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Trump Obliterates the Baseless Ukraine Illusion

Oct 14, 2019



RUSH: One of the greatest misunderstood things about this program is that both sides are — like we’re gonna discuss impeachment today, you’re gonna know everything about what Adam Schiff is doing and why. You’re not just gonna hear him criticized. You’re gonna hear reasons why he’s criticized.

And, by the way, speaking of little Pencil Neck, have you noticed now (imitating Schiff), “You know what, maybe we don’t need the whistleblower.” Really? You don’t need the whistleblower? Why not? “Well, I’m not sure I can guarantee his safety and his anonymity.” Come on, Pencil Neck. That’s not the reason. You don’t need the whistleblower because he doesn’t know anything!

The whistleblower doesn’t have firsthand knowledge. When the transcript of the phone call was released, the whistleblowers became irrelevant. So now you know what the media’s doing? The media’s got stories that there may be 10 more whistleblowers. Could be 15 more. That many, many people are thinking of blowing the whistle. This is all about the continuation of the illusion that Trump has done something so outrageously wrong that an increasing number of people can no longer stay quiet!

And it’s all made up, like everything designed to get rid of Donald Trump, it is all made up! And so Pencil Neck is now trying to walk back his whistleblower business because the whistleblower can’t add anything! And I’ll guarantee you what, the whistleblower probably doesn’t want to have anything to do with this now because the whistleblower has to know he doesn’t know anything. Nobody’s gonna tell you that, by the way.

Nobody is gonna lay this off on the whistleblower because the media’s invested too much in the whistleblower. The whistleblower is the biggest invisible hero on the left at the moment. They can’t blow up the whistleblower. They’ve gotta make it look like Trump is the reason is whistleblower won’t come forward. The whistleblower fears for his life, don’t you know. The whistleblower fears for the safety of his family, don’t you know. The whistleblower’s afraid of this or that.

Meanwhile, all of these allegations and all of these fears, not a single fact of any substance undergirds any of the allegations that have been made about Trump or against Trump since all of this began even prior to election night in 2016.

Now, what I was gonna say, I was gonna say I really wish I had been here Friday after that Trump rally Thursday night in Minneapolis. Let me ask you this. Did Richard Nixon ever go to a state that he lost and do a rally during impeachment or during the run-up to? No. Did Bill Clinton ever go to a state that he lost while he was being impeached for the cigar and the other stuff, the suborning perjury? Did he ever go to a state and do a rally that he lost while he was under the process? No.

And yet there’s Trump in Minnesota. And what a great contrast. You had in Minnesota, the Democrat Farm Labor state, you’ve got deliriously happy people inside that arena. Do you know there’s even a story, you gotta tell me if this made news on Friday because I was totally out of commission on Friday. It’s one of the reasons I wish I’d have been here.

There was a story about how young teenage girls were inside the rally reacting as though it was a Justin Bieber concert. Young teenagers were going bonkers over Trump. And then, of course, what was going on outside? A bunch of filthy, skanky, leftist Democrat protesters showing up and trying to beat people up and dump on the cops.

So what does Trump do? You know what the mayor of Minneapolis, what a brave and courageous guy this clown is. He told the cops they cannot attend the rally in the uniform of the Minneapolis police. So they showed up in red T-shirts. And Trump calls ’em up on stage and fetes them and gives them great credit, thanks them for their work and their sacrifice and their devotion to law and order. Who wins that one? Trump. I mean, and he scalded Ilhan Omar. I mean, he was on fire.

Did this look like a guy who’s bothered by any of this that’s going on? This is the thing that struck me. He’s perfectly fine, he’s perfectly happy. He’s not distracted. I mean, he’s bothered by it in the sense that any human would be bothered, but it’s not got him, you know, walking the hallways at night like Nixon supposedly was doing, asking portraits of presidents how to get through it. Trump isn’t doing that.

And he was asked about it. (paraphrasing) “No, I’m energized by this. We’re draining the swamp, bro, we’re draining the swamp, I’m into this.” We got audio sound bites of this that I made sure we had because I would have used them on Friday had I been here.

There’s also this. I’m almost tempted — you know what? I’m not gonna mention it. I am not gonna give this thing the first segment of my program. I’ll save this for another program. No, no, don’t even goad me into trying to say — everybody probably knows anyway.

RUSH: Now, about the illusion. This is really important to understand. I know it’s hard to accept because the media is so omnipresent, and it smothers. You can’t escape it. You simply can’t escape, no matter where you go, you’re gonna find you’re gonna be touched by some element of Drive-By Media. And they are all unified, they are all in unison. There isn’t any journalism anymore. They’re all on the same page with their agenda to overturn the election results of 2016. This is really what this is about. They simply cannot accept the election results.

And, folks, this is a serious problem. That’s one of the pieces of glue that’s held the country together throughout our history. And we’re in a dangerous time now because that’s all these driving this. Donald Trump is not corrupt, he’s not a criminal, he’s not a traitor, he’s none of the things he’s been alleged to be by these people, and yet they persist. And the unwillingness to accept the outcome simply ’cause you don’t like the person or any other nefarious reasons a dangerous, dangerous place.

<img class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-324812″ src=”https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/APP-100919-Rush-EIB.jpg” alt=”” width=”640″ height=”360″>So all they have is to try to drum up public support. They’re trying to impeach him. They’re trying to defeat him in 2020. This requires public opinion to turn against him. That’s the entirety of their effort. There isn’t any substance. Is anybody asking a very salient question? How many years in a row were we told that Trump colluded with Russia and then the Mueller investigation happens, Mueller was it, Mueller was gonna release all the details and Trump was gonna be gone, the jig was gonna be up.

Guess what? Mueller laid an egg. There wasn’t any evidence of any collusion or any obstruction. That should be have been end of it. But nope, we move on now. So now we’re gonna impeach Trump over a phone call, a phone call that had not been made in 2016, a phone call that had not been made in 2017. A phone call that had not been made in 2018. We’re gonna get Trump in all those years, we’re gonna get him on collusion with Russia, we’re gonna get him on hiring prostitutes to pee on a bed in Moscow, we’re gonna get him for the emoluments clause, we’re gonna get him on whatever we’re gonna get him on, none of it, none of it was true!

None of it had any fact as a foundation. So now we’re gonna impeach Trump over a phone call. The American people are gonna be pulling their hair out over there, people paying attention to this, this has gotta be driving people crazy. There is nothing there other than this effort to create this ongoing illusion that they keep piling on.

The reason there are more whistleblowers is to create the depth of the illusion. Don’t care how many whistleblowers there are. They do not know more than what Trump said on the call! They don’t even know as much. They weren’t there. They’re secondhand. So now Schiff is talking about dumping the whistleblower, well, because of concern for safety, concern for his anonymity, may not even need the whistleblower now.

Why not? The whistleblower was the whole case! So we were gonna get Trump for colluding with the Russians and stealing the election, tampering with voting machines and all that, and then (raspberry) nothing. Now we’re gonna impeach Trump over a phone call? Really? A phone call between him and the president of Ukraine and the transcript of the phone call has been seen by anybody that wants to read it. I have even read to you the salient parts of that call relating to Biden and the request for the Ukrainian president to dig up dirt.

But not dig up dirt. The Ukrainian president was not asked to dig up dirt or make up dirt like the Democrats are saying. The fact they want to pull the whistleblower, I think it indicates they failed, even though they’re telling us that their internal polls show that the public is moving toward being in favor of impeachment, I’m not sure I believe it because their actions don’t portray that.

So it’s mind-boggling when you stop and think about it. A phone call that was not made in 2016, ’17 or, or ’18 is now the reason we got get rid of Donald Trump. But, no, we had to get rid of him in 2016 because he was cheating, he stole the election, he worked with the Russians, Vladimir Putin and all that. Anybody with half a brain paying any attention to this has gotta be asking themselves the very questions I’m raising.

So the illusion. We have two recent examples of how they are painting the illusion.

