{"id":4664,"date":"2015-12-11T17:53:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T17:53:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-12-11T17:53:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T17:53:47","slug":"trump_soars_establishment_plots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/12\/11\/trump_soars_establishment_plots\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Soars, Establishment Plots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/69133\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The polling data today. It\u2019s skyrocketing northward for Trump.  It\u2019s just expanding.<\/p>\n<p>And more evidence coming in that his comments on a temporary moratorium on Muslim immigration and refugee immigration, he\u2019s up in practically every poll that has been taken since his comments.  And over here is the Drive-By Media and the Washington establishment, and they\u2019re befuddled and they\u2019re bemused and they don\u2019t understand it. They expected this to be the end of Trump.  MSNBC did a phone poll.  Now, admittedly it\u2019s an Internet poll, one of these things where when you\u2019re watching NBC you dial a number.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_115163\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trump-C.jpg\"\/><BR\/>You go to the Web, you click on this, and they release their results.  Ninety-six percent of African-Americans agree with Donald Trump.  Ninety-six percent.  This is what MSNBC reported in their graphic on screen.  Again, it\u2019s not a scientific CBS, Wall Street Journal, ABC-type poll.  And is obviously is of the MSNBC audience.  But there is nobody, I mean, it\u2019s African-Americans 96%, Caucasians 85%.  I mean, it\u2019s not even close. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of Americans at large and by demographic ethnic group, agree with Trump in overwhelming majority numbers.  Seventy percent is the minimum.  Some of the headlines: &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/11\/us\/politics\/fear-of-terrorism-lifts-donald-trump-in-new-york-times-cbs-poll.html\">Fear of Terrorism Lifts Donald Trump in New York Times\/CBS Poll<\/a>.&#8221;  &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/12\/10\/poll-terrorism-beats-economy-top-concern-first-time-decade\/\">Poll:  Terrorism Beats Economy as Top Concern for First Time in Decade<\/a>.&#8221;  &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/262900-poll-trump-unhurt-in-nh-by-muslim-remarks\">Poll:  Trump Unscathed in New Hampshire as Christie Climbs<\/a>.&#8221;  &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/poll-donald-trump-top-ted-cruz-second-hillary-clinton-over-bernie-sanders\/\">Poll:  Trump up 35% in CBS\/New York Times Poll<\/a>.&#8221;  Now we\u2019ve got a story that the GOP was overheard having a secret dinner conversation about a brokered convention. <\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re now denying that that was anything more than just floating an idea and it had nothing to do with Trump.  Ben Carson said, &#8220;Really?  You guys gonna do that? You\u2019ll have a brokered convention?  That means you\u2019re gonna ignore the will of these people in the primaries. I guarantee you it won\u2019t only be Donald Trump leaving this party if you guys do this.&#8221;  In the meantime, Senator Jeff Sessions&#8230; Back to moral authority: Jeff Sessions, senator, Alabama, says that Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan are speeding through a funding bill to pay for more Syrian refugees.  Obama held a little powwow with sop Syrian refugees and told them they are what\u2019s great about America.  I\u2019m not making any.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_115170\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/CVzXYamVEAE3Ruu_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH: By the way, here is that screen grab from MSNBC.  It\u2019s their audience voting in this poll, whatever kind of poll it was.  Are you&#8230;? Well, I did.  Where is it?  Here it is. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>Question:  &#8220;Has Donald Trump gone too far with his plan to ban all Muslims?&#8221;  Caucasians:  &#8220;no,&#8221; 69, &#8220;yes&#8221; 31%.  Has Donald Trump gone too far with his plan to ban all Muslims?  Hispanic:  &#8220;No,&#8221; 87%.  &#8220;Yes,&#8221; 13%.  &#8220;Has Donald Trump gone too far with his plan to ban all Muslims?&#8221;  African-American: &#8220;No,&#8221; 96%.  &#8220;Yes&#8221; 4%.  And there\u2019s a category called &#8220;Other,&#8221; and they are &#8220;no,&#8221; he has not gone too far, 88%.  Twelve percent &#8220;yes.&#8221;  So we are at a crossroads.  We\u2019re a great nation at risk in a dangerous world, and the people in charge of the national security of this country have been exposed as not only willing, but actually engaging in the politicization of national security in order to protect whatever political aspects of Obama need to be protected. