Posted on 02/21/2017 1:26:51 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Elements of the Drive-By Media are still having conniptions. Theyre going nuts over some of the things I said on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. Among those things theyre having conniptions over, my observation the First Amendment does not give the media immunity from criticism. They are shocked anybody thinks this. They are stunned that anybody would say this. They simply cannot believe it.
But at the top of the list, virtually every media person that has commented, that Ive seen, anyway. Ive seen it all. Ive got audio sound bites of some of this to show you, to play for you, to demonstrate for you. But Im sure its more than what I have here. But I think virtually every Drive-By Media person whos commented on it is just acting flabbergasted that I actually believe that the media is working to destroy Trump! They think its insane. What gives me the right to say that and how is it that I have 20 million listeners? I mean, that just doesnt make sense. They cant figure it out.
And, folks, let me double down on this today because there is no question thats exactly whats going on here. None whatsoever. Ive got two really, really brilliant pieces today to share with you, excerpts from them to back this up. One is by Michael Walsh at PJ Media. The Walsh story focuses on the deep state intelligence guys and the Obama holdovers and the effort there to unseat Trump. And now both Michael Walsh, whos a great writer and weve cited him many times over the years, both Walsh and Victor Davis Hanson make no bones about it: There is an ongoing effort to replace Donald Trump, to get him out of office. That is what all of this is about.
Now, the media may not be leading it, but they are complicit in it. The actual effort to undermine Trump is occurring in what we lightheartedly here refer to as the deep state. You can basically find it in the halls of Congress, people in Congress who dont want Trump. You can find people in various federal bureaucracies who do not want Trump. You can find people at the CIA, the various intelligence agencies that do not want Trump. And they are leaking. Theyre illegally wiretapping phone calls and theyre leaking what theyre hearing to the media. The media is complicit by eagerly reporting this stuff rather than calling the leakers out. Its all illegal and theyre all playing the game together.
The bottom line is and I dont want you to misunderstand here. I dont want to say its common, I dont mean that, but its not anything that hasnt happened before. There have always been efforts to undermine the chief executive by elements of the government who do not support, do not believe for various reasons throughout our history. So this is not unprecedented. Its just that this one happens while were alive, and this one happens while the guy we elected to be president and who won is the target. And we have a vested interest in preventing this effort to unseat Trump.
Now, you might say, Well, whats the process? Its not really a process. I mean, you might have impeachment charges brought at some point, but its about paralyzing Trump. Its about seeing to it that none of Trumps agenda is implemented. Its about making Trump quit or give up or just raise his hands in futility and show up but not try to irritate anybody. There are many, many different methods here. There are all kinds of different objectives. If they could get Trump literally out of office, make no question, no question they would do it. But that is at the far end of the extreme in terms of possibilities.
There are other ways to render Trump ineffective or neutered and to dispirit his supporters, and its all happening at full speed ahead here. And I think one of the greatest indications of how Im right is notice how anybody involved in this reacts when they are accused of this, and Im thinking primarily here the media. I dont think its a charge, its not an allegation; its a statement of fact. The media doesnt like Donald Trump and is doing what they can to undermine his presidency. Theyre doing what they can to discredit him.
I mean, its unique in the sense that you wouldnt find any behavior like this at all relevant to Barack Obama or to Bill Clinton, but you will find similar actions have taken place against George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and so forth. As I say, its not unprecedented, but its serious, and it is real. And when the media is accused of having this desire and working toward the ultimate end of dethroning Trump, they act like stuck pigs. I mean, if its ridiculous and if its insane and if its lunacy, act that way, you know, start laughing at it, start chuckling about it, having fun with it. But, no, no, no, no, no. Theyre reacting like stuck pigs.
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RUSH: Yeah. Shadow government, deep state, whatever. Im convinced there is a shadow government. Theres an Obama shadow government. Its not my idea, by the way. Ive seen it referenced by others. I happen to believe it, and theyre just the Obama holdovers. And theyre organized. I mean, thats the whole point about the difference in the Democrats and Republicans. The Democrats organize for things like this. They plan for losing elections and making sure that their lifetime appointees are active organizers, not just placeholders.
