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Feb. 22, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 22, 2017, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
I've had something very interesting happen to me.
Oh, I'd say four or five times here since yesterday's big broadcast.
You know what it is.
I'm actually having people tell me they're getting tired of all this news bashing Trump.
Not that they're worried about it.
That they are tired of it.
That it is beginning to bore them.
That to me is a profoundly good sign.
In the old days of the Republicans, you would never have heard that.
You would have heard people say, My gosh, when are they going to fight back?
My gosh, when are they going to do something about this?
My gosh, why are they going to sit there and just continue to take this?
Why aren't they fighting?
You'd hear something like that.
And then you would hear utter frustration, and you would hear whining and moaning that the media was winning and that the Democrats were winning.
And why don't the Republicans?
But now we got a president this guy.
He fights back, and he's the most transparent president we've ever had.
There's nothing hidden, there's nothing subtle, there's nothing under the covers.
It's all right there.
He thinks the press is the enemy.
He's going to tell you so.
He's going to tell them that he thinks they're the enemy.
And so now, when I hear people say, I'm getting, and don't misunderstand, they're not turning off the news.
It's a it's an attitudin.
They're just getting it's it's because it's never ending.
Every day the media doing the same thing.
Every day the media takes whatever the narrative they're trying to make is, and that's another thing that's got them snuffed because they've lost the ability.
Trump is setting the narrative every day.
Not them.
Do you realize the amount of control that drive-bys have lost and thus how angry they are about that?
So people are getting weary of the never ending.
Every day something new happens in terms of Trump policy.
What's the reaction?
Trump's Hitler.
Trump's this, Trump's that.
And people are getting tired of it because they're very satisfied with the way Trump is dealing with it.
He's continuing to march forward on his agenda.
He is fighting back at the drive-bys whenever necessary, and the Democrats or anybody else.
And so what's beginning to happen here is that the whining and moaning and the attempt to cause panic and chaos, including, I might add all these fake protests at Republican town halls.
And more on that in a moment, too.
Because Trump's even calling that out.
Did you hear what Trump said?
Trump lashes out at so-called angry crowds at GOP town halls.
He said the so-called angry crowds in home districts of some Republicans are actually planned out by liberal activists.
Sad.
He tweeted that.
He's exactly right.
We haven't had this happen before.
And so the attempt by the left, I told you they've got one blueprint, and it's it's it's been successful for them for years, but it doesn't work against Trump, and they haven't figured that out.
Bush was Hitler, Trump is Hitler.
Bush lied, people died, Trump's doing this, people are dying.
It's just changed the issue.
And people are getting worn out, not with Trump.
They're getting worn out with every day.
The left makes everything an apocalypse.
Everything that's happening is the end of the world.
And of course it isn't.
And many people are very happy with what Trump is doing and the agenda he's attempting.
If there's any unhappiness, I'm gonna tell you right, if there's any unhappiness, wariness or suspicion it's being aimed at Republicans on Capitol Hill, but not at the Donald.
America, I think what's happening here, folks, America is getting a good look at the Democrat Party's agenda.
The American people, normally you see the Democrats have to hide who they are if they want to win elections.
Like Obama could never have been honest about his true intentions for Obamacare and what would happen to your plan and your doctor and your premium and all that.
It would never have been elected if he had told you what his intentions were regarding keeping the borders open and letting anybody in that he wanted to let in.
It would have never been elected.
So they have to lie about it.
And they have to couch it, and many times they actually run for office as quasi conservatives.
They don't call themselves that, but the policies they eschew and promote are more mainstream than the actual extreme hard left wingism that they are.
As a result of them being out of power now and themselves feeling like they're in the midst of the apocalypse.
They have apparently thrown out the belief that they need to camouflage.
I mean, it's just wide open.
We are seeing exactly just who these unhinged people are.
See, I've known it for as long as I have been studying liberals and telling people about it.
This is who they are.
The way you see liberals today is no different than they were when Obama was in the White House in terms of what they believed, how they acted, things they wanted to do.
It's just it was suppressed.
