http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/11/01/two_long_form_pieces_you_should_readTwo Long-Form Pieces You Should Read
November 01, 2016
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RUSH: There are two long-form pieces that I want to call your attention to today. Victor Davis Hanson back with a brilliant piece about the Clintons and who they are and what motives 'em. It's at National Review Online, and I just love it because it essentially, in his own words, makes points that I have been trying to make about the Clintons since I first became aware of them in 1990.
There's another piece, and this also is a piece right after my heart. It's by somebody named Thomas Frank. Now, there are two Thomas Franks, and one of the Thomas Franks is a big lib who wrote about what happened to Kansas. Meaning, why are people voting against their self-interest by voting against liberals and so forth.
This is a Thomas Frank writing for the U.K. Guardian. The headline to this piece: "Forget the FBI Cache; the Podesta Emails Show How America is Run."
I have noted on several occasions what's at stake here. The establishment, who they are, why they will do anything to hold onto power. And this piece nails it. And the brilliant aspects of this piece is that you can learn it. You don't have to tell anybody what you think.
It's all there in the Podesta emails, the WikiLeaks document dump. It's all there, how these people in the establishment are devoted to the preservation of their own power and their own place within the establishment. That ideology comes a close second. That what they're really focused on is power. And anybody that has power they will sidle up to. And it explains the unification of people from Hollywood, from Silicon Valley, from Wall Street to Big Finance to corporate America to multinational corporate world and how it relates to the Democrat Party and the media and so forth.
It's everything that I've told you. It's everything I've theorized to you about who these people are and why they're members of the establishment, what's beneficial and how you can't get in, how it's closely guarded. But the great thing about this peace is that he documents it and proves it by virtue of what the various members of the establishment are writing to each other in the Podesta email dump.
There's so much more than has been reported, for example. There are emails to Podesta from other powerful people begging him to get their kids a job, begging him to get their daughter a job or their wife a job or get them a job or get them a free flight on some Saudi billionaire's jet somewhere, and it all happens. And none of it is merit based. It's all based on membership in this club, which, again, has nothing to do with merit, it has a little bit to do with ideology. It has more to do with your resume. You know, where you went to school, where you work, who your parents were, legacy things like this.
But it is so well done. I'm stunned it runs in the Guardian. The Guardian's a left-wing paper in the U.K., and this piece just indicts the establishment. It explains why Trump is winning. It explains why. It doesn't specifically say so, but if you read it you'll understand why Trump has got so much support, why so many people are so fed up because the last thing this group cares about is the country. They don't care about what's good for the country. That falls by the wayside in the wake of considerations of what's good for them.
Now, none of this is a surprise in terms of you know that there are people like this, but this documents it and it's extensive, and it's primarily Democrats. The Republican members are there as pets so to speak, but they don't rank. But it's all about Republicans who want to be, who want to be in this club, who want to be taken seriously, who want to be accepted. It's classic high school, except the people we're talking about are multimillionaires.
I'm not gonna take the time to read the whole thing. I may give you excerpts, but I'm pointing you to it. We'll link to it at RushLimbaugh.com. "Forget the FBI Cache; the Podesta Emails Show How America is Run." And, boy, is that right. And it has nothing to do, literally has nothing to do with the will of the people. It has nothing to do with what you learned in civics 101 in junior high school. It has nothing to do with what you think the country was founded to be. That's not at all how America is run, nor who runs it. Depending on who you are and how much you think about these things, it will confirm suspicions that you've had. It's great. It's stunning.
And then the Victor Davis Hanson piece is just over the top in its brilliance at defining the Clintons for us and for everybody. It's nothing that you don't know again -- well, some of it might be. But it is so well crafted, and it's just dead-on right. Let me give you just an excerpt paragraph from Victor Davis Hanson here.
"Of course, the Clintons are not only corrupt but cynical as well. They accept that the progressive media, the foundations, the universities, the bureaucracies, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley honor power more than trendy left-wing politics; they well understand that their fans will, for them, make the necessary adjustments to contextualize Clinton criminality or amorality. Sexual predations, the demonization of women, graft, and unequal protection under the law are also of no consequence to the inbred, conflicted, and morally challenged media -- who will always check in with the Clinton team, like errant dogs who scratch the backdoor of their master after a periodic runaway," wanting to be let back in."
It just dissects everything that is the Clintons: Clinton, Inc., Clinton friends, how the Clintons managed to go from paupers to multi-, multi-, multimillionaires without producing anything, without generating anything. It's a story of Clinton grift, Clinton graft, Clinton corruption. It's everything that you know, so well-crafted as to be undeniable. So those are two long-form pieces I want to call your attention to.
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