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<\/p>\nRUSH: What I wanted to print was I just got an email that says Pompeo is in the Middle East. Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, is in the Middle East, and he just was heard and videoed talking to some king that he has seen the speech Trump is giving tonight. He paused and then laughed and then said, “It\u2019s gonna make a lot of news.” I assume this is Pompeo saying this not the king.<\/p>\n
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Although I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if the king has seen the speech. I don\u2019t know which king. I don\u2019t know where Pompeo is. I just got this note from somebody who is keeping a sharp eye on the Drive-By Media. So, anyway, the Drive-Bys are gonna get ahold of this. You know what CNN\u2019s gonna do? CNN\u2019s gonna fact check Trump\u2019s speech live. If you watch CNN Tonight, they are going to have chyron graphics pointing out when they think Trump has lied, when Trump is making it up, what you should believe, what you shouldn\u2019t believe.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s see. In fact, grab sound bite No. 7 and then we\u2019ll do No. 8. This is Joe Lockhart, the former spokesman for Bill Clinton. White House press secretary Joe Lockhart. Wait. Ah, these guys run together. Was it Clinton or Obama? It had to have been Clinton, \u2019cause this guy then ended up… No. Damn. I don\u2019t remember. One of the two. Then he ended up being the chief of communications for the National Football League during the kneeling and all that stuff, and he ended up leaving. Obama rented his house in the Kalorama section in Washington — around which there are numerous fences, by the way. There are numerous fences and walls.<\/p>\n
So Lockhart was on CNN New Day today, and he had this idea about covering Trump\u2019s national address tonight…<\/p>\n
LOCKHART: The networks, I hope, struggled yesterday with the decision to put this on because he consistently, uh, hasn\u2019t told the truth, and, you know, someone\u2019s got to fact check that. If I were a network executive, which I\u2019m not, I wouldn\u2019t put this on live. I would let him give the address and I\u2019d look at it and find out what\u2019s true, what\u2019s not, or I\u2019d say, “Give me the text in advance. Let us decide in advance what\u2019s true, what\u2019s not, because we shouldn\u2019t be using our public airwaves for someone to spew more of these lies.” You know, you have a president who\u2019s trying to create hysteria for his own political purposes, not to protect the American people.<\/p>\n
RUSH: This is… (laughing) The audacity of this is almost incomprehensible. (translated) “So let us in the media — let us Democrats, let us radical leftists who define the truth to be whatever we say it is. Let us see Trump of his speech in advance and let us determine what\u2019s fit to be seen and heard and what isn\u2019t. Let us decide whether or not Trump is telling the truth.” Yeah, Lockhart worked for Clinton, and Lockhart rented Obama\u2019s house. Exactly right. The one with bunch of walls around it. “Let us determine what is cynical and what isn\u2019t.”<\/p>\n
“Let us determine what\u2019s hysterical and what isn\u2019t. Let us determine what you should see and what you should not see in advance. The White House should give us the text.” This is, by the way, a request for somebody there to leak the speech to them. This is actually what Lockhart is asking. He\u2019s asking for some Trump saboteur in the White House to leak Trump\u2019s speech, the text of it, so that they can do it right, so that they can protect the nation from the lies and from the hysteria that Trump intends to say tonight.<\/p>\n
Because Trump doesn\u2019t want to fix anything. He just wants to create chaos. So Lockhart is saying (translated), “We at CNN should determine what Americans see and what the American people don\u2019t see. We alone should determine whether the president is factually correct or not, whether he\u2019s lying or not, and then whether or not the president should be heard or seen.” David Gregory this morning, same program (now at CNN, formerly of Meet the Press) had this to say…<\/p>\n
GREGORY: I think there\u2019s an opportunity and a responsibility — and I know CNN will do it — to really scrutinize what the president says in real time, as well as provide Democrats an opportunity to respond so that there can be some debate in prime time that\u2019s in the national interests about the government shutdown and about whether there is any kind of emergency at the border, which has been a case thus far made with so many falsehoods that are provably false.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. So these guys are convinced that Trump is lying, that his speech tonight\u2019s gonna be filled with more lies, and that they are going to basically — as a public service, and as media responsibility. They\u2019re gonna provide real-time commentary and analysis. I mean, line by line, they\u2019re gonna determine whether Trump says something true or false and let you know. You know, this is… Again, this is something we used to do on Rush Limbaugh: The Television Show.<\/p>\n