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RUSH: Laguna Niguel, California, beautiful place. Greg, great to have you with us. You’re up first.

CALLER: Well, I just had a quick comment, Rush. I think you need to reconsider your reasoning for Schiff not wanting the whistleblower to testify. The real reason is that the whistleblower under oath would have to expose Schiff’s own involvement and the involvement of other Democratic operatives.

RUSH: See, I thought of that, and in normal times that would be true. But these people are suborning perjury. Clinton did it during his impeachment. They’re not gonna let this whistleblower get expo. Now, look. In a just world and in a political world where things are working as they should be, that would be the number one reason not to bring the guy in, because you’d be making him commit perjury. But that’s not…

I don’t think they’re worried about that. That’s why this stuff’s gonna be in secret. Nobody’s gonna see it! It’s the first impeachment that nobody is going to see anything of. It’s a great point, that the whistleblower — if under oath telling the truth — would have to explain how Schiff walked him through the whole process, how Schiff was the first person he called. But these two guys, Schiff and the whistleblower, are in on it. They’re not gonna throw each other under the bus.

I think your point is a factor, and I think they believe now that, in addition to the whistleblower being irrelevant, they may think they’ve done so much good work here that the whistleblower isn’t necessary. That they’ve convinced enough people with the media reports on the whistleblower that when to actually need the whistleblower. So I think your point and that one dovetail. Quick time-out. I’m glad you called, Greg. Thanks very much.

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RUSH: I just saw something up there, a Fox News graphic, Doug Collins, congressman, Georgia, saying we can’t win this impeachment fight in public. We’re gonna have to take it behind closed doors. Well, I guess I can go on vacation, then. I just saw the graphic. I didn’t hear any of the report. I couldn’t because I didn’t have time, and I wasn’t wired into it.

Matt Gaetz, Florida, says that Schiff is running a kangaroo court, denying access to members of the House Judiciary Committee to what’s going on. Of course he is! They can’t dare do this in public. They’ve got nothing! This is the first impeachment the American people are not gonna see the process. This is the first impeachment that isn’t gonna be bipartisan. They’re not going to allow people to see what they’ve got because they don’t have anything. They’re going to be making it up behind closed doors for whenever they present it to the American people.

But would somebody track down what Doug Collins said? He’s a member of the Judiciary Committee from Georgia and, you know, he’s up there, not the ranking member, but he’s right behind Nunes, and I want to know what he meant by, “We can’t win this fight in public.” They better win it in public. They damn well better win it in public.

I think I know what he means that they’re gonna have to find their way in to these secret deals and meetings that Pencil Neck is conducting. In a way it’s kind of refreshing that they want to take them on this way rather than sit around and hope and pray that public opinion turns their way.

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RUSH: Okay. I misread the Fox chyron, or maybe I didn’t. But here’s what Doug Collins was — he was quoting the Democrats. Collins said, “Democrats said we can’t win this in public so we’re gonna take it behind closed doors.” Meanwhile, that’s why the Democrats are taking this behind closed doors. The way I read it, I thought Collins was talking about him and the Republicans when he said we can’t win this in public. I said, “Whoa!”

Well, it turns out that he was quoting Schiff, a mock quote. He was explaining the media. What Schiff is saying is we can’t, the Democrats can’t win this in public, so we’re gonna go behind closed doors. We’re working on the sound bite now. Now, good. That makes much — see, this is why — see, if I were a Drive-By Media guy, I would have run with the story and then when I find the truth I would not have fixed it. I would have let you think that Doug Collins had really said the Republicans have no way of beating this. But not me, folks. I wasn’t sure that I was reading that right. I wasn’t sure that it was right, so I waited to track it down. That’s why I am America’s Real Anchorman.

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ABC News “Syrian Genocide” Video Actually Shot in Kentucky!

Oct 14, 2019



RUSH: ABC News has been running video of what they are calling the slaughter in Syria. By the way, I think this policy decision Trump made, I think before it’s all over, I think the Democrats might figure out this is the way to go. That would be trying to criminalize policy. They might try to go after Trump on the basis this guy’s incompetent, doesn’t know what he’s doing. He threw our allies, the Kurds overboard, then he had the guts to say the Kurds didn’t help us at Normandy, who the hell does this guy think he is? That would make more sense than these magical, made up events that didn’t happen. So we’ll see.

ABC News is running video now of what has happened in Syria since Trump decided to pull our troops out. And wouldn’t you know there is a genocide going on. Yes, my friends, there is a slaughter occurring in Syria. And ABC News has the video, except the video isn’t from Syria.

ABC aired supposedly shocking footage this morning purporting to be from the frontline battle between the Syrian Kurds and the invading bad guys, the Turks. The only problem is the footage is from a nighttime demonstration at the Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky. It is not from Syria.

You know, I’m watching all these media people talk about how damaging it is when the press makes things up or when they doctor photos or whatever. What do you mean, when they doctor photos or make things up? That’s the rule of the game today! Remember the 911 call made by “white Hispanic” George whatever his name, the guy supposedly shot and murdered Trayvon Martin. NBC edited the call, they edited the call to make it look like the “white Hispanic” was a racist pig!

They totally eliminated the questions being asked by the 911 operator. This is legion! There’s nothing new! Fake news. This stuff’s been going on even before Trump! So now they’ve got footage of a frontline battle from a nighttime demonstration at the Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky.

Becket Adams has the story in the Washington Examiner. “After seeing a comment from Wojciech Pawelczyk, I began making some calls. As of this writing, it appears” that this video is a hoax and ABC has finally pulled it down. “We’re still investigating,” a representative for the gun range told the Washington Examiner on Monday adding the images aired by ABC looks to be from the Kentucky property. “As of right now, it seems to be our footage,” said the Knob Creek Gun Range spokesman.

A spokesman for ABC conceded they made a mistake. Yeah, they got caught. “We’ve taken down the video that aired on World News Tonight Sunday and Good Morning America today that appeared to be from the Syrian border. We took it down immediately after questions were raised about its accuracy.” How did it get past your editing process in the first place? Are you trying to tell me that Knob Creek Gun Range looks enough like Syria that you people weren’t even suspicious? And I’ll guaranty you they weren’t.

They don’t need any sources anymore. They don’t need any identifiable sources. They don’t even need any proof. They just need somebody to be the fall guy that they can lay it all off on as the anonymous source. “’This video, obtained by ABC News, appears to show the fury of the Turkish attack on the border town of Tal Abyad,’ senior foreign correspondent Ian Pannell, who is in Syria, said Monday on Good Morning America.”

So they got a reporter in Syria playing a video from Kentucky telling us that the video looks very much like what’s going on to him in Syria. I probably shouldn’t mention this, but the late Cokie Roberts, ABC News, once put on a raincoat, stood in front of a green chyron screen where ABC made it look like she was standing out in the rain and snow to do some kind of report in the rain and snow, but she was safely ensconced in the studio.

These kind of tricks the media plays all the time. Some of them are harmless like the Cokie Roberts, it was a local Washington story, but this is full-fledged illusion creation. This is lying to news customers. And the correspondent on the ground in Syria playing video from a protest attack at the Knob Creek — by the way, that’s great bourbon. Have you ever had any Brian? You ever had any Knob Creek? Oh, you haven’t had any Knob Creek? Knob Creek on the rocks, maybe it’s what led to the shooting, I don’t know, but man, you should try it.

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RUSH: Okay. So ABC News uses video from 2017 and then tries to pass it off as Turkey bombing the Kurds in Syria. Now, why would they do this? They do it for one reason. They’re trying to nail Donald Trump. They’re trying to say that mass murder is occurring, and it’s Trump’s fault — and this is not anything new. Faking video, editing video, editing 911 calls.

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Crazy Bernie Insults Fauxcahontas as a Capitalist

Oct 14, 2019



RUSH: One of the most scandalous, folks, one of the most scandalous moments of the Democrat presidential primaries has occurred. It is this. Crazy Bernie, in one of the most scandalous and vile accusations that could ever be made, has accused Fauxcahontas of being a capitalist. Do you realize how dirty and low that allegation is?

