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RUSH: Chuck in Portland. It’s great to have you, sir. How are you doing? CALLER: Hey, Rush. Glad to be on your show this morning. RUSH: Great to have you here. I appreciate your call. These people in Hollywood are absolutely bonkers. They’re nuts. They don’t know what they’re talking about. Even the ones in academia are giving half-truths about how these hurricanes really behave and hyping climate change because that’s where the universities make their money off this. Michael Mann is one of them, the way he talked about Harvey. But think of a hurricane, Rush — and you’ve...

RUSH: There also was a telethon. A bunch of leftist celebrities got together for a telethon to raise money for the hurricane relief effort, and it quickly turned into the Wellstone Memorial Jr. It became nothing more than a leftist rant. Like, Stevie Wonder led it off. You know, I’ve always told you climate change, to the people that believe it, it’s a religion. As Stevie Wonder was talking about climate change, they had a church choir and an organ with people decked out in robes chanting things behind him while he was singing, eulogizing or talking about climate change....

RUSH: Now, the ultimate aim of all this is to shut people up. See, the reaction they want me to have is, “Oh, my God, oh, my God, I better stop talking. Look what they’re doing. They’re making up what I’m saying, it’s really bad, it’s hurting my reputation.” The idea is suppression of speech. That’s the objective of these people in the groupthink and people on the left or what have you. Want to hear some fun sound bites? I mean, here we have another oracle of climate science, the actress Jennifer Lawrence. Last Wednesday in the U.K. on...

RUSH: Level check, test, one two — hey, you know what, this may be working, bring the mix minus up just a little bit. We’re in Los Angeles today, folks. The first day is always a work in progress, have to test it on the air. Bring the audio up just a little bit. Right there we go. My gosh, we did this 30 seconds. The only thing not working is the clock, so be patient. We’ve got a digital clock but I never use digital. Likely you won’t even know the difference, folks. It’s great to be here from...

RUSH: Two theories about the McConnell-Ryan reaction. Some people are hoping that the Republican leadership, congressional leadership, McConnell-Ryan reaction to Trump doing a deal with Democrats will be to wake ’em up, shake ’em up, and make ’em realize, “Oh, my God! This guy’s serious! Okay. We gotta help him with his agenda or we’re gonna be left out in the cold.” Some people hope that’s the reaction. I don’t think that’s gonna be their reaction, folks. I think that they are, on balance, okay with it. I think they’re perfectly fine with Trump doing a deal with the Democrats....

RUSH: Now, I want to say here at the start that I know the vast majority of you in this audience have at best a passing interest in the approaching hurricane, Hurricane Irma. If you live anywhere west of Florida or Georgia or South Carolina, North Carolina, you probably don’t care that much. I remember when I grew up in Missouri, the weather would tell us when hurricanes hit, but it was nothing that was ever gonna affect us, and so there was not a direct emotional connection to it. We knew of it. We didn’t get mad at it...

RUSH: Mike Huckabee, he and his daughter went on The View yesterday. Did you know this? Why? Why do our people go on these shows and be insulted? Joy Behar, who’s, what, 84 now? (interruption) Me? No. Joy Behar looked at Mike Huckabee, and she said, “Let’s not pretend that Trump hasn’t said some horrible things about women. Let’s not pretend.” And of course Huckabee’s nodding and so forth and the audience of these crazy left-wingers is going nuts. And then she says, “How can you, how can you have your daughter, how can you send your daughter to defend...

RUSH: Okay. I saw this news alert from the Wall Street Journal about 10 minutes ago. Here’s the headline: “Trump and Democrats Agree to Debt Limit Increase and Harvey Aid Package.” Trump, Democrats agree. Trump has sided with the Democrats on the debt ceiling. Well, Republicans are right in there too. I mean, it’s not they’re on the sidelines. And he says that Chuck “You” Schumer and Nancy Pelosi want to pass DACA. We have two sound bites. Here is Trump aboard Air Force One. THE PRESIDENT: We had a very good meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. We...

RUSH: Salena Zito is back after having made another trip into Pennsylvania, where she has once again scouted Trump voters, and she reports that people are rooting for Trump more than ever. You know there’s surveys out there, polling data out there that Trump has an approval number higher than Congress and the media combined. Forget what Trump’s approval number is in the Drive-Bys. By comparison to Obama, of course, it’s dismal, and the Drive-Bys use it to say that the country is embarrassed of Trump, and it’s horrible and rotten. But when you look at the comparative data, you...

RUSH: The hurricane is what I want to lead off with, though, folks. And I’ve gotta be very careful here because I am not a meteorologist, and nothing I say today should be considered to be a forecast or a prediction. I am not the National Hurricane Center. I am not a climatologist or meteorologist. All I do is analyze the data that they publish. Just as I am the go-to tech guy in my family and here on the staff, when it comes to a hurricane bearing down on south Florida, I’m the go-to guy. Everybody says, “What do...

