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Jan. 30, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 30, 2017, Monday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, welcome back.
Great to have you.
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The guy knows money.
Anyway, uh, what I was beginning to tell you, I didn't have I realized I didn't have time before the break.
But this along the lines here that Trump's biggest obstacle, in my opinion, is not the left, because they're predictable.
And all of these protests, look, I know it causes anxiety, folks.
It used to, with me, I I guess still get ticked off about it.
I get I get ticked off like you can't believe at the scam that it is.
And I don't deny look, they're well organized.
I mean, the British House of Commons today, the Labor Party was going nuts.
These people are all organized, and there's a central figure for all of this organization, and it is George Soros.
George Soros is the central organizing figure, and in much of this, he's the financier.
Now, not that these people need to be told to oppose.
I mean, they do oppose.
There is a, you know, a sizable number of leftists and liberals out there.
But the I the actual uh motions of paying them to show up and organizing them to show up and giving them the right things to say, telling them what they're protesting, this is not organic.
It's being made to look like the whole country is outraged that civil rights and civil liberties are being denied by the nation that's supposed to uphold them, and that something horrible and rotten is happening in America.
I get ticked off at the lie that all of these protests represent.
I get ticked off at the trick, ticked off at the at the at the fact the media that joins this, but it doesn't, it doesn't concern me in in terms of Trump, because Trump has shown that he's not afraid of these people.
He doesn't react to them other than to double down.
But the Republicans are another ball of wax.
They have not demonstrated the willingness to double down and stay committed.
They have demonstrated in the past that they cave to this kind of stuff.
And we've talked about it for I don't know how long.
They cave because they they fall for the ruse.
You know, it it all of this is a variation on a time-honored trick.
You remember this.
Whenever there was any criticism of the popular Democrat of the day, it could be Obama, it could be some Democrat that's proposed legislation that they all love, it could be a First Lady, it could be anybody.
Whenever there is opposition to Democrat, what was the warning that came from the media?
You better be careful.
You better not be critical.
You better not criticize our first black president.
You better not criticize Ted Kennedy, you better not because all it's gonna do is anger the independents, and they're gonna just run right straight to the Democrat Party.
And the Republicans fell for that, and continued to.
And it it ended up paralyzing them.
They they began to believe that any opposite because that the umbrella under which all this happened was that we all must be bipartisan.
We all must show that we can work together.
We must all show that we can cooperate.
We must be bipartisan.
We must cross the aisle.
And the Republicans have gone have lost their voice, saying that that's what they're capable of.
How many Republican campaigns do you remember where the Republican running for office pledged to be the guy to cross the aisle?
Reach across the aisle, work with the Democrats.
No, the Democrats don't want to work with us.
They want to scream us.
They want to get rid of us.
They want us not to exist.
And we help them.
So that trick about the end of.
Now who wins the independence every election?
Us.
We do.
And it's the same thing.
They're trying to say that Trump's executive orders is going to create more terrorism.
You better not, you better not, you better not limit immigration from any of these countries.
It's going to make terrorists mad.
How sophomoric is that.
The United States does not create terrorists.
Islam creates terrorism.
Islam, however, it's interpreted by these people creates terrorism.
We don't, other than we are infidels by virtue of our existence.
But Trump's executive order, I got I get so sick and tired of the same lame logic and talking points being put.
Bush's Ebu Grab photo, oh man, what a recruiting tool.
Club Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay.
What a recruiting tool for they don't need any recruiting tools.
They've got mosques where that happens.
So now Trump's executive order is going to massively create new terrorists.
It's just plain BS.
Just like criticizing Democrats is going to create anger among independents, and they're going to leave the Republicans because they don't want the argument.
They don't want the confrontation.
Independents don't like they want us to get along.
Well Wall Street Journal, Republican Senator lays groundwork for broad immigration overhaul.
We're back here to Tom Tillis from North Carolina, has a plan that would put together changes sought by Democrats with changes sought by Republicans.
