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Feb. 24, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 24, 2017, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, welcome back.
Great to have you, El Rushball, executing a signed host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
Let me show the AP headline on the CNN story.
White House advisor asked FBI to dispute Russian reports by Julie Pace.
No, no, no, no, no.
That is not what happened.
And even in the AP story later on, that whole headline is debunked.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
The headline to this news.
The headline ought to be FBI tells White House.
No truth to New York Times stories about Trump and Russia.
Because that's what's been revealed here.
Why isn't that the headline all over the media?
Well, I mean, you and I know the answer to the question.
Again, to set the table here.
Andrew McCabe, deputy director FBI tells Rench Prebis.
By the way, that New York Times stuff on uh your administration of Russians, that's not accurate.
We know it's not accurate.
And then apparently Priebus and what do you got?
I don't know what Priebus said, but they're reporting the headline is White House advisor asked FBI to dispute what No, no, no, no.
The FBI told the White House that those New York Times stories are inaccurate.
This is this could not be simpler.
This could not be a greater illustration of exactly how corrupt the media has become.
CNN leading the way with their phony headline, FBI refused White House request to knock down recent Trump Russia stories.
That headline clearly conveys to a low information person that the White House called the FBI, said, well, you you that they wanted them to lie.
That's what the headline is trying to convey, that the White House called the FBI and wanted the FBI to lie and tell the media that the stories are not accurate.
And the stories never say that Preebus lied or asked anybody to lie.
They never say that.
The only thing these stories say that's really newsworthy is that the FBI told Prebis that the New York Times stories are inaccurate.
Why isn't that the headline?
And here we come with AP, White House advisor asked FBI to dispute Russian reports.
You people the media, you want to know why you're corrupt.
You want to know why people call you fake news.
You want to know why the president goes after you to wait.
This is it.
And it's not the only example.
It just happens to be the latest.
But again, and I want to read to you from the AP.
The official said that Prebus request of the FBI to tell the media that these stories are BS.
The official said Prebus request came after the FBI told the White House they didn't believe the New York Times report was not accurate.
FBI started this ball rolling.
White House purely reacted, but this headline makes you think that Priebus, if somebody called the FBI, said you tell the media that that's BS, and that Priebus wanted to lie.
That's what they're trying to uh convey here.
Open line Friday, great to have you folks, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address Ilrushbow at EIBNet.com.
I mentioned earlier in the program, CPAC that one of the things happening here is a definition clarification of what conservatism is.
Because it's kind of necessary.
You might say, some might say that the intellectual heft of the conservative movement was the home of most of the anti-Trumpers.
Would you agree with that, Mr. Snerdley?
I mean, you talk about people like Bill Crystal and some of the people at National Review.
And some of the think tank features.
Oh, Speaking of this, Jim Dement at the Heritage Foundation had a brilliant idea.
You know what he said, folks?
Jim Dement said, why don't you in Congress just send to President Trump one of the six repealed Obamacare laws that you sent to Obama?
What do you mean you gotta do a new one?
What do you mean you have to sit around and figure out what to do here about the Medicaid expansion and how we deal with this and the mandate?
You got six repeal Obamacare laws that you sent up to Obama, knowing he was going to veto them.
Well, look, the question's rhetorical because it may not be rhetorical.
I think Dement may mean it, but what it's illustrating is that those six bills, the House Republicans knew were going to be vetoed.
So they sent them up anyway.
So Dement says, hey, you got six repeal Obamacare Acts just sitting there.
Send one of those up to Trump.
Let's see what happens.
What do you mean you need three years to figure it out?
What do you need to repeal and replace in two or three years?
What do you mean?
Just send it up there.
Trump said today, you know what we ought to do?
We ought to just stand aside, let it implode.
It's it's imploding now.
Just stand aside politically.
The smart political thing to do would be let this thing just eat itself alive like a black hole.
And he said in two to three years, the Democrats would be coming to us begging us to fix it.
But he said we can't do that because of the damage that would do to the American people.
And the Sea Packers applauded and so forth.
