Limbaugh’s program runs from 12 to 3, EST. The Sally Yates hearing began today just as Rush was signing off for the day.
Here’s his exact quote:
And we’ll be back tomorrow in twentyone hours, whatever happens between now and then, this Sally Yates business… Only three Republicans showed up for this hearing, nine Democrats. Nobody cares.
Rush Limbaugh’s centrality to the modern Republican party cannot be overstated. He sets the tone and determines the agenda. The entire GOP establishment sucks up to him… Run a search for “(any influential Republican) + Rush Limbaugh” and you’ll invariably find volumes of praise from the former for the latter.
Limbaugh says “nobody cares” about the Sally Yates hearing.
That wasn’t opinion.
That was an order.
Limbaugh is setting the agenda for all Republicans, elected and otherwise.
Limbaugh is telling the GOP (and his listeners) that no Republicans should care that General Flynn was a foreign agent when he was chosen as the top national security adviser to the President of the United States... that nobody should care that General Flynn lied about his connections to Russia and Vladimir Putin.
No…
So long as the President of the United States is crippling health care, gutting the E.P.A., shredding Wall Street regulations and killing net neutrality…
Well… So long as Republicans are getting what they want…
Nobody should care if Vladimir Putin successfully elected a Manchurian Candidate.