On his Thursday program, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh blasted the opening of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, saying she’s “a phony” and everything she does is “orchestrated” and “staged.”
Limbaugh took the Democratic frontrunner to task over her reportedly fake Twitter followers, saying she can’t become the “everyman” she wants to be for potential voters, especially those in the early primary states.
“She’s a phony. There are no coincidences with the Clintons. Nothing just spontaneously happens. Everything is orchestrated, everything is planned, everything is staged,” Limbaugh said. “Her spontaneous road trip in the van is phony. Her unscripted sit-downs with, quote, unquote, ‘everyday Americans,’ are phony.”
“Her claim to care about everyday Americans is phony, as evidenced by, well, her life. The way the Clintons have been reported to treat White House staff, uniformed military people at the White House, stories from the nineties are legion about that,” Limbaugh said.
“Her social media numbers are phony. Over half of her Twitter, whatever they are, tweets, are fake,” Limbaugh railed. “The people are fake, they don’t exist. She is paying $38 per Facebook like….now we’re starting to see on American television, if not yet in print — that’s the next domino to fall — but some traditional Hillary-type supporters in television…are starting to raise questions now about her competence.”
Earlier in the week, Limbaugh panned Clinton’s Sunday announcement on social media, remarking that he just doesn’t care about her campaign.
“The Clintons just can’t do real because everything they do is structured and acted and performed,” Limbaugh said.
“Mrs. Clinton, I maintain to you, cannot do this. Mrs. Clinton is too self-conscious for whatever reason. She cannot act. She simply can’t pull it off. She can’t act friendly. She can’t act nice. She can’t act real,” he continued. “She just comes across as stone cold. And that’s why they want her to act because they want her to be able to abandon that.”
“But when you think you’re better than everybody else, you don’t want to abandon that, you don’t want to be Mr. Everyman,” he said.