Now, we didn\u2019t do it live because our show wasn\u2019t live, but we did this. When Democrats spoke, we created — we suggested people create — various signs to put on their TV screens to help them watch a bunch of lying-sack Democrats and have fun with it. Jeez. I have more ideas being pilfered and stolen and used by the Drive-By Media than I can keep track of anymore. But aside from that, the audacity of this. Do you think they would ever do this with Obama?<\/p>\n
Do you think they would ever even try this with Obama? If they do this with Trump, which they\u2019re gonna do, are they not setting a precedent for now doing this all the time in the future, whoever the president is, if they determine the president should not have the right to address the American people without the media filtering it first? You know their presidents are gonna get a pass on this. The Drive-Bys, of course, have announced that they are going to carry the Democrat response.<\/p>\n
Chuck and Nancy are gonna respond to President Trump tonight. This could be… (laughing) This could be fun. I\u2019ll tell you why. It\u2019s because the Democrats and the media are so cocksure that Trump is going to just make a fool of himself. They are just certain that this is the night they\u2019re gonna expose Trump for everything they think he is. This is the night that they\u2019re gonna destroy Trump because Trump has lied through his teeth about immigration, illegal immigration, and the wall, and the crisis at the border — and tonight, they\u2019re gonna expose it all!<\/p>\n
And then we have the news that Pompeo is out there talking to some king somewhere telling him that he\u2019s seen the speech that Trump is giving. He paused and laughed and said, “It\u2019s gonna make a lot of news.” (laughing) I\u2019ll tell you what it is. It\u2019s almost like The Roadrunner and the Coyote and the media and the Democrats are the Coyote. They think they\u2019ve got The Roadrunner in their sights how many times in a 30-minute show? And the anvil still ends up falling on their head where Trump is concerned.<\/p>\n
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And the anvil falling on their head… The analogy is Trump is president the next day. Trump continues to be president, and he continues to try to implement his agenda despite their best efforts to stop it. And they have launched everything in their arsenal to stop Trump, and they haven\u2019t been able to, and they keep launching. And every time they get an opportunity like this, they think, “This is D-Day! This is the day it\u2019s gonna happen.”<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll tell you, the night before the Mueller report comes out, they may not be able to contain themselves. But they\u2019re already starting to wonder. Some various people in the Drive-By Media are starting to worry, because there haven\u2019t been any substantive leaks, “What happens if Mueller doesn\u2019t have anything?” They are starting to worry. (interruption) “Are they gonna fact check Chuck and Pelosi?” No, they\u2019re not gonna fact check Chuck and Nancy. Don\u2019t be silly!<\/p>\n
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They\u2019re not gonna fact check Chuck and Nancy. They\u2019re gonna automatically assume that Chuck and Nancy are telling the truth in order to save a beleaguered nation from this disaster. You know, fact checking was practically invented for the 2008 campaign because the Drive-Bys felt they had to tear down every criticism of Obama. You remember this? In the 2008 campaign, Obama was out with one whopper after another.<\/p>\n
We had the Reverend Wright aspect of the campaign and Obama\u2019s real history and whether or not he was born wherever he was, and there were just constant attacks. So the fact-checking industry was practically born as a means of destroying the critics of Obama — and then once Obama was elected, all the fact-check sites announced that they were gonna go dark, unless they needed to defend Obama on some important point again. But that\u2019s how fact checking in its current existence really got going.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. We have some more detail here. Pompeo is over in Jordan, and he is meeting the king of Jordan, King Abdullah, and it was while speaking to King Abdullah that Mike Pompeo said, \u201cI saw an early version of the president\u2019s speech tonight,\u201d and then he chuckled, he says he\u2019s gonna make a lot of news. The truth about this is that you have Lockhart saying we need to fact check this while it\u2019s happening, Trump\u2019s flying, chaos. David Gregory, \u201cWe\u2019re gonna fact check it all during.\u201d<\/p>\n
They\u2019re scared to death, folks, because they do not hold the factual or moral ground when it comes to what\u2019s going on at the border. They know damn well that what\u2019s happening at the border is illegal, is unconscionable, it is devastating to the country. It\u2019s why they support it. They know damn well that Trump has every fact on his side. They are scared to death that Trump is going to persuade an increasing number of Americans that what\u2019s going on — we already have polling data. Only 7% of Americans think that what\u2019s happening with illegal immigration at the southern border is not a problem.<\/p>\n