RUSH: I went back and forth on even playing this, cause this is just absurd. But I decided to play it because its an illustration of just who the media is and how off the wall and unobjective and unaware that they are. And it also demos what their agenda is. Now, you may have heard that the CPAC people had invited Milo Yiannopoulos to keynote the CPAC convention which starts this weekend.
And there was an up furor mainstream conservatism over this. Many were just curious, angry. How in the hell could this happen? Who thinks that Milo Yiannopoulos is mainstream conservatism? So, anyway, a videotape was uncovered of Milo talking about things that could be construed to be pedophilia. CPAC pulled him. They yanked his appearance. Simon & Schuster has now canceled the book contract they had with him. So hes not going to be there. This is red meat for the media, and it was actually served to them. They didnt have to make this up. CPAC actually gave them this one. But I want you to listen. This is Alisyn Camerota. Now, Alisyn Camerota used to be at Fox.
And Ive only met her a couple times. Shes nice as she could be, and she asked me I dont know how many times She was the weekend host of the Saturday edition of Fox & Friends, the early morning show. She politely asked me over and over to appear on the program, and ultimately I said, yes, I would do it. It was a phoner. She was perfectly fine, she was perfectly nice, and she knows who I am. She knows what I do and who I am. But youd never know it listening to this sound bite. Shes talking with Chris Cuomo, who thinks communism is about elevating economic standards for people.
He really gave the Cuban dictators a piece of his mind. He said, When are these communists gonna understand theyre gonna have to start improving living conditions for people? I saw that and I said, What? When has communism ever done that? Thats not what communism does. Anyway, he thinks it is. Hes the son of Mario The Pious, the late Mario the pious, former governor of New York and just would be Oh, my God, they couldnt wait for him to be elected president. But it never happened. So theyre talking about Milo and CPAC canceling his appearance.
CAMEROTA: Provocateurs have taken the place of conventional leadership because its juicier and its more headline grabbing and you can build more blogs around it and you can you can build more websites around it, and
CUOMO: The only major one is Trump! When you say provocateurs, I mean, really, he filled the entire space
CAMEROTA: (snickering)
CUOMO: in terms whos succeeded on that. I mean, this guy To compare this guy from Breitbart to Trump is insulting to Trump.
CAMEROTA: Well, Im not comparing him to Trump. Im comparing him to Rush Limbaugh and to other right-wing radio hosts.
CUOMO: Its even insulting to those guys.
CAMEROTA: I get it, but I think that what your point was is that people who sort of say the most outlandish things right now and, as we know, they dont necessarily have to be fact based get a lot of attention.
RUSH: Right. So Alisyn Camerota has decided that I am Milo Yiannopoulos. Now, how absurd and she knows better. Shes not its not even close. Its ridiculous. It is preposterous. And yet there she is on CNN drawing the comparison on the basis that I dont mean what I say. Im just a provocateur. Im just saying what I say to attract attention to myself. If I wanted to attract attention to myself, Id be doing television every day. If I wanted to attract attention to myself, Id have a PR firm and youd be seeing nothing but stories about me in the media every day.
I do not want any part of that. Ive been there, done that, and its phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock n roll. Im not into that at all. Im not into being promoted. I just tell people what I think, and it used to be things that she agreed with. So this is an example where the media thinks everybody over here is off-the-charts false, untrue, saying things just to get noticed. And she doesnt even see, nor do any of the others in the media. They have no sense of self-awareness. (chuckles) They really dont. They havent the foggiest idea why people are angry at em.
You know something?
Ive said it before.
The media is the only business in the world where the customer is always wrong. If youre a news consumer, if youre a customer, and you complain to them, they will tell you that you are not sophisticated enough to understand what they do, and theyre tell you to go listen or watch somewhere else. Theyre not even really doing the news for you. Theyre doing news for other journalists and other people in government because thats their real audience, as evidenced by CNNs ratings. They dont have any compared to other news organizations, and they dont seem to be bothered by it at all. They dont seem to be doing anything to try to change it at all, or very little.
