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Feb. 2, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 2, 2017, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yeah, just checking, see what's come in here when I was gonna.
Yeah, okay.
Let's see.
Yeah, have sound bites 27, 28 standing by.
Okay.
Greetings and welcome back, my friends.
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I mentioned earlier today I was watching CNN go literally bonkers over Trump praying for Schwarzenegger's ratings on the TV show The Apprentice of the National Prayer Breakfast.
Now they assemble panels to discuss this, and they were assembling panels to discuss the perhaps mental illness of Donald Trump after they'd heard about these two phone calls to the presidents of Mexico and Australia.
And I want to play, let's see, we'll do number 27 first.
This they're both from CNN.
The first one is from this morning with Carol Costello.
Oh, have you heard that Carol Costello's leaving?
Oh my God.
She's betraying feminism like I can't believe she gets right.
She following her husband.
Who would have thought that would ever happen?
Carol Costello, who used to be assigned to stalk this program where she was a reporter CNN.
Then they made her an infobabe anchor.
So she'd been anchoretting like in the morning, and now the news was that her husband got a really cool job out in California.
And so she's going to follow him out there.
That reminds me of, you know, when Pat Schroeder started crying on her husband's shoulder when she announced she wasn't going to run for president in 19, I guess it was 84, what was it, 84?
Yeah.
84.
Patsy Schroeder, Congressperson California, was thinking about running, and she'd all kinds of focus group and polling.
She's a big feminist.
And she decided that she couldn't win.
She'd been told by her focus group research she couldn't win, and she announced that she was pulling out and broke down in tears and ran to the arms of her husband.
And up till then nobody knew she had one.
And I remember there were stories.
Folks, feminists wrote stories about how she betrayed them by crying over the simple fact that she was not going to run for president.
And then the insult she ran to the arms of her husband.
Well, well, yeah, but that I was still in Sacramento then.
That was 1984.
I hadn't I hadn't started the EIB network yet.
What you're thinking of, our all-time favorite Pat Schroeder story.
I was invited to speak at Gopac, which was a group that Newt Gingrich founded, and it was this would have been 1992 or three, four, somewhere in there.
And no, it might have been 95 because the budget battle.
That's right.
The budget battle of 95 was going on.
And at the time, this the the these phantom school lunch cuts, the Democrats were accusing Republicans of starving kids.
And I think back to that now.
How we took that all.
I had to take it seriously because the media seriously reported that Republicans wanted kids to starve.
Because that's what the Democrats said.
And everybody, Patsy Schroeder, Pelosi was in the group there, Diane Fine.
They were all running around saying Republicans want to starve kids.
And uh there was also they were making the argument that the Republicans were so mean-spirited that they were making seniors.
They wanted to cut Social Security Medicare, which is what the Democrats always accused Republicans of, forcing our seniors to choose between dog food and medicine.
So when I spoke at CPAC, I welcomed them.
And I thanked them for having me.
And I told them that I was up to speed on the current debate, And that I had decided my mom was going to get the dog food.
But that I was going to do something for my mom.
I was going to buy her a new can opener so that she could get to the dog food easier.
The place erupts in laughter, as was intended.
Pat Schroeder went to the floor of the House of Representatives and started talking about what I had said.
And there at Gopek, the big kahuna, Rush Limbaugh, actually said that he was going to give his mother the dog food, but then he had a special present for her.
He was going to get her a new can opener.
Yeah.
There you have it.
That's who they are.
I happened to see that live, and I split my gut open laughing.
Because she fell for it.
And it, you know, it kind of sets this up.
I mean, how who do you have to be?
How tightly wound do you have to be to not recognize that a son is going to get his mother dog food, but with a special president can't opener.
How do you take that seriously?
How in the world do you take that seriously?
You have to be so tightly wound.
You have to be taking yourself so seriously.
And I think that's what's explaining the reaction to Trump.
I think all of these elites, from wherever they come, whether they come from think tanks, whether they come from blogs, or they come from websites, wherever they come, wherever they come from in the Washington staff, they do.
They think they are so special.
They think they are so unique.
They think they are so uniquely qualified to represent to speak for the United States of America.
That when somebody like Trump comes along, they can't process it.
Their sensibilities are offended.
And the earth quakes underneath their feet.
And they're totally humorless.
I mean, literally not a single shred of a sense of humor anywhere in these people.
