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Feb. 8, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 8, 2017, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
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Happy to have you here.
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We will be getting to your phone calls in this hour.
From the Hill.com.
Looky here, folks.
President Trump plans to have lunch tomorrow with a group of moderate Democrat senators who could help advance his agenda through Congress.
Senators Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota.
She was considered four position in Trump's cabinet.
Joe Manchin of West Virginia, John Tester of Montana, and Joe Donnelly of Indiana are expected to attend Trump's luncheon at the White House number, according to USA Today, so it could be fake news.
All four face re-election next year and represent states Trump won big in 2016.
Four Democrats, folks, incurring the wrath here of Folkahontists.
Four Democrats incurring the wrath of the Democrat base to cross over and reach across the aisle to work with the Trumpster.
Accepting an invitation to have lunch with him at the uh at the White House.
You know, I saw a poll, I don't remember if it's Gallup or whatever.
You ready for this?
There are more Democrats.
It's a poll of Democrats.
There are more Democrats who know who Steve Bannon is than who know who Chuck Schumer is.
Did you see that poll?
You don't remember what poll it is?
Well, it's funny, but stop and think for a second.
How in the world is Chuck Schumer has been a Democrat and a leader in the in the Senate for Democrats.
And in the House, he's been there 30 years.
Thirty years, three decades.
Steve Bannon has been known to people in the political world for for just a little over one year.
And there are already more Democrats who know who Mannon is than know who their spear carrier in the Senate is.
I think that stuns me.
Now, what explains that?
Well, the answer to that's simple.
I will let you dwell on it.
I want to get back to wrap up here on the Ninth Circus.
Oral arguments and the way the left is approaching securing a temporary stay on Donald Trump's executive order designed to protect the United States from bad actors getting into the country.
They're harping.
The lawyers, the judges, the the two liberal hacks on the Ninth Circuit panel yesterday, harping on this fact that it's a religious ban.
President can't ban people's religion.
There's no religious test.
And here's what they're relying on for this.
This this so-called no religious test clause in the Constitution.
You talk about bastardization and distortion.
Article 6, Section 3 of the Constitution says, quote, but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
That's it.
That simply and only means that religion cannot be considered for holding public office.
Nobody is disqualified from running for office or winning and holding office because of their religion.
It has nothing to do with immigration.
I'm sorry if I sound a little exercised here today, folks, but this stuff, there just some days it gets to me.
I mean, really infuriates me.
And last night into today is one of those periods of time.
When I hear judges, appellate judges questioning about a religious ban.
These people ought to be the people who are experts on the Constitution.
And the problem is these are people who actively seek to undermine it because they don't think it applies any longer.
It's an old decrepit document.
It has nothing to do with the current way of life in the world today, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But that's not the way to interpret.
It's the law.
And there is.
We have religious tests applied to illegal immigrants and aliens and refugees every day.
It is standard.
It is part of the process that we involve ourselves in when determining who gets into this country.
And hear these judges trying to say that Article 6, Section 3 means there's no religious test for anybody doing anything in the United States of America.
They want it to be able to be considered to decide anything else.
Who can be admitted, who can't be.
Now, the Trump executive order is not a religious ban.
And I've had emails.
Oh, you know it's not a religious ban.
You keep doing you say it's not a religious man, but look at the countries.
Yeah.
Well, let me tell you something.
If it were a religious ban, then the ban would have been on people from every country where there are Muslims.
The fact of the matter is 85% of the Muslim world was untouched by the Trump executive order.
So you tell me, you arrogant cockshore liberals, how the hell is that a religious ban?
If it were a religious ban, it would not have left out the 85% of the Muslim world.
But there we had two judges on the Ninth Circuit panel persisting in pretending it's a religious ban, pretending that it would be illegal and unconstitutional because it's a religious ban, and it's not.
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.
Probably the first to cite that law back when Trump was being attacked back in December 2015 for suggesting that the Syrian refugee problem be uh program be suspended.
So there is no religious test.
And these judges trying to take Article 6, Section 3 and expand that, which is merely statement that we cannot have a religious test for anybody holding office.
And I this is a it's outrageous.
This is our and this is who the I'm telling you what the Democrat Party is a shrinking and dwindling hate group.
They they they that's literally what they've become.
And you know, I I remember the reason why I say that and why I think that this is an important point.
Back early in my career, when I was still learning about all this, when I was wet behind the ears and naive, uh, up until the time I started this radio show, nobody that knew me ever thought I was a hate monger or a racist or homophobic or sexist or bigoted or any of that.
