You think Hillary Clinton might be saying to herself about now, why did I, why did I waste my money and time picking Tim Kaine?
I mean, the choice of Tim Kaine to be Veep was to take the party in a direction opposite crazy Bernie supporters, right?
The choice of Tim Kaine was supposed to convey that the wackiness of the Democrat primaries was over and it was serious business ahead.
And we've got a great couple of centrists here, no radical wackos.
And then along comes Julian Assange dumping 19,200 emails, which do what?
What is the upshot?
The Bernie Sanders people are angrier today than they have ever been at any time in this whole campaign because the WikiLeaks email dump establishes and proves that the Democrat Party,
from the highest levels, rigged the race, and their guy never had a chance.
It was all rigged.
It was nothing but a show from day one.
Now there might have been crazy Bernie supporters that suspected this.
But this is proof.
This is court of law proof.
This is irrefutable evidence.
And the crazy Bernie people don't care where it comes from.
They don't care that it came from WikiLeaks.
What they now know for sure is that they were robbed.
They were mocked.
They were taken advantage of.
They were used.
They were being laughed at behind the scenes.
All of these emails applauding all of these players for making it look like Crazy Bernie had a chance, but everybody knew from day one that he didn't.
So all of the efforts that Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party, every effort, every length they have gone to to try to prevent the image of a unified party, totally at peace, at one, devoted to the notion of destroying Trump and the Republicans, has been blown to smithereens.
And the party is now more divided than at any time during the primary process.
And crazy Bernie is trying to tamp it down himself and is failing.
Crazy Bernie, this is great.
Crazy Bernie went and had a meeting, a rally with his supporters, with his delegates this afternoon in Philadelphia.
And our microphones were there.
We have four sound bites.
And the last two are the meat and the money.
But here's the first to set this all up.
Election days come and go, but the fight for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice continues.
The support we have received from every state in this country has been extraordinary, and the grassroots activism is unprecedented in modern American history.
We edited the cheering because this went on and on.
This whole thing took 12 minutes to happen here.
And a lot of it was applause and cheering and a lot of booze when Hillary's name came up.
Now, this is the real Bernie speech.
Somehow, I don't think this is the substance we're going to be hearing when he speaks to the convention tonight.
Because he went and he met with these people to try to bring them aboard now.
He went, he told them you've got to unify behind Hillary, and they don't want any part of it.
Here's the second soundbite.
Well, a year has come and gone.
We're not fringe players anymore.
We have shown the entire world are not some crazy, wild, utopian fantasies.
They are ideas supported by working people from one end of this country to the other.
And these supporters of his went rabid.
They just went over the top.
We edited all the applause here just to stay to the meat of it.
Now, crowd really goes wild here when crazy Bernie danced on the grave of Blabbermouse Schultz.
As I think all of you know, Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned yesterday as chair of the DLC.
Her resignation opens up the possibility of new leadership at the top of the Democratic Party that will stand with working people.
I'm so happy she's gone.
They are ecstatic.
They're dancing on her grave at the Bernie rally.
And then the cheers turn to booze when Bernie gets around to mentioning Hillary Clinton and unity.
We have got to defeat Donald Trump.
And we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.
Brothers and sisters.
Brothers and sisters.
This is the real world that we live in.
Right.
He's trying to be a good soldier.
He's trying to get on board with Hillary, and they don't want to go.
They don't want to get on the train.
This is not, I don't know how much this is going to go on during the week.
I don't know what its ultimate manifestation is going to mean.
But Trump is making an appeal to these people, and he will continue to make his appeals to these people.
And Hillary is going to lose some of them.
But just Bernie mentioning her name and this crowd went from 150% positive and upbeat to just booing their hearts out.
And do not doubt me.
This is not by any stretch what the Democrat Party envisioned for the first day of this four-day celebration of whatever lack of this justice and that justice and economic justice.
Environmental justice.
What the hell is environmental justice?
But anyway, it's the lingo they all respond to.
And choosing Tim Kaine was supposed to mitigate some of it.
I don't know how, but I mean, it was supposed to.
