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Jan. 25, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 25, 2017, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Hi, folks, welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, the nation's most listened to, most eagerly anticipated, most loyally attached Radio Talk Show in America, hosted by me, the most talked about host at American Radio, telephone number 800 282-2882, and the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
The White House press briefing just got underway.
So far, the press briefing has offered fireworks and other forms of entertainment.
Sean Spicer is at the moment the actual briefing, the opening statement, questions and comments and allegations, accusations from the media will follow.
Now, I may gip this or portions of it determining on how it uh unfolds here.
But I don't want to make a habit of uh of of broadcasting some of the White House press briefing everywhere.
We're rolling always, we're rolling tape on this stuff.
We'll always have highlights for you at some point.
But I may get a wild hair and decide to jip it, which means join in progress, JIP, little inside broadcast lingo there.
But basically just wanted to let you know that it begun.
Uh grab sound bite 19 real quick.
Donald Trump has a interview, I guess a special coming up on ABC News tonight.
Uh, and they have released a little clip from the special tonight, President Trump, the first interview.
And during the interview, it's David Muir, the anchor for ABC News, and he says, Are are you gonna direct U.S. funds to pay for the wall?
Will American taxpayers pay for the wall, Mr. Trump?
Ultimately, it'll come out of what's happening with Mexico.
We're gonna be starting those negotiations relatively soon, and we will be in a form reimbursed by Mexico, which I think.
So they'll pay us back.
Yeah, absolutely, 100%.
So the American taxpayer will pay for the wallet first.
All it is is we'll be reimbursed at a later date from whatever transaction we make.
When does construction begin?
As soon as we can, as soon as we can physically do it.
For months?
I would say in months, yeah.
I would say in months.
Certainly, planning is starting immediately.
Right.
He's gonna do it.
I I think back to all of the people during the campaign.
He's not gonna do it, they can't build a wall.
Come on, Rush, get through it.
And his supporters, they know he's not gonna build a wall.
He's just using symbolism here.
And I think I even at one point may have offered that that thought.
I like I said, I won't be surprised if he doesn't.
And I I heard from Trumpsters, I heard from Trumpists with great detail on why and how he's gonna build the wall, and how it is a it it's one of the tent polls of his administration.
And I got the I got the lowdown on how it's gonna happen.
Now you heard Muir here.
Uh this is classic.
The American people are gonna pay for this, right?
The American people, I mean the original wall and the original payments is gonna be American taxpayer dollars, right?
Yeah, but Mexico's going to pay for it, we're going to get it all back.
But, but, but, but, but, but the American people are going to be paying for the war, Mexico is going to, in our transaction with Mexico, we're gonna get it back on a percent.
But the American people, the taxpayers, the original cost, they're because ABC, you can smell this coming.
They're setting up what obviously is going to be a narrative that Trump lied.
I can see how this is going to fall out.
They're gonna say Trump misled the American people.
The wall is gonna get built if it does, it's gonna get built, and ABC cannot wait to say that original funding was not from Meiko, it was from the American taxpayer.
And they'll stop right there.
And as far as it goes, that will be factual.
And then they'll choose or not to choose some later time to explain how the money was reimbursed by Mexico, how Trump made that happen, and how it ends up being a net zero expense in the bottom line.
I doubt they'll ever get that far.
That's I mean, this is predictable as the sun coming up.
And Muir is telegraphing what they really are hoping to be able to do here by saying Mexico and pay for the wall.
We had to pay for the wall.
If Mexico, if if if if we I can see it now, if we hadn't used American tax taker dollars, there wouldn't be a wall.
So, so, so Trump lied.
And won't get away with it.
Don't misunderstand.
They're not gonna have a prayer of getting away with it, but they're gonna try.
Now, here's another example of how the drive-bys do their jobs and take advantage of the relative ignorance.
That's not a comment on intelligence.
The relative ignorance of low information voters.
Again, ABC News.
And the headline, majority of promised oil pipeline jobs will be temporary.
So you see the headline, you're a millennial, you're a uh low information voter.
