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Feb. 1, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 1, 2017, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Hey.
How you doing?
Great to have you back.
L. Rushbo having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
However, always tempered with the stark reality in which we all find ourselves today.
You can always count on me never to lose that perspective.
And that will be to your benefit.
It's just reality.
Sometimes people won't want to hear it.
Such is what I have to say coming up here in just a moment.
I think you'll find it fascinating, but you might really not want to hear it, although I may be wrong about that.
Anyway, phone number 800 282-2882, email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Now get the right Pelosi bite is number five.
Okay.
So have that standing by here.
I uh uh check the email during the break.
And I have a lot of people think that I am overly optimistic on the tactics the left employs all the time, failing them because people get wise to it.
And I understand, look, we've had a lifetime of the left defining these narratives and getting away with it.
And it it's it's become the way in which we function and operate and we strategize.
We know what the left's gonna do, we have pretty good idea what they're gonna get away with, and thus what we have to push back on.
Here's what's different to me, and I admit that this is hopeful and not full-fledged confident.
Where is when Obama's in the White House and the Republicans react to him, or I say something, or he nominates somebody to Republicans to react to it, the Democrats would go predictably back excrement,
and they would start launching on how the nominee or the person in question or the target, whoever it was, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, hateful, uh, anti-American, out of the mainstream, extremist, whatever it is.
And over all these years, our side would never push back against it.
The media would join the chorus, and that would become the narrative.
Democrats mainstream and sane, Republicans minority extremist wackos, uh, and racist sexist bigots to boot.
What's changed now is that Democrats don't control anything.
We do.
We control the White House, we control a House, we control the Senate.
They still have the embedded bureaucracy.
And this is why I was so frosted at Trump.
It wasn't the fact that sessions hadn't yet been confirmed that this renegade uh acting attorney general did what she did, this Sally What's her face.
It's because Trump doesn't realize yet what he's up against.
He knows he's got opposition, but he doesn't understand ideological opposition.
That woman was not just practicing or acting out some moral code.
She was a political activist.
She's always been a political activist.
She's not a lawyer in that sense.
She's a political activist, she's a leftist.
She's put in there to advance the leftist agenda and arrest anything else.
She should not have been there.
Trump should have broomed everybody of appointed nature out of the DOJ and every other one of these bureaucracies on day one.
I'm hopeful, as this opposition continues, that Trump becomes more.
I don't want to say learned and aware, because he's not stupid by any stretch.
It's just he doesn't think in ideological terms.
He doesn't see Pelosi as a ravaged insane liberal.
He just sees her as somebody maybe anti-business who doesn't know what she's talking about and is wrong, but he doesn't, he doesn't see her the way she sees him.
She sees him as an enemy that threatens everything she believes in who has to be destroyed.
Trump does not see these people that way.
And but they're out there trying to destroy him and everybody in his administration multiple times a day.
Here is Pelosi.
This is what she said on CNN when the nomination of Gorsuch had been made, and Jake Tapper is talking to her and asks for asks her for comment on the guy.
He comes down on the side of felons over gun safety.
Hostile to women's reproductive rights, a Hobby Lobby case, for example.
The list goes on and on.
Uh criticize progressives for bringing cases that relate to LGBT progress, taking those cases to the courts.
So it's a very uh hostile appointment.
Hail fellow, well met, lovely family, I'm sure.
But as far as your family is concerned, and all of the things uh if you breathe air, drink water, eat food, take medicine, or in any other way interact with the courts, this is a very bad decision.
Then that's insane.
It's just flat out insane.
If you breathe air, we all do.
If you drink water, we all do, and it's not a choice.
We have to.
Some of you too much bourbon, but still, gotta have water.
Eat food.
No choice there.
Have to do it, or we die.
If you take medicine, yeah, only those of you can afford it, because the pharmaceutical companies suck.
Or if you in any other way interact with the courts, this is a very bad decision.
So just by your doing things, you need to stay alive.