Nobody.
Because I'm not, there wasn't.
Six months after being on the radio with this program, I had I'd become all of that.
And I remember don't want to mention names here because these people are still alive.
But I remember uh prominent conservative media figure talking to him about prominent liberal media figures that he knew that he liked.
And I questioned him, how can how can you trust these people?
I mean, these are no, no, they're good guys, they're good guys.
In fact, in fact, one of them likes you, says you're not a hater.
And I was supposed to be thrilled to hear this.
I was supposed to be mollified.
Some some liberal media figure had just pronounced I was okay because after he had listened to me, he had determined I wasn't a hater.
And I I did not take that as a compliment, and I got kind of mad, just like I did when Al Gore, president, vice president's debate in 1996, Bob Dole is The presidential candidate for the Republican side.
And Gore and Jack Kemp, VP candidate, have a debate, and Gore tells Kemp, you're not like the rest of your party.
You're not a racist, Jack.
And Kemp said they thanked him.
Yeah, well, the way we look at it, Limbaugh's not a hater.
Of course, that's out the window now, they all think the opposite.
They are the hate group.
The Democrat Party, that's their fuel.
That's that's what energizes them is their hate.
And for them to sit there and act like they're the most compassionate and tolerant and peaceful and understanding.
It's just a bunch of hogwash.
The American people that voted for Trump are hated.
The Republican Party is hated.
Alternative conservative media is hated.
George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, take your pick.
They are hated.
They are not opposed.
And I wish an even bigger percentage of the American people would figure this out.
American people running around thinking that all the hate and the racism and all these other isms are located on the Republican Party side.
And the Republican Party has been over backwards, not even criticizing Democrats in hopes that people wouldn't think they're what the Democrats say they are.
While the Democrats go out and behave that way times ten all the time, every day, and never get called on it.
But they are the hate group.
They are the hate party.
They are the people that literally thrive and subsist on it.
And you can see it.
You can see it in these protests.
You can see it in these so-called acts of dissent, which are nothing more than riots.
Last night on CNN there was a debate, Ted Cruz and uh and Crazy Bernie on Obamacare and getting rid of it.
Crazy Bernie was great.
We didn't even need Ted there.
Ted was great.
No misunderstand.
But Crazy Bernie told them why Obamacare was worthless and horrible, and we should get rid of it better than any Republican ever could.
Anyway, this is now moving into the foca hotist, the Elizabeth Warren uh being silenced by virtue of the invocation.
Senate Rule 19 last night, while there was another one of these Democrat all-nighter debates trying to destroy and prevent the confirmation of Jeff Sessions.
So Bill Hemmer talked to Cruz on Fox this morning about Elizabeth Warren being silenced.
I'm getting a little ahead of this only because there's some there's something Cruz says in this bite that I want to amplify.
Bill Hemers said Elizabeth Warren was asked to conclude her remarks based on the maligning of another U.S. Senator, that being Jeff Sessions.
A few years ago, Senator Cruz, you were criticized with some Republicans for going after Senator McConnell on the floor of the Senate.
Is this different or not, Senator?
The Democrats are angry and they're they're out of their minds.
You know, we're saying in the Senate, the Senate Democrats objecting to every single thing.
They're boycotting committee meetings, they're refusing to show up, they're foaming at the mouth, practically.
And really, you know, where their anger is directed, it's not at Republicans.
Their anger is directed at the American people.
They're angry with the voters.
How dare you vote in a Republican president, a Republican Senate, a Republican House.
What many of the of the Senate Democrats are taking the lesson of this election was that Hillary was too moderate, and they need to go more Elizabeth Warren, more Bernie Sanders, more extreme and on the fringes.
I think that's really unfortunate.
And I think last night you saw that with Elizabeth lashing out at Jeff Sessions and really lashing out at the American people.
And that is the point.
All of this unrest and all the riots and all the protests that really the anger is in all of you who voted for Trump and voted for Republicans.
That's that's really the nub of it.
They're angry at Trump, but Trump wouldn't be there if it weren't for you.
They are angry, they feel rejected.
The American people, and you I've I've already told you how they think of Trump voters.
They Trump voters are uneducated, Deliverance types.
You're fools, you're idiots, you're uneducated, you're unsophisticated.
You're just you're just an embarrassment.
You're American embarrassing.
You voted, you voted for Trump over Hillary, and they're outrage, and Cruz is exactly right at you.
