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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 when they had a good time rock and roller CNN story.
And she's talking to Aerie Fleischer and asking, she spelled it out exactly what happened.
Now, 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 Priebus, minding his own business, gets a call from Andrew McCabe and the FBI says, hey, guess what?
That stuff in the New York Times is not true.
Priebus, what can I do about it?
Well, call me.
We'll talk some ideas.
Priebus calls him.
McCabe says, sorry, nothing I can do.
Somebody tells CNN that Priebus 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.
As I said, we got a lot of packing to do today.
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 want to do that.
Anyway, Trump addressed this.
Trump addressed this in his speech talking about fake news.
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?
She's a Democrat.
She wanted to be a senator of Virginia.
Why would McCabe call Priebus?
Folks, you realize the answers to this are many.
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 Priebus and McCabe.
How did CNN find out about it?
And how was CNN told about it?
And CNN's story has all the details.
It's this headline and the way they've been discussing it on TV that has 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 his mandate and 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, John McCrazy, McCain, 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've got writer conservatives.
We've got Fox News and book deal conservatives.
What is the Fox News?
Oh, that is a young conservative who wants a Fox News gig and a book deal, and that's cool.
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 addressing.
We had a caller earlier.
Where'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'm not trying to impugn anybody here.
I'm just trying to set a table for you.
Who asks for these donations?
Magazines, think tanks, nonprofits, 501c3s.
And what do they do?
Well, they write and they publish and they do all that.
Now, Jim DeMint 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.
But I don't know if we have, like in the 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 Arn 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 wait 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 Dr. Arne is, I should say 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 out-liberaling 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 waiving 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 to 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 Firearms Safety Act.
Wait till you hear how this court did this.
The Maryland Firearms 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 DC versus Heller 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 to 4 ruled that the AR-15 can be banned because it has military use.
And you, nor you, nor you, according to these 10 judges, can have possession of any gun used in the military.
Do you know what that means?
How many pistols does the military, go back and use 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 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 missed 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. Art felt it necessary to speak on conservatism and remind people what it is.
And I'm going to 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 in gaggle and they denied entry to CNN, the Politico, the New York Times, and the L.A. Times.
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, 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 something that is the continuation of what this Trump presidency, this Trump administration, how it views the media.
It sees 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 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.
Wrench Priebus is sitting there, mind his own business.
The FBI guy comes up and says, Reince, the New York Times story about Trump and the election and the Russians, we know there's nothing to it.
It's inaccurate.
Priebus minding his own business.
The FBI guy, second in command, McCabe, tells him this.
Priebus is, what do I do with this?
McCabe says, I don't know.
We got to think about it.
Call me back.
So Priebus calls him back.
And then somebody tells the media that Priebus called McCabe.
And that's how the story began.
White House calls FBI asking them to tamp 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 Priebus calling the FBI, asking them to tell the media when the story is that everything the media has 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, grabs soundbite 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, fake.
Fake, fake.
And he's never said it's all fake.
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.
It's not a formal 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, Politico, and fake news LA Times.
Snurdle is loving this, Snurdley.
And of course, the New York Times, McBride, this is the first step.
This is the first step to tyranny.
This is how it happens, Brooke.
This is how it happens.
This is exactly what Hitler did, you know.
No, the first thing Hitler did was national health care, little Brian.
And we will be back.
And it's El Rushbo would 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 99.8% 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 what it is like to be a conservative teacher near Seattle.
Whoa.
The day after the election, there were people in our building that could barely make it up to come to work.
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.
Supposedly, all of our children are traumatized over all of this.
Oh, yes, of course.
And so, 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 ELL population.
How old are the kids that you teach?
I teach fourth grade.
Fourth grade.
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 lets people know that you're a safe person to come to if they're in need of help?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've heard about that and 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 rainbow colors and all of that.
And, you know, by that point, a couple days after the election, I had like had it with everybody.
And so one of 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 turned around and walked away.
Do you still work there?
Of course I do.
Oh, good.
I'm close to retirement.
I have to keep my head down.
You're not keeping your head down.
You're denying the safety pin.
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 $1,000.
Well, I pay $1,200 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 Democrats.
Absolutely.
No, I know that.
I've been listening to you off and on for, I mean, like back into the early 90s, 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 listen right now, but normally I can't listen.
Well, this is my lucky.
Well, you know, since I've got you here, since you say you have this teacher, we do, at the Rush Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional America, we do great teacher outreach.
We make the books and the lesson plans and so forth available for any teachers that are interested in the founding and teaching history.
Your kids are fourth graders?
Yeah.
And they love that stuff.
See, I start my year teaching the Constitution.
Good.
And then we do, we make, we kind of do a mock.
Of course, I'm the executive branch.
And I break them up into the different branches of the government and the 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, you know, I do try and bring up, you know, and teach the history.
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.
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 going to 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 even better ways.
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 talk to you about it because the teaching is what's crucial.
And we would love, 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 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.
I didn't know Riley did children's books.
I thought, oh, Riley did murder books.
But anyway, we got RushRevere.com and the Rush Revere Facebook page, which 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 really do.
And I hope you'll hang on and give us a way to reach out to you.
If nothing else, for us to learn what you're doing, because it'll help us in our outreach to other teachers overcome some of these apparent obstacles.
What is this?
I don't know if 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.
Hi.
All Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Good to see you have you here, sir.
Hello.
I wanted to try to address this, these town hall meetings that are being lambasted by intruders.
It's a shame that our congressmen and senators are sort of doing a disservice to their constituents.
Those meetings are for their constituents only.
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.
What are your thoughts?
I hear you.
Some people's idea was to cancel the town halls, which is a tantamount admission that they're going to be overrun.
You know, I don't know how to deal with this other than to have an equal number of conservatives show up and activists at these town halls that are supportive of the congressmen and shout these people down.
Well, I really wouldn't care what their beliefs were as long as they were indeed bona fide constituents of the individual that's given the town hall.
You know, there's nothing wrong with listening to both sides, but to have people sent there and plan it just to disrupt and just cause an unbearable situation for a town hall that we need town halls and would like to go to a town hall, but I'm not going to go to a town hall meeting.
Let me tell the whole argument for not doing the town hall right now 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 is 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, matter, or form.
I don't know how you keep non-constituents out.
I mean, in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
I mean, you could try it.
These people are still going to mob these places anyway.
And the pictures of keeping them out, then you're going to see those.
Then you're going to 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.
The pictures say, constituents not allowed in.
Ultimately, what I'm telling you, Tom, your argument is always going to 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, since it's CPAC time, so you ought to play some of your speech from nine years ago.
And I said, eh.
But I'm going to 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 February 28th of 2009.
Obama had been in office just a month.
And I was the keynote.
Last speech, 5 o'clock on Friday.
Went for an hour and a half.
No teleprompter, no notes.
In fact, at 6 o'clock, 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 excerpts from it here, but this is since Dr. Arne 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.
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 even edited the applause there.
That applause went on and on.
Now, that's all I've got time for.
I don't know.
If you want to hear more, maybe we'll play a couple more of them on Monday.
You think so?
I'm looking here.
I just don't have a short one.
The next one is two minutes, and the one after that is one minute.
But 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-bys 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.
I stand up for what I believe, and 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 over 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 Aerie 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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