But they don\u2019t. Everybody\u2019s out there, “Oh, this is the worst thing that could have happened!” ‘Cause he\u2019s a big corporate guy. I mean, that\u2019s like showing Dracula the cross. These people on the left, they can\u2019t get over the fact that Trump\u2019s got corporate success story after corporate success store after corporate giant after people that love to do deals. (chuckling) I think the left is gonna go nuts in not… They already are. But I mean with as often as Trump… Like Trump said today. He\u2019s delayed the press conference he was gonna have on what kind of involvement he\u2019s gonna have in his own business but he assured people, “There won\u2019t be any new deals while I\u2019m in the White House. Not gonna do any deals! Deals. Won\u2019t be any deals.”<\/line><\/p>\nDeals are action. Deals are making things happen, and Tillerson\u2019s done a lot of deals, and Trump loves the… Do you know that Trump didn\u2019t even know the guy? Trump had… I mean, he knew of him, but he didn\u2019t know him. Somebody suggested, “You really need to talk to this guy,” and they really hit it off over the fact that they both do deals. Doing deals, successful deals, being a big dealmaker and winning when you do it? I mean, that\u2019s… It\u2019s a relatively small club. It\u2019s pretty rare air that those guys are breathing, and it does have a lot of commonality to it. <\/p>\n
And this is where the left doesn\u2019t like Tillerson. Tillerson\u2019s success with Exxon was attributable in part to the work that he has done in Russia. He has forged close ties with both Vladimir Putin and Igor Sechin. “Sechin is the close Putin ally who runs Russia\u2019s oil and gas giants.” Well, I\u2019m sorry, but that would makes sense. If you run the world\u2019s largest oil company and you\u2019re doing deals all over the world, what is your job running the largest oil company? You gotta find it. You gotta find it, you gotta go get it, you gotta bring it out of the ground at a profit.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve gotta go out and find it before anybody else does. You gotta be willing to go wherever it is, and it turns out the Russians have a lot. And so Rex Tillerson wanted to make deals, and he did. He made deals with Putin. He made deals with the Russians. And of course (chuckling) the Russians now are why Hillary lost. These people really think this. (laughing) So anybody close to Putin? “Satan! Satanic! Got to go.” (interruption) Well, the Hillary reset with Russia was a… (interruption) No, no. Snerdley says, “I thought the reset with Russia was supposed to be good.” Look, I\u2019m glad you said that because a point needs to be made. <\/p>\n
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Up \u2019til this year, the Democrat Party was in bed with whoever ran Russia, other than Boris Yeltsin. They were in bed with the Soviet Union! They loved Khrushchev! They loved Brezhnev! They loved Yuri Andropov! They loved… I mean loved! It was bordering on obscene love for Mikhail Gorbachev. I\u2019m telling you, they just couldn\u2019t get enough, wherever the Soviets wanted to expand, Democrat Party was right in there helping \u2019em do it! Be it Cuba, be it in Nicaragua, it didn\u2019t matter. Grenada.<\/line><\/p>\nThe Democrat Party was doing everything it could to stop Reagan trying to limit Soviet expansionism. I told you yesterday about the story of the KGB files that were released after the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union imploded. Ted Kennedy was actively working with Yuri Andropov who ran the Soviet Union at the time, one of the periods of time when Reagan was president. You know, they kept asking Reagan, “Why don\u2019t you meet with the Russians?” The Democrats were paranoid. They thought Reagan was gonna nuke the world. <\/p>\n
And the Soviets were the only saviors we had. The only responsible people we had on the other end of the nuclear equation was the Soviets. They kept asking Reagan, the media, “Why don\u2019t you have a summit? Why don\u2019t you meet with \u2019em?” He said, “They keep dyin\u2019 on me! Why meet with somebody who\u2019s gonna die the next day? Until they get somebody young in there who can make a deal that\u2019s gonna hold up, I\u2019m not gonna talk to \u2019em.” And it turned out to be Gorbachev. I went to UC Davis when I lived in Sacramento. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who was in the Reagan administration, came out and addressed the student body at UC Davis. <\/p>\n
