{"id":338929,"date":"2020-03-03T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=338929"},"modified":"2020-03-06T16:40:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T21:40:33","slug":"bloombergs-disconnect-from-reality-evident-at-fox-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/03\/03\/bloombergs-disconnect-from-reality-evident-at-fox-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg\u2019s Disconnect from Reality Evident at Fox Town Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Folks, look. I have been struggling since last night. I accidentally saw the town hall on the Fox News Channel with Bloomberg. And I\u2019m gonna tell you, I have been struggling for a way to politely describe what I saw last night. And I don\u2019t know that I can do it. I\u2019ve been struggling for polite ways to describe what I think, what I saw last night as a real shortage of IQ and brain power and self-awareness.<\/p>\n

\"\"I saw a guy who thinks he\u2019s the Beatles who is barely Cyndi Lauper. I saw a guy who thinks the world revolves around him when 95% of the American people have no idea who he is. I saw a guy so disconnected from his own reality that it was jarring to me. And then to confirm that I was right, I\u2019m watching analysis of it this morning on that same network, the Fox News Channel. And they bring out their senior people.<\/p>\n

Now, the senior people doing the analysis happen to be card-carrying members of this Washington establishment, and they were saying, “It was Bloomberg\u2019s best appearance yet! Why, he was better in that town hall than he was in any of the debates,” which would not have taken anything other than showing up. But it was not good last night. It was embarrassing in terms of how disconnected Bloomberg is from his own reality. He really does think that he is in Donald Trump\u2019s league.<\/p>\n

He thinks he\u2019s as well known. He thinks he\u2019s as respected, as popular, when 95% of the Americans have no idea who the guy is — and, furthermore, don\u2019t care — and the only reason anybody\u2019s interested in him is all the money he\u2019s got and all the money he\u2019s spending. The guy ends up agreeing with Trump on matters of the economy and dealing with foreign countries. I\u2019m saying, “What is your problem?” It became obvious: He\u2019s jealous as he can be of Donald Trump!<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t disagree with a lot of what Trump\u2019s doing. He\u2019s just jealous Trump\u2019s doing it and he isn\u2019t. I asked Cookie for some sound bites here, but I made a mistake. I didn\u2019t take any notes of this thing last night, so I couldn\u2019t recall any specifics to tell her to go get. I remembered three or four things, and I\u2019ll be able to give you an example of it as the program unfolds. There was a question about (griping), “You fly your private plane! You fly your jets to Bermuda. You fly your jet all over, and yet you\u2019re one of these climate change guys.”<\/p>\n

He says, “Well, you know what? The work I do is important. I\u2019m doing a lot of important work trying to save the planet. I\u2019m a controversial person, I\u2019m an important person, and the only way I can get places is to fly my plane. You just gotta get used to that. There\u2019s no hypocrisy about this. I\u2019m controversial. I can\u2019t fly commercial! (sputtering) I — I can\u2019t get on a commercial plane. Nobody would be safe.” I said, “Dude, nobody would know you\u2019re on it if you got on a commercial flight! A, they wouldn\u2019t see you, probably, unless you had a bench you\u2019re sitting on.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cleveland. This is Fred, and it\u2019s great to have you, Fred. Hi.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Good day, Rush. I had an observation that I\u2019d like to run by you about Michael Bloomberg. Everything the left claims to hate about Trump, Michael Bloomberg seems to personify. He\u2019s cocky, he\u2019s arrogant, he\u2019s disconnected. (chuckles) He has a problem with women; he buys people off. I think the bottom line is — you hit the nail on the head a few minutes ago — jealousy is what this all comes down to. All of these people with their rabid hatred of Trump, jealousy is the one word that can explain most of it. They can\u2019t —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a big part of it because all these people think they\u2019re smarter, think they\u2019re (in Bloomberg\u2019s case, richer) more accomplished, and Trump\u2019s a bumbling buffoon. And they\u2019re jealous that Trump actually tried for it, went for it, and won. So now they gotta go do it too. I think… You say Bloomberg is jealous. I think other Democrats are jealous but for different reasons. They don\u2019t have more money than Trump does, for example. They don\u2019t have…<\/p>\n

They\u2019re just jealous that an outsider has come in and run rings around \u2019em when they were all predicting he wouldn\u2019t get past the first two weeks after his announcement. You know, he came down the escalator and people thought, “This guy, he\u2019s not even serious,” and he goes on to win. So you\u2019re right. Jealousy is a very, very… Jealousy and envy, folks, are two of the most destructive human emotions. In fact, I would say jealousy is one of the two emotions that will make people behave in ways they otherwise wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Love is the other one — or what is called love. I mean, people do some of the stupidest stuff when they think they\u2019re in love but would not do it when they\u2019re sane. It happens to everybody. I think jealousy is the same thing. Maybe lust is the word, maybe not love, because a lot of people think love is a pure thing. So maybe lust. But jealousy is definitely in this category, and envy the same way — and I\u2019ll tell you what.<\/p>\n

