{"id":244916,"date":"2017-08-17T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=244916"},"modified":"2017-08-18T05:01:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T09:01:50","slug":"cbs-news-talks-to-trump-voters-and-cant-believe-what-they-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/08\/17\/cbs-news-talks-to-trump-voters-and-cant-believe-what-they-found\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS News Talks to Trump Voters and Can\u2019t Believe What They Found"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You know, yesterday on this program we made mention of the fact that on the CBS Evening News on Tuesday, the entire broadcast was devoted to Trump and Charlottesville — the whole newscast. There was not one other story. So last night — I don\u2019t know if the suits at CBS heard us talking about that or not, but they decided to go out and try to find some Trump supporters, gave them some time maybe to balance what they had done the previous night.<\/p>\n

\"\"They found two black and one white Trump supporter, three people, and I want you to hear what these sounded like. The names involved here, correspondent Mark Strassman, the three female supporters for Trump are Janelle Jones, Ellen Diehl and Lucretia, one of my all-time favorite female names, by the way, Lucretia, not to be confused with Lucrezia, Lucrezia Borgia. This is Lucretia, as in DeVille. Anyway, these three women, two black, one white, CBS found them to talk about Trump controversy, here\u2019s the first bite.<\/p>\n

STRASSMAN: Has your support for Trump lessened one bit?<\/p>\n

HUGHES: Absolutely not.<\/p>\n

DIEHL: Not at all.<\/p>\n

JONES: No.<\/p>\n

STRASSMAN: Not one bit?<\/p>\n

JONES: No, I don\u2019t look at him as, you know, my pastor or my moral leader. I look at him as the leader as it relates to governmental issues.<\/p>\n

DIEHL: We\u2019re not looking for somebody charming. We\u2019re looking for a man who knows how to turn things around, and he\u2019s got a track record of turning things around.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sound bite number two.<\/p>\n

STRASSMAN: When you saw Charlottesville, what did that say about where we are as a country?<\/p>\n

\"\"DIEHL: It wasn\u2019t necessarily a completely black-white issue, but I think that the media is turning it into a black-white issue. It\u2019s definitely a left-right issue, but it\u2019s left fringe and right fringe.<\/p>\n

STRASSMAN: The Confederate statues don\u2019t bother you?<\/p>\n

HUGHES: No. It\u2019s history. I wasn\u2019t born back then. You wasn\u2019t, either. So why is that affecting us? If anything, we should grow and learn from it just like Martin Luther King said. You don\u2019t judge people by the color of their skin. You base that on their character.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, these people understand something here. And these people at CBS, I guarantee you they were genuinely shocked that they were able to find them, and then what they said. Remember people in the media do not really think people like this exist. They have an arrogance about them that is just automatic. Whatever they believe and think, they assume 80% of the country is the same way, and that\u2019s how they go about reporting these stories.<\/p>\n

But this woman, that was Lucretia, by the way, who said, “No, I wasn\u2019t born back then, you weren\u2019t either. Why is that affecting us? If anything, we should grow and learn from it like Martin Luther King said.” What does she know? She knows that black people who were never slaves are fighting white people who were never Nazis over a Confederate statue or statues that Democrats put up. And now for some reason the Democrats don\u2019t want to live with what they did and it\u2019s now become Trump\u2019s fault. And these people are not buying it. Sound bite number three.<\/p>\n

\"\"STRASSMAN: How do you explain what your support is for a president, given the criticism that he\u2019s had on this race issue?<\/p>\n

HUGHES: I think for myself, period. Nobody\u2019s going to tell me what to think or how to think. I\u2019m not gullible and I\u2019m not blind. It\u2019s my decision if I\u2019m going to support someone or not, not go by what other people has to say. And to me, what I\u2019ve seen, and what I love, I\u2019m not– he\u2019s not going to lose my support any time soon.<\/p>\n

