Feb. 14, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Say there's some other news out there. | |
| I want to get to it before I get back to this stuff. | |
| David Duke has endorsed Keith Ellison for chairman of the Democrat National Committee. | |
| And I just want everybody to know that. | |
| Greetings and welcome back, folks. | |
| L. Rushbone, not deterred, not sidetracked, not taken off the main path at any time here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. | |
| David Duke tweeted out Keith Ellison, Sally Boynton Brown, Jemu Green would all be excellent choices, but I really like Keith Ellison. | |
| I mean, at least he knows. | |
| At least he knows what. | |
| We don't know, but Keith Ellison knows. | |
| He's uh one of the Muslims. | |
| He's either the only or the one of what is still the only elected Muslim in the U.S. House representatives. | |
| I thought there might have been a second one. | |
| Um, David Duke, uh former grand lizard of the KKK has endorsed Keith Ellison as uh chairman of the Democrat National Committee. | |
| The uh that that singer that showed up in the Make America Great Gown at the Grammys, who I pointed out what happened to her yesterday, her her her record, her album was at number 500, some odd thousand on Amazon, went to number three. | |
| It was on number number one on the new and upcoming. | |
| She just blew it away. | |
| She's just she she outselling Beyonce and Jay-Z and whoever the heck else. | |
| And it's a great, great sign. | |
| It was it that that's all the Trump people out there waiting, given, just give them a chance to demonstrate that they're there and they will do it in the face of all this left-wing protest stuff. | |
| And they did it big time, and so now she's getting death threats. | |
| She is now getting death threats over her dress. | |
| She's being sent tweets demanding that she die. | |
| And she's 25, she's a multicultural singer. | |
| She intended to send a message of tolerance and love. | |
| But a bunch of bile spewing leftists on social media called her, well, I can't repeat the words. | |
| They call her a blah blah blah a disgrace, a dumb Uncle Tom. | |
| F Donald Trump and F that Joy via blank blank BIH. | |
| I mean, it's just vile stuff that they are that they're tweeting out there. | |
| Uh the the left has an idea that on, you know what the Ides of March is is March 15th. | |
| And this is from one of the uh distinguished left-wing websites. | |
| There's an ongoing effort now for everybody in the world to send Donald Trump a postcard on March 15th, telling him that he's scum, telling him that he's just it stinks and they should quit. | |
| And the left-wing website thinks that they can actually make a dent in Trump's psyche if they can generate millions and millions of postcards sent to him from around the uh around the world. | |
| United Nations official reveals the real reason behind the global warming scare. | |
| You know, this this is from the uh UK Daily Mail, uh, two stories in the last five days about how NOAA, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association, the number one climate change federal agency, had had literally made up some data. | |
| A whistleblower in the agency finally got fed up with what he was seeing and offered conclusive proof that how NOAA has been fabricating data, and they released a bunch of data right before the last Paris Accords meeting. | |
| One of the premises of the global warming crowd is that there has been a pause. | |
| You know, you've heard there hasn't been any warming in the last 15 years. | |
| There hasn't been any warming. | |
| And the computer models all said the warming would continue. | |
| So the pro-global warming crowd's been very, very distraught. | |
| And they've been looking for excuses and reasons to tell people why the warming was halted. | |
| That would not discredit their premise. | |
| And the way they did it was to say, guess what? | |
| We found additional Information to show that the warming has actually continued. | |
| That everybody who thinks the warming hasn't continued is wrong. | |
| And the whistleblower said they just made it up. | |
| They literally just made up the data and they timed its release right before the Paris Accords. | |
| Well, what's happened next? | |
| Investors business daily, economic systems. | |
| The alarmists keep telling us their concern about global warming is all about man's stewardship of the environment. | |
| They keep telling us they're trying to save the planet. | |
| They're trying to make sure that ecosystems survive so that humans can survive beyond 50 years from now. | |
| Well, at a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figuettis, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity, but rather to destroy capitalism. | |
| A climate change activist in Brussels at a press conference actually admitted it. | |
| She said, This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years since the industrial revolution. | |
| This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in history. | |
| She's talking about capitalism. | |
| She admitted the task at hand is overthrowing and transforming capitalism. | |
