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RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you, this is classic. You just don\u2019t see this. I don\u2019t recall ever having seen anything like this. I\u2019m sure I have; I just don\u2019t recall it, it\u2019s that unique. It\u2019s that rare, what Donald Trump did when he found out he was losing in Iowa. <\/p>\n

Greetings, my friends, welcome back. Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. <\/p>\n

Big Republican debate tonight. And this is in Colorado, right? Boulder, Colorado. CNBC has the debate tonight. Trump, incidentally — by the way, this is not what I was referring to. But he\u2019s already predicting CNBC is gonna be unfair to him. I think it\u2019s smart. You know what I\u2019ve found? I shouldn\u2019t give this away. Well, what does it matter? I don\u2019t do these interviews anyway. I have always found — took me awhile to learn this — the media never want you to be able to predict what they\u2019re gonna do. <\/p>\n

What Trump is doing (paraphrasing), “I know they\u2019re gonna be unfair to me. I know they\u2019re gonna be unfair. Everybody knows it. You know it and I know it. Here I am leading everywhere and they\u2019re using fake polls, rigged polls and everything, and they\u2019re not gonna give me a fair shake \u2019cause they don\u2019t want me to be the guy.” It\u2019s a brilliant thing to do. Since Trump has called them out, what I have found is when you call \u2019em out that way, they will go in a different direction just to make sure Trump is not perceived as having been right about them. <\/p>\n

But there\u2019s something else that Trump did that you just don\u2019t see. And, by the way, a lot of people who hate Trump cannot believe he did it. When he found out that he was losing in Iowa, he went to Iowa and said, “You can\u2019t let me down like this. I have to win here. I promise you I\u2019ll do a good job. What do you mean, you can\u2019t abandon me like this. We\u2019re on a roll here.” Most candidates wouldn\u2019t get anywhere near acknowledging that they were losing all of a sudden anywhere, particularly in Iowa. They\u2019d go up, they\u2019d talk, and they would pretend they don\u2019t even know what the polling data is, they\u2019re so far above it and so far removed, and it\u2019s so inconsequential, they wouldn\u2019t even mention it. <\/line><\/p>\n

But Trump goes up there and reaches out to Iowans personally and says, “Come on, you gotta get me over the finish line here. I\u2019ll do the best job anybody would ever do for you.” I guarantee you that a lot of media people who hate Trump who think he\u2019s this wealthy buffoon that\u2019s distant and removed are gonna look at that, probably have looked, and say, “Whoa, this is incredibly personal.” And you know what it also is? In many people\u2019s view — I don\u2019t think in Trump\u2019s case it is, but they will say, “Why, look at Trump. He\u2019s exposing his vulnerabilities to people. That takes real courage. That\u2019s not the Donald Trump that we know.” <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites, and I\u2019ll show you that which I am talking about and that which I mean. First, in Sioux City, Iowa, last night Trump spoke. This is just a quick 14-second starter piece.<\/p>\n

TRUMP: You remember the heat I took with illegal immigration. Remember that heat? For two weeks Rush Limbaugh said, “He has received more incoming than any human being I\u2019ve ever seen. And then he doubled down.” He thought it was pretty good. And he\u2019s good. Really good.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you go. So Trump goes to Iowa, down in the polls, says (paraphrasing), “You know, I need to do some things to get back my popularity here.” So that was his starter. I think is, if it\u2019s not a first, it\u2019s really rare and unique, and you don\u2019t hear politicians, which is key, do this. He went to Iowa, he went to the Sioux City, and he scolded them at first for abandoning him, and after scolding them, he asked, “What are you doing? There\u2019s nobody better than I am. I\u2019ll do a great job. I promise you.” Listen to this. See what you think.<\/p>\n

TRUMP: Would you get the numbers up, Iowa, please? This is ridiculous. I am second. It\u2019s not like terrible, but I don\u2019t like being second. In most polls I\u2019m number one. Now, until Iowa came along, I said “every poll,” and then Iowa, what the hell are you people doing to me? I refuse to say, “Get your asses in gear.” I will not say that. So will you please do me a favor and work with my people and go out on February 1st and vote and give us a victory? (cheers and applause) When I heard the poll today, I said, “What are you gonna do?” I said, “I\u2019m gonna work harder in Iowa. I\u2019m not leaving Iowa.” Now, if I lose Iowa, I will never speak to you people again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I guarantee you they ate it up, and not in our bite was when he said, “I promise I\u2019ll do a great job for you. I\u2019m the best you\u2019ve got. I\u2019m the best running. I\u2019m gonna make the country great again. I\u2019ll work for you. I\u2019ll really do the best I can for you.” And remember, over here, there is speculation — and you\u2019re gonna have this with every poll, so I don\u2019t want to give too much weight to it, but there are some raised eyebrows about the polling data that shows Trump — I mean, he\u2019s down big, 14 points to Ben Carson. “That\u2019s just not that — maybe five, what is this 14 points?” When it\u2019s the only place, the only place Trump\u2019s down 14, and others, well, yeah, because, look, Carson is a big, devout Seventh-day Adventist, he\u2019s advertising his Christianity. Hawkeye Cauci goers on the Republican side are traditionally conservative and religious people. And Trump has said some things that are impolitic on religion. Like he didn\u2019t think he\u2019d ever done anything that he needed to ask for God\u2019s forgiveness. That was early on. I knew that that had the potential to come back and bite him. <\/line><\/p>\n

