{"id":336981,"date":"2020-02-18T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=336981"},"modified":"2021-02-24T15:07:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T20:07:13","slug":"do-the-democrats-know-what-bloombergs-doing-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/02\/18\/do-the-democrats-know-what-bloombergs-doing-to-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg\u2019s Buying the Democrat Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Does the Democrat Party realize what Michael Bloomberg is doing to them? Does Crazy Bernie? Has he figured out yet what Bloomberg is doing? This is stunning to watch this, and all of the&#8230; You know, Bloomberg obviously has never been opposition researched. Bloomberg has bought off all opposition in his political career. As Mayor of New York City, he buys off the media by putting them on charitable boards that Bloomberg money is the number one source of. He\u2019s bought off every critic he can possibly imagine in the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n<p>And, as such, there hasn\u2019t been any opposition research. But now all of a sudden, there is, because the Republicans in the Trump White House are getting involved in producing all these old Bloomberg videos where he\u2019s saying some of the most outrageous, egregious, insulting, embarrassing things. These are the kind of things that people accuse Republicans of saying and being and doing that Republicans don\u2019t say and are not. It\u2019s Democrats that are &#8212; and here\u2019s Bloomberg running as a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>And he is forcing all these Democrats to ignore what he has said about minorities, what he said about the elderly, what he has said about women. It is stunning the Democrats are allowing all of this to happen because they are so obsessed with beating Donald Trump that they\u2019ll take anybody who can do it &#8212; and I\u2019m gonna tell you Crazy Bernie people something too. You may not want to hear this, but your guy can be bought off too. How do you think he went whimpering away so quietly in 2016?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-337024\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021820-Bloomberg-Doomberg-2020-Money.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021820-Bloomberg-Doomberg-2020-Money.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021820-Bloomberg-Doomberg-2020-Money-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hillary bought him a million-dollar house. Bernie Sanders can be bought, and if Bloomberg has to buy Bernie Sanders off to get the Democrat nomination, he\u2019s gonna try to. And the question for you Bernie types is, &#8220;Will your guy be bought?&#8221; Because we established yesterday, Crazy Bernie is not a fighter. He is not a brawler. He is a straight, old-line communist ideologue &#8212; and Bloomberg is coming right for him. The Democrat Party is changing the rules in the middle of the game to let Bloomberg on a debate stage.<\/p>\n<p>This is breathtaking to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Wait \u2019til you hear some of the things that have been unearthed about what Bloomberg has said that Democrats and African-Americans are looking the other way at, and they\u2019re endorsing Bloomberg. You know why? Because they can be bought. Bloomberg is buying everybody. He\u2019s buying silence. He\u2019s buying support. We\u2019ve never seen anything like this. We\u2019ve never seen this kind of money in politics. Bloomberg has already spent more than entire presidential campaigns go through. He\u2019s bought his way into the Democrat Party debate tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p>Crazy Bernie is just now finally getting a handle on this and complaining about it, what the DNC and Bloomberg are doing. One of Bernie\u2019s top advisers is a guy named Jeff Weaver, and he was talking to NBC News yesterday. He said, &#8220;To change the rules now, in the middle of the game, to accommodate Mike Bloomberg trying to buy his way into the Democrat nomination, that\u2019s wrong. That\u2019s just wrong. That\u2019s the definition of a rigged system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, Bernie, I\u2019m gonna tell you something. You\u2019re gonna be a victim of it twice. (chuckles) It\u2019s amazing how slow on the uptake these people are. Why is Bloomberg running? Bloomberg is so insidiously jealous of Trump (do not doubt me), you can\u2019t understand it and you can\u2019t fathom it. He is so jealous of Trump that he\u2019s willing to spend more than you and I could ever conceive of having, in a bid to unseat Trump. And the Democrats, if they go ahead and they follow through and this guy gets their nomination, you wait.<\/p>\n<p>This is gonna tear that party apart.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s gonna destroy everything they\u2019ve ever claimed to be: Pro-African-American, pro-women, pro-gay, \u2019cause Bloomberg has come out and he\u2019s the biggest misogynist, he\u2019s the biggest racist, and he\u2019s a homophobe &#8212; and he\u2019s made no bones about it. There\u2019s video, and there\u2019s audio of the guy demonstrating it and proving it. He\u2019s even joined Obama in the health care parade. Somebody shows up at 95 years of age with prostate cancer? (summarized) &#8220;Nope, we\u2019re not gonna spend any money on ya. You\u2019re not worth saving. Here\u2019s a pill. Go away and die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-53560\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/BloombergStyrofoamPIX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/>He said it, the same thing as Obama. You know, we played that audio I don\u2019t know how many times, Obama\u2019s ABC primetime special from the White House before it became law, and a woman stands up and said (paraphrased exchange), &#8220;Mr. President? Mr. President? My mother is approaching a hundred years of age and she\u2019s sick, but she really wants to live. She really wants to live. She\u2019s got the will to live; she\u2019s very happy. Under your plan, will my mother get health care?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uh, no. (sputtering) Uh, under my plan, uh, uh, uh, the will to live ain\u2019t gonna be a factor. That ain\u2019t gonna matter at all. Uh, we\u2019re gonna have to take a look and none of that. In the case of your mother, we\u2019ll give her a pill and a happy pill. Uh, here\u2019s that pill, go away and, \u2019cause this is way it\u2019s gonna be.&#8221; I was stunned. I was stunned! In the United States of America, a citizen even had to ask the president, &#8220;Is my mother gonna live? Are you gonna allow my mother medical treatment to live?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Imagine anybody in this country having to ask that of a leader instead of a doctor or instead of other members of the family, and then for the leader who\u2019s asked the question to say, &#8220;Nope. Nope. I don\u2019t think will to live matters. We can\u2019t start factoring things like that into medical decisions. I think &#8212; I think we\u2019ll give her a pill.