RUSH: John in Barrington, Illinois, great to have you on Open Line Friday, sir. How are you?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Nice transition, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: If I may say real quick before I get to my point, you know, Oprah got tons of credit when she got her sponsors to give the audience cars and all kinds of stuff, and I don\u2019t think you\u2019ve gotten nearly enough credit for your generosity over the past couple months with your listeners without sponsor involvement.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I never will, but that is not why I do it anyway. If I were liberal, you know, if I were liberal, if I hosted The Daily Show and had done that, do you realize there\u2019d have been pieces and profiles and accolades for weeks all over the media about it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I never even heard from Apple. But that\u2019s just the price to pay for not being a good lib.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Not surprising. Anyway, my thought was, you know, I\u2019ve been encountering a lot of — there\u2019s a lot of racist things being tossed around to just people who are supporting Trump, and my thought was, you know, do you think if Donald Trump would maybe have an ongoing and active outreach to the minority communities, he could permanently split the Democratic Party if it were meaningful and it got us to more toward a colorblind society rather than a racially divisive society?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, you know, a colorblind society is a tough thing to predict, because so many in the racial community do not want there to ever be one. And I\u2019m talking about people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. They do not want an end to racism. They\u2019d be out of business. They do not want an end, they do not want the opportunity to point to racism and demand money or to shake down companies, they don\u2019t want any of that to end. So the very people who profit from it are the last ones who want it to end.<\/p>\n
However, I love your question, because Trump is already off and running with outreach to the African-American community. He had a big meeting at the White House yesterday to kick off African-American History Month. But he did it with an entirely different group of African-American leaders. Every one of them was a conservative, leaders that otherwise you wouldn\u2019t know exist.<\/p>\n
But, John, the real answer to your question, the Democrat Party\u2019s already in huge trouble! The Democrat Party is being defeated profoundly election after election! In 2018, it\u2019s gonna happen again. They are in deep trouble. You just don\u2019t know it because of the media and the way they present these protests and so forth.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I am not exaggerating. Look, I\u2019m also not naive. I understand that in many aspects of life, that perception is reality, and I realize that\u2019s what we\u2019re up against. But I\u2019m also the mayor of Realville. I am a devoted literalist. It leads to many communication problems, by the way, that I have with some people. But I persevere, and I try to bring them around to a more clear expression of what they mean so that I don\u2019t have to try to translate things. I say this to once again remind you… This Investor\u2019s Business Daily report is something that I already knew because I know liberalism.<\/p>\n
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I didn\u2019t know the specifics of this, but I knew that those airport protests after the Trump executive order limiting immigration or whatever you want to call it… I knew they weren\u2019t real. I knew they weren\u2019t spontaneous. They could not have been! That\u2019s not real. Things do not happen that way. They had to be planned. They had to be orchestrated. There had to be people waiting for a go order. You just can\u2019t have that many, tens of thousands of people showing up all over the country over a single executive order. But the perception was that it was organic. The perception was that it was totally spontaneous.<\/p>\n
And then, the conclusion was, “Man! Man, this country hates Trump. Oh, man. The majority of the people in this country hate Trump. Oh, man.” It was designed to make those of you who voted for him think something went wrong. IBD has learned the “protests weren\u2019t spontaneous at all. They were, in fact, the result of months of careful planning by hard-core left-wing activist groups,” who had listened to Trump say he was gonna issue an executive order like this shortly after being inaugurated, and they were sitting around waiting for it to happen.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s all in The Daily Beast, it turns out.<\/p>\n
The organizers and the people who had set this up, “‘professional organizers had been waiting and planning for this type of mass, direct action — ready-made to go viral on social media — even since, well Nov. 9,'” every since Election Day. “These professional organizers…” These are professional organizers. They\u2019re bought and paid for by various Democrats led by George Soros, the Hillary Clinton campaign, Clinton Foundation. They “have been ‘anticipating and mapping out their battle plans for Trump\u2019s orders on deportations, bans, and detention.\u2019<\/p>\n
“The executive director of the Arab-American Action Network told [the Daily Beast] that ‘we had been laying the groundwork for this for a long, long time.\u2019 Since Trump had made clear that he planned — on day one, in fact — to issue a temporary ban on visas and refugees from terror prone countries, all these groups had to do was wait until he made good on that pledge to spring into action.” Now, the truth of the matter, the truth of the American politics today…<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m sorry if this is redundant, but before it needs to repeated because it\u2019s the only way to fight back against these false perceptions being created by the media. The Democrat Party is losing and losing big. The Democrat Party has not had this few seats in Washington since the 1920s, ladies and gentlemen. The Democrat Party has lost over 1,200 seats — federal, state, and local level — since the midterm the elections of 2010. There are only five states where the Democrats have the governorship and the control of the state legislature.<\/p>\n
Actually, it\u2019s only four, because in one of the states there\u2019s a tie, and they have the tiebreaker. So in real numbers it\u2019s only four. In 2018, they have 10 senators up for reelection in states that Trump won, in most part, by double digits. Trump has not been stopped from doing anything he\u2019s intended to do. He is implementing any number of things. He\u2019s issuing executive orders. He\u2019s not been deterred, he\u2019s not been stopped, and it irritates \u2019em all to hell. Just today there was an executive action signed about Dodd-Frank.<\/p>\n
Now, before you get all excited, these are the kinds of things that you need to temper. What was signed today was not getting rid of it. When they signed today was an executive action or an order to do a review of it, which is the first step to getting rid of it. You can\u2019t just come in and strike it. I mean, I would, but there apparently is a process that you have to go through to examine it and show where it\u2019s failing and what its problems are before you can get rid of it. If you\u2019re gonna have a review then there\u2019s always a danger that Obama holdovers are gonna end up being part of the review.<\/p>\n
I mean, these people have corrupted everything, and they still remain in positions of invisible power throughout the bureaucracy. But the picture being created for you multiple times a day in the media is that Trump\u2019s victory is an aberration, a mistake, maybe a fraud, maybe a crime. It\u2019s obscene because it doesn\u2019t represent the majority of thinking in the country. It in fact does. The Democrats lost the election. They are losing seats left and right. Only 25% of the people in this country openly identify as liberal; 37% openly identify as conservative.<\/p>\n
The big the factor here, as it always is, is the media. The media knows that it is helping to spread lies, such as the spontaneous nature of the airport protests after the Trump executive order on \/Immigration, whatever you want to call it. At Berkeley, when Yiannopoulos was supposed to spea<\/a>k and apparently the vast majority of people wanted no part of the Breitbart editor, no part whatsoever? It had been planned, paid-for, organized.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s designed to dispirit you. It\u2019s designed to depress you. It\u2019s designed to make you think you\u2019re never gonna really succeed at this. It\u2019s designed to make you think that they\u2019re gonna be able to get rid of Trump next week, next month. It\u2019s designed to make you think they\u2019re gonna make Trump cave. It\u2019s designed to make you think they\u2019re gonna tick Trump off so much, they\u2019re gonna make even Trump think it can\u2019t be done, he\u2019s gonna throw up his hands and say, “You know what Pence, you can have it, I\u2019m leaving.”<\/p>\n