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How is everybody everybody OK in there? Really? Really. I'm glad to hear it, Glenn. I'm doing OK as well on this side of the glass. And we have broadcast excellence for you. If you've wondered what broadcast excellence is, it's this program, folks. It's all you have to do to experience it. The telephone number, if you want to be part of it, 800 to eight two two eight eight two. The email address L and I've been at USC.

So yesterday on this program, I'm minding my own business. I literally was minding my own business. I was executing assigned hostilities flawlessly. I had yet to make a mistake. And then out of the blue, I get a question from the program observer, the official program observer, Mr. Snootily, and the the question that I got from Mr. Snugly.

Was are we ever going to be able to win again? And I didn't know what he meant by that. He said, well, are we are we ever going to win Pennsylvania, we're ever going to win some of these blue places? And I said I thought you meant are we ever are we going to win the culture back or are we going to become dominant and beat back the left and the cultural rot that they that they bring us? And that's when I said just trying to answer a question, you know, I get asked questions and I have this fatal flaw, I actually try to answer them.

And most people don't most people evade do they get into double speak? I answer the questions I'm asked. So certainly says, do you ever think we're going to win? And I said, I actually think and I've referenced this I've alluded to this a couple of times. Because I've seen others allude to this. And I've seen quite a few people allude to this over the course of the recent months, maybe six months. I said, I think we could be trending towards secession.

Now, that's not the answer, Mr. Snowden, he thought he was going to get. I said, I see more and more people asking, what in the world do we have in common with people who disagree with us? Where's the overlap? And you know that I've referenced this. How many times have I asked you what is. The overlap, what is it that people on the left, people on the right, is there an overlap? Is there anything we have in common?

And it doesn't look like there is. When you talk about how can make America great again, be controversial, the fact that make America great again is controversial. And riles people up should tell you all you need to know about how much we have in common. And then I mentioned that I have seen I don't know how many people. Responsible people, I have a name to the names here, but but they're certainly not hiding behind their comments.

I've seen it written on Twitter, I've seen it written on various blogs, hot air power line, how distant and separated, how much more separated our culture is becoming politically. And I've seen people speculate that there cannot be a peaceful coexistence of two completely different theories of life, theories of government, theories of how we manage our affairs.

That we can't be in this dire a conflict without something giving somewhere along the way. And then I reiterated that I know that there's a sizable and growing sentiment for people who believe that we're headed, whether we want to get there or not, toward recession. I didn't advocate for it. I never would advocate for secession. I'm simply repeating what I have heard. Well, now that has gone viral, apparently. It has gone viral that I am advocating for secession.

And I want to read something to you here from Freeda Powers, she's writing at at Bismack Review. It's just a little paragraph. It's all on this. That I just shared with you. She says the Limbaugh clearly stated he thinks the nation's trending towards secession was not advocating for it. But the left anyway, jumped on his remarks to bash him from everything from sedition to treason, talk of Civil War found its way onto Twitter, where the phrase was trending mainly triggered by the ongoing election battle.

But also many of the social media platforms accused Limbaugh of saying something he didn't. That is the key. I have been accused and this is nothing new either. I've been accused of saying something I didn't say in this case. I have not, did not and would not advocate for secession. You people know what I'm about. How many times have I said it? The objective here is a gigantic army of informed voters who win elections. That we have to have political victory, that we have to beat them back politically at the ballot box.

That's been my entire. Reason for being here and and in the process, informing and educating people about what liberalism is and what communism is, what socialism is, so that they'll be properly informed to be able to reject it, which is crucially important right now because more and more people are signing onto it. More and more people think socialism is great. We just haven't tried it right on the right. People had enough money behind it and and all of that.

So if any of you have been caught up in all this, if you get in a Twitter war and this and that and the other thing.

I simply referenced what I have seen other people say. About how we are incompatible as currently divided and that secession is something that people are speculating about. I am not advocating it. I have not advocated it, never have advocated it and probably wouldn't. That's not 32 years, that's not the way I've decided to go about. Handling disagreements with people on the left, I just think they need to be beaten, they need to be defeated how many times over and over they need to be defeated and in more than one election.

So anyway, that's that. I wanted to get that out of the way and clear it up for anybody who is under any kind of a misunderstanding. Isn't it amazing what has become news? The Hunter Biden story is news. And I predicted this, I told you I predicted that once the election was over, guess what? The Biden story is going to percolate up and it's going to become prominent. And why is that? Because they're going to be looking for ways the Democrats are going to be looking for ways to, what shall we say, nudge plugs out of the way.

It's amazing to watch how this is happening then Eric Swalwell sleeping with the Chinese honey pot by the name of Bang Bang and he didn't see your coming. This is the oldest trick in the book, but it seems like it works every time they try it on these stupid Democrats. So we got Swalwell sleeping with the Chinese, honey. Bang, bang. We got Hunter Biden, who now has been exposed at last or again. And now the Democrats are getting ready to throw Dianne Feinstein overboard.

Now, this is something that was also percolating out there underneath the surface prior to the election based on the fact that she's getting up there in age and she may not be coherent and so forth.

What this is about is she gave Lindsey Graham amnesty a hug after the Amirkhani Barrett hearings. And the left is entitled, You Can't Go Hug Him. You wonder if you lost your mind. You can't hug that guy. And then she said this might have been the best confirmation hearings we've ever had. And the left saying, how in the world can this woman say that we lost the battle? Amy, Connie Barrett is going to get confirmed. Dianne Feinstein's missteps raise a painful age question among the Senate Democrats.

This is Jane Mayer. At The New Yorker in a hearing on November 17th, Dianne Feinstein, senior Democrat Senate Judiciary Committee. Eighty seven years old, the oldest member of the Senate, grilled a witness reading from a sheaf of prepared papers. She asked Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter. Whether his company was doing enough to stem the spread of disinformation, to stem the spread of disinformation, he's doing exactly what the Chinese want, is doing exactly what the Democrats want.

He's not stemming the spread of disinformation. He is promoting it. Elaborating, she read in full the tweet that President Trump had disseminated on November 7th, falsely claiming to have won the presidential election. She then asked Jack Dorsey if Twitter's labeling of the tweet as disputed, had adequately alerted readers that it was a bald faced lie. Well, this time after Dorcy responded, Feinstein asked him the same question again, reading it word for word along with a Trump tweet.

Her inflection was eerily identical, Feinstein looked and sounded just as authoritative, seemingly registering no awareness that she was repeating herself. Verbatim, Dorsey graciously answered the question all over again, as though he had not just heard it, but he just had. So the long knives are out, Swalwell. Hunter, Biden, Dianne Feinstein, the Democrats are getting ready to clean, not House, I don't know, but this is all predictable, by the way, and I did predict it pretty well.

I'll get to the sound bites document that grab audio sound bite number one. I continue to live rent free. In the sizable skull of Barack Hussein Obama, Tuesday was the P and America virtual game of Penn. It's a literary group.

And Obama was there, he received the Voice of Influence Award. And during the Q&A, the presenter of the award, historian Ron Chernow. So I'm wondering how much of this unusual versatility that you've had as a politician being able to speak to different groups, how much of it stemmed from your unique bi racial identity and the fact that you were a product of two very dissimilar families?

I ended up getting enormous support in these pretty conservative, rural, largely white communities when I was a senator. And that success was repeated when I ran for president in the first race in Iowa by my second year in office. I'm not sure if I could make that same connection because now those same people are filtering me through Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and an entire conservative media infrastructure that was characterizing me in a way that suggested I look down on those folks or I had nothing in common with them.

I said, delusional.

You're the guy that called them bitter clingers. What are we supposed to do? Mr. President, you call these very people bitter clingers, you said they hang around in church, that they go grab their guns and they sit around and they talk about religion and they talk about people that don't like them. They talk about people who don't look like them. They talk about people who make them nervous. You invented that. You created that. Remember, you were caught in a video.

You were raising money out in San Francisco. A journalist out there was recording the video of your remarks, and that's where you came up with all this. You defined for everybody, the bitter clingers. None of us created that. But he's trying to say that I, along with Fox News, broke the connection he had with conservatives, he never had a connection with conservatives. This is just delusional, it's purposefully delusional, and he look, he knows it as well as I do.

