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<\/p>\nRUSH: So I\u2019m watching Ari Fleischer, who was George W. Bush\u2019s first press secretary and now I think he has a public relations firm, a crisis PR firm or something of the sort. Anyway, he was asked a question. It was pointed out to him — and follow this. “Ari, the president has done everything that has been asked of him. He walked back the comments about the intelligence community not being as good as Putin\u2019s. He walked back this and he walked back that, and they\u2019re still attacking him, Ari. Why?”<\/p>\n
Seriously? “He\u2019s done everything they asked him to do, and they\u2019re still attacking him, Ari. Why?”<\/p>\n
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You know what Ari said? Ari said (paraphrasing), “Well, let\u2019s just face it, we gotta go back to the origin point of this and that is the substance of this press conference. And he just blew it. Yeah, I don\u2019t know,” Ari said, “why this has to be so hard. I just don\u2019t know why the president can\u2019t figure this stuff out.”<\/p>\n
Okay. So the president blew the substance of the press conference. What does that mean? What did he not do that everybody in the media and in the left thinks that Trump should have done? And the best I can tell is that these people think that Trump should you have gotten over in Putin\u2019s face, like he\u2019s not allowed to do in Hillary\u2019s face — it would be sexism — he\u2019s supposed to walk over there and he\u2019s supposed to wag his finger at Putin, and he\u2019s supposed to say, “You lying KGB thug. You interfered in our elections, and you ended up getting me elected. And for that –” and then Trump should give him a big hug? What? Is this what Trump\u2019s supposed to do. Is this what they want him to do? They want him to confront Putin and accuse Putin of screwing up our elections.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Let\u2019s go back to Ari Fleischer. See, you thought I might have lost my place and you might have been sitting there frustrated, “Come on, Rush, finish the subject.” I\u2019m gonna get there. Ari Fleischer. “I don\u2019t know why it\u2019s so hard for the president. It shouldn\u2019t be this hard. He just, let\u2019s face it, the blew the substance of the press conference.” Okay. What does that mean?<\/p>\n
Again I ask. Do they want Trump to go over there and confront Putin and wag the finger and call him a cheater and call him a thug and start insulting the KGB and say, “How dare you tamper in our elections. Don\u2019t you remember when Obama told you to cut it out? Well, I\u2019m telling you to stop it, too.” Why, is that what they want him to do? By the way, what good was it when Obama went over and told him to cut it out? Obama told the KGB to cut it out, and they didn\u2019t cut it out. They\u2019re still doing it. Well, of course I have a theory.<\/p>\n
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Can somebody answer a quick question for me? For those of you in the Drive-By Media, those of you in the Democrat party, can anyone cite a single example when a U.S. president directly confronted another country\u2019s president in public? Waiting for the countdown. Can anybody tell me, can you recall — let me rephrase it. Has any U.S. president done to a foreign leader in public what apparently the Drive-Bys and the Democrats wanted Trump to do to Putin? Not in public. It\u2019s never happened.<\/p>\n
And those of you that are saying that Reagan said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Gorbachev wasn\u2019t there. Gorbachev was hiding out in his dacha. There was an assassination attempt being planned against Gorbachev. Gorbachev wasn\u2019t anywhere around when Reagan said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”<\/p>\n
You want to know how ironic this is? All these people think Trump blew the substance because he kowtowed to Putin, didn\u2019t confront Putin, didn\u2019t tell Putin what a thug he is. This is the same Drive-By Media and the same Democrats who were warning us constantly throughout the campaign and even after he was elected that Trump was too much of a hothead.<\/p>\n
He was too unpredictable. He was too off the rails. He was too big a stranger to diplomacy to be trusted with foreign relations. We couldn\u2019t let Trump anywhere near world leaders, he\u2019s so gauche, he\u2019s so unsophisticated, we can\u2019t have Trump confronting these people. Trump\u2019s gonna get in their face and start insulting them. We can\u2019t have that, they said.<\/p>\n
And now the same media and the same Democrats are furious that Trump didn\u2019t take out a slingshot and put one of Putin\u2019s eyes out or something, or at least punch him in the nose. Or at least say, “Putin, you\u2019re just a creep, all right?” And then walk away. What did they want him to do? When he\u2019s elected, when he\u2019s campaigning, “Oh, God. We can\u2019t have Trump. Do you realize what a disaster? This guy\u2019s a bull in a china shop. This guy\u2019s, he\u2019s gonna go insult some foreign leader. We\u2019re gonna get nuked. Oh, my God. We\u2019re gonna die. We\u2019re gonna die.”<\/p>\n
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And when Trump doesn\u2019t do that, “My God, he\u2019s in bed with Putin. Putin must have something on him. Putin must be the reason Trump\u2019s rich.” And now we have to hear, “You know, he\u2019s done everything that they\u2019ve asked him to do and the people are still mad at him.” The answer is, for the I don\u2019t know how many umpteenth thousandth time, you can\u2019t placate them, please them, love them, make them love you or make them happy.<\/p>\n
But I\u2019m sure Trump was being pressured by some of his advisors, “Mr. President, you gotta walk this back, you gotta praise the intel community, you gotta go out, you gotta do it, you gotta do it, you gotta do it, you gotta do it, for us, Mr. President. We need you to do it for us.” So he goes out and does it and they keeping hammering him. And all these wizards of smart say, “Why didn\u2019t it work? We gave you what you want. Why didn\u2019t it work? Why are you still criticizing the president?” Come on.<\/p>\n
