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<\/a>“Christians Most Influenced by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity,” according to this poll. “A survey by the American Culture & Faith Institute measures which political commentator held the most sway among … spiritually active, governance engaged conservatives this election cycle.” It says here, “Mr. Limbaugh finishes first in the poll, with 19%,” followed by Sean Hannity at 17%, and Ted Baxter of Fox News — that\u2019s an affectionate name for Bill O\u2019Reilly — with 14%, Laura Ingraham at 12%. So got us to thinking, which we\u2019ll share the results when we get back.<\/p>\nBREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: So the Washington Times has a story today reporting the results of a poll by the American Culture and Faith Institute, and the poll measures which political commentator held the most sway among spiritually active, governance engaged conservatives in this election cycle. And the Washington Times says that the poll produced me as number one in the poll followed by Sean Hannity in second place, then Bill O\u2019Reilly and Laura Ingraham. Tony Perkins is number five here in the list of the Family Research Council. They go on to basically describe how it was a non-endorsement endorsement and so forth. <\/p>\n
Anyway, they try to buttress the claim in the poll that I more than anyone explained Trump to spiritually active, governance engaged conservatives. Well, when I saw this, I start thinking back to the fall campaign and some of the things that I focused on here. And I guess one of the major things I focused on was explaining Trump to people, particularly the media and Democrats and leftists, and even establishment Republicans who professed total ignorance, not understanding how Trump could survive any of these statements he was making that would have killed off any other politician. <\/p>\n
The media could not drive them away.<\/p>\n The Democrats couldn\u2019t drive \u2019em away.<\/p>\n The Republicans couldn\u2019t drive them away.<\/p>\n No news story, no Access Hollywood tape, nothing could drive them away. <\/p>\n Only Trump could. <\/p>\n So we went back to the archives and Cookie found an audio sound bite of me from July, even before the fall campaign ginned up. This is July 21st. This is about five weeks after Trump announced on June the 16th. And what was going on at this time, Trump had just insulted McCain. He was refusing to apologize. He had said he doesn\u2019t admire military people that get captured. This is after he had described Mexican immigrants, illegal immigrants, the way he did and said a number of things that as you recall back then, everybody in conventional politics was apoplectic. Well, they were laughing, too. They thought Trump was destined to implode, and it was gonna happen soon. <\/p>\n They\u2019d never seen anything like it and they didn\u2019t think it could survive. And they started talking, “Trump doesn\u2019t even want to win. It\u2019s obvious. A guy that wants to win doesn\u2019t do what Trump\u2019s doing, doesn\u2019t say the things Trump\u2019s saying.” And so they wrote him off and wrote him off and they continued to rely on what they thought they knew about establishment politics and how Trump didn\u2019t fit in and his support at this early stage was just a fad and it had no legs to it. <\/p>\n So Cookie found a sound bite that gets close to illustrating this. July 21st<\/a>. So what would that be now? Almost a year-and-a-half ago. It\u2019s a couple of minutes of me explaining why conservative Christians who stayed home for Romney would come out and vote for Trump and stick with him.<\/p>\n RUSH ARCHIVE: The Drive-Bys, the media, the establishment in Washington are all trying to figure out why is Trump getting so much support. Why is he getting it? I\u2019ll tell you why. On my left hand here, I\u2019ve got the Planned Parenthood story, where we are murdering babies in the womb and selling body parts for profit. Planned Parenthood is doing it, bragging about it, setting prices, woman saying she wants to get a Lamborghini. Over here we\u2019ve got Trump saying words about McCain. And in those two circumstances what\u2019s everybody upset about? Trump.<\/p>\n People in Washington, DC, at all levels of the political class — being media, elected officials, people that work at lobbying firms, fundraisers, the whole mess, the bureaucracy, I don\u2019t think they have the slightest idea what it is that\u2019s on the minds of your average American citizen these days. So, the average American does everything he or she can to get their attention. In the case of Republicans, sit home and not vote and let Barack Obama be elected.