RUSH: We\u2019ve got a couple stories today which document media behavior. This is unprecedented. I don\u2019t think in my lifetime I have ever — and I\u2019ve lived through the hatred of Richard Nixon and the hatred of Ronaldus Magnus and the hatred of George W. Bush. I have never seen this. I have never seen the out-and-out lying, knowing lying, the purposeful lying, mass lying that has been the namesake of the Drive-By Media since the election.<\/p>\n
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A lot of people have been documenting a whole lot of things the media\u2019s been saying and comparing them to what Trump actually said. How many of you think Trump said that there were nice people, some fine people in the Alt-Right and Antifa? Do you know he never said it? He never said it. He never said any of the things that have been reported and rereported and recycled, literally things made up out of whole cloth.<\/p>\n
It would really be wise for all of you to not believe a thing anybody in the media says about Donald Trump if it is the slightest bit critical. What they\u2019re on today is, “Trump doesn\u2019t care. Trump doesn\u2019t care about people. Trump doesn\u2019t love people. Trump doesn\u2019t have empathy.” They\u2019re just making it up. There isn\u2019t any evidence. Trump has not been aloof. He has not been off-putting. They\u2019re just making it up. They are literally making it up as they go.<\/p>\n
They are making it up according to the stereotypes they have established that are supposedly attached to Republicans or conservatives, right-wingers or whatever. They\u2019re just making it up. And I don\u2019t know how this is dealt with. Trump, in his speech, in his Phoenix rally, tried to deal with it for 30 minutes. He ran through, he had it written down in front of him. “Here\u2019s what I said,” and he castigated CNN and the New York Times, and he was dead right. He was a thousand percent right in what he said.<\/p>\n
And look how they treated that? They of course, “This man is insane. This man is unfit for office. This man is unhinged. This man is delusion.” It\u2019s the media that\u2019s insane. It\u2019s media that\u2019s deranged. It\u2019s the media that\u2019s unhinged, and it\u2019s the media that is just out-and-out lying. They\u2019re not even trying to be subtle about it and they\u2019re not trying to be trickery about it and using any trickery or any deception. They\u2019re just blatant in-your-face lying, and they are counting on the fact that most people are not gonna know and are not gonna find out.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re not even being subtle. They\u2019re not even trimming things around the edges. They are just bold-faced making it up, in case after case after case, particularly Trump\u2019s comments after Charlottesville. There\u2019s also a great piece today in The Federalist. These are all long pieces. I mean, they print out to 15 pages. I can\u2019t go through all of it. But there is a tremendous summary at TheFederalist.com on how there is to this day not a single shred of evidence that there was any collusion between Trump or anybody on his team with the Russians having to do with the election in 2016.<\/p>\n
To this day, there is not a shred of evidence. There\u2019s another story that points out the intel community inside the Beltway, deep state, whatever you want to call it. If you disagree with them, no matter who you are, you are immediately tagged as a conspiracy theorist. The intel community is demanding 100 percent fealty. And if anybody strays, if anybody doesn\u2019t believe, then the intel community launches into them, via the media, with the ongoing effort to slander or discredit, you know, any number of things. There isn\u2019t any evidence for. There\u2019s no evidence yet whatsoever.<\/p>\n
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And it\u2019s gonna come back as soon as the hurricane story winds down, which it will at some point when the Drive-Bys figure that they have maximized whatever they can get out of this story. They talk about Trump has no empathy. They talk about Trump doesn\u2019t care. Who\u2019s using who here? What does the media do when a disaster comes along? Who uses who here, and for what end, for what purpose? So when they\u2019re through with this, when they think they\u2019ve gotten as much out of this as they can for whatever purpose.<\/p>\n
But I guarantee you it\u2019s not gonna be patriotic, it\u2019s not gonna oriented toward making America great or making America look great. The focus on Houston\u2019s gonna be what\u2019s wrong with Trump, what\u2019s wrong with America, what\u2019s wrong with charities, what\u2019s wrong with this, why didn\u2019t people believe climate change. It\u2019s gonna be nothing but a negative charter. They\u2019ll eventually get tired of it, they\u2019re gonna get back to this Russia business.<\/p>\n
