Who’s Winning the Branding Battle?

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | July 18, 2019 | Rush Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

RUSH: Okay. A little pop quiz-type question for you, folks, here just to build on the brilliant and salient points advanced by me, your host today. The Democrats and the Drive-By Media are attempting to brand us as racists. Trump is attempting to brand the Squad and the Democrats as anti-American. (interruption) Who is going to win that branding battle, do you think? (interruption) Oh, you think Trump is going to win that branding battle? (interruption) You think…? (interruption) You think Trump has already won the branding battle? You think Trump has won the branding battle big time?

Well, I called the Trump strategy on Monday as trying to make the Squad the face of the Democrat Party, and that means as socialists and radicals and so forth, and… (interruption) Mmm-hmmm. (interruption) Well… (laughing) So the Official Program Observer says to me, “When is the last day that one of the Democrat presidential candidates has been in the news? I mean, in the news for having done something in the campaign or said something?” Well, it’s a good question. I did see excerpts of… I guess it was a town hall.

It was very… It was so sycophantic. It was some woman interviewing Kamala Harris on CNN. It was like they’re almost afraid to ask her questions. “Forgive me for asking, but Medicare for all?” “(Snort!) Well, everybody wants it, and we can’t afford not to do it.” (sputtering) “Okay. I really appreciate you letting me ask that. Uh, uh… W-w-what about health care for illegals? I — I heard you say that if…” “Don’t lump me in with everybody on that! How dare you ask me that, by the way.

“What gives you the right to ask me a challenging question? Where am I? We’re on CNN! Who are you?” “Sorry! Sorry! (sputtering) I didn’t… I — I — I have to… You know, I have to ask some of these questions.” “Well, not to me you don’t. Ask them of Bernie Sanders, but not me. I’m Kamala Harris! I don’t get this kind of question.” I saw that. But you’re right. I haven’t seen a Democrat candidate… Bernie’s in the news. He’s ticked off about something. He’s being treated unfairly. The news about the Democrat…

I’ll tell you what the news is. The news is about them in terms of how they’re all faring in the polls, but they themselves are not making any news. The people making news on the Democrat side is the Squad. Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Aryanna Pressley — or Ayan, whatever, Pressley, whatever her name is — the four of the Squad. And they’re not making news in favorable ways.

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[humbleexpert]

The epithet “racist” has lost all meaning. Even Nancy Pelosi was recently attacked as a racist by some of her fellow Democrats. When Democrats feel out of sorts they utter the word “racist,” just as sheep and cows say “baa-baa” and “moo moo” when the mood hits them.

But anti-Americanism consists of actual acts by people who hate and want to destroy America — from burning or stomping on the flag, to verbally attacking the United States, to sending airplanes into the World Trade Center.

Ilhan Omar and her Squad meet this anti-Americanism criteria virtually every time they open their mouths in public. And it’s natural for patriotic Americans to not like what they say and to wonder why they don’t leave America if they hate it so much. But apparently it’s way beyond the mental capacity of the mainstream media to understand this, just as it’s way beyond their mental capacity to keep from losing their audiences month after month until they can barely sustain themselves.

[Dr. Sivana]

My 10 year old son is black. My wife and I try to raise him right, but the modern anti-culture is everywhere. On our way to church, there was a sign near some construction warning “No Pedestrians allowed on the sidewalk”. My son declared the sign to be “racist”. I was worried. Then he said, “My grandfather was a sidewalk!” Phew, it was just 10 year old humor. He gets it.