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February 2, 2017, Thursday, Hour #2

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	And we are back.
	Great to have you, Rush Limboy here behind the golden EIB microphone broadcast excellence.
	Created, perfected and defined, executed each day by me, America's real anchor man.
	And truth detector and Doctor of Democracy.
	And that would be L. Rushbo, the all-knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling, all concerned, all aware.
	Maha Rushi.
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	If you want to be on the program, the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
	Here is the truth.
	Just a little bit of time here on the Trump call to the president of Mako.
	This also ended up being largely fake news.
	This was uh hysterically reported by the Associated Press as Donald Trump threatening in a phone call with the Mac and president that unless the Mexican military did more to control bad hombres down there, that Trump was going to send U.S. troops in there to fix the problem and to control it.
	And then the story did not contain uh anything to do with Pietro or Peinieto's response.
	Uh the call, the report also said that Trump hung up was supposed to go for a little bit longer than it did.
	Trump hung up on the guy.
	The Mexican government said that the AP account was not accurate.
	But that didn't stop the AP from running with the story.
	And it didn't stop other outlets like the Washington Post from picking it up as well.
	You have a bunch of bad hombres down there, Trump told the chairman of Mayco.
	And you aren't doing enough to stop him.
	I think your military's scared.
	Our military isn't, so I just might send them down there to take care of it.
	A person with access to the official transcript of the phone call provided only that portion of the conversation to the AP.
	The person gave it on condition of anonymity because the administration didn't make the details of the call public.
	Well, then it was leaked.
	If the administration didn't make the call public, the details, how does anybody know it?
	Somebody had to leak it, and it's probably somebody at the State Department.
	It's just somebody else that Trump needs to clear out of there.
	An anonymous source provides false information, i.e.
	fake news about a Trump phone call with the president of Mexico, and supposedly the transcript.
	A transcript that CNN, the purveyors, I mean, they they the king of the hill of fake news, even CNN says that it isn't true.
	Mexico's foreign relations department denied the AP account, saying it's based on absolute falsehoods, and later said that the statement also applied to the excerpt provided to AP.
	The assertions that you make about said conversation do not correspond to the reality of it.
	Anyway, it's more fake news.
	And it's designed to make Trump look like a fool.
	Cool.
	Or like a bully or like he's just unequipped, you know.
	He just ill equipped for the job.
	The guy doesn't understand how to speak diplomatically.
	He's a bull in the China shop.
	This guy's gonna get us in real trouble.
	And of course, these fake stories then result in people taking action, like McCain.
	After the misreported thing about Australia, McCain gets hold of the Australian ambassador to the United States, and essentially.
	I mean he doesn't go so far as to apologize.
	But it's kind of like when Ted Kennedy would call whoever was running the Soviet Union during the 80s and ask him to be patient.
	Uh Reagan was kind of a novice, admittedly dangerous, didn't know what he was doing, but Ted Kennedy would tell and roppo for breastfed be cool, be cool.
	We got it under control.
	We got Reagan hemmed in.
	This is what McCain was essentially trying to comfort the Australians by uh by saying, look, we all know this guy's guy not quite old here, right?
	But don't sweat it because we're not gonna there's gonna be drastic action.
	It's okay.
	The United States, the United States is still, we're still uh big ally of Australia.
	He made that call.
	Now, let's go to the audio sound bites because Trump brings all this up in his own fashion at the prayer breakfast today.
	We're going to start here with audio soundbite number 11.
	And let's just take these in order because they're they are self-contained, and some of them relate to things I've mentioned, some habits.
	Let's just get started and deal with them as they Today we continue a tradition begun by President Eisenhower some sixty-four years ago.
	This gathering is a testament to the power of faith and is one of the great customs of our nation.
	And I hope to be here seven more times with you.
	I think Trump just announced he's running for re-election in 2020.
	I guess Trump made news at the prayer breakfast.
