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<\/p>\nRUSH: Here is Jim in San Francisco. Great to have you, sir. Thank you for waiting. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Adam Schiff needs to be taken down. This trial cannot close until this man has been exposed. He needs to be eviscerated. He needs to be humiliated. He needs to be shamed. He needs to give the citizens of Burbank every single reason to vote him out of office. Now, I agree with your analysis that probably Nadler blew it with Republicans and there\u2019s no chance of witnesses. However, Rush, the rules state there\u2019s 24 hours of uninterrupted talk by the Democrats, and then it\u2019s gonna be followed by 24 hours, starting on Saturday, by the Republicans.<\/p>\n
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So far, John Roberts has acted like basically a chess timekeeper. He just sits up there. You know, and the rules… Actually, McConnell made him basically only a figurehead, that he can\u2019t make any decisions of substance. Following the Republicans\u2019 24 hours, we then have 16 hours, 16 long hours. Think about it. That\u2019s two full days of questions and answers, and you don\u2019t just get to stand up and ask a question. You have to write it out on a three-by-five card, you have to hand it to John Roberts.<\/p>\n
He reads it from the bench, and then somebody on the other side, presumably the House managers, answers. Well, Adam Schiff is in the well. We don\u2019t need to subpoena Adam Schiff. He\u2019s right there. I think that what needs to happen is we need to expose him with our questions. I want to see him exposed more than Hunter Biden or more than Joe Biden or anybody else, I want… You know, Rush, Adam Schiff is the singular most depraved, cynically awful politician that I\u2019ve seen in my lifetime — and I\u2019ve seen a lot of them in my 61 years.<\/p>\n
But he needs to be taken down. Now, let me ask you this. How is John Roberts gonna control this? Because right now there\u2019s no rules. He sits like a bump on the log. You ask a question, a Democrat gets up and gives a-two-hour, wandering reply that has no point. You know, what\u2019s John Roberts gonna do? Is he gonna go through these three-by-five cards, decide which ones are relevant, which ones are not? How is he gonna control an uncooperative answer. You know, what\u2019s the rules on this? It could get out of control really quick.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I think that\u2019s… First, let me endorse your statements on Schiff, and I have said much the same thing. In fact, I have here some audio sound bites of a clip of mine from earlier this week about this very thing was used by some cable news networks to highlight and to get other people\u2019s reactions to my opinions of Schiff which parallel yours. I think the guy\u2019s despicable. I think it\u2019s so bad, some kind of penalty needs to occur to this guy, some kind of comeuppance or punishment. I don\u2019t know how. As to your questions about procedure here in the Senate when we get to Q&A 16 hours, I think — and I\u2019m gonna have to take a break. Can you hold on just a couple of minutes during the break, \u2019cause —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — I have failed to conclude or close the loop when I was explaining earlier what I think Nadler has really going on.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: We\u2019re back here with Jim in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Look, before I get to closing my loop here with you, I just want to substantiate what you are saying. I think if we ever do get to this Q&A period (I have my doubts that we will, but we\u2019ll see) I agree with you. I think that is the way Adam Schiff should be set up and situated so that he lies under oath.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, Rush, right now, right now, you\u2019ve got the ear of politicians and senators that listen to you. So this is the word going out that we need to make sure that they\u2019re gonna establish these rules. They\u2019re gonna probably start working them over the weekend. John Roberts, we need to control him, and the Democrats are gonna work and try to construct rules that are gonna ban Republicans from asking questions (crosstalk) leverage.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well a second, now. Wait. How do you we control John Roberts? Mitch McConnell runs the Senate.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right, but —<\/p>\n
RUSH: The chief justice does not run the Senate. You\u2019ve already stated he\u2019s acting as a figurehead in there. He\u2019s “a chess timekeeper” is all he\u2019s done so far.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right, so —<\/p>\n
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RUSH: And, by the way, it was Nadler\u2019s comment, by the way, that forced him to admonish both sides. It\u2019s Democrat comments that have made him admonish both sides.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s right. But basically, up until now — up until these question-and-answers — he plays a passive role. But when it gets into questions and answers… For instance, if somebody asks a question and then somebody, a Democrat, gives a two-hour filibustering response, how is that controlled? If John Roberts a figurehead —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, wait a minute. Look, that\u2019s the future, and I don\u2019t know how to control that or deal with it. All I can tell you is what you\u2019re describing is happening now! They\u2019re already filibustering with this case. The thing that irritates me as much as anything about this is that whoever\u2019s running the Senate has let the Democrat Party convert the Senate into the DNC. That\u2019s all this is. These people are making points that are way beyond the articles of impeachment.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re talking about things that have nothing to do with what\u2019s in their case. They\u2019re all over the board and they\u2019re repeating it over and over and over again. This is nothing more than a never-ending campaign ad on TV under the imprimatur of impeachment in the United States Senate — and the Senate is sitting there and letting these buffoons in the House basically convert the chamber into essentially the Democrat National Committee.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s almost like they\u2019ve been suckered. So then you have to ask, “Okay. They have to know this; so why are they permitting it?” and maybe they think that the Democrats are drilling nails in their own coffins by doing this. The ratings are plummeting each and every day, I have to tell you. That is incontrovertible, and it\u2019s distressing the media. They\u2019re talking about (impression), “Well, it\u2019s — it\u2019s — it\u2019s a shame, because this should be watched by millions of people. This is more important than just an average television show,” but they can\u2019t create any interest.<\/p>\n
I have thought all along this thing should have been dismissed the first chance they had. Dismiss it. Close it down. But the objection is, “Well, Rush, that would make Republicans look unfair.” Screw this! I\u2019m sick and tired of the premise being that the Republicans are the ones that are unfair, that the Republicans are the ones that have to go out of their way to prove that they\u2019re nice guys. Screw that! We\u2019re so far beyond that. The Democrats have made it known to everybody what a bunch of skunks they are.<\/p>\n
The Democrats ought to be the ones worried today about being perceived as nice guys. They\u2019re so over the top here, and have been for three years and counting. The idea that they\u2019re the ones that appear reasonable and they\u2019re the ones that appear as though they\u2019ve got their act together and the Republicans gotta go overboard and the other way (sniveling), “Making sure everybody realizes it; nobody confuses the Republicans for racist, sexist, bigot, homophones,” all that usual cliched tripe.<\/p>\n
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I think it\u2019s a joke what these people are doing. There\u2019s no truth coming out of these people\u2019s mouths on the Democrat managers\u2019 side — and, by the way, the news is that hardly anybody in the Senate\u2019s listening. They don\u2019t have their phones in there (sigh), but a whole lot of people are not really paying attention.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: So Pencil Neck is back up there now. I guess when things are not going well he goes in and commandeers the floor. And he\u2019s now explaining why it is that if the president did not foresee enough importance in giving aid to Ukraine, didn\u2019t care about Ukraine, only cares about himself, now he\u2019s explaining to people why does Ukraine matter anyway. And of course they\u2019re gonna say Ukraine is a buffer for Russia.<\/p>\n