But Hillary Clinton remains remarkably unpopular.
Now, I know what some of you pay say, well, Rush, what about the Never Trumpers?
Yeah, I know the Never Trumpers are there, but they somehow didn't get into the convention.
The Never Trumpers were there, yeah, but I don't even think the Never Trumpers can hold a candle to crazy Bernie's people.
Here's another, by the way, this, folks, is another illustration of how the political professionals, the experts just continue to get this wrong.
And I really am beginning to wonder about this.
You know, Trump announced in June of last year, so his campaign is now over a year old.
There has been plenty of time now for the professionals in the media and professionals in the political consultancy class to realize that this is different, that you can't analyze, you cannot counterprogram, you cannot campaign against Trump in the normal playbook manual ways that have been honored by time and tradition.
You just can't do it.
And yet they refuse to see it, and they continue to try to rely on the old standbys to beat Trump.
And one of the old standbys is that whoever has the most money is automatically going to win.
Well, we just want to remind you here, we opened the program with the fact that Trump has had a pretty big convention bounce.
In the polls, he's got a six-point bounce in the CNN poll and a number of other polls.
And it's the first bounce post-convention for any candidate since the year 2000.
There haven't been any convention bounces since 2000.
And the reason, for the most part, is that conventions have been scripted and programmed.
Only one hour of them has been televised, the 10 to 11 p.m. hour.
And I'm talking about on the broadcast networks, not cable.
It wasn't that long ago that a political convention got three hours prime time every night for all four nights it was on.
And not that long ago, the networks all decided, you know what, we're not giving up our time for this.
These are scripted.
There's no news here.
There's no surprises.
There's no drama.
And so they've only covered the last hour live because that's where the primary important speeches of each night were scheduled.
And yet, the tune-in factor for the Republican convention was up.
But more importantly, is this: Hillary Clinton has spent $22 million in ads before the Republican convention.
She had an 11-point lead before the Republican, two weeks before.
She had an 11-point lead, and she was spending money.
I think the number I heard is like $11 million or $10 million in one buy to cast Trump as unprepared, as ill-suited, wrong temperament, not qualified.
And these ads were running all over the place, and they were getting bonus plays on cable news.
The news networks would run these ads free of charge as news stories.
So, whatever amount of money she was spending, there was even more airtime for these anti-Trump ads.
At the same time, Trump hadn't spent a dime.
Trump did not spend a dime on ads before or during the Republican convention.
And what happened?
Trump got a convention bounce.
He didn't spend any money.
Hillary dropped $22 million.
It got her nothing.
In the old-time political handbook, in the time-honored traditions and techniques and instructions of the political rulebook, that should have translated into a massive Hillary Clinton bump up in the polls.
And Trump should have been cringed.
Trump should have lost ground because her ads were effective and they were not answered.
Well, guess what?
Hillary Clinton's campaign is pulling its television advertisements from Colorado, at least temporarily, after building a sizable and durable lead in that state.
The decision could reflect increasing confidence about Clinton's chances.
However, a Clinton campaign official, granted anonymity to discuss the strategery, said the campaign's advertising strategery against Trump will change constantly over the next three months.
Colorado was part of Clinton's campaign initial general election advertising campaign that began in mid-June that cost at least $22 million.
Monday's the final day of the advice.
She's pulling her ads.
They're not working.
And yet, every seasoned political veteran thinks that that's all you have to do and that Trump's destined to lose because he doesn't have any money.
Hillary's got $100 million here, $100 million over there, maybe a total campaign war chest of a billion.
Trump, maybe a maximum $50 million in the old standard playbook, Trump doesn't have a prayer.
Trump doesn't have a chance.
They continually are stymied, shocked, and surprised because they can't let go of what they've always known.
They can't let go of the groupthink.
They can't let go of the traditions and the time-honored way of thinking about things, the time-honored way of implementing strategy.
They don't know what to do.
Their problem is Hillary does not have anywhere near the television presence, the likability, the trustworthiness, none of that to go on TV as Trump does and just appear everywhere granting interviews and let the natural charisma that she has captivate the audience.
