Your Host Addresses a Crabby Nation

RUSH: Man, oh, man, a lot of crabby people out there. And I’m hearing from I don’t know how many, but it’s more than I can count. And I’ll share with you some of the crabbiness today. And there’s other stuff out there besides the crabbiness of the election.

Here’s the phone number if you want to be on the program. 800-282-2882. Email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.

The first crabby email. “Dear Rush: You know everybody’s blaming McConnell and everybody’s blaming Bannon, but I blame you. I don’t recall you ever endorsing Roy Moore. I don’t recall you ever urging people to vote for Roy Moore.”

Hmm. I’m searching the deep, dark crevices of my memory on this. Hmm. What do you think, Mr. Snerdley? Do you have any recollection? I guess I didn’t really make a — (interruption) well, no, no, no. I covered this thing thoroughly, and I did what I always do. I identified who our political enemies are, and I exposed them. And yesterday was a championship day.

In fact, Drudge has recognized it. The best Drudge headline of the whole year: “Rush, Rush!” Sadly, it’s not about me. And if I were lost in egoville, I would say that it was about me. It’s about the tax bill. “Rush, Rush! Tax Bill by Christmas.”

Chuck You Schumer is saying (imitating Schumer), “No, no, no, no. You Republicans would be unethical and immoral if you vote for that tax bill now since you just lost the seat last night. You need to wait until Doug Jones is seated in January and then have the tax cut vote.” The scary thing is the Republicans might go for that. Especially having lost, the Republicans might think they need to re-embark on the old strategy of trying to prove to the Democrats and the media that they’re fair and balanced and not mean people.

And what better way to do that than to say, “Yeah, okay. We’ll take this tax bill on which our future depends and we’ll shelve it and we’ll wait for you to get your guy in there so you can kill it.” Now, if that happens, I can understand a lot of people being crabby. But look, yesterday was a yeoman day, but they’re all yeoman. And I do what I do every day, and I did what I did every day, and that is I exposed the left for who and what they are.

I told you what this Alabama race was all about. But the one thing, the one thing, I leave it up to people to make up their own minds, because I have always believed in the intelligence and the involvement and the awareness of the people in the audience.

Another crabby email. “Boy, Mitch McConnell must be walking on air today, Rush. He not only defeated a candidate who he didn’t want, but now he’s lost another Republican Senate seat so he has another reason to not get anything done. Mitch McConnell must be the happiest guy in town.”

I have noticed in the emails I’ve checked today that there’s a lot of animosity at Mitch McConnell. I mean, it is overflowing. I’m getting emails from people who think this is exactly what McConnell wanted, that too many Republicans are willing to sacrifice the victory last November in order to get rid of the intruder and outsider Trump.

I’ve got crabby emails from people who have finished reading conservative websites and blogs who are celebrating the loss of a Republican Senate seat, and they don’t understand it, and they are livid and fit to be tied. There is a lot of crabby. John Nolte at Breitbart has a story today on CNN and its ratings being in the basement. And I got a crabby response to that. I mean, the crabbiness, it’s all over the place. It’s kind of invigorating in and of itself.

So I wrote this person back. I said, “What are you mad at? Are you mad that Breitbart is seeking refuge in irrelevant, meaningful places here by pointing out after we lose a Senate seat that CNN is sucking?” And pretty much that was it. This is a story talking about CNN and how bad their 2017 has been and how they’re in the ratings cellar. And they are. But if you tune in to CNN today, they don’t think they’re losing anything.

CNN was actually cheering. There were cheers on the set last night during the election returns. And they’re happy as hell. CNN thinks that they are gigantic winners today. CNN has been in last place in cable news for I don’t know how long, and yet they keep chugging along. They don’t have any viewers, but they have advertising. They don’t have any viewers, but they have enough support from CNN International, which, if you combine that with the entire operation, it helps the bottom line.

But the bottom line on this is — I think there’s a point to be made. You can sit here, especially today, and you can try to make yourself feel better by pointing out how in the ratings toilet CNN is. But what does that mean? How does provide any solace? CNN’s not miserable. CNN’s ecstatic. And how does CNN survive with so little audience? I have explained this I don’t know how many times. I’ll explain it again.

