Posted on 08/08/2016 10:58:34 AM PDT by Dave346
RUSH: No, no, I'm not watching the Olympics. I haven't watched one second. I mean, who wants to watch people swimming in sewage and rowing their boats in gunk and all that? No. No, no, no. In fact, I watched Ray Donovan last night, and I can't even describe it. I mean, I couldn't even get close to approximating it without violating every tenet of good taste that I've got here. Impossible. And yet it was hilarious. But I can't describe it for you.
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Speaking of the Olympics, if bashing Donald Trump were an Olympic event, the news media would be winning every medal, every gold, every silver, every bronze. It is incredible. It is so bad, the media bashing, the imbalance. I know we say this every four years, but this is the worst that it has been that I have ever seen.
Brian came in moments ago to hook me up here for the particular tech I need to do the program, and they flashed a picture on CNN of Trump looking the scariest, most mean, vicious person you've ever seen. I looked up at it, and I said, "Brian, these guys are doing a bigger job on Trump than they've ever done on me."
He says, "Yep. Yep. It's incredible." It's so bad that the New York Times has written a piece justifying it. Our old buddy, Jim Rutenberg, who has taken over the media analysis responsibility at the New York Times has a piece: "Balance, Fairness and a Proudly Provocative Presidential Candidate." What this piece is about -- it prints out to like six pages -- what this piece is about is how the media has had to abandon all of its known norms.
The media has had to abandon all of its objectivity. The media has had to abandon all of its impartiality, because Trump is so bad that the media has nothing else to do; they have no choice but than to try to destroy him. For the sake of humanity, for the sake of decency, for the sake of saving the planet.
I've never seen a piece like this. It's written with ringing hands, "Oh, we feel so bad about this, it's just horrible, but it's a necessity. We've never been in a situation -- everything we learned in journalism school has had to be thrown out the window." I'm paraphrasing. These are not actual quotes. But we'll get into it here 'cause it sets everything up. It sets everything up for the -- well, the rest of the campaign, the rest of the program today, you name it.
But before I get to that, just a couple things here about the Olympics. You know, the TV ratings are in toilet, as are the Olympics, apparently. Apparently some of the water sports are actually taking place in the equivalent of a toilet down there. And it is so bad, get this. This is a story from The Daily Caller.
"An NBC Olympic announcer pointed to the negative reaction the US teams have received all over the world during the women’s indoor volleyball team match against Puerto Rico. The United States lost a point to Puerto Rico towards the end of the second game during the match as a result of a challenge regarding a ball out call from the referee. The Brazilian stadium audience cheered when the decision was announced. 'And you heard the cheers from the pro-Brazilian, pro-Puerto Rican crowd here.'"
In other words, this story says that America, the United States is being cheered against everywhere. No matter what venue, no matter where you go, no matter what event, the hatred for the United States or the dislike is so vicious that people are cheering against the US at every venue.
Now, why do you think this story is a story? Who do you think might be responsible for this? Would you say it would be the last eight years of the Obama administration and the things we've done around the world? No, no, don't be silly. Oh, don't be silly. It's gotta be Trump. The world hates us because of Trump. (laughing) I mean, there's no end to this.
A caller last week asked me if it's possible this could get so over the top that there'd be a backlash. Who knows. This is so new, and it's so -- at least in our lifetimes it's unprecedented. Look, some of the stuff that went on in presidential campaigns back in the founding days of this country, the Civil War, it was vicious as well.
And it's safe to say that in all of life that there isn't anything really new, but within the historical context, most people's lives history began the day they were born. You know, stuff that happens when they're alive, that's the most important, the best, the worst, whatever it is.
So within that context, I don't think anybody can remember it ever being this bad, purposely and undisguised. I mean, this piece in the New York Times today makes it clear that they're doing it purposely, willingly, knowingly, and here's an excuse for it. And we're gonna be keep doing it, Rutenberg says. Well, they, the media, he's an analyst -- they're gonna keep doing it, because it's the only hope for the country. The only hope for the world is to deny Trump the presidency, this is so bad, this is so over the top, this is so unacceptable.
Now, meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is an absolute walking disaster. But not one aspect of her negatives is being touted, is being reported on, and fact-checkers are doing their best to eliminate gaffes and other things that she commits. I mean, it is one-sided like we haven't seen before. And I don't know how to overcome it or if it can be, and I don't know what the long-term impact of it's gonna be. The thing I know is that, whether you want to hear it or not, the Drive-By Media, despite having lost their monopoly, and despite having lost their overall dominance, they are still located in primo places, like Google.
