{"id":239143,"date":"2017-06-29T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=239143"},"modified":"2017-07-05T16:15:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T20:15:02","slug":"what-i-know-about-trump-joe-and-mika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/06\/29\/what-i-know-about-trump-joe-and-mika\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Know About Trump, Joe and Mika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Let\u2019s look at Trump here and his tweets now on Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough. If you go back to the campaign, Trump has branded people that he considers his opponents. We got Low Energy Jeb. We have Little Marco. We had Lyin\u2019 Ted. We had Crooked Hillary. Now we have Low IQ Crazy Mika and Psycho Joe. Trump\u2019s tweets today have everybody bewildered. What in the world is he thinking? And it\u2019s actually not that. The tweets tell us what he\u2019s thinking. Why in the world did he do it? What is the point here?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t claim to know, folks. I\u2019m like everybody else. I would just have to start guessing. But I do have some insight for you that might &#8212; nothing can justify this, but it might make you look at it a little bit differently. Here are the tweets. &#8220;I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don\u2019t watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year\u2019s Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those are the tweets. (interruption) What do you mean, you can\u2019t believe the uproar? He cites bleeding here after what he\u2019d said about Megyn Kelly? This stuff doesn\u2019t happen here &#8212; well, but look, the media is predictably beside itself. CNN is literally &#8212; we\u2019ve got the sound coming up. Little Brian could not contain himself, Little Brian Stelter couldn\u2019t. I mean, they\u2019re just, &#8220;This is just horrible.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-239184 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.08.09-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.08.09-PM.png 1045w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.08.09-PM-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.08.09-PM-768x318.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.08.09-PM-1024x424.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-239185 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.08.17-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.08.17-PM.png 1063w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.08.17-PM-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.08.17-PM-768x306.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.08.17-PM-1024x408.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Oh, my God, I wish the American people would wake up and revile what they voted for and understand what a reprobate they voted for. Oh, my God, it\u2019s horrible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re having collapse fits at CNN. And a lot of &#8212; (interruption) Is what true? Yeah, they are, Little Brian says (paraphrasing), &#8220;I got pictures of her down there at Mar-a-Lago, New Year\u2019s Eve, and she\u2019s not bleeding. It doesn\u2019t look like she\u2019s had a face-lift.&#8221; All right. Well, let me take a break here. Do you know that back on June the 8th of this year &#8212; right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers &#8212; from TheHill.com: &#8220;Morning Joe cohost: Trump May Be Mentally Ill &#8212; MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski said Thursday President Trump is &#8216;not well,\u2019 and even possibly &#8216;mentally ill.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So this June 8th, roughly three weeks ago. Brzezinski said, &#8220;I think he\u2019s such a narcissist, it\u2019s possible that he is mentally ill in a way. He\u2019s not well. At the very least he\u2019s not well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brzezinski explained that Trump may be narcissistic because &#8216;he does not believe the rules apply to him,\u2019 adding that this belief likely led to a sort of &#8216;ignorance\u2019 and applied it to the 2005 Access Hollywood tape recording in which Trump made lewd comments about women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mika Brzezinski three weeks ago said, &#8220;And he\u2019s so narcissistic he does not believe the rules apply to him. That\u2019s where the ignorance label may apply because this is a man who says he can grab women anywhere because he\u2019s famous. The point is, he feels he can say or do things different from the norm because he\u2019s famous, because he\u2019s a celebrity, because he has power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brzezinski\u2019s comments come the same day former FBI Director James Comey is set to testify in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee about his investigation into Russia.&#8221; I don\u2019t know if you know this or not, that when Brzezinski and Scarborough announced their engagement &#8212; and that was fairly recently &#8212; that Trump offered to officiate, and Brzezinski said (raspberry) no. (imitating Mike) &#8220;I mean, if Jimmy Carter were in the White House like when my dad was there, but no. No. No way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last summer during the presidential campaign and even during 2015, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough were salivating all over Donald Trump. Trump appeared regularly on PMSNBC in the morning, and they loved him and they were sucking up like you can\u2019t believe, and it was like three great friends. Everybody was mad at Mika and Joe for not being objective and acting like they were best buds sucking up to Trump. So something has gone wrong in paradise.