It’s all about media buyers. It’s all about who they are and where they are. Let’s start with companies. Take your favorite company. General Mills, Meineke muffler, I don’t care what it is. They have their own marketing departments, and those marketing departments hire advertising agencies. And they turn over to those agencies the responsibility of media buying.

They have meetings with the agency, and they tell ’em what demographic they want to hit. They tell ’em what time of year they want various campaigns to run. And except on the, you know, big, big advertising push of the year, such as a Super Bowl ad or something, they just leave it to the advertising agency. And the agency comes up with a plan and reports it, and they execute it, and the company pays the bill to the advertising agency, and that’s that.

Now, if there’s a big campaign, Meineke muffler is running a humongous thing, they might be hands-on with the agency for that one campaign. But day-to-day the company doesn’t have day-to-day contact with the agency, other than when campaigns are presented in meetings, “Here’s our idea for the latest spot,” translation, “We’re gonna run it.” But the individual media buys, they don’t get into that. That’s why they hire the agency.

And who works at these agencies? A bunch of left-wing little college graduates. Most of them are women and they’re in the basement and they’re in windowless buildings, and they’re the ones that do the media buys. And the same media buyers that will flood CNN with full rate card advertising are the same people that will not spend any money on Fox, all because of politics. That’s why in prime time on Fox you can see penile enhancement spots and you will never see them on CNN. I don’t know if Fox is still running the penile enhancement spots, but when they started it was a steady diet of that ’cause that’s all they could get.

I mean, the bias is everywhere. I mean, we here at the EIB Network had to overcome that in our first five years. It’s something we still have to overcome on a daily, daily basis. I’m not gonna give away any trade secrets on how we’ve done it, but we have. But I’m astounded as I wonder how few people in this business, for example, know how to deal with these massive Twitter and Facebook campaigns supposedly tweeting and Facebooking and emailing all of these angry listeners threatening to never buy again. It’s amazing to me how still so many people don’t understand that most of that is artificial, is not real and generated by bots.

But that’s how CNN does it. They got people supporting them and spending advertising dollars when the ratings and numbers aren’t there. You might say, “Well, at some point aren’t these advertisers gonna demand results?” No, because CNN’s just one of many buys when we’re talking about major corporations, like General Motors, Toyota. They’re advertising so many places, they don’t base the success or failure of a campaign on one particular place, network, CNN. They’ll add it all together and then come up with the effectiveness plan. But make no mistake, these little media buyers, they know full well what they’re doing.

They can sit there and see that CNN’s got no viewers, and they understand that means CNN will be in big trouble financially unless they do something about it. So they do something about it. Of course, CNN’s got salespeople out there. They’re making deals on the rate card and all that. But I get the crabbiness of the emailer’s point. What does it matter that CNN’s ratings are in the tank when they, in their mind, just engineered a big victory? And now this is two. This is two. You got the Virginia governor’s race and then this thing in Alabama.

You can’t tell them they’re not on a roll. They think this constitutes winning the House back in 2018. This is full speed ahead. USA Today has an editorial today: Donald Trump “isn’t fit to clean the toilets in the Barack Obama Presidential Library.” USA Today lead editorial. Folks, this election… There is so much anger, so much rage, so much irrational hatred that has been bottled up all across the left and in the Drive-By Media.

This election last night with a 21,000-vote victory… When you look at all of the money the left spent in there — all of the free equivalent money the Drive-By Media coverage of this race got and provided. You look at the money George Soros spent and who knows what the hell kind of tricks on the ground were being played with vote turnout and all that. And, as usual, did you notice during the election returns last night the places where Democrat votes come from are the last to be heard from. They’re the last to be counted.

Last night, it was Montgomery, Alabama. That is a large African-American population. It’s clear that the Democrats and the voter election people there were waiting to see what they needed. We saw that all throughout the 2016 campaign. Remember there was a 90-minute period of time from like midnight to 1:30 a.m., presidential election night, where there were no new votes counted? The vote totals and the tote boards did not change for an hour and a half.

We’re watching the Drive-Bys, including Fox, and it doesn’t change, and we’re asking, “What are you guys doing? Did they stop counting out there?” Well, everybody knew what was going on. The Democrats were trying to figure out where they needed to get votes, and they gave it the old college try. They just couldn’t come up with ’em. There’s a big loser in this thing. It’s Al Franken. Now he has to quit. They have named his replacement, but he’s not going anywhere. He has not said when he’s gonna leave!

