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<\/p>\nRUSH: You know, this is just despicable. This is… I don\u2019t know what to do about it, other than call it out. CNN right now, I\u2019m gonna read to you what\u2019s on their screen. “West Wing Chaos.” “Trump Aides Defend his Mental Fitness and Deny He Is a Racist.” “Trump Goes on Tweet Binge Full of Insults, Attacks, TV Criticism.” Yeah, Trump is busy trying to defend the blasphemy and the slander and the libel that emanates from the Democrat Party and the media on a daily basis, multiple times a day. He fights back against it all.<\/p>\n
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So now they\u2019re actually discussing and have been for a while on CNN: “Trump Aides Defend His Mental Fitness and Deny He Is a Racist.” Now, I\u2019m sorry to tell you, that isn\u2019t news. That is the establishment of a narrative. A, it\u2019s the establishment of a conclusion. So you conclude, if you\u2019re CNN, that Trump is losing his mind. Then you call the White House. “Uh, is the president losing his mind? Uh, he\u2019s sounding awfully racist in some of these tweets.” Of course the response is, “What do you mean? The president is not losing his mind.”<\/p>\n
“White House in Chaos! Defends Trump\u2019s Mental Fitness and Deny He\u2019s a Racist!” This… I don\u2019t know how to characterize this. This is despicable. They can\u2019t figure out why Fox News in cable news is running circles around them — even though they\u2019re livid about it, and doing their level best to try to destroy Fox. Not in the arena of competition, but in other ways. They\u2019re seriously trying to attack and destroy the credibility of practically everybody that works there. You know something else? You know something else that does not happen?<\/p>\n
How many liberal Democrats as consultants and analysts has Fox hired? How many liberal Democrats are on that network every damn day and night? And does any of them, do any of them ever stand up and defend the network against these kind of charges? They do not. Not that I have ever seen. I even told Susan Estrich once, “How can you sit by…? This is the place that hires you. This is the place that hires you to tell the world what you think. You\u2019ve got far more access to people\/audience on Fox than you ever had on CNN.<\/p>\n
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“Your party routinely attacks Fox where you are, and you never stand up and defend them. Yet they hired you, and you\u2019re a liberal Democrat. You\u2019re much more than that! You\u2019ve run Democrat presidential campaigns.” (interruption) What did she say? “Well, da ba-da…” It was an email back and forth. I wasn\u2019t talking to her, so she didn\u2019t say much. But you can\u2019t find one. Fox has hired whole bunch of liberal Democrats. In fact, they just announced today that they\u2019ve hired Donna Brazile. I think I saw that. You know, today I\u2019m in overload.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve got more stuff coming at me today… I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s a 2-year-old piece or if it happened today, but I think it\u2019s today. I\u2019m sorry to have to offer the caveat. But nobody but me has access to my incoming email. There\u2019s nobody filtering it, and when it starts… Starting at about 11:30, you would not believe the stuff that starts flowing in here. And it goes… (interruption) Okay, good. And it goes on throughout the show. I get the equivalent of two shows of show prep during the program, and it\u2019s exciting, and it\u2019s thrilling.<\/p>\n
But, man, it\u2019s tough to keep it all organized. (interruption) Okay. So I did see what I saw. Fox News has hired Donna Brazile, after Donna Brazile was funneling debate questions or town hall questions or whatever to Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign of 2016. But my point is… I mean, this is just insidious. “Trump Goes on Rambling Tweet Binge While Running the Country.” What the hell does that mean? You people don\u2019t let up! You people on CNN, 24\/7 is nothing more than a permanent attack on the guy! And he\u2019s not gonna sit here and let it go unanswered. We\u2019ve known about this aspect of Trump ever since the presidential campaign began in 2015.<\/p>\n
(interruption) I thought it was a rehire. I thought Brazile had previously worked at Fox. It is a rehire. So CNN has just manufactured something out of nothing! Where is the chaos? Where is the chaos in the White House? Where has there ever been any evidence that Trump is a racist? Where has there ever been any evidence that Trump is mentally ill? There is no evidence for any of this, and yet now they\u2019ve got “experts” on the air discussing Trump\u2019s mental fitness and whether or not he\u2019s really a white supremacist along with being a racist. It is. It is stunning that Trump\u2019s approval numbers are what they are given this never-ending daily barrage, and he remains at over 90% approval in the Republican Party.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, I was gonna do Beto next \u2019cause I\u2019ve got… (laughing) I was going through the headlines of the Beto stories with Mr. Snerdley before the program today, and they are a laugh riot. But there are other things, given what CNN is doing here, and I want to touch on them because they have to do with Trump\u2019s popularity and his reelection chances that are looking good, and it is one of the reasons I think the left is ramping this stuff up. Because if the truth be known, it\u2019s the left that\u2019s in chaos, and it is the left that is fit to be tied, and it\u2019s the left that is deranged, and it is the left that has become irrational — and I\u2019ll tell you exactly why.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s because they have failed to do any real harm or damage to Donald Trump, much less take him out. Now, I know I\u2019ve said this a number of times. But I\u2019m gonna say it one more time from the point of view that you have to understand how this affects their daily existence. In the minds of everybody that works at the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN — take your pick of any liberal news outlet — they have the power at their fingertips to destroy anybody they want. They have done it over and over again, and they believe they can do it whenever they want to do it.<\/p>\n
