{"id":317372,"date":"2019-07-30T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=317372"},"modified":"2019-07-31T16:02:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T20:02:30","slug":"rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/30\/rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahm Emanuel Warns Dems About Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor — the former chief of staff for Barack Hussein O, The One — a former chief lieutenant of the Clintons, has actually come out and he is distressed to no end over the direction of his party.\u00a0 When I saw this story, I almost — I almost — was tempted to steal his idea without giving him credit.\u00a0 And then, of course, my own virtue and morality stepped in and said, “Rush, that\u2019s something you just don\u2019t do.”<\/p>\n

So here is the story<\/a>.\u00a0 This guy, Rahm Emanuel, is devastated.\u00a0 He thinks the Democrats are committing one of the biggest cases of political suicide he\u2019s ever witnessed.\u00a0 He thinks that they are headed for one of the biggest landslide defeats in history, and he\u2019s beside himself over it, and the reason is twofold:\u00a0 Twitter and free health care for everybody, including illegal immigrants.\u00a0 Let me give you a pull quote from the story:<\/p>\n

\"\"“Before our party promises health care coverage to undocumented immigrants — a position not even Ted Kennedy took…” Do you realize not even Ted Kennedy…? This guy is signaling that Ted Kennedy was a wacko on this, but not even Ted Kennedy was this wacko!\u00a0 He said, “Before our party promises health care coverage to undocumented immigrants … let\u2019s help the more than 30 million Americans who are a single illness away from financial ruin.”<\/p>\n

This all comes from a memo that Rahm Emanuel wrote aimed at all of the 2020 Democrat presidential candidates, “urging them to go beyond Twitter in delivering a message that resonates with the American people.”\u00a0 This is what I almost stole, because this has been a pet peeve of mine, and those of you who have been regular listeners here know it.\u00a0 This whole business of Twitter becoming a stand-in for popular American opinion has been grating on me for I can\u2019t tell you how long.<\/p>\n

I, for one, am fed up when a story happens, an event happens, and then the next thing you hear is that Twitter blew up or the internet blew up or that something went viral, as though it means the entire country is reacting to it, when it\u2019s no more the case than it ever has been the case.\u00a0 What\u2019s happened where journalism is concerned, Twitter has become a stand-in for actually leaving the office and going out and interviewing people to find out what they think.<\/p>\n

Twitter has replaced the fax machine as the number one instrument of laziness in journalism.\u00a0 The worst part about it is that Twitter is a sewer.\u00a0 It is a repository for anonymous extremism insanity and lunacy, and yet it has become the stand-in for popular American opinion!\u00a0 So a journalist will write a story on what a reprobate Trump is and how everybody hates Trump, and the evidence will come from sample tweets from people nobody ever heard of, as though they represent — those three or four tweets in a story represent — the majority of public opinion.<\/p>\n

When there\u2019s no way to scientifically document that or prove it.\u00a0 There literally is no way.\u00a0 But since Twitter is a built-in assistant for left-wing journalism, it gets used more and more.\u00a0 It becomes more prominent in every story every day.\u00a0 It becomes a bigger factor in public opinion.\u00a0 So the media uses it to buttress their own polling data.\u00a0 They use it to buttress their own point of view.\u00a0 They\u2019ll come out with some radical point of view about something and back it up with two or three tweets, and the story is done.<\/p>\n

Rahm Emanuel has his own problem with Twitter, and it is who\u2019s on it and the fact that he thinks the Democrat Party also believes that Twitter is America, and he doesn\u2019t believe that it is. “Former Democrat Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel penned a memo aimed at all of the 2020 Democrat presidential hopefuls, urging them to go beyond Twitter in delivering a message that resonates with the American people.”<\/p>\n

There\u2019s another aspect of Twitter that bothers him: The likes and all of the so-called responses.\u00a0 He thinks what the Democrats are doing is programming themselves to Twitter rather than American voters.\u00a0 They come out and they make a policy position statement, or they just make a statement, period; then they go to Twitter looking for the reaction to it.\u00a0 They go to Twitter counting how many people liked it, how many people retweeted it — and if they get a lot of likes and a lot of retweets, they think they\u2019ve hit a home run.<\/p>\n

Rahm Emanuel realizes that Twitter does not represent anywhere near the American voting public, and particularly when you boil it down to registered and likely voters. Twitter is nowhere close to being a stand-in for American public opinion or popular thought.\u00a0 But Democrats believe that most of their voters are on Twitter, and they believe that most of the extremism and lunacy and insanity on Twitter has to be accommodated. You have to reach it. You have to fire those people up.<\/p>\n

\"\"And he believes that this is one of the reasons these people have gone so wacko and extreme, is that they\u2019re playing to Twitter.\u00a0 And, by the way, do you know they\u2019re trying to get Trump thrown off of Twitter because his tweets on Baltimore violate Twitter standards?\u00a0 They\u2019ve actually petitioned Twitter and Jack Dorsey to get Trump thrown off Twitter.\u00a0 Now, if Twitter ever got rid of Trump, how much of their business would they be tossing?<\/p>\n

