{"id":214731,"date":"2016-10-21T18:56:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T22:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/10\/21\/fox_reacts_to_me_on_trump\/"},"modified":"2017-01-05T12:15:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T17:15:18","slug":"fox_reacts_to_me_on_trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/10\/21\/fox_reacts_to_me_on_trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Reacts to Me on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Audio sound bite time.  We\u2019re gonna start here at the top.  My reaction yesterday to Trump\u2019s statement on Monday night that he was gonna withhold any action until the election results are actually in, this is where this unanimous, hysterical reaction all over Washington, New York, hell, all over the country, “Trump said he\u2019s not gonna accept the results the election! Trump\u2019s gonna pee on 200 years of American tradition.”  Remember the reaction to it. <\/p>\nI was among the most prominent voices expressing incredulity and shock over this unanimous hysteria.  So naturally on some of these networks my comments<\/a> were played for reaction by expert analysts.  <\/line>And Fox was one of these places.  Dr. Krauthammer reacted, and then the Fox & Friends crew.  So let\u2019s go.  This is from the Special Report with Bret Baier last night.  Bret Baier introduced a clip of me criticizing — did I criticize Krauthammer? — I may have, \u2019cause it says here I criticized Krauthammer. Bret Baier said, “Charles, we heard your comments last night after the debate about this whole rigged comment.  There\u2019s a lot of fallout back and forth today.  Here\u2019s what Rush Limbaugh said.<\/line>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: There isn\u2019t anybody who really thinks Donald Trump doesn\u2019t respect the traditions of America or American elections.  There isn\u2019t a soul out there.  This is people trying to convince low-information voters and others who aren\u2019t paying attention that Donald Trump is some alien from outer space who wants to blow up the greatest traditions of American elections and politics and so forth.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Pretty self-explanatory.  It\u2019s pretty much what I said.  I mean it is exactly what I said.  I said more.  I extrapolated and added to it. I basically said, “Look, this hysteria here is a little bit over the top.  They all know what Trump said.”  I\u2019ve now revised my thinking.  I think they heard Trump say something else.  It has to be something along those lines to explain it.  Let me just repeat this.  What if what they heard Trump say — you all heard it — he said, “Check with me later.” <\/p>\n

“Mr. Trump, will you accept the outcome of the election?” <\/p>\n

“Check with me later.”  Panic ensues.  What if what they actually heard was Trump saying, “Look, you know you\u2019re cheating and I know you\u2019re cheating, and I\u2019m not gonna be your average Republican patsy and just lay down if it happens.”  Something has to explain it.  Anyway, here is Krauthammer\u2019s reaction after Bret Baier played that clip.<\/p>\n

KRAUTHAMMER:  Leading up to this, for days he\u2019s been telling rallies, this election is precooked, it\u2019s rigged, it\u2019s unfair and it\u2019s about to be stolen from us. Now, when you say that and you couple it with, “I won\u2019t know what I\u2019ll do, I\u2019ll figure it out at the time,” then you have a threat to the tradition. The idea of a national election stolen, which would require an enormous conspiracy, which, of course, Trump is also invoking, a global conspiracy involving the banks, the Democrats and who knows who else to rig an American election. It\u2019s not plausible. He has not presented any facts. And he\u2019s shaking a fundamental principal of our democracy, which is the peaceful transition which requires the open recognition of the legitimacy of an election by the loser. And that is something that he obviously threatened.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH:  Oh, they think he did.  They obviously think he did.  They obviously think he threatened to not accept the fact that he lost, if he does.  I know for a fact — well, I don\u2019t know for a fact.  I\u2019m fairly almost ontological certitude certain that if Trump had answered that question the way they want the whole story that night and the next day would be: “Trump essentially conceded the election last night, Megyn. We all heard it last night right here on the Fox News Channel expertly moderated by our own Chris Wallace.  You heard when Trump answered the question, he pretty much admitted he didn\u2019t have any prayer here.  If he\u2019s already conceding the election, what must he really know in terms of how bad it\u2019s gonna be?” <\/p>\n

You know they would have run with the story that way.  Besides, he didn\u2019t say it.  Anyway, so now we go to a different sector of Fox, Fox & Friends this morning talked about basically the same thing.  Set it up.  Here\u2019s the cohost, Pete Hegseth, introducing and playing the clip.<\/p>\n

HEGSETH:  The American people again, they hear at the debate something very different than the media freaks out about.  And as he oftentimes does, El Rushbo, Rush Limbaugh, does a great job of channeling what I think the American people read from Donald Trump.  This is what Rush Limbaugh had to say.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE:  Anybody in their right mind knows that Donald Trump was not promising a civil war, he was not promising to blow up the country, he was not promising to not accept the results if he lost, and these people know it, folks.  The people stirring this up know full well.  Why should he concede that?  Why should he foreclose that?  Why should anybody running against the Democrats foreclose that given what has already happened in this cycle?  Given what we\u2019ve learned from the Project Veritas videos of James O\u2019Keefe?  Given what we\u2019ve learned from the WikiLeaks email dumps consisting of things from John Podesta.  Smart thing to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  And here is the response from the Fox & Friends crew.  We have Steve Doocy, Hegseth again, Ainsley Earhardt.<\/p>\n

DOOCY:  He is such a pro.  He talked right up to the commercial.<\/p>\n

EARHARDT:  Yeah.<\/p>\n

HEGSETH:  It reminded me of that first Fox debate where he raised his hand, it was just honest, “I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll –” are you gonna contest election?  Maybe, if it\u2019s rigged or if there\u2019s things that are wrong, who knows.<\/p>\n

EARHARDT:  Yeah.  I mean, you can\u2019t hold it against him if he\u2019s being honest.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Right.  That\u2019s Ainsley Earhardt, you can\u2019t hold it against him if — well, not to beat a dead horse, but you heard Dr. Krauthammer, they heard Trump say that he was not gonna accept if he lost.  That\u2019s what they heard him say. (interruption) Well, Krauthammer, you say he\u2019s an avowed member — (interruption) oh, his column today is he\u2019s not voting?  Oh, okay, okay.  He\u2019s not gonna vote for either of \u2019em?  Oh, I didn\u2019t see that column today.  So Dr. Krauthammer doesn\u2019t know who to write in. <\/line><\/p>\n

Well, all right, anyway, then it\u2019s clear that certain members of the establishment for some reason feel really threatened here.  And, by the way, you heard Dr. Krauthammer say it would require a massive conspiracy to do this, and it would involve too many people.  It just couldn\u2019t be done, and he doesn\u2019t have any evidence of it.  Well, Mrs. Clinton apparently does, because the Democrats are running around, they\u2019ve got this story from Reuters today.  They\u2019re running around making it look like that we should look for leaked documents in the future, that the Russians have hacked or rigged the election.  They\u2019re already setting up the premise. <\/p>\n

Why do this if you think you\u2019re gonna win?  Their polls show them winning in a landslide.  Why would you even put it out there?  Why would you go to your buddies at Reuters and say, “Write us a story that the Russians are planning on leaking some documents that will purport to show how the election has been rigged”?  Why would you do that if you\u2019re going to win big?  Why would you even introduce the idea. <\/p>\n

This is not just Trump talking about it.  But I think they\u2019re misunderstanding the way Trump\u2019s keeping his people fired up, the way Trump is trying to keep his base together, he knows who they are.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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