{"id":219736,"date":"2017-02-01T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=219736"},"modified":"2017-02-02T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T21:40:07","slug":"why-im-hopeful-liberals-are-marginalizing-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/02\/01\/why-im-hopeful-liberals-are-marginalizing-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u2019m Hopeful Liberals Are Marginalizing Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: El Rushbo, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have. However, always tempered with the stark reality in which we all find ourselves today. Can always count on me never to lose that perspective. And that will be to your benefit. It never is pessimism; it\u2019s just reality. Sometimes people won\u2019t want to hear it, such as what I have to say coming up here in just a moment. I think you\u2019ll find it fascinating, but you might really not want to hear it, although I may be wrong about that. Anyway, phone number, 800-282-2882. Email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us. Now, the right Pelosi bite is number five, okay, so have that standing by here.<\/p>\n<p>I checked the email during the break, and I have a lot of people thinking that I\u2019m overly optimistic on the tactics the left employed all the time failing them because people get wise to it. And I understand. Look, we\u2019ve had a lifetime of the left defining these narratives and getting away with it. And it\u2019s become the way in which we function and operate, and we strategize. We know what the left\u2019s gonna do, we have pretty good idea what they\u2019re gonna get away with and thus what we have to push back on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-219775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PelosiSupremeCourt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PelosiSupremeCourt.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PelosiSupremeCourt-300x103.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>Here\u2019s what\u2019s different to me. And I admit that this is hopeful and not full-fledged confident. Whereas when Obama\u2019s in the White House and the Republicans react to him or I say something or he nominates somebody, the Republicans react to it, the Democrats would go predictably bat excrement and they would start launching on how the nominee or the person in question or the target, whoever it was, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, hateful, anti-American, out of the mainstream, extremist, whatever it is.<\/p>\n<p>And over all these years, our side would never push back against it, the media would join the chorus, and that would become the narrative. Democrats mainstream, insane; Republicans, minority, extremist wackos and racist, sexist, bigots to boot. What\u2019s changed now is the Democrats don\u2019t control anything. We do. We control the White House. We control the House. We control the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>They still have the embedded bureaucracy. And this why I was so frosted at Trump. It wasn\u2019t the fact that Sessions hadn\u2019t yet been confirmed and this renegade acting attorney general did what she did, this Sally what\u2019s-her-face. It\u2019s because Trump doesn\u2019t realize yet what he\u2019s up against. He knows he\u2019s got opposition, but he doesn\u2019t understand ideological opposition.<\/p>\n<p>That woman was not just practicing or acting out some moral code. She was a political activist. She\u2019s always been a political activist. She\u2019s not a lawyer in that sense. She\u2019s a political activist. She\u2019s a leftist. She\u2019s put in there to advance the leftist agenda and arrest anything else. She should not have been there. Trump should have broomed everybody of appointed nature out of the DOJ and every other one of these bureaucracies on day one.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m hopeful as this opposition continues that Trump becomes more &#8212; I don\u2019t want say learned and aware, \u2019cause he\u2019s not stupid by any stretch. It\u2019s just he doesn\u2019t think in ideological terms. He doesn\u2019t see Pelosi as a ravaged, insane liberal. He just sees her as somebody that\u2019s maybe anti-business who doesn\u2019t know what she\u2019s talking about and is wrong, but he doesn\u2019t see her the way she sees him.<\/p>\n<p>She sees him as an enemy that threatens everything she believes in that has to be destroyed. Trump does not see these people that way. But they\u2019re out there trying to destroy him and everybody in his administration multiple times a day. Here is Pelosi. This is what she said on CNN when the nomination of Gorsuch had been made, and Jake Tapper is talking to her and asks her for a comment on the guy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/197476\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PELOSI: He comes down on the side of felons over gun safety, hostile to women\u2019s reproductive rights, the Hobby Lobby case, for example. The list goes on and on. Criticized progressives for bringing cases that relate to LGBT progress, taking those cases to the court. So it\u2019s a very hostile appointment. (unintelligible) fellow, well met, lovely family, I\u2019m sure. But as far as your family is concerned and all the &#8212; if you breathe air, drink water, eat food, take medicine, or in any other way interact with the courts, this is a very bad decision.