Politically, Trump's right.
Just stand aside, don't do anything.
Let this thing crap out.
I would love that.
Politically, I would love but it isn't practical because it would cause a lot of damage for certain people who bought hook, line, and sinker, everything about it and went out there and mortgaged their futures to buy a policy.
Anyway, back back to this whole business about who is a conservative, what is conservatism in the modern era, that much of the alleged intellectual heft of conservatism ended up being never Trumper, or never Trump.
And they still may be never Trump.
But Dr. Larry Arne, who was the president of Hillsdale College, and you've heard me sing his praises on numerous occasions on this program.
Dr. Arne addressed Hillsdale yesterday morning.
His speech was titled The Roots of Conservatism.
And he posed two fundamental questions to the Sea Packers.
You think they mind being called the Sea Packers?
I guess it depends on how you spell it.
Right.
But I kind of like C Packers.
We'll stick with the CPAC attendees.
Dr. Arn posed two fundamental questions to CPAC audience.
What's conservatism and what are we conserving?
Now, here's to me unbridled truth.
Whether you claim to be politically conservative or not, we are in a mess that has been made by wanton liberalism.
Liberalism, which has not been opposed much, and certainly not at all in the last eight years.
It's gotten its lip service, but the actual warrior aspect of conservative, that's what everybody's wondering.
Where is that?
Where is the warrior conservative movement?
Yeah, we know we got a lot of brainiacs that sit up there and they think and they write and they publish and all, but where are the warriors?
Well, this mess that we are in, Whether you claim to be politically conservative or not, the fact is that the solutions to this sewer that has been made by the left will be conservative.
The solutions, by and large, will be conservative.
And that means that as Trump solves problems, they're going to be considered to be conservative solutions.
Now, maybe not thoroughbred.
Some of these solutions may not.
I mean, I'm interested to see how Trump reduces government while new spending on the military and the infrastructure and all of that.
But the fact of the matter is, the only hope we have are conservative solutions to the absolute muck that the left is making of this country.
So I don't care whether you call yourself a conservative or not, whether you want to be considered a conservative or not, if you are for solving these problems, you don't solve these problems with liberal light.
You don't solve these problems with moderates, you don't solve these problems, no way do you solve the problem with moderates.
Do you know California?
You want to talk about infrastructure.
I saw this the other day.
It was in the stack, I didn't get to it.
Do you know how much California has spent on legislative bills, appropriations on things having to do with fairness?
It's a hundred billion dollars, while their infrastructure in much of California, as evidenced by what's happening with the historic, is crumbling, a hundred million billion dollars on fairness garbage.
Legislating, government demanding legislating behavior and behavior defined under acts of fairness.
Look at what Trump did with this bathroom.
What did Trump really do on the bathroom bill for transgender?
What did he really do?
All he did was say federal government's got no role here.
And he he he he withdrew the Obama federal mandate on this and sent it back to the states and said, if you people in the states want your bathrooms to be used this way, then have at it.
You would think governors would be celebrating this.
You think governors, particularly liberal governors, would love this.
What are there, five of them now?
But you know the governor of I think Minnesota is attacking Trump for this?
Because you know what this proves, you know what this means?
If you have a Democrat governor and Trump has just thrown back to you the option, the opportunity of having your state's bathrooms open to however you want to define whoever can use them.
And if you oppose that, you know what that really means?
It means you want an all-power federal government mandating all of this stuff because you don't want to deal with the mess yourself.
It means some phantom Democrat governor would rather not deal with this, which he knows even a ramblant Democrat governor knows that most people do not want bathrooms policed and governed this way.
But if some giant federal entity miles and miles and miles away mandates it, then well, what can we do?
So they attack Trump and they attack his administration, and all he did was what should have been done with abortion.
Send it back to the states, let them hash it out.
That's what you know what people, the word federalism is bandied about a lot, and it's a word made to order for being incorrectly defined.
Let's do a little pop quiz right now for those of you here in the audience.
Define as quickly as you can what you think it is, federalism.
What is it?
