Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, that's what you've all wanted.
That's what everybody's been asking for for I don't know how long.
That was a press conference.
That was a press conference.
That was a kind of press conference Republican voters have been dying to see for who knows how many years.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you here and great to be back.
A short, busy broadcast week.
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Say what you will about Donald Trump.
How many years have people been begging for a Republican to just once take on the media the way Trump did?
All the way from the premise to the details to the motivation.
He took them all on, and the pies de resistance is some journalists said, Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump.
And by the way, these people in the media, they may hate the guy, but they cannot stop covering.
I have a couple of things in the Trump stack today that are going to force, not force me, have, I shall say, inspired me to do another in-depth explanation of why all this is happening, why Trump is happening,
why Trump is working, Trump's relationship with the media, what is sustaining it, how it is that Trump is succeeding in getting a bunch of people that literally hate him to help him out.
Folks, it's a fascinating case study in politics and sociology, psychology, pop culturism, post-whatever modernism, whatever.
It's an amazing thing, and I'm going to do my best to explain it because it's fascinating to me.
It's literally fascinating to me.
But, and of course, we're going to get to the guerrilla business.
That's easily explained too, folks.
You remember when the two fish, what kind of fish were they?
I keep thinking, dolphins or porpoises.
It's way back in the 90s, a couple of them got caught in sea ice, way far north of where they should have been.
And the whole country became captivated with will they find their way out?
What can we do?
Can we cut holes in the ice so that the porpoise, the dolphins, whatever they work in, can we guide them out?
Can we do something?
Can we save them?
Everybody became captivated with the same thing here.
The same principles are involved, except now there was politics in this Cincinnati zoo thing because there's politics in everything.
Can't take it out.
Can't escape it.
Can't avoid it.
And I'm going to explain that also as the program unfolds.
I mean, show you how silly it got.
For a time, Black Lives Matter even got upset about this because they originally thought the parents and the boy were white.
Then when they found out that the parents and boys were black, then all hell broke loose and they had to back off and take a different tack on this.
What are you laughing at?
That's exactly what happened.
You denying that?
You didn't know that?
You didn't know that Black Lives Matter got involved in?
I mean, it's Black Lives Matter versus Guerrilla Lives Matter versus do any life matter, human life versus animal life, what matters most.
Easily explainable in our really screwed up culture and society today.
I can make it understandable from top to bottom, which I will do.
But again, folks, I can't do all of this in the first segment, so just hang in there.
All three hours entirely worth it each and every day here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Now back to this Trump press conference.
If you didn't see it, if you didn't hear it, we're working on audio soundbites now.
And we're in editor short today, so we'll get them up as quickly as we can.
We only got one guy editing, and when we have two guys editing, it would only take half the time it's going to take now.
But anyway, the pies de resistance.
You thought I lost my place, but I didn't because I never do.
Near the end of it, a frustrated journalist.
Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, is it going to be this way?
Is it going to be this way?
Are you going to be attacking us after you become president?
Yes, it is.
Yes, it is.
Because you are the most dishonest.
Political press, the most dishonest people I know.
You know it, and I know it.
The press is dishonest, but political press is especially dishonest.
And then Jim Acosta, I think it was CNN.
Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, do you object to scrutiny?
I mean, you seem like you don't even like scrutiny, but you're seeking the office of President of the United States.
How do you think I don't mind scrutiny?
What I don't like is lies.
You can scrutinize me all day long, but you set up false premises.
You state things about me that are not true, and then you run stories on that.
That's why I'm out here trying to have to correct the record.
And then Trump said, by the way, I've seen you.
You're among the worst.
You're an ABC, right?
You're worst.
You're a sleaze.
And I'm thinking of people at home watching this.
Because folks, in the age of internet trolling, manners are out the window.
It's a waste of time asking for manners here.
Because remember, in a war, the aggressor sets the rules.
And I'm guaranteeing you that Trump thinks the media are the aggressors here.
He was asked even about that.
Are you going to defend yourself?
Are you going to be critical even of Republicans?
You're trying to unify.
If they attack me, hell yes.
Somebody comes after me.
Maybe not as much if they're a Republican, but I'm still going to go after them.
Of course I am.
