{"id":379922,"date":"2021-01-22T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=379922"},"modified":"2021-01-28T16:37:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T21:37:37","slug":"glenn-reynolds-thinks-the-inauguration-demonstrated-democrat-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/01\/22\/glenn-reynolds-thinks-the-inauguration-demonstrated-democrat-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Democrats Insecure or Just Putting on a Show?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I have been commenting all week on what I thought was just the strangest inauguration that I\u2019ve ever seen. And each day new things become aware, or I become aware of them. And it just adds even more weight to the impressions that I have recorded and have about this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/21\/bidens-militarized-inauguration-showcased-democrats-insecurity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-379966 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-NY-Post-TEARAWAY-012221-x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-NY-Post-TEARAWAY-012221-x.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-NY-Post-TEARAWAY-012221-x-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-NY-Post-TEARAWAY-012221-x-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>On the one hand, we\u2019re told to believe that the American people hated Trump, the American people wanted Trump gone. Never mind that 74 million, 75 million people voted for him. And that the unity agenda of Joe Biden, everybody\u2019s embracing that. And yet there weren\u2019t any Americans there. They weren\u2019t permitted. They weren\u2019t allowed anywhere near this inauguration for unity.<\/p>\n<p>Why not? Well, I will tell you why not. I have a piece here in the New York Post today by Glenn Reynolds. Glenn Reynolds, he\u2019s a columnist, he\u2019s a law professor, University of Tennessee. And he\u2019s quite informed. And he has a piece here, I have a slight disagreement with it. But that\u2019s not the point.<\/p>\n<p>Let me give you a pull quote. He says, &#8220;Nothing says, &#8216;This was a perfectly normal election, and now it\u2019s time to come together as a united nation,\u2019 like having your swearing-in behind 12-foot-high razor wire surrounded by 25,000 troops whose loyalty you doubt. That\u2019s what we witnessed at President Biden\u2019s inauguration on Wednesday: a grim testament to the fundamental insecurity and fragility of the re-ascendant liberal elite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-378926\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-011821-Capitol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-011821-Capitol.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-011821-Capitol-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-011821-Capitol-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So Glenn thinks here that the reason all this happened &#8212; the 25,000 National Guard troops, the 12-foot-high razor wire &#8212; is \u2019cause they\u2019re scared. They\u2019re insecure. They\u2019re very, very fragile in their belief that they are legitimate victors, whatever. While that could be true, I have an alternate viewpoint. I don\u2019t necessarily subscribe to the fact that they are insecure.<\/p>\n<p>They may be insecure, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what\u2019s guiding this. I think that this is all politics. I think everything they do has been politicized, and there was a reason why they didn\u2019t allow people. There was a reason why they had razor wire. There\u2019s a reason why they had 25,000 National Guard troops.<\/p>\n<p>It was to create the impression that they were already discussing that there might be another attempt to seize the Capitol like there was on January 6th. Trump supporters, don\u2019t you know, they can\u2019t be trusted! And they\u2019re lurking out there. And they are hiding in the deep, dark crevices around the Capitol. And they are waiting to just unload on the new president.<\/p>\n<p>But we gotta be prepared.<\/p>\n<p>So we can\u2019t have you here because you would be in danger. We need the National Guard here to create the illusion that you might be in danger. I think this was all an attempt to make it look like the government of the United States is under siege because of the deranged Trump voters. &#8220;Nothing says, &#8216;This was a perfectly normal election, and now it\u2019s time to come together as a united nation,\u2019 like having your swearing-in behind 12-foot-high razor wire surrounded by 25,000 troops whose loyalty you doubt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More on that in just a moment. I don\u2019t know. Some people might think that they are inherently fragile in their insecurity. What are they insecure about? Are they insecure of their victory? Are they insecure of Biden\u2019s victory, of his presidency? Are they insecure that the American people accept it? Are they insecure that the American people in the sense of a majority support Biden?<\/p>\n<p>What are they insecure about?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-379957\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012221-National-Guard-DC-999.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012221-National-Guard-DC-999.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012221-National-Guard-DC-999-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012221-National-Guard-DC-999-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>And then, giving that these people are a bunch of authoritarians and totalitarians, what does insecurity have to do with it? Their insecurity just allows them to exercise even more control and even more authoritarianism, if you will. I think, again, that this was staging. I think it was an effort to make the American people think that Trump supporters and Trump himself, maybe (yeah, from way down there in Mar-a-Lago), might be secretly planning a plot to take over the United States during the immaculation of Biden.