{"id":256241,"date":"2017-11-29T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=256241"},"modified":"2017-11-30T16:11:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T21:11:47","slug":"is-trump-branding-the-left-out-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/11\/29\/is-trump-branding-the-left-out-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump Branding the Left Out of Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: In the past practitioners of this &#8212; the harassers and abusers &#8212; have been lionized. They have been elevated to positions of great authority and power within the Democrat Party, and all kinds of effort was made to save them, including the eventual bastardization of feminism.<\/p>\n<p>The feminists literally destroyed their entire core belief system in exchange for maintaining Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and others like that in power. Anyway, back to the audio sound bites from the archives, Grooveyard of Forgotten Sound Bites. 2012. There\u2019s a TV network called Bravo. Of course, many probably know that because that\u2019s where the Real Housewives shows are, aren\u2019t they? Real Housewives of Wherever. They\u2019re all on Bravo. Everybody knows Bravo.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there\u2019s a guy who had a show on there on Bravo called Andy Cohen, and on a program called Watch What Happens Live, during a &#8220;Plead the Fifth&#8221; segment, he spoke with former Today show hostette Katie Couric about Matt Lauer. She coanchored the Today show with Matt Lauer from 1991 to 2006. But wait. Matt Lauer didn\u2019t start there \u2019til&#8230; She co-anchored with somebody else. But, anyway, Cohen is asking her about the most annoying habit that Matt Lauer had.<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: What is Matt\u2019s most annoying habit?<\/p>\n<p>COURIC: Hmm. He pinches me on the ass a lot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/525541\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Ohhh! &#8220;He pinches me on the ass a lot!&#8221; Now, wait. Did he just talk about pinching you on the ass or did he actually do it? In this case, Matt Lauer actually did it. Now, this aired. This aired on Bravo in 2012, and it didn\u2019t get a whole lot of attention. But things like this are now going to be circulating, resurfacing, popping up out there. And you know what we ought to do? We ought to start a pool, &#8220;Who\u2019s next?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You know, kind of like you have a fantasy football league and drinking games? Let\u2019s start a pool, and you can bet on the names of famous Democrats in the media, in their party, and in Hollywood. Who\u2019s next on the list that is going to be accused? I mean, if such a list exists, would you have ever put Matt Lauer on it? (interruption) You wouldn\u2019t have. See, that\u2019s an illustration of how shocking this is. (interruption) Katie Couric stood for it? Well, obviously she did! Obviously, she stood for it; sat for it too.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; (interruption) Oh, just because she sat doesn\u2019t mean he wouldn\u2019t be able to pinch her. A pincher is gonna pinch. If there\u2019s one thing we know about these guys, a groper is gonna grope, a grabber is gonna grab, a pincher is gonna pinch. (interruption) Well, now, wait a second. Now, that\u2019s&#8230; Snerdley just said, &#8220;What does this say about the strong women thing?&#8221; I\u2019m gonna tell you, I really think that the floodgates are about to open on this all over the place, not just confined to famous people in the media or in Hollywood or in the political parties.<\/p>\n<p>The reason the women haven\u2019t stood up is because all of this occurred when they did not have any power to do anything about it. Look at how long all these guys got away with this. That\u2019s the big thing that\u2019s changing here. Look, I have said I don\u2019t know how many times over the course of this program in discussing feminism and the traditional roles that men and women have in relationships&#8230; If you\u2019ve heard me say it once, you\u2019re probably frustrated by how many times I\u2019ve said it.<\/p>\n<p>I always have believed that in a civilized society, it\u2019s women who have the ultimate power. It\u2019s women who say yes or no to so many things &#8212; yes or no to going out on a date, yes or no to marriage, yes or no to everything. It\u2019s women who have the power, in a civilized society. Well, obviously these have not been what we would call civilized circumstances. These have been work related. If Matt Lauer or somebody like that\u2019s out there abusing you, I guarantee you part of it is the threat, &#8220;If you say anything about it, you\u2019re gonna lose your job.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-256212\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/310MattLauerbw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/310MattLauerbw.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/310MattLauerbw-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/310MattLauerbw-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>&#8220;You can\u2019t beat me in a power struggle.&#8221; So I wouldn\u2019t hold it against the women here in these circumstances, \u2019cause when it comes to this kind of behavior, it\u2019s not just the behavior. There\u2019s the threat, there\u2019s the attitude, there is the callous disregard for one\u2019s human in this business. This is despicable stuff. We\u2019re talking about it here in the abstract. But in the workplace, this is indefensible. (interruption) Well, they might slap you in the face, but they obviously did not slap Matt Lauer.