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July 28, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 28, 2016, Thursday, Hour #2
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Well, the preliminary overnights, TV ratings are in, and the day three numbers for the Democrat National Convention are down.
They're flat, down a little bit.
There's no bump.
Everybody in the media was hoping that there'd be an increase in viewership last night because Obama Obama was going to make his swan song speech in the convention.
Oh, it was going to be a beautiful thing.
And they may have tuned in and saw Tim Kaine instead of Obama and said, you know what?
I think I'll watch the season finale of Wayward Pines, which depicts the end of the human race.
So what's one of the other Democrat convention or Wayward Pines?
The end of the human race is the subject matter.
Greetings, welcome back.
Great to have you.
No, I'm kidding.
The ratings were not up.
These are preliminary overnights and nationals.
Might change it a little bit, but no big bump.
Well, look, let me tell you something.
They goofed up.
Obama should have been on that stage at 10 o'clock.
Who was it that preceded Obama?
Was it Kaine?
Who went out there before Obama did?
I got to admit, I didn't watch.
Okay.
Obama didn't finish this thing until 11.40.
I'm telling you, the people that work are in bed on the East Coast, and the people that don't work, well, they're not home.
He should have been on that stage at 10 o'clock.
You know, I don't care.
Obama's not Monday Night Football.
People are not going to stay up till 2 o'clock in the morning to wait the outcome.
And they goofed crazy.
Bernie got onto it.
He didn't get him on till 5 till 11 the night that he spoke.
And I thought that was on purpose.
I thought they know what bed.
Well, yeah, people are making a bigger deal out of that than, I mean, Bernie is now an independent.
He left the party less than 24 hours after realizing that he got cheated.
But he wasn't a Democrat to begin with.
You know, he's always been an independent.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbo here at 800-282-2882.
On this Trump business, I'm going to tell you that honestly, I don't think Trump even realizes, and I don't mean this to be a put down, I think Trump has natural performer instincts.
It's clear that he has a performer's ego.
And I think Trump's sense of humor is naturally inclined to parody and satire and in-your-face snark when he's talking to people he knows are his enemies.
And he just loves jamming it down their throats.
He knows who's asking these questions.
And I don't think that Trump, before that press conference yesterday, came up with that line.
I think it came up on the fly.
I could be wrong about this, but I think it's the whole thing yesterday was like everything else Trump does, improv.
He's confident enough that he just rolls with it.
He just informed enough and he's opinionated enough and confident enough that he doesn't have to have everything that he's going to say preconceived and written down somewhere to remind him because what he says is what he believes.
It's in his heart one way or the other.
I personally can relate to all of this.
There are times I feel like I'm actually watching myself here from back in the good old Rush to Excellence days.
So here's what I really think is going on here.
And I know that when you try to explain comedy is when it stops being funny.
When you start explaining satire or parody, then it stops being funny.
That's why when comedians start talking about what they do, you don't really find it compelling.
You don't appreciate the machinations of creating laughter.
You just want to laugh.
It's not like magic where you want to know how they did that and you're desperate to find out the trick.
You don't care what process a comedian went through to create the routine or the joke or what have you.
And the more spontaneous it is, then the less of a process there was in the first place other than life experiences.
So in the first hour, I went through a timeline here of everything about these emails.
But I forgot to mention the key aspect of it here.
From Trump's standpoint, your standpoint, mine, and even Hillary's and the media's.
The primary area of importance is we believe that she has gotten away with committing criminal and near-criminal activity to the detriment of our country.
And we are not satisfied with what the FBI director told us, and we are not satisfied that the effort to get to the truth has been shut down.
We're insulted by it.
We are insulted by the fact that powerful people inside the establishment are automatically going to get away with it.
Why should somebody get away with this just because they're running for president?
It ought to be just the exact opposite.
You're running for president.
You ought to be the last person to get away with this.
The standards ought to be higher.
But we're told we couldn't hold her accountable because that would be too much of an earthquake for the presidential candidacy to process right now because the Democrats have chosen their candidate.
And it's not up to the legal system to have any impact on the will of the people as expressed at the voting booth.
That's exactly what's wrong with this.
Nobody is above the law, particularly people seeking public office, access to all of that money, access to all of that power.
They ought to be vetted more than anybody else is vetted.
They ought to be declared crystal clear, clean and pure as the wind-driven snow before anybody else is.
They should be held to a higher standard, not a lower standard.
