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<\/a><\/p>\nIt\u2019s not just mimicry. I mean, you can spot an amateur from a professional right off the bat. You can spot somebody who is doing it for the first time or is not professionally trained or hasn\u2019t been, you can spot the self-consciousness. That\u2019s what you see versus somebody who can actually make you believe that they are the person they\u2019re portraying. And I feel it necessary to mention this because it all is part of the mix here.<\/p>\n
At the end of the day these people want to be known for who they are. They want to be known for what they think. They want to be known for the seriousness that they think they bring to life. Look, psychologically there\u2019s much more to it than that, but at the base level here they spend their lives pretending to be other people, and they are desperate to be known for who they are. And then here comes the pressure to be liberal. It\u2019s the world in which they live. It\u2019s the world in which they work. So they perfect the art of even acting that.<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t know what they\u2019re saying. They just know it sounds great. They just know it\u2019s gonna work and build bridges to the people important to them. She hasn\u2019t the slightest idea, and if she does, she\u2019s even stupider than I think. She hasn\u2019t the slightest idea that she has just told over half the country to go to hell. She has just — and all the rest of them, too.<\/p>\n
You know, Michael Jordan\u2019s smart. Michael Jordan\u2019s a big progressive Democrat, but he never leads with it because he knows Republicans buy Nike products, too. Ditto Tiger Woods. I don\u2019t know what Tiger Woods\u2019 politics are. I think I do, but the point is he doesn\u2019t lead with it. But these people desperate to be known for who they are, desperate to be seen as intelligent like Martin Sheen. So they go out and do these things, and they make statements like Meryl Streep did last night at the Golden Globes.<\/p>\n
STREEP: You and all of us in this room, really, belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now. Think about it. Hollywood, foreigners, and the press. (laughter) Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if we kick \u2019em all out, you\u2019ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I actually think this should become a campaign ad every four years. The woman has just insulted everybody who watches football, which is most people in America. It\u2019s the number one watched show in America, and MMA, it\u2019s got its own audience. She may as well throw NASCAR in there because she\u2019s talking about you people, too. She may as well throw in people that go to church on Sunday in a pickup truck with a gun rack on the back because she\u2019s talking about you, too.<\/p>\n
She may as well use the word “deplorables” because Hillary Clinton meant all of you, too, and that\u2019s who she had in mind, and it\u2019s the same thing here with Meryl Streep. But the stupidity of this is, you\u2019ve heard the old saw that Trump\u2019s critics take him literally but not seriously and Trump\u2019s supporters take him seriously but not literally. Meryl Streep, I don\u2019t think that this is an act. I think she really stupidly believes that Donald Trump wants to get rid of everybody who is not a white Christian in this country.<\/p>\n
I think she really believes it. Because she knows people who\u2019ve told her that that\u2019s correct, when Trump says whatever he says and then she goes and reads the media that bashes Trump and mischaracterizes it, she believes it, so she really believes that Trump wants to shut down Hollywood, that Trump wants to get rid of anybody foreign and anyplace crawling with outsiders. Donald Trump has never said anything of the sort, and yet she believes it. How can this be? How can somebody who appears to be relatively intelligent be so ignorant? How can somebody be so stupid, so humorously ridiculously stupid as to believe that Hollywood and people there run the risk of being thrown out of the country?<\/p>\n
Hollywood, foreigners, and the press. Hollywood crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if we kick them all out. When has Trump ever — do you not know the meaning of the word “illegal,” Mrs. Gummer? That\u2019s here actual married name. Her name is Meryl Gummer. Did you know that? Yeah, her husband\u2019s name is Gummer. Streep, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a stage name or a maiden name. Doesn\u2019t matter. That\u2019s her name. Meryl Gummer. Her daughters are all Gummer, they\u2019re all actresses. There\u2019s Mamie Gummer. I forget the other two.<\/p>\n But how can somebody be this dumb? How can somebody be this stupid to believe, based on anything Trump has said, that this is the reality people in Hollywood face. But she\u2019s not the only one. It is astounding what Millennials believe. And why do they believe it? Because they believe the media. Because they believe the New York Times, because they believe people like Paul Krugman. They believe idiots in the media who mischaracterize this stuff and fear monger.