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Feb. 24, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 24, 2017, Friday, Hour #3
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All right.
All right, I'm happy to see this.
I'm just watching Fox.
Melissa Francis is doing a great job of explaining this phony baloney plastic, but they had a good time rock and roller CNN story.
And she's talking to Ari Fleischer and asking she she spelled it out exactly what happened.
Exact.
No, these are my words.
The headline to this story ought to be FBI confirms to White House that New York Times story on Trump and Russia is inaccurate because that is what happened.
Ranch Prebus, minding his own business, gets a call from Andrew McCabe, the FBI says, hey, guess what?
That stuff in the New York Times is not true.
What can I do about it?
Well, call me.
We'll talk some ideas.
Prebus calls him.
McCabe says, sorry, nothing I can do.
Somebody tells CNN that Prebus called the FBI asking to tamp down some stories.
It's just absolute BS.
The way CNN is reporting this crap.
Greetings and welcome back, 800.
Anyways, I'm just, I was happy to see somebody else get it right out there.
I'll always feel buoyed when that happens.
Congratulations to Melissa Francis, Fox News.
We got to unpack some stuff, pack it back up, get ready to go.
I want to go back to Dr. Arne's speech.
Because I interrupted myself about 10 times.
I'm wont to do that.
Anyway, Trump addressed this.
Trump addressed this in his speech talking about fake news.
He didn't he didn't specifically reference this.
No, no, I don't look.
It is a good question.
Why would Andrew McCabe, the deputy director, whose wife wanted to be a politician, a Democrat, she wanted to be a Senator Virginia?
Why why would McCabe call Prieba?
Folks, you realize the answers to this are many.
I'm I I want to start speculating.
I'll give you one.
Suppose Comey's getting tired.
We don't know anything.
Suppose Comey's getting tired.
Suppose Comey's thinking of resigning.
McCabe's a deputy.
Maybe he wants a gig.
Maybe he's calling Priebus to suck up.
The real question here is who told CNN about all of this?
It's a conversation between Prebis and McCabe.
How did CNN find out about it?
And how was CNN told about it?
But and CNN's story has all the details.
It's this headline and the way they've been discussing it on TV that is bastardized this whole thing.
And this is, folks, I'm sorry, but this is so crucial because it is the foundation for every story the media is doing on the illegitimacy of Trump and is in mandating his agenda, his presidency, because the media is trying to concoct this scenario that the Russians sabotaged Hillary, and that's the only reason Trump won, and therefore it's open season on Trump because he's not legitimately elected.
That's what's propelling all of this.
All these protests, all these stories, it's based on that lie.
And CNN comes out today furthering it with a headline saying that the White House tried to get the FBI to knock down and tell the New York Times to stop running this stuff.
And that isn't what happened.
Anyway.
Conservatism, what is it, and who defines it?
Now unlike a lot of politicians that we've elected, and some that we haven't, let me give you some names here.
Jeb Bush, uh John McCracy, McCain, uh Kasich, Rubio, Romney, Dole, Boehner, Ryan, McConnell.
I mean, the list is endless.
These people all say they're conservative.
They don't do anything.
In terms of warriors, we don't have warrior conservatives.
We've got think tank conservatives, we've got intellectual heft conservatives, we got writer conservatives, we got Fox News and book deal conservatives.
What is a Fox News?
Oh, that is a young conservative who wants a Fox News gig and a book deal, and that's cool.
If if the young conservative gets that, then it's a success.
But in terms of actually moving things along, no, no, no.
Fox News gig and a book deal.
I mean, there's all kinds of people in the conservative movement.
This is what Dr. Arne was was uh was addressing.
We had a caller earlier.
Um's our George Soros.
Where is our money bags funding our activists?
Well, we got money bags.
We got all kinds of money bags, we got all kinds of donors.
But who is it that's asking them for the money?
I don't I'm not trying to impugn anybody here.
I'm just trying to set table for you.
Who asks for these donations?
Magazines, think tanks, uh nonprofits, 501 C3s.
And what do they do?
Well, they uh they write and they publish and they do all that.
Now, Jim Dement at the Heritage Foundation actually gets involved with elected officials on the implementation of policy, writing it, crafting it, coming up with stuff that'll pass.
Uh, but I don't know if we have like in case of George Soros, the people asking him for money are these hate groups that want to go out and raise hell and riot and protest.
I imagine if we had some groups like that and they hit up some of our conservative donors, they'd get the money.
It's just that's not who we are.
We're not, we don't do what we do based on hate.
We don't do what we do based on bullying people.
And that's how they operate.