This was like attending the Soviet Politburo Junior Meeting in Moscow, and she came out and one of the first words out of her mouth… You\u2019ve got about 1500 students at UC Davis who think the Soviet Union is the Garden of Eden, and she says, “The only difference between Michael Gorbachev and any other Soviet murderer thug is that he\u2019s alive,” and this room of UC Davis students erupted! I start laughing myself silly. But the students were about to have a fit, and she said it with that look on her face of utter defiance. She was not one of these people that thought students were gods. Students were exactly what they were: Ignoramuses. <\/p>\n
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They were in positions of learning because they didn\u2019t know things. Other people regard students as experts on things, but she didn\u2019t. And so she was talking to them as though they didn\u2019t know what they thought they knew. And it just didn\u2019t sit well with \u2019em. Some of them started booing, some started throwing things. But the point is, the Democrat Party — leftists, socialists all over the world — used to love the Soviet Union and Russia. And Obama was in bed with Putin! You\u2019ve forgotten that shortly before the 2012 election… You know, Obama\u2019s been trying to get rid of our nuclear arsenal.<\/line><\/p>\nHe\u2019s trying to downsize it because Obama believes that our nuclear arsenal is destabilizing the world. It\u2019s part of my theory of Obama\u2019s chip on his shoulder that America is the problem in the world, not the solution. And he really believes this, folks. And he believes that our nuclear arsenal is why so many other nations engage in violence. They\u2019re scared to death of us, and they\u2019re out trying to protect themselves because they\u2019re just afraid we\u2019re gonna attack \u2019em and wipe \u2019em out and conquer them. Things that we don\u2019t do! We don\u2019t conquer. We liberate. We never have conquered. But Obama thinks that the U.S. military and our arsenal of weapons is the biggest threat to mankind. <\/p>\n
And so he\u2019s in the process of downsizing our nuclear arsenal. <\/p>\n
And apparently it wasn\u2019t going fast enough to please Putin. <\/p>\n
So Obama was caught on an open mic telling one of Putin\u2019s chief aides, Dmitry Medvedev, “Tell Vladimir I\u2019ll have more flexibility after the election,” meaning after I defeat Romney, I\u2019ll have a lot more flexibility to downsize our arsenal. So just tell Vlad to be patient. We had Hillary go over there with her plastic new reset button to reset the relationship with Russia after George W. Bush supposedly broke it. <\/p>\n
The Democrat Party has been buddy-buddy with Putin, they\u2019ve been buddy-buddy with the Russians, they\u2019ve been buddy-buddy with the Soviet Union. Now all of a sudden they hate \u2019em? Now all of a sudden the Russians become an enemy? Now all of a sudden Putin\u2019s a bad guy? I mean, John Kerry used to love Putin. It\u2019s the most amazing thing to watch how the Democrats will flip allegiances on a dime. <\/p>\n
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Anyway, back to Tillerson very quickly before we have to take a break. Tillerson forged a close relationship with both Putin and one of his big aides that runs the big oil business, Igor Sechin. And in 2011 Tillerson flew to the Black Sea resort area of Sochi and signed a joint venture agreement with Putin under which ExxonMobil would partner with Putin\u2019s oil company, Russia\u2019s oil company, to produce oil from the arctic, a project — are you ready for this? — a project made easier by the retreat of arctic sea ice due to global warming. <\/line><\/p>\nWhat you\u2019re supposed to take, if you read this, what you\u2019re supposed to take away from this is this Tillerson guy, what a dastardly, evil guy. He runs the business that\u2019s destroying the climate. He runs the biggest oil business that\u2019s causing global warming. He\u2019s causing the biggest melting of the glaciers in the North Pole ever, and then the SOB is going up and profiting by drilling for oil with the Russians! God, we hate this guy! <\/p>\n
But Exxon has nothing to do with the shrinking of the polar ice caps. You know it happens every year. Polar ice, the North Pole, \u2019cause there are seasons. There\u2019s summer, there\u2019s spring, there\u2019s fall, even at the North Pole. Not like here, but the temperatures vary and the sea ice always melts up there at some point. But, you know what, what\u2019s been happening? This is what they don\u2019t tell you. That when it gets cold and it starts freezing, that the North Pole ice sheet is bigger than ever, thicker than ever. <\/p>\n
