Elizabeth Warren is a pathetic totem for the Democrats

The collective groupthink media are having a cow because one of their chosen ones has been called a nickname by President Trump.  And so they must go into protective mode.  They pulled out the card they always pull out: the race card.

If there was a racial slur at all in President Trump's description of Warren as "Pocahontas," it was when Elizabeth Warren created the fake identity for herself around thirty years ago.  Somehow she became a partial American Indian.  Maybe the reporters should care that we have a sitting senator who committed a crime by creating a fake identity.  Is someone who created a fake identity to enrich herself fit to serve as a senator?

I now understand why Elizabeth Warren, who doesn't mind people being required to have a photo ID for so many things, thinks people shouldn't be required to show proof of who they are when they vote or seek affirmative action privileges.  She certainly didn't when she claimed racial preference for her perch at Harvard and has said she didn't think she needed to show any proof.  The media have been accommodating. 

Everyone should also understand why she doesn't care that illegals are allowed to come and stay.  If she can be a fake Indian for all these years, why shouldn't people who created fake documents and have been fake citizens for a number of years be allowed to stay?  Identities are malleable, and laws are just so irrelevant. 

If Harvard wanted to hire someone with actual minority heritage for a high-paid job, Warren stole that job and prevented an actual minority from having the opportunity to move up as she did.  Warren pretends she is all for minorities, but she stole one of their jobs.  Maybe that minority could have been an honest minority and had a chance to be a senator instead of having a fake Indian in that seat.  Warren made a salary of between $350,000 and $400,000 in 2009-2010 at Harvard.  Did that money belong to someone else? 

The wealthy Warren, who always lectures about income inequality, flipped houses in the 1990s.  One home she bought for $30,000 from an elderly lady and then flipped it for $145,000 five months later.  Why was she so willing to screw the other family members by buying a house so far below market?

Warren's brainchild bureaucracy in D.C. is the Consumer Finance Performance Bureau (CFPB).  It is an off-budget agency with little or no oversight.  It has provided a great living for many bureaucrats (mostly Democrats) in D.C., which may be its main purpose.  The average annual salary of CFPB workers in 2012 was $118,000 (not including generous benefits), while the median income of a family of four in the U.S. is around $60,000.  Isn't it great that the taxpayers who make so much less are funding this toy of Elizabeth Warren and we aren't even allowed to see its budget?

Banks were already heavily regulated by FDIC, the Federal Reserve, and state regulators prior to the CFPB being formed, but that wasn't enough.  More government is always the solution for Democrats.  The number of small banks has been declining rapidly, and the more regulations that are stacked on, the worse it gets.  Democrats like Warren always pretend they are for the small guy, but their regulatory and tax policies show they don't really mean it.  As with health care, Democrats don't mind taking away freedom of choice by regulating so many out of existence. 

From the Mercatus Institute:

Dodd-Frank poses considerable challenges for small banks. While bank concentration itself is not bad, increasing regulatory burdens should not be the driver of regulatory consolidation. Dodd-Frank is costly for large banks, too, but regulatory compliance can be a particular challenge for small banks with limited access to compliance expertise. Regulatory expenses absorb a larger percentage of small banks' budgets than that of their larger counterparts' budgets.

I would love to have any reporter give a list of Elizabeth Warren's policies that have actually allowed the poor, minorities, and middle class to have opportunities to move up the economic ladder instead of making government bigger and making a bigger share dependent on government.  I can't think of any, so why are she and other Democrats called progressives?  Democrat policies can be summed up as: the government knows how to spend your money better than you do.

Instead of reporters telling us who Elizabeth Warren is and what she has done to make herself rich, they pull out the race card on Trump because that is all they've got.  There is nothing derogatory toward Indians when Trump uses Pocahontas for Warren.  It is purely a nickname to show that she made up that she was an Indian to get ahead.  The fact that so many reporters just repeat the term "racial slur" regarding his comment shows that they have lost their ability to independently think.

It is a true shame that guys like Al Franken are considered the best Democrats have got, and John Conyers is considered an icon.  It's an even bigger shame that Elizabeth Warren is the standard-bearer who replaces them.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/11/elizabeth_warren_is_a_pathetic_totem_for_the_democrats.html

The attempted CFPB coup

On November 28, Judge Timothy J. Kelly denied the request by Leandra English for a temporary restraining order to bar John M. Mulvaney, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, from serving as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).  An amicus brief was submitted by 25 Democratic senators and congressmen, including Sen. Charles E. Schumer, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Rep. Maxine Waters, and former Rep. Barney Frank.  Essentially, the amicus brief argued that the president has no role, notwithstanding the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, in naming the acting director of the agency.  That the brief was filed only on behalf of Democrats seems to question the argument that the legislation was intended to be above politics.

