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December 10, 2015, Thursday, Hour #1

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	Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
	Folks, I am so excited.
	I have to tell you, I'm so excited.
	Practically everything I have in my show prep stacks today is stuff I have already talked about that's just now ending up in the drive-by media.
	Just now ending up being discovered in the Republican Party among focus groupers.
	I mean, it's incredible.
	Starting out with my brilliant monologue on Monday, the first, it might have been Tuesday, the days are running together.
	But when I did the entire first hour of this program on what is really really at the bottom of all of this angst over Trump is the fact that he owns the media.
	And it has upset everything.
	And I spent the good part of the first hour of the program detailing exactly why.
	It was the day after, I guess it was whenever Trump made his comments on a temporary moratorium on Muslims being entering, uh, being allowed to enter the country.
	You know, everybody was going, oh my God, we can't say that.
	Oh my gee, we can't do, oh my God, this isn't conservatives, isn't it?
	Paul Ryan said.
	The Republican Party, the Democrat Party, everybody aligned over here against Trump, and Trump successfully politically maneuvered himself into being the sole occupant of a particular political position.
	And he did it by controlling and owning the media.
	And I uh uh now today at the Hill.com, Republicans fuming over Trump's media command.
	And this story is pretty much exactly the point that I made in their own way about that aspect of this campaign, which is profound.
	Now, I'm not going to go through that again.
	I told Coco, I think this is important.
	I told Coco up at the website, I want you to go get that link and post it again at the top of the homepage, as though I just did it.
	The days are running together, and I can't remember if I did it on Monday or Tuesday of this week.
	Uh I mean, I've discussed it every day, but the the primary focal point in dissertation explanation of just what has happened, how Trump owns and controls the media that despite themselves they can't not cover him, that his audience is bigger than theirs, that they need him.
	They can't not cover Trump if they want to be watched, if they want to be read, if they want to be listened to.
	And now, folks, it is it's really entertaining.
	You you would not believe some of the stuff I have in the stack today.
	For example, the drive-by media has sent reporters out all over the country.
	There's actually a story here from a bunch of drive-by people saying they are ticked off.
	They can't find anybody who says they will not vote for Trump now because of his Muslim comments.
	They have searched long and hard.
	They have gone to the greatest lengths they know to try to find anybody who is mad at Trump, any of his supporters who are because they thought this was it, folks.
	How many times have they thought this?
	They really believed that this was going to be the nail in Trump's coffin.
	They were convinced.
	And they can't find any evidence anywhere that any of Trump's supporters are in any way upset with him or disagree with him.
	And a hard cold reality is beginning to settle in on all of these people.
	You know, the media, this is a very important thing, and media, the left conduct themselves with a moral superiority in their own minds.
	I'll give you an example.
	Back in the uh summer in Indiana, it might have been the spring now, I forget exactly when it was, when they passed their religious freedom restoration act.
	And the media was beside itself.
	Media was outraged.
	Thought it was it was homophobic, it was anti-gay, it was anti-gay marriage, and so they sent reporters out all over the state of Indiana, and they finally found a little business somewhere, a family-run pizzeria, uh, and they walked in, they said, if if you were asked to cater a gay wedding, no, a religious views would prevent us from catering again.
	So the media was outraged.
	And they focused on this poor little Pete's family.
	They just tardened them and they just feathered them.
	But the point was they did it under the guise that the entire country was outraged at that little family.
	And they do the same thing here with Trump.
	Trump says something like this temporary Muslim moratorium.
	They get livid.
	They get outraged.
	They can't stand it.
	And they assume everybody else's.
	Their moral superiority leads them to believe that they represent the majority thinking in this country.
	And if they don't represent it, they can make it.
	The media has always believed they can make and break people, that they determine the outcome of events.
	And in large numbers, they've been correct.
	When it comes to Trump, all that's out the window, and that's why they're frustrated.
	So they've had this moral superiority.
	There's not a single sane human being that would agree with Trump.
	Now they can't find anybody who disagrees with him.
	And this is the equivalent of a cold shower, a wake-up call like they've never had before.