This guy is gonna kill you.
Just by you doing what you have to do to stay alive, this guy is your enemy.
He comes down on the side of felons over gun safety.
See, the effort to put Gorsuch on the defensive has already begun.
Now there are two factions on the left.
One faction made up of the think tank uh legal association left.
They don't want to go after this guy this way because it's they think it's wasted ammunition.
He's gonna get confirmed.
It doesn't change the balance of the court.
People like Pelosi and Schumer cannot help themselves.
This guy is an enemy of the state.
He is an enemy who must not be, even though he has been approved previous times unanimously by voice vote doesn't matter.
Because Supreme Court is where the left advances their agenda, and there's not going to be anybody over their dead bodies that gets in there and can have a chance at stopping them implement their agenda.
And so this guy, hostile to women's reproductive, that's the Hobby Lobby case.
Uh look, I'm not going to take the time at this moment to get into the minutiae and details of all these cases.
That's going to come later when the hearings begin.
The timing to do these things will be wrong.
I want to address something uh larger here.
And it's based on the emails I got during the break of the top of the hour.
People thought that I'd be a little overly optimistic that the left is marginalizing itself by virtue of being who they are, and that uh people will eventually see it for what it is and stop being affected by it.
People say, Rush.
Some of the emails.
Um my life they've gotten away with it.
I mean, if people were going to see it for what it is, it would have happened by now.
I'm sorry, Rush, but there's no evidence the left doesn't get away with this stuff.
Well, there is.
The election.
If the left got away with this stuff, Trump would not be president today.
That's just one example.
But I understand your point.
Look, I I'm not full-fledged confident that the Libs are going to marginalize themselves.
What's different is that they're going to do it all the time now.
When Obama was president and they ran the Senate or were in charge of things, they weren't reacting to every news story this way.
But now they are.
Multiple times a day, they are demonstrating their insanity and how unhinged and absent reality they are.
Every day, multiple times.
They lost the election.
Everybody knows they lost the election.
But here's the difference, folks, and this is where I have to understand the people who have emailed me who think that I'm being overly optimistic.
There's no question that a certain number of people over time are going to tune out the Pelosi's and the Schumers and the CNNs And all of the other leftist activists who are going bat excrement crazy.
But the media never does tune them out.
Meaning you and me and a bunch of other citizens out there might begin to ignore the left and might think, well, a bunch of nutcases, just stop paying attention to them.
But the media never will.
And that I have to admit is a fundamentally crucial point.
The media will never get tired of them.
In other words, they are always going to be the lead story for the media.
Whatever extremism is happening, whatever reaction to whatever Trump's doing, the more extreme, the more leftist it is, the media is going to top line it, front page it, lead with it.
So the media will never tune it out.
The media will always be using it and trying to capitalize it.
So even while you've tuned it out, you're not going to be able to avoid it because the media is going to be all over it.
And in this way, because of the media, never tiring of it, and because of the media actually living off of this insanity on the left.
They figure that even when they lose, they win because they maintain control of the narrative.
And it happens this way.
Let me give you a demonstration or illustration of how it happens.
Let's say Obama nominates a judge.
He's president, nominates Sotomayor, or take your pick.
To be a federal court judge of Supreme Court justice.
Those nominees, during their confirmation hearings, are free to say everything they believe that they are committed to Roe v.
Wade in abortion rights, that they would reverse citizens united on the first day they were on the bench.
That they would, if they could limit the second amendment, they are permitted, because of the media cover they get to be upfront and honest about every restrictive anti-constitutional thing they would do, and there is never any criticism of it.
They can stand for every bit of anti-constitutionalism they want, and they are heralded and portrayed as heroic and imminently qualified.
Our nominees, on the other hand, are never able to do the opposite.
And you're going to see it here with Judge Gorsuch.
Judge Gorsuch is going to have to temper what he believes and temper what he says by, in fact, saying things like, yes, I am very sometimes disappointed with my own rulings.
