RUSH: The Drive-By Media is apoplectic. The Kremlin just announced that the president, President Trump invited Putin to visit Washington and the White House on a phone call they had on March the 30th. The media is acting like Trump may not know that he invited Putin because it\u2019s the Kremlin that announced it. And so they\u2019re running around, “Oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh! Trump\u2019s partner in crime in colluding is actually coming to Washington! How brazen!”<\/p>\n
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The theory is that Trump and Putin are doing this on purpose to be in the face of the special counsel Robert Mueller. I\u2019m not making this up. Now, you may not see those exact allegations word-for-word in the media, but I guarantee you, I know these people in the Drive-By Media like I know every square inch of my glorious naked body, not just the back of my hand.<\/p>\n
With Putin announcing that Trump invited him to come to Washington, date not yet set, with Trump not being the one to announce it, the media is saying, “A-ha. Putin\u2019s still running this team. Putin\u2019s still running this show. Putin has announced he\u2019s been invited. Does Trump even know?”<\/p>\n
And so this is a joint effort for these two guys to show up in the middle of Mueller\u2019s investigation and basically try to intimidate him with a couple of photo ops. Whether they\u2019re printing it yet or not, I can tell you with relative certainty, assuredness, that this is what many in the Drive-By Media, this is the way they\u2019re gonna look at it.<\/p>\n
Now, if you go back to the 1980s when Ronaldus Magnus would not have summit meetings with the Soviets, his excuse was, when the media kept asking, “Why won\u2019t you meet with Yuri Andropov? Why will you not meet with so-and-so? Why will you not meet with Konstantin Chernenko?” And Reagan said, “Because they keep dying on me. There isn\u2019t any Soviet leader alive long enough to make a deal with.”<\/p>\n
That angered the media because the media desperately wanted a summit between Reagan and any Soviet leader because back then the media and the Democrats thought that Reagan was an incompetent, bumbling fool cowboy who might accidentally hit the red button to launch nuclear weapons, which of course is not how nuclear weapons are launched. But if you\u2019re not old enough to remember this, and I know it may sound funny, this is exactly what was going on. The media was just paranoid that there would not be a get-together between the Soviets and Reagan.<\/p>\n
Back then the only way to postpone disaster was to have a summit meeting. Now look. Now here\u2019s Putin saying (imitating Putin), “Hey, Trump\u2019s invited me to come to Washington. It happened in a phone call on March 30th.”<\/p>\n
And the media is all, “No! No! He can\u2019t do this! This is not right! We shouldn\u2019t be inviting the Russians here. The Russians are tampering in everything we\u2019re doing. The Russians are stealing elections. The Russians are doing this, we shouldn\u2019t be –” it\u2019s amazing. If it were Obama and Putin, they would be having a party. Anyway, it\u2019s just part of silly season and how everything gets to be sillier and sillier and sillier.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here is Keith in Naples. It\u2019s great to have you. I\u2019m glad you were patient. Welcome.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you. I appreciate that, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n
CALLER: My question to you is you were speaking earlier about Putin and Trump possibly meeting and how the liberal media is going nuts over that. The one thing I think I missed through all of this Russian collusion and everything else is why the left — politicians, the media and so forth — have chosen to demonize the Russians so much? <\/p>\n
If I\u2019m not mistaken, these are the same Russians that Hillary did a reset with and that Obama said he would have more flexibility with. And I\u2019m pretty sure that when Romney was running for president, he stated that the Russians were going to be our biggest threat moving forward, and he was excoriated for that. Am I wrong on that?<\/p>\n