And we all know that she has been held to a lower standard than anybody else would be on this.
And we think this is a gross injustice.
And so we have not stopped trying to get to the bottom of it.
We don't want this woman to win this election.
We are searching for every bit of legitimate evidence we can to persuade people that she would be a mistake.
And one of those areas that we are trying to dig up every bit of information we can is this email situation because this is dirty.
This was illegal and suspicious from the get-go.
The effort to cover it up has been an effort solely undertaken by the PERP.
In what other proceeding does the PERP get away with saying to the investigative authorities, I'm sorry, I gave you everything that you could possibly be interested in.
That just doesn't happen.
There are 30,000 emails that she deleted, she wiped.
And the conclusion is, well, okay, that's it.
They're gone.
There's nothing we can do about it.
And we have to take her word.
Well, we don't take her word for this or much else.
Intelligence guided by experience.
So this is ongoing.
And in the midst of this, to us, to Trump, to you and me, to many Americans, this is unresolved to the point that someone has really gotten away with something.
The insult added to injury on this is that we knew from the get-go, we suspected from the get-go she was going to get away with it precisely the way she did.
She's bigger than the system.
She's bigger than the law.
She's above it because she's special, because she's a presidential candidate, because she's a ranking Democrat, because she's a member of the administration, whatever.
So in the midst of all of this, after having the FBI director run through the list of illegalities, after the FBI director basically confirms the violations of U.S. statutory law, tells us he can't prosecute because he couldn't find intent, and therefore there's nothing to prosecute.
And we think that's dubious.
So it's unsettled.
We're of the mind that she is continuing to get away with it.
Her allies at the same time are celebrating that she's gotten away with it.
And they think it's over.
They think they've won again.
They have schnookered us.
They have schlonged us.
They have beat us back again.
They're going privately, nyan, yin, yan, yin, yin, yan.
But we don't think it's over.
And our thoughts are confirmed because right at the beginning of the Democrat National Convention, lo and behold, there is a major document dump of emails from the Democrat National Committee, which prove what we all knew, that the Democrat National Committee was rigging their own primary process for Hillary Clinton.
And how did we learn it?
We learned it, learned of it by virtue of a hack of the Democrat National Committee email servers.
Well, wait a minute.
Hillary Clinton had an email.
See, all of this stuff goes together.
Your thoughts fire.
All of these things occur to you at the same time.
Well, wait a minute now.
And then we're told the Russians did it.
Russians are denying it, but cyber experts hired by the Democrats, many of them telling us the Democrats have assured us that the Russians did this.
The Russians are the cyber attackers.
The Russians are the spies.
The Russians did it.
So we're supposed to hate the Russians, not the DNC.
We're supposed to suspect the Russians.
They tried to get us angrier at the Russians for releasing this rather than us be angry at the actions taken by the Democrats, which were dishonest, misleading, and damaging to Bernie Sanders.
Now, they don't want us to pay attention to that.
They want us to be mad at the Russians.
All of this matters, and Trump hears all of this.
We hear all of this.
Then it eventuates that Debbie Blabbermouth-Schultz gets canned.
She has to leave Philadelphia in disgrace.
And the Democrats start trying to cover all of this up.
And Trump decides as a political maneuver, he's going to hijack the Democrat Convention by doing a press conference on Tuesday to respond to what he heard on Monday.
Or maybe it was a press conference on Wednesday to hijack what happened there on Tuesday.
Brilliant political move.
Yet Bill Clinton make the speech on Tuesday night, and by Wednesday morning, nobody was talking about it.
Just like today, nobody's talking about Obama's speech.
As great as it was.
So what this all boils down to is this, very simple, in my estimation.
Trump, natural, comedic, sarcastic, his natural inclination to be to use parody to make a point.
So in the midst of this press conference yesterday, the press is peppering him with questions, the emails and the Democrat Party hack and so forth.
And he just happens to come out.
Hey, you know what?
The Russians hacked a DNC server.
Maybe the Russians know what happened to Hillary's emails.
So Trump very, as I say, he may not even be aware of this talent.
Don't laugh at that.
I mean, there's some people that have natural abilities that don't think about what they do.
They just do it.
And you try to get them to explain it, and they can't.
So he comes out with this, you know, maybe the Russians, attention, attention, Russians, maybe you can help us.
Maybe you can find the 30.
He didn't say maybe you can hack, maybe, maybe you could find the missing emails.
