Posted on 01/08/2018 3:48:32 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: So the Hollywood left is all atwitter now with The Oprah. They want The Oprah to run for president based on her speech last night. I didn’t watch it. I didn’t tune in to watch the Golden Globes so all I know is what I have been able to inform myself via reading and so forth after the fact. I made it a point not to watch it. I couldn’t have cared less.
But the fact that they’re glomming on to Oprah — (interruption) No, no, no. I have plenty of thoughts about it. I know plenty enough to have thoughts about it, and I have plenty enough thoughts that will not be echoed anywhere else until I say them. I will get to it in due course. They think Trump is a lunatic and insane, and I’m telling you, it is they who are insane and out of control and unhinged. It’s amazing to watch this.
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RUSH: Yeah. So The Oprah, the key to The Oprah success is tears and crying, evidenced by last night’s telecast. I pointed this out many, many moons ago on this very program. Audio sound bites coming up. But the details here. The Oprah gave such a stirring speech. And even the prepub on the speech was that it was gonna be political. And it was.
And now all the usual suspects are saying that Oprah, The Oprah should run for president in 2020. And the guy who hangs around her, Stedman (paraphrasing), “Yeah, she’s thinking about it. She might do it, she could do it.” Now, do any of you remember how Donald Trump was thoroughly mocked, lampooned, and ridiculed by these very people for daring to suggest that Oprah might make a good running mate for him? Do you remember this? You don’t, do you?
Donald Trump said that within a couple of days of announcing he was running back in 2015. He threw Oprah’s name out as a potential running mate, and these very same people had a cow, along with the media and all the elites. They said Trump choosing Oprah was proof that he wasn’t serious. Go back and check it, folks. Of course, you don’t have to, because I’m telling you. I did go back and check it.
Trump said on ABC that he thought Oprah would make a great running mate on the same day he announced. So what’s that, June 16 of 2015, comes down the escalator at Trump Tower, says what we all remember him saying about immigration and Mexicans and criminals and so forth. And everybody was up in arms, and he also had made the point later that Oprah would be a great running mate. And the same people last night that can’t wait for her to run were mocking and ridiculing Trump as being unserious and that his mentioning of Oprah as a potential VP was evidence of it.
Now, two-plus years away from that, two and a half years away, these people cannot wait for Oprah to throw her hat in the ring. How do you think traditional Democrats are reacting to this? Joe Biden. You know he wants it. Forget whether or not that’s practical. You know Biden wants it. And there are a lot of other Democrats, elected Democrats that are gonna throw their hats in the ring. And Hollywood is one of the biggest bank rollers of the Democrat Party.
Hollywood bankrolls the Democrat Party in all of its ridiculous causes. And here’s the Hollywood left — and we’ll get to later what that thing that they did last night means for women. I think that was a disaster last night, making every one of those women wear black and look the same and sound the same and talk the same. But what do you think your real Democrat officials, Democrat National Committee, elected Democrats, pick one, Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, wants to be president, thinking about running. The things that he is doing are oriented to attract the attention of the radical left. And here comes Oprah with a speech at an awards show and the entire Hollywood left can barely contain themselves.
These people, after deriding and ridiculing Trump for being nothing more than a TV personality and an unserious guy with no electoral or political experience running for president, it’s an insult, it’s absurd, never mind the Republican Never Trumpers. And now, what’s the Democrat Party thinking of doing? And don’t think they’re divorced from this.
Here’s The Oprah, who may be the biggest celebrity they think they have, so now they think, as the copycats that they are, they think that the route to the White House is coming up with a more popular celebrity than Donald Trump is. And now they want to test that with The Oprah. And I’m gonna tell you this. The Oprah is not a nationwide vote-getter like these people think she is.
And nobody in Hollywood is. Tom Hanks, take your pick of any of them. Throw ’em up there, make ’em candidates, put ’em on the stump and I will guarantee you not one of them gets close to what Donald Trump pulled off. No different than the Democrat Party. They sit there and tell themselves that what they think and what they believe is what the vast majority of Americans think and believe.
Hollywood, same thing, they go out and make these movies that nobody’s going to see anymore and yet they tell themselves that they are reflecting and mirroring the majority of Americans. They are as out of touch as the inside-the-Beltway crowd is. What are you smirking at? I don’t think Oprah Winfrey could get anywhere near the total number of millions of votes that the Trumpster got. No way.
By the way, once The Oprah starts talking about the issues that she believes in, it’s gonna be even tougher. All it would be would be a return to Obamaism with widely bigger government, wildly bigger intrusions, slow down economy, a big case could be made. (interruption) What’s your question? What’s your question? Do I think The Oprah would do better than the Hillary? Depends on how hard The Oprah worked. Remember Hillary didn’t work.
Hillary probably couldn’t because her physical circumstances were such that she couldn’t work. She couldn’t stand up half the time, and plus she had this arrogant conceit that she didn’t have to work. Trump didn’t have a prayer. Remember? Back then Trump was unfit. Back then he was insane, back then he was crazy and a lunatic, nobody’s gonna vote for Trump, and all he’s done is vanquish everything and everybody that’s been put in front of him.