	And it's a it's a it's a dichotomy for me.
	Over here you have their moral superiority where they believe they represent the majority thinking of people in the country.
	And if they don't represent the majority thinking that they can create a majority of opinion.
	And now the Trump phenomenon has happened, and they don't have any of that ability.
	They realize they're not representative of a majority of thought in the country, and that they can't convince people to agree with them that Trump is a reprobate.
	And this is causing absolute sheer panic.
	And not just in the media, it's causing sheer panic in both parties.
	Both parties, the Washington establishment, the media is a co-equal player.
	And the media has always been an equal participant at the establishment table, if you will.
	And the entire establishment cannot use their own media to fix this.
	And by fix this, I mean get rid of Trump.
	And it's the first time and I don't know how long that the media has been impotent when it comes to destroying somebody.
	That's their hallmark.
	They want to take somebody out, easy.
	Want to take somebody out, go for it.
	There are only a couple three instances where they're unable to do it.
	And when those instances pop up, they never understand why they're unable to do it.
	And that's where they are now.
	They just don't understand.
	And if they do understand, they're in a state of denial.
	But either way, they're panicked.
	And both parties are panicked because none of this makes any sense to them in terms of the way they think, combined with their moral superiority.
	The media is now trying to tell themselves that it's just their coverage, that even negative media is good media.
	Now they're telling themselves that no matter what they do, they're building up Trump.
	They're now turning around trying to give themselves credit for what Trump is doing.
	Because they always must have in their own minds this moral superiority.
	Bottom line is they're out of touch.
	They can't believe anybody could believe anything that Trump is saying.
	They simply can't believe it.
	They are shocked and stunned.
	Well, they might think that a small pocket of people, say, in Mississippi or South Carolina might agree.
	But they can't possibly, they this can't possibly be the case.
	So the story in the Hill.com, Republicans fuming over Trump's media command.
	Donald Trump again, it's not just Republicans, folks.
	The media is fuming over Trump's media campaign and command.
	And the Democrats are fuming over Trump's media command.
	Here's a quote from a an operative from a rival Republican campaign who spoke freely on Condition of anonymity.
	He said, I have never seen anything like it.
	I talked to two reporters yesterday about potential story ideas, and they said, sorry, I don't have time about your candidate.
	My blanking editor is making me cover Donald Trump.
	The constant media attention has the has been the main ingredient in Trump's lasting popularity.
	Even negative coverage can be a boon to Trump, helping to firm up his base supporters and communicate his wildly popular brand of straight talking, anti-establishment conservatism that he punctuates with unapologetically outrageous statements.
	Well, they can't not cover him, is the point.
	They have to.
	They need Trump's audience.
	If they try to ignore Trump, they're going to, they're going to be harmed business-wise.
	They will have much smaller audiences even they have now.
	So anyway, rather than go through this whole thing again, because it took me 45 minutes to go into deep dark detail over this.
	It was Tuesday, so I've told Coco just to post the link back to that monologue and couple it with everything that we're going to add to it today.
	I mean, it's just give you some of the headlines.
	Republicans fuming over Trump's media command is one.
	Breitbart, Trump beat reporters.
	We can't find supporters who won't vote for him after his plan to ban Muslims.
	We can't find any of his supporters who won't vote for him.
	Do you realize how something like that shakes them up?
	They've always been able to find somebody to tell them what they want to hear.
	But they can't within the Trump universe.
	And here's where it gets really dicey for them.
	Plurality favor Trump's Muslim ban in new poll.
	A new poll suggests that a plurality of Americans favor a temporary ban on Muslim immigration like the one proposed by Donald Trump.
	Survey by Rasmussen Reports, the Hill.com refers to it as conservative leaning Rasmussen.
	We ever hear that CBS New York Times is liberal leaning in their polling, or that the NBC Wall Street Journal is liberal leaning in their polling.
	We never hear that.
	A survey by conservative-leaning Rasmussen reports found that 46% of likely voters would favor a policy preventing Muslim immigrants from entering the country until tighter screening procedures can be implemented.
	Forty percent would oppose.