| That is the economic, the only economic model that's worked in the last 150 years. | |
| And she has admitted it. | |
| I've only seen this in Investor's Business Daily. | |
| I have not seen this story anywhere else in the drive-by media, and we won't see it anywhere else. | |
| And therefore, a bunch of millennial tech blogger types and other young millennial college students and others will never see, will never know that one of the United Nations' leading climate activists admitted that the objective is to overthrow capitalism. | |
| Now, I mentioned at the beginning of the program a piece that I read at a publication called Foreign Policy. | |
| It's a magazine. | |
| It's owned by the Washington Post. | |
| And it's an effort to compete with another magazine called Foreign Affairs. | |
| Foreign Affairs is a very august publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, which of course has a symbiotic relationship with the Trilateral Commission. | |
| This is the Washington Post attempt to get in on the business of elite establishment types reading about foreign policy. | |
| Now these people have nothing to do with foreign policy. | |
| Foreign policy is set by the President of the United States and his team. | |
| But there is this thing called the Council of Foreign Relations, and it's made up of, well, elites from media, from academia, from corporate America, and they sit as a shadow, doing what they can to influence American foreign policy or undermine it if necessary, or promote it if necessary, but they have no official ties unless one of them happens to be chosen by the president to join his administration. | |
| And foreign policy magazine is an effort to get in on that august elite business. | |
| And they have a piece that is headlined something to the effect that Moscow, i.e. | |
| Vladimir Putin, all of a sudden have become very, very frightened by Donald Trump. | |
| Now, this cuts against the grain. | |
| The narrative out of the Democrat Party is that Trump and Putin are brothers in crime or politics or whatever. | |
| If you know the Democrat Party thinks the Russians cost them election, and they also think that Donald Trump is just buddy buddy with Putin, so they think that Putin worked with others to hack the Democrats to give the White House to Trump. | |
| And now along comes foreign policy magazine asserting that the Kremlin very, very worried now because they have become totally bamboozled and surprised by Trump. | |
| In 2016, a senior Russian official explained to a group of visiting foreigners why the government had decided not to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. | |
| Yeah, it was a turning point in Russian history, and yeah, Putin sees today's Russia as a successor to both the Tsars and the Bolsheviks, but celebrating a revolution might send the wrong message to society. | |
| They don't want the society thinking about revolution. | |
| So they just decided in Russia to ignore the 100th anniversary to Bolsheviks, which is a big deal. | |
| It would be like us ignoring an anniversary of the civil war or anything about it for fear of inciting a similar revolution here. | |
| The last thing the Russian government expected was that the year 2017 would bring it face-to-face, not with a revolution of the past, but with a revolution of the present. | |
| The radical regime change taking place in the United States as a result of the victory of Donald Trump. | |
| It is Trump's electoral revolution that has captured the imagination and fanned the fears of Russian elites today. | |
| The search for a key to Trump's mind-boggling miscellaneous gusher of policy directives has tended to focus on his... | |
| Get this, get this paragraph. | |
| I should have set this up. | |
| This is an analysis of where the Russians are and how they analyze Trump. | |
| The search for a key to Trump's mind-boggling and miscellaneous gusher of policy directives has tended to focus on his disturbingly erratic, vindictive, simplistic, narcissistic, insecure, and occasionally duded personality. | |
| What most observers have been late to recognize is the extent to which behind his mask as a showman, Donald Trump actually views himself as a revolutionary insurgent with a mission to dismantle America's old regime. | |
| This story purports to say that the Russian elite is shocked that that's who Trump really is. | |
| They thought Trump was just this showman, entertainer performer, narcissistic, sort of unhinged, but manageable. | |
| They have become, according to this, stunned to learn that Trump means it. | |
| That Trump is serious about dismantling America's old guard. | |
| Trump's tactics certainly belong to the classic revolutionary playbook. | |
| His shock and awe style of executive action is designed to rattle Congress. | |
| It's designed to catch his opponents unprepared and to incite his base to wage war on the establishment. | |
| The extreme polarization that Donald Trump deliberately foments allows him to fend off an opportunistic alliance of the Republican elite with the Democrat Party in defense of the constitutional system, ensuring the protests will be largely impotent. | |
