The Exhaustion of American Liberalism<\/a>,” and let me read specifically. He says, “Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization.” In other words, it\u2019s so easy to become a liberal.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019ve been preached to, if you\u2019ve been educated, if you\u2019ve been raised to believe that this is the most racist, the most disgustingly vile nation in the history of the world, and you are white, then you can inoculate yourself. You can immunize yourself from being associated with that aspect of American history because you are white, by becoming anti-American, anti-this and anti-that. It\u2019s a fascinating piece. He says, “Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, good liberals both, pursued power by offering their candidacies as opportunities for Americans to document their innocence of the nation\u2019s past.<\/p>\n
“‘I had to vote for Obama,\u2019 a rock-ribbed Republican said to me. ‘I couldn\u2019t tell my grandson that I didn\u2019t vote for the first black president.\u2019 For this man liberalism was a moral vaccine that immunized him against stigmatization.” So the point here is that it\u2019s hatred. They have created a hatred for the United States and its past. The hatred here when they lose — based on being profoundly moral and the best people around — they can\u2019t deal with it. So we\u2019re dealing with raw, raw hatred against Trump, for just having the audacity to win.<\/p>\n
And since he cannot have legitimately won because no white person should ever prosper in America ever again after what people have learned after how badly we\u2019ve treated people in our past, that it\u2019s doubly insulting. And then you can take it even further into psychoanalysis if you want to and claim that what these people are doing is admitting they\u2019ve got no morality and this is how they\u2019re assuaging themselves of the fact that they themselves are immoral on the left. But I don\u2019t want to get too far on that.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m just saying that there is a profound hatred driving all of this. And when you are consumed with rage and hatred and you feel that you have been slighted or shafted or screwed — which the left feels, which I\u2019m sure Obama feels, which I\u2019m sure Hillary feels — then everything is on the table for making yourself feel better. And I think we\u2019re in the midst of this raw hatred. That\u2019s how you explain that headline on CNN. They never, ever used to put opinion in what they consider to be straight news before, and only in selected stories.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: There they are again. CNN: “Without Proof, Trump Accuses Obama…” Do these people not get it? Do they not understand that American TV viewers have brains? They obviously don\u2019t think American TV viewers have brains. I\u2019m convinced it\u2019s part of the general contempt that the Drive-By Media holds for its audience. In fact, the American people are not even their audience. When you get right down to it, it\u2019s other journalists that they\u2019re trying to impress. (sobbing) “Without Proof, Trump Accuses Obama of Wiretapping Him!” Without proof?<\/p>\n
How about, “Without proof, the Democrat Party seeks to overturn election by claiming Russians worked with Trump to hack it”? Do we ever see “without proof” in the midst of that allegation? And this is my whole point today. There is no evidence of any of that. But we\u2019ve got plenty of evidence of Obama wiretapping people. When you get down to the whole reasonable question, folks, it\u2019s not Trump that appears off the wall and unreasonable. It\u2019s people closed-minded and automatically rejecting this.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here\u2019s Mark in Fort Worth. Great to have you on the program, sir. I\u2019m glad you waited. How are you doing?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m doing great, Rush. Great state dittos from Texas.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: You bet. Rush, this wiretapping episode really provides an excellent case study for people who want to figure out who\u2019s truly being a journalist and who\u2019s simply being a partisan hack, because you\u2019ve said on numerous occasions that 90% of journalists are in the business today because of Watergate, right? Woodward and Bernstein are their heroes. That\u2019s why they got into the business. If they truly are journalists and they get wind of a case where a sitting president is alleged to have spied on a political opponent using agencies of the federal government, their first instincts as journalists — if that\u2019s what they really are — is to go get the story. I mean, that can be a career-defining story. You make your bones as a journalist doing that. If your first instinct is to go get the story, you\u2019re a journalist. If your first instinct is, “I\u2019ve gotta cover for my guy,” you\u2019re a partisan hack, and it\u2019s just that simple.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I can\u2019t really refute that. I can\u2019t declassify that. I can\u2019t object to it. I think it\u2019s a great point. In fact, there have been media people… I can\u2019t remember the name, but I saw one specifically say, “It is our duty to destroy this allegation,” meaning, “It\u2019s our duty to prove Trump wrong.” (interruption) No, that was… (interruption) It might have been Kristof. (interruption) I didn\u2019t get a name.<\/p>\n
(interruption) No, Kristof is the one that asked the IRS to leak him something. Trump\u2019s tax returns. No, I forget who this was. I read this — I don\u2019t know — last night late or early today when I\u2019m in the midst of prepping the program. You\u2019re exactly right. Let\u2019s do the old reverse-the-names trick. Let\u2019s say that Barack Obama wanted to allege that George W. Bush had wiretapped him or was spying on him. Do you think the media would investigate that?<\/p>\n
CALLER: They would break arms and legs investigating that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) And they would probably find evidence that doesn\u2019t exist to substantiate it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Look, there\u2019s no question that the media today has a relationship with Barack Obama that… (sigh) I can\u2019t say it\u2019s unique, because the modern-day media is the Democrat Party and their objective is to advance the Democrat Party agenda as well as try to discredit any opposing agenda, which would be us and the Republicans. But the relationship they\u2019ve got with Obama is above and beyond that. And, folks, I\u2019m telling you: You cannot take the racial component out of it. It\u2019s exactly what Shelby Steele was referring to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: There it is, right up there again! Look at the headline on CNN: “Trump (Without Evidence) Accuses Obama of Wiretapping.” Have you ever seen that same headline: “Democrats (Without Evidence) Accuse Trump of Conspiring with Russians”? I\u2019m telling you, the hatred these people have! That\u2019s what it is. You think…? It\u2019s not just bias. It isn\u2019t just partisanship. It isn\u2019t just ideology. These people on the left and in the media have, I think, an almost out-of-control hatred for Donald Trump. They hate Trump on multiple levels.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SHelby.jpg\")