He's never had a he's never had a connection with conservatives. He's never wanted to have a connection with the only conservatives. He wanted to have a connection with where the David Brooks types. Who he once had dinner with, and David Brooks, a man, do you see the crease in that guy's slacks? This guy's going to be a great president. I think they had dinner at George Will's house and they were all just happy as they could be, because they're all intellectuals and they're all from the faculty lounge, they're all from the establishment and they're all looking forward to a wonderful president that we just got rid of that hayseed cowboy, George W.

Bush.

And now we're going to get a real intellectual in here. That's right. We're going to get a real intellectual in there and we're going to get somebody that's going to really turn this country around. And of course, we all know what happened. The economy came to a screeching halt. It was bad news. Obamacare was a flawed rollout, but he is the one. Who defined? Bitter clinger, he is the one who characterized them. He's the guy.

Who made it known that he had no love lost or respect for any of those people, rural Americans?

Who are conservatives and not to try to pass this off on me or Fox News. We got time for. Yeah, we do. But I'm going to wait another soundbite.

It can wait. Let's take a break. Let's not back ourselves up too much. We'll be back here in just a minute.

Here is Nia Malika Henderson. She was on CNN yesterday afternoon in the league. I was in the lead with Jake Tapper. He said to her, she's the she's the senior political correspondent for CNN. At 10 percent, Senator Ron Johnson is not ruling out challenging the election results in January when Congress meets to accept the Electoral College vote. This is crazy. This is crazy, but it wouldn't change the results of the election. So why is he going to do it?

It's the same as what's going on with this lawsuit out of Texas. They want to be on Fox News. They want to be on Rush Limbaugh. They want to win re-election. I think they initially thought that if they show loyalty to this president, he would, you know, at some point leave the scene and maybe they could run for president. That base within come to them. That doesn't look like it's happening.

How does somebody like this get hired for political analysis? And with all due respect, that is an and there's not a single thing about that sound bite makes any sense. It's the same as what's going on with a lawsuit in Texas, they want to be on Fox News, they want to be on Rush Limbaugh, there isn't anybody who is on Rush Limbaugh. We don't have guests here. There's not a single person in the political. Class that does anything they do to get on Rush Limbaugh now, they might do what they do hoping and I will talk about them, but nobody gets on this program.

Very few people do. She didn't even know that. But that's not the worst of it. They want to win re-election, they initially thought if they show loyalty to Trump and he'd, you know, leave the scene and maybe they could run for president, that Trump's base would then come to them. This is so nonsensical, then it's it's laughable. That Ron Johnson is that is it Ron Johnson's actually doing all of this hoping and he'll be showing loyalty to Trump, and that'll mean Trump will leave, Trump will concede trouble go away, trouble not run trouble, not ruffle feathers.

And then Trump's base will end up supporting Ron Johnson.

That's that's the I don't think Mr. Johnson is thinking that way at all, but that's nevertheless the. Insightful political analysis that CNN viewers are treated to, here's Dan Abrams on his show on Sirius Satellite Radio about the Texas case.

Here's Rush Limbaugh on his show. And look, Limbaugh has in the past indicated that he gets that it's over.

Here's Rush Limbaugh, folks.

There's optimism out there like you. You might not believe or expect.

He's talking about optimism about Trump actually winning. And that's the problem.

Let me be clear. The Supreme Court is not going to take the Texas case. Trump is not going to win the Texas case. It's an absurd lawsuit. It's not happening.

I'm worried that we're sort of in this purgatory now where you're giving this false hope to these people who are many of them appear to be on the edge already. It's over.

So once you people out there, you are unstable, you're unbalanced, you're teetering on the edge. You're going back and forth. You're about to fall off the edge.

And I'm trying to keep you from falling off the ledge by giving you false hope because you're too stupid to figure things out on your own. The views expressed by the host on this program documented to be almost always right, almost always right, ninety nine point eight percent of the time. That's from the latest opinion on it from the Sullivan Group, Rancho Cucamonga, California. We're having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have here, despite the fact that people on the left for 30 years.

Continue to make things up about me. They continue to put words in my mouth that were never there, that I never said I and I just got to know my brother, I'd love to collect these. Yeah, we all would. But how do we stop it? There's no this is a case in point. You can't stop it. There's no way you can stop it. All you have to do is, in my case, we got the archives go back and prove them wrong.

The real reason this is a big deal is because it's right here in this headline at Bismack Review. And there's all kinds of stories on this. Rush Limbaugh hits a nerve.

Believes America likely heading toward secession, never advocated for it, never promoted it, never said that I think it's a good thing, never got close to that. Yet that's what's all over social media that I'm leading the movement for it, that I'm in charge of it, that I think it ought to happen. And I want to knock the left heads all over the country, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But it hit a nerve.

Why did it hit a nerve?

What is it about this that hits in? Thirdly, why did this hit a nerve?

Mm hmm. That's exactly right, because there is a deep division in this country that nobody has a solution for. Nobody has a solution for it when the left. It's really no more complicated than this, how do we go about growing our ranks? How do we do it? Those of us on the right, we try to persuade, do we not? We enter into discussions, call them debates, if you will, but throughout the year, even years, that there are not elections, we are constantly attempting like on this program and Fox News elsewhere.

To articulate the superiority of what we believe because we believe it's the best for the most, we believe conservatism economically is the best for the most. We believe that conservatism culturally is by far the best for the most. But we're not bullies, we don't force it on anybody. We're not intolerant, we do not tell people who disagree with us to shut up, we don't burn down their businesses, we don't riot or loot their businesses. We don't shoot them.

We don't go out and get in their faces, destroy their property and tell them they have to agree with us or else. We don't tell them they can't come to various universities and go to school, they're not, we engage in the arena of ideas. It's where we've always been. We engage in the arena of ideas, and we do it in the hopes that we, with consistency and time, will persuade. Millions of people to join us, to see it our way.

Without the use of force, without the power of government behind us, without making any kind of demands, we simply. Articulate what we believe to be the best, and we come up with ways we hope are persuasive, that will cause people to agree with the president, Trump has had amazing success with this if you look at his election returns. In the 2020 election, look at the support he got from African-Americans, look at the support he got from Hispanics.

He even got the uptick in support from women in certain parts of the country. How did this happen while he was out doing campaign rallies up to five times a day and people were watching, he also, in addition to what he was saying in terms of being persuasive, he had a record. He was actually implementing policies very favorable to those groups. They were made aware of it. So this was the for lack of a better term, this was the art of persuasion.

This is how we go about growing our ranks. A lot of people in our society are getting very impatient with this, by the way. They think it's too slow, that it's too inefficient and it's not succeeding with a number of enough people. How does the left go about it? How does the left we're trying to find areas of commonality here. So how does the left go about growing their ranks? Well, the one thing they don't do.

They don't enter the arena of ideas with the intention of winning debates or with the intention of persuading people that their view is right.

What do they do? They enter the arena of ideas. As bullies. And their primary objective is to silence us. Not debates, not to prove that their beliefs are superior because they're not and they can't. So they bully people into submission, they frighten people, they are intimidating people in the ballot box, no matter where you go, the left is there to scare you and to frighten you, to try to intimidate you into shutting up. They resent the idea that they even have to win elections.

They resent the idea that they have to even play in the arena of ideas. That to them is something is beneath them, so there's nothing in common about how we even seek to grow our ranks. They're not interested in being right. They're not interested in prevailing in any kind of debate. They just want to use force and intimidation and bullying tactics to get people who disagree with them to shut up.

To not stand up for what they believe, that's how they go about it. So in in these two scenarios, tell me where we have anything in common. Other than the objective, but I would say even the objective could be ifI. The left is not really trying to grow its ranks, they don't think they should have to. The left is interested in ruling. Whether they are 10 percent of the population or whether they're 40 percent, they want to rule and they will go about achieving that however they can.

