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Feb. 22, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 22, 2017, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Okay, so I'm watching CNN during the break here, and they're playing a portion of Spicer's press conference, also known as the Shark Tank from earlier today.
And of course, early today, Donald Trump tweeted that many of the protesters at these Republican town hall meetings are bought and paid for.
That they're not all genuine.
So Spicer explains that Jonathan Carl of ABC News is interrogating Spicer.
What do you mean?
What do you mean?
How do you know?
How do you And Trump says that Spicer starts explaining Trump's tweet and says, Well, we know that there are a number of people being paid to show up, and we know that there are many people making a lot of noise just because there's a lot of noise doesn't mean it's a lot of people, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Carl keeps pressing.
They go back to Brooke Baldwin, who's the info babe there talking about this.
And I swear, uh I don't think she knows.
I I that's the only thing I could come up with here.
Do you all remember during the campaign the revelation in the Project Veritas video by James O'Keefe?
He talked to this guy named Robert Kramer.
Robert Kramer is the husband of a Congresswoman from Illinois named Jan Chikowski.
And this Kramer guy runs an organization that recruits protesters and pays them.
In some cases, $1,500 a day.
What Kramer admitted he didn't know he was being secretly videoed.
What he admitted was that the Clinton campaign had hired him to go out and hire a bunch of people to show up at Trump rallies and to perpetuate violence.
And to try to shut the event down, which they succeeded in doing in Chicago.
And this Kramer guy's bragging about it.
He again, he doesn't know he's being secretly videoed.
He's bragging about it and he's name-dropping and talking about how he does it.
And we found out that this guy had had over 300 visits to the White House in Obama's two terms, and 57 of those visits he met with Obama.
And his only job is to hire and arrange and organize protests at Republican events.
So this was widely disseminated in conservative media.
Trump obviously knows it.
I've heard him address it and talk about it.
Spicer knows it.
It's all over the place.
And it's not the first time that we've learned of this.
We've never we've learned that protesters were paid and bust into Ferguson and into Oakland, California, and into Baltimore.
It is standard operating.
George Soros funds these operations.
And yet, when any like the protests are now happening at Republican congressional and senatorial town hall meetings.
So Trump tweets what he knows.
Many of these people there bought and paid for.
It's not legitimate.
They're just showing up to cause trouble.
And the drive-by media reacts is like this is the biggest lie they've ever heard.
In fact, it's insanity.
And so Jonathan Carl starts asking Sean Spicer about it in ways that make you think Carl believes that Spicer is literally lost his mind.
And then they come back for the panel discussion on CNN about it, and it doesn't appear that any of them, at least, well, the panel discussion started after the program.
So I don't know what's actually being said on the panel.
But the infobabe and her first guest, the CNN reporter, were just acting like this the craziest thing they'd ever heard.
And the CNN reporter ever said, well, there are reporters at every one of these events, and these reporters say that it's filled with many people that are scared to death about Obamacare being taken away from them because they do not know what is going to be replaced with, and they're deathly afraid of losing everything.
The idea.
We've already done this.
The San Francisco Chronicle let the cat out of the bag.
Left-wing protesters are imitating what they think The Tea Party did when they started showing up at Republican town halls in 2010.
The Chronicle lets a cat out of the bag that these left wingers believe that's how the Republicans won the House is by causing trouble at town hall meetings.
They don't even talk about the substance of what those town hall meetings were.
They think the Tea Party was exactly what they are, bought and paid for.
The Tea Party was not bought and paid for.
It was purely organic.
But my point here is this is something that is undisputed.
It's widely known, or it could be known if people would get outside their little cocoons and bubbles in which they live.
It's easily findable that Robert Kramer, husband of Jan Tchaikowski, was hired by Hillary Clinton to round up people and pay them to go disrupt Trump valleys.
It rallies.
It's not.
It's hard news.
It has been produced.
It has been reviewed.
It has been substantiated.
And yet they don't know.
And when they hear something like this in the drive-by media, they think people have lost their minds.