&#8221; If you don\u2019t remember this, we\u2019ve got the audio of this all coming up. We\u2019ll demo this for you. I mean, it\u2019s just stunning.<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s Bloomberg who is literally infiltrating the Democrat Party and is turning it upside down, poisoning it. He is single-handedly doing it. If they go to the mat defending him, if they nominate him, if they do whatever they can to overcome the opposition research that\u2019s sure to come on this guy &#8212; if they try to wave away the anti-women comments within the anti-black comments, the anti-whatever comments, anti-gay comments, if they try to wave that away &#8212; what\u2019s that gonna mean for their party?<\/p>\n<p>Some of you say, &#8220;It won\u2019t mean anything, Rush, because hypocrisy never sticks to \u2019em.&#8221; Yeah, that\u2019s true, and I\u2019ve even said that myself. But this is gonna be different. See, I think the left, the Democrats are so shaken by what Trump did that I think they\u2019re looking at Bloomberg as, &#8220;Hey, it doesn\u2019t matter. Trump&#8230; We all know the Access Hollywood video. We all know what Trump said when he came down the escalator on June 15 to announce his candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If that guy can get elected, then Bloomberg certainly can.&#8221; So I think the Democrats are looking and misunderstanding how Trump got elected. They\u2019re misunderstanding how Trump built the bond he has with his supporters and thinking anybody can do it, and all it takes is to be outrageous. I mean, this is why they thought Avenatti was gonna be a viable candidate. These people are so out of it, it is stunning. The party of the little guy (supposedly) is so out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Even Michael Barone has a piece here in the New York Post, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/02\/17\/interlopers-poised-to-take-control-of-democratic-party-like-trump-took-gop\/\">&#8220;Interlopers Poised to Take Control of Democrat Party Like Trump Took the GOP.&#8221;<\/a> This is not like how Trump took the GOP. Trump didn\u2019t come in and take over the GOP by turning Republicanism upside down like Bloomberg is doing. Trump ran on (whether he knew it or not) a basically conservative agenda, ideas that were solidly backed by a whole slew of Republican base voters who had been marginalized, who had been lied to, who had been taken for granted for years by the party and its establishment.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the situation with the Democrats. What Bloomberg is doing is not tapping into some misrepresented or lied-to element of the Democrat base. They have driven away&#8230; The Democrat Party has driven away the sane people in their party, and they\u2019re left with a bunch of ill-educated, uneducated, unemployable anarchists who are obsessed with pessimism and the apocalypse. They have no God in their lives, for the most part, so they\u2019re wandering aimlessly looking for something meaningful in politics.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7lw3OSK1RRM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So they glom on to veganism or they glom onto climate change or some such thing. There isn\u2019t any comparison to what\u2019s happening in the Democrat Party in this primary and Trump and the Republican Party in 2016. Trump has backed up his ideas with action. He has implemented them in the form of his agenda with good results. Democrats have not done that.<\/p>\n<p>And this is not even about an agenda. The Democrats are so discombobulated, it doesn\u2019t matter. They\u2019ll nominate anybody they think can beat Trump, and then deal with what they\u2019ve done later. But there\u2019s no set of ideas propelling any of this. In the case of Bloomberg, it\u2019s jealousy and rage. In the case of Democrats, it\u2019s anger and frustration that they haven\u2019t been able to get rid of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, here\u2019s an example. I got emails in the break. &#8220;Wuh wuh wuh what do you mean? What\u2019s Bloomberg doing, Rush?&#8221; Look, I\u2019m gonna detail as the program unfolds. Let me give you a brief synopsis. As we said yesterday, Bloomberg says that farming is for simpletons, that anybody can farm, that he could teach anybody to be a farmer inside of five minutes. By the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mike_Pence\/status\/1229500346734649344\">Mike Pence had a great reply to that using a wonderful commentary by Paul Harvey from 1978 called, &#8220;So God Made a Farmer.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll have that coming up too. Bloomberg has echoed Obama: The elderly should not get medical care. Give \u2019em a pill, give \u2019em a happy pill, and send \u2019em on their way. There\u2019s evidence Bloomberg told an employee &#8212; a woman, a female employee &#8212; to &#8220;kill it&#8221; when she announced to him she was pregnant. He said, &#8220;Kill it.&#8221; He didn\u2019t say, &#8220;Get an abortion.&#8221; He said, &#8220;Kill it. I don\u2019t have time for these distractions. If you want to work here, kill it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also said that black and Hispanic males &#8220;don\u2019t know how to behave&#8221; at jobs. All this is on videotape. In August 2011, &#8220;Bloomberg said &#8216;enormous cohorts\u2019 of young black and Latino men &#8216;don\u2019t know how to behave in the workplace&#8230;'&#8221; Not to mention saying (summarized), &#8220;If you think there\u2019s a crime that\u2019s happened somewhere, guaranteed a young black male 18 to 26 did it. That\u2019s where you go to find the perp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is being said as a Democrat, folks.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the point.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let\u2019s start on the audio sound bites here. This will be a good way to get into the Bloomberg audio. Now, I want to explain that while you may have heard the Bloomberg audio, you haven\u2019t heard my take on it, and while you may have seen it (the video), you haven\u2019t seen or heard my take on it, which I guarantee you is gonna be unique and unlike anywhere else you might be watching or reading. It is utterly fascinating to me what the Democrat Party is doing.<\/p>\n<p>You know, in fact, there\u2019s another way of looking at this. You had Obama, who has talked about most Americans as bitter clingers, and then you had Hillary talking about the same group of people as a basket of deplorables. The bottom line is that the Democrat Party, the so-called champion of little guy, actually resents the little guy. The Democrat Party actually makes fun of and impugns the people that make this country work.