But it's not about entering the arena of ideas to persuade people to join them. If it happens, it's icing on the cake. But where is there anything in common there, folks? I don't see it. And it's for that, and that's just one little area and there's all kinds of go issue by issue, go policy by policy. Ask yourself what we have in common. You will not find much overlap.

That used to not be the case.

It used to be that, you know, you go back to the 40s, World War Two, even into the 60s with Vietnam, there was something there was at least something that if America was attacked, we came together. That may not be the case now. And that's why there are people who I hear talking about. Secession as a natural outgrowth of the rift and the partisanship and the distancing that is occurring. Between the various ideological theories that are governing American politics today, no more complicated than that.

Back before the break here to Eric Swalwell and his Chinese honey pot bang bang. Yesterday, Axios reporter Jonathan Swan blasted one of Swalwell claims, one of Swalwell claims to try to get out of this mess. Swalwell is blaming Trump. He says Trump is behind the story that Swalwell was having an affair with bang bang. That Trump leaked all this stuff, that it's not true and he's fed up with it now. Jonathan Swann of Axios, who is no friend of Trump's, by the way.

Just slapped back at Swalwell and said this, that he's saying is completely absurd.

Jonathan Swan said that Swalwell claimed that Trump is the reason for his troubles is risible. He said, just use your common sense. Even Swalwell acknowledges that he first found out Axios was on this in 2019. I know my colleague at Axios, his timeline is wrong, he says July 20, 19, it's not July. But she's been working on this for more than a year, so just anyone who has any passing understanding of how Trump World works, do we really think that they put out some opposition research?

I.e., leaking the story about Swalwell in the affair with a Chinese honeypot named Bang Bang. Do we really think that the Trump team would put that story out and then wait a year?

After an election to leak it. It's absurd. The Trump campaign can't wait longer to day if they leak something like this out. They would certainly not wait until after the election. Give me a break, Swanton said, this is completely absurd.

So not even the drive by media, not all of them anyway, are rallying to Swalwell side. A lot of them are a lot of them are.

Major drive by media has ignored Swalwell involvement with Bang Bang. Daily Caller has a story media largely ignores the report of Swallow's involvement with suspected Chinese honey pot. ABC, CBS, NBC did not report the news on their morning or evening shows for the entirety of the day Tuesday.

The New York Times, The Washington Post did not report on the story, CNN did not do anything on air or on its online website. But Axios, who originally reported the story, did so now Swalwell is having to come out, defend himself. He's blaming Trump and so forth.

I got to take a brief break. We'll come back and get started with the followers.

Many on the social media platform accused Limbaugh of saying something he didn't.

I got that could be a it could be something that is one of these things is always attached to you as you go through life saying something he didn't. Limbaugh.

Accused Limbaugh attacked, Limbaugh attempted to be destroyed. I'm saying something he didn't. OK, back to the phones. Here is Rejean in Fort Lauderdale. I'm glad you called. You're up first today. Hi.

Hi. Brush, let's bottom line. What's going on? The bottom line is the American people have been betrayed and abused. Let's look at this election happen. The people wanted Donald J. Trump. That was the popular vote. You know what? That did happen. And that was right. Hook number one. Then we find out there's election fraud and all the nonsense that the polling that was that was a break hook. No, to the knockout punch in the gut was all of this corruption, the bang, bang, bang, bang, the Britos.

We have been failed and we know it. We're not stupid. And you know what? If the Supreme Court doesn't uphold the law of the land and take the Texas case and rule as it should, you know what the questions the people are not happy. And you know what this is the Republicans versus liberals. It's a 50 50 or 51 49. That is total crap. The majority of this country are conservatives and they love what Donald Trump has been doing.

And we don't know any further than that. Let's talk about liberals and how they have a say in this. And they have a saying that the mainstream media with this propaganda makes it seem like the liberals are this mighty force. It's total crap. So we. So the best thing about this election was everything slithered out from under the rock. OK, the Democrats, we knew who they were. Now we got the rhinos, the turncoat people that we've elected to represent us as Republicans.

We know who they are now. That's beautiful. The corruption's coming out. And you know what? It's about time that the veil was lifted and we know who all the scumbags are. So my question is, sir, you talking about succession? What do you think the American people are going to do when you have the majority of the country and now everything's leaking out? What do you think the people are going to do?

Well, we do. I didn't know that we were going to get to a question because you were being very comprehensive in what you think.

I mean, you're the expert.

But I mean, I just want to say that I just feel like it's well, I know I am the expert, but but you all you all are treated to my opinions here countless times a day. You have just had a good riff here on what you think the American people want and what they did, what their express desires are, and you think that they've had an election stolen from them. So given everything you said, what do you think people are going to do?

Well, you know what? I come from a family now that I live in northwest Florida near the dust area, and its home country is conservative. And guess what? We go to church and we're nice to one another. And you know what? We're respectful. It doesn't matter your race, it doesn't matter your your color doesn't matter your religion. We treat people like human beings. But, you know, I don't know what people are supposed to do.

You know, you hear people going take up arms. We're going to do this. We're going to do that. But it's going to be a problem. And I'll tell you something else. If the Supreme Court, which is the highest court in the land, does not uphold constitutional law, which is the highest law of the land, and what the hell's going to happen, the lower court? What else should I be a law abiding citizen?

Hey, look, these are all these are all valid, valid questions. It's you still, but you're not answering the question and time is dwindling. What do you think people are going to do if everybody agreed with you, if the majority anyway not represented by the election results? Because everybody sitting here today, we're being told that Biden won. It's only a matter of time. Trump's got no choice. Texas case going nowhere, no case going anywhere.

Biden's going to be the next president for a couple of minutes until we get Commy in there. What do you think people are going to do?

You know, I wish I could answer that question, I just I wish I had the intelligence, but I can see some stupid on National Day, but I think I wish I do. I wish I knew there was something we can do. What are we going to do? Boycott. I mean, first of all, with me.

No, but you you started out. You started out. The American people have had it. We've had it. We've been jobbed. We know it. We've had elections taken away from us. We know it. We wanted Trump. We love Trump. Trump loves us.

But the odds are using intelligence guided by experience, the odds are nobody is going to do anything. You say I'm the expert. I don't I know I'm up against it on time, I have to take a break.

I promise I'll wrap this up soon, so stay with us.

You know, we had to turn this into a game. What are you going to do if Trump does not win this election? If if the Supreme Court does not take the case, if whatever you're expecting to happen does not happen, what are you going to do? Because that's what every call I've had the last two days is adding up to what's going to happen. What are we going to do, what the American people going to do? We'll be back in a minute.

Stay with us.

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OK. The the Texas Supreme Court case all over the ballpark on the audio sound bites, the left is of the belief that nothing is going to happen if the Supreme Court is not even going to take the case. Others think that it will be taken up and that it's going to be proven beneficial to Trump and so forth, and so we'll not know for a while, supposedly we get a decision tomorrow. Let's grab audio, sound bite number number six, Ken Paxton, who is working on the case.

He was on with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox Business Network Mornings with Maria today. Question, do you think that you're going to hear from the Supreme Court by the end of the week?

I certainly think we will. I'm certainly hopeful. I think they realize, as more states have filed with this, that this is a monumental issue that only they can address. And literally it's true. It's a fact only they can address this. When we can't go to a state court, we can't go to a federal district court. We have one place. They have the responsibility for the Constitution. We're asking for them to hear the case.

So she says we'll explain the genesis of the suit.

The genesis really came out over the last six months for Texas. We were defending against these lawsuits to change our laws by judges, by local officials, whether it related to mail in ballots, whether it related to signature verification. We ended up winning 12 lawsuits. We won them all and we protected our elections. So we in Texas didn't end up with the same type of situation that Georgia, Wisconsin ended up with. But then it seemed wrong to us that my voters are now disenfranchised in a national election where other states didn't follow state law.

Right, so it would seem to be a slam dunk that the course the court would take the case because there are clear constitutional violations here. 17 states support the Texas Supreme Court lawsuit. This is a story Dallas Morning News GOP controlled states filed motions yesterday backing Texas long shot legal effort. Missouri's attorney general filed an amicus motion Wednesday afternoon in support of Texas, joined by counterparts from 16 other states. They are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma.