<\/p>\n I mean, it is astounding because people like Meryl Streep and others have not been educated to think critically. They are nothing but sponges. They\u2019ve never been taught to think. They are arrogant and condescending and think that what they know is accurate and there is nothing else, and so whatever comes in gets processed. Trump is X, Y, and Z and so whatever he says gotta equal X, Y, and Z and that is racist, sexist, bigot homophobe, what have you. But it defies common sense. And Trump\u2019s never said it and Trump has no desire. He\u2019s not of that mind-set.<\/p>\n Trump is not exclusionary. Trump happens to love America and wants to protect America and wants to do whatever he can to see to it that people that want to harm America are not admitted or are punished if found. Nothing in the world wrong with that. That becomes Trump wants to round everybody up and deport \u2019em and send \u2019em home. It\u2019s astounding to me. There\u2019s no common sense even here. If she believes that, has she ever taken a moment to ask herself, “Wait a minute. Is this really what Donald Trump wants to do? Get rid of every foreigner, close down all media, close down Hollywood,” because if she doesn\u2019t believe it, what in the world is she doing saying this stuff? There\u2019s one more sound bite from Ms. Streep.<\/p>\n STREEP: There was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart, not because it was good. There\u2019s nothing good about it, but it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it and I still can\u2019t get it out of my head because it wasn\u2019t in a movie. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.<\/p>\n RUSH: Wait a minute. It\u2019d be okay if it was in a movie? If it was in a movie it\u2019d be okay for somebody to mock somebody disabled because it\u2019s just a movie, just make believe, and somebody\u2019s trying to make a point? The thing is, it\u2019s not what he did! And he himself has said for the 100th time — I don\u2019t know if we got a sound bite of Trump responding. It is here somewhere but I can\u2019t find it, but Trump has said a hundred times it\u2019s not what — You know, I have experience with this. Michael J. Fox.<\/p>\n I\u2019m sitting here doing the program, and it\u2019s during a presidential campaign or some Senate campaign year. It might have been 2000. I don\u2019t know if it was midterms or 2000. It had to be midterms. It wasn\u2019t 2012, was it? It could be five years ago. Anyway, Michael J. Fox has Parkinson\u2019s disease, and I\u2019m watching these monitors here during the show, during the program. I got a Dittocam here. I\u2019ve got people watching this program.<\/p>\n Michael J. Fox has Parkinson\u2019s disease, and he used that in a commercial for Claire McCaskill running for the Senate in Missouri. And Michael J. Fox in that ad… I think it was against Jim Talent. I think the Republican was James Talent, and I think the ad had all kinds of defamatory comments about Talent, things he was gonna do to people. And I described the commercial as I saw it so that people could see it the way I did and be able to visualize it the way I did, and that became “mocking people who have Parkinson\u2019s disease.”<\/p>\n Now, not a single person who knows me would ever believe I would make fun of anybody in that regard, and I wasn\u2019t making fun. I wasn\u2019t being critical of the entire concept of that spot. That spot… I don\u2019t care whoever it is: If they have a disease, if they have something about them, if they enter the political process, then… (interruption) That was the point. They used Michael J. Fox try to make him untouchable because of his Parkinson\u2019s disease, and anybody who criticized Michael J. Fox was gonna really get it — and I did.<\/p>\n But I was not making fun of anything or mocking anything, and yet to this day it is a popular Twitter meme that that\u2019s what I did. And they\u2019re doing the same thing on Trump. I saw what Trump did with the reporter. And Trump was not mocking the guy\u2019s disability or any of this. It\u2019s not who Trump is. But it doesn\u2019t matter. Meryl Streep, without even questioning it, believes it, and is almost was reduced to tears over it. And, I\u2019m sorry, I just… I think these people oversell all of this sensitivity. But here\u2019s what you have to understand about progressives and the left.<\/p>\n They don\u2019t believe reality is reality.<\/p>\n Is this fundamental. This is very key. If you want to understand why a Meryl Streep can think what she thinks and say what she says, or any of these other people — I don\u2019t care if they\u2019re actors, if they\u2019re extreme left-wing commentators, if they\u2019re just marchers on the street or what have you. Liberals believe that what you and I call “reality” is actually phony. They call it “a social construct,” meaning we in the majority have created this thing that we call reality, and its purpose is to define other people and to deny them access, equality, fairness, or what have you.<\/p>\n To them, reality is just as phony as anything else, because they believe that a majority has created this thing called reality so they can exclude others and so they can be an oppressive majority over him people. They think that reality is something mandated by a majority for their advantage. Take marriage. Their belief is that marriage is something created by a majority of people to deny freedom and equality to other people. They believe that little girls liking to play with Barbie when they\u2019re growing, that\u2019s not reality.