Crazy Bernie, fresh off the stents, fresh off the heart attack, fresh off the: I think I know even more what I want to do about health care after my myocardial infarction. Now he’s out there insulting Fauxcahontas as a capitalist.

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RUSH: After pointing out that one of the most scandalous, one of the most insulting allegations of the entire Democrat primary was leveled at Fauxcahontas by Crazy Bernie when he called her a capitalist… What a filthy, what a repugnant allegation. That should not be permitted in our politics, to call somebody on the left a capitalist?

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Hunter Biden Should Start Pay-for-Play, Inc.

Oct 14, 2019



RUSH: Hunter Biden’s gonna be on Good Morning America tomorrow. Supposedly no-holds-barred questioning from George Stephanopoulos. Right. (imitating Hunter) “Hunter, tell us what you think of Donald Trump.” (babbling) “Why do you think that about Donald Trump?” (babbling) “What does your dad think about Donald Trump?” (babbling) “What do you think about the Chinese?” “Love ’em. (babbling) Nothing to do with them.” “What do you think of the Ukraine?” “Never been there, don’t know what’s going on.” “Thank you for coming, Hunter. Great to have you on Good Morning America.” Think that’s how it’s gonna go?

Let’s see. “Hunter Biden Steps Down From Chinese Board as Trump Attacks.” Says it looks bad. “After months of keeping a relatively low-profile –” Low profile? The guy’s been invisible. You can’t find him. “– as Trump leveled a barrage of unsubstantiated accusations –” They’re not unsubstantiated! Trump didn’t lodge any unsubstantiated accusations at Hunter Biden or his dad, Plugs. The fact that Biden’s been hiding, Hunter has been hiding is the evidence of how substantive they are.

Anyway, the younger Biden is “publicly vowing to avoid any conflict of interest.” Too late for that, Hunter. But if it looks really bad for Hunter to be stepping down, why step down? Well, if it looks bad to do this now, why did it not look bad when his father was VP? See, this is the thing. If it looks bad now, why didn’t it look bad when his dad was VP? Because that’s when it was really bad because that’s when the corruption was at its peak.

“Hunter Biden resigns from ChiCom firm following Trump attacks.” See, Trump did it. Trump is a mean bully making all these Democrats give up everything they’ve ever stole — or earned. Everything! They’re having to give up membership in the swamp. Oh, it’s horrible. Trump is such a mean guy. Why would Hunter step down from any firm, Chinese, Ukrainian, Pay-For-Play Inc. You know, that’d be a great company, Pay-For-Play Inc., just be honest about what the hell it is. Make Hunter Biden the CEO, Joe Biden the co-CFO, Pay-For-Play Inc. Put Hillary Clinton on the board.

Why is he stepping down from any firm if he didn’t do anything wrong? The Bidens are all about ethics, man. (imitating Biden) “Come on, man, come on, man, the Chinese had nothing, we don’t need to be afraid of the Chinese, come on, man, they’re not a really threat to us.” So why is his son resigning from the board? It’s a huge story. Democrat media will not go anywhere near it.

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RUSH: Okay. A minor correction. It’s gonna be Amy Robach interviewing Hunter Biden on Good Morning America, not Stephanopoulos. I read that it was gonna be Stephanopoulos. Supposedly, it’s gonna be Amy Robach and it’s gonna be taped. But it’s supposedly no-holds-barred. We know there’s no such thing when Democrats are asking other Democrats questions.

When Democrats interview Democrats, there’s no-holds-barred, unless the decision’s been made somewhere to destroy the Democrat by other Democrats. That has happened. Bob Torricelli, Andrew Cuomo at a moment in time from which he has recovered, but other than that, there’s not gonna be anything embarrassing for Hunter Biden, and they’re all gonna allow it to be turned back on Trump.

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RUSH: Here is Roy in Hollywood, Maryland, as we head back to the calls. Great to have you, Roy. Hi.

CALLER: Yeah, hi, Rush. Hey, I’ve got a follow-the-money kind of question.

RUSH: Sure.

CALLER: We know that Hunter Biden got a lot of money from foreign sources. I want to know if you know if anybody has checked to see if that money is just sitting in Hunter’s bank account or has any of it gone to help fund Joe Biden’s campaign, maybe.

RUSH: Well, I think that’s one of the questions that people have. You know, the money has gone into a corporate account. It’s gone into places like a consultancy or a foundation or even a, you know, sub-S corporation where then the ways that it gets disbursed, even though trackable legally, particularly if you’re talking about a corporation or a 501(c)(3), it can be made to look murky.

This is why, by the way, your question is why Plugs the other day decided to take a new tack on this. That would be the father of Hunter Biden. So he’s out there, and he’s trying to defend all this. (imitating Biden) “Telling me and everybody else that my son got billions of dollars from the ChiComs, well, where is that money? I’d like to — I mean, I got a lot of debts here. I got a campaign to finance. Where is that money?” And Plugs is acting like they don’t have it.

Well, what Plugs did was basically ask people to go find it, kind of like they said Trump was doing with Hillary’s emails. One of the things that you need to understand about people like this, Roy — I’m sure you know it — these people go to great lengths to hide the signs of or the indications of their wealth. The Kennedy family is one of the rare Democrat entities that did not have to overtly hide it. They could have the Kennedy compound. They could have any number of gadgets and gizmos and toys. They were so beloved and they did such a great job of convincing everybody that they really didn’t like being rich and they really cared so much about the poor and the thirsty and so forth that they kind of caught a break.

Most of these people hide it. And you might say, well, what’s the fun in that? What’s the fun of having a bunch of money if you can’t use it? Oh, they use it. It gets used. You just don’t see the evidence in the lifestyle. That’s part of the gig. They know at least not to flaunt it when they come by it in such ways. But it’s there to be found. And that’s what an investigation would indicate.

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Do You Know Why Columbus Is an Italian Hero?

Oct 14, 2019



RUSH: Now, let me find this Fauxcahontas thing. I thought I put it at the top of the Stack and it is the top of the Stack, I just gotta find the Stack. Ah, it’s not gonna be in that Stack. No, it’s not about Crazy Bernie calling her a capitalist. She’s making some comment on how — ah! Here it is. Here it is. It was a tweet that she sent out at 9:25 this morning. The story — see, this is Columbus Day. So, you know what that means? They gotta dump on Columbus. He’s responsible for everything. He’s responsible for horses and horse manure. He’s responsible for white Europeans coming here corrupting, polluting. He’s responsible for syphilis. He’s responsible for climate change, STDs, you name it.

You know, Columbus has become a hero to the Italian-American community. Does anybody know why? It’s not just because he’s from Italy. And it was the queen of Spain that paid for his trips. Folks, in the 1400s to get on a boat and sail to what everybody’s telling you is the edge of the earth, that took a little guts. They thought the earth was flat. Most people thought that Columbus gonna fall off. Nobody knew where you went when you fell off the edge of the earth, but they thought it was flat, you’re gonna fall off. They had no idea.

Now, Columbus thought he had reached India when he actually reached what’s now called the West Indies, the Caribbean. And that’s why the Native Americans end up being called Indians in part. But, no, when Italian-American immigration began in the United States in earnest in the late 1800s they were manifestly undesired by American people at large, the American population at large.

My grandfather, by the way, who was born in 1896, told me all about it. I mean, he would have been in his twenties in 1915 and so forth. He constantly was telling me about how raucous and polarizing and vicious immigration debates were when he was a kid. And he was trying to tell me — now, this is back in the 1980s, early nineties, he’s trying to tell me, “This immigration stuff, Rush, it’s the same as it has been for a hundred years. There’s nothing new about it. It’s just different groups are coming and we’re having different reactions. There’s nothing new about it.” But at the time there may not have been. There is now, and of course that is all the immigrants in that era were attempting to become Americans. They were trying to meld into the American culture.