South Carolina. South Dakota. Tennessee. Utah.

West Virginia. The twenty three page motion urges the court to hear Texases allegations, arguing that they are not meddling in other states internal affairs. They're just protecting the value of their own electors.

Again, what this is about, you boil it down to its essence, these four states. Changed election law in violation of the way election law is changed, according to the state constitutions of these states. Only the state legislatures can change election law in these states and the state legislatures have had nothing to do with the changes that took place in practically every state that's in question here. The secretary of state, like in Pennsylvania, Boockvar, whatever her name is, or other people within the governor's lieutenant governor, in some cases, the governor and others took it upon themselves to arbitrarily change the way electors are chosen.

The electors who actually the people who elect the president. States convene on December 14th and they conduct the. The tabulation of electoral votes, which follows the popular vote in each state. So the. Bottom line here is that constitutionally, if that's the if that's the focus, then the Constitution has clearly the U.S. Constitution has been violated wantonly here by these states and Texas is saying we're not this is not about let me be very clear about this, too.

Texas is saying we're not trying to do this to get you to elect Donald Trump. We're not here for you to overturn the election results. We're not doing this because we want you to throw out the election. What we want you to do is to penalize these states who have changed the electoral law illegally. The US Constitution is hanging in the balance here because if these four states are allowed to get away. With changing something as fundamental as how presidential electors are selected state by state, then the electors in our states are not safe.

That's why 17 states have joined Texas here. It's all about the United States Constitution and maintaining it, maintaining its integrity, its primacy. Now, these other states engaged in this activity because we all know what went on, we all know that they stopped counting at the same time, we all know that there was enough. We all know these states are scared to death what was happening with Trump's lead, they had to stop the count, they had to go find votes.

And in the process, they changed election law. And the state of Texas is trying to make sure the Supreme Court understands the gravity of it. Now, the opponents here says there's nothing to see. This is not a serious violation. That court's not even going to take this case. That's how weak it is. President Trump has asked to join Texas in the Supreme Court bid to undo the Biden win, although people will tell you in Texas that's not what they're actually aiming.

That could be a byproduct, but it's not the reason they're doing what they're. This is very important to understand.

They're not asking the court to pick a winner, they're not asking the court to overturn an election. You see, they think that'll happen if they get a ruling in their favor anyway. President Trump yesterday filed a motion to join Texas's longshot effort, it says here to have the Supreme Court effectively reverse Biden's win.

Trump earlier in the day vowed to join that case, adding that he or his campaign will also ask to join lawsuits in a number of other states as part of his attempt to reverse the November 3rd election results. Trump is acting in his personal capacity as a presidential candidate, seeks to intervene in order to protect his unique and substantial personal interests as a candidate for re-election. Twenty seven Republican lawmakers have requested a special counsel to investigate the election. Texas Representative Lance Gooden.

Twenty six other House Republicans have written a letter to President Trump requesting that he ordered the attorney general, William Barr, to appoint a special counsel to investigate the fraud in the 2020 election. Now, my question was, where are the other Republicans? Twenty seven sounds like a big number, but where the heck are the others? Don't they realize what if the Democrats are allowed to get away with stealing the White House, they're never going to stop stealing elections.

What I don't understand what people think is going on here. This is not your average run of the mill 50 years ago, the debtor voting, and that's why we lost an election, there is something far greater going on here. Far more important going on here, and you know what, the American people, as always, are way ahead of the political class on it. I know I have I have lamented countless times you've heard me say it, the political class, the elected political class of Republicans, the rhinos, the never Trump.

They don't think there's a crisis at all, folks, they don't think the country's in crisis. They didn't think that the attempt to get rid of Trump with a coup, a literal coup based on nothing that entire made up out of nothing, Russian collusion story. There's nothing to see here. There is no crisis. There's no there's no danger. Meanwhile, there are voters. The the American people think that there is a major threat. And they're right.

And the threat is. To the country at large and to our culture, to Western civilization, to the kind of country we're going to be, are we going to continue to be the country of the founding? Are the communists going to succeed? Make no mistake. The left, however, you wish to define it, but they're not just the Democrats and they're not just a bunch of 60s hippies anymore. This has become a full fledged battle between socialists and communists on one side and us.

On the other and the fact that Republicans don't see it. The fact that elected Republicans I'm talking about establishment Republicans call them rhinos or whatever, they don't see it.

I don't know how you are. You miss it. But I think it boils down to the fact that they don't want to see it, they don't want to think the country is in crisis, they don't want to think the country is threatened, they don't want to believe any of this. So they just chalk it up to us being a bunch of kooks.

A bunch of scaremongers, we don't really know what's going on because of people like us, the civility is gone from our politics and we don't we don't speak politely to each other anymore.

And we're not respectful of our opponents anymore. It's just so sad. And we must fix. And that's there's no time for any of these niceties. All there's an ongoing threat. And it's been out there for a while. A threat to this country and what kind of country it's going to be. Will it remain the country of our founding? Because if it doesn't, let me tell you what's going to happen. You remember the name John O'Sullivan. John O'Sullivan is a former aide to Lady Thatcher in the U.K., he was editor at at National Review under William F.

Buckley for the longest time. I'm looking for the quote that I want to attribute to him. I can do it myself, but I want to find the exact quote. But it's buried here somewhere. Bottom line is this. He came up with the osullivan theorem. And it is this any organization, any group of people that is not exclusively. Explicitly. Conservative every day will eventually become liberal. That's the natural flow, that's the natural tendency to conservatives, in other words, is a daily commitment.

Conservatism is a daily commitment to its principles and ideals. It's a commitment every day to make as much of your life and your business in whatever conservative in values as you can. Because if that doesn't happen, you or your organization, your company, your club, whatever, will eventually become liberal.

And it's true. And that's where we are now, we have the Republican Party in significant membership, significant parts of it, not seeing the threat or if they see it, not wishing to acknowledge it. And if they do not actively support, advance, explain, promote conservatism on a daily basis, then they will become liberal.

They will they will gradually lose whatever it is about them that are conservative or that is conservative. But many of them are not that conservative anymore anyway. But it doesn't matter because they are being replaced.

There's massive numbers of young conservatives out there Turning Point USA is one such organization, but there are countless. Organizations and groups and rallying efforts out there, young conservatives are getting involved. Because they understand the threat. They believe in the founding of the country, they know American history, they want to maintain it. They do not want to see their futures destroyed with the communists effectively winning control of the country, which is what we're up against and the reason we are here.

The reason we've gotten to this point. Is because over a number of years, even decades. Not enough Republicans understood the threat. Not enough Republicans understood who the left really was and what their objectives have always been. When they were told that this is what the left is about, oh, they make fun of people who believe that you just, you know, you got to shut up Rush or something like a kook. That's not what the left is about.

Come on, don't join that wacko bunch. But that's exactly why we're where we are. Because not enough people on our side have understood the threat. And O'Sullivan's law is in the process. Of demonstrating itself each and every day here. As days go by and conservative organizations fail to be conservative day in and day out, they lose their conservatism and gradually evolve or devolve actually toward liberalism.

Let me take a quick time out, folks. We'll get back to the phones right after this.

By the way, a great illustration of the application of O'Sullivan's law is the fact that how in the hell do we lose Christmas in our country? How did that happen? It's because not enough people stood up for conservatism and conservative values. Now, I know you're saying, wait a minute, Rush. Christmas is a conservative. It ended up being who was it that tried to throw Christmas out of our culture? The left, the Democrats. Who was it who tried to save it?

It was us. It was conservatives. Conservatives are trying to say virtually every institution and tradition that have defined this country's greatness, the left is who was trying to abolish all of them. So that's how they become ideological. So O'Sullivan's law, if you do not actively support, enforce, implement whatever conservatism on a daily basis, you will eventually lose your organization to liberalism. It's just it's the natural flow, you can see it with your kids, you can see it.

