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<\/a>They were not minding their own business running around taking care of things and living their lives and all of a sudden feeling outraged over Trump\u2019s executive order. They have been waiting at the starting gate. They have been poised and waiting for marching orders, and the executive order was issued and the marching orders went out. The protests are typical of the way the media does things.<\/p>\nThe narrative here, the picture being painted is that every protest is a representation of a majority of thinking in the country, that Trump\u2019s election was fraudulent and is an aberration. That a majority of people actually did not elect Trump, and therefore what he\u2019s doing does not have the sanction and approval of a majority of Americans because the election and he are illegitimate.<\/p>\n
The protests are being portrayed as representative of the majority of the people in the country; and, not only that, the media portrayal makes it look as they always do, as though everybody agrees with the line of attack on Trump. And this is designed to suck you in. It\u2019s designed to weaken Trump\u2019s supporters and to have you start questioning your decision to vote for him, to question your support for Trump. It\u2019s all part of the plan. It\u2019s not specific to this executive order. They have been waiting for the first opportunity to en masse engage, and this is it.<\/p>\n
There seems to be far more outrage from the Drive-Bys and the Democrat Party over a temporary suspension of visas from terrorist hot spots than there is over Muslim terror attacks in this country. You can have San Bernardino. You can have Fort Hood, take your pick, the underwear bomber, the Unabomber, underwear bomber, doesn\u2019t matter, there\u2019s no outrage from the Drive-Bys. The reaction to the actual terror attack is what? You better not climb down on the Muslims here. You better not start blaming Islam, you better not, and we\u2019re gonna create a backlash. We can\u2019t create a backlash.<\/p>\n Actual terror attacks are met with a yawn, in comparison to this manufactured outrage over a temporary executive order. And you know what this temporary executive order really is? I know people have short memories, but these are things that Donald Trump said that he was gonna do. These are the exact things that Trump said he was gonna do that caused a majority of voters to vote for him. Well, in the Electoral College.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no surprise here. This is exactly what Trump voters wanted. They voted for Trump specifically. Trump made mention of policies like this many times a day at all of his rallies. There are no surprises here. There\u2019s no rabbit out of a hat. There\u2019s nothing that should be shocking. Everything that Trump did here is something Trump said he was gonna do.<\/p>\n One of the things I heard people say, “This is so ill-timed. There was no advance warning. The relevant organizations and bureaucracies didn\u2019t have a chance to gin up and get ready for this.” Right, okay. So you got a temporary ban from seven countries and you announce it and it\u2019s gonna be two weeks down the road that you\u2019re gonna implement it. What\u2019s gonna happen in those two weeks? The borders are gonna be flooded. Every bad actor and who knows who else is gonna do their damnedest to get into the country before it goes into effect. If you\u2019re gonna do something like this, you have to do it this way, if you\u2019re serious about it.<\/p>\n Folks, this is not going to stop. I told you, Trump doesn\u2019t have anybody but you. He doesn\u2019t have the media supporting him like Obama did. He doesn\u2019t have the Congress support. Let me tell you, the real choke point here and the real weak point — and I\u2019ve mentioned it a number of times all during the campaign — the real problem Trump has here is not these protesters. The real problem he\u2019s gonna have is the Republicans in Congress sticking with him. This is the kind of thing that they\u2019ve caved to I don\u2019t know how many times.<\/p>\n This is the kind of uprising in the media, uprising on the left that just sends chills down the spines of the average, ordinary Washington Republican, and they cave within seconds to things like this, as McCain and Lindsey Graham predictably and right on schedule have done, by coming out and saying they profoundly disagree. This has always been, as far as I\u2019m concerned, the wild card for anything Trump does, and that is the Republican and the Republican leadership in Congress.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve always thought that in the early stages they would hold their tongues, because let me tell me, folks, the Washington establishment\u2019s the Washington establishment. Republican-Democrat is secondary. The establishment is the establishment. And I don\u2019t care, I don\u2019t care what kind of popularity Trump has, they don\u2019t like it in the establishment in either sector, in either party, in either nook or cranny.