This is not happening with illegal immigration today. And, of course, the immigration my grandfather was talking about was legal immigration, and there was still massive controversy about it. And in New Orleans some Italian-Americans were killed in a mass murder, and Italian-Americans decided to adopt Columbus as their hero to give themselves strength and a hero to stand by. They created Columbus Circle in New York City. It’s because of the reaction Italian-Americans got.

I’m really shortening, this is a short version of the story. But that’s why Columbus is an Italian-American hero. They’re trying to destroy the guy now, throwing red paint on his statues out in San Francisco.

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RUSH: Fauxcahontas tweeted, “the story of America’s mistreatment of indigenous peoples is long and painful. And yet, Native communities have proven resilient. We owe them our respect—and we must honor our government’s commitments and promises to them.” She’s so right, folks. Fauxcahontas is so right. In fact, let me tell you how bad it is. It is so bad that some really, really very white people even pretend to be Native Americans so they can get well paid gigs at Harvard Law School! Did you know that? So, yeah, she’s got a point here.

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How Impeachment Is Failing in Ohio and Beyond

Oct 14, 2019



RUSH:  “Ohio Swing Voters Outraged over Impeachment.”  It is in Axios, i.e., Millennial left-wing publication focus group.

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RUSH: Axios, which is, ah, I guess you could call it a Millennial publication. This is the news site that runs stories this way. This is their format. They have their headline, then they run the first paragraph, and then the next thing that they put, “What it means.” So they write their first paragraph. The second paragraph explains what the first paragraph means. And then they say, “Why it matters.”

So after explaining what the first paragraph meant, they then tell their readers why what it means matters. And then they continue with the story. It’s a new formatting experiment where they’re attempting to make their news presentation look different. But the problem is it’s all the same stuff. It doesn’t matter whether you read the New York Times or the Washington Post or watch CBS, ABC, CNN or NBC. It’s all the same. In that sense it’s amazing.

It’s all the same. And the news cannot possibly be all the same. In fact, folks, this is a teachable moment in fact. The Drive-By Media constantly whines and moans that there is not a common set of facts from which the American people can make important decisions such as voting and public policy. Yeah, and there hasn’t been since 1988. 1988, when this program started, started the wave that resulted in the busting up of the monopoly the Drive-By Media had.

And now you’ve got a clear example of what it was. Even back in the days, in the 60’s and in the 70’s, it was all the same. It didn’t matter what network you tuned into. It didn’t matter what newspaper you read. It was all the same. Now, there were conservative newspapers, like the St. Louis Globe Democrat was a conservative paper compared to the St. Louis Post-Descratch. But New York had five or six newspapers, and there was a conservative paper in the bunch. But national news was all Drive-By. National news was all left-wing.

And there wasn’t any counter to it. And it’s exactly what it is today. It’s all identical. It didn’t matter what network you watched or what newspaper you read, you got the same garbage. You got the same stories in the same order and the same take. I’ve just been handed a note. Let me read it quickly. Okay. I got a little info here on what Doug Collins is doing. Thank you, Mr. Snerdley. Let me finish this thought.

So now we’ve got this uniform presentation of what the news is, and it is in total, total cooperation with Democrats in the media and Democrats in Congress, the House and the Senate and Democrats everywhere, and then you’ve got us and other elements of the so-called alternative media, New Media, what have you. It’s a great microcosm of what they want to go back to where Americans had one set of facts.

How can there be only one set of facts with 1,500 news organizations following stories? Would somebody explain this to me? How can there only be one set of facts that every network used? The network news every night, 6:30, 7 o’clock, whenever it was, was identical. And it still is!

So, anyway, Axios went out to Ohio, left-wing publication aiming at the Millennial audience. Headline: “Focus group: These Ohio Swing Voters Are Outraged Over Impeachment.”
Dateline Youngstown, Ohio. “Swing voters in this Rust Belt state are expressing a range of unease about impeaching President Trump, from fears it will hurt the economy to frustrations that House Democrats are more invested in going after Trump than in helping people.”

Well, where have we heard that? That’s almost verbatim from my oral cavity. That’s almost verbatim what I’ve been pointing the last two weeks. I don’t mean to make it about me. But the Democrats don’t care about the little guy. They don’t care about prescription drug prices or health care or illegal immigration or any of that. And they’re spending taxpayer dollars to further their own political ambitions and desires.

And so now focus groupers are saying this to the focus group testers. This is great, actually. Oh, here’s the “why it matters” paragraph. I love this. Here, let me do it again. “Swing voters in this Rust Belt state are expressing a range of unease about impeaching President Trump, from fears it will hurt the economy to frustrations that House Democrats are more invested in going after Trump than in helping people.”

That’s pretty clear, right? But for the Axios audience they need to have it explained to ’em. “Why it matters: If such sentiments last and play out on a larger scale across pivotal states, it spells trouble for Democrats unless they can reframe what they’re trying to accomplish.” So the first paragraph did not provide that information. They had to do the “why it matters” paragraph for the Axios reader.

“Distraction, unease, exhaustion — these were some of the main takeaways from our Engagious/FPG focus group last week. We heard from 8 voters who flipped from Barack Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016, and 3 who switched from Mitt Romney to Hillary Clinton. The findings are a counterpoint to the latest national surveys — including a Fox News poll –” Oh! The Fox News poll. By the way, remind me to make a point about somebody has run around and redone the Fox poll if it were properly sampled. And it shows that only 44% would favor impeachment, not 51%, if it were properly sampled.

So the findings in this focus group are counter to the latest national surveys that show more and more Americans now favor impeaching and removing Trump. “While a focus group is not a statistically significant sample like a poll, these responses show how some voters are thinking and talking about the 2020 election in crucial counties.”

Then they have a “what they’re saying” section. And this is quotes from the people in the focus group. “Participants shared their thoughts about the Democrats. ‘They need to focus on the real issues,’ said Judy D., a 60-year-old Trump voter. ‘[Nancy] Pelosi hates him so bad, I just think she needs to drop it and worry about the country.’ ‘They need to be concentrating on the country, not what he’s doing wrong,’ Deborah G., a 56-year-old Clinton voter, said. ‘They hit a big strike on Mueller, so this is trying to get another base hit on the president,’ said Eric B., a 34-year-old Trump voter. ‘It’s become more of … “Destroy the other party” instead of build the whole country up,’ said Richelle W., a 40-year-old Trump voter.”

And then Axios says, “Before getting serious about impeachment, House Democrats worried the timing was too close to the 2020 election and could backfire.” Are you kidding? The only people worried about that was Pelosi. And she lost to the surge of the base. “One man, Rocco P., a 40-year-old Trump voter, offered this advice to Democrats: ‘Just drop it. Beat Trump at the ballot box,’” if you care so much.

“Nine of the 11 participants raised their hands to say impeachment is a distraction –” You could take this focus group all over the Midwest, and you wouldn’t find anything different. I’m telling you that average, ordinary Americans, no offense, are seething at this.

From the New York Post: “Fox News Channel pollster Braun Research misrepresented the impeachment poll released last week by Fox News that claimed 51% of Americans favor the impeachment of President Trump. They underrepresented Republican independent voters, the Post has found.”

The poll said 51% of voters were in favor of Trump’s impeachment and removal from office while 40% did not want him impeached. Princeton, New Jersey, pollster Braun Research, which conducted the survey noted that 48% of its respondents were Democrats, but the actual breakdown of party affiliation is 31% Democrat, 29% Republican, 38% independent, where they took the poll, where they took the poll, it’s not 48% Democrat, it’s 31%! Where they took the poll it’s 29% Republican, not whatever it was in their poll.

So what they ended up doing, 38% were independent instead of like 12% in the poll. So they weighted, w-e-i-g-h-t-e-d, they weighted, they simply gave Democrats more presence and Republicans less presence expressed as a percentage. That’s a big, big difference. The poll has 48% Democrats, but the area they did the poll only had 39% Democrats in it.

