{"id":297524,"date":"2019-01-24T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=297524"},"modified":"2019-01-25T16:12:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:12:41","slug":"hang-in-there-mr-president-and-ignore-the-media-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/24\/hang-in-there-mr-president-and-ignore-the-media-narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Hang In There, Mr. President — And Ignore the Media Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Okay. So the news is the president folded, the president caved on the State of the Union. He backed down to Pelosi, who refuses to open up the chamber. You know, the Drive-Bys and their acolytes are always painting Trump as an autocrat, dictator, Hitler, despot. What do you call the woman who is dictating that the House Chamber not be used for an address to the nation by the president of the United States? And now the excuse is, “Well, it isn\u2019t any big deal. Nobody watches the State of the Union.”<\/p>\n

Well enough people watch it for the Democrats to always want to do a response to the damn thing. Pelosi does not want Trump getting a national forum. Pelosi does not want Trump having a national bully pulpit in the form of a State of the Union. I mean, she can\u2019t stop him from doing press conferences or rallies or any of that, but… She\u2019s losing this thing. This is what\u2019s hard to see about this, and the reason it\u2019s hard, folks (and I know some of you are gonna think I\u2019m nuts) is you cannot see what\u2019s literally going on on the Democrat side of things because the media is simply not gonna tell you.<\/p>\n

The AP has a story today which is Malpractice 101. It is a story about the near total unity on the Democrat side of the aisle. There isn\u2019t total unity, and each day there are more and more Democrats in the House who are starting to express misgivings about this. They\u2019re upset about two things. They don\u2019t like the fact that their speaker is intolerant of any view that is not hers. They don\u2019t like the idea that their party is acting in a way… It\u2019s not a lot of them, now, but they\u2019re there, and they\u2019re not being reported. You\u2019re not being told about them.<\/p>\n

They are concerned that their party is going to be seen as intransigent and uncooperative and denying the president of the United States a duly appointed, constitutional task — the State of the Union — and then also in the mix, they\u2019re worried about the issue. They\u2019re worried about immigration. They\u2019re worried about how it\u2019s gonna, in the long run, impact them — this intransigence on a wall, this lack of any desire to stop the massive flow of illegals across the border. We\u2019ve even got the Washington Post…<\/p>\n

Something\u2019s going on. The Washington Post is fact-checking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez again today, and they\u2019re giving her three or four “Pinocchios.”<\/a> In other words, they\u2019re calling her a just flat-out liar. This is the Jeff Bezos, Amazon newspaper. Oh, speaking of which, BuzzFeed has laid off or is laying off 15% of its staff. Did you see that? Do you know what…? I feel very bad about forgetting to mention this because I\u2019ve known it, and it just didn\u2019t occur to me. BuzzFeed\u2019s owned by NBC.<\/p>\n

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Comcast Universal owns BuzzFeed. They\u2019re a major investor in it, along with a venture capital outfit out in Silicon Valley, Andreessen Horowitz. They\u2019re owned and operated by a bunch of classic leftist socialists. But the interesting aspect about NBC owning BuzzFeed is that BuzzFeed… You have to look at it as NBC but without NBC in the name. So BuzzFeed being owned by NBC allows BuzzFeed to do what NBC wants without NBC\u2019s name on it, and then it allows NBC to double-dip by then reporting what BuzzFeed is saying, when BuzzFeed and NBC are basically the same thing.<\/p>\n

So BuzzFeed is the acknowledged radical left-wing extension of what NBC hopes to portray as the moderate, mainstream journalist, objective business — and they\u2019re all the same people. They are all the same mind-set. They\u2019re all the same objective. So it\u2019s not going well. BuzzFeed is laying off 15% of its workforce, which I think is… I\u2019ll double-check it here. I think it\u2019s a couple hundred people. Just like is happening in the newspaper print business throughout the country. But, anyway, my point here is that Trump just needs to continue hanging in. Let\u2019s go back to the audio sound bites January 16th on this program. This is what I said, just to remind you…<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: I\u2019m just gonna tell you, folks, if President Trump can hang in there — if he can hang in there and not go wobbly — he can win this. It\u2019s gonna be a few more weeks. There are gonna be a lot of risks. There are gonna be a lot of temptations to drop the ball and cave. I don\u2019t mean cave. There\u2019s gonna be a lot of temptation to make a deal. But he can win this if he just hangs in there.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, it\u2019s worth playing that again because it\u2019s gonna get tougher. It\u2019s gonna get harder. They\u2019re gonna throw bad poll numbers at him. They\u2019re gonna try to tell him he\u2019s losing his shirt on this, that he\u2019s putting at risk his reelection in 2020, but he\u2019s got to hang in there. They\u2019re also gonna push for something — and he\u2019s already made a deal. This is another thing that has some Democrats unhappy. Trump is seen as willing to talk to people. He\u2019s willing to negotiate.<\/p>\n