<\/p>\n<p>Yet a decent percentage of those people turn around and vote Democrat every chance they get, and Bloomberg\u2019s coming along and basically echoing these sentiments, only in stronger language and from years and years and years ago. Nobody reported it when it happened because Bloomberg buys everybody off, including media and including staff. But I want to start here reminding you what Bloomberg talked about yesterday on farmers, or what was revealed that he had said. He was at Oxford University 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;I could teach anybody &#8230; to be a farmer,&#8221; inside of five minutes. &#8220;You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.&#8221; In fact, grab sound bite number 4. I cited Victor Davis Hanson yesterday as evidence of the kind of genius and intelligence it takes to be a farmer today. He was on with Tucker Carlson last night, who said, &#8220;What do you make about these remarks from Michael Bloomberg&#8221; about how easy and simpleton-like it is to be a farmer?<\/p>\n<p>HANSON: The idea that, ancient or modern, you drop the seed in the ground and presto, corn sprouted is ridiculous. Farmers then and now deal with weather, they deal with climate, they deal with soil chemistry, they deal with pests, they deal with man, they deal with market, they deal with government. It requires the most skillsets of any profession in the world. Today\u2019s farmers, they use GPS, computers. The most brilliant people I\u2019ve met in the world&#8230; I lived on this farm where I\u2019m speaking today and I had a world of academics. The people that I knew that made it in farming were so much brighter, so much more skilled than the people who were tenured professors.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-337043 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/VDH-BloombergFarm-e1582054392553.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, the interesting thing is people across the country are learning of Bloomberg\u2019s comments. We don\u2019t know how widespread it is. Some in the Drive-By Media are not really going to town on Bloomberg yet because, remember, he owns them. You can\u2019t comprehend the amount of money this guy has spent on silencing criticism, and it\u2019s been one of his modus operandi for 15 years. He\u2019s got the money to do it.<\/p>\n<p>He lavishes it on people to keep \u2019em quiet, and that\u2019s why there really hasn\u2019t been any serious opposition research. But now it\u2019s gonna trickle out. It probably is gonna explode. and people across the country are gonna be privy to this. They\u2019re gonna hear it, and the Democrats are not gonna take that into account. They\u2019re gonna think it won\u2019t matter because any problem can be purchased. Now, Mike Pence responded to Bloomberg\u2019s insults of farmers by tweeting out a Super Bowl commercial that ran in the second half of the game in 2013. It was a Dodge Ram truck commercial narrated by Paul Harvey, and here is how that sounded&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AMpZ0TGjbWE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>HARVEY: And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, &#8220;I need a caretaker.&#8221; So God made a farmer. God said, &#8220;I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board.&#8221; So God made a farmer. &#8230; I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, then, pain\u2019n from &#8216;tractor back,\u2019 put in another seventy-two hours.&#8221; So God made a farmer. &#8230; &#8220;Somebody who\u2019d bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life &#8216;doing what dad does.'&#8221; So God made a farmer.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Paul Harvey from 1978. That was actually used in the 2013 Super Bowl as part of a Dodge Ram truck commercial as the narration for the video of that commercial. Pence tweeted that yesterday with no comment in response to Bloomberg, and what everybody in the Democrat Party misses is farming is&#8230; They think, first, it\u2019s as only 2% of the population, so it doesn\u2019t matter. You could lose all 2% of farmers and not hurt your electoral chances. Farmers fit the Deliverance model that the left and Democrats look at Southerners as.<\/p>\n<p>What they miss is how this resonates not just with the 2% of farmers, but with the vast majority of people in this country who have abject appreciation, understanding for everybody whose work makes life easier &#8212; and they don\u2019t cotton to people like this being insulting, and the Democrats are just totally oblivious to this. The very idea that they are embracing a guy who has made repeated insulting comments about the very constituents the Democrat Party claims to champion is an indication of how out of sorts Donald Trump has made them, has rendered them.<\/p>\n<p>They are so discombobulated, they\u2019re abandoning their roots. They are abandoning their own base of voters. They are allowing somebody who hasn\u2019t even been a Democrat when he\u2019s sought elective office, to come in and literally buy their nomination &#8212; and they are excited by it. One of the many death knells: Hollywood, all of a sudden, is expressing their admiration and love for Bloomberg, and you know what that is. That\u2019s simply this phenomenon known as people sidling up to the rich no matter what.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-334235\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/APP-012320-Bloomberg-Podium-02-Mini-Mike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/APP-012320-Bloomberg-Podium-02-Mini-Mike.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/APP-012320-Bloomberg-Podium-02-Mini-Mike-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>It\u2019s something about the rich. People will overlook every other characteristic bad or good about them if they\u2019ve got money. I guess on the pretense of somehow the rich are gonna give you them money, and yet the Democrat Party is the party that says trickle-down doesn\u2019t work because the rich are a bunch selfish SOBs. And yet here they are sidling up to the richest guy that\u2019s ever tried to buy political office. Here\u2019s Bloomberg. This is February 2011, New York City. Michael Bloomberg, the mayor, Republican, visiting a family sitting shiva on the loss of a family member.<\/p>\n<p>BLOOMBERG: At the rare we\u2019re going, health care is gonna bankrupt us. We\u2019ve got to sit here and say which things we\u2019re gonna do and which things we\u2019re not. You show up with prostate cancer; you\u2019re 95 years old. We should say, &#8220;Go and enjoy. Have an ice cream. Lead a long life. There\u2019s no cure, and you can\u2019t do anything.&#8221; Society\u2019s not willing to do that yet.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8220;Society\u2019s not willing to do that yet,&#8221; but it damn well ought to be willing! He\u2019s talking to a family sitting shiva, a Jewish family mourning the loss of a family member! He goes in there and tells them (summarized), &#8220;Yeah, we gotta sit here and say which things we\u2019re gonna do and which things we\u2019re not. You show up with prostate cancer; you\u2019re 95. We should say, &#8216;Go and enjoy. Have a nice life as long as you can. Get outta here. There\u2019s no cure, and we\u2019re not curing anything.