<\/p>\n The Republicans are kind of under pressure, they\u2019ve gotta go along with it. The voters chose this. The Republican voters wanted this. The Republican voters actively made this happen, so the Republicans are gonna have to go along with it, but they are holding their fire and keeping their powder dry, and they are going to have to hold their tongues.<\/p>\n The image is on to make you think that Trump doesn\u2019t care about people. He doesn\u2019t care, and there\u2019s a religious test going. We always have had a religious test! You know, I went practically hoarse losing my voice explaining this all during the campaign, particularly where refugees are concerned. Okay, so we have somebody seeking political asylum. Let\u2019s say it\u2019s Ali Sahib Skyhook and he shows up at JFK and he wants political asylum. First thing they ask: “Why do you want asylum?” He says, “Well, I\u2019m from a country where there\u2019s a religious war going on!<\/p>\n “I\u2019m war-torn. I\u2019m strife. I need asylum.” “What country?” He names the country. “What\u2019s the religion? What\u2019s the war?” We always have the religion. We always ask this in determining whether or not they\u2019re telling us the truth. There\u2019s always been religious questions; there have always been religious tests. By the way, the media is reporting it Trump only wants Christians, white Christians to come in the country. And it\u2019s just… It\u2019s so over the top, but it\u2019s so constant, too, that it requires constant vigilance by you to keep all of this in perspective.<\/p>\n Everybody just chill here. We\u2019re talking between 100 and 300 people in a temporary executive order that I actually believe is PR and marketing. I\u2019m not trying to insult Trump with this, but he\u2019s not an idiot. He campaigned specifically on a number of things, and in the first week in office he\u2019s rat-tat-tat done \u2019em, checked \u2019em off the list, showing that he does what he says he\u2019s going to do. But this not a permanent rewrite of American policy. This is not legislation. This does not forever change things. (chuckling) Now, you add to this Steve Bannon.<\/p>\n You know, I love here reading the media as they react to somebody telling the truth about \u2019em. So Bannon goes out there, he is… Oh, by the way, you don\u2019t even know the half of it. Bannon… (sigh) I never… Do I say this? I don\u2019t know any of these people. You have to understand here, folks. I feel it necessary to say this simply… Not for full disclosure, just to fill you with the proper information. I never heard of Steve Bannon until this campaign started. I had no idea who the guy was. It\u2019s not an insult. It\u2019s not a put-down. It\u2019s probably my fault for not knowing.<\/p>\n “That\u2019s right! They\u2019re only people who are interested in the nation\u2019s security and analyzing intelligence and briefing the president.” The point has been made over the weekend that George W. Bush would never have put Karl Rove anywhere near the National Security Council, that no president ever has. “David Axelrod, Obama\u2019s campaign strategist? He was nowhere near Obama\u2019s National Security Council because it\u2019s so important that everybody understand that there is no politics in national security.” Right. Hardy-har-har. No politics in national security. You know, he\u2019s a brawler, so he didn\u2019t use intellectually approved terms in telling \u2019em to shut up and listen. So they heard the “shut up” (laughing) and Trump\u2019s come along and agreed with it now, and they were expecting Trump to take Bannon to the woodshed. They don\u2019t know… They still haven\u2019t figured out what hit them. And I\u2019m telling you, the Democrat Party, folks… Do not doubt me on this: All of these protests, mass protests at the airports and all this stuff does not mask the fact and does not hide the fact that the Democrat Party is a minority party that is losing its grip, that is losing touch, that is losing seats, that is losing its power.<\/p>\n And these protests are… Part of them is to create the illusion that they are still the majority, that they represent a majority of thinking in the country, that they are more powerful than they\u2019ve ever been — and none of it\u2019s true. This is George Soros bought and paid for and organized for the most part. It is not spontaneous. It\u2019s not specific to this. They have manuals and talking points, things to say when it\u2019s an executive order on ethnicity or foreign nationals of any kind or whatever. And if it comes to Supreme Court nominee, then they\u2019re gonna have another manual that tells \u2019em what to say as they hit the protest march for that.