So could The Oprah do better than the Hillary? Well, too many variables to state yes or no. We’d have to know how serious Oprah is. How smart is The Oprah? Folks, I’m telling you we’re gonna have to redefine smart. I started on this last Friday, last Thursday and Friday, and there’s a piece in the Stack of Stuff today that somebody sent me that is essentially a restatement of what I had said last week under a different theme about who’s really smart and who’s dumb and who’s outrunning and outfoxing and outsmarting who. And Trump is obviously outfoxing and outsmarting everybody.
How about this. Here we are. We have arrived in media world, folks. This is awards season. This is what the entertainment world lives for. Nighttime NFL games are finished. The holidays are over. A return to normalcy has set in. And so it’s awards season. So we’ve got the Golden Globes. Then we’re gonna have the Grammys or whatever, and then we’re gonna have the foreign press business, and then we’re gonna have the Epidemic Awards, never ending. There will be some Country Music Awards thrown in here.
The next three months are laden with awards ceremonies. What’s Donald Trump done? He’s crashing it. Donald Trump is crashing awards season. His timing is perfect. His idea, if you ask me, is genius. Donald Trump has a world stage to bring attention to whatever he wants to bring attention to. And he’s decided, in the midst of awards season, to have the Fake News Awards.
They were originally supposed to be given out this afternoon at 5 o’clock, but Trump says the winners will be announced on Wednesday, rather than today, because the interest and the importance of these awards is far greater than anyone could have anticipated. So Trump has the world to bring attention to what he’s going to bring attention to, and that is faux journalism. That is lying out of context, whatever you want to call it, fake news.
Fighting the media endeared this president to millions of Americans who are appalled by journalism’s descent into blatant propaganda. Millions of Americans have tuned out and turned off because they no longer trust it and, worse, they get angered by it. It is obviously unfair. It’s obviously rigged. It’s not even news anymore. The media doesn’t do news. The media has one objective, and it is to advance the fortunes of the Democrat Party and the American left however they can do it.
If the American left and the Democrat Party don’t have anything worth talking about, then the mission is to destroy the opposition: the Republican Party, conservatives, and of course Donald Trump. So Trump is gonna tap into this existing outrage, part of which put him in the White House. And in the midst of the left’s awards season, he’s gonna stick it to a smug pack of faux journalists, and he’s gonna do it with facts, and it’s gonna be hilarious. It’s gonna combine the serious presentation of news with irreverent humor.
Trump is no dummy. Trump understands TV. He understands promotion. He understands buildup. He totally gets social media. He understands and has defined the entertainment industry. He gets the news industry, understands comedy. He has comedic timing. He understands business better than any of his oppenents and critics ever will because they’ve never been in it. And he gets politics.
And he’s taken all these elements of the American landscape and created a presidency like no one’s ever seen before. And that he can do it with a dose of mischief. (laughing) So the Fake News Awards, going to the most corrupt and biased of the mainstream media, presented to the losers on Wednesday, January 17th, right in the midst of Hollywood’s own awards season.
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When do we start hearing of michelle for president
I cannot stand Okrah. She’s a phony and a racist. Has been for a long long long time.
But hey, go for it dems!
I think that’s exactly what this Oprah thing is all about - revving the TV addicts up to the idea of the first black woman president. Then add the Oprah fan base to the already-existing Michelle fan base (remember all the glamour covers on virtually every women’s magazine for the past 8 years?) - and they think they’ve got a lock on the women’s vote. Once everyone is all excited about the first black woman president, Oprah’s candidacy will just fade away.
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Maybe she should promise a new car to everyone who votes for her!
Remember when McGovern said he might give everyone who votes for him $1000! He still lost, TO NIXON!
Show business kids
Making movies of themselves
You know they don't give a f**k about anybody else
Truer lyrics have never been written.
Interestingly, Oprah was conceived in a violent rape. You’d think she’d be prolife. She’s the “exception” even some prolifers say it’s ok to kill.
“The shallow tidal waters help her short stubby legs support her immense weight while she gorges on aquatic plants. I read that in a dinosaur book when I was little.”
That’s funny. Good writing, DesertRhino.
:)
She would still get the women’s vote.
Talk about a case to repeal the 19th Amendment.
Hypocrite, thy name is Oprah.
That so many white women think she is something is a tragedy.
Oprah, the billionaire made rich through the grievance train. No thanks.
What total pablum in Oprah’s speech last night!
How pathetic that the only subject in her speech was sexual harassment and the pundits are now saying Oprah for president.
There was nothing statesmanlike about her speech. While I feel sympathy for all victims of sexual assault, this was just another left-wing victim rant on ONE subject. The world is a complex place and sexual harassment is just one issue of many. If she really cared about women’s rights, where are her complaints about women’s rights in the Islamic world???
And it’s telling that she chose to cite ONE rare example of 6 WHITE men who raped a black woman when history and statistics are replete with many many more horrific examples of the more common black-man-rapes-white-woman travesties.
In doing so, Oprah is telling the world that she’s just another low-class racial opportunist.
Oprah is such a racist.
By the end of the first three months on the campaign trail she old weigh 480 lbs, the stress would be overwhelming. Try to imagine Oprah sending men into battle.
geeez,,going back to 4 years of hating America again??...we just went thru 8 years of that..she rambled on last night about some poor poor black woman raped by 6 white men...i can see it now..”NATIONAL CHICKS WITH ISSUES” week...
Someone is watching them. Remember most movie goers are young and always has been that way. Just because you don't go, doesn't mean others don't go.
Maybe, but millions go to the movies every week.
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