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<\/p>\nRUSH: Now, much was made about the Obamas and their Netflix deal. Remember that? The swooning was total in the Drive-By Media. The Democrats in the media, everybody said (giddily), “Oh, my God! The Obamas got a — got a production deal at Netflix? Oh, my God! This is so wonderful. The Obamas are gonna be able to propagandize. Aw, this is so great!”<\/p>\n
“Michelle Obama Dealt Sobering Blow by Critics After Netflix Flop — Former first lady Michelle Obama\u2019s fans and supporters were excited for the May 6 release of her new Netflix documentary Becoming, expecting it to be as successful as her 2018 book was,” and there\u2019s no denying her book was a success. But do we know why?<\/p>\n
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We\u2019re being led to believe that people all over the world couldn\u2019t wait to buy it. They couldn\u2019t get enough of it. Some liked it so much they bought multiple copies. So the illusion — manufactured, created, it\u2019s ongoing — is that the Obamas are alone in the pantheon of political popularity, that nobody is even close. And if Michelle Obama ends up on the ticket?<\/p>\n
“Oh, my God. It\u2019s over for Trump. Oh, my God! There\u2019s one person Trump can\u2019t beat, and it\u2019s Michelle Obama.” This is the conventional wisdom. Her Netflix documentary — in the middle of a pandemic, when everybody is at home — was a bomb. It was a flop. “Rush, you sound like you\u2019re happy about it flopping.”<\/p>\n
No. Folks, don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not happy that the thing flopped. I\u2019m happy that, once again, a big batch of conventional wisdom has been stood upside down on its head. The conventional wisdom is that you can\u2019t touch the Obamas in popularity and that if she decides to run for president — if they somehow draft her to get rid of Plugs — it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n
“She\u2019s so universally loved and adored and so popular, there is no way to win. Trump should just quit. Trump should not even mount a campaign. Trump shouldn\u2019t waste time and waste money, because nobody can beat Michelle Obama.” Isn\u2019t this not one of the things, in various forms, that we have heard? And this documentary, called Becoming… I mean, it was hyped, it was promoted, it was anticipated.<\/p>\n
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“But after the widely anticipated film … was released, critics weren\u2019t exactly raving about it. In fact, some” critics — the people who wanted it to be a slam-dunk, home-run success, “seemed to be pretty disappointed. Prior to its release, the trailer appeared to offer a better inside look into the Obamas than what reviewers got.” In other words, the trailer was something but the actual show itself was a bomb.<\/p>\n
“Variety accused the film of presenting the former first lady in a ‘manicured\u2019 fashion.” You see how the Obamas escape? It\u2019s their film! It\u2019s not some director that we don\u2019t know or producer that goofed up. It was the Obamas! You think they had no control over what this was? “Variety accused the film of presenting the former…” I\u2019ll bet the film\u2019s offended.<\/p>\n
“Variety accused the film of presenting the former first lady in a ‘manicured\u2019 fashion.” The film didn\u2019t present anything. The Obamas presented themselves — and I\u2019ll guarantee you this. They presented themselves, \u2019cause they buy their own hype. They\u2019re just like the Clintons. They believe their own press clippings, and so they put this thing together based on what they believe, based on what they were told that their audience — or their voters, supporters, whatever — wanted to see.<\/p>\n
And it bombed. Variety says, “There are no big revelations here, no gotcha moments or intimate scenes in which [the] subject lets down her guard, but the target audience hardly expects anything tougher. Far more than the memoir,” i.e., the book, “the film presents a manicured version of the way Michelle Obama sees herself…”<\/p>\n
The film does nothing!<\/p>\n
Michelle Obama “presents a manicured version.”<\/p>\n
You think that she had no say so over what this film was and how it was put together? But since it bombed and since it\u2019s so bad, they have to write reviews of it as though she got screwed, too. A bunch of incompetent people — and “the film” — did a lousy job. “Other critics painted the film as nothing more than a tool to help the Obama family ‘retreat from the global stage.'”<\/p>\n
In other words, a lot of people watched this thing and they took away from it that this was the Obamas are waving good-bye to the public stage, not getting ready to get back on it. And with that one quote, we now know why the major disappointment over the Michelle (My Belle) Obama Netflix flop. They were all expecting it to be the precursor to a presidential run.<\/p>\n
You know, just like when a politician goes out and writes a book.<\/p>\n
It is presumed that\u2019s a requirement.<\/p>\n
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If you\u2019re gonna run for president, you gotta write a book. You have to write a book. You have to get the book out there. People have to read the book or people have to pretend to read it. Well, she\u2019s got her book out there, but this was to be the vehicle whereby the people of America would stop everything they were doing and demand and beg Michelle Obama to run and save America yet again.<\/p>\n
And yet the critics watched it and said this thing is really just the Obama family “retreat[ing] from the global stage. The film feels very much like an artifact of the Obamas\u2019 attempted retreat from the global stage in favor of private lives producing socially relevant nonfiction films,\u2019 Vulture wrote. ‘There\u2019s no more eloquent, if disappointing, flex of power than the film\u2019s refusal to really engage on the topic lurking at its edges like a stalker pointing out the sidewalk he\u2019s standing on is technically public property.'”<\/p>\n
Whatever the hell, they\u2019re down in the dumps. They thought this was gonna be her entree to presidential candidacy, and they see it as the Obamas “waving good-bye,” and then the added insult to injury is nobody watched it. The reason I\u2019m bringing all this up is Obama has now been caught out, and it\u2019s the Flynn case that\u2019s done it. Obama is now…<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no question he was collaborating with the FBI in vetting and creating and implementing the Russian collusion narrative, including how to set up Trump. They can\u2019t have that stand, so now Obama\u2019s got to come out and start ripping Trump on the handling of the coronavirus, every number of other things — and you\u2019re not seeing any news about this, not the way I\u2019m shaping it for you.<\/p>\n
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But I guarantee you that within the hallowed halls of the Democrat establishment, there is somewhat of a letdown, \u2019cause they don\u2019t know what to do about Plugs. You know, Karl Rove says that there\u2019s nothing they can do, that there\u2019s no way they can get rid of Plugs. Karl Rove says — and he\u2019s a big rules guy — he\u2019s looking at Democrat National Committee and their convention rules, delegates and all.<\/p>\n
He says there\u2019s no way that Plugs is not the nominee.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s nothing they can do to stop it. (interruption) That\u2019s what I said. “Watch them.” But now they\u2019re even more intent on having to do so. If you\u2019re sitting out there thinking that you have a savior ace card, and then you learn that the ace card did a film on Netflix to a bunch of fanfare that nobody watched — and the people that did watch it didn\u2019t like it — and now the Flynn case has exposed Obama\u2019s role in the collusion?<\/p>\n
Oh-ho-ho-ho!<\/p>\n
There is a shakeup inside with the Biden situation that they\u2019ve got a gigantic problem.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: For those of you who didn\u2019t happen to make the top of the program, the Michelle Obama Netflix show called Becoming was a flop, and I don\u2019t mention this \u2019cause I get thrill out of other people\u2019s failures. It\u2019s to illustrate a long-held belief that the Obamas are not universally loved and adored. They\u2019re not considered god and goddess by the American people. Obama endorses candidates, and most of them lose. And yet the Democrats believe that it\u2019s just the exact opposite. And I just want to make sure, you know, keep these people in reality. They\u2019re not deities and they\u2019re not gods even though the Democrats look at the \u2019em that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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