But the Democrats are trying to get Trump disqualified from Twitter because he violates decency standards or some such thing.\u00a0 Moving back to Rahm Emanuel\u2019s note.\u00a0 “‘There\u2019s a reason Trump gleefully tweeted “That\u2019s the end of that race!” during the first debate: Too often, you succumbed to chasing plaudits on Twitter, which closed the door on swing voters in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio,\u2019 Emanuel wrote…”<\/p>\n

He is dead-on right about this.\u00a0 He is dead-on right.\u00a0 I actually am hesitant to mention this because I think it\u2019s the greatest thing in the world these people don\u2019t realize — as much as it irritates me to read that Twitter blew up or that the internet blew up or that something somewhere on YouTube or Twitter went viral.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of the biggest misconceptions out there.\u00a0 Something goes viral, everybody thinks, “Wow.\u00a0 Everybody saw it! Hey, Rush, it might have gotten four million retweets!”<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean four million people watched it.\u00a0 How many people actually read the books that are on the New York Times best-seller list?\u00a0 How many people actually read them?\u00a0 Same thing here.\u00a0 How many of these people actually watch all those videos and do all that?\u00a0 Not as many as you think.\u00a0 Certainly not as many as are liked and are retweeted because half of this is done by computer algorithm to boot!\u00a0 That\u2019s another thing wrong with Twitter!<\/p>\n

\"\"A lot of it is bots!\u00a0 I hope they don\u2019t figure it out.\u00a0 I hope they keep playing to Twitter.\u00a0 And one of the reasons I decided to mention this is they will always do the exact opposite of what I say, so if I criticize Twitter, they will love Twitter.\u00a0 If I blame them for believing in Twitter and misusing Twitter, they will double down on their belief in Twitter just to disagree with me.\u00a0 Same way they react to Trump — and then he came out with the killer line.<\/p>\n

“Before our party promises health care coverage to undocumented immigrants,” illegals, before we start doing that, “let\u2019s help the more than 30 million Americans who are a single illness away from financial ruin.”\u00a0 I\u2019ll add to it:\u00a0 Why in the world should those people be paying for the free health care for undocumented, illegal aliens and immigrants?\u00a0 Rahm Emanuel, in this case, is kind of like E. F. Hutton: When he speaks, you\u2019d better listen.<\/p>\n

Rahm Emanuel knows about the makeup of the Democrat Party and of the population of the country, and it\u2019s not Twitter yet.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the extreme wing of the Democrat Party yet.\u00a0 But the Democrat presidential candidates think it is.\u00a0 One of the reasons that they can\u2019t let go of Russia is Twitter.\u00a0 One of the reasons they can\u2019t let go of the Mueller investigation, one of the reasons they can\u2019t let go of impeachment is Twitter.\u00a0 Twitter has become a gospel to them.\u00a0 Twitter, to them, is their base — and Rahm Emanuel is attempting to warn them that it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Rahm Emanuel realizes that Twitter does not represent anywhere near the American voting public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":317394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nRahm Emanuel Warns Dems About Twitter - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/30\/rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Rahm Emanuel Warns Dems About Twitter - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Rahm Emanuel realizes that Twitter does not represent anywhere near the American voting public.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RahmAPP.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"George Prayias\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/30\/rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RahmAPP.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RahmAPP.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":360},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/30\/rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/30\/rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter\/\",\"name\":\"Rahm Emanuel Warns Dems About Twitter - The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/30\/rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-30T20:07:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-07-31T20:02:30+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a2bc43fbe4b4e1ff4d1f092c6086a349\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/30\/rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/30\/rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/30\/rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Rahm Emanuel Warns Dems About Twitter\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a2bc43fbe4b4e1ff4d1f092c6086a349\",\"name\":\"George Prayias\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a43c262983f0228d5f474ce08e691cf9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a43c262983f0228d5f474ce08e691cf9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"George Prayias\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/georgeeibnet-com\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Rahm Emanuel Warns Dems About Twitter - The Rush Limbaugh Show","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/30\/rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter\/","twitter_card":"summary","twitter_title":"Rahm Emanuel Warns Dems About Twitter - The Rush Limbaugh Show","twitter_description":"RUSH: Rahm Emanuel realizes that Twitter does not represent anywhere near the American voting public.","twitter_image":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RahmAPP.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"George Prayias","Est. reading time":"7 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/","name":"The Rush Limbaugh Show","description":"Excellence In Broadcasting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/30\/rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RahmAPP.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RahmAPP.jpg","width":640,"height":360},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/30\/rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/30\/rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter\/","name":"Rahm Emanuel Warns Dems About Twitter - The Rush Limbaugh Show","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/30\/rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2019-07-30T20:07:00+00:00","dateModified":"2019-07-31T20:02:30+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a2bc43fbe4b4e1ff4d1f092c6086a349"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/30\/rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/30\/rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/30\/rahm-emanuel-warns-dems-about-twitter\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Rahm Emanuel Warns Dems About Twitter"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a2bc43fbe4b4e1ff4d1f092c6086a349","name":"George Prayias","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a43c262983f0228d5f474ce08e691cf9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a43c262983f0228d5f474ce08e691cf9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"George Prayias"},"url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/georgeeibnet-com\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317372"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317425,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317372\/revisions\/317425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/317394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}