In ruling against English, Judge Kelly pointed out that the Vacancies Reform Act permits the president to name an acting director at the CFPB.  English, named acting director by the outgoing director, Richard Cordray, contended that Dodd-Frank mandates that the acting director be named by the departing director, pending presidential appointment and Senate confirmation.

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., writing in the Wall Street Journal, November 29, called attention to one artful method employed by the agency: fabricating "evidence of racial disparity in auto lending to shake money out of lenders."  Jenkins noted that the agency had no authority to go after auto dealers and so put pressure on banks instead.  Jenkins referred to the appointment of English as acting director as a "power grab of the [Elizabeth] Warren junta."  Thus far, Judge Kelly has stymied this "power grab."

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/11/the_attempted_cfpb_coup.html

CockRoaches are out again

           

Study: No Global Warming Acceleration in 23 Years

                           

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, former Vice President Algore has been placed on suicide watch, I’m told. The headline: “Satellites Show No Acceleration in Global Warming for 23 Years.” You see, climate change has no data. All they have are computer models. And I’m not making that up. There is not a shred of empirical data confirming climate change. All they have are computer models forecasting it 30, 40, 50 years down the road.

Global warming has not accelerated temperature rise in the bulk atmosphere in more than 23 years, according to a new study paid for by the Department of Energy. University of Alabama Huntsville climate scientist John Christy, Richard McNider did the survey. No warming in the atmosphere or below 23 years and counting.

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/11/30/study-no-global-warming-acceleration-in-23-years/

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The Democrats’ CFPB Slush Fund

RUSH: Here’s Rick, Fort Myers, Florida. Great to have you with us on the phone today, sir. How you doing?

CALLER: Hey, Rush. You know the phone thing, I’m sure that your phone’s better than the Obama phone, but, anyway, you know —

RUSH: There’s no comparison.

CALLER: (laughing) Yeah. You know, anyway, I would put yours on the wall under a frame, you know, up in the living room. But, anyway, isn’t sexual harassment a type of intimidation? So if sexual harassment —

RUSH: Yeah, that’s exactly what it is.

CALLER: Yeah. So if sexual harassment is a type of intimidation, that means that the left has been holding the women down breaking through the glass ceiling, wouldn’t you say?

RUSH: No question about it. Wait a minute. Hold it a minute now. It kind of works in the opposite way as far as the women are concerned. The women think they have to shut up if they’re gonna have a chance at advancement.

CALLER: Yeah. Yeah. And one more thing, you know, Chuck Todd — F. Chuck Todd you call him — a few months ago said that Hillary had the thumb on the scales when she was running for office against Bernie. So they already knew. I mean, the press already knew that they’re in for Hillary, and so the thing is I think we need to scrutinize about them is, “What did they know and when did they know it” about all these things? You know, they need to be held accountable for this stuff.

RUSH: Well, the Democrats are not interested in holding them accountable. It’s their deal. The Democrats didn’t even want the FBI to examine their server. The whole point of all this has been to cover up the rigging of that primary. In politics, the Democrat Party can do what they want to do, and it’s so-called nobody else’s business.

Where it becomes other people’s business is you inform the American people and Democrat voters that their primary was rigged, and then they supposedly are supposed to take care of it with their votes and their donations the next time around. When did they know and when did they know it, I mean, it’s been widely known what Hillary Clinton was doing with Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz in terms of rigging that primary. Anyway, I appreciate the call.

T.J. in Athens, Georgia, you’re next. Great to have you, sir. How you doing.

CALLER: It’s a pleasure to talk with you, Rush, and I want to wish you and your staff a very Merry Christmas.

RUSH: Thank you, T.J., I appreciate that.

CALLER: You said something the other day about Elizabeth Warren and the CFPD.

RUSH: That’s right.

CALLER: The consumer organization. And looking back — I am so sick of the Clintons, I just can’t say it. Since she did the Stand by Your Man interview on CBS years ago, it’s just, how do they get away with this? And I was connecting the dots given your comment about Warren, since she was showing up on the campaign trail last year with Clinton so many times, and I think, if they are laundering money to the liberal causes, they really expected her to win. And what was really bothering me is that I think the connection or the dot connection was she’s going to win automatically, and they’ll just funnel all that money through that CFPD. And I just wanted to run that by you.