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe if one of them did and we don\u2019t know about it. Where is she now, is the point? Let\u2019s use a different example? Let\u2019s go to Anytown, USA, and the town bully happens to be a guy, and he goes into a restaurant regularly and is continually harassing the waitress. Everybody sees it and everybody knows about it but this guy &#8212; for some reason &#8212; has enough pull or power in town that nobody does anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the woman has stood up to him, but it\u2019s still unnerving. We don\u2019t know that women didn\u2019t stand up to Harvey Weinstein at some point and pay the price for doing so. But they all feared that there would be a huge price, and the price is losing not just your job but your career. So this became the equivalent of having to eat the excrement sandwich for a lot of these women.<\/p>\n<p>And I think we\u2019re at a threshold here where this is about to change in a huge way, and then there is a risk that the pendulum is gonna swing a little bit too far here for a while where all it\u2019s gonna take is one allegation and automatically the guy is guilty because there has been so much obvious guilt that has been publicized here. That\u2019s just a quirk of nature of the way our culture and society works.<\/p>\n<p>The pendulum swings back and forth, and sometimes it goes way, way, way out of whack before it gets back to the center again. But I\u2019ve always thought, you know, when we talk about this in the abstract, especially for people that don\u2019t do it, you know, for guys that do not treat women this way and have not seen this kind of behavior, you joke about it, and you might even say, &#8220;Well, why don\u2019t the women just stand up and punch the guy in the face or why don\u2019t the women just &#8211;&#8221; And it doesn\u2019t work that way in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, the guys are choosing powerless women on purpose. That\u2019s part of the insurance policy of engaging in this kind of behavior. I mean, you note that the actresses coming forth with Weinstein, this all happened back when they were nobodies, when they were on their career path trying to become successful and so forth. But I think it\u2019s despicable and the hypocrisy here knows no bounds.<\/p>\n<p>I asked a question before the break at the top of the hour, is it possible that we are in the midst of a crackup and breakdown of the hypocritical leftists in the Drive-By Media and the establishment entertainment sectors, political sectors? And, if so, has it been brought to us by the one and only Donald Trump? There is so much of this now that it\u2019s impossible to escape the hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-253968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-110717-War-On-Women.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-110717-War-On-Women.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-110717-War-On-Women-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>Here you have Bill Clinton and it\u2019s widely known now what he did and what he got away with. The stories about Ted Kennedy are coming out. Now all of these addendum, Weinstein and Garrison Keillor today and Charlie Rose and so forth. At some point people are gonna pick up, if they\u2019re not already, &#8220;Wait a minute. These are the people telling us they love and respect women. These are the guys telling us that they\u2019re big feminists and that they\u2019re pro-choice and all this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think we\u2019re a little distance away from those same people, &#8220;Wait a minute. These are the guys telling us Republicans are conducting a War on Women.&#8221; I don\u2019t think that realization has hit yet. We need to further that one along. We need to help people remember that, that these reprobates are the ones accusing us of conducting a War on Women.<\/p>\n<p>But we saw in the primary, in the Republican primary, we saw what happened to people when they get branded by Trump, Little Marco, Low Energy Jeb, Lyin\u2019 Ted, Crooked Hillary, Crazy Bernie, Pocahontas. You know, when Trump brands you, you own it. That\u2019s how people know you. Even if they don\u2019t like Trump or agree with Trump, not even Trump supporters, that\u2019s how people now think of Elizabeth Warren.<\/p>\n<p>And Donald Trump has been branding the Drive-Bys as fake news for over a year. And it really bugs \u2019em. They do not have the ability to laugh it off, as I would think they would do. But they take themselves so seriously, folks. I want to ask you, do you know people that take themselves so seriously that they\u2019re not even real? They take themselves so seriously, they are so self-focused, so inwardly focused, they\u2019re not even aware of the existence of other people and what those people feel, think, or say? And they certainly don\u2019t care. That\u2019s the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n<p>They take themselves so damn seriously, whether it is the acknowledgment of their business in the First Amendment of the Constitution, or whether it\u2019s just the way they\u2019re trained or whether it\u2019s just owing to their personality, they take themselves so damned seriously. And here comes Donald Trump insulting them in the most successful and profound, effective way, calling them fake. If I were them, I\u2019d laugh it off. I would ignore it. But they can\u2019t, because they are so, so self-important. They are so self-focused.<\/p>\n<p>So could it be that on top of their icons getting tossed aside like the dirty laundry they are &#8212; Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, Matt Lauer, Michael Aresco, the guy Sweeney at NPR, these institutions are failing bigly, or at least they\u2019re having the deck chairs moved.