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what we\u2019re up against.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: John in St. Paul, Minnesota.  We fortunately had his number and were able to call him back.  Hi, how are you, John?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hi, Rush.  Mega-dittos.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I think the Muslim immigration issue is a really watershed moment for the Republican Party.  The Republican establishment have their political slide rulers out over this issue and, I think that they need to instead put them away and be real leaders on the issue.  If they wake up, Americans are gonna follow them and vote for them.  But I think if they push Trump out, either at the convention or before it, that folks like myself are gonna follow Trump, because we want to have a real leader who\u2019s got our best interests in mind.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yeah, but your larger point here is: &#8220;A watershed moment for the Republican Party.&#8221;  The Muslim immigration issue.  But it\u2019s not just that issue.  There\u2019s a whole lot of things in this campaign that Trump is talking about.  As an umbrella issue, immigration would cover this what to do about refugees, say, from Syria or Islamic or Muslim immigrants as well. But there\u2019s Obamacare. There\u2019s any number of things.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s spending.  Believe me, there are a lot of issues that Republican base voters have split from the Republican Party on.  Well, actually, it\u2019s the Republican Party that split from the base voters, and they\u2019ve been doing so since about 2010.  But you think if this goes the wrong way the Republican Party could end up dooming its existence as a viable political party for a generation or two, right? That\u2019s what you\u2019re saying?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  I absolutely do.  When I see that also they are working to pass the repeal of Obamacare, and I hear there\u2019s a bunch of pork in it, that\u2019s again the same things that we\u2019re concerned about in middle America.  It\u2019s like, what are you guys doing out there?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, here, let me give you the one today.  The whole subject of Syrian immigrants, Syrian refugees. Given everything that we know with ISIS infiltrating these refugees &#8212; ISIS promoting them, ISIS training them, ISIS instructing them to fan out all over Europe and now to the United States &#8212; there is a question that maybe we ought to be really careful and limit these people coming in, too, until we can properly vet them.  The Regime tells us, &#8220;Oh, no, no, no, no! We are vetting them.  We\u2019ve got a great vetting system!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Against what?  There\u2019s nothing known about them!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_115174\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/GOPWash-DC-won-t-listen-to-us-3.jpg\"\/><BR\/>&#8220;Well, surely they wouldn\u2019t lie when we ask them if they\u2019re terrorists.  Surely they wouldn\u2019t be so low as to lie to us when we ask them that, right?  So we can trust them.  We ask \u2019em, &#8216;Are you terrorists or are you gonna be a terrorist? Do you know any terrorists?&#8221; <\/line><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, no.  Not me! Never.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fine.  Come on in.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Well, clearly the Republican base wants to proceed with caution on all of this.  Jeff Sessions, Senator from Alabama, has written a piece or he\u2019s made a statement that the House and Senate Republican leaders are preparing right now to ram through a spending bill that would allocate the money to immigrate and allow in these Syrian refugees.  That is a direct slap in the face to these Republican leaders\u2019 voters.  So it is ongoing.  There\u2019s no lesson being learned here.  The confrontation continues.  And I think you\u2019re right.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s gonna come to a head at some point.  I think in this whole campaign, there are things happening that are not even being reported yet that are&#8230; For example, I think Trump\u2019s doing better than even the polling data suggests.  I talked about this yesterday.  Remember the Wilder Effect where people did not tell pollsters the truth about their intention to vote or not vote for a black candidate?  Doug Wilder was a governor of Virginia.  He\u2019s running for election.  Of course, people are polling it. <\/p>\n<p>And what was learned was that the polling data suggested he\u2019s gonna win big. He was gonna win maybe landslide.  