RUSH: Well, they’ve already been doing that. That was the whole reason the thing was set up. What we’re talking about here is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It was an offshoot of Dodd-Frank. Dodd-Frank was a piece of legislation that came out of the financial crisis in 2008 designed, as they said, to protect consumers from, once again, predatory lenders and banks, and blah, and the banks had only become predatory lenders ’cause the government demanded that they loan money to people that couldn’t pay it back. That’s the subprime mortgage crisis.

As an adjunct to Dodd-Frank, Elizabeth Warren, Pocahontas, set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but there’s a twist. It was set up as an autonomous agency and it was signed into law by Obama which is how it passed the unconstitutionality of it. It was signed into law by Obama. It is not funded by appropriation from Congress, which is what makes it unconstitutional. It is funded from the Federal Reserve.

In addition, it has its own leader, its own president or head — I forget what the title is, executive director, whatever this case the most recent was Richard Cordray. And what this actually was, it had a twofold real purpose. The stated public purpose was that this agency was going to safeguard the little guy. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was gonna make sure that predatory lenders didn’t screw you, didn’t take advantage of you, didn’t overcharge you interest rates, didn’t deny you loans, you know, all of this stuff.

It was typical caca from the Democrat Party. What it really was was a pass-through. It was a way to get money to left-wing special interest causes. The way it did it was via fines. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had the authority to fine lending institutions, financial institutions for improper behavior. And so let’s make something up. Let’s say they want to fine Wells Fargo because Wells Fargo did something that they disapprove of and they fine Wells Fargo a million dollars. Wells Fargo will pay it rather than fight it. It’s part of the cost of doing business.

Remember, the CFPD is not accountable to Congress, it’s not funded with taxpayer money. It’s funded through the Federal Reserve. So it’s, therefore, independent. They took that million dollars, for example, and would give it out to Planned Parenthood or would give half of it to a global warming special interest or a climate change special interest, or what you have you, a union. And this happened with all the fines that were levied. It was the purpose. It was the unstated purpose. It was a funding mechanism for left-wing special interest causes.

In addition to that, it served as a money laundering pass-through because some of these fines, as they were collected and run through the CPFB, then ended up in places other than left-wing special interest causes, and the money had to be cleaned, and it had to appear to be legitimate when it was redirected.

So the controversy now is Cordray, current executive director, is leaving. And according to Pocahontas, the president doesn’t have any authority in naming his successor. He does. Richard Cordray, a nobody, a chump change employee, does not have, because of something called the Federal Succession Act, he does not have the constitutional authority to name his successor. Only the president does, because even though this thing was set up as an independent agency, it’s still in the executive branch.

And so the fight now is Cordray wanted to name his deputy, Leandra English. And the reason is they want to make sure this thing operates as it has been even though Trump is president. They want to be able to fine lending institutions and take that money and give it to left-wing special interest causes, or even individuals. Well, when Cordray announced he’s leaving, Trump moves in and says (imitating Trump), “Sorry, I’m putting Mick Mulvaney over there. You don’t have the right to name your successor. I’m putting Mick Mulvaney, the Office of Management and Budget in there,” and he’s in there, and it went to court.

The libs tried to take this to court, and the judge told Cordray, “You don’t have the right to name your successor. You don’t have the constitutional right. You have no authority whatsoever. You’re a chump change employee.” The libs and Pocahontas set this thing up, what they thought would be acting in perpetuity unaccountable to anybody. And the idea was that even if a Republican was elected president, he wouldn’t be able to touch it.

Well, Trump said, “Really? You don’t think I can touch it? Watch this.” And Mick Mulvaney is now in charge. And the reason they are bleeding like stuck bigs is because Mulvaney is gonna find out exactly everything that’s been going on there and is gonna expose it. And the thing that was set up ostensibly to protect consumers and the little guy from these horrible, mean financial corporations, the American people are gonna learn that the Democrat Party was using this as an adjunct personal piggy bank, a way to get private sector money funneled to left-wing special interest causes. That was not taxpayer money. It came from the Federal Reserve, but it’s the fine money.

This is a classic example of the left’s real intent for wanting control of government. It has nothing to do with protecting consumers. It has nothing to do with making sure the little guy’s protected. It’s all about the left being able to reach out and put their hands on somebody else’s money with the power to fine them and then take that money and essentially give it to themselves, give it to their own operatives advancing their agenda.

I have to take a break. Ponder that.