And I will wager that the majority of you think, well, federalism, that means a federal government does everything.
No, it actually means just the opposite.
Federalism is the principle that the federal government only does what the states can't do, such as wage wars, such as build national highway systems, such as handle nationwide immigration.
Federalism is a is a principle of limited government.
Federalism says the federal government only gets involved when there are things the states cannot do.
And states cannot conduct and wage war, and states cannot build a massive national highway system or massive national immigration laws.
So all Trump was doing, and this, you know, the never Trumpers should have been celebrating, because Trump was engaging in federalism here, which never Trump intellectual conservatives love.
Trump sent it back to the states.
He didn't make it illegal.
He didn't say that if you're a 14-year-old little boy, you can use the girls' bathroom if you feel like being a girl that day.
He didn't say you can't do that.
He said it's up to the states.
Let the states let the people.
Federalism is rooted in the idea that the people closest to a situation should decide it.
And the federal government is not close to bathrooms.
And the federal government's got no business being in the business of legislating who can and can't use men.
But that's exactly what the left wants, because that to them is the ultimate in power.
You can't get more powerful in the federal government, which is why they want everything coming out of the federal government.
They don't want the states being involved in anything.
Because they want it to be mandated on everybody.
Whatever it happens to be.
But federalism states that the people closest in a democracy in a congressional republic representative republic, the people closest to the issue should be the ones to decide it.
And the federal government has no business doing things that the states can do.
And the states have no business doing things that only the federal government can do.
That's federalism, and that's what Trump was essentially endorsing with his removal, his canceling of this Obama bathroom bill, executive order, letter, whatever, memorandum, whatever it was.
Back to Dr. Arn.
Let me get your phone calls in first.
We'll do that when we get back, and then we'll proceed.
And to the phones we go.
This is uh Fresno, California.
Hey, Ben, great to have you here.
How are you?
Oh, God bless you, Rush.
From the communist state of California, as heterosexually as I can say it, I love you.
So I uh I really appreciate everything you do.
I'm uh I'm a young guy out here, but before I get to my question, I've been trying to call in since uh before Thanksgiving, since you started giving away iPhones, and I wanted to be the first guy to decline your offer and and request a counteroffer if I make the host look good enough.
Well, okay, look, first thing I am a big believer uh in one of the uh it's it's a I know it's a shrinking group of people, but I'm big believer in heterosexual love.
Uh number two, out of iPhones, I I think.
So even if you had the if you're thinking of asking for one, I'm I might not be able to fulfill a request.
No, no, I would I would actually like to decline the offer, but but you'd have to offer it in order for me to do that.
But again, I'd I'd have to make you look good enough in order to do that.
Well, let's see what happens.
Go for it.
So I'm a young, young 30s guy, started help uh when the Tea Party started up here with Obama uh in California, fighting the communist uh state that we live in, still fighting today, and I look at the direction we're going, and I'm so fed up with it, and so are millions of people across this country with the the pathetic nature of most of the Republicans, um, not willing to stand up and say what needs to be said, um, and and and the people with the funds to back it not willing to stand up because you know, afraid they're gonna lose their position.
I'm wondering where the George Soros is of the Conservative Party are, and the people that are willing to put their money where their mouth is and back this, and I also wonder, I wanted to get your take on this.
I have an idea about what we need to do as far as fighting the fight.
Uh I I believe in direct assault against these protesters.
I go out just about every week and confront them directly.
But I wanted to get your take on that.
And I've got uh I've got some ideas on that, but I'd love to get your take.
How do we I know you're saying that we've seen this before in the 60s, but if you look at the the impacts of what the 60s uh uh the impacts that it caused, we've been dealing with the the destruction since then.
And so I I look at that and they say, well, should we sit back and watch and wait for these guys to fizzle out, or do we do a d direct assaults and go after these guys and confront them where they are?
Anyways, I'd I'd love to get your take on that, and then I have a I have a a proposition.
Okay.
Uh I've you've given me 30 seconds here to uh to respond to this based on this segment.