So it makes sense that Tillerson and people who know what they\u2019re doing would wait for the proper weather conditions when there\u2019s been some melting and it\u2019s easier to get to the oil to bring it out because that\u2019s the name of the game. Tillerson partnered with Putin to make this that happen. The main themes of this guy\u2019s book “involved the ways that ExxonMobil saw itself as an independent, transnational corporate sovereign in the world, a power independent of the American government, one devoted firmly to shareholder interests and possessed of its own foreign policy.”<\/p>\n
Well, now, wait a minute. Isn\u2019t that something Obama would like? We\u2019re all supposed to be globalists? Sovereignty to the United States, that\u2019s old-fashioned, that\u2019s yesterday. That\u2019s yesteryear. We\u2019re all globalists now. We must be citizens of the world and we must treat the world as though there is not an company that\u2019s an American company, it\u2019s a global company, so Tillerson runs it that way. And now they hate him. They hate Tillerson simply because they think they should. But Tony Perkins obviously has legitimate gripes and beefs. <\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Anybody remember this kind of scrutiny with any of Obama\u2019s cabinet picks? It was universal love, and of course the Republicans are right in there. I remember Newt when Obama announced his national security guy, forget the guy\u2019s name, but Newt was, “Oh, man, if you\u2019d a told me that we were gonna get a guy of this caliber in there I would have told you that you were nuts.” And then he picked Eric Holder and a bunch of Republicans, “Wow, this is the best pick anybody could have ever made for attorney,” remember that? And I\u2019m sitting here pulling my hair out. <\/p>\n
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Anyway, one more little line here from this New Yorker piece on Rex Tillerson. And remember, now, this is supposed to be an indictment of the guy. It\u2019s why I think if you read it you might end up liking him. “The goal of ExxonMobil\u2019s independent foreign policy has been to promote a world that is good for oil and gas production. Because oil projects require huge amounts of capital and only pay off fully over decades, Tillerson has favored doing business in countries that offer political stability, even if this stability was achieved through authoritarian rule.”<\/line><\/p>\nNow, the definition for that is that Tillerson would rather go to a place, if there\u2019s oil there and he can increase his shareholder value, and if he can up his stocks, if he can get more oil out of the ground and be assured of more business, and the country is run by a dirt bag dictator that\u2019s gonna be there for 20 years, he\u2019ll still do it because the goal of ExxonMobil\u2019s independent foreign policy has been to promote a world that is good for oil and gas production. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s supposed to be an indictment. To the left, that\u2019s supposed to tick people off. It doesn\u2019t me. I think it\u2019s so sensible as to be scary. I mean, it is just utter common sense. But again, I\u2019m not a person who has problem with oil. I think oil is the fuel of the engine of freedom. The more of it, the better, and we\u2019re nowhere near replacing it. It\u2019s a pipe dream. We need it, and the more of it that we have and control, the much better off everybody is. <\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: One more thing here about Rex Tillerson from this story in the New Yorker, and then other things. “Although ExxonMobil hires former State Department, Pentagon, and C.I.A. officials from time to time in order to bolster its political analysis and negotiations, some of the Exxon executives [Steve Coll] interviewed [at the New Yorker] spoke about Washington with disdain, if not contempt. They regarded the State Department as generally unhelpful, a bureaucracy of liberal career diplomats who were biased against oil and incompetent when it came to sensitive and complex oil-deal negotiations.<\/p>\n
“They managed Congress defensively, and as just one capital among many in the world, a place more likely to produce trouble for Exxon than benefits.” Now, let me translate this for you. Again, I don\u2019t know Steve Coll. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s liberal, conservative, whatever. The New Yorker, he\u2019d tend probably to be liberal, but his piece here I think is gonna end up having more people like Tillerson than maybe he intends. What he\u2019s basically saying here is — and I don\u2019t know how many people.<\/p>\n