Google and Google Search are the monopoly that ABC, CBS, NBC had up to 1988. Yahoo News, Google, pop culture, the Drive-Bys still dominate there. And in entertainment and pop culture, they may as well still have a monopoly, for all intents and purposes. So the reality is that this stuff affects people.
Just to reiterate the story from last week, when the story of a $400 million bribe, when that story surfaced and the take on that story being a bribe happened, and yet there was no national outcry, there didn't seem to be any anti-Hillary reaction to it, any anti-Obama reaction to it in any polling data or you just couldn't find any news stories, couldn't tune into anything and find people upset about it, so people write to me, "Do people not care? I can't believe people don't care!"
And I wrote back to my friend, I said, "They don't know. The fact that $400 million was paid as a bribe, that hasn't shown up in the Drive-By Media. It's only in our media." So the people you're waiting to blow up over this -- and let's face it, how long is it we've been waiting for what we think average, ordinary Americans blow up over things that we routinely know and react? They don't react so we think we're losing the country, but the fact is they don't know.
Most of them, if they tune into Yahoo, go to Google or wherever they get their news, Facebook in the news feed, doesn't matter. They're not gonna see anybody's take on that deal as a $400 million bribe or ransom or any of that, so it's not that they don't react to it, it's not that we're losing the country per se, it's that these people just don't know. So in that sense it's hard to calculate just how far can the media go being unfair, unbalanced, and actually programmed and oriented to destroy one of the presidential candidates and candidacies, how far can that go before the low-information crowd says, "Wait a minute, something's wrong here. It can't be that bad."
We don't know. We just have to play it out. So it's within this context that the usually kinds of stories are now popping up. And here's the way this timeline kind of goes. And it seems this way with Romney. It happened this way with George W. Bush. Not so much Reagan, but generally how it goes is that the presidential race starts off, both parties, both candidates in full gear, and then the polling data starts to show that our candidate is losing big, that the Democrat candidate is starting to pull away and just dominate.
The next thing that happens is we get stories of how the polls are not right. The polls are rigged, the polls are used to make news, not reflect news. The polls at this stage are being used to create public opinion for Hillary, anti-Trump, it's not really reflecting that. Then the next version is we hear all of these stories about people who are not being polled because the pollsters can't reach 'em, the hidden supporters in this case of Trump, who are not being polled, who cannot be found. There's a special group of people out there, a unique campaign, nobody's getting to 'em. We have no idea who they are for, you gotta throw this campaign out the window because it doesn't fit the usual mold of what presidential campaigns are because of Trump.
Then you get the anecdotal evidence, "See, the polls are wrong, look at the size of Trump's crowd." And then the latest one is this, there are stories around: "Look at the social media Trump has. Like Trump has two and three times the social media presence, supporters and so forth, than Hillary Clinton does. See, Rush, that's another bit of evidence that the polls are not right. You gotta factor social media in."
So, we go to our guy losing, the polls can't be right, there's hidden Trump support out there, but it isn't being found, and then the size of Trump's crowds versus Hillary's is pointed out, "See? See? She's not that popular. She doesn't have that big a lead." And then the social media paradigm is thrown out, "See, Trump is just dominating. He's got three times the social media presence."
And then the election happens and our guy loses by six or seven. That was the pattern with Romney, and I see the pattern repeating here. And if you ever wondered why the pattern is what it is, I mean, you can make book, I could have made a lot of money if I would have made a bet early on that this would be the pattern, and it clearly is.
Now, still there are major differences, because it's, better or worse, we have not had a candidate like -- oh, by the way, Trump just started his address to the -- this is a huge economic address to the Economic Club of Detroit. We are not going to be JIPping it, joining it in progress. We just can't. I've warned them about this. I warned them, don't start these things at this time of the day. But I guess they have no choice.
You know, I've spoken to the Economic Club of Detroit. I forget when. It had to be 1991, 1990. And I didn't know what they were. Some of my partners came to me, "Rush, it's a big, big important group, businesspeople out the wazoo. You go in there and you gotta make the sales pitch for your show. That's what they want to hear."
And I said, "No, no, that can't be right."
