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Feb. 6, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 6, 2017, Monday, Hour #2
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Hi folks, back at it.
We are.
You are tuned to the Rush Limbaugh program here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
A delight to have you here.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address lrushbo at EIVnet.us.
And I looked something up here during the break.
Top of the hour.
NBC sports.
A few months ago, Bill Belichick has the NFL's least diverse coaching staff.
That was the NBC sports blog, Pro Football Talk.
The piece was back in July.
There have been complaints about the Patriots being too white since 2012, maybe even earlier.
So I've heard this.
I've heard it about the wide receivers for the Patriots, the fact that the skill set guys are white on the Patriots when they're not on most of the other teams.
And it's the sports media making these comments.
It's not players.
It's the sports media, which is as every bit liberal as their brethren in the drive-by news media.
And they may even be worse.
They may actually be even worse in terms of liberalism and bias and just throwing all pretense of objectivity out the window.
And with them, it is almost all race-based, almost entirely race-based, with the belief that it's still so out of balance, the discrimination and the I just want to rate it and write.
They say even worse.
And it's despicable and it's sickening.
And I'll tell you, this Super Bowl, folks, for me, aside from all this that I've said was the most, what was the least anticipated.
I played golf yesterday.
I ever do that on Super Bowl Sunday.
I played golf.
I got home at 5 o'clock, an hour and a half before the game started, and I just made it to the TV for the pregame stuff around 6 or 6.15.
And I don't know what it is.
I've asked myself, I'm just getting older, and because of my age, the players are no longer these superstar, unreachable people on pedestals, or is it a combination of the way the game is reported on now?
It's been so politicized by the media, and now the all-out effort to damage and injure the game by convincing parents that their kids shouldn't play.
It's probably a cumulative effect of things.
And I said, is it maybe I don't like these teams or maybe I'm not crazy about these two teams?
I don't know what it was.
But I'll tell you, I played golf on more NFL Sundays this year than ever, ever.
And it wasn't maybe last year, certainly the year before, that on Sunday, everybody knew I didn't play golf.
I'm totally NFL all day, all night Sunday.
Not this year.
Don't know why.
Didn't get into deep, deep analysts or analysis of it, but anyway, congratulations to the Patriots.
It was a heck of a comeback, despite the fact that the Falcons, I don't know where they were.
As I said, I don't know if they're out of gas.
I don't know if they were overcome by just lack of experience, not being in the big game before, thinking they had it won and they're going to sit on the lead.
I don't know.
They probably don't either.
That's an old thing about momentum.
You just don't know.
Let's move on to some other things here, folks, because there's all kinds.
I want to touch on some things.
We're going to then go back to like the court ruling on the executive order, get in some detail about the judge and some of the other aspects of this.
I saw this headline.
I was out playing golf yesterday.
I saw this.
It's a Wall Street Journal story.
Senate Republican leader McConnell distances himself from Trump stances.
Wall Street Journal, leader of the Senate Republicans, distanced himself from President Trump Sunday, disagreeing on issues involving Russia, the judiciary, and alleged voter fraud.
McConnell was pressed on CNN about Trump's recent statements and repeatedly said he disagreed with him.
Now, one of the things that Trump's really being ripped over the coals for, Trump did his interview with O'Reilly for the Super.
You know when that interview was done?
Friday.
Did the interview in the White House on Friday?
I know most people think those interviews are live with the president taking time out from his Super Bowl party in the White House.
But Trump was here over the weekend.
So that interview took place on Friday.
And Trump was being queried about Putin.
And so Bill O'Reilly said, Putin's a killer.
And Trump said, well, you know, we're not so filled with innocent people ourselves.
And the roof blew.
You would have thought that Barack Obama was back, except when Obama said stuff like that.
Nobody cared.
And so now the same people who covered for Obama, the same people, what Obama was doing worse than that, Obama was out apologizing for America.