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RUSH: Okay. Today CNNs New Day, Michael Smerconish, who used to host the morning show on our Philadelphia affiliate, and Ive met him. I went in, I did a Rush to Excellence appearance there at Philadelphia. What a great room it was. It was on the campus of the University of the Arts. Camille Paglia teaches there. It was just a beautiful room, sold-out crowd, big. Backstage Smerconishs father was there, said he was a big fan, and Smerconish was very nice, very complimentary. So here he is on CNNs New Day today, and hes with Chris Cuomo, and theyre talking about Milo Yiannopoulos being canceled by CPAC.
SMERCONISH: Donald Trump is the embodiment of a 30-year trend in the making, an embodiment of empowering Rush Limbaugh, the Drudge Report, Fox News, Breitbart, NewsMax. They exert control over primary voters in a way that the traditional conservative leadership used to do. And thats why Milo Yiannopoulos would even be extended an invitation to come to a gathering like CPAC. But the problem is that that comes at the expense of reaching a much more middle of the road audience than you need in a general election.
RUSH: We just won. What in the hell are these people talking about? But I have another question. Who the hell empowered me? What does that mean? And who empowered Fox News? And who empowered Matt Drudge? Who are these mysterious forces that are empowering us? Who is it setting the table so that we can come in and dominate the way we have? Who made that happen? Donald Trump is the embodiment of a 30-year trend in the making, an embodiment of empowering Rush Limbaugh, the Drudge Report, Fox News.
Well, I dont even understand if I define these words, as I know their meaning, this doesnt make any sense. Who empowered me, Mr. Snerdley? What does this even mean? What is he trying to say? No, no, no, hes not trying to say I earned anything at all. Thats the whole point. I did earn it. Nobody empowered me. You know, women talk about empowerment, feminists talk about empowerment. What do they mean by this? Its like I told my friend when he asked me, Are they gonna give Trump No, hes gonna have to win it. Hes gonna have to beat everybody. Hes gonna have to earn it.
What is this empowerment stuff? And what is the embodiment of empowerment? They probably understand it at Harvard or Brown, but it doesnt make any sense. And who empowered Drudge? I mean, who is this all-powerful empowerer who is sitting up there deciding whos gonna succeed and who isnt? Ill tell you who it is: Its the American people. If Im empowered by anybody, its the American people. But thats not how this works.
Anyway, the point is theyre sitting out there, and, of course theyre at, as Trump would say, the failing CNN, and theyre looking at all these other things, and it cant be explained in their world. It cant be that I am legitimately the most listened to talk show. It has to be somebodys made it happen. Theres a sinister something or other going on out there that is empowering me and Drudge and Fox News.
Now, Smerconish was a conservative when he was on the radio in Philadelphia. Well, he used to be. One more. This is little Brian Stelter, the media guy at CNN, yesterday talking to Brooke Baldwin. Theyre just beside themselves here over the fact that I said that the media didnt make Trump so they cant destroy him, and theyre beside themselves that I said that they have a blueprint, that the Democrats and the media have a blueprint for destroying Republican political officials. I said its not gonna work on Trump because the media didnt make Trump, they couldnt break him. Thats what theyre talking about here.
BALDWIN: This is a guy who has like tens of millions of listeners. It just makes me wonder how many people believe that.
STELTER: Well, certainly somebody like Rush Limbaughs been trying to erode trust in the mainstream press for a long time, for decades. Part of his appeal is that hes anti-media, and weve seen that across the board. Trump is tapping into that. Trump is picking these fights because the media is powerful. In some ways hes going after the media instead of the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party is pretty weak right now and Trump needs an enemy. Its part of a broader issue for this White House. Thats why theres been aggressive coverage. Its not because a journalist is trying to take down the president. Its not because they voted against him or for him. Its because were continuing to hear this series of false statements.
