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<\/p>\nRUSH: Tallahassee, Florida. This is George. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you for your time, Rush. I just want to give prayers from a nation of grateful conservatives. But my question is: Considering the dismal ratings of the Democrat Party\u2019s convention, what do you think President Trump can do to ensure the Republicans\u2019 convention is a grand slam, that he hits it out of the park?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, that\u2019s a good question. I\u2019m glad you asked this to remind me about this, because I talked about it yesterday<\/a>. I think what this convention has missed is any unpredictability. It has missed any drama. Now, you might say, “Well, these conventions stopped being dramatic when they stopped picking the nominee.” Well, yeah. I understand that. But these conventions…<\/p>\n Even four years ago and eight years ago, the networks televised one hour a night, once it became obvious that all they were is infomercials. You don\u2019t remember this, a lot of you, because you\u2019re too young. But the party conventions used to be where the nominee was picked, and it wasn\u2019t known until the last night maybe or the second-to-last night who the nominee was gonna be, and ditto with the vice-presidential pick.<\/p>\n It all happened at the convention. Then the parties went to the primary system to engage in outreach and let the voters actually have a say in determining the party\u2019s nominee, to get rid of the smoke-filled rooms and the party power brokers. When that happened, the drama ended. Most of it. So the networks cut back to televising only an hour a night — and in some years, they didn\u2019t even televise the first two nights \u2019cause there literally was nothing going on.<\/p>\n So the parties, to counteract that, would go get some of their more radical members who had run but failed to win the nomination or failed to make a noise, and give them primetime speaking assignments hoping to get the networks to televise it. They\u2019d some real controversial figure. But for the most part, they televised Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday — and the focus was Thursday, because that was when the nominee gave the speech.<\/p>\n Wednesday night was when the vice-presidential choice made his or her speech. But those speeches were live. Even though there was no drama in terms of who, there was some drama because it was live. The outcome wasn\u2019t going to change, but there still was the possibility that somebody would go off script. So after watching what the Democrats did this week, my guess is that it\u2019s gotta be patently obvious to everybody in the Trump campaign what to do.<\/p>\n You don\u2019t prerecord days or weeks in advance important speeches by prominent people. Do them live! If the networks say, “You can\u2019t go live. We didn\u2019t let the Biden people go live,” well, you insist on it. They may not want to go live. Going live carries with it risks. But you can put it all on prompter and go live with it. I still think live… There\u2019s an energy to live that people can tell.<\/p>\n People know the difference in live and tape, and there\u2019s always going to be more interest in something that\u2019s happening live, especially if it\u2019s promoted. But in addition to live, get a live audience for some of this. I don\u2019t care how many, don\u2019t care where. Get live human beings responding to it at the moment that it\u2019s happening. Not a bunch of Zoom squares. Not a bunch of FaceTime audio connections, but actual live people somewhere reacting.<\/p>\n This could be set up. “But, Rush, but, Rush, the networks won\u2019t televise it because they didn\u2019t let the Democrats.” No, the Democrats chose to do it this way. The Democrats took the safe road: Pretaped everything. I mean, Michelle Obama didn\u2019t even know who the vice-presidential pick was. That\u2019s her excuse for not mentioning Kamala Harris. There\u2019s a headline here: “Daily Beast: Liberal Networks Worried Sick About Trump\u2019s Unpredictable 2020 Convention.”<\/p>\n They are deathly afraid.<\/p>\n Look, folks, everybody knows that Donald Trump knows how to put on a show. He is, among all the other things he is, a showman, and he\u2019s not gonna stand for a series of boring presentations like we\u2019ve had this week. Does that mean he\u2019s gonna be part of it every night? Does it mean that he\u2019s going to have people be given assignments that you wouldn\u2019t normally expect to be seeing on a convention telecast?<\/p>\n But they are worried.<\/p>\n They\u2019re worried that Trump might try to score two hours a night by not finishing in one hour. What if he does that? Because you know these are gonna be streamed. You know the Trump conventions are gonna be streamed like the Democrats\u2019 were, and if the networks decide after one hour that they\u2019re gonna cut out and not cover any more, people are gonna be able to go to the stream and continue to watch whatever is happening.