{"id":301302,"date":"2019-02-27T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=301302"},"modified":"2019-02-28T15:59:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:59:26","slug":"democrats-run-great-risk-by-indulging-mrs-clintons-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/27\/democrats-run-great-risk-by-indulging-mrs-clintons-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Run Great Risk by Indulging Mrs. Clinton\u2019s Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, I\u2019ve made a big deal out of Cohen not alleging any crimes, and I don\u2019t want to be misunderstood here. There are two kinds of jeopardy going on here. There\u2019s political jeopardy which is what this is, and of course legal. What is happening here is that the Drive-By Media are getting to run headlines for almost a week claiming that Cohen was going to reveal Trump\u2019s illegal activities while in the White House, and that\u2019s what\u2019s gonna stick in the public\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n

So you had the week-long setup. And of course yesterday they were orgasming over what was happening today with Cohen showing up, and they set it up by saying that Cohen is going to pull back the shades and is going to unload on Trump\u2019s illegal activities. Well, he\u2019s not unloading on any Trump illegal activities. But in terms of the news consuming public, he is, because that\u2019s what they were told he was gonna do.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d venture to say that most people are not watching this. Trump has had such success in creating jobs that more Americans than ever before are working and they\u2019re not watching this stuff wall-to-wall like we are here. So the Drive-Bys have created this impression that what Cohen\u2019s saying today is revealing criminal activity or illegal activity, which is what the media and the Democrats are counting on. It\u2019s how they establish all their narratives as historical fact.<\/p>\n

An example of that would be this Charlottesville thing that all of a sudden has resurfaced now<\/a>, and it is continually being misrepresented and misreported. But Michael Cohen, paragon of virtue, he has such impeccable morality, he went out and hired Lanny Davis as his lawyer and his fixer who, among other things, is the right-hand man of the woman who actually did collude with the Russians, Hillary Clinton. Lanny Davis is the lawyer for Michael Cohen. He\u2019s the right-hand man of the woman who has lied repeatedly about her email server and her classified doc — and her health care program and anything else.<\/p>\n

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She has cheated on her taxes, a woman who has actually done all the things that Trump is being falsely accused of today! She has done them! She has colluded with Russia. She has colluded with Russian agents. She has been exonerated of criminal crimes. The collusion they\u2019re talking about here, for example, between Trump and the National Enquirer pales in comparison to the ongoing collusion between the Democrat Party at large and the entirety of the American Media. And the only collusion they can nail Trump on is the National Enquirer? And what does it involve?<\/p>\n

All of these allegations about Trump in the National Enquirer involve trying to make sure that embarrassing stories about yourself are not published. Hey. I got a hint for you. Everybody in the world tries to do that. If you get a heads-up that some negative story on you is coming, I guarantee you, if you have the ability and if you have the contacts you\u2019ll do what you can to limit the damage. It\u2019s what everybody does. The Democrats are the king of that as well.<\/p>\n

One little brief example. It\u2019s the 2004 presidential campaign, CBS News is interviewing John Kerry, who served in Vietnam. They asked him a question in the interview that he botched so badly, it was so embarrassing, I don\u2019t know the specifics, that they gave him a do-over. The reporter for CBS said, “Sir, do you want to try that again? That really didn\u2019t make much sense.” So they gave him a do-over. Had it been a Republican, they would have run it as it went to tape and as embarrassing as it was.<\/p>\n

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The idea that there is something suspicious about Donald Trump trying to limit bad news coverage and that this makes him a sinister guy? It makes him the epitome of normal. Everybody and their uncle who thinks they\u2019re about to be smeared would like to be able to stop it. Look at how Ted Kennedy succeeded in the Mary Jo Kopechne business. Look at collusion between the Kennedy family and the media back then. And then the conversion of Ted Kennedy into most heroic, impeccable Democrat alive, the lion of the Senate.<\/p>\n

So all of these things that Trump is accused of doing here by Cohen are not illegal. But again, they don\u2019t have to be based upon much of the news-consuming public. But, on the other hand, we sometimes assume on our side that the Democrats never fail and that media never fails once they target somebody or something, that they always succeed. We never factor in — in fact, there\u2019s a new poll out today that the media is now sitting at the bottom of the barrel in terms of industries the American people respect. And so we sit here with the idea that whatever happens here, everybody\u2019s gonna believe it and Trump\u2019s gonna be in big, big trouble. And yet that\u2019s not true, either.<\/p>\n

Now, I think it is so apparent — if you\u2019re an average American, let\u2019s try to look at this, lets you and I, let\u2019s take ourselves out of the circumstances that we exist in every day. I\u2019m immersed in this. I love it. It\u2019s my job, man, it\u2019s my hobby, it\u2019s everything. You are too. You\u2019re here every day. You listen a long time here every day. So you are among the select few in this country that are supremely informed. And, as such, your opinions that you have of all this are understandably informed. But most people don\u2019t have the time. Most people don\u2019t watch the news 24\/7. Most people are really busy.<\/p>\n