And so everybody in the campaign was happy about it. His opponents kind of thought it was over, didn\u2019t put a lot of effort into it. And then they had the election, and he lost.  And they went back and they compared all the polling data which showed he was gonna win big to the fact that he lost.  They concluded that a bunch of people lied to the pollsters \u2019cause they didn\u2019t want the pollsters to think that they\u2019re racist. <\/p>\n<p>So here comes, you know, Johnny Pollster: &#8220;I\u2019m here to ascertain how you\u2019re gonna vote upcoming governor election.  We have the African-American black candidate, Doug Wilder, and we got this white guy over there. How are you gonna vote?&#8221;  &#8220;Oh, I\u2019m voting Wilder!  Oh, yeah.  I mean, I\u2019m not racist. Don\u2019t tag me as a racist! I\u2019m voting for Wilder.&#8221;  &#8220;Good.&#8221; They record him as a polling selection for Wilder.  The same person goes in to vote does not vote for Wilder.  I think there\u2019s something similar going on with Trump right now.<\/p>\n<p>I think there are a lot of people who are not telling the pollsters that they\u2019re gonna vote for Trump &#8212; but they intend to &#8212; because they think that the pollsters are coming from the Regime or the establishment or whatever and they\u2019re gonna mock them or argue with them or what have you. Or else they don\u2019t trust the pollsters, or else even more there is a sophisticated behavior with pollsters now to purposely lie to them because people have such distrust in what they do anyway.  The dynamic here, in other words, is much broader and larger.  It\u2019s not as slam dunk simple as it used to be. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_115198\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trump-VS-GOP-B.jpg\"\/><BR\/>But the media, the Democrats, the establishment are stuck in their sandbox of days, weeks, months, years ago, thinking this process is clean and pure as the wind-driven snow as far as they want it to be because they control it.  And they have not concluded that voters have become more sophisticated. So the idea is that voters would not trust the pollster and maybe lie.  It\u2019s happening in exit polls now.  People are purposeful trying to screw polling companies by lying to them in exit polls.  Here\u2019s a sample here that sort of makes my point. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s in TheHill.com.  It\u2019s a Rasmussen poll: 70% of Republican voters believe Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee, 31% percent say Trump is very likely to win, and just 21% say he is unlikely.  So if you combine the somewhat likely, very likely, you get 71%.  Seventy percent think that Trump\u2019s gonna be the nominee.  &#8220;Those who support Trump\u2019s call for a temporary ban on Muslims among the US are even more likely to think that he will be the nominee.&#8221;  Now, you might be saying, &#8220;Well, that contradicts exactly what you just said.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>No, because this is not a poll of what these people will vote.  This is being asked who they think the nominee will be, not how they\u2019re gonna vote.  So the pollster is getting hold of them, &#8220;Who do you think the Republican nominee is gonna be?&#8221;  &#8220;Oh, I think it\u2019s gonna be Trump.&#8221;  Well, do you agree with that?  That question isn\u2019t asked.  So when you ask \u2019em not how they\u2019re gonna vote, but how they think the vote\u2019s gonna go, 70% say they think Trump is the man. <\/p>\n<p>This is the Rasmussen Reports poll.  In this polling data today, Trump is up all over the place.  And for all of these to be wrong&#8230; You know what I\u2019m amazed at, Mr. Snerdley?  I haven\u2019t had&#8230;. You may have had \u2019em and haven\u2019t let \u2019em through.  I have not had one call through this whole cycle claiming that the pollsters are setting us up, and every other campaign we get somebody &#8212; at least a couple\/three people &#8212; who think, &#8220;Rush, don\u2019t believe these people.  They\u2019re setting us up from big disappointment.  They\u2019re sandbagging us out there.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Like we heard during the 2012 presidential campaign that the polling data showed Romney winning. People called here, &#8220;Don\u2019t believe it, Rush. They\u2019re making it up. They\u2019re not gonna have that happen. They\u2019re just trying to get everybody to stay home and not vote, trying to make everybody think it\u2019s a slam dunk.&#8221;  I\u2019m not hearing anybody say that. I haven\u2019t had a single person in this entire primary process since last May tell me they think the polls are rigged or otherwise not true.  And I don\u2019t care what poll you look at.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly in every poll that has been taken since Trump\u2019s Muslim comments, he is up either a lot or somewhat, and in one a little.  