{"id":296325,"date":"2019-01-11T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=296325"},"modified":"2019-01-14T15:38:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T20:38:01","slug":"trumps-winning-the-shutdown-bigly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/11\/trumps-winning-the-shutdown-bigly\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Beating Chuck and Nancy Big Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Do any of you have the sense that President Trump is winning this shutdown battle with Chuck and Nancy? I do. I have the sense that he\u2019s winning this thing big time. By winning it big time I\u2019m talking about with the American people. And I think Chuck and Nancy and the Democrats are beginning to look the way we see them to a lot of people.<\/p>\n

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And in fact there are some Democrats now — there\u2019s a break in the Democrat wall around their party. There are five or six Democrats, elected Democrats in Washington who are now publicly expressing their thinking that we need fencing here, maybe a wall here, not the whole border, but there\u2019s some breakdown here. You know, the Democrats won the House in 2016, but a lot of Democrats won in districts where Trump was elected. And those Democrats I think are hearing from their constituents on this.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s another interesting facet about this. There is some history taking place here. This manufactured crisis, and, by the way, I love Trump on this. Trump says, you know, everybody\u2019s looking for collusion. Well, look no further than the collusion between the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party on this whole business of this crisis being manufactured. And we have pointed out the collusion between the Drive-By Media and the Democrats with different montages illustrating this over the years starting with the now-famous gravitas montage.<\/p>\n

And now there\u2019s a montage put together of all of these media people \u2013 well, first all the Democrats calling this a manufactured crisis followed by another montage with media people echoing it and Trump correctly points out that this is collusion. The media and the Democrats working together, as you know, I believe that it\u2019s the media that\u2019s actually leading all of this, running inference for the Democrats. And I don\u2019t think there needs to be any coordination. These people are on the same page. There\u2019s no memo needed. There\u2019s no instruction manual needed for how they\u2019re gonna act every day. It\u2019s something that occurs naturally to them.<\/p>\n

And it remains the media montage of the day, despite that it\u2019s been nuked, despite that it has been blown to smithereens, despite that everybody has performed the public of the collusion here, it remains the media mantra of the day. And that\u2019s really odd when you think about it, because the Democrats, everything else is a crisis! The Democrat Party has turned politics into an ongoing series of crises.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter, whatever is on their agenda is a crisis. Food stamps, crisis. Health care, crisis. Climate change, crisis. Whatever it is they want is a crisis, except this is not a crisis. In every other issue the Democrats have told us how many people are gonna die if Republicans do X. From opposing Obamacare to enacting tax cuts. The Democrats even had a figure, 10,000 people are gonna die if we cut taxes. But there is no crisis with the open border, and there is no concern over the number of people dying.<\/p>\n

The Democrats have expressly abandoned their modern modus operandi. And it\u2019s kind of funny, they are in the process of still trying to convince everybody of a manufactured crisis at the border, the same people who have been trying to convince us for decades that climate change is the biggest and most urgent crisis the world has ever faced. They\u2019ve never wavered. They continue to pound that. They amplify it. They intensify it. Climate change, big crisis, X-numbers of millions of people will die.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, people are dying. People are being victimized by crime because of our situation at the border. And the left is mocking that. They\u2019re making fun of that! They\u2019re making fun of expressions of concern for victims of violent crimes committed by people here illegally, some who are members of gangs. As if the president is some kind of uptight fool who\u2019s out of touch.<\/p>\n

I mean, this is really bad for them, folks. This is a glaring example of how literally out of touch they are with the people who make this country work. And how about all of the hand-wringing over these poor federal workers are gonna miss a paycheck. Oh, my God. Meanwhile, how many people missed paychecks and lost jobs during the eight years of the Obama administration and you couldn\u2019t find a single syllable of concern from the Democrat Party!<\/p>\n

The hypocrisy is raging here. I\u2019ve never seen anything like this. It\u2019s deranged. We have an ongoing problem that results in rapes and murders, illegal drugs, human trafficking. The president, who wants to fix the problem and help innocent people, is being mocked, laughed at, made fun of, and ridiculed and stonewalled by the Democrats. This is what unhinged looks like.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 I\u2019m gonna kick off Open Line Friday with an email question.\u00a0 “Dear Mr. Limbaugh:\u00a0 Have you noticed that there has been very little polling — almost no polling — since Trump\u2019s Oval Office address to the nation earlier this week?\u00a0 And there was none of the usual stuff they do for presidential speeches.\u00a0 There was no ‘snap poll\u2019 on CNN or any other network right after the speech.\u00a0 There was no online quickie, ‘What do you think?\u2019 poll anywhere.<\/p>\n

