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<\/p>\nRUSH: Hey, folks, how\u2019s everybody? I\u2019m great, and it\u2019s great to be back, and I really apologize for missing last week, but it\u2019s actually not that big a deal. I mean, it seemed like it was a big deal at the time. I didn\u2019t want to be out, but I had no choice. I had to be out. It was unexpected. It was unannounced. So I apologize for it.<\/p>\n
But I\u2019m looking back and a lot seems to have happened in the past week. But not really. I mean, how much can really happen when I\u2019m a here? Especially when I\u2019m not here to commentate on it and to analyze it. Look, if I don\u2019t talk about it, did it really happen? And, if you go back and you look at some of these, it seems like a lot of stuff happened while I was away, but not really.<\/p>\n
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I mean, when you think about it, we\u2019re pretty much where we all were a week ago. We\u2019ve had some stuff happen in the midst. We had that Democrat debate. Man, oh, man. Do you know, even some Never Trumpers are writing that they wish that somebody in that Democrat debate would accuse somebody else\u2019s dad of killing JFK. It was that boring, it was that dull, it was that nothing.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s a sign, when Never Trumpers — it was John Podhoretz — when Never Trumper starts writing things like that — I know he\u2019s trying to be funny, but I\u2019m telling you, Donald Trump has changed politics in ways that all these people supposedly hate and despise, but then when they get a Democrat debate that\u2019s supposedly serious and devoted to the issues and the future of the country, they\u2019re bored. You know, the civility that they claim to want and the manners and all that, they look at it now, and they\u2019re bored.<\/p>\n
And this impeachment, it\u2019s so patently absurd. There\u2019s not an impeachable offense. And I\u2019m trying to figure out what are the Democrats really trying to do? Is this a gambit to actually try to win the Senate? Do they even know what they\u2019re doing other than placating their base? I know they\u2019d love to get rid of Trump, don\u2019t misunderstand. But they\u2019re not even getting close to that. They\u2019re making themselves look like fools and idiots.<\/p>\n
You know when I see the Democrats on TV, I see like a gray screen in front of them. They\u2019re looking colorless. They\u2019re looking just miserable. Even the Drive-By Media trying to get happy about all this stuff can\u2019t. You know, Democrats make this big deal about behaving solemnly and prayerfully after announcing articles of impeachment walking them over there in the Capitol building with those specially made pens. You know those pens look like bullets to me.<\/p>\n
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When I first saw the picture, I said, \u201cPelosi\u2019s got a bunch of bullets from a howitzer there and she\u2019s walking them over to the Senate chamber.\u201d I looked closely and they were specially manufactured pens. And they are, I guess, very, very solemn and very prayerful.<\/p>\n
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\\And then after that, the Democrats were found consuming adult beverages and whooping it up and having a grand old time, and the Drive-By Media was worried that the Democrats were giving away the game. They expected them to be out acting prayerful, a Democrat, prayerful. Ha. You pray in front of a Democrat and they might want to put you in jail.<\/p>\n
And then how about the national championship? You know, when I saw this, the one thing that really ticked me off — so LSU wins the national championship, college football. And in the locker room after the game, they pass out celebratory victory cigars, the players light \u2019em up, and a cop comes in and threatens to arrest \u2019em. No smoking in the locker room.<\/p>\n
And then Odell Beckham Jr. trying to lighten things up pats a cop on the butt and they think about arresting Odell Beckham for aggressive behavior against a cop. I mean, there\u2019s lots of things to arrest Odell Beckham for, but that? But lighting a cigar, a celebratory cigar is worthy of being arrested? You can\u2019t smoke in the locker room.<\/p>\n
Folks there\u2019s so many things here that the left have just corrupted and poisoned, and it all adds up to an assault on a good time, an assault on enjoying life. When you boil it all down, it\u2019s what they seem to be upset about. Is anybody enjoying life? And particularly in ways they don\u2019t approve. And they don\u2019t enjoy life.<\/p>\n
Grab audio sound bite, what is it, number 32. This is The Oprah. It was last Monday, a week ago today on ABC\u2019s the Tamron Hall Show. And whenever there\u2019s a new talk show, new talk show syndicated, Ellen DeGeneres, whatever it is, the first guest has to be The Oprah, because that\u2019s the way you guarantee a ratings boost off the bat. The next four days of the week can tank and bomb out, but if you have a great opening day you satisfy everyone. So you get The Oprah out there and Tamron Hall — anybody know who Tamron Hall is?<\/p>\n