She can't do that.
She doesn't have any charisma.
She's nurse Ratchet.
She didn't have any charisma.
She didn't have any likability.
She didn't have any trustworthiness.
They don't dare put her out that way.
They have to buy her media.
And now they're dealing with the shocking reality that it isn't working.
So a bunch of them are sitting around thinking, what do we do now?
And in that, friends, you have to understand none of this was supposed to be happening this way.
These people live lies.
They live illusions.
They live in their craftily constructed cocoons.
And they have their beliefs.
And one of their beliefs is that this country loves Hillary Clinton, absolutely adores Hillary Clinton.
This country's yearning for Hillary to be president.
Even when they see all these anti-Hillary people show up at Bernie rallies, they just, it doesn't register.
They don't even, they chalk it up to extreme kookism.
It's a small bunch of people aren't going to matter.
At the end of the day, they're going to end up voting for Hillary anyway.
They hide, they run from the truth, they wall themselves off from it.
Don't know how to deal with it when things don't go according to script.
And that is where they are on the first day of their big convention.
We'll be back.
Tell me what you think is wrong with this statement.
Representative Keith Ellison, a Muslim, member of Congress from Minnesota, quote, Donald Trump is the worst Republican nominee since George Wallace, unquote.
Exactly right.
George Wallace was a Democrat.
Keith Ellison was on this week ABC show with George Stephanopoulos, claiming Donald Trump the worst Republican nominee since George Wallace.
George Stephanopoulos did not correct him.
A Republican guest, Tom Cole, did.
If there had not been a Republican on this show, that would have stood.
Stephanopoulos, nor anybody in ABC, corrected him.
I don't know whether Ellison knows Wallace was a Democrat or not, but he, whether he said this on purpose, we could go both ways on this.
I wouldn't be surprised if he did.
He's young enough to have been taught that it was Republicans that were the racists, that it was the Republicans in the KKK.
In fact, all of that was a Democrat.
The KKK was the military wing of the Democrat Party back then, the segregationists.
All the governors that denied blacks admission to state universities, Democrats, the police chiefs turning fire hoses on Martin Luther King nonviolent protesters, Democrats, every one of them, Democrats.
And here's Keith Ellison out there saying that Trump's the worst Republican nominee since George Wallace.
And here's low information people watching this.
And this is how they do it.
Just one of many little, this is how they do it.
Here's Joel and Tyler Texas back to the phones we go.
Greetings.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Thank you, sir.
God bless you and your family for what you do for this country.
Thank you very much, sir.
I know it's a lot.
Yes.
My comment is about the people Hillary has working for her.
It is amazing.
It never ceases to amaze me how these people keep throwing her under the bus.
They keep on doing things, and she knows nothing about it.
Poor Hillary is left out in the cold, like this latest with Debbie Blabbermouth's show.
So I'll just call her Debbie B.S. Debbie B.S. Debbie B. Debbie B.S. One of many.
Now she has to fall on her sword for the Hillary campaign.
You see, it's all Debbie's fault.
Well, they all know this.
Yes, poor Debbie didn't know.
I mean, the court jesters all know that if the day comes, they fall on the sword for the queen.
They do it.
They know this going in.
Yes, that's right.
Exactly.
Debbie B.S. is going to be taken care of somehow, some way.
I'm sure she will.
She will.
And Hillary and Tim Kaine did this joint interview on 60 Minutes with who did it?
What was it?
Scott Pelley.
And you know what happened?
They edited.
They always do.
I mean, they always grab a lot more footage than they ever use.
But the answer Hillary gave to this email stuff and WikiLeaks, she didn't know anything about it, they edited that out of what was broadcast.
Scott Pelley said, well, there's no sense in airing that.
She didn't know.
The only way to see her saying that is to go to the CBS website and watch all the footage.
But what was actually broadcast?
There was nothing about this.
There was nothing about the WikiLeaks number.
Very little, because Hillary told Scott Pelly she didn't know anything about it.
And he, in his brilliant editing talents and minds, well, how irresponsible of us to air that.