But I\u2019m not kidding you.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you what I actually think. There\u2019s a lot of hope here, I will admit. But I think that the media is setting itself up, as are many groups on the left, for a backlash that they\u2019re not gonna see coming.<\/p>\n
What I mean by this, there\u2019s already growing fatigue with everybody under the sun being a racist. I mean, it\u2019s more than growing fatigue. There is genuine repulsive anger. People are fed up with it. And I\u2019m talking about people who are not accused of it. I\u2019m talking about average, ordinary Americans watching the news, listening to everybody in the world be called a racist or a neo-Nazi or a white supremacist, they\u2019re fed up with it. The point is they\u2019re not believing it.<\/p>\n
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Not that a backlash is gonna stop them. See, that\u2019s the thing. Nothing that happens is gonna stop the media from doing what they do. So they\u2019re always gonna have some degree of effectiveness because there\u2019s always gonna be a certain percentage of the population which, for whatever reason, is gonna believe everything they see, read, or hear in the media. But it\u2019s gotten to the point here that more and more people are questioning it. More and more people are beginning to have problems with it because it\u2019s just every day. It\u2019s Trump did this, Trump\u2019s doing this, Trump\u2019s horrible here, Trump\u2019s horrible there, Trump doesn\u2019t care about people.<\/p>\n
At some point, even if you hate Trump, you run out of your ability to soak it all up and believe it. People who hate Trump will have a lot bigger reservoir for it than people who are ambivalent. And people who like Trump are gonna have no patience for it whatsoever. And the number of people that like Trump is not shrinking, contrary to what the Drive-Bys would like you to believe.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Let me get to these examples of the media literally making it up about Trump. The New York Times has had to issue four blatant corrections. But that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg. We have here a montage — actually play number one too. This is from last night on C-SPAN. They aired a panel discussion of the American Bar Association about the Trump administration and its relationship with the media. They had our old buddy Jim Rutenberg, who is now the media columnist at the New York Times. He was on the panel. He had some things to say.<\/p>\n
Now, Rutenberg is one of the few reporters at the New York Times that has been fair. No, that kind of launches me into another area. That\u2019s the wrong word. That\u2019s the wrong word. The media claims it\u2019s fair to do this or fair — That ought not be one of the ways in which the media, “Is it fair, was that a fair report, was that a fair.” I\u2019ve always been bugged by that.<\/p>\n
Rutenberg has never misquoted me. Rutenberg has never put words in my mouth. And he has never lied about me. He\u2019s never accused me of saying things I didn\u2019t say or any of that. But nevertheless, he is a standard issue New York Times journalist. So he\u2019s on this panel, and it\u2019s incredible to get their perspective on things. Remember Rutenberg, now, is the media columnist, so he\u2019s like the Howard Kurtz. What he writes about is the media and how they\u2019re doing their jobs and all of that. And this is what he said about the media and Trump.<\/p>\n
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RUTENBERG: There has also been a sustained campaign to undermine the press. It\u2019s several decade old, at least four or five decades old. And its intention is to discredit us, and it happens nightly on Fox News with the biggest cable news audience. It happens daily with Rush Limbaugh, with the largest radio audience. The press cannot — we don\u2019t campaign back on our job. Our job actually is to piss people off sometimes, and so, you know, we are the messenger, and that\u2019s not always a face that people want to see when it\u2019s news that they disagree with or it\u2019s bad news for their political side or what have you. So we\u2019re kind of not in the business of being liked.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, Jim, but you are. You are most certainly in the business of being liked. You wanted to be loved by Obama, and you wanted to be loved by Bill Clinton, and you wanted to be loved by Hillary, and you wanted to be loved by Michelle (My Belle) Obama. You wanted to be loved by all these people on the left. There\u2019s no question. You people in the media, you want to be in the club. You want to be in the establishment. And you know whose bread you have to butter to do that.<\/p>\n
By the way, just as an aside, it wasn\u2019t all that long ago — there isn\u2019t a New York Times reporter in the world who would ever have said the word “piss” in a panel discussion with the American Bar Association. I\u2019m not being critical of Rutenberg. It\u2019s just a sign of our culture and where it\u2019s headed. And by the way, Rutenberg\u2019s not the only one. I refuse to use the word, but it\u2019s common. I mean, you\u2019ll hear it commonly expressed on Fox News. You\u2019ll hear it on CNN. And I have standards, ladies and gentlemen. I attempt to maintain those standards each and every day. We don\u2019t always meet the standards, but we try.<\/p>\n
