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RUSH: Man, oh, man, how interesting is this? I tell you what, folks, such is the state of American journalism today that when the old stand-bys, the Drive-By Media, report factually accurate and true stories about a ranking Democrat, people on our side immediately concoct conspiracy theories to explain it rather than just accept it for what it is. It just can\u2019t be what it is. <\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t care where you go. You go to the Washington Post, you go to the New York Times,<\/a> you go to Ron Fournier<\/a>, you go to Reuters, and I am telling you, they are slitting Mrs. Clinton\u2019s political throat. They are going for the carotid artery on this. In fact, some are even resorting to calling the Clinton Family Foundation the Clinton “Crime Family” Foundation in order to illustrate exactly what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

Other people are starting to discuss the possibility of RICO trials and the organized crime statute, go after somebody with RICO. And, again, such is the state of American journalism that when all of this is happening, Washington Post, New York Times, Reuters, Ron Fournier, when we\u2019re getting true and accurate and no-holds-barred stories on Mrs. Clinton and Bill Clinton and their phony, fraudulent foundation, people on our side are suspicious. There has to be something that we don\u2019t see to explain this, because it can\u2019t be what it is. There has to be more to it. I have been collecting theories all day long. I think it\u2019s fascinating. I\u2019m blown away by it. <\/line><\/p>\n

Some of the theories that I am hearing, “Well, you know, they\u2019re just trying to get this out of the way so that it\u2019ll be smooth sailing after Mrs. Clinton and her husband withstand this. They\u2019re in fact throwing the kitchen sink out there. And if Mrs. Clinton can survive this, then it\u2019s smooth sailing and we in the media can say that we\u2019ve done our job, that we didn\u2019t show any favoritism or bias.” <\/p>\n

Others are saying, “No, no, no, no. They want her gone. They have never wanted Mrs. Clinton. They\u2019ve supported her because she seemed like the presumptive nominee, and if it comes down to Mrs. Clinton and a Republican, it\u2019s no contest, and so even if they have to swallow hard, they\u2019re gonna support her.” <\/p>\n

But now there\u2019s a chance to get rid of her. They never wanted her in the first place, so goes the theory. What they really want is the Fauxcahontas, Elizabeth Warren. They really want her, in the Drive-By Media, and so this is the first step toward forcing Mrs. Clinton out. There are other theories that I have heard bandied about that are variations on those two themes. But everybody has a theory. Nobody is taking the news stories at face value and saying, “Wow, they\u2019re really going after Hillary.” (laughing) Such is the state of American journalism, that nobody believes it. Everybody thinks there has to be an ulterior motive. <\/line><\/p>\n

Okay, let\u2019s just get started. In case some of this is Greek to you (I don\u2019t mean to insult Greeks there) but if you don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about, just sit tight. Oh, let\u2019s add something else to this. While the story of the Clintons and their foundation and selling influence and enabling the sale of uranium to the Russkies, while the story was breaking and everybody, I\u2019m talking about cable news everywhere was totally devoted to it, all of a sudden we were treated to a news story. “Two Al-Qaeda Hostages Accidentally Killed in a US Strike — President Obama on Thursday offered an emotional apology for the accidental killing of two hostages held by Al Qaeda, one of them American, in a United States government counterterrorism operation in January.”<\/p>\n

So, you see, we had a drone attack against some terrorists in January, two Americans were killed, they announce it today right in the middle of the heat of the reporting of the fraud going on at the Clinton Family Foundation. That\u2019s another theory. That the White House is trying to save Hillary by deflecting the coverage by Obama going out, taking responsibility and apologizing for the death of who Americans that we now learn happened in January. They\u2019re just announcing it today. So the conspiracy theories are alive, and they are on fire. Here is what we\u2019re talking about. <\/p>\n

