{"id":246867,"date":"2017-09-13T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=246867"},"modified":"2017-09-14T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T20:24:43","slug":"hillary-is-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/09\/13\/hillary-is-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Is What Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Mrs. Clinton. You know, the book, the title, the cover of her book? You don\u2019t need to know any more. The top: “What Happened.” The bottom half: “Hillary Rodham Clinton.” That\u2019s what happened! She tried, she got kicked out, and she still can\u2019t get over it, and funny things are happening on her book signing tour.<\/p>\n

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\"\"RUSH: I keep trying to ignore Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton bores me. But it doesn\u2019t matter because she still continues to make news; it sucks me back in, and my professional requirements necessitate me mentioning her. Some of this is actually kind of funny, and it\u2019s also proof of a couple claims that I have been making about Mrs. Clinton for many, many moons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No, I have not forgotten. I\u2019m gonna go back to this Politico story, because this is key, and I\u2019m gonna get some of these sound bites from the Wellstone memorial because they dovetail great… (interruption) Oh, we found out $44 million. Now, let\u2019s put this in perspective. These Hollywood leftists and their telethon last night aired el freebo on four networks. Okay, four networks and however long the thing was raised $44 million. Ah! Ah! Ah! There were pledges for $44 million. Many of those might have come from leftists who will not pay in the end.<\/p>\n

However, we\u2019ll go with the number because that\u2019s what they report: $44 million. A single white — ahem, I have to point this out — football player with a tweet and a website raised $31 million. That would be J.J. Watt of the Houston Texans, whose original goal was $200,000. And it just kept growing, and it just kept growing, and J.J. Watt didn\u2019t have a telethon and J.J. Watt was not out there politicizing anything. J.J. Watt was on site helping pass out some of the donated materials. He was actually there meeting people, putting boxes of goods into their cars, and actually hugging them, not appearing from afar and asking other people to do what he wanted done.<\/p>\n

One guy with one tweet and a website: $31 million. A bunch of Hollywood celebrities, however long the telethon went… It was at least an hour. (interruption) Did you watch it? (interruption) It was one…? (interruption) You watched it? I\u2019m sitting here with people that watched the thing last…? (interruption) Oh, you had to air it on your network? So you were a…? (interruption) It was work? You were a prisoner? (interruption) You were a broadcast prisoner to this thing? (interruption) So it was one hour. Wait a minute.<\/p>\n

You have a radio? It was radio, too? (snorts) Oh, I didn\u2019t know that. Radio plus television. Four networks plus whatever the radio networks were. It\u2019s not chump change, don\u2019t misunderstand. But with that much publicity and that much firepower, a bunch of credited liberal… (thump) I\u2019m sorry. There goes that… (thump) I\u2019m sorry. That\u2019s gotta be irritating you like crazy. If I can hear it, I know it is.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it\u2019s great to have you. The telephone number is 800-282-2882. Mrs. Clinton, in her book — and again I just want to say: Have you seen the book? Look at the cover. On the top half: “What Happened.” On the bottom half: “Hillary Rodham Clinton.” What is it? What Went Wrong? “What Happened”? You don\u2019t even need to read the book. The cover explains it: Hillary Rodham Clinton: What Happened. She happened! You don\u2019t need to read it. That\u2019s why there are people like me, who will tiptoe through this thing and find humorous anecdotes, like this.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always mentioned, Hillary Clinton, one of the problems she has is she does not connect with people. And it\u2019s not something you can practice doing. It\u2019s your personality. Trump connects with people. And what I mean by this, when Trump does a rally, the people in that arena, wherever it is, have a personal connection. They believe Donald Trump is them. They believe Trump is speaking just to them. They don\u2019t think that Trump is condescending. They don\u2019t think Trump believes he\u2019s better than anybody else.<\/p>\n

\"\"It\u2019s akin to the Q factor with movie stars and television personalities. There\u2019s a Q factor, and it basically measures things that we call connection. And you either have it or you don\u2019t. It\u2019s like if you can\u2019t throw a 95-mile-an-hour fastball, nobody can teach you to do it. If you\u2019re not likable, nobody can coach you to likability, in the political realm or the celebrity realm. Either you are or you aren\u2019t. A lot of factors: believability, trust, genuineness. There\u2019s a whole lot of things. Of course, your physical appearance, but that\u2019s not as…<\/p>\n