Obama was admitting to the Chinese that we really shouldn't be lecturing you THICOMs on civil rights violations because, man, do we have a history of it ourselves?
Remember that?
There were frequent examples with Obama, even when it came to immigration, telling other nations, well, you know, we haven't been perfect in this area, so we're not going to preach to you.
With Iran in the nuke deal, Obama was saying, well, imagine what would have happened if somebody told us we couldn't have nukes.
There was always a moral equivalence.
And when Obama did it, the United States was always guilty.
The United States always had some explaining to do.
So Trump comes off of one of these off the off-the-wall or maybe sperm a moment comments.
So Riley says, well, Putin's a killer.
And Trump says, whatever he said about, well, you know, we have our share of those kinds of people, too.
And everybody is just blowing a gasket.
And now you've got right-wing commentators and analysts wondering if Trump even understands American exceptionalism or believes in American exceptionalism.
You have others, Pelosi's out there say, I want to know what Putin has on Trump.
That's the only thing that can explain this.
I want to know what Putin has on Trump.
I don't pretend, folks, to be able to explain to you what Trump's attitude toward Putin is and why there is this unwillingness to categorize Putin in the ways that most people actually view Putin.
I have no idea what it is.
But I don't think it's going to be long until we find out.
But I need to ask somebody a serious question.
After you've listened to this campaign, you paid attention to the campaign, and you saw Trump rally after Trump rally where all he did was stand up for this country.
All he did, time after time after time, was talk about his effort to make America great again.
And it's clear that he thinks America lost ground in competition with foreign countries, trade deals, jobs, economics.
But how anybody can then, after hearing Trump promise to work so hard and to tell people you're going to get so tired of the winning because we're going to start winning again, our country's going to start winning.
Then Trump has one of these comments.
Well, you know, we have our killers too.
Or I forget the exact quote, whatever it was.
And to take that to mean that Trump doesn't understand American exceptionalism and doesn't believe in it when Obama got a pass, routine, routine pass numerous times for saying things much worse than that.
I don't know.
I don't know what Trump meant by it.
I don't know why he felt the need to defend, if that's what he was doing.
He was defending Putin under the blithering assault of Bill O'Reilly and calling him a killer.
But now, guess what?
Putin is demanding an apology from Fox News.
Did he threaten to sue?
Or is he just demanding an apology?
Yeah.
Wouldn't it be great if Putin sued Fox News for defamation?
O'Reilly.
Folks, I promise we'll get to the bottom of this and find out what this is all about.
But this business with McConnell, this is something that I have known, I'm sure you have too.
That just because Trump won the election doesn't mean all these Republicans in the leadership are on his side.
I mean, many of them are just waiting for what they consider to be the best opportunity that will present itself for them to distance themselves from him.
These are establishment guys.
And it's kind of like when Reagan won in 1980.
He was not popular with the Republican establishment until he won.
And he won with 49 states.
There was no question about it.
So the Republican establishment, they had to grit their teeth and bite the bullet and sign on and get on board.
But privately, they were never happy about it because of conservatism.
You know, Reagan was anti-establishment too.
The establishment hangs together.
Trump's anti-establishment.
And all members of the Republican, Democrat, all members are first and foremost devoted to making sure nothing happens to them and their world and their establishment.
So they, and they live, the Republicans live in a never-ending fear of what the media says because they believe that a majority of Americans are going to believe what the media says because that's their experience with it.
So it's a combination of self-preservation.
But just keep a sharp eye on this.
McConnell poured cold water on the pledge by Trump to launch a national investigation of voter fraud.
The president has claimed without evidence that millions of people voted fraudulently in the presidential election.
This is a Wall Street Journal story.
So keep a sharp eye on that.
Here's the Sky News report on the Obama, or sorry, the Trump Putin does.
Bill O'Reilly used the word killer while pressing Trump on whether he thought he would get along, pardon me, get along with Putin.
O'Reilly said, Putin's a killer.