First, Michael Walsh<\/a>. This is from PJMedia.com, and his theory is that the media is begging Hillary to get out of the race before they really have to hurt her. His theory is that all of these stories about the foundation and the fraud and the selling of influence while she was secretary of state can be explained by the media saying, “Look, this is the tip of the iceberg, Bill and Hillary, and we don\u2019t want to report what else we\u2019ve got. <\/line><\/p>\n

“If you don\u2019t get out and get out now, we\u2019re gonna have no choice and we\u2019re gonna really have to hurt you. It\u2019s really damaging what we\u2019ve got. We\u2019ve tried to hold this out as long as we can. We\u2019ve held back, we\u2019ve tried to cover other things, but we\u2019ve reached critical mass, and we can\u2019t the cover this stuff up anymore. We can\u2019t keep it secret. So here\u2019s the first first dump, and if you stay in, oh, my God, we can\u2019t promise… This could end up destroying you and we really don\u2019t want to destroy you.” <\/p>\n

That\u2019s his story. <\/p>\n

The media is sending a message: “Get out now while we can still help you. You get out now and we will make sure there are no more stories.” Reuters: “Hillary Clinton\u2019s family\u2019s charities are refiling at least five annual tax returns after a Reuters review found errors in how they reported donations from governments, and said they may audit other Clinton Foundation returns in case of other errors. The foundation and its list of donors have been under intense scrutiny in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

“Republican critics say the foundation makes Clinton … vulnerable to undue influence. Her campaign team calls these claims ‘absurd conspiracy theories.\u2019 The [Clinton] charities\u2019 errors generally take the form of under-reporting or over-reporting, by millions of dollars, donations from foreign governments, or in other instances omitting to break out government donations entirely when reporting revenue…” <\/p>\n

When is the last time — and I know it\u2019s happened. But when is the last time you have heard of two people becoming ridiculously, fabulously wealthy via a charity? Most charities are set up to do good for the supposed beneficiaries. We were in New York last night, Kathryn and I. We had a table at the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation<\/a> Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria. They have a 99% pass-through. <\/p>\n

Of every dollar donated, 99\u00c2\u00a2 gets to the children of Marines killed in action. It\u2019s a charity that sets up college scholarships for the kids of Marines killed in action, and sometimes other servicemen. Last night was their big annual ball. It was their 20th anniversary last night. Some charities have a 78% pass-through, some charities 80%. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society<\/a> is around 95, 96%. With the Clinton Family Foundation, it looks like all the money coming in goes to Bill and Hillary. <\/p>\n

Honest to God, it does look the lion\u2019s share of what comes in goes to them, and the donations take the form of payments for speeches or policy directives. It\u2019s incredible. And the media is reporting all of this! This is the kind of stuff the media used to cover up and when it leaked out, blame Republicans for being focused on things that don\u2019t matter. That\u2019s why people on our side don\u2019t quite know what to do with this. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ve never seen this kind of bloodletting before by the Drive-By Media aimed at any Democrat, much less Clintons. Snerdley walked in here today practically unable to speak, he was so blown away by what he\u2019s reading here. He can\u2019t believe it. He\u2019s never seen this kind of throat-slitting by the Drive-By Media aimed at any Democrat. He can\u2019t recall it. Now if we think back, we could probably think of examples of this. But the point is, this is so destructive, and the darlings of the party…<\/p>\n

<\/a>I went back and actually looked. The first story on this about the Clinton Family Foundation and it being a slush fund, started in August of 2013. If the truth be known, the New York Times actually led the way on all of this. They had a very long and detailed article on the Clinton Family Slush Fund Foundation way back in August of 2013. It was called “Unease at Clinton Foundation Over Finances and Ambitions.” We spoke about it at length when it came out in August of 2013<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But like everybody else back then, they didn\u2019t expect it to go any further than that. It was just a one-time story. Get it out of the way and clear the decks, as one of the theories today goes. It clears the decks. The media says, “We covered it.” Hillary remains unscathed and marches on to the campaign. Another way of looking at this, too, is you might say, “But, Rush…” If you\u2019re a student of this program especially you would say, “But, Rush?<\/p>\n

