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RUSH: Some days they just tee me up. Some days are just too
easy. Question: Has Loretta Lynch arrested Trump yet? Well, isn’t that the kind
of stuff she said she’s gonna start arresting people for? Why hasn’t he been
arrested? Greetings, my friends. Welcome. Rush Limbaugh, EIB Network. Great to
have you here. Telephone number, if you want to be on the program today,
800-282-2882. E-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.
Everybody, everybody — now Paul Ryan has joined in —
everybody condemning Donald Trump. The conventional wisdom is that Donald
Trump’s insane, he’s a lunatic, crazy. This is dangerous. This is bad. It’s
un-American. It’s unacceptable. He’s gotta go.
Except he’s leading. A big problem. Even Dingy Harry — and,
by the way, for all of you Republicans getting on this gravy train condemning
Trump, I want to show you what good it’s doing you. Dingy Harry: “Donald Trump
is standing on the platform of hate, and, I’m sorry to say, hate that the
Republican Party has built for him.”
You Republicans, you can denounce Trump all day, all week,
all month, and the Democrat Party and the media are still gonna say you laid
the table for it. You can condemn Trump all you want, but it is not going to
buy you any love or respect or admiration from the Drive-By Media and the
Democrats. Now, folks, the conventional wisdom is that Trump is scum, that
Trump is a reprobate, that Trump is dangerous, that Trump is obscene, Trump’s
insane, Trump’s a lunatic, Trump’s dangerous, Trump’s got to go. Why join in
with that phrase? Why join that crowd? We never fall in with conventional
wisdom here.
I want to look at this in a little different way, as I’m
wont to do, and I want to look at the politics of this. And I want to remind
you late last week, middle part of last week and end of late last week, I
started what I intended to be a pretty in-depth discussion of how it is that
Donald Trump owns the media. I made the point to you last week that that is the
one factor that has upset everything else in this presidential campaign,
despite what you might think about the Republican Party being the opposition
party to the Democrats, the Democrats being the opposition to the Republicans.
Inside the Beltway, the Washington establishment, the
establishment is aligned and unified on a number of things, Republicans and
Democrats alike. And one of those things on which they’re aligned is that the
Drive-By Media is an acceptable, coequal branch of what they do. They accept
the media as, for lack of a better term, the great equalizer. The media is
always the institution that makes or breaks people. If the media wants to make
somebody, they can, and it’s allowed. If the media wants to take somebody out,
it’s allowed, and they try and oftentimes get away with it.
You do not hear the Republican Party condemning the media
much. And the reason for this is that inside the Beltway within the Washington
establishment, the elite, the ruling class, whatever you want to call it, the
media is a coequal member. And members of the media are coequal. That fact and
the fact that Trump now owns the media — and this episode is just more proof of
it — is one aspect that has everything else in this campaign turned upside
down. The great equalizer, the media, the great level, the media, the
institution relied on to keep things within the guardrails, as the
establishment wants it, can’t do it. And that’s why there’s panic, and that’s
why there’s outrage, and that’s why there is anger.
Evidence of what I’m saying is found here in the Washington
Post: “Donald Trump Has Gotten More Nightly Network News Coverage Than the
Entire Democratic Field Combined.” Let me repeat that you to. “According to the
Tyndall Report, which tracks the airtime that the various flagship news
programs on NBC, CBS and ABC dedicate to a variety of stories, the 2016
election has received 857 minutes of combined coverage, through Nov. 30. With a
month to go, that’s already the second biggest total of any pre-election year in
the last seven presidential cycles.”
Donald Trump, Republican front-runner Donald Trump is the
most covered candidate in the race. In fact, Donald Trump alone has gotten more
airtime — 234 minutes out of the 857 minutes are Trump’s — he has gotten more
airtime than the entire Democrat field, the chosen field of the media. Trump
has gotten more time combined than all the Democrats in the race. Hillary
Clinton is the second most covered candidate at 113 minutes. Trump is twice the
coverage that Hillary has gotten. Why? Why is Trump still in the race? This is
not the first outrageous thing he said, by far. It’s not even the most
outrageous thing he said, depending on who you ask.