RUSH: Wait ’til you hear this. We have an audio sound bite, Kellyanne Conway and Fredo Cuomo. Now, I have always maintained that Fredo — I gotta be very delicate about this. Well, you know what? I’m not gonna characterize it. I’m gonna let you listen to it and you will conclude exactly what I have about Fredo. I’ll give you a hint, though. After watching videotape of some abuse taking place in Cuba, Fredo said, “When are these communists gonna realize that it’s about equal rights and fair treatment for people?” Fredo, is that what you’ve been told communism...

RUSH: You know, we had the story the other day about the gross domestic product. By the way, stand by sound bites 1 and 2. We had the news that GDP, revised GDP 3% economic growth and job creation, real jobs, not part-time jobs, real job creation now skyrocketing. You know where the Washington Post put that story? They put it on page A-18. On CNN yesterday, the infobabe Brooke Baldwin was talking to the noted Wall Street Journal writer and economist Stephen Moore, what brought the subject up, who brought up the idea that the gross domestic product in...

RUSH: This from The Daily Caller. This is Chatsworth Osborne Jr.’s website that he has now taken a leave from since he’s doing his Fox show. “Nearly half of the country believes the news media poses an equal or greater threat to the nation as white supremacists, according to a new Fox News poll out Wednesday. The poll found that 47 percent of registered voters think white supremacists are a greater threat, 40 percent think the news media is, and nine percent believe both are equal threats.” I’ll tell you what this shows. It shows the power of the fake...

RUSH: Todd in Grand Island, New York. It’s great to have you on the program. You’re next, sir. How’s it going? CALLER: What an honor to speak to you. Thank you so much for everything you’ve done. RUSH: I appreciate that. CALLER: For everything you do. RUSH: Thank you, sir. CALLER: I had to get right to my point in reference to the 2018 elections. You made a point saying that if the Democrats win 3% of what Donald Trump — in the margin of 3% error if Donald Trump (unintelligible) and the Democrats win those seats, and also if...

RUSH: In the sports Drive-Bys, they won’t let go of this Colin Kaepernick thing. They just won’t let it go. Oh! Speaking which, in fact, let me tell you what’s coming next, based on this story. Here’s the headline. It’s from the New York Times. “ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field.” Ed Cunningham, 48 years old, a former NFL player, resigned as a college football analyst for ESPN and ABC in the prime of his broadcasting career. “If Ed Cunningham had not already seen enough, he would be back in a broadcast booth on Saturday...

RUSH: Get this. Have you all heard of the controversy at USC? The USC mascot is the Trojans, which some might say is a condom. But actually a Trojan is a soldier. Well, the Trojan mascot at USC football games rides a white horse. Do you know the name of the white horse, traditionally, whatever the horse is, there might have been a bunch of horses over the many generations that the Trojan has ridden a horse, it’s required a lot of horses, always a white horse. The horse’s name is Traveler. Well, guess who else’s horse was named Traveler?...

RUSH: Whoa is right. (laughing) There’s no other way to interpret this. Now, there are people trying to put a smile on this by saying, “No, no, no, you’re misunderstanding what Tillerson was saying. Tillerson was saying the president speaks for himself on these issues, not that he speaks differently.” Look, here’s what’s happened in a nutshell. Trump does his three different statements on Charlottesville. The first statement, you know, the media had a cow, they didn’t particularly like it. So Trump went on and in the second statement specifically condemned neo-Nazis, the KKK, and white supremacists because that’s what...

RUSH: Yes, I saw the eclipse. I was in an area of totality in North Dakota. I’m sorry, it was Idaho. I stopped in Idaho to pick up some people on the way to Hawaii, and I saw it, and I was conflicted because it was Apple beta release day too. (interruption) No, I’m not kidding. I had to say, “Okay, what’s more important to me: Downloading the latest beta when it’s released or seeing the eclipse?” The eclipse is supposed to… The total eclipse was gonna happen within 20 minutes after the beta was released, if it was on...

RUSH: I was making a joke after the protests in Charlottesville. I said, “Why don’t we just go ahead and ban Gone With the Wind? Let’s ban the movie. Let’s ban the book.” They’ve banned the movie. “Gone With the Wind is a landmark film, one which has been beloved since its record-breaking 1939 release. … Now, the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Memphis has decided to stop showing the film, as, in the words of one citizen, it has somehow been placed in the ‘tributes to white supremacy’ category. … “Memphis based Orpheum Theatre, whose stated mission is to ‘entertain,...

RUSH: What I want to know is: How does Trump think he could get rid of Bannon? Wasn’t Bannon running everything? Wasn’t Bannon the guy that got Trump elected? Wasn’t Bannon the guy writing his speeches? Wasn’t Bannon the guy doing all the strategy? My question is, why hasn’t Bannon gotten rid of Trump before now! So I guess Bannon’s not gonna be able to hang around long enough to get the Thanksgiving or Christmas turkey. Looks like he’s out. You know what’s gonna happen now? I’ll make a little prediction. Up until about 20 minutes ago, one of the...