So uh the the first thing that we would have to determine here, and I'll hold you over uh for the uh for the break here.
But the first thing we're not determined or but define and explain is why does the left engage in all of this we'll call it protesting and rioting, and the right doesn't.
And there are reasons for that.
Hang on.
Okay, back to Ben and Fresno.
Why does the left protest and the right doesn't the left is a hate group, Ben?
They are their propulsion is hate.
And they have to have uh uh an outlet for the hate.
They hate so much, they hate many elements of America.
They hate people that don't think the way they're it's not just they disagree, they hate.
And this energy requires action.
People on the right, they don't hate anybody.
They want we want everybody to get along when you get right.
We're Rodney King types, actually, and and the and the right seeks political victory at the ballot box.
And that's just the way it's been.
And it's it's it's a bit cliched to say, but the right, conservatives work, they have jobs, don't have time off to go join protest marches as a career.
The left has turned that into a bought and paid for rent a mob type type activity.
Now, where are the George Soruses?
There's all kinds of conservative donors.
The Koch brothers are big donors, there's all kinds of them, but none of them have actively organized hate groups that run around and protest and try to upset people and get in as close as they can to their lives and the way they live them and make a nuisance of themselves.
That's not how the right has always sought to win elections.
The left, if you get them honest, they will they will admit they know they're a minority.
They can't win elections as this last one demonstrated and many others without lying and without camouflage and without masks, uh hiding who they really are.
And so when they to get their way, they have to bully.
They use their hate, bullying people into not opposing them out of fear or what have you.
It's it's two distinct cultures, two distinct behavioral norms.
But I think what's going to happen, I I I think that people like you, young people, I think you're not going to put up with this.
I think your age group of conservatism is going to become invested in protest and countering these people.
And I would encourage you to do it.
I think it's called for.
I think it's about time.
I'd say get right back in their faces and screw you.
Well, and I think I think doing it from where you you're exactly right.
They're coming from the side of hate.
I think our our purpose has to come from the side of love and truth and knowledge and and do it in a way that's that's my objective, where we don't come out there and say, well, we may say screw you at some time, but I think in in general, you you show the contrast with the truth that the right has versus the lies and the hate.
I mean, they c they call us the bigots, they call us the racist, they call us the intolerant one.
When in reality, they're just looking in a mirror.
I mean, that's what they are.
They they divide by race, they divide by sex, they divide by all these different groups, and all the conservatives want to do is say get the hell out of our lives, let you know, get the government out of our lives, let us live our lives.
You you succeed, you succeed, you fail, you fail.
But don't that's that's true.
They don't get what they want without the government forcing people to do it is the bottom line.
And that's what you know, you I give you a greatest recent example of the circumstances you just cited.
Any Trump rally, at any Trump rally, the Trump supporters were peaceful, they were enthusiastic, they loved America, they were excited, they were pro-Trump, they were not bullies, they were not angry, they were not doing unless they were provoked.
Right.
And they were provoked.
And at any Trump rally, you could identify the malcontents and the bad actors, they were the leftists trying to make themselves look like Trump supporters.
But the real Trump supporter is exactly who does somebody you described.
Somebody who is peaceful, who wants the country to get better once things fixed.
Uh they're not lawbreakers.
They operate within the bounds of law and order.
They respect other people.
They don't make a mess.
They don't leave a bunch of trash and garbage around like leftist protesters do virtually everywhere they go.
Uh so that's already on display.
You said we need to show them we're we're we're filled with love and respect.
We we do each and every at these Republican town halls, that's on display too.
At a congressional hearing, confirmation here.
Code Pink gets into every damn one of them making total fools of themselves.
Yeah, I just don't know if we articulate it as well as we could.
In front of the media.
I think you're right.
If you were to objectively look at each example, like you're talking about sure, if you're thinking rationally have it communicated.
Media's not going to change.
Yeah.
The media is not going to say the malcontents at this town hall meeting were a bunch of artificial leftists bust in from out of town.
For example, Tom Cotton.