She didn't know.
Therefore, it's a non-story.
So Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz WBS will be taken care of somehow.
We may never know how, but she will be.
Okay, I want to theorize here on something in Hillary Clinton and her knowledge or lack of on these acts of collusion to thwart crazy Bernie.
Now, Scott Pelly's actual question to Hillary Clinton in the 60-minutes interview, the question was what she thought about what the DNC did to Bernie.
Not what she knew, but she was asked, what do you think?
And that's when she's, well, I didn't know anything about it.
So that's what Scott Pelley edited out.
Now, and I just saw on CNN, get this, a reporter for U.S. News and World Report saying that we need to be very careful here before assigning motive to anybody because there aren't any Republican emails.
And therefore, this is still a one-sided story.
Well, because what it means is the way they look at their jobs is that one of the ways you mitigate any damage to your side is to try to find evidence the other side does it too.
And since they don't have that yet, they can't really condemn what the DNC did here because the same emails that no doubt exist from the RNC, we haven't seen yet.
So there's an assumption that Republicans do the same thing, that the RNC was arranged in savaging everybody but Trump, somebody, whatever.
But those emails haven't been released.
And until they are, we can't pile on the Democrats.
It's a variation of you need three sources, not one.
It's a variation of you have to balance every story by going and talking with somebody who disagrees with the premise.
It's all bogus.
It's totally bogus.
But here's the theory.
Preceded by a question.
Do you know that Hillary Clinton hasn't even yet pretended to condemn what happened to Bernie Sanders?
She is still clinging to the, I didn't know.
She didn't know like Lois Lerner didn't have to know anything.
The idea that Hillary didn't know about this is crazy.
The people at the DNC were put there to do this by Hillary Clinton, just like the people at the IRS did not need an instruction memo from Obama to shaft the Tea Party.
They were put there to do it.
They are all like-minded, partisan extremist activists.
They're not government employees working at the IRS.
They're Democrat Party hacks, and they are everywhere.
They're in every bureaucracy.
So the idea that the DNC is running a scam here to screw Bernie Sanders, that Hillary doesn't know about it, but beyond that, why hasn't she condemned it?
Well, there's got to be an answer to that.
Wouldn't you think in a circumstance like this, where they're all in damage control, that it would make a lot of sense for Hillary Clinton to publicly denounce this and to try to distance herself from it?
Don't you think?
So why hasn't she done it?
Well, I can tell you why.
It's very simple.
She's waiting on the next email drump that Assange is pledging that's going to link her to it.
The odds are, not, you can't say with ontological certitude here, but the odds are that there is a paper trail or an electronic paper trail that links her to some of this.
If nothing else, people reporting to her or her acolytes, maybe Carlos Dangerous wife or Cheryl Mills, somebody in the office, would be giving a status report here.
Because I guarantee you something, folks, during this primary season, the Hillary campaign had to be getting nervous.
Even though they knew the game was rigged, they had to be getting nervous at looking, at seeing all the support for Crazy Bernie.
And they had to be wondering at some point if this kept swelling, could it upset their plans?
I mean, what if he did keep winning?
And what if all she had was the superdelegates?
They had to be thinking this.
They had to be thinking, my gosh, if this keeps up, there's going to be pressure on the superdelegates.
And who knows?
I don't think they ever were lacking confidence that she was going to win.
The point is that she had to be alarmed by it.
You know, the ego of these people, she can't be happy out there seeing half the Democrat Party prefer somebody else.
She'll get even with them.
I mean, it's what Nurse Ratchet-type people do.
But my point is, there has to be some sort of a digital trail between the DNC and her office reporting on progress of the scheme.
And there has to be probably some emails from Hillary's office to the DNC.
Hey, are you sure you got a handle on this?
And them writing back, don't sweat it.
We got it covered.
There has to be some reason she hasn't condemned it.
There has to be a reason why she's continuing to hold on to this position of, I didn't know.
Because if she comes out and condemns it and acts like she's appalled and outraged, and we get an email dump showing that she was intimately aware and involved, well, then that could be a problem.