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Just a couple of stories here. And folks, I\u2019m just trying to add spice, information to this. I have no idea why Trump decided to do this. No clue whatsoever. I can tell you that the establishment, as you could well understand, is just beside itself at this display of barbaric behavior, this insolence, this crudity, this yuk!<\/p>\n<p>Paul Ryan has been wringing his hands today: We\u2019re trying to establish civility, and this is making it increasingly hard to do that, which is true. The Republicans are seeking civility. They have been for about 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>So I don\u2019t know when this was. Yes, I do. It was 2012. So five years ago, and I believe it was a Friday afternoon. I\u2019m sitting here minding my own business, and I get a note that Mika Brzezinski and Scarborough are in town. There\u2019s something going on in town that they\u2019re here, they\u2019re here making an appearance. It might have been Horowitz\u2019s Restoration Weekend or some such thing as that. I think it was at The Breakers. And they asked to come by.<\/p>\n<p>I met Scarborough a long, long time ago. He was a member of the freshman class in 1994. I had never met Mika Brzezinski. They came by here and they were here for about an hour. Could not have been nicer. And I asked Mika, you know, her dad was Zbig, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and I asked her what it was like growing up with her dad national security adviser to Jimmy Carter. She said, &#8220;Oh, we went everywhere. Every foreign trip he packed everybody up, we went as a family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-239191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MikaEIBIpad-X-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MikaEIBIpad-X-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MikaEIBIpad-X-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MikaEIBIpad-X.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I heard some fascinating stories. Scarborough was talking about his rock band and playing the guitar. And I ended up giving each of them an engraved EIB iPad. Do you remember? And they were thrilled, they were happy, and they walked out of here with them after about an hour. And Mika even used her EIB iPad on MSNBC. I have a picture of her using it, showing, flashing it. It was about three weeks later that they started trashing me like I have never been trashed. I don\u2019t even remember what about. And I didn\u2019t hear it \u2019cause I don\u2019t watch MSNBC. I was told about it.<\/p>\n<p>I had no clue. &#8220;What did you do to them?&#8221; I didn\u2019t do anything. I gave them an iPad. They came down here unannounced. I brought \u2019em in here for an hour, and they sat here and talked. And then this I haven\u2019t told you. Kathryn and I had dinner at the White House on March 23rd. It was a Thursday night. It was the night before what was going to be the first vote in the House on repealing Obamacare. It did not happen.<\/p>\n<p>We got there right at five o\u2019clock, right as Trump was meeting with the Tuesday group, a group of Republican House members. There were 17 &#8220;no&#8221; votes. We watched the whole thing, right off Oval Office. He converted 16 of those votes to &#8220;yes&#8221; votes. At dinner &#8212; I\u2019m down to 30 seconds here. I have to go through this faster than I want to. At dinner, I don\u2019t know how it came up, he asked me if I knew Scarborough and I said, &#8220;Yeah, I\u2019ve met him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;Those two are weird.&#8221; And I just sat there. He said, &#8220;Yeah, New Year\u2019s Eve, they call, they begged to come to Mar-a-Lago. They want to be around me. They come to Mar-a-Lago. I said, &#8216;I gotta let \u2019em in, I\u2019m president-elect, they want to come.\u2019 I didn\u2019t want them there, but they wanted to come. And they hang out for all three days, and I kind of felt obligated to have \u2019em.&#8221; I read this tweet today, and apparently he\u2019s been bugged by that ever since it happened. I mean, just told me, told us out of the blue about it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, I have an entirely different approach to this. Look. Mika Brzezinski and Scarborough have been going after me for I don\u2019t know how long despite the fact that when they wanted to come by here and say hello, I let \u2019em in, I spent an hour, gave \u2019em both an iPad, walked away. There was nothing contentious or confrontational about it at all. But they have been relentless in their smears and attacks. I just ignore it. That\u2019s been my philosophy since two years into this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-239186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.11.13-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.11.13-PM.png 283w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.11.13-PM-211x300.png 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/>I struggled with how to deal with this kind of criticism all the time, and nobody gave me any advice. Nobody had any. Everybody had theories, but there\u2019s not a tried-and-true way to deal with this. What I found was that the more you react to it, the more it\u2019s gonna happen. And now it\u2019s to the point, like Snerdley walked in, I apparently got ripped in the Washington Post. I didn\u2019t even know until he comes in here fuming. &#8220;You ought to see, you ought to see &#8211;&#8221; Stop. I don\u2019t care. I really don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Trump is not that way. Trump obviously cares. And Trump, when you hit Trump he is gonna come back at you times five harder. That\u2019s just the way he does it. By the way, folks, I want to remind you of something else that I, El Rushbo, have been pointing out for many, many moons. Because of some things that happened along these lines during my television show, which is \u201992 to \u201996 &#8212; oh, I could tell you some stories, what Roger Ailes and I did trying to get back at media people who were trying to smear me back then, and we succeeded. But those stories are best kept private so as not to portray, give away techniques, strategies.