“You\u2019ve always told us that in news stories like this, if it doesn\u2019t reach the low-information voter — if it doesn\u2019t reach TMZ, if it doesn\u2019t reach Yahoo News, if it doesn\u2019t reach any of the news sources that the low-information crowd sees — it isn\u2019t gonna matter. Nobody\u2019s gonna know about it.” You would be right, except in this case I don\u2019t think the low-information crowd is the audience.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always said, ladies and gentlemen, that one of the big problems with the Drive-By Media is they do not connect with their audience, and the reason is you and I are not their audience. When you get right down to brass tacks, how could CNN still be on the air with no audience? How can MSNBC have been on the air with no audience? In the old days, they\u2019re gone, kaput. Something else is tried. But they stay, and they double down on what they\u2019re doing that\u2019s losing audience. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, they\u2019re losing audience in the general population, the general public, but just as is the case with this story, the audience is other journalists. The audience is the establishment of both parties inside the Beltway all day up and down the New York-Washington-Boston Corridor. This news is not intended yet for the low-information voter. If it were intended for the low-information voter, it\u2019d be cast and written, crafted in a different way. <\/p>\n

This stuff is specifically being written, reported, positioned for other journalists. This is to get everybody in the Drive-By Media up to speed on what the theme of the day is, what the narrative is. As we\u2019ve heard, the narrative, the template is there, and because it\u2019s in so many places, the point is being drilled home that it\u2019s serious. So the fact that it might not “trickle-down,” as they say, to the low-information voter does not discount this. <\/p>\n

So you can arguably say that if Michael Walsh at PJ Media is right and the media is begging Hillary to get out — and the only reason they would do that, by the way, is if they had somebody else they like either as much or more. And they do. Elizabeth Warren. They would much prefer Elizabeth Warren to Hillary. Some of them might even prefer Martin O\u2019Malley to Hillary. Remember I made a joke?<\/p>\n

“The Clinton campaign slogan for the 2016 race: ‘This Time, No Surprises.'”<\/a> (chuckles) That\u2019s up in smoke. I\u2019m telling you, going back to 2008 and now this year, there is somebody that does not want this woman to be president on the Democrat side of the aisle. It\u2019s either somebody or a series of somebodies, but this was supposed to be smooth sailing again, right? We are back here at Coronation 2. This was gonna be hers. <\/p>\n

It was her turn. <\/p>\n

It was her time. <\/p>\n

This was ultimate payback. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Payback 1 was gonna be 2008, but, lo and behold, a better option presented himself, Barack Hussein O, also known as The One. The theory wasn\u2019t, “Ah, there\u2019s a lot of sympathy. People are feeling bad. The party promised Hillary and then they pulled the rug out from under her. So 2016, the Republicans are a nonfactor. The party\u2019s in a little bit of disarray. It\u2019s an ideal time. Get Hillary in there, get her out of the way, get her elected, get her president, pay her off. Somebody doesn\u2019t want that to happen. <\/p>\n

You sit tight. The details of this are juicy, my friends, and I\u2019ll be interested in your theories, too, \u2019cause I know that those of you who are up to speed on it and those of you who are about to learn will not just sit there and accept this at face value. You will not say, “Well, the Times came across some information about the foundation and they\u2019re reporting it.” You will not say that. You will have your own theory to explain it, because this kind of reporting on Democrats just does not happen<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I knew this was gonna happen. I knew it so I\u2019m gonna grab a call. Jeff, Iowa City, Iowa, you\u2019re first today, great to have you on the EIB Network, sir, hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Getting right to the point. Elizabeth Warren, I just don\u2019t see, has any sort of charisma like Obama did. I think there\u2019s gotta be another reason that the media is doing this to Hillary.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re having a hard time with it. Why are you having a hard time?<\/p>\n