You you're happening looking for videos to watch, looking for the latest on Elon Musk or whatever, and you find that headline.
And my God, Trump's a liar!
My God, temporary?
Trump's been bragging about the pipeline and all these jobs coming back.
Well, it's a liar, and the media's exposing Trump as a- And they're gonna be singing the praises of the media doing a great job exposing Trump as a fraud.
The fact of the matter is, every construction job is temporary.
And until the job is finished, the work continues.
When the construction job is finished, the work ends.
And it's in, I mean, there's not a single construction project that lasts as long as your life.
Go to work for the ACME construction company.
You'll be working jobs here, jobs there, you might have some downtime.
But what construction job isn't temporary?
But what this is is working to repair and revise Obama's legacy.
We see the Democrat, they don't understand the first rule of holes.
They dug themselves into a deep hole, and in trying to get out, they're digging themselves in even deeper.
This is what blind partisanship looks like.
Working Americans can see it clearly.
Everybody in the construction industry knows that every construction job is temporary.
In other words, there's no news here.
And there wouldn't be anywhere near this kind of a story associated with any initiative of Barack Obama or the Democrat Party.
The difference is when Obama was promising all those shovel-ready jobs and infrastructure rebuild, we never even got a list of the projects.
Do you know the Trump administration has already released a list of the first infrastructure jobs that are going to take place, and a cost of its 137 or 157 billion has already been assigned.
And one of his modernizing the terminal at the Kansas City Airport.
There's going to be a new tunnel somewhere.
But the jobs are specified.
The costs are specified.
We never got anything of the sort with Obama because there never was any infrastructure repair.
Obama's stimulus money went to union workers, primarily teachers, and union bosses who turned around and gave some of the money back to the Democrat Party is a money laundering operation, essentially.
But Obama couldn't list any infrastructure projects as there weren't any.
But even if there had been, the media would never have run a story saying that the jobs were just temporary.
In fact, most of the jobs created under the Obama administration were part-time.
In its own way, a definition of temporary.
Most of Obama's jobs that were created were part-time, and that's because Obamacare cost employers a hand and a leg if they wanted a full-time employ people.
So they got around the Obamacare cost by hiring more and more people at part-time, you know, under 30 hours a week.
We would have never, We never did get a story about any Obama job being temporary, any Obama recovery story being half hearted or half baked or what have you.
But this is how it's, and it's a very, very long story.
It's uh it's a story about the uh Keystone pipeline and the Dakota pipeline.
Majority of promised Dakota Keystone Pipeline jobs expected to be temporary.
They're all temporary in the construction business.
Every one of them, except for the people that own the construction company.
And then even for them the work is temporary because the job finishes, it completes at some point.
Okay, the Feminazi March on Washington on Sunday, rousing success.
The Hill.com reports that several scientists are now reportedly planning a march of their own on Washington and have taken to social media to garner support for the movement.
A Twitter account that started on Monday has periodically sent out updates and requests for people to get involved.
By the way, we've learned something new about Twitter, although I, and we here at the EIB network already knew it.
Do you realize they have discovered hundreds of thousands of fake Twitter accounts that are essentially being run by robots?
They're called bots or botnets, bot being short for robot, and these are programmed little bursts of computer energy that are designed to look like they have been created by people.
And in this way, by the way, folks, this is this is actually very important.
Social media has been used by everybody that wants to use it to try to influence public opinion in any number of ways, and to lead boycotts of sponsors, to lead boycotts of organizations or what have you.
And one of the things that it's been successful because it's it's made to look like tens of thousands, in some cases hundreds of thousands of people are involved.
Like let's say that you are uh the ABC widget company, and you make widgets, and there's somebody in social media that doesn't like you and wants to harm your business.
So they create bots that do nothing but send fake complaint letters to you, the business owner, and to everybody else warning them that you are a scum business and to stay away.
The business owners, oh my God, oh my God, what am I gonna stop?
How are we gonna stop?
And then everybody else stays away from the business because peer pressure, what have you.
