump has done and all the things that Trump has signed and all the progress that Trump is making and how the president is focused on putting Americans back to work and then slips in out of nowhere that the president believes, still believes that millions of people voted illegally in the last election.
Well, that is a dog whistle to the media.
Because if you'll recall, shortly after the election, even beforehand, there were reports that 2 million, 3 million illegal aliens voted.
And that was thrown up against Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote.
And Trump had thrown it out there, I think, as a counterweight or as a balance to Hillary winning the popular vote.
The media immediately had a cow.
Now, we all know, we all know it's been documented.
John Fund has almost made a second career out of documenting voter fraud in both books and pieces, stories that have run at National Review and the Wall Street Journal.
To say that people do not vote illegally in this country is just a lie.
People do.
And in some cases, large numbers.
The left all of a sudden wants us to believe that that never happens and that Trump bringing it up, he better have some proof.
He better have some evidence to support this claim.
So he made the claim and the media had their cow and it kind of went away as other aspects of the Trump transition began to take its place, acquire more prominence, substantive policy issues and so forth.
Then the Democrats zeroed in.
They actually never gave up on it.
The Democrats zeroed in on the Russians having stolen the election.
The Russians hacked something.
The media and the Democrats tried to create this impression that the election results were hacked, that Trump benefited by the Russians cheating Hillary Clinton, even though Hillary won the popular vote.
And the effort to delegitimize Trump by virtue of Russian sabotage and Russian chicanery continued.
And it's still one of the primary narratives of the Drive-By Media Newsday.
It's always out there.
Some days it's more prominent than others.
So in the midst of this great report card of day two of the Trump administration, all of the repeals, all the executive orders, all of the union guys coming up with some big-time major love for Trump, all of this, Spicer happens to throw in during the press conference, the president still believes that millions of people voted illegally.
And man, Mara Lyason, and I don't know who the journalist is sitting next to her.
I want to say Julie Pace AP, but I don't think I'm right about that.
Fox is not identifying these people, so you don't know who they are.
You don't know who they are.
I recognize Mara Lyason.
So the woman sitting next to Mara Lyason just zeroed in on this claim.
And Spicer said, no, the president still believes that millions of Americans, millions of illegal votes were cast in the election.
Do you have any proof?
Do you have any proof?
Can you prove it?
You can't just make these claims.
You make these claims.
You have any.
Well, the president is thinking of conducting a serious investigation into this.
And then the woman drops it and they move on to something else, the hiring freeze.
And the VA exempted from the hiring freeze.
And Mara Lyason points out, that's 41,000 people being exempted from the hiring freeze.
By the way, this hiring freeze.
Federal employees are taking this hard because not only is there a hiring freeze, there are other aspects of the freeze.
Grants and other things are being frozen.
Not only is there a freeze on hiring people, there's a freeze on these on these agencies actually being able to grant money and regulations.
They're fit to be tied.
So they focus on that for a second.
And Mara Lyason, after her questions in the V8, goes back to this claim that Spicer made: well, my gosh, if you think this many people voted illegally, don't you think?
I mean, this is a major, major story.
Don't you think there should be a primary investigation of this?
And Spicer says, well, the president's very serious about looking into this, but his primary focus is rebuilding America, creating jobs, the American people, lowering taxes.
Folks, look, it's a long version here of telling you that this is pretty masterful.
What is happening here?
It's been fun to watch this because the media, I guarantee you, the media thinks that Spicer doesn't know what he's doing.
They think he's out of his league.
They think he's a neophyte.
A, he's a Republican.
So he's deficient just because of that.
He's never done this, number two.
He's never faced them in their minds, number three.
And they expect him to be Dan Quayle-like, you know, deer in the headlight eyes, frozen in fear and intimidated and bullied by the fact that they are there.
They are the big drive-by.
They're the White House press corps.
And Spicer is unaffected.
He is not overawed.
He is not bamboozled.
He's not quaking in fear.
He's not nervous.
He's not stuttering.
And I just think that it's kind of clever here to replace their focus on Russian hackery going back now to the fact that maybe millions of illegals voted.
The press is going to be running in circles here, trying to figure out which narrative they want to focus on.
And they're going to end up with so many anti-Trump narratives that they're going to overdo it.
They're not going to know which ones to focus on.
They're going to try to do all of them and they're going to look silly.
