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<\/p>\nRUSH: Okay. Quick question, ladies and gentlemen. What\u2019s the greatest threat to our country, Bernie Sanders or the coronavirus? No, no. I\u2019m serious. I\u2019m serious. What do you think is the biggest threat to this country? There\u2019s no question, it\u2019s exactly right. Bernie Sanders is by far and away the greater threat than the coronavirus. In fact, the World Health Organization, I mean, if you want to believe \u2019em — it\u2019s the U.N. — they say that the coronavirus in China has peaked, it\u2019s on the way down. I\u2019ve seen this guy on TV. He looks like Boutros Boutros-Ghali, maybe even from the same company — country. Company, whatever.<\/p>\n
Greetings, my friends, great to have you with us. El Rushbo behind the Golden EIB Microphone here at the distinguished Limbaugh Institute. Great to have you. Telephone number, 800-282-2882. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n
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It is a combination of astounding and pleasurable to read of all the panic in the media over Bernie Sanders. I\u2019m not seeing so much panic in the Democrat Party as I\u2019m seeing panic in the media, but then the media is the Democrat Party and I believe has been the intellectual impetus of the Democrat Party for many, many moons now.<\/p>\n
I think the media as an institution of objectivity, fairness, and presenting the news has been absent, long gone for quite a while. In fact, Margaret Sullivan, who used to be the public editor at the New York Times — that\u2019s who you would write to if you wanted to complain about bias in the paper, and you know what would happen to your complaints. She\u2019s not at the New York Times anymore.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s the media columnist at the Washington Post. And she\u2019s just come out with her version of the Jim Rutenberg column in 2016 at the New York Times when Rutenberg said, “It\u2019s time to throw away everything we know about journalism. We have to devote ourselves to destroying Donald Trump.”<\/a><\/p>\n Hey, Sullivan, you\u2019ve already done it. There\u2019s nothing left to do. The media has abandoned whatever its original pretense was more than four years ago. We\u2019ll get into this in great detail as the program unfolds.<\/p>\n But there\u2019s another Democrat debate tonight, and it\u2019s being set up here with the abject panic that you encounter everywhere in the Drive-By Media today over Bernie Sanders. And, you know, it\u2019s kind of funny in a lot of ways. The Democrat Party has actually created one of its biggest problems, and that problem is Bernie Sanders and Super Tuesday. Because after Super Tuesday Bernie Sanders is gonna have an insurmountable delegate lead.<\/p>\n And let\u2019s be honest about something. You can say Bloomberg Doomberg all you want, and you can talk about his money, but what\u2019s Bloomberg missing? What\u2019s he missing? Fire in the belly. Bloomberg is missing the raw desire you have to have to win this office. What\u2019s my evidence? He didn\u2019t get into it until six to nine months of it had already gone by. He gets into it after a lot of delegates are chosen. He gets into it with no chance of having any serious delegate victory in Super Tuesday. He gets into it and does nothing but spend his money to try to impact something or other.<\/p>\n The fire in the belly is what\u2019s missing. Bloomberg just doesn\u2019t have it. I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re a Bloomberg fan, I hate to disappoint you, but he could not do one-third of Donald Trump\u2019s average day. There aren\u2019t very many other people that could, either, but Bloomberg couldn\u2019t. He doesn\u2019t want to. That\u2019s the difference. He doesn\u2019t want to. And you can see it.<\/p>\n So whatever Bloomberg does and whatever he\u2019s gonna end up meaning as a factor in all this, it isn\u2019t gonna be to propel himself. It\u2019s too late. And, you know, all of these secret recordings are coming out. They continue to drop embarrassing things. Now they\u2019ve got him on tape ripping into Obama. That isn\u2019t gonna sit well with the Democrats out there.<\/p>\n But what the Democrats did, by front loading Super Tuesday, putting California in it, they have dug their own grave. By putting California — that\u2019s 400 and some odd delegates. Now, it\u2019s not winner-take-all in California. That\u2019s the only saving grace. Delegates in the California primary are apportioned according to how the votes are tallied candidate to candidate. It\u2019s not winner-take-all. It\u2019s a lot of delegates, though, and Crazy Bernie is gonna get the lion\u2019s share of them.<\/p>\n And nobody in the media is pointing this out. Nobody is pointing out the Democrats created their own nightmare here by putting so many of their big-state primaries, moving them forward into Super Tuesday. I mean, this thing, for all intents and purposes, could be over next Tuesday, and then the fun really begins as the Democrats in the media begin to devise ways of sabotaging Crazy Bernie in the remaining months to the Democrat convention.