{"id":215242,"date":"2016-12-22T17:13:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T22:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/12\/22\/give_hillary_a_participation_trophy_\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T10:29:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:29:09","slug":"give_hillary_a_participation_trophy_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/12\/22\/give_hillary_a_participation_trophy_\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Hillary a Participation Trophy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Would somebody give Hillary Clinton a participation trophy already?&nbsp; Somebody please, so they would shut up about the Russians and about blaming everybody that they lost.&nbsp; Now Obama\u2019s back to blaming me, back to blaming Fox News.&nbsp; Said that I created the character, Barack Obama, that misinformed everybody about the great guy he really is.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But I can\u2019t take it anymore.&nbsp; The Russians this, the Russians that, we got Obama out there, there\u2019s a story that\u2019s saying one of Obama\u2019s advisers wanted Obama to threaten the Russians with military action, that this was an act of war what the Russians did, hack the election. But Obama said no, I\u2019m gonna handle it my way and called up Putin and said, &#8220;Cut it out.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a far cry from declaring war.&nbsp; &#8220;Hey, Vlad, cut it out.&#8221;&nbsp; And that supposedly happened in September, and Obama\u2019s out there saying the Russians stopped.&nbsp; They were quaking in their boots because Barack Hussein O said, &#8220;Cut it out&#8221; in September.&nbsp; But now they\u2019re back to saying the Russians didn\u2019t stop.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_132393\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Hillary-s-PARTICIPATION-Trophy.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Let\u2019s look at this.&nbsp; Hillary Clinton had the entire mainstream media, not just here but around the world, she had the entire entertainment industry, she had all of corrupt academia.&nbsp; She, in fact, had the entire establishment culture, and she even had some people in the Republican Party on her side, and she still lost.&nbsp; And so did the Obama agenda, so did the actual agenda items that Obama has implemented in the past eight years.&nbsp; All of it was sent packing, including Mrs. Clinton.&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Where did Mrs. Clinton spend her vacation time?&nbsp; Where\u2019d she spend the summer?&nbsp; She was in the Hamptons.&nbsp; She was in Martha\u2019s Vineyard.&nbsp; She was doing fundraisers on the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side of Manhattan and then under the cover of darkness she would sneak down to SoHo and the West Village. She\u2019s raising all this money while vacationing.<\/p>\n<p>Where was Trump while all this was going on?&nbsp; He was in every state in the center of the country, four and five speeches a day, to the people who make the country work.&nbsp; And Hillary\u2019s vacationing in the Hamptons and at Martha\u2019s Vineyard and hanging around with all the swells in the elite establishment, and they are all on her side and she still lost because she didn\u2019t have any kind of a message, she\u2019s a lousy candidate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t it amazing now how many on their side are now admitting she was a lousy candidate.&nbsp; This is what gets me.&nbsp; In all these post mortems, Doug Schoen and all those other Democrats &#8212; and not just him.&nbsp; I mean, there\u2019s a whole slew of them out there, folks, that are now talking about what a bad campaign she ran and what a lacking candidate she was.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, wait a minute, now.&nbsp; Why were they also telling us at the Democrat convention that there was never anybody even as close to being qualified to be president as Hillary Clinton in the history of the country.&nbsp; We\u2019re dealing with some serious derangement here and dangerously deranged and unhinged behavior.&nbsp; Maybe if somebody would just give her a participation trophy and make her think she won something, this would all go away. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the Tampa.&nbsp; Raymond, you\u2019re in.&nbsp; Great to have you on the program, sir.&nbsp; Make it fast, you can make it count.&nbsp; You\u2019re up.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Hey, Rush, I\u2019ve been listening to you for 25 years.&nbsp; Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; I\u2019m a black Christian independent.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Oh.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; And I\u2019m telling you, it has been something else watching the Democrats blaming everybody else for Hillary\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Isn\u2019t that amazing.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_132417\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ObamaRejected-A.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">CALLER:&nbsp; There is one person who is truly responsible:&nbsp; Barack Hussein Obama.&nbsp; He is the one to be blamed for her loss.&nbsp; He\u2019s the one who created an environment that is anti-Americanism that has been spreading through this country, and people like me and millions like me couldn\u2019t take it anymore.&nbsp; We\u2019re sick and tired of it, Rush.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; I agree.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Sick and tired of him trying to turn this country into something else other than what the framers intended.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Amen!&nbsp; Amen!&nbsp; I love you, man.&nbsp; Absolutely right.&nbsp; That\u2019s exactly right.&nbsp; And when he\u2019s not on the ballot, his issues die.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; That\u2019s exactly right, Rush.&nbsp; And we were tired of it.&nbsp; It wasn\u2019t the emails, Rush.&nbsp; It wasn\u2019t the Russians.&nbsp; It wasn\u2019t even Benghazi.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; It wasn\u2019t even me! It was them.&nbsp; They doomed themselves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Absolutely right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Raymond, what kind of iPhone do you want?&nbsp; Do you want an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Wow, Rush, thank you.&nbsp; 7 Plus.&nbsp; Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; What\u2019s your carrier, Raymond?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; T-Mobile.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; T-Mobile.&nbsp; Okay.&nbsp; You have a color preference?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Black.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; You got it.&nbsp; Got it.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Would somebody give Hillary Clinton a participation trophy already?  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