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<\/a>“He\u2019s president-elect. He\u2019s gonna be president. He\u2019s bigger than all these people. He\u2019s got to take their questions. He\u2019s got to. He can\u2019t just diss them the way he did.” Well, I understand that thinking. It has been the thinking since the beginning of time, at least since the beginning of our country that presidents… In fact, the theory is that the more power a public figure has, the more deference he shows to the media, because the media is ostensibly just keeping powerful people accountable. But we know that that\u2019s not what the media is, anymore!<\/p>\nThe media is there to grease the skids of whoever the Democrats are. The media is there advancing the Democrat Party agenda. Why do you have to make it easy for them to trip you up, to harm you, to perhaps destroy you? Let me give you another example. I want to take you back to 2009. Obama has been elected, and I am sure many of you will remember seeing and hearing about — either from your friends or maybe obscure places that you visited on the internet — stories about how Obama was continuing to smoke dope in the White House.<\/p>\n
You could see stories about how Obama had a drinking problem, how Obama was gay, the stories that Obama didn\u2019t write his book, that Bill Ayers wrote his books, that Obama\u2019s a phony, that Michelle (My Belle) Obama was not everything she was. You remember all these stories, right? (interruption) No, no. I\u2019m not talking about the birther thing. I\u2019m talking about even the more obscure things that were out there. Various degrees of truth and fiction abound. They\u2019re all over the place, and we on the right have our own underground just like the left does, too.<\/p>\n
I think theirs is worse and more extreme, but you remember these stories out there. I can remember getting emails, “Why don\u2019t you talk about the fact that Obama didn\u2019t write his books? Why don\u2019t you talk about?” All of this stuff. “Why aren\u2019t you mentioning that Obama is still smoking dope?” That\u2019s the point; we didn\u2019t. We didn\u2019t, Fox News didn\u2019t, nobody, quote, unquote, in the conservative media that you consider upstanding, respectful, authoritative, we didn\u2019t do it. It remained out there. It remained on the fringes. It remained obscure.<\/p>\n
We didn\u2019t touch it. I know I didn\u2019t, and I know for a fact the vast majority didn\u2019t because it never entered the conservative mainstream. It was all over a bunch of websites, some obscure, some distant, some wacko, but it was there. The difference is that now that Trump is elected, those same kinds of stories about Trump are out there. The difference is, the media just ran one of them, that Trump hires prostitutes to urinate on beds in hotels where Obama has slept. That\u2019s the kind of stuff that was out there that we didn\u2019t touch — I\u2019ll say I — I didn\u2019t touch.<\/p>\n
And, by the way, there\u2019s more than what I\u2019m mentioning. I mean, some of the stuff was the same kind of stuff that was out there about Bill Clinton. You just, you know where the line is. You know what to ignore and what to comment on. They have no such boundaries, as evidenced by what happened yesterday. And I\u2019m convinced that whatever other obscure stories there are, rumors that are started by fringe left-wing websites, I guarantee all it\u2019s gonna take for one of them to enter the news is for just one supposed respected left-wing website to mention it.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what happened yesterday. What happened was CNN, when they found out that the intelligence community might have prepared this dossier, that\u2019s all they needed, they ran with what they knew for the last seven months could not be proven. They had everything that they reported yesterday, everybody in the Drive-Bys has had this for months, and not a shred of it could be verified. But once somebody sourcing for CNN in the intel community said, “Hey, there might be –” CNN runs with it.<\/p>\n
What happened next was BuzzFeed, “Well, okay, it\u2019s out there, so Katie, bar the door.” They published the entire 35 pages, and they admit when they do it that none of it\u2019s confirmable, none of it has been verified, we don\u2019t know if a single word of this is true, but you have a right to know. They do what we don\u2019t do. We recognize what our fringe kook stuff is and it stays out there. They are gonna use it.<\/p>\n