Trump said, There's a lot of killers.
We've got a lot of killers.
What?
You think our country's so innocent?
That's what set off the fire alarms.
You think our country's so innocent?
No, no, no, no.
Don't misunderstand.
I can totally understand people reacting to that.
My question is: where was the reaction when Obama was doing that and worse?
You know, when Obama was out there establishing an America, he was guilty, that America's superpower status wasn't really deserved, that the world was out of balance when we, the United States, stood alone superpower in the world.
And when Obama belittled American exceptionalism, well, you know, I bet in Denmark, they think they're pretty exceptional too.
And in Yemen, even in Yemen, they think they're pretty exceptional too.
I mean, it was obviously a put-down of the whole concept of American exceptionalism, which these people think is us saying we're better people.
And that's not at all what American exceptionalism is.
American exceptionalism happens to, it's actually the root of the word.
We are the exception to the way most people have had to live.
Human beings since the beginning of time have lived in bondage, servitude, authoritarian dictators, political prisoners in dungeons, in poverty.
I mean, dire poverty.
The human condition since human life began has been, for the vast majority of people, real suffering.
United States comes along and all of that changes.
That's American exceptionalism.
Not that we're better than any, but Obama heard that as us saying we're better people.
No, that's not right.
We're not.
In fact, we're worse because we've had our heads, our pests.
It was convoluted, but nobody ever hopped on Obama.
Of course, nobody ever harped on him for anything.
We all know why.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, we consider such words from the Fox TV company to be unacceptable and insulting.
And honestly speaking, we would prefer to get an apology from such a respected TV company.
Do you know that liberals are in a state of outrage over the fact that professional attire is expected again at the White House?
Washington Free Beacon, liberals are outraged across the world because employees are expected to dress professionally in the White House.
Donald Trump has angered feminists all over again, this time for comments he did not make.
The outrage originated from an Axios report on Thursday that quoted an unnamed source who claimed to have worked for the Trump campaign, who said, quote, Trump likes the women who work for him to dress like women.
Even if you're in jeans, you need to look neat and orderly, the source added.
Men also should be sharply dressed.
Trump never said it.
Do you know what Axios is?
Axios is a new website started by the founder of the Politica.
And it supposedly is a new concept in news.
They do the news, and then they take a paragraph every now and then to say what it means.
And they go maybe four or five what it means paragraphs throughout each story.
Axios, A-X-I-O-S.
Right, Axios.
So the women of the world are angry because Trump supposedly said that women who work in the White House are supposed to dress like women.
That's supposedly anti-woman.
It is anti-feminist.
But he never said it.
Fake news.
Dozens of outlets from Australia to Ireland celebrated women who took to Twitter to express their displeasure with Trump over the anonymous comment that women can wear jeans at work.
Users began using the hashtag dress like a woman to show that many women wear uniforms at their jobs, as do fictional carriers.
I mean, it was much ado about literally nothing.
The outrage on the left, pent up and otherwise.
The question, how long can it go on?
For how long can this kind of emotional immaturity be sustained?
And the question is, for how long will somebody pay for it?
Because it's bought and paid for.
Anyway, let's take a break.
Must do it now.
I'll be back here in just a second.
Okay, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have is a great piece.
I'm happy to see this.
You know, I love it when other people join my parade.
And Kurt Schlister at townhall.com, finally somebody picking up on the notion of who the left is.
And he said, the left hates you.
Act accordingly.
They hate you.
And he goes on to sing my mantra.
They must be defeated.
Something Republicans don't get.
Otherwise, McConnell would not be saying what he's saying if people understood that the objective is to defeat these people and not get along with them and not compromise.
Because you can't.
They hate us.
It's irrational.
It's a waste of time to make them like us to try to.
Anyway, more on that as the program unfolds.
This is Gloria in Aptos, California.
Hi.
I'm glad you called.
Good morning, Rush.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
I'm very honored to be talking to you.
