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<\/p>\nRUSH: Let me start here at number 2. The Drive-Bys have a new tack. The Drive-By Media, a new approach here. Now, rather than Trump listening to me, which has been their foolhardy story since before Christmas, just to refresh your memory, in case you\u2019ve been away and don\u2019t know the history of this, very briefly. Trump was all set to sign a continuing resolution, keep the government open with no money for a wall, no money for border security. That was the news.<\/p>\n
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On this program I heard about this, and I started saying this is a bad thing to do. I can\u2019t believe, no, no, no, don\u2019t do this. And immediately I got an instant message from somebody in the White House assuring me the story wasn\u2019t true, the president wasn\u2019t gonna sign it, and he was never gonna sign any legislation that does not have money for the wall in it. And this I reported to you. I said, “I just received a note from a third party from the president assuring me that he\u2019s not gonna sign it.”<\/p>\n
The Drive-Bys took that and totally reworked it and made it look like Trump was already signing it. He\u2019d maybe even already had written the D of his signature. And then somebody rushed in and said, “Mr. President, Mr. President, Rush Limbaugh says no, don\u2019t do it.” And Trump stopped. That\u2019s the story they ran with. That\u2019s not at all what happened. He was never gonna sign it. I was reporting that he was gonna sign it. He got word to me that the reporting was wrong. So the Drive-Bys then start saying that I am the cause of the government shutdown because I am the real president because Trump is too big a dodo to know what to do without me telling him.<\/p>\n
I corrected them the next day. I said you guys are getting this totally wrong. They\u2019re doing it on purpose. It was a way of diminishing Trump and getting people mad at me. Well, apparently it didn\u2019t go the way they intended, because now there\u2019s a new tack. They\u2019ve decided on a new narrative, and that is that I tricked Trump. That Trump\u2019s voters don\u2019t really care about the wall, and he\u2019s being lied to by people like me. That he\u2019s being lied to by people like me, that his voters don\u2019t care, that they\u2019re perfectly fine with him signing legislation that has no money in it for the wall. Here. We have little montage of the Drive-Bys attempting this new tack.<\/p>\n
BOB HARDT: He\u2019s painted himself into a corner. Rush Limbaugh called him and said, “You can\u2019t bend on this.” He has nowhere to go.<\/p>\n
RACHEL SHABI: The radical right, Rush Limbaugh, suggested to him that he will lose his base over this.<\/p>\n
CHRIS MATTHEWS: …Rush Limbaugh, who pitchforked him into this situation in the first place.<\/p>\n
YASMIN VOSSOUGHIAN: … the Rush Limbaugh base he was scared by.<\/p>\n
MICHAEL STEELE: Rush Limbaugh. That\u2019s the voice in his head.<\/p>\n
NICOLLE WALLACE: …Trump\u2019s trepidation of individuals with names like Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n
KATY TUR: Donald Trump\u2019s base is not holding him to a wall. The media has been holding Donald Trump to a wall, specifically the right-wing media.<\/p>\n
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CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: The fringe of the Republican Party, the Rush Limbaughs, screech again at the president. Is it legitimate that these people should govern or should the president and Congress govern?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, don\u2019t you just love that, Christiane Amanpour, who thinks it\u2019s her job to govern. It is her job to have influence with people in the foreign policy administration and to have daily chats with them and discuss the proprieties of whether or not we should cooperate with the European Union or not. She thinks she has the influence over government policy with her contacts and the people she knows in the swamp, in the establishment.<\/p>\n
They can\u2019t stand it! They think talk radio is the lowest rung on the showbiz ladder, and it just galls them. Everything about the way they think of my success just galls them. So now Trump is even stupider than they thought. Now Trump is being tricked. It\u2019s not that Trump is listening to me for his own best interests. Now Trump is being tricked by me into doing things not in his own best interests. The Drive-Bys must be getting frustrated, because they\u2019re unable to alter the course of events here so they change these narratives off and on, and this is the latest incarnation of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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