It was suppressed and hidden, camouflaged, and largely the attention wasn't on the activists because Obama soaked up all the oxygen in the room.
But now look what's happening.
America's getting a good look at the Democrat Party.
Who they are, what they think, how they behave, what is important to them.
Ditto the media.
The American people are getting a first hand wide open look at the media's sympathies like never before.
Because the media is the left, the media is a bunch of hacks and activists.
They have been flushed to the surface, as you will.
They have been exposed as the soldiers and the warriors that they are for the Democrat agenda.
Fake news is now part of the national conversation.
Fake news has become iconic.
That's not good for the drive-by's, folks.
Fake news is now what most people first think of when they see a story in the drive-by media.
Republican Party didn't do this.
They're sitting back there, half of them still quivering in fear over the fact that it's happening.
Donald Trump is doing it.
The deep state.
Shadow government.
All these embedded bureaucrats.
They're coming out of the woodwork to write what they know.
The CIA agent that wrote an op-ed on Sunday claiming he was leaving the CIA because he just can't analyze intelligence for Trump.
Turns out he's a Clinton donor.
Five thousand dollars to Clinton.
He's a Clinton donor, he's a Clinton hack.
And by virtue of that allegations that we make about who really is the deep state, who are these unelected bureaucrats sabotaging Trump?
They're Democrats.
Everybody's seeing it now.
The deep state, the uh shadow government, all of these things are now on display.
They're not theoretical, they're not things that we know exist, but have to try to prove to other people.
They are being demonstrated.
The extent of illegal immigration and its costs are getting exposure in the news and social media news feeds like they never have.
All it takes is Trump sending out an executive order that he's gonna enforce the immigration laws, and they go baddy.
They go bat excrement crazy.
And the drive-by's lead with the bat excrement crazy, and the consumers of drive-by news can't miss it.
And they're seeing the hysteria.
And I suspect that even some of them are growing weary with this and asking, is this what we're gonna get?
In our Facebook feed the next four years.
Obamacare's failures no longer protected by Obama's deceitful pronouncements, or Hillary Clinton's pronouncements, Obamacare's failures no longer protected by the drive by media.
All of these failures, all of these new realities, fake news, the Democrat Party agenda, the media's obvious, bias, and having thrown in with the Democrats, the deep state, illegal immigration, facts, figures, costs, Obamacare failures, the unrest, the crime, instability from massive refugee migration.
That has broken through.
And guess who's done it?
The people who've hidden it all these years.
The media, which would not report on any of this, particularly if it was alleged by, say, me or any Republican, they would laugh at it, they would poo-poo it, and they would they would say that it's ridiculous and accuse whoever said such things of some sort of ism, racism, homosexual ism bias, whatever it would be.
But now look who it is that's actually in their panic and in their fear and in their apocalyptic attitude, exposing all of this.
Why it is the Democrat Party.
Why it is the drive-by media.
And what we're in the midst of here for we're in the midst of a bare-knuckled fight with elected Democrats, media propagandists, and it's healthy and it is overdue.
This needed to happen for a long time.
President Trump has flushed unhinged leftists out in the open.
He has flushed the Democrat Party out in the open.
He has flushed the media out in the open.
And now all of that can be evaluated side by side with President Trump's ideas.
Side by side with the guy who won the elections agenda.
That's good, folks.
That's good for democracy.
This is unique in terms of the way Republicans have acted in the past.
Republicans never had the desire to stand up for their own agenda.
They were too afraid of, well, they were afraid of what the media would say about it and then what the American public would think about it.
So they largely kept it secret.
Obama, if you'll recall, way back during the campaign of 2008, and then into his first term, the Tea Party thing broke out.
Obama told his people to get in our faces.
Remember that?
Obama said they bring a knife to the fight, you take a gun.
Remember all of that.
Obama told them to get in our faces.
Well, they're in our faces now, and how's it working out?
People are starting to get tired of it.
Don't misunderstand this is not yet reached critical mass.
But you know, I'm on the cutting edge of societal evolution, and I noticed these trends long before they become mainstream.
