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<\/p>\nRUSH: Here is Ben in Myersville, Maryland. Welcome, sir. You\u2019re next. It\u2019s your turn. Your big showbiz break. How are you?<\/p>\n
CALLER: (garbled) Good. Thank you, Rush. I just want to let you know I took one for the team last night and turned it to CNN immediately following the speech before the polls came out. What was priceless is watching CNN have to report that 76% of the country approved of his speech. But before that, the very first thing they started talking about, they got Van Jones saying that this was an incoherent rambling of cookies and dog poop.<\/p>\n
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Gloria whatever her name was said it was so divisive, of course. Then started saying what a low-energy speech it was. And he was not on his game. Very sloppy delivery. (garbled) Of all fellas, we get Rick Santorum up there (garbled) uh, the token straight, Caucasian, male Republican. He actually agreed with them that it was low-energy and this was not his best speech. Well, did they think he was gonna come out like he was at a Trump rally in a State of the Union Address? I mean, give me a break.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, that says interesting. They said it was low energy and Trump was off his game? I think all that is, is people who were shell-shocked, and they have to come up with some criticism. Remember what everybody here is doing. CNN is playing to the invisible Democrat base of Twitter people that are insane, who hate Trump, and so CNN has to give them knowledge. CNN has to convey, “Don\u2019t worry, we still hate Trump too.” The Democrats have to do the same thing although I don\u2019t think there\u2019s much difference in the Democrats and their base.<\/p>\n
But, believe me, everybody in that room last night, including on the Republican side (maybe not) — a lot of people — were shell-shocked over that speech. I mean, what\u2019s the big criticism we\u2019ve heard of Trump? “He\u2019s not presidential! He\u2019s too off the cuff! He\u2019s too gauche! He\u2019s too crude! He\u2019s just an absolute barbarian.” We had somebody last night that was… According to their own definition and their own requirements, we had somebody who was the epitome of presidential last night.<\/p>\n
They were shell-shocked by the content. They were shell-shocked that Trump appeared to be reaching across the aisle on some things. They were shell-shocked on every aspect. They know they had their lunch handed to \u2019em twice. They got tricked into applauding something that they actually don\u2019t support. I mean, you can\u2019t at the same time be eager for abortion to happen even after birth and then sit there and act like you\u2019re really in love with the idea of family leave where the mother bonds with the infant for six months paid for by the federal government to strengthen family values.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s… I mean, the Democrats like paid family leave, but he ran a massive, massive pivot on them there — and then point-blank saying that America will never be a socialist nation. And they all saw their instant polls. CNN, CBS, PMSNBC, they all had their instant polls. Seventy-two percent liked it. Seventy-seven percent liked it. Seventy-eight percent agreed with him on immigration. And look, folks, remember the first point I made today: The entire anti-Trump effort has been to get his approval numbers down to the point that his party would officially abandon him in Congress, in Washington.<\/p>\n
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All of this, the collusion story, the Russians, all of this has been designed to split you away from Trump, to isolate him, to have no public support, very low job approval numbers. He\u2019s still two points higher than Obama after the speech where Obama was at the same time, and he got these flash poll numbers last night that were off the charts positive. Their primary objective at which they have spent two straight years 24\/7, every day there have been multiple stories, 92% negative media coverage, and here\u2019s the guy, he\u2019s beat them. They\u2019ve thrown everything they\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n
Everything in their arsenal that destroys Republicans in the past they\u2019ve used. Not a one of them has worked on Trump. And I\u2019m telling you they are beside themselves at their inability — the media too. The media, it never takes \u2019em two years to destroy somebody once they target the person. But they can\u2019t even make a dent. And I\u2019m telling you, all of these things are driving them crazy. And for all these people, “He\u2019s trolling himself.\u201d They know full well what happened last night, and they\u2019re scared to death.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: One more audio sound bite. It is a montage we put together to illustrate the abject, poisonous hatred for Donald Trump throughout the mainstream Drive-By Media. We have a montage here for you, less than a minute. Some of it was said before the speech. Some of it was said after the speech.<\/p>\n