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s insane. It\u2019s just flat-out insane. If you breathe air &#8212; we all do &#8212; if you drink water &#8212; we all do and it\u2019s not a choice. We have to. Some of you too much bourbon, but still, gotta have water. Eat food. No choice there! Have to do it or we die! If you take medicine &#8212; yeah, only those who can afford it, \u2019cause the pharmaceutical companies suck. Or if you in any other way interact with the courts, this is a very bad decision.<\/p>\n<p>So just by your doing things you need to stay alive, this guy is gonna kill you! Just by you doing what you have to do to stay alive, this guy is your enemy. He comes down on the side of felons over gun safety. See, the effort to put Gorsuch on the defensive has already begun. Now, there are two factions on the left, one faction made up of the think tank, legal association left. They don\u2019t want to go after this guy this way because they think it\u2019s wasted ammunition. He\u2019s gonna get confirmed, it doesn\u2019t change the balance of the court.<\/p>\n<p>People like Pelosi and Schumer cannot help themselves. This guy is an enemy of the state. He is an enemy who must not be &#8212; even though he has been approved previous times unanimously by voice vote, doesn\u2019t matter, because Supreme Court is where the left advances their agenda. And there\u2019s not gonna be anybody over their dead bodies that gets in there and can have a chance at stopping them implement their agenda.<\/p>\n<p>So this guy is hostile to women\u2019s reproductive. That\u2019s the Hobby Lobby case. Look, I\u2019m not gonna take the time at this moment to get into the minutia and details of all these cases. That\u2019s gonna come later when the hearings begin. The timing to do these things will be right. I want to address something larger here, and it\u2019s based on the emails I got during the break at the top of the hour. People thought that I\u2019m being a little overly optimistic that the left is marginalizing itself by virtue of being who they are and that people will eventually see it for what it is and stop being affected by it.<\/p>\n<p>People say, &#8220;Rush&#8221; &#8212; some of the emails &#8212; &#8220;all my life they\u2019ve gotten away with it. I mean, if people were gonna see it for what it is, it would have happened by now. I\u2019m sorry, Rush, but there\u2019s no evidence the left doesn\u2019t get away with this stuff.&#8221; Well, there is: the election. If the left got away with this stuff, Trump would not be president today. That\u2019s just one example. But I understand your point.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-219569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/HAtedemocrats-hate-us.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/HAtedemocrats-hate-us.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/HAtedemocrats-hate-us-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>Look, I\u2019m not full-fledged confident that the libs are gonna marginalize themselves. What\u2019s different is that they\u2019re gonna do it all the time now. When Obama was president and they ran the Senate or were in charge of things, they weren\u2019t reacting to every news story this way. But now they are, multiple times a day they are demonstrating their insanity and how unhinged and absent reality they are. Every day, multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>They lost the election. Everybody knows they lost the election. But here\u2019s the difference, folks, and this is why I have to understand the people who have emailed me who think that I\u2019m being overly optimistic. There\u2019s no question that a certain number of people, over time, are gonna tune out the Pelosis and the Schumers and the CNNs and all of the other leftist activists who are going bat excrement crazy. But the media never does tune them out, meaning you and me and a bunch of other citizens out there might begin to ignore the left and might think, &#8220;What a bunch of nutcases. Just stop paying attention to \u2019em.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the media never will, and that, I have to admit, is a fundamentally crucial point. The media will never get tired of them. In other words, they are always going to be the lead story for the media. Whatever extremism is happening, whatever reaction to whatever Trump\u2019s doing, the more extreme, the more leftist it is, the media is going to top-line it, front-page it, lead with it. So the media will never tune it out. The media will always be using it and trying to capitalize on it.<\/p>\n<p>So even while you\u2019ve tuned it out, you\u2019re not gonna be able to avoid it because the media\u2019s gonna be all over it. And in this way, because of the media never tiring of it, because of the media actually living off of this insanity on the left, they figure that even when they lose, they win because they maintain control of the narrative. And it happens this way. Let me give you a demonstration or illustration of how it happens.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s say Obama nominates a judge, he\u2019s president, nominates Sotomayor or take your pick to be a federal court judge or Supreme Court justice. Those nominees, during their confirmation hearings, are free to say everything they believe. That they are committed to Roe v. Wade and abortion rights, that they would reverse Citizens United on the first day they were on the bench. That they would, if they could, limit the Second Amendment. They are permitted because of the media cover they get, to be up front and honest about every restrictive, anti-constitutional thing they would do, and there is never any criticism of it.