Feb. 21, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| And it might be one of those days. | |
| I got 20 things going on here at the same time as the show starts. | |
| There's been a massive, massive organizational and editing effort here today. | |
| Great to have you, folks, Rush Limboa. | |
| Just revved and ready here behind the golden EIB microphone at 800 282-2882, the email address L RushFord EIB net.us. | |
| Elements of the drive-by media are still having conniptions. | |
| They're going nuts over some of the things I said on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. | |
| Among those things they're having conniptions over. | |
| My observation, the First Amendment does not give the media immunity from criticism. | |
| They are shocked anybody thinks this. | |
| They are stunned that anybody would say this. | |
| They simply cannot believe it. | |
| But at the top of the list, virtually every media person that has commented that I've seen anyway. | |
| I've seen it all. | |
| I've got audio sound bites of some of this to show you to play for you, demonstrate for you. | |
| But I'm sure it's more than what I have here. | |
| But I think virtually every drive-by media person who's commented on it is just acting flabbergasted that I actually believe that the media is working to destroy Trump. | |
| They think it's insane. | |
| What gives me the right to say that? | |
| And how is it that I have 20 million listeners? | |
| I mean, that that just it doesn't make sense. | |
| They can't figure it out. | |
| And I'm gonna folks, let me double down on this today, because there is no question, and that's exactly what's going on here. | |
| None whatsoever. | |
| I got a and I've got I've got two really brilliant pieces today to share with you, excerpts from them to back this up. | |
| One is by Michael Walsh at PJ Media. | |
| Uh and and the headline of that story, what has the often boisterous Trump done in his No, no, I'm sorry, that's Victor Davis Hanson at National Review. | |
| The the the Walsh story focuses on the deep state uh uh intelligence guys, the the uh and the Obama holdovers and the effort there to unseat Trump and now both Michael Walsh, who's a great writer, and we've cited him many times over the years, both Walsh and Victor Davis Hanson, I make no bones about it. | |
| There is an ongoing effort to replace Donald Trump to get him out of office. | |
| That is what all of this is about. | |
| Now, the media may not be leading it, but they are complicit in it. | |
| The actual effort to undermine Trump is occurring in the in in what we uh lightheartedly here refer to as the deep state. | |
| It basically you can find it, you can find it in the halls of Congress. | |
| You find people in Congress who don't want Trump. | |
| Uh you can find people at various federal bureaucracies who do not want Trump. | |
| You find people CIA, the uh uh various intelligence agencies that do not want Trump, and they are leaking, and they're they're illegally wiretapping phone calls, and they're leaking what they're hearing to the media. | |
| The media complicit by eagerly reporting this stuff rather than calling the leakers out and rat and it's all illegal and they all playing the game together. | |
| The bottom line here is uh, and this is not I I don't want you to misunderstand here. | |
| It this is uh I don't want to say it's common. | |
| Don't mean that, but it's not anything that hasn't happened before. | |
| There have always been efforts to undermine the chief executive by elements of the government who do not support, do not believe for various reasons throughout our history. | |
| So this is not unprecedented. | |
| It's just that this one happens while we're alive. | |
| And this one happens while the guy we elected to be president and who won is the target. | |
| And we have a vested interest in preventing this effort to unseat Trump. | |
| Now you might say, well, what's the process? | |
| It's the it's not really a process. | |
| I mean, it's I mean you you you might have Impeachment charges brought at some point. | |
| But it's it's about paralyzing Trump. | |
| It's about seeing to it that none of Trump's agenda is implemented. | |
| It's about making Trump quit or give up or just raise his hands in futility and show up, but not try to irritate anybody. | |
| There are many, many different uh methods here. | |
| There are uh all kinds of different objectives. | |
| If they could get Trump literally out of office, make no question, I have no question they would do it. | |
| But that is at the far end of the extreme in terms of possibilities. | |
| There are other ways to render Trump ineffective or neutered uh and to dispirit his supporters, and it's all happening at full speed ahead here. | |
| And the I think one of the greatest indications of how I'm right is notice how anybody involved in this reacts when they are accused of this. | |
