{"id":317685,"date":"2019-08-01T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=317685"},"modified":"2019-08-02T16:23:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:23:51","slug":"my-running-commentary-on-the-democrat-debate-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/08\/01\/my-running-commentary-on-the-democrat-debate-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"My Running Commentary on the Democrat Debate, Night Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The debate last night — and we\u2019re gonna have running commentary on it all day — as I said yesterday, if you watched this, and I did, folks, because it was my humble responsibility. When it was over, even Gloria Borger on CNN finally said, “Where was the inspiration?” And what she meant was, where was anybody talking about anything good? Where was anybody predicting anything good?<\/p>\n

This was a collection last night, as I said yesterday, of pure misery and dystopianism. These people have a view of this country that they have targeted people that they\u2019ve created as America\u2019s hapless, helpless victims. It is clear that the Democrat Party is not interested in attracting votes from people who want to make something of themselves or who just want to live their lives and try things out, you know, just live and be happy. That\u2019s not the Democrat Party\u2019s chosen constituency.<\/p>\n

The Democrat Party, they\u2019ve spent a lot of years creating victims in every realm they can think of, and that\u2019s who they\u2019re playing to. And it is just misery listening to it. It really is, folks. It\u2019s comical. It is miserable. It is amazing the view of America that they have, the view of life in this country that they have, that they are attempting to relate to people with. And there was no aspirational talk last night at all.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There was no mention of being better. There was no mention of improving. All there was was a litany of grievances and promised punishments. Listen to how Mark Penn described it. He\u2019s a former pollster for the Clintons. He runs the Harvard polling unit, writes a column at TheHill.com<\/a>. He said, “By the end of this endless debate, spooned out in one-minute dollops \u2013” And, by the way, that is so true. CNN was acting like a bunch of schoolmasters, and the Democrat candidates were the equivalent of renegade, out-of-control students who needed to be reined in and punished.<\/p>\n

I mean, here are these clowns at CNN, one of them who once asked somebody if the missing Malaysian airliner was swallowed up by a black hole, is actually moderating the debate, and is lording it all over these candidates. These candidates are running for the job of most powerful person in the world, and these moderators treated them like a bunch of juvenile delinquents.<\/p>\n

The power structure — and it was done on purpose. “Your time is up. Your time is up. I\u2019m sorry. Shut up. Your time is up.” And Biden was, of course, the one that when they said, “Your time is up,” he just stopped. If he was in the middle of sucking his thumb, he stopped. None of the others at any point told the moderates to cram it, \u201cI\u2019m in the middle of a point here. You should not even be noticed in this debate. Who the hell are you?”<\/p>\n

But no, they all acted like they were out-of-control, renegade juvenile delinquents. It was an amazing, amazing thing to watch. And it does illustrate my humble opinion that the media is running the American left today, either indirectly or directly.<\/p>\n

But back to Mark Penn. “By the end of this endless debate, spooned out in one-minute dollops, I walked out with a $1,000-a-month check –” Thank you, Andrew Yang. Did you hear what this guy said? They\u2019re talking about climate change. The one look-back we\u2019re gonna do is me on Charlie Rose in 1992 warning everybody that this today is where we were headed on climate change. And he was, of course, not believing me, was incredulous. “You can\u2019t possibly believe what you\u2019re saying.” I said, “Yes, I do, Charlie.” You\u2019ll hear it. It\u2019s gonna work wonderfully with what happened in this debate last night.<\/p>\n

\"\"Andrew Yang — who wants to give everybody a thousand dollars to revolutionize America and take care of the fact that everybody\u2019s job is gonna be replaced by a robot. By the way, I have a story in the Stack. Do you know there\u2019s racism in robots? What happens if you don\u2019t buy a black robot? What happens if the robot you buy is white? I am not kidding you! Racism now extends to robots that you would buy in your home or put in your business.<\/p>\n

Andrew Yang last night told everybody on climate change, “It\u2019s too late. It\u2019s too late. We\u2019ve missed it. It\u2019s time…” Did you hear this? “It\u2019s time to move everybody to higher ground.” (laughing) I put it on pause to make sure I made the note, and then I rewound it five times. Did I really hear this? (laughing) “It\u2019s time to move everybody to higher ground.” Let me tell you, you people in California, if these people do that, hang on.<\/p>\n

