Posted on 06/07/2019 1:48:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Sound bite number 1 is a montage of the media unable to go the full day yesterday without ripping Trump. You know, they praised his great speech at Normandy, but then he did the interview with Laura Ingraham and started calling Pelosi insane and a lunatic with the cemetery in the background, and theyre just outraged. Well go ahead and play it. This is the Drive-By Media criticizing Trump for ripping Pelosi and Mueller with the Normandy cemetery as the backdrop.
AMANDA CARPENTER: You look at the shot (dramatic pause) and what I see, just as an American, is a draft-dodging president using the graves of World War soldiers who saved the world from Nazis as a prop.
JOHN HEILEMANN: Mr. President, do you recognize what our backdrop is here?
DONNY DEUTSCH: (background noise) We cant normalize this! Hes despicable. He is a despicable human being.
HEIDI PRZYBYLA: (background noise) The White House, they arranged the interviews and they arranged the backdrop!
EUGENE ROBINSON: (background noise) Look at that backdrop. Its just, uh, appalling.
LAWRENCE ODONNELL: He used soldiers graves as a backdrop to attack Robert Mueller and Nancy Pelosi!
JULIAN ZELIZER: He speaks about Robert Mueller, who served in the U.S. Armed Forces, and using that as a backdrop
CHRISTINE ROMANS: against the backdrop of the fallen soldiers at D-Day, really bucking all decorum.
DOUG BRINKLEY: to sit with the backdrop of the graves of our fallen heroes and to act like a used-car salesman
JAKE TAPPER: The president, seeming to not fully comprehend the sacred ground on which he stood
BRIAN WILLIAMS: (whispering) Its sacred, hallowed ground! The president came so close to having a good day.
RUSH: Ha-ha-ha. Brian Williams there at the end. Now, folks, you know, its I know what your reaction is. These people dont care where they are. I mean, they have been in the house of God-d. They have been at the Washington National Cathedral during the funeral for McCain, and what was that? That was a bash-Trump sermon, a series of bash-Trump eulogies, from the house of God, using the house of God as a backdrop. How insensitive. How outrageous! We have to mention all of the times?
I mean, Trump never escapes this kind of character assassination no matter where the Democrats are. In addition, Trump didnt choose the backdrop. Everybody was there. There was even an original story that went out. The lovely and gracious Hallie Jackson of NBC News tweeted out that Trump delayed the start of the Normandy ceremony so that he could do an interview with Fox News. (paraphrased) Trump kept everybody waiting so that he could do the interview with Fox. Let me see if I can find that and it was a tweet. It got retweeted all over the place.
Here is her tweet: French television cameras spotted President Trump sitting down with Foxs Laura Ingraham fourteen minutes *after* the ceremony in Normandy was set to begin. Thousands of people waited as an announcement overhead came on, declaring the program would be delayed until 11:15a. It turns out Trump wasnt the reason for the delay. He had finished the interview and he was just waiting for (dadelut dadelut dadelut) that little French tyrant to show up, Macaroni.
Macaroni was late, not Trump. So Hallie Jackson sends out a correction tweet: As @JonLemire notes: from pools vantage point, the president appeared to be done and ready before Macron arrived, at which point ceremony began. So 4,000 retweets of this thing. Its all over the world that Trump is this ogre this self-absorbed, egotistical, maniacal guy who kept the Normandy ceremony from beginning so he could do a Fox interview. And it turns out, he was there and waiting and the Fox interview was over.
It was French President Macron who was tardy and, of course, the retweet correction is not even really a correction. Its not heralded. Its not nearly as widespread: 209 retweets to 4,000 retweets. These people dare and sit here and criticize Donald Trump when they have, for 2-1/2 years, done nothing but lie about the man every day? Ill tell you something else. The White House didnt choose the backdrop for the Laura Ingraham interview. Its where everybody was. Everybody was at the cemetery for a ceremony!
They would have you to believe that Trump told Fox, Look, were gonna do the interview at the Normandy cemetery. Ill tell you what Im do. Ill arrange the Normandy ceremony so it can happen where were gonna put your cameras. They really want people to believe this. Everybody was there. It was prescheduled months ago. Trump didnt have anything to say about where the cameras were. Fox chooses this stuff. The White House may have some input in it, but where were they gonna go?
Theyre in the cemetery, and thats where the interview took place because thats where the ceremony was taking place! This is so much ado about nothing. But Ill tell you, the snarkiness of these people in this bite. John Heilemann: Mr. President, do you recognize what our backdrop is here? We cant normalize this. Hes despicable! This is Donny Deutsch. Hes despicable! Hes a despicable human being. From people who themselves are despicable and classless, mean-spirted, extremist and clueless, all rolled into one.