But in every poll he has gained ground.  Now, if we\u2019re being sandbagged here, this is a pretty mammoth conspiracy between ABC, NBC, CBS, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.  And not to mention Monmouth and all the others who are reporting the same thing.  It would have to be a massive conspiracy.  But I don\u2019t think it is because I think these people are totally 180 degrees off their game. <\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve been knocked totally out of phase by Trump.  I don\u2019t think that they have the slightest idea what\u2019s hit them yet.  Now, some sound bites here to illustrate the point.  Let\u2019s start with number eight.  Here\u2019s Frank Luntz last night on Hannity, who said, &#8220;Frank, you said that you\u2019ve never seen anything like this, that there\u2019s no sign of the people in the focus group leaving Trump, that he\u2019s created or found some &#8216;magic formula.\u2019  So you don\u2019t think he\u2019s going away?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_115176\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/LUNTZ.jpg\"\/><BR\/>LUNTZ:  What we saw was remarkable, and it is time for the Republican establishment to accept the fact that Trump is not only a viable candidate, but this lead is real. His candidacy is real. The support is real.  We show them both positive and negative.  And the responses, when it was over &#8212; even after showing them negative information on Trump &#8212; his support went up from when they walked in three hours earlier.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  And they don\u2019t understand that, folks.  This is how they\u2019ve taken people out.  This is how they\u2019ve taken Republicans out.  I\u2019ll show you how easy this has been.  They almost&#8230; On the Friday before the election in 2000, remember that report that Bush had a DUI, and that he had covered it up or nobody knew about it?  He almost lost the election because of that.  So the Drive-Bys, media, they are very comfortable with the idea that they can take people out. <\/p>\n<p>All it takes is opposition research and this type of stuff where they report about Republicans all the time. And what Luntz is saying here is: &#8220;You hit Trump supporters with that, and his support goes up.&#8221;  Now, why do you think that is?  I know exactly why it is, and it means that the whole media formula is exploding on \u2019em.  It means that the respondents here know full well what people reporting that negative stuff about Trump are trying to do.<\/p>\n<p>And what they\u2019re saying is, &#8220;Screw you.  You think you can talk me out of this?  Screw you!  I love Trump even more.  Report that.&#8221;  That\u2019s what\u2019s happening here.  There\u2019s a rebellion going on against the establishment, a rebellion going on against pollsters and the media, with Trump owning it.  And practically running it.  And they are beside themselves.  Listen to me.  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=11349\">Back on September 17th in 2013 little over two years ago<\/a>.  This is me on this program.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=11349\"><img id=\"eZObject_115175\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/GOPTeaParty-1.jpg\"\/><\/a>RUSH ARCHIVE:  What if I were to tell you that the Republican establishment doesn\u2019t want people like you and me making up their base, their primary supporters, their number one supporters?  They want to trade us in for a new base of people.  More moderate, not so pro-life, not so focused on &#8220;the social issues.&#8221;  So they might be willing to live in the wilderness for a few elections, in order to switch out their base.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Remember me <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=11349\">saying that<\/a>?  I remember saying it.  Of course, I would, because I did say it. I just heard myself say it.  I love hearing myself.  I never get to hear myself the way you people do.  That\u2019s one of the great things about these audio sound bites of me. (interruption) I do.  I really sound good.  I understand now.  But I remember making the point, &#8220;They might just be willing to live in the wilderness for 10, 20 years, just to get rid of this base that they\u2019ve got, that they don\u2019t like.&#8221;  Well, last night on CNN, Anderson Cooper 360, speaking with Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker &#8212; who parades around as a conservative, and she has for a number of years. Anderson Cooper said, &#8220;What more, Kathleen, can the Republican Party do to stop Trump?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_115177\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/KP_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>PARKER:  There are some people making the argument that let\u2019s just go ahead and lose them.  