Larry Arne said that he's the chairman, president of Hillsdale College.
He said the crisis facing American conservatives today is a crushing administrative state that unconstitutionally combines the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government into one unaccountable body.
In those agencies, there's no separation of powers.
Administrative agencies run by unelected bureaucrats operate outside the bounds imposed upon the government by the Constitution, and every year these governing bodies create regulations with the force of law that strangle the economy and threaten individual liberty.
With all the consternation on the right about whether Trump's a conservative or not, Dr. Larry Arne reminded the audience at CPAC of one simple fact.
The president campaigned vigorously on cutting back regulations and limiting the unconstitutional administrative state.
If he succeeds in rolling back the administrative state, in restoring the proper function of constitutional government by limiting regulations, I think the guy's a conservative, Dr. Arne said.
And let me tell you something.
Dr. Larry Arne is every bit the intellectual conservative that any of the others who are known as intellectual conservatives are.
You want to talk about heft and weight and respect Larry Arn, Claremont Review of Books, Claremont Institute before Hillsdale College.
Noted historical expert on Sir Winston Churchill.
And Dr. Arne has not been alarmed about Trump from the game.
Dr. Arne is uh I I should say that that I'm probably in the Dr. Arne school.
Well, I think I got school first on this.
Defeating the left is paramount.
And not by outliberaling them.
We have to defeat them.
And that's as opposed to remaining 99, 100% pure conservative.
Can you imagine?
Let me find a story.
This is so great of an example of what we're all talking about here.
It's a Wall Street Journal story on what would have happened if Hillary Clinton had won.
Here it is.
Are you ready?
Wall Street Journal editorial waving for Justice Gorsuch.
Let me give you the upshot of this.
He said, if you want to know why millions of Republicans voted for Donald Trump, despite their doubts about his values or policies, look no further than Tuesday's ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on gun rights.
It was a 10-4 decision.
It shows how a liberal Supreme Court majority would eviscerate the Second Amendment.
The Fourth Circuit is one of several appellate courts that Obama remade over eight years.
And in this case, Colby versus Hogan, the liberal majority upheld Maryland's Fire Arm Safety Act.
Wait till you hear how this court did this.
The Maryland Fire Arm Safety Act bans firearms, such as the popular semi-automatic AR-15 rifle that gun control advocates call an assault weapon.
Now, in the Supreme Court D.C. v.
decision, 2008 upheld an individual's right to bear arms explicitly for guns in common use.
But what did the Fourth Circuit do Tuesday?
They concocted a brand new use that doesn't exist anywhere in law.
They concocted a new military use legal test.
And they said that politicians can ban any firearm if a judge determines that it's most useful in military service.
There is no such denotation in law anywhere.
These justices at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals just made it up in order to ban the AR-15.
The Wall Street Journal editorial, what happens if Hillary wins and she gets to pick Scalia's replacement?
She's going to pick somebody.
We're gone.
Gun control, second amendment is gone.
Things like this.
These judges invent law.
This law should be overturned.
These judges on the Fourth Circuit, these are the appeals judges.
These are supposed to be the creme de la creme.
And it was 10 to 4.
It was on bank.
It was the whole court.
10-4 ruled that the AR-15 can be banned because it has military use, and you nor you, nor you, according to these ten judges, can have possession of any gun used in the military.
Do you know what that means?
How many pistols does the military?
How many look go back and use uh even the muskets that were used back in the Revolutionary War would be illegal if these guys and their ruling stands.
Now, this ruling applies only to Maryland right now, but it has national implications if other states and judges adopt the logic.
And this is how a liberal Supreme Court majority would have gone about overturning Heller if Hillary had been able to replace Scalia.
Trump's nomination of Gorsuch means that a new majority will soon be in place to reinforce Heller, and your gun rights will be protected, as Trump referenced today in his speech at CPAC.
This is just great, great example of what is happening with the deep state with the bureaucracy and now the judiciary.
Obama packed this court with a bunch of leftist activists, and they just created this new use called military use.
Most useful in military service, and if it's there, then the public can be denied possession.
Judge William Traxler noted in a searing dissent.
He's on the Fourth Circuit, but he he dissented.
He said this heretofore unknown military use test is a purely judicial invention with no historical or legal basis.
By that logic, he noted, the muskets favored by America's colonial settlers could have been banned because they were clearly the same weapons they used in war.
This is the kind of stuff that we are still up against.
And this is why fights over who's a conservative and who isn't miss the point.
Because if the Never Trumpers, if these intellectual heavyweights, the Never Trumpers had had Their way, and Trump had lost.
