{"id":245522,"date":"2017-08-29T10:45:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T14:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=245522"},"modified":"2017-08-30T15:59:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T19:59:18","slug":"the-establishment-losing-their-minds-over-this-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/08\/29\/the-establishment-losing-their-minds-over-this-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Establishment Washingtonians Are Losing Their Minds Over This President"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This happened at the rally in Phoenix last week when I was out. There are three sound bites here that I want to get to. Two of them I mentioned yesterday. This is a montage of the Drive-By Media losing their minds after Trump\u2019s rally in Phoenix last week.<\/p>\n

JAKE TAPPER: Unhinged Donald Trump, untethered to the truth.<\/p>\n

DON LEMON: He\u2019s unhinged, it\u2019s embarrassing.<\/p>\n

DAVID CHALIAN: That was a president totally unhinged.<\/p>\n

JOE SCARBOROUGH: A man who so clearly unbalanced and unfit.<\/p>\n

KEITH BOYKIN: This is an unhinged, unstable man.<\/p>\n

PATTI SOLIS DOYLE: We have seen Donald Trump unhinged.<\/p>\n

NICOLLE WALLACE: Wild, unhinged.<\/p>\n

\"\"BAKARI SELLERS: I think that the President is unfit and is unhinged.<\/p>\n

MARIA CARDONA: He\u2019s not just completely unfit, he might be psychotically demented and ill of the mind.<\/p>\n

RICK WILSON: This guy is absolutely bat crap crazy.<\/p>\n

ANA NAVARRO: The only defensible explanation is if he is not mentally well.<\/p>\n

JORGE RAMOS: People saying that he\u2019s unfit to be president.<\/p>\n

CHRIS MATTHEWS: People can charge Trump with being unhinged.<\/p>\n

RON REAGAN: This man is simply unfit for office. Emotionally, mentally.<\/p>\n

LLOYD DOGGETT: He is dangerous and truly unfit to be president.<\/p>\n

JOHN GARAMENDI: This man is clearly not fit to be president.<\/p>\n

PAUL BEGALA: The president was unhinged. He is unstable.<\/p>\n

JAMES CLAPPER: I really question his ability, his fitness to be in this office and I also am beginning to wonder about his motivation. Maybe he is looking for a way out.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: So, once again in this montage — I mean, you know the names, Jake Tapper, Don Lemon, David Chalian, Joe Scarborough, Keith Boykin, Patti Solis Doyle, Nicolle Wallace, Bakari Sellers, Maria Cardona, Rick Wilson, Ana Navarro, Jorge Ramos, Chris Matthews, Ron Reagan, Lloyd Doggett, John Garamendi, Paul Begala, James Clapper. Notice they all, 90% of them used “unhinged, unfit.” Do they hear themselves? Do they not realize there\u2019s not a speck of originality in any of them in what they\u2019re saying.<\/p>\n

I saw the Trump rally. I watched it with my golf buddies. We\u2019re cheering it! Every other line we\u2019re going, “Yeah, right on, Trump!” We knew when he came off teleprompter. We knew the 30 minutes I saw when he came off prompter and started attacking CNN. We all knew what was gonna happen after that. That\u2019s all it took. That\u2019s what these people were going bonkers over is that Trump deviated from the telepromptered speech and launched into CNN and explained how they have been lying about him and what he had said after Charlottesville.<\/p>\n

He just launched on \u2019em, and he said to them and to their face exactly who and what they are and how they\u2019ve been behaving, and you just don\u2019t do that. Not in the establishment, like Mitt Romney, like George W. Bush, you just sit there and take it, it\u2019s the game, it\u2019s the rules. You\u2019re Republican in the establishment, you\u2019re gonna get savaged, you sit there and take it like a good little Republican should.<\/p>\n

Trump doesn\u2019t take it. If anybody is unhinged right now it is the Democrat Party, it\u2019s the American media and all of these people that play like they\u2019re strategists on television. James Clapper was director of national security for Obama. James Clapper, over the months here since Trump was elected and then inaugurated, has been part of the cabal of people who have attempted to equate Trump and the Russians in collusion.<\/p>\n

Now, Clapper has been generic about it, and when asked specifically under oath in congressional testimony if he saw any evidence of the Russians tampering with the votes, he joined the chorus and said “no.” But outside of that he has done everything he can along with John Brennan, Obama\u2019s CIA director and Comey to further the aura, the illusion that Trump and Russia colluded. He was loyal to Obama, and this was the guy that thinks the Iranians were totally trustworthy and that the only problem that we face in America is from right-wing terrorism, right-wing domestic terrorism.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s part of the cabal that when the fake Trump dossier was entered into the mix — that was really entered by John Brennan of the CIA, but Clapper would have been made party to it as the national director of intelligence. CNN\u2019s hired the guy. CNN\u2019s hired this guy, a former Obamaite as a commentator and as an intelligence analyst. And he was on the panel post-Trump rally. We have two sound bites. This is number one.<\/p>\n