Now, that is why I\u2019m asking, why in the world should Trump or anybody else show those people respect? Why shouldn\u2019t they pay a price for what everybody knows they\u2019re doing? They\u2019re trying to destroy his presidency. We know it, and they know it. And they have been trying to find a way to do so even before he won. After he has won they\u2019re continuing with this whole lamebrain narrative that the Russians hacked the election.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m just telling you, all this fringe stuff they\u2019re gonna use. They concoct ways to get it from the fringe into the mainstream, while sitting there telling us, “You birther people, you\u2019re just a bunch of phonies. You can\u2019t accept it, so you make up this birther stuff.” Big difference. Now Trump is paying hookers to pee on hotel beds, Trump does this, Trump does that; they can\u2019t wait to use any and all of it. So why should they be shown respect? In any other avenue of life, if you\u2019re working with somebody, if you\u2019re Trump and you got a vendor, contractor working for you saying this stuff, he\u2019s gone, right?<\/p>\n You, in your personal life, somebody treats you this way, says this stuff about you, what, you show them respect, you continue to give them an opening to deal with you this way? Why should Trump? “Well, he\u2019s president, Mr. Limbaugh. It\u2019s a big difference. This is not personal.” Damn right, it\u2019s personal, that\u2019s the point, it\u2019s personal. “Well, there are better ways to do it than to shut \u2019em down and tell \u2019em no and say they\u2019re fake news.” Why? They are fake news. The fact that they\u2019re fake news — The Daily Show was fake news. The left thought it was real. The whole concept of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, fake news! They thought it was real.<\/p>\n Our biggest trouble with these people — nah, it\u2019s hard to say our biggest trouble. One of the insoluble, ongoing areas where there will be never be any common understanding is these people have no sense of humor when they are the butt of the joke. Remember Trump telling the joke, “Maybe the Russians could find Hillary\u2019s emails and maybe if they do they can alert the media \u2019cause you guys seem so desperate to find –” Trump was mocking the fact that they weren\u2019t trying to find the emails.<\/p>\n So Trump says, “Maybe the Russians can find,” \u2019cause the media\u2019s already obsessed with the Russians, so Trump says, “Maybe the Russians could find them.” He\u2019s mocking them, he\u2019s ramming it right down their throat, he\u2019s telling a joke, they don\u2019t see anything funny, and that has now become Trump begged the Russians to hack the election.<\/p>\n That\u2019s what this Hill.com story is based on. Since Trump asked the Russians to hack the election, maybe we should do it again. They have no sense of humor when they are part of the joke, and it\u2019s gonna be one of the biggest ongoing divides that we have. They don\u2019t have a sense of humor anyway. Do you ever see any of them even smiling?<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Bob in Coronado, California, make it quick. How you doing, sir.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hey, Rush, happy birthday. I hope you\u2019re having a nice premier cigar for your birthday.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hey, I called one other time and I told you that I believed the Trump rally was more exciting than an NFL playoff game, and my point that I wanted to make is, what happened yesterday at the press conference, to me, was a Trump rally. It was unscripted. It gave me the fix I needed to. I think the people in the Midwest just stood up and cheered like they did at a Trump rally.<\/p>\n RUSH: Wait a minute, what do you need a fix for? You starting to go wobbly on us now?<\/p>\n CALLER: No, I\u2019m just having a little withdrawal, and I\u2019m thinking, you know, he\u2019s the president and I love that, but it\u2019s like I just needed to hear him wave the finger.<\/p>\n RUSH: Oh, you needed Trump to be Trump. You needed to Trump to go out there and rally the troops.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah. To get the biggest cheer at a rally, Trump, when he was really looking for a cheer, he would just say, “And those people in the press, they\u2019re horrible or whatever,” and the place — you know, I\u2019ve been to two rallies, and the place would explode.<\/p>\n RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n CALLER: You know, and I think that\u2019s what I missed, and it was so reassuring to see that he still has the mojo, he can go back —<\/p>\n RUSH: Of course. You\u2019re worried, you\u2019re worried that you\u2019re not gonna get what you got in the campaign. I could sense it when you said you\u2019re in withdrawal out there. No, I think get ready. I mean, he\u2019s president-elect. There is a standard decorum that we may have even blown to smithereens so far. But it\u2019s gonna be fine. Mark my words. You\u2019re gonna be fed very frequently.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Thomas in Huron, Ohio. I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the program, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hi. I have it on speakerphone because I have trouble hearing. But many dittos. I\u2019m a longtime listener.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<\/a>TheHill.com: “Remedy for Russian Meddling Should Be New Election<\/a>.” Do not doubt me. They\u2019re not gonna give this up. And anything they can find out there since the Access Hollywood video didn\u2019t do it, they thought this would, this 35-page dossier with the golden showers, which, by the way, I\u2019m given now to understand you can actually order from some high-priced prostitution firms. I had never heard of \u2019em until yesterday, but apparently everybody on the left is intimately familiar with golden showers.<\/p>\n<\/a>RUSH: Thank you, sir. Yes.<\/p>\n