So, anyway, if you examine the results of the poll, if you examine the data and make the adjustment for the actual breakdown of party affiliation as it exists, the number is not 51% that want Trump removed. It’s 44%. That is in the Fox News poll.

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Project Veritas Is the News, Not Some Video Nobody Saw

Oct 14, 2019



RUSH: There is another video out there, a video that Trump and his campaign had nothing to do with, a video that has been virtually seen by no one is a major headline all across Drive-By Media today. You know what ought to be the big headline across Drive-By Media today? James O’Keefe at Project Veritas has found a CNN whistleblower. A CNN whistleblower recorded hours of secret video of Jeff Zucker — the CEO and chairman of CNN — and other people in there, documenting and making clear their hatred for Trump and how it flavors their coverage.

They make it clear they are not engaged in journalism. Now, you might say, “Rush, this is no big surprise. We know this.” This is them admitting it. This is somebody at CNN who was fed up working there, who took the job of journalism seriously and hated what he was seeing. The CNN people routinely mock Fox, rip into Fox, rip into Trump supporters, rip into Trump. This should be a lead headline in a number of places, but so far? Nothing.

No, instead it’s a video that Trump and his campaign had nothing to do with, seen by virtually no one. There was a conservative conference at the Doral resort that Trump owns down in Miami. And there was a video played in private room by somebody — very few people in the room — and it was typical fake video, now. Fake news. It was using the latest techniques to doctor video. And there were scenes of Trump — a fake Trump — shooting and stabbing and brutally assaulting members of the news media and his political opponents.

It was shown at a conference for his supporters at his Miami resort in an off, out-of-the-way room. There were very few people in the room. It’s another illusion made to look like the Trump campaign made video for entertainment purposes to show their supporters, “This is what Trump’s doing! He’s literally murdering the opposition. It was supposed to be applauded and so forth.” The whole thing is made up! It’s fake video.

Hardly anybody has seen it. The Trump campaign’s got nothing to do with it. It’s a plant! And it is headlined across Drive-By Media today. I’m telling you, the smart thing to do, just your gut, knee-jerk reaction to anything that you see in Drive-By Media that doesn’t make sense… Chalk it up to the ongoing illusion they are creating that there is massive criminality, massive wrongdoing, massive incompetence, massive misconduct leading everybody to believe Trump has to go.

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Nobody Can Match a Trump Rally

Oct 14, 2019



RUSH: This is Lee next in Kohler, Wisconsin. Great to have you, Lee. Hi.

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. I just want to say I’m honored to be on your show. I’ve been listening to you since you’re six months old and I’ve learned a lot from you.

RUSH: Well, let me tell. You know what? It’s an honor to have somebody from Kohler, Wisconsin. I think it’s one of the most amazing American families. The Kohler family of Wisconsin have done so much for this country. I think it’s fabulous. Herb Kohler is the modern-day patriarch. But they probably make the toilets you use. They make the big, powerful generators that run when you lose electricity. The plumbing business has just modernized so much. The whole town, Kohler, Wisconsin, is named after ’em and they’ve built golf courses and resorts, Herb Kohler is a gigantic golf aficionado.

CALLER: Wow.

RUSH: So it’s great to talk to somebody from Kohler.

CALLER: Well, thank you. You seem to know quite a bit about our little town here. We’re only 2,000, but we do seem to get the word out there. Anyway, my point is, my wife and I, Barb, we were in Minneapolis for the Trump rally on Thursday and we didn’t really know what to expect, but when we got there I want to tell you there was a line that was at least a mile long all the while we were waiting, which was about three hours in the rain. We finally got in —

RUSH: Hold your thought. I thought I had an additional minute. I misread the clock. It’s not my fault, it’s not at a good angle here. Hang on and we’ll continue after the break. It’s not my fault. I didn’t do it.

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RUSH: Back now to Lee in Kohler, Wisconsin. I’m sorry I had to interrupt you. But let’s pick up where you left off. You’re there, you’re standing in line, it’s a mile long in the rain, the Trump rally last Thursday in Minneapolis.

CALLER: Right. Thank you, very good to wait here, because as I waited for you, I was thinking about the patience that all the people in that line had to get in to see Donald Trump, although 40,000 people waiting in the 20,000 person venue, I should say, it was almost impossible that everybody was going to get in. But we did. And that’s the point. But when we were waiting in line, at about the two-hour point, there was a woman in line who had gotten a text from a friend of hers that said that the Target Center was only half full and there’s hardly anybody outside waiting to get in. That was fake news. We did get in —

RUSH: Now, wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! We just don’t run past something like that. See, if crowd size doesn’t matter, if crowd size doesn’t indicate vote strength and popularity, then why put out fake news like that, Lee? That’s a big deal. Somebody’s lying about the lack of interest in the Trump rally and you’re right there as an eyewitness to prove ’em wrong. I’m just saying —

CALLER: I was an eyewitness and I also heard that there were protesters all over the place getting in our face, and we saw two, and neither one of them got in our face. One was walking around with a cardboard sign that she made in probably five minutes —

RUSH: What color was her hair?

CALLER: I never got to see her hair ’cause I was trying to make out the sign —

RUSH: I will guarantee you it’s purple or green.

CALLER: (laughing) Well, it could have been. But, anyway, so we got in there and I think the point that I wanted to make besides what was going on outside is when we got inside, we kind of had to pinch ourselves because we didn’t think we had a snowball’s chance of getting in, but we did. And when we got to our seat, which was pretty close to the ceiling, it was just a thrill to be sitting there with all these people. And I saw 10-year-old kids as well as people our age, we’re in our seventies, it was just a well-rounded group of people —

RUSH: Well, here again, I’ve got this story. The story, by the way, is from the U.K. Sun, and it ran on Apple News. So some Apple editor forgot to squash this. “Teenage Trump fans cry tears of joy at Minneapolis rally that looks more like a Justin Bieber concert as he slams pop royalty — Trump’s rally in Minneapolis has turned heads after people pointed out that it looked more like a Justin Bieber concert rather than a political meeting. Teenage girls and boys were seen crying tears of joy as the U.S. president talked about his 2016 win,” in Minnesota.

CALLER: I don’t care how old you are, if you didn’t have tears in your eyes at one point during that whole assembly, which, the president must have talked close to two hours, and he had these people in the palm of his hand. I’ll tell you, where this guy comes up with all this excitement every time he goes to a rally, because he’s basically repeating himself, but yet he says it with —

RUSH: No. It doesn’t matter. See, he’s got his greatest hits, but the reason — there’s nobody in American politics who can do what Donald Trump does, and it’s rooted, Lee, in why did you feel the way you felt when you got in? Why did you feel privileged, giddy, why did you feel like it was such a big deal? ‘Cause it’s a bond of connection that people have with Trump.

You knew that it was something special. You didn’t really know what your chances of getting in were. And then you felt connected to everybody in there without even talking to them, you knew you had enough in common that you were comfortable, you were happy, and it was encouraging to be in that room.

Then Trump comes out, and he’s on. He’s having a great rally, a great night, who cares if you’ve heard it all before. The fact is you’re hearing it, he’s saying it, he’s not giving up on it, he’s not changing it, he’s being consistent. It was everything people wanted it to be.

CALLER: Right. And I think part of my reason for calling is because part of his reason for doing this in the first place is so that 20,000 people can go out the next day and the next week and tell whatever they remembered from it, which you’re not gonna remember every word, but the concept of where he’s trying to take this nation is what inspired me the most. And we had a 75 mile drive back to our — we were camping in Wisconsin, and it just took all that time to settle in, and I’m still thinking about it today because I haven’t seen a U.S. president since Gerald Ford in 1976.

But there is a definite thrill about being there versus watching it on television. And he’s gonna be around quite a bit in the next year, and I would encourage anybody who has the chance to take that opportunity, even if you don’t get in, you could stand outside and be on the other side of the wall and watch it on television and still have that same excitement, maybe not quite to the point that we did, but it’s just being there in that —

RUSH: You know, that’s a good line. Trump rally is the only place in America where being on the other side of the wall is a good place to be.