CALLER: ‘Cause there\u2019s always sort of a rug that\u2019s pulled underneath you. Every time we think that the liberal media is going one way, then they completely flip it around. I was sitting here on hold and the thing that I thought of was, do you think it\u2019s possible that since the Republicans are pulling back on going after Hillary full force that they\u2019re going to put this up in such a way that it looks like the media\u2019s getting down on Hillary, so the Republicans will come back and argue. Then they\u2019ll say the poor woman is getting beat up? Like there\u2019s gotta be a rope-a-dope somewhere. I\u2019m having a hard time —<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: See, this is my point. That\u2019s a first, that all of this is aimed at rope-a-doping the Republicans. You see, folks, Jeff, I cannot thank you enough. I cannot tell you how helpful your call is. That\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m talking about. We have been so trained. We\u2019re like mice, gerbils running around the wheel that never stops. We\u2019re so convinced everything the media does is designed to negatively impact the Republicans. It\u2019s a rope-a-dope, whatever it is, it\u2019s designed to expose the Republicans as buffoons, mean-spirited, extremists, sexists, bigots, racist homophobes, you name it. <\/p>\n

My mind had not gone in that direction on this. I\u2019ll tell you where my mind is going. Who knows what\u2019s in Hillary\u2019s e-mails. Because all of this is in those e-mails. Why do you think she had a private e-mail server? To keep it from everybody else. She wanted her own server, not the State Department server, because she and Bill, there\u2019s no doubt they are out selling access to a future presidency, is what they\u2019re doing here. They are selling access, they are making commitments, policy commitments in exchange for huge money that they are converting to personal use. <\/p>\n

These people have been obsessed — do not doubt me on this. I know many of you were not alive or old enough to pay attention back in the early nineties with the Whitewater scandal. Everybody misunderstands what that was all about. That was the Clintons just trying to get rich by cutting corners, which is what they thought everybody who got rich did. Getting rich did not involve hard work and long preparation and expertise. It involved networking and contacts and who did you know and what could they do for you, what favors could they do in exchange for what you could return or give them back. <\/line><\/p>\n

Whitewater was a get-rich-quick scheme. The Clintons have never had any money individually, and they were obsessed by that. In politics they\u2019re running around people who have more money than they could shake a stick at. They didn\u2019t have anything. That\u2019s why Mrs. Clinton talks about being broke when they left the White House. I\u2019m sure in her mind they were, compared to the people they run with. The people they run with own three private jets, own islands, make a phone call and there\u2019s a bevy of women waiting in the living room when you arrive where you\u2019re going to your private island. <\/p>\n

You think Bill Clinton wouldn\u2019t like to have something like that himself? Their salivating over this stuff. So this is no question that they\u2019ve been salivating for the longest time about becoming filthy, filthy rich. They set up that family foundation as a means of collecting big money from foreign entities, and the New York Times story today is all about one of the most egregious and outrageous sales of influence that Mrs. Clinton has made. It involves uranium. I\u2019ll get to it in just a second. I should have gotten that out of the way in the first segment, but I wanted to focus on the media angle. <\/p>\n

If you\u2019re still frustrated and wondering specifically what I\u2019m talking about, I\u2019m sorry, but stick with me. I\u2019ll get to it here in just a second. I really think that when these things start to happen, you always have to look at who benefits. The question, who benefits from Mrs. Clinton swirling? Forget Republicans. I don\u2019t think this has a thing to do with the Republicans yet. But I totally understand those of you who do. People on our side have PTSD, shell shock, and using my own phrase, intelligence guided by experience. In the past, the media has existed for one reason: destroy us. The Democrat Party has existed for one reason: destroy us. <\/p>\n

