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<\/p>\nRUSH: I do have just a few points I want to continue to make here about these two speeches because I can\u2019t say enough how… I didn\u2019t want to watch. Folks, I\u2019ve had my fill of these people for all these years, and I was really disappointed last night, depressed, whatever the emotion is when you know you have to do something and you don\u2019t want to do it. In fact, I have evolved a phrase or saying that I use to convince people of how fortunate I am and what my success means to me.<\/p>\n
One of those phrases is, “I\u2019ve gotten to the point now where I don\u2019t have to do anything I don\u2019t want to do,” and it really isn\u2019t true, \u2019cause I didn\u2019t want to watch this stuff last night. I didn\u2019t want to watch the preliminaries. I didn\u2019t want to watch anybody on TV tell me what was coming. I didn\u2019t want to watch the preludes. I didn\u2019t want to watch the speeches.<\/p>\n
I really didn\u2019t want to watch any of Obama. I had no desire. I was reminded last night why I told the Wall Street Journal when they asked me, “I don\u2019t need 400 words to express my hopes for the first African-American\u2019s administration. I only need four: ‘I hope he fails.'” I was prouder of that last night than I\u2019ve been in a long time. But I did watch it. I watch it because I had to — and I clearly wanted to because it\u2019s crucially important.<\/p>\n
I was literally dumbfounded at how pathetic it was, and I\u2019m talking about in a politically professional way. With the opportunity they had, with the sycophantic media that they own, with a media that\u2019s hoping and praying that every sentence is a grand-slam home run — a media just knocking, chomping at the bit willing to amplify everything beyond any hope of reality.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve got everybody on their side that we consider an opponent, and they let everybody down. You could see it. You could see it in the post-speech commentary. Let me give you some examples, just so you don\u2019t have to rely totally on me. Let\u2019s see. See, I\u2019ve already got things out of order here. Yeah, grab sound bite number 11. This is Chris Wallace after the Obama speech. Yeah, this is not Fox News Sunday. What is this? (interruption) He hosts it. Okay. This is Chris Wallace last night after the Obama speech.<\/p>\n
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WALLACE: I gotta say, guys (chuckles), I thought it was a really curious speech. You say he talked for 15 minutes. Somebody will tell me if I\u2019m right or wrong. I bet you he didn\u2019t talk for Joe Biden for five of those 15 minutes. It wasn\u2019t even all that much about Donald Trump, although he certainly made clear — I think you can only call it — his contempt for Donald Trump. But most of it was about (pause) almost like the community organizer from Chicago. It was a curious speech.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, now, this is a mouthful: A community organizer from Chicago. That\u2019s how I characterized it in the first hour, and that is exactly right. But Wallace didn\u2019t want to say this. “Curious” is as close as he\u2019s gonna get to criticizing. “Curious”? I would have to be guessing what he meant by that, but I think everybody watching this had… Well, you could tell.<\/p>\n
You could tell in the pre-hours before it started, everybody was amped up for Obama. Everybody thought, “We\u2019re gonna get the Obama from 2004 Democrat convention!” They thought they were gonna get the uplifting Obama. They thought they were gonna get Obama saying, “There isn\u2019t any liberal or Republican, any liberal or conservative American. We\u2019re all Americans. There isn\u2019t any left-wing state, aren\u2019t any right-wing states. There are the United States.”<\/p>\n
They thought, I guess, they were gonna get something like that. I think they thought they were gonna get unity out the wazoo because in their world Trump is dividing everybody. What they don\u2019t know is that for eight years, Barack Obama is who divided this country — and he did it using race. They never saw it. They saw Obama as somebody entirely different.<\/p>\n
He was historical, the first African-American president. It was the official pushback against slavery, all these things. Obama\u2019s the smartest guy in the room, the crease in his slacks — you know, all these superficial things they used — and they had way lofty expectations for what Obama was gonna do. He didn\u2019t meet them. He didn\u2019t come close. They were let down.<\/p>\n
I think Donna Brazile was let down. I think… (sigh)<\/p>\n
I think they all were.<\/p>\n
I think everybody that was expecting great things that, “We\u2019re gonna finally unify the country. We\u2019re gonna show body what unity is! We\u2019re gonna show what a president caring about all Americans looks like. We\u2019re gonna see what a real political professional can do! We\u2019re gonna see all these things we were gonna see, and gonna make Donald Trump look like the reprobate he is,” and Obama made himself look like the petty partisan — mean-spirited at that.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s Chris again, sound bite number 13. He was curious about Kamala Harris\u2019 speech as well.<\/p>\n