Now, Trump today, the New York Times, the Washington Post are beside themselves.
Trump walking back TPP.
That New York Times is beside itself because that's one of Obama's major achievements.
Oh my God, it's being just torn apart right in front of my very eyes.
And then the Washington Post, Trump told the automakers that this environmental stuff is just out of control.
We've got to get our environmental focus back.
We're just out of control here on environmental regulations and the penalties that you face manufacturing cars.
We have got to, and I guarantee you, heads are exploding from Tom Styre to Al Gore to every little millennial blogger that I read in the tech world that thinks global warming is the single most important issue.
And for Trump just to casually come out while basically erasing much of the Obama now claiming that we're out of control.
By the way, the Spanish language website of the White House is gone.
All reference to climate change is gone on the White House website.
In basically, well, you said two days, maybe four if you want to count the weekend.
So this, this is, I think they're learning Trump mantra is, or his campaign slogan, you don't think I meant it, I meant it.
Everything he said so far on the campaign trail, he is acting on exactly as he said he was going to act on it.
Now back to National Geographic, because we have the caller who notes that there's a young child on the cover of National Geographic, and it's a cover story is on transgenderism.
And a caller wanted to know, what does transgenderism have to do with geography?
I mean, it's national geographic.
So what's going on?
And I explained to him that this is a great example of how the left co-opts an issue, co-opts, a lifestyle, whatever, and converts it into one of their causes, and then automatically makes everybody in that group of people,
in this case transgenders, a victim, a victim of America, a victim of Christianity, a victim of white America, a victim of majority America, a victim of the Republicans, a victim of capitalism, a victim of whatever.
Doesn't matter if you're a transgender and you are Republican.
Doesn't matter.
Your transgenderism is being stolen.
It's being hijacked.
It's being co-opted by liberalism and appropriated to advance their political agenda.
And the reason, you know, I asked earlier today, maybe yesterday, what is it about transgenderism makes it liberal?
And we had a transgender woman calling it's not.
Well, yes, it is.
She may not think it is, but it is.
Transgender, just like militant homosexuality, automatically liberal.
And I think one of the reasons why transgenderism is big now is because the politics of gay movement is such that, hey, they got gay marriage.
I mean, what else is it?
I mean, pretty much nothing left much to complain about.
So something has to replace homosexuality as a liberal cause to live and it's transgenderism because it has close ties to homosexuality and that it's gender identity and gender orientation.
Now, it turns out that the transgender child on the cover of National Geographic is Avery Jackson, nine years old.
And the National Geographic editor-in-chief explained the cover by saying, quote, it seems that the discussion about gender is really at the center of our national conversation.
Oh, really?
Is it?
How many of you at the dinner table or when you go out to eat, or how many of you, whenever you get together with family, how many of you are talking transgenderism as a mainstream issue?
Exactly.
None of you.
Statistically speaking, none of you.
And yet, National Geographic, a magazine on geography, they would tell you they're a world sociology journal, but whatever.
It seems that the discussion about gender is really at the center of our national conversation.
It isn't.
They're making it up.
They are trying to create this idea, this illusion.
They're trying to create the impression that everybody, this is classic, folks.
It's how the media does it.
It's how the left, they come up with a cause that they all support, and then they treat it as though it's normal and natural, number one, and number two, that everybody in America is also on the same page and is talking about it and agrees with them.
And the media coverage of this, by virtue of the editor's admission here, this is the express purpose here, is to make you think that you're strange and weird and not in the mainstream at all because anybody that counts.
I mean, everybody's talking about transgenderism.
It's the latest big national conversation, except you're not talking about it.
So you're supposed to go, wow, I must be weird.
Wow, I must be odd.
Everybody's talking about transgenderism.
I'm not.
What's wrong with me?
That's what they want you to think.
All of this is manufactured.
There's nothing real.
Remember, these people don't exist in reality.
They wouldn't know it.
They don't accept it.
They construct it to appeal to them in the cocoons in which they live.
So the editor says, it seems a discussion about gender is really at the center of our national conversation.
It's playing out in our education system, in the legal system, military, everywhere you look.
There is this conversation.
No, there isn't.
It isn't everywhere you look.
It isn't until it is pushed into our faces, as in the feminazi march on Sunday.
And even that, the transgenders are ticked off because they were not included in it.