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/11/30/the-democrats-cfpb-slush-fund/

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Nightmare of Obamacare, part XXVII: Hospitals imploding

So Obamacare is "popular," health care coverage will now extend to millions more, and suddenly...we have a hospital shortage.

Via Tyler Durden, Bloomberg reports:

A wave of hospitals and other medical companies are likely to restructure their debt or file for bankruptcy in the coming year, following the recent spate of failing retailers and energy drillers, according to restructuring professionals. Regulatory changes, technological advances and the rise of urgent-care centers have created a "perfect storm" for health-care companies, said David Neier, a partner in the New York office of law firm Winston & Strawn LLC.

Some signs are already there: Health-care bankruptcy filings have more than tripled this year according to data compiled by Bloomberg, and an index of Chapter 11 filings by companies with more than $1 million of assets has reached record highs in four of the last six quarters, according to law firm Polsinelli PC.

The reasons cited include a cutoff of subsidy payments for hospitals that had to cover massive costs of uninsured using emergency rooms as their primary health care and unpaid medical bills from customers caught up with high-deductible Obamacare plans and unable to cough up the $7,000 or so in costs upfront.  Hurricanes and storms have damaged infrastructure, too.

Small and rural hospitals in particular are being hit, and many have less than a day's operating cash, Bloomberg reports.

As Durden notes, Obamacare was supposed to bring us plenty.  Instead, we are getting boarded up hospitals and the signature shortages of socialism, even as Obama himself repeatedly claimed that his health insurance "reform" was not socialist.  Like so much of what he said about Obamacare, it was a lie.

Because no doubt about it, socialism is about central planning, and central planning is about allocation of resources.  Resources that went one place now go to another.  Winners are in the Beltway and in the rich enclaves of the Bay Area; losers are in the rural hospitals.

Of course, there is no letup in the use of emergency rooms for primary care in these distressed places.  These emergency rooms are primarily used by millions of illegal aliens, who are forbidden to purchase Obamacare and, in any case, would get subsidies and likely not pay a dime if they did.  So to protect that pot of subsidy money from being drained by illegals, the hospitals are asked to foot the bill for the illegals using the emergency rooms instead.

See how misallocation of resources by central-planning socialists works?

Now, as Obamacare provides insurance coverage for millions more, as Obamacare advocates claim, somehow there is less and less to go around.  Fewer hospitals and fewer getting actual care due to the skyrocketing costs of deductibles.  Durden notes that health care premiums under the Nightmare of Obamacare have doubled in four years, asking how it is that consumers can swallow that.  Not in a market economy, they can't.  Only in a highly oppressive tax-socialism regime that has no accountability whatsoever for the ever increasing political forces dipping into the money troughs and giving those who pay less and less and less.

It's another reason to just throw Obamacare out.  Keep trying, Congress.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/11/nightmare_of_obamacare_part_xxvvii_hospitals_imploding.html

Is Trump Branding the Left Out of Business?

Good One from Rush

RUSH: In the past practitioners of this — the harassers and abusers — have been lionized. They have been elevated to positions of great authority and power within the Democrat Party, and all kinds of effort was made to save them, including the eventual bastardization of feminism.

The feminists literally destroyed their entire core belief system in exchange for maintaining Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and others like that in power. Anyway, back to the audio sound bites from the archives, Grooveyard of Forgotten Sound Bites. 2012. There’s a TV network called Bravo. Of course, many probably know that because that’s where the Real Housewives shows are, aren’t they? Real Housewives of Wherever. They’re all on Bravo. Everybody knows Bravo.

Well, there’s a guy who had a show on there on Bravo called Andy Cohen, and on a program called Watch What Happens Live, during a “Plead the Fifth” segment, he spoke with former Today show hostette Katie Couric about Matt Lauer. She coanchored the Today show with Matt Lauer from 1991 to 2006. But wait. Matt Lauer didn’t start there ’til… She co-anchored with somebody else. But, anyway, Cohen is asking her about the most annoying habit that Matt Lauer had.

COHEN: What is Matt’s most annoying habit?

COURIC: Hmm. He pinches me on the ass a lot.

RUSH: Ohhh! “He pinches me on the ass a lot!” Now, wait. Did he just talk about pinching you on the ass or did he actually do it? In this case, Matt Lauer actually did it. Now, this aired. This aired on Bravo in 2012, and it didn’t get a whole lot of attention. But things like this are now going to be circulating, resurfacing, popping up out there. And you know what we ought to do? We ought to start a pool, “Who’s next?”