WALLACE: Tonight reminded me of nothing so much as Kamala Harris\u2019 whole campaign for president. It started out with this huge rally in Oakland, 20,000 people cheering, and she flamed out and was out of the race by the end of 2019 before the first votes in Iowa. Uh, I thought there was a lot of Democratic boilerplate, both in the attack on Donald Trump and the praise of, uh, Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I don\u2019t think it was even boilerplate. That\u2019s what it was. It was curious, but he\u2019d already said that about the Obama speech. Her speech was just… That speech was a cover-up. That speech of hers, they wrote that speech for her to cover up who she is. That was a, “Make sure she doesn\u2019t come across as the radical she is.” That speech was (summarized), “I\u2019m a woman and the only people that matter to me are women.<\/p>\n
“The only people matter to Democrats are women, particularly white women who live in the suburbs who like Black Lives Matter. That\u2019s who we\u2019re going after; that\u2019s who we love.” Let\u2019s see. Martha MacCallum, audio sound bite number 12. This is… She talking, I guess, to Bret Baier, and this is after Kamala Harris\u2019 speech.<\/p>\n
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MACCALLUM: Joe Biden and Jill Biden are out there, uh, too. But the waving to, you know, the crowd, the people at home watching, obviously, but just a very, very different scene from anything we\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n
BAIER: “Surreal” is really the word.<\/p>\n
MACCALLUM: Yes!<\/p>\n
BAIER: Joe Biden, socially distanced, kind of bowing to her. Ummm. Whether they\u2019ve been tested or they could hug, maybe just for tonight? I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
RUSH: See, they\u2019re so strange. Socially distance. Not getting close to each other. He\u2019s kind of bowing down. They couldn\u2019t even hug for one second here on the night, the biggest night of both of their lives? Here\u2019s Martha again, audio sound bite number 10. This is after Obama\u2019s speech…<\/p>\n
MACCALLUM: Well… It was not, uh, an uplifting speech. Um, I think that\u2019s one of the things that we\u2019ve been noticing throughout the course of this.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
MACCALLUM: Very somber —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
MACCALLUM: — in the tone from the former President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n
RUSH: How about that? Not very uplifting. Yeah. There were all perplexed, \u2019cause they all had these lofty expectations. You know, they all go in with the same (I consider them to be) misconceptions about Obama. I think we still have, on our side — conservative, Republican, however you want to define our side. We still have a lot of people scared to death to tell you what they really think of Obama.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re afraid what\u2019s gonna happen to \u2019em. They\u2019re afraid they\u2019re gonna be called racists. Nobody wants to be called racist! So she just shut up or they lie and say great things. It\u2019s almost commensurate with the Trump voters who do not tell people that they support Trump, \u2019cause they\u2019re worried what\u2019s gonna happen to them if they do. So they just stay quiet. They stand mute.<\/p>\n
As for the Harris speech, you know, I was puzzled. I was trying to digest it and understand it, because they\u2019ve positioned her on the basis of her identity, not her accomplishments, not her achievements. We didn\u2019t get a lofty explanation of her resume. We didn\u2019t hear how tough on crime she is (chuckles), \u2019cause that\u2019s not what the Democrats want now. The Democrats are soft on crime, by definition.<\/p>\n
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They have sidled up to Black Lives Matter, a Marxist organization. Kamala Harris was tough on criminals. So instead, they\u2019re going after the identity angle: “First woman of color to be selected to run as vice president on the ticket!” So they have to portray her as — or turn her into — a victim out of all the things that she is. The victim\u2019s not one of them. She is not a victim of anybody or anything — and yet to the Democrats, she\u2019s a woman of color; that automatically equals victim.<\/p>\n
She had been discriminated against, she had been biased against, she has been unfairly treated. Lord knows how many men have made unwanted sexual advances toward her — all this stuff that happens to all women, particularly women of color. They\u2019ve had so much time to get this right, and they blew it almost as badly as they could have, which I think…<\/p>\n
Just to wrap it up, I think what you watched last night was people who have been so immersed in their own hatred for Donald Trump and the fact that Trump won and the fact that they can\u2019t get rid of him and everything they\u2019ve tried. I think the hatred has become a poison, and now they\u2019re taking the effort to get rid of Trump personally. They take the failure to achieve it personally.<\/p>\n
And now they\u2019re getting mad at the people who just will not see it their way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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