Thank you.
Just wanted to call to let you know I'm a 66-year-old Hispanic woman who you have turned my world around.
I mean, I've been unemployed since the end of last year, and I listen to you all the time.
And I just want to thank you for simplifying everything that's going on around us.
And I wanted to also make a comment about the Patriots that you were talking earlier about how they were saying they have a 1% chance of winning, and then they have a half a percent chance of winning, and then they turned around and kicked butt, just like Trump did in the election.
So I just wanted to call and say thank you.
Well, I appreciate that.
I really do.
The fact that you said that I've made this understandable for you, because that's one of my objectives.
When I say that I try to make the complex understandable, I mean it.
I'm not just trying to turn a phrase.
And I really appreciate you saying that.
It encourages me to continue.
Because, you know, at this stage, I don't get much feedback, folks.
I get hardly any, other than from callers who call things.
No, no, no.
That's not a complaint.
I'm just telling you.
And after 29 years, what feedback do you need?
What are you?
No, no, no.
I'm just, I just, that's how much I appreciate her saying so.
You always want to know that it works specifically.
You know, beyond having good ratings, good numbers, unlike Schwarzenegger, you want to have good ratings and high numbers, and you want to know that the techniques and the objectives are working.
So I really appreciate that, Gloria.
Thanks very much.
That whole half a percent chance to win, 1% chance to win, it was ridiculous on election night.
Two.
All right, Kurt Schlister, townhall.com.
The left hates you.
Act accordingly.
There are times when I feel like I'm, and I don't listen to other people that do this, folks.
And I've mentioned this for years and years as to why, because I don't want to inadvertently hear and say and repeat what others have said.
It's a desire to always be, quote unquote, original.
So there are probably others that sing the same tune, but I'm just happy to see it here in town hall because I think this is fundamentally important.
Who the left is.
Who are these people on the riotous protest march?
Who are these people marching every day, even after what they're upset about?
This travel ban.
The judge in the Washington, state Washington, puts a temporary stay on it.
Okay, isn't that the equivalent of mission accomplished?
Okay, go home.
No, they're still in the streets.
They're still mad.
They're still carrying signs made up that morning.
They're still running around engaging in property damage.
Why?
They just won.
Maybe if it's temporary, but they just won.
But they're still out protesting what has been stopped.
And it ought to open everybody up as to what's going on.
We now know for a fact that when JFK and LAX and all these airports on that Saturday, when Trump first put that ban in, both airports were filled in 10 minutes.
And we came to find out that the protesters had been organized since November.
They had registered.
They were paid.
They'd signed up.
They'd been given the signs to make and print, maybe shown where to go to get them.
And they were just waiting for the marching orders.
They were waiting for the first thing that Trump did to mobilize.
That happened to be it.
And there they were.
Now, the media makes it look like it's spontaneous and organic.
And the media make it look like everybody agrees with this, that everybody's on the same page here.
And that's for psychological reasons.
And in years past, the Republicans have always fallen for this stuff.
And it's succeeded in making Republicans modify their views, modify their behavior, dial back their opposition or what have you under the mistaken belief that there's common ground to be found with these people, that there's a level of outreach that we can engage in, and that we can find cooperation and we can work together to make Washington work and all this happy Rasmus.
And it's not possible because that's not what these people are doing.
They're not seeking grievance for the sake of redressing an issue.
They are trying to shut down what won.
They are trying to eliminate any opposition.
There isn't any desire to get part of what they want with compromise.
They are all about overthrowing because they lost.
Let me give you some pool quotes here from Mr. Eichenwald.
They are fanatics, and by not surrendering, by not kneeling, and by not obeying, you have committed an unpardonable sin.
You have defied the left, and you must be broken.
They will take your job.
They will slander your name.
They will beat or even kill you, whatever it takes to break you and terrify others by making you an example.
Your defiance cannot stand.