This doesn't happen.
Why, liberals don't do this kind of thing.
These are really grievanced people.
These people are really afraid.
No, they're not.
They're bought and paid, and half of them don't even know why they're there.
They're just there to make noise.
I don't know.
I just I find it literally fascinating.
And by the way, I don't need any more emails about Mika Brzezinski.
Sturdly, have you heard about what Mika Brzezinski said on MSNBC?
Well, I know everything.
We just, and yet I've had people leave me.
You know what Mika Brzezinski said?
You better come in.
No way she said.
Let me tell you what happened.
It was on Morning Joe today on PMSNBC and Mika Brzezinski.
They're talking about how Trump's out there influencing public opinion.
And essentially Mika Brzezinski said, well, I think that's dangerous.
You know, edges here that he that he's trying to undermine the media, trying to make up his own facts.
And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think, and that's our job.
So she said, why is this news that somebody in the media thinks this?
Oh, because she had the set out loud.
I don't even find that out.
I don't even find okay.
I I decided I had to mention this because a lot of people think it's a big deal that Mika Brzezinski at MSNBC actually said that it is the media's job to control what people think.
Well, duh.
If that was a teachable, I'm happy it happened.
But this to me is like going off the rails over there.
I wouldn't know.
I have nothing to compare it to.
I think Trump's the only one that watches that show.
No.
To be honest with you.
Um I know, I mean, I'm I'm being a little bit exaggerating a little bit there, but uh I don't know, Trump watches it.
But I the idea that they, in their minds, are in charge of what you think.
Why do you think they're so ticked off?
Of course they're in charge of what you think, and yet you voted Trump.
You didn't vote Hillary.
That's just one of the gazillion reasons why they're ticked off.
I'm not even surprised she would admit it.
I think these people long ago lost any pretense of objectivity, but if it's if it's exciting news.
Also, I have this.
Coco at the website sent me this today.
I would not have seen this if Coco hadn't said, I don't know how Coco ran into it, but he did.
It's uh it's well, I might have run into it, but maybe not.
So the weekly standards, a column by Fred Barnes.
Now, before I get into what this is about, let me reset the table in terms of what this is about.
Since 2010, the Democrats have lost 1,200 seats nationwide.
The Republicans control the White House.
The Republicans control the Senate.
The Republicans control the House.
The Republicans have their biggest opportunity in a generation to implement conservative policies and make them stick.
The greatest opportunity to shape the Supreme Court for multiple generations.
The 2018 midterms look so bad right now for the Democrats, and I know anything can change, but the Democrats have an nearly impossible task.
It could well be that if a lot of things happen, if Trump moves his agenda, and if the economy goes gangbusters, and if tax reform happens, if much of what Trump said begins to happen, the Republicans could end up with 60 seats in the Senate in 2018.
They could end up with 58.
They're clearly going to win.
The Democrats have 25 seats to defend, and 18 of them are in states that Trump won by double digits.
So what is this column?
Well, it's a column by Fred Barnes.
And it's entitled Houston, Republicans Have a Problem.
And here is the relevant pull quote.
There's an untold story from the 2016 election.
It should encourage Democrats and worry Republicans.
It happened in Houston, the nation's fourth largest city in population and the hometown, the former President George H.W. Bush.
To be precise, it's Harris County, Texas, which consists mostly of Houston that we're talking about.
So on November 8th, Hillary Clinton lost Texas to Donald Trump by nine percentage points.
But she won Harris County by an astonishing 13 points.
And that's not all.
Republicans lost every countywide race, including incumbents, and 24 of 24 judgeships.
The son of Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick was among Republican judges who were ousted.
Democrat strategists are relying on a one-word political panacea to boost their party in overtaking the Republicans, and that is Hispanics.
They are already a plurality in Harris County, 42%.
Whites are 31%, blacks, 20%, Asians, 7.
And the Hispanic population continues to grow.
Democrats control the big Texas cities, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso to name three, thanks to Hispanic votes.
