{"id":325745,"date":"2019-10-18T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=325745"},"modified":"2019-10-21T14:54:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T18:54:48","slug":"its-us-vs-the-media-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/10\/18\/its-us-vs-the-media-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Us Versus the Media Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: And here we are again, ladies and gentlemen, all lined up and ready to go. It\u2019s us versus the Washington-New York Corridor conventional wisdom. It is us versus the Drive-By Media\u2019s mainstream media narrative of the day. And it seems like that is always what it is. They have a view of the country and the world that is 180 degrees out of phase. We will continue to illustrate that on Friday. Let\u2019s hit it!<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny South Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The end of yet another busy, historic broadcast week here from the epicenter of broadcasting, the EIB Network, the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Thinking, Advanced Studies. Happy to have you here. Open Line Friday means that you can ask anything, you can bring up anything. You don\u2019t have to talk about all the stuff that\u2019s up front in the news. It\u2019s just an opportunity. The program doesn\u2019t sound any different. It\u2019s just a little internal difference in the way we screen phone calls. So, again, 800-282-2882 is the number. The email address is ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n

Okay, so let\u2019s do a little side-by-side comparison. Last night, President Trump had a raucous, upbeat, totally positive, encouraging “America is great and let\u2019s keep it that way” rally in Dallas. There were 20,000-plus inside. There were that many outside. It was a view of the country that many of us wish was the norm each and every day. And then on the exact other side is the picture painted by the mainstream media, which is that Trump is a buffoon.<\/p>\n

“The Syrian ceasefire has not held! Trump got snookered by Erdogan. Trump is out of his league. Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing! The Democrats are marching onward to impeachment.” Trump should quit if he knows what\u2019s good for him, says a Wall Street Journal piece today. “In addition to that, Mick Mulvaney is absolutely sabotaging the president,” they say. “Mulvaney knew what he was doing in the press conference yesterday.<\/p>\n

“He went out there and said, ‘Yes, there was a quid pro quo. Trump definitely withheld aid unless the president of Ukraine dug up dirt on Biden.'” That\u2019s not what happened, by the way. It\u2019s not anywhere near what happened. It\u2019s that nobody can keep up with Mulvaney.<\/a> Mulvaney\u2019s a classic illustration of the problem I would have if I were having a press conference with the media. He assumes too much. He assumes they have a base level of understanding and then proceeds from that point.<\/p>\n

Rather than acknowledge not only do they not know, they don\u2019t want to know the truth of the White House or Trump perspective. The media had only one purpose in that press conference yesterday, and they were gonna announce that it happened regardless what Mulvaney said. They were gonna say Mulvaney sold the president out. So now Mulvaney\u2019s out having to backtrack, and now everybody\u2019s parsing what Mulvaney said, which we\u2019re gonna do today, too, because you need to know because he didn\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n

He was three or four steps ahead of them. Now, you could say, “Well, that\u2019s ultimately his fault. He\u2019s got to assess the audience and deal with them on their level.” That\u2019s awfully hard to do. You\u2019re chief of staff of the White House. You know things that are going on. You know things that you\u2019re doing. You know what the future plans are. You\u2019re trying to deal with these people in any number of ways, but they are only interested in politics of the destroying Donald Trump, and Mulvaney did not acknowledge that that was their purpose.<\/p>\n

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Mulvaney actually tried to feed them the truth. They\u2019re not interested in it. There is no truth. The latest Project Veritas reveal from CNN<\/a>, found CNN\u2019s got people all over these secret videos saying they\u2019re not stopping until Trump\u2019s dead. They\u2019re not gonna stop ripping him, they\u2019re not gonna stop criticizing him, they\u2019re not gonna stop destroying him until he dies. Some of them even… Yeah, I mean, if you read the transcript of what some of them are saying in these secret videos you almost get the impression they want to be the reason Trump dies.<\/p>\n

So here. Let\u2019s go to the rally. Let\u2019s go back to the rally and the picture of America that that paints. There isn\u2019t a Democrat in the country who could do that last night. Forget for a moment the substance of what was said in the rally. I\u2019m just talking about generating that kind of excitement, generating that size of crowd inside and outside. There\u2019s nobody that would line up two days in advance to attend anything sponsored by any of the Democrats running for president.<\/p>\n

