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<\/p>\nRUSH: You know, folks, the sad fact is that, even in the best of times, there are really very few people who get in the arena — and, even then, there are fewer that stay in for all 12 rounds. Now, right now, this is your country — if you can keep it. Right now, this is your country. It\u2019s not theirs. I don\u2019t care how they\u2019re making it look. Don\u2019t be these two guys at my dinner party who want to throw everything overboard because the media has destroyed Trump or whoever else you hold dear.<\/p>\n
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Yeah, they won the House of Representatives, and, yeah, they\u2019ve got the media, and, yeah, they can create narratives and so forth. But Donald Trump\u2019s still in the White House, and he\u2019s still advancing his agenda. It is still your country. It\u2019s still yours — if you can keep it. And you don\u2019t keep it by shouting from 20 feet behind the front row (grumbling), “You need to do that and you need to do that,” and start whining and moaning. I\u2019m not speaking of any of you here specifically. I\u2019m talking about an overall attitude of one that you should not be caving and not falling prey to.<\/p>\n
I know how hard it is. Believe me.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Troy, New York. This is Brian. Great to have you, Brian. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for having me. Longtime listener. You\u2019re an American hero. I\u2019ll cut to the chase. I know your time is precious. I\u2019m offering a little holiday hope and cheer. They will fail, the left. These lies are from the top to bottom. And philosophically, fundamentally, you have to operate in societies with a pre-assumption that people are telling you the truth. You can\u2019t even have red and green stoplights work if there\u2019s no truth. We can prove this in a church table. They will fail.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re at a state where it\u2019s like Bleeding Kansas. We\u2019re at loggerheads and, you know, these impassioned arguments come from both sides, and they both point fingers. “Liar, liar, liar.” But when you have to really say, \u201cWell, who\u2019s lying?\u201d I mean, it\u2019s as simple as, you know, for example, a man who has surgery, that surgery, a woman, and it\u2019s not. It\u2019s just not true. The lies are, you know, apparent to everybody.<\/p>\n
The other thing I wanted to add is I really like how Trump — everyone hates his comments and his tweets and he embodies free speech by exercising the right. And that\u2019s the best thing that he can do for it. Meanwhile, the CEO of Google doubles down and their identity politics embodies that by just — no, we\u2019re not censoring conservatives but, you know, it\u2019s I guess because, well, we don\u2019t identify that way, we identify as anything that is not, you know, Marxist as hateful. So the fraud is apparent to everyone, and, you know, eventually they will lose. It\u2019s just a matter of how many people they hurt before they do.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, they are taking a lot of people out. I mean, that\u2019s the thing. They are destroying a lot of people. That\u2019s one of the powers that they have. They\u2019re destroying people\u2019s entire lifetime net worth. They are able to take actions that result in people losing their homes. And this also happened during the Enron trials. It happened during the Ted Stevens trial. When I was reading about that in Sidney Powell\u2019s book, there was a glee. The prosecutors were backslapping themselves. They were happy when they ruin somebody.<\/p>\n
It was like a notch in the belt kind of sense of achievement when they force somebody to plead guilty because they\u2019d run out of money, they were having to borrow money, sell their house to be able to pay their lawyers, the prosecutors were doing dances on the graves. And I\u2019m sure they\u2019re doing that now. I\u2019m sure they\u2019re dancing on the grave of Flynn, they\u2019re dancing on the grave of Manafort, they hope to be dancing on Trump\u2019s grave.<\/p>\n
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They\u2019re just despicable people. And there is no sense of humility whatsoever. If these are really serious crimes that threaten the structure and stability and security of the United States, then there ought to be some solemnity here about stopping it, bringing it to a screeching halt and convicting the people that are engaging in these horrible practices. But there isn\u2019t any of this. This is just notching the belt, getting scalps, using power for the sake of it.<\/p>\n
People who are not having to use any of their own personal money to conduct these witch hunts are taking glee in destroying people. And for what reason? They don\u2019t even know them personally. It\u2019s all political! They know Trump, they worked for Trump, they raised money for Republicans or what have you. It\u2019s really no more complicated than that. But it was eye opening to read how happy and celebratory these prosecutors were as they destroyed people. And the people they destroyed, in many cases, were innocent.<\/p>\n
By the time the legal system had run its course cases had been overturned and convictions vacated as high as the United States Supreme Court, the United States federal court, Washington district in the case of Ted Stevens. But the damage had been done.<\/p>\n
So that other aspect, just the human nature aspect of this, the glee that these people are experiencing as they don\u2019t have to use their own money. They\u2019ve got Uncle Sam\u2019s Treasury, and they have limitless access to it. And they take great pleasure in destroying people. They savor the power they have to do that. It\u2019s a gross misuse of power that is being engaged in right now, and for no crime to have been committed.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I want to say something about this, and I want to open a little bit of a window into this program. You realize on any given day, I can take any direction I want, and I can go wherever I want when I do this program.<\/p>\n