| And in thinking primarily here, the the media, this I don't think it's a charge, it's not an allegation, it's the statement of fact the media doesn't like Donald Trump and is doing what they can to undermine his presidency. | |
| They're doing what they can to discredit him, they're doing what they're and they've I mean it's it's unique in the sense that you wouldn't find any behavior like this at all relevant to Barack Obama or to Bill Clinton, but you will find similar actions haven't taken place against George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and so forth. | |
| As I say it's not unprecedented, but it's serious, and it is real. | |
| And when the media is accused of having this desire and working toward the ultimate end of dethroning Trump, they act like stuck pigs. | |
| I mean, if it's ridiculous and if it's insane, and if it's lunacy, act that way. | |
| You know, start laughing at it, start chuckling about it, having fun with it, but no, no, no, no, no. | |
| They are reacting like like stuck pigs. | |
| In the midst of all of this, Trump just keeps moving the agenda forward. | |
| However, I got a note, this is another uh opportunity for me to explain in a little bit more detail the point that I just made. | |
| I I got a note last night from a very, very frustrated friend. | |
| Very on our side, one of us. | |
| In fact, you probably would know the guy if I mentioned the name, but it it it's not it doesn't matter who it is, and I don't have permission to mention anyway. | |
| The subject line of the email was one word, Congress. | |
| And the email began this way, and this is all it was. | |
| By now in 2009, Congress had passed the stimulus, they had passed the Lily Leadbetter law, they had passed the CHIP, the CHIP expansion, and it already started talks on Obamacare by this time in 2009, one month into the Obama regime. | |
| And I wrote back and I said, Now remember that the Affordable Care Act had been sitting in a drawer for years. | |
| The afford of national health care has been one of those delayed orgasm things that the Democrats have had sitting in a drawer. | |
| They've had it written or they had it written for years, waiting for it to be implemented. | |
| That's how much they wanted it. | |
| That's how much they desired it. | |
| They had sat down and they had written it. | |
| It was over 2,000 pages. | |
| You don't think the Affordable Care Act got written after Obama was elected, do you? | |
| No, no, no, no. | |
| It may have been refined and Obama may have added his touches to it, like building in uh chaos, implosion, and failure uh after so many years, based on things he had said, by the way. | |
| I'm not imagining this. | |
| Obama talking to union people had told them look, we can't go on day one to national health care. | |
| It's gonna take five to ten years. | |
| People are gonna have to be sort of edged into it. | |
| Can't just do it overnight. | |
| So we know what the ultimate plan was. | |
| I said the stimulus in response. | |
| Do you know that the stimulus bill, Obama's so-called stimulus, was written on January 9th, 2009, before Obama was even inaugurated. | |
| They had the stimulus ready to go. | |
| But above and beyond that, I pointed out to my distraught friend that there was no way that anyone was going to deny Obama anything in his first year. | |
| The Republicans weren't. | |
| The Democrats certainly weren't. | |
| No way under the sun. | |
| Here we're the first African American president in the nation's history. | |
| There was no way Obama, and besides, the Republicans didn't have the votes to stop anything, and they didn't start really opposing Obama with any serious intent until Obamacare started in essence in late 2009 into 2010. | |
| But the first year, you know, Obama's 100 day honeymoon was the first year. | |
| And as far as the press is concerned, Obama's honeymoon was all eight years. | |
| I said, Trump is in no way in a similar situation. | |
| So my friend wrote back. | |
| Are they going to give Trump anything? | |
| Question mark. | |
| And I looked at that question. | |
| Are they going to give Trump anything? | |
| And I said, what must my distraught friend think? | |
| And it got me to thinking, what must maybe millions of Americans think? | |
| That we have an election, that the people speak and elect the president, and in Trump's case, his agenda's widely well known. | |
| He detailed it multiple times a day during the campaign. | |
| There are no secrets with Trump. | |
| He spelled out everything he was going to do, everything he wanted to do, and won the election on the basis of that, so you can say he's got a mandate. | |
| No surprises. | |
| And so I guess there was a supposition, an assumption in the question, well, hey, the president wins. | |
| Everybody knows the president wins. | |