You know, kind of like you have a fantasy football league and drinking games? Let’s start a pool, and you can bet on the names of famous Democrats in the media, in their party, and in Hollywood. Who’s next on the list that is going to be accused? I mean, if such a list exists, would you have ever put Matt Lauer on it? (interruption) You wouldn’t have. See, that’s an illustration of how shocking this is. (interruption) Katie Couric stood for it? Well, obviously she did! Obviously, she stood for it; sat for it too.

But… (interruption) Oh, just because she sat doesn’t mean he wouldn’t be able to pinch her. A pincher is gonna pinch. If there’s one thing we know about these guys, a groper is gonna grope, a grabber is gonna grab, a pincher is gonna pinch. (interruption) Well, now, wait a second. Now, that’s… Snerdley just said, “What does this say about the strong women thing?” I’m gonna tell you, I really think that the floodgates are about to open on this all over the place, not just confined to famous people in the media or in Hollywood or in the political parties.

The reason the women haven’t stood up is because all of this occurred when they did not have any power to do anything about it. Look at how long all these guys got away with this. That’s the big thing that’s changing here. Look, I have said I don’t know how many times over the course of this program in discussing feminism and the traditional roles that men and women have in relationships… If you’ve heard me say it once, you’re probably frustrated by how many times I’ve said it.

I always have believed that in a civilized society, it’s women who have the ultimate power. It’s women who say yes or no to so many things — yes or no to going out on a date, yes or no to marriage, yes or no to everything. It’s women who have the power, in a civilized society. Well, obviously these have not been what we would call civilized circumstances. These have been work related. If Matt Lauer or somebody like that’s out there abusing you, I guarantee you part of it is the threat, “If you say anything about it, you’re gonna lose your job.

“You can’t beat me in a power struggle.” So I wouldn’t hold it against the women here in these circumstances, ’cause when it comes to this kind of behavior, it’s not just the behavior. There’s the threat, there’s the attitude, there is the callous disregard for one’s human in this business. This is despicable stuff. We’re talking about it here in the abstract. But in the workplace, this is indefensible. (interruption) Well, they might slap you in the face, but they obviously did not slap Matt Lauer.

Maybe if one of them did and we don’t know about it. Where is she now, is the point? Let’s use a different example? Let’s go to Anytown, USA, and the town bully happens to be a guy, and he goes into a restaurant regularly and is continually harassing the waitress. Everybody sees it and everybody knows about it but this guy — for some reason — has enough pull or power in town that nobody does anything about it.

Maybe the woman has stood up to him, but it’s still unnerving. We don’t know that women didn’t stand up to Harvey Weinstein at some point and pay the price for doing so. But they all feared that there would be a huge price, and the price is losing not just your job but your career. So this became the equivalent of having to eat the excrement sandwich for a lot of these women.

And I think we’re at a threshold here where this is about to change in a huge way, and then there is a risk that the pendulum is gonna swing a little bit too far here for a while where all it’s gonna take is one allegation and automatically the guy is guilty because there has been so much obvious guilt that has been publicized here. That’s just a quirk of nature of the way our culture and society works.

The pendulum swings back and forth, and sometimes it goes way, way, way out of whack before it gets back to the center again. But I’ve always thought, you know, when we talk about this in the abstract, especially for people that don’t do it, you know, for guys that do not treat women this way and have not seen this kind of behavior, you joke about it, and you might even say, “Well, why don’t the women just stand up and punch the guy in the face or why don’t the women just –” And it doesn’t work that way in the workplace.

For one thing, the guys are choosing powerless women on purpose. That’s part of the insurance policy of engaging in this kind of behavior. I mean, you note that the actresses coming forth with Weinstein, this all happened back when they were nobodies, when they were on their career path trying to become successful and so forth. But I think it’s despicable and the hypocrisy here knows no bounds.

I asked a question before the break at the top of the hour, is it possible that we are in the midst of a crackup and breakdown of the hypocritical leftists in the Drive-By Media and the establishment entertainment sectors, political sectors? And, if so, has it been brought to us by the one and only Donald Trump? There is so much of this now that it’s impossible to escape the hypocrisy.

Here you have Bill Clinton and it’s widely known now what he did and what he got away with. The stories about Ted Kennedy are coming out. Now all of these addendum, Weinstein and Garrison Keillor today and Charlie Rose and so forth. At some point people are gonna pick up, if they’re not already, “Wait a minute. These are the people telling us they love and respect women. These are the guys telling us that they’re big feminists and that they’re pro-choice and all this.”

