{"id":297130,"date":"2019-01-21T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=297130"},"modified":"2019-01-22T15:44:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:44:36","slug":"week-five-of-fake-the-news-narrative-that-im-running-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/21\/week-five-of-fake-the-news-narrative-that-im-running-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Week Five of the Fake News Narrative That I\u2019m Running the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I mentioned that we are now into Week 5 of the narrative that I — in a golf shirt in Florida — am running the country<\/a>. A media montage. Let me tell you who the participants in this one are. This is from over the past weekend. We have Pencil Neck, Adam Schiff, out there; the Washington Post columnist Max Boot; Joy Reid, PMSNBC; former congressman Brad Miller, Democrat, North Carolina.<\/p>\n

A journalist from NBC, Ron Allen; former senator Bob Kerrey; Chris Matthews; Democrat Steve Cohen, congressman, Tennessee; Democrat strategist Keith Boykin; former congressional Democrat press secretary Rochelle Ritchie; former Bernie Sanders campaign communications director Symone Sanders; David Corn from Mother Jones; and NY1 has a guy.<\/p>\n

\"\"Here is that montage…<\/p>\n

ADAM SCHIFF: The emergency is that he was criticized by Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

MAX BOOT: The president is basically the hostage of his base. He is listening to Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

JOY REID: He\u2019s so afraid of Rush Limbaugh that he feels paralyzed and can\u2019t act.<\/p>\n

BRAD MILLER: It appears that Trump cannot give on anything or he will lose Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

RON ALLEN: When Rush Limbaugh said that he was going to pay a political price, he turned around and said no.<\/p>\n

BOB KERREY: The burden really is on the president. Are you willing to reach an agreement that Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh aren\u2019t going to like?<\/p>\n

CHRIS MATTHEWS: He\u2019s facing a two-front war; he\u2019s got Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter coming at him from one side; Pelosi from the other.<\/p>\n

STEVE COHEN: He agreed to it until Rush Limbaugh told him it was wrong.<\/p>\n

KEITH BOYKIN: Trump got pressure and pushback from Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

ROCHELLE RITCHIE: The only reason that Trump flip-flopped on this entire thing is because of Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (big sigh) Sigh.<\/p>\n

SYMONE SANDERS: Rush Limbaugh made a stink.<\/p>\n

DAVID CORN: …Ann Coulter and Rush Limbow (sic). They will crucify him!<\/p>\n

BOB HARDT: He\u2019s very worried that Rush Limbaugh and others are ready to say, “We are not with you in 2020.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, see, here again, fake news. Now, if I were like most hosts, I would be milking this and I would be trying to make it look like these guys are right, that Trump doesn\u2019t do a thing without consulting me first. But this is so obviously BS. Now, for those of you who aren\u2019t aware, I\u2019m gonna tell you what happened here just so you will know how everybody here is knowingly — and that\u2019s the key. They know they\u2019re lying to everybody about this. This is all about impugning Trump\u2019s base, not just me.<\/p>\n

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What happened was I\u2019m sitting here minding my own business and I hear that Trump is about ready to sign a continuing resolution to keep the government open that did not have any money for the wall in it. Well, it turned out that wasn\u2019t true. But that\u2019s what I was hearing, what I had been told. So I\u2019m talking about it right here on the radio, the real radio. As a real role radio announcer, I was talking about it. I\u2019m expressing shock and dismay, and I\u2019m thinking, “This can\u2019t happen. This is just … This can\u2019t happen.”<\/p>\n

Well, in the middle of this — literally while I\u2019m speaking — my phone has an alert go off and it is a message from somebody who is with the president, and the message is: “This isn\u2019t true. The president isn\u2019t going to sign the continuing resolution that doesn\u2019t have money for the wall in it.” So the message to me was: Whatever you\u2019re hearing is not true. Now, the media is portraying this as the exact opposite, and they keep creating montages based on it this way.<\/p>\n

What the media is saying is that Trump was in the process of signing it, and then I started complaining about it on the radio, and somebody ran into the Oval Office and warned Trump that I was really unhappy and was really being critical, and Trump stopped and changed his mind and decided not to sign it. That\u2019s what they want you to think happened! As I say, most hosts would gladly promote that narrative to try to make their audiences think that they are eminently powerful.<\/p>\n