<\/p>\n<p>But for the longest time, you know, I\u2019ve made the point, could journalists handle it with people going after them the way they go after people? I mean, journalists, many of them, believe that one of their objectives is to destroy people. And as you and I well know most of the people they think need to be destroyed are Republicans and conservatives. They do it under the guise of speaking truth to power. Meaning holding the powerful accountable, except they salivate and sycophant all over people like Obama. I have an example of that coming up here in just a second too.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s a one-way street with them. And I often suggested that if you really have a problem with the media, go after them the way they go after everybody else. Well, we have somebody now that\u2019s doing that, and his name is D. J. Trump. And this is what it looks like. If you\u2019ve always wanted, if you have thought that it would be nice for journalists to get a taste of their own medicine, you\u2019re watching it happening here. It may make you nervous, you may think, &#8220;Gee, I wish he\u2019d have somebody else do it. I wish he weren\u2019t doing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also gonna tell you this. I\u2019m gonna make a prediction. There\u2019s no way to know this \u2019cause we can\u2019t talk to \u2019em all, but I\u2019ll bet you\u2019d be surprised by all the Trump people not bothered by this. The media would be shocked and stunned to learn &#8212; there\u2019s some Trump people that are unhappy with it too.<\/p>\n<p>Selena Zito today was on CNN and she thinks there\u2019s no excuse for this, in her words, no excuse. Going after the way people look like this, it\u2019s just beyond the pale no matter what. Aside from the plastic surgery or face-lift comment, what Trump said about Scarborough-Brzezinski today is not new. He\u2019s been saying things like this about them for quite a while.<\/p>\n<p>But these two have spent months trashing Trump after sucking up to him all during the summer of 2015. The summer and fall of 2015 they couldn\u2019t get enough of him. He was on MSNBC. They were sucking up like you can\u2019t believe. Now they\u2019ve done a 180 for who knows whatever reasons, and if you do that to Trump, from what I gather, he\u2019s gonna come back at you.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Huckabee Sanders was on Fox this morning with Bill Hemmer. And he said, &#8220;What is the White House saying about why that tweet &#8211;&#8221; what he\u2019s asking here is, you people in the press office and all the other people that work there, the president does this, what do you guys think of this, what are they saying up there in your shop about the president?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-239194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.34.49-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.34.49-PM.png 316w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.34.49-PM-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/>SANDERS: I don\u2019t think that the president\u2019s ever been someone who gets attacked and doesn\u2019t push back. There have been an outrageous number of personal attacks, not just at him, but to, frankly, everybody around him. People on that show have personally attacked me many times. This is a president who fights fire with fire and certainly will not be allowed to be bullied by liberal media and the liberal elites within the media or Hollywood or anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>HEMMER: I got it, but is that necessary?<\/p>\n<p>SANDERS: Look, I think what\u2019s necessary is to push back against unnecessary attacks on the president, both personally. I have seen far worse things come out of that show, again, directed not just at the president, but everyone around him, personal attacks, mean, hateful attacks. And, again, this president isn\u2019t gonna sit back and not push back and he\u2019s gonna fight fire with fire.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s her explanation. He\u2019s not gonna sit back and take it. He\u2019s not gonna sit back and take it. If you\u2019re gonna say despicable things about him &#8212; by the way, this is not new. I mean, Trump has been doing this ever since he became a candidate. And this is what it looks like.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Paul Ryan earlier today. This was the weekly press briefing that he holds, and he got a question, &#8220;You have been critical of the president when he\u2019s made some comments that you felt were out-of-line. Are these comments out-of-line?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RYAN: You talking about this morning\u2019s tweet? Yeah, I just saw it a little bit ago. Obviously I don\u2019t see that as an appropriate comment. I think &#8212; look, what we\u2019re trying to do around here is improve the tone, the civility of the debate and this obviously doesn\u2019t help do that.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yep. That\u2019s &#8212; (laughing) &#8212; that I guess is the, what would you say, the boilerplate Republican response. &#8220;We\u2019re always trying to improve the civility around here, and this doesn\u2019t quite get us there.