If you find them, tell the media, the media, I'm sure they'll reward you for it.
What did that mean?
Trump was signaling that he knows there's a cover-up going on.
He knows there's potentially damaging stuff still out there, and he knows that nobody's making an effort to find it.
And yet, the Democrats wanted us to blame the Russians for what happened to DNC server.
So why not?
If the Russians are involved, ask them for assistance on this as a way of jamming it back at the Democrats.
And the reason it made everybody mad is because it illustrated we're not through with this.
Hillary and her emails and her server, that is not a closed subject with us, but with them it is.
They, the Democrats and Hillary and the media, they think it's over, and they think they won.
They think, once again, a Clinton has gotten away with it.
And Trump comes along and simply reminds them, no, you may think that, but we're not through with this.
And that's why they're offended.
In their world, there's nothing to see here.
Hillary got away with it.
It's over.
Time to take your lumps.
Time for you people, Trump and everybody, time for you to eat it.
We won.
We beat it back.
Hillary's going to be the nominee.
Trump's little comment distorts their reality.
Distorts their reality that Hillary got away with it.
Trump just reminded everybody that there's still a scandal ongoing out there.
And the Democrats don't want to be reminded of it.
Now they can't let it go.
Now they're trying, in order to discredit this, they're trying to accuse Trump of treason.
Never seen anything as outrageous as this, encouraging a foreign power to sabotage the candidacy of a major political party.
It's not at all what was going on.
All Trump did was, in his own words, say, We don't believe you.
We think there's still a lot of dirt in those emails, and we think it'd be very damning if anybody ever found them.
And we know you're covering it up, and we know you don't want anybody to find it, and we know you think you've won.
Well, we still have people helping us.
Maybe the Russians will.
And it was designed to tick them off.
It was designed to hit them right between the eyes, and it did.
And when Trump says it's sarcasm, it is.
It's snark.
It's essentially saying, We don't believe you people.
We don't believe her, and we don't believe you.
And that's why they're so mad about it.
They're so mad about it, they can't let it go.
They're so mad about it that Obama's speech last night hasn't been talked about much at all today, which stuns me because I thought it was so great.
I thought it was so magnificent.
I thought it was so wonderful.
Why do we need to pass charge?
Why do we need a change maker?
If Obama's world, everything is, we've got utopia.
Why do we need to do anymore?
And back we are.
Rush Limbaugh, explaining anything and everything you don't understand.
Happy to do it.
Making the complex understandable.
And here's Kevin in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
Great to have you, sir.
I'm glad you waited.
You're up next.
Hey, Rush, Super Megadittos from the state of Virginia, home of former Governor Bob McDonald, who I went to law school with.
Hey, I wanted to bring up the Russian comments.
It seems absurd, the angle that the news media is taking, the liberals, the drive-by media, are taking on this because how could Trump be proposing anybody hack anything when the email server that we're talking about is in FBI custody?
Okay.
Look, I'm glad you called because I have found.
Can I tell you how depressing this job can be?
A person who does temporary work here but loves the program and is here, I don't know how often, but often enough, and as a daily listener, she just said that she's so worried about what Trump said.
And I'm thinking, so somebody who listens regularly still falls for the way the media covers something, despite 28 years of exposure from me on how to avoid falling into the trap.
This is how difficult it is.
There's just the media gets, and if they're all in unison, you have to be in daily consciousness.
You have to tell yourself every day, don't believe, whatever they say, your first reaction has to be, it may not be true, don't believe it, and start questioning it.
No offense, Kevin, here.
You're not relating that to you, but Trump did not suggest anything be hacked.
They want you to think he did.
That would be encouraging a foreign government to commit espionage.
He didn't suggest hack.
He said, maybe they can find.
And what he probably was, the hack already happened.
They probably already got the stuff.
Maybe they can find it.
But he didn't suggest a hack.
But the second thing, and this is really important, the server is gone.
The FBI does not have it.
The FBI does not have those 30,000 emails.
Hillary got rid of them.
Hillary and her IT guy wiped them, wiped the server after she and she alone told the world that there was nothing on there that we would find interesting.
It's about yoga.
It's about Chelsea's wedding and whatever else.
And everybody, oh, okay, okay, fine.
Do you think the IRS would have allowed Al Capone to say, look, you don't need to audit me.
I haven't violated tax law.
Oh, okay, Al, cool, fine.
Well, that's what's happened here.