<\/p>\n<p>When Trump brands somebody as something, it sticks. And fake news has stuck. It\u2019s gotten to the point now &#8212; I repeat this \u2019cause I just think it\u2019s hilarious &#8212; CNN gets all out of joint about being invited to the Christmas party at the White House Friday and said they\u2019re not going. They\u2019re not going. &#8220;Why, he calls us fake news. We wouldn\u2019t dare. We wouldn\u2019t grace the White House with our presence. We wouldn\u2019t take that deep step down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-241780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/CNNFakeNEws-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/CNNFakeNEws-3.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/CNNFakeNEws-3-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>And what\u2019s Sarah Huckabee Sanders do? (paraphrasing) &#8220;Hey, finally some good news out of CNN. They\u2019re not showing up at our party!&#8221; CNN becomes another laughingstock, except within the swamp, where they\u2019re all wringing their hands over it, &#8220;This is not the way this is supposed to go. Trump\u2019s the guy that\u2019s supposed to be the butt of the joke by now. Trump\u2019s the guy that\u2019s supposed to be barely hanging on. We\u2019re stars. We\u2019re important! We are the news media. We are the power base in this country, and they are laughing at us?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And they can\u2019t take being laughed at. They cannot take being the brunt of the joke, because they take themselves so seriously. Conservatives have whined and moaned about the media and for the most part totally given in to the power of the media for decades, but not Donald Trump. Trump is one guy to stand up to these fallible bullies and back \u2019em into a corner and applaud when they tell him they\u2019re not coming to his Christmas party.<\/p>\n<p>I always knew &#8212; man, there\u2019s some stories I still can\u2019t tell you from the television show days. Maybe someday I\u2019ll be able to tell this one, but I\u2019ve always known and I\u2019ve always suggested the way of dealing with some of these people in the Drive-By is to go after them personally the way they go after everybody else. They go after everybody as paragons of virtue. They go after everybody as though they occupy the highest pedestal of morality and virtue.<\/p>\n<p>And they sit there in judgment of everybody else\u2019s moral failings. When you turn it around and try to look at their moral failings, how many illegitimate children have they had, how many DUIs have they got, they have an outraged reaction. &#8220;You can\u2019t do that. We\u2019re journalists, First Amendment,&#8221; blah, blah. That\u2019s what Trump does in his own way. He turns everything back on them by way of fake news and has caused there to be more questioning of the legitimacy of the news media than there ever has been in our lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Back to the phones to Shawnee, Kansas, which not far from Overland Park, Kansas, where I used to live in shack and Olathe, Kansas. Here\u2019s Mark. Great to have you, sir. How are you?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Good. Good to talk to you, Rush.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-255782\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/RushPhonesgoSHORT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/RushPhonesgoSHORT.jpg 443w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/RushPhonesgoSHORT-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/>RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019ve listened to you since 1990 when I carried mail and you were on a little transistor radio in my shirt pocket.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (laughing) Oh, wow. Transistor radio.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes indeed.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The good old days.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: To get to the point, this whole thing started to get Trump, Roy Moore, whoever they could on the Republican side. I think it\u2019s spread a little bit further now to more of a feminist thing where, who\u2019s gonna replace Matt Lauer? Think it\u2019s gonna be another guy or do you think they\u2019re gonna put a female in there just because of what he did.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, wait a minute. You\u2019re on to something here. Do you have time to hold over through the break?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Good. &#8216;Cause that\u2019s coming up in about 45 seconds. You say this started out as a way to get Trump. And that\u2019s undeniable, but I think there\u2019s another element to this that people are forgetting. And maybe not forgetting. Just not considering. The modern &#8212; how to phrase this. This started as an effort to inflict great damage on Fox News. Do not forget that aspect of this. And in that context, it\u2019s fascinating to see how this is reverberating and rebounding back at \u2019em. Hang on a minute. Don\u2019t hang up.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We\u2019re back with Mark in Shawnee, Kansas &#8212; again, not far from Overland Park, Kansas, where I used to live in a shack &#8212; and you have an interesting point here. You\u2019re thinking that this is the chickification of America that is occurring quite rapidly, right?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Absolutely, and it may not stop here. It\u2019s gonna continue on with CEOs of companies, with congressmen, with senators, and probably even the presidency in 2020. Wait \u2019til November 2018; you\u2019re gonna hear a lot more about this. Every female that\u2019s running against a male is gonna say, &#8220;We can\u2019t have this no more. It\u2019s gotta stop. We\u2019ve gotta turn this around.&#8221; I was listening to Tucker Carlson last night, and he had some lady on from Teen Vogue or something says doesn\u2019t matter if a few innocent men get caught up in this net, we\u2019ve gotta make a stop to this, and we\u2019ve gotta empower the women.