&#8221; You heard Sarah Huckabee Sanders say that Trump wasn\u2019t gonna be bullied by these people and he\u2019s going to fight back. You know this term &#8220;bully&#8221; as its used by the left has gone through a definitional change. When you think of a bully, what do you think of? What is the activity? What is the action that someone takes that results in you calling them a bully? It is sometimes violent. It threatens violence. It\u2019s intimidating. It\u2019s mocking. It\u2019s designed to scare you. Right?<\/p>\n<p>The Drive-Bys have changed the definition of the term &#8220;bullying.&#8221; The leftists love the mantra now of claiming they are being bullied. You hear it a lot now, and it\u2019s the worst thing ever. The members of the White House press corps now say they\u2019re being bullied by virtue of the no cameras being turned on in the briefing, or Sarah Huckabee Sanders firing back at the Playboy reporter, he said, &#8220;I\u2019m not gonna sit here and be bullied.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Except she wasn\u2019t bullying. He started it. She reacted to it and didn\u2019t back down. In his world, in the left-wing media world, that\u2019s bullying. You know what bullying is to them? If you disagree with them. That\u2019s it. All you have to do is disagree with a leftist and you automatically become a bully. The people that were bullies when I was growing up were constantly attacking and mocking and making fun of and attempting to take advantage of and usually trying to force an army of people along with them. They would isolate you and they would genuinely try to scare you.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not what it is anymore. Today\u2019s bully is simply somebody who doesn\u2019t back off their position. And so they call Trump a bully. Or they call Spicer or whoever a bully. If you don\u2019t change, if they attack you because you don\u2019t agree with them, and you don\u2019t sit there, if you fire back at \u2019em, you are bullying them. It is another way that they have tried to take control of the language, like changing the definition of marriage to now changing the definition of bullying.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s face it, civilized people don\u2019t want to be bullies. You don\u2019t want to be called a bully, you don\u2019t want to be a bully, you don\u2019t want to be thought of as a bully. All you have to do is disagree with the left and you\u2019re a bully. It\u2019s designed to make you to stop disagreeing, designed to get you to stop opposing them. It\u2019s a classic way they co-opt the language.<\/p>\n<p>But calling Sarah Huckabee a bully like the Playboy guy, do you know what he really meant? He really meant b-i-itch, that\u2019s what he really meant because she wouldn\u2019t back down. He\u2019s the one that leveled the charge and she fired right back so she became a bully. What he really meant was she was a b-i-itch because she wouldn\u2019t acquiesce. Plain and simple.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s let you hear some of the high dudgeon on CNN. This is a standard Democrat strategist commentator. She\u2019s been around commenting on campaigns and candidates for I don\u2019t know how many years. Her name is Maria Cardona. And Poppy Harlow, the info anchorette said, &#8220;Maria, my producer reminds me in my ear importantly about Ivanka Trump giving an interview just a few weeks ago to Fox and talking about what she called a level of viciousness in the media. She said it was a level of viciousness that I was not expecting,&#8221; and Ivanka did say this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, Trump is a father of daughters. I\u2019m the mother of a daughter. To all the parents out there, this attack on women and appearances, what is this country supposed to do with this, Maria?&#8221; So Trump has attacked all women now. He\u2019s attacked all women and their appearance because Poppy Harlow is the mother of a daughter and also the daughter of a mother, by the way, or else she wouldn\u2019t be here. So she\u2019s the daughter of a mother, mother of a daughter, all the parents out there, &#8220;What should we do, what should we do, Maria, what can we do with this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-239195\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.37.53-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.37.53-PM.png 410w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-3.37.53-PM-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>CARDONA: I think the country should take a hard look at who they have elected as their commander-in-chief. The ironies are unending, starting with Ivanka, who, you know, prides herself on being a defender of women, but yet she backs her father and blames everybody else for vicious attacks against him. And then I actually feel bad for the first lady. What makes us think that the man who, in his life and in the campaign, has acted like a misogynist, a sexist, a sexual predator, who has talked about women in an incredibly demeaning and objectifying way, is this really all that surprising, that he would do this now, even sitting in the Oval Office?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, what does Trump have to do to talk about women in a demeaning and objectifying way? I have example. I have an example right here. This is a story from the New York Times. Ready for this?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump Interrupts Call to Compliment Female Reporter\u2019s &#8216;Nice Smile.'