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So I just I just had somebody tell me, you know, Rush, why the Republicans are so mad at you is because you're not carrying their water anymore.
You know, they're jealous.
They look over at the drive-by media and they see the drive-by media totally fronting and carrying the water for the Democrats.
And they think you used to be on their side, but now you don't carry their water anymore.
And that's why they're that's why they're throwing down on you.
And I guess that makes sense.
I hadn't considered that as a uh as a possibility.
I've just always chalked it up to it's easy to blame other people when things aren't going well.
And I have got, you know, I you you listen to this program, you document what's what's said on this program.
I have chosen a different path uh when talking about the failings of the Republican leadership.
I don't make it personal, and and many other people do, and I suspect maybe they're not aware of that.
If if everybody's dumping on them, they're gonna conclude that everybody is.
But it's just a policy of mine.
I mean, it's it and it isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party uh leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership.
Anyway, I want to go back to uh a couple of more WikiLeaks email dumps and then get back to the audio sound bites because it all triggers other things.
But when I first saw this today, I said, you know what, I want independent confirmation of this.
I I don't want to run with this yet.
So Mr. Snerdley has been eagerly independently confirming, and we have indeed found this now on the WikiLeaks site.
And it is the email in which a Clinton campaign aid admits that Hillary Clinton has begun to hate everyday Americans.
Part three of its Podesta email released today, and this is a jaw-dropping revelation.
And there's another one, too.
Let me reach back here to the printer.
Do you know that Hillary Clinton in this uh in this email dump has been expressing in some of these speeches that she has made to the banks and other places, she's been expressing support for fracking.
Now, Hillary Clinton is a Democrat, and as a party, the Democrat Party hates drilling for oil in the United States.
They despise fracking as a party.
They desprise it.
One of their number one donors is an environmentalist wacko by the name of Tom Steyer.
He's from Hollywood.
He has donated, I don't know how many millions of dollars to the Democrat Party on the premise that they are going to oppose anything to do with fossil fuels, that they instead are going to endorse and support and invest in so-called clean and renewable energy like windmills and solar panels and the rest of the stuff that doesn't matter a heel of beans to genuine energy output.
And the reason for that is that's where he is.
That's how he makes his money.
He wants subsidies, he wants government money coming back to his businesses, and that's why he donates.
Plus, it's ideological.
But the point is, the entire Democrat Party and the American left.
Barack Obama, you go back to 2007.
We've got him on tape promising to put the coal business out of business.
We've got him on tape saying, if you if you want to invest in a new coal-fired power plant, you go right ahead, but you're gonna go broke because of what we're going to do with taxes and so forth.
And they are doing it.
They are impugning, they're ripping to shreds, they're attacking coal mines and the whole coal industry and putting coal miners out of work.
And they've got their voters convinced and they hate fossil fuels, and it's all because they've got their voters convinced that they too believe in climate change and global warming, and the earth is under assault from American progress, and the earth can't stand any more American progress, so we gotta go backwards.
And part and parcel of that is they hate drilling for oil, and they hate fracking.
The official Democrat Party line, this is why they oppose the Keystone pipeline.
They don't want any more oil.
They don't want any more drilling for oil.
They don't want any more energy produced from fossil fuels.
This is why they go overboard and tell their voters that they are anti-fossil fuels, save the planet, climate change, you name it, and fracking has come in for particular criticism.
They blame fracking for earthquakes, they blame fracking for climate change, they blame fracking for poisoning the water.
And yet, here is Mrs. Clinton in private, expressing support for it and even claiming credit for its invention.
From investors.com, during the fight for the Democrat presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton cast herself as a skeptic of fracking.
Controversial process to extract natural gas and all, but newly released documents purporting to show excerpts of her paid speeches, show that Mrs. Clinton proudly touted her support for fracking, which environmental groups say can pollute groundwater and undermine the fight against climate change.
The excerpts show Clinton saying that some environmental organizations trying to restrict her work to promote fracking were front groups for Russian arlights, oligarchs.
This is now the second instance I'm aware of where Hillary is blamed whatever's going wrong on Russian oligarchs.