RUSH: Really? Trump wants this. Thats right, folks, Trump needs an enemy. He needs it. And of course I, my appeal is anti-media, and I have been eroding trust in the mainstream press for a long time, for a decade. Ive been eroding trust in nothing. You people in the media have been doing it. All I do is tell people what you do and why. I mean, I play audio sound bites of you people saying what you say.
Anyway, so this is what happens when you become a victim. This is exactly what happens when you become a victim, and when you become a liberal victim to boot. You lose your mind. Yeah, Trump, yeah, the Democrats, they didnt win anything, which is true and theyre in big trouble. So he cant go after the Democrats. He needs an enemy, like Trump wants this.
Anyway, and of course thats why there has been aggressive coverage because Trump is what did he say? Trump is tapping into the embodiment of empowerment that led to me, I guess.
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RUSH: All right. Imagine if Ted Cruz had won the Republican nomination and had become president. Imagine if Ted Cruz is elected. Do you think the media would be any different substantively than they are with Trump? The intensity of opposition and smearing would be identical. It might be focused in different areas or ways, but do you think thered be any honeymoon with Cruz? Maybe with Jeb there would have been. Maybe with Romney. No, no, no, theyd go back to destroying Romney, too. Its the same, doesnt matter who, folks. Thats the point.
Rush is single handedly responsible for startign to turn this country around.
If not for him Clinton would have had a democrat congress and gotten us into debt far far earlier.
Then the Dem’s learned to run AS REPUBLICANS, and so that set us back a decade... Now the people have gotten behind Trump, who is against BOTH the idiot dems and republican RINO’s and all the corruptocrats.
Reagan picking Herbert Walker as his VP cost us a generation. His biggest mistake.
Obama constantly complained about Fox and talk radio. Nobody called him a dictator in NYT op ed for doing so.
Everything the loony left does, to impugn, malign or otherwise hurt President Trump will backfire.
They do not understand that he is not a normal political animal, like they are used to. He does not care what they say, write or post on Twitter. It does him no harm.
They are super frustrated over the fact that nothing they have tried, since October and before, has had any effect whatsoever. Nothing works in their normal, conventional, and now obsolete way of thinking.
The only thing they now have left is obfuscate, frustrate, impede any thing he does thru their agents provocateur embedded within the government bureaucracies.
President Trump and all his cabinet members would do well to clean house, at all levels, fire or neuter any leftover claques that are trying to disable or at least hobble their administration.
Call them out. Shine the lights in their doe eyes. Freeze them. Fixate on them. Fire them or make them resign. Counting paperclips in Barrow, Alaska for four years can get mighty dull....................
Finally! Been waiting for the time I heard Rush include himself by saying "we"! It's always been you "Trump voters" or those "Trump voters". Now it's a "we"!
FINALLY!
“Obama constantly complained about Fox and talk radio. Nobody called him a dictator in NYT op ed for doing so.”
It’s a numbers thing -
CBS+ABC+NBC+CNN+NPR+NYT+WaPo > Fox + Talk radio
And if they don’t get it and never will, why are we spending so much bandwidth talking about how they will never get it?
Only because Trump fights back, unlike G.W. Bush who let them slowly cripple his presidency and never fought back.
What the so-called “news” media does is not free speech, it’s commercial speech. The want the government to regulate everything else, let it regulate that.
I’m not serious, but start saying it and watch them have fits.
Looks like Milo isn’t going away. That was really a left-wing hit on him because they can’t out-debate him.
Here’s his eloquent resignation, stating he’ll still publish his book and he will still be an ardent fighter for free speech and will launch his own media:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsBZeU9sAII
Worth watching (whether one approves of gays or not) as he’s far more articulate and feisty than most conservatives.
If he was a Democrat there's not much chance he would get the support from folks here. With that being said, it was his own narcissism that did him in...........
You must not listen to the show much.
Yeah right!
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