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-256273\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/00Rush-Blue-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/00Rush-Blue-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/00Rush-Blue-1-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>RUSH: Now, I will concur with this, but I\u2019m gonna change a term. I have you said auto the term chickification of America quite a bit, but this is not it to me. The chickification of America is turning men into women. This is not that. This happens to be, in a lot of these cases&#8230; That dunderhead from Teen Vogue notwithstanding, this happens to be a legitimate issue, and what\u2019s gonna happen here is the pendulum swinging too far. And, you\u2019re right. Like Matt Lauer\u2019s replacement is gonna have to a woman, right?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Absolutely. Not only that, you can see it coming. And I don\u2019t think it started out this way, but like you said, the pendulum is gonna swing and it\u2019s gonna swing real hard the other way. If you put women in power, this won\u2019t be happen no more.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Uh&#8230; (sigh) Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And Hillary kind of was on that same platform when she ran for the presidency, glass ceiling and everything else.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: See, now, this is my point. Your definition of chickification differs from mine. This has been going on for the longest time, the segregation of men and women from the standpoint that only women can represent women, that only blacks can represent blacks, and that only white men can represent white men, that white men can\u2019t represent African-Americans. This kind of segregation in our politics has been going on for a long, long time. It is directly tied to liberalism and its effort to divide people into groups of victims against one massively huge majority, which is white Christian men.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They are the target. Now, this, though? This sexual harassment? This is undeniably happening, and there needs to be a price. What my fear is is that if you combine this view that only women can understand women. Only women with represent women; men cannot. Your theory is that this is gonna lead to more female CEOs. If the replacement of Matt Lauer is not another guy but, rather, a woman? That\u2019s gonna represent nothing more, I think, than corporate overreacting like corporations have overreacted to the so-called majority of the people believing in climate change, when they really haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-253263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FB-FB-110117-Liberalism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FB-FB-110117-Liberalism.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FB-FB-110117-Liberalism-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>There haven\u2019t been those majorities. But, you know, corporations want to sell things, and they\u2019re gonna target the vast majority of people they can; and if they believe that the vast majority of them believe in climate change, then they\u2019re gonna do their best to make customers think they, too, at the corporation care about it. This is gonna manifest itself such as women will only feel safe in the workplace with other women.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: If you were a white male Republican and you had an intern, and you were to have a meeting or anything else with her, would you have her in your office alone at this point, even if you had the best intentions in the world?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You ask&#8230;? (chuckles) Me?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Or a senator or a congressman or anybody like that.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Almost it\u2019s like Russian roulette. Who is on the other side of the desk and what they\u2019ll say after the meeting\u2019s over to ruin you?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Clearly, a common sense thing to do is never put yourself in that circumstance.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And most people will act accordingly, going forward.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: But when Mike Pence suggested that just a few short months ago, look at the reaction he got.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I remember that.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: He was mocked.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: He was laughed at. He was said to be discriminating against women by denying them an opportunity to learn from him.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-251721\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/TrumpSpeech650.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/TrumpSpeech650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/TrumpSpeech650-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>RUSH: You can\u2019t win with these people. The example of Trump is don\u2019t try to accommodate or appease \u2019em. Just be who you are and don\u2019t be afraid to attack their phoniness and their hypocrisy. He does it routinely, he does it instinctively, and they don\u2019t know how to deal with it. It can be done. This kind of inertia can be overcome and stopped. But this is gonna fall dangerously close to the area of political correctness, and sadly when most people confronted with political correctness cower to it rather than stand up to it.