	Majority, for another headline, majority of Republicans support Trump's Muslim ban.
	That's CBS.
	Another CBS poll, Donald Trump back on top with Ted Cruz climbing into second place.
	From the UK Daily Mail, headline, Trump's not wrong.
	We can't even wear our uniform in our own cars, say five police officers in London.
	Political correctness has reached London to such extent that police officers are not allowed to wear their uniforms in their cars when they are in Muslim neighborhoods.
	Because it is offensive.
	So here you have even a bunch of London cops agreeing with Donald Trump.
	And I just one other thing I just got, and I don't know where I put it in the stack.
	It's the latest poll out of South Carolina.
	And that is an important poll because South Carolina is considered a bellwether state.
	Much as the left might despise this, South Carolina's makeup, its demographic makeup, has been a very good indicator over who the next president of the United States is going to be.
	I think South Carolina, if I remember what I read correctly, South Carolina has only twice in the past 100 years not voted for the eventual winner of the presidency.
	And after Trump's Muslim comments, he is up Eight points in South Carolina.
	I'm telling you, folks, they are just speechless and stunned no matter where you look inside the Washington establishment, Republican Party, Democrat Party, media, think tanks, you name it, they can't believe this.
	And I said yesterday, I have never seen the disconnect like it is today.
	I've never seen the people that run this country, the leaders of our country in Washington.
	I have never seen in my lifetime.
	And even in the recent history prior to my birth, I have never seen or known a period of time where the people in Washington were so detached, disconnected, unaware of the thinking of a majority of the American people, as is the case today.
	I've never seen it, and it's getting wider, this divide is getting wider.
	This detachment, this distance is becoming even greater and more stark, and it is just all illustrated here every day, more and more in the media coverage of the Trump campaign, or anything else involving Trump.
	It is genuinely eye-opening.
	Washington Post.
	They've got a little story here on it's a blog, PowerPoint called the Daily 202.
	Focus group shows why Donald Trump is not going anywhere.
	And this is just one of the many things in the stack today that basically consists of things I've said earlier this week.
	Frank Luntz.
	Focus grouper extraordinaire.
	I've never seen anything like this.
	There's no sign of Trump's supporters leaving.
	He's created or found the magic formula.
	Then they go to the focus group participants themselves, asked about Trump's proposal for a ban on Muslim immigration.
	Seventeen of the 29 in a group support it.
	One big problem for Trump's opponents, establishment Republicans hold no sway whatsoever with his base.
	Here is the bottom line.
	There isn't a single Republican in Washington.
	Elected Republican with moral authority, sufficient to denounce Trump with credibility.
	Within its base, the Republican establishment is in such a state of disfavor that there's not a single one of them there who has the moral authority or credibility to be believed when he or she criticizes Trump or anybody else.
	They have squandered that.
	I gotta take a break.
	We're up against it on time, as we always are on this program, it seems.
	Be right back.
	Don't go away.
	South Carolina poll.
	It was released...
	Wednesday, conducted Saturday through Tuesday evening.
	Trump made provocative remarks Monday about barring Muslims from entering the U.S. And it looks like his comments help him in South Carolina.
	Support for Trump increased eight points after his statement, from 30% to 38% the last two nights of the poll.
	The shift is within the margin of sampling error.
	That's huge.
	Eight points after the Muslim comments.
	And here you have over here the media and the Republican and Democrat establishments.
	You know, here's Frank Lunz at the Washington Post saying, oh, Trump is amazing.
	He's easy, he's come across the magic formula.
	There's no formula here.
	You're gonna have a little discussion about how Trump has done this.
	How is it that Trump owns the media?
	What has made this possible?
	How come nobody else can do what Trump does?
	This is what They're asking themselves.
	They can't explain this.
	And then when the Republicans or the Democrats, it doesn't matter who, when they send somebody out to condemn Trump, here's the problem they've got.
	There's nobody respected enough anymore that has sufficient moral authority to be able to criticize Trump with any credibility.
	They've squandered that.
	If indeed there was a Republican with the moral authority to be able to criticize Trump and thus damage him, that person would be leading in the Republican presidential primary.