<\/p>\n It is planned.<\/p>\n And, by the way, this is all the Democrat Party has. This is it!<\/p>\n This has become the substance of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n “No.”<\/p>\n Total resistance.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Don\u2019t doubt me on this stuff, folks. Remember when the Tea Party protested and the Tea Party was marching? What happened? They were ripped to shreds for being “anti-government.” The Tea Party protests were not heralded. The Tea Party protests were not joined. The Tea Party protests were not held up as great examples of time-honored America dissent. They were destroyed! The media tried to destroy them. Remember what happened in Indiana, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act? It\u2019s identical to what happened this weekend with Trump\u2019s executive order.<\/p>\n Remember the bathroom controversy in North Carolina? Transgenders wanted to use whatever bathroom they want for whatever reason. Remember the outrage? It\u2019s identical. It doesn\u2019t matter the issue. The simple fact of the matter is that the Drive-By Media and the American left despise conservatism, and now they despise Trump, more than they are afraid of terrorism or any other real enemy of this country. But all of this… I know there\u2019s been a lot of anxiety over the weekend. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve been chomping at the bit to get here today, to try to calm some of your fears and put this in perspective.<\/p>\n They can\u2019t find anybody upset in the Midwest with it, and they\u2019re seething over it. I was telling people over the weekend who are alarmed at how large and how often these protests materialize. And let\u2019s take us it… With it being a semi-common occurrence, there\u2019s one of two reactions: You either get tired of it and you get mad (which is me) or you get frightened and you get anxious and you start questioning. “Oh, my God. Are these people still the majority and this election was just a fluke?”<\/p>\n No, they are not. If they weren\u2019t being paid and if they weren\u2019t being organized and if they weren\u2019t waiting for marching orders, these protests wouldn\u2019t be nearly as large or intense as they are. But there\u2019s something interesting about this in the fact: Okay, this is what people elected Trump to do. Trump\u2019s doing what he was elected to do, but we\u2019re not a direct democracy. Does that enable a president to do whatever he wants just because he was elected to do it?<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Time to get started on the phones, and we go to Fort Myers in Florida. Hi, Aaron. You\u2019re up first. It\u2019s great to have you. How you doing?<\/p>\n CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. I\u2019m doing great. It\u2019s a pleasure and honor to speak with you. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no other way that you can really look at it. Trump is trying to slow the line down, find out who\u2019s coming in here, and we all know this, we all see this, they\u2019re coming in, they\u2019re busing them all over the place. We don\u2019t know who they are. All he\u2019s trying to do is slow the line down and find out who they are. And yet the media and the Democrats are labeling it something it\u2019s not by throwing gas on it, trying to enrage people, trying to get people angry to shut it down. Well, why would you not want to shut down these open networks and these passages into this country? It doesn\u2019t compute. I wonder what side they\u2019re on.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, this is not unprecedented. For the last four years of the Bush administration the Democrat Party essentially sought the defeat of the United States military and our country in Iraq in order to facilitate the election of a Democrat president in 2008. They were actively undermining the surge, the people behind it, David Petraeus and others. They were routinely accusing Marines of being rapists and terrorizing Iraqi wives and mothers in their homes.<\/p>\n So your observation is right on the money, but it isn\u2019t unprecedented. It\u2019s not the first time. What is really going on here is a bunch of hypocrisy. Barack Obama suspended all immigration from Iraq for six months. There wasn\u2019t any howls of protest over it. And I have a couple other stories from the archives that again will illustrate this hypocrisy. I\u2019m glad you called, Aaron.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Okay, Neil in Matthews, North Carolina, you\u2019re next. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. How you doing?