In other words, here is a Republican in the era of Trump proposing comprehensive immigration reform that would grant amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens living in the United States.
We're back to the gang of eight.
We're back to this whole comprehensive immigration reform.
This has just been introduced or soon will be.
So it is things like this that make me want to warn you or advise you that the biggest threat I think Trump faces for his legislation and for the successful implementation of his agenda is the Republicans.
Because, yeah, the Republicans have the majority, but they have to stay unified.
And we know how they have had a tendency to cave.
And we know how they have a tendency to if if Trump is reported as having said something or behaved in such a way that you can make a bet that there'll be some condemnation coming.
And the reason the Republicans do this is really the frustrating thing.
They, it's rooted in the belief that they're the minority and that the only way that they're going to ever succeed is to somehow make Democrats and liberals like them and therefore listen to them and want to help them with their agenda.
We just got through an election where they won.
The Republicans won huge, and they owe it to Trump.
They don't have to curry favor with liberal Democrats.
They don't have to curry favor with people who hate them.
They don't have to reach out.
And this illustrates the thing that I think is missing from Republican politics and has been for a while, and that is the objective where liberals are concerned politically is defeat.
They have to be defeated.
And instead, we get sidetracked by this desire to be bipartisan and to work together to show that Washington works.
And all that means Washington works is defined by liberals getting their way.
That's what Washington working means.
So even in a massive Trump victory, even with a corresponding massive Republican victory, we still have a Republican sponsored comprehensive immigration bill that features amnesty, which was not part of the campaign, certainly not part of Trump's.
And once again, I don't mean to be that redundant here, but Trump doesn't have any kind of support system like a Democrat president has.
Obama had the media.
Bill Clinton had the media and whoever else.
But Trump only has his voters.
Trump does not have the media, other than some in the so-called conservative or alternative media.
Trump only has his supporters.
And it's gonna most people, you elect the president, you elect him because he's gonna implement his agenda, and you sit back and you watch it happen because you figure after you voted, there's not much more you can do.
But Trump is going to need his supporters backing him up, and the evidence of them being there is going to be crucial to the media.
Otherwise, the media is just waiting to run stories about how Trump's lost his base.
They can't wait.
I'm sure those stories are written.
The only thing they have to plug in are the details, like what state, the uh people that are going to supply the quotes.
But you know the stories are written.
Yeah, I voted for Trump.
I love Trump, but I feel so let down now.
I had no idea Trump was actually going to only let Christians into the you know that quote's already been manufactured, waiting for somebody to agree to it.
You know that story is written, and others like it, and they're just waiting.
Reuters has already tried.
Reuters went out to the great Midwest to try to find people fed up with Trump, and they couldn't yet.
And they're seething over it.
They're not happy.
I'm looking for that story right now, and I have found it.
Right here I have it in my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
Here you go.
Trump's heartland voters shrug off global uproar over immigration plan.
Many of President Trump's core political supporters had a simple message on Sunday for the fiercest opponents of his immigration plan, and that is calm down.
Yeah, what monsters these Trump people are.
Imagine having such an Reuters goes on to talk about how this is so obscene, so inappropriate, so unbelievable that people can still be sticking with Trump.
In the St. Louis suburb of Manchester, Missouri, 72-year-old Joanne Tychon characterized the president as bringing reason to an overheated debate.
Somebody has to stand up, somebody has to be to grown-up, somebody has to see what we can do better to check on people coming in.
I'm all for everybody to stop and take a breath.
Just give it a chance.
In the electoral strongholds for Trump, residents seem non-plussed about the uproar.
Good for you.
But Reuters is not happy.
And nor is anybody else in the drive-bys.
Now, I mentioned in the previous hour, something you can look forward to as part of this.
As you know, Trump won.
We are not a direct democracy.
It isn't going to be long.
In fact, it has happened here, but our old buddy Nate Silver at 538.
Hillary wins the popular vote, loses the electoral college, loses the presidency.
Therefore, a majority of electoral college state voters voted for Trump.
