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RUSH: I just learned something about Democrat “witness,” and I put that in quotes, Pam Karlan, Pamela Karlan. She is the Stanford law professor who’s been testifying about what a reprobate Donald Trump is. “He abused his power!” All of this rotgut, partisan hackery. Well, it turns out that this witness donated thousands of dollars to Hillary Clinton and was on Hillary Clinton’s short list of Supreme Court nominees. Angry Hillary Donor Makes Up Her “Expert” Testimony Dec 4, 2019 RUSH: I just learned something about Democrat “witness,” and I put that in quotes, Pam Karlan, Pamela Karlan. She is...

RUSH: Grab sound bite number 29. This is Frank Figliuzzi, the former FBI assistant director. He was on MSNBC on Monday night. Now, I’m just gonna play this. It’s about 36 seconds. I’m not gonna have much time for analysis afterward, but this is just an example of the lunacy and the insanity that is out there all the time now… FIGLIUZZI: The president said that we will fly our flags at half-mast until August 8th. (pause) That’s 8/8! Now, I’m not gonna imply that he did this deliberately, but I am using it as an example of the ignorance...

In July, MSNBC host and former Rep. Joe Scarborough showily announced on Stephen Colbert's CBS show that he was leaving the Republican Party. No one on the Republican National Committee flew a flag at half-mast. The announcement was at least a decade behind the reality. In 2006, he basically called then-President Bush an idiot. Last week, he did the same to President Trump. There is consistency here from the man who craves attention. Scarborough is the MSNBC equivalent of David Gergen, someone always twiddling his spit-covered finger in the wind and switching his allegiances depending on which option benefits him...

RUSH: Julie in Temecula, California. Great to have you. How are you? CALLER: Hi, Rush. I’m great. Oh, I’m so happy to talk with you. I’ve been a listener since, let’s see, Clinton was holding us hostage on TV. Okay. That’s a while back. Anyway, I apologize because I only heard this once, so I can’t tell you where I heard it, but when Green from Texas began the impeachment process — RUSH: Yes, Al Green. CALLER: Al Green, yeah, the Democrats were furious because the impeachment proceedings — I heard this but I don’t know where — the impeachment...

RUSH: F. Chuck Todd is the host of the NBC show Meet the Depressed. It airs on Sunday morning. There’s a daily version of Meet the Press. Now, I have shared with you in the past that I have now the firm belief that many journalists who say that they’re in the news business or in the media are… I’m trying to find a soft word. I’m not trying to be insulting. I’m trying to be descriptive. I think they’re really uneducated. I think they don’t know half what they think they know, and this lack of knowledge is accompanied...

RUSH: Grab sound bite number 29. Yeah, yeah. We’ll get to the early sound bites in the next half hour. This is Jim Clyburn, he is Democrat, South Carolina. He was on Wolf Blitzer’s CNN show this afternoon. He’s African-American, if you didn’t know. Congressman Clyburn is a member of Congressional Black Caucasians too. He’s a big guy in the Democrat Party. Wolf Blitzer said, “What was your reaction, as someone who has worked so hard in this area of civil rights all these years, what is your reaction to Trump in the press conference yesterday?” CLYBURN: We remember from...

Resistance Hero Maxine Waters has quite the strategy for dealing with escalating tensions with North Korea: figure out if the U.S. can give them the “things that they’re asking for.” That’s right, the California Democrat sees a resolution to the crisis through diplomacy, telling a TMZ reporter that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson needs to fill the State department with those who can engage Pyongyang. "We're on the verge of nuclear war, what are your thoughts on this?" the reporter asked. "I want us to be very careful, very alert to what is happening and to avoid war," Waters said....

Rep Maxine Waters (D-CA) has been getting quite a bit of attention lately for her strong opposition to President Trump and frequent calls for his impeachment. She called President Trump “the worst” president she’s ever seen in a recent interview with “The Breakfast Club” saying he “believes in nothing.”"I think he believes in nothing," Waters said. "I think that he cares about nothing. I think that he's capable of doing outrageous things.""I believe it is possible to impeach him,” she said. “How long is it going to take? I don't know, but I give it to about December."The interviewer then...

When Huey Long was running for office in Louisiana, he told crowds that as a boy on Sunday mornings, he would hitch the family horse to a buggy to take his Catholic grandparents to Mass and then ferry his Baptist grandparents to church. When a surprised friend said, "I didn't know you had any Catholic grandparents," Long replied: "Don't be a damn fool. We didn't even have a horse." Long was governor and a U.S. senator in the 1920s and '30s, an innocent age when politicians carefully rationed their lies, dispensing them for specific purposes and striving to keep them...

Donald Trump and those around him have made a long series of mistakes stemming from his campaign's contacts with Russians and subsequent inquiries into the matter, which raise the real possibility of his impeachment. But none of those compares to his biggest blunder: choosing Mike Pence as his running mate. Pence is in a delicate position, which may be why he is seldom seen or heard from these days. On the one hand, his job as vice president obligates him to be a loyal member of the administration. On the other, he needs to maintain good relations with congressional Republicans,...