	And here he says that people are always telling him that they're praying for him.
	But most importantly today, I want to thank the American people.
	Your faith and prayers have sustained me and inspired me through some very, very tough times.
	All around America I have met amazing people whose words of worship and encouragement have been a constant source of strength.
	What I hear most often as I travel the country are five words that never ever fail to touch my heart.
	That's I am praying for you.
	I hear it so often.
	I am praying for you, Mr. President.
	They loved it.
	They loved it, and then they loved this.
	It was the great Thomas Jefferson who said the God who gave us life gave us liberty.
	Jefferson asked, can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
	Among those freedoms is the right to worship according to our own beliefs.
	That is why I will get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution.
	I will do that.
	Remember.
	Now you know how this used to happen.
	Take your pick, you know, a any Republican president would go up there and would never say anything like that.
	That is why I will get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak— That's not how it would be said.
	In the past it would be said, and I want to assure you, and I want you to know that I'm going to be working with the elected representatives of our party, and I'm going to be trying to cross the aisle.
	I'm going to be reaching out so that we can come up with a unified purpose to do everything we can do to make sure that religious people have the liberty to speak their beliefs.
	That's how it would happen.
	And nothing would happen, because there would be nothing there when you cross the aisle except a bunch of flat red stop signs.
	And a bunch of people disagreeing with you.
	But my point is there would be no commitment.
	Nothing along the lines of I will get rid of and totally destroy the Pink O'Johnson.
	I will not even allow a word of it to survive.
	None of that would ever be.
	We'll be working with our elected partners in Congress and doing everything we can to...
	And applause would erupt and nothing much would change.
	Here is Trump.
	And this is smart, by the way.
	He's telling everybody in his own way what I told you a half hour ago.
	This is what reclaiming the country looks like.
	Having these spoiled, rotten leftist children and the professional rabble rousers who are being paid to do what they're doing.
	This is what it looks like when they raise hell.
	This is what it looks like.
	They're trying to scare you into submission.
	They're trying to convince you it's not worth reclaiming your country.
	The price is too high.
	Too much strife.
	Too many explosions.
	Too much damage.
	Too many bombs.
	Too much unrest.
	Too much division.
	It isn't worth it.
	Let us have it, the left says.
	And they want you to back down.
	Here's what Trump said.
	The world is in trouble, but we're gonna straighten it out.
	Okay?
	That's what I do.
	I fix things.
	We're gonna straighten it out.
	Believe me.
	When you hear about the tough phone calls I'm having, don't worry about it.
	Just don't worry about it.
	They're tough.
	We have to be tough.
	It's time we're gonna be a little tough, folks.
	We're taken advantage of by every nation in the world virtually.
	It's not gonna happen anymore.
	It's not gonna happen anymore.
	He's got that speech pattern.
	He repeats things that he means twice.
	I actually think he's actually thinking what he wants to say next when he repeats himself.
	I understood I'm an expert in this stuff.
	I'm an expert in a spoken word.
	I'm an expert in the First Amendment.
	I know how the mind works when you're when you're improving, and I know the various techniques and tools that people use.
	Uh, because you gotta keep talking.
	You can't stop and make it look like you don't know what you're saying next.
	You can't stop and then figure out where you want to go next.
	It has to flow.
	And Trump's technique is to repeat his punchline while he then decides what he wants to say next, and that's what that's or you're waiting for the applause, or what have you.
	This case he was waiting for the applause.
	But his point was we are taking advantage of this Australia thing is a great example.
	Now we weren't so much as taken advantage of as the president at the time allowed us to essentially be the sponge and take up and accept the human debris the rest of the world didn't want bad actors from parts of the world that s inspire militant Islamic terrorism.
	Obama would welcome them.
	But you weren't, you you you weren't permitted to make any correlation.
	You weren't permitted to, you know, ask the cause and effects question.
	You weren't you just had to accept that Obama was smarter than the rest of us and drop it.