If I wanted to, I could spend today talking about last night\u2019s football game between the “Cheaps” and the Chargers. If I wanted to, I could update you on the status of my funky watches which lose charge only on the charger. If I wanted to, I could say, “This is the holiday season. I\u2019m not gonna get bogged down in all this media garbage. I\u2019m gonna sit here and we\u2019re gonna have fun. We\u2019re gonna do holiday-focused things and so forth.” I could go any way I want to go on this.<\/p>\n
And every time I start thinking about the direction I want to go, the first thing that I ask is, “What do I want to do?” because that\u2019s paramount. ‘Cause if I engage in things I\u2019m not into, you\u2019re gonna be able to tell, and it\u2019s not gonna be compelling. The next thing I ask myself is, “What is the audience expecting today?” or, “What do you in the audience want or hope to hear?” That is a very important question, and it requires a certain degree of empathy.<\/p>\n
The point is that because of the time of year and everybody\u2019s desire for this time of year to be as festive as it can be and as upbeat as it can be and as fun\/optimistic as it can be, there still is a degree of responsibility. And it goes back to what I was referencing in the opening hour of the program, and that is being in the arena or outside of it and how you conduct yourself from either or both positions. And I have… You know, I don\u2019t have any choice in the matter.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m perceived to be in the arena, and so that always ends up being a top-level determinant in asking myself, “Where do I want to go today? What do I want to do?” Because, folks, let me tell you: It would be easy to broom this stuff. It would just… There are so many other things out there that I really would love to chat about. But there\u2019s something in me that says that would not be right. “Well, why don\u2019t you do an hour of that then two hours…? Well, \u2019cause once you start, you\u2019ve carved a path.<\/p>\n
Granted you go wherever you want to go. I can. I can go wherever I want to go once the thing starts, but it really has to do with core beliefs and things that I think important — and, above all, a desire to not be seen by people as not taking this stuff seriously. It is very serious. It\u2019s about our country and our future and what kind of country it\u2019s going to be. So I feel compelled to talk about it. I feel compelled to talk about it as honestly and straightforwardly as I can, and I\u2019ll be honest.<\/p>\n
It sometimes leads to frustration because there are, you know, many other things that I would have probably more fun discussing. But I put it all together, and there remains this indelible desire to cut through all the noise with the truth and to try to reach as many people with it as possible. Now, these last two years have been markedly different from the 28 years prior. I can guarantee that in most of the 28 years prior, by the time we are 10 or 11 days from Christmas, we are chatting about things that are not nearly as heavyweight as all of this.<\/p>\n
But these two years have been different, because there is a focused effort (from the highest levels of our clandestine government we\u2019ve ever seen) to undermine that which a majority of Americans voted for in 2016. There\u2019s no way to treat that lightheartedly. There\u2019s no way to treat it singularly with humor, although you try to find it. Humor is a very persuasive tactic, but it has to be done in the right percentages. You can\u2019t go all humor, because then people aren\u2019t gonna take it seriously.<\/p>\n
The point of all this is that I don\u2019t like running the risk of being considered a Debbie Downer with all this. But at the same time, there is a certain degree of responsibility that has befallen me simply by virtue of the way I\u2019ve chosen to do this program over the years and the places that that has taken this program and me. So there are expectations that when you tune in here, you\u2019re going to get things, and that\u2019s why you\u2019re here. So I can\u2019t just shelve it. I can\u2019t just shove it aside and say, “You know what? It\u2019s Christmas.<\/p>\n
“Forget all this Trump stuff! Forget all this deep state stuff. Let\u2019s talk about whatever,” my watch that won\u2019t charge or the NFL and whatever is happening with that. So that\u2019s why we\u2019re spending time on all of this, and it\u2019s why I\u2019m doing it with a sense of sincerity because I do think this stuff is very serious — and in media terms, we\u2019re outnumbered. In terms of population at large, we\u2019re not, but nobody would ever believe that simply based on media coverage.<\/p>\n
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So that\u2019s essentially why I have chosen — even though it\u2019s the festive holiday season — to continue to delve into this. ‘Cause one of the things I\u2019ve always done — and those of you who have been here for many, many moons know this. One of the things I\u2019ve always done is if anybody that I believe in or like — or anything that I believe in or like — comes under assault, I\u2019m instinctively programmed to defend it or the person. It\u2019s just my natural reaction to these kinds of things.<\/p>\n
And we\u2019re under assault. We\u2019re under constant assault. It was predictable. In that sense, it isn\u2019t a surprise, but it still is what it is — and it\u2019s outrageous what is happening. When you boil this down to what has happened and been going on the last two years, it\u2019s simply outrageous, and it\u2019s intolerable, and it\u2019s not just gonna go away. It\u2019s not just gonna fix itself. It\u2019s not just going to… “Don\u2019t worry, Rush. It\u2019ll all work out. Don\u2019t worry, Rush, there\u2019s not much you can do about it.”<\/p>\n
That may be true too. There\u2019s not a whole lot of any of us individually can do about it. But it is important to buck up the one guy trying. In this case, it\u2019s Trump, and the fact that they have not been able to separate Trump supporters from Trump is one of the things that keeps egging them on and urging them on here. So it\u2019s kind of a simplistic explanation, but that\u2019s a little bit of an open window into how I\u2019m deciding to handle things here at this particular time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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