Have you raised them as conservatives? Right. How many of you have raised your kids as rock ribbed conservatives and you're very proud of the way they turned out, the day comes, they have to go away to an institution of higher learning and within six months they come home. And all of what you taught them is out the window and they think you're a fool. It's all it's taken six months, they've gone to a university where conservatism is mocked, laughed and made fun of, it certainly isn't reinforced.

It's not taught your lifetime. You're 16, 18 years of raising them out the window. That's how rapidly it vanishes. That's how you lose Christmas, that's how you lose Thanksgiving. Now look what's happening now. We've got covid-19 in these left wing communist governors and mayors are succeeding. In telling people they can't celebrate Thanksgiving, otherwise they might spread the virus, can't celebrate Christmas, can't travel, you can't have more than one household, maybe two at home with the same time during the holidays.

Who the hell says? It's right in front of us what they're attempting to do. There's now there's there's utter defiance of this to their people. Have you noticed they're telling these people to go to they're not putting up with this at all. There there are sheriffs out in California refusing to enforce these ridiculous requirements. You're very proud of us why we're running the very special program, we've got Rush Limbaugh Dotcom at the Rush Limbaugh store honoring America's police, law enforcement.

They're under the gun, but they are refusing to enforce some of these anti-American orders to tell people they can't go to church on Christmas, to tell people that assembling in a house of worship is the greatest way to spread death. How utterly offensive. And I'm just I'm I'm happy to see that there are conservatives all over the country beginning to push back and stand up to this stuff.

It's happening, you don't see news stories about it, but it is look at this news, some bands, indoor services, multi household gatherings through Christmas in most of California. Just amazing. And if you're not going to stand up for it, if you're not going to defend it, they're going to take it away, which is exactly where we are going to go. I'll be right back. Stay with us.

I'll tell you where else O'Sullivan's law is happening, ladies and gentlemen, none other than at Fox News. And I happen to have here in my formerly nicotine stained finger.

I have a piece here from The American Spectator, it is written by Lou Aguilar or ADR. I'm not sure I pronounce it. And the headline of the piece is like the other networks, they were broken by Trump, who understands the TV business better than any of them. Now, I want to read to you O'Sullivan's law, because it is found in this story. To cite the constantly correct O'Sullivan's Sullivan's first law, which was written by John O'Sullivan, all entities that are not explicitly rightwing will become left wing over time.

It's true, conservatism is a. It's a daily thing, it's a daily application, it is a daily commitment, that's why I've always said liberalism is almost most gutless choice. You can make it the easiest thing in the world. You have to do anything. You don't have to solve anything. You have to fix anything. You just have to see suffering. Go home.

My God, look out the door. And you're a good liberal. You have to fix it, all you have to do is make people think you care, but you haven't done diddly squat. Other than notice it and everybody notice is suffering, but the the people actually come up with ways to resolve it, to solve it, to fix it, to make people better. Why that requires a daily application of a set of beliefs.

So let me share with you some pull quotes from this story, because it's many of you are going to agree with this. I'll get back to the phones here in just a minute. I know I was going to do that after the break, but it is the Fox News story where I found the osullivan law.

Let me start with the most astonishing example of media suicide in my lifetime, writes Mr. Aguilar, that of the Fox News Corporation. Donald Trump broke every other news entity even before he took office. CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the rest. They've always been left wing only with an illusory veneer of neutrality. Donald Trump smashed that veneer accurately, calling them fake news amid their swirl of lies about him.

Russian campaign collusion, the neo-Nazis, fine people hoax that never happened, the impeachment unworthy phone call, the Ukraine, the botched handling of covid, all of these phony allegations about Trump.

The visionary Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch built the Fox News Channel as a singular center right alternative to the mainstream vortex. An oasis for discourage conservatives, the creation paid off when Fox won higher ratings and greater profit than its cable news rivals combined. Ironically. They also made the same hubristic mistake the other media sources did. Before the Fox News Channel went live in 1996, the belief that people had nowhere else to go and that belief overtook Fox. And they are governed by it today.

From the height of success, they dismissed. The once week competition of Newsmax, now they're finding out the hard way that the house that Roger built is full of drafts and aband dinners are taking shelter elsewhere. Newsmax ratings have skyrocketed since August. They're up to 800000. At last check. And this past Monday, Newsmax Greg Kelly reports, outdrew the Fox News Channel at the same hour, 7:00 p.m. in the prized demographic of 25 54. So the the bottom line is this, this author, Mr.

Aguilar, believes that from the moment Fox hired Donna Brazile to the moment they kept giving Juan Williams more prominence in these Washington Post reporters to show up and so forth and so on, that it was only a matter of time.

Before O'Sullivan's law settled in here, see if this paragraph something you agree with, like a million loyal former viewers, I disgustedly watched Fox install Donna Brazil.

As their new liberal commentator to back up the insufferable Juan Williams, I watched him boost the China virus doomsday panic. I watched fake objective anchor Chris Wallace transform into a rabid Trump sniping chipmunk. This is Lou Aguilar recently reading this, do you see how many of you agree with his watch normally staid the anchor, Melissa Francis block Newt Gingrich from linking.

George Soros to riot supporting blue state AGs and I watch business anchor Neil Cavuto cut off a White House press conference because he didn't like in his address. I watched him call Arizona for Biden on election night before anybody else did. I watched him call the election for Biden to refer to him as president elect minus any official recognition. I watched them ridiculed Trump's campaign, perfectly valid remedial fight with reporter Kristin Fisher, openly insulting the Trump legal team's press conference. He goes on and on here, it's it's it's an illustration of the.

Application of O'Sullivan's law, any rate, I got time to go back to the phones and still maintain that commitment.

So we do. Frankin Long Valley, New Jersey, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the program, sir.

Megadose Russian. And I pray for you every day. Thank you. Thank you, sir. In politics into your opening monologue. Well, not really over, but early in the program, you were talking about the difference between the left and the right and the way they act. There's only two things in politics that when tactics and policies, the left does not have policies that will win. Not in our country yet. Not if they stand up there and truly, you know, express their policies.

They use tactics to win. The right has always been out there talking about policy, what they're going to do after they got elected, getting into the minutia. And basically that's why Romney and McCain lost. Trump came along, took normal conservative policies, put them out there, but he implemented tactics with those. And that's why they hate him so much, because he exposed really the way to win in politics. You need tactics. I sat with Romney for months before the election at a private breakfast.

Would you?

And I said, wait, wait a second. When you define what you mean by tactics, as I as I hear you, you're saying that the the right simply articulates policy and hopes that the policy prevails because it reaches a majority of America resonates with the left. They can't do that because their policies are not agreed with by a majority. So they have to use tactics. What do you mean by tactics?

I'll give you a very simple example. Two thirty in the morning, 2016, when Trump walked out with his family and stood there before the microphone. And I'm sitting there next to my wife, who is basically a novice in politics. And Trump said, I just received the call from Secretary Clinton. And then she's conceded the election. And my wife, who's a novice who doesn't listen, you know, intensely like I do, said, oh, my God, he called us Secretary Clinton.

And I said, yeah, you know why the election's over the day before it's crooked Hillary. Those are tactics. Those are very specific subliminal tactics that work. And that's what if my wife would understand that and pick that up again, because she's not a political, you know, into politics as much as the majority of American people see it.

That and that's the difference. You've got to separate. Trump was the first person on the right to separate the election from governing. OK, I said this to Romney I ago. You got to separate the election from governing. I go, you're going to you're going to you're going to you're going to give a great concession speech. But there's never been one policy enacted with a concession speech. And he looked at me confused and I looked it's just it's just we need what the right and your question you're going to post to everybody now, what should we do?

What we need to do is we need to sit down and we need to get the high level Republican Party and the big donors to sit down and understand that we need to tactically beat these people into the ground. We need to find a blue seat that is not radically left, but a blue sea. And it's still a Republican primary. That blue seat Democrat, that's them. Once he wins or she wins, is going to vote towards conservative policy.

We need to really tactically attack the legislative branch. We need to tactically attack and use propaganda, which is not a dirty word. I said this to Romney. I said, look, I go the left uses propaganda and enacts policies that affect millions of people's lives negatively. What's wrong with using propaganda and winning and enacting policies that affect millions of people's lives positively? There's nothing morally wrong with that. OK, you need to use tactics. And that's what Trump understood.