So Mr. Barnes' point here is, and Fred Barnes, by the way, is a member in good standing of what we all would call the Republican establishment.
And as a member in good standing, he probably is voicing sentiments shared by many in the Washington establishment on the Republican side who are obsessed that Trump's ramping up his immigration plan.
This I think that's what this story is about.
Remember, the Washington establishment is just hell-bent on comprehensive immigration reform slash amnesty.
The Republican Party, because most of its donors are of this frame of mind, are also Republicans.
Elected Republicans, people in the House and Senate today, if they had their druthers, there would be a comprehensive immigration reform bill and there would be amnesty granted to every illegal immigrant in the country.
The Republican donors want this, and many Republicans like Mr. Barnes here think this only way we're ever going to be able to win elections again.
Now, the Republicans were saying that exact thing before this election.
The same establishment were saying before the election, if we don't reach out to Hispanics, and if we don't come to grips with immigration, we're never gonna win the White House again.
Yet we just did on a what?
Not an amnesty platform, that's for sure.
But yeah, I guess you can take Houston, microcosm, and say that it's a fortune teller of sorts.
But it seems to me that if I as I read this, and I'd have to talk to Mr. Barnes to be certain of my analysis here, but it seems to me, and nothing's changed, even though the Republicans won this election, they still think that if we don't do amnesty, and if we don't grant amnesty to these whatever numbers of millions of illegals here, If we don't do whatever we have to do to show that we love Hispanics and we don't have a prayer in the future.
I'm not going to understand this before the election.
and And I halfway understand where Mr. Barnes is going here.
This is strictly party politics, and they don't consider Trump a Republican, by the way, in the establishment.
He's not he's not a conservative, and he's not a Republican, he's a populist.
You know, he's a nationalist.
But I found this fascinating that with everything going on out there, that this is still at the top of some people's minds in the establishment out there.
John Podesta, whose emails are made public in a wiki leaks dump, ran Hillary's campaign was on uh a website, new co-website yesterday, and they released an interview by uh Bloomberg Politics co-managing editor John Heileman had with uh with Podesta.
And we have a little clip of this thing.
It's kind of funny in a way, during a discussion about James Comey, the FBI director, during a discussion of his impact on the election.
He and Podesta had the following little back and forth.
You have a theory of the case that Comey, I think there's only Tony wanted Trump to win, that the FBI wanted Trump to win.
I think there's got to be some theories here.
I think there's two possibilities.
There are at least forces within the FBI that wanted her to lose.
I'm not sure they were prepared to you know, they really understood the alternative, uh, but they wanted her to lose.
I think that's one possibility.
I think the other is just become a cover your ass organization.
Uh and there was pressure coming up from the underneath him, uh, and he succumbed to that pressure.
Wow.
So there's pedestrians.
So there's a deep state that stuck it to Hillary.
Somebody in the FBI didn't want it to win.
You know what they're saying?
They're saying that Rudy, Rudy Giuliani, former U.S. attorney tight with some FBI types in New York.
They're saying that Rudy had the connections to make all this comey stuff happen.
And that uh the FBI just a cover your ass organization, and doing anything serious anymore.
And uh they they didn't, they just wanted her to lose, and they didn't understand the alternative, meaning they didn't know how bad it would be with Trump, they just hated her.
Once again, betraying the Podesta mindset.
Um anyway.
I don't know if he ended up blaming the Russians as that interview went on, but it's pretty much what we know they think.
They they think they didn't lose because of Hillary's being a lousy candidate.
They didn't lose because of ideas, and even lose because people like Trump better.
They lost because somebody cheated him.
And maybe a combination of the FBI and the Russians cheated him.
They still can't get over it, and it's largely governing much of their behavior even now.
Mark and Gilbert, Arizona, as we head back to the phones.
Welcome to Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Oh, Megan Diddo's rush, long time listener, first-time caller.
Thank you, sir.
Welcome.
So I work for uh I work in the entertainment industry here in Phoenix, and uh we have Arizona State University in town.
