{"id":277302,"date":"2018-06-21T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=277302"},"modified":"2018-06-25T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T20:06:11","slug":"instinctive-or-strategic-genius-either-way-trump-outsmarts-them-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/06\/21\/instinctive-or-strategic-genius-either-way-trump-outsmarts-them-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Instinctive or Strategic Genius? Either Way, Trump Outsmarts Them Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This today, ladies and gentlemen, may be one of the biggest See, I Told You So opportunity days I have had in years, maybe ever. And that\u2019s really saying something, because I\u2019ve had a lot of these over a stellar broadcast career. So forgive me if I point out your host — your beloved host, I, El Rushbo — predicted every single reaction that we are seeing from the news media and the rest of the Democrat Party. I have been chomping at the bit all night to get here.<\/p>\n

\"\"It started shortly after the program ended yesterday, and I know all of you were watching the news and keeping track. I know you all noticed it. I know you\u2019re out there saying, “It\u2019s exactly what Rush said was gonna happen,” and it has happened. I don\u2019t know if Donald Trump is a strategic genius, but I can tell you that he is an instinctive one. I don\u2019t know how much Trump sits around and strategizes and tries to play, for example, a long game and say, “Okay. If I do this and do this, I know they\u2019re gonna do this and this. So, after that happens, I\u2019m going to do this.”<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s that many steps down the board or not. But I know that his instincts are practically infallible here. He has turned these people inside out, upside down. He has forced them, made them, caused them — his enemies — to expose their hypocrisy, to expose their lies, and to expose the fact that they\u2019re dishonest when reporting so-called news. For starters, ladies and gentlemen, I predicted the press would say that Trump caved, that they would begin to take credit for it, that they indeed had put so much pressure on Trump that finally they had made him cave.<\/p>\n

Dana Bash at CNN was the first to start shouting with great happiness that they had made Trump cave. It was their first reaction. There were lots of articles with headlines claiming that Trump caved. There were other stories talking about Trump\u2019s base supporters being tragically saddened and disappointed by this, that Trump didn\u2019t have the guts to stick to his policy, that Trump is even less committed to this than Obama was. There was all kinds of stuff. But then — and you remember this — they began to realize, as I also predicted they would. (laughing)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In fact, the first guy to get up was a little bald head guy yesterday afternoon on CNN. (laughing) It was so fun to watch. We had the sound bite from the guy, Zac something or other<\/a>. He\u2019s the guy that the Fox infobabes love having this guy on. You can just tell that they are as amused as hell. He\u2019s like a pet! You know, he\u2019s like a talking pet. They\u2019re just amused as hell when this guy gets wound up and gets going. He stands up out of his chair, starts gesticulating wildly, and they look at each other with the suppressed smiles. (laughing) They don\u2019t even try to stop him!<\/p>\n

Anyway, he was the first to figure it out. (laughing) They realized that this only meant one thing, that Trump was gonna keep families detained, if we\u2019re gonna keep \u2019em together, they\u2019re gonna stay detained, quote-unquote, “behind bars.” What the left has been looking for here all along is catch-and-release. That\u2019s what they want to return to. They thought Trump caving meant that his executive order was gonna be, “We no longer detain children,” and since we can\u2019t separate families, if we\u2019re gonna detain the children, we can\u2019t deign the adults.<\/p>\n

Therefore nobody\u2019s detained, thereby everybody is free to roam America and get lost. (laughing) Well, that\u2019s not what the executive order says. And then I predicted that there would be a court challenge to this before the next day — today — arrived. And I predicted that the court challenge would be on the fact that Trump had usurped his executive authority, that he cannot trump (no pun intended) existing law as written by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the Flores decision, which the media never talked about during any of this.<\/p>\n

When they\u2019re clamoring for Trump to end his supposedly policy of separation, the no tolerance. It isn\u2019t his. It never was, which you know. But they\u2019re demanding that he end it. And all during those days where they\u2019re demanding that he end it, they never once said that there was an opinion from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals called the Flores decision that prevents him from ending it. Then when he signs his executive order, then all of a sudden they discover Flores to say that his executive order may not be valid. (laughing)<\/p>\n