He's the first Republican to combine policies and tactics. And that's what wins. It wins every time unless obviously you fix voting machines and everything else.

But now we need to go after that. We need to be more aggressive in elections, not fixing, but an election of set up. Then they do. We have to be more aggressive than them. And we have to let them understand that. We have to expose if you know, that's this idiot is sleeping with a Chinese spy and you find that out, get it out there. And the one thing they should be doing today, someone from our friends in Congress would be standing up there every single day if Biden gets sworn into office every single day and substitute Russia with China and substitute Trump with Biden and every day said we have undisputed evidence that Joe Biden is an agent of China.

Well, how do you know that, Congressman? Well, every intel agency is telling me that. Where's the evidence? I can't tell you that is classified and say it. Say it every single day. Every single day. Someone needs to go out there and say it. Those are tactics and we need to do it. We are smarter than them. We are better than them. And the big problem is conservatives. We care about the next 50 or 100 years.

We care about our children's and grandchildren's lives. That's why we get so upset and that's why we're so passionate about. Marxist Democrats. Well, it's also it's also why conservatives are so passive. They don't want to rock the boat for fear it'll hurt their kids. My God, you realize that's the sole reason we've allowed the education system to be taken away from us because parents have been afraid to go in there and rock the boat and demand that these foul teachers be fired.

They're afraid of it. They're afraid the administration is going to say, no, we're not firing the teacher. What's your kid's last name? And they're afraid the kids are going to be flunked or given bad grades, not be allowed to enter college. This is how they do it. You would call that tactics and this is what they do. Anyway, I'm way long.

I got to go. I appreciate the call will be back and continue shortly. Don't go away, folks.

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Hello, Rush. Hey, thanks for taking my call. And first of all, I want to say God bless you and Catherine and watch over you. Thank you, sir, very much.

I we really appreciate that.

Well, Rush, my call has been a bit of a taboo subject on your program over the last 20 years, but I think it's time to reconsider a new party that we've never been in a scenario, at least in the last 25 or 30 years, where one man could take 70 million people to a new party. And it's time that the politicians understood that they worked for. They have created the party that they want, not the party that we want.

And and I think it's time for us to start being a little more demanding and and be in charge as we were meant to be. And you think Trump is interested in doing that? Well, I don't know, but, you know, I don't think anybody else could do it. I think he could.

I'm sitting here thinking there has been talk of this, you know, off and on for four years.

And even now even now, you listen to the if you pick the right places to listen in the media scuttlebutt, they are fascinated by the possibility that somebody might try this, even if it isn't Trump, because they are aware of the the level of dissociation there is between regular Republican Party voters and the people that run the party.

And Trump really has remade the Republican Party. It's a different party. Trump and his voters are a different party altogether starting in 2016, 2015, actually. And I think Trump is he's aware of this. And I think he wants to hold onto these people with whatever his his future plans are.

I agree with you 100 percent. But the problem is there's too many rhinos out there that will not.

Wait a minute. But the question why, why? Why do you want to change the party when Trump you just said it, he already has 70 million people in it. Why why shouldn't why should we abandon it and start fresh? Why shouldn't the rhinos be told to go form their own party somewhere? There's only like twenty five of them. Well, that would I mean, there's more than that. But why shouldn't they be the ones to be told, hey, you're not wanted here anymore?

Sayonara.

Well, even better yet, it would be nice for either one of those.

Well, there you go. That's all I'm saying. If you're going to do this, you don't need to make work for yourself. You've already done the organizing. You got 70 million people ready to support your party and trump, trump, whatever.

They're the ones that have the problem. We're got to go now to talk back with more after this. Yeah, why should we abandon the party that essentially has already been built? It's the Trump Republican Party. Why would she abandon the rhinos? They're not going to stay anyway. If we hold on to this, they're going to go find their own place.

They're the ones that wanted to anyway. They wanted to start off as losers.

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Something wonderful has happened to a really great friend of mine, and I am looking for audio sound bites, and I know I have here to go along with what I want to say. And I can't find him. I've got them all over the place. Everything's what numbers are the last two sound bites? What are the last two sound bites about the World Series from back in the 80s? Somewhere in the nineties? Yeah. What what what are the numbers of those things?

Just have them in order. Give me the numbers. One of the numbers. Twenty one and twenty two. So one of my really good friends.

Has been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, it I need this, let me get fined. Twenty one and twenty two I've got. Well. Where did they go? Where did I put them? Said, darn it, anyway. Wait a minute. Somebody just printed me something on the. I'm really sorry about this, folks. This is what happens when the program just by the third hour, everything's out. Here we go. OK, this is what Al Al Michaels has been elected the Hall of Fame via the Ford Frick Award, and he's going into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

This is so well-deserved. There is nobody better. I don't know. I mean, there are many people, many sports play by play broadcasters who have been big name noteworthy. I can think of them myself, Harry Carey, Jack Buck. I don't want to start naming names because I'm going to leave some people out. But Al Michaels has been shown to have a diversity, he can he can call play by play for any sport there is. He loves hockey.

He, of course, did the miracle on ice the 1980 Olympics, but he's just a consummate professional. And if anything is well-deserved, it is. This election to the Baseball Hall of Fame, he does the best impression of Vin Scully that anybody ever did. He, in fact, does many great impressions, but more than that, he's just a he's a wonderful guy, he's a great friend. He and his wife Linda have become very close friends of ours over the course of the well, ever since I auditioned for Monday Night Football.

It was with Al that I did the audition. And he was shocked and stunned when we left Los Angeles, did the audition. It was a great time of friendship sprung up. And it was actually I met him before that. There was a playoff game in Kansas City, the Steelers, and I was in town and ended up going to dinner the night before the game at a restaurant Plaza three where l was and he had heard I was there and demand that I come over and say hi.

And he stood up and started treating me like Swami's because of taxes and economics and so forth. Just an all round great guy.

And the I saw today that he is going into the Hall of Fame and I want to play a couple of sound bites for you. That that indicate and illustrate the diversity, this is 1989, October 17th, pre game of game three of the World Series. Between the Oakland A's and the San Francisco San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park. And there was an earthquake. There was an earthquake during the pregame and there was nobody from ABC News on site. It was Al Michaels and Tim McCarver.

Who had to tell people what was going on and basically become. Site reporters. For the earthquake, and this is how it sounded, so the Oakland A's take. Well, I don't know if we're on the air from here or not, I'm not sure, but we are well, folks. The greatest golfer in the history of television for that. We're still here. We're still here. And I guess you are here even though we have no pictures, no return audio.

And we will be back, we hope, from San Francisco in just a moment.

And it was a massive hurricane. Remember, the Bay Bridge lost a section. A couple of people died from exposure being trapped underneath the rubble. It was a really big and bad hurricane. And they are in the pardon earthquake and they're in the they're in the yeah. Those of southern Florida, the equivalent of an earthquake as a hurricane. Anyway, they were they were up in the broadcast booth, which is elevated in Candlestick Park is an old structure.

And so they they were stuck up there for a while now, the series was delayed because of the earthquake, but it resumed 10 days later. And Al Michaels summed up.

What sports in America used to represent, and that was a respite, you know, an escape, if you will, from the drudgery, the potential drudgery of real life.

Listen to this now, on October 27, like a fighter who's taken a vicious blow to the stomach and has gradually arisen, this region moves on and moves ahead. And one part of that scenario is the resumption of the World Series. No. One in this ballpark tonight, no player, no vendor, no fan, no writer, no announcer. In fact, no one in this area, period, can forget the images, the column of smoke in the marina, the severed bridge, the grotesque tangle of concrete in Oakland.

The pictures are embedded in our minds. And while the mourning and the agonizing and the after effects continue, in about 30 minutes, the plate umpire, Vic Voltaggio, will say play ball and the players will play. The vendors will sell, the crowd will exhort. The announcers will announce. And for many of the six million people in this region, it will be like revisioning fantasy land. But fantasy land is where baseball comes from anyway, and may be right about now.