| Let me translate this for you. | |
| What they have concluded, according to this in Moscow, is that Trump's purposeful divisionaryism, his purposeful polarization, the fact that he's purposely divisive means that he is deliberately trying to prevent the Republicans from forming an alliance with the Democrats to defend | |
| the establishment. | |
| They are shocked that Trump has been able to carve this out and is executing it. | |
| The extreme polarization that Trump foments has allowed him to prevent the Republican elite forming an alliance with the Democrat Party, i.e., the establishment coming together, to defend itself. | |
| And this is ensuring that all of the anti-Trump protests will be largely impotent because they cannot affect what their objective is, and that is to focus everybody on getting rid of Trump because Trump's keeping everybody off guard. | |
| And Trump is making it hard for the Democrat and Republican elites to get together against him. | |
| Well, that all before the Flynn thing happened, I should point out. | |
| In the words of White House strategist-in-chief Steve Bannon, Trump is positioning himself as the global leader of an anti-global movement that is anti-elite, anti-establishment, anti-liberal and nationalistic. | |
| What we're witnessing now, Bannon said to the Washington Post, is the birth of a new political order, and the more frantic the media elites become, the more powerful our new order becomes. | |
| So this story purports to say that all of this media going nuts stuff is exactly what Trump wants. | |
| The more frantic a handful of media elites become, the more powerful the new Trump political order becomes. | |
| That's what they quote Bannon as saying. | |
| Story goes on to say that what the what the Kremlin now fears most is that Trump may be ousted or even killed. | |
| That's what they worry about most. | |
| You know why? | |
| I'll tell you why when we come back. | |
| Don't go away. | |
| Okay, back to the conclusion here at foreign policy magazine. | |
| With Donald Trump in the White House, Vladimir Putin has lost his monopoly over geopolitical unpredictability. | |
| The Kremlin's ability to shock the world by taking the initiative and trashing ordinary international rules and customs has allowed Russia to play an oversized international role and to punch above its weight. | |
| In other words, Putin's unpredictability has allowed him to be a much bigger and more powerful world leader than he actually is. | |
| That Russia just ain't that big a deal anymore. | |
| Anywhere near as big as the Soviet Union was. | |
| But Putin's erratic unpredictability and deciding one day to go invade here or there kept everybody on edge, but now he's lost the monopoly on that with the arrival of Donald Trump. | |
| He now has to share this capacity for nobody knows what he's gonna do next, with a new American president who is vastly more powerful than he, Putin is. | |
| More world leaders are watching anxiously to discover what Trump is going to do next than are worrying about what Putin will do. | |
| Now, this is a Washington Post publication writing this stuff, analyzing Russia and Trump. | |
| And they're saying that Putin now feels a distinct competition with Trump and feels like Trump is overshadowing him. | |
| Trump is out-Putining Putin. | |
| And Putin doesn't like this, but there's nothing much he can do about it. | |
| Using anti-Americanism as an ideological crutch has become much more dubious now that the American electorate has chosen as their president a man publicly derided as Putin's puppet. | |
| What the Kremlin fears most today is that Trump will be ousted or even killed. | |
| His ouster, according to Kremlin insiders, is bound to unleash a bipartisan anti-Russian campaign in Washington. | |
| In other words, if the Republicans and Democrats could get together and get rid of Trump, then... | |
| then Putin thinks, my God, I'm listening to what they hate me. | |
| They're gonna come after me, they're gonna they're gonna they're gonna join up the Republicans and Democrats are gonna come after me. | |
| Republicans, because they just will at Democrats because they think I stole the election from them. | |
| So, as a result, Putin has become a hostage to Trump's survival and success. | |
| This has seriously restricted Russia's geopolitical options. | |
| The Kremlin's perfectly aware that Democrats want to use Russia to discredit and impeach Trump, while Republican elites want to use Russia to deflate and discipline Trump. | |
| The Russian government fears not only Trump's downfall, of course, but also the possibility that he could opportunistically switch to a tough anti-Moscow line in order to make peace with Republican leaders in Congress. | |
| Upshot of this piece at foreign policy is that Vladimir Putin owned the world till Donald Trump came along. | |
| Donald Trump is not Trump to Putin, and Putin is a prisoner to whatever Trump does or what happens to Trump, and it's in his strong interests for Trump to survive political controversies involving Russia or assassination attempts or what have you. | |