CALLER: Right. And one more thing I want to mention if I could.

RUSH: Are you sure it’s just one more, Lee?

CALLER: Well, it’s actually three, but the one that I was really impressed with was when he took recognition to the Minneapolis police officers who were sitting in red shirts, they had their own little area, and the crowd went wild.

RUSH: Exactly. And that’s because the mayor had refused to allow the police to show up in uniform if they were gonna be supporting Trump. Well, we have to be nonbiased, of course, you know, we can’t show our political preferences here. You know, that is a great review.

And I could add to it, I’ve been to a Trump rally. I know exactly what you’re talking about. I’m telling you, folks, there’s nobody, and don’t think this is not known. Don’t think this doesn’t bug everybody in Beltway, either. There is nobody in politics who can do what Donald Trump does, what he did Thursday night or at any of his rallies.

There is nobody. Maybe on an occasion they can work hard and get 20,000 people to show up at an Elizabeth Warren rally, but there’s no bond, there’s no connection. They have to work hard at it and it’s a one off. And then they try to make big news about it. This is a point that I have been making, something I observed from even before Trump’s rallies began, and that is the connection that he’s made with the people that vote for him and the people that support him.

And you said he’s doing this because he knows there’s 20,000 people who will then leave and spread the word. Of course, but there’s another reason he does it. He loves it. He absolutely loves it. He loves people. He loves being around people. He doesn’t hide from people. He’s not a hermit. He doesn’t wish that he didn’t have to be around people.

You know how many people in politics hate it? You know how many people in politics literally hate being around the people that vote for ’em? It’s work. And they have to focus and they have to gut it up. Trump loves it! He loves the protesters! He loves mocking them! He loves using them. He loves everything about it.

But there’s also something else about Trump that I think needs to be pointed out. Even though these rallies are free, people still go to great lengths to get there. They spend a lot of money to get there. They spend a lot of money waiting in line. They spend a lot of money and time to get there. And he is insistent with himself that that time is not wasted. He will not have an off night. He will not allow himself to not be the best he can be in that circumstance, and make sure that all of those people showed up at the end of it think it was more than worth it.

There is nobody in American politics who cares about people in that way. Do not doubt me on this. And I’m not offering this as a criticism of people in politics. I’m literally telling you how special this guy is in this particular venue, in this aspect, this retail politics of meeting the people that vote for you, of meeting the people that make the country work, of meeting people that might have voted against you, might not have voted for you and you’re trying to get them to, there’s nobody in American politics who can even approach.

Donald Trump has a sense of self, self-awareness, he knows how he is seen. Do you know how hard that is? Most people when they’re on stage or — it doesn’t matter. Most people in a room are so focused on how they appear to themselves — “Gee, do I look okay? Is my tie straight?” Or whatever. Trump’s focus is outward. Trump has the uncanny ability to know how he is being seen, and he plays to it, he acknowledges it. It’s all part of having this — I think it’s a unique talent, I call it the bond. I don’t mean to be redundant here. But that’s what it is. It’s a bond. It’s a connection. It’s invisible.

It’s kind of like the VPN is invisible but you can see the results of the connection, same thing here at one of Trump’s rallies or anywhere else that he goes. And everybody in Washington is so aware of this, and they are so jealous of it. Remember the Clintons and their ill-fated tour that they decided to do, thinking if Trump can do this, we can do it, we’re not gonna let Trump get away with owning this.

So they set up this international tour with Bill and Hillary, a conversation with Bill and Hillary starting in Canada, then the United States. Have you ever heard anything about it? It died after two events. Nobody showed up. They originally started charging a thousand dollars or more for tickets. They ended up giving them away and still nobody showed up.

And believe me, the Clintons are very much aware that they cannot do what Donald Trump does. And so is Adam Schiff, and so is Harry Reid, and so is Nancy Pelosi, and so are all of them. They are all aware none of them can do what Trump can do. And he’s not even in their business. They, in their minds, they’re the pros, they’re the experts. Trump’s the interloper. But in the depths of their beings they know everything I’m telling you, and it bugs the hell out of them.

I’ve gotta take a break. Thank you, Lee.

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RUSH: We’ll get so some of these from the Trump rally both Thursday night and from Louisiana, which followed Minneapolis. I mean, this guy’s everywhere. He’s indefatigable. For those of you in Rio Linda, it means he doesn’t tire out. The root word in there is fatigue, indefatigable. But you don’t pronounce it indefatigable. It’s indefatigable. It’s just more of the education, information you get on a daily basis here at the EIB Network.

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RUSH: Okay. So sound bites from the Trump rally. This first one is from Thursday night in Minneapolis.

THE PRESIDENT: …Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, a lot of people.

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)

THE PRESIDENT: The great Mark Levin. We have a lot of great people.

AUDIENCE: (cheers)

THE PRESIDENT: Lou Dobbs. Great people. You know what they said — every one of ’em, plus many others? “There’s no other man that we’ve ever met that could have taken it.” It’s true. Maybe I’m a little different up here. (points to head) I don’t know.

CROWD: (laughing)

THE PRESIDENT: But I enjoy it. To me, it’s… I’m energized, because we’re draining the swamp.

AUDIENCE: (cheers)

RUSH: There’s an example. He’s talking to people!

AUDIENCE: (cheers)

RUSH: Right on, right on. Okay. He’s talking to people, not at them. He’s not trying to get their attention, he has it. And he’s acknowledging that there is a core group here and that he’s very appreciative. You know, I’ve always said that Donald Trump exudes something. There isn’t anybody in Washington — media, the Democrat Party, you name it — when I say that, that doesn’t start cracking up in laughter. I say the primary ingredient Donald Trump brings to his rallies is humility, and that just causes them to go into conniptions.

Because they think he’s a braggadocious, bombastic, narcissistic pig. But he has humility out the wazoo, and at every one of these rallies, he’ll either take 30 seconds or two minutes or 10 to tell everybody in that room how honored he is that they’re there and how much he appreciates that they’re there and that they support him. And they all hear it. And they all know it’s sincere. And when you master that…

When you have the ability to sincerely connect with people, that’s when you get away with your jokes. That’s when they understand your parody, your satire, or whatever. That’s when they don’t get offended by anything, ’cause they know who he is. It’s the one thing about Donaldus Trump: He does not hide who he is. Here’s Friday night in Lake Charles, Louisiana…

THE PRESIDENT: The people that were right, like Sean Hannity and —

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)

THE PRESIDENT: — Rush Limbaugh —

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)

THE PRESIDENT: — Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson —

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)

RUSH: Hey, Chatsworth, you got a shout-out!

THE PRESIDENT: — Judge Jeanine and Watters, my Watters —

AUDIENCE: (cheers)

THE PRESIDENT: — and, frankly, the best show by far in the morning is Fox & Friends.

AUDIENCE: (cheers)

THE PRESIDENT: It’s also got the best ratings. And Lou Dobbs. How about Lou Dobbs?

RUSH: Right on, right on.

THE PRESIDENT: And Varney, he’s great. You know, Varney’s great, and Maria Bartiromo.

RUSH: She’s not happy right now. She’s kind of mad.

THE PRESIDENT: And you know what? There are many others, many others, many others. But they get it right. But why is it John Solomon…? Why aren’t these people getting the real Pulitzer Prize? Because they were right. They called it right. The Times, the Washington Post — the dishonest, horrible — I think very, very bad for our country — publications. It’s a phony deal. So their writers get Pulitzer Prizes for getting it wrong, and the great writers that really got it — and I don’t know them. I never even met some of these people. But the ones that really got it right, they go home empty-handed. Doesn’t work that way. And the people see it, you know? The people see it. So some of the names that I mentioned — all of the names that I mentioned and plenty that I didn’t — I’ll tell you, thank God we have them on our side.