But the media, the media totally wants Hillary Clinton to win.
Don't misunderstand.
But they're so conflicted.
Because the cable networks, since this thing ended, have been devoted to the press conference and how Trump was mean to them and how Trump insulted them and how Trump criticized them.
And they're now doing all these introspective panel discussions on what does it all mean and what kind of deranged guy is Trump.
Even the New York Times, folks, the New York Times has a story today.
This is, in fact, the foundation of the great dissertation I have coming up to explain much of what's going on to analyze it.
Well, not so much explain.
I don't know how many questions there are, but I'm going to try to unravel why some of this is happening, what it really means.
For those of you who are just watching it casually, but the New York Times headline, television networks struggle to provide equal airtime in the era of Trump.
Oh, yes.
Five pages this baby prints out.
And the New York Times has another story.
Hillary Clinton struggles to find footing in unusual race.
This is also related.
So they've got two stories here on how the Times is actually apologizing to its readers for being unable to balance coverage in favor of Hillary.
If Trump were any other Republican, they would have practically destroyed him by now, and they'd be worried about rehabbing Hillary's image and building her up.
But she's so unexciting.
She's so dull.
She's so scandal-ridden.
They got nothing to work with.
All they can do is try to destroy Trump.
But they don't know how because they didn't make Trump.
They can't destroy Trump.
And everybody dealing with Trump, including Bill Crystal and everybody else trying to take him out, is making the big mistake of trying to plug Trump into the age-old political handbook.
Trump's not part of that.
You don't deal with Trump in the standard political handbook way on policy and issues and things like that.
That's not the way to separate Trump supporters from Trump.
It just isn't going to work.
Television networks struggle to provide equal airtime in the era of Trump.
Let me tell you what the upshot of this story is.
I'm not going to read a whole five pages today because I don't need to.
I make the complex understandable.
I can tell you one paragraph, what the New York Times takes five pages to tell you.
Ready?
The upshot is this.
Trump's constant access to media and Trump's unpredictability is frustrating Hillary and the drive-by's capacity to shape and control the narrative.
They are unable to write the daily soap opera script as they have become accustomed to being able to do.
They're unable to do it because Trump is so unpredictable.
They'll write a script.
They'll write a narrative for the day.
And then Trump will go out and do an appearance and blow it to Smithereens at the same time blowing their plans.
And then Hillary is frustrating because there's nothing to cover.
All there is with Hillary is emails and shavy financial dealings and Mao pantsuits and basic incompetence and boredom and a total lack of excitement.
So there's no way that they can write a narrative every day that destroys Trump and builds up Hillary because, see, where this first mistake is, is in the New York Times worrying about granting Trump access.
They're not granting Trump access.
Trump is commanding access.
Trump is taking access.
Trump is dictating the daily narrative, as this press conference today on his donations to the vets and the various groups illustrate.
What got all this started, don't forget, this all started when the Washington Post published an article last week right before the Memorial Day weekend, which is a typical drive-by media trick.
Whenever they want to destroy anybody or take a hit on somebody, they do it at a time when even if there is a response, nobody sees it, or very few.
So the Washington Post published an article last week right before the Memorial Day weekend started in which they claimed, essentially, that Trump was lying about having raised $6 million in that fundraiser he held in lieu of going to the GOP debate before the Hawkeye caucus.
And it turns out, lo and behold, that the Washington Post was right after all.
Trump didn't raise $6 million for veterans groups.
He only raised $5.6 million.
Only raised $5 million.
And by the way, by the time he gets through, it will be over $6 million.
Now, the money is still coming in.
Our buddy Jim Kalstrom, Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, indicated to a very disappointed CNN that Trump donated $1 million, $1.1 million to them last week or last couple of weeks somehow.
But anyway, they started out with this, they make some factual misrepresentations that Trump is lying about all the money he's raised for the vets.
They claim that Trump claims he's raised $6 million or whatever it is, and they go out and they're doing what they can to illustrate, try to convince people Trump's lying about it, that he hasn't raised that much.
And even worse, that if he has raised that much, he hasn't passed it on.
He's holding on to it.
He hasn't donated it all.
All of these insinuations and allegations were the Washington Post piece.