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the impression they wanted to create, and as they do that, they also create the impression of Biden as a very brave guy going ahead with this.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So I got an email. I checked the email during the break.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dear Mr. Limbaugh: I think Glenn Reynolds is right and you may be not quite so right. (I would never say you\u2019re wrong, but you may be not quite so right.) I think the Democrats are insecure. I think they are fragile. They are so insecure with President Biden\u2019s win that they have had to literally censor or try to cancel or threaten everybody in this country who might mention or who might whisper or who might allude to the fact that the election was maybe not on the up and up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There used to be a First Amendment in America where you could say what you wanted to say, especially about politics. But now they\u2019re gonna hunt you down. They\u2019re gonna find you, and they\u2019re gonna try to cancel you, and they\u2019re gonna try to gin up public opinion against you, and they\u2019re gonna have a mob do what it can to intimidate you. Now, is this the act of secure people, Mr. Limbaugh? I ask you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And take a look at what you\u2019ve often said. You\u2019ve said, &#8216;The left doesn\u2019t even want to talk about issues. They don\u2019t want to debate anybody.'&#8221; That\u2019s right. I\u2019ve said that\u2019s because they don\u2019t think they should have to. They are authoritarians. There\u2019s no reason for them to enter the arena of ideas! There is no alternate point of view. There is their view of things, and that\u2019s it &#8212; and if you don\u2019t subscribe, then, well, we\u2019ve gotta talk about how to deal with you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-379453\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012021-Mall-CNBC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012021-Mall-CNBC.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012021-Mall-CNBC-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012021-Mall-CNBC-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>&#8220;People on the left, Mr. Limbaugh, cannot discuss an issue because they would lose in the arena of ideas. So they have to cancel us and censor the right, conservatives, from expressing opinion.&#8221; That\u2019s a persuasive case. But I still say that this was a giant show, the razor wire and the National Guard. It was designed to make it look like a domestic terror operation could begin at any time to deny Biden the presidency, deny the inauguration or what have you.<\/p>\n<p>I think there\u2019s no question that that was an image or an impression that they wanted to create.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is Scott, New Philadelphia, Ohio. Welcome, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush. Praying for you every day. Certainly love you. I\u2019m a Rush 24\/7 member and just thankful you\u2019re here.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey, just the last four years, you know, the Democrats have constantly got us to question the election, the legitimacy of Trump being elected. And you had predicted it over and over again. And I just was wondering if you were gonna &#8212; just a major See, I Told You So moment that you had said they undermine the whole legitimacy of the election process and now that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s come to happen. That nobody believes this election is legitimate, and it\u2019s really started with Nancy Pelosi and the whole impeachment process and them questioning the Russian collusion thing. And I would be interested in seeing you replay some of your quotes over the last four years &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, I\u2019m glad you reminded me, Scott. I don\u2019t need to go replay any of the quotes because I can say them directly because I remember them. And it started with the Russian collusion hoax, which was a four-year false flag operation. It was a totally made up &#8211; look, I don\u2019t even want to repeat that. You people are tired of hearing about it, I\u2019m sure. You know that there was never a shred of evidence that Trump &#8212; it\u2019s so ridiculous to have to go through this each and every time. Scott, I\u2019m not frustrated with you. I\u2019m frustrated for people in the audience that have to listen to me go through this again.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-367817\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-032519-Russia-Hoax.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-032519-Russia-Hoax.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-032519-Russia-Hoax-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-032519-Russia-Hoax-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>It was a bought and paid for operation by Hillary Clinton. There was never a shred of evidence that Trump colluded with anybody. He\u2019s, I think, probably the cleanest in terms of scandal person in Washington. This guy was investigated for four years for virtually every aspect of his life, and they came up with nothing. Nothing. But what Scott\u2019s point is here, is that starting back in 2016 &#8212; folks, I knew that this whole thing was a coup and a bogus operation the minute it began during Trump\u2019s transition.