Why is Donald Trump still a candidate? Why hasn’t anybody
been able to force him out? Why hasn’t anybody been able to humiliate him? Why
hasn’t anybody been able to destroy him? Why hasn’t anybody — and by anybody, I
mean, the media, ’cause that’s who both parties rely on to do this. Why can’t
the media touch the guy? He’s given them all kinds of ammo. If anybody else
says what Trump says, and they’re history, they’re shamed, they’re humiliated,
they are forever forgotten, and they have gotten so low they could never
recover from it.
Trump is leading the Republican presidential primary. Why
can’t they touch him? Why do they keep covering him? Why don’t they just ignore
him? They can’t. And that and therein lies something fascinating. Trump has
direct access to his voters, his supporters, the American people. Trump has
direct access to people around the world. I’ve got the Trump Stack of Outrage
today. It’s comical. It’s predictable. It’s sameness. Even I, El Rushbo, am
blamed for it on the BBC, if you can believe that. Yeah. I’m responsible. You
know why? Because I have been saying this kind of thing 25 years or more. Trump
is just picking up where I left off, according to the BBC.
Meanwhile, I’ve never said anything like anything Trump
says. But despite it all they can’t take him out. They can’t stop covering him.
They can’t humiliate him. They can’t embarrass him. They can’t diminish his
support. They’re powerless, and this has them in a panic. The media that can
make-or-break anybody cannot touch Trump, and every time they try, all they do
is make him bigger. They can’t explain this. They are frustrated to no end, and
so are both political parties who rely on the media to be the great equalizer
in all of this.
Nothing’s working. No matter what Trump says, the media is
there, and every member of the media is there. Every network, every camera,
every microphone is there. Last Friday night Trump was in Raleigh, North
Carolina. Reuters lied. Reuters even tried lying to destroy Trump. They ran a
story claiming that Trump’s performance and his appearance were shut down by
Black Lives Matter protesters. MSNBC ran with it.
I happened to see it, a little blurb on Apple news while I
was sitting at home minding my own business, bothering nobody. I said, “Wait a
minute. Why isn’t this all over the place? This is what everybody been dreaming
of: Trump humiliated, Trump shut down, Trump forced to leave the stage. Why
haven’t I heard this anywhere?” The reason: It didn’t happen. Reuters made it
up. People who were there have now testified to what happened. They can’t even
get rid of Trump by making up bad stuff about him.
But what really frustrates them, is they can’t get rid of
Trump by simply repeating what he says. Trump has direct access. Trump did not
need the media in order to be heard, in order to have his message flavored and
formed for proper receipt by the audience. He has direct access. He doesn’t
need them. He can go right over their heads. It may be true to say that the
Drive-By Media has covered politics, for better or worse, in a predominant way
for years and years and years — and that’s the horse-race aspect.
Who’s leading? What do the polls say? Who’s losing? Who’s
surprised by who’s winning? Who’s surprised by who’s losing? But it’s the
horse-race angle. And that’s completely backfired on ‘em. Their primary
technique, their primary way of reporting these campaigns and thereby shaping
the outcome of them is backfiring totally on them. There is a deep panic, I
believe, in the Drive-By Media. Because, in their world, in their mind, they
control the horse race.
They are the ones that are the greatest factor in
determining how people vote or what they say in polls. And the fact that they
are having absolutely zero impact on Donald Trump is blowing their minds.
Donald Trump has a more loyal audience than the media has at this point, which
is also what this is showing. And it is causing a lot of people in the
establishment — the elites, the ruling class, whatever you call ‘em both
parties, the Washington crowd.
It’s causing them to come unglued and unhinged, while they
think it is Trump who is unhinged and coming unglued. Now, let’s look at the
politics of this. Take the events of the recent past, last week, last month,
last six months. And then add the presidential to those events. Those events
have been dominated by Islamic terrorism and illegal immigration and the
failing US economy and the absolute disaster that is Obamacare. On the Democrat
side, I don’t have any recognition of any of that.