But here you have an august panel, the American Bar Association, and they\u2019re the kind of guys that could piss you off. (laughing) Seriously. My grandfather would be appalled. He would simply be appalled. To him the American Bar Association was the Supreme Court. He so valued being a lawyer that an association of lawyers should have been the greatest representation of all of humanity. That\u2019s how much he respected the law.<\/p>\n
Anyway, Rutenberg says that there\u2019s a campaign to undermine the media that is several decades old to discredit the media. I think all of this, Jim, we\u2019re simply defending ourselves. I mean, if you want to look at who got this ball rolling, I mean, it\u2019s you guys. I was minding my own business one day and then I became a talk show host. And six months after I became a talk show host I became a racist and then I became a sexist and then I became a bigot and then I became a homophobe.<\/p>\n
All of that was said about me in the media, but before I ever got a radio show nobody ever said any of that stuff about me, nobody thought that about me, nobody accused me of any of that until six months after I got a radio show. And then it was, “Katie, bar the doors.” That\u2019s what I have been in your media, Jim, ever since you guys first heard of me. So what am I supposed to do, just sit here and laugh at it and take it? And I\u2019m by no means the only one.<\/p>\n
I mean, the purpose of the left, of which the media is the functioning leader right now, is to discredit all credible opposition, because you can\u2019t beat us in the arena of ideas. So this campaign to undermine the media, listen to this. We put together a montage. It was predictable. Before Trump got to Texas yesterday, I told everybody in this program, and it didn\u2019t take a great brain, what they were gonna say. “Trump doesn\u2019t care. Trump doesn\u2019t have empathy. Nobody wants to hug Trump. Everybody wanted to be hugged by Obama.”<\/p>\n
Obama was the biggest cold fish wrap. Obama was not warm and fuzzy. He was a cold, cold, calculating guy. And Bill Clinton could fake sincerity and fake sympathy and fake empathy like nobody. But before Trump even got to Texas, “Trump is such a pig. Trump such boor. Women are repulsed by Trump. People don\u2019t want to be anywhere near Trump. Trump probably smells. Trump probably stinks. Nobody is gonna want to be hugged by Trump.” That was what they set up, and here\u2019s a montage of them attacking Donald Trump yesterday, last night, and this morning.<\/p>\n
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DAVE BRIGGS: (outdoor noise) People want to see empathy from this president. It is certainly not his strong suit.<\/p>\n
JEFF ZELENY: (outdoor noise) …very little in terms of empathy from this president.<\/p>\n
JOE JOHNS: (outdoor noise) …a lack of expression of empathy for the victims…<\/p>\n
DAVID AXELROD: (b-roll noise) … the dimension of empathy. He just can\u2019t get there and be that empathetic leader.<\/p>\n
NICHOLAS CONFESSORE: The empathy part is one that the president struggles with.<\/p>\n
ARI FLEISCHER: There was something missing; that\u2019s the empathy for the people.<\/p>\n
PAUL BEGALA: Empathy. That\u2019s, to me, the soul of morality.<\/p>\n
EDDIE GLAUDE: …whether or not President Trump exhibits empathy.<\/p>\n
ARI MELBER: Did Donald Trump have his empathy moment today?<\/p>\n
EVAN SIEGFRIED: He didn\u2019t have the empathy moment.<\/p>\n
MATTHEW NUSSBAUM: He didn\u2019t really show a lot of compassion or empathy towards the victims.<\/p>\n
NOAH ROTHMAN: Failing to note with sufficient empathy…<\/p>\n
KENDIS GIBSON: (newsroom noise) Critics accuse him of not showing any empathy.<\/p>\n
RUSH: A lot of Never Trump conservatives in that montage, folks, a lot of them. It wasn\u2019t just Drive-By leftist media. There were some Never Trump conservatives here. Now, who sends the memo out that says, “The word for today is \u2019empathy,\u2019 and the point is that Trump hasn\u2019t got any”?<\/p>\n
How is it that so many people on so many different networks end up saying the same exact thing? Is it that they all think exactly alike? Which is a distinct possibility. How do they know? Where is it written that what victims of a disaster want is empathy? How about victims of a disaster wanting results? What good does empathy do you? At the end of the day, what good does it do you?<\/p>\n