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“There has been no polling data that we could find anywhere following Trump\u2019s speech.\u00a0 There weren\u2019t any Frank Luntz focus groups with any undecideds out there.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t gather any Trump voters in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, and ask them if they\u2019re still behind Trump.\u00a0 The media didn\u2019t do any of the stuff they usually do.\u00a0 We have no idea what the valued and very wise independents thought of Trump\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n

“Usually, Mr. Limbaugh, we get a flood of polls. We get a flood of reactions and focus groups here. The internet and Twitter are filled with polling data, focus group data after an Oval Office address like this. But not this time.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Why, Mr. Limbaugh, has there been literally no reporting of any public reaction to Trump\u2019s speech on Monday night?” Doesn\u2019t the question kind of answer itself, folks?\u00a0 Well, the short answer is it\u2019s because they… I\u2019m sure they did do a couple of polls.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure they did, in a flash way, sample public opinion.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t get the negative reaction to Trump they hoped for. But there\u2019s more.\u00a0 Hang on.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 So the first Open Line Friday call today is actually an email. “Mr. Limbaugh, why no polling data?\u00a0 Why no focus groups?\u00a0 Why no flash polls on the internet?\u00a0 Why not a single report of any public reaction to President Trump\u2019s Oval Office address on Tuesday night?”\u00a0 Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites.\u00a0 This is Brad Parscale.\u00a0 He is the Trump reelection campaign manager.\u00a0 He was on the Fox News Channel last night.\u00a0 Question:\u00a0 “You said that according to your internal polls, the president has the highest numbers you\u2019ve ever seen him at.”<\/p>\n

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PARSCALE:\u00a0 We\u2019ve been monitoring him over the entire two-year period and prior to that. But we kind of started it over when he became president and he got into office. And watching the data, you know, I started to see this rise as he started making this fight.\u00a0 And I\u2019m not surprised by it.\u00a0 Because if you go back and you look… You look at the people that are kind of these swing voters, these people who possibly not like him for personality or different reasons, the No. 1 reason they will vote for him is because of his stance on border security.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Bingo.\u00a0 So here you have the Trump campaign manager saying that their data, their internal data — and it makes no sense for them to lie to themselves. Internal polling data campaign to campaign, candidate to candidate, politician to politician, that\u2019s the one result they don\u2019t lie to themselves about.\u00a0 They have to take that seriously.\u00a0 It\u2019s theirs.\u00a0 And their internal data shows Trump\u2019s at his highest level since this fight began.\u00a0 It makes perfect sense why the Drive-By Media would not be reporting a single public opinion reaction to Trump\u2019s Oval Office speech or even on the subject…<\/p>\n

The public polling data that we do have is 93% of the American people think it\u2019s a major problem; 70% of the people support a national emergency declaration to solve this.\u00a0 And I want to go back. Grab sound bite No. 4.\u00a0 I want to go back to the day that basically sets the Drive-By Media off on their three-week narrative that I am president.\u00a0 It was December 19th.\u00a0 Let me see… The 19th? (muttering) Was that the last day I was here, the 20th? No.\u00a0 It was the middle of the week.\u00a0 It was close to the last day that we were here for the year, December 19th<\/a>, and that was the day that I advised the president to walk away from the continuing resolution deal and go ahead and let the government shutdown.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE:\u00a0 I think the president ought to veto this. This is why he got elected. This is why people stick with him. This is why his support base has not abandoned him during this full-frontal effort of the Democrats and the media to destroy him. They\u2019ve hung with him because of this. This issue predated Trump. The American people have been telling Washington for 25 years they don\u2019t want this, and the American people have continued to triumph. Washington continues to try to thwart the will of the people on this. Finally, the people elected somebody who actually said he meant what he was talking about regarding this, and they have stuck with him. The president should veto this thing, tell \u2019em he\u2019s not signing it, and leave for Mar-a-Lago today. He\u2019s not supposed to leave until the 21st. Somebody in the White House tell him I\u2019ll meet him on the first tee tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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RUSH:\u00a0 Well, we all know what happened.\u00a0 It was shortly after that little brief monologue that I got a direct message, an instant message from somebody delivering to me a message from the president.\u00a0 “Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019m not signing this thing! I don\u2019t know who\u2019s telling you what, but we\u2019re not signing this. We\u2019re not signing the continuing resolution.\u00a0 I\u2019m gonna veto this.”\u00a0 I then shared those exact words, that exact story, and we were off — and we\u2019re still in it.<\/p>\n