<\/p>\n<p>There was no collusion with the Russians. Trump\u2019s victory was legitimate. But the Democrats spending four years challenging the legitimacy of it, claiming that Trump should not have been the president, trying to overturn the results of 2016, trying to say that the American electoral system was easily corrupted by Russians and Trump and it made it look like there was nothing we could do to stop it. They had the FBI looking into it; they had the CIA looking into it; they had a lot of former Obama officials at CIA and intelligence looking into it. And they couldn\u2019t stop it. Even though they knew that Trump had colluded, they couldn\u2019t stop it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, what does this do? This challenges the integrity of the American electoral system. And it was done for various reasons. They literally were trying to get Trump to resign. Then they were trying to get him impeached and removed from office. They were attempting to get him thrown out of office whenever, however they could do it. They spent four years on it. They failed in that regard.<\/p>\n<p>But after four years of this, the Democrat Party itself &#8212; not me, not you, not us &#8212; the Democrat Party was essentially telling the world that the American presidential electoral system was corrupted and we couldn\u2019t trust it, that the Russians found a way to come in and pick the presidential winner. They impaneled the Mueller team to investigate. And they supposedly came up with evidence that the Russians had been making some crazy advertising buys on Facebook after the election. And it\u2019s all they had.<\/p>\n<p>So what does this do? Well, this effectively creates the impression in the minds of the American people that the American presidential election system has lost its integrity, that it can\u2019t be trusted. The Democrats themselves told us this every day multiple times a day for four years, folks. And so why is anybody surprised that people now don\u2019t believe the result of the 2020 election? The Democrats told us for four years that 2016 was illegitimate, that Trump stole it, that he colluded with the Russians. Therefore, it can be done. The American presidency can be stolen. The American presidency can be stolen by virtue of corrupting the electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>And I said back starting in 2017, folks, I\u2019m telling you, the Democrats are doing a better job at sabotaging the integrity and the honor of the American presidential election system than the Russians could ever hope to. This relentless, unstoppable four-year attack on Trump and the Russians and the integrity of the elections can\u2019t help but have a negative impact on the public opinion of presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-369073\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-101620-Early-voters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-101620-Early-voters.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-101620-Early-voters-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-101620-Early-voters-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Now, note since the Democrats\u2019 win in 2020, guess what? There\u2019s no problem with the presidential election. In fact, if you question it, if you question it, why, why, why, we might have to come in and deprogram you, we might have to report you, if you question the results of 2020, why, why, we\u2019re gonna be monitoring you and we\u2019re gonna be checking you and we\u2019re gonna make sure that you get your mind right or else. See how this works?<\/p>\n<p>So Biden wins the 2020 election, and there\u2019s not a problem. You can\u2019t even &#8212; no, no, no, no, no, no. This was maybe the cleanest, maybe this was the most honest, maybe the best presidential election we\u2019ve ever had, they\u2019re telling us, after four years of them essentially telling everybody that the American presidential election system had been corrupted, that Trump was illegitimate, didn\u2019t deserve to be in the White House, should be removed. Impeach him two or three times just to make the point. The 2020 election comes along and nothing to see here. Perfectly fine, perfectly safe. If you don\u2019t sign on to it, well, then you\u2019re taking your own existence at flight risk.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, no, no, no, no. I think it\u2019s rather obvious, ladies and gentlemen. Joe Biden, Pelosi, Chuck You Schumer, while guarding against the next &#8220;erection&#8221; on the Capitol grounds, they put on a show this past week. They created a fictional show where you and I were supposed to believe that Trump and his supporters were planning on another attack to take over the government.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no question that that was one of the reasons why they had razor wire all over the place, and one of the reasons why they didn\u2019t allow a single person. There was nobody there, folks. The people who supposedly elected Joe Biden were not there. Instead, there was razor wire and 25,000 National Guard troops, all on display to keep things safe. Safe from what? Safe from who?<\/p>\n<p>You know, once January 6th happened, you think the Democrats are gonna drop it? Once January 6th happened, they\u2019re gonna make it as though it could happen tomorrow, it could happen in February, it could happen at any time, because the people who engaged in that, why, they could pull off another operation at any moment! So we need to be constantly on guard.