Because you see, according to Barack Obama, Obamacare was running like a top.
According to Barack Obama, America was better off without any immigration law.
America would have been better off with really just open borders.
That's who we were.
Those were our common values.
Whatever anybody wanted to come in, well, we had to let them.
That's who we are.
Well, turns out it's not who we are, and it's not going to continue.
According to Barack Obama, jobs were plentiful.
We had the greatest recovery in the history of recoveries, right?
We had incomes rising, even though nobody knew anybody whose income was rising, but Obama told us that incomes are rising, and they told us that unemployment's coming down, and they told us the economy was growing, except that it wasn't.
We were told the military was robust.
Obama told us universities were free speech meccas.
The only thing holding his country back was an outdated constitution and the Republican Party.
So Donald Trump is fighting the left out in the open, and that means he has drawn them out into the open.
And that means they are exposing, demonstrating who they really are.
And at the same time, this is causing Republicans to confront what their voters want confronted.
Fighting liberals, fighting liberalism is the nation's business.
Trump may not be ideological.
I don't know what all this is doing to Trump in terms of educating him on ideology.
But I would have to tell you, I would have to assume that Trump is probably surprised by some of what he's seeing from the people he used to know as just Democrats.
I don't think Donald Trump thought this is who they were.
He didn't think this was the mainstream of the Democrat Party when he was a New Yorker doing deals with Chuck Schumer and whoever else he needed to do deals with.
But now look what's happening.
Donald Trump's even getting an education.
I mean, you couldn't help it, these are the people trying to destroy him.
Many of these people he thought were his buddies at one time.
So he may not be ideological, but his election has laid bare the left's agenda, and his election has shined bright lights on the disastrous results of eight years of Obama and countless years of liberalism.
And I actually think the media is the last to figure out what's going on here.
I think the media doesn't know it yet.
They may have been sucked into a giant trap.
A giant Trump black hole.
You know why?
Because they can no longer hide behind the pretense of objectivity and journalism.
That's gone too.
They can't even fake, they can't make a case for it because they can't back that up with any kind of behavior.
They are demonstrating who they are.
Everybody on the left for the first time in a long time has been flushed out and is demonstrating who they are.
They are doing everything I've always told people they do.
They're being every way I've told people they are, including the media.
About all the media can fall back on is you can't criticize us.
We're mentioned in the Constitution.
If you criticize us, you're undermining the cause.
The people are going, how come on, grow up, you little kids.
The media is failing if they're attempting to evoke sympathy for themselves.
That's not working.
Democrats of all stripes have now been drawn into the arena of ideas where they don't want to be.
They don't want their ideas compared to ours.
They don't want their ideas debated.
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
Never ever do that.
We destroy Republicans, we don't debate them.
But now they're in the arena of ideas.
That's not where they want to be.
They're not comfortable there, and they never win there.
We'll be right back.
Folks, when I'm right, I'm right.
I just received there's a column in the latest issued a weekly standard by Alice B. Lloyd.
It's called the Activist Dilemma.
The more we shout, the less they care.
This piece basically says what my opening monologue said in its own way.
The more extreme a protester demonstration, the more media attention it gets, the more sunlight shines on it.
The more extreme the protest, the less likely it is the people at home will identify with its motivating spirit.
The trade-off between publicity and influence, they call the activist dilemma.
The activist dilemma, participants presented with extreme anti-Trump protesters responded by reporting greater support for Trump.
They are hurting themselves.
This is exactly what the subject of my opening.
By the way, that whole model, I have to tell you, I had lived, I had no intention, I didn't know I was going to say any of that.
There was something that I saw on TV that got me going on that, and I just kept rolling with it.
And then somebody just sent me this.
Extreme protest tactics get on TV, but they turn off audiences, say social sciences.
This is Matthew Feinberg, University of Toronto's Rotman School, and Stanford's Rob Willer.
And uh it only stands to reason.
It all goes hand in hand with the fact that not only do the protesters not have the ability to keep this fevered emotional pitch up week after week.
The audience doesn't want any of this.
This is why I told you people.
What really got me going on this was people telling me.