So the only hope that we find out what's on those things is if it already was hacked.
And we think if they hacked DNC, if they hacked DOJ, if they hacked the Pentagon, clearly they hacked Hillary's server.
It would have been easier than any of those.
And that server's been around for all the years she was Secretary of State.
So somebody's got those emails.
Troy, maybe the Russians have them.
Maybe they can find them and tell us what they are.
I mean, it was a giant goose to the media and the Democrats.
Okay, here is the Here's the news on the TV ratings for the convention.
Mr. Snerdley just told me that I made his day.
Oh, one more thing.
Folks, the media also know exactly what Trump meant.
This is as big an act as when they were supposedly outraged when I supposedly called a legitimate hero a phony soldier.
They knew.
The media knew.
I never called a legitimate hero a phony soldier, but Harry Reid said I did, and so they got in line.
The word went out because the Democrat convention's going on, and we got a chance to destroy Trump here, national security, one of our weaknesses, they will admit.
So the marching orders went out, portray Trump's comment as risky, dangerous to national security.
He's unfit.
He's unqualified.
The media knew exactly what he was doing with that joke.
They knew exactly what he was doing.
And all of these roundtable discussions we've been watching since are filled with drive-by media people making it up.
They're making up reasons why this is so serious.
They're making up reasons why Trump must go, why this is unparalleled.
We've never seen a presidential candidate behave so irresponsibly.
Trump is dangerous.
We don't know what he's going to say.
At least we know what Hillary's going to say.
We don't know what's coming out of Trump.
I've heard all this.
And they are as phony as anybody else in this.
They know exactly what Trump was being sarcastic and aiming it at them and aiming at Hillary and her email.
None of this is a mystery.
And the outrage is phony.
The outrage at Trump has trumped up and made up and phony.
The ongoing nature of it is, it's all a giant act.
It's the daily soap opera script.
But the bottom line is at least Trump is the one writing it.
Every night the Democrats have thought they have hit a home run and the next day everybody's talking about Donald Trump.
And they are seething about that too.
They don't know how to deal with it.
Folks, they have had as smooth sailing as possible to have.
The Democrat Party has, when their opponents were standard, ordinary, everyday Republicans.
They've been able to get away with whatever lie, whatever myth, whatever mischaracterization, whatever creation of false reality that they did, like every night of their convention has been.
They don't know how to react when there's pushback.
They don't know how to react when there's competition for establishing the media narrative every day.
And that's another reason they're despising Trump.
This isn't supposed to, he's a neophyte.
He's not supposed to be able to outsmart them.
He doesn't have a cadre of consultants and media advisors telling him how to do this.
He's just doing it.
That ticks them off.
But I'm just, I'm telling you, they know they're in all of this is a giant show aimed at what, destroying Trump, protecting Hillary, whatever the usual agenda here is.
My only point to you is this mock outrage, just like the mock outrage over me supposedly calling a legitimate hero a phony soldier, the mock outrage over so many other things I supposedly have said.
This is mock outrage.
They're all faking it.
It's all part of the show.
It's all part of the agenda.
Whoever sends out the marching orders, this is how we're going to take, this is how we're going to react to the Trump thing, and they all do.
No matter what network you go to.
No matter what newspaper you read, it's all the same, isn't it?
The allegations against Trump, irresponsible, could be treason, got to get rid of him, not qualify.
It's all the same.
And every expert, except the Trump spokesman, on every network said the exact same stuff.
So no matter what people watch, that's what they hear.
Here is, well, I'm spending a lot of time on it because I think it's important.
It's all part of my ongoing education project here to get people to understand the media and the Democrats and the left.
And as long as I do this, I'm not going to stop.
And it's necessary.
It obviously is still necessary.
I'll tell you another trick.
You know when this whole business is showing movies and videos before a candidate.
You remember when that started?
Be careful.
Be careful.
Do you remember?
Ah, it started with Jimmy Carter in 1976.
The Democrat Convention in 1976, they produced this moving, tear-jerking video.
It didn't really have much to do with Carter.
It was about how great and wonderful the Democrats are, what they're going to do for the country.
It focused on the pain and suffering out that the Democrats are going to fix.
And it genuinely was a tearjerker.
And remember, Jimmy Carter won that primary in 76, and he won the election.
So every year now, just like Reagan was the first to bring a hero into the State of the Union address, put him up there to the First Lady.
Well, they do that every year now.
And the video preceding the nominee, that was started with Carter.