And we do a lot of National Endowment for the Arts programs over there.
And those shows are so wasteful, Rush.
It's unbelievable.
Um Broadway shows come through, regular shows come through.
There's cost with running the building, there's cost with labor, there's all kinds of costs.
Well, what kind of programs are we talking about?
Well, um, one of them was they had this group in.
Um, and I couldn't really describe it or a rush.
It was just a a weird combination of vignettes that made no sense to me at all.
It was just uh it apparently it means something to the arts crowd.
I don't get it.
Well, how many people on stage in this show?
Oh, you're it they opened the whole theater for less than a hundred people are but how many are in the act?
How many are in the act?
Oh, they were probably five to ten.
So you got five people on stage just uttering what they think are profundities to a hundred people.
Yeah, absolutely.
So nobody would care about, but the NEA paid for it anyway.
Pay for it anyway, and there's there's absolutely no limit to cost.
I'm telling you, whatever they want, they get.
There's absolutely no limit.
If they want this or that or catering, it's absolutely funded.
No questions asked.
And it's absolutely ridiculous.
I I felt guilty receiving my wage because.
Well, let me ask you, did Gilbert Arizona in any way benefit?
Was the was the culture and the community enriched at all by the arrival of this troop of not at all, because nobody even came.
Thank you.
A hundred people showed up.
Uh that's it.
That's it.
There's plenty you can end the NEA, and it wouldn't have any impact on anything.
Back in a second, folks.
So here's uh Maxine Waters adding to the culture and the civility to our public discourse.
I'm looking for the audio sound but even now.
Grab number 13 and number 14.
This was last night on um on a uh uh well at the cable network, and she was discussing uh Trump's relationship with the Russians.
You know, Trump worked with the Russians to uh steal the election, uh, is what the Democrats think.
You know why they think that?
Because Trump cracked the joke.
There were 33,000 missing Hillary emails.
Nobody could find them.
She claimed she deleted them.
She handed over 30,000 to the State Department.
They had them analyzed them, the 30,000 she deleted, but people claimed that they had them, like him.cond or other, they were claiming they knew where they were, but nobody could produce them.
And so Trump at a press conference personally asked the Russians to get involved in the search.
He said maybe the Russians could find those emails.
And and then if if and if the Russians find them, please give them to the media.
Well, I don't know how you get there from here, but the media then reported that Trump was encouraging the Russians to hack the Hillary campaign and produce the evidence to the media.
They had no sense of humor about us.
That's why Maxine Waters and others think that Trump and the Russians were working together to hack the uh the election.
Here's what she said first.
Why do you think they hacked into our election?
Because they have to make sure that Donald Trump got elected so that he could help them with what I think is a huge deal, not only to lift these sanctions, but to take over, you know, all of these Soviet countries and pull them back into the Soviet Union so that they could have access to all of these resources.
It's clear to me.
I just think the American people had better understand what's going on.
This is a bunch of scumbags.
That's what they are.
So there we have a Democrat Party once again, adding to the civility of the discourse.
Uh Maxine Waters claiming that Trump and his people are scumbags because Trump wants to help Putin put the Soviet Union back together by raping a bunch of other countries and stealing the resources.
And so she was then questioned.
Well, those are very strong words, Congresswoman.
Scumbags.
What do you mean by scumbags?
What are you talking about?
These people who are organized with these oil and gas interests that's in the administration and friends.
You're calling the Secretary President of the United States, this back challenge that you see, these are a bunch of scumbags.
Secretary of State.
You mean the Secretary of the State of the United States?
Tillerson is there to get these sanctions lifted.
I believe it.
Just watch him.
He's going to continue to work on it.
This is important for him.
He was there because he negotiated the deal for Exxon with Putin.
What deal?
What deal is she talking about?
Tillerson's done a lot of deals.
Trump's done a lot of deals, but she's got a deal in mind.
Tillerson negotiated with Putin.
Putin is there, or Tillerson's there to lift the sanctions.