You know, if we lose the election, let\u2019s at least keep the Senate, let\u2019s keep the House, and let\u2019s focus on 2020.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  In other words, now we\u2019ve got the Republican establishment saying, &#8220;Let\u2019s go ahead and lose.&#8221;  It\u2019s usually people in this audience who say, &#8220;Hey, Rush let\u2019s let the Democrats win; have the country find out just what a rotten people they are.&#8221;  Now Kathleen Parker, speaking for the establishment, says (translated), &#8220;Let\u2019s go ahead and lose this. Let\u2019s go ahead and lose this, get rid of these base people. Just get rid of \u2019em.  We\u2019ll come back stronger 2000, maybe hold the Senate. Gotta keep our chairmanships! But let\u2019s go ahead and lose it.&#8221;  Don\u2019t ever doubt me.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Back to the audio sound bites.  This is NPR, the Diane Rehm Show.  Diane Rehm still has a show?  Wow.  Okay, cool.  Well, anyway.  Oh, there\u2019s a Fill-In Host.  Okay.  Melissa Ross.  And E. J. Dionne Jr., the Washington Post columnist, is the guest.  They\u2019re talking about the presidential campaign and Trump, and the guest host says, &#8220;Now, some people are saying, E. J., that this split in the Republican Party is only between professional politicians and the people, that Trump is within the law and saying what our president should be saying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DIONNE:  We are talking as if Donald Trump is speaking for the people in a big way.  Let\u2019s looks at numbers.  If he is getting 30%, that\u2019s a high end of the average in the polls, of the Republican and Republican-leaning independent, 40% of the electorate, that is 12% of Americans.  Now, 12% is a lot of people. It can support Rush Limbaugh\u2019s radio show very handsomely. It can win a bunch of Republican primaries ,because the proportion of Republicans who call themselves &#8220;very conservative&#8221; has almost doubled &#8212; very conservative has almost doubled &#8212; over the last 20 years. (funky music) So yes, it can win in primaries. But that doesn\u2019t mean he is speaking for anything like a majority of the country.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Oh, they\u2019re so hoping that\u2019s true.  Oh, man, they\u2019re just talking amongst themselves, and they\u2019re assuring themselves that Trump is still really just a speck on the wall. He just a minor player. It\u2019s just this extreme base of the Republican Party.  How do I end up in this? (paraphrasing) &#8220;Oh, 12% of Americans, that\u2019s a big number of people. That can support the Rush Limbaugh Show very handsomely, but&#8230;&#8221; E. J., I think you\u2019d better recalculate some of your data here with some of the polls that have just been released today.  This poll data came out after E. J.\u2019s appearance yesterday on NPR. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=4703\"><img id=\"eZObject_115188\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/TrumpMedia.jpg\"\/><\/a>Carly Fiorina, jumping forward to sound bite number 12, was on CNN\u2019s &#8220;New Day&#8221; today with Chris Cuomo, who said, &#8220;Look, Trump seems to be connecting with voters in the way that you and the rest of the field are not.  I mean, don\u2019t you have to give him his due?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>FIORINA:  Donald Trump knows how to play the media like a master.  I think he\u2019s a Pied Piper.  I think he says things and you all rush to cover it.  Every single network.  I\u2019m not being critical of CNN any more than anyone else, but he knows how to dominate the news coverage, and I think it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in the polls.  I\u2019m not saying he doesn\u2019t resonate with voters.  Voters with deeply afraid, and voters are very frustrated.  And in a way, Donald Trump is a reaction to the unbelievable weakness and delusional nature of national security policy from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Now, that\u2019s fine as it is, but it inspires a question, here.  Donald Trump knows how to play the media like a master.  I think he\u2019s a Pied Piper.  I think he says things and you all rush to cover it.  Every single network.  I\u2019m not being critical of CNN any more than anyone else, but he knows how to dominate the news coverage, and I think it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy&#8230;&#8221;  Well, is this by accident?  This is my point that I\u2019ve been trying to make. Maybe clumsily.  Maybe I should admit.  But all week I have been trying to explain Trump\u2019s ownership of the media and dominance.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not accidental. It\u2019s not just because of who he is.  