I want to take a brief time out here, and from there, we will go into what happened with Elizabeth Warren on the floor of the Senate last night.
Because I think there's something bigger at play here with the invocation of Rule 19.
It wasn't invoked just to shut her up last night.
I think it was a test run of the trial run for something else.
Details coming up.
Okay, folks, we're going to grab a phone call here, because if I don't do this, and I get started on this warren stuff, that's another half hour before I get to the phones.
And I just can't do that.
I mean, I give out the number, I invite people to call, and then to not take the calls and not go there.
That's rude.
That's impolite.
And I'm not that.
So we're going to start here.
We'll do the Folka Honda stuff in the next half hour.
I'll get started.
I'll get it all in here.
But Steve in Omaha, you're up first today, sir.
Thank you for waiting.
And hello.
Absolutely, Rush.
Wonderful to talk to you today.
Thank you, sir.
Two things that I was thinking about here, listening to all the hate and all the all the things that are going on that they're uh they're coming up with.
Number one is as far as the um, as far as all the hatred um and all the things that they're spouting, when when uh you're trying to drain the swamp, the people that are gonna scream the most and yell the most are gonna be the rats that enjoy living there.
And I don't I don't I don't see that as any kind of surprise at all.
Exactly.
I mean, and then they're not gonna stop screaming.
Oh, no.
Matter of fact, uh matter of fact, the uh really the second point I think is that uh that all this is uh is going on because um how do I say it uh uh this is this has been going on for an awful long time.
The the fact that they're doing this, they're not gonna pick and choose, you know, their battles.
They're gonna they've dug their heels in.
They're gonna they're gonna disrupt as much as they can uh for as long as they can.
Okay.
The str the strategy that uh the strategy that uh that some people ascribe uh to uh um I think uh uh McConnell or whoever in the Senate of uh of having sessions vote be last so that he could still vote on all the others was brilliant, but don't let don't let down the guard.
This is something that is not gonna stop.
They're gonna keep it up, and if they relax, then you know you you just can't you just can't coast, you can't say, okay, now we're past that.
Well, that's of course a lesson learned over countless years experience guided by intelligence, and we all we all hope the Republicans see it the way we do, and we all hope that they maintain a uh a stiff spine and so forth.
The experience is that they haven't, so that's what everybody's uh guarded about.
But I I you're you're right, they're not gonna go away.
The the real thing here, though, is they're they're they're it is hate that that is fueling them.
Now, hate, folks, is a it's like I said yesterday when you talk about making everybody a victim, which is what the Democrat Party has done, every voting member, other than the elites in Hollywood and academia, but the rank and file Democrat voter is also filled with hate, whether he's on the protest march or not.
And it's because he has accepted the victimhood status assigned to him by the Democrat Party.
And when you accept that you're a victim, that's a very personal decision.
I mean, somebody can call you a victim, but you don't have to accept it.
You don't have to act that way.
But when you choose to, when you've made up your mind that you are a victim, you have given up all hope for happiness.
You can never be happy.
You can never even be content.
Those two things don't go together with victimhood, then you add the hate to the victimhood status that these people have willingly adopted.
When you're a victim, nothing's ever your fault.
It's always somebody else's fault.
In this case, the Republicans.
And so you have been told to hate them and blame them, which is a loyal Democrat you've done.
So you have roiling, churning emotions that a bottle of Tums every day is not going to even touch.
You are just boiling over with victimology and victimhood and hate.
Precluding happiness, precluding enjoyment, precluding and eliminating any chance for contentment.
And you have to keep that up because you are forever going to fail as a victim.
As a victim, you have accepted that there's nothing you can do about what is happening to you.
It is always somebody else's fault, and no matter what you do, you are consigned to whatever miserable life that you have.
And so you talk about 30, 40% of the country that is this way.
Why would it subside?
The ingredients for never-ending miserableness, unhappiness, and hate are fed to you every day by the people you respect and admire.
Elected Democrats and the media and uh pop culture and so forth.
So, yeah, they're not going anywhere.
Sticking with the phones, and like the next caller is reacting to something I said an hour and a half ago.
And that's even unfair.
Um, but it's just the way things worked out.
And if you didn't hear what the call, let me briefly set this up.
Donald Trump tweeted out today his anger at Nordstrom for canceling his daughter's fashion line in their department stores.
And on CNN and the drive-by's elsewhere, they just cream Trump for doing this.
This is not presidential, presidents don't do this, fathers do this, yeah, but presidents don't do this, presidents don't go out and pick winners and losers and attack American businesses over business decisions.
