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Jan. 30, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 30, 2017, Monday, Hour #3
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It's important because the left had a cow.
When Trump announces Steve Mannon, his strategirist, who they hate, was going to be put on the National Security Council.
And the media is out there reporting, and they're kicking the CIA director out.
They're kicking the CIA.
And they couldn't believe it.
Trump is kicking his CIA out of the National Security Council.
No, no, no.
The CIA director, nor has anybody from the CIA been a part of the National Security Council since 2005.
Including all of the Obama years, ladies and gentlemen, and Sean Spicer, the White House Press Secretary just mentioned this.
You know, they talk about too much democracy out there and uh and and all that, and how stupid the American people are, and how ignorant and they don't know enough to be voting, and we shouldn't have to be put in put in prison because of the American people's stupidity.
It's the drive-bys that are idiots.
It's the drive-bys who are ignorant and don't really know anything beyond the bubble in which they live.
Now let me don't anybody scroll here.
I want to read something to you.
From the Time magazine story of 1995 has me on the cover is Rush Limbaugh, good for America says talk radio is only the beginning.
Electronic populism threatens to short circuit representative democracy.
Email and other tech talk may be the third, fourth, or nth wave of the future, but old-fashioned radio is true hyper democracy, very hyper, like the backyard savants, bar room agitators and soapbox spellbinders of an early era.
Limbaugh brings intimacy and urgency to an impersonal age.
What's new is that today the radio rights are wired into the political process.
In 1994, the scream rose to the top.
They would go on and on and on to talk about it's too much democracy.
Too many of you people involved.
And the reason that there are too many of you is that you're ignorant.
You do not know what you're doing.
You fall for the lies told by the wrong people.
Trump being the latest example of that.
And they're back to the theme now.
There's too much democracy going on out there.
Just like Senator Erling Ernest Hollings said during the uh during one of the economic bubbles.
Too much consuming going on out there.
Remember that?
Too much consuming going on out there.
It's causing inflation, mama.
Too much consuming going on out there.
He really said that.
Greetings and welcome back.
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Chris Wallace said on Fox News Sunday during the group panel, he said that Trump is moving so fast that he can't prepare his show anymore.
Grab soundbite number three.
You gotta hear this.
Chris, if you think it's tough, preparing one one one-hour show, try this.
I say this in all good uh friendship and with good vibes.
I'm not, I'm not meaning to sound uh in any way, uh, negative.
But here's what what why he's right, by the way.
You know, I I'll tell you my own stuff.
I still prep this show the traditional way.
I start about five o'clock, two hours after this program ends, I start working on tomorrow.
And intermittently all through the night, which basically just reading, you know, just staying aware, staying informed, what's going on.
Same thing the morning of the next program.
And then the program starts.
And in the old days, you could do that and you'd go through the three-hour program and pretty much have everything you needed to say already lined up, or at least the things you're gonna talk about.
But this even predates Trump now.
Sometimes show prep, I don't use 80% of it because of what happens during the show.
But I have not gotten lazy.
I could very easily, you know what, I could stop this stuff at night.
I could go out and live.
You know, I don't need to do all this.
I just need to make sure I'm paying attention, say 11 o'clock in the morning on, and I got it covered.
But I'm too committed.
I still prep the program the way I always have.
What you don't know.
I can't tell, folks, I walk out of here every day with guilt like you can't believe.
You know why?
Because sometimes 80% of what I have here ready to go, I never get to.
Because it gets superseded by what happens when the program starts.
Today is one of those days.
I have three stacks of stuff here, and all of it juicy, all of it great, all of it just, and I've got sound bites out the wazoo.
And I'm going to get to 10% of it today.
I'm going to walk out of here thinking, shh, man, did I blow it.
The only saving grace is you don't know what I didn't get to.
So you can't call me the carpet on it.
It's like the old saw when I played Records of DJ, the theory you could never be hurt by a song you don't play.
But you can be hurt by a song you do.
If you play a rotten song, you play an unpopular song, people are going to punch out and go to a competing station.
But if you never play that song, people will never punch out for that reason, because they'll never hear it.
And they'll never know for sure whether you didn't play it, because nobody listens 24-7.
But it's still every day, to one degree or another, grates on me that I don't get to so much because I have a s another stack that keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger of the unused every day.
And I use it as my backup in case there's a non-news day, and of course there is never a non-news day.
