RUSH: You know what we\u2019re going through now? I watched TV last night. We\u2019re having a replay of George W. Bush being in the White House.<\/p>\n
You know what the Democrat criticism is? “This guy, Trump, is too stupid. He doesn\u2019t have the sophistication to handle the complexity of a situation like this. He doesn\u2019t inspire confidence. Did you see President Trump\u2019s speech today? He\u2019s an idiot, he\u2019s dumb, he\u2019s stupid! You could hear him breathing! He was nervous. He\u2019s not inspiring confidence.”<\/p>\n
I get so sick and tired of this. I get so sick and tired of the left and the media telling us that every one of our politicians is a dumb, stupid idiot, and every one of theirs is a brilliant genius, when theirs are the ones that created the problems that Trump has had to get us out of. And there\u2019s not a one of these critics that could live in Donald Trump\u2019s shoes for a week and accomplish anywhere near what he has accomplished.<\/p>\n
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Sniveling little commentators on MSNBC (sniveling), “He doesn\u2019t care about us! (sniffles) He doesn\u2019t care!” He cares more about you than your precious Obama ever cared about you. He cares more about you and the people of this country than any president we\u2019ve had in, I don\u2019t know how many years, because he cares about the country. He cares about American greatness.<\/p>\n
He cares about restoring American greatness. He cares about restoring your future. What do you mean, he doesn\u2019t care about you? What\u2019s he supposed to do, come to your house and hold your hand? (sniveling) “He doesn\u2019t care about us.” Here, grab the audio sound bite. I asked Cookie to go find this. It\u2019s a little montage. You know, Fox News was playing this montage last night.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t think I\u2019m sitting around watching MSNBC all night, \u2019cause I can\u2019t take it. So I saw this. I was watching Hannity last night and he played this little montage and Laura Ingraham played this montage. I got so ticked off, I almost called both of them last night, Hannity and Ingraham. I almost said, “You need to let me on for five minutes to straighten this out.”<\/p>\n
I, of course, didn\u2019t do it, \u2019cause I said, “No, I\u2019ll wait for my own show tomorrow for people to find out what I think,” which you\u2019re now, of course, benefiting from. So here we have somebody named Basil Smikle. Basil Smikle, the former New York State Democrat Party chairman. We have a comedian named Pete Dominick. We have an infobabe from NBC named Katy Tur, and we have John Podhoretz, who writes columns for the New York Post.<\/p>\n
He was an editor at Commentary. He was Bill Kristol\u2019s partner at The Weekly Standard, and did all those successful magazine issues. Remember all those cruises inviting conservatives to come along after every election defeat to find out why it\u2019s not so bad? Now these guys are all-in on the Democrat Party in selecting and voting for Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
So, here. This only takes about 25 seconds. Oh, and Howard Dean\u2019s part of this montage as well. Here we go, 25 seconds.<\/p>\n
BASIL SMIKLE: You just don\u2019t get the sense that this president understands or even cares about managing the complexity of something.<\/p>\n
PETE DOMINICK: He does not care about us!<\/p>\n
KATY TUR: It\u2019s exposing a real lack of leadership on a federal level.<\/p>\n
JOHN PODHORETZ: We don\u2019t really have confidence that he — even after three years as president — even grasps that element of the job.<\/p>\n
HOWARD DEAN: We\u2019re crippled by not having — exactly — no leadership at the top whatsoever.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I think all these yokels were making their comments before the president\u2019s Oval Office address last night. Doesn\u2019t matter. They probably would have said the same thing afterward. But this idea, “We don\u2019t really have confidence that he — even after three years as president — even grasps that element of the job.” That\u2019s no different than Peter Jennings.<\/p>\n
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You know, on 9\/11 they found Bush reading to 4-year-olds in a school in Florida. They had to go get him and tell him what happened, and Peter Jennings said, “Well, you know, some presidents are better at this than others,” meaning comforting the American people. It was a slap at Bush, and it was a pat on the back to Bill Clinton. It\u2019s the same old, same old.<\/p>\n
