{"id":360503,"date":"2020-08-17T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=360503"},"modified":"2020-08-18T16:23:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T20:23:42","slug":"trump-goes-on-offense-during-dnc-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/08\/17\/trump-goes-on-offense-during-dnc-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Goes on Offense During DNC Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I got an email here. “Dear Mr. Limbaugh: I need to trade off your political experience and your brilliance. Isn\u2019t it true that in the old days, the party not having the convention used to just go quiet? They just got out of there. Wasn\u2019t it considered good manners? Wasn\u2019t it considered mutual respect that when one party was having its convention, the other party basically shut down for the week?<\/p>\n

“And then when that party that had shut down for the week had its convention, the other party then shut down for the week and literally did nothing to interrupt or tread on or…? Is this not true? Is my memory on this correct?” Yes, it is. That is exactly what used to happen. Used to happen. That stuff is so out the window now. Trump is doing a four-state swing today, through swing states.<\/p>\n

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He\u2019s going to four states on the first day of the Democrat convention. He\u2019s gonna have nightly opposition. Whatever this Democrat convention is, Trump is gonna have a nightly wrap-up of it, with his take on what it was. Democrats are gonna be fuming. They\u2019re gonna be fuming — and the Democrats, don\u2019t forget, don\u2019t have a Trump. They\u2019ve got Our Lady of Impeccable Hysteria. They\u2019ve got Nancy Pelosi and Chuck You Schumer, but that\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n

Who do they have that could do a recap of a Trump convention that would make you want to watch it? It\u2019d be nothing but sourpuss, sour grapes anger? Who do they have that could make you laugh? Adam Schiff? Eric Swalwell? Who they gonna put out there, Mr. Snerdley? Who would the Democrats put out there? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Who are they gonna put out there if they want to do a recap — and you know they\u2019ll try.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll try the same thing Trump is doing. They\u2019ll do a recap of the Republican convention, and they\u2019ll lie about it. But who do they have that people are gonna want to watch? (interruption) The Squad? So it\u2019ll be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who they\u2019re only gonna give 60 seconds? They\u2019re gonna give this…? No way. The woman that gets only 60 seconds to speak and they\u2019re gonna turn over the recap? No way.<\/p>\n

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And then Rashida Tlaib and what\u2019s-her-face? Uh… (interruption) Oh, yeah, Ilhan Omar from that movie, the Somali movie Tom Hanks was in. He played the boat captain. Well, anyway… The Squad? The Squad is their biggest draw? The Squad is…? You\u2019re proving my point. You are making my point.<\/p>\n

All right. Did you see the first episode of Hard Knocks, training camp with the Los Angeles Chargers and the Los Angeles Rams? Did you watch it, Brian? (interruption) You didn\u2019t? (interruption) You Watched Hard Knocks? (interruption) Wait a minute. Why did you watch…? (interruption) I\u2019m talking to Dawn, our official program transcriber. Why did you watch it?<\/p>\n

(interruption) You watch Hard Knocks better than…? Hard Knocks runs five weeks. Better than watching…? (interruption) Well, anyway, the ratings were bad. The ratings were 273,000 viewers. There was no contact. There was no spitting. There was no crotch grabbing. None of the usual stuff. There was no tackling, no huddling. There\u2019s nothing. They can\u2019t even throw the ball to each other \u2019cause the ball might have the virus on it.<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t do it. But you think that\u2019s why the ratings were…? I mean, 270,000? The opening episode for last season\u2019s premier issue was 705,000. So this is basically a little bit less than half. Now, a lot of people are thinking that the ratings crash is just a carryover from the kneeling and the Kaepernick controversy and so forth.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know. It may be partly that. I think they should be worried about something else. I think they ought to be worried about the fact that people just don\u2019t care in general. This was two teams instead of the usual one. There was a new stadium involved, although they really didn\u2019t spend much time at the new stadium.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number 22. Trump is hopscotching four states this week, four battleground states during the week of the Democrat convention. This used to never happen before. Never. The party that was not doing its convention hibernated, just went away for a week out of consideration, good manners, all that stuff. So Trump this afternoon on the tarmac at the airport in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Lives were destroyed. While the leadership of the Democrat Party cheered their dreams burned to the ground. This is the difference between us and Joe Biden, Mayor Jacob Frey, (boos) and Governor Tim Walz. (boos) My message to Minnesota is clear. I\u2019m here to help you. We will bring back law and order to your community.<\/p>\n