RUSH: You know, people ask me all the time, “Rush, what\u2019s it like to be you?” Well, I\u2019m gonna tell you today, in one sense, what it\u2019s like to be me. And I don\u2019t want you to think I\u2019m complaining, because I\u2019m not complaining, because I have nothing to complain about. Well, look, I mean like everybody else, if I wanted to focus on things to complain about, I can find \u2019em. I just don\u2019t complain. That\u2019s what makes this amazing.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t complain to anybody, about me. I mean, I might opine about things, circumstances, situations that bother me and so forth, but I don\u2019t do it from a whining standpoint, “Will you fix it?” I can\u2019t stand it. I can\u2019t stand complaining \u2019cause I don\u2019t know how to deal with it myself. I really don\u2019t. I become tongue-tied. I don\u2019t know what to say other than, “That\u2019s horrible. Oh, I feel so bad. Sorry. Oh, man.” I\u2019m reluctant to ask if there\u2019s anything I can do because I\u2019m afraid of the answer. (interruption) What? It\u2019s terrible to say that? No, it\u2019s not. (laughing)<\/p>\n
Once again this morning, an incident on Capitol Hill. I really think the Drive-By Media is making people insane. I really do. I think the media is driving people crazy. The Democrat Party\u2019s helping. And I have another question here. Who\u2019s really an arm of who? Is the media an arm of the Democrat Party, or is the Democrat Party an arm of the media?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been pondering this, ladies and gentlemen. I actually think you could make the case that the Democrats are incidental to the media. And I\u2019m gonna explain why \u2019cause I got a complaining note from a friend of mine, which is what inspired all of this.<\/p>\n
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\nAnyway, back to this incident in Washington. A lunatic, a woman driver was ordered by the police to make a U-turn. Normally you don\u2019t have to tell people to do U-turns; they do \u2019em on their own. But this woman was ordered to do a U-turn. Instead, she became erratic and nearly struck the police officer who was telling her to make the U-turn and hightail it out of there. She also struck or nearly struck a car. We\u2019re not sure yet.<\/p>\n
This led to her being pursued by the Capitol Hill police, not the FBI, not by the CIA, not by the NSA, not by the DIA, and that\u2019s important because when the FBI is after you, it\u2019s not terrorism. Well, the way this moves on here, the police pursued her and shot at her until she stopped. She was taken into custody. Of course, we have been assured that this is nothing more than a criminal act. It isn\u2019t terrorism. And it may not be; I don\u2019t know. I am not gonna split hairs over that.<\/p>\n
But we\u2019ve got these White House fence jumpers. Do you know the hysteria — and I knew this is gonna happen — the hysteria of the left is in because Trump has canceled a couple of Obama executive orders on the environment? They are beside themselves. Podesta has an op-ed today, what, in the Washington Post. Michael Moore claims this is gonna lead to the extinction of the human race.<\/p>\n
The Drive-By Media, individuals, Algore, they\u2019re all hysterical. They are absent of reality. They\u2019re out of their minds. And if you look at these little snowflakes on campus, you know, who makes them the way they are? You\u2019re not born thinking and believing and feeling the oddball things that so many people believe today. It\u2019s arguably the education system, but it gets back to the question of what\u2019s an arm of what? Is the media the arm of the Democrat Party or is the Democrat Party the arm of the media?<\/p>\n
So now we move on to — I get emails from people. They don\u2019t specifically say, “What\u2019s it like to be you?” They reference it, “Boy, it must be great to be you,” after hearing me describe the things I\u2019ve done or whatever. Sometimes somebody asks in a humorous way. And I just want to tell you here, folks, that I wouldn\u2019t trade me for anybody. There isn\u2019t anybody else I want to be. There isn\u2019t anybody I wish I was. There\u2019s not a part of somebody I wish I could add to me. I love me. So I\u2019m satisfied with me and who I am.<\/p>\n
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But a part of being me is a sponge. For some reason you would not believe the number of people that whine and complain and get negative on me. For example, I got an email from a friend last night who told me in all capital letters to stop it, to stop it. “I know you have to repeat things in order for it to make an impression, but we, the educated members of your audience, are tired of hearing it!” And what he was tired of hearing about was me describing how the Democrats can\u2019t win elections, that they lost the presidency, that they\u2019ve lost 1,200 seats.<\/p>\n
