{"id":214392,"date":"2016-09-12T18:56:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T22:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/09\/12\/wolf_blitzer_helps_the_clinton_team_spin\/"},"modified":"2017-07-17T10:14:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T14:14:56","slug":"wolf_blitzer_helps_the_clinton_team_spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/09\/12\/wolf_blitzer_helps_the_clinton_team_spin\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolf Blitzer Helps the Clinton Team Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, you gotta hear this. This is Wolf Blitzed moments ago on CNN.\u00a0 Now, the Drive-Bys are trying to massage and manage Hillary\u2019s comment that all of these Trump supporters are deplorable.\u00a0 Now, the way it came out, she put Trump supporters in a basket, and half the people in the basket are deplorable.\u00a0 They\u2019re racist, they\u2019re sexist, they\u2019re bigots, they\u2019re xenophobes, all these horrible, rotten things.<\/p>\n

Then the other half that is in the basket of Trump supporters, they just feel disenfranchised. They feel ignored. They feel left out. They feel like the government\u2019s not helping them, has let them down, and it was what ended up being a perfect indictment and criticism of the Obama presidency the last eight years.\u00a0 So the Drive-Bys now have to do some damage control on this “deplorables” business.\u00a0 They have to mitigate the damage.\u00a0 ‘Cause it really is not helpful for a candidate, whether she\u2019s got pneumonia, whether she has seizures, whether she\u2019s not all there, whatever, still not helpful for your candidate to be running around ripping a significant percentage of the American people as human debris.\u00a0 So Wolf Blitzer had as his guest today the Clinton campaign press secretary, guy named Brian Fallon, and I want you to listen to this exchange over the “deplorable” comment.<\/p>\n

BLITZER:\u00a0 Instead of saying half, she said half of his supporters were part of this so-called basket of deplorables.\u00a0 What should she have said, 10%, 20%, 5%?\u00a0 What would have been a more accurate number?<\/p>\n

FALLON:\u00a0 I don\u2019t know, Wolf.\u00a0 It\u2019s certainly a non-zero number but the reality is while every Donald Trump supporter is not necessarily a member of the alt-right, it seems like the alt-right is fully aligned with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Okay, so Wolf wants okay, well, if it\u2019s not half of them, what is it, 10%, is it 20, 5%, what would have been a more accurate number of the deplorables?\u00a0 A tantamount acknowledgment that Trump supporters are deplorable.\u00a0 And Wolf thinks the mistake is that Hillary might have inflated their numbers, not that she called \u2019em out, not that she described them that way, not that she categorized them that way, because the dirty little secret here is that that\u2019s exactly how Hillary Clinton and Obama and Wolf Blitzer and everybody else on the left, this is exactly how they see people that don\u2019t vote for them:\u00a0 racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.<\/p>\n

It is like I mentioned to you on Friday, if you are not in favor of the progressive agenda — and let\u2019s face it, the progressive agenda is essentially open to any change whatsoever no matter how derogatory, no matter how damaging, no matter how corrupt, whatever is change is good unless it is conservatism, then that change is intolerable.\u00a0 And of course that\u2019s how you have a progressive, that\u2019s what a progressive is, that\u2019s how you define \u2019em, a liberal.<\/p>\n

And then we are conservatives, and we oppose that kind of change because we think that it is cultural rot. We think that it is corruption.\u00a0 We think that it\u2019s eating away at the very backbone and fiber of the country.\u00a0 They in turn call us racists and say that what we really don\u2019t like is this mass infusion of brown people.\u00a0 It has nothing to do with it.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about values.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about cultural values.\u00a0 It\u2019s about the values associated with this country and its founding.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what they seek to destroy and blow up and call it progressive, call it liberal.\u00a0 We want to bring that to a screeching halt.\u00a0 They call us reactionaries.<\/p>\n

When we seek to stop the advancement of the leftist agenda, they call us reactionaries.\u00a0 And of course reactionaries are not people who think.\u00a0 No, no.\u00a0 Reactionaries are exactly what the word implies, just a bunch of off-the-wall, madcap reactionaries who don\u2019t think and are thus dangerous.\u00a0 And that\u2019s how they see us.\u00a0 So along comes Hillary Clinton with her comment about Trump voters being deplorables.\u00a0 And Wolf Blitzer does not think the mistake is in the characterization.\u00a0 The mistake is the number.<\/p>\n

So he\u2019s asking this guy, her spokesman, “What should she have said, the correct number, 10%, 20%, 5%, what would have been a more accurate number describing the deplorables?”\u00a0 So, once again a teachable moment, once again a learning opportunity.<\/p>\n

Same show, same host, Wolf Blitzer talking to the same guest, the Clinton campaign press secretary, and his next question, “Well, would it have changed –” in other words, this diagnosis of pneumonia and the description of Mrs. Clinton\u2019s health “– would that have changed if we wouldn\u2019t have seen that very dramatic video of her getting into the van after leaving the 9\/11 event early and nearly, you know, falling down almost completely.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if she fainted. Did she faint at that moment?”<\/p>\n