If you live in the Central Valley — if you live in Bakersfield, Fresno — hang on, because you\u2019re gonna be able to get property in Santa Cruz and in the Bay Area for nothing if those people all follow Yang\u2019s advice and vacate because of rising sea levels, of course, and move inland to … higher ground? The guy was dead serious. And there wasn\u2019t one person in who reacted to it. There wasn\u2019t one person who thought it was simply idiotic. “It\u2019s too late.”<\/p>\n

I watched this and throughout the debate, not just this, I asked myself, “How are Democrat voters hearing this? How is this impacting them?” That fascinates me. I keep waiting for the moment when more and more Democrat voters wake up and say, “What? Move to higher ground?” At some point somebody in this climate change movement has got to say something that\u2019s gonna convince the rest of them that this is all a bogus bunch of political nut sell. But I guess it hasn\u2019t happened yet.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to Mark Penn. “By the end of this endless debate, spooned out in one-minute dollops, I walked out with a $1,000-a-month check, an extra grand if I\u2019m a female, untold reparations dollars if I am African American, Medicare from birth covering everything I\u2019ll ever need until death, and the right to cross the border without any real penalty if I\u2019m from another country. Prosecuting criminals of any kind generally got a thumbs-down, while white privilege made me immune from racist police who were painted as villains.<\/p>\n

“And there will be no more pointless wars, carbon emissions will be zero by 2030, and it may take 10 years, but the government will run almost all health care.” It was so bad… Folks, it was so pessimistic, it was so forlorn, that even Gloria Borger (and you\u2019ll hear it in the audio sound bites coming up) was asking, “Where was the inspiration?” I\u2019m glad she asked. There isn\u2019t any. The Democrat Party has nothing for aspirational people. If you aspire to greatness, if you aspire to success, if you aspire to be more than you are, you don\u2019t have a home in the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

\"\"They\u2019re not interested in you. You, in fact, are the enemy. You\u2019re a beneficiary of something. If you are able to make yourself something more than you are now, it won\u2019t be because of your efforts. It\u2019ll be because the America sucks, America\u2019s unfair, you\u2019ve gamed the system, you\u2019re white or male, what have you. They can\u2019t possibly win an election with this stuff. They just can\u2019t! Even Rahm Emanuel\u2019s<\/a> on Fox Business today saying, “This stuff\u2019s gotta stop. This stuff\u2019s gonna kill us.” I\u2019m paraphrasing, but he\u2019s right. You notice how they talk about jobs.<\/p>\n

They talk about jobs as though every job is a minimum wage job, and they\u2019re gonna make sure that your minimum wage goes up. You\u2019re not gonna have a career with the Democrats in charge. “Careers? What are careers? Careers are for us, not you.” They talk about labor and jobs as though you\u2019ve got one job and it\u2019s miserable and your boss is a mean-spirited, racist pig or sexist abuser or something. The Democrats are gonna protect you. And they talk to people as though that is life.<\/p>\n

This is what it\u2019s like to get up in America every day — to get up to be abused, to be disrespected, to be in poverty, to be unhappy, to be miserable, and the Democrats are gonna help you manage it. They\u2019re not gonna help you out of it. They might punish the people who have done it to you, but your life isn\u2019t gonna get any better. And whatever things you can\u2019t take care of your yourself, the government\u2019s gonna come in and do it. We all know how that doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go to audio sound bite number 4. This is from the Democrat debate last night. This is the governor of the state of Washington.<\/p>\n

Dana Bash is talking to Jay Inslee. “The United Nations says that all carbon issues need to be cut by 2050. Many of your fellow Democrat candidates say climate change is the biggest existential threat facing the country. You, though, Governor Inslee, are calling it the number one priority. What do you know that the others don\u2019t?”<\/p>\n