| He wins on his agenda. | |
| So everybody in Washington says, yeah, people have spoken. | |
| Majority of people, uh, better get started letting Trump have what he wants, because that's how we stay on the good side of the people. | |
| Ha! | |
| Stay on the good side of the people? | |
| When did that start mattering in Washington? | |
| That hasn't mattered in Washington, and I don't know how long. | |
| It hasn't mattered to the Democrat Party since I've been doing this show. | |
| Staying on the good. | |
| The Democrat Party governs against the will of the people, and that's why they're where they are. | |
| They're in the desert. | |
| They're regional party. | |
| They lost 1,200 seats since 2010. | |
| As an electoral party, the Democrat Party has really been marginalized. | |
| Now that's counterbalanced by all of the embedded Democrat and liberals in the various bureaucracies and in the judiciary. | |
| But as an electoral party. | |
| In fact, there's a New York Times story here. | |
| This isn't, this is incredible. | |
| It's well, it's another, it's a it's an opinion piece. | |
| It's in the op-ed page by somebody named Steve Phillips. | |
| And I didn't, I don't know who this guy is. | |
| I would love to tell you Steve Phillips is, but it oh senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. | |
| That's uh Moscow on the Hudson. | |
| Center for American Progress, one of these Obama Hillary left-wing groups like the Think Progress and all that. | |
| Well, there is no pedestalite. | |
| Podesta left. | |
| So that's who this guy is, a fellow, a senior fellow. | |
| It means he works at a think tank, which means he's he's paid to sit there and think and then write what he thinks. | |
| He's the author of Brown is the new white. | |
| How the demographic revolution has created a new American majority, except it hasn't yet. | |
| The uh white population, to the chagrin of many, still 77%. | |
| This is important because Democrats threw away white working class voters. | |
| They just said, you know what? | |
| We're not gonna try to win elections with a white working class. | |
| Well, in other words, we're not gonna try to win elections with a little guy anymore. | |
| We're gonna instead become the party of a giant coalition of minority groups. | |
| Homosexuals, lesbians, transgenders, African Americans, Hispanics, Guatemalans, El Salvadorans, Somalis, Yemenis, Syrians, Al Qaeda, ISIS, | |
| ISIL, whatever it takes, whatever groups that we can put together, and of course, illegals, whatever votes we can squeeze out of that group, and that's what they decided to do based on the fact they've read all this demographic research, and they really believe that this giant coalition of minorities will outnumber the white population. | |
| We're not there yet. | |
| And the election results give rise to their erroneous calculations here. | |
| Author of Brown is the new white, how the demographic revolution has created a new American George. | |
| He's also the founder of democracy and color. | |
| So that's who this guy is. | |
| And here's the headline Move left, Democrats. | |
| Yep. | |
| That's the ticket. | |
| A Democrat National Committee will choose its next leader on Saturday. | |
| And when it does, it should choose a leader who will resist the pressure to pursue the wrong white people. | |
| Hundreds of articles have been written about the imperative of attracting more support from white working class voters who supported Obama than bolted back to Trump. | |
| The far more important and untold story of the election is that more Obama voters defected to third and fourth party candidates than the number who supported Trump. | |
| That is the white flight that should most concern an ex-DNC chairman. | |
| Now, to be clear, all white votes matter. | |
| Had to make sure to put that in. | |
| But Democrats must make tough data-driven decisions about how to prioritize their work. | |
| Right now, too many are using bad math and faulty logic to push the party to chase the wrong white people. | |
| And I am one of the wrong white people, by the way. | |
| I just uh in this story, I am referenced as an example of one of the wrong white people. | |
| Is that true? | |
| Not by name. | |
| Conservative white people. | |
| Oh, I see what you thought when he says conservative, you think me. | |
| So I'm not mentioning my name in this. | |
| But uh conservative white people, Democrat Party, don't go anywhere near it. | |
| Don't try, don't even get close, don't even get within smelling range of conservative white people, just write them off. | |
| So that's where, and this is the advice the Democrats are getting from people that they listen to. | |
| Okay? | |
| So they're gonna continue to marginalize themselves, which is another reason why since the Democrats can't win at the ballot box, they've got to get rid of Trump some other way. | |