	But there simply isn't anybody.
	And as far as Republican voters are concerned, there's not a single damn Democrat that has any credibility, moral authority, you name it, certainly nobody in the media.
	To start criticizing Trump and have that be effective, and this is what these people had better start understanding.
	Because this represents and means quite a bit.
	It says much more than just what it says about Trump.
	Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
	Rush Limbaugh, great to have you here at the EIB Network.
	As is the case, there's all kinds of stuff out there today to discuss.
	We continue to learn even more and more about the San Bernardino 2 and what is beginning to look more and more like a terror cell.
	Looks like it was a terror cell.
	And can I tell you something else, folks?
	I'm getting a little wary.
	In fact, I have been wary of this since it was first used to explain all of this.
	And I'm referring to the term radicalized.
	Everybody is now saying, oh yeah, San Bernardino II.
	They were radicalized.
	Marco Rubio was talking about last night on uh Meghan Kelly's show on Fox.
	But everybody, when the FBI did Obama used, everybody's talking about, they were radicalized.
	And it's almost, I'm starting to pick up on the fact that it's almost like that makes them a victim.
	Or victims.
	As though, yes, this nice loving young couple that happened to meet on a dating website.
	And they fell immediately in love.
	And they made great plans to come to America and start trying to access the American dream, and then they got radicalized.
	Yeah, they were just the nicest couple.
	People looked at them and thought how wonderful and beautiful their children were gonna be.
	Just the sweetest pair, the kind of people you love to have come over for a bridge party and maybe blow the place up late.
	I'm sorry, come over for a bridge party, maybe have dinner, go to a ball game, and then they got radicalized.
	Like what?
	Brainwashed, like they were victimized, just like it's not really their fault.
	I don't care how it happens, is the point.
	They're terrorists, they're extremists, they're radicals, they're militant, they are murderers, they are active-knowing participants, they are responsible.
	And this term they were radicalized is almost depending on the people using it, is an attempt to distance them from what they actually did.
	It was almost like, yeah, they were just driving along, walking along, living their lives, and then and then they were radicalized.
	They were brainwashed, and then they were programmed to go to the United States, particularly San Bernardino, California, and blow up a government building.
	And that's not how it happened.
	So it's more than a pet peeve.
	I'm I'm just, I'm telling you, folks, I'm uh be very wary of this, because that's I think what the purpose of using the term radicalized is.
	The longer this goes on, the effort's gonna be made in the media and in the Democrat Party to try to tell you that these two were actually not responsible.
	They were programmed, they were they were ordered, they were brainwashed, Manchurian candidate type people.
	It's an effort to soften your opinion of them.
	And I just don't think that should happen.
	Now back to Trump and this magical formula that he has with the media.
	Frank once says, yeah, he's masteredly.
	He's got this magic formula.
	And everybody in the media is trying to figure this out.
	Nothing is working.
	Every trick in the book that they've ever used, that's always worked to take somebody out, is doing the exact opposite with Donald Trump.
	It's building him up.
	And they can't believe it.
	And politicians who have relied on the media to do their dirty work feel even more helpless now, since their army, i.e.
	the media, can't take out their enemy.
	They don't have the slightest idea what to do.
	And my friends, I'm going to repeat this because I think it's a very crucial point.
	I don't care who you want to name, and this is not meant as a personal or individual criticism.
	I'm just making an observation.
	Pick any name of any Republican, or throw any Democrat name you want, if you want.
	Pick any name from what everybody would agree would be the Washington establishment who's criticizing Trump and saying this is not who we are, and this does not represent American values, and this simply will not stand.
	This is not who we are, and this is not what we're about.
	And this is reprehensible and it's outrageous, and Trump should apologize, and this will not be allowed to happen.
	This is unAmerican.
	There's not a single one of them that has any moral authority left to have that mean anything with the American people.
	I think this is a crucial point.
	This chasm, this distance, this divide from the Washington establishment to the people who make this country work.
	It is so wide, it is so big that there's nobody in the establishment that has any credibility any longer.