They're just a bunch of scumbags.
I I think we know what's new about this is the Democrat Party not liking the Russians.
That's a first.
The Democrat Party not liking the idea the Soviet Union get back together.
The Democrat Party loved the Soviet Union.
The Democrat Party in the 80s and the 70s propped up the Soviet Union.
The Democrat Party in the 1980s chose the Soviet Union over Ronald Reagan in Nicolagua and in Moscow as well.
Now all of a sudden, they don't like Russia and they don't like the Soviet Union.
Now back to audio soundbite number four.
I mentioned earlier that the drive-bys just they don't understand Trump or me, anybody suggesting that all these protests, Republican town halls are bought and paid for.
That this is not real, that this anger is not real.
They don't understand how anybody can say that.
We've put together a montage from last night and this morning of a bunch of drive-by people who are giddy over these protests.
They just are happy that these Republicans are being harassed.
The mood of voters is now on full display at fiery town hall meetings all across the country.
Angry crowds greeting Republican lawmakers at town halls nationwide.
Nationwide voters are hacking these town halls.
In town hall meetings across the country, Republican lawmakers are feeling the heat.
Anger boiling over at Republican town halls.
Quite a bit of anger from Democratic activists and constituents.
Some of that anger boiling over at Republican town halls across the country.
Angry protesters, this outpouring from voters.
Angry voters yelling, interrupting questions and jeering for an hour this went on.
It's getting rough out there.
It's Brian Williams.
If he says it's getting rough out there, it must be calming down.
Now, uh ladies and gentlemen, I don't want to go back and repeat the first half hour of the program, but they're in.
Uh I made an almost indisputable point that all of these protests are actually now becoming counterproductive.
I've had I had four different people last night tell me they're getting bored with this.
And that's new.
In previous years, when protesters have been going nuts against, say, George W. Bush or Republicans or conservatives.
What I would hear from people is when are they gonna start fighting back?
This is don't they understand they're being destroyed when they're gonna start fighting back?
Well, Trump is fighting back.
Trump is not being uh dissuaded from his agenda.
Trump is marching full speed ahead 100%, and he's accomplishing things.
And so there's no concern over not fighting back, and it the worst thing could happen for these protesters is for people to get turned off by it.
It's only human nature.
Every day it's the apocalypse.
Every day it's Trump is Hitler, except Bush was Hitler too.
There's nothing new.
It's just, and it is even there's a there's a morning consult poll.
Half of the audience of Saturday Night Live is already bored with what Saturday Night Live is doing when they parody Trump.
And that stuff never works.
This kind of over-the-top protest never accomplishes its goal.
And in fact, what does happen, there's research to back this up, that the more over the top it is, the more insane and and divorced from reality that it is, the more likely it is to actually make people sympathetic and supportive of Trump.
But this is all they've got.
And the great thing about this is, folks, that they're now exposing who they are.
They are making it clear.
The media is in full view now who and what they are.
Everybody can now see it.
It's all it's it's not guaranteed, but it's ripe for a full-fledged backfire.
Still a lot depends on Trump moving the agenda forward, as it always was going to be dependent on that, and is always will be.
Now, last night on Fox, the Fox News channel, there was a town hall on uh Trump's immigration ideas and so forth.
It's up in Jacksonville, Florida.
And the first soundbite we have was a uh what's obviously Florida residents.
Well, we think it was Florida residents.
I mean, when the Democrats pack these things, you don't know.
But Fox says there's a group of Florida residents about Trump's immigration policy.
And a one one resident, uh Tice.
I Ayaka Neglo uh was the guest or was one of the attendees.
And so the question was asked.
So what do you think about what you're hearing here tonight with Trump's immigration plans and the overall thrust of the policy?
What do you what are you thinking out there, Hot Tice?
I'm horrified.
I'm horrified.
This is not the country I immigrated to.
Sure, when I first immigrated 26 years ago from Germany, I'm a native Berliner.
I grew up with the wall.
I know what the wall does to families.