That's signaling to these nutcase Democrats that he's not an ideologue, that he will find against his own beliefs by following the law.
The leftist nominees never have to pledge following the law.
Leftist nominees never have never have to promise to follow the law.
In fact, they do the opposite.
They not only get away with it, they are required to explain how they're going to set the law that has been made in mistaken in error correctly.
They're going to ensure versus Wade, they're going to try to get rid of the Second Amendment and whatever it, whatever the leftist agenda is.
So our nominees in the past have even been chosen on their ability to be unspecific.
Our nominees, some of them, previous Republican presidents have actually chosen nominees for their ability to not tie themselves in knots and incriminate themselves in front of these Stalinists that are the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee.
So the way that the media and the Democrats have set up the game is our nominees have to say, my personal views are irrelevant.
And of course I will enforce the settled law.
And I will not overturn precedents, and I will respect everything you idiot leftists have done to transform this country, whether I agree with it or not.
Our nominees have to say a variation of that in their hearings.
In other words, left leaning decisions are sacrosanct and must be enforced.
They are the mainstream.
And if you as a Republican nominee do not signal that you're okay with that, then you are going to be labeled as out of the mainstream and extreme.
So the left's out of control, unhinged opposition is not just about knocking out one nominee or another.
It's about controlling the narrative.
It's about controlling the parameter, the boundaries in which nominations are considered.
And this hopefully will change.
But right now, it is the way it is.
Republican nominees have to be very guarded and cannot in any way betray what their ideological beliefs are.
Whereas Democrat nominees not only can, they're required to Kennedy, Anthony Kennedy, Roberts.
They they can't portray what they're really going to do once they get on the bench.
They have to keep that a secret.
If what they're going to do is actually interpret the law.
But now all that's reversed here.
The Democrats don't have the votes to stop these nominees, especially if a nuclear option is enacted.
But still, you watch, the hearings will take place much as I have described them here.
Gorsuch is going to show up, presumed to be out of the mainstream.
He's going to be presumed to be an extremist because of the Hobby Lobby case and because he defends the Second Amendment and all this.
And in order to get through this, he's going to have to show his respects.
These lunatic leftist extremists that are the Democrats on the committee.
And these parameters have to change.
So what whereas, yeah, the left does have a chance of causing people to tune out because they just are going to be going crazy 24-7.
There still is the success that they have had in defining and setting the terms under which judicial confirmation hearings take place.
And this is the the intent here is to fully limit the options Republican presidents have in choosing Supreme Court or federal district court nominees.
As I say, presidents have to pick people that are going to be able to go up there and white walk this tightrope.
Whereas liberal nominees have to worry about any of this.
The more liberalism they say they're for, the better it is.
But they are scared to death of Gorsuch.
Because he's so smart.
He has impeccable credentials.
Folks, this guy, his educational credentials, his resume, his C V is unassailable.
This guy, they would kill if he were on their side.
They I mean they would be having orgasms if they could get this guy on their side.
That's how brilliant he is.
And now he's backed by Trump, who is fearless and is out to blow this whole system up.
And it may change the rules the way the game is played.
And that's what we're keeping an eye on and hoping happens.
Don't go away.
Okay, time to hit the phone.
So we're going to start in Detroit with Gina.
Gina, how are you doing?
I'm great.
Good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh.
Listen, my question is: do you feel that the Democrats are making their jobs any less valuable by not showing up to work?
And that the Republicans are still getting the job done.
You are obviously referring to the uh the uh Orin Hatch Committee, where he went ahead and authorized the vote uh for for both uh Tom Price and Minuchin precisely because the Democrats refused to show up.
And so he said, Hell with it.
If you're not gonna show up, we're gonna do the vote anyway.
We don't need you here, we're just gonna do it.
we're gonna fall for your delaying tactics any longer.
Exactly.
I mean I feel that if we didn't show up for work well what happened we would be fired.
So let's train the slump even further and get rid of them all.
Wish it was that easy hey you didn't show up for the hearing you're gone I would I would love that.