And Trump felt the need to correct the record today and did so in his own inimitable way, which basically attacked the media for dishonesty and corruption.
And the thing is, he stood there for, what, 45 minutes?
I mean, he didn't hide, didn't run away from it, answered every question.
He just took them on.
They have no complaint.
They can never say Trump avoids them.
They can never say Trump does this or that to try to evade any kind of scrutiny, even though he got that question about scrutiny.
But the New York Times, this is actually kind of funny, I think, because they worried that Trump's constant access to the media and his unpredictability is frustrating Hillary.
Hillary doesn't know how to deal with this.
Hillary doesn't know how to counterprogram Trump, if you will.
Hillary doesn't know how to go out and write her own narrative of the day.
Hillary doesn't know whether to focus on herself or to criticize Trump or to go after crazy Bernie.
She doesn't know what to do.
And the press doesn't either.
The New York Times is admitting here that their capacity, their ability to shape and control the narrative, the soap opera script every day, is almost impossible because of Trump.
And so the Times in this story is struggling to figure out some kind of fairness doctrine solution to the problem.
I kid you not, they're trying to figure out a way they can balance this because Trump is generating so much more coverage.
They're not starting it.
The press isn't.
Trump's just out doing what he's doing and they are compelled to cover it.
They cannot not cover it.
But there is no, Hillary Clinton calls a press conference.
It's no big deal.
There isn't a mad dash by countless members of the media to get there and see what she's going to say.
There is no comparative excitement, unpredictability, drama, entertainment, you name it.
There isn't any comparison.
Now, not to say Trump doesn't have any competition because he does.
That's a crucial factor in all of this, too.
Now, the Times here in their handering.
They're worried.
They're complaining.
It's not fair.
It's not fair.
We can't control the media because it's Trump.
The problem is, and they don't want to say this, but the problem is that Trump, no matter what anybody thinks of him, is interesting.
That Trump, no matter what anybody thinks of him, is funny.
That Trump, no matter what anybody thinks of him, is different.
That Trump, no matter what anybody thinks of him, is drama.
That Trump, no matter what anybody thinks of him, is unpredictable.
All of that means you can't miss it.
You can't roll the dice and not cover it hoping that it isn't anything.
You have to be there as the media.
And you have to hope that he's going to attack you as the media.
But Hillary, on the other hand, dull, totally colorless, mistake-prone, scandal-ridden.
Which means, because Hillary doesn't have any natural talents.
Hillary doesn't have any natural connection to people.
Hillary doesn't have any charisma magnetism.
All of that has to be manufactured by the media.
Hillary needs to be hyperscripted while at the same time have limited availability in a campaign that's about spontaneity and entertainment.
This has become a pop culture campaign.
Like it or not, that's what it is.
And that's why so many in the political world are having trouble understanding it, dealing with it, being involved with it, defining it, what have you.
But Hillary Clinton has this problem.
The more she's seen, the more she's heard, the worse she does.
This is not arguable.
This has been proven over and over again in polling data alone.
The less she speaks, the less she's seen, the higher her numbers go.
But with Trump out there all the time, spontaneous and entertaining, the press has to do something to keep her in the game.
So they hyperscript her appearances, they hyperscript coverage, all with limited availability because Hillary has to maintain some restraint.
Otherwise, it's a potential total implosion.
Let me take a brief time out because of the constraints of time.
Back in a sec, folks.
The New York Times also, from over the weekend, rise of Donald Trump tracks growing debate over global fascism.
And there's even a photo of Hitler and a photo of Mussolini in the New York Times article.
They never call Trump a fascist.
They just claim that Trump's campaign and that Trump's rise to popularity is a sign of a growing global fascism.
You think that story would ever be written about Barack Obama and any other governing world leaders today?
Here you have a guy who's nothing more than a candidate right now.
And the New York Times, over the weekend, the Memorial Day weekend, with a story, rise of Donald Trump tracks growing debate over global fascism.
Never mind that both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton's positions are far more in line with the German national socialism approach than Trump could even dream of.
Forget the Nazis were national socialists.
Fascism, I mean, we're closer to having that currently in the White House than anywhere on the campaign trail right now on the Republican side.