I think we’re a little distance away from those same people, “Wait a minute. These are the guys telling us Republicans are conducting a War on Women.” I don’t think that realization has hit yet. We need to further that one along. We need to help people remember that, that these reprobates are the ones accusing us of conducting a War on Women.

But we saw in the primary, in the Republican primary, we saw what happened to people when they get branded by Trump, Little Marco, Low Energy Jeb, Lyin’ Ted, Crooked Hillary, Crazy Bernie, Pocahontas. You know, when Trump brands you, you own it. That’s how people know you. Even if they don’t like Trump or agree with Trump, not even Trump supporters, that’s how people now think of Elizabeth Warren.

And Donald Trump has been branding the Drive-Bys as fake news for over a year. And it really bugs ’em. They do not have the ability to laugh it off, as I would think they would do. But they take themselves so seriously, folks. I want to ask you, do you know people that take themselves so seriously that they’re not even real? They take themselves so seriously, they are so self-focused, so inwardly focused, they’re not even aware of the existence of other people and what those people feel, think, or say? And they certainly don’t care. That’s the Drive-By Media.

They take themselves so damn seriously, whether it is the acknowledgment of their business in the First Amendment of the Constitution, or whether it’s just the way they’re trained or whether it’s just owing to their personality, they take themselves so damned seriously. And here comes Donald Trump insulting them in the most successful and profound, effective way, calling them fake. If I were them, I’d laugh it off. I would ignore it. But they can’t, because they are so, so self-important. They are so self-focused.

So could it be that on top of their icons getting tossed aside like the dirty laundry they are — Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, Matt Lauer, Michael Aresco, the guy Sweeney at NPR, these institutions are failing bigly, or at least they’re having the deck chairs moved.

When Trump brands somebody as something, it sticks. And fake news has stuck. It’s gotten to the point now — I repeat this ’cause I just think it’s hilarious — CNN gets all out of joint about being invited to the Christmas party at the White House Friday and said they’re not going. They’re not going. “Why, he calls us fake news. We wouldn’t dare. We wouldn’t grace the White House with our presence. We wouldn’t take that deep step down.”

And what’s Sarah Huckabee Sanders do? (paraphrasing) “Hey, finally some good news out of CNN. They’re not showing up at our party!” CNN becomes another laughingstock, except within the swamp, where they’re all wringing their hands over it, “This is not the way this is supposed to go. Trump’s the guy that’s supposed to be the butt of the joke by now. Trump’s the guy that’s supposed to be barely hanging on. We’re stars. We’re important! We are the news media. We are the power base in this country, and they are laughing at us?”

And they can’t take being laughed at. They cannot take being the brunt of the joke, because they take themselves so seriously. Conservatives have whined and moaned about the media and for the most part totally given in to the power of the media for decades, but not Donald Trump. Trump is one guy to stand up to these fallible bullies and back ’em into a corner and applaud when they tell him they’re not coming to his Christmas party.

I always knew — man, there’s some stories I still can’t tell you from the television show days. Maybe someday I’ll be able to tell this one, but I’ve always known and I’ve always suggested the way of dealing with some of these people in the Drive-By is to go after them personally the way they go after everybody else. They go after everybody as paragons of virtue. They go after everybody as though they occupy the highest pedestal of morality and virtue.

And they sit there in judgment of everybody else’s moral failings. When you turn it around and try to look at their moral failings, how many illegitimate children have they had, how many DUIs have they got, they have an outraged reaction. “You can’t do that. We’re journalists, First Amendment,” blah, blah. That’s what Trump does in his own way. He turns everything back on them by way of fake news and has caused there to be more questioning of the legitimacy of the news media than there ever has been in our lifetime.

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RUSH: Back to the phones to Shawnee, Kansas, which not far from Overland Park, Kansas, where I used to live in shack and Olathe, Kansas. Here’s Mark. Great to have you, sir. How are you?

CALLER: Good. Good to talk to you, Rush.

RUSH: Thank you.

CALLER: I’ve listened to you since 1990 when I carried mail and you were on a little transistor radio in my shirt pocket.

RUSH: (laughing) Oh, wow. Transistor radio.

CALLER: Yes indeed.

RUSH: The good old days.

CALLER: To get to the point, this whole thing started to get Trump, Roy Moore, whoever they could on the Republican side. I think it’s spread a little bit further now to more of a feminist thing where, who’s gonna replace Matt Lauer? Think it’s gonna be another guy or do you think they’re gonna put a female in there just because of what he did.