AUDIENCE: (cheers)

RUSH: I’ll give you a name that should be in his list: Sara Carter. Sara Carter ought to be in that list. This is one of my talking points, in fact. These people are working so hard — Solomon, Sara Carter and all the people that he mentioned — and they’re right. They’re getting it right. They’re the ones that ought to be winning the awards for ferreting out the story! But they get ignored. They are effectively nonexistent. Trump is exactly right about that. Now, Maria Bartiromo, she is a little unhappy with Trump and Mnuchin today.

I know I’m never gonna find this. I gotta do this from memory. She… Ah! See, here it is. (This very rarely happens.) Maria Bartiromo blasted Trump — well, the administration — for overselling the deal that was made with the ChiComs last week. She wants to support them economically, but she thinks that they really oversold the Phase I agreements with the ChiComs. She thinks that Mnuchin and Trump are doing it to keep the market up. She thinks they’re doing it to keep the market calm.

She doesn’t think that they’re trying to deceive anybody for their own personal gain. But there were 144 ChiCom representatives who flew in for the talks, and the theory was that when 144 delegates from the ChiCom regime come in and start talking trade… The theory then was, “Well, they must know that this impeachment thing was a crock and isn’t going anywhere. They wouldn’t get serious with Trump unless…” Well, I think it’s the opposite. I don’t think they’re gonna make a serious deal with Trump before the election. I think they’ll do just enough, the ChiComs. They’ll do just enough to keep the talks alive and they’ll give up just enough…

I don’t know who the ChiCom presidential preference is, but my guess is that it would not be Trump. I think they don’t look at Trump as a pushover. They look at anybody on the Democrat side as a pushover because the Democrats, by definition, are telling everybody that they want to take it back to where it was before Trump came along. Well, that’s when China was picking our pocket. Anyway, she was very, very pointed here in saying that this Phase I thing was not nearly the big deal that they’re making it out to be. But she did say they’re doing it to make sure the markets stay level and calm and all that.

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Mitt, VDH, and How Trump Would Lose Rush

Oct 14, 2019



RUSH: There’s a guy out there with a book. His name is Brian Rosenwald, and he’s written a book about me, essentially. It’s called Talk Radio’s America. And honestly, it’s been out awhile. He is the first person to write about me and this program and talk radio in general who gets it. He actually earned a PhD studying talk radio. And he wrote about it.

And it’s not a pro-Rush book, it’s not an anti-Rush book. It’s just a factual presentation of the talk radio emergence in 1988 — well, I should say the Rush emergence in 1988 and then what it all meant. And, you know, it’s rooted in how — you know how I say that nobody in Washington understands Trump and how they haven’t even taken the time to understand Trump’s voters. Rosenwald’s point is that nobody’s really taken the time to understand — other than people who listen to it — nobody’s taken the time to understand it.

They just come up with a bunch of cliched criticisms of it and run with ’em. And none of them are accurate, none of them are correct. They’re just standard left-wing criticism talking points that have no basis in understanding. It’s a combination of arrogance, know-it-allism, and condescension that prevents people from actually learning who Trump is and who his supporters are, ’cause I think they’re frightened at the prospect.

They don’t want to learn that Trump’s voters are entirely normal and great Americans who make the country work. They don’t want that to even have to factor. They want to remain in the comfort zone where Trump voters are idiots, low-information, hayseeds and hicks, racists, bigots, fascists, and the same thing about the talk radio audience.

So this guy Brian Rosenwald comes along and writes the book about it, and he’s been invited to appear various places. He was on CNN Saturday with Michael Smerconish, who is himself a former talk radio host who got bitten by the TV bug, now at CNN. So he’s got Brian Rosenwald on. The title the book, Talk Radio’s America. Smerconish says, “You literally earned a PhD studying talk radio. Do you see any signs of the cracks that we’re describing with Drudge and with Fox News thus far in the world of AM radio?”

ROSENWALD: Absolutely not. Talk radio’s king. Rush Limbaugh said the other day, look, if the Republicans remove him, if the Senate Republicans remove him, it is the end of the Republican Party. Said 90% of the Republicans are still on board, and you can’t do this. And he talks every day about lies, Democratic lies and how Trump did nothing wrong and how they’re out to get him. And he’s not going anywhere. And as long as his audience isn’t going anywhere, neither will he. And those are sort of the two key pillars of conservative media for Donald Trump are Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh. And those guys are still fully on board.

RUSH: There’s a new title. Conservative pillar. What are you shaking your head at in there? Yeah, he gets it. So few people get it that somebody who gets it — it’s not hard to get! We’re on 15 hours a week! All you have to do is turn it on and listen! There’s no mystery here. There’s no secret decoder ring that you have to have in order to be able to listen. We don’t speak in code. You don’t need some decoder manual or an Enigma machine to translate what’s really being said here.

And yet here’s one guy who’s actually taken the time, he writes about it, “Wow, this guy’s incredible.” He’s the one guy that’s actually trying to understand. The rest of the people don’t want to understand it. They’d rather be able to characterize it. Smerconish, then trying to interrupt with a question, but Rosenwald – well, I was gonna say didn’t let him, but he let him finish. Here’s the question.

SMERCONISH: I think that the leadership for Republican Party stems more from the airwaves than it does from say Mitch McConnell or even the White House. And therefore, if you’re correct and I’m sure that you are, in Rush saying, “Hey, it will be the end of Republican Party,” you know, those are fighting words. That’s really a threat of sorts that he’s laying down a marker with Senate Republicans.

ROSENWALD: Absolutely, yes. I mean, Senate Republicans will understand and Rush is making it clear, if you do this, this is war, you’re declaring war on us and we will declare war on you, and we’re more powerful than you are. We will take your base away and your next primary is going to be ugly. And that was going to keep them in line.

RUSH: All right. Now, I’m just gonna be honest. None of that was in my mind when I warned the Senate Republicans. The end of the party is not even arguable. I’m not throwing down the gauntlet. It would be. If the Republican Party, as represented by enough senators in the Republican Party voted to remove Trump from office, that would be — with 90% approval of Trump in Republican Party voters, that would be the end of the party. Those people who are in 90% support of Trump are not gonna vote for Republicans if they would do that.

Now, I was not issuing a warning. I will warn you people about incorrect behavior on the phones, and I will warn you people about misunderstanding. But I’m not warning anybody. This is not something that they don’t know. (interruption) Are you telling me that you think there are some Republicans in the Senate who don’t understand this? Are you telling me you think there’s some Republicans in the Senate that think everything would be fine if they voted to remove Trump from office?

(interruption) No, no! Romney’s done a 180! At least publicly. Okay. Yes. Now here you’ve — let me find it, damn it. I’ve got so many stacks here and I don’t remember which one I put the Romney story in so bear with me here as I go through this page by page. Folks, it’s impossible to do this on the computer. It would not speed it up. It’s about Romney has now done a 180. I’ll try to paraphrase the headline — here it is — Mitt Romney — it’s a Breitbart story. “Mitt Romney Rules Out 2020 Run, Says Trump Re-Election Likely.” And it’s from four days ago. It’s on October 10th.

“Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) confirmed Thursday that he will not mount a primary challenge to President Donald Trump, stating that the president will be the Republican presidential nominee and likely win re-election in 2020.” They’re saying that Romney got his orders from me. This story, Romney said this before I issued my so-called warning. First, do we think Romney is being serious, honest here? That’s the first question we have to ask.

I think this is what I would call structuring. This is Romney setting the table as a reluctant candidate if something so unfortunate were to happen. I don’t think Romney wants to be seen as part of the resistance taking him out. I think Romney wants to be seen as somebody hopefully picking up the pieces if he gets taken out while working quietly to take him out.

