{"id":303999,"date":"2019-03-27T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=303999"},"modified":"2021-03-18T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:16:38","slug":"imagine-i-promised-you-something-for-two-years-and-didnt-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/27\/imagine-i-promised-you-something-for-two-years-and-didnt-deliver\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine I Promised You Something for Two Years and Didn\u2019t Deliver"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I really hope I\u2019m not interrupted here in my intended opening. It is multifaceted, and it continues to focus on the so-called investigation of Trump-Russia collusion.<\/p>\n

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Now, a lot of people have today, apparently, an interest in aspects of the media. There\u2019s a lot of attention on PMSNBC and CNN, such as, “What are they gonna do now?” Because the full source of 24\/7 programming is been yanked away from them: Trump-Russia collusion, two years of anticipation that Mueller was gonna find the goods on Trump and that he was gonna be summarily removed from office. What is fascinating is they can\u2019t give it up.<\/p>\n

They can\u2019t give it up, various members of Congress, and they can\u2019t give it up on MSNBC. I want to rephrase or restate something I said in the third hour of Monday\u2019s program<\/a>. I want to create a little hypothetical here, and I want you to imagine that for the past two years I have promised you multiple times a day that Hillary Clinton is being investigated, the Clinton Foundation is being investigated, that Bill Clinton is being investigated.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re being investigated not just for the private email server trafficking in classified documents but, in addition to that, the Uranium One deal is being looked at and the Clinton Foundation\u2019s pay-to-play. The secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, and her husband were actually accepting personal payments disguised as donations to their foundation in exchange for policy considerations while she was secretary of state and (as they all assumed) she would become president.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been telling you for the past two years there is an investigation happening. Nobody knows about it, but it\u2019s serious, and it\u2019s taking place, and it\u2019s only a matter of time before Mrs. Clinton is going to be found guilty. It\u2019s only a matter of time before the details of this are revealed. And I\u2019ve told you this every day multiple times a day for two years. And I\u2019ve embellished it with every imaginable detail. I have led you to believe — and you believe me, you trust me. And I\u2019m exploiting that, and I\u2019m using that.<\/p>\n

You believe me when I tell you these things, and I have led you to believe that for the first time in our lifetimes an actual series of Democrat criminals and crimes are going down, that I am assured constantly by multiple sources that it\u2019s only a matter of time. And this goes on for two years. And then one day… One day, it is announced that there hasn\u2019t even been an investigation of Mrs. Clinton because they did start one and found that she had done nothing wrong. What would you do after two years of me telling you that?<\/p>\n

You wanted to hear it. You want this woman locked up. You want this woman and her husband to be held accountable. They\u2019ve gotten away with so much, and I\u2019ve been telling you for two years (in our little hypothetical here) that it\u2019s finally happening. It\u2019s one of the secret projects that Donald Trump and his team are working on. And then one day it is revealed that there literally is nothing to it, that everything I\u2019ve told you is nothing more than a big, fat lie. And of course, during those two years, I would have told you that I have “multiple sources” assuring me.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t have named any. But I would have told you it wasn\u2019t just me. What would happen after something like that? You\u2019d be gone. You would want nothing more to do with me or this program, and you would be profoundly embarrassed. And you would be angry that you have been toyed with, that you have been used, that your emotions have been manipulated by me. You would never forgive me. You might even take it out on all of talk radio.<\/p>\n

You might just be so disgusted that you have been so lied to for so long, so confidently, that this would shake you to your core. Well, this is exactly what has happened. It\u2019s exactly what has happened on CNN. It is exactly what has happened on MSNBC. It is exactly what has happened on every comedy show on HBO. It\u2019s exactly what has happened on Saturday Night Live. It is exactly what has happened in the New York Times and the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

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Virtually every mainstream media outlet has lied multiple times a day to each of their audiences. They have manipulated their audiences emotionally. They have led their audiences to believe things that they did not know were true no matter what they believed. And unlike in my analogy, they brought on multiple sources to confirm that what they were telling their audiences was true and was going to happen. And the bottom line was that everything was gonna be made right because Donald Trump was “going down.”<\/p>\n