	Don't you dare ask why.
	If you did, you ran the risk of being labeled a racist, bigot, sexist, transphobic, homophobe, or whatever.
	The phobes are now.
	Can't keep track of them.
	Left keeps inventing so many oddballs that I don't know what all the phobia is about them are anymore.
	Used to be simple.
	Here is the Trumpster praying for Arnold Schwarzenegger's ratings on the TV show The Apprentice.
	We had tremendous success on The Apprentice and set this up.
	This is the national prayer breakfast.
	Trump has just had solemn messages about prayer, religious liberty and freedom.
	People asking, telling him that they are praying for him, quoting Thomas Jefferson on the power of God and the relationship of God to liberty.
	And then at that same prayer breakfast we get.
	We had tremendous success on The Apprentice.
	And when I ran for president, I had to leave the show.
	That's when I knew for sure I was doing it.
	And they hired a big big movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, to take my place.
	And we know how that turned out.
	The ratings went right down the tubes.
	It's been a total disaster, and Mark will never ever bet against Trump again.
	And I want to just pray for Arnold if we can for those ratings, okay?
	And they started laughing, and they prayed for the ratings or Arnold Schwarzenegger.
	And as I said, I was watching CNN, and they had two different panels of guests assembled to discuss the mental instabilities of Donald Trump, as indicated by that comment.
	I mean, they were really, they were they were they were grinding their hands, wringing their hands.
	Does it really mean?
	Is he is he so so sensitive?
	Is he so egocentric that the national prayer breakfast?
	he just he just has to kill everybody?
	How great he was?
	Can't he not let go of his past?
	Can he not look to the future?
	Oh my god, what have we done?
	Have we elected somebody genuinely mentally ill?
	And then another impanel guest would weigh in on it.
	And he's it wasn't a joke per se, but it's uh this is Trump.
	Pray for Schwarzenegger's ratings.
	I laughed.
	You know, I'm not so tightly wound that this stuff offends me.
	And Schwarzenegger, by the way, they went out and they found Schwarzenegger.
	I guess they've taped a bunch of episodes because they found Schwarzenegger some rustic home that is firewood stacked on the porch, and he's out there look like he's ready to go out and hunt big game or something.
	And uh asked him about Trump commenting on his ratings, the apprentice.
	Hey, Donald, I have a great idea.
	Why don't they switch jobs?
	You take over TV because he's such an expediting ratings, and I think over your job.
	And then people can finally sleep comfortably again.
	And of course, now this people see the people at CNN, they love that.
	They thought that one of the best put downs they've ever heard.
	They thought Schwarzenegger owned Trump with that put down.
	They thought Schwarzenegger was great.
	They thought Trump had to eat it on that exchange.
	Donald, let's change positions.
	Arnold's already done Donald's job in California.
	Need we say any more we could ask how did it work out.
	I Trump will double down at some point.
	He'll wait for the ratings, the next rating slide, and he'll have some comment about it.
	All right, let me take a brief time out.
	We'll come back and zero back here.
	I want to get into immigration for a second.
	By the way, the mark that Trump was referring to is Mark Burnett, creator of the apprentice.
	I think he's he's very religious, man.
	He's married to Roma Downey, and they've done numerous documentaries, docudramas on the Bible.
	Uh they did the latest uh uh version, the movie version of Ben Hur.
	And that's that's why the the apprentice even came up.
	I mean, the guy that the creator, Mark Burnett, was there to introduce Trump.
	So the fact that he did the apprentice death.
	I mean, Trump just didn't pull it out of the sky.
	He just didn't want to insult Schwarzenegger.
	He probably wanted to actually compliment Burnett and and raz him a little bit.
	Hey, Mark, look what's happening since I became president.
	You don't have me on your show, blah, blah, blah.
	It's not hard to understand people like Trump.
	And the left is just losing their minds because they don't have they've that their lives are so sheltered, they really aren't.