Made the point earlier today that the transgender females are mad because it seemed that the exclusive requirement to participate in the march was a vagina.
And the transgenders say that that's not true.
Any notion of feminism that requires a vagina is a fraud.
Look, don't ask me to make sense of this.
I'm just telling you what they're saying.
And they were mad that the non-transgenders of the feminist movement ran that march and didn't include the trannies.
And yet here's National Geographic telling us that transgenderism is dominating every conversation there is.
And it's dominating the legal system.
And it's dominating the political system.
And it's dominating the whatever system, but it isn't.
It's not even close.
The National Geographic editor said that their story started out to be about girl empowerment.
A year ago, they were working on a story about girl empowerment for National Geographic.
And I think that's when they expected Hillary to be elected.
Just like Homeland, the TV show, expected Hillary to be president, so they got a female president.
And National Geographic expected Hillary to be president, so now they're working on a story a year ago about girl empowerment, supposed to be hand-in-hand with Hillary Clinton.
Somehow we get from Hillary Clinton and girl empowerment to transgenderism.
Be still, my beating heart.
So when none of that happened, the editor says, when Hillary didn't win and when we didn't decide to go full bore on the issue of girl empowerment, we tweaked it a little to make it more politically relevant, and that is to make it transgender.
They've produced an accompanying documentary, Gender Revolution, A Journey with Katie Couric, which will air on the National Geographic channel on February 6th.
And this is how it's done, folks.
I'm glad this is how it's done, and people are now seeing how it's done.
Without these people in power, it's a big difference.
These are people lost the election.
They're not in power.
They're upset.
And people get to see them with an entirely different perspective.
But still, the question, what does any of this have to do with geography?
I don't know, folks, unless you want to study the geography of the bosom and the geography of the pubic area.
I don't know what to tell you.
This is great.
The drive-bys won't stop asking about it.
I guess Trump last night made some reference again to all of the illegals who voted.
And the drive-bys just keep going back to it today.
And Spicer says, look, there's no investigation.
We're thinking of having one.
There's nothing new here, you people.
The president has said that he believed a number of illegal people voted for a long time.
He referenced it again last night.
And you're acting like it's something new.
It isn't anything new.
And they are acting like it's something new.
They will not let go of it.
They are demanding evidence.
They're demanding an investigation.
They're demanding that Trump back it up.
They're demanding that Spicer back it up.
You know what?
There's even a couple of Russian journalists that are in the briefing today.
Russian journalists, folks, with the drive-bys thinking the Russians hacked the election.
And Trump's team has welcomed Russian journalists.
Everybody knows Russia doesn't have journalists.
They have hacks.
This is in their face.
At least that's what it appears to me.
I haven't a chance to watch the whole thing here.
But that's what it seems to me to be.
And now there's one other thing I need to throw in here about transgenderism that you may not know.
Nobody knows what the transgender population in the country is.
It's obviously infinitesimal.
It's very small.
But you can expect to see stories about how it's growing as the left attempts to politicize it.
But here's what you don't know.
Within the transgender community, there is a sizable percentage of it that supports Donald Trump.
They're not dominated, governed by, or otherwise controlled by their transgenderism.
Liberal transgenders, liberal gay people, liberal, their identity is all that matters.
It's first, second, and third, and then everything else comes.
Well, liberalism comes first and then their identity.
But in case of these transgenders for Trump, what happens to them if they come out as Trump supporters?
They are besieged by Democrats and liberals and leftists and other transgenders, and they're savaged.
And they are, I mean, to put it simply, they're mistreated.
And they are excommunicated from the community of other transgenders.
Now, just so you understand how important that is, gender transfer and gender identification is a very, it's a small segment of the population.
And everybody wants to gather with people like them.
I mean, that's how people form friendships and relationship with like-minded people.
And what the left-wing, Democrat-dominated transgender movement does, if any transgender person, Twitter, Facebook, wherever, publicly supports Donald Trump, they are set upon and bullied and intimidated and, for lack of a better word, excommunicated from the transgender community.
And they're fed up with it and they're tired of it.
And they're trying to let people know that they exist.
Because they, in their minds, they just want to make America great again, like everybody supporting Trump does.
But the left, folks, doesn't matter if you're not with them.
They will attempt to bully you, intimidate you, destroy you, or what have you.