Here's Chris Wallace talking about it with his buddies yesterday.
You know, I'm I'm beginning to call these Trump Sundays because I prepare the show on Saturday and by Sunday morning.
The world has changed.
And what I thought we were going to talk about is the president's phone call with Russian President Putin yesterday, which was highly anticipated.
Yeah, this is why I say that the left is never going to fully gain the momentum.
They're never going to totally gain narrative because Trump has the ability to reclaim it any time he wants.
But Chris is, you know, we're going to talk about Trump calling Putin.
Now that's out the window now that Trump turned his back on every refugee in the world.
But let's get started on some of the audio sound bites.
I want to start here with David Brooks, who's apoplectic.
And I think this this soundbite from David Brooks from the News Hour on PBS Friday night pretty much establishes the state of mind of the entire establishment after Trump week one.
Among business people I've spoken to, among political class, and among Republicans on the Hill, just a great sense of being unnerved, unnerved at the instability.
There's sort of a two theories of he tells things that are false all the time.
Is it because he's sort of an Orwellian figure, an authoritarian figure who's twisting words in a Norwellian manner, 1984 to exercise power and control people's minds?
Or is he a five-year-old who has ego needs that need to be fed?
And the universe has to warp around his ego needs so he can feel good about himself and everybody has to produce photos to make the monarch feel like he's made of gold.
They're trying to figure it all out.
Trump never tells truth.
So now it's psychoanalysis time.
Is it because he's a secret authoritarian?
Is it because he's right out of 1984 and is masterfully putting a mind control on all of the American people?
Or is it that he's just five years old and needs to be told how great he is all the time.
Here is Thomas Loopy Friedman, who really is loopy.
New York Times columnist, CNN this morning, Alison Camarata.
Okay, and this is about putting Bannon on the National Security Council, which they are just they can't believe this.
Because to them, Bannon is the antichrist.
Steve Bannon is the embodiment of what they hate being at the right hand of Trump.
And so when they put him on the National Security Council, that's just one of the primo insults to the establishment.
So Thomas Friedman's asks, is this a political move?
Consolidation of power on Bannon's part?
My biggest worry about President Trump is that this is a man who came out of a very narrow real estate background.
Every profile of him says he doesn't read books.
He learns from watching the shows and from the last person who talked to him.
And I think as a result, he is easily manipulated.
Because I don't think he knows in depth a lot of these issues.
And when an ideologue like Bannon comes along or people on any number of other issues, he's easily manipulated.
I quoted a friend of mine who said, you Americans, you kick around this country like it's a football.
But it's not a football.
It's a Fabriga egg.
You can drop it, and you can break it.
If we go weak as a country, if we get distracted, if we get knocked off our values, your kids won't just grow up in a different America.
They will grow up in a fundamentally different world.
You see, this is why the guy's loopy.
That's just that was none of the thing of the sort with Obama.
You see, uh Obama was the was the quintessential intellectual.
Not only did he read books, he wrote books.
And he spoke well and uh and all that.
And Obama watched TV too, and and Obama talked to a lot of people.
And Obama had ideologues all over the place.
He was the chief ideologue.
But the big talking point in this bite is that America is a Faberge egg.
You see, the left does think that America's very fragile.
Our people are very fragile.
This is why they need safe spaces and why they're snowflakes.
It's why they need participation trophies.
It's why they need a medal for finishing in last place, just for finishing it all.
This is why we need to be very careful with the psyche of young people.
And the climate and the weather, very, very fragile.
And just the one-tenth of one degree centigrade could just destroy the universe.
It's so so terribly fragile.
We're not fragile at all.
The last thing, the last word I would ever use to describe the United States of America and the people who make it work is fragile.
They are strong.
They are committed, and they refuse to bend to the demands placed on them by the Obama administration.
They full force rejected the agenda of the Democrat Party.
That is not fragility.
That is strength, and that is commitment, and that is courage to go against a drive-by media, to go against the Democrat Party to oppose the first black president of America.
It was courageous.
It wasn't fragility, but they believe it, folks.
They believe we're all fragile.
They aren't, but we are.
The great unwashed are very, very fragile.
The climate is very, very fragile.
We're teetering on a very narrow precipice and one little gust of wind in the wrong direction and we can destroy the world if the United States goes in the wrong way.
And if we get knocked off our values, your kids won't just grow up in a different America.
They'll grow up in a fundamentally different world.
