{"id":259298,"date":"2018-01-04T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=259298"},"modified":"2018-01-05T16:26:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T21:26:42","slug":"day-4-2018-americas-anchorman-returns-to-kick-off-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/01\/04\/day-4-2018-americas-anchorman-returns-to-kick-off-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4, 2018: America\u2019s Anchorman Returns!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Hiya, folks. It is great to be back and I know that you think it\u2019s great that I\u2019m back, and so it\u2019s all great. And, here we are, we\u2019re back, even if it is for just a couple of days. I intended to be off today and tomorrow, but the staff begged me to come back. Broadcast partners begged me to come back. Who else, taking a much-needed, two-week break, would be begged to come back when not much is going on? Me.<\/p>\n<p>And so here I am after having been harassed and begged to come back &#8212; (interruption) Well, I mean the traditional Christmas break, not a whole lot going on out there, and normally this would be a time where everybody would say, &#8220;Go enjoy the full two weeks.&#8221; But I was begged. I was pressured. It started on Tuesday night. You know, I left here and I said, &#8220;Get guest hosts for both weeks.&#8221; And on Tuesday night I get an email, &#8220;You\u2019re gonna be back tomorrow, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-259311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/650-011418-Opening-Hour.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/650-011418-Opening-Hour.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/650-011418-Opening-Hour-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>&#8220;No, who told you I\u2019m coming back tomorrow?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, it\u2019s right here on the schedule.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You got guest hosts for those three &#8211;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, yeah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, then?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And so Wednesday, &#8220;Okay, you\u2019re gonna be back Thursday, right? I mean, you &#8211;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, no. I planned to stay off the whole week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But you have guest hosts?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okay, then. The original plan holds.&#8221; And so the harassment continued and finally here I am. And it\u2019s great to be here.<\/p>\n<p>Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, the email address ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll tell you what I thought about doing, and I mentioned this to Mr. Snerdley. Of course, I\u2019m joking about not much going on. The sad thing about all this is &#8212; it\u2019s not really sad. It\u2019s that <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/01\/04\/everything-ive-heard-about-whats-in-wolffs-book\/\">so much of this stuff that\u2019s being reported I know otherwise<\/a>, or I have heard enough to believe otherwise. It\u2019s a bit of a challenge \u2019cause I don\u2019t really know some of the players involved here very well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-245048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Explaining-the-Medias-Obsession-with-Bannon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Explaining-the-Medias-Obsession-with-Bannon.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Explaining-the-Medias-Obsession-with-Bannon-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>For example, Steve Bannon. I\u2019ve mentioned this a couple times. I never heard of Steve Bannon. Folks, I\u2019m not part of the political world. I\u2019m really not. I know people don\u2019t believe this, but I don\u2019t traffic in it. You know, I don\u2019t talk to people in politics except when they want to be interviewed here or in my newsletter. That\u2019s the only time I talk to them. I\u2019m a nonentity in the fundraising world. And believe me, the fundraising world is politics. And I don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t like being asked for money and I could never be a fundraiser, I could never call friends and people, &#8220;Do you want to donate to whatever \u2019cause,&#8221; cause you always have to pay it back and you always end up being obligated. But there\u2019s something about asking people for money, I\u2019m just &#8212; I\u2019m constitutionally incapable of it anyway. I don\u2019t care what the purpose is, what the cause is, I can\u2019t do it. I\u2019m so old school &#8212; I have to earn it.<\/p>\n<p>So as such I never knew Steve Bannon. Steve Bannon is where he is because somebody gave him the money to run Breitbart, the Mercer family, and I never heard of them. I never heard of any of these people until after the Trump campaign began. Now, some would say, &#8220;You\u2019re a fool to admit this because your audience thinks you\u2019re wired. Your audience thinks you\u2019re in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No, I\u2019m wired with you people. I am wired with what this country is, has been, and should be. But I\u2019m purposely not connected to any of. The first time I met Steve Bannon was with Trump, and it was at Mar-a-Lago back in Feb, almost a year ago now. And he didn\u2019t say two words. It was Trump and Reince Priebus and me walking around Mar-a-Lago talking about things. It was about a month &#8212; I told you about this &#8212; a month after Trump had been inaugurated.