I have warned you, I have guided you, I have trained you to look at news in such a way as to see angle in it that destroys us, and many of you are doing that in this case. And I do not blame you, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what\u2019s happening here yet. I think the Regime is behind these leaks. I think the Regime, Valerie Jarrett, they know what\u2019s on that server of Hillary\u2019s. They knew what she was doing, just like they withheld what they knew about Petraeus, until it was time to deal with him. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s no love lost between these two, make no mistake about it. And I think, in the pit of his stomach, the last thing Obama wants is the Clintons back in the White House toying around with his agenda and maybe trying to tweak it, change it, get rid of it, whatever, for them to take credit for whatever comes next. Because, believe me, both Obama and the Clintons are obsessed with getting credit for what they do. And the last thing Obama wants — he\u2019s not even worried about the Republicans right now. Obama thinks the Republicans may not even exist. He\u2019s got the Republicans in the palm of his hand. He doesn\u2019t have to worry about them. The Republicans call him every day and say, “What can we do, what can we do, how can we help?” So he\u2019s not worried about them. <\/line><\/p>\n

But he damn well doesn\u2019t want this Clinton pair coming in and unraveling his agenda, and he doesn\u2019t trust \u2019em. He likes Elizabeth Warren a lot more, probably can control her a lot more because she might even think that she owes him more than the Clintons for whatever her political fortunes in the future might hold. And then the dark horse out there is this O\u2019Malley guy. Do not discount this guy. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you something else. It\u2019s not a dark horse, but this Blasio guy, de Blasio purposely distancing himself from Hillary, you do not know how mad she is about that. She\u2019s seething mad about this. I was in New York last night. There\u2019s scuttlebutt this guy wants to run for the presidency, de Blasio! <\/p>\n

So, anyway, if there\u2019s any leaking going on here — and I\u2019m not predicting it. I am prepared to take this on face value. I am prepared to accept the notion, by the way, just so you know, you might think I\u2019m naive, and you might think that I\u2019m letting my hopefulness get in the way of objectivity here, but I really think it\u2019s entirely possible that Michael Walsh is right here. That the media is going for the throat here in an effort to save the Clintons, essentially. <\/p>\n

Look, his theory again is that they are begging Hillary to get out before they have no choice but than to totally destroy the Clintons. Meaning, they know even more about what\u2019s gone on with all of this stuff, the foundation, whatever, that we just have the tip of the iceberg. And they\u2019re saying: Okay, please, Bill and Hillary, we love you, please get out of this now before we\u2019re gonna have no choice and report the rest of what we know, and then you\u2019re cooked. <\/p>\n

You read Ron Fournier today. He\u2019s in deep pain over this. He\u2019s loved the Clintons since the eighties in Arkansas. So it could well be nothing more than that. It could be Elizabeth Warren, could be any number of things. Again, look, I don\u2019t mean to be repetitive. I\u2019m just fascinated by how A plus B can never equal C in our minds when it involves the media, that there\u2019s some unspoken conspiracy theory to explain this that we haven\u2019t yet figured out. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the New York Times story. This and the Reuters story, well, the Washington Post, too, they\u2019re equally devastating. The New York Times article, 4,337 words. Now, the average op-ed column in a newspaper is 750 words, just to give you something to compare it. Eighty-eight paragraphs. It is one of the most amazing articles I have ever read in the New York Times. It is one of the most unexpected articles I have ever read in the New York Times. It actually doesn\u2019t require all those words to do this. It exposes the Clintons as the most shameless influence peddlers in the history of the world to the point of treason, folks, to the point of criminality. <\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s unprecedented for the New York Times to go after any Democrat like this in my lifetime or memory. There may be one that I\u2019ve forgotten, but none as prominent as are the Clintons. And I\u2019ll tell you something else about this New York Times story. Because it\u2019s from the New York Times, it completely destroys Hillary\u2019s claims that these charges are all just from the vast right-wing conspiracy. <\/p>\n