Aren't the Chinese going to set us straight, Mr. Friedman?
Here's Trump.
We move on to audio soundbite number 22.
It was Steve Bannon who told the media, "You're the enemy." Well, he said, you're the opposition party.
You need to close your mouths and listen.
You still don't know why Trump was elected.
You don't know why Trump's president.
You don't know this country.
You need to stop talking and listen.
They interpreted that as Bannon telling him to go out of business.
That's why they started.
What about Catholic?
What about Catholic Fifth Amendment, 50 amendment?
We have 50 minutes.
Talking about banning, bully banning, bully banning.
First Amendment.
Clueless about what he meant.
So Trump, last night on Freeform TV, used to be the ABC family channel, and a 700 club.
He's being interviewed by David Brody, who said, Steve Bannon, one of your top advisors just the other day said to the New York Times, the media is the opposition party.
Do you believe that?
The media is the opposition party in many ways.
A big portion of the media, the dishonesty, the total deceit and deception makes them certainly partially the opposition party, absolutely.
I think they're much more capable than the opposition party.
The opposition party is losing badly.
By the way, I want to correct something that David Brooks said.
David Brooks said that Trump doesn't have a mind of his own, essentially, that uh that uh that Trump just he's influenced by the last thing he hears.
You know, whatever the last person he talks to says, that's what Trump believes, because he doesn't have a mind of his own because he doesn't have enough intelligence to make up his mind on anything.
He needs other people to provide him ideas.
He needs other people to tell him what he thinks and what to say.
And that's the danger of Bannon.
I want to tell you, I know Donald Trump a little.
I'm gonna tell you something, folks.
Donald Trump knows what he knows and believes what he believes before hearing from anybody.
Do not doubt me on this.
I have up close personal experience with this.
And so do others.
I can't tell how many times have you heard the complaint that Trump doesn't listen to people?
Remember that from the campaign?
Remember the media going to all these people in the Trump inner circle?
Yeah, we advise him, we're telling him stop attacking people who attack you.
And he doesn't listen.
He just doesn't listen.
How many times do we hear that complaint?
But yet here comes David Brook.
No, Thomas Loopy Friedman, who claims that Trump doesn't know what he thinks unless somebody tells him what to think.
You can trust me when I tell you that is not true.
Trump knows what he knows and thinks what he thinks before he brings Steve Bannon or Kellyanne Conway or anywhere, anybody else inside.
He hires people that he likes and who think like he does.
He's not hiring people to tell him what to think.
I actually think that's another one of these old saws that probably more applicable to Democrats.
Uh Mark Cuban.
Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner.
You know, there's a lot of people out there that want to make these protests.
And what happens on social media, representative of a serious opposition that's much larger than Trump.
And they have faith that Trump can be stopped simply with social media and protest marches.
So this morning on CNBC, uh Mark Cuban asked by Andrew Ross Sorkin.
Uh well, the question is very well.
Let's just play that.
First of all, Twitter is not a reflection of anything, right?
If you are the type that wants to scream about boycotting you automatically go on Twitter and you automatically go on Facebook, that's not the real world.
You'll look at your own business numbers to determine that.
He won.
He's our president.
He's the president most likely for the next four years.
You know, he's our guy.
And so all that changes.
So here's a guy who thrives on Twitter, telling everybody it's not the real world.
And it's important because people who tweet all this really think they're making a difference.
They really think, especially with all the likes and dislikes or whatever you have on Twitter, retweets, I guess, that it really, really, really matters, and it can change somebody, get rid of a president, it can create a protest market.
And he's telling everybody, you gotta keep everything in perspective here.
It's not the real world.
Folks, if it were the real world, I would be there and I'm not.
Hey, folks, how long ago was it that I said it's about time for Obama to show up?
We're getting close to when Obama's gonna call the media and say he doesn't support what's going on.
Well, it's happened.
I think I uh was a half hour ago, 25 minutes ago that I predicted this, or this is about time.
It's a politico story.
Obama supports protests.
American values are at stake.
Former President Barack Hussein Owes office released a statement Monday supporting the protests going around.
Of course he does.
He's a community organizer.
This is what he does.
Organizing these kinds of mass protests is Obama's resume.
This is what he did.
So of course he supports this.
Released a statement today supporting the protests going on around the country and speaking out against discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion saying American values are at stake.
George W. Bush.
I don't was it how many years?
At least five, six, seven.
If ever.