RUSH: Now, wait a minute. You’re on to something here. Do you have time to hold over through the break?

CALLER: Sure.

RUSH: Good. ‘Cause that’s coming up in about 45 seconds. You say this started out as a way to get Trump. And that’s undeniable, but I think there’s another element to this that people are forgetting. And maybe not forgetting. Just not considering. The modern — how to phrase this. This started as an effort to inflict great damage on Fox News. Do not forget that aspect of this. And in that context, it’s fascinating to see how this is reverberating and rebounding back at ’em. Hang on a minute. Don’t hang up.

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RUSH: We’re back with Mark in Shawnee, Kansas — again, not far from Overland Park, Kansas, where I used to live in a shack — and you have an interesting point here. You’re thinking that this is the chickification of America that is occurring quite rapidly, right?

CALLER: Absolutely, and it may not stop here. It’s gonna continue on with CEOs of companies, with congressmen, with senators, and probably even the presidency in 2020. Wait ’til November 2018; you’re gonna hear a lot more about this. Every female that’s running against a male is gonna say, “We can’t have this no more. It’s gotta stop. We’ve gotta turn this around.” I was listening to Tucker Carlson last night, and he had some lady on from Teen Vogue or something says doesn’t matter if a few innocent men get caught up in this net, we’ve gotta make a stop to this, and we’ve gotta empower the women.

RUSH: Now, I will concur with this, but I’m gonna change a term. I have you said auto the term chickification of America quite a bit, but this is not it to me. The chickification of America is turning men into women. This is not that. This happens to be, in a lot of these cases… That dunderhead from Teen Vogue notwithstanding, this happens to be a legitimate issue, and what’s gonna happen here is the pendulum swinging too far. And, you’re right. Like Matt Lauer’s replacement is gonna have to a woman, right?

CALLER: Absolutely. Not only that, you can see it coming. And I don’t think it started out this way, but like you said, the pendulum is gonna swing and it’s gonna swing real hard the other way. If you put women in power, this won’t be happen no more.

RUSH: Uh… (sigh) Yeah.

CALLER: And Hillary kind of was on that same platform when she ran for the presidency, glass ceiling and everything else.

RUSH: See, now, this is my point. Your definition of chickification differs from mine. This has been going on for the longest time, the segregation of men and women from the standpoint that only women can represent women, that only blacks can represent blacks, and that only white men can represent white men, that white men can’t represent African-Americans. This kind of segregation in our politics has been going on for a long, long time. It is directly tied to liberalism and its effort to divide people into groups of victims against one massively huge majority, which is white Christian men.

CALLER: Absolutely.

RUSH: They are the target. Now, this, though? This sexual harassment? This is undeniably happening, and there needs to be a price. What my fear is is that if you combine this view that only women can understand women. Only women with represent women; men cannot. Your theory is that this is gonna lead to more female CEOs. If the replacement of Matt Lauer is not another guy but, rather, a woman? That’s gonna represent nothing more, I think, than corporate overreacting like corporations have overreacted to the so-called majority of the people believing in climate change, when they really haven’t.

There haven’t been those majorities. But, you know, corporations want to sell things, and they’re gonna target the vast majority of people they can; and if they believe that the vast majority of them believe in climate change, then they’re gonna do their best to make customers think they, too, at the corporation care about it. This is gonna manifest itself such as women will only feel safe in the workplace with other women.

CALLER: If you were a white male Republican and you had an intern, and you were to have a meeting or anything else with her, would you have her in your office alone at this point, even if you had the best intentions in the world?

RUSH: You ask…? (chuckles) Me?

CALLER: Or a senator or a congressman or anybody like that.

RUSH: Well, that’s —

CALLER: Almost it’s like Russian roulette. Who is on the other side of the desk and what they’ll say after the meeting’s over to ruin you?

RUSH: Clearly, a common sense thing to do is never put yourself in that circumstance.

CALLER: Right.

RUSH: And most people will act accordingly, going forward.

CALLER: Absolutely.

RUSH: But when Mike Pence suggested that just a few short months ago, look at the reaction he got.

CALLER: I remember that.

RUSH: He was mocked.

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.

RUSH: He was laughed at. He was said to be discriminating against women by denying them an opportunity to learn from him.