	Back in the early 90s, and in the 80s and in the 70s, I'll give it a case.
	William F. Buckley had the moral authority to determine who was an acceptable conservative and who wasn't.
	He had the moral authority because he had the moral authority.
	He had it because he was credible, he was trusted, he was honest, and the people on his side knew he was one of them, and he never sold them out, and he never betrayed them all the necessary ingredients for moral authority.
	As such, he was able to banish the John Birch Society.
	He even succeeded in having Pat Buchanan proclaimed at one point way, way back as anti-Semitic.
	The point is there isn't anybody.
	I don't care, I don't pick a name.
	You've got Trump over here doing what he's doing, saying what he's doing.
	The entire Washington establishment is like a bunch of parents and grandparents, just in absolute shock.
	They can't believe anybody would dare say this.
	And they're out there condemning it, but they don't have the moral authority to pass judgment on Donald Trump.
	Or anybody else.
	Nor does the media.
	They've squandered it all with the majority of the American people.
	They have squandered it all with a Republican base.
	So deep and wide is this disconnect.
	But if there's a magic formula, I'll tell you what it is.
	Trump goes out and says something that they think is just unacceptable.
	He goes out and says something every day, every week, something totally unacceptable, something they think is legitimately crazy and insane.
	They think everybody in the world is going to think what they think that it's crazy, legitimately insane, unacceptable.
	And then they react publicly.
	The media and the establishment are forced to react to what Trump says, no matter what It is.
	They believe they have to disagree with Trump.
	They have to condemn Trump.
	They can't dare be seen agreeing with Trump because they think that everybody thinks about Trump the way they do.
	And see, they're finding out that they are the only ones who think what they think about Trump.
	They are finding out that they are a real tiny minority.
	Now, why does the media cover this stuff?
	They have no choice.
	Donald Trump doesn't need the media to reach his supporters.
	He doesn't need the media.
	He'll use it.
	Donald Trump gets all of this.
	He has amassed all of this, spending less than $300,000.
	Jeb Bush so far has spent $25 million.
	What's to show for it?
	Nothing.
	All of the traditional ways in which you use media to make yourself known and popular have been turned upside down.
	But the real key ingredient is Trump's audience is more loyal to him than the media's audience is to them.
	They don't own.
	They don't possess as much of Trump's audience as they used to.
	In a contest, the audience that's siding with Trump is also abandoning the media in terms of support, moral authority, and all of that.
	So no matter what Trump says, no matter how outrageous, in fact, the more outrageous in their minds it is, the better they have to cover it.
	Because they're trapped, another reason they are trapped inside one of their own creations.
	And that is political coverage as defined by and practiced by the drive-by media is the horse race.
	Who's winning today?
	What is the polling data today show?
	Did Trump go up today or did Trump go down?
	Is Hillary Oprah down?
	That's about it.
	For drive-by media political coverage.
	And the reason that they have opted for that is because it gave them control over it.
	The media, in their own minds, controls the political horse race by virtue of their polling and their daily reporting.
	They have always thought of themselves as having the power to make or break candidates.
	Somebody like Todd Aiken comes along and says whatever it was he said, the media says we're going to take him out.
	And they did.
	Somebody like Christine O'Donnell comes along and wins in New Jersey.
	We can't have that.
	Media, we're going to take her out.
	They did.
	Sharon Angle, Tea Party candidate Nevada.
	What a kook.
	What a weirdo.
	We can't have that.
	We're going to take her out.
	And joining with the Republicans and all three of these candidates, they did.
	They have this power.
	They were able to take out Mitt Romney with wise distortions and the help of Harry Reed.
	This has been what they have become accustomed to.
	Cover the politics of the day as a horse race and be in charge of who wins it.
	So now they're covering the horse race, but they've lost total control over who wins it.
	And they're in abject panic.
	And you add to it the fact that it used to be much easier to do this when they had their media monopoly.
	But that media monopoly was blown up beginning in the late 1980s with the arrival of this program.
	There's a reason why these people in the media and the establishment try to lump Trump with me or vice versa.
	...
