RUSH: Where the hell do they get that? “Sixty-three percent of the American people…”? Why not 65%? Why not 80%? “Sixty-three percent of Americans say that the Trump family will be better off because…” How do they know that? But you notice the theme. Every Drive-By we chose there is trying to kill the bill by telling people that Trump is doing it so he personally will benefit and to hell with everybody else. This is not your standard, ordinary, everyday media bias observation.
That’s not what’s going on. This is not media bias. This goes so far beyond media bias. This is not media malpractice. This isn’t journalistic malpractice. This goes way beyond any of that. This isn’t journalism. This isn’t the news. It is what journalism has become. But, I mean, this isn’t the news. This is nothing more than hard-core agenda advocacy, pretending to be and disguised as, quote-unquote, “media” or “news.” It isn’t true.
A lot of it is made up. A lot of it is sourced from anonymous people without the guts or courage to put their names to it. It’s desperation. It’s a Hail Mary. It is anything and everything — and it doesn’t matter what — to stop Trump. I’ve never seen anything like it, even with the second most hated presidency in our lifetimes. That would be Ronald… No, no. Richard Nixon. Quick, before we go to the break: “What’s Nixon’s middle name?” (interruption) Way to go. You passed the test.
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RUSH: Now, let’s go back to the Democrats and the tax bill for a second, ’cause I want to make a point. We’re gonna get to Trump’s speech yesterday. It is pretty much exactly what I thought it was when I only saw one-line excerpts as graphics on the bottom of TV screens, the news networks reporting the Trump speech. It’s just fabulous. It’s great for what it is and what it is, and we have audio sound bites to go with it. Now, I’m reminding you. When the Democrats propose any kind of legislation over the last 30 years, what do our guys do?
They propose a counter, but they accept the premise. Democrats come along and want to nationalize health care. The Republicans put forth their own version, not quite as bad. They say, “It’s smarter,” but they accept the premise that there needs to be legislation along the lines of what the Democrats want. We sit here and pull our hairs out because we thought we’d elected people to stop this. We thought we’d elected people to fight this. We thought we’d elected people that, when the Democrats spoke up with their agenda, were gonna stand up and say, “No!”
The Democrats, on the other hand, don’t have an agenda. Now, you may have seen stories this week and last week — particularly after the Alabama election — that are now predicting a blue wave, meaning, “The Democrats are gonna win it all back next year! The Democrats are gonna take back the House next year, and then they’re gonna get started to impeaching Trump, and then the Democrats are gonna win back the Senate next year,” even though they’ve got 25 seats they have to protect, “Oand then in 2020 the Democrats are gonna win the White House!
“It’s either gonna be Bernie Sanders or Fauxcahontas. Maybe even Hillary again! But the Democrats, by 2020, are gonna have total control of the government back,” after they won the Alabama election, after they won the Virginia election. You’ve seen it in the news. You’ve seen it in the Drive-Bys. The Democrats are partying hardy. They think it’s over. They think that they have succeeded in creating the number one thing they need to win, which is not an agenda. ‘Cause they don’t have an agenda. All they have is Trump hatred. That is it. And they know it.
And they think it’s enough. They’re very happy with that. That is it. That is the sole message they’ve got, as we enter the election period for 2018: Trump hatred. They think they have succeeded in convincing all of those Trump voters in the blue states that voted for Trump to now hate him. They think they have succeeded in convincing a majority of Americans that Trump is a mistake, a disaster, a reprobate, a pig, and that he’s gone. He deserves to be impeached!
They do not have an agenda. Now, wait. Don’t misunderstand. They have an agenda. It’s called socialism. Their agenda is called taking over the United States government and transforming this country out of and away from the way it was founded. I mean, that’s their agenda, but that’s the broad-based agenda that doesn’t change. But I’m talking about an agenda that can be articulated in campaigns. They can’t say that.
They’re getting close, though. They’re getting close to thinking they’ve reached the point where they can be honest about running down this country as founded, running down the “white, Christian foundation” of this country. They think they’ve got to the point where they can win elections by beating up on all that. But they’re not quite there yet. So they’re relying on Trump hatred. Yesterday, they scheduled this massive tax cut protest, and they couldn’t even pay a bunch of protesters to show up
Once again, this is in the American Mirror: “Pelosi Bails on Tax Cut Protest After Only Handful of Activists Show Up.” Why couldn’t they get a bunch of actors? I mean, they’ve got the rent-a-mobs. They’ve got their people that they hire, got people that hire people that show up and protest a Trump rally, a legislative session, a Senate hearing, a House hearing, you name it. There are thousands of people out there willing to be paid to show up and protest.
They couldn’t find anybody to show up and protest in a tiny conference room at Capitol Hill where Pelosi was gonna speak against the tax cut. Why do you think that is? And what do the Democrats have in response to this? Okay, here’s Trump and the Republicans with a very sweeping, comprehensive tax cut proposal. What’s the Democrats’ response to it? What is their version? They don’t have one, folks.
There’s not a single one of them that wants to even get on board conceptually with tax cuts, and there isn’t a single one of them that wants to put forth opposition to it. Their entire agenda is hatred of Trump and attempting to gin up as much of it as they can.
So I ask you, is that enough? Is that enough for them to win the House? Let’s just keep it at that. Is ginning up hatred for Trump across the country, can they do that? Can they gin up enough hatred to propel the Democrats back in control of the House? And nothing else. No other agenda items, no other promises, no other, here’s what we stand for, here’s what we’re gonna do, nothing positive. They don’t dare go positive because things are supposed to be so bad that they can’t do anything but talk about how bad it is.
Their websites cannot have one positive click, not one positive headline. Every website on the left and every click, every headline must be doom-and-gloom. Can they win? I’m asking you. Is that enough? Is hatred for Trump enough? Keep in mind, as you think about this, 91% of all Trump coverage in the media that most Americans access is negative, and all of these negative, anti-, bad Obama and Democrat stories are not being reported, they’re not being referenced.
The traditional low-information voter doesn’t even know of the chicanery on the Mueller committee and the investigation team. They don’t even know how Obama willingly let Hezbollah continue to track cocaine into the country so as not to anger the Iranians. They don’t know this. That hasn’t been reported, nor has the text messages between Strzok and his mistress and what’s been going on on the Mueller team to sabotage on Trump. It’s not being reported. I mean, they got 47% of the American people in a poll claiming to oppose and hate the Trump tax cut bill. Think about it.