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<\/p>\nRUSH: Well, it\u2019s gonna be a little bit uncomfortable today, folks, because of the comments that I am inclined to make here about people I normally leave alone. What I saw last night watching the Democrat convention, oh, my goodness. It was pathetic. It was pathetic!<\/p>\n
And then to watch everybody talk about how wonderful it was and how great it was and, oh, my goodness, I hope we never, ever go back to conventions in a big hall and the big floor and all the — My friends, the lengths to which people are going to cover up for the absolute, pathetic nature of this convention is just amazing. It\u2019s breathtaking to behold.<\/p>\n
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Anyhow, it\u2019s great to be here. Great to have you with us, as always. The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n
The ratings continue to be also pathetic for the Democrat National Convention, and they can\u2019t figure out why. They\u2019re trying hard. They\u2019re assembling all the experts. They\u2019re talking to all the professionals. They\u2019ve got the creme de la creme of Big Tech. They\u2019ve got the creme de la creme of broadcast network talent. They have the creme de la creme of the political world on the Democrat side. And they can\u2019t figure it out.<\/p>\n
They do not know why the ratings — and they\u2019re not good, folks. It\u2019s not that they\u2019re down a few percent here, few percent there. It is record low, no matter where you go. They originally were holding out hope that the streaming numbers, which are harder to actually ascertain, that the streaming numbers would make up for the loss or the down numbers on conventional, over-the-air broadcast television and cable. But it hasn\u2019t happened.<\/p>\n
So, there\u2019s all kinds of excuses that are being offered. “Well, it\u2019s the pandemic.” I actually heard, this is the number-one excuse. “You know, people are having to Zoom all day long. They\u2019re having to go to work on Zoom. They\u2019re having to communicate, do their jobs on Zoom. The last thing they want to do at night is go home and watch something else on Zoom,” which is how the Democrat convention is happening.<\/p>\n
I said, “Man, that is scraping the bottom of the barrel.” Because, you see, I, ladies and gentlemen, as a powerful, influential member of the media can tell them exactly why their ratings are down. It\u2019s not hard at all. They themselves ought to be able to figure this out. Maybe they have and just don\u2019t want to admit it to themselves. And I\u2019ll be happy to tell \u2019em because they\u2019re not gonna believe me. And even if they do believe me, they\u2019re not gonna acknowledge that I may have a point.<\/p>\n
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But it is real simple. We talked about it yesterday. We talked about it the day before. It all boils down to one thing: There isn\u2019t any enthusiasm in the Democrat Party for Joe Biden. They will tell you. They will tell you their own polls show that a majority of people who say they\u2019re gonna vote in November hate Trump. They\u2019re voting against Trump. They are not voting for Biden.<\/p>\n
Well, folks, that\u2019s all you need to know. If the Democrats admit that their own nominee isn\u2019t engendering or generating any excitement, then why would you expect massive tune-in to your convention featuring the guy? The two go hand in hand. You wouldn\u2019t. You wouldn\u2019t expect this.<\/p>\n
And then the VP, Kamala Harris, yeah, she\u2019s historic. No, she\u2019s not. These people lie to themselves. “Yes, she is. She\u2019s the first woman of color to be picked as vice president.” We\u2019ve been there, done that. We\u2019ve had the first person of color be president. Anything else is a step-down. You Democrats, you keep trying to create excitement out of identity related things. It\u2019s not how most people look at other people. But it is on the Democrat side.<\/p>\n
The Democrat Party, if you\u2019re an average leftist or liberal walking down the street, the first thing you notice about somebody is their skin color. Then you try to determine what their sexual orientation is. The next thing you try to determine, are they tranny? The next thing you try to figure out is something else related to their identity. The last thing you\u2019re interested in is who they are. Because who they are is irrelevant to you. What they are is what matters.<\/p>\n
So in the vast swath of the American population — don\u2019t doubt me on this — the fact that Kamala Harris is a woman of color, Jamaican person of color, Indian, nation of India person of color, it\u2019s nice and all that, but it\u2019s not historic. It certainly isn\u2019t enough to get people to tune in and watch the convention. Besides, Kamala Harris, as we also discussed, was the first Democrat to get out of the primaries. There were 23 or 24 of \u2019em in there. She got out before the first votes were even cast. She was the first out. And now she is in place to become president.<\/p>\n