<\/p>\n If Trump has the ability to put on a great show and doesn\u2019t finish it in an hour and it just bleeds into a second hour and the networks decide to bump out of it, because they have to be fair to what they did to Biden, it doesn\u2019t matter. Trump can continue on, and the audience will dutifully switch to the stream if they like what they\u2019ve seen, and they\u2019ll abandon the networks to do it.<\/p>\n They\u2019re worried about this. They\u2019re “worried about airing two hours … the networks…” This is what they told the DNC, in fact. They told the Democratic National Committee, the reason they\u2019re not gonna “air their event in full [is] because they\u2019d also have to air Trump\u2019s in full,” and they don\u2019t want to do that, and why don\u2019t they want to do that? ‘Cause they don\u2019t want to help Trump. They don\u2019t want to end up being seen as helpful to Trump.<\/p>\n They\u2019re part of the cabal that wants Trump defeated and gone. They\u2019re very upset. (impression) “We don\u2019t know what Trump\u2019s content is gonna be.” Now, they have known what Biden\u2019s content\u2019s gonna be. They\u2019ve been sharing it. There\u2019s even been some collaboration. NBC News is running a PSA called, “Plan your vote.” Last night both Obama and Kamala Harris joined the effort and told everybody, “You gotta plan your vote!<\/p>\n “Make a plan. Make sure you follow it through and vote.” So there\u2019s already collaboration going on between the Democrats and the Biden campaign. “Executives at multiple networks told the Daily Beast privately that they were still almost completely in the dark about basic details of next week\u2019s RNC, including its format and its roster of speakers.”<\/p>\n (sniveling) “It\u2019s unfair! Trump\u2019s not the telling them what he\u2019s gonna do! The Democrats did,” and they\u2019re afraid. They\u2019re afraid of being hoodwinked. They\u2019re afraid of being tricked. They\u2019re afraid that Trump\u2019s gonna end up using them in ways they can\u2019t stop, to make himself look good and make the Democrats look bad.<\/p>\n “The RNC also promises to be a hodgepodge of Trump sycophants, coronavirus skeptics, and alleged victims of ‘cancel culture.'” Can you imagine if Trump brings a bunch of people out that contradict every bullet point the Democrats are trying to live on, and here are the networks having to cover it? You know, they don\u2019t cover Trump press conferences.<\/p>\n They don\u2019t cover the daily brief that he does even now during coronavirus. CNN doesn\u2019t. MSNBC doesn\u2019t. Trump really holds a lot of cards here. He has the ability to force these networks into covering some of what he does against their will. But beyond that, the answer to your question: Nothing dull, nothing boring, and nothing predictable.<\/p>\n And some live reaction — favorable, laughing, whatever, live reaction. And, by the way, something else that would be as easy as pie for the Trump people to do: Be optimistic. Love your country. Talk about the greatness of America. Talk about the exceptional nature of America; define it. Why are we exceptional? And then put on the biggest defense of the American founding you know how to put on.<\/p>\n You tell people why the founding of this country is the most blessed event that\u2019s happened for humanity in the world since the birth of Christ. You tell people how special the founding of this country is and the people who did it. You can devote a small portion on one night to the founders, to the greatness. I\u2019ll tell you what.<\/p>\n He\u2019s got a foundation for it already in the two speeches that he did, one on the Fourth of July and the White House lawn and out at the… I\u2019m having a mental block. What\u2019s the name of the place where the presidents\u2019 faces are on the rocks? (interruption) Mount Rushmore. Those two speeches would be the great foundation for what I\u2019m talking about here.<\/p>\n Love your country. Explain why. Explain why there\u2019s nothing wrong with it. Point out that not loving America, there\u2019s something wrong with you. Anyway, the possibilities are wide open to them simply based on the fact the Democrats went low and negative and pessimistic and dystopian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: Look, folks, everybody knows that Donald Trump knows how to put on a show. 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<\/a>This story\u2019s from two days ago. It is a Newsbusters story<\/a>, but it\u2019s about the reporters at The Daily Beast and some of the other liberal blogosphere places. “Media reporters at the Daily Beast are insisting that the liberal broadcast networks are incredibly nervous about what Team Trump will want to put on television in the 10 p.m. hour next week, and that\u2019s why they promised only one hour.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/APPTrumpRushmore.jpg\")
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