	They don't understand broad-based senses of humor.
	They don't understand various personality types because they're so damned restrictive in what they permit.
	In terms of behavior, you've you you've got to comport behavior speech to all the rest of the things they believe to even be in their crowd, to be in their group.
	Otherwise, you get sent out excommunicated.
	So they they have a very narrow world, a small world of of personality types, opinions.
	They really have walled themselves off.
	And what's funny about it is they think that they represent the vast majority of people all over the world, and they're in one of the tiniest clubs.
	Here's George and Quincy, Illinois.
	George, I'm glad you called, sir.
	Great to have you on the program.
	How are you doing?
	Hey, great, Rush.
	Yeah, I have a comment.
	I try to convince this into about 20 or 30 seconds.
	Um I know you've mentioned quite frequently that um that Trump might not understand the ideologue part of uh the liberal attacks against him.
	But from the Midwest, and and I've actually talked to friends out in Coronado, California, who I have several friends, and they think Trump's losing uh support daily.
	But people in the Midwest are exactly the opposite.
	They see Trump as stronger.
	And I think what Trump's doing, I think he's sly as a fox.
	I think what he is doing uh on a daily basis, baiting uh the liberals in the BDS, baiting the liberals in Hollywood to attack him, it just gets him much like you said every time Hillary Clinton opened their mouth for support dropped two percent.
	Yeah.
	I think this is the same what he's doing by every time Madonna says something, uh Trump's support goes up two percent.
	And it all it's all about Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio.
	Who cares what people out in California think?
	Who cares what they think in Washington, D.C. and New York?
	And I think Trump's playing it very smart, and I think he totally gets it.
	So you think he totally understands the nature of the liberal opposition and is just tweaking them.
	He is baiting them.
	He's going out doing and saying things designed to drive them crazy, because when they speak up, Trump's base loves him even more.
	Is that it?
	I I think he's I think it's a very nuanced battle.
	Um because really the the future of the the future of the party really lies in that upper Midwest.
	I mean, he's never gonna those are the only states now that keep the Republicans in play four years from now and so forth.
	So I think he's playing it right.
	And um I I mean I think, yeah, there's some things he could do a little bit differently, but I think he's doing a great job of holding, you know, that area where there was thousands of Trump signs all the time.
	Oh, I'm not no no, no, no.
	I'm I don't disagree with that.
	My comment that he doesn't understand ideologically who he's up against is based on other things.
	Not not that, but a man, a legend, a way of life.
	Learn it, love it, live it.
	Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
	Donald Trump tweeted at 613 this morning.
	If you see Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view, no federal funds.
	Question mark.
	I mean, that that hits them right in the breadbest.
	I mean, that's right in a cauliflower there, folks.
	These people can't survive without their federal funding.
	Without their subsidies.
	We looked it up.
	I have the numbers here, my formerly nicotine state fingers.
	UC Berkeley website brags that every year the UC Berkeley campus receives well over half a billion dollars in research and other support from external sources.
	Of that, over half a billion dollars.
	The federal government provided 55 percent of the funds.
	California state agencies and other government sources, industry, the nonprofit sectors supplied the rest.
	So we're basically looking at 370 million dollars a year the federal government gives Berkeley.
	Just yank it.
	Only one arrest.
	You seen the video, there were fires, property damage.
	Why do these people by the way, somebody needs to explain something?
	I got an email with a great question.
	Why do these crazed leftists every time they do this, destroy a Starbucks?
	Isn't Starbucks their home away from home?
	Isn't Starbucks the quintessential liberal hangout?
	Why do they destroy I mean, they've literally destroyed a Starbucks.
	I just saw the photo.
	It doesn't exist.
	I mean it exists, but you can't go in the earth.
	The front's off, the glass is blown out, the tables are a wreck.
	You have a theory why they destroy Starbucks.
	Mm-hmm.