So we'll see.
It maybe will not be long.
I will bet you, ladies and gentlemen, that Hillary Clinton had a lot more control over the people at the Democrat National Committee than Richard Nixon ever had over the Watergate plumbers.
Anybody want to take that bet?
Donna Brazil.
This was funny, too.
When they canned Debbie Blabbermouth, they're running the convention, they're going to send Donna Brazil over there.
And then the story said that CNN's going to suspend her contract because she's an analyst and a commentator, but she's going to run a DNC.
And then they said, no, we're not.
So she was going to continue her gig running the DNC and her gig commentating at CNN as an independent analyst.
See, so we're not getting rid of her like Fox did Newt.
We don't have to do that.
Are you ready for this?
Donna Brazil also said there's a lot of evidence the Russians are behind the hack.
Headline, CNN, FBI, investigating suspected Russian hack of DNC emails.
Is that not rich?
So Donna Brazil happens to go on CNN and says there's a lot of evidence that the Russians did this.
And the next headline, FBI on CNN, FBI investigating suspected Russian hacking.
Now, I wonder if Comey will decide that whatever the Russians did here, no prosecutor would ever prosecute.
And then, folks, get the, you know, who the mayor of Baltimore is?
Her name is Stephanie Rawlings Blake.
She is the woman who said that when they started protesting, she had to give them room.
Had to give the protesters room.
She was somewhat misunderstood by what she meant, but it sounded bad.
Stephanie Rawlings Blake, the mayor of Baltimore, is now the person going to gavel the Democrat National Convention to order tonight in place of Debbie B.S. But that's not the story.
Oh, no.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake visits Cuba for advice on economic development.
Remember, Baltimore was destroyed, half destroyed by rioters, and Mayor Blake made headlines claiming she had to give the rioters space to destroy.
She walked it back, but not successfully.
She's president, U.S. Conference of Mayors.
She was in Cuba last week leading a delegation of mayors, including the mayor of New Orleans, the murder capital of the U.S., to learn, to learn, to learn about economic development of cities in Cuba.
And this is Andrea in Philadelphia.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
I just wanted to let you know about a fun billboard campaign that's being run on I-95 in Philadelphia for the CNC.
It says, Dear Hillary, we have your back.
Signed with a little heart from the media.
Is it a place where a lot of people are going to see it?
It is.
It's right between the center city and the airport.
So all the conventional coming and going.
It is.
It's right there, guys.
I don't know, people, if you've been to Philadelphia, but you have the link at the football stadium, and then you've got a convention center and the baseball stadium.
They're right in a row there on Bros Ree, right?
Yes, correct.
And that's where that billboard is.
Yeah, so returning from the airport, I was at the airport yesterday coming back.
I actually live in New Jersey and heading northbound on 95.
Right.
It just made me smile.
I thought you would appreciate it.
A lot of people live in Philadelphia say they live in New Jersey.
I'm actually in Pentauckin, New Jersey, Pentauk and Crowds.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.
Hey, media.
Hey, Phillip, we've got your back.
Media.
Perfect.
I'm glad you called, Andrea.
Thank you very much.
I'm glad you waited.
I'm glad you got through.
I want to grab Steve in Rockford, Illinois.
Steve, I've got one minute.
Can you squeeze it in?
Yes.
Go.
I just kind of wondered what you thought we're going to do with all these wonderful electric cars if we can't even plug in our computers.
You know, I get that's a good point.
We had a story earlier in the program.
Typical, typical left-wing scare tactic aimed at young millennials.
And the story is that we're going to run out of electricity to run your computers by 2040.
By the year 2040, no more electricity.
You will not be able to stream Netflix or Snapchat or play Pokemon Go or whatever you're doing.
It's silly.
It's absurd.
And his point is, well, maybe if you stop driving your electric car and using so much coal-powered electricity, you could save some for 2040 and still use your computer.
It's a great, it's a great snide comment.
I love snide comments like that.
By the way, I love this.
Donald Trump has been in the public eye for over 30 years, and he was never once accused of being a racist until he decided to run against Democrats.