They cannot allow this whole Trump GOP majority thing to get out of control.
They must crush this rebellion of the normal.
And absolutely nothing is off the table.
Right on, right on.
They must crush this rebellion of the normal.
I have a different term for it.
It is the reclamation of our country.
Our country was headed down the tubes.
It was in the midst of a transformation to make it into something we were never founded to be.
That was the Obama objective.
That's the objective of the far left, not just here, but around the world.
This election is traditional Americans attempting to reclaim their country.
Good old American values, time and true honored since our founding.
There's a lot going on here with this election.
There's a lot that's unstated and unspoken still because of the fear of what will happen to you, because it'll all be said to be in violation of political correctness.
So the only thing people can do to express their disgust and their desires is to show up and vote, and they did, and the left lost.
And the left has been losing big at the ballot box in this country since 2010.
They're beside themselves.
And so rather than realize that they might have to make some changes and modifications to win back the sympathies and the support of the American people, that's not at all what they're about.
They're about beating their opponents into the dust.
They're not about compromise.
They're not about change.
They're not about working together, crossing the aisle, or any of that happy Rasmataz.
They are about destroying the opposition.
And Mr. Eichenwald here, they must crush this rebellion of the normal.
Those, you know, you let certain leftists run across that phrase and there's going to be hell to pay.
Because in their, what, what they think is that there's a normal America that's typified and represented by the majority, and then the oddballs and the cooks and the freaks.
And the cooks and the freaks and the oddballs are tired of being kooks, oddballs, and freaks.
They want the way they are, the things they believe, to become what is normal.
And there is a resistance to that as normal, and that's what the election was about in part.
So they, the left, look at this as a rebellion of the normal, and it cannot be allowed to grow.
It cannot be allowed to be planted and blossom.
Now, the left will never say these things out loud, but make no mistake, if violence is what it takes for the left to prevail, then violence we will have.
You saw it.
You were meant to see it.
Berkeley was a message about the price of dissent where leftists hold sway.
In other words, they own Berkeley.
They own California.
You dare to send a conservative in there to see what he thinks.
This is what's going to happen to you.
There's no tolerance.
There's no free speech.
There's no openness.
There's nothing except you aren't permitted.
You aren't welcome because you are hated.
We, folks, are hated.
We are despised, even though we are not known personally.
We are hated and despised.
Now, Mr. Schlister says here: the first step, for those of you who haven't yet full-fledged admitted this, end the denial.
Open your eyes.
See what is happening.
Do not allow yourself to be deluded by false nostalgia for a past period of cultural peace that only existed because of the time the left was winning.
They hate you.
Look at Twitter.
Look at Facebook.
Try and tell yourself that leftists are just nice people that disagree with you on a few details, and you'll forever be deluding yourself.
Stop.
Stop deluding yourself.
Stop fooling yourself.
Understand that this must get much worse before it's going to get better.
We may wish to stop the cultural political struggle, but they can't.
The left can't.
Theirs is a religion.
Norman Pedoritz said something once, actually wrote this in a column and in a book.
He's Jewish, conservative Jew, and he's forever being bombarded with the question: how can Jewish people be liberal with what's happening to Jews all over the world with anti-Semitism?
How can they be anti-Israel?
How can liberal Jews be pro-Palestinian, for example?
Norman Pedoritz said they're liberals.
They're not Jews.
Liberalism is their religion, not Judaism.
Judaism is their tribal identification, but liberalism is their religion.
And he's right.
Their religion, the left's religion, tells them that we are all those isms and ists.
Racist, sexist, homophobic, greedy.
We hate science.
We're deniers.
Some of us even love Hitler, they say.
How could they tolerate us?
How could they ever allow us power if we are that embodiment of evil?
They can't.
They are sick.
Their ideology is sick.
Their false theology requires that we be eliminated, enslaved, made irrelevant, what have you.
We cannot be tolerated.
We certainly can't be allowed to hold the reins of power.