Anyway, not to make this about me, but folks, I predicted this starting a year ago that this was going to happen.
And one of the things I warned you about.
The only area I'm wrong, he didn't call the cameras in.
It's a released statement.
But he supports the protesters, which of course he does.
And because American values are at stake.
I th this presumption that the left defines and owns American values, that offends me deeply.
They are anti-American values.
They're all about uprooting traditional American values.
They're all about transforming away from traditional American values.
By definition.
That's the whole point of the Obama administration was to scrub existing traditions, institutions, and so forth and replace them.
And then they come along and speak as though traditional American values.
All that's happening here is the American value of national security and self-protection, national defense is taking place.
Back in just a second.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Back to the audio.
No, no.
Phone call time.
Mary in Dayton, Ohio.
Need to get back to the phones.
How are you doing, Mary?
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you here on the program.
Well, thank you.
And my husband and I have loved you for 20 some years, and we've always listened to you.
I've never had a call answered before, so I don't.
But I do want to encourage you and tell you that.
We saw uh the internet's full of interviews of Senator Rob Portman.
He's our Republican center, and we voted for him.
He ran for re-election this November.
We are very disappointed that he would go on CNN and criticize Trump's immigration ban because we are a hundred percent for it.
We also have four children in their twenties to 32.
They all voted for Trump.
And they all think the immigration ban was uh was and doing it without warning or without giving advanced notice was really the only smart way to go.
So I wish I I did call Senator Rob Portman's office in this and let him know that we are disappointed and we'd like him to support Trump.
So thank you for standing up for Trump, and we're trying to do our part here.
I wish I could do more.
You know how I can do more.
We're we've been Republicans here for years, and we're not.
Yeah, I know that's the thing.
You know, everybody, everybody wants to do more, and I uh Trump you you and people like you are all Trump has.
He doesn't have the media.
I'm watching Spicer doing this press briefing is still going on, and I just I just observed to Mr. Snertley, Mr. Snerdley is a close personal friend with Mr. Spicer.
And I said, you tell Spicer.
He's wasting his time.
You tell him I said that.
And Snerdley said, why?
Because they're never gonna report stuff the way he reports it here.
I mean, he's up there, he's giving the White House daily press briefing, and you can when that when the camera switches to the media in there, you you can see the ice.
You can see the disgust.
You can see the fact they resent the fact that Spicer is there because Trump is there, and they're never gonna report what he says the way he says it.
I mean, I know he's got to do it.
I wish they would follow through on their original ideas.
You know, change this up, do it once a week, um uh do it, you know, kick him out of the White House so they can go over the OEO, put 500 people in there, turn the press briefing into a rally every day or something.
You know, whatever it is.
I wish they wished well, they would shake it up.
Because uh Spicer is giving it everything he's got.
He's taking the job seriously.
He's trying to answer every one of these questions that's honestly in front.
He's he's knocking questions out of the park.
He's hitting home runs with every trick question he's getting, and they're not gonna report that.
They're trying to constantly misrepresent what this administration is.
You mentioned Senator Portman.
I know Senator Portman.
I've I've I've liked him for a long time.
But I'm telling you, the choke point for Trump is Republicans.
You know, this is made to order.
This is why these protests happen.
These protests are aimed at undermining Trump, but not to make Trump change his mind.
They're aimed at undermining other people who support Trump.
The greatest objective, the primary objective these protesters have in the left, now joined by Obama, is to have the Republican Party abandon Trump.
That's the only hope the Democrats have of stopping Trump is if the Republicans do it.
And the media knows how to scare Republicans.
And the left knows how to scare Republicans.
And all you have to do to scare Republicans is make it look like they support racism, epigotry, uh violation of human rights, uh, and all of the so-called grievances that are tied up into this executive order, which are zero.
But it's being portrayed as an executive order replete with hate.
And the Republicans just, they don't even want to go to the trouble of defending it.
They don't want to go to the trouble of standing with it.
They don't think it's a win-win.
Because they do not have it in their minds that they won.
Trump did.
It's a uh, I don't know.
It's a it's a it's a it's a kind of a fraught-taught situation in a sense, taught by ty- I mean by taught tight.
Uh because the uh the Republicans have become so accustomed to being the minority party that it becomes a way of life and a mindset.
And all of a sudden you win and you become the majority party, and it's it's it requires a new set of balls, more confidence when you used to not have to have any because you were the perennial loser or minority.