<\/p>\n<p>Now, are they insecure? Well, maybe. Why would they be insecure, Mr. Snerdley? What would make the Democrats insecure on Wednesday, on Biden\u2019s Inauguration Day, and today and days going forward? Why would they be insecure? (interruption) Because&#8230;? (interruption) I can\u2019t say that. I\u2019m sorry, I can\u2019t say that. I can\u2019t. I\u2019m sorry. (interruption) I can\u2019t allude to that! I can\u2019t say that.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re already&#8230; (interruption) They\u2019re already monitoring me out there in all the usual outposts, and they\u2019re ready to call my syndication partners and tattletale on me. I can\u2019t say that. I guess I could say 75 million people voted for Trump. That could make them insecure. (interruption) &#8220;Seventy-five million&#8230;&#8221; Oh, I can\u2019t say that. I can\u2019t say that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-379900\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012121-Biden-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012121-Biden-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012121-Biden-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012121-Biden-2-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>See, that\u2019s easy for you to sit in there and think \u2019cause you don\u2019t have a microphone. This is why, by the way, you don\u2019t. I have a microphone, and I can\u2019t say those things. First Amendment? Nah. The real question is &#8212; or a real question is &#8212; here\u2019s Amazon. It wants to help now with vaccines. And now experts (quote-unquote &#8220;experts&#8221;) are talking about a very narrow definition of who dies with COVID-19 &#8212; and Dr. Fauci says, guess what?<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 cases are plateauing. It\u2019s everything we predicted about how the news was going to change after Biden was inaugurated! Yeah, COVID-19 are plateauing. That means the worst has happened and we\u2019re on the way down, for those of you in Rio Linda. So how are they gonna deprogram people, \u2019cause they\u2019re talking about it.<\/p>\n<p>AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has openly stated conservatives need to be &#8220;deprogrammed.&#8221; So what is it gonna look like? Will there be mandatory white privilege training? Are they gonna install computer chips to identify us? Will they award social points given for good thinking, like the ChiComs do? They talk about deprogramming, reprogramming. They never spell out what they\u2019re gonna do, but they do talk about doing it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This Steve in Niagara Falls in New York. Welcome, sir. Great to have you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Great to have you, Rush. I\u2019ve been listener since 1988 and hopefully for a lot longer. The point I wanted to make was about taking advantage of this crisis that happened on the 6th and everything that went on. I really believe that the reason why they locked Washington down so much was because they didn\u2019t want to the embarrassment of having probably the lowest turnout for an inauguration, similar to the turnout that was going on through his campaign. So that was pretty much the observation, the point I wanted to make.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Well, it could be. I don\u2019t&#8230; I mean, they might have been aware that there wasn\u2019t gonna be a big crowd, but I think they had to know that because of things that they had not only seen in terms of the Biden campaign. But they\u2019ve been scaring people to death about the virus and about Trump cultists. They literally had talked people out of going to Washington, whether they had intended to do that or not.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-379401\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012021-Inauguration-2021-BIDEN-91.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012021-Inauguration-2021-BIDEN-91.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012021-Inauguration-2021-BIDEN-91-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012021-Inauguration-2021-BIDEN-91-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>So it might have eventuated that they said, &#8220;You know what? There\u2019s not gonna be a number of people here anyway, so we may as well lock it down,&#8221; and the excuse being, &#8220;Nobody\u2019s here because we\u2019re not allowing anybody here,&#8221; rather than people to start taking the opinion that there\u2019s nobody here \u2019cause they don\u2019t want to come.<\/p>\n<p>I think they created that reality in the lead-up going back to the campaign. But you\u2019re right. I can\u2019t deny it. I mean, if you look at the Biden campaign, there wasn\u2019t a shred of evidence that he had a connection with numbers of people, thousands of people who were voting for him because of a bond. It doesn\u2019t exist. It never did. Certainly not like Trump.<\/p>\n<p>So there wasn\u2019t a good chance that a lot of people are gonna show up anyway. And after the 6th of January, I mean, it was almost guaranteed nobody would show up. So whatever steps they took to lock it down, your belief that they had to do this \u2019cause they knew people weren\u2019t gonna show up anyway, probably true.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Remember we had a caller who called here in the last hour and said the reason why they didn\u2019t want anybody showing up at the Biden inauguration is because they knew nobody would show up? I had to acknowledge there might have been a certain amount of truth in that, but I said the primary reason they did what they did was to create this illusion that another domestic terror attack could break out at any moment.