{"id":262418,"date":"2018-01-31T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=262418"},"modified":"2018-02-01T15:50:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T20:50:19","slug":"maybe-the-best-state-of-the-union-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/01\/31\/maybe-the-best-state-of-the-union-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe the Best State of the Union Speech I\u2019ve Ever Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here is the only number you need to know from last night, the only number you need to know. Forty-three percent of Democrats watching the State of the Union liked it. That\u2019s the only number you need to know. That number is going to shock, perplex, stun, and panic elected Democrats all across the fruited plain.<\/p>\n

Greetings, my friends. Great to have you. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and we\u2019re raring and ready to go.<\/p>\n

I just want to warn you. You\u2019re gonna get the most unique and comprehensive reaction, analysis, coverage of last night\u2019s events right here on this program, but it\u2019s gonna take more than the first segment to get it all in. So be patient.<\/p>\n

\"\"I have to laugh. The media will do anything to avoid having to cover this today. And, lo and behold, they\u2019ve had a godsend. A train carrying Republican members of Congress on the way to a retreat somewhere somehow ran into and wiped out a dump truck.<\/p>\n

Now, on CNN, they are televising tweets, and the tweets all read, “GOP train crashes into dump truck.” It\u2019s as though the Republicans driving the train saw a dump truck and probably thought that an illegal immigrant was driving it and so steered the train into the dump truck to wipe it out. That\u2019s an exaggeration, but this is going to be how this story is positioned.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, it\u2019s an exaggeration. But when you say “GOP train” instead of “train carrying GOP members,” “GOP train,” that means you can picture Paul Ryan as the conductor and they\u2019ll probably put Louie Gohmert there as the engineer, and they see a pickup truck, and they see trash and they see an illegal immigrant, a-ha, and they go off the rails to wipe it out. And of course the news is the driver is receiving medical treatment. Members of Congress are okay. Dot, dot, dot, ho-hum.<\/p>\n

I just saw this. I know these people, folks. This is why I know how they are. In the CNN Newsroom and at the MSNBC newsroom, I know how they\u2019re reacting to this. They see this as an opportunity to paint the Republicans in a heartless light. A singular little dump truck, some guy that the Trump economy has bypassed because if he hadn\u2019t he wouldn\u2019t be driving a dump truck. And it wasn\u2019t just a train that wiped out his little dump truck. It was the GOP train.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that will not prevent us from — there is a fatality now, one fatality related to the crash. See, Fox News is just saying “train carrying Republicans.” And now CNN on their graphic say “train taking GOP Congress members.” But some infobabe has been tweeting about it and they\u2019ve been televising her tweets, “GOP train.”<\/p>\n

At any rate, that number, 43% of Democrats. And this is a CBS News flash poll after the event<\/a>. You want to know something else funny about this? All of these media people are trying to tell us to ignore their polls from last night. CNN polls will say 80% of the people liked it on CNN, 70, 75% CBS liked it. And they\u2019re trying to tell us “but that doesn\u2019t matter because it\u2019s only people who watched the speech.” Oh, really? So a better poll would include people who didn\u2019t? Is that what you want us to believe, Drive-By types?<\/p>\n

Here. Grab \u2019em. Sound bite number 14, John Dickerson, CBS This Morning reporting about the new CBS poll. Here\u2019s the full number. Ninety-seven percent of Republicans watched it and liked it. Seventy-two percent of independents liked it. Forty-three percent of Democrats. That\u2019s the number. Here\u2019s John Dickerson, CBS.<\/p>\n

DICKERSON: A CBS News poll shows three-out-of-four Americans who saw the speech approve of the president\u2019s message. Eight in ten Americans who watched say they believe Mr. Trump was trying to unite the country rather than divide it. The audience, according to our poll, was 42% Republican, and 25% Democrat.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Right. So that means, of course, the results are gonna be skewed because there are many more Republicans who watched it because it was their guy in office, and people tend to watch people from their own party. So they can\u2019t avoid the numbers. By the way, the CBS poll that I cited is a combo YouGov poll. Dickerson\u2019s reporting on an exclusive CBS poll, so the numbers are different.<\/p>\n

In the CBS\/YouGov poll, 97% of Republicans liked it, 72% of Independents, 43% Democrats. Now, Dickerson here, in the CBS exclusive flash poll, 75% approved the message. This is more than just “do you like the speech?” This is approve the message. Eighty percent of Americans said they believe Trump was trying to unite the country, that coupled with the 43% number. ‘Cause I\u2019ll tell you why.<\/p>\n

I was flat-out amazed last night because the White House, you know, they had Wolf Blitzer and a bunch of them up there for lunch, which is a tradition. You bring in the Drive-Bys and have lunch with them in the White House, the president does, before the State of the Union. They all came out of there, and the White House facilitated this. They said the president\u2019s gonna reach out tonight, the president\u2019s gonna seek unity, cross the divide.<\/p>\n

Well, that means different things to different people. To the Drive-Bys or the Democrats it meant Trump was gonna cave. It meant Trump was going to dial it back. It meant Trump was going to wander off of his agenda reservation and embrace Democrat ideas. When the White House says Trump is gonna try to unify, that means to them that Trump is giving up and Trump recognizes he can\u2019t go on the way he has been. So to get anything done he\u2019s got to include the Democrats and let their agenda have a significant role.<\/p>\n