Well, and that's why Dr. Ard felt it necessary to speak on conservatism and remind people what it is.
And I'm gonna take a break and we'll be back.
Don't go away.
And it's freak out time at CNN.
Get this.
Apparently, the White House had a press briefing this afternoon, a gaggle, and they denied entry to CNN, the Politico, the New York Times, and the LA Times.
They they all showed up for the gaggle and said, sorry, you're not on the list today.
You don't get in.
And they had a freak out on CNN.
This is CNN breaking news.
Breaking news here on CNN.
I'm Brooke Baldwin.
Thank you so much for being with me.
The breaking news is the fact that we have just learned here at CNN that CNN has been blocked from a White House gaggle.
Why aren't we there?
That is a great question, Brooke.
We lined up.
We were told there was a list ahead of time, which is sort of abnormal, but we put our name on the list, and then when we went to enter, uh I was blocked by a White House staffer who said we were not on the list.
It's a very troubling first step that we're seeing from this administration.
This is just a uh something that is, you know, the continuation of what this Trump presidency, this Trump administration, how it views the media.
It sees the the media 2020.
It sees you guys in clear sight.
You guys at CNN were disgraceful today with this story that you've been running since last night on the White House, supposedly ordering the FBI to tell the media to tamp down something.
And even CNN is now finally getting around just to reporting that the White House is denying they did anything that CNN said.
This what happened starting last night with this headline, FBI refused White House request to knock down recent Trump.
Rench Prebus is sitting to mind his own business.
The FBI guy comes up and says, Ryan's the New York Times story about Trump and the election and the Russians, we know there's nothing to it.
It's inaccurate.
Prebus minding his own business.
The FBI guy, second in command, McCabe tells him this.
Prebus says, What do I do with this?
McCabe says, I don't know.
We got to think about it.
Call me back.
So Prebus calls him back.
And then somebody tells the media that Prebus called McCabe, and that how the story began.
White House calls FBI asking them to tap down.
It's one of the biggest examples of media malpractice that I have seen since Trump was inaugurated.
The headline to this story, you know what the headline of the story is?
FBI confirms New York Times story on Trump and Russia is inaccurate.
That's the news.
And CNN even admits that that's part of this story.
They ignore that and try to make this about Prebis calling the FBI, asking them to tell the media.
When the story is that everything the media's been saying about Trump and Russia, the FBI can't confirm it, it's inaccurate.
And they told the White House that.
This was yesterday or Tuesday, Wednesday, whatever it happened this week.
So Trump goes to CPAC today, starts ragging on the media, grab soundbite number uh number one.
This is what Trump said, calling the fake news the enemy of the people.
In covering my comments, the dishonest media did not explain that I called the fake news the enemy of the people, the fake news.
They dropped off the word fake.
And all of a sudden, the story became the media is the enemy.
They take the word fake out.
And now I'm saying, oh no, this is no good.
But that's the way they are.
So I'm not against the media.
I'm not against the press.
I don't mind bad stories if I deserve them.
And I tell you, I love good stories, but we won't go.
I don't get too many.
But I am only against the fake news media or press.
Fake.
And he's never said it's all fake.
He's he's identified CNN.
Nope, you're fake news.
No question.
Nope, you're fake news.
No question.
So there's a press gaggle this afternoon.
I don't know what the gaggle is.
I think it's it's not a formal uh White House press briefing, or maybe it is, but they're calling it a gaggle.
White House refused entry to fake news CNN, fake news New York Times, fake news political, and fake news LA Times.
Snerdle's loving this.
And and of course the New York Times, McBrinth, this is the first step.
This is the first step to tyranny.
This is how it happens, uh Brooke.
This is how it happens.
This is exactly what Hitler did, you know.
No, the first thing Hitler did was national health care.
Uh little Brian.
And we will be back.
And it's El Rush Bow and have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have documented to be almost always right ninety-nine point eight percent of the time.
You would enjoy it too, if you were right that often.
Here's Debbie near Seattle.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hello, it's an honor to speak to you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
So I just thought I'd share with you um what it is like to be a conservative teacher near Seattle.
Mm-hmm.
Whoa.
The day after the election.
Right.
Um there were people in our building that could barely make it up to come to work.
Yeah.
And the tears were like Niagara Falls.
It was unbelievable.
So I just kind of kept a low profile, excuse me, a low profile and went about my business.
Um supposedly all of our children are traumatized over all of this.
Oh, yes, of course, yes.
And so um, you know, and I never had any of my kids have an issue or a problem or you know, tell me they were concerned about anything, and we do have a high um ELL population.