And, you know, it was almost a given that if Roy Moore won that Al Franken would say, “You know what? There’s no reason for me to leave. If the Republicans want this guy, there’s no reason I’m leaving.” Well, now that Roy Moore lost… The Democrats thought Moore was gonna win, by the way. Let me give you one other thing about this. This whole strategy of theirs of jettisoning anybody on their side who has ever looked at a woman the wrong way to clear the decks to be able to, with credibility, attack Trump primarily and Roy Moore if he had won…

I mean, they fully expected Moore to win, and they expected that to give them a huge advantage and boost going into 2018. They were prepared either way. But if Moore won, they had the campaign rolled out — “Republicans like reprobates! Republicans like kooks! Republicans like weirdos! Republicans like pedophiles!” — and for them to do that, Franken would have to go, and anybody else. Well, now Roy Moore didn’t win. Roy Moore lost, and that means Franken doesn’t have a leg to stand on.

I mean, since the voters… Democrats… Voters rejected a pedophile, a kook, oddball. Who shows up to vote on a horse? I mean, I could just see the ads coming down. So what’s Franken do in this circumstance? (interruption) Well, he’s gonna try to stay. Mark my words, he’s going to try to stay. He’s gonna do everything he can to stay and he’ll try to massage this result in Alabama as leverage. Grab sound bite number 3.

I want to hear this. I wasn’t watching CNN last night, and I don’t want anybody to get the mistaken idea that I was. I was told there was cheering on the set last night during the period of time when Jones took the lead, and we have a sound bite. Let’s see. This is exactly what happened. We have here John King. We have Wolf Blitzer. It’s just those two guys. And here goes. Three… two… one…

RUSH: It wasn’t cheering, but they were… There were no cheers there. Did you hear any? (interruption) What? They were jubilant, but I didn’t hear any cheers. But they were excited. You know what else happened last night? The pro-Doug Jones count was late arriving. It was Montgomery that the networks… The New York Times called this race two or three hours before Fox did. I don’t know when CNN called it, but it’s clear that some of these networks had a pretty good idea what’s happening.

But they hold off making the call so as to prolong viewership for ratings, which, of course, CNN doesn’t care about. And they really don’t. I mean, that’s the bottom line on CNN: They don’t care. They’d love to have ’em, they’d love to be number one, but it doesn’t matter to them, because they’re not doing news for the public. They’re doing news for other journalists and themselves. Okay. Let’s have a little rundown here of just some off-the-top-of-my-head reaction to what happened last night.

As is always the case, everybody’s gonna over-interpret the win, the Democrat victory. The Democrats are gonna say it means much more than it does. They’re gonna say that it means effectively they have retaken the House. The elections next November will just be a formality. They will say, “This proves now that we’ve been right all along. Trump is hated! If his guy couldn’t win in a red state that he won by 28 points, it means it’s over. Trump has spent every last dime of goodwill he’s got.

“Our initial instincts for hatred of Trump were justified because now more and more people hate Trump. This election shows this,” and they’re gonna say, “A blue wave is now creating itself and being spread all across the country.” Their public relations firm, the Drive-By Media, is gonna be repeating all of this ad nauseam. But the Republicans, what’s their reaction? What is their knee-jerk reaction at their Democrat victory last night?

RUSH: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. He’s the guy that picked Mueller to do this special counsel investigation and gave him the broadest berth possible because there’s no crime. By the way, we have all kinds of news coming up on this, the tweets between Strzok and his mistress. We’ve discovered them, and they do show an incredible bias. There’s a couple of them that are really important. But we went back to the archives and found a couple things that are gonna… I think they’re bombshell discoveries of things that have been reported last January, last April. We’ll get to those.

Anyway, I just got a note that Trey Gowdy just practically dismembered Rosenstein during his questioning. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, is up there being asked questions about the special counsel investigation. I didn’t see any of this ’cause this is happening while the program started. So we’re rolling on it. If that characterization is true, if Trey Gowdy actually did score some points, we’ll have it for you. But the Republican reaction to the Alabama election last night… I think this is undeniable. There are some Republicans who are secretly happy about this.