This is one of the objectives of the deal, by the way. I should tell you: Nobody in the White House thinks that this deal is gonna pass the Senate. It would need seven Democrats. There\u2019s only 53 Republicans in there. Need 60 votes. The point of proposing this was to show movement, was to show willingness, was to show the, uh, moderates and all the other so-called objectives of our politics that we\u2019re willing to talk, that we\u2019re willing to chat, that we\u2019re willing to cross the aisle, that we\u2019re willing to seek common ground, that we\u2019re willing to cooperate and show that government can work — all this happy horse malarkey.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s designed to show the Democrats are the ones that are not willing to talk, not willing to negotiate — and it\u2019s doing that! You just don\u2019t see it because the media doesn\u2019t report it! Just like the media lied through their teeth and are still trying to lie through their teeth about the Covington High School kids and Nathan Phillips. They\u2019re still lying about that. They\u2019re still trying to make the case that what we know, we don\u2019t really know. What we know is not true. The kids really are a bunch of creeps. They\u2019re racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes, hate Indians.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re still trying to make that case ever so subtly, using adjuncts like BuzzFeed rather than NBC saying it. By the same token, we\u2019re not seeing the friction and the fracturing on the Democrat side. But the deal is out there. We\u2019ll hold firm on the DACA kids and then we\u2019ll do the TPS arrangement. The Democrats are gonna come back with something like, “Well, how about a pathway to citizenship?” No, nothing can be added to this. There\u2019s no way this thing is gonna pass. It\u2019s not even its express purpose. I mean, even from the White House side.<\/p>\n

So right on schedule, exactly as predicted, the Drive-By Media is gleefully reporting that Trump is getting creamed in the polls, that his approval numbers are plummeting. There\u2019s even a Fox News poll out there. Let\u2019s see. What is it? The Fox News poll says that people are more upset with the shutdown than they are with illegal immigration. Sorry, folks. Not buying it. That\u2019s what they\u2019re saying. But it\u2019s all designed to put pressure on Trump. Here is a montage from yesterday and last night about the polling data. When this happens, my theory is this is when Trump is winning. When we get this predictable media montage focused on polling data showing how Trump is losing, it\u2019s because that\u2019s what they want. Polling data is being used to create a mind-set.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the example of it…<\/p>\n

ABBY PHILLIP: (whispering) New polls show the president may be on shaky ground.<\/p>\n

BRIANNA KEILAR: Recent polls show a majority Americans blame President Trump.<\/p>\n

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: New polls show he\u2019s bearing more of the blame. His approval rating going down.<\/p>\n

SUSAN PAGE: The president\u2019s taking it on the chin and polls consistently show him down.<\/p>\n

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Trump loves polls. How\u2019s he living with the fact he\u2019s down?<\/p>\n

GWENDA BLAIR: The polls are showing people don\u2019t want him to do this.<\/p>\n

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: His approval ratings are really taking a hit.<\/p>\n

KRISTEN SOLTIS ANDERSON: His job approval has slid.<\/p>\n

KAREN FINNEY: Each week he\u2019s hurting in the polls.<\/p>\n

SABRINA SIDDIQUI: A series of polls that show the majority of the public still blames President Trump.<\/p>\n

WOLF BLITZER: Look at the polls: Job approval number only 37%! That\u2019s pretty pitiful.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Uh, what poll is that? The poll I saw yesterday had Trump holding steady at 45%. I think it was Rasmussen I saw. Network morning shows today, a little preview of what\u2019s gonna happen, I think, if there is a cave on the shutdown. These are the network morning shows rejoicing in the breaking news of Trump caving on the State of the Union.<\/p>\n

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: (bouncy music) Good morning, America! Breaking overnight: President Trump backs down in that State of the Union show down.<\/p>\n

NORAH O\u2019DONNELL: (bouncy music) Breaking overnight: President Trump agrees to delay next week\u2019s State of the Union address after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says he won\u2019t be invited.<\/p>\n

HODA KOTB: (bouncy music) Breaking overnight: Trump folds!<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is a preview of what\u2019s gonna happen if there is any kind of an acquiescence on the shutdown — and we know Trump, and Trump doesn\u2019t cave. Trump repositions. We just have to wait and see what\u2019s going on here. Here. Here\u2019s Pelosi. She\u2019s also doing a victory lap. This morning in Washington while she was cogent. I mean, she had brain freezes and everything during this, but here\u2019s this.<\/p>\n