<\/p>\n<p>They can stand for every bit of anti-constitutionalism they want, and they are heralded and portrayed as heroic and eminently qualified. Our nominees, on the other hand, are never able to do the opposite. And you\u2019re gonna see it here with Judge Gorsuch. Judge Gorsuch is gonna have to temper what he believes and temper what he says by, in fact, saying things like, &#8220;Yes, I am sometimes very disappointed with my own rulings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the signaling to these nutcase Democrats that he\u2019s not an ideologue. That he will find against his own beliefs by following the law. The leftist nominees never have to pledge following the law. Leftist nominees never have to promise to follow the law. In fact, they do the opposite. They not only get away with, they are required to explain how they\u2019re going to set the law that has been made in mistake and in error correctly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-219798\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/650-020117-Realville-C.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/650-020117-Realville-C.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/650-020117-Realville-C-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>They\u2019re gonna ensure Roe v. Wade. They\u2019re gonna try to get rid of the Second Amendment, whatever the leftist agenda is. So our nominees, in the past, have even been chosen on their ability to be unspecific. Our nominees, some of them, previous Republican presidents have actually chosen for their ability to not tie themselves in knots and incriminate themselves in front of these Stalinists that are the Democrats on the judiciary committee.<\/p>\n<p>So the way that the media and the Democrats have set up the game is, our nominees have to say, &#8220;My personal views are irrelevant,&#8221; and, &#8220;Of course I will enforce the settled law, and I will not overturn precedent, and I will respect everything you idiot leftists have done to transform this country, whether I agree with it or not.&#8221; Our nominees have to say a variation of that in their hearings. In other words, left-leaning decisions are sacrosanct and must be enforced. They are the &#8220;mainstream.&#8221; And if you, as a Republican nominee, do not signal that you\u2019re okay with that, then you are going to be labeled as out of the mainstream and extreme.<\/p>\n<p>So the left\u2019s out of control, unhinged opposition is not just about knocking out one nominee or another. It\u2019s about controlling the narrative. It\u2019s about controlling the parameters, the boundaries in which nominations are considered. And this hopefully will change. But right now it is the way it is. Republican nominees have to be very guarded and cannot in any way betray what their ideological beliefs are, whereas Democrat nominees not only can, they\u2019re required to. Anthony Kennedy? Roberts?<\/p>\n<p>They can\u2019t portray what they\u2019re really gonna do once they get on the bench. They have to keep that a secret if what they\u2019re gonna do is actually interpret the law. It\u2019s a real&#8230; Now, all that\u2019s reversed here. The Democrats don\u2019t have the votes to stop these nominees, especially if the nuclear option is enacted. But still, you watch; the hearings will take place much as I have described them here. Gorsuch is gonna show up, presumed to be out of the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s gonna be presumed to be an extremist \u2019cause of the Hobby Lobby case and because he defends the Second Amendment and all this. And in order to get through this he\u2019s gonna have to show his respects the lunatic leftist extremists that are the Democrats on the committee. And these parameters have to change. So whereas, yeah, the left does have a chance of causing people to tune out because they just are gonna be going crazy 24\/7, there still is the success that they have had in defining, setting the terms under which judicial confirmation hearings take place.<\/p>\n<p>The intent here is to fully limit the options Republican presidents have in choosing Supreme Court or federal district court nominees. As I say, presidents have to pick people that are gonna be able to go up there and walk this tightrope, whereas liberal nominees have to worry about any of this. The more liberalism they say they\u2019re for, the better it is. But they are scared to death of Gorsuch because he\u2019s so smart; he has impeccable credentials.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, this guy, his educational credentials, his resume, his CV is unassailable. This guy, they would kill if he were on their side. They&#8230; I mean, they would be having orgasms if they could get this guy on their side. That\u2019s how brilliant he is, and now he\u2019s backed by Trump, who is fearless and is out to blow this whole system up. And it may change the rules, the way the game is played. That\u2019s what we\u2019re keeping an eye on and hoping happens.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here is John in Port Huron, Michigan. You\u2019re next, and it\u2019s great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you. If I may for a minute be your unpaid spokesperson and talk directly to the emailers who don\u2019t buy your take so much that things are different now and the voting public, the people that put Trump in there aren\u2019t just gonna buy into the Democrats. May I do that for a moment?