{"id":315046,"date":"2019-07-10T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=315046"},"modified":"2019-07-11T16:19:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:19:59","slug":"thanks-for-proving-my-point-bill-hemmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/10\/thanks-for-proving-my-point-bill-hemmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for Proving My Point, Bill Hemmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I want to take you to the Fox News Channel this morning, where once again a sound bite from your host from yesterday\u2019s program was used to ignite, to spawn an entire roundtable segment, conversation on Fox News Channel, Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith. Sandra Smith introduces the sound bite of me from yesterday\u2019s program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SMITH: Here\u2019s Rush Limbaugh\u2019s take.<\/p>\n

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RUSH ARCHIVE: The left is totally crazy. They have been totally crazy for a long time. Too many people have looked at it as just a fringe minority that doesn\u2019t pose any kind of really existential threat, and that\u2019s just not accurate. They have been threatening and posing a threat for years. And there hasn\u2019t been any pushback until Trump came along.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is not a rip on Fox. It\u2019s impossible to make the context. The context of that bite, that came within a multiminute monologue. And just to refresh your memory, to remind you, the purpose of the monologue, you know, we\u2019ve got Marco Rubio\u2019s tweet yesterday, we had the David Harsanyi piece at The Federalist, both basically the same: When did the left get so crazy? If this stuff ever gets mainstream, we\u2019re gonna be in trouble.<\/p>\n

Of course, I\u2019ve been trying to warn people for 25 years. It is mainstream! When did this stuff get so crazy? Years ago! And there hasn\u2019t been any pushback. Now, that was the context. I just didn\u2019t come out of the blue and make those few sentences of a statement. Now, the crew, the panel that\u2019s on this show is not aware of the context, so they listened to this bite that they think is self-contained with a front, center, and end. But it\u2019s important to know the context. If you\u2019re aware, as you were yesterday, that my point here is that this creepiness, this insanity, this lunacy is the reason Donald Trump was elected because the Republican Party hasn\u2019t been pushing back.<\/p>\n

The Never Trumpers have proven themselves worthless to us typical because they don\u2019t believe there\u2019s a crisis. They don\u2019t think it\u2019s any more dangerous now than it was in the last 30 years. They don\u2019t see what you see. They don\u2019t see the threat to the culture, the threat to the country, the threat to the society, the threat to the Constitution. We\u2019ve seen it for over 20 years. Been trying to get people to react to it.<\/p>\n

Now people are starting to react to it and saying, “You know what? This stuff is getting pretty bad.” So that\u2019s the context of it. So we now go to a brief montage of response. And the first voice is Richard Fowler, he\u2019s got his own radio show. Who doesn\u2019t these days? But I think he\u2019s a former DNC activist or something. And note that he doesn\u2019t refute a single thing I said. All he does is attack me.<\/p>\n

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RICHARD FOWLER: I will just copy and paste everything Rush Limbaugh said about them and I\u2019ll put it on him. He is the crazy right. Most people on the right do not ascribe to Rush Limbaugh\u2019s beliefs or views or values, for that matter. So —<\/p>\n

SANDRA SMITH: We\u2019ll let Howie respond to that.<\/p>\n

HOWIE KURTZ: He\u2019s a very influential voice on the right and of course he has a lot of ammunition now in beating up on the left. There is no question that this Democratic presidential field has moved sharply to the left.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It has moved so sharply to the left that we\u2019ve got Bob Johnson of the Black Entertainment Network, the first African-American billionaire in the country, he got there before The Oprah did, at least according to Forbes. And he says the Democrat Party, in his opinion, has moved too far to the left. It has no hope of winning the presidency if any of these nominees get the gig.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think at the end of the day, if a Democrat is going to beat Trump, then that person, he or she, will have to move to the center, and you can\u2019t wait too long to do that.\u201d Even the first African-American billionaire, a Democrat, is washing his hands of the far-left fringe that has become the mainstream of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

Well, after Howie Kurtz said what he said, you know what the remaining six minutes of this segment were? Examples of how Looney Tunes the left is, how crazy. Examples, story after story. So I\u2019m watching this, and I sent Hemmer a note. I said, “You know, this is fascinating. You guys play this segment of me, you go to the Democrat who trashes me, does not refute a thing I say, then the rest of the segment you guys all make my point.”<\/p>\n

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So Hemmer, he got the note and he read the note before the end of the segment — he can multitask — at the end of the segment Bill Hemmer said, \u201cHaven\u2019t we all essentially here made Limbaugh\u2019s point?\u201d On the air. It\u2019s an illustration of how few people are really willing to go out there, walk the plank or whatever. To me it is patently obvious what is happening with the American left and has been for years. And we\u2019ve been sounding the clarion call about it.<\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s a good thing that some people are starting to see it now, but they\u2019re acting like it\u2019s new, it\u2019s something brand-new, this new far-left extremism of the left, and it isn\u2019t. Look at California. This has been happening out there since the late 1980s. And the push there continues, and they hope to use the model there to design the rest of the left\u2019s takeover of this country. And they\u2019re well into that effort. It\u2019s not something that is new.<\/p>\n

So I just wanted to point it out. I wanted to thank Hemmer, too, because I didn\u2019t want to leave it up to anybody on that panel to figure out that they had just ended up making my point. They all started listing every single lunatic thing they could think of, things the Democrat presidential candidates are saying, all of the wacko efforts that are being made by the Green New Deal, all of this crazy, crazy stuff. So it was a good start to the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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