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Let me just give you some of the headlines of these panic stories.<\/p>\n Here first, New York Magazine, Jonathan Chait. This guy… He\u2019s a leftist; so he escapes this characterization. This guy just hates us, folks. He just hates conservatives, Republicans, hates Trump. Headline: “If Democrats Aren\u2019t Terrified of Bernie, They Are Not Paying Attention.<\/a>” From TheHill.com\u2019s The Memo: “Democrat Rivals Have Seven Days to Stop<\/a>” Crazy Bernie. Washington Post, Hurricane Katrina vanden Heuvel. “Get Ready for the Anti-Sanders Media Avalanche,<\/a>” and from Thomas “Loopy” Friedman of the New York Times:<\/p>\n “Dems, Want to Defeat Trump? Form a Team of Rivals.<\/a>” Wait \u2019til… This guy\u2019s off his rocker. The precise reason they\u2019re in trouble is \u2019cause they can\u2019t do what Thomas “Loopy” Friedman wants them to do. He also wants the United States to become more like China. And there\u2019s an internal poll from the Bloomberg campaign showing that Bernie would sink Democrats down the ballot — House, Senate, mayor, comptroller, dogcatcher, you know, what have you. He\u2019d wipe \u2019em out.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: This is Gideon in Greenwich, Connecticut. I\u2019m glad you called. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hey, Rush.<\/p>\n RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n CALLER: You said Christina (sic) vanden Heuvel predicts there will be a media war on Bernie, but I think she\u2019s half right. I think they will pursue that for a little while, but once he\u2019s in, once this happens, I think they will coalesce around him. They will rally around that guy like we\u2019ve never seen, \u2019cause you said a few weeks ago: They\u2019re not afraid of him because he might win. They\u2019re afraid of him \u2019cause he might lose.<\/p>\n RUSH: Exactly.<\/p>\n CALLER: I agree with everything. There\u2019s not… Is there a point…? Is there a single part of Bernie\u2019s philosophy that a typical, leftist media member —<\/p>\n RUSH: Let me read a portion of this piece to you and get your reaction to it, okay? What Gideon is reacting to is there\u2019s a column in the Washington Post today by a well-known communist. Her name is Katrina vanden Heuvel. She is the daughter of some wealthy New York communist. She married a guy named Steve Cohen from Princeton who loves the Russians and loves the Soviets. She\u2019s all-in on the Soviets — well, Russia becoming the Soviet Union again. She loves \u2019em.<\/p>\n Dadelut! Dadelut! Dadelut!<\/p>\n “A self-professed ‘democratic socialist\u2019 leading the race? Get ready for red-baiting, slander and just plain silliness. Politicians can\u2019t help themselves. The question is whether the media will pile on — or provide common sense. The early returns aren\u2019t encouraging.” She loves Crazy Bernie. She is afraid that the media is going to turn negative on him and try to savage him. That\u2019s what she\u2019s worried about. You think that after enough time goes by, the media will sign on like they have AOC and they\u2019ll be all-in for Bernie? That\u2019s your theory?<\/p>\n CALLER: They will not even allow Bernie to call himself — they won\u2019t use his title — “socialist” anymore. That will be dropped. He will be completely sanitized. I can\u2019t remember reading a negative leftist media story about AOC, ever, and I think Bernie will get the same treatment. He will be frustrated. He\u2019ll say (impression), “Stop calling me a Democrat. I\u2019m a socialist!” But that\u2019s what they\u2019re gonna call him.<\/p>\n RUSH: Hey, that\u2019s pretty good. Say that again. That was pretty good. Say that again.<\/p>\n CALLER: “Stop calling me a socialist.” I mean, “I\u2019m a socialist. Stop calling me a Democrat.”<\/p>\n RUSH: Better the first time but still good.<\/p>\n CALLER: Ha-ha-ha! By the way, there\u2019s never been a better name for a political rally (sic) than Boutros Boutros-Ghali.<\/p>\n RUSH: Boutros Boutros. (laughing) By golly, why not? Look, you got Carville. You think Carville\u2019s gonna end up becoming pro-Bernie?<\/p>\n CALLER: No. Carville will be a holdout \u2019cause he\u2019s a Marine, for God\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, if Carville\u2019s a holdout, there\u2019s gonna be a bunch of \u2019em that are holdouts. Your theory makes sense. ‘Cause at the end of the day, the enemy will remain Trump, and if Crazy Bernie\u2019s the only way to get rid of him, then they\u2019ll unify behind him. That\u2019s the odds, anyway.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: This is New York Magazine, Jonathan Chait. Now, this guy is highly reputed and respected on the left. He is considered one of their biggest brains, and he hates us. He thinks Republicans and conservatives are as close to subhuman as you can get — and that\u2019s, I guess, one of the reasons why he\u2019s revered. “If Democrats Aren\u2019t Terrified of Bernie, They\u2019re Not Paying Attention.”