{"id":213695,"date":"2016-05-31T16:14:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T20:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/05\/31\/the_press_conference_republican_voters_have_wanted_to_see_for_years\/"},"modified":"2016-05-31T16:14:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T20:14:56","slug":"the_press_conference_republican_voters_have_wanted_to_see_for_years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/05\/31\/the_press_conference_republican_voters_have_wanted_to_see_for_years\/","title":{"rendered":"The Press Conference Republican Voters Have Wanted to See for Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a> <\/p>\n

\n

RUSH:  Well, that\u2019s what you\u2019ve all wanted.  That\u2019s what everybody\u2019s been asking for I don\u2019t know how long.  That was a press conference.  That was a press conference.  That was the kind of press conference Republicans voters have been dying to see for who knows how many years. <\/p>\n

Greetings, my friends.  Great to have you here, and great to be back.  A short busy broadcast week.  Rush Limbaugh back at it.  It is 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program; the email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Say what you will about Donald Trump — how many years have people been begging for a Republican to just once take on the media the way Trump did? All the way from the premise, to the details, to the motivation, he took \u2019em all on. And the piece de resistance is some journalist said, “Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump –” and, by the way, these people in the media, they may hate the guy, but they cannot stop covering him. <\/p>\n

There are a couple things in the Trump Stack<\/a> today that are gonna force me — not force — have, I should say, inspired me to do another in-depth explanation of why all this is happening. Why Trump is happening. Why Trump is working. Trump\u2019s relationship with the media, what is sustaining it. How it is that Trump is succeeding in getting a bunch of people that literally hate him to help him out.  It\u2019s fascinating. <\/line><\/p>\n

Folks, it\u2019s a fascinating case study in politics and sociology, psychology, pop culturism, post whatever modernism, it\u2019s an amazing thing, and I\u2019m gonna do my best to explain it because it\u2019s fascinating to me.  It\u2019s literally fascinating to me.  <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, back to this Trump press conference, if you didn\u2019t see it, if you didn\u2019t hear it, we\u2019re working on audio sound bites now. We\u2019re an editor short today so we\u2019ll get them up as quickly as we can.  We only got one guy editing.  When we have two guys editing it would only take half the time it\u2019s gonna take now. <\/p>\n

But, anyway, the piece de resistance — you thought I lost my place, but I didn\u2019t, because I never do.  Near the end of it a frustrated journalist (paraphrasing), “Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, is it gonna be this way, are you gonna be attacking us after you become president?” <\/p>\n

“Yes, it is.  Because you are the most dishonest people, political press the most dishonest people I know. You know it and I know it.  The press is dishonest, but the political press is especially dishonest.” <\/p>\n

And then Jim Acosta, I think it was, CNN (paraphrasing), “Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, do you object to scrutiny?  You seem like you didn\u2019t even like scrutiny, but you\u2019re seeking the office of president of the United States, how do you think –“<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t mind scrutiny.  What I don\u2019t like is lies.  You can scrutinize me all day long but you set up false premises. You state things about me that are not true. Then you run stories on that. That\u2019s why I\u2019m out here trying to correct the record.”  And then Trump says, “By the way, I\u2019ve seen you, you\u2019re among the worst. You\u2019re at ABC, right?  You\u2019re the worst. You\u2019re a sleaze.”  And I\u2019m thinking the people at home watching this — (laughing) \u2019cause, folks, in the age of internet trolling, manners are out the window.  It\u2019s a waste of time asking for manners here.  Because, remember, in a war the aggressor sets the rules and I\u2019m guaranteeing you that Trump thinks the media are the aggressors here. <\/p>\n