{"id":243059,"date":"2017-08-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=243059"},"modified":"2017-08-04T16:04:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T20:04:48","slug":"stephen-millers-explanation-of-common-sense-immigration-bill-sails-right-over-the-heads-of-the-ignorant-drive-by-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/08\/03\/stephen-millers-explanation-of-common-sense-immigration-bill-sails-right-over-the-heads-of-the-ignorant-drive-by-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Miller\u2019s Explanation of Common Sense Immigration Bill Sails Right Over the Heads of the Ignorant Drive-By Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: It\u2019s making me revise my thinking just a little bit. One thing is for sure. The Drive-By Media is populated with people who are not just biased and bigoted and prejudicial. It\u2019s obvious that they are also the victims of an absolutely pathetic education system. I think we have to now conclude, after what we saw yesterday in the White House, that some of these people are just idiots.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re just ignorant. They just don\u2019t know anything. They have not been taught truth. They have not been taught history. They\u2019ve not been taught fact, which is one thing, but then this smug, arrogant condescension that you get from them thinking they know everything is more than you can handle.<\/p>\n

Greetings, my friends. Great to have you. Gonna illustrate exactly what I\u2019m talking about here. Wish I didn\u2019t have to do this. This is such a teachable moment. This little episode here is a microcosm of why we are paralyzed in this country into a state where we can\u2019t get back to our greatness. Where we cannot return to the portion of our history where we were triumphant and rejoicing and positive and moving forward.<\/p>\n

We have had people for so many generations dumbed down, literally dumbed down, who are now in positions of awesome and extreme power with influence over others, that we\u2019re paralyzed. And, if we\u2019re not paralyzed, we are backtracking and moving backwards. We are actually regressing, I should say, from magnificent progress that we as a nation and a culture and society have taken over hundreds of years.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Now, what I\u2019m talking about is yesterday\u2019s rollout of the legal immigration bill by Senators Cotton and Perdue<\/a>, which was followed by a press briefing in the White House by Stephen Miller, who is a senior adviser to the president. Stephen Miller is from Santa Monica. He was educated I believe at Duke. He has worked for Jeff Sessions. He\u2019s in his thirties and he\u2019s brilliant. He is literally brilliant.<\/p>\n

He is one of the — if not the — best spokesmen that the Trump administration can roll out to make the case for whatever policy positions they\u2019re trying to advance. He can make the case ideologically. He can make the case in common sense, and he did so yesterday. The chore fell to Stephen Miller yesterday to conduct a briefing at the daily White House press briefing on the details of the immigration bill, legal immigration bill, which has not been revised since 1965.<\/p>\n

Stephen Miller did one thing: He simply recited common sense. This is a common sense immigration bill. If there was ever a piece of common sense legislation, this is it. That term is thrown around by politicians \u2019cause it polls well, common sense climate change, common sense energy policy, common sense whatever. It polls well. It focus groups well.<\/p>\n

\"\"In this case, what Stephen Miller did was nothing more than common sense, and yet it was interpreted — it went right over their heads, the White House press corps, not just Jim Acosta and Glenn Thrush. It went over all of their heads because they didn\u2019t understand what he was talking about, either because of the fog of hatred they have for Trump and his administration, or they are just ignorant.<\/p>\n

But regardless, it\u2019s simply common sense. We have gone for decades now with no immigration plan. Now we have one. It\u2019s a common sense immigration plan that has proven to work. It\u2019s the same one in Canada, same thing in New Zealand and Australia. One aspect of the plan is merit-based entry into the country. You heard it explained yesterday. You get in based on merit. It\u2019s a point system. You get in on your ability to speak English, and you get in on your ability to hold a job and work a job and produce an income.<\/p>\n

People come here to get educated. What\u2019s happening now, we educate them and once they have their degrees, we send them home. What this bill does will allow them to stay and work, they will enter the U.S. workforce, and they will become taxpayers. This plan is about legal education. It allows educated people who want to become Americans to stay and become Americans. It was nothing but common sense. It went over the heads of the media because their prejudicial bias did not permit them to even understand this was about legal immigration.<\/p>\n

They got sidetracked into the racial components they believe are governing illegal immigration, the racism and so forth that they believe is why Trump wants to build a wall, because the nation is racist. The people that want to end illegal immigration, according to these idiots, are racists and bigots. They couldn\u2019t see they are way clear to understand that illegal immigration wasn\u2019t being talked about.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, I know what some of you are saying, “Rush, they\u2019re not stupid. They knew exactly what they were doing.” No. I agree they\u2019re biased, and I agree that they exist in a world of pure, sheer, raw hatred for anything they don\u2019t agree with, but I do believe they\u2019re also ignorant. I think they\u2019re dumb as skunks. I don\u2019t think they\u2019ve been educated. They haven\u2019t the ability to hear and listen to common sense and understand what it is. I\u2019m gonna demo all of this. The first thing I\u2019m gonna do — by the way, as a preview, this all manifests itself into the most embarrassing display of misunderstanding of the Statue of Liberty that you\u2019ve ever heard.<\/p>\n

Members of the media, Jim Acosta of CNN and Glenn Thrush, formerly Politico, now the New York Times, and all of them actually think the Statue of Liberty is the symbol of immigration. And they believe the Emma Lazarus poem that is on the pedestal is the equivalent of immigration policy in the United States. They\u2019re not the only ones.<\/p>\n

There are a number of Americans who\u2019ve been taught that, that the Constitution has nothing to do with immigration. The Declaration of Independence has nothing to do with it. It\u2019s the Statue of Liberty. And there is complete and total ignorance about it. And I maintain it\u2019s because they have not been taught the truth. And even if they have been taught the truth, they have rejected it in favor of what their political biases happen to be as their political biases relate to their narrative and the agenda.<\/p>\n

First I want to start with Stephen Miller. I want to show you how this guy is just good, folks. He\u2019s simply good. He needs to be doing more of these. The first time he went public as a spokesman for Trump was on This Week with Stephanopoulos. And he just made mincemeat of Stephanopoulos. I forgot the topic. It might have been immigration, but it was a core issue, a core belief issue for all of us, and he just made mincemeat. Stephanopoulos was reduced to asking the same question four and five times.<\/p>\n

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No matter how Miller answered it, it wasn\u2019t what Stephanopoulos wanted to hear. Stephanopoulos ended up mischaracterizing what Stephen Miller was saying. Stephen Miller was unflappable. He didn\u2019t lose his temper. He smiled. It appeared that Miller knew he was talking with somebody who didn\u2019t know what he was talking about and remained composed and polite as opposed to those dealing with him such as Jim Acosta, Glenn Thrush yesterday.<\/p>\n

The first thing, as I say, I\u2019ve got some sound bites here from the daily press briefing, Stephen Miller explaining the new immigration law, legal immigration law to replace what\u2019s been on the books since 1965.<\/p>\n