{"id":320472,"date":"2019-09-03T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=320472"},"modified":"2019-09-04T16:04:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T20:04:01","slug":"democrats-panicked-because-theyre-stuck-with-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/09\/03\/democrats-panicked-because-theyre-stuck-with-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Panicked Because They\u2019re Stuck with Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, folks, right now as we sit here — and I think it\u2019s way early, as you know, polling data this far out is genuinely meaningless other than being interesting, it relates to fundraising. But, as we sit here today, and it\u2019s got everybody on the left stymied. Joe Biden is the frontrunner for the Democrat nomination. And it\u2019s not sitting well.<\/p>\n

The New York Times has a story, ran a story from — I guess it was September the 3rd — well, no. Well, maybe it is. Headline: \u201cDoes Joe Biden Want to Be Doing This? On certain days, Biden 2020 can feel more like a dutiful slog than the last march of a happy warrior.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then Richard Cohen at the Washington Post has a column. \u201cIt\u2019s Time to Bid Farewell to Joe Biden.\u201d Now, it\u2019s an op-ed piece, so that\u2019s the excuse for running it. But it is clear that the Drive-By Media, which I have professed to be running the Democrat Party for a long time now, has decided that Biden can\u2019t win, they don\u2019t want Biden to win. Biden has gotta go.<\/p>\n

So the bedbug outlet and the roach outlet have decided to do hit pieces on Bite Me. Now, they have a point! They have a point. There were 40 people packed into a college meeting hall. Joe Biden was speaking to them. And he was painting this vivid, vivid scene. It was a campaign event.<\/p>\n

\u201cA four-star general had asked the then-vice president to travel to Konar province in Afghanistan, a dangerous foray into \u2018godforsaken country\u2019 to recognize the remarkable heroism of a Navy captain.\u201d Some people told Bite Me it was too risky. But Bite Me said he brushed off their concerns, that nobody\u2019s gonna keep me out of Afghanistan. I\u2019m brave, and I\u2019m going, and I\u2019ve been asked to pin this medal on this warrior, and I\u2019m going.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cWe can lose a vice president. We can\u2019t lose many more of these kids. Not a joke.\u201d That\u2019s a quote, by the way. This is supposed to make you compassionate and manly and sensitive, \u201cwe can lose a vice president.\u201d Me getting killed, no big deal. But I\u2019m not gonna sit here and lose any more of these kids. I doubt that Special Operations Forces consider themselves kids, but that\u2019s a term that Biden, I mean, Biden even called Kamala Harris “kid.” She\u2019s 50-some-odd.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Navy captain,\u201d this Biden telling the story. \u201cThe Navy captain had rappelled down a 60-foot ravine under fire and retrieved the body of an American comrade, carrying him on his back,\u201d back up the 60 feet. \u201cNow the general wanted Biden to pin a Silver Star on the American hero who, despite his bravery, felt like a failure.\u201d This is Biden telling the story here.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018Sir, I don\u2019t want the damn thing!\u2019 Biden said, his jaw clenched and his voice rising to a shout. \u2018Do not pin it on me, Sir! Please, Sir. Do not do that! He died. He died!\u2019\u201d So the guy getting the medal was telling the vice president, \u201cI don\u2019t deserve it, I don\u2019t deserve it, don\u2019t give me the medal. The guy I was trying to save died.\u201d Biden is telling the story.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe room was silent.\u201d All this according to Greg Jaffe, happened in Hanover, New Hampshire. And after the room was sitting there in stunned silence after this marvelous story, Biden said, \u201cThis is the God\u2019s truth. My word as a Biden.\u201d (laughing) I didn\u2019t know that was the new standard for truth.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Anyway, the problem is, folks, every detail in the story is wrong. \u201cBased on interviews with more than a dozen U.S. troops, their commanders and Biden campaign officials, it appears as though the former vice president has jumbled elements of at least three actual events into one story of bravery, compassion and regret that never happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cBiden visited Konar province in 2008 as a U.S. senator, not as vice president. The service member who performed the celebrated rescue that Biden described was a 20-year-old Army specialist, not a much older Navy captain. And that soldier, Kyle J. White, never had a Silver Star, or any other medal, pinned on him by Biden. At a White House ceremony six years after Biden\u2019s visit, White stood at attention as President Barack Obama placed a Medal of Honor,\u201d on him, around his neck. Biden\u2019s standing there watching.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe upshot: In the space of three minutes, Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony. One element of Biden\u2019s story is rooted in an actual event: In 2011, the vice president did pin –” (interruption) Why do I call him Bite Me?<\/p>\n