So a gigantic report, gigantic tweet from Hallie Jackson at NBC News (wailing), Donald Trump! (Sob!) He had to do this interview! He delayed the ceremony! Trumps an ogre! Trumps horrible. Turns out, it wasnt the case at all, but nobody knows at least people who follow Twitter. Now, what really bugged em, what really bugged em was that during the interview at the Normandy cemetery, Trump just launched into Pelosi. He called her nasty, called her vindictive, called her horrible.
He described Pelosi in ways that no elected Republican has before, and thats the reason why there is this reaction. Youre just not supposed to attack Democrats that way. Its the Republicans that get attacked that way, and its Republicans that are supposed to sit there and take it if they to want stay members of the deep state. Why, you dont dare attack Pelosi this way, and you dont dare do it in the cemetery with graves as the backdrop!
Again, he did not delay the D-Day ceremony. So theyre already ticked off that Trump has ripped into Pelosi.
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RUSH: By the way, the Trump backdrop at the Normandy cemetery? Didnt those men die for the right of free speech, freedom and liberty and so forth? Didnt they die for the right to elect a president and have him serve his full term? Huh? Huh? (interruption) Yeah.
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RUSH: We will start in Columbus, Ohio. This is Brett, and Im glad to have you with us, sir. Hi.
CALLER: President Rush, how are you?
RUSH: Im doing great, sir. Thank you.
CALLER: Well, when CNN dominates mass media, American mass media overseas, its easy to come to the conclusion of why the presidents numbers are so low, say, in Britain and Germany. The perception of what those citizens think of our president and whats going on in our country, its easy to come to the conclusion of its the information universe of where they form that opinion. And, Rush, when I go to Ireland or the Balkans, I only see CNN.
And President Trump just as always is a hundred percent correct before he landed in Britain, saying that the CNN mass media Can you imagine what those residents think of America? I mean, they probably think that were under attack right now, and, President Trump, how did he get elected? When he is correct, the silent majority of the people You know, there is no Fox News representing when you travel overseas. Its all CNN, and
RUSH: Right. Weve been discussing this all week. Have you not heard us talking about this?
CALLER: Oh, yes, Rush. Im so busy with my work and all that good stuff and
RUSH: Okay. Well, let me bring you up to speed on this, because one of the things that happened, you know, Trump even referenced his approval numbers in U.K. are 20/30%, and thats because all theyve got over there is CNN International. Fox I get conflicted. I think Fox was Its owned by Murdoch, which also owns Sky News. Sky News is the so-called conservative complement. It really isnt, but its not the BBC. Its better than the BBC.
I think Fox News either toto or some Fox programming was attempted for some time. It didnt last. I cant find out exactly why. The popular reports are that (impression), Well, it doesnt attract an audience, Murdoch had nothing to (muttering) cutting the loss. No chance! And its this way throughout Europe. Its CNN International, I think, that allows CNN domestically here to be the loss leader. CNN International makes the money CNN doesnt make that funds CNN cause theyve got no viewers here.
Theyve got, nationwide, CNN, 761,000 viewers. Thats not even one-tenth of the population of New York City, and thats national CNNs audience. But theyre in airports, and airports are not rated, and they buy exclusivity in the airport. They pay, for example, Miami International, 150 grand per year to be in all the public TVs. Like the bars, the restaurants, whatever shops there are at the airport that have TVs in them, its all CNN. But one thing that happened on the U.K. trip
In large part, the U.K. media is like every other media in the United States. They follow the lead of the New York Times. So whatever the New York Times does, everybody follows, and thats what the Brit media was doing too. There are some British papers sympathetic to Trump. The Daily Mail, on balance, would be Speaking of that, guess what happened to Daily Mail? Google just changed the algorithm here that used to put Daily Mail search results near the top of any news story you were searching. Theyre gone now.
The Daily Mail is not being returned to the top of search lists, first pages, on many stories, the U.K. Daily Mail, precisely because of this. But my point is the British media actually did a 180 on Trump. Oonce they had him there, once they saw him in person, once they saw the queens reaction, the British media started doing very positive, pro-Trump stories. Trump cant go everywhere, but thats the only way of countering it. But whats happening over there (media-wise) does not affect personal appeal.
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RUSH: Andrea Mitchell (NBC News, Washington) actually asked Pelosi if Trumps policies threaten what D-Day troops died for. Oh, man.
Best President ever!
The same press that trashed the returning Vietnam veterans calling them baby killers. But if it were not for hypocrisy the Democrats would have nothing to say.
I’m actually surprised they praised anything at all.
Billy boy setting down stones was spontaneous.
Glad to hear that CNN has to pay big time to impose their news on airport screens.
Look! stones on a sandy beach! Photo op!
So ridiculous. Gullible libs will buy anything.
Bill: where the French womenz at?
You should read the comments on Rob Reiners Twitter, it’s just one huge hate fest of rantings by absolute psychos. I made sure to taunt them lol
https://mobile.twitter.com/robreiner/status/1136732808452272129
CNN is ATT
The only time the Left respects our veterans is when they want to use them against Trump.
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