So this bite, CNN newsroom today, Carol Costello selling on feminism by the way, she's going to continue working at CNN, but she's going to headline news.
She's going to the baby channel to follow her husband.
Carol, just remember what they did to Pat Schroeder as you embark on this.
I saw what NBC did to poor old Tamron Hall.
But Tamron Hall, let's face it, I remember watching Tamron Hall.
Maybe I better explain this.
There might be people that don't know.
Anybody out there ever heard of Megan Kelly.
Wendy, you know who Megan Kelly is?
Okay.
She used.
She used to work at Fox.
And then NBC came along and they hired her away for a big amount of money.
But she has a contract that lasted until June or July with Fox.
So she's unable to appear until that period, especially.
It's called a non-compete.
So she can't appear anywhere until June or July.
Well, the news is that NBC, who hired Meghan Kelly, is going to put her on NBC in the first or second hour after the today show.
So there's a today today's show goes 7 and 9 a.m.
And then the first hour is 9 to 10, and the second hour is 10 to 11.
And in that mix, you've got Kathy Lee and Yoda.
And you have Al Joker and Tamron Hall.
And Tamar Hall is a woman of color.
She is African American.
She's from Chicago.
I happen to know that because I saw her going nuts over Obama back during the 2008 campaign when she's at M SNBC.
I know who this babe is.
So she's um she being displaced by Meghan Kelly.
Meghan Kelly's gonna be hired, and Tamron Hall is out.
And they didn't tell her.
They gave her 30 minutes notice before they made the announcement.
So she quit, leaving a bunch of money on the table at NBC.
I'll joke her very upset he's not quitting, though.
They don't know what's going to happen to Kathy Lee and Yoda.
But they'll probably end up in the third hour or something.
Whatever.
But they're setting up for Meghan.
But anyway, the point is that an existing anchorette at NBC has been swept aside for the incoming Megan Kelly.
Is that is that what the story you had?
Yeah.
Uh who?
Tamaron Hall?
Tamman Hall worked very hard.
So you think she's being shafted here?
Wow.
Wow.
You're on her side then.
You think she's being totally disrespected, and if you're glad that she stood up for herself and walked away from like, what is it, five or six million she walked away from?
Is she married?
That might make a difference.
I'm just kidding.
Feminists don't come down on that.
I it's just, you know, a little Trumpy in here, just having a little laugh.
Well, Carol Costello, she is.
She's following her husband to California.
And they fool no, they haven't had a stalker since she got the anchor beat.
I don't I don't think they'll assign a new stalker.
They're too busy.
Fake news on uh on on Trump.
Anyway, I didn't mean to get sidetracked here, folks.
But here's the here's the bite.
This is after Trump prayed for Schwarzenegger's ratings at the National Prayer Breakfast.
So here's on the panel.
Ryan Liza from the New Yorker, Julian Zelizer, or Zelazer, Zelazer, he's a professor of uh history at Princeton.
And Costello, who says, I don't even know what to make of this.
I don't even, he just prayed for Schwarzenegger's ratings.
Why do I don't know what to make of it?
Do you?
I can't believe this is what the president's talking about right now.
That he's engaged in uh ratings back and forth with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The serious part for people is it points to something deeper, a kind of vindictive nature that we see in Donald Trump, now President Trump, that worries people.
How does this kind of attitude play out on foreign policy, or how will it play out on Capitol Hill?
When you hear this, I think it can raise some red flags.
To me, it suggests that Trump is having difficulty adjusting to the role of president, and he's still got a foot in his previous life.
He's still monitoring and obsessed with the parts of his life before the presidency, which I do find a little unusual.
You know what I think this is?
I I'm gonna struggle to say what I really mean here.
Not that I'm afraid to say it, I just want to find the right word.
I think these people, two things are going on.
They take themselves so damn seriously, for one thing, but they also have lived sheltered lives growing up, and they are they're continuing to live sheltered lives.
They don't understand how real people talk and think and do things, and it scares them.
They do not, folks, they don't hang around with people unlike themselves.
They hang around with other people who are afraid of their shadows.
They hang around with other people who are obsessed with the right way to speak and the right way to dress and the right opinions to have and the right schools to have come from, the right restaurants you attend, uh, the right friends, and and and they end up living closed off lives,
and they live in a part of the country that's unlike anywhere else, and they I don't think they know how people they don't they can't comprehend how Middle America thinks and votes for Trump, they do not understand how normal people think and how they talk.