When you think of Exxon, you know, because of the success that the left and the media have had in poisoning the minds of people about corporate America… The Democrat Party\u2019s enemies list, look at it. It\u2019s every major, not just corporation, but industry. Big Oil? Hated and despised. Big Pharmaceutical? Hated and despised. Big Retail (that be Walmart)? Hated and despised. Go down the list. Liberals instinctively hate big corporations. They don\u2019t even think they\u2019re people, and they proudly say that. That\u2019s who liberals are — and that\u2019s who\u2019s in the State Department, specifically now, after eight years of Obama. <\/p>\n
So Exxon hires a bunch of former government workers to help it do business. It hires former CIA agents. It hires former State Department employees. Exxon hires people that used to work in the Pentagon. This is serious business. The oil business is serious business. The world could not survive without oil. Our world as we know it could not survive. The United States standard of living would plummet if the left succeeded in getting rid of oil. Airplanes would not fly. Automobiles would cease to be useful. You couldn\u2019t heat or air condition your home for long. <\/p>\n
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Getting rid of oil would take us back to the 17th or 18th century. It would be an absolute disaster. It is serious business! Oil is also a very serious geopolitical issue. It\u2019s not just a game. It\u2019s not just oil wells and J.R. Ewing in Dallas. It is very, very serious — and it\u2019s highly competitive. It\u2019s cutthroat competitive. You can\u2019t make oil. You have to go find it where nature has made it. In some places, it\u2019s hard to get it. Other places, it\u2019s easy. There\u2019s all kinds of competition to get it. Everybody wants to have as much of it as they can. <\/line><\/p>\nThe United States, as you know, has been dependent on foreign oil for the longest time. We\u2019re now approaching a point in time where that will be unnecessary. Now that we can get oil out of shale and now that we can get oil via fracking (and natural gas), we are becoming a net oil and energy supplier. We have everything we need, or soon will, and then some. And it changes the game dramatically. OPEC has never been weaker. OPEC and the Saudis are cutting back on production to try to maintain price. I mean, it is a cutthroat business. <\/p>\n
And you have to go where the oil is. And it\u2019s gonna take you to places that you\u2019d rather not go. It\u2019s gonna take you to countries that are run by absolute reprobates. But that can\u2019t stop you. It\u2019s too crucial. It is much too important. We can\u2019t survive as we know survival without oil, the free flow of oil at market prices. Practically everything else in this world is dependent on that, and so these people at Big Oil who risk capital and time and people in trying to get it are not the bad guys everybody thinks they are. <\/p>\n
Exxon is its own little entity. It has its own state department, for example. It does its own negotiations with other countries, and it cooperates with the United States when necessary, the State Department and so forth. What this massage here means is that all of these experts that Exxon has hired… They\u2019ve got plenty of oil executives. They got plenty of people who know oil. They\u2019ve got… I went to high school with a guy that works for ExxonMobil. What he does is secret. He can\u2019t tell us. <\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been to two high school reunions where he got an emergency call and had to split and go over to Vietnam for some reason. It\u2019s cutthroat. (interrupt) No, this is after the Vietnam War. This would be sometime in the early nineties. My point is that Exxon staffs itself with people who know. They probably have their own version of Tax Defense Partners. I betcha the IRS has an office at ExxonMobil. I betcha the IRS is there every day. <\/p>\n
In fact, I know they are. The IRS, in major corporations, has agents actually on site. The taxes have to be prepared on a daily basis. It\u2019s a whole different world, folks. So they\u2019ve got these people that have experience working with foreign governments all over the world, from the Pentagon, from the CIA, from the State Department. And this passage in the book says that many of these people just do not trust the current State Department because it\u2019s populated with a bunch of liberals and leftists who despise oil and suspect anybody in that business. <\/p>\n