<\/p>\n<p>But I have a lot of people on the other side of the glass here today who think it\u2019s not automatic that Matt Lauer\u2019s replacement\u2019s gonna be a woman and that it\u2019s not automatic that all these guys that are being dispatched because of abuse and harassment and so forth are gonna be replaced by women. Now, what is gonna happen where you\u2019re really right on is that the feminist movement is going to push for these kinds of things. The feminist movement and the left is gonna find a way to politicize this and further corrupt this for their own political benefit.<\/p>\n<p>And, make no mistake: Even now they\u2019re looking for ways that they can blame Trump for what happened to Matt Lauer. You might laugh. &#8220;Come on, Rush! There\u2019s no way they&#8230;&#8221; You do not know them as I do if you reject that possibility. I\u2019m not saying they\u2019re gonna succeed, but I\u2019m telling you they\u2019re plotting. They\u2019re looking at ways. Their team is dropping like flies, folks. This is not what was supposed to happen! Trump was supposed to drop like flies. Remember how this started.<\/p>\n<p>The modern era of this did not start with Harvey Weinstein. It started at Fox News. This started out as an effort to do great damage and harm to Fox News, and there\u2019s a lot of schadenfreude happening here now, because the people who were just happy as they could be and cheering all over the place over what had happened to Roger Ailes? Well, isn\u2019t it funny! Look what\u2019s happening to the cheerleaders. Look what\u2019s happening to cheering squad now. They\u2019re dropping like flies. Every one of these people&#8230; Do not doubt me.<\/p>\n<p>When Charlie Rose is reporting on the sexual harassment of Roger Ailes, he\u2019s knowing what he\u2019s doing while he\u2019s reporting on it. While Matt Lauer\u2019s reporting on all this, he knows what he\u2019s been doing. And yet, these people continued to report on Republicans as the enemy and try to destroy them with these same kind of allegations, knowing full well what they themselves have been doing in their own lives. You might call it karma. You might call it schadenfreude.<\/p>\n<p>You might call it life balancing out. But regardless, from the standpoint of the left, this was not supposed to be how this is happening. This is not what was supposed to happen. This is not the way this was supposed to go at all. They were to never be exposed. Only Trump was to be exposed, and Trump was to pay the price and Trump was to be sent packing, and the Republicans were gonna learn never to ever again send somebody to Washington like Trump from the outside. Look, don\u2019t misunderstand me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-228392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-021.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-021-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-021-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>When I asked at the top of this hour, I asked, is it possible that we\u2019re in the midst of the crackup and breakdown of the hypocrites in Hollywood, the media, the Democrat Party, I\u2019m not saying that that\u2019s happened. I\u2019m asking, is it possible that we are seeing the beginnings of it? I would certainly hope so, but we don\u2019t have near enough time in or data to know whether or not this is actually happening.<\/p>\n<p>But I tell you this, you look at this objectively and honestly, how many of you throughout your entire lives ever thought that there would be this kind of reckoning and exposure of people in the media and the Democrat Party and in Hollywood? How many of you ever thought that this kind of price would ever be paid by these people? I would venture to say none of you.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how much you thought it would be cool or funny, no matter how many of you thought it might be justified, I doubt very many people ever thought anything like this would ever happen. Because in terms of media and Hollywood, they\u2019ve always been seen as impenetrably powerful. Can\u2019t dent them. Can\u2019t win. Can\u2019t overpower them. It\u2019s something we just have to learn to live with, tolerate, get used to. Never did anybody expect anything like this.<\/p>\n<p>Did you ever think that a presidential administration would applaud and laugh at a news organization rejecting its invitation to a Christmas party and celebrate it? The answer is no. And it\u2019s, again, why so many Trump voters are deliriously happy and supportive of this. And it\u2019s not because it\u2019s payback time. It\u2019s because of genuine, heartfelt anger at the unfairness, at the one sidedness, call it bias, if you will, but this is far beyond bias. This has been a stacked deck for us for all of our lives. This is just a little bit of balance here on the seesaw, if you will, or the pendulum.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s all because of Trump. Trump is driving them insane. Well, I say all. They\u2019re playing a role in it too. But this kind of stuff, if Hillary had been elected none of this would be happening and we wouldn\u2019t have the economy we have. If Crazy Bernie\u2019d been elected, none of this would be going on. The sexual harassers would be still harassing. Harvey Weinstein would still be doing what he\u2019s doing. So would everybody else. None of this would have happened. And we wouldn\u2019t have anywhere near this kind of economy, and the North Koreans would not feel the slightest bit deterred.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a markedly different set of circumstances, and this is exactly what people voted for Trump for, why they did. Still a lot of ground to cover. Still a lot of things to accomplish. And the opposition from the left is still as vibrant and strong as it ever has been. It\u2019s just they have been knocked off their game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH:  Is it possible that we are in the midst of a crackup and breakdown of the hypocritical leftists in the Drive-By Media and the establishment entertainment sectors, political sectors?  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