“We know that! We know that! Do you know what your audience is yelling at you every time you say it? They\u2019re saying, ‘Shut up. It doesn\u2019t mean anything because we\u2019re not winning!\u2019 We\u2019re losing everywhere you look. They\u2019re about to run our president out of town. The Republicans can\u2019t do anything right. What are we getting for winning all these elections? We\u2019re losing. And you\u2019re out there making it look like winning these elections matters. You\u2019ve got to stop it!”<\/p>\n
I\u2019m looking at that, a lesser person would think, “Is my career over? Have I finally lost the ability to relate to my audience? Is my audience now shouting at me to shut up and I don\u2019t know it now?” I\u2019ve always known when that happens, that you need empathy to do what I do, do it well, you need empathy, empathy with the audience. You have to know when the audience is on the verge of leaving. You have to know when the audience is loving it. You have to know when the audience is digging it. You have to know when the audience is paying scant attention and you gotta rope \u2019em in. I\u2019ve always had that.<\/p>\n
Now I\u2019m being told you are tired of hearing about all the signs and evidence of Democrat loss and Republican win because there isn\u2019t any winning. We\u2019re not winning. Now, this guy\u2019s perception that we\u2019re not winning is due totally, and he even admits so, to the media. No matter how much we win, it\u2019s not portrayed, it\u2019s not reflected. In fact it\u2019s just the opposite. If you watch the media each and every day, you would think that the Democrats won the election.<\/p>\n
Are you tired of hearing me go through this riff? The Democrats lost the election, Republicans stole it working with the Russians. But his point is larger than that. His point is that for all the successes Trump is having, nobody knows about them. All these things he\u2019s doing to create jobs, to revitalize American business, to grow the economy, those things are happening, by the way. Trump is even having, from Foreign Policy, the Washington Post Magazine, Trump is having overwhelming success against ISIS.<\/p>\n
The Washington Post is reporting this. They\u2019ve got a magazine called Foreign Policy in which they are competing with Foreign Affairs, which the official publication of a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, which was started by — Rockefeller, who recently died, started the Trilateral Commission. The conspiracy is deep and it\u2019s wide and has many tentacles and oftentimes they are confused.<\/p>\n
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I got another note from a guy in Washington last night. “My gosh, Rush, this town is sick. This town is perverse. There is something seriously wrong here. Things don\u2019t feel right.” And then he said it. ‘Cause I said, “What\u2019s the matter? Why are you even there?”<\/p>\n
“Well, I\u2019ve got a couple of dinners with –” and he told me the names of people he\u2019s having dinner with. He had to go to Washington to have dinner with these people. “Rush, it all feels temporary. Trump doesn\u2019t seem like he\u2019s president to me, it all feels temporary. It doesn\u2019t feel like he\u2019s really won the election. I\u2019m scared. I\u2019m scared that it didn\u2019t really happen even though he won the presidency. I mean, Air Force One doesn\u2019t look as big to me. I\u2019m not as impressed when I see Air Force One. None of this stuff I\u2019ve always associated with the presidency do I see here in this. I\u2019m really worried, Rush, I\u2019m really worried.”<\/p>\n
Another email: “Rush, I just don\u2019t see Trump\u2019s heart in this. I\u2019m watching, I don\u2019t think Trump cares. You trying to tell me that Trump knew what was in the health care bill? He didn\u2019t even know what\u2019s in it Rush, oh, my gosh, we\u2019re in so bad shape. He\u2019s heart\u2019s not in it. I think he was satisfied to win, now he\u2019s going through the motions trying to survive.”<\/p>\n
I\u2019m saying, what is it that\u2019s causing all this? What is it that is generating all this? And look, I mean, I know one of the answers, and it\u2019s obviously the media. But, my friends, I have to tell you, I can\u2019t tell you the number of conversations I\u2019ve had, official and otherwise, with people over three decades about what to do about the media.<\/p>\n
In terms of turning them, defeating them, relegating them to irrelevance, it\u2019s why I ask, are they an arm of the Democrat Party or is the Democrat Party an arm of the media? I\u2019m under no illusions of the power of the media. You know me, I don\u2019t even think the media is what they are. The media implies people that are in the media doing the news. And that\u2019s not what we get from these people at all. I mean, they\u2019re clearly all totally focused on removing Trump from office. They want to destroy Donald Trump. That is the mission.<\/p>\n