And it's just it's hard.
And especially not all of them up there are crazy about Trump anyway, and were part of the establishment hoping Trump would implode all during the campaign, which is why I say all Trump has backing him up are his supporters.
And that's why I'll tell you what you can do, and I just off top of my head, if you ever get polled, you just, if if if it's true, and you are remaining a full-fledged support of Trump, you let the pollster know.
Don't be afraid of the pollster.
Don't be afraid of what you think the pollster is going to think of you.
Uh I'm I'm I'm I'm want to tell people to call Washington.
I've never done that.
But where is the Obamacare repeal?
And where is all the action here on tax cuts?
Where's all, I mean, this is all stuff part of the campaign.
It's all part of the recipe that resulted in a Republican victory.
And now we got Tom Tillis or North Carolina Republican proposing a bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill with the Democrats to grant amnesty to 11 million illegals.
It's like the election never happened.
Like the campaign never took place.
So before I get to this break, I need to remind you what we had Brett Bear, uh was it uh I think a couple days for the inauguration.
So the 18th, I think Brett Beer was here, Fox News special report, Brett Bear.
He's written a book that I think it debuted at number two on the New York Times three days in January.
It's about the transition from uh Eisenhower to JFK, and a lot of history, a lot of biographical information about the Eisenhower presidency.
And I asked uh Brett about it, and he He he was he was surprised at some of the similarities he found when he researched this between Eisenhower and Trump.
And I've had a chance to dig into this.
And if presidential history and such things as what happens during transitions, things you don't see, things that TV don't show you.
TV doesn't show you.
It was it's really well done.
It took Brett three years to research and write this book with with everything else that he has on his plate.
And it's a serious scholarly effort.
It is really well done.
And I just want to add an exclamation point to the interview that we did with him.
Um he did a great job of explaining it and tying some of the events in his book to the Trump transition with Obama and into the uh the day of the inauguration, but it goes beyond that, but it has such detail.
For example, bipartisanship and people not getting along.
Eisenhower and Truman despised each other.
And for example, at the on the day of the inauguration, the tradition is that the new president shows up at the White House and goes in with his wife and has coffee or tea with the outgoing president and his wife, and uh secret handshakes and secret letters and secret compartments and you know where the end of the world button really is, and all that stuff is explained, the old president to the new.
And they're in there for 10 or 15, 20 minutes, and then they're off to the inauguration.
Well, the car carrying Eisenhower and Mamie did indeed arrive at the White House, and Eisner didn't get out.
He never went in to have coffee or tea or learn where the secret end of the world button is, or any of these conspiracy handshake compartments are in the English.
He never went in there to learn any of this stuff.
Waited for Eisenhower to come out and they drove over there, and they didn't speak.
And everybody thinks that back in that day it was filled with uh cooperation and comedy or post-war boom and so forth.
There's all kinds of really fascinating historical uh data that is in this book, and many of you who were not even alive when it happened or are very young and were too young to take note of it.
If you have any interest in presidential history, history at all that that is well related to uh president, this is a great book.
It's Brett Bear's three days in January.
We'll be back here in just a second to wrap up.
Okay, we got some polling data in on the Trump executive order.
Rasmussen.
33%.
Only 33% oppose the ban.
Only 33.
Now you compare that with the way the media has portrayed these protesters and the uh the movement and the supposed national outrage to this.
A full 57%, which we're gonna round up to 65.
Well, there's some unaccounted for here.
There's some don't know's and what's the question type answers, but 57% in the first poll support Trump's temporary man.
This was not turning our backs on refugees.
This whole thing is so mindless.
It just, I can't tell you this whole thing.
This kid, this the same process, the same lying, stinking procedure oriented around protest continues to happen.
It's it's it's by by rote, it is it is not organic or spontaneous, and people continue to fall for it, but maybe not, only 33% oppose the ban.
57% support it.
As I say, rounded up to 65%, because we know that's what it really is.
And I knew it because I know America.
You know why?
Because I am America, and you are America.
It's just that simple.
The one thing good about these Trump protests is they don't last long because he's off reclaiming the narrative very quickly.
Tomorrow he's gonna announce his Supreme Court pick, and the left is gonna go bonkers over that.
Whoever it is, Garandam teed.
I'll splain the nuclear option and all this other stuff tomorrow.
And whatever else happens between now and then, we'll see you.
Thanks for being with us today, folks.
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