<\/p>\n CALLER: Hey, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n<\/a>To give you an idea of how selective the outrage is, have you noticed, there seems to be far more outrage from the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party over Trump\u2019s temporary suspension of visas from terrorist hot spots preordained and named by Obama — this is not unprecedented; we\u2019ve done this before. The seven countries have been previously named in previous Obama orders and decisions. And the number of people here that have been affected is anywhere from 100 to 300 people, and all of the people who were detained have now been released, and yet look at the lack of proportion here at the protests and outrage over this.<\/p>\n<\/a>Now, aside from the fact that people in Washington are not used to that happening in politics, which is another reason they\u2019re off balance and outraged, I think what we have here is a little bit of Trump marketing and PR. Trump says A, B, C, D, he\u2019s gonna do \u2019em, first week in office he does them, A, B, C, D and has photo-ops to show him signing A, B, C, D, E. The marketing and PR is that Trump does what he says he\u2019s gonna do. But this is a temporary thing that fulfills a campaign promise, but it doesn\u2019t significantly rearrange American policy at all.<\/p>\n<\/a>But the first chance that think they get that they can get away with breaking with Trump, they\u2019re going to do it. This may not be it. Well, it is for McCain and Lindsey Graham. But believe me, that is the major problem I think that Trump has in implementing his agenda. The opposition of the Democrats is a no-brainer. George Soros-funded mass protest? No-brainer. I mean, you know that\u2019s gonna happen, and I really… If you can do anything, try to keep it in perspective and understand that it isn\u2019t specific. They try to make you think it is.<\/p>\n<\/a>I\u2019ve since learned he was the Breitbart chairman and he was one of the early investors in the Seinfeld show, and is still cashing those syndication checks as Seinfeld is in syndication. Goldman Sachs and so forth. He\u2019s known Trump for a long time. I didn\u2019t know that. He is Trump\u2019s chief strategist. He is the number one strategic adviser for Trump, and Trump just put him on (laughing) the National Security Council. They\u2019re having a cow over that, too. The National Security Council is made up of people who are ostensibly apolitical.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/a>It\u2019s just absurd. There\u2019s politics in everything! So Trump has just blown that one sky-high by putting Bannon in there. Trump got rid of some well-known national security experts and put his chief strategist in there on that team, the National Security Council. That\u2019s got \u2019em fit to be tied. But Bannon said… (laughing) He was talking to the New York Times and he said, “I want you to quote me: ‘You, the media, are the opposition party. You are the enemy. You are who we\u2019re fighting. You need to keep your mouth shut and listen. You still don\u2019t know why Donald Trump won. You still don\u2019t know America.'”<\/p>\n<\/a>Well, the media, all they heard was “you need to shut your mouth.” And I have read my sports media buddies and I\u2019ve read my tech media buddies. I\u2019ve read all of them, and all they\u2019re doing is throwing the First Amendment back at him. “Uh, Mr. Bannon, in case you don\u2019t know there\u2019s a First Amendment. ‘Congress shall not\u2019 blah, blah.” He wasn\u2019t telling you to shut up. He wasn\u2019t telling you to take your ball and go home. He was telling you to listen! He was telling you to close your mouth for a while and listen and learn and try to find out why you are so out of it.<\/p>\n<\/a>It\u2019s not spontaneous.<\/p>\n<\/a>The Democrat Party has not changed. The Democrat Party is still the party that lost, that still only has five states where they have the governorship and the state legislature, and they haven\u2019t done anything to improve their standing. All of this is theater, folks. It is theater designed to make it look like everything happening now is a mistake or the result of fraud or Russian hacking, that a majority of people didn\u2019t really elect Trump, that people do not support what Trump is doing. However, Reuters did venture out into the heartland of America<\/a> (guess they got their visas) and they can\u2019t find anybody upset with Trump\u2019s executive order in Iowa.<\/p>\n<\/a>CALLER: You know, Rush I was listening to your opening monologue this morning, and I\u2019ve been listening to the news this weekend, how they\u2019re throwing gas on this border wall thing and calling it racism and bigotry for stopping, a temporary halt of entry from a handful of Middle Eastern countries, and something occurred to me, Rush, and you brought this thought into my head. The media and the Democrat Party, by taking the position that they have and calling it something that it\u2019s not, by default are enabling and defending access of current open terrorist passages and networks into this country.<\/p>\n