<\/p>\n<p>I asked him, &#8220;What\u2019s the biggest surprise?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said,, &#8220;That there\u2019s still so much hatred.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And I said, &#8220;What do you mean?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought after it died down, I thought once I was inaugurated and people came to grips with the fact that I\u2019m actually here that there\u2019d be some unity.&#8221; And I looked at him, I was stunned, I said, &#8220;That\u2019s never gonna happen. I mean, these people are never, ever gonna like you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then Bannon piped up, &#8220;Good. You hear that. You hear that. Hear that?&#8221; And that was it. And then I saw Bannon again in March when we were invited to the White House for dinner. It was a Thursday night, it was March 23rd. And that date, I remember it because &#8212; well, who doesn\u2019t remember when they go to the White House, but it was also the date that the final push for repealing Obamacare didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-228952\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BannonPriebus-1-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BannonPriebus-1-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BannonPriebus-1.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>And during that dinner Bannon and Priebus are walking in reporting various stages of what\u2019s going on on the Hill. We\u2019re having dinner, it\u2019s Vice President Pence and his wife Karen, Kathryn and me and President Trump. And during dinner they\u2019re walking in and explaining updates with the liaison up on Capitol Hill. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the extent of my knowledge of any of these people. I\u2019ve not met the Mercers. All these people are in the news.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I\u2019ve had people tell me about them. I\u2019ve had people who do know them talk to me about them. But then if I repeat that, that\u2019s gossip, you know, which I don\u2019t get into. <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/01\/04\/everything-ive-heard-about-whats-in-wolffs-book\/\">I know Michael Wolff. I saw Michael Wolff, the author of this book<\/a>, at the Ailes memorial. Toward the end of his life Roger had really come to like Michael Wolff and trust him and was talking to him religiously. Yes, it\u2019s true. And Michael Wolff at the time was working with Ailes on what was to be a forthcoming book. My memory\u2019s somewhat sketchy, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a biography or mini-biography or what have you, but Wolff was there.<\/p>\n<p>And he even came to me and said, &#8220;I guess I owe you a bit of an apology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;Why?&#8221; Well, apparently he had reported some things about me in the past that turned out not to be true. I said, &#8220;Get in line. That\u2019s what journalists do is get it wrong where I\u2019m concerned.&#8221; It was a pleasant conversation and so forth. So I know all these people, but on the fringe, you know, on the periphery. And I see all this stuff happen and I\u2019m trying to put it all together like you are.<\/p>\n<p>On the Wolff book, now the president\u2019s lawyer has sent a cease-and-desist letter. That\u2019s the best promotion a book could get! You have your lawyers send the publisher a threatening letter, &#8220;You better no publish that!&#8221; All that does is make everybody, &#8220;Whoa, what is in this sucker?&#8221; They want to go out and read it before it\u2019s published and get copies of it however they can. So that\u2019s the best promotion the book can have. There\u2019s also a cease-and-desist notice to Bannon from President Trump, his lawyer, violating a nondisclosure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-246542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FB-091117-Bannon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FB-091117-Bannon.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FB-091117-Bannon-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Bannon is all over the place. You go back to his 60 Minutes interview where he was praising Trump to the hilt and he was saying that the Russian investigation was bogus and there was nothing to it. And now in this book he\u2019s quoted as saying that Trump and Trump Jr. were committing treason by dealing with the Russians. I never understood half of the president\u2019s staffing. I never understood how he knew these people and ended up choosing them.<\/p>\n<p>And of course the answer is the fund-raising. The Mercers gave Trump $5 million. The Mercers wanted Bannon inside Trump. Trump said, okay, fine, make him strategist. I don\u2019t know if Trump ever even met Bannon before this campaign began. Maybe. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>The stuff that Trump has done in office that he\u2019s put his fingerprints on, that\u2019s bang-up, that\u2019s great guns, more of that, keep it coming. But some of this other stuff &#8212; and I\u2019ve just chalked it up to the fact, okay, I\u2019m not in the loop on this side of things. Purposely I have not put myself there. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m being excluded. It\u2019s that I\u2019m excluding myself. I do not want to be in the fundraiser world. By accident, I don\u2019t want to end up there. And sadly that\u2019s all politics is. Fundraising, bundling, donating, and this kind of thing. That\u2019s why I have to laugh when I\u2019m called the titular head of the Republican Party. I\u2019ve never raised a dime for anybody, other than &#8212; I mean not in a direct sense.<\/p>\n<p>So, anyway, I was just telling Snerdley, you know, what do you want me to talk about, what do you want to hear my opinion on today? I was gonna ask you people to call, what do you want to hear my opinion on because there\u2019s so much stuff out there. That tweet and the nuclear button on the desk, can you have a better illustration of how people still don\u2019t get Donald Trump? And it\u2019s from the entire inside-the-Beltway establishment.<\/p>\n<p>This thing with Trump, I\u2019ve put some things together during the break. I\u2019m constantly working on this, you know, trying to explain the establishment, the elites and their opposition to Trump. And what really caused my latest foray into trying to understand this is that Trump is doing pretty much everything these people say they believe in, and yet they still hate his guts. I said, so what explains that?<\/p>\n<p>This guy\u2019s done more for conservatism in terms of policy implementation and action than any of them ever dreamed possible. To most of these intellectual eggheads, conservatism, sadly, has become an academic exercise. They sit around and talk about it all the time. They sit around and theorize about it all the time, while asking their donors to give them more money so they can keep writing and thinking or publishing their magazines that couldn\u2019t make it in the free market.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-221317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BANNONTIME-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BANNONTIME-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BANNONTIME.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/>So they go out and they sit around and they do all that. Everything they claimed to do over the years or want is happening, pretty much. And they\u2019re abandoning their own policy beliefs that they have been wedded to for years simply because Trump adopts them? What explains this? Class. And by that I mean social class, not behavior, but behavior\u2019s a part of it. Taste.<\/p>\n<p>These are the people growing up who\u2019ve always told us that we must be properly behaved and mannered and all this, and yet they\u2019re the first to want to show up on Bill Maher\u2019s show. The first to want to show up on every liberal talk show where nothing but drudge and garbage, dredge, whatever, shlock is discussed, while telling us we must have the proper temperament and the proper decorum and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>And so that\u2019s what outrages them about Trump. &#8220;He just has such poor taste. Look at the way he speaks, look at the way he looks, McDonald\u2019s in bed at the White House. Ooh, ooh.&#8221; It\u2019s just silly, inconsequential things. But it all adds up to the fact they think they are superior human beings and they simply cannot bring themselves to lower themselves to the barbaric behavioral level of Donald Trump. Even though everything they have claimed or much of everything they\u2019ve claimed to be devoted to policy-wise is being implemented or is closer to being implemented than they ever dreamed would be possible.<\/p>\n<p>So the tweet &#8212; (laughing) &#8212; this little pot-bellied dictator bragging that he\u2019s got a nuke button on his desk while half of his country is starving to death. Well, Trump says, &#8220;You know what, I got a bigger button than you. I got a button and it\u2019s bigger than yours and it works.&#8221; And they act like the greatest insult to human dignity and the presidential regime that has ever happened.<\/p>\n<p>You know another thing they\u2019re mad about? They\u2019re mad that there hasn\u2019t been a similar eruption &#8212; I mean, the left did, of course. But there hasn\u2019t been a nationwide negative reaction to Trump\u2019s tweet. They\u2019re frustrated at that, mad at that. &#8220;Why aren\u2019t people more outraged by this? This is unpresidential. This is unseemly. This is dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These people hang around on Twitter. They see what the sewer it is and what it\u2019s become. And Trump and his little tweet is mild compared to the drivel that populates Twitter each and every day. What Trump said probably wouldn\u2019t cause a ripple in your average Twitter sewer. But, no, he\u2019s the president, he shouldn\u2019t speak this way. I explained this once before. I got the sound bite.