{"id":256061,"date":"2017-11-28T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=256061"},"modified":"2017-11-29T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T21:18:00","slug":"trump-plays-the-media-perfectly-with-pocahontas-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/11\/28\/trump-plays-the-media-perfectly-with-pocahontas-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Plays the Media with Pocahontas Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Yesterday at the White House some reporter at the White House briefing asked what possible political advantage did Trump see in calling Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas. Now, folks, I have to tell you, this is right out of my playbook. I absolutely love this. Here is Trump, he\u2019s honoring Native American code talkers, which were a very valuable group in terms of transmitting messages and decoding coded messages during times of armed conflict.<\/p>\n

And Trump had them to the White House to honor them. And I know how this happens. I know how Trump\u2019s brain works. You know, he\u2019s in the process of honoring these people. There\u2019s a script, he\u2019s learned it, it may even be on the teleprompter, but he decides to go off the script because something, a synapsis fires in his brain, something reminds him that the Democrats have a fake Indian among them named Elizabeth Warren.<\/p>\n

\"\"So while these Indians are there, the code talkers, Trump decides to point out that, “Hey, you know, I like you guys — and we have one of you in the Senate. We have Pocahontas, Elizabeth Warren,” and then all hell broke loose. Pocahontas — which happens to be a real name of a real Native American person — somehow has now become a racial slur, and Trump has continued his known bigoted way ways. This reporter said, “What possible political advantage did Trump see in calling Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas?”<\/p>\n

Well, we\u2019re seeing it right now. The Drive-Bys are collectively once again making fools of themselves trying to claim the word Pocahontas itself is a racial slur, when it\u2019s not. And they also look stupid by not understanding or asking about what this really is about. We have a United States Senator, Elizabeth Warren, who made up her heritage in order to get a job at Harvard. She claimed she is 1\/64th Cherokee, and the evidence for it is that her mother or grandmother or somebody had high cheekbones like the Indians did.<\/p>\n

Now, why isn\u2019t that the real outrage? Somebody lying about being something that they are not. All Trump is doing is pointing it out, and you can see this is not done. The left does not have their sacred cows attacked like this. And when it happens, they lose it. They go bananas. So what the reality is is that a day after all of this nonsense, it is being driven home to many people that Elizabeth Warren lied about her heritage to gain status in the world of the academy, which is obsessed with identity politics.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the political advantage. The political advantage is taking an event that happened, that constitutes — once again — phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 rollerism by Democrats and making it widely publicly known. And this is what Trump does. He simply attacks their sacred cows. He pierces political correctness. He refuses to accept the lies and the phony constructs that they create in order to protect themselves. I explained this back in December of 2015<\/a>, almost two years ago. I identified how Trump plays the media by provoking an outrage for various reasons. Let\u2019s go back and listen. It\u2019s about a minute and a half, and this sums it up well.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: [H]e is playing the media like a Stradivarius. And I tell you, folks, for all of you people who have complained and whined and moaned about the media over the years, and how unfair they are to Republicans and how unfair that makes the whole process and, \u201cWhat are we gonna do?\u201d You need to be studying Donald Trump. … This latest quote\/unquote \u201coutrage\u201d from Trump is a perfect example of how he plays the media, how he knows exactly what to do and how to do it to own their attention and airtime.<\/p>\n

\"\"He says things that he knows will drive them crazy. He says things over and over that he knows will drive them insane, and then when they go insane, he doubles down on it and drives them even crazier. He also knows that his audience is in on what he is doing. He knows that a lot of Americans agree, to a certain extent, with things that he says. He also knows he\u2019s the only one reaching those people. And then he sits back and watches (no doubt with a huge smile) the media cover what he says over and over and over and over again. Then they analyze it over and over and over again, and they talk about it over and over and over again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Which they are now doing. Now, a lot of people, “Rush, do you think is bothered by this? Do you think Trump\u2019s worried what people are saying?” No, no, no. That\u2019s the exact opposite. Trump knows what he did. He did it because he intended to do it; he wanted this reaction. He\u2019s not in the White House sitting around with his associates and his advisory thinking that they stepped in it or they made a mistake and trying to figure out a way out of it. They\u2019re getting a good laugh out of it.<\/p>\n

Trump isn\u2019t the problem here. Trump is not the guy who lied and made up something about himself that isn\u2019t true in order to get a job at Harvard and then become elected to the United States Senate. Trump is not a phony. Trump is not unhappy with himself and thinks that he\u2019s deficient in some ways like Elizabeth Warren obviously does and has to make things up to make herself feel better about herself to get attention or whatever. Here\u2019s how it then manifests itself. Here is Trump setting off a new round of faux outrage. This is yesterday hosting an event honoring Navajo Code Talkers of World War II.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: You were here long before any of us were here, although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her Pocahontas. But you know what? I like you, because you are special. You are special people. You are really incredible people.<\/p>\n