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<\/p>\nRUSH: They say that The Squad\u2019s under current death threat. Have you heard that? Okay. So who exposed Omar to danger by broadcasting when her flight was gonna arrive and at what gate? Folks, let me tell you what this is gonna come down to. And we had better decide how we\u2019re gonna deal with this right now.<\/p>\n
There are variations of this theme, variations of this fight. But it\u2019s all contained right here — actually, it\u2019s contained in many places, but its most recent focus is this Trump rally and a bunch of his people that are shouting “send her back.” We have a strategic decision to make.<\/p>\n
Are we gonna double down against the left and really take them on and not take their guff, or are we gonna defer? Are we going to defer to their constant insults? Are we going to defer to their constant outrage? Because they\u2019re always gonna be mad about something. They\u2019re always gonna be calling us racists, sexists, bigots. They\u2019re always going to be saying that we are mean-spirited extremists.<\/p>\n
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Now, we\u2019ve got one or two things we can do. We can double down and tell them to take it where the sun doesn\u2019t shine in our own way and beat them back, and literally beat them in election after election, or we can defer to them like the Never Trumpers want to do, and like a bunch of elected Republicans want.<\/p>\n
We can defer to the media, we can defer to the outrage and sue for peace. \u201cPlease don\u2019t think of us that way. We\u2019re not mean. We\u2019re not bigots. We\u2019re not.\u201d We got one of two ways here, and you can see the stark choice even now. We\u2019ve got the ongoing battle, Never Trumpers in the so-called conservative movement who want to defer to the outrage. They don\u2019t want anybody mad at them.<\/p>\n
And they blame Trump for all of the outrage. They have forgotten that before they were mad at Trump, they were mad at George W. Bush. And before that, they were mad at Reagan. And throughout all of that, they\u2019ve been mad at me. They\u2019ve been mad at Fox News and talk radio. They are always gonna be mad. They cannot be deferred to. They cannot be mollified. They cannot be reasoned with. And the worst thing you can tried to do is sue for peace individually. You cannot, if you\u2019re an elected Republican.<\/p>\n
McCain tried it. Look what happened to him. McCain deferred to the outrage. McCain started sucking up to the media even before he ran for office. And it worked. He became, in his mind, the media was his base, until he got the nomination. And then they called him a racist because of Sarah Palin. They called him a racist because of some of the things his supporters were saying about Obama\u2019s name.<\/p>\n
This stuff never changes. If you want to know why I\u2019m irritated by it is because it never changes and it\u2019s not gonna change and deferring to it is not the solution. Deferring to it and accommodating it and asking them not to be mad at us, you\u2019re wrong, trying to explain to them how they\u2019re wrong and they\u2019re misjudged, it\u2019s a waste of time, because it\u2019s not, this criticism at us, this anger at us is not rooted in any kind of substance.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s labeling. It\u2019s strategic. It is part of destroying the conservative, slash, Republican brand. It\u2019s not rooted in truth. We\u2019re not really racists, sexists, or bigots. They just say so then they put everybody on our side that needs to defer to this on the defensive. And when you\u2019re on the defense, you\u2019re not advancing anything. You\u2019re not advancing an agenda. You\u2019re not advancing the ball. You\u2019re not advancing your own beliefs. You\u2019re not advancing yourself.<\/p>\n
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And every darn one of these Never Trumpers out there seems to believe that they can accommodate this anger and defer to it and at least try to convince the media that they, the Never Trumpers, are not reprobates. And if that happened, they\u2019d be happy. The Republican Party could lose the White House, the Republican Party could lose this and that, but the Never Trumpers would be happy if the mainstream media stopped calling them names. And this is going to be the playing field that we\u2019re on for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n
If it\u2019s not a chant at a Trump rally, it\u2019s gonna be something somebody says on Fox, something somebody says on talk radio. Or it\u2019s going to be something a Trump supporter says while buying Skittles at a 7-Eleven. It\u2019s gonna be something. It\u2019s never going to end. Meanwhile, they are gonna be able to get away with real hate and real bigotry, and it\u2019s gonna be promoted as new progressive values, because America is a sucky place that does need to be fixed, like we went to the Moon and there were no women involved, the Soviets really won the space race, America sucks. This is what we\u2019re up against. Make up your mind.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I do want to expand on this point maybe later. I really… You know, I got a note from a very good friend. “Rush, I heard you on Fox & Friends while driving this morning, and variations of this fight — whether to double down against the left or to defer to their constant outrage — are going on everywhere.” My friend writing the email is exactly right. It\u2019s happening within Republican circles, conservative publications and organizations.