Trump is doing what he said he was going to do.
Oh, have you seen the stories?
And there are some out there.
We never, we didn't, we have really think he was going to do it.
We never thought he was going to do all this stuff.
And a lot of people are playing off the famous Selena Zito analysis of Trump, which said that Trump's supporters take him seriously but not literally.
And Trump's opponents take him literally but not seriously.
And people are now starting to say, he meant it, he meant it, we knew he meant it, and he's full of it.
And these people supported Trump, they're full of it.
And so what they're trying to say is Trump voters were fooled because they just didn't think Trump really meant it.
They just liked the fact that Trump was fighting back.
But now that Trump actually appears to mean it, do we have a constitutional crisis?
Because many people believe that we live in a democracy.
And that means majority rules, which means a majority voted for Trump, not the popular vote, but the electoral college winner.
Therefore, Trump is doing what he said he was going to do.
Expect a debate to surface along the lines of, hey, just because he said he was going to do it, and now just because he's doing it, does it make it right?
Are the people always right or are the people wrong?
And they'll use things like global warming.
They'll say non-scientists think that global warming doesn't exist.
Should they prevail or not?
Remember, liberalism is all about defying the will of the people.
The Obama administration governed against the will of the people for eight years.
The American people didn't vote for Obamacare.
He didn't tell them that that's what it was going to be.
He lied to people about Obamacare.
He lied to them about what it was going to cost.
He lied to the people about doctors and nurses and their insurance plans and all that.
The liberal community, liberalism, progressives, whatever you want to call them, by definition have to govern against the will of the people because they are a genuine minority in this country.
And when that happens, the leftists trot out political scientists say, Well, of course we don't live in a direct democracy.
The American people can't possibly be informed, as their elected representatives are.
They're just certain things the American people are unaware of.
We can't allow the American people to determine their own fate.
That's why it's up to the elected representatives to overrule the American people when the American people do dumb and say stupid things.
And that's how they operate.
And a reverse arrangement of that argument is about to surface.
Because right here, Nate Silver, 538.
Here's the headline.
Trump is doing what he said he'd do.
The subhead, is that what his voters wanted?
And it's a very long piece devoted to the possibility that Trump's voters they didn't bargain for this, not this executive order on banning all these people from the country.
They didn't bargain for this.
And so it's a it's a it's a way to undermine Trump.
He lied to his voters or his voters.
Well, he can't say lied because he's doing what he said he was going to do.
So that the story has to be that his voters really didn't get it.
Um they really didn't intend for him to do this.
This is classic of the left, by the way.
Trump says he's going to do ABC and D. People like that, and they vote for him to do A, B, C, D and E. Trump gets elected, starts doing A, B, C, D and E, and the media says, eh, his voters didn't expect him to do this.
They just make it up.
And it's all part of this planned resistance.
Fact of the matter is, Trump had sometimes five rallies a day.
At every one of these rallies, he was very clear, exceptionally clear on his agenda, particularly when it came to immigration and national security.
I think the people who voted for Trump knew specifically and exactly what he was going to do and didn't have a problem with the then and don't now.
Time to get started on the phones, and we go to Fort Myers in Florida.
Hi, Aaron, you're up first.
It's great to have you.
How are you doing?
Good afternoon, Russ.
I'm doing great.
It's a pleasure and honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
You know, Russ, I was listening to your opening monologue this morning.
I've been listening to the news media this weekend, how they're throwing gas on this border wall thing and calling it racism and bigotry from stopping the you know, temporary hall from entry from a handful of Middle Eastern countries.
And something occurred to me, Russia, and you brought this down in the media and the Democrat Party, by taking the position that they have and calling this something that it's not, are default, by default, are enabling and defending access of current open terrorist passages and networks into this country.
There's no other way that uh you can really look at it.
Rush uh Trump is trying to slow the line down, find out who's coming in here, and we all know this.
We all see this.
They're coming in, they're busting them in all over the place.
We don't know who they are.