	Oh, they're upset because Starbucks is corporatist.
	Globalist and globalist corporate corporatist.
	Well, that makes sense.
	Well, I mean, they are.
	I mean, this Howard Schultz guy, he's always at Davos.
	He's with the globalists.
	He's in there, but he's also for every liberal cause under the sun, including immigration, which I want to get into because I saw here.
	This is how easily we lose the language.
	Headline from one of my tech blogs.
	Apple and others pen open letter to Trump.
	We are a nation made stronger by immigrants.
	And here is the text.
	It doesn't matter which tech blog.
	I mean, they're all the same when they start talking politics.
	Last night news broke that a collection of major technology companies, including Apple, were prepping an open letter to Donald Trump as a means to voice opposition to the immigration executive order he signed last Friday.
	But then when they quote the letter that, I mean, it's it's Apple alphabet, which is Google, and who else was part of this?
	Microsoft part of this.
	Yes, Stripe, Facebook.
	Dear President Trump, since a country's birth, America has been the land of opportunity, welcoming newcomers and giving them the chance to build families, career, and businesses in the United States.
	We are a nation made stronger by immigrants.
	As entrepreneurs and business leaders, our ability to grow our companies and create jobs depends on immigrants.
	Look, I don't want to dispute that.
	What really frosts me here is the idea that Donald Trump or anybody else is opposed to immigration.
	We're not.
	On the other hand, diversity is not what built America.
	And immigration is not what built America.
	You know how I know?
	Every other country in the world has immigration.
	Every other to one degree or another.
	Some are more strict than others.
	Some countries have been very strict and don't allow but people move to different countries all over the world.
	There's only one United States of America.
	It's not because of immigration, folks.
	Immigration is not the fact.
	Diversity has nothing to do with the United States is not a superpower.
	It's not the beacon of freedom.
	It's not the wealthiest nation on earth by far, because of the skin color, the various variations of skin color of the people who live here, or their sexual orientation, or their gender relatability, or how they do their manicures and pivot.
	None of that has the slightest thing to do with America's greatness.
	The greatness of Apple or Google or Facebook has nothing to do with the ethnicity, the skin color, the sexual orientation or gender of its employees.
	The greatness of America has nothing to do with the external characteristics of the human body.
	And the greatness of the United States of America has nothing to do.
	Let me not it may be a bit far to say nothing to do.
	The greatness of the United States is not due to a policy that lets anybody in the world who wants to come here come, because that's never been the case.
	But to listen to these tech CEOs and others, you would think that this country has been open borders from the beginning and an open borders, and people who were not, I hate to go here, but I'm telling you what this all means.
	You have a bunch of leftists who are trying to tell us this country didn't become great until it was also populated by people who were not white and not Christian.
	That's what they want you to believe.
	That's the subtle message that they're putting out.
	That's when America became when America stopped being an exclusionary white Christian nation.
	Now they'll never have the guts to say that outright.
	Not these people.
	Other people do.
	But again, that has nothing to do with the greatness of America.
	Because there are people of all Different surface characteristics all over the world.
	There's only one United States of America.
	So let me put the question to you.
	Since we've never been full-fledged open borders immigration, the best and brightest from the world get to come here.
	It's never been the case.
	It's never been the case that you want to come here, you're automatically allowed to come here.
	That's what the current Democrat left wants to happen in this country.
	They want pretty much open borders, let anybody show up.
	Why?
	Well, the answers to that question are not very satisfying.
	Because they are rooted in bigotry.
	These people try to portray themselves as the open-minded and tolerant non-bigots, when in fact I think it's the other way around.
	I think bigotry and prejudice against the founding of this country is what makes them espouse their current so-called political beliefs.
	Now I can hear you shouting at the radio, but Rush, but Rush, what about all the immigration from Europe and all the greatness that came in the post-war periods?
	Not denying, ladies and gentlemen, that there has been immigration.