	Because they also believe they have eternally forever damaged me.
	So they think they can do that to Trump.
	They haven't.
	They have not made one impact.
	And this program and me and you, my audience, they have not had one iota's worth of impact.
	Whether they know it or not.
	And the fact that they can't do what they've always been able to do with Trump and the fact that the Republican Party leaders, the Democrat Party leaders have always relied on the media to do this for them, by the way.
	Now, in all three branches of the establishment, the Republican, Democrat media, there is sheer abject panic.
	Because like this Washington Post story says a Breitbart story, all these beat reporters and different news agencies have gone out all over the fruited plain.
	They have looked for Trump supporters so mad over his Muslim comments that they're abandoning him.
	They can't find a single one.
	Now imagine how they must feel.
	Ever since Trump made those comments, all they've done is impugn, deride, destroy, criticize, whatever you want.
	They have tried to take Trump out.
	It's been nonstop.
	It's been full frontal assault 24-7, and not one person has been influenced by it.
	Can you imagine how they feel?
	And in fact, what is more likely happening is that with every attempt to destroy Trump, they are strengthening the bond between Trump and his supporters.
	I don't know if they've realized that yet.
	And if they do realize it at some point, I don't know how that will affect or impact their coverage ongoing.
	Simple little statement, Donald Trump owns the media has just destroyed them.
	They, for the first time in a long time, feel utterly powerless.
	And it's really frustrating because they can't not cover him.
	They can't ignore him.
	They have to, if they hope to have or maintain whatever audience they've got now.
	They're really in a bind.
	We'll be back after this.
	Don't quote.
	Yeah, so Trump goes on, he says things that he knows, by the way, he knows a lot of Americans believe, such as this temporary moratorium on Muslims.
	He knows a lot of Americans believe it.
	He knows a lot of Americans would support it.
	But the media, the media goes apoplectic.
	The media loses control.
	The media can't believe it, and they don't believe anybody else would agree with it.
	They think everybody would think Trump is a lunatic, a dangerous, insane lunatic.
	And while they're doing all that, millions of Americans are going, finally, somebody has the guts to tell the truth.
	That's what I mean about this disconnect.
	It is so wide, it is so far, it is so deep.
	Ted Cruz, this is a brilliant point, by the way, this morning in Washington at the Heritage Foundation.
	Ted Cruz reacting to Loretta Lynch, Loretta Lynch, said something this week that is far more dangerous than anything Donald Trump's even thinking.
	Loretta Lynch said she was going to prosecute anybody criticizing Muslims in Islam.
	She went on national TV surrounded by a bunch of lackeys and supporters and warning everybody, you better be careful what you say because we're listening, and if you dare criticize Islam or Muslims, we're coming for you, and we are going to prosecute you.
	You want to talk about the Constitution, anybody?
	What'd the drive-by's do?
	Cheered.
	Majority of Americans say, screw you.
	Here's Ted Cruz on this.
	Loretta Lynch told a gathering the day after the San Bernardino attack that her department would move to prosecute anyone who's, quote, anti-Muslim rhetoric, quote, edged towards violence.
	The day after a terror attack, 14 innocent lives snuffed away.
	As has been the case all too often in the Obama administration, we may be facing once again the weaponization of one of our own government agencies.
	Deployed not to protect Americans, but to force them to submit to the Obama administration's code of what is and is not acceptable speech.
	Heck, I'd go even farther than that.
	The day after 14 Americans are wiped out and others are wounded by Islamic extremists.
	The Attorney General warns the American people any criticism of those people, and we're going to prosecute you.
	Anything you do that says anything you say that might lead to any violence, we're going to come after you.
	Well, wait a minute.
	What aren't the people who just killed 14 Americans?
	Well, they were radicalized.
	It wasn't their fault.
	Or some such dribble.
	Time just goes by too fast.
	This is the fastest three hours in media.
	And the first hour is already now in the can.
	On the way over to Limbaugh Broadcast Museum, if you haven't seen it, go to rushlimbaugh.com and just search around for the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum, the virtual museum.
	Really cool.
	You sit tight, we'll be back.

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