\u2019 For a young person, we would do something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;But society\u2019s not there yet.&#8221; No, but that\u2019s where he wants to take us, and it\u2019s no different than Barack Obama. Let\u2019s go back to June 24th, 2009. This is the ABC Primetime special, questions for the president, prescription for America. This was ABC News helping to promote Obamacare, June 24, 2009. It\u2019s Obama\u2019s first year in orifice. Obamacare didn\u2019t become law \u2019til the end of 2010, and there is an audience member named Jane Sturm, and she stood up with a question. She said, &#8220;My mother is now over 105, but at 100, the doctor said to her &#8216;I can\u2019t do anything more unless you have a pacemaker,\u2019 and I said, &#8216;Go for it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She said, &#8216;Go for it.\u2019 But the specialist said, &#8216;No, she\u2019s too old.\u2019 When the other specialist saw her, saw her joy of life, so on, he said, &#8216;I\u2019m gonna go for it.\u2019 That was over five years ago. My question to you, Mr. President, outside the medical criteria for prolonging life for somebody who\u2019s elderly, is there any consideration that can be given for a certain spirit, a certain joy of living, a will to live, quality of life, or is it just a medical cutoff at a certain age with your health care plan?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: I don\u2019t think that we can make judgments based on people\u2019s &#8220;spirit.&#8221; That\u2019d be a pretty subjective decision to be making. I think we have to have rules that say that we are gonna provide good quality care for all people. End-of-life care is one of the most difficult sets of decisions that we\u2019re gonna have to make. But understand that those decisions are already being made in one way or another. If they\u2019re not being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they\u2019re being made by private insurers. At least we can let doctors know and your mom know that, you know what, maybe this isn\u2019t gonna help. Maybe you\u2019re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8WnxsuVqSo8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s your Democrat Party, folks. These are the people that have claimed to have all of the love and compassion for their fellow citizens, for their fellow man, and they nominated Obama. He got elected, and they passed his health care plan with him saying things like this. So don\u2019t be surprised if they don\u2019t hold any of this Bloomberg stuff against him. I guarantee you they\u2019re not. I guarantee you African-American politicians are gonna look the other way at every racist comment Bloomberg\u2019s ever made.<\/p>\n<p>Women in the Democrat Party are gonna look the other way at every misogynist, anti-woman comment he\u2019s ever made, because they\u2019re a bunch of phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock &#8216;n\u2019 roller hypocrites who are motivated by only one thing, and it\u2019s got nothing to do with you or this country being better or improved. They are motivated by their hatred for Donald Trump and their desire to get rid of him, and they will pay anybody anything and suffer anything if somebody can come along, in their opinion, and beat Trump &#8212; and that\u2019s what we\u2019re up against.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know the name Doug Schoen. Doug Schoen was a Clinton pollster back in the day. He\u2019s been a commentator at Fox News for the longest time, and he\u2019s been absent Fox News for a while, and the reason for that is he has been hired by Doomberg. He\u2019s a pollster for Doomberg. Doomberg is hiring people like you can\u2019t believe. He\u2019s hiring every potential critic and putting them on the payroll. He\u2019s donating to their charities.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m telling you, folks, you\u2019ve never seen anything like this. We haven\u2019t. You think the Kennedys were bad? This guy is making the Kennedys look like Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol. All right. So here\u2019s Doug Schoen. This was, I guess, this afternoon on Fox Business Channel, Neil Cavuto\u2019s Coast to Coast show. Question: &#8220;Doug, when you hear stuff like these old tapes of Mayor Bloomberg coming out almost like a Pez dispenser, do you just say, &#8216;Oh, boy, I have a tough day today\u2019?&#8221; These are all the videos of what he\u2019s saying about women, what he\u2019s saying about African-Americans and Hispanics, what he\u2019s saying about abortion, all of this stuff &#8212; and here\u2019s Doug Schoen\u2019s answer to it.<\/p>\n<p>SCHOEN: Opponents across the board are doing everything they can to hit Mike. Some of what is being released is taken out of context. Some of it is a straightforward assessment, analysis of difficult problems &#8212; and some of it, like his advocacy of stop-and-frisk, he has repudiated. He\u2019s apologized for it. You know, I don\u2019t think the voters sit the way we do, parsing every release of every tape, trying to judge what he said 10 years ago in the context of today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-337030\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021820-Fox-Bus-GRAB-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021820-Fox-Bus-GRAB-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021820-Fox-Bus-GRAB-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: I think that\u2019s, at this stage, entirely true. Now, I\u2019d love to be wrong. You can gauge public opinion in a number of different ways, and I just don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna matter to Democrat voters. I don\u2019t think any of this is gonna matter. They\u2019re a bunch of hypocrites from the get-go. They always have been, and the stuff that Bloomberg is saying here is what most of them believe anyway. That\u2019s the dirty little secret about all this.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg is not saying things that are really counter to what the Democrats believe. This is what they say. This is what they believe. They have just never been honestly reported on. So within the Democrat voter base, this isn\u2019t causing any kind of a stir. Plus, it isn\u2019t being widely disseminated in the first place. The Drive-By Media are not playing a lot of these videos. So how many Democrat voters even know?<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s Laurie, Apple Valley, California, we start on the phones. Great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi. Good afternoon. Kind of a change in your topic that you were talking about. But as far as agriculture goes, I think Bloomberg has really alienated a lot of Democrats. The USDA (chuckles) has got a lot of people that have spent a lot of time in college and the NRCS, they\u2019re all Democrats. And for him to be so condescending about how our heartland provides for our country is pretty unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, it is. But are you seeing this reaction, this negative reaction to what Bloomberg has said, or are you just thinking that it\u2019s naturally gonna occur?