There are some Republicans who are openly happy about this. There are some conservative Never Trumpers who are openly giddy about this, even though the Republicans have lost a seat in the United States Senate. The Never Trumpers, some of them are already beginning the See, I Told You So’s, and they will continue to wish for a bloodbath for Republicans in 2018 and 2020. I don’t know how many of the conservative media, Republicans inside the Beltway have this attitude.

But it’s a significant number that think anything to do with Trump needs to be cleansed no matter the price, no matter the cost. Even if the Republicans don’t win the White House for 25 years, we have got to cleanse this and get back to where conservative intellectuals are the domineering force, the driving force of the Republican Party. If you ask me, this election was sealed with the choice of Jeff Sessions to be attorney general.

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If you ask me, this election was sealed with the choice of Jeff Sessions to be attorney general.

Bears remembering. Choices have consequences and Senate votes are precious things as we now know.

Mitch McConnell is a modern day Nero, fiddling while Rome burns.

Steve BAnnon made a heroic effort to shake the pillars of the political elites , and he shool them good. So good that the Swapm Critters dropped their masks, and now all of America can see the ugliness that the GOPe has become.

If the McConnell Senate does not pass the Tax Bill, that’s the end of the GOPe,the dam will brake and real grass roots Republicans will fill the state primary schedules across the nation.

Who do you think conspired with the Dems to achieve Special Prosecutor Mueller to attempt a coup on the Trump Presidency? McConnell. Thats why Steve Bannon left the administration, to fight the GOPe so it will die a death of a thousand cuts. And Bannon is just beginning.

Lay on Steve Bannon, LAY ON!

We will clean them out.

If you ask me, this election was sealed with the choice of Jeff Sessions to be attorney general.
Bears remembering. Choices have consequences and Senate votes are precious things as we now know.

Nope. Given the small margin of the loss, it was sealed when the GOPe chose to actively campaign against Moore. Senator Shelby’s Anti-Moore media blitz last weekend was pathetic. Jones used it to do a state wide robo call on election eve. Moore would have won confortbaly had the GOPe simply kept their mouths shut and arranged to run negative ads against Jones.

If you ask me, this election was sealed with the choice of Jeff Sessions to be attorney general.

Let's see. Who appointed Sessions? Luther Strange? Nope. Mitch McConnell? Nope. Paul Ryan? Nope.

Then who is responsible for sealing the election for a democrat with the choice of Sessions to be attorney general? Oh yeah. The Donald. Using Limbaugh logic, the blame falls on Trump for last nights defeat for selecting Sessions as Att'y General.

Shelby needs to die in a grease fire.
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LOL Damn that sounds painful. Take McConnell with him.

LOL. From what I read on twitter today McConnell is busy filling the spending bill with garbage (including Obamacare insurer subsidy) and the House is caving. What a FUBAR.

I had planned on being crabby today, but I keep getting squirted with lemonade in the eyes with the lemon we were served last night.

Lotsa silver linings in that trainwreck.

Well that’s just BS. Alabama is (was) among the reddest of red states, anyone - and I mean even Steve Wonder - would have said that a Republican replacement for Sessions was a given.

What we got is another lousy candidate, a strictly conservative ideologue with virtually no personality who conservatives love and no one else can stand (think “Ted Cruz”). We know how that movie ends, just look at the vast number of disappointments from the “tea party surge” who have done nothing except mostly, leave.

Big Luther would have kept the seat, as Trump knew. But you get what you got because of a lousy candidate who creeped everyone out and couldn’t even be bothered to campaign the final weekend, not because of Jeff Sessions.

Moore lost because from the establishment Republicans to the democRATS and the MSM, they threw everything, including the kitchen sink at him.

How many tens of millions of dollars did McTurtle's crowd spend trying to railroad him?

How many establishment Republicans played turncoats and stabbed Moore in the back?

How man liberals and the media talking heads unfairly referred to Moore as a child molester and a pedophile?

How many of these "children" making allegations against Moore will now slipped back into obscurity, after their damaging 15 minutes of fame?

This was a very expensive operation to keep Moore from going to the Senate.

If not for his own party screwing him over, he would have won.

But such is life.

that’s just BS... not because of Jeff Sessions

I didn't blame Jeff Sessions. But a choice was made to sacrifice the seat and make Sessions AG. On election day anyone could count Senate seats and realize that the Republican majority was slim at least up through the 2018 election. It would have made some sense to keep Sessions in the Senate.

And that decision is a gift that is giving and giving and giving.

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