Well, because there was a celebrated Army general or something that was fired by Obama for doing something. I forget what it was. And somebody said to the general, \u201cWell, the vice president\u2019s coming to see you,\u201d and the general said, \u2018Bite me.\u2019” And then they really fired him after that. (laughing) So I\u2019ve called him Bite Me ever since. I didn\u2019t make it up. An Army general not eager to see Bite Me or talk to Bite Me or whatever.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Anyway, the element here that\u2019s true: \u201cIn 2011, the vice president did pin a medal on a heartbroken soldier, Army Staff Sgt. Chad Workman, who didn\u2019t believe he deserved the award.
\nIn a statement Thursday, Biden\u2019s campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said Workman\u2019s valor was \u2018emblematic of the duty and sacrifice of the 9\/11 generation of veterans.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

So this is why everybody is worried. The New York Times wants him gone. Does Joe Biden want to be doing this? They\u2019re asking. He\u2019s losing his mind. He doesn\u2019t seem to care about getting anything right, doesn\u2019t have any energy. They\u2019re being reminded of Hillary. The inability to go out and do events. When he does do events, nobody shows up, there isn\u2019t any excitement when he gets out there. He can\u2019t remember anything that happened.<\/p>\n

So he takes elements of his memory from various events and combines them into one fictional story and then tells you don\u2019t doubt him, it\u2019s the word of a Biden. And they\u2019re cringing in the cloakrooms in the deep, dark crevices and the bowels of the Democrat Party establishment.<\/p>\n

Biden also came up with this brilliant idea to ban magazines, gun magazines that can hold multiple bullets. Folks, magazines, by definition, hold multiple bullets. Biden wants to ban magazines that can hold multiple bullets. People are laughing out loud because magazines are multiple bullets. That is their purpose. Biden is just uttering a bunch of words and trying to sound authoritative and compassionate and caring. But the guy doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s saying. And, you know, Trump said Biden\u2019s lost his fastball. And at his peak Biden\u2019s fastball was a change-up.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You want to hear another Joe Biden saying? These things are becoming legion. Quote: \u201cAnd these kids who come and they end up doing well \u2013” he\u2019s talking about illegal immigrants here, by the way. \u201cThese kids who come and they end up doing well, they become Americans before a lot of Americans become Americans.\u201d How does that happen? These kids, they come and they end up doing well. They become Americans before a lot of Americans become Americans.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Now, okay. I\u2019ll give a wide latitude. I know what Bite Me is trying to say. But the problem is he\u2019s emblematic of the Democrat Party. This is a put-down of the American people! At the expense of illegal aliens. He\u2019s trying to say that illegal aliens are special, they\u2019re brighter, they\u2019re more appreciative, that they do come and assimilate, that they\u2019re worth more to the Democrat Party, which is really what he\u2019s saying.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s trying to appeal to a constituency here of illegal immigrants and people that support them by pointing out how special they are. They are better Americans than even people that are born here. They become Americans before Americans become Americans. You know what he\u2019s trying to say. It\u2019s just really constructed poorly. And it\u2019s based on a guy who is pandering.<\/p>\n

And in the process of the pandering, he ends up putting down the American people. And these people still can\u2019t figure out why Donald Trump won! It\u2019s amazing! They can\u2019t figure it out, and they\u2019ve got people like this — Biden\u2019s not alone in this sentiment, by the way. Okay, look. Let\u2019s get started on the phones. ‘Cause I gotta a week\u2019s worth of stuff here to review. If I don\u2019t get to the phones now, I may not. That would not be cool.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We have the audio of that story with Joe Biden that I told you about, and we have a little montage of the Drive-By Media trying to explain it and explain what he meant and basically defend him. But here\u2019s the first of the three bites. And it\u2019s the Washington Post that caught this. Well, a lot of people caught it, but it\u2019s the Washington Post, after hearing this, this just piled on top of gaffe after gaffe after gaffe. \u201cWe need to get rid of magazines that have multiple bullets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a guy that\u2019s been in government all of his life, and he is remarkably ignorant of everyday things in life. And this a guy — he\u2019s been one of 100 in the United States Senate debating and voting on legislation affecting these kind of things. And he\u2019s clearly entirely ignorant on so much, which I think is probably common for a lot of people that have done nothing but been in government or the bureaucracy or the establishment or what have you. But this was last Friday in Hanover, New Hampshire, at a town hall, and it was not bursting with people. Bite Me does not drive big crowds. Here\u2019s the first of the three bites we have.<\/p>\n