Three weeks of the Drive-By Media claiming that Trump was on the verge of signing it until I raised hell, and somebody walked into the Oval Office and said (sputtering), “Mr. President! Mr. President, Rush Limbaugh… You\u2019re gonna lose Rush Limbaugh! Don\u2019t do it! Don\u2019t do it, sir,” and Trump stopped.\u00a0 That\u2019s the story they told.\u00a0 You just heard it.\u00a0 Nobody ran in and told the president anything.\u00a0 The president sent somebody to tell me that I was worried about nothing.\u00a0 So let\u2019s see.\u00a0 Where are we?<\/p>\n

Here we go.\u00a0 Sound bite Nos. 6 and 7 to continue the theme here.\u00a0 This is yesterday afternoon.\u00a0 This is CNN International.\u00a0 This is CNN around the world on a program called Hala Gorani Tonight.\u00a0 That\u2019s somebody\u2019s name. It\u2019s not a holiday. It\u2019s Hala Gorani Tonight, and she had on with her senior media reporter Oliver Darcy about the government shutdown.\u00a0 Now, this is yesterday afternoon, but they went back all the way before Christmas to explain how I shut down the federal government.<\/p>\n

GORANI:\u00a0 Rush Limbaugh\u2019s a — one of the, uh, far-right radio hosts.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Looks like a lot of people\u2019s worst fears may be realized and that the president is getting ready to cave on getting any money from a wall in the current budget.<\/p>\n

GORANI:\u00a0 How much influence do these types of commentators actually have on the president?\u00a0 Can we measure it?<\/p>\n

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RUSH:\u00a0 “How much influence do these types of commentators have…?”\u00a0 What type of commentator am I?\u00a0 What are these types of commentators?\u00a0 That was Hala Gorani, and she\u2019s reporting or asking the senior media reporter, Oliver Darcy.\u00a0 Here was the answer to his question.\u00a0 Again, this is yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n

DARCY:\u00a0 We know for sure that they have influence!\u00a0 He received so much blowback in right-wing media from individuals like Rush Limbaugh that he ended up reversing his decision, and our reporting indicates that it was in large part due to his critics.\u00a0 I think the president is very smart.\u00a0 He knows that the people his supporters watch are the people that are on Fox News and the people that are on talk radio like Rush Limbaugh.\u00a0 And he knows that if they start criticizing him, he\u2019s gonna be in trouble with the base.\u00a0 If someone like Rush Limbaugh is saying that the president\u2019s not being tough on the wall, he\u2019s not delivering on his promises, that\u2019s when it gets dangerous for Trump.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0 People can\u2019t… You know, I tell you, folks, it\u2019s amazing how consistent these people are.\u00a0 In the early days of this program, you were the mind-numbed robots, incapable of independent thinking, unable to make up your own minds.\u00a0 You were nothing but a bunch of… Well, I was the Pied Piper, and you were the little animals running around and you didn\u2019t do anything until I told you to do it.\u00a0 So the presentation is always conservatives have no ability to think on their own.\u00a0 Every conservative is the result of evil influence from some savant.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s Trump.<\/p>\n

Trump is the idiot.\u00a0 Trump is the guy that has no mind of his own, Trump is the guy incapable of independent thought.\u00a0 Trump will only do what certain types of commentators tell him to do.\u00a0 You see, the theme here is that Republicans\/conservatives are idiots, incapable of proper independent thought and are the result of brainwashing or pied piperism or what have you.\u00a0 It\u2019s constant.\u00a0 I mean, it\u2019s been this way for 30 years, and I\u2019m here to tell you, Donald Trump doesn\u2019t need to be told by anybody what the right thing to do on the border is.<\/p>\n

