RUSH: You know, watching the coverage of this and the ongoing effort to create a panic — and let\u2019s make no mistake here that that\u2019s exactly what is happening here — I finally came up with what I think is a good analogy. The coronavirus is like a hurricane several days away from making landfall.<\/p>\n
Take your pick of any hurricane out there in recent memory — if you want to use Katrina, any hurricane — and then remember how the media covers it. “It\u2019s going to devastate wherever it\u2019s headed. It\u2019s gonna just obliterate! It\u2019s a Cat 5. It\u2019s going to mean total destruction.” No one knows the strength when it hits, despite their predictions. No one knows where it\u2019s gonna hit. No one knows when.<\/p>\n
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Our forecasts have gotten better, but it\u2019s still a gigantic crapshoot, particularly the farther out at sea the hurricane is. But the media knows that it\u2019s gonna deliver clicks, it\u2019s gonna deliver hits, it\u2019s gonna deliver massive headlines, it\u2019s gonna create massive attention by the public. It will deliver eyeballs — and they know they can blame Trump, right up until the moment they can\u2019t. They know.<\/p>\n
They know and they salivate over the chance to blame Trump. You\u2019ve got an oncoming hurricane here. The outer bands have begun to strike the Continental United States. The evidence is there! They\u2019ve got the reporters out on the beaches out on the Outer Banks, for example, of North Carolina, and they\u2019re showing us the waves are about six inches higher than usual.<\/p>\n
“See, it\u2019s coming! It\u2019s coming! There may be a flood here, a flood there. The initial reports of damage are coming in, and it all means it\u2019s gonna be a grand disaster.” The Drive-Bys are all collected out on the beach. Their cameras are pointed westward, eastward, wherever it takes to get this hurricane, any indication of it whatsoever. The same thing was true of the impeachment hearings. The same exact thing was true of the impeachment hearings.<\/p>\n
All we had was hearsay evidence.<\/p>\n
We had endless speculation.<\/p>\n
The same thing was true with the Russia-Trump collusion story. There was never any evidence, there was never a shred of evidence, and yet look at what we were told was coming. The walls were closing in on Donald Trump! We had these endless anonymous sources from the intelligence community who were telling us that it was only a matter of time before the evidence would be forthcoming.<\/p>\n
Hearsay evidence before the impeachment hearings, endless speculation.<\/p>\n
It was the same thing with the Mueller report.<\/p>\n
The coronavirus is one of those moments for the Drive-By Media, and just as a hurricane is an opportunity to blame people who don\u2019t believe in climate change — man-made climate change. Just as a hurricane is exaggerated and built up and lied about before anybody knows its true strength and nature in order to advance a political agenda (i.e., climate change), coronavirus is being used to advance the agenda that Donald Trump:<\/p>\n
A. Doesn\u2019t care about you; he only cares about himself.<\/p>\n
B. Donald Trump is incompetent.<\/p>\n
C. Donald Trump\u2019s not taking it seriously enough.<\/p>\n
D. You might die; it\u2019s all gonna be Donald Trump\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n
E. It\u2019s an opening for the Democrats!<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s an opportunity for the Democrats, just like impeachment was an opportunity for the Democrats, like the Mueller hearings an opportunity for the Democrats, and a gigantic hurricane is an opportunity for the Democrats and the climate change crowd. So the coronavirus is one of these moments.<\/p>\n
This is the pattern. This is what Drive-By Media is. This is the utter definition. You\u2019re looking at it here. The problem for them is, they have been wrong every time during the Trump administration. They have been wrong about every dire prediction they have made, and they have made these predictions with ontological certitude.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve made these predictions with anonymous sources guaranteeing the “walls were closing in” on Donald Trump, guaranteeing the evidence was forthcoming that Trump colluded with Russia, guaranteeing the evidence was imminently forthcoming that Donald Trump did indeed cheat. “He might even be a Russian agent!” It never stopped. Even when the evidence never came in, the evidence was never forthcoming.<\/p>\n
Even when the evidence was invisible, they continued to tell us that it was going to be the exact opposite of what it\u2019s turned out to be every time. It\u2019s always Trump\u2019s fault before the facts are known. And when the facts are finally known and when the media is proven to be dramatically wrong again, they are never held to account. They are never to blame for whatever mess they have made, for whatever drive-by confusion they have made created.<\/p>\n
Even hurricanes are attributed to Trump via the fact that he doesn\u2019t believe in man-made climate change. Before there\u2019s even a dollar\u2019s worth of destruction, it\u2019s all Trump\u2019s fault. And then when their predictions of doom fail spectacularly, it\u2019s off to the next hoped-for incident that will definitely take down Trump. When the impeachment bombed out, remember what I said?<\/p>\n
“Folks, there\u2019s 10 months to go. There\u2019s gonna be something else. There\u2019s gonna be something else. There\u2019s gonna be many something elses between now and the election that are gonna get the same treatment,” and voila! Here we are: Coronavirus. “Mr. Limbaugh, are you saying the coronavirus is not…?” No, I\u2019m not. Don\u2019t attribute things to me that I\u2019m not saying. I\u2019m saying exactly what I mean to say, and I love hearing myself say what I say \u2019cause I\u2019m right. I love being right.<\/p>\n
“Why the hell doesn\u2019t Wall Street grow up? Why the hell doesn\u2019t Wall Street act like a bunch of adults instead of acting like a bunch of spoiled-rotten kids? At every bit of bad news, Wall Street has to go panic, full-fledged panic?” He\u2019s exactly right. By the way, speaking of that, the Dow Jones Industrial Average right now is up 360 points. We opened today plus eight. Do you know what happened overnight?<\/p>\n By the way, by the way, how many of you got up today and started listening or paying attention to news and you heard today what I told you in the first hour of yesterday\u2019s program? This is about Russia, it\u2019s about oil, it\u2019s about Saudi Arabia. Do you know what Trump did overnight? He called Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know what Trump talked about with Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. All I know is that the Dow Jones Industrial Average futures market predicted an opening of 800 to a thousand on the plus side, and that\u2019s exactly where it opened. It\u2019s now at 311. It\u2019s been down as low as plus 25. It\u2019s fluctuating, but it\u2019s been in positive territory all day today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: I finally came up with what I think is a good analogy. The coronavirus is like a hurricane several days away from making landfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":339548,"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":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/APP-031020-FOX-Russel-Honore-2.jpg\")
<\/a>You would be, too, if you knew what it was like. I\u2019m not saying things I\u2019m not saying. Like I\u2019ve got a sound bite coming up from Russel Honore. Remember him? Hurricane Katrina, military guy<\/a>. He got so fed up with the media, so fed up with the way Katrina and the whole thing was being covered, and he\u2019s on a roll again today. He\u2019s lashing out at Wall Street. (paraphrased) “Why the hell do they get to panic?<\/p>\n