But but you're asking me if I think that by not showing up that they are going to harm themselves or damage themselves?
Correct.
No think that their constituents are going to think next time around you're not even showing up to No their constituents are going to applaud them for trying to stop this.
That's what they were trying to do by not showing up they were continuing to delay the hearings they were claiming where there's waste of time to listen to these nominees they're lying to us.
And so they had submitted additional questionnaires for the nominees to fill out they were waiting on those to be delivered.
No no no the Democrats are not going to suffer for for this kind this is this is Gina precisely why I say the objective is going to have to be to continue to beat them and politically beat them beat them because we can't rely on the fact that they're um well you know we do have the election last year I that that's still the wild card about public opinion and how it has shifted and uh they didn't do themselves any favors.
Let's just put it that way here is John in Port Huron Michigan you're next and it's great to have you sir hi.
Hi Roger thank you.
Um if I may for a minute be your unpaid spokesperson and talk directly to the emailers who don't buy your take so much that things are different now and that the the the the voting public people put Trump in there aren't just going to buy into the Democrats may I do that for a moment.
Sure.
Because I I was one of those weak in the need people you propped me up many times when I was thinking this is over it's gone and and this is where I'm actually going to use your arguments over thirty years or at least twenty years to talk to these folks because I was one of them.
Things are totally different now.
For twenty years you've been begging clamoring prodding Republicans particularly in Congress to fight back to stand up to make some points not just back down, go along to get along and take the high road and of course to the Democrats the high road by a r for a Republican simply means don't defend yourself.
Would you agree with that?
Yeah.
And you have been saying this forever and you look at what the quote unquote high road has got in the Republican Party it got George H. W. Bush from 90% approval after Desert Storm to being beaten by um an unknown you know governor from Arkansas it got his son to go from ninety percent approval after nine eleven to thirty percent approval when he left office and the most recent example taking the high road being classy just figuring people will figure it out without responding was Mitt Romney you know up by seven or eight going into the thing and and then beaten.
I can't I can't object to much of this I must tell you.
Well I appreciate that because I am your unpaid spokesperson talking directly to these people who who I once was one in fact not probably the day before the election I was still one of them.
But here's the thing here's what's different you got it and you know where this is going.
You have a guy who doesn't only defend himself he fights back.
He says stuff to them to to uh the Democrats to his opposition that you would want said.
You cringed a little you were so not used to a guy and I'll give you a specific example taking on the Clintons both in Bill Clinton's personal behaviors while in office and of course their thievery with the Clinton Foundation over the years you almost, even though you wanted it for years, you got so trained as a Republican to not hear that you almost cringed at first and then went oh my God it's about time once you got over the cringe factor because we were so trained not to do that then it's just you it started rolling and rolling and rolling and that's different now.
And he is not stopping.
He is going to continue to do this.
Now the second leg to this what's different and you brought this up that the media will be out there selling it for Pelosi and Schumer.
Their voices may get you know people like us may get sick of it but they have they can pick it up.
Here's what Trump has done which is genius they are the only group that has a lower approval rate than Congress and he has taken them on head on with the same type of results for people like me and probably some um middle of the road Democrats and some nonpartisans people never voted and don't forget the low information crowd out there they're always a factor.
They're always a factor but that bubble group me, the people who may have voted the uh the Reagan Democrats the the labor Democrats, the same ones who voted for him in Michigan, Pennsylvania, uh, Wisconsin, who never would have done that, they get it now.
And when him keep he keeps doing this and pointing it out and saying, hey, aren't you the network whose uh former anchor gave talking points after she became the DNC chairman, uh, questions of debate, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
He's kept it up and kept it up.
Here's my analogy.
The Democrat Party itself is like, say they're like white-collar criminals who've ripped off a local group of people in a small community.
That person then goes out and hires an attorney.
Okay.
Um, they hire an attorney who has a stellar reputation, who everyone respects to give them what's that word they used to use, gravitas.
