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RUSH: Joan in Loma Linda, California. Back to the phones on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you for taking my call. You were talking about Bernie Sanders and Hillary and watching the debate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I held my nose and watched it last night.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And what occurred to me, is it possible that Bernie is actually their worst nightmare? He doesn\u2019t know how to play the game. He honestly believes in it. So he represents all the voters out there who have been drinking the Kool-Aid all these years.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Smoking the dope, you mean?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes! And they can\u2019t expose him without exposing themselves. For years we\u2019ve had these, you know, hypocrites run who say one thing and do another. But Bernie\u2019s their problem because he really believes in it, and they\u2019re gonna have to take him out in some way that discredits him personally.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you\u2019re saying saying the Democrat Party, they go out and they talk all this socialism stuff, but at the end of the day they\u2019re really not in favor of it as much as Bernie is. But Bernie is a true believer and poses a great threat if he wins, and that\u2019s why they\u2019ve gotta take him out?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. But he does stand a chance of pulling all races, all ages and everything who really have believed that this was gonna work all these years — and by calling it by its real name, they are in a terrible fix.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you why it\u2019s worrying people. I think you\u2019re on to something. I really do. But the reason it\u2019s worrying people is that Bernie is pulling every freeloader into his orbit. That\u2019s who\u2019s glomming on to him. Every freeloader, everybody who wants the government to give \u2019em everything \u2019cause they feel ticked off and screwed by the system and so forth. Many of \u2019em are young people who\u2019ve been taught that by their idiot socialist professors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Our last caller has a good point when she says that Bernie is such just the real deal — meaning he\u2019s not slick, he\u2019s not preprogrammed, he\u2019s not poll tested. He just goes out and says what he thinks, and it comes across as real. And, as such, they gotta be careful how they take the guy out because he\u2019s got something Hillary doesn\u2019t have. And, by the way, this is true. He has a bond with his supporters; Hillary doesn\u2019t. Hillary\u2019s supporters are there \u2019cause she\u2019s gonna be the one with a (D) by her name. <\/p>\n

There may be a small segment of Hillary supporters that are actually into Hillary and really dig Hillary. That\u2019s such an infinitesimally small number of people of the total that will vote for her if she\u2019s the nominee. She, believe me, doesn\u2019t get anywhere near the connection that Bernie Sanders has with his voters. And so her point was that if the Democrats were gonna take old Bernie out, they gotta be very careful how they do it because they could so anger Bernie supporters that these wackos… Who knows what they might do?<\/line><\/p>\n

You know, go find Ralph Nader and ask him to run again, or some other silly, third party vessel? She has a point about that. Now, there\u2019s a story here from Daniel Greenfield at Frontpage Mag<\/a>, which actually is just a story about an AP writer in Vermont who covered Bernie Sanders for 28 years. And what is this guy\u2019s name? This guy\u2019s name is Chris Graf, G-r-a-f. He covered Bernie Sanders for 25 years as the AP bureau chief in Vermont. That probably meant here\u2019s the bureau chief and reporter. I mean, how big a staff could they have had for Vermont?<\/p>\n

So this guy was all over Bernie Sanders 25 years, and his take on Bernie Sanders is that he has no social skills. Now you figure AP, this guy\u2019s gotta be a liberal Democrat. A, he\u2019s with AP. B, he lives in Vermont. So he\u2019s gotta be in the same ideological school as Bernie. And he says Bernie Sanders has no social skills. He has no sense of humor. Which, by the way, is the same as Hillary. She doesn\u2019t have a sense of humor. She doesn\u2019t know how to make you laugh with her. But apparently with Bernie it\u2019s really bad. <\/p>\n

This guy, Chris Graf, who covered him 25 years, says Bernie has no social skills, no sense of humor, and is quick to boil over. He has a very bad temper, and, furthermore… Well, I can\u2019t say it. Two other terms he uses to describe him, I can\u2019t repeat here. But… Okay, he\u2019s a penis, and a… What else? He\u2019s a penis and he\u2019s a… The exit hole. Okay? That\u2019s what he said. This guy covered Bernie Sanders for 25 years, and for these reasons this guy said the word some people use to describe Bernie Sanders\u2019 attitude toward his employees was “abusive.” So here you have a socialist with no social skills who abuses workers and have no sense of humor. <\/p>\n

Sounds just like Joe Stalin to me.<\/p>\n

Sounds like Lenin to me.<\/p>\n

Sounds like Marx!<\/p>\n

Sounds like all the rest of these guys to me. But his supporters think old Bernie… He does have that bond. There\u2019s no question about that. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Jake in Annapolis, Maryland. Jake, glad you waited. Great to have you here, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: So my comment is that I think that America should adopt a Nordic style… The Nordic model like they have in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland. They already have a welfare economy. There is more equality in those types of countries. There is universal health care. People\u2019s health is better. People live longer there. There is much lower unemployment, much lower rates of childhood poverty, much better education. The standard of living in these countries are phenomenally better than in the United States, and I think that we could learn a lot and benefit if we adopted some of the policies that we have in these countries.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s exactly the Bernie Sanders platform.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I\u2019m aware of that. Yeah, I\u2019m supporting Bernie Sanders — with pleasure. (snorts)<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s only… (sigh) There\u2019s just one problem, one overall problem. There\u2019s just one…. (sigh) Gee, I hate to do this. There\u2019s just one little problem with it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Denmark and some of the other Nordic\/Scandinavian countries have discovered in the last year or two that it doesn\u2019t work, and they are reforming. They are reducing the size of their welfare state economies. They are reducing benefits, particularly with this influx of refugees now who are demanding to be fed, clothed, medically treated, and taken care of. I\u2019m not kidding. I\u2019m not… I\u2019m trying to do this as politely as I can. They are all reforming, and I\u2019m not gonna say that they\u2019re becoming market economic countries, but they are really changing.<\/p>\n

They can\u2019t afford it anymore. They can\u2019t pay for it. They\u2019re in deep, deep doo-doo. The standard-of-living argument, too, is a little bit of a stretch. Their populations are not nearly big enough to have a real honest comparison on standard of living. But I gotta tell you — I just have to tell you out there, Jake — that there is not a country on the face of the earth that has ever created a higher standard of living for more millions of people than the United States of America, until Democrats are elected president, and then we have problems set in. But other than that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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