And of course, I then sought to put this in proper perspective and explain why it would not hurt Trump, because this is exactly the kind of thing Trump voters want and expect and cheer, because it wasn't a business decision.
It was a political decision, and people are fed up.
Businesses have been politicized by the left and the Democrats, and and it's just it's gotten way out of hand, and people are fed up with it.
And so Trump defending his daughter and uh against a political attack perfectly fine.
Most people think now the establishment and the media who still don't understand the people that voted for Donald Trump.
They I don't think they're capable of understanding it.
I think they could go out and talk to them, and they go out and meet them, they could go to Wisconsin, they could go to Ohio, they could go to all those blue states that voted for Trump, and they can spend a week talking to people and come back still thinking those people are dumb, stupid idiots that don't see the world in the right way.
They wouldn't learn a thing talking to them because they're arrogance and their condescension.
Those people, it's not just Donald Trump defending his daughter, which is fine and dandy as far as they're concerned.
It's also perfectly qualified, perfectly permitted because it's political.
Just like these judges are acting political and not judicial.
So here we have a guy who wants to respond to all this that I said, and it's Junior in Polk County, Illinois.
Hi, Junior, great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Junior.
What's up?
What's happening?
Oh, okay.
Uh it's a privilege and honor to talk to you, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
I've been listening to you for a long time.
Anyway, uh, about the Donald Trump, uh, just because he's president doesn't mean that he's quit being her father.
And I remember a Democrat president by the name of Harry S. Truman, who not only defended his daughter for a review that was made about her singing, but he threatened bodily harm to the reporter.
And so I just thought I'd mention that.
Yeah, in fact, you are exactly right about that.
How many of you do not know this?
Harry Truman, Democrat, I mean, you want to talk about divisive.
Dwight Eisenhower was elected president, replaced Truman, and on the inauguration day, where the new president comes and has coffee, tea, or bourbon, whatever, at 10 o'clock in the morning.
Eisenhower and Mamie showed up, but he never got out of the car.
Didn't go in to greet the Trumans.
They wrote over to the inauguration in dead silence.
It was very, very frigid and chilly in the car.
Uh Harry Truman threatened a local Washington music critic who had given a bad review to a performance by his daughter, Margaret.
He threatened to beat this reviewer up.
Harry Truman is a hero of liberals.
Many of whom at the time believed in courage and principle.
They don't any longer.
They attack it.
But they love Truman.
And Truman, he was president.
He went out and he threatened to beat up this reviewer.
And would it would Harry?
I don't know if Harry Truman would have liked Putin or not.
Probably not.
I don't know.
You know, this this whole thing reminds me of a st thank you very much, Junior, for the call.
I appreciate it very much.
You want to hear the letter that Harry Truman wrote to the music critic in the Washington Post.
Here's the letter.
The Washington Post music critic Paul Hume gave Margaret Truman a very negative review of a concert performance that she gave one night in Washington.
Truman sent him a letter the next day.
Mr. Hume, I've just read your lousy review of Margaret's concert.
I've come to the conclusion that you are an eight-ulcer man on a four-ulcer pay.
It seems to me that you are a frustrated old man who wishes he could have been successful.
When you write such poppycock as was in the back section of the paper you work for, it shows conclusively that you're off the beam, and at least four of your ulcers are at work.
Someday I hope to meet you.
When that happens, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below.
I hope you'll accept that statement as a worse insult than a reflection on your ancestry.
Sincerely, President Harry Truman.
Trump just sent out a tweet.
This was a full-fledged personal assault of a reviewer, or a personal threat to a reviewer.
And Trump just tweeted that he thought it was very, very bad, blasting Nordstrom for canceling Ivanka's clothing line.
Try this, folks.
You think that they're not a hate group, and you you think the Democrat Party isn't unhinged.
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, who is the daughter of Ma Richards, who is the former crime boss of Texas, urged women yesterday to push the pro-abortion movement to the next level by publicly bragging about their own abortions,
saying the next step is to get rid of the stigma and shame surrounding abortion.
You mean they haven't done that yet?
Abortion became legal in 1973.
I thought they'd gotten rid of the stigma and the shame surrounding abortion by converting pregnancy into an illness.
Which they've done.
Pregnancy is an illness.
It victimizes, there's that word again, women.
That's right.
Pregnancy is victimhood.
I think it's time for us to be bold, said Ma Richard's daughter at a women's conference in California.