It's a lot of coercion, a lot of intimidation.
It's the same thing with conservative gays.
They are with conservative African Americans.
You've seen it, Uncle Tom's, the insults that are hurled, the excommunication.
And they say, you're not even black.
You're not a black person.
You can't be black.
You've seen all this.
It's the same thing to transgenders.
It's the same thing with gays who are not doctrinaire communists and socialists and liberal Democrats.
I have a couple soundbites.
I've been talking about the press briefing with Scott Spicer and the drive-bys here.
It turns out the woman I thought with Julie Pace, AP, was actually, what's her name?
Cecilia Vega.
And she is with ABC.
We have two soundbites on this.
And this is Cecilia Vega bringing up the subject of Trump believing that a bunch of illegals voted in the last election.
Does the president believe that millions voted illegally in this election?
And what evidence do you have of widespread voter fraud in this election, if that's the case?
The president does believe that.
He has stated that before.
I think he stated his concerns about voter fraud and people voting illegally during the campaign.
And he continues to maintain that belief based on studies and evidence that people have presented to him.
Exactly what evidence?
Speaker Ryan today said there's no evidence.
The National Association of Secretaries of State say that they don't agree with the president's assessment.
What evidence do you have?
As I said, I think the president has believed that for a while based on studies and information he has.
Right.
So then they went off on other things and Mara Lyason had her turn.
She asked about the VA hiring freeze, VA exempt.
And then she got back to this claim.
You can tell the drive-bys, they don't believe it happened, and they've got all this other evidence.
The National Association of Secretaries of State, Transgender and Otherwise, all say it didn't happen.
Paul Ryan said it didn't.
Look, there is voter fraud out there, and it's been documented time and time again.
And the reason that the Democrats are opposed to voter ID is so they can continue to engage in voter fraud.
It's simple.
Voter fraud occurs.
And voter ID, a photo ID proving you are who you are and that you're registered when you show the Democrats oppose that.
Because it's one of the greatest techniques of preventing voter fraud there is.
Anyway, Mara Lyason got back to it later on in her questioning.
Just to follow up on Cecilia, if three to five million people voted illegally, that is a scandal of astronomical proportions.
Doesn't he want to restore Americans' faith in their ballot system?
Wouldn't he want an investigation of this?
Well, I think this is a problem.
As I've noted several times now, he's believed this for a long time.
And I think he won fairly overwhelmingly.
So he's not.
I'm asking you, why not investigate somebody who's not going to be able to do that?
Maybe we will.
The biggest scandal in American electoral history, three to five million people voting illegally?
And I think we'll see where we go from here.
But right now, the focus that the president has is on putting Americans back to work.
It was a comment that he made on a long-standing belief.
You find it ironic that he, well, that would be the biggest scandal in the world.
Three and a half million people voting illegally.
Wait a minute.
I thought the Russians hacking the election was the big scandal.
And all of a sudden the drive-bys are out there saying that it's this.
That would be the biggest scandal.
Three, five million.
By the way, Trump's never said three to five million.
I think the number was 2 million.
There's never been 3 to 5 million.
Here is Mike in O'Calla, Florida.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's great to talk to you.
This is like winning the lottery for me.
I've tried to call you for years, and I finally got through.
Well, welcome.
It's great to have you here.
I had a couple points I wanted to make, kind of like leading off of your discussion of the transgender issue.
It is true.
I feel like as a gay Christian man that, and I'm also a conservative, that the Democrats have co-opted all of the different demographic groups in this country.
And I know for me personally, like I had to deactivate my Facebook after the election because I could not stand to read and hear all the comments from my friends and colleagues and associates who were upset that Trump won in the election.
And I'm a supporter of Trump.
And in spite of the fact that Governor Pence or Vice President Pence now, you know, he has one view about Christianity and homosexuality.
And that doesn't line up with what my view is of it.
But, you know, I still support Trump as a candidate because in the long run, you know, gay marriage is here now.
It's not really going to go away.
The only way it's going to go away is if the Supreme Court reverses its earlier decision or if there's a constitutional amendment, you know, or if someone somehow is able to get standing to challenge the laws as they're written.
But, you know, in spite of that.
That's not going to happen.
That's not going to happen under Trump.
He's got other things to focus on.
I don't see anybody taking on gay marriage at this stage.
I may be surprised.