And now we find out that Hillary Clinton's campaign set up this veterans against Trump protest to begin with.
Find out this after the fact.
Media could have found out before it happened, but no, no, no, no.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day, Rushland Boy, and the EIB network.
Yes, that's right.
The Hillary campaign worked with the media in order to set up a phony astroturf anti-Trump protest, ostensibly by military people outside Trump Tower.
As soon as the Hillary campaign saw the Washington Post's false report, remember, that's what got all this started.
Washington Post, false report.
Trump hasn't raised anywhere near what he's claiming.
Trump's exaggerating.
Trump hasn't raised $6 million.
Trump hasn't donated $6 million.
Trump may have raised it.
He may be holding onto it.
It hasn't arrived at the military charities.
Blah, blah, blah.
That's the story.
The Hillary campaign saw that.
As soon as they saw it, the Hillary campaign hired a bunch of random mobsters, astroturfers, if you will, to pretend to be veterans and to protest in front of Trump Tower.
Media knew this.
The media knew it was all made up.
And in fact, of all places, the Daily Beast, which is not the daily caller.
Daily Beast would be on the left side of the aisle.
Hillary Clinton's camp set up Veterans Against Trump protest.
It was a perfect opportunity, it starts, a perfect opportunity to hold the presumptive GOP nominee's feet to the fire for his broken promise to raise $6 million for vets.
But this was no spontaneous protest.
It seemed like an outpouring of veterans' anger against Donald Trump, over a dozen former service members protesting outside Trump Tower.
But the reality was more complicated.
The protest was actually a coordinated effort led in part by the Hillary Clinton campaign to embarrass Trump for his supposedly failed efforts to raise money for the veterans, a claim made by the Washington Post.
It only looked like a grassroots demonstration.
By the way, this is an exact description of Occupy Wall Street.
Occupy Wall Street was totally made up in response to the Tea Party.
Made up, press had knowledge of it, media had knowledge of it, it was totally made up, made to look like the same kind of spontaneous uprising the Tea Party actually is.
A spokesman for the demonstrators insisted they had no affiliation with any campaign.
Later, the spokesman said the protesters had reached out to the Clinton campaign for press contacts, but that's all.
And then the activists finally admitted that, yeah, the Clinton campaign had helped organize the whole thing.
It all started over the weekend after the Washington Post broke the news Trump had not raised the $6 million for veterans groups that he promised earlier this year.
It was $5.6 million.
The Trump campaign's admission followed months of silence to reporter questions on where the money had gone since millions had been unaccounted for.
The Clinton campaign swiftly organized a conference call for Saturday led by Clinton campaign veterans and military families outreach director Jonathan Murray.
According to one of the people on that call, participants were told that the Clinton campaign should not be seen as behind the organizer of the protest.
The protest was yesterday outside Trump Tower.
Marine veteran Clinton supporter Alexander McCoy served as a spokesman for the demonstrators and went to great lengths to hide the Clinton campaign involvement with organizing the demonstration.
Nothing is real anymore.
Nothing's real.
Nothing is what it seems to be.
Everything's managed.
Everything's PR.
Everything's buzz.
Everything.
Trump is not.
Trump is better or worse real.
There's nothing real about Mrs. Clinton.
There is nothing real about her campaign.
There's nothing real about these things that are stage, managed, and produced for public consumption.
So, you know, it goes back to this, folks.
And it underscores one of the points that I'm making.
You know, in every equation, there are two sides.
And you'll have to excuse me.
I'm going to use my own experiences here as a means of illustrating my point.
You know, I occasionally get hit by the drive-by media as well.
In fact, recently, there have been a couple of things out about how it's all over for me.
It's just all over, but it's just like it's all over for Apple.
It's all over for Apple.
It's all over for me.
It's just all over by the shouting.
And the reason is that despite every effort the left has made to take me out to minimize me, every effort the left has made has been defeated.
They have thrown, I don't know how many people up as talk show host competitors, starting with Mario Cuomo, then this guy in Texas, Jim Hightower, and then Gary Hart took a shot at it, and then Air America, an entire network, and none of them exist anymore.
And so then others, you know what?
