{"id":224798,"date":"2017-03-08T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=224798"},"modified":"2017-03-09T16:23:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T21:23:02","slug":"selena-zito-is-still-trying-to-explain-trump-to-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/08\/selena-zito-is-still-trying-to-explain-trump-to-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Salena Zito Is Still Trying to Explain Trump to the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019ve got a sound bite. Grab number seven. Salena Zito. We\u2019ve interviewed her for the Limbaugh Letter<\/a>. She\u2019s a columnist, used to be at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, then the New York Post. She\u2019s great. And she was one of the early predictors of Donald Trump based on her travels of suburban and rural areas of Ohio and Pennsylvania. And she was early on convinced that Trump was gonna win and somewhat handily because she was finding so many Democrats in traditional blue states that just loved the guy.<\/p>\n

\"\"And she has stayed on this case. She stays in touch with people that she\u2019s met during the campaign, takes their temperature regularly. And she was on CNN Tonight last night with Don Lemon. She does some work for the Washington Examiner as well, by the way. Lemon said, “People want to be able to believe what their president said. And no one can believe it\u2019s actually not true,” meaning Trump claiming the White House tapped him and Trump Tower. So, you know, Lemon said, “People want to believe their president. But nobody can believe this. It\u2019s not backed up by the evidence.” And here\u2019s what Salena Zito said.<\/p>\n

ZITO: I spent the day going down the Ohio River from Weirton, West Virginia, to Steubenville, Mingo Junction, just talking to people that voted for him, and they\u2019re also all Democrats. One of the things we talked about is, you know, his loose use of words. And this one woman who described herself as a staunch liberal, she said, “Look, he is not a politician. That\u2019s how he talks. He talks like a salesman. There\u2019s this expectation of hyperbole. And it\u2019s part of what we wanted. We wanted someone that was gonna not only just blow up the system, but just not talk like a perfectly measured politician.” And that\u2019s what they got.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I have been trying in my own limited fashion for as long as Trump has been on the scene to explain to people that don\u2019t understand him why people love him and how they hear him and how they see him. And I haven\u2019t been able to convince I guess — well, I don\u2019t know how many people I\u2019ve convinced. The point is she\u2019s exactly right about people.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s precisely because Trump is not a politician that he\u2019s supported, and he is being supported for reasons that have nothing to do with following a political behavioral manual or a political playbook of any kind. He represents blowing all of that up in a figurative sense. He represents draining the swamp. The media has their blueprint for destroying Republican politicians. It\u2019s never gonna work on Trump.<\/p>\n

\"\"I said this to Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday<\/a>. I said they are not gonna believe me on this because that would be to accept their incompetence or ineffectiveness in this. But it\u2019s no more complicated than this. The media didn\u2019t make Donald Trump, and they can\u2019t break him. If the media makes you, in other words, if you\u2019re a star, if you\u2019re a success, if you have popularity, if you\u2019re an A-list celebrity and the media has had anything to do with manufacturing the reasons why, well, then they own you. ‘Cause if the media\u2019s responsible for people thinking that you\u2019re one way and that\u2019s why they love you, the media can turn on you on a dime, and you\u2019re sayonara history.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not the case with Trump because the media began trying to destroy him from the get-go. They haven\u2019t been able to do it yet. And they\u2019re not gonna be able to. So when Trump comes out and says, in a tweet, “Don\u2019t you think it\u2019s horrible that President Obama or Obama tapped my wires –” (laughing) it\u2019s what he actually said — “tapped my wires at Trump Tower.” Well, as hard as it is for reporters and others to accept, people that support Trump know exactly what he means by that.<\/p>\n

And when they come along and try to say, “That\u2019s outrageous what Trump –” They know what Trump meant by it. He\u2019s being surveilled! He\u2019s being spied on! It makes perfect sense that Trump would be spied on by the people that don\u2019t like hip. That\u2019s all they hear. That\u2019s all they know, and they agree with it. But here comes the media with their perfection specification, and it just falls on deaf ears. And they are not gonna learn it. They\u2019re an obstinate bunch of people.<\/p>\n

And I told this guy, “You people that support Trump, you\u2019re all he has, so make it known that you haven\u2019t lost any enthusiasm and everything\u2019s gonna be fine.” That\u2019s optimistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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