In terms of connection, physical appearance is not nearly as necessary as other characteristics or personality traits. Mrs. Clinton, throwing the physical out, does not have the ingredients necessary to connect with people. And it\u2019s because it\u2019s obvious that she doesn\u2019t want to. And she admits this, knowingly or unknowingly, in her book. For example, she “recounts a moment when a mother dragged her daughter by the arm to apologize to the former secretary of state for not voting.”<\/p>\n

So Hillary was doing a personal appearance somewhere, and a woman brought her daughter to apologize to Hillary for not voting. Now, that mother is a kook oddball anyway, but it happened. You throw Hillary into this mix and you have all the ingredients necessary for mass therapy. So a woman, upset that Hillary lost, when she found out her daughter didn\u2019t vote for her, grabbed her daughter and dragged her to a Hillary appearance — and then when they get up to the line, this mother tells Hillary that her daughter didn\u2019t vote for her and demands that she apologize to Hillary.<\/p>\n

Hillary “notes that the girl had her head ‘bowed in contrition.\u2019 But instead of feeling sorry for the girl being humiliated before her, Clinton says she wanted to pile on. ‘I wanted to stare right in [that little girl\u2019s] eyes and say, “You didn\u2019t vote? How could you not vote?! [sic] You abdicated your responsibility as a citizen at the worst possible time! And now you want me to make you feel better?”‘ she said.” She actually writes that, and then she writes, “Of course I didn\u2019t say any of that.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Hillary, the fact that you admit that that was your reaction… If I\u2019m in the same circumstance… I would never run for office so it wouldn\u2019t be that. But if one of you thought that your kids had done something that was not favorable and you knew I was gonna be somewhere and you dragged your kid to an appearance to meet me to apologize, there is no way that I would see anybody in that circumstance with contempt. It would never occur to me to pile on and start ragging on that person that supposedly had done something that was not helpful to me.<\/p>\n

I would say, “Don\u2019t worry about it. Come on.” I would, if anything, chide the parent in a very soft, unobtrusive way. But the fact that Clinton admits that this is the reaction she had is exactly what I\u2019m talking about. This is a feeling of entitlement. I\u2019ll guarantee you that Hillary Clinton, in her heart of hearts, thinks having to run for election is beneath her. You may think, “Rush, no, she can\u2019t.” I\u2019m telling you, folks, that may be a bit of an exaggeration, but her attitude is that she shouldn\u2019t have to stoop to such mundane things.<\/p>\n

She is so qualified, so entitled, so deserving that she should just be made president by acclimation. Why didn\u2019t she campaign in all these states? Only part of it was the fact that she ran the risk of falling flat on her face every day because of the seizures she was having. The other part of it is, she didn\u2019t think she had to. She thought those people in those states were automatically gonna vote for her because she was Hillary Clinton. Well, Donald Trump, no way does Trump ever take anything like that for granted, and no other politician worth their salt does, either — and then there\u2019s another story.<\/p>\n

“Hillary Clinton\u2019s Book Signing Was as Insufferable as You\u2019d Expect.<\/a>” This is in the New York Post. Now, again, evidence here that she just doesn\u2019t connect with people. She has no bond. There\u2019s no personal investment. The people that are bonded or connected to Hillary are feminists who want her to win because of some deep meaning in there being a female president. But Hillary personally, there isn\u2019t any connection. You can\u2019t get close enough to her. She doesn\u2019t want you to know anything. You can\u2019t have that kind of bond — and in politics, that\u2019s a recipe for disaster and failure.<\/p>\n

She is, I mean, replete with these kinds of failures on the biggest stages politics has to offer. She\u2019s incapable of comfortable communication with a crowd of supporters! In a crowd of supporters, she still feels stiff and wooden and like she would rather not be there. Have you ever seen tape of Hillary delivering one of those 20-minute speeches at Goldman Sachs for which she was paid 250 grand? I saw one, and I\u2019m thinking, “How do the people that write the check not demand the money back?”<\/p>\n