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Sure. Have at it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Because I was one of the weak-in-the-knee people, you propped me up many times when I was thinking this was over, it\u2019s gone. And this is where I\u2019m actually going to use your arguments over 30 years, or at least 20 years, to talk to these folks, \u2019cause I was one of them. Things are totally different now. For 20 years you\u2019ve been begging, clamoring, prodding Republicans, particularly in Congress, to fight back, to stand up, to make some points, not just back down, go-along-to-get-along and take the high road. And, of course, to the Democrats, the high road for Republicans simply means don\u2019t defend yourself. Would you agree with that?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah. Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And you have been saying this forever. And you look what the, quote, unquote, high road has gotten the Republican Party, it got George H. W. Bush from 90% approval after Desert Storm to being beaten by an unknown, you know, governor from Arkansas. It got his son to go from 90% approval after 9\/11 to 30% approval when he left office. And the most recent example of taking the high road, being classy, just figuring people will figure it out without responding, was Mitt Romney, you know, up by seven or eight going into the thing and then beaten.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-219741\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PelosiShort2-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PelosiShort2-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PelosiShort2.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>RUSH: I can\u2019t object to much of this, I must tell you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I appreciate that, because I am your unpaid spokesperson talking directly to these people, who I once was one. In fact, probably the day before the election I was still one of them. But here\u2019s the thing; here\u2019s what\u2019s different. You know where this is going. You have a guy who doesn\u2019t only defend himself, he fights back. He says stuff to them, to the Democrats, to his opposition, that you would want said.<\/p>\n<p>You cringed a little. You were so not used to a guy &#8212; and I\u2019ll give you specific examples &#8212; taking on the Clintons, both in Bill Clinton\u2019s personal behaviors while in office and of course their thievery with the Clinton Foundation over the years, you almost, even though you wanted it for years, you got so trained as a Republican to not hear that, you almost cringed at first and then went, &#8220;Oh, my God, it\u2019s about time.&#8221; Once you got over the cringe factor because we were so trained not to do that, then it\u2019s just started rolling and rolling and rolling. And that\u2019s different now. And he is not stopping. He is gonna continue to do this.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the second leg to this, what\u2019s different, and you brought this up, is the media will be out there selling it for Pelosi and Schumer. Their voices, you know, people like us may get sick of it, but they can pick it up. Here\u2019s what Trump has done, which is genius. They are the only group that has a lower approval rate than Congress. And he has taken them on head on with the same type of results for people like me and probably some middle-of-the-road Democrats and some nonpartisans, people that never voted, and &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, but don\u2019t forget the low-information crowd out there. They\u2019re always a factor.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: They\u2019re always a factor, but that bubble group &#8212; me, the people who may have voted, the Reagan Democrats, the labor Democrats, the same ones who voted for him in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, who never would have done that, they get it now. And when he keeps doing this and pointing it out, saying, &#8220;Hey, aren\u2019t you the network whose former anchor gave talking points, after she became the DNC chairman, questions in the debate,&#8221; blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, he\u2019s kept it up and kept it up.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my analogy. The Democrat Party itself is like white-collar criminals who ripped off a local group of people in a small community. That person then goes out and hires an attorney. Okay, they hire an attorney who has a stellar reputation who everyone respects to give them &#8212; what\u2019s that word they used to use, gravitas? In this scenario, in this analogy, what they\u2019ve done is they\u2019ve gone out and hired an attorney who just got out of prison for stealing money from the trust fund of their clients.<\/p>\n<p>So they\u2019re gonna rely on a group of people now that were going down the drain credibility-wise anyway, and Trump is just hitting the accelerator. He is just putting the pedal-to-the-metal &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. One quick question before I move on, \u2019cause this has been an excellent message to the emailers, and I will explain that when the call\u2019s completed. Do you have any fear, is there any part of you at any time worried that Trump is going to, not cave, but react in a bad way to something you wouldn\u2019t like, to, say, take a pick, the reaction to his executive order on vetting immigrants. It\u2019s so outrageous, it\u2019s so intense, Apple is threatening to sue Trump, all these other groups out there are going bonkers. The whole state of California says, &#8220;Screw you, Trump, we\u2019re going all sanctuary, not just city, the whole state,&#8221; are you worried at some point that Trump\u2019s gonna back down a little bit to try to appease these people?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m not afraid he\u2019s gonna back down. My fear used to be that, &#8220;Oh, he better &#8211;&#8221; you know, the old training, it\u2019s like Pavlov\u2019s dog; we\u2019re not used to getting what we want so much and over the top, we\u2019re thinking, &#8220;Oh, calm it down.