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: You can’t win with these people. The example of Trump is don’t try to accommodate or appease ’em. Just be who you are and don’t be afraid to attack their phoniness and their hypocrisy. He does it routinely, he does it instinctively, and they don’t know how to deal with it. It can be done. This kind of inertia can be overcome and stopped. But this is gonna fall dangerously close to the area of political correctness, and sadly when most people confronted with political correctness cower to it rather than stand up to it.

But I have a lot of people on the other side of the glass here today who think it’s not automatic that Matt Lauer’s replacement’s gonna be a woman and that it’s not automatic that all these guys that are being dispatched because of abuse and harassment and so forth are gonna be replaced by women. Now, what is gonna happen where you’re really right on is that the feminist movement is going to push for these kinds of things. The feminist movement and the left is gonna find a way to politicize this and further corrupt this for their own political benefit.

And, make no mistake: Even now they’re looking for ways that they can blame Trump for what happened to Matt Lauer. You might laugh. “Come on, Rush! There’s no way they…” You do not know them as I do if you reject that possibility. I’m not saying they’re gonna succeed, but I’m telling you they’re plotting. They’re looking at ways. Their team is dropping like flies, folks. This is not what was supposed to happen! Trump was supposed to drop like flies. Remember how this started.

The modern era of this did not start with Harvey Weinstein. It started at Fox News. This started out as an effort to do great damage and harm to Fox News, and there’s a lot of schadenfreude happening here now, because the people who were just happy as they could be and cheering all over the place over what had happened to Roger Ailes? Well, isn’t it funny! Look what’s happening to the cheerleaders. Look what’s happening to cheering squad now. They’re dropping like flies. Every one of these people… Do not doubt me.

When Charlie Rose is reporting on the sexual harassment of Roger Ailes, he’s knowing what he’s doing while he’s reporting on it. While Matt Lauer’s reporting on all this, he knows what he’s been doing. And yet, these people continued to report on Republicans as the enemy and try to destroy them with these same kind of allegations, knowing full well what they themselves have been doing in their own lives. You might call it karma. You might call it schadenfreude.

You might call it life balancing out. But regardless, from the standpoint of the left, this was not supposed to be how this is happening. This is not what was supposed to happen. This is not the way this was supposed to go at all. They were to never be exposed. Only Trump was to be exposed, and Trump was to pay the price and Trump was to be sent packing, and the Republicans were gonna learn never to ever again send somebody to Washington like Trump from the outside. Look, don’t misunderstand me.

When I asked at the top of this hour, I asked, is it possible that we’re in the midst of the crackup and breakdown of the hypocrites in Hollywood, the media, the Democrat Party, I’m not saying that that’s happened. I’m asking, is it possible that we are seeing the beginnings of it? I would certainly hope so, but we don’t have near enough time in or data to know whether or not this is actually happening.

But I tell you this, you look at this objectively and honestly, how many of you throughout your entire lives ever thought that there would be this kind of reckoning and exposure of people in the media and the Democrat Party and in Hollywood? How many of you ever thought that this kind of price would ever be paid by these people? I would venture to say none of you.

No matter how much you thought it would be cool or funny, no matter how many of you thought it might be justified, I doubt very many people ever thought anything like this would ever happen. Because in terms of media and Hollywood, they’ve always been seen as impenetrably powerful. Can’t dent them. Can’t win. Can’t overpower them. It’s something we just have to learn to live with, tolerate, get used to. Never did anybody expect anything like this.

Did you ever think that a presidential administration would applaud and laugh at a news organization rejecting its invitation to a Christmas party and celebrate it? The answer is no. And it’s, again, why so many Trump voters are deliriously happy and supportive of this. And it’s not because it’s payback time. It’s because of genuine, heartfelt anger at the unfairness, at the one sidedness, call it bias, if you will, but this is far beyond bias. This has been a stacked deck for us for all of our lives. This is just a little bit of balance here on the seesaw, if you will, or the pendulum.

And it’s all because of Trump. Trump is driving them insane. Well, I say all. They’re playing a role in it too. But this kind of stuff, if Hillary had been elected none of this would be happening and we wouldn’t have the economy we have. If Crazy Bernie’d been elected, none of this would be going on. The sexual harassers would be still harassing. Harvey Weinstein would still be doing what he’s doing. So would everybody else. None of this would have happened. And we wouldn’t have anywhere near this kind of economy, and the North Koreans would not feel the slightest bit deterred.

It’s a markedly different set of circumstances, and this is exactly what people voted for Trump for, why they did. Still a lot of ground to cover. Still a lot of things to accomplish. And the opposition from the left is still as vibrant and strong as it ever has been. It’s just they have been knocked off their game.

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