<\/p>\n<p>I really do believe that, folks. I think they thought that this is how they can solidify Biden and everybody else that\u2019s in his agenda, in his administration here. You know, once the January 6th attack on the Capitol happened, I mean, that\u2019s&#8230; Remember, the Democrats &#8220;never let a crisis go to waste.&#8221; So the Capitol is attacked.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not saying that it was not a serious thing, and I\u2019m not saying that it was wrong to take it seriously, but I do believe that they created an image with the National Guard and razor wire that it could happen again, that nativist Trump cultists are waiting to hatch another attempt to take over the government, and so we have to be prepared for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/30\/us\/politics\/biden-inauguration.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-380033\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-NY-Times-012221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-NY-Times-012221.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-NY-Times-012221-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-NY-Times-012221-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>I think that was an element in the way they staged the inauguration. But the caller said, &#8220;Rush, they just did it because they knew nobody was gonna show up. Nobody showed up at any of Biden\u2019s campaign events.&#8221; So the editrix of <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/join-rush-247\/\">The Limbaugh Letter<\/a> has sent me a couple of headlines. New York Times November 30th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/30\/us\/politics\/biden-inauguration.html\">&#8220;Biden\u2019s Inauguration: Expect Smaller Crowds and More Social Distancing.&#8221;<\/a> So she\u2019s making the point here that the caller was right, that they knew Biden wouldn\u2019t draw many people for his inauguration. That\u2019s New York Times, November 30th; then the Washington Post&#8230; Wait. I think this is&#8230; I don\u2019t know whether this is December 15th. Maybe it\u2019s the same.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what paper it is, but it\u2019s a similar headline. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/local\/305\/2020\/12\/15\/946793927\/biden-s-inaugural-committee-discourages-people-from-traveling-to-d-c-for-ceremony\">&#8220;Biden\u2019s Inaugural Committee Discourages People from Traveling to D.C. for Ceremony.&#8221;<\/a> Why would they do it? That\u2019s December 15th. That\u2019s less than a month before, or right around a month before the inaugural. Why would they be discouraging people from traveling to Washington?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/local\/305\/2020\/12\/15\/946793927\/biden-s-inaugural-committee-discourages-people-from-traveling-to-d-c-for-ceremony\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-380029\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-NPR-012221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-NPR-012221.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-NPR-012221-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-NPR-012221-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>They didn\u2019t want anybody there. They didn\u2019t want anybody there. Maybe go back to the top headline: &#8220;Biden\u2019s Inauguration: Expect Smaller Crowds and More Social Distancing.&#8221; Look, they\u2019re not stupid. They knew Biden didn\u2019t draw any crowds during the campaign. Why would anybody show up at his inauguration? This is why so many people had questions about this because the bond just didn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p>Did somebody with a D next to their name really&#8230;? I can\u2019t say any more. My First Amendment ceases to exist beyond this point in my question. I am self-censoring, ladies and gentlemen, to show how it\u2019s done. So there you have it. Anyway, when callers are right, we go out of our way to acknowledge it and praise them.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Linda in my adopted hometown, Sacramento, California. How are you, Linda? Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m fine. And, Rush, I just wish God\u2019s blessing on you and Kathryn, your whole family. I hope you have the blessings that God blessed us by giving us you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, believe me God has bestowed more blessings on me and my family than I deserve.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I have already benefited from so many blessings. You know, it\u2019s strange that you called \u2019cause I was literally sitting down thinking about Sacramento a couple nights ago and how just crucially important it was to my success and my happiness and my enjoyment of life. I was only there for three or four years ago, and I felt like I was there 20, it felt like I was there for most of my life. And I still have a lot of friends in Sacramento and people who I knew there who have left and gone on to other things like I have.<\/p>\n<p>But I was thinking about it, about my life there and how meaningful &#8211; I was listening to a bunch of music that reminded me of the last month I was in town. I was creating a new playlist on my music app, and it so happened that some of the songs I was putting in this list happened to be songs from the last month I was in Sacramento. I said, man, all the memories this is reviving. And they were all good. They were all just wonderful. But in all candor, God has blessed me in ways beyond that which I deserve. So I appreciate the sentiment. I really do. But please understand, God has treated me very well.