{"id":323954,"date":"2019-10-02T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=323954"},"modified":"2019-10-03T16:29:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T20:29:29","slug":"the-real-targets-are-you-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/10\/02\/the-real-targets-are-you-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Targets Are You and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I made a point that needs to be reiterated. With all of this action the Democrats are taking toward impeaching Trump or proving Trump colluded with Russia &#8212; trying to disqualify Trump &#8212; the ultimate targets of all this are you and me and everybody who voted for Donald Trump. We\u2019re the problem. Trump will come and go. As a president, the maximum number of years he can serve is eight. The people who voted for him are forever, because they have kids, their families expand and so forth, and the movement goes on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-286618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-100118-Big-Voice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-100118-Big-Voice.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-100118-Big-Voice-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump is the vessel. He\u2019s the recipient of the support of this group. This is not to diminish Trump. I\u2019m trying to tell you that we are the real objects of their hate. They despise us, folks. They literally hate us &#8212; that they can\u2019t change our minds, that they can\u2019t intimidate us, that they can\u2019t persuade us to abandon Trump. It\u2019s not that they\u2019re not serious about getting Trump. They are. You take Trump out, where do we go? But when Trump\u2019s gone, they\u2019re not gonna stop this.<\/p>\n<p>Another way to illustrate it is, hypothetically, let\u2019s say that Mike Pence ends up as president here. You think this is gonna end? It\u2019s only gonna intensify! If they\u2019re able to get rid of Trump, they\u2019re not gonna stop and say, &#8220;Mission accomplished,&#8221; and try to beat Pence in the election. They\u2019re gonna keep going! There\u2019s no stopping this. All there is, is defeating it. I\u2019ve got a couple of audio sound bites &#8212; and I could produce a gazillion of them over the course of this program\u2019s storied history. But just a couple in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Last night in New York City, on a local broadcast called Inside City Hall, the host was talking to the former New York City Public Advocate Mark Green (who used to like me but doesn\u2019t anymore). He used to be on Firing Line with Mr. Buckley all the time. He was a liberal foil for WFB. So the host says to Mark Green, &#8220;I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen so many instances of so many people at such a high level in politics saying things that are not just shaded, not just untrue, but easily discovered to be untrue. There\u2019s a brazenness I have not encountered before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s talking about me, as you will hear. He\u2019s talking about conservative media. He\u2019s talking about Trump supporters in general.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-323971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-100219-Grab-NY1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-100219-Grab-NY1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-100219-Grab-NY1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GREEN: The Republican radical reactionaries like Trump and now Rudy &#8212; and Pompeo! &#8212; they cater to 40% of the public who are cultists. I\u2019m not saying they\u2019re dumb or racist. They\u2019ll swallow&#8230; They\u2019re &#8212; they\u2019re gullible, because they want to believe their guy, and so they\u2019re gonna&#8230; They have content bias. It\u2019s why Rush Limbaugh was so much more popular on radio than Al Franken. Al is funny, but careful.<\/p>\n<p>HOST: Mmmph.<\/p>\n<p>GREEN: Rush could say anything. It\u2019s why they\u2019re called Dittoheads. It\u2019s a different psychology, I\u2019m afraid.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What is this &#8220;was&#8221; so much more popular? &#8220;Is.&#8221; You see here? You people are idiots! You\u2019re nothing but mind-numbed robots, and I can say anything, and you\u2019ll blindly follow along because you\u2019re cultists. You don\u2019t have functioning brains. You don\u2019t think what you think on your own. This is the original complaint when this program started, that I was some Svengali and that you were mind-numbed robots and you wouldn\u2019t know what to think without me.<\/p>\n<p>They are so arrogant. It still amazes me that they have not endeavored to understand who their opposition really is &#8212; and maybe they do know and just practice this character assault and assassination \u2019cause it\u2019s really all they\u2019ve got. Th same thing happened later on CNN last night on The Lead with Jake Tapper. He had the senior political correspondent on, Nia-Malika Henderson, and the question, &#8220;&#8216;I don\u2019t know which one\u2019s more dangerous, House Democrats, China, or Iran. That\u2019s your tax dollars at work.'&#8221; He\u2019s quoting Trump aide Peter Navarro.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the answer to that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-323970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-100219-Grab-CNN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-100219-Grab-CNN.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-100219-Grab-CNN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HENDERSON: This is I &#8212; I think a reflection of what they\u2019ve been hearing, kind of, in the conservative chattering class. Uh, some of the talk show hosts. Uh, folks like Rush Limbaugh. It\u2019s also, I think, their attempt to basically make this one long narrative, right? From the campaign to the Mueller probe to post-Mueller probe to kind of, uh, not make the Ukrainian issue a separate issue, because that\u2019s what Democrats want to do. And so you have, uh, All the President\u2019s Men out there essentially saying, &#8220;This is a Democratic plot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: All the President\u2019s Men? See what they do here? They recap and categorize all this the way Watergate was written about by &#8220;Bernstein and Woodwind,&#8221; and then they go on here and start characterizing us as All the President\u2019s Men and saying, &#8220;We want to look at this as all one issue and it\u2019s not, it\u2019s a separate issue, Trump and Ukraine\u2019s a separate&#8230;&#8221; No, it\u2019s not! It\u2019s all part of the same coup attempt that the Democrats are running. Look, folks, when it comes to spying&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if this woman knows, or if she\u2019s just a trapped coconspirator &#8212; and I don\u2019t mean trapped against her will. Just, you know, not curious. Just somebody going with the flow with the left wing and the Democrat media. (chuckles) How could you look at this and think it\u2019s a separate issue? It\u2019s only separate if you look at Mueller as a failure and Trump-Russia collusion overall as a failure. They think that this is some brand-new thing that\u2019s come up that has nothing to do with anything that\u2019s happened before, and it\u2019s the exact opposite. My point is, it isn\u2019t just Trump, folks, that they hate and want to do something about.<\/p>\n<p>It is also you who support him, vote for him, who are conservative, you name it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Trump is the vessel. He&#039;s the recipient of the support of this group. This is not to diminish Trump. 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