You know, Hillary is out there saying (imitating Hillary), “Yeah, well, those Republicans, that\u2019s all they\u2019ve got to talk about is me, you know, it\u2019s all they\u2019re doing. It\u2019s just more of the vast right-wing conspiracy. We were prepared for it, you know, we were.” The Republicans haven\u2019t said 5% of what is in this story in the New York Times, and the New York Times, unless the Sulzbergers have been kidnapped and brainwashed, are not part of the vast right-wing conspiracy. Last time I looked that Little Pinch was every much the lib that any of the rest of them in the Drive-By Media are. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Jay in East Liverpool, Ohio. Glad you waited, sir, and welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. I heard your question, and I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to take a stab at it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sure.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. So here\u2019s what I\u2019m thinking: The biggest fear of any presidential campaign is an October Surprise, right? I mean, that\u2019s what we always hear about. Most of the time they fizzle and turn out to be nothing. But a legitimate October Surprise — and by “legitimate” I mean something where there\u2019s a smoking gun or something that gives it legitimacy, that people look at it and say, “Yeah, this kind of fits with what I know about the candidate.” <\/p>\n

I think that\u2019s the big fear here, is that there\u2019s some smoking gun — a blue dress, if you will — that somebody\u2019s sitting on waiting until just the right moment, \u2019cause that\u2019s the other key with a good October Surprise is it\u2019s well timed. The problem is that the people don\u2019t know what\u2019s in her e-mails. Everybody thinks that the people who are most interested in those e-mails are the Republicans and Trey Gowdy. I really think the people that are most interested are the ones that Hillary is gonna be hitting up for tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars a campaign, and the media. I mean, once she\u2019s the candidate, she and the media are basically gonna have a wedding ceremony. They\u2019re gonna be joined at the hip.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second now! Wait a minute now. You\u2019re off… You\u2019ve got two theories here, or is this all part of one theory?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, it\u2019s part of one theory.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Hold it. Don\u2019t go any further. Let me see if I understand. I want to see if I\u2019m up to speed with you right now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you think the media is nervous about supporting Hillary, not knowing what those e-mails contain, because they don\u2019t want to go all-in for somebody that\u2019s gonna be blown away by an October Surprise containing this kind of stuff. They don\u2019t want to make that mistake, so they\u2019re trying to find out what\u2019s in these e-mails now before they commit to her.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So they\u2019re essentially now getting the October Surprise out of the way a year and a half early?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think their hope is to draw the fire. Just like in the old war movies where there\u2019s a standoff, and somebody throws a rock out into the middle of no-man\u2019s-land to draw the fire. So I think the New York Times and the others, this is their version of throwing that rock out there to see where the fire comes from, to see who\u2019s holding what. Because who knows where these e-mails went to?<\/p>\n

Who knows how many different aides saw different e-mails? Who knows what\u2019s out there? And, you know, we look at it as Republicans and say, “Well, what could we use to hurt Hillary?” Well, you think that people are gonna be asked to contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to her campaign aren\u2019t thinking the same thing, and the people in the media? The way I look at it —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so wait, wait. There\u2019s one thing I misconstrued. I think I now get it. You think that the October Surprise is being done now to take her out now?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not necessarily. I think they\u2019re wanting to see if somebody\u2019s holding something because they\u2019re gonna be tempted. If you\u2019ve got a damning e-mail, and you see all this other stuff coming out and the media focusing on all this, would there not be a temptation — rather than hold your fire \u2019til October, would there not be a temptation — to go ahead and go public with it now? I think they need to know. They need to know, “Can this horse make it across the finish line?”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Again, I\u2019m losing you. Who is “they”?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think both the media and the big-money donors, because the media —<\/p>\n

RUSH: But they\u2019re finding out! Wait a minute, now. They\u2019re finding out. This is enough.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think they know the extent of what\u2019s out there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you think this is an effort to find out everything else that\u2019s in there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Well, it\u2019s just like… Okay, look, they\u2019re getting married. Basically once she\u2019s the candidate, they are in a partnership, or a marriage. If you\u2019re considering inviting somebody to get in bed with you, you want to know who else they\u2019ve been in bed with. They want to know who else Hillary\u2019s been in bed with. This is their version of an STD test for Hillary, to find out where else has she been.<\/p>\n