Right now, the chief Democrats trying to destroy Trump — if you had to put a face to it — would be Schiff and Pelosi. And I will tell you that if Schiff and Pelosi announced an impeach-Trump rally, there wouldn\u2019t be people showing up two days in advance trying to get into it. You might have some hard-core leftists who would show up at anything that had impeachment in it and getting rid of Trump. But it wouldn\u2019t be because of Schiff or Pelosi. Schiff and Pelosi, the two leading Democrats right now, could not draw flies if they had a bag of manure standing next to them.<\/p>\n

And yet Trump can and does routinely. And then when people are there, they don\u2019t want to leave. They don\u2019t want the thing to end. So Trump goes on for two hours and never loses a soul. And everybody inside and outside that thing watching it is having just greatest time. And many of them say that it goes way beyond their expectations. And it\u2019s kind of weird because it\u2019s just a guy at a podium and a microphone. It\u2019s not like you\u2019ve got Mick Jagger in there strumming and running around singing with the guitars and drums being played.<\/p>\n

I mean, it\u2019s just one guy, and yet this kind of charismatic excitement… I\u2019m telling you that there isn\u2019t anybody anywhere in the Democrat Party who could muster anything like that, and yet we are told to believe that the country hates Donald Trump. We\u2019re told to believe the country wants Trump gone. We\u2019re told to believe the country\u2019s embarrassed as hell and regret really regretful of the decision they made back in 2016 — and this is a giant disconnect.<\/p>\n

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Brad Parscale, who is campaign manager for Trump<\/a>, just this morning sent out a tweet. Let\u2019s see. I got this about 11:30, I\u2019m guessing, 45 minutes ago. The Trump campaign is data driven like nothing has been data driven. It\u2019s data driven more than anything Obama and Google did together. Parscale has this wired, and they collected an incredible amount of data from the people who attended the rally last night. I don\u2019t know how they do it. But here\u2019s what Parscale tweeted: “53,985 voters were identified from last night\u2019s rally.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, wait a minute. The capacity of that arena is barely over 20,000. What is this 53,985, almost 54,000 people? Well, there were a lot of people outside, and there was a lot of activity around the arena for the day of and the day before. The point is they made contact with 54,000 voters. Twelve percent of the 54,000 who attended the rally have not voted in the last four elections, 16 years. They plan on voting in 2020. Get this: 21% of the 54,000 voters identified at the rally and outside were Democrats.<\/p>\n

Twenty-one percent were Democrats? How can that possibly be? We\u2019re told the Democrats hate Trump and are embarrassed of Trump and are chomping at the bit to get rid of Trump. Eleven percent of the 54,000 identified voters at the rally were Latino. So 21.4% Democrat, 11% Latino (probably some overlap there), and 12% have not voted in the past four elections. As Parscale tweeted, “These are winning numbers that will help win #FourMoreYears for @realDonaldTrump!” and then he added: “We continue to outperform 2016.”<\/p>\n

Look, if this is right, if they\u2019ve identified 54,000 voters, what he means by this, they\u2019ve identified 54,000 Trump voters last night, not just people gonna vote, 54,000 Trump voters, 21% are Democrats? Folks, if this is right — if this is even close — the Democrats can\u2019t win anything with that amount of defection, if that\u2019s really percolating. Now, this is Texas. I\u2019ll tell you something about Texas. The Democrats will tell anybody who will listen that they\u2019re wean win Texas.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not gonna win Texas, but they\u2019ve got the Drive-Bys out there putting it out there as a possibility. They\u2019re doing it on the basis of a lot of people having left — a lot of liberals leaving California, a lot of liberals leaving the Northeast. And then of course the illegal aliens crossing the border. They will find a way to get them to vote. The counties all along the Texas-Mexico border are turning blue. So the Democrats in the media are out there saying, “Hey, Texas is in play.” Well, it\u2019s not in play.<\/p>\n