And as such, it scares them, and since they have this air of superiority among themselves, that anything other than what they are is lesser than they are, dangerously so.
And so now we have this guy, Trump, who they can't understand why he would jagwarzenegger over ravings.
Is it because these people have never really had to compete for what they have?
Is it because they've never really, really had to fight for what they have?
Is it because they're all in the same club and they all go from newspaper to newspaper to network to network to blog site to blog site, earning a little bit more money each time.
Then maybe they'll take some time and go work for a congressman, be a spokesman.
But they all live in this tiny little world where everybody's identically the same in terms of the way they define themselves and the way they speak and their outlook.
And then you have a guy like Trump who is of the real world.
People tease each other all the time.
Yes, Mr. Limbo, but this is not proper conduct for heads of state.
Heads of state do not, for example, when Mr. Trump calls the prison of Mexico, he doesn't insult that nation's military.
Who says I anyway, these people are so arrogant that they assign to Trump the abnormalcy, the irregularity, the out of the ordinary, the odd, the kooky, when I think it's them who define all of that.
I think it's these people who are cocooned and shut off.
Political correctness determines everything they think and say as a s as a reason they have no sense of humor.
And when you don't have a sense of humor, if you don't have a sense of humor, you are never gonna understand a Donald Trump.
You're never gonna understand a me.
You're always gonna be threatened by somebody like me.
Too outspoken, too insulting, to whatever they think it is.
Now there's the next bite.
Let me look at this time.
Nope.
I'm gonna take a break.
I gotta take a break.
Otherwise, I won't have enough time to set this up.
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Okay, this afternoon on CNN's Wolf Blitzer Show, he spoke with the Global Affairs correspondent.
CNN's correspondent for global affairs.
That means whatever happens around the world, this is the reporter they go to.
Speaking of which reminds us of Rabbit, you know what I had groundhog day today.
And the environmentalist wackos are fed up with it and they want to end it.
For two reasons.
They think it's misuse of the groundhog, and the second thing is the groundhog said six more weeks of winter, and that doesn't jibe with global warming.
And you know what?
They don't even use it's not even a groundhog.
Do you know that it's a marmot?
Not even a real groundhog that they use.
Punk's a tony fill is a is a is a phony.
A marketing imposter.
Fake groundhog, a marmot.
Right, exactly.
Anyway, here is the global affairs correspondent on CNN, Elise Labitt, responding to Wolf Blitzer says, hey, Wolf.
No.
He says, hey, Elise, there's no guarantee that those refugees that Australia is kicking out there.
Um, there's there's no guarantee that they could come to the United States following vetting.
There were some reports of the president hung up on the prime minister.
I'm told that's not entirely true, but I was told it was a very tense phone call.
And I just think it goes to this style of this president.
You know, look, his in your face kind of bull in a china shop style got him elected, very popular among a large section of the American people.
But there's just a language that you use in diplomacy and around the world and a formality, especially when you're getting to know these world leaders and forming a relationship with them that I think is being lost to say that this is a bad deal and it was stupid, and I can't believe you did it, and then to go on Twitter and call it dumb.
I mean, these world leaders' heads are spinning right now.
as maybe they should be.
You see, there is a decorum here.
There is a sense of propriety and Trump is violating...
You don't call him stupid.
You don't call the deal dumb.
You don't call it bad, and you don't go tweet about it.
Well, what are we supposed to do then?
Just sit by and let the deals Obama made happen and have a bunch of unvetted Islamic jihadists or potential Islamic jihadists admitted into the country.
This is what Trump said he was going to stop.
This is an example of what Trump meant when he said our leaders are dumb.
We're being taken advantage of.
We, the United States, are bearing much more of a burden of all of these world problems.
And that's fine if there's a thank you, if there's some gratitude, if there's some assistance.
But if it gets down to that we just have to do it and we have leaders willing to do it, I'm not going to do it.
I'm not putting up with that anymore.
And he's exactly right about it.
But you see, their sensibilities are being so upset because it is they who take themselves so seriously.
And they're worried about well, what are they going to do to the United States?
You're looking at it the wrong way, Elise.
The other way around is how you need to look at it.
Hey, here's this story.
Headline, prominent Putin critic, hospitalized after sudden organ failure.
Hmm.
What's this?
One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics is in the hospital after suffering sudden organ failure, according to the BBC.