<\/p>\n<p>We went back to the Grooveyard of Forgotten Sound Bites. I\u2019ve got it and I explained to people. Trump\u2019s brilliant. He knows who he\u2019s dealing with and how to reach them. And if you\u2019re dealing with lunatics and if you\u2019re dealing with the insane, throw it back at \u2019em. You know, throw a little unpredictability and lunaticism back at them. And it discombobulates \u2019em &#8212; and in fact it is. Kim Jong-un is confused. Kim Jong-un doesn\u2019t know how to deal with Trump. He\u2019s actually calling Washington liberals asking for help in translating, understanding Trump. Not recently, but he did.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-259007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/FB-FB-1222174-Trump-002-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/FB-FB-1222174-Trump-002-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/FB-FB-1222174-Trump-002-1-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Now I understand that they\u2019ve reopened a phone line connection, a hotline between North Korea and South Korea after Trump\u2019s tweet. The stock market\u2019s 25,000 plus. More and more companies are offering bonuses and hiring more and more people after the Trump tax bill was signed into law. The economy is set to boom in 2018 and what are the Democrats getting ready to do? Run on Trump hatred and impeachment the Mueller investigation, the dossier investigation is falling apart. The collusion&#8230; It was all about Carter Page.<\/p>\n<p>Everything about this was about Carter Page. Now that\u2019s fallen apart so they have to go get this drunken Papadopoulos guy with a comment made to some Australian and now that is the primary reason that they want to look into collusion with Russia? I mean, everything they\u2019re doing is coming off the rails. Even though they do run the rails and they can write themselves new ones. I\u2019m talking about Mueller and his people. But I mean, it\u2019s clear that the Steele dossier and everything about it has been phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock &#8216;n\u2019 roller from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s falling apart. The collusion is falling apart. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/455036\/new-york-times-trump-russia-collusion-narrative-reset-george-papadopoulos-carter-page\">The New York Times over the weekend had to reset it and now focus on this Papadopoulos guy<\/a>. Meanwhile, a FISA warrant was probably obtained to spy on the Trump campaign on the basis of a phony opposition research document, the Hillary Clinton campaign paid for. Oh, and the Clinton&#8230; Did you notice they didn\u2019t say &#8220;Bill and Hillary\u2019s house,&#8221; they said &#8220;Hillary\u2019s house&#8221; caught fire in Chappaqua? I didn\u2019t hear any more about it. Was there much damage? Do you know?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-225958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-008-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-008-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-008-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-008.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(interruption) Ohhhh, the guest room? (interruption) I wonder if Hillary had the&#8230; (interruption) What\u2019s her name? What\u2019s the nickname? (interruption) The Energizer bunny may be tied to the bed in there. (interruption) The guest bedroom at Chappaqua is what burned? Oh ho-ho-ho. (interruption) &#8220;Started by a short-circuit&#8221;? Right. In Hillary\u2019s brain. Probably walked in, saw the Energizer bunny there in the guest bedroom and said, &#8220;Whoa!&#8221; Okay, so we are supposed to believe according to Michael Wolff\u2019s book that Donald Trump did not want to win, that Donald Trump did not expect to win, that Donald Trump thought he would lose &#8212; and that was happiness.<\/p>\n<p>He wanted to lose. He wanted to become the most famous guy in the world, but he didn\u2019t want to win. Melania didn\u2019t to want win. Melania was so upset when they won on election night, she was crying. Trump had promised his wife that he would not win. None of them thought they were gonna win. This was nothing more than a giant PR promotion. We learn that Trump suffers from dementia; that he ran a listless campaign. If anything, it wasn\u2019t listless.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; So here we are, day 4, 2018. Orrin Hatch has announced he\u2019s not running again. Mitt Romney supposedly is. Steve Bannon is calling the president\u2019s son &#8220;treasonous.&#8221; You know what? I\u2019m just&#8230; I\u2019ll tell you what I\u2019m gonna do. I\u2019m gonna tell you everything that I heard all about Bannon\u2019s time in the White House. I\u2019m just gonna&#8230; Some of it\u2019s real; some of it you might call gossip. The thing that I think everybody believes and that everybody knows is that most of the leaking that was coming out of the Trump White House was Steve Bannon. Over half of it. And that\u2019s what Don Jr. and Jared&#8230; Well, Don Jr.\u2019s comments primarily. That\u2019s what they\u2019re referring to, and I have that on almost unassailable authority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I intended to be off today and tomorrow, but the staff begged me to come back. Broadcast partners begged me to come back. Who else, taking a much-needed, two-week break, would be begged to come back when not much is going on? 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