They fell right into this at every step!<\/p>\n

\"\"This is why I\u2019m asking if Trump is a strategic genius or just instinctive. Because this executive order, the way it has played out… I don\u2019t like to overuse the word “genius,” \u2019cause I really think it\u2019s reserved for a select few. But in this case, it suffices as being accurate enough in terms of my attempt to characterize and describe Trump in this particular episode. The reason this executive order was very, very smart, is it not only proved that this zero-tolerance policy was not separating children, the executive order also proves to the world that the news media and the Democrats really don\u2019t want families to be kept together if it means they are in detention.<\/p>\n

Remember, all of this was about separating families, separating the children. “We can\u2019t do that. That\u2019s not who we are. That\u2019s not us. Those are not our values. Trump is mean-spirited and extreme like all the Republicans and like all of his supporters, and they want these children to be separated from their families.” We had the photos of the children crying. By the way, I never said the photos were “fake.” Does anybody remember me saying “fake”? I never said they were “fake.” I know they\u2019re real.<\/p>\n

What I said was that they were not from present time.<\/p>\n

Many of these photos that the media\u2019s been trotting out with crying children are from 2014 when Obama was president.<\/a> Has anybody noticed that in all of these videos and photos where the children are crying for mommy and daddy, they\u2019re speaking English? We don\u2019t know where these photos were actually taken. Later on in the program, I want to share something with you. I was reading a piece at the blog Power Line last night. Well-known intellectual and overall media raconteur, Steven Hayward, who\u2019s a Reagan biographer, remembered that he had read a book by Daniel J. Boorstin back in 1992 called The Image<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"He wrote about it, and I was fascinated. So I went and I got the book, bought the book, and I started reading parts of it. This guy — and I knew who Daniel J. Boorstin was. He was amazingly prescient. In 1992, he explained how stories like this happen, that this is exactly what we know it is. This is not reporting news; this is making news. And how does it happen? What triggers a story like this? In this case, what is the one event that made this whole thing news when it\u2019s been going on for years and years and years and was never news, was never reported? What was it that made it news now?<\/p>\n

Well, first and foremost was the desire for the media to make it a story. There is no reporting the news or discovering it. There is making the news. That\u2019s why I called it a manufactured crisis. Boorstin\u2019s theory is that it usually happens with an image, a still photograph or a video that somebody in the media trots out and uses the image to begin shaping the emotional reaction of consumers of news and then others in the Drive-By Media. Of course, this is no great revelation. We remember the reason we want to Somalia when George H. W. Bush was president. So we\u2019re talking circa 1990.<\/p>\n

The New York Times ran on its front page a black-and-white photo of an emaciated young Somali child with insects buzzing around his nose. The caption to the picture was something along the lines, “How. Can. We. Let. This. Happen?” The media glommed on to it and demanded that Bush do something. I think it might have even been Clinton. I think it\u2019s what… Yeah. It\u2019s what led to Black Hawk Down. Yeah, it was Clinton. That one photo led the Clinton administration to an invasion of Somalia.<\/p>\n

The media was there two days in advance and was camped out with their camera crews on the beach as the media got off their boats and was storming the beaches of Somalia. Dan Rather already had his hotel revelation booked on the black card. They were just waiting for media to show up. That\u2019s when we learned about the warlords — particularly Mohamed Farrah Hassan Aidid Skyhook — and then the Black Hawk Down, the disaster that happened as we were trying to get out of there, and the DOD did not provide what the military needed to conduct its operation.<\/p>\n

There were deaths with the nude bodies of American soldiers dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. Anyway, this is same thing. It\u2019s manufactured news, it\u2019s a faux crisis, and it was started by news media who had long-ago since given up reporting news but instead now making it. They decide what news they\u2019re gonna make based on their agenda, and the agenda here of course is get Trump. But Boorstin\u2019s description of this — and he\u2019s the one who was characterizing it before it was officially understood and announced. I want to share with you the way he writes about it as the program unfolds.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>At any rate, the reason I know that all of this is manufactured and made up is because it\u2019s not the first time anything like this has happened. And it only happens when there are Republican presidents. It rarely happens with a Democrat in office. This operation, this entire media operation would have never happened when Obama was in office. Never. A, Republicans do not make news stories like this, and they are not in any way sufficient present in numbers in the Drive-By Media to force what happens there. This is something that only could happen with Republicans in office. When Obama\u2019s in office and this is happening — and even with worst circumstances than are happening now — they fully ignore it.<\/p>\n