I mean, it was boring, it was sophistic, it was banal. I mean, it was nothing. There\u2019s no way Hillary met any of the expectation. Of course, just showing up and speaking for 20 minutes was the pro forma thing. The real thing was to give her the money. It was an investment in her presidency for policy favors later on. She had to show up and say something in order to make it look legit. So Hillary had a book signing.<\/p>\n

Her arrival time was 11 a.m., and we talked about yesterday. Big line, hundreds. (chuckling) Hundreds of people. The line was so big, there were a couple people standing outside the store to get in. That\u2019s how big it was. (summarized) There were a lot of more waiting, 80-degree heat. Everybody there had to have their bag checked \u2019cause, you know, Hillary\u2019s a formerly very important person, so security threats are taken very seriously. People were not allowed to have food or water in their bags. But it says here that “most of the people in line retained their excitement.<\/p>\n

“If they couldn\u2019t have Hillary as president, getting to see her sign their book was the next best thing.” Thirty minutes went by. Still she didn\u2019t show. It\u2019s an 11 o\u2019clock book signing. Then 40 minutes went by and she didn\u2019t show. And it wasn\u2019t as though you could read her book while you were waiting because you wouldn\u2019t get your copy until you approached the dais where Hillary would then generically sign it. She was not even looking at people. They just walk by, she\u2019d sign up the book, look up and smile in a very plastic way, and the line kept moving.<\/p>\n

\"\"You were not allowed to speak to her. Finally, before noon (she\u2019s almost an hour late) she shows up, and the crowd starts shouting, “Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!” And she absorbs the adulation and she gives that royal wave that she\u2019s patented. She thinks she\u2019s Princess Di. She didn\u2019t say a word. She didn\u2019t apologize for being late. She didn\u2019t thank anybody for coming. She didn\u2019t say a word to them — and these are the people who had braved the elements, whatever they were. Heat, humidity.<\/p>\n

They were not allowed food and water in their bag, so big security check. You might say Hillary devotees. I mean, the people that you would be the most appreciative of. They\u2019re there to buy your book, for crying out loud. They\u2019re gonna spend whatever you\u2019re charging them to buy your book, hopefully get a generic signature. Not even a word of thanks. Not an apology, not an explanation for why she was late, not an appreciation that people waited.<\/p>\n

There was no change in her behavior. You weren\u2019t allowed to stop and talk with her. They just ushered you through. It was like an assembly line. She signed the books generically. There was one funny thing that happened. A woman — female journalist, young journalist — got in, and started asking Hillary about Benghazi, started asking Hillary about her 33,000 emails.<\/p>\n

What happened to your 30,000 emails? “Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!” She cackled and laughed and security ushered the woman off, who then ran into Huma. “Hey, Huma, why in the world did you stay married to a guy who was sending pictures of his (pfft!) to teenagers?” Security came in, ran her off. I hope that happens at every one. I hope somebody pounds her with these questions at every one of these events that she does.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Yeah, Hillary Clinton was on The View today, and I\u2019m looking to see if we have the sound bite. I\u2019m not asking for the sound bite. I was just looking to see if we had it. Late-arriving story. It happened this morning. This is another… This is a glowing example to me, just human interest, humanitarian thinking. What do we know about the 2016 Democrat presidential primary? We know… We know! It is not arguable. We know that it was rigged. We know because of the hack, whoever did it, of the DNC computer network.<\/p>\n

\"\"We know that Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz worked to ensure that Bernie Sanders would not win the nomination, not just with the superdelegates, but the whole thing was rigged by Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz working with Hillary. This is undisputed. It\u2019s not talked about because, of course, the narrative is that the Russians cheated in the election to elect Trump, and that\u2019s out there. The real election fraud that we know was on the Democrat side in the primaries. So Hillary is on The View today, and she is complaining about Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s telling the babes on The View that she resents how Bernie didn\u2019t do enough to help her against Donald Trump. Bernie didn\u2019t campaign hard enough. She\u2019s sitting on her sizable Arkansas broadbeam butt and not going to Wisconsin and not going to Pennsylvania, and when she does venture out she almost falls flat on her face getting into a van. She\u2019s having physical problems of some kind, so she\u2019s taking it easy. She\u2019s not engaging in retail politics at all.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s on TV today blaming Bernie Sanders for not helping her, and then she said she was “surprised by the increasingly personal attacks” on her from Bernie Sanders, and then she brought up what she did for Obama in 2008. She wanted to tell everybody, “I was the way you should be. I lost, but I was the bigger person, and I went out and I worked really hard for Barack Obama.” Yeah, well, you know why? Obama agreed to pay off her campaign debt, or part of it, and that\u2019s one of the reasons why she had to take the secretary of state job.<\/p>\n