And it and in this way, ten people, in our case we uncovered this, ten people make themselves look like they are thousands or hundreds of thousands of people.
And the recipients of these bot tweets are not sophisticated enough to look at where they're actually coming from.
Part of the fakery is that these tweets are made to look like they're locals.
If the ABC widget company is an Oshkosh, then it's made to look like a number of these tweets are coming from the Oshkosh Nina area of Wisconsin, the Appleton area of Wisconsin, which makes the business owner there, oh my God, local customers hate my pro my God, or any other way they want to try to manifest harm with people.
And it's been discovered that there are hundreds of thousands of these fake accounts with these mindless little, they're computer created bots running around with fake messages made to look like they're attached to real people.
It is the ultimate in phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roll.
Uh there was a movement made up of just this kind of thing aimed at us.
We uncovered it through deep investigation.
And now it's being discovered that all kinds of these operations are out there.
And it's all fake, And it's all made to look like it advances the causes of the left and the Democrat Party.
And it's all part and parcel of the way the media attempts to make it appear that everything they're covering, with the opinions about it that they hold to be majority opinions.
It's just it's a giant con, and it's been going on for as long as there has been Twitter.
Facebook has its own slightly smaller version of the same kind of thing.
But what reminded me of this was this little story here in the Hill about the scientists now planning their own march.
A Twitter account that started on Monday has periodically sent out updates and requests for people to get involved.
It may be a bot.
It may not even be an actual science.
It could be, we don't know.
Could be a bot.
Could be a botnet that's up and running, trying to create the illusion that there's a stupendous number of scientists out there that now want to get in on a public march business.
Now here's what it says about it.
The date of the march will be announced officially next week.
Do not believe any rumors of a date until then.
It has never been more important for scientists of all stripes to come together and have their voices heard in government.
Thank you so much to everyone who volunteered today.
We have hundreds of volunteers.
If you don't hear back immediately, don't worry.
It's called Science March on D.C. The idea began from a subreddit, actually, the Washington Post reported, where scientists discussed a way to respond to the Trump administration skepticism of climate change and other science-focused policy issues.
Seeing the size of the women's march on Washington following Trump's inauguration, somebody suggested a scientist march on Washington.
So, are they all going to wear their little white coats?
Going to have little test tube hats?
Can you see a sea of white coats?
Because you know, it's the white coat, the visual of the white coat that assigns authenticity.
So you could have a bunch of, I mean, you could have an endless parade of human debris out there wearing white coats, and people would think, wow, it's a bunch of scientists.
But then I'll tell you the risk they're running.
And it may not be a big one given the neophyte knowledge that so many low information people have, but they're going to be admitting that science is now political.
And science, real science is not political, but the left has politicized everything.
And now they're going to run the risk of admitting to the world that climate change is a political issue, front and center, back and forward, in and out, nothing to do with science whatsoever.
At least they're going to give us the opportunity to point this out.
Anyway, that's that.
We've got more.
We always have more.
Sit tight, my friends, back before you know it.
Half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
And to be less threatening to young millennial 24-year-old women.
I really do not want to scare that group of uh of young people.
So that's another reason for half my brain being tied behind my back.
Uh fairness is the overall objective, and then not frightening 24-year-old snowflakes.
Now, I want to go back to this bot business, and I want to give you an example of it.
And the Daily Beast reported back, it was in April of 2016, my good friends, that the Hillary Clinton Super PAC, which was called Correct the Record.
Do you remember that Money Chance?
Hillary was of the opinion that people were lying about her.
Bernie Sanders and the media and me, a bunch of people lying about it.
So they created a super PAC called Correct the Record.
And its purpose was to uh provide alternative facts to allegations made about Mrs. Clinton.
And in this story, the Daily Beast, which is a left-wing rag publication, it openly admitted the the Clinton Super PAC openly admitted to spending a million dollars to hire fake online Hillary supporters to swarm social media sites like Reddit and Twitter to counteract Crazy Bernie's supporters' points about Hillary in the interests of unity.