Now you might be wondering, what who are these Russian oligarchs?
Well, one of them happens to own the um uh the the Brooklyn team in the NBA.
They own mega yachts.
One of them owns a big house in Palm Beach that he bought from from Trump.
They are part of the Russian elite that just made gazillions of dollars when communism fell.
And the state released control of various elements of the Russian economy, and these guys swooped in, and they just, because they're Russian, we call them oligarchs.
It's got a negative connotation to it, but they're no different than our elite wealthy here.
Same kind of thing, same kind of people, same kind of reasons they've gotten rich.
They they own mineral businesses and commodities and this kind of thing.
And they've been very, very closely supported by government and Vladimir Putin of the KGB.
So it's all incestuous.
But she's holding these people up for ridicule.
They're out to get her, they're out to harm her Russian oligarchs responsible for this and that.
Now she's blaming them here and fracking.
But the point here is WikiLeaks published a document as part of what it says is a tranch of emails from John Podesta Clinton's campaign chairman.
Podesta has refused to say whether the excerpts are authentic, but he has not denied the authenticity either.
The document published by WikiLeaks shows what purports to be an 80-page memo of excerpts of Clinton's speeches, which she has refused to publicly release during the primary campaign.
She won't release these, like Trump won't release his tax returns.
And this one appears to be attached to a January 25th, 2016 email to Podesta and other Clinton campaign aides.
In one excerpt of a speech to Deutsche Bank in April of 2013.
Hillary Clinton bragged about the federal government's support for fracking and her own work to promote the process around the globe.
She is quoted as saying in a speech to Deutsche Bank, this is one of these speeches for 250,000 or 300,000.
She did two years of these and earned 20 million, 20 to 30 minute speeches.
This is one of those.
She said in her speech, fracking was developed at the Department of Energy.
I mean, the whole idea of how fracking came to be available in the marketplace is because of research done by our government.
So she's out speaking to these bankers, claiming government credit for creating fracking because of research they did.
They invented it.
Now, if Hillary's supporters and if those who support her who are originally Bernie Sanders supporters, if they find out about this, they are going to feel as sold out as if you learned that the Republicans you've been voting for are secretly pro-choice.
I'm not, I'm not exaggerating.
I am not exaggerating this.
You must not doubt me when I tell you how much the average Democrat voter despises fossil fuels, despises oil, hates the oil companies, hates fracking.
They are a special kind of stupid who have been made to believe that oil and drilling for oil and now fracking is destroying the climate, and that we will not have an earth that is habitable.
In another 45 years, 40 to 45 years.
They are as much pro-climate change, meaning anti-industrial, anti-corporate, anti-progress, anti-fossil fuels, as any of you are pro-life.
And if they are to find out, if they were to find out that Mrs. Clinton secretly supports it, has secretly been bragging about it, has secretly been accepting thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars in speech income to say this, and furthermore, bragging about it to banks, which they hate as a close second to oil companies.
I wonder what the impact would be.
These special kind of stupid Democrat voters on this issue, they are dead serious.
They're also dead wrong, but it doesn't matter in this case.
They have been made to believe that every day ordinary American life is destroying the planet.
Fracking is the newest technological development to extract natural gas and oil, and they hate it.
And Mrs. Clinton campaigning publicly opposes it.
She tells them in speeches that she's going to make the oil companies pay, that we are going to develop new sources of clean energy, wind and solar, which we've been doing for the last eight years and have a matter of diddly squat.
But she's going to keep doing what we've been doing, and she tells these people voting for her that she's with them.
She believes in climate change destroying the planet, carbon emissions, fossil fuels, gotta go, gotta stop it.
Oil companies gotta be punished.
And here she is in private, bragging about fracking, taking credit, government credit for its development and implementation.
Fracking was developed at the Department of Energy, she said.
I mean, the whole idea of how fracking came to be available in the marketplace is because of research done by our government, and I have promoted fracking in other places around the world.
Well, she hasn't in her public speeches.
She hasn't, as far as the Democrat public is concerned.
They think the exact opposite.
Some of them may know.