All he's trying to do is slow the line down or find out who they are.
And yet the media and the Democrats are labeling it something they're not by throwing gas on it, trying to enrage people, trying to get people angry to shut it down.
Well, why would you not want to shut down these open networks and the and in these passages into this country?
It it doesn't uh it doesn't computer.
I wonder what side they're on.
Well, this is this is not unprecedented.
For the last four years of the Bush administration, the Democrat Party essentially sought the defeat of the United States military and our country in Iraq in order to facilitate the election of a Democrat president in 2008.
They were actively undermining the surge, the people behind it, David Petraeus and others.
Uh they were routinely accusing Marines of being rapists and terrorizing Iraqi wives and mothers in their homes.
So your observation is right on the money, but it isn't unprecedented.
It's not the first time.
What is really going on here is a bunch of hypocrisy.
Barack Obama suspended all immigration from Iraq for six months.
There wasn't any howls of protest over it.
And I have a couple other stories from the uh from the archives that again will illustrate this hypocrisy.
I'm glad you called Aaron.
We be back in a jiffy.
Incredible.
This is incredible.
Mr. Snerdley, the rest of you, do you remember there was a Time magazine cover?
Many of you won't remember this, but we'll find it, we'll get the cover, and we'll put it back up there at uh at Rushlimbaugh.com.
Time magazine did a cover with me on the cover.
I was not mentioned but once in the story.
They put me on the cover to sell the issue.
And it was a doctored photo of me with a churlish grin with cigar smoke coming out of my mouth.
Is Rush Limbaugh dangerous for America?
The theme was is there too much democracy.
Remember, in the early stages of this program, long before even Fox News came up, the left started worrying that maybe there was too much democracy.
Maybe there were too much.
There was too much opinion from the American people.
There was too much involvement from the American people.
When they are losing elections, when they are losing on policy fights, when they're perceived to be losing anything, they always revive this theme.
Is there too much democracy out there?
Well, lo and behold, from the Brookings Institute, by Grace Wallack, is too much democracy responsible for the rise of Trump.
Too much.
I told you this was going to happen.
I love this.
I told you, started with Nate Silver, 538.
Trump was elected, but did his voters actually mean this?
Did they understand what Trump was going to do?
The meaning is Trump's voters are stupid and and they are to blame for what happened here.
Trump is an ignoramus.
Trump should never have been president.
Trump's an absolute disaster, and the voters made it happen, and that means there's too much democracy.
That means there's too much participation.
That means the American people don't know enough really to be entrusted with the chore of selecting the president.
That's what all of this means.
And you can make book that whenever the Democrats lose, a variation on this theme is going to appear.
And right here it is at the Brookings Institute inside their think tank is too much democracy, responsible for the rise of Trump.
And it begins this way.
Trump is arguably the most unlikely, unsuitable, and unpopular presidential nominee of a major party in American history.
He was elected for crying out loud, but yet he's the most unpopular.
See how that works?
This according to scholar Thomas Mann at the Brookings Institute in his new paper, Yes, he wrote a paper.
It's not even a book.
This thinker at the think tank got Thomas Mann.
He's been around as long as I have.
He's been around longer.
I remember reading about this guy when I was in Sacramento in 1984.
I mean, the dinosaurs, they're still there.
Thomas Mann, in his new paper about competing theories on democratic access.
But Mann argues Trump didn't come out of nowhere as economic stagnation and concern over refugee migration in much of Europe.
This actually is from last summer, folks.
This even pre-sages predates this is from last June when they're worried that Trump's voters are so stupid and they don't know enough to be electing Trump.
It happens when they're losing when they think they're going to lose.
We'll find that Time Magazine cover, maybe even the text.
It seems that there were two.
Because what they ran that cover story on me is Rush Limbaugh good or bad for America, I forget which.
And the next week, the cover was a Fidel Castro with a glowing story on the paradise he had created for his people in his little Caribbean uh Caribbean uh well jail.