<\/a><\/p>\n Let me give you a couple of pull quotes to illustrate why Jonathan Chait is in full-fledged panic mode over Crazy Bernie winning. Pull quote number one: “Watching the Brexit debacle from afar, it seemed impossible to understand how the Labour Party could know full well it needed to win a national election in order to prevent an irreversible setback, yet harness itself to Jeremy Corbyn, whose toxic leadership made victory nearly impossible,” and they did.<\/p>\n This guy, Jeremy Corbyn, is Crazy Bernie on steroids. He\u2019s just a genuine left-wing lunatic\/mainstream Democrat. But he was so toxic that not even the British left could stomach the guy. So Chait continued: “The rise of Bernie Sanders, at a moment when Donald Trump is accelerating his war on the rule of law…” What? (sputtering) What — what — what? “Donald Trump is accelerating his war on the rule of law”? It must be immigration he\u2019s talking about.<\/p>\n “A liberal party drifting helplessly along as a small radical cabal steers it toward likely catastrophe? I didn\u2019t think it could happen here,” he writes, but that\u2019s what he thinks is happening: “A liberal party” the Democrats” drifting helplessly along as a small radical cabal” led by Crazy Bernie “steers it toward likely catastrophe.” Another pull quote: “The Democratic primary can be seen as a series of candidates goading each other to jump into the lion\u2019s den.<\/p>\n “All the candidates have exposed themselves by taking at least a few unpopular positions, but none have gone quite as far as Sanders. What makes Bernie\u2019s profile uniquely toxic is the way his liabilities all reinforce each other. He combines discrete, deeply unpopular policy positions with an unpopular socialist label, which in turn reinforce the fact that his campaign is premised on radically changing the economy, the one thing most voters believe Trump has done well.<\/p>\n “His historic statements praising various leftist dictators reinforce the impression of kookery.” Impression of kookery? He is a kook! Bernie Sanders as an abject kook. “His historic statements praising various leftist dictators…” See, the Democrat Party has always loved leftist dictators. They just haven\u2019t said so. It\u2019s only yesterday I told you how Ted Kennedy was working with Soviet leaders to undermine Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n It was the Democrat Party that was attempting to help the Soviet Union establish a beachhead in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Ditto Grenada at the same time. It was the Democrat Party that got very mad when Daniel Ortega of the Sandanistas embarrassed them by flying off to Moscow for some money after the Democrats voted in favor of Nicaragua\u2019s Sandinistas in the 1980s. The idea that the Democrat Party is not friendly with various leftist dictators is absurd.<\/p>\n What do you expect? It\u2019s not just Bernie Sanders fascinated with Castro. All of Hollywood\u2019s fascinated with Castro. All of Hollywood\u2019s fascinated with Che Guevara. All of Hollywood was fascinated with Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. It isn\u2019t unusual for Democrats and their celebrity figureheads to love dictators. It\u2019s common. I\u2019m sorry, folks, if I\u2019m yelling, but it\u2019s just me trying to be forceful. This idea that Crazy Bernie\u2019s an outlier and is embarrassing to Democrats by praising Castro?<\/p>\n They\u2019ve all praised Castro, particularly against American presidents like Nixon and Reagan. You\u2019ve got Michael Moore running around doing documentary films on the superiority of the Cuban health care system, for crying out loud. It\u2019s mainstream Democrat Party belief to sidle up to and support left-wing dictators. I don\u2019t know what Chait\u2019s concerned about here. Bernie Sanders is no different.<\/p>\n The only thing different is he\u2019s the first guy to actually look like he might get the Democrat nomination talking about this stuff. But I\u2019ll guaran-damn-tee you that Barack Obama… Look at the efforts Obama made to normalize relationships with Cuba. Look at the efforts that Mondale was making during the campaign against Reagan in 1984. Look at the Democrat Party\u2019s forever alliance with Erich Honecker in East Germany. My golly, folks. (sigh) I mean, it would actually be more uncommon to find a Democrat speaking out against these people.<\/p>\n It was the selling of communism and the glory of the state! It wasn\u2019t a literacy program. They had to learn to read this stuff or else they\u2019d go to gulags, or their parents would. There is starvation rampant in communist countries, including China today, including Venezuela, including Cuba — and wherever there are vestiges of it anywhere in the world, you\u2019re gonna find misery, discontent, and people desperate to escape where they live.<\/p>\n Where do they all want to go? Right here, United States of America, which — to the Democrat Party — is the destabilizing agent of the world because of our superpower status. To the Democrat Party, it\u2019s the United States that\u2019s causing all the misery in Cuba and all misery in Venezuela and all the problems in China. It\u2019s our superpower status and the fact that we\u2019re so rich and so much more powerful that we have stolen so much to become what we are, which is bogus.