{"id":257868,"date":"2017-12-13T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=257868"},"modified":"2017-12-14T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T21:31:08","slug":"your-host-addresses-a-crabby-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/12\/13\/your-host-addresses-a-crabby-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Host Addresses a Crabby Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Man, oh, man, a lot of crabby people out there. And I\u2019m hearing from I don\u2019t know how many, but it\u2019s more than I can count. And I\u2019ll share with you some of the crabbiness today. And there\u2019s other stuff out there besides the crabbiness of the election.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the phone number if you want to be on the program. 800-282-2882. Email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n

\"\"The first crabby email. “Dear Rush: You know everybody\u2019s blaming McConnell and everybody\u2019s blaming Bannon, but I blame you. I don\u2019t recall you ever endorsing Roy Moore. I don\u2019t recall you ever urging people to vote for Roy Moore.”<\/p>\n

Hmm. I\u2019m searching the deep, dark crevices of my memory on this. Hmm. What do you think, Mr. Snerdley? Do you have any recollection? I guess I didn\u2019t really make a — (interruption) well, no, no, no. I covered this thing thoroughly, and I did what I always do. I identified who our political enemies are, and I exposed them. And yesterday was a championship day.<\/p>\n

\"\"In fact, Drudge has recognized it. The best Drudge headline of the whole year: “Rush, Rush!” Sadly, it\u2019s not about me. And if I were lost in egoville, I would say that it was about me. It\u2019s about the tax bill. “Rush, Rush! Tax Bill by Christmas.”<\/p>\n

Chuck You Schumer is saying (imitating Schumer), “No, no, no, no. You Republicans would be unethical and immoral if you vote for that tax bill now since you just lost the seat last night. You need to wait until Doug Jones is seated in January and then have the tax cut vote.” The scary thing is the Republicans might go for that. Especially having lost, the Republicans might think they need to re-embark on the old strategy of trying to prove to the Democrats and the media that they\u2019re fair and balanced and not mean people.<\/p>\n

And what better way to do that than to say, “Yeah, okay. We\u2019ll take this tax bill on which our future depends and we\u2019ll shelve it and we\u2019ll wait for you to get your guy in there so you can kill it.” Now, if that happens, I can understand a lot of people being crabby. But look, yesterday was a yeoman day, but they\u2019re all yeoman. And I do what I do every day, and I did what I did every day, and that is I exposed the left for who and what they are.<\/p>\n

I told you what this Alabama race was all about. But the one thing, the one thing, I leave it up to people to make up their own minds, because I have always believed in the intelligence and the involvement and the awareness of the people in the audience.<\/p>\n

\"\"Another crabby email. “Boy, Mitch McConnell must be walking on air today, Rush. He not only defeated a candidate who he didn\u2019t want, but now he\u2019s lost another Republican Senate seat so he has another reason to not get anything done. Mitch McConnell must be the happiest guy in town.”<\/p>\n

I have noticed in the emails I\u2019ve checked today that there\u2019s a lot of animosity at Mitch McConnell. I mean, it is overflowing. I\u2019m getting emails from people who think this is exactly what McConnell wanted, that too many Republicans are willing to sacrifice the victory last November in order to get rid of the intruder and outsider Trump.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got crabby emails from people who have finished reading conservative websites and blogs who are celebrating the loss of a Republican Senate seat, and they don\u2019t understand it, and they are livid and fit to be tied. There is a lot of crabby. John Nolte at Breitbart has a story today on CNN and its ratings being in the basement<\/a>. And I got a crabby response to that. I mean, the crabbiness, it\u2019s all over the place. It\u2019s kind of invigorating in and of itself.<\/p>\n

So I wrote this person back. I said, “What are you mad at? Are you mad that Breitbart is seeking refuge in irrelevant, meaningful places here by pointing out after we lose a Senate seat that CNN is sucking?” And pretty much that was it. This is a story talking about CNN and how bad their 2017 has been and how they\u2019re in the ratings cellar. And they are. But if you tune in to CNN today, they don\u2019t think they\u2019re losing anything.<\/p>\n

CNN was actually cheering. There were cheers on the set last night during the election returns. And they\u2019re happy as hell. CNN thinks that they are gigantic winners today. CNN has been in last place in cable news for I don\u2019t know how long, and yet they keep chugging along. They don\u2019t have any viewers, but they have advertising. They don\u2019t have any viewers, but they have enough support from CNN International, which, if you combine that with the entire operation, it helps the bottom line.<\/p>\n

But the bottom line on this is — I think there\u2019s a point to be made. You can sit here, especially today, and you can try to make yourself feel better by pointing out how in the ratings toilet CNN is. But what does that mean? How does provide any solace? CNN\u2019s not miserable. CNN\u2019s ecstatic. And how does CNN survive with so little audience? I have explained this I don\u2019t know how many times. I\u2019ll explain it again.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all about media buyers. It\u2019s all about who they are and where they are. Let\u2019s start with companies. Take your favorite company. General Mills, Meineke muffler, I don\u2019t care what it is. They have their own marketing departments, and those marketing departments hire advertising agencies. And they turn over to those agencies the responsibility of media buying.<\/p>\n

They have meetings with the agency, and they tell \u2019em what demographic they want to hit. They tell \u2019em what time of year they want various campaigns to run. And except on the, you know, big, big advertising push of the year, such as a Super Bowl ad or something, they just leave it to the advertising agency. And the agency comes up with a plan and reports it, and they execute it, and the company pays the bill to the advertising agency, and that\u2019s that.<\/p>\n

Now, if there\u2019s a big campaign, Meineke muffler is running a humongous thing, they might be hands-on with the agency for that one campaign. But day-to-day the company doesn\u2019t have day-to-day contact with the agency, other than when campaigns are presented in meetings, “Here\u2019s our idea for the latest spot,” translation, “We\u2019re gonna run it.” But the individual media buys, they don\u2019t get into that. That\u2019s why they hire the agency.<\/p>\n