I haven't heard this.
I mean, in discussing presidential politics, not only people telling me they're bored with all the attacks on Trump.
Meaning they were not effective.
They weren't working, they weren't dispiriting people, they were because Trump's fighting back.
The Republicans never did.
And the activists and the protesters are so over the top on every they're they're actually boring people, and they're converting people into Trump supporters.
Yes, Bob.
Be back.
By the way, that CIA agent who wrote that big op ed over the weekend announcing he was quitting the CIA, and we were all supposed to panic.
And he was quitting the CA.
He said it wasn't political.
He just, he just couldn't work for somebody like Donald Trump.
He just couldn't gather intelligence from like Donald Trump.
He could not analyze intelligence for something like Donald Trump.
He wasn't, he just couldn't do it, just couldn't do it.
And it turns out the guy was a total Clinton hack.
He had donated five grand to Hillary's campaign.
But there are other interesting aspects about this guy.
He wasn't just a Hillary donor.
He was a flack for Ben Rhodes.
Ben Rhodes' National Security Council, Ben Rhodes was one of the people integral to selling this stupid Iran deal to us.
This Iran deal that basically paves the way for the Iranians to go nuclear weapons in ten years or next year or whenever it is.
This CIA agent and Hillary donor worked for the Obama administration for a time as a spokesman.
And he worked primarily for Ben Rhodes at the national security within the national security apparatus.
And he was spinning for the administration.
That's what spokespeople do.
Nothing wrong with that, but this guy wants us to believe he's this unaffected, down the middle, non-political CIA analysts who just can't abide what's happening here.
Turns out he's a Democrat Party hack who's been uh who's worked as a spinmeister for the regime on the Iran deal.
See, this is the kind of thing that that is happening here and is bringing all of this out into the sunlight because none of it's working.
That's the bottom line.
None of this worked on Reagan, all these protests.
It didn't, and it by the way, whatever you may think, all of these protests against George W. Bush did not work on Bush.
He did not pull us out of Iraq.
These protests do not work.
And when they don't work, and when there's evidence that they're being ignored, in this case by Trump and his administration, they get louder, they get more unhinged, they get screwier, and they become even more noticeable as genuine wackos.
And they end up producing the opposite of their intent.
And what research has shown, contrary to what you now, there's one caveat here.
These kinds of protests have, depending on who's doing it, paralyzed Republicans in the House and Senate.
And not all of them, but the protests have paralyzed them.
And the protest did cause Republicans to go along with the Democrats during the Obama administration.
I still think the racial component Was the primary factor in the Republicans' refusal to oppose Obama and even stand up.
And nobody will ever be able to convince me otherwise.
So that's a one-off.
But even from this weekly standard piece, the problem is the left can never win this way.
And they haven't.
I mean, look at Chicago 1968.
Similar behavior to this.
The Democrats lose the election to who?
Nixon, who they hated.
One takeaway from the activist dilemma might be that an ideal political discourse, an open enough exchange of ideas that the best ones win fair and square for the good of us all, that gets lost when ugly behavior makes ordinary people tune out.
And that's exactly what's happening.
See, the Democrat, the long-haired maggot infested dope smoking, whoever they are, have been flushed out, folks.
They're in the public now.
They're in the arena of ideas.
They're not hidden.
They're in the arena of ideas, and they're losing the battle of ideas.
And as they lose the battle, and by the you define losing by their ineffective.
So they get even rowdier.
They get even raunchier.
They go overboard, and all this ends up doing is causing people to tune out like I heard for the first time last night.
I'm getting bored with this.
Worst thing in the world that could possibly happen.
I give you some other examples of this.
So here's here's here's Trump lashing out at the so-called angry crowds in home districts of some Republicans.
He says they're actually, in numerous cases, planned out by liberal activists.
This is exactly right.
Many of these protests, people are being busted in, they're being paid to go.
They are, in some cases, they're even pretending to be angry Republicans.
Not all of them.
I mean, you got some genuine leftist protesters at these Republican town halls, but many of them are pretending to be angry Republicans in their attempt to intimidate the elected Republican conducting the town hall.