<\/p>\n That is a “construct” that we in the majority have created in order to segregate and exclude others from our reality. Well, if you… I\u2019m the mayor of Realville. I am. I swim in it. I am the champion of the literate, the literal, and reality. They think it\u2019s phony. They think it\u2019s something that we make up to deny them access to whatever it is that we call real, to whatever we call normal, to whatever — and by “we,” they make it “us versus them.” And so they think that since reality is phony, a social construct, that they can change it — and this is where they fall apart. They think they can change reality!<\/p>\n Liberalism is the inability to accept what is for what it is, in the misguided belief that it isn\u2019t real, that it\u2019s the creation of an evil majority — and they set about trying to change it. This is why they\u2019re never gonna be happy, because you can\u2019t escape the real! You cannot escape reality, and you can\u2019t change it. Gravity is real; you can\u2019t change it. Take this out as far as it goes, and you\u2019ll see what I\u2019m talking about. I gotta take a break here. I wish I didn\u2019t, but I have to.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Let\u2019s squeeze a quick phone call in here. Amy in Colorado Springs. It\u2019s great to hear from you. How you doing?<\/p>\n CALLER: Hey, Rush. I\u2019m great. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n CALLER: A great honor to talk to you. I\u2019m a Rush Baby. You\u2019re a great conservative mind in our times, so I want to thank you.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thank you. Not just conservative. I mean, just one of the great minds. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n CALLER: My comment was on Ms. Streep\u2019s comments and the selective moral outrage these people have. She mentioned, you know, President-Elect Trump making fun of a disabled person, and yet there was not one mention of that poor young man in Chicago who was beaten by four people who was mentally disabled, in the soon to be ex-president\u2019s hometown, no less. So, you know, where was the outrage about that? Why doesn\u2019t she say something about that?<\/p>\n RUSH: She probably doesn\u2019t know about it, Amy. I doubt that she knows it happened. Because the mainstream media has white-washed the whole thing. I\u2019ve read the AP. I\u2019ve read the Washington Post. I have seen some news. They\u2019re whitewashing the whole thing. She doesn\u2019t have any idea what it is. If she relies on traditional news source, she doesn\u2019t have any idea — and even if she did know, Amy, the people in that story do not threaten her, because they have no power. We\u2019re dealing with hypocrites. But the thing that… You know, this is what I mean by people not being critical thinkers.<\/p>\n If somebody were to tell Meryl Streep last night after she goes off on Trump for mocking somebody and wanting to throw all these horrible… If somebody said, “Well, what about Mrs. Clinton and the way she described…? What\u2019s your reaction?” “W-w-w-what did Hillary say?” “Well, Hillary called Trump supporters ‘deplorable.'” “Oh, I think she\u2019s exactly right! She\u2019s exactly riiiight.” “Well, you don\u2019t think that\u2019s insulting them?” “Oh, no, no! She\u2019s exactly right. I think she\u2019s exactly right,” and these people Chicago? “That\u2019s a terrible, terrible problem. But, you know, it\u2019s brought about by the police focusing on African-Americans. What would you expect them to do? It\u2019s terrible, terrible what the police are doing.”<\/p>\n These are mind-numbed idiots that you\u2019re trying to assign intelligence to.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n One of the things that the left has done over the course of many years is to stigmatize and to quasi-criminalize, again, what is for many people normal behavior, and it\u2019s all part of the effort by the left to suppress, to sensor, to victimize, to stigmatize people. The left — I\u2019ve gotten blue in the face trying to explain liberals to people. They do everything they can — everybody who is not one of them is an enemy that must be mocked, destroyed, humiliated, whatever. And they are permitted to do anything of the sort that they want.<\/p>\n What Donald Trump — he has a mannerism. People try to be funny. Some people are naturally funny. Some people aren\u2019t. But everybody tries to be expressive when they\u2019re telling stories or when they\u2019re reacting to things. The left has seen fit to try to stigmatize certain people and call \u2019em insensitive and mean-spirited and extremist and accuse them of mocking the disabled or making fun of the disadvantaged or what have you, when nine times out of 10 that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening at all. They put everybody on defensive.<\/p>\n What Trump did, he has this behavioral tic that when he is describing something that happened or when he is describing somebody sometimes he throws his arms up and gets a weird look on his face as an expression to try to amplify or illustrate or otherwise enrich the story that he\u2019s telling. He has used this same kind of expression to make fun of himself and people that are not handicapped.