Do you know that on Jeopardy they asked a bunch of people, they showed Schiff\u2019s picture to a bunch of people, nobody knew who he was. Nobody knew who Adam Schiff was, nobody knew who Pencil Neck was on Jeopardy. Those are smart people playing that game. Everybody on Jeopardy knows who I am when they\u2019re asked about me. We have the audio sound bites to document this coming up.<\/p>\n
Now, here\u2019s Tamron Hall said, \u201cYou\u2019re on your ‘Oprah\u2019s 2020 Vision: Your Life In Focus\u2019 tour.\u201d Did you know that Oprah was on a tour? Yeah. Well, she is. Oprah 2020\u2019s Vision: Your Life In Focus tour, and Tamron Hall says to The Oprah, \u201cSo why now?\u201d<\/p>\n
OPRAH: Why now is because I think the country is so torn. The country is just, everywhere you go, you can\u2019t be in a conversation with anybody anywhere where we\u2019re not talking about how messed up things are, how torn apart we are.<\/p>\n
HALL: It\u2019s the new hello.<\/p>\n
OPRAH: Yeah, it\u2019s the new hello.<\/p>\n
HALL: They walk in and they say, \u201cCan you believe?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
OPRAH: \u201cCan you believe? Did you see? Oh my God.\u201d So, this is the thing. You look in the stadium and you got all the states represented here, red states and blue states and purple states and no states, and independents. So, everywhere you go, people just say, \u201cIt\u2019s so bad.\u201d<\/p>\n
HALL: Right.<\/p>\n
OPRAH: It\u2019s so bad.<\/p>\n
HALL: Nobody says hello.<\/p>\n
OPRAH: (laughing) Nobody says hello.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: They don\u2019t have a good time. They can\u2019t even have a good time seeing each other. You would think when a leftist meets Oprah there\u2019d be a smile. No, the first thing out of their mouth is, \u201cDo you believe how bad it is?\u201d Do any of you, when greeting your friends, talk about how bad it is? No, you say, \u201cHi, what\u2019s shaking?\u201d The economy\u2019s roaring, your kids\u2019 future looks pretty good, unemployment rate lowest than it\u2019s ever been in 50 years.<\/p>\n
The people that are what I consider to be traditional American values… Oh, and that is another thing! I have a thing here in the Stack of Stuff, and I knew this. I\u2019m kind of frustrated I didn\u2019t make the point. It\u2019s about rich white liberals and how they raise their kids and run their families, and it\u2019s nothing like the crap that they claim to believe. They raise their kids according to conservative values. They care about getting the best education they can.<\/p>\n
But they do not admit this publicly, \u2019cause they would be considered traitors to the cause. They don\u2019t send their kids to Planned Parenthood. They try to keep their kids from getting pregnant. Yeah, it\u2019s a bunch of total hypocrites. Well, I\u2019ve got all this stuff. I collected all this stuff while I was gone. It\u2019s gonna take me awhile to get to it all. As I do the program, my mind is working famously well. I say one word, and it reminds me of something. Another word reminds me of something else.<\/p>\n
But look, here is The Oprah admitting they\u2019re not have a good time. You watch some of these awards shows, these Hollywood shows. Are they having a good time? Even when they win the awards, they\u2019re not having a good time — and they\u2019re upset when anybody else is. “Nobody says, ‘hello.\u2019 Nobody says, ‘hello.\u2019 Everybody says, ‘Do you believe how bad it is?'” Well, that\u2019s because you\u2019re losing, and it\u2019s because you have no prayer of winning in 2020, and they all know it — and this impeachment?<\/p>\n
This is an embarrassment. This is gonna be an albatross around their neck. You know, Pelosi is running around saying, “Trump will be impeached forever.” He\u2019s gonna be acquitted forever, too. He is gonna be not guilty forever, and he\u2019s gonna be elected to a second term. You people are gonna be sucking sand out there doing whatever you\u2019re doing, continuing this preposterous behavior because you\u2019ve got nothing else. Let\u2019s review.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s been investigated by the GOP, the Hillary campaign, Robert Mueller, the FBI with FISA warrants — Trump was spied on — the House Democrats ran their own basement investigation, and they found nothing. You cut to the chase, you get to the bottom line, the pedal hits the metal, the rubber hits the road, they\u2019ve got nothing. They don\u2019t have a single crime. They don\u2019t have an impeachable offense. So now they\u2019re circling back to Russia.<\/p>\n
Pelosi\u2019s out there talking about (impression), “This is important, because we\u2019ve got to assert that Vladimir Putin is not running this country.” Vladimir Putin! What happened to Ukraine? Oh, Lev Parnas! The star witness for the Democrats, Lev Parnas, who Trump says, “I don\u2019t even know.” This guy… (chuckles) The people the Democrats find to hang their latest hats on are just poor schlubs, and they\u2019re demonstrated to be after not too long a time.<\/p>\n