| And it is underway. | |
| Now, I wrote back one more thing to my friend who asked me, are they going to give Trump anything? | |
| I have to take a brief time out. | |
| We'll come back and I'll conclude what I because I it it's uh it's a brilliant standalone point by itself, whether I put it in an email or not, and I'll share it with you in a minute. | |
| Yeah, shadow government, deep state, whatever. | |
| I'm convinced there is a shadow government. | |
| There's an Obama shadow government. | |
| I it's not my idea, by the way. | |
| I've seen it referenced by others. | |
| I happen to believe it, and they're just the Obama holdovers, and they're organized. | |
| I mean, that's the whole point about the difference in the Democrats and the Republicans. | |
| The Democrats organize for things like this. | |
| This is they plan for losing elections and making sure that their lifetime of career appointees are activist organizers, not just placeholders. | |
| So, anyway, my friend sends me this. | |
| Well, is there anything? | |
| Are they gonna give Trump anything? | |
| This is so brazen. | |
| And I wrote back, give Trump anything? | |
| No. | |
| Trump's gonna have to beat them all. | |
| He's gonna have to beat Congress. | |
| Now, I know Trump's out there today making a big deal. | |
| He went to the uh black history month and went to the African American Museum, and he's talking about unifying the country. | |
| I know he wants to do that, by the way. | |
| The left doesn't want to be part of unifying with Trump. | |
| And some Republicans don't. | |
| That's admitting defeat. | |
| This is what people have got to understand. | |
| People unifying with Trump is the same as them throwing in and admitting defeat and becoming serving it to Trump. | |
| They're not going to do it. | |
| And the reasons for this are really well explained by Victor Davis Hanson at National Review Today and Michael Walsh. | |
| And I'll get to that in due course. | |
| I wrote back, I said, no, he's going to have to beat them all. | |
| And I reminded him of something. | |
| I'm going to remind you. | |
| You remember during the presidential campaign? | |
| You remember, if if I heard it once, I heard it two or three times, that some in the never Trump elements of conservatism, and some in the GOP actually publicly said that they would rather lose and have the party almost defunct and in total disarray and put it back together from scratch than have Trump win. | |
| Yeah, Brian's nodding his head. | |
| Snerdley remembered when I reminded him that damn right. | |
| If I heard that once, I heard that two or three times. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Bill Crystal might have said it. | |
| I can't say for sure, but there were a number of people. | |
| The never Trump energy was sky high. | |
| And they were saying all kinds of crazy things. | |
| And remember, folks, at 9 o'clock election night, everybody still thought Hillary was going to win. | |
| Not just Hillary. | |
| The Republicans all thought everybody believed that Trump had no prayer, that this was going to be a landslide. | |
| And they all had made plans based on what they thought was going to happen. | |
| And then everything was turned upside down, but Trump winning. | |
| Nobody planned for that. | |
| And now the GOP isn't a real fix. | |
| Because they are the majority and they have no excuses. | |
| Do you... | |
| When you look at the GOP, you see this... | |
| Do you think they're feeling the glow of victory? | |
| When you watch them, is that something you think that they're carrying around? | |
| Happiness at having won? | |
| Do you see that in their demeanor, in their words? | |
| Think about it for a minute. | |
| So 9 p.m. election night. | |
| Everybody, 9 p.m. | |
| It wasn't until 9 p.m., and it was Fox News first, that people started thinking, you know, wait a minute, this isn't adding upright. | |
| It was Chris Wallace, in fact, first person I heard say. | |
| He was ridiculed when he said it. | |
| Well, not really. | |
| They laughed at him. | |
| Look, you know, Trump could win this, he said. | |
| Oh, and that just shook up the app. | |
| I mean, everybody. | |
| And do you remember from like uh what was it, 1230 to 2 a.m., there were no results reported? | |
| We're sitting there watching, well, what New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, all the numbers at 99%, they wouldn't call it. | |
| Remember that? | |
| I said, what the hell's going on here? | |
| A full hour and a half, and no state had reported a single additional vote counted. | |
| So I asked somebody that does this for a living, I said, Well, what was going on there? | |
| And this person said, I guarantee you they're looking for votes to find anywhere they could give to Hillary. | |
| I have no doubt about that. | |
| But the point is, I'm talking about people's attitudes here and their psychology. | |