I mean, look, some of them know she's hypocritical on a number of things.
Some of them know, for example, she's in bed with some of the banks.
The Bernie supporters know that she's in bed with the banks.
They hate the banks.
Look it.
The average Democrat voter hates everything.
They hate oil companies.
They hate drug companies.
They hate everything but government.
They love government.
They love everything government does.
Government is infallible.
They love the state.
They love anything to do with the state.
They hate everything that we call the private sector.
They hate big oil.
They hate big pharma.
They hate Walmart.
They hate banks.
They hate the housing industry.
They despise literally everything where there might be even a tinge of capitalism attached.
And every damn Democrat candidate running for office convinces them that they are exactly the same.
And Hillary has done that.
She's got them believing that she hates the same things they do.
And not only that, she's going to hold all those things accountable.
She's going to get even with them, they're going to get punished.
And here she is being paid 300 grand by Deutsche Bank, 250, whatever this speech got her.
And she's telling these people who invest in this and try to throw off big profits.
That she's all for it.
And by extension, she's going to permit it to continue.
Her voters think the exact opposite.
And then what I had to get confirmed independently on the WikiLeaks site.
This is the uh the email in which campaign manager John Podesta acknowledges that Hillary has begun to hate everyday Americans.
The email was sent by Podesta on April 19th, 2015.
It contains a discussion on what talking points Hillary should be using in framing her candidacy for president in order to get a good head start.
Remember now this April 2015.
This is the crazy Bernie era.
And Podesta writes, I know she has begun to hate everyday Americans.
But I think we should use it once the first.
We should use it once, the first time she says I'm running for president because you and everyday Americans need a champion.
I think what they're talking about now is that she needs to start calling herself the champion of everyday Americans.
And he's saying, even though I know, I know that Hillary has begun to hate everyday Americans, we still need her to say, just once, just to get the ball rolling, that she's the champion of everyday Americans.
I think if she doesn't say it once, people are going to notice.
And say we false started in Iowa.
Jennifer Palmiari, the director of communications for Hillary's campaign, agreed with Podesta's summary, responding simply with the word truth.
To emphasize Podesta is in black and white, admitting that Hillary hates everyday Americans and may have trouble selling the idea that she is the champion of it.
But they need to try.
They need her to say it.
We'd have never known this.
I wonder when Hillary's voters find out about this, if they ever do.
Don't look for any of what I've just told you to be in ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, LA Time, and it's not going to be there.
Quick timeout.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
Why do you say people are misinterpreting this uh has begun to hate everyday Americans?
What are they saying that we're misinterpreting?
Does what term?
What?
Oh!
Oh, so what they're I see.
So what now apparently.
No, the the leak is there.
We found the WikiLeaks page.
Apparently, some people are backing off of this now because uh there are uh supposedly is a misinterpretation of this.
And what they are now saying is that it's not correct to say that Hillary, the quote has begun to hate everyday Americans.
What that means is she hates the term everyday Americans.
And I guess prefers ordinary to everyday.
I'm just gonna read the quote to you.
This is in it's it's Podesta in an email.
Hillary has begun to hate everyday Americans.
Okay, that that translates itself.
So people have run with it.
Now the official response, I guess, is becoming no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
He doesn't hate everyday Americans.
We were discussing what to call Americans as we began the campaign that she's going to be the champion.
And she didn't want to say this.
She's a champion of everyday America.
She hates the term.
So that's that's what they're saying now.
Okay, fine.
Well.
So are you telling me that the Clinton campaign is trying to walk back this whole everyday American thing and Hillary hates it, they're trying to walk that back somewhere?
What's wrong with the term everyday Americans?
How's that any different ordinary Americans?
All right.
Well, here, try this.
Try this.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me set this one up by telling you that back in my days as a novice, as a naive young whippersnapper doing this, when I had a totally wrong idea of what the media was.
I actually thought when the media wanted to talk to me, it's because they were genuinely curious about what I thought.
It was genuinely curious about who I am, and they wanted to interview me to tell people about me, because I had read profiles of people, and I thought they all came about because the media, the journalist involved, was independently interested and pursued the story.