&#8221; They are livid at the New York Times. Get this. &#8220;President Trump was at his desk in the Oval Office and on the phone with the new prime minister of Ireland on Tuesday when a journalist for an Irish news organization caught his eye. &#8216;Well, we have a lot of your Irish press watching us,\u2019 Mr. Trump said to the prime minister, Leo Varadkar, as several reporters looked on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then, interrupting his conversation with Mr. Varadkar, Mr. Trump pointed at the journalist, Caitriona Perry, and gestured for her to come to him. &#8216;And where are you from?\u2019 he said. &#8216;Go ahead. Come here, come here. Where are you from? We have all of this beautiful Irish press.\u2019 After she introduced herself, Mr. Trump told Mr. Varadkar, &#8216;She has a nice smile on her face so I bet she treats you well.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They are livid. This is objectifying the reporter. How dare he comment on the fact that she\u2019s got a nice smile. This is misogynistic. This is prejudicial. This is chauvinistic. This is anti-woman, it\u2019s anti-feminist. he noticed that she smiled well, and he called her over to compliment her. Trump was probably shocked to see a reporter smiling, period. The exchange which was captured on video, my friends, so there\u2019s evidence, there\u2019s indictable evidence that this indeed happened.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The exchange, which was captured on video and widely shared on social media, drew criticism about how Mr. Trump treats women and the message it sent about the attitude toward women as professionals in their fields.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-222374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/650-022017-Truth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/650-022017-Truth.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/650-022017-Truth-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>Yeah. You know, I don\u2019t recall the New York Times or anybody else ever blaming Obama, blasting him for his sexism. You remember when he gushed about Kamala Harris? You may not. Obama said, &#8220;She\u2019s the best looking attorney general in the country.&#8221; People applauded. Obama has wonderful taste. She\u2019s now a crackpot senator, right? It\u2019s the same Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>So Trump notices an Irish reporter with a nice smile, calls her over, compliments her on it, and Trump hates women. Trump is objectifying, he\u2019s bullying women, is a misogynist, he\u2019s a chauvinist pig. What\u2019s that? Oh! It was the memorial for Nelson Mandela. Obama\u2019s down there, he slides away from Michelle, and he\u2019s sidling up taking selfies with this blonde babe from Scandinavia somewhere, and Michelle is shooting \u2019em daggers. Oh, yeah, I do remember that.<\/p>\n<p>Obama can do that because he comes from a disadvantaged history in America where African-Americans were not allowed the same freedom. To see Obama break from the surly bonds of prejudice and be able to be who he is, it was a wonderful thing. That\u2019s how they look at it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is John in Indianapolis. Great to have you, sir. How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m doing fantastic. Hey, Rush, you know, it\u2019s true, you do have the best radio show ever, capital E-V-E-R. Congratulations.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. I sincerely appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Awesome. Hey, you know what? I find I\u2019m addicted to Trump\u2019s Twitter feed. I actually find myself looking forward to the next tweet. Not only were today\u2019s astronomically funny, but I always remind myself with these tweets, the best tweet he ever tweeted was the photos of Schumer having doughnuts with Putin and the one with Pelosi having lunch with Kislyak. Now, ask yourself, Rush, do you think MSNBC or CNN would have ever shown us, the deplorable us, those photos?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, of course not. You would have never seen Schumer at the doughnut shop with Kislyak and you would have never seen Pelosi &#8212; no, no, you would have never seen those photos. Never, ever.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: My point exactly.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: But you don\u2019t think this went beyond the bounds of civility or propriety in any way?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No. Absolutely not. I think you were right months ago, I think you said in February where the media, if Hillary were president, they\u2019d actually get bored. Now, at least with Trump they have something to talk about. And again, sir, you\u2019re right. Congratulations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-239196 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PelosiScary-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PelosiScary-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PelosiScary.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/>RUSH: Well, thank you. I appreciate that. They more than got something to talk about here. They\u2019re livid. They\u2019re taking all this personally. You\u2019re not supposed to be able to get away with this. You\u2019re not supposed to get elected president after they showed the NBC Access Hollywood video. That\u2019s supposed to kill you in the Drive-By Media. Other things Donald Trump did, what he said about McCain, that\u2019s supposed to kill you. Trump has survived the best they\u2019ve thrown at him. Grab sound bite number 25. I think Pelosi, you know, she\u2019s not happy about this either, but understandably she might be sensitive about face lifts.<\/p>\n<p>PELOSI: That really saddens me because it is so beneath the dignity of the president of the United States to engage in such behavior. I just don\u2019t know why the Republicans, they can tolerate almost anything, a candidate beating up a reporter and then cheering him on as he arrives in Congress. The tweets of the president of the United States, they set a low standard for public officials in terms of their demeanor. It\u2019s really sad, though. This is the president of the United States. Something\u2019s wrong here.