Even now when it has been discovered that what\u2019s happening now pales in comparison to the severity and numbers of children suffering while Obama was president<\/a>, it\u2019s ignored. It\u2019s ignored and the reaction is, “Well, that we can\u2019t look back. That doesn\u2019t accomplish anything. We need to look forward.” Now, they will look backward when they want to make everybody think that slavery still exists in America or when they want to think some other human rights violation we alone in America are guilty of.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll look back as long as they have to to find it to try to draw parallels to the present day. But none of this technique is ever used against Democrat presidents. Unless one of them is so bad, they got get rid of him, like Jimmy Carter. But in the case of Obama, it would never happen. So what we end up with here — and I\u2019m gonna go through all these stories to document this \u2019cause this is just too juicy. With the signing of this executive order, Trump has shown the world that the news media and the Democrats are really not about keeping families together.<\/p>\n

\"\"“But, Rush! But, Rush! They are. That\u2019s how this started.” Yes, it did! That\u2019s the point! “We can\u2019t separate these children from their families. Who are we? This is horrible.” That, of course, leads reprobate human debris like Peter Fonda to start leveling threats and insults at Melania Trump and her son, Barron. You know the drill on that. You know as well as I do that the focus of this was, “Trump\u2019s zero-tolerance policy is separating families! Children are alone. They\u2019re being kept in cages. We can\u2019t do this.”<\/p>\n

So Trump signs the executive order saying that no more is that gonna happen, and yet the Drive-Bys are not happy when they realize that the only way to keep the families together is to keep them together detained! “Well, we can\u2019t have that! No, no. No way.” Democrats don\u2019t want families to be kept together in detention. So maybe the objective isn\u2019t to keep families together. Maybe it never has been the real agenda. That\u2019s just been what they\u2019ve done to sell it to you.<\/p>\n

But Trump signs an executive order that will keep children together for the 10 minutes it\u2019s gonna survive before it\u2019s overthrown by a court. (Also predicted here.) But Trump\u2019s executive order unites families. It keeps them from being separated. That\u2019s what the media told us must be done. Trump did it, and they\u2019re still wailing away. They\u2019re still screaming and whining and moaning. Why? Well, because the families are going to be kept together, not being separated, by keeping them all detained. Remember, the parents are here illegally!<\/p>\n

They are here in violation of the law. They have been caught. As such, they are detained. That famous Flores case said that you can\u2019t detain children in this circumstance longer than 20 days. Trump writes an executive order which pretends Flores dissents exist and says you can\u2019t separate children at all. But to keep them together, they must be detained. The left has thus been forced — and I don\u2019t think they saw this coming — to admit that keeping families together is not the objective. The real objective is to have nobody prosecuted.<\/p>\n

The real objective is open borders. When these people arrive here illegally, you catch \u2019em and release them. All of them. Mom and dad, the kids — or the coyotes, whoever the adults are. That\u2019s the objective, because the objective has always been open borders. The objective has always been anybody who wants in gets in. The objective has always been amnesty for everybody here illegally. So it\u2019s not about keeping families together. Trump found a way to do that, and they still oppose it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. My friends, it\u2019s just delicious. I mean, to me, it is delicious. The Democrats and the Drive-Bys are now screaming about children being detained with their parents, when just yesterday they were screaming about children not being detained with their parents. It\u2019s classic. They got exactly what they want and then they figured out that it wasn\u2019t what they want and that Trump outsmarted them again. Now, here\u2019s Trump speaking about outsmarting them. We have to… Oh, yeah. Grab sound bite No. 19. Trump from his rally in Duluth, Minnesota, last night…<\/p>\n