\"\"And who works at these agencies? A bunch of left-wing little college graduates. Most of them are women and they\u2019re in the basement and they\u2019re in windowless buildings, and they\u2019re the ones that do the media buys. And the same media buyers that will flood CNN with full rate card advertising are the same people that will not spend any money on Fox, all because of politics. That\u2019s why in prime time on Fox you can see penile enhancement spots and you will never see them on CNN. I don\u2019t know if Fox is still running the penile enhancement spots, but when they started it was a steady diet of that \u2019cause that\u2019s all they could get.<\/p>\n

I mean, the bias is everywhere. I mean, we here at the EIB Network had to overcome that in our first five years. It\u2019s something we still have to overcome on a daily, daily basis. I\u2019m not gonna give away any trade secrets on how we\u2019ve done it, but we have. But I\u2019m astounded as I wonder how few people in this business, for example, know how to deal with these massive Twitter and Facebook campaigns supposedly tweeting and Facebooking and emailing all of these angry listeners threatening to never buy again. It\u2019s amazing to me how still so many people don\u2019t understand that most of that is artificial, is not real and generated by bots.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s how CNN does it. They got people supporting them and spending advertising dollars when the ratings and numbers aren\u2019t there. You might say, “Well, at some point aren\u2019t these advertisers gonna demand results?” No, because CNN\u2019s just one of many buys when we\u2019re talking about major corporations, like General Motors, Toyota. They\u2019re advertising so many places, they don\u2019t base the success or failure of a campaign on one particular place, network, CNN. They\u2019ll add it all together and then come up with the effectiveness plan. But make no mistake, these little media buyers, they know full well what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

They can sit there and see that CNN\u2019s got no viewers, and they understand that means CNN will be in big trouble financially unless they do something about it. So they do something about it. Of course, CNN\u2019s got salespeople out there. They\u2019re making deals on the rate card and all that. But I get the crabbiness of the emailer\u2019s point. What does it matter that CNN\u2019s ratings are in the tank when they, in their mind, just engineered a big victory? And now this is two. This is two. You got the Virginia governor\u2019s race and then this thing in Alabama.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t tell them they\u2019re not on a roll. They think this constitutes winning the House back in 2018. This is full speed ahead. USA Today has an editorial today<\/a>: Donald Trump “isn\u2019t fit to clean the toilets in the Barack Obama Presidential Library.” USA Today lead editorial. Folks, this election… There is so much anger, so much rage, so much irrational hatred that has been bottled up all across the left and in the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

\"\"This election last night with a 21,000-vote victory… When you look at all of the money the left spent in there — all of the free equivalent money the Drive-By Media coverage of this race got and provided. You look at the money George Soros spent and who knows what the hell kind of tricks on the ground were being played with vote turnout and all that. And, as usual, did you notice during the election returns last night the places where Democrat votes come from are the last to be heard from. They\u2019re the last to be counted.<\/p>\n

Last night, it was Montgomery, Alabama. That is a large African-American population. It\u2019s clear that the Democrats and the voter election people there were waiting to see what they needed. We saw that all throughout the 2016 campaign. Remember there was a 90-minute period of time from like midnight to 1:30 a.m., presidential election night, where there were no new votes counted? The vote totals and the tote boards did not change for an hour and a half.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re watching the Drive-Bys, including Fox, and it doesn\u2019t change, and we\u2019re asking, “What are you guys doing? Did they stop counting out there?” Well, everybody knew what was going on. The Democrats were trying to figure out where they needed to get votes, and they gave it the old college try. They just couldn\u2019t come up with \u2019em. There\u2019s a big loser in this thing. It\u2019s Al Franken. Now he has to quit. They have named his replacement, but he\u2019s not going anywhere. He has not said when he\u2019s gonna leave!<\/p>\n

\"\"And, you know, it was almost a given that if Roy Moore won that Al Franken would say, “You know what? There\u2019s no reason for me to leave. If the Republicans want this guy, there\u2019s no reason I\u2019m leaving.” Well, now that Roy Moore lost… The Democrats thought Moore was gonna win, by the way. Let me give you one other thing about this. This whole strategy of theirs of jettisoning anybody on their side who has ever looked at a woman the wrong way to clear the decks to be able to, with credibility, attack Trump primarily and Roy Moore if he had won…<\/p>\n

I mean, they fully expected Moore to win, and they expected that to give them a huge advantage and boost going into 2018. They were prepared either way. But if Moore won, they had the campaign rolled out — “Republicans like reprobates! Republicans like kooks! Republicans like weirdos! Republicans like pedophiles!” — and for them to do that, Franken would have to go, and anybody else. Well, now Roy Moore didn\u2019t win. Roy Moore lost, and that means Franken doesn\u2019t have a leg to stand on.<\/p>\n

I mean, since the voters… Democrats… Voters rejected a pedophile, a kook, oddball. Who shows up to vote on a horse? I mean, I could just see the ads coming down. So what\u2019s Franken do in this circumstance? (interruption) Well, he\u2019s gonna try to stay. Mark my words, he\u2019s going to try to stay. He\u2019s gonna do everything he can to stay and he\u2019ll try to massage this result in Alabama as leverage. Grab sound bite number 3.<\/p>\n

I want to hear this. I wasn\u2019t watching CNN last night, and I don\u2019t want anybody to get the mistaken idea that I was. I was told there was cheering on the set last night during the period of time when Jones took the lead, and we have a sound bite. Let\u2019s see. This is exactly what happened. We have here John King. We have Wolf Blitzer. It\u2019s just those two guys. And here goes. Three… two… one…<\/p>\n