&#8221; I\u2019m not in either one of those camps anymore. Because what he knows is 55, 60, 65, 70% of the people agree with these things.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let me tell you what I\u2019m running into, though. Let me ask you if you\u2019ve run into this. I\u2019m running into some citizens, not people in politics, they\u2019re voters. They\u2019re disappointed, even though everything you describe is happening. And they love it. They love the push-back, they love the defiance, they love Trump in their face; but they\u2019re disappointed that the media isn\u2019t changing.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re disappointed that seemingly not enough members of the public are getting it. In other words, they\u2019re sitting up there waiting for a vast majority of people to go with Trump, to abandon the Democrats, and they\u2019re including some media in that. I\u2019ve been up against this my whole career. And it\u2019s frustrated me to no end that people are not willing to pronounce success until the media agrees with us, and I\u2019m still hearing it out there among people.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay. Can I respond to that?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, yeah. Yeah. That\u2019s why I asked you the question. But I just got a minute here. You gotta do it quick. Brevity is the soul of wit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-218929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Rush-Blackboard-DECONSTRUCTING-LIBERALISM-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Rush-Blackboard-DECONSTRUCTING-LIBERALISM-2.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Rush-Blackboard-DECONSTRUCTING-LIBERALISM-2-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>CALLER: I can do 30 seconds. We\u2019re a church, not a cult. We want as many people to keep us going, but if you don\u2019t want to join us, go ahead; do whatever you want to do. We just proved in November that we don\u2019t need them. It\u2019s upsetting; it\u2019s irritating. I tell my mother, &#8220;Don\u2019t watch CNN. Don\u2019t watch the protests. It\u2019s like putting your tongue in a canker sore. What\u2019s the point? We won.&#8221; The polls of the people that put him in power are still there, and it\u2019s growing. And the more foolish they look&#8230; As you\u2019re saying, Rush, don\u2019t get upset like I used to that they look foolish and idiotic and they don\u2019t understand logic. Be happy.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Look, I hear you. I just&#8230; I see some people that are disappointed. They think with this big a slam-dunk win by Trump and this overwhelming demonstration of success that people would wake up and join us, and they see all this opposition on TV and they see the evidence of the country being divided, and they think, &#8220;Oh, my God, it isn\u2019t working.&#8221; They probably have, you know, an 85-year-old mother or mother-in-law living with \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s done nothing but watch MacNeil\/Lehrer every night followed by Walter Cronkite and then Dan Rather and that\u2019s all the old woman\u2019s exposed to and is sitting at home complaining and whining and moaning about this Trump guy. So there may be some explanations for it. But, look, I appreciate the caller out there, John. Port Huron, Michigan, is where you\u2019re from. I\u2019ll explain what he was doing talking to the emailers in case you weren\u2019t here at the top of the hour.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you what, old John out there from Port Huron, Michigan, is a pretty good spokesman. Did you hear his description of watching CNN? Like putting your tongue on a canker sore. (laughing) That was good. What he was talking about, I expressed an opinion previous hour that I think, because the left lost and because they\u2019re going bat excrement crazy all the time, I mean multiple times &#8212; in fact, it\u2019s their normal state, at some point people are gonna tire of it. They\u2019re gonna see it for what it is.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re gonna shoot their emotional ammo, gonna be out of it, and people are gonna just tire of it. And after awhile, all of their allegations about Trump are gonna cease to have much impact. And I got some emails during the break at the top of the hour, people who thought I was being overly optimistic about this and wanted me to temper my thoughts on that with some reality. And their basic point was, &#8220;Yeah, well, they may slink away, but the media never. The media\u2019s gonna constantly be using the left for the lead items on the news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s true. I mean, the left can be as bat excrement crazy as they want, and they\u2019re still gonna be the fodder for what the lead items television news are above the fold on newspapers, covers of magazines, and the blogs and everything. So the media is still going to be portraying this extreme, wacko, insane liberalism as the mainstream order of the day, in terms of the narrative. No matter how crazy it gets, no matter how insane, no matter how lunatic it is. And that happens to be true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I checked the email during the break, and I have a lot of people thinking that I&#039;m overly optimistic on the tactics the left employed all the time failing them because people get wise to it. And I understand. 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