Well, now what is a fake at the time the story was what is a fake Hillary supporter?
It's a bot.
They were creating robot or bot nets of fake human beings.
Much easier to go out and actually hire some computer people to create the bots than to actually hire real people and pay them to act like Clinton supporters.
Because what if they don't?
What if they're lying to you?
What if you go out and hire a bunch of people to uh behave as though they support you and they're and they're crazy Bernie people and they've sabotaged.
So there was bad, they were creating bots.
It's the only way you can guarantee that all of this mass swarming on Reddit and Twitter was actually pro-Hillary was to buy the bots, create the bots by the people creating them.
Washington Times, July 14, 2016, beware the Soros zombies.
Billionaire George Soros funded liberal organizations intent on bringing confusion, disarray, and trouble to the Republican convention in Cleveland next week.
They've already had some victories, civil rights groups, color of change, which Soros gave money to signatures of petition demanding Coca-Cola and other things.
They did this with bots, raised the money, sent out the phony and fake messages.
Coca-Cola ended up caving to the pressure and decided to only give $75,000 to the convention.
George Soros, it's exactly what I was talking about in my example a moment ago.
A botnet of phony, fake, non-existent human being users was flooding sponsors of the RNC convention, threatening to boycott, never buy the product, and Coca-Cola was one of the companies that caved.
They don't know.
And you even if you go in and tell them, you got even if you have the evidence, I know this, my friends, because we've done it.
Even when you take the evidence, and you are able to incontrovertibly prove that it is not people that are sending them tweets and messages on Facebook, that it's computer generated garbage.
It still comes in.
They still see it.
It's something they'd rather not deal with.
They didn't go into business to get into political fights.
Some do, but most don't.
And so the easy way out is to just, you know what?
I don't care.
I'll take the money away from the Democrats.
I'm not going to fund a Democratic Convention.
I'm not going to fund a Republican.
It, by the way, backfired on Soros in that way in two or three instances, because not only were they effective in creating fear and panic in sponsors of the Republican convention, some of those same businesses sent to hell with this and pulled out of both.
But the point is, folks, none of it was real.
It was all manufactured computer algorithms and whatever computer language makes sense to you.
Botnet may not make sense.
Algorithm, you may think you know what that is.
So just think of it as a phony computer program that is written to impersonate the characteristics of human beings, including names, address, uh, email address or Twitter handle or what have you.
I mean, it's well done.
It's and they found something like 300,000 fake such accounts on Twitter.
So it's a it's a it's a common facet now of the daily back and forth in uh in media and in politics.
And all of this stuff, well, let me fully 90% of the this stuff is generated by the left, the worldwide left, the American left, the Democrat Party.
Everybody else is out working.
Everybody else is just living their lives.
But this kind of garbage and filth is the live that people on the left live.
Because remember, they can't leave it up to a Level playing field.
They will lose nine times out of ten.
National elections, national issues when the subject is ideas.
Which is why they have to scare big money away.
They have to scare advertisers away.
They have to intimidate people into shutting up and not voting or not expressing opinions.
They have to bully people because they do not have the numbers to win in a straight-up election when ideas are all that are on the table.
Now Trump is moving forward with this border wall.
He's moving forward with refugee cuts.
He's moving forward with cleaning up the EPA.
He's moving for he's at a breakneck pace, by the way.
And everything he said that he had intended to do during the campaign has already begun in many of these areas.
Sanctuary cities, defund them.
He's dead serious about all this stuff.
And it's all coming under the umbrella of make America great again.
He is attacking all of these things that have weakened the country, have divided the country, and have made us poorer in a financial sense.
Like last night, one of his tweets, Big Day planned on national security tomorrow.
Among many other things, we will build the wall.
So now the drive-bys are focused...
Well, yeah, but the American Jakespear is gonna provide the original funding.
Missing the entire point.
Missing the whole point.
Here's uh here's Robert in Grafton, North Dakota.
It's great to have you.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
It's an honor to speak with you, sir.