"Yes, it is. They want to hear a sales pitch. They want to hear you tell 'em why buying your show is the only thing they should do." So I prepared to do that. We get into Detroit, we go to the cocktail party, it's a luncheon thing just like this one is, we go to the little cocktail reception before I'm supposed to speak at lunch, and I run across a guy who's a big fan, very excited I'm there, and he says he can't wait to hear what I'm gonna say.
I said, "Let me ask you a question. Are you guys waiting for me to deliver a big sales pitch?" And he's mouth fell, "God, no. Don't you do that. If you do that, they're gonna walk out of the room. They want to be entertained. They're not here to have you pitch advertising on your radio show."
So I went and got my partner said, "You know what? That's not what they want to hear, and I gotta totally redo this." So I had about 10 minutes to rework what I was gonna say. And that's my memory. It turned out to be fine. Everything was okay. But the reason I make this point is this club meets at noon. Whenever they meet, it's always a noon during the business week. So I guess Trump didn't have much of a chance to move it, but we're rolling tape on it.
He's gonna announce major, major economic policies in this speech, tax cuts, a major, major tax cut proposal, three tax rates, the elimination of the estate or death tax, and some other big, big things. It's gonna be on par with a Reaganesque tax cut from back in the 1980s. And there will be other things. It's written, it's on the prompter, he's delivering it in a serious vein, of course. So whatever is noteworthy from this speech we will have it for you as soon as we're able to roll it off and edit it.
Back to the Olympics, before we go to the first break. In addition to a story being out there how the US is being booed against, cheered against, at every venue, no matter who, no matter what the event, no matter who the athletes are, here's the next story, from the Associated Press. "Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti acknowledged Saturday that the results of November's U.S. presidential election could weigh heavily on his city's chances of hosting the 2024 Olympics, saying that a victory by Donald Trump could turn off IOC voters.
"In an exclusive interview with the Associated Press," the mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, said that if Trump wins in November, the Olympic committee might not want to have anything to do with the United States. We might not ever get another Olympics again. And certainly we would not get the Los Angeles Olympics in 2024. Garcetti said, "I think for some of the IOC members they would say, 'Wait a second, can we go to a country like that, where we've heard things that we take offense to?'"
So Trump is so offensive, he's offending so many people that members of the IOC would reject any chance to go to Los Angeles in 2024 because Trump is saying offensive things. Well, okay, fine. If they want to stay in Third World hellholes, fine and dandy. I think what everybody's overlooking, though, is that it's settled science, it's a consensus out there that by 2024, Los Angeles is gonna be underwater. Climate change.
I saw an article the other day that Hussein 0bama's IQ was only 102, but I'd bet if you grouped all the media bimbos and the pinhead guys together, you'd have a tough time getting a CUMULATIVE of 102.
Rush got off-track by his side-story about the Detroit economic speech.
Did NOT get back to the polls tracking off and being manipulated by Hillary’s ABCNNBCBS press corpse. Yes, that IS what happened to McCAin, to Romney, and in alrge part to Bush II as well. Even the 2004 election was closer than it should have because of the dnc’s mass media propaganda.
And Bush, mcCain, and Romney listened to their advisors and played to their advisors and their handlers! And lost.
They are so far in the toilet for democrats they have passed the Point Of No Return.
They can’t let Trump win now!
Olympic events are difficult. Bashing Trump is easy. So it’s kind of a poor analogy.
“The media has had to abandon all of its impartiality, because Trump is so bad that the media has nothing else to do; they have no choice but than to try to destroy him.’
Wrong Rush. They do it because he is such a threat to the established order of things. They know even they are not off limits if he gets in.
Especially when you crash into a sofa floating just beneath the surface like a rubbish mine.
If their brains were gasoline, they wouldn’t run an ant’s go-cart around a BB.
Actually they would caught in a doping scandal.
Despising the media is easy too.
Bash THIS you biased jackasses: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/08/08/donald-trump-economic-policy-speech-detroit-michigan-1130am-live-stream/#more-119911 Contains the text of Trump’s economic policy speech.
Trump will create millions of new jobs, which will cut deficits, allow the rebuilding of the military, etc. - and restore confidence and a sense of optimism to this country. There’s nothing that Hillary can do to match that, or even come close - not while she remains wedded to the anti-capitalistic Socialism of her mentor, Saul Alinsky.
The silence when Trump spoke about the carryover tax is because, myself include had no clue about this tax avoidance regulation that benefits the elite political class.
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