In this scenario, in this analogy, what they've done is they've gone out and hired an attorney who just got out of prison for stealing money from the trust front of their clients.
So they're gonna rely on a group of people now that were going down the drain credibility-wise anyway, and Trump is just hitting the accelerator.
He is just putting the pedals in that.
One one quick question before I I move on, because this this has been an excellent message to the emailers, and I will explain that uh when the call's completed.
Do you have any fear?
Is there any part of you at any time worried that Trump is going to not cave, but react and and in a bad way, something in a way you wouldn't like to say, take a pick.
The reaction to his executive order on vetting immigrants, it's so outrageous.
It's so intense.
Apple is threatening to suit Trump, all these other groups out there going barkers, the whole state of California says, screw you, Trump.
We're going all sanctuary, not just city, the whole state.
Are you worried at some point that Trump's going to back down a little bit to try to appease these people?
I I'm I'm not afraid that he's going to back down.
My fear used to be that, oh, he better count, you know, the old training.
It's like Patwav's dog.
We're not used to getting what we want so much and over the top, and we're thinking, oh, calm it down.
I'm not in either one of those camps anymore, because what he knows is fifty-five, sixty, sixty-five, seventy percent of the people agree with these things.
Let me tell you what I'm running into, though.
And I let me tell you if you've uh ask you if you're in front of this.
I'm running into some just some citizens, not people in politics.
They're voters.
They're disappointed, even though everything you describe is happening, and they love it.
They love the pushback, they love the defiance, they love Trump in their face, but they're disappointed that that the media isn't changing.
They're disappointed.
Wait a minute now, they're disappointed that seemingly not enough members of the public are getting it.
In other words, they're sitting out there waiting for a vast majority of people to go with Trump to abandon the Democrats, and they're including some media in that.
And there's and I I've been up against this my whole career, and it's frustrated me to no end that people are not willing to pronounce success until the media agrees with us.
And I'm still hearing it out there among people.
Okay, can I respond to that?
Well, yeah, yeah, that's why I asked you a question, but I just I got a minute here.
You gotta do it quick.
Brevity is the solo witness.
I can do it, I can do it 30 seconds.
We're a church, not a cult.
We want as many people to keep us going, but if you don't want to join us, go ahead, do whatever you want to do.
We just proved last in November that we don't need them.
It's upsetting, it's irritating.
I tell my mother, don't watch CNN, don't watch the protest.
It's like putting your tongue in a canker sore.
What's the point?
We won.
Uh the polls of the people that put him in power are still there.
And and it's growing.
And the more foolish they look, as you're saying, Rush, don't get upset like I used to, that they look foolish and idiotic and they don't understand logic.
Be happy.
I look at I hear you.
I just I I see some people that are disappointed.
They think with this big a slam dunk win by Trump and this overwhelming demonstration of success that people would wake up and join us, and they see all this opposition on TV, and they see the evidence of the country being divided, and they think, oh my God, it isn't working.
They probably have, you know, an 85-year-old mother or mother-in-law living with them who's done nothing but watch McNeil Lehrer every night, followed by Walter Cronkite, and then Dan Rather, and that's all the old woman's exposed to, and is sitting at home complaining and whining and moaning about this Trump guy.
So there may be some explanations for it.
But look, I I appreciate the call out there, John.
Port Huron, Michigan's where we're from.
I'll explain what he was doing, talking to the emailers in case you weren't here at the top of the hour.
Don't go away.
I'll tell you what, old John out there from Port Huron, Michigan, he's a pretty good spokesman.
To hear his description of watching CNN, it's like putting your tongue on a canker sore.
That was good.
What he was talking about.
I I expressed an opinion previous hour that I think the because the left lost and because they're going bat excrement crazy all the time.
I mean multiple times.
It's their in fact it's their normal state.
At some point, people are gonna tire of it.
They're gonna see it for what it is.
They're gonna shoot their emotional ammo, and they're gonna be out of it, and and and people are gonna just tire of it.