I do not have to make you think that.<\/p>\n

You already know it.<\/p>\n

So I can tell you with great certitude and security that the story they have out there — and this is Week 5 of this now! The truth is, Trump was never gonna sign it. He was not in the process of signing it, and I got a note during this supposed signing ceremony (or the period of time where he would sign it) that he had changed his mind because of me. So this is what the note said: “You\u2019ve got it wrong. He\u2019s not gonna sign it. Whoever\u2019s telling you, rest assured,” and it was somebody with direct access to the president.<\/p>\n

\"\"It was not him. So I mentioned after the next commercial break, “Ladies and gentlemen, I just heard. I just got a message, just got a flash note here assuring me from somebody with the president that he\u2019s not gonna sign it.” Well, the media heard that, and they put two and two together — knowingly that they didn\u2019t have two and two — and they\u2019ve now run with it for five weeks, that Trump was gonna sign it and didn\u2019t. When the truth is, he wasn\u2019t going to sign it.<\/p>\n

Now, this is another glowing, glaring example of how the media is literally makes it up and lies to people and all of their analysts. It doesn\u2019t matter what network you go to — CNN, MSNBC, and whatever guests they have or whatever analysts — they\u2019re all promoting this. And, of course, the real purpose of this is to make Trump look like a dodo, like he has no idea what he\u2019s doing, like he can\u2019t do anything without being told what to do.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just a variation on the spin of how you\u2019ve always been treated from the days this program began. You are a bunch of mind-numbed robots, cannot make up your minds about anything, don\u2019t know what to think, don\u2019t know how to vote until I give you instructions and orders. Now they\u2019re simply saying that Trump is among the crowd that, on their own, is incapable of independent thought \u2019cause they don\u2019t have any intelligence, can\u2019t do anything without me.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s also a way of focusing people that don\u2019t listen to this program on me as the real obstacle to whatever it is that the left wants to happen here, because I obviously am a very good fundraiser for them. Now, Sarah Sanders, the press secretary at the White House, late Friday afternoon, was interviewed by a reporter who asked her about all this. Here\u2019s the sound bite of this…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

PRESS POOL: (all shouting at once)<\/p>\n

REPORTER: It looked like he might compromise on the budget and sign a CR originally — and then, of course, we\u2019ve heard from Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. Why is he not willing to go back to where he was in the beginning, or is he?<\/p>\n

SANDERS: The president\u2019s laid out what he wants. We sent a detailed letter from the Office of Management and Budget to Congress, and we had a number of discussions discussing what we\u2019re looking for. We haven\u2019t backed down from that. We haven\u2019t changed our position on it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So she essentially denies that Trump flip-flopped, and he didn\u2019t flip-flop. He was never gonna sign it. But you hear this stupid reporter. I don\u2019t know who it is. It\u2019s not identified. (impression) The president signaled “he might compromise on the budget and sign a CR originally — and then, of course, we\u2019ve heard from Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. Why is he not willing to go back to where he was…?”<\/p>\n

He never left it! He was never gonna sign it! Now we move on to CNN and Little Brian Stelter who — bless his heart — is still trying, still holding out hope that BuzzFeed got it right that Trump told Cohen to lie. Poor Little Brian. He all morning has just been holding out hope that it could still be true. This is Saturday, CNN\u2019s Newsroom. The anchorette infobabe was Ana Cabrera, and they had a little exchange — and, of course, it was about me…<\/p>\n

CABRERA: We saw the outrage from people like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, and the president changed his mind, saying, “No, I need the money for the wall.”<\/p>\n

\"\"STELTER: Those right-wing hosts who were pushing the president to deliver a wall in December? They haven\u2019t really given the president a way out of this situation now! They really have provided a lot of ideas or proposed solutions.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How do you know, Brian? How do you know what I\u2019ve advised the president and what I haven\u2019t? How do you know I haven\u2019t given him a way out of this? How do you know I haven\u2019t told him what I think he ought to do? Just because what you want hasn\u2019t happened, you\u2019re assuming that I don\u2019t have a way out of this for Trump? What if I don\u2019t think Trump needs a way out of this? What if I think Pelosi and Chuck need a way out of this?<\/p>\n

What if I think the Democrat Party and the media need a way out of this? What if I don\u2019t think Trump needs to do anything? But, Brian, how do you know what I\u2019ve told Trump and what I haven\u2019t? Brian, do you know the last time I spoke to the president? Do you know what we said the last time we spoke, Brian? Do you know where it was when we were speaking? Was I wearing a golf shirt or not the last time I spoke to him? I have not given the president a way out of the situation?<\/p>\n

What a claim!<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s Ana Cabrera. She really believed this. The president changed his mind! He was all ready to sign this until… It\u2019s 180-degrees wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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