By the way, I was reading National… Take it back. I\u2019m not gonna mention the name of the publication \u2019cause I do not want this to be misunderstood as a cut or as an insult. But I was reading a widely known publication within certain circles and the author thought and thinks he\u2019s got a bombshell. You know what he said? He said the reason Trump will not criticize the Russians and the reason Trump will not go along with the idea that the Russians meddled is because Trump is worried that people will say he\u2019s admitting to collusion.<\/p>\n
It was written almost as an exclusive. How old is this prediction, how old is this analysis? Maybe two months, six months? It\u2019s an example of how out of touch what I call the thinking class, you know, the think tanks. They come up with these brilliant observations that are old hat by the time they get around to mentioning them.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here is Randy in Atascadero, California, it\u2019s great to have you up first today, sir. And welcome.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Yeah, what I was calling about is, you know, there\u2019s so much ambiguity by the career politicians. I mean, that\u2019s kind of what they live on. It allows them to kind of walk back things and couch things in their special language. And it seems like we need to have the media, the Drive-By Media to interpret or translate that to us. It\u2019s not necessarily what they said because they make it so ambiguous.<\/p>\n
The thing about Trump is, he tends to be very blunt. He tends to be very unambiguous. And that\u2019s part of what I think the media tries to trap him into. They know if he says something, he\u2019ll say it bluntly and clearly that everybody will understand. And they don\u2019t have to interpret it because it\u2019s obvious. You know, he doesn\u2019t need the media to explain or interpret his comments. And I think that that\u2019s what the career politicians, and especially the Democrats, just thrive on, you know, is the ambiguity.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, I think you\u2019re partially right. You\u2019re on the right track. I think in this particular area where basically they don\u2019t like the way Trump talks, is what you\u2019re saying, and the reason is because he\u2019s too direct, that\u2019s certainly true, but I think it goes farther than that. I think we\u2019re dealing with class arrogance. I think the media considers themselves part of the political class in Washington. And they are an equal part. They\u2019re on the same elite level as the politicians and the bureaucrats that they cover.<\/p>\n
In fact, in many of the media\u2019s minds they may be on a higher level, given they may have more power because they, in their minds, can destroy whoever they want to destroy. Whereas a bureaucrat has to go undermine people and back stab and this kind of thing. The media can do that right out in the open.<\/p>\n
As part of this arrogance of class, there is a proper way of speaking and there\u2019s a proper way of behaving. And there\u2019s also, if you\u2019re Republican, there\u2019s a proper way to acknowledge that you know that you\u2019re second-tier establishment, that you\u2019re not in the elite elite. And Trump blows all that up. And he makes no effort to ingratiate himself in their world. Instead, he walks in and is in the process of blowing up their world.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s blowing up their very restrictive class distinctions. He\u2019s blowing up the way they talk about things inside the Beltway. He\u2019s blowing up diplomacy. He\u2019s blowing up foreign relations. And it\u2019s being done in a way these people can\u2019t figure out. For the life of them, they can\u2019t understand straight talk. To them, straight talk is thuggery, it\u2019s insulting, and it\u2019s mysterious. And so Trump is like an invader, an alien, and he\u2019s gotta go.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: It\u2019s Holland, Michigan, up next. This is Jeff. I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Hey, tera dittos. Time to upgrade, do a ditto upgrade, giving you tera dittos. Hey, I was thinking about this whole thing with the swamp and how all they\u2019re doing is criticizing Trump because of what he did with Putin. But you know something? Had he done what they\u2019re asking him to do or what they think he should have done by waving his finger at him, then they\u2019d be talking about how he\u2019s not diplomatic and no president should ever behave that way.<\/p>\n
My thinking is that they did not sufficiently destroy his meeting with Kim Jong-un. I mean, there was some foreign country minister or something talked about a Nobel Peace Prize. And I think they\u2019re scared, and they\u2019re just saying, “We can\u2019t have this,” because if Donald Trump succeeds, that makes all the swamp creatures look bad, Democrats and then the swamp Republicans as well. So I just think that no matter what Trump did, they\u2019re gonna tear him apart \u2019cause they cannot have anybody talking about Nobel Peace Prize or anything.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, there\u2019s no question about that. And what you\u2019re essentially saying is that no matter what happened in that press conference they were gonna find a way to blow it up. And I agree with that totally. I don\u2019t care what Trump would have said, they were going to try to find something in this press conference to focus on and create another one of these imaginary, faux crises to create another 24- to 48-hour news cycle. They didn\u2019t have to work very hard.<\/p>\n
A reporter was actually called upon who said, “And, President Putin, do you have any –” what did he say? “– actionable intelligence on President Trump and his family?” In other words, “Do you have dirt on President Trump?” And notice not a single person casts any aspersions on the embarrassment that is the media, on the embarrassment that is that kind of question.<\/p>\n
They celebrate the question being asked. And then Putin, he started rolling his eyes and chuckling and laughing at the infantile nature of the reporter and the question. But, yeah, Nobel Peace Prize, whether it\u2019s about that or — Trump is not going to be permitted to be seen as successful in these kinds of things, particularly with Russia and what else they\u2019re trying to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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