Now it's gotten so there's a video before every damn speaker, practically.
Didn't Panetta get booed last night?
Well, let me tell you about that, though.
Now, who is Leon Panetta?
You might think of Panetta as the former CIA director.
Leon Panetta, back in the 90s, was Mr. Democrat.
Leon Panetta was the epitome of what the Democrat Party.
This is not a pro or con comment.
I'm not saying he was an arch anything.
He just, he's a reasonable guy on the surface.
I mean, he's as partisan and left-wing as George Mitchell was, but on the surface, like Dashel, these are soft-spoken and reasonable men.
There's certainly nothing radical or extreme about them.
But he wasn't what the average Democrat today is.
The average Democrat today runs around carrying signs saying America was never great.
That's another thing about Obama's speech last night.
With protest signs outside the arena being carried that say America was never great.
Here's Obama sounding like Ronald Reagan.
Anyway, Panetta, this is important.
Panetta was Mr. Democrat, like Bob Strauss used to be Mr. Democrat.
Mr. Democrat in the 1990s.
I mean, responsible adult, refined, sophisticated, got heckled and booed off the stage last night.
That was an illustration of how far gone to the left this party is.
Panetta ran, he's the chief of staff for Clinton, and when he resigned, he gave one of the biggest kiss-ass speeches I have ever heard.
It made me almost want to throw up.
It was in the Lewinsky era, and it was how great Clinton was, how what he had done to remake and modernize the Democrat Party, just puke city.
But it all stemmed from loyalty.
But he was Mr. Democrat.
He was the Democrat across the aisle with to work with, folks, back in those days.
And he's heckled and booed off the stage practically last night.
You know why?
Because to those people, he was at the CIA.
And he was Secretary of Defense during Ben Ghanzi.
He's a warmonger.
He's a warmonger.
He's no different.
This Bernie Sanders crowd.
They hate Hillary for the same reason.
He's a warmonger.
Kills people.
So does Obama with drones, but somehow that didn't get much.
Anyway, just a sign.
Panetta being heckled is almost the equivalent of Reagan being heckled at a Republican convention.
Would have been unthinkable.
And Panetta didn't know how to deal with it.
You could see he was stymied.
He was totally confused by this.
I'm telling you, there are Democrats now elderly who, well, I don't know if they know or not, but they clearly, what their party has become, they will never tell us.
But they've got to be tremendously worried about it because it's nowhere near majority representing a majority of thought in this country.
It's Kook City.
Anyway, I keep interrupting myself for valid reasons, by the way.
But here's the story on the ratings.
No Obama bounce for DNC day three ratings as the ratings for the Democrat National Committee fell behind the ratings of the Republican convention on the same night and other shows.
Here's what it says here.
With star turns from Vice President Bite Me, and then prime time performances from Tim Kaine and then Obama, the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia was rocking, even more so when nominee Hillary Clinton made an on-stage appearance at the very end to hug it out with Obama.
Though it did not lead to ratings fireworks, it seems in the early numbers.
And again, these are the overnights.
NBC and ABC tied in the 10 p.m. slot where the big three are showing the DNC live, the 10 to 11 o'clock hour, Disney.
The numbers, they're horrible.
This flowery language here.
But the numbers are down.
And let's see.
Here's the numbers.
If I can find these.
NBC was tops, 3.6 million viewers.
ABC had 2.7 million.
CBS 2 million with Obama's, that's nothing compared to usual convention viewership.
So Snerdley is telling me how comforting that is because when I came here today, he was bummed.
He thought, correct me if I'm wrong, you thought Obama's speech was the best speech of his career, and you almost got the impression, I got the impression, listen to Snerdley, that the election was over after last night, if people saw it.
Okay, good.
I'm glad you didn't think because he's not on the ballot.
You know, the real thing is tonight, I'm going to, can she do tonight without a seizure?
Can she do tonight without a coughing spasm?
Can she do tonight?
Look at what she's got to live up to.
From Biden talking about all these great things she's done with children to her husband talking about all these great, what, how in the world is she going to live up to all this?
How's she going to live up to the talent, the entertainment, whatever you want to categorize it as, of all these other speakers.
I mean, Obama's good.
Clinton was good.
She's not good at this.
She has to almost monotone in order to keep from falling into that shrieking second wife persona.
Or first wife, I should say, or either one.
And you want to know when Panetta got booed?
Let me tell you what he was saying when the booing began.