<\/p>\n He employed the same flailing his arms — I\u2019m doing it right now — you watch what happens now. Here I am on the Dittocam doing this, and the wrong host on MSNBC could get this and say that I\u2019m talking about some disabled person when I\u2019m doing the same thing Trump did right now. He\u2019s describing a reporter, and he was describing the reporter being all atwitter at some answer Trump had given him. He wasn\u2019t mocking the guy\u2019s disability. I don\u2019t even know if Trump knew the reporter was disabled. The thing about this, the left knows all this. The left knows everything I\u2019m telling you. They make this stuff up. They seize what they think is an example and an opportunity and they focus on it and the rest of the media chimes in, and before you know it there\u2019s a narrative out there that Trump is insensitive and making fun of the disabled, when he doesn\u2019t. Most people with good manners do not! But because the left thinks they can construct reality, they think they can change reality.<\/p>\n If you understand that that\u2019s what they\u2019re about, then much of what they do is not gonna be acceptable, but it\u2019ll be a little bit more understandable as you watch their machinations as they go through the steps of trying to accomplish whatever it is they\u2019re trying to accomplish. These are oddball people and they have some of the worst characteristics of human nature you can imagine. They think they\u2019re the smartest people in the world when in fact they may be the stupidest and they combine that with an arrogant condescension to everybody else.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s somebody else that wants to weigh in on Meryl Streep. This is Terry in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Great to have on you the program. How you doing?<\/p>\n CALLER: I\u2019m great, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n RUSH: Fine and dandy. Thank you.<\/p>\n CALLER: You know, I have to say, I was watching the Golden Globes just purely for entertainment value last night because there is nothing usually on Sunday nights that I like to watch. Get to Meryl Streep, beautiful send-in for her from Viola Davis. She gets up there and she had to open her mouth. These people are entertainers. What makes them think that we want to know their political views?<\/p>\n RUSH: It\u2019s a good question. There\u2019s another part of the question, too. It\u2019s not what makes them think that we want to know. What makes them think they are effective? Because they ought to have learned after the last 12 or 15 months that they\u2019re not effective. Every effort of theirs that they have made to denigrate Trump didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n RUSH: Everything they did to try to help Hillary didn\u2019t work. I mean, they\u2019ve done some really embarrassing things. When I was gone there was this video of these five or six actors, only two of whom are known, urging somebody to do something about Trump, they\u2019re flailing away, but they\u2019re living in this fantasy world —<\/p>\n CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n RUSH: — where everybody hinges on their very word.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah. I don\u2019t get it. Hugh Laurie and Meryl Streep, I used to watch House, I\u2019ve never seen The Night Manager. Meryl Streep, I\u2019ve only seen a few of her movies. George Clooney, not even relevant, don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Look at outcome-based education: 2 + 2 = 5 until the kid figures out that it\u2019s 4. So if you are of a mind that there is no reality, that it is the creation of your political enemies… Take whatever… Put in “reality” whatever you think. They don\u2019t believe it\u2019s real. They think we or somebody, some majority, created a set of circumstances that we call real and reality to exclude them. They then set about trying to change reality, and that\u2019s what liberalism is.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>RUSH: So I checked the email. “You can\u2019t just say that Trump wasn\u2019t making fun of the guy and leave it at that. How do you know?” Look, folks, I\u2019m very patient with these kinds of things. I understand that most people in this audience trust me and don\u2019t doubt me, and some of you people new out there and you\u2019re just getting up to speed. There are certain things here that are just common sense, that people with acculturated mannerisms, good manners, just don\u2019t do.<\/p>\nThey\u2019ve tried to sterilize conversation, sterilize behavior, such as on college campus at every step of romance a man must get consent from a woman. First kiss, next kiss, article of clothing might — gotta get consent for every step of the way or else there may be a crime involved. And even when there isn\u2019t a crime involved, you can count on the liberal publication to write that there was, like phony rape stories at the University of Virginia.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>He has this technique, this mechanism, he even uses it against himself, this flailing arms, waving around, and a screwball expression on his face. He did that making fun of himself during an interview with Larry King in 2005, same thing when he imitated a bank president in October of 2015, and he mocked an Army general the same November speech in which he made the original comment about the journalist.<\/p>\n