But the theme was, oh my God, limbo, look at all these people like listening to Limbo, and they're calling Washington, there's too much democracy out there.
There are too many people participating who don't know what they're talking about.
Too many people participating and don't know what they're doing.
And now too many people that didn't know what they were doing electing Trump.
Can I predict something else gonna happen to you?
And not to you.
Super Bowl Media Day.
Is it still tomorrow?
Is it tonight?
You know, I think they've turned Media Day to primetime thing.
It used to be on Tuesday to players' day off.
Anyway, it doesn't matter when it is.
Tom Brady is going to get variations on one question.
And that question is, what the hell are you doing?
Supporting Trump.
What the hell are you doing?
Being a friend of Trump.
Who the hell do you think you are?
Do you realize the absolute damage you have helped cause by supporting Trump?
How in the name of Sam Hill could you be supporting Trump?
That's gonna be the predominant question Tom Brady gets.
And Bell.
No, they won't ask him about inflated footballs.
Well, they might ask him, are you waiting?
Can you wait to stick it to the commissioner if you get the MVP and he has to give you the award and you'll get and they'll ask the same question to Belichick.
And they'll ask the same question to Robert Kraft, the owner.
How the hell?
How the hell?
How can you from New England, Mass Two?
How the hell can you be Trump supporters?
And right here, right here, USA Today, headline, Tom Brady has some explaining to do on Donald Trump.
Nancy Armour writing at USA Today.
And it opens this way.
Tom Brady no longer gets a pass on his friendship with Donald Trump.
Not after this weekend.
Not after this weekend, when the country boiled over in rage.
It didn't.
The country did not boil over in rage.
This is my complete point.
A bunch of leftists who were primed and organized and waving for marching order.
This was not organic.
It was not spontaneous.
They make it look like it is, but it isn't.
These people have been part of the plan to resist Trump from before he was inaugurated.
This was an event they have been waiting for.
There will be many others.
But see, this is how it's done.
Tom Brady no longer gets a pass on it.
What business is it of yours, Ms. Armor, who his friends are?
I bet he has a lot of friends you wouldn't like.
What business is it of any of these sports writers who Tom Brady's friends are?
And can you believe the gall of writing that Brady, especially not after this weekend when the country boiled over in rage and indignation at Trump's decision to turn America's back on refugees?
That isn't what happened.
We didn't turn our back on refugees.
We implemented a vetting program exactly like Trump says.
See, folks, don't be afraid of this stuff.
You need to be properly outraged and just as equally mobilized by it.
This is this is the kind of stuff Steve Bannon was talking about when he says the media is the opposition party.
Tom Brady is showing up as a future Hall of Fame quarterback going for a record fifth Super Bowl title.
He happens to be I think inarguably the best quarterback in the National Football League, and all these people the sports media now claims that Brady has some explaining to do.
He no longer gets a pass on this, not after this weekend.
Further says here that Brady can expect to get some tough questions about Trump as well he should.
What did Brady have to do with the policy?
Now why don't you people stop mischaracterizing this policy, this executive order is and was legal.
And it isn't and wasn't the way you have portrayed it.
It was not a Muslim ban.
We did not turn our back on refugees for crying out loud.
*sigh*
I mean, this story makes every point that I've tried to make today about how they create this illusion that they are the majority, that everybody agrees with them.
Not after this weekend when the country boiled over in rage.
Miss Armour, I don't know where you live, but in many parts of this country where you don't live and probably have never been, there wasn't any rage, and it certainly didn't boil over.
You need to stop thinking the world goes around you.
You need to stop thinking that the sun and the world orbit you and your media buddies.
Poor Brady.
Now this stuff, I'm sure it makes him nervous.
He doesn't he's he's i in in his business in his field.
He's reached the pinnacle.
He's going for an achievement that nobody else has.
Five Super Bowls.
Brad Shaw in Montana have four.
He's been to Super Bowls recently, but they've lost.
This may be his last 39 years old.
And he's getting peppered with this kind of stuff.
All because there was a make America Great hat in his locker.