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington; F. Chuck Todd, NBC; Van Jones, CNN; Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC; Scarborough, MSNBC; former CIA director John Brennan; Republican strategist Ana Navarro; PMS Joy Reid; John King of CNN; Nicolle Wallace, MSNBC, I don\u2019t know what happened to her. She used to be in the Bush White House. And former Senator Barbara Boxer from California, all commenting on Trump\u2019s State of the Union both before and after.<\/p>\n
ANDREA MITCHELL: He misstates the situation on Iran, misstates what the reality is about the INF treaty and Russia.<\/p>\n
CHUCK TODD: The phrase \u201ctheater of the absurd\u201d is running through my head.<\/p>\n
VAN JONES: A psychotically incoherent speech with cookies and dog poop.<\/p>\n
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: How can anyone see this as a good speech? How can anyone see this as unifying when he is spewing out lies to the American people?<\/p>\n
JOE SCARBOROUGH: The speech was just packed with lies.<\/p>\n
JOHN BRENNAN: Donald Trump raised to a new level the demagoguery, the hyperbole, the chauvinism.<\/p>\n
ANA NAVARRO: We already know this guy no matter how much kumbaya.<\/p>\n
JOY REID: It was so grandiose and over the top. It was brown scare.<\/p>\n
JOHN KING: Did not mention climate change in even a sentence is just frankly a disgrace.<\/p>\n
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NICOLLE WALLACE: Someone with absolutely no attachment to anything he says.<\/p>\n
BARBARA BOXER: Trump talking about unity is like Jack the Ripper talking about banning knives.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And there you have it, folks, your modern-day Drive-By Media and Democrat Party. That was Joy Reid, \u201cSo grandiose over the top. It was the brown scare.\u201d See?<\/p>\n
This is Ralph in New Athens, Illinois. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hello, Rush. You asked if President Trump looked presidential last night, and he looked like the same president since the beginning of the campaign. He\u2019s always been inclusive, not exclusive.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. I mean, he didn\u2019t do the Trump that you see in rallies, primarily because this was a telepromptered speech and the rallies, some of it\u2019s promptered, but most of it is improv. But this was — I mean, every word said last night was written and intended and rehearsed. Exactly what presidential does.<\/p>\n
CALLER: It was on the teleprompter, but he really believes it, you know, so it doesn\u2019t come across as telepromptered, where Obama, he —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — he was so —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait a minute. Just because it\u2019s on the prompter, I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s insincere. I get your point. He was totally sincere. Everything in that speech he meant, yeah. I think it\u2019s promptered because these are historical speeches and they\u2019re well thought out, they\u2019re rehearsed, they\u2019re written. Every word is where it is for a purpose, and they want it to go on record as such. Not that any of it is insincere, quite the opposite. It\u2019s to make sure that everything they think important they do get stated when they want to state it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: You were talking about Elizabeth Warren being phony with that TV ad. Trump is the only president who didn\u2019t wear blue jeans in Iowa. Now, he is who he is. And, you know, like it or don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know, that is an interesting point. He\u2019s talking about the recent spate of ads. Fauxcahontas was in one. Brooke Baldwin, CNN, one day, Trump was calling her Pocahontas all day. \u201cWhy does he keep calling her Pocahontas? I don\u2019t understand why he calls her \u2013” Because she\u2019s a fake Indian! She\u2019s faking it! You don\u2019t understand this? They have no sense of humor.<\/p>\n
Anyway, she\u2019s got a video here to make herself look like a real guy and tells her husband, “Hey, grab me a beer from the fridge, dude.” Grabs a beer, she opens it with her mouth, clamps the top of the bottle and so forth, trying to look real, wearing blue jeans and so forth. Trump is resplendent in coat and tie 95% of the time he is in public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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