Once again, if you can sit there, if somebody can sit there and analyze this and chalk it up to, &#8220;Well, you know, he\u2019s a Pied Piper. Yeah, he plays the media like a master.&#8221;  Well, if he can, why can\u2019t anybody else?  Trump\u2019s showing it can be done, so why is he the only one who\u2019s doing it?  I\u2019m not putting people down.  It\u2019s a legitimate question, because there are legitimate substantive answers to it.  And the answers rely in content, content, content, and substance, substance, substance &#8212; and not just theatrics. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just Pied Piper-ism.  It\u2019s not just propaganda-ism.  There is substance here that Trump owns! He\u2019s the only one willing to say some things.  He happens to have an engaging personality, a charismatic personality.  Not everybody has one of those.  But even if you do have a charismatic personality, there are a lot of people who would love to be able to own the media.  It\u2019s not just something that happened and you can\u2019t blame the media for it. <\/p>\n<p>They would love for it not to be the case.  They can\u2019t afford not to cover the guy.  Their ratings depend on it.  That\u2019s the dilemma, the conundrum they have.  They can\u2019t afford not to cover him.  They have to, if they want to maintain an audience, and they have to cover him the way he wants to be covered.  Because there\u2019s so much coverage, if somebody tries to screw him, there\u2019s a record of what really happened on the next network.  So they can\u2019t get away with the traditional ways of editing and sabotaging, because everybody\u2019s covering Trump. <\/p>\n<p>So in a sense, Trump doesn\u2019t even need them.  He can go directly to the people with his Twitter account, his Facebook, whatever. He can go straight to the people.  He doesn\u2019t even need the media.  The media is like icing on the cake for him.  But it\u2019s not just \u2019cause it\u2019s happenstance. It\u2019s not \u2019cause it just happened. It\u2019s not because it\u2019s a quirk of fate.  Just like it wasn\u2019t with Reagan.  There are specific, substantive reasons why somebody &#8212; Donald Trump in this case &#8212; has been able to come along and totally render the media impotent.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_115199\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trump-on-Iowa-C.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH:  Listen to this. Erin Burnett was on CNN last night, Erin Burnett OutFront, speaking with their political correspondent Sara Murray about Trump, and Erin is (hysterical): Please, would you tell me that he\u2019s bombing out? Would you tell me that it\u2019s temporary? Please, just tell me I don\u2019t have to put up with this!<\/line><\/p>\n<p>BURNETT: How are they reacting? I mean, are they angry? Are they turning away from him? Or are they standing by him on this news?<\/p>\n<p>MURRAY:  You know, it\u2019s amazing.  Even the Trump supporters I talked to who didn\u2019t agree with him on every point, still said that they understood where he was coming from and they appreciated him bringing up this issue.  This is the amazing thing, Erin. When you talk to his supporters, there are, yes, a number of people who agree with him who think this is a great proposal and the US should do it. And even the ones who don\u2019t really think that he is on to something and he is at least proposing something to try to deal with this issue and sort of projecting an aura of strength that they say is missing from President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  What does all this add up to?  I mean, it doesn\u2019t matter where you go, this story is all over the Drive-By Media.  They\u2019re sending reporters out trying to find holes in the Trump support base. They\u2019re trying to find defections, and they can\u2019t find it. And even when Trump says something his supporters don\u2019t particularly agree with, they love him even more.  Why?  There is an answer to this, and it isn\u2019t complicated.  There\u2019s an answer to why Trump has this kind of insurance.  It\u2019s all about the bond that he has built with his supporters.  There\u2019s a level of trust.  There is a degree of perceived honesty and seriousness of intent.  And it\u2019s deep.  And it\u2019s based on human reality. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll explore this in future broadcasts.  <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  You know, the media never wondered if Bill Clinton\u2019s voters were gonna abandon him after they discovered the semen-stained dress, or people never ask, &#8220;Is Hillary gonna lose her support when they find out she lied about the video in Benghazi?&#8221;  They only ask this about Republican candidates.  Creeps.  Real creeps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The polling data today. 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