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: My family lives in Nebraska, and they\u2019ve all expressed the condescension (sic) about his comments. I have family in Kentucky, and they\u2019ve all expressed displeasure about, you know, how he\u2019s basically been so condescending to what is&#8230; That\u2019s what supports our country. How do you go into your freezer and you open up a bag of frozen corn? That didn\u2019t just happen.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I understand. That\u2019s the point. He belittles it. He ridicules it. Most Democrats do, Laurie. Most Democrats think farmers are hicks. Most Democrats think farmers are a bunch of hayseed &#8212; except Democrat farmers, of course. They think most farmers live and work in the dirt (that\u2019s very unsophisticated) and they think most farmers are contributing to climate change and global warming \u2019cause they\u2019re not doing it the right way. The Democrat Party is one of the most misunderstood hate groups in this country today.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, I\u2019m gonna get back. Let\u2019s see. Audio sound bite&#8230; I made the point in the previous hour talking about Bloomberg that the things that he is saying &#8212; and just to review, I\u2019m gonna give you&#8230; This is just a synopsis some of the things: Farmers are simpletons; he can teach anybody to do it. (impression) &#8220;The elderly? Nah. Not gonna give you medical care. It\u2019s not worth it. You\u2019re old. You\u2019re gonna die. Get out of our way. We\u2019ll give medical care to the young.&#8221; A female employee goes to Bloomberg and says, &#8220;I\u2019m pregnant.&#8221; He says, &#8220;Kill it! If you want to keep working here, kill it,&#8221; meaning abort it.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;Kill it.&#8221; Black and Hispanic males &#8220;don\u2019t know how to behave&#8221; at jobs. On stop-and-frisk, he said (summarized), &#8220;Look, in New York City, if there is a crime committed, the odds are it\u2019s by a 16- to 28-year-old African-American or Latino male. So that\u2019s where you need to go to find the perp.&#8221; Now, some may say, &#8220;Well, Rush, what do you mean? There\u2019s nothing wrong with. That\u2019s what the statistics.&#8221; Yeah, but this guy\u2019s running as a Democrat. Democrats don\u2019t talk this way.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats defend those people. This guy is turning the Democrat Party upside down. This guy is turning the Democrat Party into pretzels, as they defend this guy, and that\u2019s why I want to give you some audio evidence. Last night on Laura Ingraham\u2019s show, The Ingraham Angle on the Fox News Channel, she\u2019s talking to civil rights attorney Leo Terrell. He\u2019s African-American.<\/p>\n<p>Ingraham said, &#8220;Michael Bloomberg\u2019s 2011 comments that young African-American men &#8216;don\u2019t know how to find jobs,\u2019 not knowing &#8216;how to behave in the workplace.\u2019 Leo, these are factual assertions he\u2019s making. If he apologizes for that, what is he exactly apologizing for? That he had wrong research? I\u2019m not sure what he would apologize for. How would he do that, actually?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-337031\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021820-Fox-GRAB-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021820-Fox-GRAB-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021820-Fox-GRAB-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>TERRELL: Let me very, very clear. I\u2019m a civil rights attorney for 30 years. I fight against racism, and I &#8212; unlike Donald Trump, I &#8212; accept Mike Bloomberg\u2019s apology. And it will not be a stumbling block, the stop-and-frisk. And, by the way &#8212; fair and balanced &#8212; Donald Trump supported stop-and-frisk and he never apologized. Mike Bloomberg apologized for it. Mike Bloomberg is stating it. He\u2019s gone on apology tours towards blacks, and they have accepted it. Blacks believe Mike Bloomberg is being sincere in his apology.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Why? Why? Because he\u2019s buying it, folks! He\u2019s buying these apologies, plus he\u2019s a Democrat, so he gets a pass for not meaning it in the first place. His apology is allowed to cleanse him with these hypocrites, these very hypocrites. And if Trump apologized, they wouldn\u2019t allow him to get away with it. That\u2019s why Trump doesn\u2019t apologize as a matter of philosophy. Trump\u2019s attitude is you never apologize. Never! At no time do you ever apologize.<\/p>\n<p>But even if he did, these same people, &#8220;He doesn\u2019t mean it. He doesn\u2019t mean it. He\u2019s just trying to lessen the negative reaction. He doesn\u2019t mean it.&#8221; That\u2019s what they would say. But with Bloomberg, he can go out and he can say more vile, disgusting, racist stuff than anything they could ever accuse conservatives of saying or even thinking, and he\u2019ll get a pass because he\u2019s a Democrat, and he\u2019s apologized. But, more importantly, he\u2019s paying people off.<\/p>\n<p>These nobody who\u2019s paid people off like this guy. Here\u2019s another one. Gregory Meeks, Democrat, New York, CNN yesterday. Question: &#8220;You have endorsed Michael Bloomberg. There were questions about stop and frisk, which he apologized for before he started his campaign. Now we\u2019re seeing comments again which have come up before, the comments again have been attributed to him, things he was saying in the workplace. Does any of that give you pause?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-337029\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021820-cnn-GRAB-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021820-cnn-GRAB-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021820-cnn-GRAB-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>MEEKS: I\u2019m one of the few people that was here during the 12 years that Bloomberg was the mayor. I clearly did not agree with his stop-and-frisk policy. I did not support him when he was running all three times. But I\u2019ve listened to him; I\u2019ve had a chance to talk to him. Sometimes where a person spends their money tells you where they are. In fact, I was a kid, we had this saying, &#8220;Put your money where your mouth is.&#8221; I looked to see who was fighting the NRA; looked to see where he spent his money in reference to health care, trying to close (sic) obesity; get folks off of cigarettes, to be healthy. Mike Bloomberg put his money there. He\u2019s put his money where his mouth is.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: See? He\u2019s buying everything, folks. (impression) &#8220;He put his money here! He bought of&#8230; I don\u2019t have to worry about his racist comments \u2019cause he apologized for it, and he buying off anybody else. I don\u2019t have to be concerned about it.&#8221; Gregory Meeks. Yeah, since all he has to do is be against guns and you can do anything. If he comes out against or for abortion, they\u2019ll allow him to be, say, and do anything he wants.