INSLEE: Look, climate change is not a singular issue. It is all the issues that we Democrats care about. It is health. It is national security. It is our economy. And we know this. Middle ground solutions, like the vice president has proposed — or sort of middling, uh, average-size things — are not gonna save us. Too little, too late is too dangerous, and we have to have a bold plan, and mine has been called the gold standard. Now, we also need to embed environmental justice.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I have been making the point since the get-go that climate change is the perfect issue because within it is everything liberals want. Going for climate change allows them to blame America, to blame corporations. It allows them to go on with their racist rants. Everything, everything they believe in is contained in this one issue. Now here comes Inslee! I\u2019ve been saying this for 30 years, and here comes Inslee admitting it. “Climate change is not a singular issue. It\u2019s all the issues we Democrats care about,” and stand by for Andrew Yang telling everybody it\u2019s too late<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi. Welcome back. Great to have you. Rush Limbaugh. And starting the 32nd year the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. So night two of the Democrat debate last night. Here is businessman, entrepreneur, and tech wizard Andrew Yang weighing in on climate change.<\/p>\n

\"\"YANG: Even if we were to curb our emissions dramatically, the earth is still going to get warmer. And we can see it around us this summer. The last four years have been the four warmest years in recorded history. This is going to be a tough truth, but we are too late. We are 10 years too late. We need to do everything we can to start moving the climate in the right direction, but we also need to start moving our people to higher ground. And the best way to do that is to put economic resources into your hands so you can protect yourself and your families.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mean, it\u2019s time to move everybody to higher ground! It\u2019s too late. We\u2019ve missed it by 10 years. We need to do everything we can to start moving the climate in the right direction. Are these people so far gone they really believe they can determine the high and low temperature 10 years from now or 50 years from now?<\/p>\n

Why can\u2019t they do it tomorrow? If it\u2019s getting too hot and we can control it, why wait? The idea that these people can control the weather or the climate — the climate\u2019s even more complex than the weather. The weather is part of the climate. The delusional nature that these people have built for themselves is breathtaking to behold.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Rahm Emanuel. Grab sound bite number 25. He was on the Fox Business Channel moments ago. Gerald Seib was Fill-In Host and said, “Hey, in the debate, shots were taken at Obama.” By the way, this was true. I don\u2019t blame you if you didn\u2019t watch this thing last night, folks. I don\u2019t blame you at all. It was a four-cigar debate for me. (Snort!) That thing was 2-1\/2 hours. Four cigars. I mean, it just painful. But these people were attacking Obama far more than they attacked Trump.<\/p>\n

I mean, they were getting on Obama for his deporting three million innocent illegals. They were getting on Obama for blowing Obamacare sky-high, blowing the opportunity they had. When the debate was over, a lot of post-debate analysts were scratching their heads. “Why the hell go after Obama here?” Well, they had to go after Biden. They had to go after Biden, and Biden has linked himself to Obama like they\u2019re Siamese twins. So if you go after Biden, you\u2019ve gotta go after Obama, and they\u2019ve gotta go after Biden, because Biden is leading in the polls.<\/p>\n

\"\"So they have to go after Obama, and they all did! Now, I\u2019m gonna… (interruption) Yes. Yes. I\u2019m gonna explain. He said, “Go to Joe 30330.” He didn\u2019t know what he was talking about. He thought he was giving people a website. He didn\u2019t know what he was talking about. He had to memorize it and he almost forgot the five-digit number. I\u2019ll explain that. But anyway, here\u2019s Rahm Emanuel reacting to the perception that it was Obama under assault last night instead of Trump.<\/p>\n

EMANUEL: The guy\u2019s at 90-some-odd percent among Democrats. He is the most successful progressive, prolific president — who had an incredible chief of staff, let me just say that —<\/p>\n