<\/p>\n This idea that Bernie Sanders is some oddball outlier? Don\u2019t fall for it. He is mainstream Democrat Party. So this headline: “If Democrats Aren\u2019t Terrified of Bernie, They\u2019re Not Paying Attention.” Let me give you one more pull quote from this piece just to illustrate what I was just saying. Quote: Bernie “Sanders is a completely unique asset for the left…” No, he isn\u2019t. He is as common as you are, Chait!<\/p>\n “Sanders is a completely unique asset for the left — a proud socialist who holds national office — who will be too old to run again by the next election (if he isn\u2019t too old already), and who has no short-term successor. They have every incentive to imagine away his many flaws and seize on the real but unlikely possibility he can defy the odds and win. What is shocking is observing how many other progressives have joined in this fantasy with them.”<\/p>\n (Snort!) This is not a fantasy. It is a dream come true to these people, Mr. Chait! You know what\u2019s amazing? Not even the people in the middle of this pro-socialist, communist-sympathetic party realize what they are. They think Bernie\u2019s an outlier. They think Bernie\u2019s an oddball kook who\u2019s gonna take \u2019em all down. I\u2019ll tell you, it\u2019s easier to find a Democrat sympathetic to Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez than it is to find a Democrat who opposes them.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Back now to the stories that I accumulated here on the panic related to Bernie Sanders. The next one in my Stack<\/a> is by Niall Stanage today at the Hill, and the headline: “Democrat Rivals Have Seven Days to Stop Sanders<\/a> — Rival candidates have just a week to stop Sen. Bernie Sanders if they hope to prevent the Independent from Vermont from taking the party\u2019s presidential nomination.”<\/p>\n Now, why seven days? What is it? Well, because of Super Tuesday coming up a week from today. If they don\u2019t stop Bernie by – (interruption) How do you stop him? “His current trajectory is set to carry him to at least a top-two finish in South Carolina\u2019s primary Saturday. From there, he looks likely to roll through Super Tuesday on March 3, harvesting huge numbers of delegates from California and other large states.<\/p>\n “It is eminently plausible that, by the end of that night, Sanders will have jumped out to a delegate lead that none of his rivals can reel in — especially given the likelihood that more than a half-dozen other major candidates remain in the race.”<\/p>\n Four hundred fifteen delegates in California. It\u2019s not winner-take-all there, but if he wins most of the popular vote, he\u2019ll get most of the delegates. Seven days to stop Crazy Bernie.<\/p>\n So here is the piece de resistance — a little French lingo there. Thomas “Loopy” Friedman from the New York Times, who believes that the United States needs to have a government more like the ChiComs, 11 or 12 really smart people making all the decisions about everything, and Friedman thinks that he should be one of the 11 or 12. Because he was in an Obama workshop on employment even though his expertise is supposedly foreign policy.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-Tearaway-WAPO-022520.jpg\")
<\/a>She has done her version of that for the Washington Post now: It\u2019s time to abandon everything we thought we knew about journalism and create something brand-new that is complete, total advocacy aimed at destroying Donald Trump.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Debate-Dem-NEVADA-Bloom.jpg\")
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We called her Hurricane Katrina, \u2019cause she didn\u2019t like that. Her name is Katrina vanden Heuvel. Katrina is a Russian name, as you well know. It\u2019s an Eastern Bloc name. It\u2019s all in there, and the headline of her piece: “Get Ready for the Anti-Sanders Media Avalanche<\/a> — Bernie Sanders\u2019s resounding victory in the Nevada caucuses — and the Vermont senator\u2019s sweep of the popular vote in the first three primaries — makes him the early front-runner…”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/APP-040219-Bernie-Sanders-bw.jpg\")
See, the lefties don\u2019t like enforcing the law on illegal immigration.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CastroMad.jpg\")
Who do you think wears the Che Guevara T-shirts around? Who do you think is it that lionized Castro all these years and claimed that Castro was a victim of United States imperialism? Okay. So Crazy Bernie\u2019s all-in on it. He honeymoons in Moscow in the eighties and lionizes Fidel Castro today, praises Castro for a “literacy program.” As I said yesterday, Castro\u2019s literacy program was the imposition of propaganda and indoctrination on Cuban kids.<\/p>\n
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So Friedman — when I first saw the headline, I didn\u2019t quite know quite what this meant. “Form a team of rivals” to defeat Trump. “If this election turns out to be just between -” get this, by the way. This is the opening sentence. “If this election turns out to be just between a self-proclaimed socialist and an undiagnosed sociopath, we will be in a terrible, terrible place as a country. How do we prevent that?”<\/p>\n