<\/p>\n<p>But I still find it fascinating that this could very well, in the long term, corrupt a lifetime of Democrat Party foundational policy\/beliefs, as they are willing to overlook the very things they say they oppose, the very things they say they are steadfastly against. They welcome this guy in. In fact, here\u2019s Jim Messina. Jim Messina is former&#8230; I think he is a Clintonite. He was on CNN today. The cohost is Poppy Harlow. He\u2019s Obama. Sorry. He\u2019s an Obama campaign manager, Messina. Question: &#8220;Joe Biden\u2019s decline of 20 points among Africans in terms of national polling. Why do you think his vision for America, the vision that he crafted and cultivated for so many years with President Obama isn\u2019t resonating right now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MESSINA: I think the reason they\u2019ve gone down is because Michael Bloomberg is spending tens of millions of dollars advertising to African-American voters in the early states featuring Barack Obama, right? These ads&#8230; You know, had one African-American activist from a Super Tuesday state call and say, &#8220;Jim, why did Barack Obama endorse Michael Bloomberg?&#8221; And I said, &#8220;He didn\u2019t. Bloomberg is just running ads all over the place, and that\u2019s why you think this.&#8221; And again, money can buy a little bit of love, and that\u2019s the numbers, that Bloomberg is starting to rise with African-Americans.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There you have it. If you don\u2019t believe me, listen to Obama\u2019s guy. He\u2019s buying it. By the way, I don\u2019t mean&#8230; The kind of buying I\u2019m talking about is not just with ads. He\u2019s buying everything, he\u2019s buying everybody he can. It has been Bloomberg\u2019s modus operandi since he got into politics as mayor of New York City.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is Queens. This is Sean. Great to have you, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: How you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Good, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I got one thing to say. Donald Trump owns hotels and golf courses around the world. The left and the Democrats lit their hair on fire. Bloomberg owns a media empire. Don\u2019t you think the left media in our country would just line up behind his narrative, push out whatever garbage he wanted about the economy, about jobs? We got a serious problem here, Rush. It\u2019s frightening when you think about what could happen if Bloomberg actually became president. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I think we would have a budding autocrat. We saw evidence of it when he was mayor of New York. I have to confess that I was just stunned at proposal after proposal being readily agreed to by most of the citizens of New York. They\u2019d just step right in line. Proposing a limit on the size of soft drinks? It\u2019s none of his damn business! It\u2019s none of government\u2019s business in any way, shape, manner, or form. He does it, and the citizens of New York doesn\u2019t even protest it. The businesses of New York don\u2019t even protest. They just fall in line with it.<\/p>\n<p>Then he starts talking about limiting the kind of, I think, butter and whatever else that people eat, starts wanting to ban this or that, and the citizens of New York do not oppose any of it. Now, I understand the citizens of New York are a bunch of leftists. They\u2019re wild, extremist left-wing Democrats. But New York is the city where you can do anything! New York is the city that doesn\u2019t sleep. New York was becoming one of the most prohibitively anti-free cities the countries when Bloomberg ran it.<\/p>\n<p>And they sat there like a bunch of acquiescent little farm animals and went right along with it. The guy has a basic misunderstanding of how communism works. So I would be extremely concerned about Bloomberg\u2019s foreign policy. I just don\u2019t think he\u2019s very bright, and I know that cuts against the grain so strongly because most people say, &#8220;My gosh, Rush, he\u2019s got more money than you, more money than we got. He can\u2019t be dumb and have that happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ehhh. I think there\u2019s a lot of these rich people, folks, that when it comes to flat-out common sense are just idiots.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Something else to remember about Bloomberg. You know, he was supposed to be term limited as mayor of New York City after his second term, but he convinced the powers that be to make an exception, and he bought \u2019em off. He bought off and ended term limits, got a third term. And guess what? This stupid new mayor they\u2019ve got, de Blasio, he\u2019s not getting the exception.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg purchased &#8212; I don\u2019t care what anybody thinks &#8212; he purchased an exception to give him a third term after being term limited after two terms. De Blasio is not getting the exception. He\u2019s gonna be term limited after two terms. I\u2019ve mentioned about Bloomberg and how he so grossly, grossly misrepresents and misstates the government of China, the communist government, talks about how the leader of China has to serve his constituents to keep \u2019em happy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/02\/18\/mike-bloomberg-lp-nda-china\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-337045\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-Intercept-VOICES-Tearaway-021820.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-Intercept-VOICES-Tearaway-021820.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-Intercept-VOICES-Tearaway-021820-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>The fact of the matter is there\u2019s an article at The Intercept website from a reporterette says that Bloomberg tried to destroy her when she reported on how he kowtows to the ChiComs to stay on their good side. Bloomberg News, according to this infobabe at <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/02\/18\/mike-bloomberg-lp-nda-china\/\">The Intercept, Bloomberg News would routinely kill negative stories about China and the Chinese government<\/a>. And when this infobabe reported this, she claims that Bloomberg tried to destroy her.<\/p>\n<p>The article: &#8220;When Bloomberg News\u2019s Reporting on China Was Challenged, Bloomberg Tried to Ruin Me for Speaking Out.&#8221; The fact of the matter is that Bloomberg is very &#8220;dependent on the vast China market for its business,&#8221; Bloomberg News. And this reporter says that its lawyers, Bloomberg lawyers, &#8220;threatened to devastate my family financially if I didn\u2019t sign an NDA silencing me about how Bloomberg News killed a story critical of Chinese Communist Party leaders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, this a story in The Intercept. I don\u2019t doubt it. I don\u2019t doubt it at all, folks.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Bill on the Upper West Side, Manhattan. Great to have you, sir. I\u2019m glad you waited. