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RUSH: Adam in Casey, Illinois. It\u2019s great to have you, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s really cool to talk to you. Appreciate all that you do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Calling from the People\u2019s Republic of Illinois, and I just had a quick question for you. You\u2019ve been very clear that you\u2019re not endorsing any candidate; you\u2019re just explaining what Trump is doing, what\u2019s happening, and particularly between him and Fox and Megyn Kelly. But I\u2019m curious, I know you\u2019ve explained it and I get everything you\u2019re saying, but I\u2019m curious, what is your opinion of it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is my opinion of Trump\u2019s tactics? What is my opinion of Trump\u2019s behavior, strategy? Which specific?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, of his behavior with Megyn Kelly and Fox, missing the debate, making a big deal about his treatment and being treated unfairly and do you think he\u2019s making the right decision?<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Well, I have long advocated, and we could go back and find the tape, we can go back to our archives and find the transcripts. I have long advocated that Republicans in general no longer have to take it from the media. Why do we have to sit there and let the media pick our nominee every four years, for example? Why can\u2019t people stand up and say to various people in media, when you already know how they\u2019re gonna treat you, why go there?<\/p>\n

How many times have I suggested that Republicans avoid certain Sunday shows hosted by certain people. What\u2019s gonna happen? You know you\u2019re not gonna win anything there. You\u2019re not gonna triumph there. No matter how well you do, after you\u2019re gone they\u2019re gonna portray you as something unfavorable. Why give them the chance? And I have asked Republicans this, and the answer I get, “You have to do it. We can\u2019t avoid it. We can\u2019t run from the media.” And I\u2019ve always said, “You\u2019re not running from them; you\u2019re just not giving them the chance to personally destroy you, insult you, or what have you.”<\/p>\n

And I can… I\u2019ll bet you I could find in our archives over the past 25 years, after certain presidential debates or similar-type programs… I\u2019ll bet you I can find myself saying, “Why do it? Why let those people moderate? Why agree to letting this debate commission to choose these people to moderate? Why don\u2019t you stand up for yourselves and demand your own moderator?” So in that sense, I don\u2019t have a problem with this. I think that this is something I\u2019ve actually urged Republicans to do, as a party, over the course of the whole time that I have been doing this program.<\/p>\n

Because, you know, everybody knows now and agrees that the Democrats are not our only opponent; the media is as well. Republicans are running against two opponents in every election. And Republicans have always just fallen back on the notion that that\u2019s just the way it is for them. That\u2019s the hand that they\u2019re dealt. That\u2019s the hand they have to play. And so there\u2019s a part of me that enjoys it, and I\u2019ll tell you why. It\u2019s the same thing I said about Trump early on. I think the real value of Donald Trump — and I might have said this the first week of his campaign, certainly within the first month.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is showing that you don\u2019t have to be afraid of the media — and Republicans are. Republicans are afraid of being called racist so they don\u2019t criticize Obama. They\u2019re afraid of being accused of the government shutdown, so they don\u2019t make a single effort to stop any of this disastrous spending. And I\u2019ve always said that the value Trump brings to this is demonstrating that you don\u2019t have to fear criticizing the first black president. You don\u2019t have to fear criticizing Democrats.<\/p>\n


\nYou don\u2019t have to fear standing up to liberal Democrat policies and saying “no,” and you certainly don\u2019t have to fear being accused of violating political correctness. And I still stand by that. I think there are valuable lessons being taught and demonstrated here — and, frankly, one of the things that has sort of mildly surprised me is how few other Republicans have sought to take advantage of this. I was hoping that Trump would inspire similar behavior in a whole lot of these candidates, if you want to know the truth.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m not talking about reacting to criticism in what some people think\u2019s a petty way.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m talking about being bold! I\u2019m talking about being fearless! I\u2019m talking about shelving — getting rid of — these generational fears of the media. Fears of charges of racism, sexism, bigotry, and homophobia. Just go out and tell people who you are. Go out and be who you are. Go out and stand for what you stand for and explain to people why, instead of thinking the only way you can get somewhere is to convince somebody else that you\u2019re not what the Democrats or the media say about you.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a losing proposition, \u2019cause nobody\u2019s been ever able to prove a negative.<\/p>\n

You just can\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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