Mrs. Clinton Just Can't Pull It Off

RUSH: I do not want to make the mistake of assuming something is happening prematurely. Nevertheless, ladies and gentlemen, I have to note that I am a bit surprised at the frequency, and even the number, of really negative or less-than-flattering suck-up stories about Hillary Clinton from the Drive-By Media.

Now, what we know, what we have learned -- I take it back. You and I have known this since the nineties. She's a phony. There are no coincidences with the Clintons. Nothing just spontaneously happens. Everything is orchestrated; everything is planned; everything is staged. That is, everything that's intended for public consumption. Her spontaneous road trip in the van is phony. Her unscripted sit-downs with, quote, unquote, everyday Americans, are phony. They are Democrat operatives who are being driven to the events. They are Hillary donors in some cases. They are Obama donors in other cases.

They have worked on Obama or other Democrat candidate campaigns. But they are not everyday people. They didn't just happen to be wherever Hillary just happened to decide to stop. And then just happened to stroll in. While just happening to wear dark glasses. Just happening and hoping not to be recognized -- with 15 cameras in tow. Her claim to care about everyday Americans is phony, as evidenced by, well, her life. The way the Clintons have been reported to treat White House staff, uniformed military people at the White House, stories from the nineties are legion about that.

Her social media numbers are phony. Over half of her Twitter, whatever they are, tweets, are fake. The people are fake, they don't exist. She is paying $38 per Facebook like. Now, the UK media is all over this, particularly the UK Daily Mail. They're all over it, but now we're starting to see on American television, if not yet in print -- that's the next domino to fall -- but some traditional Hillary-type supporters in television, Drive-By Media, are starting to raise questions now about her competence.

See, this is the thing. She has known for however many years that this week was coming. Am I right? She's known for how many years that this particular plan was going to be executed. With all of this time to plan it, they still can't execute it. And they can't keep it from being discovered, the truth behind it. With all of this time to execute something simple as getting in a van and driving on an American highway in a middle American state -- and deciding to stop at a roadside establishment and spontaneously sit down and have a conversation with everyday-type people -- years and years to plan that singular event, and they can't even pull that off.

This is what the American Drive-By Media is starting to notice and thus be concerned about. Because, remember, none of this bothers them in terms of whether or not Hillary would be qualified to be president. They don't care. If they cared about that, they wouldn't have supported Obama. He's an absolute incompetent boob when it comes to defending and protecting the traditions and institutions that have defined this country's greatness. He's all about changing them. They don't care. Their only concern is can she beat whoever the Republicans nominate. That's why this bothers them.

That is why I am detecting the first pulse of concern in some of the Drive-By TV broadcast media reporters. It's very simple: If she can't plan a phony event like a diner chat session with some supposed Americans. If she can't plan that with months and months -- and notice all of the talent on her payroll. She supposedly has the best and brightest the Democrat Party has to offer, from consultants, to marketers, to tech people, to strategists, to planners -- and she still can't pull it off. And by not being able to pull it off, what I mean is, everybody has discovered that it's fake.

One of the reasons they discovered it was fake is because it looked fake, and she looked fake. It didn't look real because it wasn't real. The Clintons just can't do real because everything they do is structured and acted and performed.

I know that many of you in this audience are yourselves performers, and you know that on any given day if you don't have it, it's tough, it is hard. The process of acting -- you know what's so hard about acting? You know what the number one requirement other than being able to memorialize lines, but that's actually part of it, you know what the number one requirement for being an actor? (interruption) Well, yeah, make you look like you're not acting, but how do you do that? How do you do that?

You have to totally rid yourself of all of your self-consciousness. If you have just a trace of self-consciousness, that will be noticed. You have to be able to get outside your own body. I'm not talking about in a metaphysical sense here. I'm talking attitudinally, maybe even psychological, you have to be able to totally abandon who you are.

If you have the slightest shred of self-consciousness, and that can be defined as worrying about how you look, worried whether or not you're succeeding, then you're gonna forget your lines and you're gonna start acting rather than being. It's a very hard thing to do. It's why those people, in addition to the way they look, are paid a lot of money, the big ones, 'cause it's really, really hard to do. It's also why they're so messed up. (interruption) No, no, it is, because their whole lives are spent being somebody else.

They play a role as a farm wife, they actually become the farm wife and they think it's legitimate to testify before Congress about it. All they did was portray one. They hadn't been farm wives. They don't know agriculture problems, but they had to get totally outside themselves. And because they want to be known, like everybody does, for who they really are, when they're not acting, you know, when Gwyneth Paltrow is not Hayseed B. Snerd or whatever, she wants to be known for what she really thinks and we learn that they're idiots. Well, they're liberals.

Mrs. Clinton, I maintain to you, cannot do this. Mrs. Clinton is too self-conscious for whatever reason. She cannot act. She simply can't pull it off. She can't act friendly. She can't act nice. She can't act real. She just comes across as stone cold. And that's why they want her to act because they want her to be able to abandon that. But when you think you're better than everybody else, you don't want to abandon that, you don't want to be Mr. Everyman.

That's the contradiction here. Mrs. Clinton's trying to portray herself as an average, ordinary American, but the fact is she isn't. Average ordinary Americans do not get $14 million for writing a book that nobody reads. Average Americans are not paid $300,000 for a speech that nobody wants to listen to. Average Americans are not paid $14 million to write a book nobody wants to read and then show up at a book signing that nobody attends. Average Americans would love to be able to get that kind of money for being unable to do what the payment is for.