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, I\u2019m gonna throw something in the mix here. These people applauded Ted Kennedy when he set out to savage, destroy, and ruin Robert Bork with one lie after another. Now, I know that Ted Kennedy was not president, but that was as far from civility. I mean, it was vicious, it was personal, it was mean, and it was all a bunch of lies. I know, two wrongs don\u2019t make a right. That\u2019s not what I\u2019m saying. I\u2019m saying these people have selective outrage.<\/p>\n<p>These Democrats, they can tolerate almost anything. A deranged Bernie Sanders supporter shoots and tries to mass murder a bunch of Republicans, the endless lies they tell about Republicans about killing old people and pushing them off the cliff in a wheelchair, and they have the audacity to say this is out of bounds?<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Dennis, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Great to have you, sir. How you doing?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi. Thanks, Rush. A while back on PBS there was a biographer doing the history, discussing the history of Hillary Clinton, and what he said was that when Hillary was young she wanted to be a beauty queen, but she wasn\u2019t pretty enough. So she decided to go for power and politics, but she has no charisma, as we all know. So that\u2019s why she latched on to Bill Clinton, because he has charisma. She knew from the get-go that he was a womanizer, and now we understand why she didn\u2019t ditch him when he did that with the intern in the White House. Here he\u2019s doing adultery with a White House intern while his young daughter Chelsea\u2019s there. That doesn\u2019t even compare with what somebody said. What Donald Trump said is normal boy talk. Most normal men at one time or another have talked or do talk like that. That\u2019s nothing.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah. But it\u2019s not presidential, they\u2019re saying, but I get your point. Here\u2019s Clinton actually stooping interns in the Oval Office, in the bathroom off the Oval Office, defacing cigars at the same time, getting semen on a blue dress, lying to his wife about it, who probably knows about it from the get-go, as you say, and here comes Trump tweeting a bunch of things and you\u2019d think it\u2019s the end of civilization and the end of the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The same people bitching about Trump defended Clinton, and to this day defend Clinton. It\u2019s a good point, Dennis. Thank you much. So much I want to get in here. A.B. Stoddard was on TV today and she was asked, &#8220;Have you heard about the president\u2019s tweets, have you heard about these? What do you make of the president\u2019s tweets about MSNBC Scarborough and Mika?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-239211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-4.10.33-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-4.10.33-PM.png 329w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-4.10.33-PM-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/>STODDARD: President Obama\u2019s base didn\u2019t like Rush Limbaugh and all the things he said about him for eight years, but they expected him to do his job and not get obsessed with fits of vindictive pique over everything that Rush Limbaugh said about him.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: A.B., A.B., I\u2019m sorry, ma\u2019am, but you\u2019re wrong. Obama was bothered for all eight years. A.B., do me a favor. Look this up. You\u2019re not gonna trust me. Two weeks after Obama\u2019s inaugurated, he has a meeting of the joint leadership of Congress in the Oval Office or somewhere in the White House, and he\u2019s got Boehner there, he\u2019s got McConnell, and he\u2019s got Democrat counterparts. He\u2019s got a bunch of people from the Senate House leadership, both parties. And he looked at John Boehner, Boehner told me this two weeks later but it made the news.<\/p>\n<p>He looked at Boehner and said, &#8220;You\u2019ve got to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh. That\u2019s not how things are gonna get done here now.&#8221; And Boehner told me this two weeks later even though I had known it. Boehner looked at me, &#8220;Why would he say this to us?&#8221; I said, &#8220;Mr. Speaker, are you serious? You don\u2019t know why he would say that?&#8221; &#8220;No, why would he say this to us? It\u2019s our first meeting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;You\u2019ve got microphones out there. When you guys finish a meeting and you walk to the microphones, you tell everybody what happened, he was hoping that one of you would walk out there and agree with him, that it\u2019s a new day and that the rabid voices like Rush Limbaugh, we can\u2019t afford to be governed by. That\u2019s what he was hoping for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I mean, there were numerous instances throughout all eight years where Obama made plain his irritation with me. What you won\u2019t find, A.B., is any response from me about it other than to tell people he said it. That\u2019s the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Mika Brzezinski and Scarborough have been going after me for I don&#039;t know how long despite the fact that when they wanted to come by here and say hello, I let &#039;em in, I spent an hour, gave &#039;em both an iPad, walked away. There was nothing contentious or confrontational about it at all. 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