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<\/p>\nRUSH: I don\u2019t think these events are going to have anything to do with the midterms. A lot of people do. A lot of people think it\u2019s gonna dampen turnout. (interruption) You think I\u2019m wrong or you…? (interruption) Yeah, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna have a thing to do with the midterms.<\/p>\n
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Now, after Caesar Sayoc… Dare I say this? Dare I put my hands together and look to the Lord and do I say this? Caesar Sayoc and his pipe bombs — none of which exploded<\/a>. What do you think the odds are that the Drive-Bys and the Democrats are thinking…? Well, I don\u2019t have to ask this. We know it! We had people talking about how that whole thing last week was suppressing turnout, remember?<\/p>\n And even Trump alluded to the fact that that story was maybe going to dampen some people\u2019s enthusiasm. Remember that? Okay. Well, there were some people, I\u2019m sure, not too unhappy about that. And then the second event happened on Saturday in Pittsburgh. To the people that politicize everything — and that\u2019s the people I\u2019m talking about, and that would be the media and the American left, the people that politicize everything. Of course, you\u2019ve got extremists out there in the fringes everywhere who irrationally try to explain things away.<\/p>\n But the people that politicize everything, who look at both events through a political lens had to be thinking, “All right! Now, this is gonna really help us in the midterms. This is gonna dampen turnout. It\u2019s gonna dampen enthusiasm for Trump.” I have an entirely different feeling. It\u2019s why I did the show open today that I did<\/a>. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to have that impact on people. In fact, I think the media, in their natural state, drives more people to Trump each and every day.<\/p>\n I think they\u2019ve been doing it since the Sunday shows yesterday with this. The attempt to politicize this, the attempt to blame Trump for this… They can\u2019t help themselves. They have spent the past 2-1\/2 years trying to get rid of Donald Trump. They have thrown everything they know into the public domain hoping to influence people to abandon Trump, and it hasn\u2019t happened. So these two events come along and they think, “Ah, this is it!<\/p>\n “This has to be what it is,” they\u2019re thinking, and they just can\u2019t help themselves. They start blaming Trump for the synagogue shooting. They start asking the president what he\u2019s gonna do about guns; does he have a different view on it, as though he\u2019s somehow responsible. And what it does, it portrays — it gives away — the fact that as far as the American left is concerned, everything centers around Washington, that Washington is the solution for everything.<\/p>\n And how is Washington the solution? Washington is the solution because Washington is where the enemies of the left are gonna be punished, is where the enemies of the left are going to be dealt with. That\u2019s the role of government, as far as the left is concerned. The government as an agent of power to enforce punitive, punishing policies on the enemies of the American left. That\u2019s its purpose. So a shooting anywhere takes place; the left says, “What\u2019s the president gonna do about it?”<\/p>\n The president had nothing to do with it in the first place! The president has nothing to do with gun control laws except as a supporter or opponent. Congress writes the laws! But the idea that Washington should be able to command anything at any time is what the left wants with the White House. That\u2019s how they want to use it. That\u2019s what its purpose is. They\u2019ve done everything they can to overturn the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n Cookie thinks that I need to replay a bit of my monologue from Friday when I explain (my “final summation,” she titled it here on the sound bite roster) why we are suspicious<\/a>. And I\u2019ve been going back and forth whether I should actually replay it or just read it and do it again. I\u2019m still thinking about that, plus your phone calls as well. Before we go to the break, just a couple more things here to illustrate the point.<\/p>\n NBC News… “NBC: If Americans Are \u2018Fed Up\u2019 and \u2018Mean It,\u2019 They\u2019ll Vote Against Trump\/GOP<\/a> — The day after an anti-Semite killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a week of political violence, NBC\u2019s Sunday Today exploited the opportunity by trying to tie it all to President Trump. On top of that, [NBC] suggested that the only hope to stop the violence was to send Trump a message at the ballot box by voting against him and the GOP.<\/p>\n “After reporting on the anti-Semitic hate crime in Pittsburgh, NBC shifted over to complaining about Trump for not bowing to the man\u2019s hatred. ‘On Saturday, he continued with his midterm campaign commitments despite that tragedy,\u2019 chided anchor Willie Geist, while White House correspondent Kelly O\u2019Donnell huffed about how the ‘President\u2019s response to this tragedy has been to speak extensively about all aspects of it while not giving up his midterm fight.'”<\/p>\n And that you\u2019ve been fed up since Trump was elected, \u2019cause you really didn\u2019t mean to vote for him and you\u2019ve regretted it ever since. From the first Trump travel ban, you\u2019ve wished you could have your vote back. So here they are. “If Americans Are \u2018Fed Up\u2019 and \u2018Mean It,\u2019 They\u2019ll Vote Against Trump…” Trump should cease this campaigning. He should stop it! This is unseemly. “ABC: Trump \u2018At the Center\u2019 of All the Political Violence Right Now.<\/a>”<\/p>\n That was George Stephanopoulos on This Week yesterday. “After giving a rundown of the violence of the week, he declared it all occurred ‘against the backdrop of the ugliest political climate in modern times,'” and, of course, “at the center” of it is Donald Trump. No. (chuckles) No! At the center of it is the media, the media and their reporting on Trump.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Okay. Here we go, sound bites 8, 8A, and 9, just to illustrate what happened on ABC yesterday. Here is Stephanopoulos…<\/p>\n STEPHANOPOULOS: Across social media, hate speech and anti-Semitism are rampant and on the rise, all against the backdrop of the ugliest political climate in modern times. At the center, an unapologetically incendiary president untrammeled by traditional norms of civility.<\/p>\n RUSH: “Traditional norms of civility”? They do not understand. Trump is a reactionary. He\u2019s reacting to the way they treat him. Now, there may be blame to go around on both sides here, but for the media to totally claim they\u2019ve got nothing to do with this is absurd. Now, here\u2019s Matthew Dowd. This guy was formally a George W. Bush Republican. Now he\u2019s gone off to the dark side on ABC.<\/p>\n DOWD: (whispering) I would put specific responsibility on the president that he has an obligation to try to rid us of much of this tribalism. And I think what he\u2019s done, um, over the course of the last few years is helped foment this.<\/p>\n RUSH: Oh, yes. He says it\u2019s all Trump\u2019s fault. All of this is Trump\u2019s fault, and the media wants to be exempt from any impact. They damn well want to think they influence opinion and shape the outcome of elections, but they don\u2019t want to be held any kind of responsible for what people do at the same time? That seem incongruous to me. When they get called out on this, they deny it. This is a montage. Tom Bossert (former national security adviser) and Stephanopoulos and Mary Jordan of the Washington Post.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-011718-Combat-Drive-By-Media-1.jpg\")
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So Trump\u2019s supposed to stop his campaign. Trump\u2019s supposed to stop the rallies. Trump is supposed to bring everything to a screeching halt because Trump is supposed to lose. People are supposed to vote against Trump. “NBC: If Americans Are \u2018Fed Up\u2019 and \u2018Mean It\u2019…” See, they do believe that. Don\u2019t doubt me. I\u2019m telling you, they are relying on their belief that you are as fed up with Trump as they are, and that you mean it.<\/p>\n