They usually train these efforts on Republicans, and they have succeeded in taking out many Republicans. They have succeeded in doing eternal reputational damage to many Republicans and conservatives. For example, among people who do not listen to me, my reputation is… Well, I wouldn\u2019t say destroyed, but it\u2019s been so bastardized. You who listen to this program, the millions and millions of you who do, know full well that all these assaults and attacks are lies. But the people that have never listened here who nevertheless know of me by way of media coverage… This how they do it.<\/p>\n
They never engage me on my ideas. They never attempt to debate me on my ideas or to cast doubts. They mischaracterize what I think. They impugn character and reputation among those they consider threats. Because, in truth, they are a minority, and the only way they can win is to bully and intimidate people into silence or inaction. Well, they\u2019ve thrown everything they have at Donald Trump, and it hasn\u2019t worked. Well, I can\u2019t say it hasn\u2019t worked. I think if Trump had been the recipient of even normal media coverage, that his approval numbers would handily be over 50%. He\u2019d be at 55%.<\/p>\n
The Mueller investigation has done great damage even though not legally. It has permitted this never-ending, ongoing, two-year assault on Donald Trump as a cheat, as a fraud, as a foreign agent. The fact that Trump\u2019s numbers remain as high as they are is a testament to Trump — and imagine you\u2019re Trump. He just is not gonna sit there and take this stuff. So he fights back, and that immediately gives them the narrative that he\u2019s losing his mind. Because in their world, when they attack you, you\u2019re supposed to shut up like George W. Bush did. You\u2019re supposed to shut up and you\u2019re supposed to take it.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the rules of the game in Washington, D.C. If you\u2019re a Republican and the media and the left decide to come after you, you have to take it. You do not fight back against it. They\u2019ll get you even worse. Well, they\u2019re sitting there in utter, total frustration at not being able to get rid of Trump.<\/p>\n
And they had so much wrapped up in this Mueller report. They had everything wrapped up in it. They were convinced in their minds that Trump was going to be gone by now. And the fact that they\u2019re even having to consider Trump as the Republican nominee in 2020, it literally is driving them nuts. I think they\u2019re the ones in chaos. I think they\u2019re the ones losing their grip mentally. And I think CNN is a daily testament to the evidence of this.<\/p>\n
CNN is irrational, they\u2019ve lost their grip, they have no contact with reality in any way, shape, manner, or form because their sole reason for existing is to destroy another human being, and they have failed at it, and it\u2019s driving them crazy.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: And here\u2019s the CNN \u2013 I know some of you say, “Rush, we don\u2019t want to hear this.” You\u2019ve gotta hear this. I want you to hear this. Jim Acosta on CNN moments ago. Brianna Keilar, the infobabe: \u201cJim, what does it say that the top aides in the White House are defending the president\u2019s mental fitness and denying that he\u2019s a white supremacist?\u201d<\/p>\n
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ACOSTA: When I talk to White House officials privately, they will tell you, no, they don\u2019t believe the president is insane, they believe he\u2019s more crazy like a fox and that he sends out a lot of these tweets in an attempt to really dominate the news cycle, drive the narrative. And one thing that we saw over the weekend is there was a lot more discussion about General Motors, the way the president has responded to the terror attack in New Zealand, and not as much about the Russia investigation.<\/p>\n
And when you talk to White House officials, people who are close to the president privately, some of this is by design. He wants those tweets out there, he wants those distractions out there so we\u2019re spending our time talking about those sorts of things and not about the thing that really strikes fear in the hearts of people inside this administration, and that\u2019s the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, wait a minute, Jim. How in the world do you conclude this guy\u2019s insane if he\u2019s outsmarting you this way? You just admit that Trump is enabling news coverage of things you don\u2019t want to talk about. Trump is seeing to it that you\u2019re not talking about Mueller. He\u2019s seeing to it you\u2019re not talking about the Russia investigation.<\/p>\n
So you think the Russia investigation is all that ought to matter and Trump\u2019s not tweeting about it, so you go ask the White House if he\u2019s insane? This question, \u201cJim, what does it say that the top aides are defending the president\u2019s mental fitness and denying he\u2019s \u2013\u201d What it says is that you people are making a bunch of baseless allegations to create a false news narrative! Doesn\u2019t say anything else, pure and simple! And you\u2019re bombing out here, apparently, in your effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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