That's the perfect place for a three hour rest.

I mean, that is just flawless. That is a perfect explanation. A perfect summation, a perfect illustration of what sports was.

Here, it's 10 days after the earthquake, but they're going to play and people are going to be allowed to forget for however long that game takes to play, they're going to be allowed to forget all of the drudgery and the and the and the destruction and the damage that they have lived through for the previous 10 days. He makes the point maybe baseball is fantasy land anyway. That's the point. Professional sports, college athletics, all of it is fantasy land in the sense that it allows us to dream.

To pretend that we, too, could do those things as athletes, it allows us to escape whatever else is going on in our lives. But now that's all gone, see? Now you've got to incorporate Black Lives Matter and you have to incorporate Colin Kaepernick and you got to protest the flag and you got to do all these other things. You got to blame America for for existing, basically. At the same time, you endeavor to have a sports game contest, what have you.

And this is why people are abandoning professional sports in droves, because this is not what they want it to be. Anyway, I just I thought that last soundbite well, even the first one, too. I mean, that was a. A marvel of somebody remaining composed in the midst of what could have been hit. That was a huge earthquake in San Francisco, but Al Michaels summing up poetically what sports in America used to be and now going into the Baseball Hall of Fame as the winner of the Ford Frick Award.

Congratulations, Al. Well-deserved. There's nobody better. You know how you define a great sports play by play person. When that person shows up at a game, the game seems bigger. The game seems more important, there are not many announcers who bring that characteristic to it. There are very few who do. You can go back in time, Howard Cosell and his Monday Night football team, when they showed up somewhere, it was big, must be a big game if Courcelles their.

Al Michaels made every game that he called seem bigger than it was more important than it was. He also had the unique ability to make everybody who worked with him better. I'll never I'll never forget I. Was having a conversation with him about. A new announcer he was working with, this is years and years ago, I don't even remember who it was, and I had made just a couple of disparaging comments and he was a little irritated at me.

And I said, why? I'm not telling you what he. And it turned out that he believes he makes people better and so and he and he does anybody that appears in the booth with him. Is also going to be elevated simply because of his talent and presence, character and reputation and his his abilities, and it's just. Just a great thing to see him go to the Baseball Hall of Fame. It's got to be meaningful as it can be to him.

Congratulations, Al. Now, let's go back to this Republican Party, new party, third party business. Because you know something? I was thinking about this during the break.

Remember, with the Tea Party hit, the Tea Party sprung up in in 2010. And we just had a caller who said that we need a third party, we need to form a new party, Trump needs to form a new party, and I finally have to listen to that guy. So why should we form the party? We've already done it. It's already the Trump Party. You call it Trump Republican Party, the Trump Party, whatever you want to call it.

But there's already however, many people voted for the guy, 70 million, whatever it is, there's already that number of millions of people. Why should we abandon that party and form a new one?

That Tea Party thing sprung up. And I got to know, somebody said you said this exact same thing when the Tea Party came up, you said it's our party. If you want to do it like it's 1984 again to go out and find your own party.

Now, the you ever wonder what happened to the Tea Party, do you think it's still out there? You think the Tea Party is still there, some people do. I think the. The Republican Party has always amazed me. Was not thrilled with the Tea Party, remember this? Now, even though I've been doing this a long time. I still am relatively naive about a lot of things. And I was. I was admittedly surprised when I saw the Republican Party not care about the Tea Party did not have any great interest in it.

It was a natural. They're just waiting to be brought into the fold. But the Republican Party in Washington, the the the establishment Republican Party, wanted no part of it. And I figured out why it's because it was organic, it was because of his old naturale, it was not the product of one person who led a bunch of people to the promised land. It just evolved and it evolved out of Obamacare.

People were scared to death of the spending and any number of the government controlled, you name it, and it just sprung up right out of the ground.

And I learned that movements like that threaten. Establishment, Washington. It's hard to control them when there's not a single or singular leader. So. The Republican Party establishment Republican Party worked with the Democrats in Washington to do great damage to the Tea Party and folks, I think you had better keep a sharp eye because I think the same thing is going to be tried with the Trump movement.

I can give you the examples over the years that I've done in the Republican Party was not big on Reagan. They were happy as hell when Reagan's two terms ended, they couldn't wait to get themselves back in charge of the party, one that they proceeded to do but lose and throw it all away.

And they're going to try to co-opt what Trump has built. Because it represents a threat. It depends on what Trump does, does Trump. Whatever he decides to do in the future, does it involve this group of people, does it involve the mega party, the mega group? And if it does, then the swamp GOP is going to have a tough time taking control of it.

Make no mistake, they're going to try. We'll be back right after this. Don't go away.

Welcome back to the phones we go. This is Stephanie in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. I'm glad you waited. Great to have you here.

Hi, Bryce, First-Time Caller, longtime listener. Love your show. Thank you. I have to thank you for everything you do and let you know we're praying for you and your family.

I appreciate it very much. You're remiss if I did not tell you that my six year old son loves listening to your show. OK, I'm calling to tell you that I believe California and many other areas are better than we think or are led to believe. I have a very strong feeling that elections have been rigged for some time. There is no way to know the pulse of this country, given the fact that elections aren't nearly right. And like I said before, most likely have been rigged for some time.

I don't know what to say about it. You think? You think elections have been rigged for a long time and that California is not really blue, it's red. I do believe that I actually do. I believe that there I mean, this is clearly not the first time I mean, I just saw today something that was on CNN from, I think 2017 talking about they knew that Dominion was in there or various systems, software systems that could change these elections, which change the way that the votes are being tabulated.

So, I mean, come on, it's California, right? Pelosi, come on. I've just I'm just wondering, did everybody really vote for her or. I think you know where I'm going with this, right? No, I don't.

I want to go ahead and finish it up. All right, so basically what I'm trying to say is I feel that the reason that the fraud has been exposed to this degree is because Trump won by a landslide. He won by a landslide the pulse of the country. What I mean by that is somebody said to me, oh, Trump did this to himself, you know, with his tweets and his comments. And, you know, I'm sitting there thinking, well, he didn't do it to himself.

Obviously, everything he was doing worked because he won. We all know he won this election. Same with when people say things about the liberals. Oh, they do a really good job on their messaging. Well, do we really know that or did we really take a good, solid look at the election processes that we were using to determine who won that election? So essentially, you are saying that everything. That is being reported about politics is a lie.

Not everything I'm saying I'm saying that just like we saw with the Dominion, they are in these cities. I think that they're in certain areas. I definitely think there are areas that use different voting. I think that we saw, like every county or state has their own way of tabulating votes. Some actually still have paper ballots. I'm just saying that there are certain areas and I think that there is definitely some corruption going on in this country and that until we take a look at each and every election, we're never really, truly going to know the pulse of this country.

It's really hard to say. I really don't think that.

I really just don't think that what we saw with this election is the trip up to the country that the country wants.

OK, well, guess guess what the media is now covering all of a sudden, ladies and gentlemen, why, lo and behold, the media has found the Hunter Biden story.

Look here, media finally covers Hunter Biden story after avoiding it before the election. Here's another headline. This is from the AP. FBI probing Hunter Biden's Chinese business dealings under Biden tax probe, examining Chinese business dealings under Biden says he's being investigated for possible tax crimes. Let's see what's next in the stack here.

Media big tech cover up collapses with Hunter Biden investigation. That's a Breitbart story.

And what's underneath that? A continuation.

It's a list of all the media outlets which participated in the cover up, which are now reporting on the story. So what happened? Why all of a sudden is the mainstream media, the legacy media, the drive by media, why are they all of a sudden how did they just now discover the Biden story when they actively sought to bury they buried every aspect of it before the election. Well, let's go back to me on this program, November 18th.

After the election. Nevertheless, this is what I said, do you think the Democrats are going to wait however many years for Joe Biden to say, you know what, I don't want to do this anymore? They're not going to wait. That's why the Hunter Biden news is starting to flow freely now. There's going to be all of a sudden a new found reason to look into Joe Biden and Hunter and the trichomes because they want Komala in there tomorrow.