| 9 o'clock on election night, everybody thought that Hillary was winning and in a landslide. | |
| And they all had plans based on that, including the GOP. | |
| They had made plans as to how to behave and what to do as losers. | |
| And they were going to be happy about it because many of them didn't want Trump to win. | |
| Now they are the majority. | |
| Now they've got no excuses. | |
| Matt Drudge believes the Republican Party's currently constituted is much more comfortable as a second place party defending things rather than a winning party leading things. | |
| I don't know. | |
| All I know is they are the majority and they have no excuses. | |
| And yet there are some people who think that they're trying to manufacture some excuses about why they can't get Trump's cabinet confirmed on time, why they can't get moving on tax reform, why they can't do this. | |
| And the thing that you have to remember, remember I spoke earlier about since when did what the people or voters want start mattering in Washington? | |
| Because what really matters in Washington Is what donors want. | |
| And the donors to the GOP do not want much of the Trump agenda. | |
| They don't even want the economic growth of the Trump agenda. | |
| They want open borders. | |
| They don't want any immigration reform whatsoever unless it's amnesty. | |
| And so I ask, do you look at the GOP? | |
| Pick a name, see him on TV. | |
| Some exceptions. | |
| Do you see people running around with the glow of victory? | |
| Or do you see people all stressed out? | |
| Or maybe not stressed out, but I mean d do you see the ebulliance and the confidence that accompanies victory. | |
| And then here you've got McCain, who's literally admitting that he wants to sabotage and undermine the Trump presidency in a speech on foreign soil. | |
| And Senator Lindsey Graham was hooked into admitting that by some obscure website that punked him. | |
| That that's the objective. | |
| So you've got some Republicans admitting that what they want to do is stop Trump. | |
| So it's not a wild allegation. | |
| Let's go to the audio soundbites. | |
| Now I'll get to the Victor Davis Hanson stuff and Michael Walsh and Dukehorse. | |
| I'm not trying to string you along. | |
| I just want to try to get as much in here in the first hour, you know, set the table, start a stuff, cover things and get back to them in uh in detail. | |
| Um this the the first uh I guess soundbite deals with you know I went back and forth on even playing this because this is just absurd. | |
| But this I decided to play it because it's an illustration of just who the media is and and how off the wall and unobjective and unaware that they are, and it also demos what their agenda is. | |
| Now you may have heard that the CPAC people had invited Milo Iannopoulos to keynote the CPAC convention, which starts this weekend, and there was an uproar from mainstream conservatism over this. | |
| Many were just curious, angry. | |
| How in the hell could this happen? | |
| Who who thinks that Milo Yuannopoulos is mainstream conservatism? | |
| So anyway, um a video tape was uncovered of Milo talking about things that could be considered to be pedophilia. | |
| You know, CPAC pulled him. | |
| They yanked his uh his appearance, and Simon and Schuster's now canceled the book contract they had with him. | |
| So he's not going to this is a red meat for the media. | |
| Uh and it was actually served to them. | |
| This they didn't have to make this up. | |
| CPAC actually gave them this one. | |
| But I want you to listen. | |
| This is Alison Camarata. | |
| Now, Alison Camarata used to be at Fox, and I've only met her a couple of times. | |
| She's nice as she could be. | |
| Um, and she asked me, I don't know how many times she was the weekend host of the Saturday edition of Fox and Friends, the early morning show. | |
| She politely asked me over and over to appear on the program, and ultimately I said yes, I would do it. | |
| It was uh it was a phoner, and she was perfectly fine. | |
| She was perfectly nice, and she knows who I am. | |
| She knows what I do and who I am, but you'd never know it listening to this soundbite. | |
| She's talking with uh Chris Cuomo, who thinks communism is about elevating economic standards for people. | |
| He really gave the Cuban dictators a piece of his mind. | |
| He said, when are these communists going to understand? | |
| They're gonna have to start improving living conditions for people. | |
| I saw that, what? | |
| When is communism ever done that? | |
| That's not what communism does. | |
| Anyway, he thinks it is. | |
| He's the son of Mario the Pious, the late Mario the Pious, former governor of New York, and just would be, oh my God, they couldn't wait for him to be elected president, but it never happened. | |
