{"id":292571,"date":"2018-11-20T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=292571"},"modified":"2018-11-21T15:44:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T20:44:05","slug":"why-now-why-are-liberals-reviewing-the-90s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/11\/20\/why-now-why-are-liberals-reviewing-the-90s\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Now? Why Are Liberals Reviewing the \u201990s?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The saga continues. A household name in all four corners of the world: Your host, Rush Limbaugh, surfing most days below the media radar. But that all changed over the weekend, and it goes in cycles. But all of a sudden over the weekend… You know, yesterday we had these nine audio sound bites featuring your host, and the upshot of all of them… There were two different shows. One was an NPR podcast and the other was Steve Kornacki at NBC with a new book trying to explain the modern partisan divide, and I, your host, am now, in 2018, being blamed for all of it.<\/p>\n

This show started in 1988 busting up the news media monopoly. Then getting Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress elected for the first time in 40 years in 1994. And then providing great opposition to Bill Clinton during the late nineties. And basically causing there to be gridlock and division and a partisan divide, and none of it would have happened were it not for me and this program starting! I was asking yesterday, “Why now?”<\/p>\n

\"\"I mean, this has been known for a long time. We\u2019ve known that this is what they think for a long time. But it\u2019s generational. All of this stuff that they\u2019re complaining about happened 25 or 30 years ago. That\u2019s a generation ago. So why now are they bringing it up? I was asking it all day yesterday. I can\u2019t tell you the number of emails I got from people who warned me to be careful. “You realize what this means? You\u2019re back on the radar!<\/p>\n

“For some reason, they have repainted the bull\u2019s-eye on you.” I had people say, “It\u2019s \u2019cause you did that Trump rally, \u2019cause you introduced Trump. Now they\u2019ve gotta realign and take you back out again, and you\u2019re doing more TV appearances. So you\u2019ve been under the radar; they haven\u2019t cared about you for a while. But now all of a sudden…” I read all this stuff with amusement, \u2019cause the way people think fascinates me.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m fascinated by mimicry or mental laziness, but the way people think fascinates me, and a lot of people get very protective. “They\u2019re setting you up here for some reason. They want people to hate you all over again. You\u2019ve gotta be careful about this. They\u2019re trying…” One emailer said, “It\u2019s just like you said about Clarence Thomas, Rush.<\/p>\n

“HBO does a movie on Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill 20 years after it happened so that young people who were not born or were too young to know what was going on then, still end up hating Clarence Thomas and still advancing this whole idea that men mistreat women and so forth, and they\u2019re doing the same thing to you. They\u2019re trying to alert a whole bunch of people that weren\u2019t alive when you started what you did and what you\u2019re responsible for.<\/p>\n

“They\u2019re trying to make sure that this new group of young people doesn\u2019t like you.” I thought, “Well, now, that makes some sense.” But then I said, “That can\u2019t be the only reason why this stuff is being revised.” I have two sound bites. I think I found the answer in an audio sound bite from CNN last night. To set it up, let me review what I said yesterday after playing all those sound bites about all the things I started in the nineties that people today are being told I am to blame for<\/a>. Here\u2019s the review…<\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: So let\u2019s review. I\u2019m responsible for the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, I\u2019m responsible for Newt Gingrich and the Republicans winning the House in 1994, and now I\u2019m the responsible for the creation of Fox News, which makes me responsible for everything the left hates today. It makes me responsible for all of this. I\u2019m the one who did it; therefore, I am the reason and the architect for today\u2019s partisan divide, for today\u2019s political divisions, for today\u2019s gridlock. None of it would have happened had I not come along.<\/p>\n

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Democrats would still own everything. They\u2019d still have their media monopoly. There wouldn\u2019t be any alternative this or that. That\u2019s what they think. It\u2019s amazing! I mean, a lot of the ingredients of every sound bite here have certain elements that are totally right that I\u2019ve never heard them express before, and I\u2019m still asking myself, \u201cWhy now?\u201d I mean, no conspiracy, no mystery. I\u2019m just wondering, \u201cWhy now?\u201d Just a serious question.<\/p>\n

END ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yet a fundamental element of this review in those sound bites… The nine yesterday could have been 19. There were 10 more that Cookie didn\u2019t give me because she knew we wouldn\u2019t get to all of them. But there was an element of truth in them that has been absent before — an element of grudging respect along with the blame — and that\u2019s what got me curious. Anyway, I think we\u2019ve got the answer. In addition to…<\/p>\n

I do think there\u2019s a lot of truth in the idea that they\u2019re trying to inform a new, young generation of people who I am and why I\u2019m a bad guy, like they tried to do with Clarence Thomas and the movie, and they do that with any number of people on the right and issues. You know, make movies about them. They\u2019re doing it with Roger Ailes. There\u2019s a bunch of Roger Ailes movies, and they\u2019re gonna do everything they can to poison people\u2019s minds about him.<\/p>\n

But last night on CNN, David “Rodham” Gergen was on. He\u2019s not talking about me, by the way. He was on Anderson Cooper, who was being filled in for by John Berman, and Gergen was asked this question: “The lack of White House decorum in general. It\u2019s nothing to make light of. How should Democrats handle it? What\u2019s the right way to handle it? Everything from the sliding scale of the comments about Adam Schiff all the way to Ivanka Trump\u2019s emails. What are the risks and the pitfalls for them?”<\/p>\n

GERGEN: The major risk is that of overplaying their hands. When the new Congress is voted in from the out party, there\u2019s a tendency to sort of want to push forward on all fronts, all guns blazing. You know, take down the president, if you can. But we saw as far away as, uh, Newt Gingrich coming into power in 1994 when the Republicans swept the House, uh, and he overplayed his hand, and it really wound up damaging not only him, but the body itself. And in this case what the Democrats need first and foremost to do in the next few days is to demonstrate they can come together, bridge their differences on this choice of a speaker and on who\u2019s gonna be doing what within the House.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: So I saw that, and I said, “Well, now, this could be part of the answer, is that they\u2019re reciting all of this history involving this program from \u201988 to the present and using it as an illustration for young Democrats of how Newt and the boys in the House example greatly misunderstood what their election meant.” Even I pointed that out after a while. I made the observation that the mistake that the conservative leadership in the House made in 1995 was assuming they won the election because the country had gone conservative.<\/p>\n

Therefore, they stopped teaching or explaining conservatism as they propose their ideas and policy legislation and began to implement it. They didn\u2019t explain why, they didn\u2019t give justification for it, because they assumed everybody understood that that\u2019s why they were elected: To implement, quote-unquote, “conservative policies.” Well, the media had been demonizing conservative all over the place then like it does now, and with the absence of Newt and the boys giving a constant history teaching lesson about why they\u2019re balancing the budget and why they\u2019re doing this and how it relates to conservatism and, “This is why you elected us…”<\/p>\n

They just did it, and they made targets of themselves and ended up putting Newt on the cover of TIME magazine, Man of the Year, with two days of growth on his face. Remember that stubble photo? Then they had him on there as the Gingrich that stole Christmas as they defamed conservatism. What Gergen here is suggesting is, “Look, don\u2019t make the mistake that the Republicans made in \u201994 of thinking that the country voted \u2019em in because they want everything that\u2019s being done right now reversed. Don\u2019t make that mistake.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what he\u2019s saying. “The Democrats need to come together on the speaker.” He\u2019s also making the case here for Pelosi. Speaking of that, an increasing number of House Democrats are going public with their, I mean, vitriolic opposition to this woman. Sixteen of \u2019em have signed a letter. I find it interesting. I can\u2019t find the names of this signatories to this letter in any of the stories about this letter. The letters are published and the signatures are published, but you need a translation app figure out whose names are being signed here.<\/p>\n

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I can\u2019t find a story that actually names the 16 who signed. I\u2019m wondering if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for example, signed this letter. So Gergen wants \u2019em to come together, probably reelect Pelosi. He wants the young whippersnappers to take the backseat like they should, like every other young person does until it\u2019s their time. He\u2019s worried they\u2019re gonna overshoot. He\u2019s worried they\u2019re gonna overreach. He\u2019s worried they\u2019re gonna really cause the people that elected them to regret it. I think that could be one of the reasons why all this stuff was happening over the weekend regarding recounting the history of this program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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