And on the Republican side, after Trump’s statement here,
there’s only one guy. I’m just addressing the politics of this, folks. Forget
substance, comments, whatever. It’s the politics of this. There’s only one guy
in all of the presidential campaign occupying the position he occupies.
Everybody else sounds the same. Everybody else… I don’t care if it’s Hillary or
if it is Carly Fiorina. I don’t care if it’s Bernie Sanders or if it’s John
Kasich. They all sound the same. What do they all do? They are condemning
Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is condemning ISIS. Donald Trump is condemning
illegal immigration. Donald Trump is condemning a weak, stupid United States
leadership. Over here, everybody else is not. They are condemning Donald Trump.
In a political sense, Donald Trump, leading the presidential campaign, is the
sole occupier of his position. He has no competition for it. Just in a
political sense, that’s pretty brilliant positioning to me. He owns the media.
They can’t stop talking about him.
And what’s it costing him? Zero. He’s not spending a dime.
What did we hear yesterday? The Jeb Bush super PAC, Rise to
Rise or whatever it is that Murphy is running. They’re preparing $75 million.
To do what? Take out all the Republicans! Except Trump. They’re not gonna
attack Trump. I don’t know if it’s gonna happen, but it was a rumored strategy.
Mike Murphy, well-known Republican consultant who loses more than he wins, said
(summarized), “To get Jeb Bush back in the race we gotta take out every other
Republican.
“So we’re gonna take $75 million in our super PAC and we are
going to destroy Rubio and Christie and Kasich. We’re gonna destroy Fiorina.
We’re gonna destroy Carson. Everybody, except Trump. And when it’s all over, we
will have a two-man race, Jeb and Trump, and then it’ll not be a contest.” The
theory says that when it’s just Jeb and Trump, the vast majority of intelligent,
reasonable, responsible Republican primary voters will choose — dadelut dadelut
dadelut — Jeb. Now, if they try that… Big “if.”
If they try that, and if they succeed, they have just
destroyed, Rubio, Carson, Fiorina, the whole field. Not just for this campaign,
for the future. ‘Cause it’s a negative campaign they’re gonna run. And they’re
not gonna touch Trump. None of the $75 million will touch Trump. You would
think all of it would be used to take out Trump. But none of it’s gonna be.
Why? It’s not that they want the last two standing to be Jeb and Trump. It’s
that they know they can’t.
They have listened to this program and they’ve heard Trump
supporters call here and say, “There’s nothing Trump can say that will make me
abandon him.” Now, about what Trump is saying, about these “outrageous,
unacceptable comments for which he should be put in jail.” I guess — and again
I ask — Why is what’s her name, Loretta Lynch, not pursuing him, investigating
and arresting him? I mean, she just said, this is the kind of stuff, the DOJ is
gonna go after people for.
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RUSH: This latest Donald Trump episode is a glittering,
glaring example of how he is playing the media like a Stradivarius. And I tell
you, folks, for all of you people who have complained and whined and moaned
about the media over the years, and how unfair they are to Republicans and how
unfair that makes the whole process and, “What are we gonna do?” You need to be
studying Donald Trump. I don’t care whether you think what he says is
outrageous or wrong or whatever. That’s the wrong way to look at this right
now.
This latest quote/unquote “outrage” from Trump is a perfect
example of how he plays the media, how he knows exactly what to do and how to
do it to own their attention and airtime. He says things that he knows will
drive them crazy. He says things over and over that he knows will drive them
insane, and then when they go insane, he doubles down on it and drives them
even crazier. He also knows that his audience is in on what he is doing.
He knows that a lot of Americans agree, to a certain extent,
with things that he says. He also knows he’s the only one reaching those
people. And then he sits back and watches (no doubt with a huge smile) the
media cover what he says over and over and over and over again. Then they
analyze it over and over and over, and they talk about it over and over and
over again. He’s confident that a lot of his voters are gonna be able to strip
away the bombast and be able to get to the nuts and bolts of what he’s saying,
the kernel of truth of what he’s saying.
In the meantime, he ends up occupying political positions
exclusively that many support.
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