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m just gonna take a wild guess. I could be dead wrong. But even within the EIB Network — and there are lots of people here at the EIB Network. We don\u2019t talk about this. This is a major, major corporate enterprise. We\u2019ve got the EIB Network (the fulfillment staff alone up there) and, by the way, we\u2019re up to over 20,000 orders today, folks, which is wonderful, and it\u2019s fabulous. But it is a fulfillment challenge. We got people standing knee-deep in boxes up there in our warehouse, and they\u2019re all smiling, and they\u2019re all happy, and they\u2019re all chomping down on doughnuts for energy between sessions.<\/p>\n
The experience here has been and continues to be incredible. But I would imagine even within the EIB Network organization… We\u2019ve got salespeople all over the country. (chuckles) We have the website staff. We have the engineering staff. I imagine, somewhere — somewhere within this intricate web of employees — there are probably some people who wish I would dial it back a little bit, because they have friends who know where they work and they have to go home and they have to listen to, “Boy, the guy you work for, (sputtering) he really yells at people!”<\/p>\n
(impression) “Weeeell, no.”<\/p>\n
I\u2019m just saying, in every organization, you\u2019ve got… Take your average conservative magazine. I will guarantee you there\u2019s a group of \u2019em in there that will do anything to stop the media from being mean to conservatives, and others who say, “Screw them,” and want to fight them. But it really is the question, and it\u2019s been the question for years. It\u2019s not new! I use McCain as an example, but it really is maybe one of the best recent examples of how it\u2019s a no-win. John McCain, for a couple of years, became the favorite Republican of the media.<\/p>\n
Consequentially, a lot of us were made very angry by it, because we knew what he had to do to do it! You know what he was doing? He was ripping Republicans. He was on MSNBC with Chris Matthews every night, and he was ripping Republicans. So it\u2019s no question he\u2019s gonna become a big star within the Drive-By Media. Because if you\u2019re Republican\/conservative and if you want to get favorable media treatment, you rip your own. You go criticize your own. You criticize your president, criticize policies, and the media will love you.<\/p>\n
McCain thought that this would carry him to the presidency. Then McCain gets the nomination, and he\u2019s running against Obama, and it\u2019s hopeless. He doesn\u2019t have a prayer, and they didn\u2019t take but a week and they started calling McCain a racist! Because there were people on his staff and members of the audience at his rallies that were making fun of Obama\u2019s name by pronouncing his middle name. Do you remember that? You couldn\u2019t even say “Barack Hussein Obama” without the media calling you a bigot and a racist and an anti-whatever.<\/p>\n
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Anti-terrorist, whatever they said we were — just by pronouncing his name! There was one guy in Cincinnati who introduced McCain at a rally and used “Hussein” in naming Obama, and McCain publicly berated the guy on stage! (impression) “You know, this is not a feature of my campaign. We\u2019re not gonna make fun of our opponent this way. We\u2019re not gonna be critical. We\u2019re not gonna… We\u2019re not gonna… We\u2019re just not gonna do it!” All that happened was somebody pronounced Obama\u2019s full name! But even that did not win McCain renewed favor with the media.<\/p>\n
McCain\u2019s out there; he doesn\u2019t understand what\u2019s hit him. They\u2019re calling him a racist? He just spent two years cultivating and sucking up to these people, and they turned on him on a dime. John McCain is the greatest illustration of how it cannot be done. You cannot win by deferring. You cannot even win perpetually by ripping your own side. They\u2019ll eventually come back and get you, because you\u2019re not gonna rip your own side all the time. So it\u2019s a really salient question, and all of this talk on our side about, “We need to return to civility!<\/p>\n
“We need to return to the days where our people are sophisticated and polite and have the breeding and the mannerisms in order to behave properly. And in this, we will show the American people that we\u2019re not what the media says.” I\u2019ve been hearing this for as long as I\u2019ve been able to pay attention to people. “Rush, the way through this abyss is character.” “What do you mean?” “We must be exemplary in our character. We cannot have anybody engaging in adultery. We can\u2019t have anybody have any kind of abuse problems — substances, alcoholism, drugs. None of that.<\/p>\n
“We have to be clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, Rush. Only in that way, can we rise above the criticism from the left. Only in that way, can we reach the American people and assure them that we are not that which we are said to be.” I can\u2019t tell you how many people that told me this. I can\u2019t tell you how many times I\u2019ve heard this over how many years, that the way to beat the media is to become Jesus Christ. Well, the problem is there isn\u2019t a human being alive that can do that. There isn\u2019t a human being alive, by definition, who could become Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n