Yes, my friends, I predicted it back on November 18th. Now, it may not have taken a whole lot of brainpower to predict this.

But you know as well as I do that Joe Biden is not going to serve the first year of his first term, you know it.

I know it. He was never intended to. He is a placeholder from the get go what they want. And by the way, that they is Barack Obama because it's Barack Obama that's totally running the Democrat Party's political operation right now. And make no mistake, Barack Obama has been running it since he left office in 2017. Barack Obama ran the Russia Hoechst, ran the coup, ran the unimpeachable Ukraine phone call. He ran it all. It was Barack Obama who was attempting to get Donald Trump thrown out of office.

It was Barack Obama who was attempting to see to it. That the election results of 2016 were overturned and he's not stopped. So now it's Barack Obama directing operations to notice the Hunter Biden story because why?

Because what they really want is Cammy Harris. Now, you might be surprised why he's a nobody. She couldn't win even in their own prime. That's exactly right. Why didn't she get a single vote in the Democratic primary, because she is so radical left, she has so far left. And she was just not that good a campaigner. She did not. He had too many flip flops on issues because she couldn't be as honest and forthright about what she really believes, but she did get close enough to it.

But they want her in there precisely because she will owe every deal Obama. She will. Oh, Michelle, my Belle, Shiloh, Oprah, Chalong, whoever else.

But they want her in there because that's the kind of politics they want coming out of the Oval Office. Here's Biden. October 22nd, 20 20 in Nashville.

This is the second president, sorry, presidential debate, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this he's accusing me of is a Russian plan. They have said that this is has all the four, five former heads of the CIA. Both parties say what he's saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except his and his good friend, Rudy Giuliani. Right. How many times have Trump and Rudy been right about these people?

I mean, the list the length of the list is is you can't see it. There have been right every time they have talked about Biden and what the purpose of his campaign is and who is running it and so forth.

Now, let's go back. To Leslie, this is October 22 or 23, 20, 20. We have a montage when Trump brought up hunters by and the story at the debate, the drive bys claimed there was no evidence for.

He again brought up unverified accusations about Hunter Biden.

You need an encyclopedia to understand what is going on. Perhaps if you've been studying The Daily Caller or whatever it is, some sort of totally false allegations, the nastiest, ugliest smear campaign.

If you didn't follow it closely, you probably don't quite understand what the hit is.

Most of those charges, unverified charges, so heinous, I'm not even going to say them just nonsense with no evidence just completely made up.

If you're not immersed in right wing media or cable host, we don't know when they told you. I don't know.

A lot of folks. You realize what you just heard here. This is back in October 22nd, 2010, where they're denying everything about the Hunter Biden story. And it was Jake Tapper here who said charges so heinous, I'm not even going to say them. George Stephanopoulos, most of this is just nonsense, with no evidence just made up. And yet here they are today, basically regurgitating the same things they denounced. A month and a half ago.

From the Breitbart News agency, mainstream media, big tech cover up collapses with Hunter Biden investigation. So here are it is a list.

Of media entities which denied the Hunter Biden story and made fun of the New York Post and made fun of anybody who thought there was anything to it. Facebook, Twitter, The Washington Post, Wikipedia, CBS News, MSNBC, The New York Times, Politico, Axios, CNN, National Public Radio, ABC News, NBC News, every one of these news entities denied. The Hunter Biden story, they denied it and they they said anybody making these allegations is reprehensible.

There's no evidence for any of this. Now. On December the 10th. Essentially, five weeks after the election, every one of these news organizations is now running the Hunter Biden story. That they denounced that they mocked that they made fun of that they accused anybody. Of believing the 110 story of being insane. This is just. Amazing, great illustration of how the media is up there, not media, anymore. This is a great illustration of how there isn't any news anymore.

They covered up for Hunter Biden. They made fun of anybody who was trying to call attention to it. Mission accomplished. They got it buried. Have you remembered the polling data there, something like nine percent.

Of the American voting public admitted that had they known about the Hunter Biden story, it would have changed their vote for Joe Biden. So mission accomplished. They hid the story. They buried it. They made fun of anybody who believed it.

But now now they're all out there promoting the very same story.

Why? Because we're getting close. The setup has begun, the setup of Joe Biden. The process by which they're going to get rid of him. Forced him to resign, what have you has begun. Let's take a brief time out, come back and resume on the phone right after this.

Now, I don't want there to be any confusion about this Hunter Biden thing because there already is not. I want to share with you the way Joel Pollak writes the story at Breitbart. Here's the headline, Mainstream Media, Big Tech. Cover up of Hunter Collapses with Hunter Biden investigation. So set the table prior to the election, we played you the montage. Nothing to see here in New York Post is crazy. Nothing in that story is verifiable. It's fake news.

It's just Trump. There's nothing to see. Hunter Biden didn't do anything. Joe Biden didn't do anything. They're clean and pure as the wind driven snow, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Make fun of anybody who thought they had the evidence on Hunter Biden. So here we are five weeks after the election. The revelation Wednesday that Hunter Biden is under investigation for tax violations relating to his foreign business affairs confirms that the media big tech censorship of stories during the election about his laptop and emails was entirely without merit.

If you look at it that way, yeah, that's what it means, but I don't believe. This is the scenario I think the media knew all along what Hunter Biden did, he. I think they knew all along what Joe Biden did. I think they knew all along that Biden was raking in money via his son. They knew who the big guy was. They knew that Hunter Biden was set up in businesses to earn money for which he wasn't qualified to send a bunch of it to his dad.

They knew that. They're just getting away with the idea that maybe they did it. Now, all of a sudden now they've been told there's a tax investigation. Why maybe the Hunter stuff is true. They purposely covered it up. They purposely deflected people's attention away from it. I'll never believe for a minute that the media was clueless about this. The exact opposite. My friends, this is the time of year that our good friends at Bowling Branch see a flurry of activity.

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Hello. Thanks for taking my call. You bet. Happy to do so. I, I feel like the world has gone mad. I find myself driving and listening to on the radio and just shaking my head, agreeing with everything. That you say, and yet I am so worried about what this is going to end up being like for my grandchildren. But something you said a little while ago really hit home, I just had to call to to comment on it.

You said something about children that have been raised Republican all their life, and then you send them away to college and they. You don't recognize them when they come home? Yeah, yeah, that's exactly that he had home with me and I don't think I'm the only person that feels that way. I have a son and a daughter that were staunch Republican. Their father was Republican when he was alive. We always voted Republican. And I don't even recognize.

I mean, I'm sorry to say that their their opinions are so far from mine, I just don't know how they got there other than the fact that they've just been. Brainwashed in college, because all the time they were home and in high school, they well, it's it's not it's not you can call it brainwashing. You can call it propaganda. They're just let me tell you something. They are hit over the head with how stupid conservatism is, how backward their parents are.

Then they're told if they're white, they're to blame for all the misery in minority America. They're to blame for why African-Americans are protesting and so unhappy, so white privilege and white guilt is labeled onto them, they are told. A bunch of lies. About conservatism, they end up believing them.

This is why something it is not actively conservative every day will eventually become liberal and it just happens to be a great illustration of what happens to kids who go away to college. I'm glad you called, Darlene. I really appreciate it. You know, one more thing, because I'm out of time and I have to go pretty quickly. But I want to ask a question about this Hunter Biden stuff. Who is leaking it? Who is leaking from the bureaucracy of the DOJ, all these stories about Hunter Biden, but only after the election.

Who's doing this? We know who the beneficiary is. Commy Harris. I think we're going to see Biden start bleeding politically, bleeding. I think he's going to bleed out from these thousands of cuts from now on. I think this signifies that. The move to edge Biden out has already begun.

You mark my words, we'll be back and continue here right after this. Don't go away.

OK, here's what I think the narrative is going to be. It's going to be that good things started happening right after the evil Trump was defeated, the vaccine, the stimulus, all that, all the good things. But the subtext will be that Biden had little, if anything, to do with it. That's what this is going to be. You mark my words, I will expand on this tomorrow.

Open line Friday, 21 hours from now. We'll see you then. Adios, folks.

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