CLAPPER: Yes, I do. I really question his ability, his fitness to be in this office, and I also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it. Maybe he is looking for a way out. I do wonder as well about the people attracted to this rally, as others. You know, what are they thinking? Or why am I so far off base? ‘Cause I don\u2019t understand the adulation.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>RUSH: So it wasn\u2019t just Trump that\u2019s nuts, it\u2019s you people in Phoenix and anywhere else who have attended a Trump rally. Because this highly sophisticated Director of National Intelligence simply doesn\u2019t understand the adulation. Yet Barack Hussein Obama can go to Minneapolis in the campaign of 2008 and he can say, “This is the night that the seas began to recede and the world began to heal.” And the audience erupts and they start crying, and they start singing songs of devotion to Obama. And we have little kids being required in the first and second grade to sing, “I love Obama, Obama\u2019s my guy, Obama is the president.” And nobody has a problem with any of that.<\/p>\n

Nobody has a problem with a president of the United States claiming that his victory represents the beginning of the end of climate change, because now the sea levels are going to recede and the planet is going to heal. And yet all Trump did was talk about advanced economic standards, standard of living, “Make America Great Again,” condemn the media, point out they\u2019re lying, and this guy has a cow.<\/p>\n

“I am very, very worried, the people that would show up, that adulation. I really think maybe he\u2019s just looking for a way out.” And then gotta get to this one. A question he was asked. “You said you questioned Trump\u2019s fitness. Is President Trump a threat to national security, Director Clapper?”<\/p>\n

CLAPPER: Well, he certainly could be. Again, um, having some understanding of the levers that a president can exercise, um, I worry about, frankly, uh, you know, the access to the nuclear codes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Access to the nuclear codes! He\u2019s worried about Trump — meanwhile, he worked for a guy who saw to it that the leading sponsor of terrorism in the world was enabled to get nuclear weapons!<\/p>\n

\"\"BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, I\u2019m sorry to be screechy here, folks, but this is just outrageous. This presumptuous ass, James Clapper (imitating Clapper), “I\u2019m very worried about this man, his fitness for office. And I really don\u2019t understand the people that would show up for a rally like this. It\u2019s very, very concerting, and then the really problematic thing that worries me is that this man has the nuclear codes.”<\/p>\n

Give me a break. You worked for a guy that was hell-bent on pandering to the enemies of the United States, enabling the Iranians, of all people, to ramp up their nuclear weapons arsenal on the basis that we don\u2019t have the right to tell any nation what they can and can\u2019t do. So you don\u2019t even subscribe to the idea, Mr. Clapper, that the United States has any presumptive moral authority based on our decency and goodness and our beacon-of-light existence for liberty and freedom. We\u2019re just one of the scrum of nations out there.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what\u2019s been wrong. We\u2019ve been led by a bunch of people that don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything special about America, who don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything exceptional about America, who believe that what needs to happen is that America needs to be cut down to size! And too many of those people have positions of authority at universities, not just on the faculty, but in the presidency. Too many of these people work in the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

We are surrounded by people who, for whatever reason, think the United States is the problem in the world. We elect somebody who believes in the United States and wants to make it great again and these people start having conniption fits and start questioning his fitness for office? You\u2019ve got it ass backwards, Director Clapper.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So this university sociology professor Kenneth Storey tweeted — he\u2019s a visiting assistant professor, which basically mean he empties the commodes and takes out the garbage and grades the tests at the University of Tampa. He said that Texas deserved this storm as karma for voting for Trump. It was one of the first things that we mentioned on the big program today, which was basically two and a half hours ago, and the guy has been let go.<\/p>\n

“University spokesman Eric Cardenas said in a statement Tuesday that Storey was fired after the school weathered an outpouring of online outrage over the comments,” by the visiting sociology professor Kenneth L. Storey, is his name. Make sure you make a note of that. Kenneth L. Storey, S-t-o-r-e-y. Karma, he said. Texas, Houston deserved to be hit by this natural disaster because they voted for Trump.<\/p>\n

“The Tampa Bay Times reports Storey issued an apology on Monday, writing that he ‘never meant to wish ill will.'” Oh, of course, and it wasn\u2019t him. It wasn\u2019t me. You know how these apologies go. “That wasn\u2019t me. I\u2019m terribly sorry if anybody was offended. That\u2019s not who I am. That\u2019s just not what I do.” Well, except it is who you are, and it is what you did.<\/p>\n

“In a Facebook post on Monday evening, the university said it ‘stands in solidarity with the people impacted by Hurricane Harvey.\u2019 Officials said another sociology professor will take over Storey\u2019s classes,” that are being currently taught by Kenneth L. Storey, S-t-o-r-e-y.<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s something I\u2019ll bet you don\u2019t know that happened, because it happened on CNN. It happened on CNN today. It happened on CNN\u2019s program called New Day. The Democrat governor of Louisiana happened to be on the program. His name is John Bel Edwards. And he said that President Trump and the federal government response to the impact of Hurricane Harvey on his state has been excellent.<\/p>\n