Opposition activist and journalist Vladimir Karamurza is on life support in a medically induced coma, according to his wife.
She said the clinical picture was identical to that of an incident in 2005 when the same guy was almost killed from sudden kidney failure, kidney failure.
So a Russian journalist who is one of Putin's loudest critics is in a medically induced coma on life support after suffering sudden organ failure for the second time in two years.
Can you imagine what the drive imagine the fake news editors at this moment?
This story's just cleared the wire.
Imagine you're an editor at CNN and you see this, the same as I'm seeing it.
What do you think their take on this is?
Oh, wow.
Putin killed another opposition, and they're thinking, how long is it going to be before Trump does this?
Oh my God, which of us is going to end up in a hospital with organ failure?
Which one of us is Trump going to target?
Because they think obvious if you can tell the way this thing is written.
That the drive-bys think that Putin gave the guy polonium 20.
Uh man.
Here's Bill in San Diego.
Bill, great to have you.
I'm glad you waited.
It's waiting.
Hey, I just have a question.
Um do the police want to arrest the rioters, the protesters that turn into a riot?
Because you'd think by now they'd have some type of strategy, maybe like the die packs they use for banks with explodes if they shoot up some die packed into the crowd where they're doing the riot, paints them, and they're able to extract them later and charge them because you don't see that.
And also, because we're busy working your audience and you watch the cable news.
What was the response of the Democrats with all the national media going to them asking them if they're going to uh denounce their uh supporters and what they're gonna do to stop it?
Wait a minute, what um it's I've got a bad phone connection here.
What was the last thing you said?
What since I'm I can't see what's on TV, what's the response?
Democrats, national media asking them if they're gonna denounce their support.
What's that about?
Yeah, but they go to Trump and ask him if they're gonna stop his supporters from doing violence, which was the Democrats paying for it.
If they go to the Democrats, Oh, you're talking about during a campaign.
Oh, okay.
So during the campaign they went and said, hey, Trump, when are you going to stop your mad supporters from ripping things?
It turns out it wasn't Trump supporters doing it.
They were Hillary campaign activists.
This has been documented to be true.
Project Veritas video uncovered Robert Kramer, husband of Jan Chikowski Congresswoman in Illinois, working for Hillary Clinton's campaign, admitting that he hired for $1,500 a person people to show up at Trump rallies and cause violence.
But the media did ask Trump, well, when are you going to shut down your people?
When are you going to tell your people to stop the violence?
And so he's asking here, when are the Democrats going to tell these people in Berkeley to stop it?
It's a great question.
They're not going to tell them to stop it.
They are encouraging.
Folks, do you think Obama might have something to do with this?
I'm not saying per se because this stuff has been going on for time immemorial.
But it was just last week that Barack Hussein oh issues a statement encouraging the people who are protesting.
Encouraging the opposition.
And this is the guy who said, they bring a knife to a gun, we to a fight, we bring a gun, or something like that.
I think Obama has tacitly encouraged this kind of stuff.
And not just last week, but during his entire regime.
What are we talking about?
We're talking about Berkeley.
Do you want to have it across the Bay at San Francisco?
San Francisco City.
The San Francisco police department told ICE and the FBI, screw you.
We are not capturing illegal aliens using San Francisco as sanctuaries.
The police department, not the mayor.
Not the city council.
The San Francisco cops told ICE, if I have this right, I think I saw this this morning.
If I'm wrong about this, I can get this corrected before the program's over, but I'm sure I saw this, that it was the police department specifically telling some federal law enforcement agency that they were not going to try to apprehend people violating the sanctuary city law.
These leftists, you have to understand out there, Bill, the leftists have strategically placed themselves in countless places in countless bureaucracies, including fire departments and police departments, and in every other avenue of bureaucracy that you can think.
They're everywhere.
It's been a tactic, it's been a strategy.
to be put into positions in the bureaucracy where you can't be voted out because you're not voted in.
You are a career appointee, per se.
And the training occurs at many top-flight universities, including in the Ivy League.
Your idea of paint die on all the protesters to be able to identify them later.
Just round them up at the time.
They're all there.
Just grab the paddy wagons and round them up and arrest them.
I mean, this is clear.
This is these are not misdemeanors these people are engaging in.
This is pure felony.
This is property destruction.
This is wanton attempt to maim and injure.
You know, this isn't just idly marching down the street and throwing chewing gum at people and spitballs.