Brady hasn't even come out.
He didn't join the campaign trail with Trump.
He hasn't endorsed Trump.
He didn't do any of this sort of stuff.
It's just that he, I think, sent Trump a letter.
Belichick may have sent a letter, I forget which.
This is just outrageous.
Bannon's right.
The media is the opposition party.
This stuff frosts me.
This just this just infuriates me.
And what further infuriates me is that so many of these people are afraid of conservatives.
They're afraid to be tied to conservatives.
They're afraid to associate with conservatives, because this is what happens to you in the media if a conservative is your friend.
This is what happens to the media if you are a public figure and you invite a conservative into your domain and the liberal media finds out this is what they do to you.
Man, oh man, oh man.
Um anyway, I have take another quick time out here on the EIB network, Rush Limbaugh back at it right after this.
Okay, Neil in Matthews, North Carolina.
You're next.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
How are you doing?
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I did some research and found out that the LA Times reported that two government sources told them that the wife and accomplice of the San Bernardino terrorist, Saeed Farouk, who's a Pakistani national name.
Wait, what was that?
What was that name again?
Saeed Farouk.
Saeed Farouk, right?
Just want to see if you can pronounce it twice.
Yeah.
His wife was a Pakistani national named Tafsheen Malik, and she gave false information on her K-1 fiance visa application.
The sources said that she used the name of a neighborhood in a street near her home in Pakistan rather than use her family's real home address.
And the investigator speculated that the reason she did that was there wouldn't be an investigation of her family's alleged ties to Islamic militants in Pakistan.
Now, if this is true, I think this evidence shows that if we'd had extreme betting, there may be 14 American citizens still living today.
Yeah, I remember this.
You're right.
I I remember this story specifically, and you've got it, you've got it down pat him for the most part, it's right on the money, and so is your take on it.
But this was see, this is classic.
A real world example of what the attempt here is, and Trump fulfilling a campaign promise and all that, versus this this outrageous business that we're turned our back on refugees, as though everybody's entitled into this country.
If they're from anywhere in the nation and the world where they're suffering any kind of stress at all, they're legally entitled to come to the U.S., and that's not true.
Trump has specifically said it.
It's in the executive order.
It's in this executive order.
What our objective is to let people in who love America, who want to become Americans, who like America, who do not hate it, who don't want to undermine it.
It's nothing but pure common sense.
I'm telling you the left saw this as an opportunity to do what they always do.
Lie about Republicans, lie about conservatives, particularly on human rights and compassion-related issues.
And then Nimrods like that female reporter at USA Today fall in line and pick it up and carry out the theme.
As though the United States of America under Republicans is the most cruel place in the world.
That's ought what to frost you, folks.
Not these protests.
Don't let this stuff scare you.
This stuff needs to outrage you.
And I think a lot of it does.
I think it's one of the reasons Trump was elected.
Is that people are fed up with this kind of stuff determining policy?
This is insanity.
This is illusion.
This is deluged.
What am I trying to say?
This is unhinged delusion that is attempting to alter and make policy.
And it's being given substance and weight by a drive-by meeting.
It just it's infuriating to me.
Especially when you understand that so little of it is genuinely organic.
And many of the people marching, if you take them out of the march and ask them what they're marching for, what they're protesting, won't be able to tell you in a cogent, coherent manner.
They don't even know.
They'll start blattering on about stuff, and you'll quickly find out they don't know what they're talking about.
They'll start to human rights violence and compassion and civil rights, including the United States, and they don't know what they're saying.
Doesn't matter.
The pictures of them all gathering together is what matters.
Uh F take a break.
I want to read to you from this time magazine story from 1995, just the opening couple paragraphs when we come back here in the in the next hour, because it's just classic.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer just produced a memo which showed the Trump team used the exact same language as Obama's regarding the announcement.
Steve Mann going to National Security Council.
Same language Obama used.
Meaning they didn't include the CIA director just like Obama's team didn't when they named members to the National Security Council.
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