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, he\u2019s treated us well by giving you to us. Anyway, what I called about is I feel that Nancy Pelosi is the one who should be impeached for sedition. I feel that there\u2019s all kinds of evidence that Nancy Pelosi knew about the impending attack on the Capitol and purposely let it happen for political reasons. The reason that I feel is because everybody knew about the massive Trump rally and protest that was coming. The FBI is saying that there was chatter for a week in advance that people &#8212; they weren\u2019t hiding it. They were broadcasting what they were planning to do. They didn\u2019t hide it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-378994\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-011821-DC-Troops-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-011821-DC-Troops-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-011821-DC-Troops-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-011821-DC-Troops-1-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>But the most damning thing was her own sergeant at arms, I think you call the head of the Capitol Police, I think he\u2019s been fired, said he begged her and anyone &#8212; I heard the man say it &#8212; he begged her and anyone else who would listen for more men and resources to protect the Capitol, and he said he was ignored. So my point is, President Trump didn\u2019t know what was going to happen and didn\u2019t want it to happen. Nancy Pelosi did know what was going to happen, and she wanted it to happen. So she\u2019s the one who should be impeached for sedition.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That is a fascinating theory. And I think that there are &#8212; I want to maybe stop short of saying &#8220;evidence,&#8221; but this is something, a strategy, or at least an operating procedure I think that we\u2019ve seen Pelosi implement over the years, where she has wanted certain things to happen because she\u2019s convinced that her political opponents are gonna be blamed for it. I remember the Tea Party being besmirched and impugned. I remember all the Congressional Black Caucasians claiming the Tea Party spat on them and Pelosi amplifying that when it didn\u2019t happen. You can\u2019t find one bit of evidence for the Tea Party spitting on anybody when the Congressional Black Caucasians were marching.<\/p>\n<p>One thing you\u2019re absolutely right about, and that is, Donald Trump had no idea what this operation was. He could not have been for it. It\u2019s not who he is. He\u2019s smart enough to know what the reaction\u2019s gonna be. There was no way under the sun that Donald Trump was in support of whatever action took place on January 6th at the Capitol. It\u2019s just not who he is. He\u2019s not this stupid. He\u2019s not that dumb. He\u2019s not dumb, period. And the timeline doesn\u2019t work. The operation began before Trump\u2019s speech began, before it even finished. Trump was never, ever articulating the words that translated to the action that took place.<\/p>\n<p>We also know that many of the perps were Antifa, who had learned of this operation and infiltrated it and sabotaged it. But the main thing that you\u2019re right &#8212; we keep hearing the Never Trumpers and all the others talk about the need for character in the chief executive. And that\u2019s true. The Federalist Papers are devoted a lot on the subject of the character of the executive, the president. And I know the popular opinion is that Trump and character are strangers, that he doesn\u2019t really have any, that he\u2019s a loose cannon, he\u2019s Bad Mr. Orange Man, that he\u2019s a loose bull in a china shop and all this sort of stuff.<\/p>\n<p>But I know Donald Trump. He does have character, he does have humility, and I\u2019ve seen it on display, and I have seen how he treats people that can\u2019t do anything for him. You know, that\u2019s one of the biggest measures of someone\u2019s character you could ever witness, how do they treat people who can\u2019t do anything for them. And if they\u2019re treated like dirt, then I\u2019m telling you you\u2019re looking at somebody that doesn\u2019t have much character.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-379388\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012021-Trump-FINAL-remarks-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012021-Trump-FINAL-remarks-4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012021-Trump-FINAL-remarks-4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012021-Trump-FINAL-remarks-4-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>But Trump goes out of his way to acknowledge, be kind to people who can\u2019t, never would be in a position to do anything for him. And even if they are, if they\u2019re trying to service his professional needs or one way or the other, he\u2019s aware and is always very thankful for it, and lets these people know.<\/p>\n<p>But beyond that, there\u2019s no way Donald Trump would authorize an armed insurrection of the United States Capitol. There\u2019s no way he thought that\u2019s what he was doing. There\u2019s no way he would do it. He\u2019s smart enough to realize what his enemies would turn that into. He\u2019s got to be sitting up there at Mar-a-Lago just frustrated as hell that this happened. Anyway, thank you again, Linda, very much from Sacramento. I greatly appreciate your call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I still say that this was a giant show, the razor wire and the National Guard. 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