| It's uh amazing to me, all this stuff is. | |
| The last paragraph in this foreign policy story, what is especially dangerous from the Russian perspective is that certain nationalistic circles in Russia are falling in love with what Trump is doing in America. | |
| In January, for the first time since Putin returned to the Kremlin in 2012, Putin was not the most frequently cited name in the Russian media. | |
| Trump is. | |
| And although most of Trump's Russian admirers are loyal to Putin personally, they also dream of purging the global elites who occupy the Kremlin. | |
| So this story is all about how Trump has come in and where Russia thought they were getting a bumbling, inexperienced outsider. | |
| They've got a guy who's taken over Putin's role in the world, what Putin thought his role was. | |
| They've destroyed a Putin monopoly. | |
| And now he's so popular inside Russia that insurgents and revolutionaries in Russia wouldn't mind a Trump there. | |
| At the same time, Putin cannot afford for anything to happen to Trump, because if it does, that means the Republicans and Democrats will unify and align against Russia and against Putin, whether it's warranted or not, just because of the state condition, current condition of American politics. | |
| The White House, if you're just joining us, the press briefing today clearly attempted to change everybody's focus to the leak aspect of this. | |
| And that is a serious, they're not wrong to do that. | |
| They're just a bunch of questions that arise. | |
| I mean, if something had to happen, because up until yesterday, Flynn was in tight. | |
| So something's happened to make Trump ask him to leave. | |
| But nothing changed as far as I mean, Flynn what he did happened back in December, supposedly. | |
| But what he did, nobody would know if it weren't if it hadn't been hacked, if it hadn't been monitored, phone hadn't been tapped, and people listened to it. | |
| Anyway, people have been patiently waiting, and it's time to get back to the phones. | |
| This is Jeannie in Hutchinson, Kansas. | |
| It's great to have you here. | |
| How are you? | |
| I'm good. | |
| Thank you so much for taking my call. | |
| You bet. | |
| I'm glad you waited. | |
| I was um I was initially calling because uh of how investigative reporting has just gone down the drain over over the last decades. | |
| You know, when once Woodward and Bernstein investigated Watergate, they did it covertly. | |
| And when they had the facts and were able to prove them, they reported the story. | |
| Now the reporters investigate on live TV with the people that they're investigating. | |
| And they just throw questions at them and they don't allow them to answer the questions. | |
| And so then they report rumor as truth and and they throw around the phrase, what did the president know and when did he know it? | |
| Well they don't they don't really say that because they haven't really done their jobs. | |
| George Stephanopoulos is is great at interrupting you and not letting you answer the questions. | |
| Katie Creek has done several shows where she's had she's been proven totally wrong in what she's presented or how she edited it and that type of thing and the the Look I know these excuses, these examples are endless. | |
| NBC editing the nine eleven tape, the phone call from uh from the uh the well known white uh Hispanic, George Zimmerman, to make it look like he was a racist pig in describing the Trayvon Martin circumstance. | |
| There's there's uh there's no question the media isn't media anymore. | |
| And that's that's the best I can say it. | |
| There is no media. | |
| I mean it do you not even find it strange that there is now just this this adjective to this the media. | |
| It's like it it's it's um own branch of government or its own self-contained entity that is an opposition force to just one of the political parties. | |
| It's not a news gathering organization anymore. | |
| I mean there are elements of it that do that's primary purpose is to advance the political agenda of the Democrat Party and the media serves as a political opponent to Republicans and conservatives and everybody just accepts that. | |
| That's just what it's become the media is yet another obstacle that Republicans have to find their way around or through they are not highly respected. | |
| Their public opinion polls are the the the maybe the least respected line of work in America today of that of lines of work that are legal that would be so surveyed. | |
| But I get your point investigative journalism there isn't any there's just attack journalism and it's happening right in front of our eyes each and every day and that's exactly right. | |
| I mean you witness it each and every day. | |
| Want to go back to yesterday's program we played four sound bites of Stephen Miller a Trump administration advisor and strategist and how he just ran rings around Stephanopoulos left Stepanopoulos speechless and pointed out this is how it's done this is what dealing with an opposition media is that's what it looks like. | |