Ninety-three percent do, including 88% of Americans. The truth of the matter is the Democrat Party and the media are scared to death of what Trump is gonna say tonight. That\u2019s why they\u2019re ballyhooing the response by Chuck and Nancy. Trump has the facts on his side. They have heard what Trump says about the border. It has been a staple at every Trump rally and it generates standing ovations.<\/p>\n
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It is filled with patriotism, the desire to maintain and protect America, “Make America Great Again,” all of that. It\u2019s designed to protect the law-abiding in this country from people who are wantonly breaking the law getting in and then committing numerous crimes, including murder. There is no way the president does not have the moral and factual high ground on this! They have been dreading that he would do a national address on this, and now it\u2019s coming and now they\u2019re doing everything they can to distort it and destroy it before it\u2019s even given and will do so while it\u2019s being given.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Ed in Las Vegas, the future home of the Oakland Raiders. Great to have you with us. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thanks, Rush. It\u2019s great to be on your show, and I thank you for taking my call. My question is, they talk about immigration from years ago. And from my understanding, in order to for these people to come from other countries to come into our country, they had to have a sponsor, they had to have jobs, they couldn\u2019t be sick. And, you know, all these things that went along with immigration, and if any of those didn\u2019t fit you weren\u2019t allowed into the country. And that\u2019s my question. Is that law no longer there in the immigration section, or does it still apply?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, when it comes to sponsors, I think that there has been some sponsorship, certain aspects. But when you talk about the health of people attempting to get into the country, that would require us to go back and look at Ellis Island, which is where hundreds of thousands of immigrants legally entered the United States. Ellis Island, by the way, is not the island on which is built the Statue of Liberty. People confuse two, but it\u2019s not. They\u2019re close, but it\u2019s not the same place.<\/p>\n
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And you can tour Ellis Island, you can take a ferry out there. You can drive to it, actually, strangely enough. I know this because I have delivered speeches there. But it\u2019s one of the things happening at the southern border. At Ellis Island if you had any kind of a disease, even if you had a bad cold, if you had anything communicable, you were not let in, you were not the permitted in. We had leaders and we had a population with good sense, and that good sense had not been beaten out of them yet by leftists.<\/p>\n
And so back then, the population of the country was not going to be subjected to any communicable diseases being permitted into the country. Everything about immigration back in those days was for the benefit of the United States of America. That was the purpose of it. And people who made it in had to demonstrate that they wanted to be Americans. They had to demonstrate love for country.<\/p>\n
Trump talks about this all the time, and he\u2019s exactly right about it. This is the kind of thing that people don\u2019t know. They certainly haven\u2019t been taught it, and they don\u2019t want Trump talking about these things in something like a national address tonight. But it was restrictive as it could be on the premise that nobody deserved to get in, nobody was owed a living or life in the United States.<\/p>\n
Now, we realize the importance of immigration, melting pot, all that stuff. But all of the requirements for immigration were based on whether or not it was going to benefit the United States. That\u2019s not at all the judgment that\u2019s being used today. Whether or not it helps the United States is irrelevant.<\/p>\n
In fact, many of the people who believe in illegal immigration do so because of their belief the United States is immoral and unjust and deserves whatever gets in because we\u2019ve caused all this suffering and this misery around the world, and we should not be able to build walls or other limits to protect ourselves from it. We have been founded in injustice and racism and bigotry, and we are responsible for most of the suffering and misery in the world! And therefore we deserve to see what we have caused, and we owe it to these people to be admitted into our country! Whether or not it helps the United States is not even a factor to the open borders crowd.<\/p>\n
In fact, it\u2019s worse than that. If it will harm this country, then bring \u2019em in! Because that\u2019s what needs to happen. The United States still has not paid the price for all of the suffering and misery and racism and bigotry that was present at its founding. And so now what\u2019s the practical result of this? I have a story here from the Washington Times. Right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.<\/p>\n
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This would have never been permitted. It would have never happened during the salad days of legal immigration. And I hope this is something Trump mentions tonight as he defines and explains the crisis that is occurring at our southern border.<\/p>\n