Tell me how that works in terms of creating excitement. The first person out of the race because she had no hope, because she had no prayer. She had thrown everything she had going after Biden, who was the front runner. He\u2019s a racist, he\u2019s a big, I believe all of the women, I think the guy is a reprobate, all that stuff, it didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n
I could have told them it wasn\u2019t gonna work. But it didn\u2019t work, so she gets out. And now they\u2019re sitting there expecting that this convention is gonna be, I mean, uncontrollably exciting, when they admit there is no excitement for their candidate and they\u2019re having to manufacture this so-called historical choice of Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, their cities are burning, and they don\u2019t even talk about it. They don\u2019t even mention it. I mean, the Democrat Party, the one thing that they are really illustrating they have a talent for is to be absent reality. So it\u2019s no mystery to me. Now, there\u2019s some stuff to learn here as a result.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: The main thing to realize is the reason the ratings are down is Biden isn\u2019t exciting. Nobody cares to tune in.<\/p>\n
You know what? Most people on the Democrat side, because of the media, don\u2019t know the extent of Vice President Biden\u2019s mental drop-off. They just don\u2019t know it. So they don\u2019t even have the element of, “Gee, is he gonna…? Is he gonna not know where he is tonight?” Some people would watch just to see if that happened — and it did. It happened a couple times last night.<\/p>\n
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We have it on tape. We\u2019ve got it on video. We\u2019re gonna show you on the Dittocam.<\/a> He didn\u2019t know where I was. I tell you, whoever… Did you…? James, did you see when he actually accepted the nomination? He was in a VHS or a videotape library in the basement of a school, and they had some streamers — like five or six streamers — come out of the ceiling, which is like a 10-foot ceiling and two or three balloons.<\/p>\n Well, it looked small. It looked… You could count the number of streamers, and Biden looked like he thought they were snakes — they were coming out of the roof to attack him — and he\u2019s looking at them like, “Whoa! Whoa! What\u2019s this? God love ya. Oh, my God.” He went out after Jill Biden, his wife, finished her speech, and (sigh) basically said, “Why am I here?” You\u2019ll hear it.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: By the way, PMSNBC has this guy on there named Chris Hayes. The first time I saw this guy, I said, “Did he just walk in off the street and sit down, or did somebody actually hire this guy?” And I said, “If somebody actually hired this guy, why?” I mean, metrosexual and Pajama Boy don\u2019t even get close.<\/p>\n Anyway, this guy was on PMSNBC, and he was characterizing the average Trump voter<\/a>. Remember Peter Strzok Smirk? Peter Strzok Smirk said that you could smell the Trump support at a southern Virginia Walmart. He actually tweeted that to his paramour, Lisa Page. Don\u2019t worry, Babe. Don\u2019t worry about it. Don\u2019t worry. Trump\u2019s not gonna win. I was in a Walmart the other day in Virginia, you could smell the Trump support, was his tweet.<\/p>\n So Chris Hayes — he\u2019s an Ivy Leaguer, and you wouldn\u2019t doubt that, if you see him. He described the Trump political base as white men without a four-year degree who have just enough extra money to buy a boat. This was in a Twitter exchange with a reporter from the Washington Post, David Weigel three days ago, on August 16th.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Late on Sunday, Weigel, who earned a journalism degree from Northwestern University in Chicago tweeted, quote, “I keep trying to make this point, but I don\u2019t want to be patronizing. The Florida guy with a high school degree and a pile of disposable income really is a perfect Trump supporter.” So here\u2019s Hillary Clinton with her deplorables. Strzok Smirk with the fact you can smell the Trump support in a Walmart in southern Virginia, showing their true colors.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/APP-081920-Democratic-Convention-Biden-5.jpg\")
So you got the balloons and the snakes. They looked like they were attacking Biden. He didn\u2019t quite know where to look. He knew that the camera was on him. He didn\u2019t quite know where to look. He had kind of a tense smile. And behind him these streamers popped out. They fell down from the acoustical tiles in the ceiling. The visual was awkward, and it was really ill-conceived. If Biden is trying to become a world, historical figure, a king slayer who will become a king himself. This is the guy that they have chosen to finally slay the mad king, Donald Trump. The scene made him look like a mid-level executive having a retirement party on Zoom.<\/p>\n