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RUSH: Now, folks, I don\u2019t want to be misunderstood.  I\u2019m not trying to sound paranoid here.  I\u2019m not paranoid.  I\u2019m realistic.  One of the… I\u2019ll be honest with you, and I\u2019m sure this is true for you, too.  One of the most frustrating things about life in America today is how seemingly ignorant so many Americans seem to be about what\u2019s happening to them.  I mean, they\u2019re living their lives, they\u2019re encountering obstacle after obstacle after obstacle — be it student loan debt, be it no jobs, be it the rising cost of health care, be it cultural rot — and they, for some reason, don\u2019t have the ability or understanding to understand why. <\/p>\n

And even when they\u2019re told, oftentimes they reject it.  But most of what\u2019s happening in this country today that you would consider harder, an additional obstacle in your life? It\u2019s the result of policies that have been implemented over the years by people that believe in Big Government.  There\u2019s some Republicans in this mix, too.  But it\u2019s predominantly Democrats, it\u2019s predominantly liberalism, and it\u2019s predominantly done by people who want you and need you less productive, less self-reliant, less individualistic. <\/p>\n

They want you dependent on them.  It\u2019s their key to holding on to power.  But it goes beyond that.  They don\u2019t just want power for the sake of it.  They want power to transform and change.  These are people who have never appreciated the miracle that is the United States of America.  They\u2019ve always resented it for whatever social injustice reason that they manufacture or come up with.  And the Republican Party… Ah, I\u2019ll throw myself in. I\u2019m not guilty of this, but there just hasn\u2019t been apparently a good enough job of persuasion, \u2019cause nobody\u2019s happy in America. <\/line><\/p>\n

Everybody knows something\u2019s not right.  Everybody thinks… I mean, look, there are precious few who are happy. George Soros is happy.  Wait.  He\u2019s not an American.  Bill Gates is happy.  I\u2019m sure that Zuckerberg\u2019s happy.  I\u2019m sure… We\u2019re talking super-wealthy members of the elite, the establishment.  But for the most part there is a giant sense of unease, a giant sense that things are out of whack, that the nation\u2019s in decline.  It\u2019s just that so many millions don\u2019t seem to be able to understand why. <\/p>\n

And that is probably one of the most frustrating things, \u2019cause I\u2019ve spent 28 years behind this microphone trying to inform people of that, and it\u2019s very difficult.  If they\u2019re committed leftists, they\u2019re not gonna believe it anyway.  They\u2019re gonna believe some distorted version. They\u2019re gonna believe the country\u2019s in decline because of racism, or the country\u2019s in decline because of bigotry or the country\u2019s in decline because we never deserved to be a country anyway because of what we did to Indians, or some stupid explanation they have for feeling negative about things and the country. <\/p>\n

And there\u2019s no turning them. I mean, there\u2019s no persuading them.  There\u2019s a lot of people out there in the middle who are not political.  That\u2019s another thing I wish I could change.  The Democrats have politicized everything.  I may have to stop watching… You know, I got so depressed last night.  One of my favorite TV shows, when I have time to watch it, is Blacklist.  Well, I can\u2019t watch Designated Survivor.  When I found out… It was Kiefer Sutherland\u2019s new show, and I was all excited about it, and I heard that the pilot was great.<\/p>\n

Which I still haven\u2019t seen it. Then episode two, here came the leftists who write these shows, and I\u2019m convinced now that they write these shows and write these songs and these movies just to get in our face, just to ram it down our throats.  So Designated Survivor, in a recent episode, there\u2019s a rogue governor. Everybody in government\u2019s destroyed at the State of the Union speech, and Kiefer Sutherland\u2019s a cabinet member designated the night of the State of the Union speech to watch it from some secret location in case everybody\u2019s wiped out. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s the designated survivor, and becomes the president.  The first thing he does is, “Hey, let\u2019s not blame Islam! Let\u2019s not blame the Muslims.”  In the third or fourth episode, there\u2019s a rogue governor rounding up Muslims. I\u2019m sorry; I\u2019m not even gonna watch it.  So I\u2019m watching The Blacklist last night, and the title of the episode\u2019s called Gaia, and I… Now, in fairness, The Blacklist redeemed themselves during the program. But at first, I thought, “Oh, my God. Don\u2019t tell me I\u2019m gonna have to stop watching this.”<\/p>\n

It opens with “Red” Reddington, James Spader — who is in a class all by himself as an actor — talking about the dangers of climate change, how destructive it is, as though it\u2019s just matter of fact. I said, “Oh, no, please. Can they spare one show from this politicized crap?”  Well, it turned out that the villain in the show is an environmental nutcase that wanted to blow up a nuclear power plant in New Jersey, and he was made to look like an absolute kook, and the good guys save the day as you would expect.<\/p>\n