I get it, Tom Cotton, Senator from Arkansas, did a town hall in a town of 2,000 people.
Do you realize that 1,000 protesters showed up?
There are not 1,000 opponents to Tom Cotton in the town in Arkansas where he showed up.
In fact, the Democrat Party almost doesn't exist in Arkansas anywhere.
Yet they managed to have 10,000 or 1,000 people show up.
Some of these Republican congressmen are handling these situations exactly right.
Somebody in Louisiana, I think, uh could be somebody in Louisiana Cave, but they think somebody in Louisiana just handled them just with a plum and with perfection.
But it is clear that these people protesting are not constituents.
They're not Republicans, angry with their congressmen for dismantling Obamacare.
But what is the media report?
The media is in collusion with the Can I share with you, folks, let me let me find this.
I saw something that uh two things.
No, I'll be honest with you.
Thank uh Ben, thanks so much for the call.
I really appreciate it.
Folks, I used to believe that the media were Democrats, but I didn't think that there was no difference in the media.
I I mean, I thought there was a huge difference in the media and say occupying Wall Street and the radicals of Code Pink.
I knew the media were Democrats, and I knew they were liberals.
But I didn't know until recently, years recently, that they're gone, that they have become as radical as bullyish as the most extreme left winger in the country.
And I'm going to give you an example of it here.
David Gregory used to host Meet the Press at NBC.
In fact, that's a great Tim Russert.
You remember Tim Russert, Mr. Snerdley?
Tim Russell was a down the middle big labor Democrat.
But Tim Russert was not one of these wild-eyed radical extremists who think America is the problem in the world.
Tim Russert, family values were just like yours or mine when it came to raising his son and his his marriage, relationship with his wife, Maureen Orth.
He was he was uh uh loyal Democrat and he was a he was the bureau chief at NBC, there was no question he was Democrat and leaned left, but he was not the same person as these people showing up at a town hall.
But that's not the case today.
Steve Bannon showed up at CPAC yesterday.
Now the the prepub on Bannon is that he's a white supremacist, that he's a racist, that he's uh alt-right, that he's uh all these horrible things.
He's just a despicable human.
If you listen to the media, if you listen to anti-Trumpers, Steve Bannon is just human debris.
Nothing to back that up.
There's literally nothing.
There's no history of white supremacy or anything of the sword.
You realize the last time we really had serious white supremacy was when the Democrats ran the South.
They were the last white supremacists.
They and their military wing, the KKK, those Democrat governors and so forth, and Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood and eugenics, whose objective was to eliminate the African American race, those were the white supremacists.
You don't find white supremacists other than the people at the Southern Poverty Law Center, that left-wing hate group, and who they claim to identify.
They're the biggest bunch of kooks on the face of the earth, but to the media, they are the Bible.
On who is a hate group and who isn't?
Southern Poverty Law Center.
So you heard Bannon, you may not have heard.
I did Bannon yesterday talked about three things that were in the Trump agenda.
One of the things Bannon talked about was the need to eliminate and get control of the administrative state.
Now, what does that mean to you?
It means shrink the bureaucracy.
It means weed out the people who haven't not been elected, who are deeply buried in this bureaucracy and are issuing regulations that are not backed by law, and they mandate things on people without any constitutional authority to do it.
Weed that out and shrink the size of the bureaucracy.
Bannon also talked about a distinct American culture and restoring a distinct American culture.
What does that mean to you?
What if I believe in that too?
I there there is, there was a distinct American culture.
It's what every immigrant assimilated to.
Prior to the 1920s, when they came from Europe, when they came from Meiko, when they came in from wherever they came, they assimilated and became Americans.
There was a distinct American culture, and it was rooted and traceable to our founding documents.
So what does distinct American culture mean to you?
Why heard David Gregory, the former host of Meet the Press, and here's a guy that during the Clinton Lewinsky thing was a reporter for NBC on it and so forth.
This guy, David Gregory said, the language of the uniqueness of American culture is the kind of white nationalist language to me that hearkens back to the kind of language we have heard before.