| So they're talking about Milo and CPAC canceling his appearance. | |
| Provocateurs have taken the place of conventional leadership because it's juicier and it's more headline grabbing, and you can build more blogs around it, and you can build more websites around it. | |
| The only major one is Trump. | |
| When you say provocateurs, I mean really he filled the entire space in terms of who's succeeded on that. | |
| I mean, this guy to compare this guy from Breitbart to Trump is insulting to Trump. | |
| I'm not comparing him to Trump, I'm comparing him to Rush Limbaugh and to other right. | |
| It's even insulting to those guys. | |
| I get it, but I think that what your point was is that people who sort of say the most outlandish things right now, and as we know, they don't necessarily have to be fact-based, get a lot of attention. | |
| All right, so Alison Camarata has decided that I am Milo Iannopoulos. | |
| Now, how absurd. | |
| And she knows better. | |
| She knows it's not even close. | |
| It's a it's ridiculous. | |
| It is preposterous. | |
| And yet there she is on CNN, drawing the comparison on the basis that I don't mean what I say. | |
| I'm just a provocateur. | |
| I'm just saying what I say to attract attention to my. | |
| If I wanted to attract attention to myself, I'd be doing television every day. | |
| If I wanted to attract attention to myself, I'd have a PR firm and I'd be nothing but seeing stories about me in the media every day. | |
| I do not want any part of that. | |
| I've been there, done that, and it's phony baloney, plastic banana, good time, rock and roll. | |
| I'm not into that at all. | |
| I'm not into being pro I just tell people what I think. | |
| It's and it used to be things that she agreed with. | |
| So this is an example where the media thinks everybody over here is off the charts, false, untrue, saying things just to get noticed. | |
| And she doesn't even see, and nor do any of the others in the media. | |
| They have no sense of self-awareness. | |
| They really don't. | |
| They haven't the foggiest idea why people are angry at them. | |
| You know something? | |
| I've said it before. | |
| The media is the only business in the world where the customer is always wrong. | |
| If you're a news consumer, if you're a customer, and you complain to them, they will tell you that you are not sophisticated enough to understand what they do. | |
| And they'll tell you to go listen or watch somewhere else. | |
| They're not even really doing the news for you. | |
| They're doing news for other journalists and other people in government because that's their real audience, as evidenced by CNN's ratings. | |
| They don't have any compared to other news organizations. | |
| They don't seem to be bothered by it at all. | |
| They don't seem to be doing anything to try to change it at all, or very little. | |
| Now, let's see. | |
| Nope, got to take a break. | |
| There are two more along these same lines that are also instructive and informative. | |
| And we'll be right back. | |
| Okay, today, CNN's new day, Michael Smirkanish, who used to host the morning show on our Philadelphia affiliate. | |
| And I've met him. | |
| I went in, I did a rush to excellence appearance there at Philadelphia. | |
| Uh it was uh what a great, what a great uh room it was. | |
| It was the it was on the campus of the University of the Arts. | |
| Camille Padia teaches there. | |
| And man, it was just a beautiful room that sold out crowd big, and behind, you know, backstage, uh Smirkanish, uh, his father was there, said he was a big fan, and uh Smirkanish was very nice, very complimentary. | |
| So here he is on CNN's New Day today, and he's with Chris Cuomo, and they're they're talking about Milo Ianopoulos being canceled by CPAC again. | |
| Donald Trump is the embodiment of a 30-year trend in the making, an embodiment of empowering Rush Limbaugh, the Drudge Report, Fox News, Breitbart, Newsmax. | |
| They exert control over primary voters in a way that the traditional conservative leadership used to do. | |
| And that's why Milo Yoannopoulos would even be extended an invitation to come to a gathering like CPAC. | |
| But the problem is that that comes at the expense of reaching a much more middle-of-the-road audience than you need in a general election. | |
| We just won. | |
| What in the hell are these people talking about? | |
| And I want to, but I have another question. | |
| Who the hell empowered me? | |
| What does that mean? | |
| And who empowered Fox News? | |
| And who empowered Matt Drudge? | |
| Who are these mysterious horses that are empowering us? | |
| Who is it setting the table so that we can come in and dominate the way we have? | |
| Who made that happen? | |
| Donald Trump is the embodiment of a 30-year trend in the making. | |
| An embodiment of empowering Rush Limbaugh, the Drudge Report, Fox News. | |