What else might taint her going forward because we need to know now either to try to fix it, to deal with it, or to cut her loose and find somebody else. I don\u2019t think the media has any loyalty to the Clintons, necessarily. Their loyalty is with the Democrat Party. So I don\u2019t think they really care that much about who\u2019s the candidate as long as it\u2019s somebody that can beat the Republicans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is true. I\u2019ve thought since 2008 that the media has not been all-in for Hillary. Bill\u2019s a different story. Bill, they love Bill. (snorts) Man. I mean, Nina Burleigh said she\u2019d give Bill a Lewinsky just for keeping abortion legal. TIME Magazine reported it. The women in the Drive-Bys love Clinton. They\u2019re still dreaming that it was them and not Juanita Broaddrick or Paula Jones. They\u2019re jealous of these people. Hillary\u2019s a different matter. <\/p>\n

She\u2019s the ice queen. You know, she\u2019s Nurse Ratched. Well, okay, interesting theory. This is part of the vetting process, in other words. They\u2019re letting this stuff out for the donors, seeing if they can withstand the heat, find out what else is in there. Do the October Surprise now, and if she can\u2019t make it, find out now, dump her, and go somewhere else. Which… Before you go, do you think…? This is yes or no: Do you think that this is part of a process to help her get elected?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think it\u2019s a process to find out whether or not she\u2019s gonna make it across the finish line in the end. They want to know now whether this horse can cross the finish line. If she can\u2019t, then they\u2019re gonna set her loose.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Interesting theory that they don\u2019t want to do anything to help her do that. They want to find out, in your theory, if she can do it on her own. They\u2019re not interested in covering anything up for her, according to your theory. They don\u2019t want to help her cross the finish line. They\u2019re throwing stuff out there. In other words, the proverbial excrement is being thrown up against the wall, and everybody\u2019s watching to see what sticks.<\/p>\n

And if too much of it sticks, it\u2019s, “Bye-bye, sayonara, Hillary,” and, “Hello, Elizabeth Warren,” or whoever else. All right. Cool. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Matthew in Columbia, Maryland. I\u2019m glad you waited. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. Gosh, I guarantee absolutly that Martin O\u2019Malley will be the Democratic nominee. Don\u2019t doubt me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why do you say that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because he\u2019s this generation\u2019s Bill Clinton. He\u2019s handsome, he talks well, he\u2019ll fight Hillary from the left, and most importantly, nobody wants Hillary. Everybody hates Hillary, but they\u2019re scared to death to say it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: When you say “everybody,” you mean in the media and on the left?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The media, on the left, Hollywood, Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, you name it. Nobody wants her, nobody likes her, but they\u2019re scared to death to say it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Something about what you\u2019re saying is ringing a bell, and it\u2019s just recently that — and in fact I even had it here, we talked about how Hillary was really not loved and adored; it was just that the Republicans are hated more.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I\u2019ll do you even better. Elizabeth Warren will be his running mate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: A-ha. A-ha. You think even O\u2019Malley is gonna overcome Hollywood\u2019s love for Elizabeth Warren and beat her, huh?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, absolutely because she\u2019s too inexperienced, she\u2019s too far wacko, but when you have Martin O\u2019Malley as the front man who\u2019s just as wacko and just as extreme as her —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — they\u2019re gonna fall in love with him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: When do they care about wacko? Wacko is what they think is normal now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Which is why Martin O\u2019Malley will be the nominee. Hillary Clinton is Vladimir Putin. Everybody\u2019s scared to death of the retribution if they come out. Tom Hanks, all those Hollywood folks, they don\u2019t want to say that they\u2019re against Hillary. They don\u2019t want to say that they want Elizabeth Warren or Martin O\u2019Malley —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, remember, they may still have those 900 FBI files. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, they do. The media will latch on to Martin O\u2019Malley. I guarantee you he will be the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have it, folks, Martin O\u2019Malley, the nominee from Matthew in Columbia, Maryland. If anybody would know, he would.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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