SEIB: (chucking)<\/p>\n

EMANUEL: — since the Great Society! What are they doing? Every element of progressivity — from literally, uh, Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt to Franklin Roosevelt to the Great Society and forward — builds on the progress of generations before, for generations to come. This. Is. Nuts.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is nuts! That\u2019s exactly right. It\u2019s nuts. He thinks it\u2019s nuts for different reasons than I think it\u2019s nuts. I think it\u2019s nuts because I think these people are comical and deranged, and this night was even funnier than the night before which made it even scarier than the night before. But they had to go after Obama because they had to go after Biden, and Biden didn\u2019t do anything! He was a stand-in vice president that ran around and told people in wheelchairs to stand up. Biden had nothing to do.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s job was to second Obama at the conventions and give a great speech about what a great guy Obama was. He had nothing to do with policy, and yet he\u2019s trying to make it look like, “Me and Barack did this,” and, “Barack and me were out there.” So they\u2019ve got to go after what happened during the (chuckling) Obama-Biden administration, and none of \u2019em tried to finesse it. They didn\u2019t even try to insulate Obama. They just went after him, and it left people\u2019s mouth\u2019s wide open.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Joe Biden is being pilloried for something that happened last night that, believe me — if you\u2019re old enough to know generational changes, trends, and the differences — is entirely harmless and, in fact, may have even been flattering. But Biden is being pilloried for the way he spoke to Kamala Harris when she came on stage, when they were being introduced. In fact, I\u2019ve got a story here from PJ Media, “Did Joe Biden Lose the Debate During the Introductions?”<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t… As boring as these debates are… This is not the Republican debate which was a must-watch. If Trump was in the debate, you had to watch. People that weren\u2019t gonna vote Republican were gonna watch. The Trump Republican debates\u2019 ratings were through the roof. They were compelling. They had every ingredient necessary to acquire and hold a large audience, no matter what the subject. Be it a comedy show, be it politics, a serious discussion of issues, it had all of those ingredients. But Trump is what made it compelling TV.<\/p>\n

Democrats don\u2019t have anybody. There\u2019s nobody on that stage the last two nights. There is nobody — and do not doubt me. There\u2019s nobody that can come close to sharing the stage with Donald Trump. There\u2019s not a one of these Democrats that can come close. So the media and others are going to have to acknowledge that by claiming that the reason for this is (impression), “These are serious issues. This is not entertainment. This is not slapstick. This is not reality TV.<\/p>\n

“These are very serious issues and very serious things,” and they\u2019re gonna try to reinforce the idea that serious discussion of these kinds of issues must be boring. It must be studious. It must be serious, not fun. Because that\u2019s the only way they\u2019re going to be able to accommodate whichever one of these Democrats ends up getting the nomination. Just in terms of stage presence, folks — just in terms of charisma and owning the room — there isn\u2019t a single one of these people that can hold a stage, commandeer the stage, or even share it with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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Now, the question here: “Did Joe Biden Lose the Debate During the Introductions?”<\/a> I don\u2019t think these… My point is, I don\u2019t think the Democrat debates are going to be that big a factor because nobody\u2019s gonna stand out from debate to debate to debate. What\u2019s gonna happen next is this field is gonna get winnowed down, and there will be fewer and fewer people on stage as time goes on.<\/p>\n

The ratings for these debates are chump change. There was 10 million that watched the one two nights ago. I don\u2019t know about last night yet. I haven\u2019t seen the overnights. But these debates have no comparison whatsoever in interest factor\/audience size, with the Republican debates in 2016. Just as crowd, there were 16 Republicans. There are 20, 22 Democrats here. So none of these people stand out over each other. There\u2019s not a one. I mean, a lot of these people are flat-out dead dryballs.<\/p>\n

And the ones who aren\u2019t dead dryballs are raving lunatics with histrionics, like Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris. But none of them have what I consider to be an infectious personality or charisma that welcomes you to them. So the idea that Biden could have lost the debate last night, I think, is way, way overblown because I don\u2019t think anybody could have won it last night. I don\u2019t think anybody won the nomination the night before; I don\u2019t think anybody won the nomination last night.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think anybody lost it. Most of the people don\u2019t have a prayer. Most of them in that field don\u2019t even intend to win. They know they can\u2019t. A lot of people in the field cannot even speak coherently for a minute. Many of them don\u2019t know what they\u2019re trying to say. Most of them don\u2019t have the discipline to say a lot in a cogent way in the one-minute little dollops that CNN granted them all. So I dispute the notion that Biden lost anything. I think Biden\u2019s expectations are not all that high anyway.<\/p>\n

Everybody knows he\u2019s an old guy, that he\u2019s starting to mumble and fumble his words, and so everything is measured against expectations. But what he did that generated this headline: “Did Joe Biden Lose the Debate During the Introductions?” Well, here it is. It goes by fast. It\u2019s 17 seconds, and let\u2019s see… Biden and Kamala Harris are introduced, and the microphones are live, and they picked up Biden speaking to Harris as they\u2019re introductions are taking place.<\/p>\n

LEMON: Please welcome from Delaware, former Vice President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (cheers)<\/p>\n

LEMON: From California, Senator Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n

BIDEN: Go easy on me, Kid.<\/p>\n