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<\/p>\nRUSH:\u00a0 So there\u2019s another meeting at the White House.\u00a0 Trump is talking to state and local officials today about school safety, and during the break, I heard him. He was talking to Pam Bondi, who is the Florida attorney general, and Trump was discussing additional stimuli for kids that could not be healthy.\u00a0 He mentioned the possibility of video games and other things — movies on the internet and so forth — as things that could be in the mix in determining why the shooters do what they do.<\/p>\n
CNN puts a graphic up to describe this, and you just know that the intention of their graphic had an unstated addition, which was: Trump is insane.\u00a0 “Trump says video games and violence on internet,” whatever else it was, “responsible for gun shootings, responsible for school shootings,” or whatever.\u00a0 Now, it was factual. It was true.\u00a0 That is what Trump said.\u00a0 But, within the context of CNN, CNN thinks there\u2019s only one culprit here, and that\u2019s guns.<\/p>\n
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Well, a second culprit is the NRA — and anything other than that, whenever anybody says, “in addition to” or “instead of guns, we might want to take a look at…” Like, when they mention mental illness. When Trump mentions mental illness, they pooh-pooh that.\u00a0 So the ongoing intimations from CNN is that Trump continues to be crazy, that Trump is unhinged, that Trump is dangerous.\u00a0 It is this arrogance and this conceit and this condescension that the media use in reporting on Trump.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think they realize how it is not persuasive.<\/p>\n
It affirms the Trump haters in their audience, but it doesn\u2019t persuade.\u00a0 Now, I also was listening to some people discuss their opinions of the media, and I\u2019ve heard a lot of people say, “The media doesn\u2019t realize they\u2019re blowing it. The media is losing the respect of the American people. The media is… People are fed up with the media, the media is…”\u00a0 And then I stop and realize, “Wait a minute.\u00a0 A lot of people say that, and I think they mean it.”<\/p>\n
But if that\u2019s true, if the media is blowing it, if the media has finally jumped the shark — if the media is reaching a tipping point — then how is it that they can convince 75% of the American people that a tax cut is a tax increase?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think the media is in danger of destroying itself, folks, and I wouldn\u2019t fall back on that realization or on that belief.\u00a0 Now, it may look… If you look at things in a sterile environment and you know things are true, things are not true.<\/p>\n
And if you have a good foundation of morality, right and wrong, then you look at CNN, you can look at the Drive-By Media, and you can clearly assess that they\u2019re dishonest, that they are biased, that they are factually incorrect, that they intentionally attempt to destroy people who do\u00a0 not agree with them.\u00a0 Yeah, all that\u2019s true.\u00a0 And in normal circles, that would destroy the media because people think the media\u2019s fair, objective, and simply reporting facts and so forth.<\/p>\n
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But I don\u2019t think the media\u2019s on its way to destroying itself, and I would not… If you hear anybody say so, I\u2019d be very guarded about it.\u00a0 As I say, in a sane world they would have destroyed themselves long ago. After the Dan Rather incident, just for one example, and the fake National Guard papers about George W. Bush. I\u2019m sure you can think of countless other examples where their credibility ought to be nonexistent.<\/p>\n
They should be a national joke right now.\u00a0 But despite that, they can report that the Trump tax bill is gonna raise your taxes and raise taxes on 80% of the American people. And then the Democrats like Pelosi and Schumer run out and start repeating this happen. And the media goes and gets its think tank guests and its economics expert guests. And they all say the same thing, that the Trump tax cut is gonna cause you to pay more in taxes. And then 75% of the American people believe it!<\/p>\n
And then there are polls while the bill\u2019s being debated that 75% of the American people oppose the passage of the tax cut.\u00a0 How can that be if the media is blowing up?\u00a0 How can that be in the Drive-Bys are destroying their reputations?\u00a0 There is an outlier possibility.\u00a0 The outlier possibility is that even the polls that they\u2019re reporting are BS.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s true that 75% of the American people did not oppose the tax cut.\u00a0 Maybe they made that up too!\u00a0 But now the polls are starting to show that, finally, 51% of the American people support the tax cut.<\/p>\n
Do you know why?\u00a0 Because they\u2019re all seeing that they are getting a tax cut now.\u00a0 But are they, at the same time, putting it together that the media lied to them?\u00a0 Are they realizing, “You know, we\u2019ve been snookered; we\u2019ve been lied to”?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if they are or not.\u00a0 All I\u2019m telling you is, if the Drive-By Media can convince 70% of the American people that Mitt Romney stood by and let an employee\u2019s wife die and that Mitt Romney hates animals \u2019cause he put the dog on the station wagon room on a family vacation…<\/p>\n
Or that Donald Trump\u2019s tax cuts are gonna raise taxes for you and cut taxes only for the rich and Big Business and people end up believing that stuff, I just wouldn\u2019t… I wouldn\u2019t subscribe to the idea that they\u2019re imploding.\u00a0 They ought to be. In a sane, just world, outfits like CNN and MSNBC would be scraping the bottom of the barrel — and in terms of ratings, they are.\u00a0 That\u2019s another curious and odd thing.\u00a0 When it comes to the ratings, they are at the bottom of the barrel, and yet they remain the most powerful force that we are up against.<\/p>\n
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