I mean, they\u2019re now even — Pelosi and the Democrats — accusing Mitch McConnell of being a secret Russian spy. I think they\u2019re in panic mode. The average person… Your average American in average anywhere America knows it was a good thing to kill Soleimani. They knew the economy is sizzling and all of their impeachment stuff has blown up in their face. Their candidates are weirdos. The Democrat candidates for president are a bunch of weirdos, boring dryballs — and no matter what happens, Plugs is still leading.<\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t care what anybody tells you, Plugs is still leading in the Democrat primary in poll after poll. Speaking of Soleimani, here\u2019s another thing. Lee Smith. We\u2019ve quoted him often on this program<\/a>. He did yeoman\u2019s work unraveling the deep state effort, the Papadopoulos story, planting evidence, all kinds of stuff. He has a story on this whole Iran deal that Obama put together<\/a>. He asserts here that the primary objective that Obama had on the Iran deal — and, by the way, pardon me for hopscotching all over the place.<\/p>\n This is what happens the first day back. I\u2019ve got all this stuff here that I want to impart, all this wisdom I want to share, and it just occurs to me as the brain synapses fire. Anyway, this is important. He was saying that the real objective that Obama had — which I\u2019ve already said, which I\u2019ve already told you. The real objective Obama had with the Iran nuclear deal was not to prevent them from getting a nuke, as they all say.<\/p>\n It was to delay it, but to guarantee that they could get one. The purpose of the Iran deal, as far as the Obama administration was concerned, was to change the balance of power in the Middle East and make Iran the primary power in the Middle East, not Israel. That\u2019s what the Iran deal was supposed to do — and Trump has come along and deep-sixed it. Now, why would anybody want to make Iran the leader and the power and the balance of power in the Middle East?<\/p>\n Why in the hell would anybody want to do that?<\/p>\n Well, it goes back, if you remember. It goes back to the entire post-World War II order that was set up after the United States basically saved the world, saved Europe. It was decided that we needed a balance to the United States. We needed a competing superpower. So hello, Soviet Union. This was considered to keep the world safe because the U.S. is not the good guys. Remember, to the left, the United States is not the good guys. The United States — as the leading economic power in the world, leading military power in the world — is not good.<\/p>\n Madeleine Albright teaches at Georgetown that the United States was simply an accident. The founding was just an accident. You had a confluence of the birth of certain people and in the world. But there\u2019s nothing exceptional, nothing special, nothing unique. It\u2019s just an accident, and it\u2019s destabilizing for the U.S. to be so powerful. So the objective here is to build up Iran (or was) with the Iran nuclear deal, to build Iran up as a competing power to the United States, to make sure…<\/p>\n Because if you understand that from Obama on down, the Clintons, the left… If you understand that they believe the United States is not the good guys, then a lot of other things begin to make sense. If you don\u2019t believe that, if you don\u2019t understand that they don\u2019t — and believing the U.S. is the good guys is part of growing up an American. So it seems really foreign and strange to hear that there are power people in this country, mainly leftists and Democrats, who don\u2019t think that. So a lot of people reject it because it just doesn\u2019t seem right. “Oh, nah, nah, they don\u2019t really think that.”<\/p>\n Yes, they do, and if you don\u2019t think the U.S. is the good guys — if you think the U.S. is basically racist and bigoted and sexist and all this stuff and too powerful and imposes its way — then you\u2019ll want a competing power to stabilize things. And you put the United Nations in the middle of this to regulate it all and to help siphon power and money away from the United States. Hillary Clinton was to be the continuation of all this. Donald Trump, by being elected and following through on his agenda, has literally ripped that agenda to shreds.<\/p>\n And there is abject anger and disappointment and panic. By the way, Tom “Puff” Daschle has announced that the Obama administration was a failure. Yes, we have it right here on the audio sound bite roster of things coming up. Look at Trump signing the first ever trade deal with the ChiComs, as Pelosi is sitting around with her pens and her solemn march over to the Senate to present the articles of impeachment. The tariffs worked — and the tariffs, by the way, are going to remain on China, and the tariffs are gonna remain on Iran. They are working.<\/p>\n Look, let me take a brief time-out. We\u2019ll come back and resume right after this. Again, sorry I was out last week, folks, but I\u2019m back now, and, since I\u2019m back, this is when things begin to now matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: Again, sorry I was out last week, folks, but I'm back now, and, since I'm back, this is when things begin to now matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":260686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-022718-Tom-Daschle-B.jpg\")
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