Now, I have an attitude about this that says it is just part of the playing field that we\u2019ve chosen to be on here, and it isn\u2019t gonna change, and so it has to be dealt with. I have never harbored an illusion that the media\u2019s going to change. I\u2019ve never harbored an illusion that the media is going to be tolerant of or even supportive of most of what you and I believe in. But I also do not get fatalistically pessimistic about it. But I think a lot of people are.<\/p>\n
And I think the foundation or root of all of these emails I\u2019m getting is that people feel powerless to battle this and they think I may have some kind of ability to battle this. So my point here is, I could spend today — I might — reviewing some of Trump\u2019s achievements. And they\u2019re pretty big. They\u2019re not being reported on. The Trump administration does, you know, a half-baked job of selling them. I think there are things Trump could do to counter what he\u2019s doing on Twitter, I mean, expand on what he\u2019s doing on Twitter with the media.<\/p>\n
For example, you remember George W. Bush, when he wanted to go into Iraq and get rid of Saddam Hussein — by the way, they pronounced his name that way on purpose. You people new to the program may not know that in Iraq, in that language, when you pronounce the name “Saddam” you are calling them essentially a dirty shoe or a shoe shiner or some menial thing. “Saddam” is an insult. That\u2019s why Bush 41 always called him “Saddam Hussein.” It\u2019s not because Bush 41 didn\u2019t know how to pronounce it. The correct pronouncing was “Saddam Hussein,” but he pronounced it “Saddam.”<\/p>\n
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At any rate, Bush wanted to get rid of Saddam. What did he do? Bush spent a year, almost a year and a half traveling all over the country making speeches trying to drive public support for it. The reason I mention this is because of another of the emails, “Why didn\u2019t Trump do rally after rally after rally to sell health care reform, why did he rely on Ryan?” And then you get into all the other allegations you get about Ryan.<\/p>\n
So, folks, what can I do? I\u2019m looking for assistance here on how to deal. I mean, it\u2019s consistent. It\u2019s constant. Whether we win elections, whether we lose elections, I am under siege with people pummeling me with worries and fears and negativism. And I work very hard not to allow it to also rope me in and have a day-to-day attitude like that. I\u2019ve said this before, and I\u2019ve even got, “You need to join us in the pessimism. It\u2019s the only way you can relate to us. It\u2019s the only way you\u2019ll be able to deal with it the way we see it. You can\u2019t sit there and act like you\u2019re above it.” I\u2019m not trying to say I\u2019m above it. I just don\u2019t want to be a pessimist all the time.<\/p>\n
We only have one life, and I\u2019m not gonna allow these people to ruin mine. It\u2019s a delicate balance. I mean, I got responsibilities here behind the Golden EIB Microphone. By the way, all these complaints, I don\u2019t pooh-pooh them, as you can tell. I\u2019ve not laughed at \u2019em or made fun of them or ridiculed them. I have brought them in, I have processed them, I have worked them through the corridors and the nooks and the crannies in the deep, dark crevices of my fertile mind working through all of this. I listen to what people say. And about the only thing — well, no, let me not go there right now. If you have an idea on how to defeat the media, I would love to hear it.<\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t want to turn every call into this. I\u2019m speaking rhetorically here. I\u2019m not throwing out a topic. We don\u2019t do that here on the EIB Network. All right, so what do we have today? We have the continued effort to unseat Trump via the Russia and spying, and we\u2019ve got what I think is some really earth-shattering news on this front. We have the left — you think you\u2019re pessimistic? You know, the mistake I think a lot of people make, you think the left is happy while they\u2019re doing all this. You think you\u2019re miserable and down in the dumps and feeling defeated, and you\u2019re upset that you don\u2019t feel the glow of victory even though we won.<\/p>\n
I start getting emails from people, “Stop talking about all the seats the Democrats have lost. It\u2019s not relevant. We aren\u2019t winning.” If you\u2019re miserable and unhappy, do not make the mistake of thinking that the Chuck Schumers and the Michael Moores and whoever you want to name, they are not happy, and they\u2019re never happy. They are incapable of it. They exist in this kind of swirling descent into new insanity. That\u2019s their natural state of mind, constant rage, never-ending upset.<\/p>\n
So don\u2019t think that they\u2019re happy while you\u2019re not. I know the media makes it look like the people on the left are solid, that they\u2019re adjusted and that they\u2019re unified and coordinated and all this. These people are miserable, and they are the ones bringing everybody down. I wouldn\u2019t succumb to it if I were you, if I could, but I know it goes deeper than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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