Let's throw, let's throw some Republicans.
Mike Huckabee in.
He lasted just a little over a year.
The point is, there have been countless efforts to, I don't destroy this program, take me out, but they haven't succeeded.
And as such, I don't have any real competition.
And so the media can't hype competition.
They've tried.
They've hyped everybody that's been thrown up to wipe me out.
And it's all fizzled out.
So the only hope they've got is to focus on me to take me out.
To write crap, lies, all kinds of properly unsourced, biased research, and so forth.
But it's a little different with Trump, although it's somewhat similar.
He does have competition.
His competition is Hillary Clinton.
And they are desperate for her to win, but she can't compete.
She can't compete.
She's deadly dull walking.
You heard a dead man walking.
She's deadly dull walking.
She is a walking, talking embodiment of corruption and phoniness.
And the more exposure she gets, the more her poll numbers plunge.
The more exposure she gets, the more it's clear she can't put crazy Bernie away.
The more exposure Bernie and his insane policies and supporters get, which is a disaster for the Democrats.
That's why they put their debates on Saturday nights so nobody would see them.
And as a result of all of this, all meaningful spotlight is on Trump by necessity.
In terms of media coverage, there's nothing to gain covering Hillary.
She is his competitor, but it's like he has no competition.
Now, don't misunderstand.
He's got competition because there's all kinds of people going to vote for anybody with a D next to their name when the election comes.
I'm talking about press coverage.
I'm talking about the way you and I know that the express purpose of the media is to get Democrats elected to the White House.
This year, no exception, although they are conflicted because Trump has meant so much to their bottom line, to their name recognition, to their egos, to their ratings, you name it.
They want Trump to always be around, but at the end of the day, they still want Hillary elected.
But she can't do it on her own.
In terms of media coverage, Trump doesn't have any competition.
She is no competition for Trump.
If Trump were a radio show and Hillary were a radio show, he would be me and she would be Air America, which is what I mean.
So the press is doing exactly to her what they did to Air America: build him up, cut down Trump, do everything they can to cut down Trump, build her up, because in their minds, the competition is unfair.
It's always going to be unfair when the Democrat is seen lacking.
So Mrs. Clinton is having all kinds of trouble on her own.
It is a disaster for the Democrats.
Bernie Sanders is a disaster for the Democrats.
They're thanking their lucky stars that that debate between Trump and Bernie didn't happen because had it happened, Bernie would have given away the game.
Bernie would have not masked or camouflaged what Democrats really think.
Don't doubt me.
Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz and the rest of that hierarchy in the Democrat Party are thanking their lucky stars that that Bernie Trump debate never ever happened.
Now back to Trump for a second.
His foibles, his eccentricities, his outrages, his shoot from the hip and let it stick where it sticks behavior.
They are the stuff of 24-7 media coverage because he's interesting, he's compelling, he's dramatic, he's a ratings grabber, and B, the drive-bys are invested in Democrats winning.
The Democrats in the race are such sub-par candidates that ratings go down when coverage of them goes up.
In fact, part of Trump's shtick now is to make fun of Hillary's pension for screeching on the stump.
So now every time she's on stage, the only thing people listen for is the screeching because Trump, unlike any other Republican, has pointed it out.
And so when she does oppress her, that's what people are waiting to hear, not what she says about issues.
Well, the drive-bys know this.
And they're frustrated.
In the media sense, Trump doesn't have any competition.
Voting yes at the end of the election, he does because whoever is the nominee has got a D by their name and it's going to get a lot of votes.
Please understand what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about media.
I'm talking about the way media deals with Democrats and conservatives and liberals and Republicans and so forth.
They view Trump as having no competition in the pop culture media, in the entertainment media, in the day-to-day coverage of the campaign.
He's got no competition.
They have to be it.
They can't just let Hillary go out there and provide it because she doesn't.
You know, Trump's now made her into crooked Hillary and whatever else is going on.
And the pictures that now get published of her in her Mao suit going, yeah, you make her look like Kim Jong-un.
And then the screeching, everybody's out there waiting for the screeching to be in.
That's what everybody's waiting to hear now.
Because Trump has pointed it out to the low information crowd that that's what she does.
