{"id":230565,"date":"2017-04-21T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=230565"},"modified":"2017-04-24T16:22:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T20:22:33","slug":"the-depth-of-the-lefts-defeat-is-dawning-on-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/21\/the-depth-of-the-lefts-defeat-is-dawning-on-them\/","title":{"rendered":"The Depth of the Left\u2019s Defeat Is Dawning on Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s happening. They\u2019re getting more and more panicked as they are slowly coming to realize what happened to them last November. They have been in a constant state of denial, and the awareness of just how deep the defeat was and how widespread I think is causing panic throughout much of the left, and I will have examples of that.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The fallout from this Hillary book, this is just stunning<\/a>. And now people are starting to get mad at the two authors for exactly what I said yesterday. Where were you during the campaign? If you knew it was this bad, why didn\u2019t you say something? “Well, we had to save it for our book so we could earn some money.” Yeah, but what about the country? What about saving the country? You knew the Hillary campaign was in the dumpster. You knew it was in the toilet and you didn\u2019t report it. “That\u2019s because we had inside access, and we had to protect our sources.”<\/p>\n

In fact, you know what the controversy is today? Apparently Hillary\u2019s speech announcing her candidacy, when she gave it and the immediate reporting, it was glowing, it was upbeat, one of the best speeches ever, what a way to ignite and kick off the campaign. This is Hillary Clinton at her best. And yet, the same guy who said that, in the book writes about how bad it was and how horrible it was and how uninspiring it was.<\/p>\n

And so leftists remember this guy and everybody else in the media heralding Hillary\u2019s announcement speech, and they read this book, and they find out that everybody thought it was excrement. And they\u2019re starting to realize that there were all kinds of people who knew how really bad this campaign was and in what bad shape it was, but nobody said anything. And one of the reasons for that is the fear of the Clintons.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Barack Hussein Obama is returning to the public square. The Politico is breathlessly reporting<\/a>. “Former President Barack Hussein O will make his first public appearance on Monday, hosting an event on civic engagement at the University of Chicago.” It says here that it will not be an explicitly political event. Yes, it will. Particularly if it\u2019s about civic engagement. I think this may be my prediction prior to the election coming true. We\u2019ll have to wait \u2019til Monday to find out.<\/p>\n

And we\u2019ll be back and roll on right after this too.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was thinking last night as I\u2019m learning more and more about this Hillary Clinton book — folks, it is astounding here what is in this book. And what\u2019s really astounding is what was known by these two reporters and unreported. These reporters knew that this campaign was a disaster. These two reporters knew that Hillary was an absolute bust and a dryball of a candidate.<\/p>\n

\"\"These reporters knew that the Hillary campaign was at war with itself, that there wasn\u2019t any unity, that there was panic from the beginning because nobody but nobody could tell anybody else why Hillary was running, and Hillary couldn\u2019t, either. Hillary could not articulate why she wanted to be president, other than first woman to hold the office, maybe continue, but she did not have a reason for running. And the reason she didn\u2019t is because she didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

She was running because she was owed it. She was running because it was finally her turn. And they had shafted her on this in 2008, so they rigged the primary this year to get rid of Crazy Bernie and to make sure he didn\u2019t win the nomination no matter how popular he was. She didn\u2019t have a reason. These two reporters are embedded in the campaign, and they have signed NDAs, they promised they won\u2019t reveal sources. They didn\u2019t care to. They withheld all of this news \u2019til after the campaign for the book so they could profit from it.<\/p>\n

But what Democrats are learning now is how the media misreported everything from how well she was doing in the polls to how great this campaign was, to how unified it was. They\u2019re figuring out that they were lied to. Democrats were lied to multiple times a day by the media which was hyping and exaggerating. And look at what\u2019s happened as a result of this. Has a brand ever been pounded harder and deeper into the ground than Clinton Inc.?<\/p>\n

\"\"And I think this is so important, it\u2019s worth pointing out, because it wasn\u2019t that long ago that everybody in Washington politics was scared to death of these two people, scared to death of them all the way back to the \u201992 campaign and the Bill Clinton presidency, and scared to death of the Clintons when Hillary was running for president last year. They were thought to be omnipotent. They were thought to be prolific fundraisers. They had that foundation. They were taking donations, selling access to the office even before she was elected.<\/p>\n

People thought Hillary Clinton was the Second Coming, second only to Obama. And now look, look at how that brand has just been pounded. Democrats have been informed that Hillary Clinton ran her second campaign even worse than her first one, which was a brain-dead effort. They have been informed because of this book that Hillary Clinton investigated her own staff by reading their emails, after her 2008 campaign crash.<\/p>\n

Democrats have been informed because of this book and other things that Hillary Clinton could not articulate a reason to be president in 2016. She literally couldn\u2019t. The last time something like this was so profound was when Teddy Kennedy was running for the Democrat nomination in 1980 against Jimmy Carter. It was so bad, Carter\u2019s presidency was so bad, the Democrats had to do something. They ran Ted Kennedy, and Roger Mudd, CBS News, did a sit-down interview with Kennedy and asked him, “Why do you want to be president?” And it was one incoherence after one incoherence. He could not articulate a reason. Could not. And she couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n