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He\u2019s only the leader of the issue.\u00a0 He is only the guy — the one guy — that\u2019s taking any action on it that the American people want taken on it.\u00a0 They voted for countless numbers of politicians to do this and not a single one of them has, certainly not to the extent that Trump has.\u00a0 The idea that Trump is the product of being influenced by certain types of commentators is just another creation of the idea that Trump is a blithering idiot and doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing, doesn\u2019t really care about issues, doesn\u2019t really have a core.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s just subject… (impression) “He\u2019s afraaaaid !\u00a0 He\u2019s afraaaaid of Fox News.\u00a0 He\u2019s afraaaaid of losing his base.\u00a0 He\u2019s afraid of Matt Drudge, and so forth,” and it\u2019s just the exact opposite.\u00a0 It\u2019s more evidence that they have no idea who Trump is, and they have no idea how to deal with him.\u00a0 By the way, the panic is now skyrocketing out there when news hit that the Trump administration is making plans to move on from Ruth “Buzzi” Ginsburg.<\/p>\n

So the Ginsburg site\u2019s putting out news, “Hey, she\u2019s perfectly fine!\u00a0 The surgery that she just had says there\u2019s no remaining cancer, no further treatment will be needed.”\u00a0 You can interpret this any number of ways.\u00a0 But there\u2019s panic setting in on that.\u00a0 Of course, if you thought the Kavanaugh fight was something, it was Romper Room compared to what happens if one of these libs on the court resigns.\u00a0 One more little sound bite before the break.\u00a0 This is Mara Liasson last night on (impression) “NPR All Things Considered.”\u00a0 This is a bit of what she had to say.<\/p>\n

\"\"LIASSON:\u00a0 Almost every poll shows that while border security is broadly popular with voters, the wall — and shutting down the government to get a wall — is not, except among Trump\u2019s core supporters.\u00a0 And now that Trump is promising to act alone if necessary, he\u2019s getting praise from some of the same conservatives that previously attacked him for waffling on the wall.\u00a0 Over the weekend, Rush Limbaugh told his listeners that Trump has to do this all by himself.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE:\u00a0 It remains a one-man show.\u00a0 Donald Trump against the Democrat Party and the media!\u00a0 We are very fortunate the guy does not cave.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 There must have been a best-of show that played “over the weekend” that she heard because everybody knows this is not a weekend show. But she said that I said it “over the weekend,” and she\u2019s NPR.\u00a0 So they know.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Grab sound bite number 21. Changing gears. Lisa Murkowski. This is a lesson on what would be happening if we didn\u2019t have Donald Trump in the White House. Lisa Murkowski, Republican senator from Alaska, “We just want the shutdown to end. It\u2019s so terrible. So bad. We can do everything we need to do if we just end the shutdown.” This is what would have already happened. We can already chalk up a defeat were it not for Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

MURKOWSKI: We want border security. I want border security. I think that the president\u2019s request for a comprehensive view of how we address this is not something so unreasonable. Let\u2019s figure that out. Let\u2019s walk through it. Let\u2019s do a short-term CR to allow us to process this, but let\u2019s not keep the government shut down while we do this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There we go, so basically let\u2019s capitulate to the Democrats. The Democrats have said they will negotiate in good faith if we just reopen the government. So let\u2019s take them at their word and let\u2019s end the shutdown and let\u2019s have a discussion with them. There won\u2019t be any discussion, but this is what would have already happened, absent Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

This is on the floor of the Senate just earlier today. “We want border security. I want border security. I think the president\u2019s request for a comprehensive view is not so unreasonable. See? I think the president\u2019s reasonable. Let\u2019s figure that out. Let\u2019s walk through that. But let\u2019s do a short-term continuing resolution to allow us to process this. Let\u2019s do it after we reopen the government.\u201d And you can chalk up another big-time Republican defeat.<\/p>\n

Now, these next two sound bites are — I don\u2019t know what — amazing, penetrating, shocking, eye opening. Late yesterday afternoon in McAllen, Texas, while touring the border we have for you the audio of a portion of President Trump being briefed about the situation there by the Rio Grande Valley Sector acting chief Raul Ortiz. Rio Grande Valley Sector acting chief patrol agent — what a title — Rio Grande Valley Sector acting chief patrol agent Raul Ortiz, and he\u2019s briefing Trump on the circumstances.<\/p>\n