There wouldn\u2019t be a show, otherwise, if the bad guys ever won any of these things, but still it was just on the verge.  My point is they politicize everything. Everything.  They politicize virtually everything. Kindergarten\u2019s politicized.  There isn\u2019t an issue, and nobody thinks that it is, not very many people.  Most people think it\u2019s the Republicans that do all the politicizing.  “Republicans do the politicizing! I hate politics. I hate Republicans. Republicans are always say no to things! No to this… Just get the Republicans out of the way and we\u2019d get politics out.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>They just don\u2019t understand that it\u2019s the Democrats politicizing everything.  So in not conforming with the Regime — and that\u2019s what our presidency today is.  It is a Regime, and the media has become the defenders and protectors of the Regime, and you can see it in who they choose to go after.  They go after anybody who disagrees, anybody prominent who might be successful in turning people away from the Regime. That\u2019s who the media targets. <\/p>\n

So Trump is the current target. He\u2019s the GOP presidential nominee.  These people on the left are not interested in debate; they\u2019re not interested in being coequals in the arena of ideas.  They want to eliminate all opposition.  They shouldn\u2019t have to suffer any opposition.  Their arrogant and conceit is such that there is nothing else; there are no opposing views, and no matter how bad things are, “We\u2019re still the best. We\u2019re the only ones! Conservatism\u2019s a disease. It\u2019s a plague, and it has to be dealt with.” <\/p>\n

It was even treated that way in a news story yesterday going all the way back to the 1960s, and it was at NPR.  So if they dispatch Trump, I\u2019ve heard enough of what Obama has said about me personally and about Republicans and conservative media to know… Well, I\u2019ve already been targeted.  I mean, they\u2019ve already made repeated efforts, and they have failed.  They continue to fail because they don\u2019t understand why this program succeeds.  And they never will.  I could tell them, and they wouldn\u2019t believe me.  I can tell them why it works. <\/p>\n

I could give them every key to destroying this program and they still wouldn\u2019t be able to do it because they wouldn\u2019t believe what I would say.  Not because they don\u2019t believe me, just they wouldn\u2019t believe the details.  So let\u2019s put this into play.  Let\u2019s illustrate this for you.  Obama, two weeks after being inaugurated in 2009, held a meeting with all the congressional leadership, both parties, House and Senate.  I know this happened \u2019cause John Boehner came down here some few weeks after and told me about it.  I knew about it anyway; it was reported.  Boehner said, when he told me, that he couldn\u2019t understand why Obama\u2019s said it.<\/p>\n

“I was incredulous.” <\/p>\n

But Obama told these guys, “You\u2019ve gotta stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.” <\/line><\/p>\n

“I won.  You have to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.  That\u2019s not how things get done in Washington.” <\/p>\n

And of course you\u2019re aware of the other instances where I\u2019ve been mentioned by name as enemy of the state.  So Boehner came down here and said, “I don\u2019t know why he would say that.” <\/p>\n

I said, “You don\u2019t, really?  He was hoping that just one of you in the Republican leadership would go to the microphones outside the White House and agree with him in a show of bipartisan.  He knows he can\u2019t by himself discredit me, but if you joined him in that sentiment, that\u2019s what he was trying to do.”  I thanked him for not doing it, but he claimed he didn\u2019t know why Obama would say that, and I told him.<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s not through saying it.  Let\u2019s go to Cleveland.  It was all part of the attack.  Obama\u2019s out there speaking for Hillary because Hillary can\u2019t show up.  Hillary is in hiding.  She\u2019s hibernating because that\u2019s the best she can do.  The less she\u2019s seen, the better she does. So here\u2019s Obama.<\/p>\n

OBAMA:  I\u2019m disturbed about Republican elected officials who know better but are still supporting this guy.  What they\u2019ve done is they\u2019ve allowed a lot of crazy talk to just be pumped out again and again through all kinds of these media outlets.  Conspiracy theories, a lot of the hard-core Republican partisan voters were just hearing this stuff over and over again and started to believe it.  And that\u2019s what allowed Donald Trump suddenly to emerge.  Donald Trump didn\u2019t build all this crazy conspiracy stuff.  And some Republicans who knew better stood by silently, and even during the course of this campaign didn\u2019t say anything.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Translation:  Conservative media created Trump.  Conservative media is where you find all this insanity, and Trump came along and simply stole it and capitalized on it.  And if it hadn\u2019t been for conservative media, then America wouldn\u2019t be facing this plague that Obama believes is Donald Trump.  Now, you and I know why Trump exists.  I don\u2019t know if Obama really does or not.  I\u2019m not one of these people that thinks he\u2019s automatically brilliant, Mensa IQ stuff.  I\u2019m not sure I believe that.  Politically, his leftist instincts are formidable, but I don\u2019t know if he really believes this or is just saying it or a combination of the two, but he kept on.<\/p>\n