{"id":307707,"date":"2019-04-30T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=307707"},"modified":"2019-05-01T15:59:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T19:59:45","slug":"drive-bys-praise-pathetic-biden-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/04\/30\/drive-bys-praise-pathetic-biden-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-Bys Praise Pathetic Biden Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Let\u2019s move on to Democrat Party politics. It\u2019s actually kind of fascinating. Last week or the week before, I don\u2019t remember when, I was on Fox News, and every time I\u2019m asked this question when I go on Fox News, “Who do you think the Democrat nominee is gonna be? Who do you think?” I always tell \u2019em “Biden,” and I do it on purpose. Also, you know, I\u2019ll throw out, “Keep a sharp eye on Mayor Pete.” I\u2019m trying to throw monkey wrenches into the works when I do this, \u2019cause I actually think Biden would be one of the biggest mistakes they could make.<\/p>\n

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But the conventional wisdom is that Biden is the only guy that can beat Trump because Biden is the only guy that can get the white working-class voters that Trump siphoned off from Hillary. But that\u2019s crazy. (chuckles) Biden was the vice president of an administration which discarded white working-class voters in 2011, and they happily did so. They discarded white working-class voters in exchange for putting together a coalition of minorities. This minority group, that minority group.<\/p>\n

They calculated that if they succeeded in building a gigantic coalition of minority groups, that it would outnumber whatever they could produce by courting and soliciting the white working class male population. So now they\u2019re looking at Biden as the guy who can get \u2019em back. We\u2019ll see. But there is polling data that is out there. This is, to me, quite illustrative and indicative. There\u2019s two polls out there. One is actually from the Morning Consult, and they surveyed something like 15,000 people, and Biden got a six-point bump since that announcement video last week about Charlottesville.<\/p>\n

He was already the frontrunner. The bottom line is now that in the Morning Consult poll, Biden is at 36%, Crazy Bernie is at 22%. Last week before Biden\u2019s introductory video about Charlottesville<\/a>, he was at 30%. So he\u2019s at 36%, Crazy Bernie\u2019s at 22%. Now, that is a high enough number, 36%, and a wide enough or big enough lead over Crazy Bernie that, depending on where you go in the Drive-By Media, they\u2019re already giving the nomination to Biden.<\/p>\n

Some of them are already saying that this is an insurmountable lead, that there is no way with the field this big that anybody could even get close to Biden. And, they are now speculating, “The closer that Biden gets to 50, why, it\u2019s really gonna be over. Nobody will have a chance.” CNN produced a poll, released a poll at the same time Morning Consult did. In the CNN poll, they are orgasming over this, \u2019cause I\u2019m telling you, on the left… They may love socialists and socialism, but in the media, they really think Biden is the only guy that can beat Trump.<\/p>\n

(chuckles) Now, Biden hasn\u2019t beaten anybody, ever, in a presidential race. He\u2019s entered the Democrat primary I don\u2019t know how many times — two, three times — and he\u2019s bombed out. He\u2019s never made the first cut. But the Drive-By Media thinks that Biden is the guy, and in CNN it\u2019s Biden at 39%, Crazy Bernie at 15%. Thirty-nine to 15% in the CNN poll; 36% to 22% in the Morning Consult poll. Now, these are the same polls that had Hillary Clinton winning everything forever by a landslide over Donald Trump or any other Republican back in 2016.<\/p>\n

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So don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not telling you about these poll results within the context of I believe them. But they do. That\u2019s the important thing. They do. And we also know, they use polling data to shape public opinion far more than they use it to reflect public opinion. You know, when polling data becomes a lead news story, it\u2019s not to reflect public opinion. It is to shape it. So clearly within the power structures of the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party, they have made it clear they want Biden.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a guy who up until last week nobody knew he was gonna run. In fact, there was a lot of talk that he may not run. Meaning there wasn\u2019t a lot of organic, natural support building for the guy because the people that wanted him had no idea he was gonna pull the trigger. I, for one, refuse to believe that there was any building organic support for Biden anyway. It\u2019s all been going to Crazy Bernie — and, by extension, Mayor Pete.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Biden\u2019s announcement yesterday… If a Republican had engaged in a rollout announcement yesterday like Biden did, he\u2019d be out of the race today! Biden was slurring his words. He was making no sense whatsoever. He couldn\u2019t finish a sentence. Everything was a sentence fragment. He was trying to ad-lib it. It was very bad — and the media are calling it one of the best announcements they have ever seen!<\/p>\n

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We have two perspectives on this. We have a montage of what Biden said (if you can follow it), and we have a montage of the media people praising it as the greatest announcement rollout that there has ever been.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s our montage. This is the Drive-By Media. Biden had the greatest launch. Oh, man, this is the greatest launch there\u2019s ever been. In fact, let\u2019s play Biden first. Grab audio sound bite number 2. This would make more sense. Here\u2019s Biden. This is our montage of his announcement yesterday in Pittsburgh at Allegheny County, which he forgot how to pronounce early on here, \u201cBagabony\u201d County or something, he corrects himself. But he was not all there, folks. Here we go.<\/p>\n

BIDEN: I want to thank, uh, Rich Fitzgerald, the county executive, the Allegheny County executive for being here. All of my time in public life from (unintelligible) since I got involved – The country wasn\u2019t built by Wall Street bankers, CEOs and hudge \u2014 and hedge fund managers. If the enterprise hits hard times, everybody took a hit. Union workers, the UAW, took extredable [sic] cuts in their future and their – and their pensions and the (unintelligible) to get GM working. They also got that last year. And try to cut wages or freeze wages for the people. Right today, the same is happening to this big hos — in big hospital systems. I\u2019ve regret to rethink how we define what constitutes a succe \u2014 a successful economy. Folks in America don\u2019t think their children are going to have the same standard of living they had. How can a person dignity be maintained \u2014 Be so \u2014 and – and why – why they do that? It means investing much more in medical research to confer \u2014 to conquer devastating diseases like cancer and addiction and Alzheimer\u2019s. So God bless you all and may God protect our troops. (cheers\/applause start) Thank you, thank you, thank you.<\/p>\n