	I'm just telling you that immigration, the melting pot, the external characteristics of people, their skin color, the way they like to have sex, has nothing to do with why the United States became the United States.
	The left wants you to believe that that's all it is.
	Such things as diversity and tolerance for alternative lifestyles.
	And that's what paves the way for great.
	No, sorry, that's not what made America great.
	And it's why there's a battle on to reclaim this country, because there is a fervent desire for America to remain great and get greater, to remain strong and get stronger.
	And to do this, many people know we have to reclaim it from those who actually are presiding over America's decline with their ill focus on the wrong things.
	It all makes them sound wonderfully compassionate.
	It makes them sound amazingly tolerant and really cool when they talk about a nation of immigrants, and that's America's greatness.
	And we've never been intolerant, and we've never been restrictive, and a bunch of BS.
	We always have been restrictive.
	We have always, up until 1986, and maybe a little bit before that, we have always ridden herd on who gets into this country.
	No, I'll be happy to answer the question.
	If it wasn't diversity, and it isn't, and if it wasn't immigration, and if it wasn't tolerance, and if it wasn't a bunch of other kooky left-wing liberal cockamimi ideas that made America great, what was it?
	Well, you got to go back to the Constitution and our founding documents, and then you have to learn what the word assimilation means.
	And then you have to openly acknowledge that there was and remains in many sectors today, a distinct American culture, distinct from any other culture in the world.
	An American culture that had nothing to do with the external characteristics of human beings, had nothing to do with their skin color, it had nothing to do with how they like to have sex or with who or what.
	It had nothing to do with that.
	It had to do with what became the whole idea of America, following the founding of this country, even preceding it.
	The left has sought to misinterpret the founding and its...
	Associated ideals And the whole concept of the American idea.
	To them, the original America idea was corrupt because it was discriminatory.
	It was rooted in slavery and racism and bigotry and all the other homophobic phobias.
	And they are modernizing and revolutionizing.
	And as they do, they take America further and further away from what was or what is this distinct American culture.
	You can go read the founding documents.
	You won't find the term melting pot anywhere in it.
	In them, you won't find the term.
	I'm not opposed, don't misunderstand.
	Not opposed to the Melody Pot.
	I'm opposed to wrong definitions.
	I'm opposed to people being taught the wrong things about American greatness and what explains it, what would sustain it.
	And when I see these clowns upset over an executive order that affects a hundred and nine people, and claiming there's something American going on.
	It ticks me off.
	Do you realize from 1920 some odd to 1965 there was zero immigration in the United States of America?
	Zero?
	How many of you know that?
	Legal.
	From 1920, some odd to 1965, zero legal immigration.
	You know why?
	Because we had legally allowed millions to emigrate, and they needed time to assimilate.
	They needed time to learn English.
	They needed time to become accustomed with the distinctive American culture.
	They had as opposed to the culture, they all left.
	The Italians, the Polish, you name it, they all left in the post-world period seeking freedom, seeking liberty.
	They did not seek to balkanize this country.
	They didn't seek to set up Poland in Michigan and Italy in New York.
	They sought to become Americans while maintaining roots to their origins.
	But they wanted to become Americans.
	They wanted to learn English.
	They wanted to learn American customs.
	They wanted to learn the American track for success.
	They wanted prosperity and liberty and freedom, religious included.
	Took a while to assimilate all those millions.
	There isn't any assimilation happening in America today.
	By design, because the modern American left doesn't appreciate and doesn't like what was and always has been the greatness of America.
	And that's the battle we're in as they try to undo that greatness and redefine it and put this country into a constant, never ending state of decline.
	I have to take a break here, but I'll be back and continue in a second.
	Okay, looks like the Republicans have put off the committee vote on Betsy DeVosel next week.
	Okay.
	Because of the defections of Susan Collins and uh Lisa Murkowski.
	I don't know, maybe they're going to try to bring them back.
	I got to check out the details of this.

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