I witnessed people getting shot, crossing over the wall.
And I see us as a nation going towards that again.
It's it's horrifying.
All right.
Now what the hell is going on?
This is this is why I think these people are plants.
You want to compare the wall in the United States to the Berlin Wall.
Do you know what the purpose of the Berlin Wall was?
It was to keep people in because everybody wanted out.
It was full-fledged communism.
It was poverty stricken.
It was totalitarianism.
There was no freedom.
Government was spying on everybody, listening in on everybody.
There wasn't any future.
Everybody wanted out.
And there were people shot trying to go over the wall.
There were people shot trying to go through the wall.
And here comes somebody at a Fox News town hall trying to compare what she thinks Trump's wall is going to be to that.
I've been there.
I've seen it.
I don't want anybody.
Now, thankfully, there was somebody in the audience who understood how ridiculous this was.
A guy named Bill Korosch.
I was in Berlin when the wall was up.
And the wall was meant to keep people in because the communist system was so horrible.
This wall is being designed to protect our borders.
We're a sovereign nation.
We should have sovereign borders.
We're a nation of laws.
If we don't have the rule of law, we don't have sovereignty.
Damn straight.
Exactly right.
But where did he find this woman?
I was a Berliner.
I've been there.
I've been having 26 years, 26 years, and I live with the Berlin Wall.
Nobody, folks, let me just tell you something.
The people lived in East Berlin.
It was hell.
It was abject hell.
Unless you were on the East Berlin Olympic team.
And then they gave you sex change drugs and let you eat whatever you wanted to eat, because they had to put you on display as representing communism.
But if you weren't on the Olympic team, it it was hell on earth.
And nobody living there could anyway compare the Berlin wall to a wall here to protect the borders.
This is too suspicious to me.
Now, I will allow that in every individual there is a certain level of ignorance.
We have to, we have to, we have to consider.
But I don't know how.
I have yet, I have I've I've met people, families, descendants of people that lived in communists.
They've called this Program over the years.
And not a single one of them would ever even come close to comparing the Berlin Wall to keep people in to a nation trying to protect its borders.
But yet.
This is why I think stuff like this.
I'm not accusing anybody of anything.
Don't, don't, don't misunderstand.
Let's not CNN stacking the deck on everything.
I just, this is just too odd.
I'm just glad this Bill Kovash guy was there to uh set because this guy was applauded big time.
You heard it on the audio soundbite.
I didn't see the program.
I've just got the sound bites here, but I'm telling you, the other babe did not get applauded.
But if she did, we eliminated it so you wouldn't be offended.
Hey, look, folks, I don't want to be a nitpicker out there.
You know me, I hate nitpickers, but there's something about this Hitachi Iconangelo who uh said that she's lived in the Berlin Wall.
She thought people get killed.
She fears the same thing is happening in our country.
Now she said that she first emigrated 26 years ago from Germany.
The Berlin Wall came down 27 and a half years ago.
So if the Berlin Wall came, the Berlin Wall came down a year and a half before she left is what we are to believe here.
I mean, some of this, it may add up, I don't know.
But she she does she say she first immigrated.
She doesn't say she escaped.
See, if she'd said she escaped, that would have meant she herself got over the wall.
But the wall was torn down a year and a half before she says she immigrated.
So she could have lived there.
I don't know how old she is.
Now I didn't see this.
I don't know if she's a student now.
I don't know if she, I don't have no idea how old she is.
And I know it would be unfair to judge based on her appearance.
I wasn't gonna do that either.
Very, very bad to do that, right?
So, but she's obviously uh old enough to have seen the wall if she emigrated 26 years, but it came down a year and a half before she left.
I still don't get how you can.
We've got nothing like the Berlin Wall.
Everybody wants in here.
Everybody wanted out there, including her, eventually.
Okay, this woman says she's a student at the University of North Florida and that she escaped East Germany, but the wall came down a year and a half before she left.
There was nothing to escape.
Unless maybe there was.
I don't know.
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