I had no idea that all this stuff was fake, had no idea that it's all the result of public relations people pitching stories related to books, movies, TV shows, or what have you.
I was that naive.
So when I was sitting down interviewing these people or being interviewed, I'd be honest.
I'd open up and I'd tell them because that's what I thought they really want.
I didn't have the slightest idea they showed up with an agenda already in place that was to make me not look good.
It didn't take me long to learn it, but there was a time where I didn't know it.
And I can tell you on a couple of occasions, I asked the journalist, can I rephrase that?
I don't like the way I said whatever I said.
I and they would not let me revise it.
No, you said it.
No, we are we are our policy manual does not let us change quotes.
We can't let you write the story, they told me.
You said it, and that's what we're going with.
Okay.
There's an email in the WikiLeaks dump from Mark Leibovich of the New York Times.
Asking Jennifer Palmieri of the Clinton campaign permission after an interview to use a bunch of Hillary quotes.
So this guy sits down, does an interview with Hillary, goes back, starts writing the story, calls the campaign, says, hey, I'd like to use what she said here about Sarah Palin.
I'd like to use what she says here about uh gay rights and so forth, and they said no.
So he didn't write what Hillary said.
Mark.
The damn right, the campaign is dictating to the news, just like John Harwood was was was helping the campaign, the Democrat Party during these Republican debates.
It's all over these dumps.
It's all over this WikiLeak dump about the coordination and the helpfulness of the media with Hillary Clinton.
In this case, this is an email where a New York Times reporter Mark Levich asks Jennifer Palmieri permission after an interview.
Permission to use some things that she said.
This is incredible.
Does the interview then goes back and starts writing the story and calls them back.
Can I say here what she said?
Do you want me to say this?
One of the things was about Sarah Palin and Hillary talking about how, hey, it's not being I love moose.
I've eaten moose, I love moose too.
And there was another quote that Hillary said, I don't know the details, but it has to do with the speed of gay rights versus other rights movements.
And she apparently said something very interesting to the New York Times about how rapidly they were trying to get gay rights advanced versus other groups' rights.
And the campaign denied him permission to use those quotes.
And he ends his email to her, where she denies him the permission to use the quotes Hillary said, Hillary uttered, he ends his email pleasure doing business.
Now I, for I'm not surprised.
I have known that there is no line of separation between particularly the Clinton campaign and the media and the Obama campaign.
Not every Democrat gets this kind of treatment with the media, but the party in general does.
But I've I've never doubted there was cooperation, joint operations.
I've never doubted it.
So this doesn't surprise me.
I don't know how many other people it's going to surprise.
But I can tell you this.
They would never call me and ask for a mission to use a quote that I had said.
In fact, if they had to, they would alter something I said and make me claim that they're quote misquoting me.
They would never let me or anybody else revise.
Remember CBS was doing an interview with John Kerry in the 2004 campaign.
They asked Kerry a question, he just botched it.
It was embarrassingly bad.
It was along the lines of when Roger Mud in 1980 asked Teddy Kennedy why he wanted to be president, and Teddy Kennedy just mumbled and stumbled, literally didn't have an answer.
Well, they asked a similar question to Kerry, CBS, and the answer was so bad they didn't take two.
CBS reporter.
Senator, Senator Kerry, you want to read you want to try this again, because it was so bad.
People on our side do not get this kind of latitude, leeway treatment or whatever.
And by the way, all of this asking permission to use quotes after the fact is a direct violation of the New York Times' own policy on after the fact quote checking.
The New York Times has not explained this, and they won't.
They don't think they have any reason to explain it.
Here's uh here's Gretchen, Long Beach, Mississippi, as we uh head back to the phones.
I'm really glad you waited.
I appreciate your patience.
How are you doing?
I'm doing fine.
How are you?
Good.
Good, good, good.
Thanks.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
Um I have a couple of comments.
My first is is Paul Ryan absolutely stupid with his knee-jerk reaction to an 11-year-old statement that Trump said and just kicks him under the bus.