And wait till Trump sees Clinton cash.
I hope there's a plan, a schedule for Trump to sit down and watch Clinton cash.
That'll create multiple new lines of attack, legitimate attack on the corruption that is Clinton Cash.
The money raised, don't forget, $21 million.
Figure this out.
Here's one of the most boring, dry-ball, dull, uninteresting people in the world getting $21 million in two years for making speeches.
The world's greatest entertainers don't get that.
They don't get anywhere close to that.
So what in the world is she getting it for?
Why is she getting that much?
And what in the name of Sam Hill does she say in these speeches?
Well, all of that's what the media has got to somehow find a way to discard, to take out of the occasion.
Bottom line, no one really cares what Hillary Clinton is saying because what she says is never interesting.
It's only how badly she says it.
And she's plainly self-conscious about it, meaning Trump is living rent-free in her head.
So the job now is for everybody to explain to everybody else what she stands for because she's not going to be honest about it.
She can't be.
She can't be.
If she were to be honest about it, she'd have to just literally trounce Obama each and every day on the economy and a number of other things that she can't do being of the same party.
Gonna grab a phone call here before the hour ends.
Always like to get a phone call in in the first hour of the program.
We've got the Trump sound bites.
Just got them from the press conference, what we've been talking about.
Katie Couric, who's not a good person, folks.
It's just that she's not a nice person.
She's fine.
The pressure got to be too much, and she's now personally taking responsibility for that foolish edit.
Nine seconds of her guests on gun control, supposedly being stumped by a question she asked them.
It was a totally fake and phony edit, and she's now taking responsibility for it because the pressure obviously got to be so intense.
Right.
And I bet you there will not be a single story on how many sponsors she's lost because of this.
Not a single one.
Nor will there be any stories on how many sponsors lost here wanted to come back and we said no to.
Won't be coverage like that at all because that's not the point of the coverage.
So they're going to try to cover it up for Katie and limit the damage to her as much as possible.
That's why she feels confident going out there and taking the hit because she knows it's going to all be over by the next day and no harm, no foul, and she'll still be doing what she's doing the same way she's doing it.
In other words, getting away with it, except when she's caught.
Okay, Michael Eugene, Oregon, you're first on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Yeah, I was just wondering, what would Trump say if Hillary or another candidate were to give $6 million to a group like, let's say, Black Lives Matter?
Wouldn't I would assume that he'd say, oh, well, they're trying to buy their votes.
You know, I mean, isn't that what Donald Trump is doing with the media?
I don't know.
Am I trying to buy the leukemia vote every year?
Am I trying to buy leukemia listeners by raising money for the leukemia lymphoma foundation every I'm just saying, isn't that what Donald Trump would accuse them of?
Don't you think he'd come up with that?
I don't have any idea.
My guess is Trump would say that Black Lives Matter, if Hillary gave $6 million to Black Lives Matter, that she must be in trouble with the African American vote, is probably what he would say.
Right.
So she needs to improve her status with the African American vote by donating money to them.
And therefore, it's like influencing their vote.
Yeah, but Trump wasn't in any trouble with veterans.
He had no problem with veterans.
He wasn't.
Well, actually, he did.
In 2013, he wrote a letter to the New York Daily News, reported that Trump has a long decades war on New York's disabled veterans on street peddlers, you know, on their food booths.
And he wrote a letter to here, then Michael Mayo Bloomberg about the ambience of Fifth Avenue.
And he was saying that the veterans that had food booths down there, which were legal, and, you know, and it was under a rule that they were eligible for discounted, you know, discounted rates because of the service to their country.
He complained that they were destroying the ambiance of the highest.
Well, I don't know anything about that.
Maybe if you want them moved, it's no different than Mayor David Dinkins sweeping all of the homeless off the street during the Democrat convention in 1992 and sweeping them down to the battery area and told them to walk back after the convention was over because the homeless were dirtying the image of the Democrat Party going into their convention.
I got to take a break back after this.
By the way, our last caller's example: if Hillary Clinton had given Black Lives Matter $6 million, I don't think there's any risk of that.
Hillary Clinton doesn't give money to anybody.
I mean, in that world, Hillary Clinton is a total taker.