{"id":360855,"date":"2020-08-19T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=360855"},"modified":"2020-08-20T16:27:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T20:27:20","slug":"learn-this-lesson-gop-go-live-at-the-rnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/08\/19\/learn-this-lesson-gop-go-live-at-the-rnc\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn This Lesson, GOP: Go Live at the RNC"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Have you guys across the glass, have you been watching this? (interruption) All right. Well, Mr. Snerdley has. You…? (interruption) Dawn hasn\u2019t. I\u2019m… (interruption) Brian, you\u2019ve been trying to find Tampa Bay practice tape. The Republicans had better be learning from this, and I think they have, because I keep… You know, when Trump does his… You know what he…? I found this fascinating yesterday. Trump really was…<\/p>\n

Who was he going after? I forget. (Oh, come on, mind; work for me. My memory usually just jumps just like that.” He was ripping somebody for not going live — oh, it was Michelle (My Belle) Obama — just like I did.<\/a> You know, I really believe in things like this, you go live. If you want to engender excitement, if you want to create now, you can\u2019t tell people that we\u2019re gonna have every speaker on tape and the tape was made a week ago.<\/p>\n

And then after that, you\u2019re telling me that Michelle (My Belle) Obama can\u2019t go in and do a one-minute insert? Guess not. Got the social swing going up there at the $12 million house at Martha\u2019s Vineyard. She gave \u2019em the speech that they wanted, and that was it. “If you want more, go talk to Netflix and tell \u2019em, I want another special for another $50 million. Other than that, you gotta live with what I gave you.”<\/p>\n

She couldn\u2019t even recut or do an insert to put the historic vice-presidential pick in her keynote address? The point is, Trump is ladling into how she didn\u2019t go live — and I believe in live, folks, \u2019cause that\u2019s how I work. You know, I\u2019m a little selfish, and I\u2019m a little… Well, selfish may not be the word for it. But I\u2019m oriented that way because it\u2019s how I\u2019ve always done it.<\/p>\n

\"\"Remember when I\u2019ve told you that when I was doing the Rush to Excellence Tour (which were the forerunners of Trump rallies) when this show was new and I was trying to cement this program as something that was gonna last, not just be a flash in the pan? Whenever we\u2019d get a new affiliate, I would make a point to go into that market and do a personal appearance, which usually was an hour to an hour and a half of the presentation, ad-lib stand-up.<\/p>\n

I had a little outline on some cards I had in front of me from the podium, but nothing was scripted. I did this to cement the relationship with the radio station that had made the decision to carry the program. So for the first two years, 48 weekends a year, this is what I did — and I loved it; it was a blast — and depending on the place we\u2019d have crowds of 5,000, 15,000.<\/p>\n

We priced it such that charities benefited. You know, I got my expenses paid and that was it. But I remember telling people, these things were… “You look, you\u2019re having so much fun.” I said, “I am, but let me tell you how pressure packed they are.” “Pressure packed?” “Yes, they are.” “Why?” “Well, because what if my brain\u2019s not working that night?”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the pressure when you go live. If your brain isn\u2019t working, you can sit up there, stand up there and you can literally die. You can squander the opportunity. So the pressure is all day. You sit there and fret. “What if I…? What if my brain\u2019s not firing?” When you ad-lib everything, it is indeed massive pressure. If everything\u2019s on a teleprompter and it\u2019s already written and you know what it is, there\u2019s no reason to even get excited about it.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no reason to even get hepped up about it, because all you\u2019ve gotta do is read what\u2019s there. The challenge then becomes to read what\u2019s there and try to make it look like you\u2019re not reading anything. And that\u2019s the… Whenever I do a speech… You know, I don\u2019t… I\u2019ve cut back on the numbers of speeches that I do, and one of the reasons is that the day of the speech, I literally could drive myself nuts worrying about (sigh), “Is my brain gonna be working tonight?<\/p>\n

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“Is it gonna be functioning?” That\u2019s what live does. Trump knows it. Now, he mixes teleprompter with ad-lib (which is its own unique talent, by the way), and the teleprompter operator has to know when he goes off prompter. They gotta know when he\u2019s gonna get back on it and then be able to follow. But that pressure is what brings out the best for anybody who is able to do it.<\/p>\n

And they\u2019ve scripted everything, and they put everything on a prompter, and everybody is essentially just reading what they\u2019re saying, including the people going around the country during the roll call last night. So what I think the Republicans have gotta do is make sure that some of it is live and make sure that there is a live audience of some kind to react to what is happening.<\/p>\n

The Democrats have not done that, and it has been obvious that it\u2019s missing something. It\u2019s missing various elements of excitement. It\u2019s missing elements of drama. If you\u2019re told that every speaker has recorded what they\u2019re going to say a week ago or five days ago, then how much drama is there really going to be? If they\u2019re recording it and writing it, they\u2019re playing it safe for the most part.<\/p>\n

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So there\u2019s a lot here for the Republicans to learn about how to do this, \u2019cause they\u2019ve gotta go virtual too. They\u2019ve gotta just like the Democrats are, because they can\u2019t go back to North Carolina, open the venue, and start cramming people in there because of COVID. But there are ways to do this that will include drama and excitement, unpredictability, and a live audience of some kind reacting.<\/p>\n

Trump feeds off a live audience. So whatever Trump\u2019s involvement is, you know that there\u2019s going to be some audience element somewhere, and I think they probably are watching what\u2019s going on here and figuring out… They\u2019re seeing the mistakes that are being made. I have more on this as the program unfolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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