And after a while, all of their allegations about Trump are gonna cease to have much impact.
And I got some emails during the break at the top of the hour.
People who thought that I was being overly optimistic about this and wanted to me to temper uh my thoughts on that with some reality.
And their basic point was, yeah, well, they may slink a wag, but the media never, the media is gonna constantly be using the lift for the lead items on the news.
And that's true.
I mean, the the left can be as bat excellent crazy as they want, and they're still gonna be the fodder for what the lead items, television news are above the fold on newspapers, covers of magazines and the blogs and everything.
So the media is still going to be portraying this extreme wacko insane liberalism as the mainstream order of the day.
In terms of the narrative, no matter how crazy it gets, no matter how insane, no matter how lunatic it is.
And that happens to be true.
Let's this was uh back to CNN's town hall.
This audio sounded by number six.
Let me make sure it's actually in some headline Town Hall plant cannot read questions she was given on Trump's executive order.
Okay, I want to make sure I play you the right bite.
Looks like okay.
So we have here a Yemeni.
For those of you in real lunar, somebody from Yemen, which is in the Middle East, a terrorist hot spot.
A refugee from Yemen, a woman named Bushra, is asking a question at the CNN town hall.
And she has difficulty reading it off her smartphone.
Now they're trying to portray the woman as spontaneous.
She showed up at the CNN Town Hall because she's outraged at what Trump is doing.
She's outraged at Trump's executive order.
She is outraged.
She is fit to be tied.
And of course, what she really is is a plant.
She's a CNN plant, a Pelosi plant, and she can't even read the question they gave her.
Much less make it sound like it's spontaneous, or so I'm told, is on the bite.
I hope it's on the bite that way.
Let's see.
My mom is now recently living in a destroyed house because of the airstrikes.
And she wasn't able to come to the United States because of this decision that Donald Trump did.
So my question is.
What can the um sorry?
What is the democratic leadership?
Could help us.
Sorry.
What could you help us and our people to ensure that to ensure that more families are not turned apart?
You know what this reminds me of?
Mr. and Mrs. Kazir Khan, you know, at the Democrat National Convention.
They they were able to read their lines.
But this poor woman from Yemen, they went out and found her.
She's a plant.
This is what exactly what the Democrats do phony baloney plastic banana, good time rock and roll.
So go ahead and get this babe.
And she supposedly is outraged over Trump's ban.
She's her family's gonna be torn apart, and the world is gonna end, and the bombs are gonna fall, and there's gonna be explosions, and oh no!
And she can't read the question right.
Off of her smartphone.
That's where the question is.
So Pelosi's, it's okay.
It's okay.
Here is is this Pelosi's answer?
Well, it suffices as such, isn't it?
To detect some impatience in my voice.
It's because your family is suffering, because our president is reckless.
Reckless, and his administration is incompetent.
We follow the lead of our spiritual leaders when the Pope talks about it is unchristian.
Come stop the tape.
You people want to excoriate the Pope because he's pro-life.
What do you mean you listen to the Pope?
When the Pope speaks, he's one of your one of your inspirational leaders.
Anyway, you know what this is?
This is exactly what I was talking about earlier.
This is a totally manufactured, phony, scripted event that is made to look organic and spontaneous, and that the outrage is genuine and that it is heartfelt that CNN just happened to come along when it was happening and television.
When the whole thing instead is a scripted TV show.
And this is how it's done.
This is how the media works with the left to create a false illusion of genuine and organic human behavior when it's all scripted and most of the people, many of them are actually actors.
Not professional actors, but they're recruited because they looked apart, they're given lines to utter in the form of questions of their great respected Democrat leaders.
The whole thing is phony, folks.
Literally phony, and the media helps give it weight and reality.
And we will be back.
Don't go away.
Vice President Mike Pence is going to be our guest as we kick off the next busy broadcast hour.
This is five minutes or so.
um So hang on for that.
We will continue in mere moments.
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