Mrs. Clinton can, she's not like the rest of us. She simply is not an average, ordinary, everyday person. The bottom line also is, I don't know presidents today, what people want in them. It used to be people wanted extraordinary people, people that were admittedly better than you were, to be president. Now as we head toward the situation portrayed in the movie Idiocracy where the low-information voter wants somebody as stupid as they are to be president -- that's the way we're trending -- Mrs. Clinton can't pull that off.

No matter how nice she tries to be, she still can't look nice, she can't act it, and that's the problem. That's why the more she's in public and the more she speaks, the worse and lower her poll numbers get. The more she's silent and invisible and out of the public eye, her numbers go up. So phony, totally phone, everything. She's been talking about her grandparents, immigrants. They weren't.

BuzzFeed, which is a relatively new Internet news site started by some guy, I think it was the Politico, Ben Smith, anyway, doesn't matter. You know how they found out? Any member of the Drive-By Media community could have done this. Any of you could have done this. They simply went to Ancestry.com. They filled in the name and the search term "Hillary Rodham Clinton," and it's right there, all the documents, all the census reports. Every one of her grandparents and great-grandparents is basically from Pennsylvania.

They're not from Ireland. They didn't emigrate here as she said. Now, all of our relatives were at some point immigrants because the nation was built that way, but her statement is flat-out untrue. It's just like people have forgotten this. She claimed that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, who was the first human being without jet back power to climb Mt. Everest. The only problem with that is that when Hillary Clinton was born, Edmund Hillary had not yet climbed anything, much less Mt. Everest. Nobody knew who he was when she was born.

Totally made up, just like this grandparents or great-grandparents or whatever it is immigration story. And again, what is telling about all of this is how poorly it has been organized and executed, given the top talent on the staff putting it together and the time. Given all the time they have had, they can't even get one event right because they can't rely on spontaneity. They can't rely on reality. They can't trust the fact that Hillary Clinton's gonna walk into a diner in Iowa and not get booed and run out of the place.

So what they have to do is take over the diner and populate it with people paid to be there. Democrat staffers, donors, what have you, and then put Hillary Clinton in the middle of it. It all becomes fake and it looks fake because they didn't hire any professional actors. How bad is it when your leading presidential candidate, you can't even trust, you can't even roll the dice that she can pull off walking in to a 7-Eleven without getting kicked out, booed out, laughed at, or otherwise heckled? And they're not dumb for that. I mean, they saw the big book tour nobody showed up. They had to pay people for that.

How risky is it? This is the person and the Democrats tell us is the automatically, unquestionably qualified next president, and they can't even trust her to go into a diner and have at least half the place applaud that she arrived and want to meet her and talk to her? They have to pay people to come in and act like they want to talk to her and act like they care about what she thinks? Ha.

I have to take a break here, my friends, but, by the way, she did not leave a tip at Chipotle. I knew it and I guess the people at Bloomberg News went out and actually researched it.

Thanks Kaslin for another great post.

How long before the media gives this entitled phony a well deserved backlash? She is insulting to all sides, more so, to even her own. Embarrassing.

Surely, Democrats HAVE to be concerned with the rollout and launch of her candidacy. This is their “Plan A” and she’s just not up to the task. I’m not sure they have a “Plan B” either.

Plan “B” is to run Obama for a third term.

Who’s going to stop them? Those feckless GOP turds in Congress? Obama doesn’t care about the Constitution.

I have always suspected that the Obama kids are just props and not really their own kids -- if they even have any (and Michele's not just a wide shouldered she-man in drag.)

The kids are in their teens yet that pre-school level jungle gym finds its was into most camera shots as Obama leaves the WH for AF-1.

My kids had a similar jungle gym. It came down before any were in High School, because the value of the property beneath it as I chose to re-purpose it was worth more to me than the silly jungle gym the kids had long outgrown.

How valuable is WH property anyway?

Fake, I say. Totally fake.

FReegards!

A caller to Rush today suggested that Hillary was a dummy candidate that the Dems were putting up to suck all of the GOP resources in attacks on her and then at the last minute they would put up some relatively unknown moderate and try to steal the election at the last minute.

I believe that strategy has some merit and I wouldn’t put it past the RATs to do just that.

Ever watch an athlete try to make a comeback? They try one thing after another and after a while, you realize they don’t have it anymore.

If Mrs. Clinton couldn’t win the nomination in 2008, when she had everything in her favor, what makes her a better candidate now? We don’t know who or why, but someone else will come along and take it away from her again.

Go back to the pre-primary period of 2007/2008. Looking over Iowa....Hillary had the organization...the money....and Bill. A no-name senator from Illinois basically came around in July of 2007 and between debates and speeches....captured the attention of the public over the established candidate of Hillary.

Eight years later. She can say she’s been Secretary of State for four years, but there’s nothing much in terms of accomplishments. She’s 67 years old and had some stumble/stroke which hindered her health. Her debate skills have not improved. And her speeches are marginally three-star at best.

If Warren gets into the primary, she’ll win in Iowa and four weeks later, Hillary’s whole game is finished off. Maybe Warren will skip 2016...but she’s currently 65 years old. This is it....make or break. If she waits around four more years, the age game will be a negative.

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