RUSH: Hey, folks, let me ask you a question here. In the eight years of the presidency of Barack Hussein O, do you remember any stories that discussed palace intrigue in the Obama White House? Did we get stories of competing aides sandbagging and sabotaging each other, seeking Obama\u2019s attention?<\/p>\n
Did we have any stories that positioned any of Obama\u2019s advisers as smarter than he was? Did we get any stories that treated Obama\u2019s advisers as the real brains behind the operation? I\u2019ve been asking myself this during the break. Well, Valerie Jarrett stories were all about how tight they were. When you read a story about Valerie Jarrett and Obama, I swear the only reaction I had, well, where\u2019s Michelle in this duo?<\/p>\n
Valerie Jarrett was never portrayed as smarter than or more powerful than Obama. She was portrayed as a Svengali, as somebody he deeply trusted, and deeply relied on, and just desperately needed around all the time. But she was never portrayed as the brains behind the operation. The media never once did a story about how any adviser, any cabinet member was smarter than, braver than, better than, more equipped than Barack Obama.<\/p>\n
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Barack Obama was always portrayed as the top dog, and it wasn\u2019t even close. There were no stories about palace intrigue. We didn\u2019t get stories of anybody trying to edge Valerie Jarrett out, for example. We didn\u2019t even know half the time who Obama\u2019s strategists were. We didn\u2019t even know who was the Bannon equivalent in the Obama White House? Okay, Valerie Jarrett.<\/p>\n
Okay, so if the Bannon equivalent is Valerie Jarrett, where were all the stories warning of the dangers of Valerie Jarrett and how we need somebody in there from Goldman Sachs to moderate the extremism? Nowhere. Got none of it.<\/p>\n
But I want to remind you this. In the Reagan years we got exactly this that we\u2019re getting now, and particularly in the second term. We had supposed intrigue between James Baker and Mike Deaver and Nancy Reagan. And Nancy Reagan was the great protector defending Ronnie from all of the people in his administration that meant to undermine him. And they made Nancy Reagan look like an absolute Fruit Loop because she supposedly relied on astrology every day to guide her husband\u2019s presidential strategy. It\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n
And then Bill Clinton gets in the White House, and they even spike stories about him having sex with interns, much less run stories about any palace intrigue. And throughout the eight years of Clinton, there still hasn\u2019t been a tell-all book other than by a couple of FBI agents. And yet we\u2019re not even a hundred days into the Trump administration and look at this. Why, the place is so disorganized. Nobody knows what\u2019s up. Nobody knows what\u2019s down. Nobody knows who to listen to. Nobody knows who\u2019s instructing Trump. Nobody knows who\u2019s advising Trump. There\u2019s these battles going on.<\/p>\n
What are the odds that a whole lot of this is exaggerated way beyond what is real? I don\u2019t doubt that there is leakage going on, and I don\u2019t doubt that there are people within the White House maneuvering and vying for power and closeness to Trump, close proximity for the purposes of influence. But who put them there in the first place, folks? The way some of these stories are written, you got Trump actually hiring saboteurs. Trump has actually hired people trying to undermine him, if you listen to this media stuff.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019ll tell you something else. Just one more thing here before we move on. As you know, I have a fundamental belief system when it comes to believing and observing Washington politics. And it is this: I reject what is the conventional wisdom almost automatically, because conventional wisdom is groupthink. And if everybody is thinking and saying the same thing, then there really isn\u2019t any thinking going on.<\/p>\n
Instead, there are orders being given, or there\u2019s indoctrination. But if everybody\u2019s saying and thinking the same thing, and if that becomes the conventional wisdom, then whatever else is going on, thinking is not part of it. So the conventional wisdom right now is that Bannon is a jerk, that he\u2019s an extreme danger to the normal standing of the United States and has to go and that Trump is beginning to see this. And he\u2019s beginning to see this because of the sane influence that is being exerted by a Goldman Sachs liberal Democrat named Gary Cohn.<\/p>\n
And so since there\u2019s a liberal Democrat from Goldman Sachs, he\u2019s being portrayed in wonderful terms, a moderating influence, an intelligent influence over Trump, an influence that is guiding Trump to a different era. It\u2019s just too camp. Maybe what\u2019s being written is what a lot of people are hoping will come to pass, or hoping will be the case. But what if what we\u2019re reading about this and hearing, what if very little of it or not much of it happens to be true? Just to pose some other possibilities.<\/p>\n
What if — and I\u2019m just throwing it up against the wall here. I don\u2019t know that any of these circumstances I will express in these questions is actually the case. But what if what\u2019s really going on in there — and I formulated this because of this hit piece on Jared Kushner yesterday. And this hit piece has not gotten any play. It\u2019s amazing how this story, it was a Washington Free Beacon story, and it was a hit piece on Jared Kushner, how this little inexperienced young punk 36-year-old doesn\u2019t know diddly-squat is trying to take over the whole National Security Council.<\/p>\n
I said, now, who would leak that? Well, somebody obviously high up in the NSC doesn\u2019t like Jared poking around in there. The only thing we\u2019ve heard about the NSC is that Bannon tried to worm his way in there and that Trump kicked him off, but even after Trump kicked him out of it we saw him seated in the NSC meeting in Mar-a-Lago last week. Said, what the hell\u2019s going on here?<\/p>\n
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So now they\u2019re leaking on little Jared, leaking on poor Jared, he\u2019s trying to take over the whole thing. So somebody at the NSC is either really scared or really protective of their turf. Now, this area\u2019s run by a guy, H. R. McMaster, who\u2019s very close to retired General Jack Keene of Fox News and David Petraeus. And these guys, they loved the hit on Syria, they loved dropping that bomb on ISIS, and they want to go further.<\/p>\n