If, like, you\u2019re dying to succeed because you want to show a bunch of people in your life that thought you were never gonna amount to a hill of beans? Fine. But that better not be your only motivation or you\u2019re never gonna be happy, \u2019cause they\u2019re never gonna acknowledge it. You\u2019re never gonna know. Showing people up should never be the primary motivation, just like jealousy and envy. (Snort!) You\u2019re never gonna be happy when you\u2019re experiencing either of those.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the Bloomberg sound bites. I was trying to figure out how to do this. I mentioned I accidentally saw Bloomberg last night on a town hall of the Fox News network.<\/p>\n

I literally was talking back to the TV, and I was talking… Kathryn and I were watching this, and we accidentally stumbled into it. So I thought, “Oh, you know, I may as well watch this,” and I was… I don\u2019t know. What\u2019s the word? Dumbfounded? I kept struggling for ways in which I could politely describe today my reactions to what I saw last night. I don\u2019t know that I can do it, folks. I saw somebody who has absolutely no accurate self-awareness.<\/p>\n

\"\"This man thinks… Like I said in the first hour, he thinks that he is — (sigh) I don\u2019t know — Elon Musk or the Beatles, and he\u2019s barely Cyndi Lauper. Nothing against Cyndi Lauper, but her day has come and gone. You get my drift here. But don\u2019t… He believes that he is the focus of everybody\u2019s attention and that everybody\u2019s watching him at every moment of the day, when most people wouldn\u2019t recognize him if he did get on a commercial flight. It\u2019s delusional!<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s more than that. You know, I was trying to think of a polite way to describe… You know, I\u2019ve always told you that I\u2019ve never thought Mike Bloomberg was that bright, and that attitude was really cemented some short weeks ago when I heard him talking about Xi Jinping, the dictator of Communist China, and Bloomberg\u2019s talking about, “Well, he\u2019s got his constituents he\u2019s gotta answer to. He\u2019s gotta keep his voters happy! He\u2019s gotta keep the people happy like any other politician.”<\/p>\n

I said, “No, he\u2019s not! He\u2019s a dictator! It\u2019s they who have to keep him happy, and if they don\u2019t, they get shot. They get sent to a reeducation camp. What do you mean they have constituents?” And then I thought, this is the guy who literally was telling New Yorkers that they can\u2019t eat more butter than he thinks, or they can\u2019t have a larger soft drink than he thinks, or they can\u2019t have hot dogs anymore.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thinking, “Who is this, and why did people in New York put up with it? It\u2019s a city where anything goes!” It used to be a very livable and fun city, and they\u2019ve turned the town into a prison, a liberal prison of things you cannot do, and this guy was at the top of the list making that list of things you can\u2019t do. I just… But it was when I heard him talking about Xi Jinping and communism.<\/p>\n

I know that he\u2019s got a lot of business in China. I know he\u2019s gotta keep Xi Jinping happy, but for crying out loud, at some point you have to admit that the guy is a dictator, a communist dictator and doesn\u2019t have constituencies and doesn\u2019t have people that he has to keep happy. He has eliminated all of his rivals. What that man has done, what Xi Jinping has done in China is astounding.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s become Mao Tse-tung and he set out to do it and he has. He has eliminated all rivals. He is the most powerful ChiCom leader since Mao by design. He has eliminated any rivals. That\u2019s why if anything goes wrong over there, he can\u2019t blame it on anybody else. He\u2019s got nothing but a bunch of sycophant underlings. There\u2019s nobody to challenge him. “How\u2019d he do that, Rush?” They kill people! It\u2019s what communists do. They kill their opposition.<\/p>\n

Did you see the first known case of coronavirus in North Korea, see the headline? “North Korea\u2019s First Confirmed Coronavirus Patient Shot Dead.” That\u2019s how they deal with it. “Oh, you have coronavirus?” Bang. You\u2019re dead. Burn the body, don\u2019t even bury it.<\/p>\n

So, anyway, I\u2019ve been trying — how can I sound charitable. And then I got up today and I fully expected that anybody doing analysis of this town hall last night would more or less have seen what I saw. But, no. I saw senior political analysts thinking that Bloomberg was the best he\u2019s been, better than in any of the debates. And I thought, “What? It\u2019s not possible. You can\u2019t seriously think that.” And then I realized the establishment types hang together.<\/p>\n

So here are some sound bites to give you an example. And sadly, I don\u2019t have all of them. I was so absorbed, I should have taken some notes or made audio notes at what time he said something that I really reacted to, and I didn\u2019t do that and I didn\u2019t have time to watch the whole town hall again today. So I just had to go cherry-pick some things that I remembered.<\/p>\n

Up first, question. “Several people out there wanted to know, Mayor Bloomberg, how you can fly around on private jets and take your jet to Bermuda to play golf and still be such a strong proponent of climate change. Isn\u2019t that hypocrisy?”<\/p>\n

BLOOMBERG: The answer is that I spend an awful lot of time flying around the country, flying around the world working on climate change.<\/p>\n