How old are they how old are the kids that you teach in your I teach fourth grade.
Fourth grades.
How how traumatized over are they now they can't choose the bathroom they want to use.
Right.
So have you heard anything about the safety pin symbol that um lets people know that you're a safe person to come to if they're needed in need of help.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've I've I've heard that about that in variations of that, yes.
Yeah.
So of course, right away what pops up in my building, but you know, everybody's got their safety pins on, right?
All decorated up, you know, with the um rainbow colors and all of that, and and you know, by that point, a couple days after the election, I had like had it with everybody.
And um, and so one of the my fellow teachers, I'm walking down the hall and they're like, Oh, would you like a safety pin?
And I'm like, you know what?
My kids know they're safe with me.
I don't need to wear a safety pin to prove it, and I turn around and walked away.
You still work there?
Of course I do.
Well, good.
I have to keep my head down.
You're not keeping your head down, you're denying the safety pin.
I I did, but you know, well, and it's like all the union stuff.
I have never served as a union representative.
I have no intention of it.
I resent it that I pay nearly a thousand well, I pay twelve hundred dollars a year in union dues.
And I'm sorry, they don't represent me.
I know, you know that money most of it goes to the Democrat campaign.
Absolutely.
No, I know that.
I've been listening to you um off and on for I mean, like back into the uh early nineties, I think was about the time I started listening to you.
Unfortunately, like right now we're on President's Week break, so I can I can listen right now, but normally I can't listen.
Well, this is my lucky well see you know, since I've got you here, since you you say you you have uh you this teacher we do at the Rush Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional America, we do great teacher outrage.
We we do we make uh the books and the lesson plans and so forth available for any teachers that are interested in the founding and teaching history to your your kids are f fourth graders.
Yeah.
And they love that stuff.
See, I start my year teaching the constitution.
Good.
And then um we do we make um we kind of do a mock, um, of course, on the executive branch, and I break um break them up into the different branches of the government and a judicial branch, and they write our classroom constitution.
As far as I know, I'm the only person in my building that does that.
But um, you know, I do try and bring up um, you know, though and and teach the history.
Um my concern with using your books would be your name on them.
Where I live.
It's an understandable concern.
And so, you know, I've read your books, I have your books personally, and I love them.
I think they're great.
So, you know, I just kind of take things that I've pulled together in different ways.
Um Bill O'Reilly has got great stuff for kids.
And, you know, those same historical kinds of ideas.
So I'm working on it, but Well, I know you're up against it with where you live.
Yeah.
But we have ways to help you with this.
This is what I was gonna say.
If you wouldn't mind, if you would leave like an email address with Mr. Snerdley, that we can get in touch with you and show you uh even better ways.
N not that you're not doing it.
Well, don't misunderstand.
You may be doing everything the ideas we have, but we would love to uh talk to you about it because the teaching is what's crucial.
And we would love uh in fact, somebody at the Revere Farm there, I'm sure, would love to chat with you about if nothing else to learn what you're doing and and how you're making it effective.
So if you wouldn't mind, Debbie giving us an email address we can reach you.
Promise nobody will see it, nobody will know it.
And if you want to, we get two places you can go.
You can go to RushRevere.com.
Uh I didn't know O'Reilly did children's books.
I thought O'Reilly did murder books.
But anyway, we got RushRevere.com and the Rush Revere Facebook page, which uh we post amazing uplifting photos.
You would not believe the photos that these children reading these books, these kids send us.
It's you talk about rewarding, and you've probably encountered it some yourself, Debbie.
So anyway, I really appreciate the call.
I I really do, and I uh I hope you'll hang on and give us a way to reach out to you.
If if nothing else for us to learn what you're doing, because it'll help us in our outreach to other teachers uh overcome some of these apparent obstacles.
Uh what is this?
I don't know if uh I don't know what that means, so I'll have to check that later.
I'm talking to somebody offline here, folks.
Anyway, Debbie, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Tom in Kings Mountain, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the program, Haya.
Oh, Rush, good to talk to you.
Good to see you have you here, sir.
Hello.
I wanted to try to address this uh these town hall meetings that are being uh lambasted by intruders.
It's a shame that uh our congressmen and senators uh they're they're sort of doing a disservice to their constituents.
Those meetings are for their constituents only.
Uh if they're not a constituent, they shouldn't be there.
It looks to me like they could at least police the crowd a little bit.
It really looks bad on TV.
Yeah.
Your thoughts.
I I I I I hear you.