(impression) “These Republicans, they don\u2019t care! They don\u2019t care about you. They have no compassion, they have no heart, and — to boot — they\u2019re idiots! They can\u2019t talk. They can\u2019t reason. They can\u2019t explain, and it\u2019s so sad because they\u2019re so thick that they can\u2019t understand the complexity of a situation.” Meanwhile, not a one of these people has ever accomplished 5% of what Donald Trump has.<\/p>\n
Not a one of them could do Donald Trump\u2019s job given what he faces opposition-wise. They couldn\u2019t, they wouldn\u2019t last a day putting up with what Donald Trump has to put up with. They haven\u2019t accomplished in their lives anything close to what Donald Trump has, and yet here we have to sit here and listen to (sniveling) “the fact that they don\u2019t think Trump understands the complexities of the job whereas, of course, Obama and any other Democrat would.”<\/p>\n
These clowns that tell us who\u2019s smart — the elites, the brilliant people — are the ones that got us in this mess in the first place. They\u2019re the ones that don\u2019t understand market economies, don\u2019t believe in market economies. They\u2019re the ones that put everything in front of America because America doesn\u2019t deserve to be a superpower.<\/p>\n
America has a price to pay for stealing so much around the world. I just… I get so sick and impatient, so I don\u2019t have room for panic here, folks. I don\u2019t have emotional room. I don\u2019t have emotional time for panic. I\u2019m also not panicking \u2019cause it\u2019s gonna end. All this stuff does. If there\u2019s one thing my life has taught me, it is that there are I cycles — up, down, good, bad. And I don\u2019t care what anybody says.<\/p>\n
There is no better time to be alive as a human being on Planet Earth than March 12th, 2020, and going forward, and there\u2019s no better place to be alive on Planet Earth than the United States of America on March 12th, 2020. And this is all gonna end, and it\u2019s gonna end when somebody finally wakes up and realizes it\u2019s nowhere near as bad and it\u2019s not gonna get as bad as everybody is afraid that it might be, as some people want it to be.<\/p>\n
And then we\u2019re gonna move forward and this economy is gonna rebound — the stock market\u2019s gonna rebound; it\u2019s gonna shock everybody — and it\u2019s probably gonna happen way before the November elections, which is gonna really disappoint the media and really disappoint the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Have you noticed, ladies and gentlemen, the same people saying — like these sniveling little brats on MSNBC — (sniveling), “The government isn\u2019t handling the virus outbreak well. Trump doesn\u2019t care about us. The government isn\u2019t doing the right thing!” They\u2019re same people that say we need to the government to run health care. “We need the government to run health care.<\/p>\n
“The government can\u2019t handle the outbreak of the virus very well. We\u2019re not very satisfied with the way government\u2019s handling it. This is not good.” And then they, of course, say, “Well, we… (grumbling) Trump is running the government and doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. That\u2019s what\u2019s wrong.” Absolute crock.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So I saw somebody on TV last night. I don\u2019t know who it was. “With the common flu killing so many more people than the coronavirus, why is there this kind of panic about the coronavirus?” Oh, I remember who it was. It was Senator Graham. Lindsey Graham said, “Well, the coronavirus is kind of like a plane crash, and the regular flu is like a car crash.”<\/p>\n
What he meant was when a plane goes down, even though it\u2019s far fewer people killed, the reaction is, “Oh, my God, an airplane went down! Oh, my God. Horrible airplane crash! What went wrong?” But when a car crashes, that happens 50,000 times a year, and isn\u2019t any big deal. Well, folks, I don\u2019t know about that.<\/p>\n
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Well, that led to story after story after story with that headline. “Anthony Fauci says Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about! The coronavirus is 10 times more lethal than the flu.” No! The story is that with the coronavirus 10 times more lethal than the flu, the fatality rate of the coronavirus is much less than everybody thought.<\/p>\n