Obama didn\u2019t want her outside the tent. Nobody trusts the Clintons even in the Democrat Party. So he wanted her inside the tent and in a job she wasn\u2019t qualified for. Secretary of state? Hillary Clinton? What are the qualifications? Obama wanted to run that show. She\u2019s the figurehead. As part of the administration, she can\u2019t run around and rag on him. So it was strategic. She\u2019s out there telling them, “I worked very hard for Barack Obama, even after losing. I put the party first. As soon as I lost, I turned around; I endorsed him. I worked hard for him.<\/p>\n

“I was arguing with my supporters at the Denver convention in 2008 about why they had to quit complaining that I didn\u2019t win and go out and support Obama.” In her book, Hillary says that Bernie Sanders\u2019 attacks on her during the primary “did the lasting damage.” This is just one of the 16 to 18 different things and people that she is, to this day, blaming and writing it down. What does she expect Bernie Sanders to do after she rigged his defeat, after she rigged the primary? He was wasting his time; he was wasting the money that people had donated.<\/p>\n

His supporters had no idea. They really thought he had a chance of winning. And if you paid attention to the media, it did appear he was winning every primary for a while. He\u2019d win every primary and Hillary\u2019d get a majority of delegates, and Crazy Bernie\u2019s supporters said, “This doesn\u2019t make sense. It doesn\u2019t add up,” and the party would say, “Well, it\u2019s the rules they both agreed to. It\u2019s all gonna come down to the superdelegates,” and they got ticked off, and they\u2019re still ticked off.<\/p>\n

\"\"So here\u2019s Hillary Clinton — and believe me, you think this is contradictory, but not the way she looks at the world. She rigs the game so that he can\u2019t possibly win and then gets mad at him for not helping her, not doing enough work for her. You probably know people like Hillary Clinton. Whatever they do, they botch — and whatever they botch, they find somebody else to blame.<\/p>\n

The amazing thing to me is that she\u2019s writing all of this down, that it\u2019s gonna be out there forever. I mean, I\u2019ve never seen a politician engage in such childish, spoiled-rotten behavior as Hillary Clinton is engaging in here. She must be carrying around an amount of resentment that we have not contemplated before, and she has this need to get it all out there, and she\u2019s doing it; it\u2019s gonna be around forever now.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Didn\u2019t Spielberg direct Jurassic Park? You would think that the guy who directed Jurassic Park would have been able to do something with Hillary Clinton. If you make dinosaurs come to life and even make them kind of lovable and likable. I mean, admit it. Didn\u2019t you kind of like the Velociraptors in the lab, and didn\u2019t you kind of want one for a pet? Should have been able to do something with Hillary to make her more likable or more exciting.<\/p>\n

\"\"And you know, Bernie Sanders — people have forgotten this — he ended up campaigning for Hillary. Do you remember what his requirement was? A private jet. He\u2019s that kind of socialist. He demanded a private jet paid for by other people, and he said he would go out and campaign for her. It was too little, too late, and it wouldn\u2019t have mattered, because outside of New York and California, Hillary Clinton just doesn\u2019t light them up.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get back to the phones. Jim in Knoxville, Tennessee. Great to have you, sir. How are you doing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m doing all right. Dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I had the great pleasure of watching Hillary on the Today Show this morning, and during the show Matt and Savannah asked her, “Hillary, if you can pin down the one thing that really did you the most damage, what would it be?” And she blamed Director Comey on the eve of election coming out the way he did. I thought that was kind of interesting, Rush, because had she not deleted emails off her server, had a private government server illegally in her house, she never would have had Comey in her life. Yet she\u2019s blaming Comey for a problem that she created that cost her the election.<\/p>\n