Um that's you know, the some people's idea was to cancel the town halls, which is a tant about admission that they're gonna be overrun.
You know, I uh uh I don't know how to deal with this other than to have an equal number of conservatives uh show up and activists at these town halls that are supportive of the congressman and and shout these people down.
Well, I I really wouldn't care uh what their uh beliefs were as long as they were indeed uh bona fied constituents of the individual that's given the town hall.
Uh you know, there's nothing wrong with listening to both sides, but to have people sent there and plan it just to uh disrupt and and just cause an unbearable situation for a town hall that that we need town halls and would like to go to a town hall, but I'm not gonna go to a town hall meeting.
Well, let me tell the whole run.
Is this the left doesn't care about the town hall.
All the left wants is the opportunity to create those pictures that you're talking about so that then the media can Report that it is constituents showing up, opposing their own Republican because he wants to repeal Obama here.
That's again fake news, that's media malpractice.
The media's in on this.
That's what happens.
The purpose of showing up is to create a media story and narrative that it is constituents there who oppose the Republican Congressman because he's taking away their Obamacare.
This whole thing is deeply organized.
It's not organic, it isn't spontaneous in any way, shape, manner, or form.
I don't know how you keep non-constituents out.
I mean, in the land of the free and a home of the brave.
I mean, you could try it.
These people still gonna they're gonna mob these places anyway.
And the pictures of keeping them out.
Then you're gonna see those.
Then you're gonna get mad that somebody's not doing a good enough job keeping them out.
The first thing you want constituents only.
Okay, they make the rule.
Here come the non-constituents mobbing in.
A mob scene ensues, and them not being allowed to pictures say constituents not allowed in.
Ultimately, what I'm what I'm telling you, Tom, your argument is always gonna come down to the way the media is reporting it.
I mean, what irritates you about this is the way the media is reporting this stuff.
It's the same old thing.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
I've had people uh since it's CPAC time, say you ought to place some of your speech from nine years ago.
And I said, eh.
But I'm gonna I'm gonna pick one here.
We'll do that.
And the reason is that we have a whole group of new listeners who probably didn't hear this.
This was on uh February 28th of 2009.
Obama had been in office just a month.
And uh I was the keynote, last speech, five o'clock on Friday, went for an hour and a half, no telepromp, no notes.
In fact, it at six o'clock was it was supposed to end, they asked me to keep going.
Because everybody's having such a great time.
Televised nationally on three or four cable networks, my first nationally televised address to the nation.
And we've got four four excerpts from it here, but this is uh since Dr. Arne's speech was about who is a conservative and what is conservatism.
I thought that I would use this.
Let me tell you who we conservatives are.
We love people.
Thank you.
When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans, we see human beings, we don't see groups, we don't see victims, we don't see people we want to exploit.
What we see, what we see is potential.
We do not look out across the country and see the average American, the person that makes this country work, we do not see that person with contempt.
We don't think that person doesn't have what it takes.
We believe that person can be the best he or she wants to be if certain things are just removed from their path, like onerous taxes, regulations, and too much government.
We want every American to be the best he or she chooses to be.
We recognize that we are all individuals.
We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
We believe that the preamble of the Constitution contains an inarguable truth.
that we are all endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life.
Liberty, freedom, And the pursuit of happiness.
Now those of you watching at home may wonder why this is being applauded.
We conservatives think all three are under assault.
We did uh we even edited the applause there.
That applause went on and on.
Now that's all I've got time for.
Uh I'm uh I don't know.
If you want to hear more, maybe we'll play a couple more of them on Monday.
It it may you think so?
I'm looking here.
I just don't have a short one.
The next one is uh two minutes, and the one after that is one minute.
Um anyway.
Nine, is that right?
Eight years ago is what this yeah, eight years ago is when this was.
Let's take a brief time out here.
We'll come back and wrap up after this.
Well, this was funny.
I guess John Kasich just met with Trump in there, and he came out, he was at the microphones, and it was clear that drive-by's wanted him to dump all over Trump because that's what he did during the campaign.
He said, No, it's time to get constructive.
Uh I stand up for what I believe, but it's time to get Look.
When you're on an airplane, you're kind of rude for the pilot, right?
So it's time for us to come together.
Media disappointed again.
They're already out of their gourds for being denied entry.
And I am told that elements of Twitter are literally melting.
That the White House has gotten rid of the First Amendment.
The White House threw the First Amendment away today by not letting CNN into the gaggle.
So Ari Fleischer is tweeting that every calm down, calm down.
I mean, this happens all the time.
White House staff and presidents meet often with who they want.
Just calm down.
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