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. Good afternoon, and God bless you, and I really mean that. Three quick things to drag us back to Bloomberg. The first is, as a lifelong New Yorker, I\u2019m not a farmer, I don\u2019t know any farmers, but I\u2019m so incensed by his remarks that I intend to donate some money to the future farmers of America.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Ha-ha. They\u2019ll love you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: The second thing I know from the inside. My synagogue used to donate food that was left over from collations every week to a certain senior center. They were strong-armed by Bloomberg not to take that food because it didn\u2019t meet the Bloomberg nutritional profile for sodium. So apparently they would rather let these seniors go hungry than get this food that might have been a little high on sodium. I don\u2019t even know. That\u2019s arguable.<\/p>\n<p>And my third point &#8212; and it was interesting because the New York Times had reported it &#8212; is that sometime in 2006 Bloomberg was visiting the city\u2019s office in Albany. New York City maintains a lobbying office in Albany, and he noticed out of the corner of his eye on someone\u2019s computer screen that this guy was playing Solitaire. So Bloomberg managed to get this guy fired. No warning, nothing, just got him fired, which is sort of hard to do, but he did. And I thought that was just so petty and it just sort of sums up everything about Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, he is an autocrat. It\u2019s not a term associated with him, but it\u2019s exactly what he is. Let me make sure I understand. Your synagogue donates unused food for charitable purposes, and he got in the way of it, claiming the food you were donating had too much salt in it and so it wasn\u2019t permitted to be donated?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes, because apparently that senior center was also getting money from the city, so it had to subscribe to the city\u2019s nutritional standards from that point on.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Why would he even care? These are people &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329532\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112519-Bloomberg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112519-Bloomberg.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112519-Bloomberg-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: &#8212; that are obviously already poverty stricken. What could he possibly care for?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I don\u2019t know. But it was written up in the New York Post. In fact, I\u2019m looking at it right now. March 19th, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: All right. Let me ask you this. You\u2019re Upper West Side all your life. You were Bloomberg three terms mayor. Do you think any of this stuff\u2019s gonna matter? Do you think that it\u2019s gonna have any effect on whether he gets the Democrat Party nomination or not?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I really don\u2019t know because his money is just, you know, like legendary. I don\u2019t know. I would hope that some of this breaks through to people\u2019s consciousness and they will torpedo him for it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, what about Mayor Pete and what about Amy Klobuchar? What about Crazy Bernie? Isn\u2019t it kind of up to them? I mean, they are the direct-in-line opponents of Bloomberg. Aren\u2019t they gonna have some kind of reaction to this at some point?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I certainly hope so. And I have better things to do with my time, but I certainly will be watching that debate tomorrow night to see how they all start to savage him.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: If they do &#8212; he could buy any of them off, is the thing. And I\u2019m telling you, I\u2019m gonna warn you Bernie voters again, Bernie\u2019s already been shown that he\u2019s not a fighter and that he could be bought. Hillary bought him off 2016, bought his silence after it was clear and obvious that the primary was rigged, basically gave him enough money to get another house wherever he wanted it. You wait.<\/p>\n<p>Given what the Democrats believe, the Democrats believe &#8212; and there\u2019s a story here that I touched on at the top of the hour, that this is nothing more than what Trump did to the Republican Party. Bloomberg is the Trump to the Democrat Party in 2020. And they\u2019re drawing this comparison. And they\u2019re dead wrong about it. There is no comparison to how Trump came in and won the Republican nomination to how Bloomberg is trying to do it.<\/p>\n<p>But the way the Democrats look at it is this. They think Trump is a walking disaster, that he got away with a lot of things that normal politicians would have been destroyed by. So they think, well, it must not matter anymore. We don\u2019t need to follow the old political rules. So here comes Bloomberg, who has said all of these things in the past, documented on videotape, that fly in the face of what Democrats believe, but they think in the era of Trump it doesn\u2019t matter anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m telling you, they are so out of sorts, discombobulated by Trump and their inability to get rid of him that they are resorting to accepting anybody and anything in their race who they think might be able to beat him, no matter what this guy might end up doing to their party. That\u2019s why it\u2019s fascinating for me to watch. Plus, it\u2019s my job, man.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, here is the audio sound bite that I talked about prior to the previous hour ending. This is the infobabe at CNN, Brianna Keilar, and she\u2019s talking to Bloomberg communication director Jason Schechter. She said, &#8220;How is Mayor Bloomberg gonna respond to candidates and others who are increasingly gonna call on him to release women who have sued him from nondisclosure agreements?&#8221; He\u2019s been sued by a lot of women. He is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Folks, this guy is a misogynist like you can\u2019t believe. He insults women, he tells we go to women to &#8220;kill it&#8221; if they want to stay working for him, meaning go get an abortion, and many of these women &#8212; there are many of them &#8212; they had to sign NDAs after he\u2019s paid them off. And that\u2019s what she\u2019s asking, &#8220;When is Bloomberg gonna respond to candidates who are increasingly gonna call on him to release these women who he has made sign NDAs?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-323821\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-100119-Bloomberg-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-100119-Bloomberg-.