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RUSH: Your host (that would be me, Rush Limbaugh) your guiding light (a man, a legend, a way of life), uttered something, made a comment yesterday about the way Trump is campaigning and how Trump has brought to the campaign a standard operating behavior or procedure in social media called “trolling.” I just casually offered it as an offhand comment. I didn\u2019t make a big deal of it. I just happened to say that trolling is big.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s big out there on Twitter, it\u2019s big on Fakebook, it\u2019s all over social media. I said, “That\u2019s what Trump does. He sits around and he trolls Twitter all night and all day long, and he\u2019s the first politician to do so in such consistent and frequent ways.” It\u2019s another way that Trump has distinguished himself from your average, ordinary, everyday politician who doesn\u2019t go anywhere near it. They might have campaign staff doing it here or there, but it\u2019s focus grouped, it\u2019s tested.<\/p>\n


\nYou know, Trump\u2019s just shooting from the hip.<\/p>\n

So I mentioned this, and it was picked up on by a bunch in the Drive-By Media, and Chris Cuomo actually kind of blew the lid when he admitted he heard about this from Media Matters. You know, you\u2019re not supposed to say… If you\u2019re a Drive-By Media person ripping into me or trying to, you\u2019re not supposed to say that you got your information from Media Matters. You\u2019re supposed to make it look like you knew it on your own. But it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t listen to this program, the Drive-Bys don\u2019t — Chris Cuomo, anyway — and they wouldn\u2019t even think of going to my website to actually check what I said. They just rely on Media Matters. So this is — let\u2019s see — actually three sound bites. The first two relate to that specifically, and the third one is is related to it in an offhand way. CNN\u2019s New Day, Chris Cuomo speaking with CNN politics correspondent, Dylan Byers, about what I said on this program yesterday.<\/p>\n

CUOMO: Things! Have! Changed! Social media… Rush Limbaugh had an interesting point the other day. Ehh, talk about how things have changed. Media Matters, which is a lefty outlet —<\/p>\n

BYERS: (snickering)<\/p>\n

CUOMO: — has an article about Limbaugh (chortling), who is not a lefty outlet —<\/p>\n

BYERS: (snickering)<\/p>\n

CUOMO: — saying that Donald Trump has introduced trolling to campaigning.<\/a> And there is no question that these campaigns have waves of haters who come after the media and others who go against them. What do you make of the dynamic?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You why he likes it. He thinks I\u2019m equating Trump with being “a hater.” That\u2019s not what I meant. I\u2019m talking about the constant presence. But to these guys, you know, they sit around… I guartee, folks. Don\u00c2\u2019t doubt me on this. You don\u2019t know these folks like I do. They can\u2019t digest, they can\u2019t they can\u2019t fathom people hating them. They are of a mind-set that they tell themselves they\u2019re universally loved and respected and looked up to \u2019cause they\u2019re media people and they\u2019re good liberals.<\/p>\n

Now, they know conservatives don\u2019t like \u2019em, but they think that that\u2019s fringe and way over there. But it bothers them when they have a bunch of people that join Twitter threads that say mean things about them. They don\u2019t like it! So they think that I have hit on something here, even though I\u2019m not “a lefty,” I have pointed something out that\u2019s true, and it is that there\u2019s the all kinds of “haters” out there. They\u2019re calling trolls “haters “because they\u2019re trolling them, in the media. So that\u2019s what Chris Cuomo is talking about, that Trump has introduced trolling and that means Trump\u2019s trollers are “hating on” the media and hating on different people.<\/p>\n

He asked Dylan Byers on it, the chief political respondent on CNN who said this in response.<\/p>\n

BYERS: I think that\u2019s exactly right. And — and I think that Donald Trump has played a very unique role in doing that, and that\u2019s because he\u2019s been more active on social media, and especially on Twitter, than any presidential candidate in history. Donald Trump has a very aggressive and vocal group of supporters. And, while we can\u2019t identify every anonymous Twitter troll, I think there are a lot of people on there who are ready to take on anyone who they think would stand in the way of Donald Trump\u2019s nomination or anyone who they see as opposing Trump.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: So they\u2019re just all excited. Yeah, I pointed something out that they just had to run with. They had to make a point. Again, it\u2019s just another example of things happening outside their sphere of influence, they can\u2019t control it. They can\u2019t stop the trolls, and they can\u2019t stop the trolls from “hating on” them, and it\u2019s… I\u2019ll tell you something else. You know, the news that Fakebook has all these 20-something Ivy League grads that are actually choosing the news rather than the algorithms doing it?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m trying to make the point of how significant this is when you look at, what, seven-out-of-10 Americans\u2019 primary news source is the Fakebook newsfeed<\/a>. It\u2019s huge. Fakebook has over a billion people worldwide — they blanket the United States — and the newsfeed on Fakebook is curated by a bunch of leftists. So now what you have, you have all these Drive-By leftists who are learning that their work is dependent on Fakebook to be seen. People don\u2019t automatically tune in CNN anymore, or ABC, or CBS, or what have you.<\/p>\n

Unless there\u2019s a particular personality that people watch and want to have an appointment with every day. But for the most part, the daily news cycle, people are going to Fakebook. And they\u2019re bothered about it, and so now they\u2019re starting to tailor what, you know, late-night comedy shows have to produce skits and bits that\u2019ll go viral later that night and the next day on social media. That\u2019s how they measure success. Not ratings, how much content from a late-night show ends up in a video that goes viral the next day.<\/p>\n

Same thing here: People are asking themselves, “How do we get our news in the Fakebook newsfeed?” And they don\u2019t like it, because there\u2019s all kinds of trolls out there. So that\u2019s why, against their better judgment, they are praising me for pointing something out that they think offers them an excuse, or whatever they think it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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