And so I want to ask you to do something or think about doing something, and that is to share your own story.
This is the time to do it.
We want women bragging about their abortions.
*laughs*
For what purpose?
What would what would possibly be are they wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Well, I can answer my own question.
They're trying to encourage more abortions.
But every time I've accused them of that over the years, they've fought back.
No, no, no, no, you mischaracterize us, Mr. Limbaugh.
We're not trying to promote abortion.
The hell You're not.
If an adoption clinic opens next to a planned parenthood clinic and a woman walks into the adoption clinic, the first thing Planned Parenthood does is try to go get her and talk her out of the adoption.
It's about money in many things.
They want people to brag.
They want women to brag about their abortion.
That dinner, either dinner.
No, no, no, not dinner parties.
Well, yes, of course, dinner parties, but uh in public ways, they want to encourage abortion as just your next everyday average medical procedure that improves your life and elongates your life and uh gets rid of uh illness at the same time.
This is sick.
These people are genuinely sick.
Their brains are rotting with all the hatred that they live with and have for decades.
It literally is rotting their brains.
And if they think this is the way you grow a political party.
They continue to illustrate they do not know America.
Here is Foca Huntis.
By the way, you may wonder why the name Focahuntas.
Elizabeth Warren is as white as the fence behind your house.
She wanted to get it to Harvard.
She wanted to become a teacher.
And Harvard, being politically correct and uh institution that uh bows to the religion of affirmative action.
Said, no, no, no, no, we're only accepting people of uh color and uh so she went out and had some so-called official blood test down and found that she was one-tenth of one percent Indian blood.
That somewhere back in her family's lineage there had been an Indian, a Native American.
And Harvard said, oh, well, fine.
And she said that her high cheekbones were the genealogical evidence, the physiological evidence that she has Indian blood is her high cheekbones.
And the left said, This is great.
This is absolutely wonderful.
That's a brilliant move, Foca.
So we call her Focahontas, because she's a fake empty.
There's no question that it's all just manufactured.
So she's now a senator, and you should also know that her approval numbers in Massachusetts are down.
She is only at 44%.
And she's doing on the national scene, the far left hate party loves her.
But she's got problems in Massachusetts.
So she's pulling stunts to try to get noticed.
And she went to the Florida Senate last night to read a letter from Coretta Scott King about Jeff Sessions, trying to disqualify him, smear him, slander him, uh, just this despicable stuff.
And Mitch McConnell invoked Senate Rule 19, which says that senators cannot do that.
You cannot personally assault, personally tackle, you cannot slander fellow members of this body.
It's a seldom invoked rule, but it was invoked last night.
She's got a history of Rule 19 type behavior.
So McConnell slaps the rule on her, which silences her, and the left is all thinking, this is really great, because now they've turned her into the focal point, and she's got a 24-hour story.
This happened so late at night if McConnell would have just let her rant, then nobody would have ever known about it, and there wouldn't be any news about it.
But McConnell slapped her down, and so now she's big news.
And I don't I don't think that the invocation of Rule 19 was just to shut her up last night.
I think this does have something to do with uh potential use of the filibuster, which McConnell doesn't want to do.
Rule 19 also has other things in it.
Not just you can't slime a fellow senator.
There's also a rule, uh uh part of Rule 19, which says a senator can only speak twice on the same subject during the course of debate on that subject.
And this could be a way of getting sessions confirmed without Having to go nuclear and do away with the filibuster.
I'll explain all that in the next half hour, but I want to play for you the soundbite of some of Elizabeth Warren last night.
And well, you know what?
Because it takes it takes four bites to get to where she gets shut down here.
Uh well, go ahead and play number nine.
We have time to squeeze this and at least get started.
I rise today to express my strong opposition to the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as Attorney General of the United States.
And I ask, where are the senators who will say no to the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions as Attorney General of the United States?
I hope there are at least enough senators here who understand that America is careening over a constitutional cliff, and that all of us, all of us, regardless of political party, need an attorney general who can be relied on to enforce the laws fairly and to fight back against lawless overreach by an out-of-control president.
Uh, president's not out of control.
It's your side, Focahantis that's out of control.
Felonious, riotous behavior.
Anyway, that's how it got started.
There's much more, and we have it coming up.
Any of you uh leftist women want to call here, brag about your abortions, and maybe tell us how many uh instances of breast cancer you've had, feel free.
Have at it.
Just let us let us hear from you.
You know, the incident of breast cancer in abortion is higher.
You know that, right?
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