| And lo and behold there's a great piece today at Town Hall by Doug McKinnon, White House advisor eviscerates a shell shock George Stephanopoulos and it goes on to describe Miller's appearance on all the four Sunday shows that he appeared on and how he he presented a textbook case for any Republican going if you're going to accept the invitation to go on these shows how to do it. | |
| How to not accept the premise how to come armed with facts how to just refute every premise presented to you how to destroy every false bit of information that's contained in a question. | |
| Miller did this time and time and time again with Stephanopoulos and of course now Miller is being trashed by the drivebys and leftist agitators. | |
| Miller is now being targeted for destruction, if you will, which he knew was going to happen. | |
| Everybody knows it's going to happen. | |
| That's when you have to gut it up. | |
| You know, you finish an appearance like that. | |
| You know you've hit a home run for your side. | |
| You know you've done well, and you hope that it influences others to try to imitate your appearance when you go when they go on TV. | |
| And you know you're going to get hit for doing so, but you hope that it has some kind of uh long-lasting benefit to it. | |
| And then you see where your performance, your appearance, stellar as it was, is now coming under vicious assault by the left, which cannot allow people who did not see it to be told about it. | |
| And it tries to change the minds of the people who did see it to convince them they didn't see what they what they saw. | |
| It's a great piece here by by Doug McKinnon. | |
| And he says the tape of Stephen Miller with Stephanopoulos should become required viewing for any Republican, conservative, or faith-based communicators, hoping to inject some sanity back into policy debates, hijacked by dishonest, hate-filled, and increasingly inflammatory rhetoric of a growing part of the so-called mainstream media, the entertainment industry, and academia. | |
| And it was, it was all of that. | |
| Back after this, folks, sit tight. | |
| Hey, in the midst of all of this, Trump just signed his first bill today. | |
| First piece of legislation. | |
| You know what it does? | |
| Watching CNN. | |
| They just live it. | |
| CNN is reporting that Trump's bill that he signed weakens oil and gas and mining regulations. | |
| And you should have seen them when they announced this, they're just shaking their heads. | |
| They go, Oh my God. | |
| And what they're shaking their heads about is he won't stop. | |
| We can't make him stop. | |
| We thought we had him paralyzed with the plane. | |
| He just keeps doing it again. | |
| And that's what's going to continue to happen. | |
| They're not going to stop him. | |
| They're going to be in the dust. | |
| I don't care what the media thinks they've got. | |
| And these Republicans are making such a mistake. | |
| Here, listen to this montage that we put together Republicans joining Democrats demanding that Trump be investigated. | |
| I think the whole issue of Russia and our relations with Russia and our approach to Russia, all those questions should be answered. | |
| I think Congress needs to be informed of what actually General Flynn said to the Russian ambassador about lifting sanctions. | |
| And I want to know, did General Flynn do this by himself or was directed by somebody to do it? | |
| The president should discuss what he knows and what happens. | |
| You're talking about some sensitive issues. | |
| But for the most part, I think it's important for the president to, you know, lay out what happened. | |
| Yeah, so the Democrats start raising hell, and the Republicans think they've got to get on board with that because that's what the media is demanding, and you've got to stay on the good side of the media. | |
| You just can't run the risk of making the media matters. | |
| You got to join the Democrats. | |
| So now the stories are out there. | |
| CNN has one Republicans joining with Democrats, demanding that Trump and Flynn and their relationship with Russia be investigated and explained. | |
| This is, I'll tell you what, uh, this reminds me in a way of some of the battles between the legislative and executive branches during Reagan. | |
| You know, in normal times, the legislative and executive branches are at war with each other for power. | |
| Folks, that's normal. | |
| That's my design. | |
| You just haven't seen it because the Democrats ran the legislative branch first six years of Obama, and they just gave him every bit of power they could. | |
| They just laid down and they invested total Democrat power in Obama. | |
| Well, now they want it back now that Trump's in the White House. | |
| And now you're going to see these battles, executive versus legislative. | |
| And Trump's going to have to defend his turf. | |
| You want investigating me? | |
| Well, screw you. | |
| I'm going to investigate you. | |
| Anyway, it's going to be fun to watch. | |
| It's going to be frustrating, too. | |
| We never finish. | |
| Things never end. | |
| We just have to call a timeout now and then, but we will be back, my friends, as the world burns around us. |
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