| Well, I don't even understand. | |
| If I define these words as I know their meaning, this doesn't make any sense. | |
| Who empowered me, Mr. Snerdley? | |
| What does this even mean? | |
| What is he trying to say? | |
| No, he's not no, no, he's not trying to say I earned anything at all. | |
| That's the whole point. | |
| I didn't, I did earn it. | |
| Nobody empowered me. | |
| You know, women talk about empowerment. | |
| Feminists talk about empowerment. | |
| What do they mean by this? | |
| I didn't, it's it's like I told my friend when he asked me why are they going to give Trump no, he's gonna have to win it. | |
| He's gonna have to beat everybody, he's gonna have to earn it. | |
| What is this empowerment stuff? | |
| And what is the embodiment of empowerment? | |
| They probably understand it at Harvard or Brown, but I I'm I it doesn't make any sense. | |
| And who empowered Drudge? | |
| I mean, who is this all powerful empowerer who is sitting up there deciding who's gonna succeed and who isn't? | |
| I'll tell you who it is, it's the American people. | |
| If I'm empowered by anybody, it's the American people, but that's not how this works. | |
| Anyway, the point is they're sitting out there, and of course they're at, as Trump was at a failing CNN, and they're looking at all these other things, and it can't be explained in their world. | |
| It can't be that I am legitimately the most listened to talk show. | |
| It has to be somebody's made it happen. | |
| There is a there's a sinister something or other going out there that is empowering me and Drudge and Fox News. | |
| Now, Smirkonish was a conservative when he was on the radio in Philadelphia. | |
| Well, at least he used to be. | |
| One more. | |
| And this is this little Brian Stelter, the media guy CNN yesterday talking to Brooke Baldwin, and they're just beside themselves here over the uh the fact that I said that the the media didn't make Trump, so they can't destroy him. | |
| And they're beside themselves that I said that they have a blueprint that the Democrats and the media have a Democrat, a blueprint for destroying Republican political officials. | |
| I said it's not going to work on Trump because the media didn't make Trump, they couldn't break him. | |
| That's what they're talking about here. | |
| This is a guy who has like tens of millions of listeners. | |
| It just makes me wonder how many people believe that. | |
| Well, certainly someone like Rush Limbaugh has been trying to erode trust in the mainstream press for a long time, uh, for decades. | |
| Uh part of his appeal is that he's anti-media, and we've seen that across the board. | |
| Trump is tapping into that. | |
| Trump is picking these fights because the media is powerful. | |
| In some ways, he's going after the media instead of the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party is pretty weak right now. | |
| And Trump needs an enemy. | |
| It's part of a broader issue for this white house. | |
| That's why there's been aggressive coverage. | |
| Uh it's not because a journal is trying to take down the president. | |
| It's not because they voted against him or for him, it's because we're continuing to hear this series of false statements. | |
| Really? | |
| Trump wants this. | |
| That's right, folks. | |
| Trump needs an enemy. | |
| He needs it. | |
| And of course, I. All I do is tell people what you do and why. | |
| I mean, I play audio sound bites of you people saying what you say. | |
| Anyway, so this is what happens when you become a victim. | |
| This is exactly what happens when you become a victim. | |
| And when you become a liberal victim to boot. | |
| You lose your mind. | |
| Yeah, Trump, yeah, the Democrats, they didn't win anything, which is true, and they're in big trouble. | |
| So he can't go after the Democrats. | |
| He's like, he needs an enemy. | |
| Like Trump wants this. | |
| Anyway. | |
| And of course, that's why there has been aggressive coverage, because Trump is. | |
| What did he say? | |
| Trump is tapping into the embodiment of empowerment that led to me. | |
| I guess. | |
| That's what the All right. | |
| Imagine Ted Cruz had had won the Republican nomination and had become president. | |
| Imagine Ted Cruz is elected. | |
| Do you think the media would be any different substantively than they are with Trump? | |
| It'd be just the intensity of opposition and the smearing would be identity. | |
| It might be focused in different areas or ways, but do you think there'd be any honeymoon with Cruz? | |
| Or pick your maybe with Jeb there would have been. | |
| Maybe with Romney. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| We've already stated they've gone back to destroying Romney, too. | |
| It's the same, doesn't matter who, folks. | |
| That's the point. | |
| Gotta break. |
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