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RUSH: Let\u2019s get to the “deplorables” comment.\u00a0 That just in and of itself is devastating.\u00a0 When Mitt Romney said last year at a fundraiser that 47% of country would never vote for him, were never gonna vote for him — 47% — he was illustrating the odds that he was up against.\u00a0 But when it leaked out… He said it at a fundraiser. When it leaked out, the Drive-Bys took it and said it meant that Mitt Romney was describing people by virtue of categorizing them as “The 47%.”<\/p>\n

And he received the benefit of media doubt that he was categorizing all those people in a negative way:\u00a0 They were minorities, they were slackers, they were welfare cheats, whatever — and that\u2019s why Romney was saying that they would never vote for him!\u00a0 They tried to destroy him.\u00a0 It\u2019s still not certain if that comment more than any other determined his fate.\u00a0 We still don\u2019t know.\u00a0 But it wasn\u2019t helpful.\u00a0 The media tried to blow it up and destroy him anyway, like they had with any other comments and ads they were running.<\/p>\n

Romney was perhaps the most decent and the most moral person to seek the presidency. He was right up there with George W. Bush, and a far cry from Bill Clinton.\u00a0 Look what they were able to do to him.\u00a0 They were able to characterize him as somebody who hated animals, somebody who didn\u2019t care when the wives of his employees got cancer and died. They were able to portray him as somebody who didn\u2019t pay his taxes.\u00a0 So Mrs. Clinton\u2019s entered the fray with a comment that is, I think, worse.<\/p>\n

She has actually made a character assessment and judgment on half of the people who vote for Donald Trump.\u00a0 Now, when she made the statement, she was ill.\u00a0 You stop and think.\u00a0 They could have… At the moment she said that, they should have realized that this was something she\u2019d really stepped in, and they better walk this back.\u00a0 What better way to walk that comment back than to announce that she\u2019s got pneumonia and she\u2019s not herself some days and she\u2019s terribly sorry for it? They could have broomed it.<\/p>\n

They could have gotten rid of it in ways that the Drive-By Media could\u2019ve made a lot of hay with and limited the damage.\u00a0 But they didn\u2019t.\u00a0 They saved that diagnosis announcement of pneumonia until this event that happened yesterday.\u00a0 So, using intelligence guided by experience, coupled with common sense, it seems obvious that this poor woman is really sick.\u00a0 And I want to emphasize again the fact that every time they send her out, it\u2019s a roll of the dice.<\/p>\n

They can\u2019t predict when any of these episodes are going to happen.\u00a0 They obviously can\u2019t control whatever she has with medication.\u00a0 Not enough.\u00a0 Otherwise yesterday wouldn\u2019t have happened.\u00a0 The coughing spasms wouldn\u2019t have happened in Cleveland last week.\u00a0 So they can\u2019t control it.\u00a0 Now they\u2019ve canceled a fundraising trip to California, and that\u2019s big because that\u2019s what the Clintons live to do, is raise money.<\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s look at this “deplorables” comment and the other thing that she said as well.\u00a0 “Deplorable” has many different definitions: Disgraceful, shameful, dishonorable, unworthy, inexcusable.\u00a0 But we know how she meant it. She was basically saying that half of Donald Trump\u2019s voters are human debris.\u00a0 This is a woman seeking the presidency.\u00a0 That\u2019s violating rule number one!\u00a0 You are going to be president of all the people.<\/p>\n

You can say whatever you want about the candidate, but you don\u2019t launch this way.\u00a0 Then the second thing that she said. She said they\u2019re in “a basket of deplorables.”\u00a0 But the really damning thing that she said is the second part of her statement.\u00a0 She said, quote, “That other basket of people are people who feel that government has let them down, the economy has let them down, that nobody cares about them; nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures. They are just desperate for change.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t really even matter where it comes from.”<\/p>\n

Well, there is no better indictment of the Obama years than that!\u00a0 But then in Pittsburgh on Friday, she said the following.\u00a0 It was… (sigh) You just figure this out.\u00a0 Listen to it.\u00a0 “If you saw that show,” the commander-in-chief forum… Well, no, that\u2019s… Wait a minute.\u00a0 That\u2019s not correct.\u00a0 That\u2019s somebody else\u2019s speaking, not her.\u00a0 The point is that they could have easily erased this — all these comments, deplorable and the other people that have been left out by the Obama economy — simply by saying she had pneumonia.<\/p>\n