<\/p>\n No doubt in my mind that the four million or so Republicans that sat home in 2008 didn\u2019t vote for Romney, or in 2012, didn\u2019t vote for Romney, did that as the only way they could get a message to the Republican establishment. They were disgusted, they were fed up, asked for money, and never being listened to. So, to me, this is evidence of just how sick our whole political structure, and maybe culture at large, is right now.<\/p>\n That\u2019s gonna be an earthquake, and there\u2019s gonna be a tsunami. And whatever it is that they are exercised about now, they will forget. I\u2019m talking about the establishment, the left, the Democrats, they are going to go bonkers when that happens. Mr. Snerdley, you know who the black actor and entertainer Nick Cannon is? Have you heard what Nick Cannon said over the Thanksgiving weekend? Nick Cannon said that Planned Parenthood is planned genocide of African-Americans<\/a>. He called it eugenics. He described it exactly as it is. He\u2019s a black entertainer. <\/p>\n Nick Cannon. Help me out here. Did he used to have a relationship with Mariah Carey? He was married to Mariah Carey. Yeah, for a minute. Right. So that\u2019s who he is. And, of course, then he took a relative amount of heat, and he reaffirmed what he had said. I have the story here but not in front of me so I\u2019ve gotta paraphrase. But he said, African-Americans, you have to learn something. This system wasn\u2019t set up for us. He\u2019s talking about the founding of the country, and at the time of the founding, he would have been right. The days when, in order to get the Southern states to join Union, the framers had to make all kinds of concessions, which they made to allow slavery to continue, but they made sure to write in the Constitution the tools necessary to abolish it down the road, which also happened. You know, we are one of the only countries to abolish slavery, and yet the civil rights coalitions run around acting like it\u2019s still the order of the day. But he went to point out, he said, look, you people celebrating Planned Parenthood have got to get a grip. They are committing genocide again. <\/p>\n And who are they? Well, it\u2019s a bunch of white liberal plantation owner types that run and fund and pay for Planned Parenthood. He nailed it. And because it was over the Thanksgiving weekend it did not get a lot of attention. That would have been another earthquake and another tsunami had that happened during a normal news cycle. <\/p>\n![](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/RushRunsAmerica-BLANK-sound-waves-RUSH-1-1.jpg\"\/)
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<\/a>There\u2019s a sordid lack of proportion in this country, and my contention to you is that the American people are far more fed up with what they learned about Planned Parenthood. A vast majority of Americans are livid and scared and shocked and repulsed by what they\u2019ve learned about Planned Parenthood, to the point that makes Trump\u2019s comments about McCain pale in importance and comparison. And yet over here we have the establishment and the media, and they haven\u2019t said a word about Planned Parenthood, but they\u2019re beside themselves with anger and shock and dismay over what Donald Trump is saying. I mean, you talk about disconnect.<\/p>\n![](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PlannedParenthood-BUTCHERHOOD.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>RUSH: I should add that Trump was talking about Planned Parenthood at the time and expressing his disgust with it, and Planned Parenthood had its defenders, and they were coming out. They were denying all this and saying it wasn\u2019t true, but it was despicable, it remains despicable. By the way, one of the first things that the Republican Congress is expected to do now is to defund Planned Parenthood. It is high on the agenda list and it looks like that\u2019ll happen. And that\u2019s gonna be an earthquake. <\/p>\n
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<\/a>So, anyway, there are a lot of other examples that I could have gone back to for the archives to explain Trump, or how I explain Trump to people. It\u2019s safe to say that nobody listened in the establishment. I know the Democrats didn\u2019t and I know the media didn\u2019t, but I don\u2019t think anybody did a better job of deconstructing who Trump is and why his base was glued to it, why they were inseparable. Only he could have done something to blow it up, but it would have taken a lot. <\/p>\n