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RUSH: Now, you Millennials are young enough, you may not have been listening to this program January 16th, 2009. On January 16th, 2009<\/a>, the day before, I had been contacted by the Wall Street Journal. Obama was yet to be immaculated. That would be five days later. The Wall Street Journal was asking highly reputed, relevant commentators to submit 400 words on their hopes and dreams for the new Obama administration. And I came here to the Golden EIB Microphone, and I told my audience my reply to the Wall Street Journal, sound bite number one.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: I don\u2019t need 400 words, I need four: “I hope he fails.” What are you laughing at? See, here\u2019s the point. Everybody thinks it\u2019s outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, “Oh, you can\u2019t do that.” Why not? Why is it any different, what\u2019s new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what\u2019s gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don\u2019t care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: “Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails.” Somebody\u2019s gotta say it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And they did. They headlined it exactly that way. “Limbaugh: I hope Obama fails.” What they purposely got wrong was they reported that I was hoping America failed, that I was so rank partisan that I was willing for my country to suffer in order for Obama\u2019s presidency to fail. And it was the exact opposite. I wanted Obama to fail so that my country would not. I wanted Obama\u2019s liberal agenda, his socialist community organizer agenda to fail.<\/p>\n

\"\"I did not and never have and never will want America to fail. Never. No way. This was my point of trying to articulate the difference. I wanted Obama to fail implementing things like Obamacare. I wanted Obama to fail in letting the Iranians have nuclear weapons. I wanted Obama to fail at keeping our borders open. I wanted Obama to fail at everything he did. I wanted Obama to fail at the stimulus. I did not want America to fail. I wanted America to be saved.<\/p>\n

Well, I made that distinction every day for a month. Even my first nationally televised address to America at the CPAC convention in February, I went through it there on national TV, four networks, just as I did to you here, and it continued to be misrepresented, it continued to be portrayed as I was hoping America would fail. And it still is. Nine years later, folks, and they can\u2019t let go of it.<\/p>\n

Saturday night, CNN The Axe Files. This is David Axelrod. I guess he\u2019s got a podcast that CNN somehow televises. Or maybe it\u2019s the CNN show that becomes the podcast, I don\u2019t know. But David Axelrod spoke with noted political theoretician and scientist, Tom Hanks, about the Trump administration. And to set things up, Axelrod brings me up.<\/p>\n

AXELROD: You were criticized by some back at the beginning of the administration, I think I shared your view when you said, “I\u2019m not rooting for the president to fail.”<\/p>\n

HANKS: Yeah.<\/p>\n

AXELROD: And I thought back to, at the beginning of the Obama administration when I was in the administration, Rush Limbaugh said, “I\u2019m rooting for the president to fail,” and I thought, particularly at a time of national emergency, that was a terrible thing to say, and so I felt you owe that next president the same presumption. We\u2019re now 10 months in. Where do you think — how would you evaluate him?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you trying to tell me these clowns do not want Trump to fail? They damn well are trying to get rid of Trump. It\u2019s not just Trump failing; they want Trump gone! But here they are trying to occupy the high road. Yes, when Trump was elected, I never said like Limbaugh did (imitating Axelrod), “I hope he fails. That would be very unbecoming. We don\u2019t want our presidents to fail. Now we\u2019re 10 months in, Hanks, and what do you think? Is it worth getting rid of Trump?” I mean, that\u2019s what they\u2019re talking about here.<\/p>\n

\"\"These people are trying to destroy Trump and Michael Flynn and Pence and anybody else that they have to to get rid of \u2019em all. But they can\u2019t let go. And you know why they can\u2019t let go? Because it was effective. It\u2019s the same old reason. It was effective. Because everybody knew, in the media and everywhere else, they knew what I really meant. They knew that I didn\u2019t want the country to fail. They knew that I wanted Obama\u2019s policies to fail being implemented. But they couldn\u2019t write that. So Axelrod asks political theoretician and scientist, Tom Hanks, “So we\u2019re now 10 months in. Where do you think we are? How would you evaluate Trump now, Professor?”<\/p>\n

HANKS: I think we have to admit this, though. Something profound came out of that election, and that is the rules were smashed, the rules no longer applied. A candidate could say outrageous things and not be penalized when it came down to the voting booth. And you could look at it as though some aspect of it, there was a national referendum that had had enough of this ongoing political continuum —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

HANKS: — that was always say the right things.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

HANKS: — always feed your base, always say just glittering generalities about whoever, anybody, because you don\u2019t want to offend, and that is translated I think to you don\u2019t want to tell the truth about what your opinions are. Here\u2019s a guy that you can\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me translate that for you. What Hanks is saying is, the country had tired of politicians who never tell you what they think, who always sugarcoat things, who always talk and act in a politically correct fashion. You don\u2019t trust them, they seem disingenuous, and we want somebody real. And here came a guy who was real, and he talked real and people didn\u2019t care because they were so fed up with the way the establishment has bollixed everything up that they were willing to take a risk on the real guy.<\/p>\n

And Hanks is right. Something profound came, and they still can\u2019t deal with that. You know, how many of you think they\u2019re running around, “My God, we\u2019ve lost Weinstein, we\u2019ve lost Matt Lauer, we\u2019ve lost Garrison Keillor, we\u2019ve lost all of our heroes, and that ne\u2019er-do-well Trump is still there?” They\u2019re driven insane by this.<\/p>\n

\"\"They even dragged Billy Bush out. Did you see this? They dragged Billy Bush out, gave him an op-ed in the New York Times on Sunday. “Yes, Trump. You did say it. You did say you like grabbing you-know-whats. You did say it. It\u2019s not fake.” So Billy Bush is falling on his sword \u2019cause he\u2019d do anything to get back in the business. And Trump is still there, and they can\u2019t deal with it.<\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s go to The View. This is this morning on the view. Meghan McCain\u2019s over there now. She left Fox News to go to The View. They\u2019re talking about Brian Ross being suspended for his report on Friday that Trump as a candidate told Flynn to contact the Russians. This is what Meghan McCain said.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: I remember when Obama was in office, Rush Limbaugh saying, “I want my president to fail.” And coming out and saying I could never get behind that because if our president fails, it means America fails. I feel the same way about Trump. I think if we\u2019re celebrating a breach of national security, something that is so egregious that — I said this on Friday, it\u2019s gonna tear our country apart — there\u2019s no need to be cheering and celebrating.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Meghan, your guy reported a lie. There wasn\u2019t anything of the sort. Trump did not, as a candidate, tell Flynn to talk to the Russians. But here she even says it. “You remember when Rush Limbaugh said, ‘I want my president to fail\u2019? That\u2019s like saying it means America fails.” No, Meghan, no, no, it\u2019s the exact opposite. I didn\u2019t want Obamacare. I didn\u2019t want national health care. I didn\u2019t want the government opening the borders. I didn\u2019t want rampant, unending illegal immigration. I didn\u2019t want Kate Steinle to get murdered because of sanctuary cities.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want anything that\u2019s happened. I don\u2019t want $10,000 deductibles and $30,000-a-year insurance premiums for health care. I didn\u2019t want anything we\u2019ve got. That\u2019s what I meant. And they all know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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