JONES: I\u2019ve been a Republican before Donald Trump. I will be a Republican afterwards. I honestly don\u2019t think we will see this issue of racial divide addressed until we remove identity politics out of the political process.<\/p>\n

STRASSMAN: These Republican women say if a president deserves blame for making racial tensions worse, it\u2019s Obama, not Trump for the identity politics they say Democrats have practiced for the last eight years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And that\u2019s exactly right, by the way. So there you have three Trump voters, two of them black and one white, all females, Trump voters. They\u2019re not idiots. They\u2019re not racists. They\u2019re not Nazis. They\u2019re not members of the Klan. They\u2019re independently intelligent. They\u2019re not mind-numbed robots being led down the path by Steve Bannon or anybody else. They make up their own minds. Exactly contrary to the way the media depicts Trump voters. The media depicts Trump voters as the people in Charlottesville, for example.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Bob in Spokane, Washington. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, thanks, Rush. Arturo Fuente dittos to you. The press still doesn\u2019t understand Trump and his voters. His third presser was brilliant. He came out and dangled some shiny bait in front of them and even spiced it up with, “I\u2019m not done, fake news,” and that makes \u2019em angry — you can hear \u2019em yelling — and angry people make mistakes. If Trump had come out… He exposed fake news, and if he had come out and said, “The reason is because they\u2019re leftists,” everybody would have pooh-poohed it. But he\u2019s got the press self-destructing and they\u2019re exposing themselves. When they look in the camera with a straight face and tell me there\u2019s no violence from the left, or, “Okay, it\u2019s understandable,” or worse yet, “It\u2019s justified,” I know what they are. They told me, and Trump didn\u2019t have to do it. He\u2019s got them exposing themselves for what they are.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I am glad you called, because I have actually been sitting here… As I watched the Trump press conference<\/a> — and this is how it happens, by the way, folks. I\u2019m watching the Trump press conference, and I\u2019m cheering it. I will admit it, I cheered it this thing on Monday or Tuesday, the last one. The days run have together. I\u2019ve missed the days last week. I thought last night was Tuesday night and it wasn\u2019t. Anyway, I thought it was exactly what\u2019s called for, not talking about any guff. Just fire right back at these people.<\/p>\n

You know, trying to do it their way one day then not getting any credit. He went out and he condemned who they told him to condemn and they said, “It doesn\u2019t count! We don\u2019t think you mean it.” So he meets them the next day and basically tells them to go to hell and here\u2019s the way it really is. “There\u2019s violence on both sides, and I condemn it,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah — and I just knew… Folks, I just knew Trump voters are cheering when he does this.<\/p>\n

When they watch that, they\u2019re cheering. But then it\u2019s over and here comes the media, and it is an absolute crash. It is a hysteria! It\u2019s as though Donald Trump has just created the greatest gaffe in the history of politics and everybody thinks so. I put myself in the position of Trump voter watching this, and I know that Trump voters get angrier and angrier at the media. They don\u2019t watch it much anymore. But they\u2019ll see something like that, and I don\u2019t think the media has the slightest idea how they are failing at destroying Trump with his own voter base. They\u2019re failing big time.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me grab Topeka very quickly, Susan, I\u2019m glad you waited, what\u2019s happening? What\u2019s up?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Mega dittos, Rush. I just wanted to make a quick point. When I voted in November, I was not a reluctant Trump supporter, but I wasn\u2019t a huge supporter. But I also voted not only for him, but I voted against the media. And every time the media spews out some lie or accusation or speculation or has something to say and never is able to back it up, I become a bigger and bigger and bigger supporter. There\u2019s actually I bet quite a few who are like me —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know what? I think that\u2019s exactly right. And of course when the media hears this story, which I think they hear a lot, they laugh at it, take it as a badge of honor. They don\u2019t realize how big a deal it is that they have become something about which people vote against. I wish I had more time, but I\u2019m out, Susan. I misread the clock here by a minute. But thank you. Thank you very much for calling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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