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By the way, I\u2019m not conceding that Trump doesn\u2019t have it. I think it\u2019s just the exact opposite. This is what they don\u2019t get about Trump. While Trump was at the fire station yesterday and he was going through his rah-rah and rally and talking about how great Texas is, and, yeah, it\u2019s bad, but these people are Texans, and Texans can handle anything. When he said that, he then looked, said, “What a crowd, what a crowd, what a great –” and so the media, “This guy thinks it\u2019s a rally. This guy\u2019s looking at it like people came out to see him.” They blew their gaskets.<\/p>\n
‘Cause they just don\u2019t understand the guy, and they make no effort to understand Trump. They don\u2019t understand his tongue-in-cheek humor, and they have no desire to. Anything or anybody that doesn\u2019t behave according to the code book for inside the Beltway is a lost cause. It\u2019s funny to watch. President Trump\u2019s commenting on the crowd, great crowd, and he\u2019s waving at them and so forth, and it just offends them all to hell. So they double down on the fact that Trump has no empathy.<\/p>\n
We heard our first caller. I don\u2019t mean to be insensitive here, but at the end of the day, why do we think presidents have to be empathetic? It\u2019s because that\u2019s what the media has shown us. We have phonies like Bill Clinton who show up at disasters and hug people and fake tears with \u2019em and so forth. “Oh, he cares, oh, my God, did you see that?” The media has a cow, “He cares so much, oh, wonderful.” Meanwhile, what got done?<\/p>\n
In the meantime, we have a president who is a builder. What is going to be needed in Houston and southeastern Texas? Building, rebuilding, construction. We have a president who comes from that area of life and knows it and is an expert in it. Infrastructure, if you will. The idea that a citizen or a group of citizens in a disaster can be calmed and satisfied by empathy from a president? You watch. I\u2019m gonna be said to have no empathy because of these comments. But as the mayor of Realville and a supreme realist, I mean, yeah, I guess it can make people feel better, but really?<\/p>\n
Empathy, sympathy — I think they\u2019re not even talking about empathy. They\u2019re actually meaning sympathy. And what they\u2019re saying is that “Trump doesn\u2019t have the ability to feel sorry. He doesn\u2019t have the ability to put himself in other people\u2019s shoes. He just doesn\u2019t care. Trump doesn\u2019t care about people.” And of course that\u2019s the meme the Drive-Bys are continuing to play and the Democrats are playing class envy in the eventual rebuilding.<\/p>\n
John King at CNN reacting, I think — you heard this montage — it was just a never-ending drubbing of Trump and his lack of empathy. This afternoon at CNN on Inside Politics, I had to read this transcript twice, because this seems so out of place for CNN. And it made me wonder, does John King know that his days there are numbered? Listen to this and see what you think.<\/p>\n
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KING: It was striking to me that even in the middle of this visit to Texas, to go to a state in the middle of a disaster, if you look at social media and elsewhere, Trump is in the eye of the beholder. There was this big political debate even before he hit the ground. As they were leaving the White House, whether it\u2019s Melania\u2019s shoes, the president\u2019s hat, and then what he said, did he show enough empathy. Can there not be a “the president went. It was appropriate for him to go. He stayed out of the way, which is the smart thing to do. He got a briefing. He knows more today than he did yesterday”? Why do we get immediately into the muckety-muck?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Whoa! That obviously wasn\u2019t on the teleprompter. Nobody at CNN would have put that on the prompter, so that was from John King\u2019s mind and heart. “Can we just not report the guy went, he stayed out of the way, he got a briefing, he knows more now than he did — can we just do that? Why do we have to get into the muck?” Wow. Of course, they could ask themselves that every day, but the fact that it was asked on CNN, hmm.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m telling you, there\u2019s some things going on here, if there\u2019s anybody in the media that\u2019s responsible — and that\u2019s a big if — but if there is, folks, there have to be some people troubled by what this business or industry is doing, led by the New York Times starting with this whole Russian-Trump collusion story that there is no evidence of, zilch, zero, nada. I mean, there\u2019s not a shred after all of this time.<\/p>\n
The outright lies the media told about what Trump said after Charlottesville in his three separate statements, they lied about all three. There are people in the media who know this. Are there people in the media troubled by it? Well, you would think that in any group of people there can\u2019t be total unanimity. Gotta be some strays. Not everybody thinks the same about everything. Except when you get into liberalism, it pretty much is rote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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