Um I gotta say, your your political knowledge is absolutely unsurpassed, and as is, you know, your technical knowledge of all things technical computers and you know Apple products and everything.
I I learned so much from you every day.
It's it's crazy.
I wanted to uh run an idea by you.
Uh there's funding for the wall.
I think what if Trump uses all of the confiscated drug money that's been confiscated in drug busts, millions and billions of dollars.
That money, you know, theoretically would have made it back down to Mexico.
Why don't we use that money and reallocate it and put it towards the wall?
And one of those other products up here, we're gonna use it to build a wall.
It's not a bad idea.
The asset forfeiture laws.
You go out and you see seize the assets of a drug kingpin or member of a cartel.
Federal law already allows such seizures.
And if you want to then sell the assets to whoever and use the money to fund the wall, I'm looking, I think they're looking at any number, because Mexico, it's hard to say how this is gonna play out.
I mean, right now Mexico's behaving as you would expect any nation.
We are not going to people.
They're not even sure what they're saying this, and they mean it.
It's a source of pride.
But at the end of the day, if Trump stays on this role, and if Trump continues to knock down all these obstacles, and if Trump develops a success track, what's going to happen is it's human nature.
Everybody's going to want to get on board.
Everybody's going to want to shine the light or be in the light shining on Trump.
It's amazing.
The numbers of people are going to be going to become hangers on or miniature groupies.
Uh, I mean, even now, there are people who initially oppose Trump who would kill to be on the team.
They would love to be in there because they're looking at it and thinking this is fun.
This guy meant it.
They got to be having the time of their lives in the Trump team.
It's infectious.
People want to get in on it.
And I think even nations like Mexico, when they see this stuff starting to work, and if it doesn't and Trump's popularity continues to build, everybody is going to want to get in on the act, the little showbiz lingo there.
And at the end of it all, I guarantee you that Mexico is one way or another gonna pay for it.
And maybe the more accurate thing to say is by the time the wall is built, the American taxpayer will not have paid for it.
Somebody's going to besides us.
He's dead serious about this.
And this is where people think he's just saying it to hear his head rattle.
He's just talking to talk.
He's just talking.
He loves himself, hearing self brag and so forth.
They still haven't come to grips with the guy who means it.
You mentioned Apple.
Do you uh you like Apple stuff?
You like Apple products?
You know, I do.
I used to have uh my wife and family and I we used to have the Android, and I just was not happy with it.
And we switched to Apple products, and I've learned so much listening to your different analysis on things, uh, particularly with the phones and everything.
And my wife broke hers, uh, unfortunately, and so I uh we're gonna have to do something here.
I don't know.
Well, it just happened to catch me on a day I'm in a good mood.
What what uh what what kind of phone did she have?
Uh she had the uh uh six plus.
Okay, six plus that's an antique now.
So you would she uh let me send you an iPhone 7 plus for her.
What what is your carrier?
Uh uh Verizon, sir.
Well, fine and dandy.
The phones I have are unlocked, they'll work on.
In fact, you can take a SIM card from her 6S plus and put it in this and she'll be up and running.
She had a color preference.
I may be I don't think I'm I think I'm pretty stocked on color.
What color is she like?
Oh, Rush, I tell you, this is absolute honor.
Um, you know, I was thinking uh if I did was able to get through to you uh and blessed with a gift like that.
You're such a generous, generous person.
I really appreciate it.
I'm thinking either rose gold or gold in honor of the golden EIB microphone.
We'll always be re remembered and reminded that it was a generous gift from you, Rush.
No, no, no.
I'm just having fun.
I've I think I've got one of each back there.
I I uh look, it'll be one of the two.
It'll be one of the two, and is hang on.
We're gonna send it out UPS.
UPS goes to where you live in Grafton, North Dakota, right?
Yes, sir.
Okay, we'll get it out UPS as soon as we can.
Just hang on so we can get your address.
And and uh I'm gonna throw in a pair of these new wireless airpods.
These are these these things are phenomenal.
I think even the people that have these do not know what all they're capable of doing with them.