“Please, she didn\u2019t mean it, that…” Well, maybe not she didn\u2019t mean it, but, “She was not on her game. She\u2019s got pneumonia, she\u2019s suffering, she\u2019s taking her latest round of medication, what have you. She\u2019s very frustrated that she can\u2019t be on the campaign trail,” whatever they could have said to mitigate this. But they didn\u2019t.\u00a0 They just let it fester there.\u00a0 And in the process, Hillary Clinton lifted the veil and let everybody know who she really is, let everybody see who she really is, how she really looks at people, how liberals really look at people.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re the ones who look at people and make judgments, negative judgments based on skin color and gender, surface kind of things.\u00a0 They\u2019re the ones that seek to divide various groups of Americans, not unify or not heal.\u00a0 So she totally indicts the Obama presidency and then insults people who really have lost patience with people like her being in government.\u00a0 And I think this just adds to the whole equation about how she\u2019s just not right. There\u2019s something…<\/p>\n

She hasn\u2019t been right for a long time, and it\u2019s coming to a head now.\u00a0 Now, David Shuster, the guy that works at MSNBC, has tweeted out a couple times that there are super-secret meetings going on at the upper level the Democrat Party to consider a replacement, to consider a possible replacement.\u00a0 Who would it be?\u00a0 If they have to yank her out or if she at some point can\u2019t continue — I can\u2019t foresee this, but since they are supposedly discussing it — who would it be?\u00a0 Would it be Kaine?<\/p>\n

Would they automatically elevate Kaine since he\u2019s the VP, elevate him to nominee, or would they go out and get Crazy Bernie?\u00a0 Would Crazy Bernie…? (interruption) What do you mean, “They can\u2019t do Kaine”? (interruption)\u00a0 Ah, just \u2019cause Kaine\u2019s pro-life? They could bury that for a couple of months, six weeks. They could bury that.\u00a0 This wouldn\u2019t be a reason.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 If they didn\u2019t choose Kaine it\u2019s because they don\u2019t think he could win.<\/p>\n

Would they go back and get Crazy Bernie?\u00a0 They don\u2019t have much of a bench.\u00a0 Well, we\u2019re getting a little bit ahead of things since we don\u2019t know if this is gonna happen.\u00a0 But they have to be talking about it.\u00a0 This is another thing. You rest assured. For all of the calm being portrayed in the Drive-By Media about, “Ah, it\u2019s just pneumonia. She\u2019ll get past it. Everybody does!” For all this calm, my friends, there is panic no doubt going on at every sector of the Democrat Party.\u00a0 I don\u2019t care how you slice it, this is not a winning profile.<\/p>\n

Victories do not come from these kinds of things.\u00a0 They just don\u2019t.\u00a0 This does not… There cannot be enough sympathy aroused by virtue of these illness events to propel her.\u00a0 Not for this office.\u00a0 And then we also have to keep in mind that there\u2019s still a lot of the general population that has not seen, does not know the full extent of what happened yesterday.\u00a0 ‘Cause the Drive-Bys and some of the social media sites are doing their best to hide the video from yesterday, for example.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 So I get an email: “Rush, why do you think Hillary didn\u2019t speak to a doctor any sooner?”\u00a0 Why didn\u2019t she speak to a doctor sooner, she probably couldn\u2019t find one to pay her 250 grand.\u00a0 That\u2019s what she charges to say things to. No, she\u2019s been speaking to doctors.\u00a0 That\u2019s the whole point, folks.\u00a0 And this “deplorable” comment, this is not the first time she\u2019s said it.\u00a0 This is a written remark.\u00a0 She said this to an audience of LGBT people, and she\u2019s also said it to a foreign policy audience.\u00a0 It\u2019s the second time that she\u2019s made this comment.\u00a0 Here it is Friday night in New York at a campaign fundraiser. It\u2019s an LGBT event.<\/p>\n

HILLARY:\u00a0 You can put half of Trump\u2019s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (laughter and applause)<\/p>\n

HILLARY:\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.<\/p>\n