What is happening is that the left is attempting to engrave on this last election that the Russians stole it from the Democrats. The effort… It\u2019s not news to say that the Democrats are trying to construct this narrative where Trump\u2019s win and his transition and his presidency are illegitimate. But there\u2019s no pushback on this. Everything\u2019s being left up to Trump to handle. The Republicans are not pushing back on this as they should be: This inspector general investigation into the election and James Comey and the FBI but not looking at the DOJ, it\u2019s classic what\u2019s happening here.<\/p>\n
You know, I saw watching TV today, Obama is out saying that he regrets that he didn\u2019t have more impact on his party. Well, hell\u2019s bells, he sure as hell did! The Democrat Party has been decimated because of Barack Obama. What greater impact could he have had? The impact he had on the Democrat Party was to basically destroy it. It\u2019s not a national party. You know, John Lewis, I don\u2019t care who it is, there\u2019s nothing they can do to stop Trump (*)if the Republicans stay unified. And that is an asterisk, obviously. But they don\u2019t have the votes.<\/p>\n
Are you aware of that? He gets the Nobel Peace Prize in March of his first term, like two months in. We\u2019ve been at war every day during his administration. We know what he\u2019s done to medical center in America, what he\u2019s done via Obamacare. We\u2019ve got 94 million Americans not working. We have an economic recession. We have uncontrollable immigration. And, you know, Trump is the one man fighting back on all of this, including John Lewis. Look at what happens with John Lewis. Who is John Lewis, by the way? I wondered when I saw this.<\/p>\n Two-thirds of the American people may not know who he is, when you got right down to brass tacks, because John Lewis had one thing happen to him that has made him a civil rights icon. And I\u2019m gonna dig deep into this today, too, with the help of Shelby Steele. He had a… You know, I\u2019ve been looking for a way for a long time to express a combination of opinion and feelings I have about the left and race. And I\u2019ve gotten close but I\u2019ve never gotten to the point where I felt totally equipped and prepared to bring that opinion to the broadcast, \u2019cause when you start talking about this stuff you better be precise, and you better say what you mean and not leave it open for any innuendo or misrepresentation.<\/p>\n Which they\u2019re gonna do anyway.<\/p>\n But, for example, I\u2019ll tell you just to show you what a tightrope this is gonna be. What really spawned the latest effort on my part to dig into this was the media and all the fashion magazines saying that Michelle Obama has blown the lights out on first lady fashion. There has never been a more fashionable first lady than Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama rewrote what it is to be fashionable in the White House. Well, that\u2019s just flat-out not true. It\u2019s just flat-out… So why is it said? And that is the opinion, that is the thought, those are the feelings that I wish to share.<\/p>\n ‘Cause there\u2019s a reason for it. There\u2019s a reason for it that is found deep inside the bowels and intestines of liberalism. It\u2019s not just feel goodism. It\u2019s not just pandering, although it\u2019s close to that. But it\u2019s worse than that. It\u2019s actually rooted in what is a great, great phrase: “The soft bigotry of low expectations.” And it\u2019s what the American left has done to every racial minority in this country and especially to African-Americans. And John Lewis is a shining, glaring example. John Lewis… I really was thinking, how many people…?<\/p>\n What he is, folks — and Donald Trump, you can see what happens when pioneers go out and try to change things. Trump is taking the arrows on all kinds of things. This is what it looks like when you try to transform America and take power away from those who\u2019ve had it forever. It\u2019s not pretty. It isn\u2019t going to be pretty. The people who are fearful of losing their power are not going to be peaceful and give it away. They\u2019re not gonna let go of it. It\u2019s all they\u2019ve got. It\u2019s all they know.<\/p>\n It\u2019s how they define their self-worth, it\u2019s how they get their standard of living, and they\u2019re not gonna let some upstart like Trump come in — even if he has a majority of the American people behind him — and just take it. And so it\u2019s gonna be a bloodbath. And we\u2019re living the bloodbath right now. We\u2019re in the midst of it, and it isn\u2019t gonna go away. It\u2019s only gonna intensify. And I\u2019m here to predict to you that this week… You may think this crazy, but I am telling you that the Democrat Party and the American left still harbor hopes and a desire to prevent Trump from being sworn in. Now, you may say, “That\u2019s crazy, Rush! It\u2019s absolutely…”<\/p>\n Yes, it is. That\u2019s the point: It is crazy. They\u2019re mounting all these protests, and I\u2019m gonna make a prediction to you. These protests are gonna fizzle and it isn\u2019t gonna be anywhere near the numbers of people showing up that you are being led to believe are gonna show up. It\u2019s always this way. These people are the minority. They are not the majority. They got beat. They got a snookered. They were defeated. They are not the majority of the country. They can\u2019t come to grips with that. They can\u2019t come to grips with the fact that somebody in their mind like Trump took it away from \u2019em.<\/p>\n So they have not given up hope, desire that they can do something that would stop Trump from being inaugurated. Now, in moments of sanity — and they are rare for these people — they probably realize they can\u2019t do that. So the next thing is to just make it all as illegitimate as possible, and they\u2019re coming at it from every angle you can think. This inspector general investigation on the FBI, CIA director — this phony dossier that Bob Woodward — even Bob Woodward of Watergate fame — has said it\u2019s garbage<\/a>. It should never have been the subject of a briefing. It\u2019s total garbage. He said it on Fox News so it\u2019s not been seen anywhere else.