I think the story here, look what happens to you.
You're gay, Republican.
You voted for Trump.
You're ostracized.
You have to deactivate your Facebook account because of what they have.
My point from the beginning of this program is this, that I don't want to offend you, Mike, but homosexuality, just in numeric terms, is a minority of the general population of America.
Transgenderism is a minority.
African Americans are a minority.
Hispanics are a minority.
For the longest time, the Democrat Party and their sociologists in the media have been telling us that the white majority of this country is being eroded and it isn't going to be the majority much longer.
And all these minorities are taking over.
So the Democrat Party decided in November of 2011 to abandon white working class voters.
It was a strategic move based on their belief in demographics.
And they have thrown in with every disparate minority they can find.
And they've converted every damn one of them to victim status.
They're all victims of this evil majority that's either Republican or white or Christian or what have you.
By doing this, the Democrat Party is losing election after election after election after election.
They're now losing the support of one of their biggest groups, organized labor, which is now singing the praises of Donald Trump in exchange for losing.
The Democrats are now sideling up with all these other disparate minorities.
But they're really not because you're gay, but they don't want you because you are not liberal.
You're not progressive.
You're not communist, socialist, or whatever.
So they don't want you.
They don't want transgenders that are also not liberal.
So they are focusing on every single minority they can find, trying to victimize it, convince everybody in that group that they are victims.
And they're trying to convert people like you to abandon the Republicans or Trump or conservatism and throw in with them on the basis that as a gay man, you're a victim.
That's what they want you to do.
They're trying to intimidate you.
They're trying to frighten you.
They're trying to bully you.
And that's what they have decided to do.
And it's a losing proposition right now because everybody misread the demographic makeup of the country.
And they also misread something even more important than that.
They figured because they hate this white majority, be it the Christian majority or the Republican majority, the white majority, they figure they succeeded in convincing a lot of other people to hate it too.
And they don't.
And so they have really put themselves at a distance away from the American mainstream while they have been trying to claim they are the mainstream, but they aren't.
And it really bugs it.
I'm glad you called.
I have to go because of the constraints of time.
We'll be back.
Okay, so what is actually happening here?
There are gay people and transgender people who are being bullied for their political beliefs by the left, not us.
The American, the Democrats, the bullying left, is bullying transgenders and gays for their political beliefs.
And I think that is far more common than being bullied for just being gay or being transgender.
I think the greatest, the biggest bullies in this country on the left are not conservatives.
The biggest discriminators in this country are on the left.
The biggest bigots in this country are on the left, and they are political bigots.
Whether you're transgender, whether you're gay, you better sing their song.
If you don't, you are the target.
Pure and simple.
And the Democrats are trying to tell everybody they can convince that they are a victim of America, period, as it's currently structured.
And they honestly think they have some sort of a political future doing this.
Robbie Sacramento, my adopted hometown, how are you?
Hi, Rush.
As a woman, I feel embarrassed and degraded by the picture of the American woman that the media is presenting to the world right now through their inordinate coverage of the women's march.
Yes.
And by presenting a picture of a very specific kind of woman, one of the requirements of which is anti-Trump, as normal, does a great disservice to the cause of women and the perception of women in our country and around the world.
What is the cause of many elegant and classy women who do not share the personal hygiene issues that Ashley Judd apparently struggles with?
Wait, let me ask you a question.
You said, what is the cause of women?
You acknowledge that it hurts the cause.
What is the cause?
I think to be more specific, for women to be respected.
And if you want to be respected, you need to behave in a way that's worthy of that.
Okay.
That's helpful.
So respect.
I want to be respected.
Who doesn't?
Yeah, but it's nothing to do with my gender.
It really is nothing.
I mean, I don't want to be respected as or because I'm a man.
But I realize I'm from the tyranny of the majority here, so I may not have the ability to relate to others.
But no, that's helpful.
I've always wondered what is the cause.
And this helped, it causes respect.
Helpful.
I appreciate the call, Robbie.
Thanks.
I wish I had more time, too, but I'm out of it.
I have to go.
So I hope you call back.
We'll chat again soon.
Back after this, folks.
Fastest three hours in media.
The evidence, it's over.
Where did it go?
I'll tell you, news is breaking faster than it ever.
Well, not ever has, but I mean, regular daily basis, I don't remember this pace.