Posted on 03/19/2018 12:20:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Hey, Mike, grab audio sound bite No. 1. Just No. 1 for right now. Great to have you with us here today, folks. It’s your guiding light, Rush Limbaugh, doing the job of the Drive-By Media, the job they haven’t done at all in many, many moons, if they ever did. Regardless, I am America’s Truth Detector.
I want to take you back a little over a year ago, Fox News Sunday, my annual February appearance with Chris Wallace. It was February 19th, 2017, Chris Wallace had just discovered a term that he was not sure was helpful or useful and asked me about it.
WALLACE: You also use a phrase, which I have to say that I only heard for the first time in the last couple of weeks, the deep state. And that’s the notion that there’s an Obama shadow government embedded in the bureaucracy that is working against this new president. I think some folks are gonna think that’s right on and some folks will think it’s awfully conspiratorial.
RUSH ARCHIVE: Well, I would love to claim credit for that, but actually I think a reporter by the name of Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept who has got a relationship with what’s-his-name, Assange, I think he actually coined the term, and I think it works.
RUSH: He did coin the term, but it was popularized, amplified, and promoted here. And it became part of the daily lexicon. And, by the way, Wallace aptly described it there. The deep state is the administrative state, if you will, and referred to specifically here, it is intelligence officials, both current and former. It is investigators of the various agencies. The Federal Reserve has investigators. The FBI has investigators. It’s that cabal of people, many of them career civil servants, some of them Obama and even dating back to Clinton appointees.
And there wasn’t any doubt that the deep state was organizing this — you know what the deep state did? The deep state actually ended up promoting the lie and the fictitious story spun by Christopher Steele in his dossier. And they were the ones that were leaking incessantly to the media. Everybody knows who the deep state is now. What the news about them today is, there is a poll from Monmouth University.
Monmouth University’s considered a big deal. They are a polling data unit that has lots and lots of credibility. They just took a poll, and they found — are you ready for this? — 74% of the American people believe in a deep state when it is described as a collection of unelected officials running policy. Twenty-one percent said they do not believe that this kind of group exists.
The poll notes that more than seven out of 10 Americans polled in each political group — Republican, Democrat, and independent — believe there is a deep state. Thirty-one percent of Republicans, 33% of independents say they believe the deep state definitely exists. 19% of Democrats even believe it. Pollsters also found that a majority of those polled, 63%, said they were not familiar with the term “deep state.”
However, 13% said they were very familiar, blah, blah, blah. The polling director, Patrick Murray, said, “We usually expect opinions on the operation of government to shift depending on which party is in charge, but there’s an ominous feeling by Democrats and Republicans alike that a deep state of unelected operatives are pulling the levers of power.” They are. It may not be entirely contract to say what’s new about it, but it is relatively new.
The other 26% are employed by the local, state or federal government or the leftist media.
The Media is the DEEP STATE.
The rest are stupid.
Yes, and about 50% is supportive of it.
Good the more that know the better.
This coup is brought to you by the Deep State.
I’d grown accustomed to calling it the Ruling Class. Which it is. And history is full of examples of Ruling Classes getting their comeuppance from the people they’ve been abusing. Sometimes it’s bloodless. Sometimes it isn’t.
Did people here listen to that little gay guy Rush was playing clips on today regarding Cambridge Analytica today?
He was so full of BS. I laughed listening to him.
I am sure you are right on sir.
And...just Who IS The deep State? (One word).
Young Lawyer who's Dad is a Congressman that reps a Defense contractor meets young female lobbyist on K-Street who is a lobbyist for some cause and her parents are Beltway Bandits.
Do these two love birds consider Marrying a freakin Plumber, or a Dr and study Engineering rather than stick to the script they have now because that isn't working for us...
Funny Wallace should know considering he is a part of it. The guy was a class A asshole in his treatment of Trump in the debates.
The rotten apple didnt fall far from the tree.His oldman was just the same.
Trump consistently proves that a shadow government exists.
This is the number one reason they despise him.
Ping
We live in time when low level dirt poor FBI agents end their careers as millionaire leftists. Let that sink in.
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