Pathetic Convention, Pathetic Ratings for Pathetic Plugs
Aug 19, 2020
RUSH: Well, it’s gonna be a little bit uncomfortable today, folks, because of the comments that I am inclined to make here about people I normally leave alone. What I saw last night watching the Democrat convention, oh, my goodness. It was pathetic. It was pathetic.
And then to watch everybody talk about how wonderful it was and how great it was and, oh, my goodness, I hope we never, ever go back to conventions in a big hall and the big floor and all the — My friends, the lengths to which people are going to cover up for the absolute, pathetic nature of this convention is just amazing. It’s breathtaking to behold.
Anyhow, it’s great to be here. Great to have you with us, as always. The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.
The ratings continue to be also pathetic for the Democrat National Convention, and they can’t figure out why. They’re trying hard. They’re assembling all the experts. They’re talking to all the professionals. They’ve got the creme de la creme of big tech. They’ve got the creme de la creme of broadcast network talent. They have the creme de la creme of the political world on the Democrat side. And they can’t figure it out.
They do not know why the ratings — and they’re not good, folks. It’s not that they’re down a few percent here, few percent there. It is record low, no matter where you go. They originally were holding out hope that the streaming numbers, which are harder to actually ascertain, that the streaming numbers would make up for the loss or the down numbers on conventional, over-the-air broadcast television and cable. But it hasn’t happened.
So there’s all kinds of excuses that are being offered. “Well, it’s the pandemic.†I actually heard, this is the number one excuse. “You know, people are having to Zoom all day long. They’re having to go to work on Zoom. They’re having to communicate, do their jobs on Zoom. The last thing they want to do at night is go home and watch something else on Zoom,†which is how the Democrat convention is happening.
I said, “Man, that is scraping the bottom of the barrel.†Because, you see, I, ladies and gentlemen, as a powerful, influential member of the media can tell them exactly why their ratings are down. It’s not hard at all. They themselves ought to be able to figure this out. Maybe they have and just don’t want to admit it to themselves. And I’ll be happy to tell ’em because they’re not gonna believe me. And even if they do believe me, they’re not gonna acknowledge that I may have a point.
But it is real simple. We talked about it yesterday. We talked about it the day before. It all boils down to one thing: There isn’t any enthusiasm in the Democrat Party for Joe Biden. They will tell you. They will tell you their own polls show that a majority of people who say they’re gonna vote in November hate Trump. They’re voting against Trump. They are not voting for Biden.
Well, folks, that’s all you need to know. If the Democrats admit that their own nominee isn’t engendering or generating any excitement, then why would you expect massive tune-in to your convention featuring the guy? The two go hand in hand. You wouldn’t. You wouldn’t expect this.
And then the VP, Kamala Harris, yeah, she’s historic. No, she’s not. These people lie to themselves. “Yes, she is. She’s the first woman of color to be picked as vice president.†We’ve been there, done that. We’ve had the first person of color be president. Anything else is a step-down. You Democrats, you keep trying to create excitement out of identity related things. It’s not how most people look at other people. But it is on the Democrat side.
The Democrat Party, if you’re an average leftist or liberal walking down the street, the first thing you notice about somebody is their skin color. Then you try to determine what their sexual orientation is. The next thing you try to determine, are they tranny? The next thing you try to figure out is something else related to their identity. The last thing you’re interested in is who they are. Because who they are is irrelevant to you. What they are is what matters.
So in the vast swath of the American population — don’t doubt me on this — the fact that Kamala Harris is a woman of color, Jamaican person of color, Indian, nation of India person of color, it’s nice and all that, but it’s not historic. It certainly isn’t enough to get people to tune in and watch the convention. Besides, Kamala Harris, as we also discussed, was the first Democrat to get out of the primaries. There were 23 or 24 of ’em in there. She got out before the first votes were even cast. She was the first out. And now she is in place to become president.
Tell me how that works in terms of creating excitement. The first person out of the race because she had no hope, because she had no prayer. She had thrown everything she had going after Biden, who was the front runner. He’s a racist, he’s a big, I believe all of the women, I think the guy is a reprobate, all that stuff, it didn’t work.
I could have told them it wasn’t gonna work. But it didn’t work, so she gets out. And now they’re sitting there expecting that this convention is gonna be, I mean, uncontrollably exciting, when they admit there is no excitement for their candidate and they’re having to manufacture this so-called historical choice of Kamala Harris.
Meanwhile, their cities are burning, and they don’t even talk about it. They don’t even mention it. I mean, the Democrat Party, the one thing that they are really illustrating they have a talent for is to be absent reality. So it’s no mystery to me. Now, there’s some stuff to learn here as a result.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: The main thing to realize is the reason the ratings are down is Biden isn’t exciting. Nobody cares to tune in.
You know what? Most people on the Democrat side, because of the media, don’t know the extent of Vice President Biden’s mental drop-off. They just don’t know it. So they don’t even have the element of, “Gee, is he gonna…? Is he gonna not know where he is tonight?†Some people would watch just to see if that happened — and it did. It happened a couple times last night.
We have it on tape. We’ve got it on video. We’re gonna show you on the Dittocam. He didn’t know where I was. I tell you, whoever… Did you…? James, did you see when he actually accepted the nomination? He was in a VHS or a videotape library in the basement of a school, and they had some streamers — like five or six streamers — come out of the ceiling, which is like a 10-foot ceiling and two or three balloons.
Well, it looked small. It looked… You could count the number of streamers, and Biden looked like he thought they were snakes — they were coming out of the roof to attack him — and he’s looking at them like, “Whoa! Whoa! What’s this? God love ya. Oh, my God.†He went out after Jill Biden, his wife, finished her speech, and (sigh) basically said, “Why am I here?†You’ll hear it.