Mr. Schliester writes, I hope that my novel People's Republic about what lies at the bottom of this blood-soaked, slippery slope would be rendered moot by the GOP's victory in November.
I was wrong.
The left has redoubled its efforts.
They hate us.
And however they come at us, we need to be prepared to fight.
I'm going to tell you, he's exactly right.
He is exactly right.
There are those In power in Washington, who really believed that much, not all, but much of this discord and disunity would dissolve after the election.
Even if Trump won, that they would concede the fight.
And the fact that they're doubling down has come as a shock to many, not to me, and it's distressing to me that it's come as a shock.
It isn't personal.
You know, I realize you win an election and you run on unifying and making America great, and you think that, okay, let's go.
Let's all make America great.
These people, America never has been great to them.
America's never been anything but flawed.
Anyway, you know the drill.
I just wanted to call Mr. Schleister's piece out to you because it's welcome, very much so.
We're going to come right back.
Don't go away, folks.
I'm told that I had an episode of verbal dyslexia during that last little bit.
I called Mr. Schleister Eichenwald once.
Kurt Eichenwald is a rabid leftist out of his mind writer at Newsweek.
And whoever else will take him.
Kurt Schleister, Tom Hall, he's the lawyer who crushed the Clockboy libel suit.
Did you hear about that?
You remember Clockboy, the kid in Dallas who made Ahmed Eichenwald.
Yeah, Ahmed Eichenwald.
He made a bomb or a timer mechanism to a bomb and won a science project and was heralded as one of the greatest things of all time.
It was the cheapest piece.
And when he was denigrated for what he sued or his dad sued for defamation or whatever, and he just got smoked.
And it was Kurt Schlister who ran the case.
Here is Rich Brunswick, Ohio.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
All right, thank you, sir.
Have a good day.
You bet.
Hey, I've got a question for you.
I also got a comment regarding Russia here, but to my question.
Seeing how crucial that one play was with that test that almost touched the ground and where they had to verify or validate it using the cameras, whose cameras are being used for the referees to validate calls like that?
Is it the broadcasters or does the NFL have their own cameras?
No, no, those are all the network cameras.
At best of mind, look, this used to be a slam dunk.
I used to know this question because it was always the network cameras that were granted permission by the NFL.
They're not the same at every game because the networks have different budgets.
You know, for a game, it's going to go to 10% of the country.
They won't use many cameras.
The NFL does not move in and use camera locations that the network doesn't provide in those cases.
So I think every camera at the Super Bowl is yesterday was a Fox camera.
Now, I say that with the asking permission because it's a Super Bowl, I might be wrong.
Maybe the league does provide some cameras, but I don't think so.
Why does it matter to you?
What is the point if they do?
Well, just from a number of camera standpoints, I imagine Fox probably had at least a dozen to 18 cameras out there on that field yesterday or around the field.
Oh, they had more than that.
That's why I'm wondering, who did the refs defer to?
Wonder who the refs.
Oh, the refs are deferring to the replay official in New York and on the sideline.
Who's looking at whose cameras?
Fox's cameras.
Oh, okay.
They're looking at every replay you see.
They don't have a review.
They don't have an angle that you're not shown on TV.
Well, wait a minute now.
That's not.
The networks try to show you every angle they have of a play.
And they may not show you one that is inconclusive, but the league has access to all of them.
But their network cameras.
I get what's going on here.
I get what's going on here.
I know exactly.
Whoa, was the league maybe trying to cheat one of the two teams?
Is the league, if it's their cameras, can they have one not work at a crucial time?
Something like that.
No.
These are network cameras, I'm pretty sure.
We have a caller waiting on the hold here.
I'm glad this guy, his name is Eric in Michigan.
We have time to get to him now, but his point is going to be Tom Brady is the epitome of what America is.
Yeah, and that doesn't sit well.
I'm sorry, folks.
It does not sit well with the American life.
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