It's so frustrating that you watch Democrats circle the w wagons around the most heinous things some Democrats have done.
And immediately Paul Ryan just boom, kicks him under the bus.
It's it's just frustrating.
And then creates really a lot more hoopla in a way than that that sh should not have been caught.
It's an 11-year-old statement.
The man apologized for it.
You know, when I thought about it, I started to remember all of those uh Vernon Jordan and Bill Clinton on the golf course years ago, first term of Clinton, and all of the things that were reported and recorded between Clinton and Jordan.
And Jordan's, I think, finally had to resign because of his womanizing tendencies or however you want to phrase it.
But that goes away.
That never gets played, that nothing.
And but and they stand by him, the Democrats, you have to give it to them.
They stand by, they don't care.
They're gonna do whatever it takes to win.
They will stand by uh I can't Hitler if it would get them the office to win.
But we we don't.
And I I say we uh loosely, because I'm a registered independent, but I vote for conservatives.
Right.
And we just chuck them under the bus.
We chuck them under the bus within what an hour is that I mean it was so quick.
Yeah, well, you would think they would want to win, right?
But it looks like they don't want to win if it means winning with Trump.
They must really hate Trump out there, Gretchen.
Uh well, yes, I think they really do hate Trump for a lot of there's a lot of different reasons why they hate Trump and it's a myriad, And they all have their different things.
He's an outsider.
They're an insider.
I think there are some rhinos who like the TPP and a lot of the kind of globalist things.
There's money to be made there.
And I would say they're a little, then there's some Republicans who are a little bit more have the national concern first.
And but this is the kind of stuff that Paul Ryan did that is that's gotten Trump and I'll tell you what this is exposing, Gretchen.
It's it's it's exposing that all of these years of Republican fundraising on the premise that they want to beat Democrats.
It wasn't true, was it?
No, it wasn't true.
And I apparently that's not what they really want to do.
I mean, because they're this.
It would have it would appear so you know, when the Tea Party started, I think the pet there was a paradigm shift in my mind, and that a lot of the city realized the Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were.
We just didn't know it at the time.
Right, but it changed their donations.
And a lot of people started, in my opinion, donating, me personally, directly to a candidate and not to the party.
Yeah.
And I told them that on the phone when they would call and solicit.
That's a fact uh uh they would let me know it was being recorded.
I said, Oh good, I'm so glad.
Because I hope somebody's listening to this.
But I restarted, and I think it's just kind of a a lot of people across the country started to see and do the same thing.
And it's been a lot of people.
I I think a lot of people had their eyes open, shocked that that the team they they thought they were on didn't exist.
And that the games were not being played to win.
It was it was, I guess it's shocking to a lot of people.
Now I want to go back because I got a time constraint here.
You mentioned Bill Clinton, Vernon Jordan.
I had forgotten.
Folks, she is exact there.
I I just read it this morning in my mind.
I don't I don't I don't recall where I read it, but I re when I did read it, it I remembered it.
Bill Clinton and I don't think Vernon Jordan had to resign anything over this.
Vernon Jordan tells other people when they resign.
Vernon Jordan doesn't resign.
In fact, I remember having the had dinner in Washington way, way this goes back to the nineties as a jockey club, which was the restaurant of the Ritz Carlton in uh in Washington.
And I can't mention the names, but boy would I love to.
I mean, you know these people.
The Democrat, Democrat campaign chairman, and we're talking about Vernon.
They're they're they're openly admitting that they're talking about how Vernon sheets.
I mean, he philanders, he's all over the place, and they love him for it, and people at table were incredulous.
You mean you don't have a problem with it?
Hell no, it's Vernon Jordan.
What are we gonna do about it?
Vernon Jordan, I mean just do what the guy is, it just does the guy.
What the hell are we gonna do about it?
He's the greatest guy.
You can't do nothing in this town without Vernon.
So if he won.
Okay.
It was an eye-opening thing.
If Vernon Jordan are out there, he and Clinton would be in the same golf cart.
They'd be out there playing golf, and every other word, folks, was what people hate Trump for today.
He and Vernon Jordan, Clinton and Vertonjournan were talking about the kitty.
