{"id":5327,"date":"2015-09-21T16:07:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T16:07:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-21T16:07:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T16:07:27","slug":"today_s_storyline_republicans_are_bigots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/09\/21\/today_s_storyline_republicans_are_bigots\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Storyline: Republicans Are Bigots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Okay, so what is the daily media soap opera today? What is everybody talking about today? No, what everybody\u2019s talking about — and this is designed to create — (interruption) Not the pope yet. (interruption) No, it\u2019s not the Ben Carson Muslim story, and it\u2019s not the Donald Trump “what he should have said” story. It\u2019s none of that. <\/p>\n

The story, the Drive-By Media story, the daily soap opera script, today is, quote, “Once again, Republicans show their bigotry,” unquote. That\u2019s what all of this is meant to be. They\u2019re not talking about what Ben Carson said. If they talked about what Ben Carson said, they\u2019d be debating it from both sides, and they would be explaining and asking, “Maybe, when we think about presidents, do we want a believer in Sharia law elected president?” They\u2019d be discussing it seriously and intellectually. They\u2019re not. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re talking about what a neophyte, inexperienced bigot Ben Carson is, and since he\u2019s a Republican, that\u2019s what Republicans are. And the same thing with Trump. That\u2019s why everybody\u2019s gotta stop falling for this stuff and discussing it on the premise or on the terms the left presents. But that\u2019s all anybody\u2019s doing, and so as far as the daily consumers of news is concerned, what\u2019s on display again is Republicans defending themselves against charges of bigotry. Pure and simple. <\/line><\/p>\n

And in the midst of that, what\u2019s not being discussed? Obama! What\u2019s not being discussed — and it\u2019s a Republican presidential campaign — is the damage American liberalism and the Democrat Party continues to inflict on this country. We\u2019re back now to Republicans are bigots. Next week Republicans are gonna be back to the War on Women, by the time the pope gets here or whatever. And this is how it goes day to day to day, week to week to week. And the Republicans have got to stop falling for this. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s as though they accept the premise because they think that the people are gonna believe these charges, therefore they need to take the time to defend themselves. And once you start doing that, once you accept the premise of this stuff, it\u2019s tough. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: We gotta deal with Ben Carson, but I\u2019m not gonna let it dominate things here, and I\u2019m certainly not gonna let it become the premise here that it has become everywhere else in the media. Ditto with Trump. You know, he sent out a couple of responses over the weekend and he got it mostly right. (paraphrasing) “Why am I obligated to defend President Obama? He wouldn\u2019t defend me. Never has. Why am I obligated to defend him? Why am I obligated to tell everybody what his religion is when I don\u2019t even know? Why am I obligated to do this?” <\/p>\n

<\/a>You see, the point of all of this is not the specific charge or the specific detail in every story. It\u2019s the overarching theme, if you will, and that is Republicans and prejudice, or Republicans and bias, or Republicans and bigotry. <\/p>\n

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Trump and Carson both refused to back down, as though they should back down. Why? They said what they intended to say. They said what they meant to say. Why should they back down? But see, that\u2019s the objective. They get \u2019em to back down, get \u2019em to apologize, say something that will allow the Drive-Bys then to nail home the point, the real point here, which is they\u2019re trying to get, trying to establish is that once again on display, here comes Republican prejudice, anti-minority bigotry, what have you, and immediate violation of political correctness. <\/p>\n

There has not been one substantive discussion of what Ben Carson said. All there has been is this mock outrage, and do not doubt me for a moment, it is mock outrage. It\u2019s not real anger, not from the Drive-Bys. “Man, I love this,” they\u2019re all excited, “Look what Ben Carson just gave.” So they get to go on TV and act mad, outraged, personally disgusted, when in fact they\u2019re filled with glee, happiness, and potential, because once again they get to carry forward one of their memes. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Trump. This is on Meet the Press Sunday morning, Chuck Todd, “In response to this controversy about the question at your town hall meeting, you tweeted out that you\u2019re not morally obligated to correct anybody who criticizes Obama, and that I think you\u2019re right about, but isn\u2019t it appropriate, at least at times, Mr. Trump, to raise the level of political discourse and to correct some of the mythologies that are out there so that we\u2019re ultimately all dealing with the same set of facts?”<\/p>\n

TRUMP: The president can really defend himself very well. He\u2019s a very capable person for that, you know, purpose. When somebody says something about me, is he gonna defend me? And I can tell you emphatically that the answer is no. It wasn\u2019t my obligation to defend. In fact, as you know, \u2019cause I also tweeted that this is the first time I\u2019ve ever gotten in hot water for not saying anything. I didn\u2019t do anything.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: But more than that, here again, let\u2019s go back to Chuck Todd\u2019s question. It\u2019s now up to Trump, i.e., a Republican, to elevate our politics. Yes. He\u2019s morally obligated to raise the level of political discourse. And you see, you never hear that question or anything like it asked of a Democrat. Never, ever. There are countless examples of outrageous claims coming from them and their supporters, filled with lies. Twitter is filled with it. You talk about raising the level of discourse, when\u2019s the last time anybody on Twitter or in the Democrat Party denounced anything that\u2019s happening in that sewer? <\/p>\n

See, all of this is a one-way street. It\u2019s up to Trump to elevate the political discourse. Why? Well, because the political discourse is in such bad shape because of these outspoken conservative Republicans. Yeah. So all these just established narratives that Republicans somehow end up obligated to address and to fix and to apologize for. Here\u2019s This Week with Stephanopoulos. He\u2019s talking to Trump. He said, “For the record, was President Obama born in the United States?” <\/p>\n

Is this a legitimate question at this point? Trump has already been there and done that on this question I don\u2019t know how many times. This is like Stephanopoulos trying to reignite this issue just as he ignited the War on Women issue with Mitt Romney, asking him some irrelevant question about contraception. Why are we answering questions from this guy anyway? He\u2019s a Democrat operative disguised as a journalist. He ran the Clinton war room, for crying out loud and there\u2019s another Clinton in the presidential race this year. “So for the record, was President Obama born in the US, Mr. Trump?”<\/p>\n