<\/p>\n He\u2019s a congressman from Georgia, near the Atlanta area, and he went to the floor of the House and he said, “I\u2019ve been beat…” I can impersonate him perfectly but I\u2019m not gonna do that because that would be misunderstood because you can\u2019t mimic; you can\u2019t imitate. I mean, they can have Alec Baldwin out there all day long on Saturday Night Live making fun of Trump but you can\u2019t do that kind of thing to a liberal, particularly one they think is an icon. They\u2019ll come at you with charges of racism and bigotry and all this other business.<\/p>\n He went out there on the floor of the House, and he said, “I\u2019ve been beat upside the head, but it doesn\u2019t I\u2019m qualified to be on the Supreme Court.” He went to the floor of the House once… I mean, he\u2019s been living off what happened to him in Selma for all of these years. But he has become, since, nothing but a Democrat Party hack. He\u2019s nothing but a reliable uber-Democrat Party partisan, who I don\u2019t believe has the moral authority that has been granted to him. And once again, we\u2019re back now to what I\u2019m gonna get into later with the help of Shelby Steele. But why does this happen?<\/p>\n It\u2019s all about liberalism and their icons and how they essentially try to shut down debate and permit otherwise morally unfit people to ever moral authority and make statements, usually against Republicans and\/or conservatives. John Lewis did not think George W. Bush\u2019s presidency was illegitimate and said so. And he\u2019s applauded. And he is held up and put on the pedestal as a great hero, one to whom we should all listen. He went to the floor of the House back in the nineties when the Republicans ran the House, and there was some budget bill. I forget what the legislation was.<\/p>\n But John Lewis goes to the floor of the House and does a speech using words that were used in another famous speech about the Nazis. “They\u2019re coming for our children, they\u2019re coming for our grandchildren, they\u2019re coming for our moms, they\u2019re coming for our dads, they\u2019re coming for,” and he was equating the Republicans with the Nazis in World War II. And the left applauded and, “What a great man! We need to listen to this man. He knows what he\u2019s talking about,” simply because he\u2019s one of the remaining survivors of a protest march, Martin Luther King, across the Pettus Bridge in Selma.<\/p>\n And if you look at how he has behaved since he was elected to Congress and throw out his claim to fame in the civil rights march, the guy is a Democrat Party hack. Some people have even described him as a fraud. John Hinderaker at Power Line: “He has been coasting on his 50-year-old reputation for decades. Andrew Breitbart exposed Lewis as a liar when he claimed, falsely, to have been subjected to racial epithets by a crowd outside the Capitol.” Oh, yes! Remember the Congressional Black Caucasians on the left prior to the vote on Obamacare, decided to march in front of the Capitol Building because there were a bunch of Tea Party there protesting the vote.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-Lewis-Engrave.jpg\")
<\/a>The Democrat Party lost over 1200 seats beginning in 2010, the midterm elections. They\u2019ve lost seats in states legislatures, governor ships, town counsel, mayor. They have been decimated. At the state level, the Republican is running this country. The Democrat Party is being made to look like they\u2019re still viable by virtue of the media and what\u2019s going on in Washington with this attempt to delegitimize Trump and his election. But Obama destroyed everything he touched. We have been the war every day of his administration.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RushLowInfoVoter3.jpg\")
<\/a>You know, given the low-information crowd, given history and the way it\u2019s taught, I really, how many people know? Here\u2019s John Lewis, because in Washington they think everybody knows who he is. In Washington, the Democrats and the media think everybody knows who he is, and they also believe that everybody thinks that he is one of the greatest living civil rights icons ever. And so because they think that, they think everybody in America must obviously think that. And I was asking how many people even know who the guy is?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TrumphandsAIR.jpg\")
<\/a>Carl Bernstein\u2019s out there saying, “Well, Woodward\u2019s the real star of my duo. How did I miss this?” Woodward continuing to absorb all the fame and glory and Bernstein\u2019s out there trying to figure out why it\u2019s eluded him. John Lewis, for those of you who don\u2019t know, is a Democrat Party hack. John Lewis was, in fact, beat upside the head as he has described it. In fact, when Clarence Thomas was nominated by George H. W. Bush for the Supreme Court, John Lewis was one of many on the left that were beside themselves. And he went to the floor of the House.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>So they marched and they did it on purpose. When the march was over Lewis said that he had been spat upon and called the N-word, and there was an investigation undertaken, and none of it happened. It didn\u2019t happen. Didn\u2019t matter. The left continued to report that it did in their effort to impugn and besmirch the Tea Party. It didn\u2019t happen. That\u2019s the kind of fraudulent stuff John Lewis has been engaging in. But you don\u2019t say this. He\u2019s a “civil rights icon,” untouchable. He\u2019s permitted to do anything. He\u2019s permitted to say anything and be granted senior statesman, elder statesman status. This is one of the many things that we\u2019re up against that\u2019s wrong, because any criticism of John Lewis or Barack Obama or anybody has been paralyzed by virtue of race, civil rights.<\/p>\n