http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/10/21/the_elites_at_al_smith_have_you_ever_seen_a_bigger_group_of_uptight_peopleThe Elites at Al Smith: Have You Ever Seen a Bigger Group of Uptight People?
October 21, 2016
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RUSH: Now, what are we to make of this? Timothy Cardinal Dolan says that Trump and Hillary were civil in private. The Al Smith dinner last night. (laughing) You know what? Folks, we're gonna be getting into this in more detail as the program unfolds, but you know who was in that room last night? In that room was the New York establishment and the elites. They all must have been wearing corsets and whatever else to constrain movement. I never saw a bigger group of uptight people in my life.
You know, this is the teachable moment. Over the course of my career, as you people well know, I've found myself in certain circumstances where I've been roundly criticized, called all kinds of names, racist, sexist, insensitive and so forth, all because we have arrived at a moment in our nation's cultural evolution where people on the left simply cannot laugh. They literally have no sense of humor, particularly about themselves.
I kept hearing at the Al Smith dinner, self-deprecating humor, right? It means you're supposed to make fun of yourself and make fun of others. But they cannot handle it. They don't think anything is funny, particularly if it's about them. And their reactions are just off the charts, like booing Trump and demanding he get off the dais last night for quoting what Hillary has said in these emails.
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RUSH: Bob in Spokane. Great to have you on the program, Bob. How are you?
CALLER: Hey, Rush, great. Good morning. How you doing?
RUSH: Very well, sir.
CALLER: I can fully understand why yesterday you were beside yourself and right up toward the limit. Here we have these people who present themselves as guardians of the sanctity of the results of elections. And now we know they're getting rent-a-mobs and with the accomplices in the media trying to overturn an election and make it look like the 80% who said "yes" are a bunch of loons and they're in the right, in the majority. And they thump their chest talking about, oh, the sanctity of elections and what you promise to follow it, and in the background they're doing exactly the opposite.
RUSH: Exactly right! They're the ones monkeying with it all, like --
CALLER: Correct.
RUSH: -- this guy Creamer at Obama headquarters at the Clinton campaign, they're the ones. I've got a story here you're not gonna believe coming up right after your call. But I want to expand on something. What he's referring to is yesterday I really was, even for me -- folks, I am normally a reserved -- I have my energy, and I have my days where I will raise my voice, but yesterday I was barely able to stay within my own boundaries, 'cause I just found it incredible that no one, not a single person at any of the TV networks, at any of the cable news networks, at any of the newspapers and their websites and blogs, not a single person allowed for the fact that Trump was engaging in showmanship. That Trump was sending a message to his supporters and trying to keep 'em bucked up. Not every single one of them thought that Donald Trump was actually going to try to get the military on his side and launch a military coup if he lost the election. And I don't know what it takes to believe that.
All Donald Trump said was that he was going to wait until the election to decide whether or not it makes sense to take a look at it. And knowing what he knows and what we all know about the WikiLeaks emails and the Project Veritas video and so forth, it's the only common sense thing to say. But they went out and said that Donald Trump said he will not accept the results, and they're out there saying it's the first time in American history that somebody has actively said they will not accept the results.
He didn't say that. It's not what's gonna happen. The willing suspension of common sense here is breathtaking to me. But this is what I keep referring to today as the teachable moment. It is highly instructive. There's gotta be some fear that is behind all this. There's gotta be a lack of confidence on the Hillary side or the establishment side, wherever you want to characterize it, there's got to be some real fear here that this may not go the way they all want it to go and they're telling us with their polls and everything else how it is gonna go.
The idea that they have no ability to know when somebody is yanking their chain, they have no ability to know when they're being toyed with. They don't have the slightest bit of ability to crack a smile and laugh something off. It really is instructive. And it's something that's happened to them, not us. To be so tightly wound. I must, by the way, change. I said everybody looked like they're wearing a corset last night, other than Maria Bartiromo. The rackage on display there obviously was not constrained by a corset. But I meant attitudinally.
I've never seen so many people so uptight. I've never seen this kind of inability to apply any kind of common sense and to react hysterically. There was a national media hysteria, and it's still going on over this. It's not warranted, it's way out of proportion, and it's got to stand for something. There's got to be a reason for it, and I think it's fear, maybe some other things rolled in.
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