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-100119-Bloomberg--300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>SCHECTER: He\u2019s going to talk about the work that his foundation has done around the world to provide access to reproductive services, make sure that women have the right to choose. The knives come out. The opposition research drops &#8212; and that\u2019s fine, by the way. It is your job to cover that; it is our job to respond to that. But what we hear from voters on the ground is very different.<\/p>\n<p>KEILAR: But why doesn\u2019t he release these women from NDAs?<\/p>\n<p>SCHECTER: He has &#8212; he has said that NDAs are agreements between two parties! They are confidential agreements. That\u2019s not the point, though, and we think what voters care about ultimately is: What is his track record? His track record is all about elevating women in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>KEILAR: I mean, I &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>SCHECTER: He supports Planned Parenthood. He\u2019s one of the biggest supporters of Planned Parenthood. That\u2019s what we think, ultimately, that voters care about.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And that\u2019s how you do it. You donate money to Planned Parenthood, you talk about funding abortion as often as you can, and you tame women in the media who want to come after you. That\u2019s the total answer. &#8220;Well, he\u2019s gonna talk about the work that his foundation\u2019s done around the world to provide access to abortion &#8212; ah, reproductive services. Sorry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Westchester, Ohio. This is J.R., great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi. Mega dittos.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I was just calling because Bloomberg has paid internet influence &#8212; I\u2019m so nervous &#8212; he\u2019s paid them to create memes for him to &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; make him more popular. And now all of a sudden he\u2019s not in the polls at all, and he gets bumped up to second overnight right before a debate. It just makes it seem like perhaps he\u2019s paying internet, you know, robot farms to influence the polls.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, that can clearly happen. We here at the EIB Network have been the victim of those bots. We identified the people behind them and were able to shut it down. But there\u2019s no question they exist, and there\u2019s no question they can be purchased. She\u2019s talking about the Marist poll. And out of nowhere Doomberg shows up in second place behind Crazy Bernie at 19%.<\/p>\n<p>And that, plus a couple of other changes in midstream by the Democrat National Committee, got him on the debate stage tomorrow night. Had there not been these middle-of-the-stream changes in the rules, Bloomberg would not be on that debate stage tomorrow night. He would not yet have qualified because he doesn\u2019t have a lot of donors, he is his primary donor. That\u2019s number one. And in polling data is something. And he\u2019s vaulted to 19% here.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I\u2019m wondering, okay, what do Mayor Pete and Biden, Plugs, Klobuchar, these people, Crazy Bernie, what are they gonna do about this? They\u2019ve gotta do something about it because they are the direct-line opposition now.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Nancy in Lakewood, Ohio, great to have you with us on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. I\u2019ll tell you why I called. I just had to call, because when I heard Bloomberg smash the farmers&#8230; I\u2019m an old farm kid, and I started working when I was 7 years old, and what I learned on the farm? I learned how to work! I learned how to work hard, be responsible, take care of the land, respect the animals &#8212; and that taught me to be a doggone good citizen, and I was ticked with what Bloomberg said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-334231\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/APP-012320-Bloomberg-Mini-Doom-LOGO-Blue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/APP-012320-Bloomberg-Mini-Doom-LOGO-Blue.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/APP-012320-Bloomberg-Mini-Doom-LOGO-Blue-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: Yeah. You know, the stereotypes that the left has of us are tiresome, and they are worn out. They are mean-spirited and dispiriting, and the idea that anybody that has not been to an Ivy League school or a major institution of higher learning &#8212; and, by the way, this is something Bloomberg doesn\u2019t even realize. There are entire universities devoted to agriculture, and there are people that go to these schools and graduate, become expert farmers. You\u2019re exactly right.<\/p>\n<p>You have to know a lot to be a farmer. You have to be able to learn a lot. You know, there\u2019s an old trick the Soviet Union used to pull. One of the differences in communism and everything else is that communism says, &#8220;There is no God. There is no God, there\u2019s no Jesus Christ, there\u2019s no Allah, there\u2019s no nothing but the state. The state is it,&#8221; and the way they would the indoctrinate kids in any community&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They do it in China to this day. They still do it in parts of Russia, the Soviet Union. They would get a plant. Call it &#8220;the Bloomberg Plant,&#8221; Bloomberg 1, Bloomberg 2. They\u2019d get any kind of plant whatsoever, and they would put it in a pot with soil, and they would say, &#8220;This is the God plant,&#8221; and they would set it aside over here, and then this is our plant. This is the state\u2019s plant,&#8221; and every day, they would water and care for the state\u2019s plant. They let the God plant go unattended. Well, what do you think happened?<\/p>\n<p>The God plant died. It never got any water. It never got any care. But the state plant prospered. It grew, it blossomed, all these wonderful things. So little kids were taught that God doesn\u2019t exist. The plant depending God died. The plant that the state watered and fed and took care of prospered &#8212; and this is how they indoctrinated people. This is a modern-day version of what the left is attempting to persuade as many people as they can of, that God doesn\u2019t exist and that people who believe in God are somehow kooky and oddball and weird &#8212; and they happen to be farmers.<\/p>\n<p>What do farmers do? They go to church. Farmers pray for rain. Farmers pray for this. They do all of these things, and these leftists have these stereotypical attitudes and views toward people of the soil, people of the dirt. It used to be&#8230; This is the fascinating thing. It used to be that those were the people the Democrat Party considered its number one constituents. The farm bill every year was a Democrat Party gold mine, not to mention the fact that farmers and their constituents were considered the little guy.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Democrats have abandoned them left and right on the basis that there\u2019s no way a farmer can be an elitist. There\u2019s no way a farmer can be smart. 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