RUSH: You know, it always amazes me what happens on this program that\u2019s gonna get picked up and smeared — not smeared — broadcast all over everywhere else in the media. And there are two things. Yesterday on this program I offered the opinion that Trump may in fact spell the end of CNN. That he\u2019s driving them crazy to the point that they are imploding. And it\u2019s gotten even worse since we were here yesterday. Now there\u2019s CNN people saying that Trump is putting all journalists at danger from gunfire around the world now.<\/p>\n
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But this Russian story obsession that has nothing to it is driving them nuts and they\u2019re making fools of themselves, and this has been all over the media. They have assembled panels to discuss whether or not this might be the end of CNN! Is Rush right? Could this be? And of course there are people that come along and agree.<\/p>\n
The other thing that has captivated the Drive-Bys is my comparison of Little Jim Acosta at CNN to my little cat chasing a red laser pointer. That has captivated people. I mean, they\u2019ve written about it; they have spoken about it. It\u2019s just a little analogy. I mean, you have a cat, if you have a cat. It doesn\u2019t matter, kitten or cat — and they never catch on to it, it\u2019s the most amazing thing — grab a red laser pointer and point it near the cat on the floor, on the wall, or on the side of the sofa, and the cat will try to catch it.<\/p>\n
If you point it right in front of its paws the cat will swat at it trying to catch it. And it never can and never figures it out. It looks at me plaintively like, “What\u2019s going on?” And that\u2019s when I double down on the torment. And I said this is what Jim Acosta reminds me of, what they\u2019re doing to him in the pressroom. They got him crashing into walls. They\u2019ve got him falling off the sofa. And that has been picked up. We got the audio sound bites of this to illustrate.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I mentioned at the top of the program that I\u2019m always, even now after all this time, I\u2019m still surprised over what happens on this program that makes it beyond this program. For example, I think this program is chock-full of unique, insightful, intelligent brilliance every day. And we also do some lighthearted, irreverent, and humorous things. And a couple of those have leapt beyond the surly bonds of this program and found their way into the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n
One of them is my belief, as stated yesterday, that we could be watching the death throes of CNN. Now, that\u2019s a long shot. I mean, there\u2019s always gonna be a CNN like there\u2019s always gonna be an America, but what\u2019s it gonna be, is the question. The New York Times is a close second and the Washington Post. CNN, wall-to-wall Malaysian airliner, wall-to-wall on just the oddest things, Ferguson, Missouri, they wouldn\u2019t leave that alone, they tried to hype it.<\/p>\n
It is clear to me that CNN has chosen an objective, and that is to destroy the Trump presidency. There\u2019s no doubt in my mind that\u2019s their objective. They have focused on it since the election, and it\u2019s getting more intense. And with each day the realization that they\u2019re failing is driving \u2019em nuts. And now they\u2019ve got this reporter, Jim Acosta, who is melting down almost daily here over procedures in the White House pressroom, not turning on the cameras, journalists all over now claiming that Trump is going to get them shot because the way he\u2019s talking about them. Wow.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I made mention of Jim Acosta being like a cat with the laser pointer crashing against the wall and the floor, running into sofas, all trying to catch Trump, never able to do it, looking like a fool. These two things made it as discussion items on Fox News and elsewhere. We start with Tucker Carlson last night. He spoke with Mark Steyn, our fill-in host, about me and my comments that Trump may be the person that brings about the end of CNN. And this was part of the conversation.<\/p>\n
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CARLSON: What about the prediction, you\u2019ve heard Rush Limbaugh, who you sit for sometimes, say that they\u2019re going to be a casualty of the Trump administration?<\/p>\n
STEYN: Yes. I think that\u2019s likely. There are diminishing returns to this which is it\u2019s a Russian investigation with no Russians. The only Russian anyone ever mentions is the ambassador who\u2019s like strolling around lunching all over the District of Columbia. He\u2019s the only sinister Russian in this story. It\u2019s a Russian investigation without any Russians.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s true. And in that Washington Post story last Friday it\u2019s a story about Russian collusion with Trump, and there\u2019s no mention of Trump in the story. So later that night on The Five, which has now been moved to nine so they should call it The Nine. But actually they don\u2019t call it The Five \u2019cause it was on at five p.m. They call it The Five \u2019cause there are five different personalities on there. So they played a clip of me on the program yesterday to begin a discussion panel.<\/p>\n
RUSH ARCHIVE: Could Donald Trump be the end of CNN? What a legacy that would be. I think that\u2019s what the Trump administration is doing with many in the media. They\u2019re like cats. He\u2019s got this little red laser light and he\u2019s just causing them to make fools of themselves and everybody\u2019s laughing at \u2019em as they\u2019re crashing into walls.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Jesse Watters is on The Five now at nine o\u2019clock, and he had his two cents to weigh in with.<\/p>\n
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WATTERS: Trump reminds me of Road Runner. So he runs really fast, and then CNN\u2019s Wile E. Coyote. So Wile E. Coyote chases Road Runner over the edge of a cliff and then all of a sudden Wile E. Coyote looks down and there\u2019s nothing underneath. That\u2019s CNN right now. Splat. And they hit the pavement. But Trump has this effect on people. Rush was talking about the laser beam and I\u2019ve said it before that Trump brings out the best in people and the worst in people. Right now he\u2019s bringing out the worst in CNN.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I like that Wile E. Coyote example. I really like it. In fact, I used to it back in January.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The Drive-Bys are in panic. You gotta look at \u2019em as Wile E. Coyote; you gotta look at Trump and his team as the Road Runner. Wile E. Coyote still has no idea what\u2019s happening. They\u2019re trying to continue to destroy Trump in the age-old ways they\u2019ve succeeded. It\u2019s all backfiring on them.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now we move to Hannity last night on the Fox News Channel and he had as a guest the recording artist Kaya, Kaya Jones, and of course they\u2019re talking me, the EIB Network. Hannity says, “When you really think about it, Donald Trump is saying fake news, fake news, fake news, and they keep falling right into the trap. I think Rush is right.”<\/p>\n
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JONES: He\u2019s a hundred percent right. It\u2019s messing up actual factual input of what\u2019s going on in the country and what\u2019s going on in the world. I mean, they\u2019re literally using press briefings to drum up fake stories at this point. It\u2019s horrible.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Very perceptive there on the part of the Kaya Jones, using the press briefing to drum up fake stories. That\u2019s one of the reasons why they\u2019re so mad that the cameras were turned off. The cameras are back on today. Sarah Huckabee Sanders doing the briefing. Right now Steve Mnuchin is at the podium. He\u2019s Treasury, right? Yeah, Treasury secretary announcing some new sanctions on the Norks, on the North Koreans. And the cameras are on. She\u2019s right. CNN and others used the cameras to act out and create fake news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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