The pussy cat.
Every other sentence.
Vernon got Monica a gig somewhere out of the White House, got her an offer for a gig somewhere.
And then after Vernon left with Monica, here came Jesse Jackson, the White House for public prayer sessions, so that Bill Clinton could get right with God after this mortal transgression and sin.
It was the most pukish.
Sticking with the phones here, people want to weigh in on this.
Here we are today, we're spending a lot of time talking about Hillary, WikiLeaks, the document dump, uh her basic incompetence and dishonesty.
And I look up and no matter whenever I look up at cable news.
I don't care what you know what I'm seeing more often than not, well, just glance up.
One line, Trump happy can take shackles off now and say what he really means.
Subhead Trump ecstatic about trying to join uh destroy GOP.
It's all Trump all the time up on the cable networks.
That's the only news that's out there.
Trump and his bad polling data, how he lost the debate, he's losing ground, he's going crazy.
There's even a story, the sad, lonely life of Donald Trump.
That is circulating now.
And in the drive-by media, they are they're trying to overlook this wiki leak stuff as best they can.
Here's uh here's Rich in Port Angeles, Washington.
Your next sir.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Hey, Megadiddos, Rush.
How are you doing today?
Very good, sir.
Thanks.
Yeah, my question is do you think Donald Trump would have been opt to say instead of you is engaging in locker room talk if you say he was engaged in rapper talk.
Well.
You mean if he had said, hey, you know, I was just uh just repeating what's what I hear in hip-hop music and bitches and hoes and stuff.
You mean that kind of stuff?
Uh right, because it, you know, it's it's in uh looking at diversity, he's saying, well, I've heard this on the radio.
Men talk like that.
Maybe not with women, but uh these people um sure as heck do the uh the whole spiel about women on their tapes and everything.
Well, all right.
Look, it's a it's a it's whether he should have done it or not, it's still a great point.
That pop culture applauded and brought to us by left-leaning entertainers, producers is all about disrespect for women.
Now, whether Trump could have softened the blow by I don't think so.
Because this is not real.
This isn't this isn't no, no, no, no.
I'm not denying he said it.
I'm saying the outrage they have over this is not real.
They're not angry about this.
These people are not shocked.
Their sensibilities are not offended.
They don't think this is the end of civil society as we know it.
This is just an opportunity for them.
These are the architects of our cultural decline.
These are the captains in the culture war that has served to tear it apart.
The people expressing shock and outrage over what Trump said are the people who have promoted getting there.
And they give awards to people who sing about things like this.
They're called Grammys.
They're called Oscars.
There's any number of entertainers and writers and so forth who have been heralded for great art by doing things like this.
So it's the outrage that's fake.
The anger, the shock, all of that's fake.
And I'll tell you, it's what they always do.
They make it look like all they're doing is reflecting popular opinion.
It's identical to what happened in Indiana with the with the religious freedom law that Mike Pence signed into law there that the left immediately turned it into an anti-gay, anti-transgender, anti-what have you.
Uh, and they went running around the state, knocking on doors, trying to find businesses that would discriminate against gays and lesbians and so forth, and they finally, as some small town, found a pizzeria.
But in reporting this, they made it look like they they conveyed the opinion that all of America was outraged at what Indiana had done.
All of America.
And the media was simply reflecting it and doing the same thing here.
That all of America is just shocked at what Trump said.
That all of America's beside themselves, that America can't believe people talk like this.
And it's shocking, and we're not going to elect some.
That's not real.
And particularly from the media.
They're not shocked by it.
All of this is fake.
They're not even angry about it.
Folks, they're happy about this.
They love that this happened.
I don't think there's any question about it, folks.
I am convinced that they released the audio of that Trump thing with Access Hollywood and all that with Billy Bush last Friday to distract everybody from what's in WikiLeaks, because what is in this WikiLeaks dump is devastating.
It's just rolling in now.
Uh Hillary giving up more national security secrets, uh, in terms of military strategy and other things, fracking with any number of things that would just be very problematic for her if her voters found out that this is what she's saying in private to her donors.