What if — I\u2019m just throwing this out there — what if the real alignment is that Bannon and Kushner are actually aligned trying to fight off this other faction? What if Bannon\u2019s not isolated? “What do you know Rush that we don\u2019t?” I don\u2019t know anything. I\u2019m just sharing with you the thought processes I experience as I take all this stuff in. And, remember, it\u2019s all under the umbrella of I don\u2019t believe the conventional wisdom. It\u2019s almost policy with me. I reject it out of hand. ‘Cause it\u2019s always manufactured. And if everybody\u2019s thinking the same thing, why do I want to join that crowd anyway?<\/p>\n
And the conventional wisdom is that Bannon\u2019s trying to be isolated, that Kushner and everybody else is trying to throw him out. Yet he\u2019s still there. So it is intriguing, but the even more important thing about it is that we never see any of this kind of stuff happen in Democrat administrations. But does it? You know damn well it does because people are people; human nature is human nature. You know there\u2019s people all over the Obama administration fighting to get close to him, wanting to be in the glow, in the light, everybody loved Obama, everybody wants to be as close they can.<\/p>\n
You know damn well this kind of infighting was going on, but to protect Obama the media would not dare report any of it because they couldn\u2019t dare report that Obama was not in total control every minute of every day of his regime. But they love reporting that Trump has no control of that\u2019s going on and needs all these outsiders to know even which way to walk after he gets up every day. So you have to exercise extreme caution in what of this you choose to believe.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me put one more thing out there, since we\u2019ve alighted on this tangent here. When we\u2019re talking about Trump, my question is, “Does anybody really understand him? Does Bannon? Does Gary Cohn? Does Dina Powell?” I\u2019m pretty sure Ivanka knows her dad. But these other people, do they really know Trump? I know they all think they do. And I think I do. I think… well, you know what I think. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anybody better to explain Trump, if you don\u2019t understand him, if you\u2019ve got a problem with him, than I, El Rushbo.<\/p>\n
But I wonder if — and it\u2019s all rooted in this very simple thing that people can\u2019t come to grips with. And that is, Trump doesn\u2019t have a political philosophy. He\u2019s operating in the world of politics. He knows he\u2019s in the world of politics, but he has not done what most people who would want to succeed in politics would do. They\u2019d learn politics. They\u2019d spend years learning it. And they\u2019d go get elected dogcatcher and then move up from that. And they\u2019d start building the political coalitions that you have to build. And you start meeting and learning the fundraisers and the donors.<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t do any of that because he\u2019s in it to turn it upside down and shake it up and shake it out so that the all the loose change and junk falls out of it. But the people in politics don\u2019t know anything but that, and particularly left-wingers who have had never worked in the private sector, so they have been hopelessly unable to understand him. They never will. They see the world is made of find flip-flops. In politics you can\u2019t change your mind.<\/p>\n
Now, we agree if it\u2019s core principles we\u2019re talking about, but everywhere else in the world it\u2019s called learning to adapt. In politics, uh, uh, uh, that\u2019s called flip-flop and we gotta get rid of flip-floppers and both parties are guilty of it. Trump doesn\u2019t show the slightest concern at maybe exhibiting flip-flop behavior. He spends a year campaigning on the premise that the ChiComs are currency manipulators and then after a week of meeting with the head ChiCom and talking about North Korea, all of a sudden the currency manipulation doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n
“Well, he lied during the campaign, Rush, that\u2019s why.” No. “Well, then he\u2019s a flip-flopper.” No. Something\u2019s happened that in his world it makes sense to not start bashing the ChiComs over currency manipulation right now. But if they misbehave, it can easily come back. But I think it goes even deeper than that.<\/p>\n
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Let\u2019s look at this. How much did we know about Barack Obama and all the influence? They tried to hide the influence of Bill Ayers. They tried to hide influence of Bernardine Dohrn. They tried to hide the influence of Rashid Khalidi. The LA Times still will not release a tape of Khalidi endorsing Obama back in 2008 at a luncheon, and this was one of the biggest anti-Israeli screeds that somebody supposedly made. The LA Times sits on it, won\u2019t release it, it\u2019s not helpful to Obama, that\u2019s why.<\/p>\n
We haven\u2019t had any news stories or profiles on any of the people who were influential in shaping Obama. We\u2019ve had books by people that are not the media. I\u2019m not saying the profiles aren\u2019t there, but that the media hasn\u2019t. Meanwhile, we know what Steve Bannon\u2019s electric bill was when he lived in Florida in 2012, and we know whether he paid it or not. The Washington Post on a Sunday morning did like a 7,000-word piece on all the places Steve Bannon has lived and all the places he stiffed in terms of paying the electricity. He\u2019s a presidential adviser. What is that all about?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s obvious and clear what it\u2019s all about. If you do 7,000 words on all the places the guy\u2019s lived, first thing you realize, “Man, this guy is not very stable. You can\u2019t count on this guy hanging around anywhere, that\u2019s number one.” Then you get the details, how the guy stiffs the electric company, stiffs the cable bill. So you get the picture. Yet everybody around Obama, angelic and prince-like. So all this I\u2019m just saying be very, very suspicious of all of this stuff like you are with anything else in the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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