RUSH: Newport Beach, California. It\u2019s John. I\u2019m glad you called. I\u2019m glad you waited too. How you doing, sir?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m doing good, Rush. Thanks for being here every day. I got a quick one for you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: I was very alarmed a couple days ago. I was watching the Trump-Kim summit, and I was feeling very proud and, you know, all the emotions that go along with such a historic event, and I started thinking about being back in, you know, fifth or sixth grade, and it was about Ronald Reagan, and that\u2019s what they talked about.<\/p>\n
So my granddaughter, who is in fourth grade, lives with me. So I walked in the room, and I had to know how big of a deal this was. So I asked her, I said, “Are they talking about this at school?” And in so many words, she had no idea what I was even talking about. I was so alarmed by that, it\u2019s almost like they\u2019re gonna stop writing history books right now —<\/p>\n
RUSH: How old is she, did you say?<\/p>\n
CALLER: She\u2019s in fourth grade. She\u2019s 11 years old. And you would think they would be talking about such a huge thing, and she had no idea. No idea this even happened.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, has she heard you talking about this at home or has she seen you watching anything about it on TV?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No. I usually watch my shows like that, you know, privately, either with my wife or in private. I try not to get the kids involved, but like I said, I remember hearing about Ronald Reagan in grade school. It was a big deal. Now it\u2019s almost like they\u2019re just gonna make this go away, just it never happened. It\u2019s bizarre that such a — and was it not a big deal, or am I crazy?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, no, you\u2019re right. I forget. I\u2019m sure it was before I hit the sixth grade. It might have been the third grade, I can remember the drills of being told to sit under the desk if the nuclear bomb warning tone went off. And then we had bomb shelters. I remember my dad going and looking at bomb shelters.<\/p>\n
There were bomb shelter companies. You could buy \u2019em, put them in your backyard, be prepared to live in \u2019em for years. You\u2019d have to buy the canned food, canned water and all this. It was a real thing. People were genuinely scared to death of it and this survived, as I say, through the eighties as a number one American fear. Fourth grade, 11 years old, what is your daughter learning? Does she not know a single thing about this from anybody?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Zero. It\u2019s almost like if it has to do with history right now, it\u2019s not talked about. It\u2019s almost like they\u2019re just — and even my wife who\u2019s on Facebook and talks to conservative people, even said to me that whole night and the next day there was nothing on Facebook. I thought this was a huge thing and it\u2019s almost like it\u2019s been swept away. I don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m glad that you said this. Because in social media, in Drive-By Media, they are sweeping this under the rug and not talking about it. I\u2019ll give you the story again. We look at CNN, and we see that they can\u2019t even put together 700,000 viewers in prime time.<\/p>\n
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I think on Monday night, you know, every cable network was through the roof. But do you know — I can\u2019t say this for sure. I really don\u2019t know \u2019cause I didn\u2019t check. I don\u2019t think — somebody correct me if I\u2019m wrong — I normally would not say something like this \u2019til I can know for certain, but I\u2019m gonna go ahead and put it out there.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think the conventional over-the-air broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, NBC — televised any of this stuff on Monday night. I think they stuck with their prime time schedule. I don\u2019t know if they went live at 4 a.m. when the press conference or any of that was. But during prime time, you had to go to cable. And apparently Fox blew the lid off. I mean, five, six million viewers. In some cases, two and three times their average nightly audiences. And CNN I think bumped up over a million in this night, on Monday night.<\/p>\n
As I say, I don\u2019t know what the alphabet networks were doing. So therefore I don\u2019t know what kind of audience they had, but if you wanted to watch this, you pretty much had to go to cable. And if you wanted a singular perspective on it that was not anti-Trump, you had to go to Fox. And depending the hour, five and a half, four million people did. But how many does that mean didn\u2019t?<\/p>\n
Now, CNN on an average night can barely scrape together 700,000 viewers. But around the world on CNN International, they are it. I mean, the U.K. has Sky and Sky B, but CNN International is pretty much dominant. And CNN International is a duplicate for CNN. And the point is there is nothing positive about Trump at any time, ever, on cut-and-run international.<\/p>\n
Therefore, people renewed the world only see the CNN version of this country and of Trump and of this summit. And all of this is by design. Trump is essentially nonexistent. When he\u2019s doing something that might make him look good or be good for America it isn\u2019t gonna get covered, and it isn\u2019t gonna get reported. And if it does get reported, it\u2019s gonna be reported like this is, that Trump got a suckered, that Kim Jong-un made a fool of Trump, that Trump goofed up, that Trump didn\u2019t have any experience, he shouldn\u2019t have done it.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s the series of narratives that are out there, purposefully, all being done to diminish Trump. And there\u2019s another aspect to it, and that\u2019s protecting the Obama legacy and also trying to make sure that people do not discover what an empty suit Obama was. And I mean intellectually.<\/p>\n
But I\u2019ll just tell you this, John. If your fourth grade teacher is not spending any time talking to the students in your daughter\u2019s class, then maybe you should. I mean, how much harm can it be letting her watch an hour of Fox News? You know, 30 minutes with Shep and then 30 minutes with Bret Baier, 15 minutes with Shep, 45 minutes with Hannity, come up with a perfect balance. And then your daughter\u2019s gonna be more informed than any other kid in her class and probably more informed than her teacher.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. Here\u2019s the scoop. ABC, I think a couple other networks, interrupted their prime time programming at nine o\u2019clock Eastern on Monday night for 10 to 15 minutes to just get a little coverage of what\u2019s going on with the Kim Jong-un-Trump summit, and then they went back to regular programming.<\/p>\n
Now, the program that ABC interrupted was The Bachelorette. And apparently the fans, the viewers of Bachelorette went nuts! They lost it! They bombarded ABC and their local affiliates demanding that Trump and Kim Jong-un be taken off the air and The Bachelor put back on. But the good news is that Fox, the Hannity hour, outrated The Bachelor. That was sweet. So the networks didn\u2019t spend much time on it at all, and when they did, their low-information voters wanted to know nothing about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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