So Steve Bannon is talking about a distinct American culture and reducing the administrative state, and David Gregory, now of CNN, says that language equals white nationalist language or white supremacy.
He's claiming that what Bannon wants is to go back to the days of slavery, go back to the days when the only people that counted in America were white people.
Now that is radicalism, like I can't explain to you.
And I don't know that David Gregory has believed that his entire adult life.
When did He when did he descend into believing that kind of tripe?
That is pure bigotry radicalism.
To think that a distinct American culture is white.
That's the kind of stuff they're teaching on campus today.
White privilege.
Why you should feel guilty at being white?
When did all of this infect David Gregory?
And then the next example.
Poor Chris Cuomo, this guy.
I do not know what happened to this guy.
Let me remind Chris Cuomo, he's the son, one of the sons of Mario the Pious.
Chris Cuomo, when when Obama went down to Cuba after supposedly opening up relations, and the pictures came out of Cuban unmistakable poverty and uh just the pictures told an entirely different story of what these numbskulls think Cuba is, the home of the world's best health care and the Icon Fidel Castor.
I don't know what they thought Cuba was, but they were shocked.
And Chris Cuomo said, when are these communists gonna realize that communism elevates everybody economically?
And I watched that my mouth filled.
Who in the hell taught this kid?
What in the world?
Who told him that communism raises economic circumstances?
Who told him that communism elevates?
Where can he point to in the world that people living under communism are wealthy and rich and getting wealthier and that they're free to pursue these things?
You can't because it doesn't exist, but yet that's what he thinks.
Okay, that's one.
This is the piece de resistance.
When Trump rescinded Obama's bathroom bill, Christopher Cuomo said.
Well, there was a see, and Christopher Cuomo responding to a person who asked, what do you tell a 12-year-old girl who doesn't want to see a penis in the locker room?
Somebody said to Andrew, or Chris Cuomo, what do you tell a 12-year-old girl who doesn't want to see a penis in the locker room?
Chris Cuomo responded, I wonder if she's the problem, or her overprotective and intolerant dad.
Teach tolerance.
So to Chris Cuomo, tolerance means a 12-year-old should want to see a naked male in the bathroom running around flouting his penis.
And to oppose that is intolerant.
These people are nuts.
And they anchor the news.
They're literally insane.
When did this happen to these people?
Now you heard me right, Chris Cuomo, 12-year-old girl who doesn't want to see a guy running around naked in her bathroom.
She's the problem.
Her parents are the problem.
They haven't taught her tolerance.
She's an intolerant bigot.
Any wonder people think that a sizable portion of our culture is genuinely sick.
You know what Pat Buch Buchanan had a his most recent column.
He thinks this isn't soluble.
Buchanan had been writing for the longest time, longing, just hoping for a guy like Trump to come along, because that would bring the country back together.
And obviously it's going to be a while on that.
So Buchanan said, you know, maybe the th maybe we're we're too far gone.
Maybe let California cede.
You know, let every liberal who believes what they believe and want to let them just move there and let them secede from the from the country and have their own country and just get out.
They're not happy here.
We're not happy having them there.
We don't want to be among them.
You know, let them they want to run their own affairs, and if somebody attacks them, then let them fight their own war.
It's a think piece.
I don't know how serious it isn't actually advocating it.
It's a think piece.
I think it uh I read it at WorldNet Daily yesterday or the day before.
But it's his piece is rooted in His belief that this culture war that we're in is got no bridges.
That there isn't any hope of any compromise or living together based on the left.
They clearly are not interested.
They don't want anything around them other than what they already think hook, line, and sinker.
And if thinking if if something that they oppose is anywhere near, they're gonna just devote themselves to destroying it and rooting it out because they interestingly have no tolerance whatsoever for literally anything.
I know, I know, time's getting away from me.
Started that an hour ago.
And uh audio sound bites.
I gotta do Trump, I gotta do some excerpts of me if I have time to squeeze those in, and more of your phone calls.
So we we still gotta pack a lot in uh in the next hour while unpacking a lot at the same time.
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