There is nobody who is perfect. There is nobody who can behave with perfect character and perfect manners and perfect speech — and even if there was, I doubt that it would permeate the bulk of the American population which thinks we\u2019re racists and sexists. This is not the way to do it. Okay, so what is? Well, it\u2019s not easy. But we have to throw out this idea that there is any kind of positive return by deferring — and by deferring, accepting their premise. “Okay, I know some of us are racists and sexists — you\u2019re right about that — but not me!<\/p>\n
“And I\u2019m gonna condemn those on our side. You — you can respect me for that.” That\u2019s not gonna get anybody anywhere. Romney! Romney thought he could do the same thing. Look at Romney. As far as most people know, Romney let an employee\u2019s wife die of cancer because he didn\u2019t care enough to give health care to the employee. Romney hated animals because he put the dog on the roof of the family station wagon during a vacation. Harry Reid comes out and says a friend of his told him that Mitt Romney hadn\u2019t paid taxes in 10 years.<\/p>\n
The press said, “Where\u2019s your proof?” and Harry Reid says, “You\u2019re asking the wrong person. I don\u2019t need proof. Go ask Romney why he hasn\u2019t paid his taxes.” What\u2019d the media do? They went off and asked Romney why he hadn\u2019t paid his taxes. Romney said, “I have. I paid my taxes. Here are my tax returns. Here\u2019s binders filled with women\u2019s names that I might hire.” That even became a problem! (sinister voice) “Romney has the names of women in binders.” The Democrats have Jeffrey Epstein!<\/p>\n
The Democrats are running around with a pedophile! The Democrats are running around partying with a pedophile, participating in that! None of it ever gets mentioned! The Democrats never think they have to excuse themselves for it. The media never harps on it. (sinister voice) “Romney had women\u2019s names in a binder! Romney had the family dog on the roof of the station wagon during the family vacation.” What did they do? McCain and Romney both continued to seek respect and fair treatment from the Democrats and the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n
(impression) “We are going to behave with character and respect, and we are… We are going to show the way! We\u2019re going to thereby inform the American people that what is being said of us is — is wrong.” Right? Well, how has that worked out? What needs to happen instead, is there needs to be payback. There needs to be a price. The left needs to pay a price for this slander, for this character assassination, for this libel, for the outright lies about us and about our country and about our heritage.<\/p>\n
At some point there has to be enough payback that the left becomes afraid to smear people. Right now they have no fear. They\u2019re not afraid to smear us. They\u2019re not afraid to slander us. They\u2019re not afraid to libel us. In fact, they do it with glee. They look forward to doing it. If they have to lie, which, of course, they do, they can\u2019t wait to do it. And then they love it when the attacked victim tries to be defensive about it. And we\u2019ll ask the question for the next week, which got the original politician in trouble.<\/p>\n
And, of course, who is it that does not play by these rules of deference? Donald J. Trump. Trump is the subtext of all of these psychodramas, and they are occurring everywhere. You could say that throughout the political spectrum, Donald Trump is driving certain people crazy. He\u2019s driving them batty.<\/p>\n
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I think that we are winning. But we\u2019re not gonna keep winning if the theme remains apologize, reach out, and don\u2019t offend. If that becomes the guidelines for our going forward, we can forget winning. Apologize, reach out, don\u2019t offend. Do you realize how none of those are possible when people are lying about you to begin with?<\/p>\n
When people are accusing you of things that you haven\u2019t done and accusing you of being things that you aren\u2019t, why would you apologize for that? Why would you apologize for people who do things you had nothing to do with? Just because the media\u2019s demanding you apologize? The way of the current thinking is, \u201cWell, we apologize to make it go away. We\u2019ll defer to make it go away. Rush, we have to stop the bleeding. You\u2019re got to apologize.”<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t tell you how many times I\u2019ve heard, “Rush, you have to apologize. It won\u2019t go away if you don\u2019t. You\u2019ve gotta apologize.” I said, “It\u2019s not gonna go away if I do apologize. It will make you feel better, but it isn\u2019t gonna go away.” “It will, Rush, it will go away.” Has it ever gone away? We\u2019re still dealing with it, are we not? That\u2019s one of the reasons I\u2019m so frustrated about this. Because it\u2019s been going on so long, we should have learned by now.<\/p>\n
Having fun with these people and tweaking them, like today, John King at CNN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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