RUSH: I\u2019m looking at the clock. I don\u2019t have sufficient time. We have a Marie Harf sound bite coming up, and it\u2019s awesome. The only thing it\u2019s missing… She was on Fox a couple hours ago, and the only thing that\u2019s missing is her pronunciation of the word “admini-shration,” and it was all of this sound bite, and it was hoping when I requested this that it would be in there, but it didn\u2019t fall within our allotted time. But it was… No, Michelle Obama. We\u2019re down for the sh\u2019truggle, “admini-shtration.” It\u2019s almost now a required pronunciation technique of women on the left pronouncing that word.<\/p>\n
Believe me! I observe these things.<\/p>\n
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Now let\u2019s go to Marie Harf. What\u2019s being discussed here? Russian meddling in the 2016 election. And it has come to light — and we were on the cutting edge of this — remember Obama bragging how he had told Putin to cut it out? And Obama telling everybody the Russians couldn\u2019t affect the outcome of our elections. They\u2019re too complicated. They\u2019re too complex. And Obama let everybody know it wasn\u2019t that big a deal.<\/p>\n
Remember, everybody thinks Hillary\u2019s gonna win. Obama couldn\u2019t start giving credit to the Russians for being able to affect anything because that would taint her win. So Obama\u2019s out there basically saying the Russians are meaningless, they can\u2019t do anything because nobody wanted to taint what they all thought was gonna be Hillary\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n
But what then came to light is that, well, if Obama knew that the Russians were doing this back in 2016, then why didn\u2019t he do something to stop it? Why all of a sudden now is it up to Trump to do something about it, when Obama was fully aware of it and talking about it and told everybody that he had told Putin to cut it out, why is Obama getting a pass? So Bill Hemmer says to Marie Harf, “President Obama said to Putin two months before the election to cut it out. Was that the extent of it?”<\/p>\n
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HARF: My former boss and others confronted Russia repeatedly over this, and we did take steps. Publicly before the election we came out and named and shamed Russia so voters would know what was going on, and we eventually expelled dozens of diplomats.<\/p>\n
HEMMER: I don\u2019t know…<\/p>\n
HARF: We also had a Republican candidate at the time, Donald Trump, who was on this campaign, speeches saying, “Russia, please interfere. Please hack Hillary Clinton, and please release those emails.” So we were confronting a candidate who was actually encouraging Russia.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hemmer, I don\u2019t know, I\u2019m guessing, but he says, “You know, I just want to –” I think what he was gonna say is, “Marie, you guys really didn\u2019t take it that seriously, did you?” But they did. See, they did. This is classic. This is a classic illustration of the left being humorless and having no sense of humor and no ability to recognize it and certainly no ability to laugh at it. Let me play again for you what she\u2019s talking about. “We had a candidate who was in speeches, ‘Russia please interfere, please hack Hillary, please release those emails.\u2019 So we were confronting a candidate who was encouraging the Russians to hack Hillary.”<\/p>\n
It\u2019s absurd. It is mind-blowing. They really think this. I tell audiences when I speak, I give them examples of what liberals say, and they start laughing, and I stop them. And I say, “Folks, they believe this. They believe this stuff.” As a predicate to saying there\u2019s no compromise with these people and there\u2019s no educating them. There\u2019s no bringing them up to speed. These people have to be defeated.<\/p>\n
Marie Harf, for all of her education, and for all of her sophistication, for all of whatever else she has, is ignorant, just plain, flat-out ignorant. This is what Trump said. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll remember it. It was July 26th, 2016, in Doral, Florida. And it\u2019s what triggered this whole thing. And at the time everybody\u2019s trying to find out what happened to Hillary\u2019s emails.<\/p>\n
She had 60,000 on her server. She deleted 30,000 and turned 30,000 over. Those 30,000 that she deleted, they have to be somewhere. Comey said he couldn\u2019t find them. Comey in his July 5th press conference, which is about three weeks prior to this, had exonerated Hillary. They couldn\u2019t find the 30,000 emails. They weren\u2019t looking very hard. But it was a subject of interest.<\/p>\n
And so there\u2019s a press conference that Trump holds at Doral, his golf club down there. And during the Q&A, this is what Trump said about Hillary\u2019s missing emails…<\/p>\n
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TRUMP: I will tell you this: Russia, if you\u2019re listening, I hope you\u2019re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let\u2019s see if that happens.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I watched it. I watched it and I\u2019m laughing myself silly. I\u2019m saying, “This is exactly how I would approach it. This is great parody, great satire. This is ramming it right down their throats. ‘Hey, maybe if you guys can\u2019t find… You guys say Russia\u2019s doing this and you guys say Russia\u2019s doing that. Well, hey, Russia, maybe you can find these emails, and if you do, turn \u2019em over to our media,'” and look how they interpreted that.<\/p>\n
Marie Harf, “We had a candidate at the time who was on the campaign speeches saying, ‘Russia, please interfere! Please hack Hillary Clinton.'” No! Please find what had already been hacked. This is instructive, folks. They really believe this lunacy that they profess. Some of this, they really believe. It\u2019s not just strategized, focus-grouped phraseology. They really believe this. They are really that humorless and dense, and I think probably filled with hatred for Trump. Now, Cookie went back,and she produced a loop for me — just an eight-second loop — of Marie Harf and her pronunciation of the word “admini-shtration.”<\/p>\n
This bite… Now, you might think, “Rush, this is nitpicking. You don\u2019t talk about the way people talk.” Well, yeah, I understand that. But Marie Harf sounds just like Michelle Obama. Look, I\u2019m a speech student. I\u2019m a breathing student. I am a student of the diaphragmatic method. I listen to the way people enunciate. I listen to the way people pronounce. You can learn a lot from it, and there are certain things that just stick with me, and I wonder where they are rooted and why they are never corrected, and Michelle Obama is constantly… If she ever says the word “struggle,” it\u2019s “sh\u2019truggle.” 42nd Sh\u2019treet. And Marie Harf here. Here\u2019s the loop. This is Marie Harf talking about where she worked….<\/p>\n
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HARF: The Obama admini-shtration. The Obama admini-shtration. The Obama admini-shtration. The Obama admini-shtration. The Obama admini-shtration.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Okay! That\u2019s good. You get the idea. “Admini-shtration.” I know you\u2019re saying, “So what, Rush? Why are you wasting valuable programming time with this observation?” Because it just fascinates me. “Admini-shtration.” If somebody told me that I was pronouncing a word that way, I\u2019d fix it. It\u2019s all I\u2019m saying.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here\u2019s Obama. This is from our archives way back on October 18, 2016 in the White House Rose Garden. Question: “Donald Trump is telling his supporters the election is rigged. He\u2019s asking to monitor certain areas on Election Day. Are you worried that the election Donald might be distrusted?”<\/p>\n