Anyway, the Drive-Bys, since they don\u2019t see this kind of thing, the Drive-Bys think that Trump is begging for votes. They interpret the sound bite you just heard as victory for them. “Yeah, we did it. We took Trump out. He\u2019s out and he knows he\u2019s out. He\u2019s losing. He\u2019s peaked, and now he\u2019s been reduced to begging for votes.” We have a montage. They think they\u2019ve done Trump in, and they love it.<\/p>\n

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Donald Trump falling behind in the polls and proving he\u2019s not too proud to beg for votes.<\/line><\/p>\n

CAROL COSTELLO: Trump is begging for voter support.<\/p>\n

SUNLEN SERFATY: Donald Trump, he really has been begging for Iowa voters.<\/p>\n

JOHN ROBERTS: He was all but begging Iowa voters to put him back on top.<\/p>\n

MICHAELA PEREIRA: Trump, essentially begging voters to come out and support him.<\/p>\n

MAEVE RESTON: Donald Trump is actually begging the folks in Iowa to get his poll numbers back up.<\/p>\n

ROBIN ROBERTS: The billionaire is now begging for votes.<\/p>\n

ALISYN CAMEROTA: Trump is trying a new political tactic and I believe the technical term is begging.<\/p>\n

JOY BEHAR: I don\u2019t like to see a grown man beg. He\u2019s been begging — Trump is begging the Iowans to vote.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So they\u2019ve got it all. There\u2019s another one of these media montages where the fax, obviously, or e-mail went out. And the meme of the day is Trump is begging. I\u2019m telling you, they think they did this. See, I need to reiterate something. Democrat Party Drive-By Media, to a man and woman, think that you — and this is true of you in Iowa, all of you out there. You do not make up your minds on things independently. Whatever you think issue to issue and however you vote issue to issue is the result of somebody influencing you. And if it\u2019s talk radio influencing you, then you are a mind-numbed idiot robot. If it\u2019s the Democrats influencing you, then you are open-minded and bright and well-reasoned and a well-bred thinker. If the Republicans are influencing you, you\u2019re a racist, bigot, sexist, homophobe. And that\u2019s how they go through each and every day, because they have a contempt for average, ordinary people.<\/line><\/p>\n

The contempt is that you are unable to think on your own. You\u2019re unable to process things on your own. You\u2019re too dumb and stupid. You hear what Algore is saying? And he must have said this while looking in the mirror. He said global warming is making people dumber. And he said it\u2019s science. There\u2019s a scientific consensus on this now, that all of this CO2 out there is actually reducing people\u2019s intelligence. I\u2019m not making it up. Now, that\u2019s desperation. If anybody\u2019s out there begging for your support, it\u2019s these global warming climate change nerds and geeks. They are the ones begging. They are the ones that are abandoning all reason and begging you trying to emotionally tug you to agree. <\/p>\n

But, remember, you have not the ability to make up your own mind about things. If talk radio influences you, you\u2019re a mind-numbed robot. You\u2019re stupid. If the Republican Party influences you, you\u2019re racist or sexist or bigot or homophobe or you hate women. But if you\u2019re a Democrat voter, oh, man you\u2019re a great critical thinker, you\u2019re open-minded, you\u2019re not racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, you\u2019re perfect. Now Trump is begging for votes — this will mean for a while that Iowa voters, caucus-goers, are very, very smart people, the media will say. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s F. Chuck Todd last night on the NBC Nightly News. Lester Holt is the anchor there now. He said, “Hey, F. Chuck, a lot of pundits have been predicting a Trump flameout. Might this be it? And how do you see Trump responding in the Republican debate now that he\u2019s not number one in Iowa?”<\/p>\n

TODD: This was always the moment we were waiting for, to see how Donald Trump would handle the first time he sort of faced adversity. And for him adversity is falling in the polls. If this becomes self-fulfilling for him, if he doesn\u2019t sort of show that he can accept adversity, if this is how he reacts, then I think it could actually snowball and speed up his downfall if he\u2019s not careful.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you a question. Have the media been right yet about Trump? They have not. And F. Chuck gave it up. This was always the moment we were waiting for. The media. The guys that sit around and report the news, supposedly. The people that sit around and record what happens and tell people who weren\u2019t there so that the people that weren\u2019t there can also know what happened. That\u2019s what F. Chuck does. No, they don\u2019t do that. That\u2019s the point. That\u2019s the image. That\u2019s the joke. They don\u2019t do that. They have been trying to take Trump out. And now they think they have. And my point to you is, they are so out of touch, they do not understand basic human relationships. They do not. <\/p>\n

They are going to totally misinterpret the way Iowans are gonna react to Trump going to Sioux City, saying, “Hey, why are you letting me down? You can\u2019t let me down. You gotta get in gear. You gotta get in gear. I\u2019ll work hard for you, I promise. Number two, I\u2019ve never been number two.” They\u2019re not gonna understand the effectiveness of that. They\u2019re not gonna understand how it\u2019s gonna be received. They think it\u2019s begging. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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