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RUSH:  I meant to mention this earlier.  CNN has started doing something that\u2019s new.  They do instant fact-check on Donald Trump.  They may do it on Hillary; I haven\u2019t seen it.  Here\u2019s what they do.  I just saw it.  They just ran a graphic — a chyron graphic, one of those banners at the bottom of the screen — and here\u2019s what it says verbatim:  “Trump Calls Obama Founder of ISIS (He\u2019s Not).”  And in a very tiny font underneath that, they make some reference to CNN\u2019s fact checker.  But you don\u2019t see that. <\/p>\n

You don\u2019t see that what this is… (interruption) There it is.  “Trump Calls Obama Founder of ISIS (He\u2019s Not),” fact checked, al-Baghdadi… It\u2019s editorializing. They can do what they want, but I\u2019ve never seen it.  I\u2019ve never seen them do this to a claim that Hillary Clinton has made or any other Democrat.  I\u2019ve seen it repeatedly with claims that Trump makes.  Normally what they do is just report what a candidate is saying and they leave it up to their brilliant audience to wade through the muck and find out the truth of it. <\/p>\n

CNN doesn\u2019t trust the intelligence of their audience, and they certainly do not get nuanced.  They don\u2019t take the time to explain what Trump means. Like it\u2019s a fact check: “Al-Baghdadi Founded ISIS.” (laughing)  Hey, CNN, you know, you\u2019re falling to third place for a reason.  The numbers are in.  CNN has now fallen to beneath MSNBC.  You have to try to do that.  You have to make an effort to throw away that kind of an audience, and I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any question about it. <\/line><\/p>\n

CNN has become the all-Trump-bashing network all the time.  It\u2019s just what they do, and I think people don\u2019t want to hear it.  I\u2019m not saying that they\u2019re all Trump fans, either.  It\u2019s just they don\u2019t… I mean, it never ends. Whatever Trump says, whatever he\u2019s in the news for, it\u2019s a bash, it\u2019s a rip, it\u2019s a criticism. Then they\u2019ll convene their roundtables to double down on it and they\u2019ll have one Trump spokesman with four or five other people.  And it\u2019s just…<\/p>\n

These things matter, and I just don\u2019t think their audience… They may be all-in for Hillary. Their audience may be a primarily Democrat audience. But why are they losing?  I mean, they\u2019re throwing audience away.  They are bleeding.  It\u2019s incredible.  And they were number one during the Democrat convention.  Are you aware of that?  They had twice the audience of Fox during the Democrat convention.  They had, I think, an average of six million viewers a night versus Fox\u2019s three. <\/p>\n

Those are rounded numbers.  Now, it could well be that Fox\u2019s audience has no idea to punish itself and watch the Democrat convention.  And a lot of libs know that CNN is the liberal Democrat network, so they tuned in. But they stay with it, and they have fallen by the wayside even more.  By the way, here\u2019s another CNN indictment: CNN was the network reporting that Secret Service had called Trump and demanded a sit-down to discuss with him his “threat” against Mrs. Clinton.  You know what, folks? <\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t happen. The Secret Service never met with Trump.  Not about this.  The Secret Service didn\u2019t have any cautionary warnings for Trump.  “A federal official on Wednesday said the US Secret Service had not formally spoken with Republican Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign regarding his suggestion a day earlier that gun rights activists could stop Democratic rival Hillary Clinton from curtailing their access to firearms.  …<\/p>\n

“[A] federal official familiar with the matter told Reuters that there had been no formal conversations between the Secret Service and the Trump campaign.  Earlier CNN had reported that there had been multiple conversations between the campaign and the agency. …  ‘No such meeting or conversation ever happened,\u2019 Trump wrote on Twitter, accusing CNN of having made up the report.” They not only probably made it up, they pounded it! I mean, they were pounding it from 2:30 yesterday on practically nonstop. <\/p>\n

<\/a>In fact, we had a sound bite yesterday. I didn\u2019t get to it. Remember how Wolf Blitzer couldn\u2019t keep his pants up reporting that George Bush\u2019s ratings had fallen down to the thirties?  He did the same thing on this.  “It\u2019s five o\u2019clock in New York!  It\u2019s midnight in Paris! And Donald Trump has had two secret meetings with the Secret Service about his caustic comments about Hillary Clinton!” “It\u2019s 5:15 in New York!  It\u2019s 15 minutes after midnight in Paris!  Donald Trump is…”<\/p>\n

He went on and on and on, another one of those montages.  It never happened.  Since we\u2019re at CNN, grab audio sound bites… What are they here?  Grab 17 and 18.  This is our old buddy Don “Black Hole” Lemo<\/a>n.  Before anybody gets the idea, here… (interruption) Snerdley\u2019s going, “Wait a minute. You want to rephrase that?”  Yes.  During the disappearance of the Malaysian airliner, the estimable — who we love.  We don\u2019t want anything to ever happen to Don Lemon at CNN. <\/p>\n

We want Don Lemon to get promoted.  We want Don Lemon on the air all the time here, folks.  Don Lemon asked a former National Transportation Safety Board expert whether or not a black hole could have swallowed up the Malaysian airliner.  And, sure as it can be, several journalists circled the wagons to try to explain what Don meant by that, that it would be a mistake to take him literally. <\/p>\n

Don Lemon knows that black holes are way, way out there in the universe and couldn\u2019t possibly have swallowed the airliner, \u2019cause if a black hole had swallowed the airliner, it would have swallowed us.  And the National Transportation Safety Board babe, Mary Schiavo, did her best to not make a fool of Don Lemon.  She actually treated his question with a modicum of respect.  She laughed it off and then answered it in her own way.  Well, anyway, we love Don Lemon, and we want him around. So don\u2019t anybody get… His nickname here is simply based on that.<\/p>\n

I guess it\u2019s Tuesday night on CNN tonight, and Don Lemon spoke with former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino but Trump\u2019s Second Amendment people comment.  We got two bites here.  Don Lemon said, “Explain to us to people that don\u2019t understand — and you! You want to laugh at what he meant by that.” Explain to us that don\u2019t get this, what is so funny about it.<\/line><\/p>\n

BONGINO:  It\u2019s clear he\u2019s trying to motivate people to go out and vote based on the potential for an open Supreme Court seat.  How that\u2019s clear to you that was some kind of call to an open revolution and to start firing your weapons at public officials, is utter absurdity!<\/p>\n

LEMON:  No one said that!<\/p>\n