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But if this is anywhere close to accurate, 21% of the people that showed up last night — or 21% of the voters identified are Demorats, 11% Latino, this is numbers — and I guarantee you the Democrats aren\u2019t gonna know. The Democrats aren\u2019t gonna study this. I mean, they may read Parscale\u2019s tweet. Some of them may be alarmed by it. Most of them in their hubris and arrogance will simply ignore it, thinking it\u2019s a bunch of partisan BS, just Parscale trying to keep the troops up and positive, that none of it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll continue in their denial here. Trump had tweeted also at 11:45 this morning, because the news of the day is the ceasefire in Syria\u2019s falling apart, that Erdogan played Trump for the sucker and the fool that he is. Mitt Romney knew what was gonna happen. Mitt Romney, as soon as this program ended yesterday, went to the floor of the Senate and gave a speech on basically how unfortunate it is that Trump is president, what a buffoon.<\/p>\n

Romney\u2019s trying to set himself up. I guarantee you this. He\u2019s trying to set himself up as the unifier. Romney is gonna present himself as the guy that can bring the country together. Mark my words. Romney is representative of the group that thinks (sobbing), “This partisanship is just horrible! The partisan divide is — is… (sobs) It\u2019s intolerable, it\u2019s unsustainable, it\u2019s bad! We gotta something about it.” Well, what are we gonna do about the partisan divide? How is Romney gonna solve the partisan divide?<\/p>\n

How do mainstream Republicans solve the partisan divide? They throw in with the Democrats. They don\u2019t try to defeat them, and they don\u2019t try to persuade them to join us. They cave and throw in with them — and they acknowledge that the problem is Republicans. That\u2019s how it\u2019s always been done, and that\u2019s what being a moderate Republican\u2019s all about. So the objective will be, “We\u2019ve gotta put the country back together. We can\u2019t handle this division.<\/p>\n

“We can\u2019t handle the country being at war with each other no matter what policies are in place, no matter what issues are forefront. We\u2019ve got to come together.” Well, the Romney-type Republicans attempt to pull that off by caving. He was out there on this Senate speech berating Trump. “This ceasefire is not gonna hold. It is not a real ceasefire. This is a bunch of chaos that we don\u2019t need to be going through. We wouldn\u2019t be going through this if Trump weren\u2019t president. If we had somebody who knew what they were doing, we\u2019d have never pulled the 50 troops out of Syria.<\/p>\n

“We would have never had this happen, and this is example of the chaos that our country has to face every day because we\u2019ve got a nincompoop incompetent in the White House.” That\u2019s the Democrat line, and that\u2019s what people like Romney are gonna sign on to. Here\u2019s Trump\u2019s tweet. “Just spoke to President @RTErdogan of Turkey. He told me there was minor sniper and mortar fire that was quickly eliminated. He very much wants the ceasefire, or pause, to work. Likewise, the Kurds want it, and the ultimate solution, to happen.<\/p>\n

“Too bad there wasn\u2019t this thinking years ago. Instead, it was always held together with very weak bandaids, & in an artificial manner. There is good will on both sides & a really good chance for success. The U.S. has secured the Oil, & the ISIS Fighters are double secured by Kurds & Turkey. I have just been notified that some European Nations are now willing, for the first time, to take the ISIS Fighters that came from their nations. This is good news, but should have been done after WE captured them. Anyway, big progress being made!!!!”<\/p>\n

This tweet is to counter the media narrative that there is no ceasefire, that Pence and Pompeo don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. “They\u2019re out there doing whatever Trump wants. Trump\u2019s doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing! There is no ceasefire because nobody respects Trump. Nobody respects the U.S. Trump\u2019s a sucker, Trump\u2019s a buffoon, Trump\u2019s a clown. The rest of the world can play him for a fool and a sucker, and they are.” That\u2019s the media narrative.<\/p>\n

Can I play a sound bite for you from the rally last night? I\u2019m gonna play for you what I thought was the loudest ovation of the night. Now, I\u2019m admittedly not the best person to decide this. My hearing, as you know, is not natural. I hear via bionics, cochlear implants. But, believe me, I hear noise better than I hear speech. I hear noise better than I hear anything. Most of what I hear sounds like noise to me. You couldn\u2019t stand to be around me, because wherever I am, I demand no sound, because everything just sounds like noise.<\/p>\n

So, therefore, when I hear a lot of noise, I\u2019m aware of it — and I want to play for you what I thought was the biggest applause or the loudest noise ovation of the night last night. Audio sound bite number 1. This is it…<\/p>\n