And Trump is honestly calling this out.
We have not seen this before.
So I have a story here from of all places, the uh San Francisco Chronicle about a town hall protest in California against Republican Congressman Tom McClintock.
Now, the headline of this, McClintock gets an earful at Northern California town hall.
California Representative Tom McClintock showed up Tuesday and faced his constituents at a town hall meeting, something many of his fellow Republicans had declined to do.
About 900 people filled the fairgrounds and exposition center at Mariposa to toss pointed questions at the five-term congressman.
Such a large crowd was a sign of how the resistance to President Trump has crept into the California Republican hinterlands.
That's BS.
The large crowd proves the Democrats are bussing in people.
The large crowd proved, and in this case, more people than half the entire population of McClintock's district showed up.
They bust in more people than half the population.
Now let me come down later in the story.
Tuesday was a bit of town hall deje vu for McClintock, who was one of the few sitting politicians at the vanguard of the Tea Party revolution.
Stick with me on this, folks.
McClintock, the vanguard of the Tea Party revolution that launched just a few weeks into Obama's term in early 2009.
Then conservative activists worried the new health care law being crafted at the time would become a government takeover of health care, much like liberals are doing now.
Conservative activists flooded town halls around the country and delivered an earful to their representatives.
Uh-uh-uh.
That's not what happened.
Those were not conservative activists.
That's what's noteworthy about the Tea Party and what the left still is in denial about.
The Tea Party was not conservative activists.
The Tea Party was not made up of people that ever done anything like this before.
They were not bought and paid for.
They were not bust in.
They were average, ordinary, everyday Americans, fed up and scared to death by what Barack Obama was doing and the lack of resistance to it by the Republicans.
Pure and simple.
Now the Democrats, because they use progression, they can't think outside their own box.
So if people show up and start asking questions of the town, it's got to be an organized protest, because that's what they do.
In the Democrat world, nothing is left to chance.
You don't call a meeting and hope a bunch of protesters show up.
You make sure they're there.
Well, I think everybody does that.
The Tea Party was not conservative activists.
And to say that they were activists is fake news.
The Tea Party had never been, people there had never been previously involved in politics in their entire lives.
That's what was so frightening, actually, the left.
It was so organic and so natural, and there wasn't a single leader to go out and destroy and thus destroy the whole movement.
They created Occupy Wall Street.
They actually manufactured what they thought the Tea Party was on the left to do battle with it.
And then there's this in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Tea Party conservatives were able to translate that grassroots energy into flipping the Congress in 2010, the midterm elections.
Achieving that same feat will be a daunting challenge for Democrats who need to turn 24 seats to regain control of the House in 2018.
And that, my friends, in a nutshell, is why the Democrats are organizing these protests.
They somehow think that it'll cause them to win a midterm landslide like the Tea Party did.
They haven't the slightest idea what the Tea Party, even now.
This demonstrates they have no idea what the Tea Party was.
They think they've just got to show up in numbers, like they think the Tea Party did, and harass Republican members of Congress and voava, they are going to win the midterms.
You know what this is like?
And this is this goes part in parcel with the fact that they all they're doing is ending up exposing themselves and who they really are.
You know what this is like?
Air America.
What did they think they had to do?
All they had to do was go on the radio and start fundraising for liberalism, and that would make them the most listened to radio network in America.
That's all they had to do because they never studied what happened.
They thought funding was the answer to a successful radio.
They were just clueless, totally clueless.
Look at every liberal in the last 30 years the left has decided to put up against this program.
They all failed after six months.
None even got close because they don't know what now the left is making the same mistake when it comes to replicating the Tea Party.
They think the Tea Party was an organized protest.
So all they've got to do is replicate what the Tea Party did, and magic will happen in the 2018 midterms.
And what they don't understand is that in the process of doing all this, they are wide open in as bright a light as you could shine on them.
They finally are demonstrating who they are.
Their radicalism is on full display.
Their oddballishness is on full display.
Their mean-spirited behavior is on full display.