Now, wait. I\u2019m leading up to a question I have for you. Most people — and I\u2019m not saying you\u2019re not busy, but you\u2019ve made a decision, this stuff fascinates you, you\u2019re here each and every day from — we know how long you listen. We\u2019ve got the numbers. It\u2019s incredible, by the way. There\u2019s not a program out there that has longer time spent listening numbers than this one. At any rate, a lot of people, their day is hustle and bustle. It\u2019s got many elements to it, getting up, getting ready for work, kids off to school, go to work, maybe two jobs, who knows what. And you catch a little news here and there.<\/p>\n

You might stream a little on your phone. You might catch some in the car driving around. You get home, turn on some network, whatever you watch. But you don\u2019t get a steady diet of it. And my question is, if that describes you for the past two years — and let\u2019s throw in that you\u2019re not, I want you to imagine that you\u2019re not a committed ideologue. You\u2019re not a committed liberal or conservative. You don\u2019t get into any of that.<\/p>\n

You just live your life and you watch the news and you have your opinion of Republicans and Democrats and so forth. But over the last two years, whenever you watch any news, whenever it is, if it\u2019s five minutes here, 10 minutes there, a half hour there, whenever it is, the odds are you are going to be inundated with hatred for Donald Trump found in the mainstream media. You\u2019re gonna find an anchor, you\u2019re gonna find a panel, you\u2019re gonna find a guest, and they\u2019re gonna be creaming Donald Trump, ripping Trump one side up and down the wall.<\/p>\n

If you read newspapers, if you read the internet, if you read published news, same thing. The odds are you\u2019re going to run into a never-ending diatribe against Donald Trump that is filled with never-ending criticism — some people might even think it hate. My question you to you is, if that profile, if you can imagine yourself in that profile or imagine others in it, how does this affect them?<\/p>\n

Do they become persuaded that Trump is a reprobate? Do they become persuaded that Trump shouldn\u2019t be president, that the media\u2019s right, that Trump\u2019s a reprobate and he\u2019s a liar and he\u2019s a cheat and this and that. Or do some of them say, “Is there nothing else you people can talk about?” How many of them are getting fatigue over the media being singularly focused on criticizing Donald Trump?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve never had a sitting president the object of this much negative coverage. It\u2019s been close. But no sitting president has ever had 92% negative coverage every day 24\/7 for over two years. What do you think the perception of this by casual news consumers is? Are they persuaded by it? Or do they get suspicious of it? Or does it make them even more curious about Trump? “Man, this guy must be something.”<\/p>\n

Now, I know most of you think instinctively that it\u2019s gotta hurt. This never-ending repetition, criminal testimony, this or that, Trump colluding, stealing the election, it\u2019s gotta have some impact, right? What is the real impact of this? Because I believe that they\u2019re gonna overdo this, these congressional committees with their singular focus of trying to portray Trump as a reprobate criminal that has gotta be impeached.<\/p>\n

Then we\u2019re gonna have the presidential campaign on the Democrat side, which is gonna have 16 to 20 of these people trying to out-hate Trump and to out-extreme left-wing each other to the point that it\u2019s gonna become self-destructive. I think they\u2019re already down on that path.<\/p>\n

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By the way, did you see that Crazy Bernie will not release his tax returns? Have you seen why? He tweeted: Well, I don\u2019t have an accountant. My wife handles that stuff and I can\u2019t produce it any time soon. Crazy Bernie: I don\u2019t have an accountant. See? He\u2019s just an average regular guy, doesn\u2019t have an accountant, three homes, a bunch of millions of dollars in various investment accounts, but he doesn\u2019t have an accountant. So his wife does that stuff and she\u2019s off running scams on buildings so I don\u2019t know when we\u2019re gonna be able to get my tax returns out.<\/p>\n

After spending the last two years claiming Trump is a full-fledged criminal for not releasing his tax returns, Crazy Bernie won\u2019t release his. Now, I think the Democrats are running a great risk of having this all backfire. It may be some wishful thinking in there, I will admit, but there\u2019s also serious observation. We\u2019ve never seen this kind of focus. On the surface it\u2019s irrational to listen to these people in the media every day explain their hatred for Donald Trump, it\u2019s completely irrational.<\/p>\n

I realize there\u2019s a lot of irrationality on the left. I\u2019m not talking about committed leftists and committed Democrats. I\u2019m talking about noncommitted, nonideological, occasional consumers of news and what your thoughts on how all this affects them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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