There was only one arrest of this whole thing in Berkeley.
I can't believe that time is flying by here, folks, but it does every day.
This news is being...
It's almost being covered up by the drive-by media.
Have you heard the news that the Hillary Clinton campaign is blaming Obama for her defeat?
You haven't heard that yet.
Oh, yeah.
The root of it is the Hillary campaign thinks Obama is largely to blame for not do this, but it's true for not doing enough on Russian hacking.
Right here it is.
Charlie Rose mentioned it today on the CBS this morning.
So you have reports, for example, the Hillary campaign thought it began with Obama not doing enough in terms of the Russian hacking.
It's from this new website, Axios.
This Jim Van on the people who creative political are off to their new venture here, news like nothing has ever been done before, some such thing.
Axios is the name of the website.
Look at if Obama is responsible.
And I I don't know why these people.
Hillary lost because she was a candidate.
Lousy candidate.
People rejected Hillary Clinton in 2008.
They did it again this year.
But if they want to lay this off on Obama, the way to do it would not be to blame him for the Russian hacking and not doing enough there.
The way to do it would be to blame him for making the campaign about him.
If I'm the Hillary campaign and I really think Obama's to blame, I'd go out there and say every time he woke up and look up and made a campaign appearance.
It was about continuing his agenda.
It was about re-electing him.
It was about how we needed to elect Hillary to make sure that he stayed alive.
What the hell was that?
That's what I would say if I were the Clinton campaign.
But they're so fixated on a Russian hack that they can't get past it.
David in uh Pekin, Illinois.
Glad you waited, sir.
It's great to have you with us.
How are you?
Well, this is quite an honor, Rush.
Glad I got through.
Thank you, sir.
I'm glad you did too.
I've listened to you on the radio and the Ditto Cam and the MT3s.
The first time I ever listened to you on a cell phone.
And I'm just happy my battery lasted.
But here's what I want to tell you about.
My father somehow, shortly after my mother passed away, uh, tuned into your radio program.
I've been a fan for a long time, but I really hadn't mentioned to him, and he found you by himself.
And he always voted Democrat.
But he kept listening to you, and he'd come up with comments like, who's this uh blowhard guy rush limball?
Yeah.
And my dad was always a very religious man, and so I say, Well, dad is an all talent, God given.
And he replied, Well, you're right, but he's still a blowhart.
But he never missed a program.
My dad lived a conservative lifestyle, but just voted Democrat.
Yeah.
And someone on the line, you struck a chord with him.
Well, time passed, and my father became legally blind.
And I got to, I think it was George Bush's second uh election, and I picked up his ballot form, and I took it in, and I said, okay, Dad, how do you want to vote?
And I was gonna put down whatever he told me, and he says, vote me straight Republican.
Well, I looked at him and I said, Well, Dad, I I applaud your attitude, but you've always voted Democrat.
You you voted for Clinton twice.
And he looked up at me and he said, Well, I was wrong.
And I just wanted you to know how you how you converted a lifetime Democrat into being a Republican.
From blowhard to straight tickets.
That's right.
The straight ticket.
And he uh my dad left this in 2007.
I've been wanting to call you in and tell you this story for a long time, and uh I finally retired in 2016, and I've been listening to busy signals for about a year, but I finally got to it.
Well, I'm glad you did.
What a what a way and you made my day here today, David.
Well, that's great.
I I I'm happy that I um Mr. Snurdley said stay on topic.
I just wanted to quickly tell you about my I bought my five-year-old grandson all your uh audio CDs.
He's five years old, he listens to a CD player before he goes to bed, and uh he lives in Phoenix and I'm in Illinois, and I can't read to him, so I got a stand-in.
You oh man, this is incredible.
This is absolutely well.
Look, hang on here, because we've got we've got a uh uh a rush revere little goodie gift bag that we could send your grandson if you'll send us his address, if you'll give it to us.
So hang- don't hang up.
And you'll be rejoined with Mr. Snerdley, who I think will give you a gold star for your call today.
I really thank you again, David, very much.
We'll be right back, folks.
I just I just realized this is Thursday already.
And so that means open line Friday tomorrow.
And on a personal note, it also means there's not going to be another Apple software, beta software update this week, which saddens me.
I'll get over it.
They never happen on Friday until the end of the cycle.
We're nowhere near there, so be at least Monday or Tuesday.
Means I gotta wait a long time.
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