And Trump continues to fight back, which forces them to get even more radical, which is slowly starting to reverse their fortunes.
We'll be back with much more in just a moment.
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Audio soundbite time.
This was uh Fox Bidness Network.
Late yesterday afternoon, the program countdown to the closing bill.
A fill-in host Ashley Webster, a guy speaking with Pacer ETF's distributors, President Sean O'Hara about the economy and Trump.
A question.
There's a lot of sentiment and emotion as part of this stock market rally that I think a sense of optimism, Sean.
Do you think that's well based?
I mean, it just seems that business optimism, consumer optimism, housing market, slowly turning around.
It's all pointing in the right direction.
Optimism begets more optimism.
The market seems on a tear.
I was listening to something on the radio on the way down here.
I was listening to Rush Limbaugh, and he said something which is right, which is obviously a Russia's always right.
But he said, look, Donald Trump is up against so much resistance here.
Not only from the Democrats, but also from people in his party.
And so if they're not going to cooperate with him, he's not going to get what he wants done.
And that could be a big problem.
But I just like they did in the primaries and the election, I don't think anybody should discount the president, especially Mr. Trump.
He will, I think, by sheer force of will play the game his way and get what he wants to get done.
Right.
And don't leave his cabinet out of this.
Donald Trump has put together one of the strongest best cabinets.
And I'm telling you, these people are committed to this agenda.
And you know, the drive-by's with uh uh, you know, H. R. McMaster, National Security.
You know what the drive-by narrative on this is?
This is so comical.
Well, this is good.
This is good because now this guy will tell Trump when to shut up.
This guy'll tell Trump when he doesn't know what he's talking about.
This guy'll protect us.
This guy'll tell Trump that he's stupid and an idiot, and this guy will tell Steve Manon to get the hell out of the room.
They st they can't get it into their heads who's calling the shots.
On one hand, over here, Trump is this giant Godzilla that's come in and just stomping all over everything.
And on the other hand, he's this idiot, narcissist fool that doesn't know anything, and all of his advisors are running the show.
By the way, did you see this?
There's a morning consult poll.
Half of the Saturday night live audience says in this poll, they're getting sick of the Trump stuff.
Did you see that?
Morning consult.
I'm telling you, folks, I'm just telling you.
Here's David in uh is Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
How are you doing?
Good.
How are you, Rush?
Fine, Dandy.
Thank you.
Hey, I've I've been trying to get in contact you with the while because um over the past few months I've been listening to you talk or ask your viewers if all these protests are starting to discourage them.
And uh I just wanted to call because I think I have a unique perspective on that.
So I'm actually uh first responder, uh that I won't go any more specific than that in Madison, uh, Wisconsin.
So in 2010, I'm sure you covered this, but I wasn't listening back then.
Um our Republican governor, Governor Walker, um passed a bill that severely limited the union's the right to collect the bargain.
Oh, yeah, we were all over it.
I uh I imagine you will, but I haven't heard this side of it since uh I've been seeing a lot of similarities between what's going on with Trump now.
So that sparked uh massive protests across the entire state.
Me, I worked in Madison, I'm a first responder.
I saw it firsthand.
And during a time I thought, man, he's gonna get he didn't get booted.
There's no way all these protests, there's no way all these people are so mad at him that there's there's no way he's gonna win this recall election.
Well, he ended up he won three elections in the midst.
Yeah, we covered all this, and I'll tell you uh I'm only cutting you off here because I'm out of time.
I've got twenty seconds, and I want to assure you here that we were all over this.
In fact, in the early days of the Republican primary, I was pointing to Governor Walker as The one guy who's demonstrated he knows how to fight back against the radical left and win.
And he's tough and he didn't shrink from it.
We were all over it here, David.
I'm glad you found the program.
But let this be a lesson.
If you know it happened, then you can trust it's been discussed here on this program and in the right way.
There was so much fake news in Wisconsin and Scott Walker stuff.
They had fake polls.
The protests in Madison, which is where the University of Wisconsin uh is.
Perfect examples of the use of fake news, trying to make war.
It did really they tried to dispirit Walker's supporters.
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