“Asked whether he has made up his mind whether to support the House Democrats impeachment inquiry against the president, Romney replied, ‘No. I would have to look at the evidence as it’s presented,’ he said.” Mitt, there isn’t going to be any! There hasn’t been any evidence since 2015! There isn’t any evidence now! Schiff doesn’t even have the gonads to do what he’s doing in public! I don’t need to translate that for Rio Lindans. They know, they eat them. So I’m telling you, Senator, that there’s no evidence.

What do mean you are gonna look like the evidence? The Democrats’ evidence, like you didn’t pay your taxes for 10 years, like you put the family dog on the top of the station wagon because you hate animals, like you had a gigantic notebook of the names of women because you’re misogynistic? This is what I don’t understand about these people. Harry Reid runs around and literally destroys Romney’s presidential campaign with lie after lie after lie. And at the end of the day Romney is thinking about siding with that group of people.

And that, folks, is the power of the Washington establishment. The elites, the deep state, administrative state, whatever you want to call it. One more here from Smerconish and the author, Brian Rosenwald, and it is Smerconish leading off.

SMERCONISH: Do you think there is anything that would make Hannity and/or Limbaugh leave Trump? That’s a real easy one for me to respond to. No. What’s next? They are the guys on Fifth Avenue that he was speaking about.

RUSH: All right. You know what that’s about? Trump said, hell, I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and my supporters would stick with me. So now Sean and I are among those who are — is there anything that would make Hannity and/or Limbaugh leave Trump? Yes, there is. There damn well is. If he threw in with the Democrats on a bunch of stuff. I’m not gonna sit here and defend somebody if he did that. If he did what many Republicans have done over the years, this is not a free ride.

This is based on real substance. This is based on a genuine belief that our country is at a crossroads in terms of what it’s gonna be. And Trump is the Last Man Standing. And if he ever threw in with these people, I wouldn’t care why. There’s no way. I would lose all of you! Because you’d be abandoning him before I did! If he threw in with these people that have been trying to destroy him for 10 years?

And I don’t mean on one issue. I mean, if he just did a 180 and decided he’s tired of the criticism and tired of this and that and wanted to end it and for whatever reasons. It’s not automatic. It’s based on substance! It’s not based on personality! So the author doesn’t quite understand everything.

Now, this is a good transition. There’s a piece by my buddy Victor Davis Hanson from the Hoover Institute from Fox News, from American Greatness. He’s also a guest Lecturer at Hillsdale College. He is an expert on the Peloponnesian wars and that era of ancient Greece. He’s a farmer in California in the Central Valley. A genuine renaissance man. He’s one of the smartest people you’ll ever met. And his piece runs in American Greatness: “The Strategies of Targeting Trump.”

Now, Mr. Hanson is at his wits’ end with Never Trumpers as we all are. You talk about something making no intellectual sense, but it makes emotional sense, but it doesn’t make any intellectual sense, the Never Trumpers. Victor Davis Hanson believes Trump is on the cusp of a massive, massive landslide win, and he doesn’t understand why so many on the Republican side seem to be so defeatist about this.

And I’ve told him, “It’s the media, Victor. They can’t escape it. The media paints the picture. That’s their world if they live in Washington.” I think the permanent state of Republicans in Washington is defeatism. I’m talking about the mental attitude. The permanent state is fatalism, the permanent state is we don’t have a chance, we don’t have a prayer, it’s been their life, they are the minority. Even when they win elections, they are the minority in social structure, popularity, where they live.

So the headline: “The Strategies of Targeting Trump.” And let me give you some pull quotes from the piece. Again, it’s at American Greatness, and, as always, we will link to it at RushLimbaugh.com to make it easier for you to find it.

“We are headed,” writes Mr. Hanson, “for a train wreck. No one knows for certain which outcome is most likely. Will Trump be so beaten down by the ordeal that he will say and do things that will add to the momentum to convict him? Will there be such chaos and disruption that Trump ‘fatigue’ will ensue, and he and those who support him will be blamed for the mess? Will the voter go into a fetal position and just scream, ‘I can’t take this anymore! Make it all just go away!’?

“Or more likely,” writes Mr. Hanson, see, that opening kind of hooked you, “Oh, no, even Victor Davis Hanson is getting… No, folks, no. “Or more likely, will impeachment backfire? Will the jump-the-shark travesty finally confirm that the last three years have been an unhinged, evidence-free Democratic effort to destroy the elected president? Will there be hell to pay for the Democrats for their bias and partisanship that took the country through yet another miasma? They may well earn a Trump landslide and 2020 losses in the Senate and House.”

Another pull quote. “Democrats know they can impeach Trump. And they believe they can easily peel off at least a few Republican votes in the Senate to join them. Yet once the circus is on, who knows what will turn up—the impeachment equivalent of a Christine Blasey Ford, a hot-rodder like Michael Avenatti, victims like Nathan Philipps, or Jussie Smollett?

“Don’t laugh, such theatrics will air all sorts of anti-Trump professional hysterias as a parade of witnesses from Stormy Daniels, to tax lawyers, to psychiatrists, to Anthony Scaramucci/Omarosa performance artists, to legal talking heads like Jeffery Toobin, to wizened ‘sages’ such as Colin Powell and Andrew Card can all be wheeled in to provide both low farce and sanctimonious establishment pieties.

“Under such pressures, who knows exactly how long 14 Senators can hold out? Sinking poll averages each day can presage bleak 2020 scenarios and stampede up-for-reelection senators. Maybe the depressive spectacle can help tank the economy and bring back Recession!”

He’s outlining here everything the Democrats are hoping for, everything they plan on doing. If it means destroying the country in order to get rid of Trump they’ll do it, and his question is, are you up for what might happen?

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RUSH: Back to the phones we go to Bozeman, Montana. John, great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Hi.

CALLER: Hi. Landline dittos.

RUSH: I appreciate the landline dittos, by the way. Easier for me to comprehend.

CALLER: Rush, I used to think that the endless lies and stories against Trump were an attempt to get the suburban female vote to just throw their hands up in the air and say there’s too many issues with this guy. But I think it’s been simplified, and the Democrat game plan now is Harry Reid 10.0. You just tell lies like he told lies about Romney’s tax returns, and the rationale afterwards is, “We won, didn’t we?” And so all lies are usable and —

RUSH: Right. It’s my illusion theory. That’s exactly right. They’re creating this ongoing illusion like these videos, the video from the Knob Creek Gun Range that audiences have been told is from Syria. The video of Trump supposedly doing violent things to his opponents, which nobody has seen, the campaign has nothing to do with, it was a plant at a Trump rally at Doral in Florida.

Like the stories throughout the media today, there may be as many as 14 more whistleblowers. It doesn’t matter how many there are. They do not know anything more than what’s in the transcript of the call. So it is a massive illusion being created. Your first theory is not wrong. Whether the target is suburban women, I think that’s a bit too in the weeds, but the effort to convince a number of people that Trump is just so filthy, so dirty that we don’t even have time to list all the things.

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Sorry, Millennials! We’re Stuck on Earth

Oct 14, 2019



RUSH: You know, it’s Columbus Day. Columbus Day’s today. This is one of those holidays where half of us are at work — the ones that matter. The ones who count are at work today and other people have the day off.

Tech bloggers are off today, for example. Not too many of them are working today. I’ve been checking. But you know what? The tech bloggers are depressed because a scientist that they all respect (we had the story last week) came out and said that the likelihood of escaping earth and living on Mars or the Moon is impossible.

It is never gonna happen.

I am not making this up. They were crushed!

These 30-year-old Millennial guys are the equivalent of 5- and 6-year-old people playing with Clutch Cargo dolls and space rockets to the Moon and literally thinking the earth cannot support them and the only hope they’ve got is to go to Mars with Elon Musk. And when this scientist came out, it took the air out of their balloon.

You could hear the air hiss out of the balloon on the blog post Web page. Psssssssss. So half of them are in recovery today unable to get to work. But half of us, the ones that matter, we are here. Banks are closed today. Did you know that? The malls are open. The post office is closed. FedEx and UPS are making deliveries. We’re here — I’m here — and that’s really all that matters.