Well, it’s official. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, something he has been working on since June. He’s not alone with this drumbeat for the president’s impeachment. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has led a shameless crusade against the president that’s been peppered with ad hominem attacks. Rep. Al Green (D-TX) said on C-SPAN in May that he was drafting such articles. In Sherman’s filing, he alleges that the president committed obstruction of justice when he fired FBI Director James Comey with regards to the ongoing probe into Russia’s election meddling by the Department...

If there's one person Rep. Maxine Waters shouldn't bring up so as to avoid unfavorable comparisons, it's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, who is also one of the nation's most distinguished neurosurgeons. Well, she has. Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) went after Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson at a town hall on Saturday. At the town hall in Gardena, Calif., Waters said that Carson should go back to his former profession of being a surgeon, the Los Angeles Times reports. Waters also told the crowd that the next time Carson went before the...

RUSH: Okay, time for the audio sound bites of Phil Donahue. I promised this yesterday. We want to get to it. Donahue was on CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday with their media expert there, Little Brian Stelter. They’re talking about Trump’s presidency, and Stelter says, “Okay, Phil, what do you see out there? We’re five months into the Trump presidency. You’re not known for being a very conservative guy, Phil. What are your thoughts here? And have you spoken to Vladimir Posner lately? How’s he doing in Russia?” DONAHUE: The mainstream media is Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. They haven’t drilled...

Typically when the “bleep” sound is heard on television, it means that someone used an expletive or took something to the extreme. But not for Broad City, the Comedy Central show co-created by Ilana Glazer. On that show, when you hear the bleep, it means someone said the word “Trump.” The horror. Following in the footsteps of Hollywood’s attempt to take down the president at every opportunity, the fourth season of Broad City will bleep out every use of Trump’s name on their show. As llana Glazer told USA Today in an interview, “There’s no airtime for this orange (person).”...

Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse appeared on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" show to promote his new book, "The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming of Age Crisis -- And How To Build a Culture of Self Reliance." Surely Sasse didn't expect this routine publicity spot for his book to turn into a media storm. But thanks to Bill Maher's infamous and irreverent mouth, this is what happened. Maher, of course, makes his living being irreverent. But now he has discovered that even a rich left-wing provocateur has lines he can't cross. And using the classic word of black denigration --...

RUSH: I’ve been alluding in the past couple weeks about one of the funniest things that’s happening out there, and you do have to laugh at it. It’s sad at the same time, but it’s also funny. Maxine Waters, who is… The elevator doesn’t go to the top floor. She’s an order of fries short of a Happy Meal. She’s just out there. (chuckling) Folks, I’m just trying to be as polite as I can here. And yet she has become… With Millennials on the left, she is the biggest star in the Democrat Party today. It defies explanation! I...

RUSH: Okay. Here’s what Bill Maher said. We’ve bleeped it. We have edited it, but you will get the idea. This is from his show Friday night, Real Time with Bill Maher. MAHER: A lot of us thought, “Oh, Ivanka is gonna be our saving grace.” You know, when he’s about to [bleep]ing nuke Finland or something — CROWD: (laughter) MAHER: — she’s gonna walk into the bedroom and, you know, “Daddy! Daddy!” (obscene gestures) CROWD: (laughter) MAHER: “Don’t do it, Daddy.” RUSH: “Don’t do it, Daddy! Don’t nuke Finland.” He was making hand gestures there as to what she...

Donald Trump has many worrisome, regrettable and even deplorable traits. But after studying him for the past two years, I have concluded he has an overlooked quality that cancels out many of his bad ones. Say what you will, the man is lazy. This is a discovery that should gladden people of all parties, philosophies, races, sexes and religions. His detractors can be glad that he will never muster the drive or discipline to actually bring many of his worst ideas to fruition. His admirers can rest easy knowing he will not work himself to death. The comic strip "Dilbert"...

Katie wrote about how the House Oversight Committee found that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn might have broken the law by not disclosing payments he received from Russia on his background check forms. "I see no evidence or no data to support the notion that General Flynn complied with the law," Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) said. Chaffetz also caused a bit of stir when he said that he would not be seeking re-election, with many speculating he’s eyeing the governor’s office.Yet, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) decided to go on MSNBC this week and throw a hand grenade into the...

Well, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) sure loves to stoke the fires of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Protests swept across the nation yesterday, with protesters demanding that the president release his tax returns. The “Tax March” occurred in 150 cities, with Waters addressing the one in Washington. She said that she would fight every day until Trump is impeached (via The Hill):Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) renewed her call for impeaching President Trump during Saturday's Tax March in Washington. "I don't respect this president. I don't trust this president. He's not working in the best interests of the American people," Waters...