“The walls are closing in.” Trump\u2019s “back is up against the wall.” All of these phrases that they used all of these months. In some of these outlets\u2019 cases, it\u2019s been more than two years that they have been engaged in this. Why are their audiences still there? Well, everybody\u2019s focusing on Rachel Maddow. I have a theory for you as a highly trained broadcast specialist. Her ratings took a tumble last night, and they\u2019re gonna continue to. They lost 500,000 total viewers last night, and it\u2019s gonna continue the slide.<\/p>\n

CNN didn\u2019t have much to lose anyway and they\u2019re gonna continue to lose audience. They have lied to their core audience. They have misled them, and they won\u2019t even apologize for it! They won\u2019t even acknowledge it. They\u2019re still trying to carry forward some sort of version that Trump colluded, and they\u2019ve got guests as Democrat members of Congress to come on their programs and continue to advance the lie. But what this has shown, folks, is that Rachel Maddow — just for example — is not really the star of her show. Fake news was.<\/p>\n

\"\"Because when the fake news stopped, and when the bottom fell out, and when there\u2019s no more emotional reason — you don\u2019t need to have your emotional anger and extremism fulfilled because now it\u2019s been totally blown to smithereens — Rachel Maddow\u2019s not enough to make you turn back in to PMSNBC. Fake news was the star! Fake news is the star at the New York Times, fake news is the star at the Washington Post, fake news is the star at CNN.<\/p>\n

And when the fake news stops… Well, it never actually does stop. But when this particular fake news story goes away, look what the left-wing media discovers. Like so many other left-wing hosts and members of Congress and people in general, they are wholly dependent on fake news being peddled in order to have readers, in order to have viewers, in order to have any kind of respect. If there isn\u2019t any blockbuster fake news that\u2019s certain to bring down Trump, then the viewership is going to fritter away because it isn\u2019t those people attracting these audiences.<\/p>\n

It is this fake news. Everybody misunderstands this. It is the fake news. It is the toying with their audience. It is the manipulation of their audience\u2019s emotions that kept that audience, those audiences glued in whatever numbers to these various outlets. It\u2019s a sad, serious place when — trust me, I know this — a television or radio show\u2019s host is dependent on a fake crisis, on fake news day in and day out in order to have an audience. This is their big problem.<\/p>\n

What they have learned is they need to create and continue to create and manufacture fake news, and that is what is going to happen. That is their only salvation. They cannot acknowledge what has just happened. They have to come up with excuses. “Well, maybe the Russians have something on Mueller — or maybe Barr is dishonest. We can\u2019t trust Barr!” They\u2019re running the whole gamut on this. It\u2019s like I said yesterday, the problem that we face as a nation with people on the left is they\u2019re like a bunch of spoiled, rotten kids.<\/p>\n

When they lose, they cannot and will not admit it. They do not learn from it and move on. They attempt to tear down the system that rendered them winless. They attempt to do great damage and corrupt the system and the people that led to their anger and their disappointment because they lost. This why we\u2019re in a constant battle for the soul of this country with these people because they are intolerant and incapable of dealing with hard, cold, everyday truth.<\/p>\n

If they can\u2019t manipulate unpleasant truths into lies that are satisfactory and pleasing — if they can\u2019t lie to themselves and to their audiences — then they freak. And that\u2019s when they lash out and start trying to do damage to the very systems such as the Constitution or the rule of law that they think are responsible for their disappointment or their defeat. On the other side of this, a simple journalistic principle — curiosity — could have led them to much less disappointment, could have led them close to the truth.<\/p>\n

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They weren\u2019t curious. They accepted with blind faith every stinking lie they were told by every trusted source that they have, because they only wanted to believe the lies. They did not want to believe that there was no collusion because they could not explain their loss any other way. There had to be a trick played against them. There had to be laws violated. There had to be abuses of the Constitution or electoral system, in their really frayed minds.<\/p>\n

One simple characteristic — curiosity — maybe even a little less trust in some of their sources. It wasn\u2019t hard to find out how bogus this was. It wasn\u2019t difficult at all to learn what an entirely manufactured hoax this was! It was very easy to discover that this was in fact a silent coup going on. It\u2019s actually worse than I\u2019m describing. They made an active choice to join this coup. They made an attempt to make something that didn\u2019t happen appear to have happened.<\/p>\n

They joined the effort to try to manipulate and lie to and fool the entire population of this country. They have failed miserably, and that failure does not deserve any gratitude from us. I\u2019m not saying don\u2019t feel happy about it, but none of these people are to be applauded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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