He looked like a deer caught in the headlights.
He was totally shocked.
Panetta was saying, Hillary is determined to defeat those who threaten us today.
ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Prokol Haram, Al-Shabaab, terrorists who pervert the teachings of Islam to kill innocent people going about their daily lives.
People traveling through airports in Brussels and Istanbul.
Families celebrating on a beachfront in France.
This is when it started.
When Panetta starts indicting ISIS for all their atrocities.
And when he got to men and women shopping in a market in Baghdad, and just this week, an 85-year-old priest whose throat was slit by terrorists who stormed his church during mass, these murderers must be stopped.
And that's when it crescendoed.
They started shouting, no more wars, lies, lies, lies, no more wars.
When he goes through his indictment of ISIS is when the delegates at a Democrat National Convention started booing him off the stage.
No more wars.
Lies, lies, lies.
It's no wonder he was stunned.
No more drones even.
But Panetta is the kind of guy, kind of, he thinks that he's in line for huzzahs and great cheers for helping vanquish Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda and his party is booing the notion of defeating ISIS.
I'd have started to look at snipers for that snap.
I'd have started scouring the upper levels of that place and I'd have gotten out of there.
And then Obama comes on with this.
It's just what a huge, huge.
And before that was plugs.
And I told Catherine before this started, I said, plugs is great.
Plugs is one of the most loyal.
He's got this way of just reaching in and grabbing every one of those delegates' hearts.
He can tell whatever story, make it up, and he can sell it.
And he's been loyal to Obama through everything, and he's going to continue to be here.
Only this time he's going to be talking about Hillary.
And you watch, he's going to melt hearts.
But he had some stuff that's...
You've got to acknowledge these people's talent, even if they are telling lies or if they're skirting the truth.
They do have performance ability, and they have found a way to fake empathy.
Boy, have they, it's like J.R. Ewing said.
In fact, that's who I thought I was watching when Clinton was doing his speech.
From the voice intonation, from the accent, from the way he was using the land, I thought it was J.R. Ewing.
I was watching Larry Hagman up there.
But these people have found a way to fake empathy, man.
They have found, and they've convinced everybody they've got it.
Not sympathy, empathy, that they feel for you.
They know what you're going through.
They feel sad for you.
They're responsible for most of it, but they feel it.
And they're great at it.
It's like J.R. Ewing said, once you figured out how to fake the integrity, rest is a piece of cake.
Well, for these clowns, it's once you learn how to fake empathy.
We own them.
And they have that down pad.
That's why they are the sole owners in their minds of compassion.
Here's Andy and Akron.
I'm glad you waited.
Appreciate your patience.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Megadittos.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
I'm in the car, very notoriously bad area for reception, so I hope I don't lose you.
You sound fine right now.
I have a question and then a favor to ask of you.
All right.
Obviously, Crazy Bernie had no chance to win.
He knew it.
Everybody else knew it.
But now everybody knows it because of the release of all of those emails.
So what was his incentive to continue to go?
He knew he'd have to give a concession speech.
He knew that his followers were going to be upset.
He probably knew that many of them were not going to support Hillary.
So why stay in it?
Did it get out of his control?
Did he not think he would be as popular as he was?
Oh, no.
No, no, no.
Well, maybe at the beginning that he thought it was pipe free, but I think as this thing went on, he got totally sucked in by it.
And even though he knew that the deck was stacked, remember, these people have egos like you can't believe.
They have to have.
In order to do this, you have to have an outsized ego.
I don't care how they portray themselves.
They have huge egos.
And egos such that the nation can't survive without me.
They really, you almost have to believe that to put up with everything else you go through.
And I really believe that he thought, even though he knew the game was rigged, that he could put enough pressure on him to expose it.
I think he thought he could upset what was rigged.
And I think as it went on, I think he transformed from, I don't have a chance in this because the game's rigged, to thinking he might actually.
And then it became, I'm going to control this platform.
I'm going to make sure this party stands for what I believe.
He got self-absorbed in it and didn't want to let go.
He's got millions of people.
This guy couldn't get noticed by an ant farm six months ago, and now half the country's mesmerized with him.
He never wanted to let go of that.
So I got an email.
Rush, you say crazy Bernie loves the attention, loves the crowds.
He didn't want to give it up.
He loved the adoring throng.
Why don't you do that?
You have adoring throngs.
I don't know.
I might answer that question.
I might answer that question.
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