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And they\u2019re right. They don\u2019t need to be surrounding themselves with people that want to harm them or retard what they do or have an animus against them. So they have to work around it. And I will guarantee you that Trump, in listening to Rex Tillerson describe how he has to succeed, what he has to do, I guarantee you Trump was blown away. I\u2019ll bet you anybody would be, to hear what actually is required and necessary to succeed in that business. <\/line><\/p>\nAnd once you hear what\u2019s necessary to succeed in that business, then you say, “Well, is that experience worth anything to me for somebody as secretary of state?” That\u2019s for Trump to decide. We\u2019ll find out if Tillerson\u2019s confirmed and if he gets the job. But the idea that the people opposing him are these lifetime career bureaucrats and diplomats who\u2019ve never done what Tillerson\u2019s done, who may resent what Tillerson does, who may have an animus against Exxon, and we\u2019re supposed to pick people like that? <\/p>\n
This is what Trump\u2019s election means, is that we\u2019re not going to be governed by people like this anymore, at least for a while. We\u2019re not going to be held back. We\u2019re not gonna be governed by a bunch of egghead nobodies who haven\u2019t accomplished anything in the real world. You can have all the academicians and theorists and faculty lounge lizards you want, but until you have practical, real-world experience doing things, you really can\u2019t say that you\u2019re qualified. <\/p>\n
But the left thinks that all you need for qualifications is for somebody to be an appropriately educated egghead and an intellectual with theoretical knowledge about how things work but who have never actually done it because the people who actually do it, why, they\u2019re suspects, they\u2019re very suspicious of them. <\/p>\n
So I\u2019m not one of these people that\u2019s just instinctively opposed to people like those the Trump — I mean, if you voted for Trump, this is what you voted for. If you were excited about Trump, this is what you were excited about. You\u2019re excited about doing this a different way. Folks, we\u2019ve had eight years of abject failure, eight years of abject stagnation, and longer than that, actually. But certainly focused in these last eight years. <\/p>\n
We know how to fail. We know how to retard our growth. We know how to put the country in decline. We know how to penalize America. We know how to run around and feel guilty about America. We need people who look at America and love it. We need people who love and respect America and believe that America\u2019s greatness is the best thing for the world, because it is. It always has been. <\/p>\n
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That\u2019s not a braggadocios statement. We are the people of the world who, because of our freedom, have created a standard of living and a technological innovation record of progress unlike any that has ever been seen, and it is because of our documented freedom in the founding of our country, the belief in the power of individuals pursuing excellence and the best they can be. Doers, shakers, people that make things happen. As opposed to people who look at the United States and think that it\u2019s the problem in the world. <\/line><\/p>\nWant some names? Madeleine Albright. John Kerry. Barack Obama. Valerie Jarrett. Samantha Power. Practically anybody in the Obama administration thinks the United States is the problem in the world and that we\u2019re guilty of something, or maybe a lot of things, and we have a lot of apologies to make and we have a lot of crow to eat. We have quite a bit of our size that needs to be knocked down a peg or two so that we learn what it\u2019s like. <\/p>\n
We don\u2019t need to be led by people like that. We\u2019ve already been there, done that. If you voted for Trump, you voted for a different kind of greatness, a different kind of action, and that\u2019s what this administration is gonna be. My hope is the left isn\u2019t gonna be able to keep up with it. We shall see. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>Here\u2019s some details. And I\u2019ve always liked Tillerson for a host of reasons. But, again, I\u2019ve never stopped to think of Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. I\u2019ve always look at Tillerson as what he is, the CEO of ExxonMobil. The book that Steve Coll wrote is called Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power.<\/a> And he says here that Rex Tillerson\u2019s life has been shaped to a profound extent by two institutions: ExxonMobil and the Boy Scouts of America. <\/p>\n![](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RushCapitalism.jpg\"\/)
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