They're just phenomenal.
Oh man.
So you've honored drugs.
Don't don't no, you're more than welcome.
Don't hang up uh and I'll uh after this break, I'll I'll just keep the radio on and I'll tell you what color we ended up getting.
I was just back there the other day looking at the closet stash, and I know there's silver and rose gold.
I'm pretty sure we got a gold one left.
It's a seven plus two hundred and fifty-six gigabytes.
Unlocked, put your Verizon SIM card in there and you're off and running.
We'll be back after this.
Okay, we have a soundbite from the just concluded White House press briefing.
This would only went about a half hour.
It wasn't the uh major production of yesterday's show.
The soundbite number 20, Sean Spicer.
The question came from John Roberts of Fox News.
This morning, the president said he wants to launch an investigation into voting irregulars.
See, we're back to this now.
And I'm asking about the Russians.
Asking about this voting investigation.
And John Roberts says, now attorneys who were representing a president-elect during the recounts, it would be Trump in uh in various several states, emphatically stated that all available evidence suggests the 2016 election was not tainted by fraud or mistake.
So how do you square those two things, Sean?
There's a lot of states that we didn't compete in where that's not necessarily the case.
You look at California and New York, I'm not sure that those statements were we didn't look at those two states in particular.
I mean, as the president has noted before, he campaigned to win the electoral college, not the popular vote.
He campaigned in places like Iowa.
He campaigned extensively to win Maine too.
And I think if you were campaigning to win the popular vote, you don't spend it, you know, with all due respect to my brethren in New England.
You don't spend a ton of time in Maine too to get that one electoral vote.
You would have campaigned more in California, which he didn't.
You would have campaigned more in New York, which he didn't.
There are big states, very popular states in urban areas where you would have spent more time campaigning.
All right.
Now, this is of course the easy rejoinder here to the well, Hillary won the popular vote.
The popular vote doesn't elect the president.
The Electoral College does.
Therefore, the Electoral College determines where you campaign.
And if you don't have a prayer of winning the popular vote in California, and it's you don't go, you just don't go there.
In a popular vote election, though, the only places that Trump and Hillary would have been would have been New York and California, maybe Texas, some in Illinois, but That would have been it.
They wouldn't have spent any time in North Carolina, hardly any in Pennsylvania.
Hardly any, maybe some in Pennsylvania.
But some of these other places that got a lot of attention, Iowa, nobody would wink at Iowa.
Nobody would care.
But that still is not the it it's it's not a complete answer here.
You remember this Washington Post story that I mentioned to you a little while ago from back in 2014 that had research from three different scientists suggesting that in the in the uh 2014 midterms, there could have been anywhere from 38,000 illegal votes to 2.4 or 2.8 million illegal votes from three scientists.
Now guess what?
If you go to that Washington Post story right now, you're going to find that they have some updates to it.
And the Washington Post updates to their story from 2014 basically say that the information from the sources, the three scientists, has been debunked and that these guys are now considered to be full of excrement.
But the Post ran the story with full credit and fuller credibility back in October of 2014, when everybody was afraid that the Senate, the Republicans are going to win the Senate, and they want, if that happened, they wanted to establish that it might have been phony votes.
The Democrats did it, the Democrats, the Washington Post ran the story.
Now that Trump is talking about it, the Washington Post has gone back to their website, little addendum to that story from three years ago, which essentially says, you know, this story we ran three years ago, it's full of it.
And these guys that were our sources, they've been they've been exposed as frauds.
I mean, it's not those words, but it's pretty much how the Post is attempting to say that that story back then was meaningless then.
We're sorry we ran it, and it doesn't mean anything now.
And I just I gotta take a break, folks.
The time just keeps going.
Back in a second.
So Ed Klein is a quasi-clinton biographer, is a former New York Times writer.
Ed Klein says that Hillary is seriously considering hosting a TV talk show to provide her trampoline effect back into presidential politics.
Hillary Clinton TV talk show.
Okay.
Everybody thinks they can do it, obviously.
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