{"id":214163,"date":"2016-08-08T17:51:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/08\/08\/who_would_believe_trump_hates_babies_\/"},"modified":"2016-08-08T17:51:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:51:38","slug":"who_would_believe_trump_hates_babies_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/08\/08\/who_would_believe_trump_hates_babies_\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Would Believe Trump Hates Babies?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Remember the story that Donald Trump kicked babies out of his convention and hates babies?  I go back to Mr. Rutenberg\u2019s story in the New York Times today<\/a> — or Sunday, yesterday — where he claims that the media is so outraged over what Trump represents and the danger Trump poses, they have to throw everything they\u2019ve ever learned, everything they\u2019ve ever been taught out the window. And they must assume, for the first time in their careers, an “oppositional” position.  Never before has the Drive-By Media opposed anyone. <\/p>\n

They have been objectively reporting on all candidacies and all campaigns and letting the chips fall.  But this? This is so bad, this is so overwhelmingly dangerous that they have had to step outside every limit they\u2019ve ever known and been taught.  They\u2019ve had to throw objectivity out the window. They\u2019ve had to throw fairness out the window and do nothing but make sure Trump doesn\u2019t get anywhere near the nuclear codes \u2019cause he\u2019s unstable, he\u2019s unfit, he doesn\u2019t have the right temperament — and they\u2019ve gotta save America!<\/p>\n

And he then went on to say (paraphrased), “The danger in this is that we end up supporting Trump\u2019s opponent,” as though it\u2019s an afterthought (chuckles), as though it\u2019s an accident.  “So we only appear to being supporting Hillary because we\u2019re so opposed to Trump. We\u2019re so, so committed to defeating Trump that of course it looks like we\u2019re supporting Hillary, and that\u2019s not good for journalism.” It\u2019s also not good for America, Jim, when you get right down to it.<\/p>\n

<\/a>But the Trump-hates-babies stories.  The fact is the whole thing was made up.  Trump told a joke<\/a>. There was a lady in the crowd and the baby was crying. He made a joke about getting her out. “No, keep her. We love babies.” He went on and on. The baby didn\u2019t leave; the mother didn\u2019t leave. Nobody had to leave. Trump didn\u2019t force anybody to leave. He does not hate babies. But for a week, the story was out there that Trump hates babies. <\/p>\n

It finally got so bad, it was so over the top, that the fact checker at the Washington Post (a guy by the name of Glenn Kessler) had to do a story debunking it.  But it was too little, too late.  It was after a week.  Now, that wasn\u2019t journalism; that was strictly lies told over and over, embellished over and over.  The whole thing was made up.  But the damage was done, and it just…  The thing that\u2019s always amazed me about things like this, is I try to put myself in the position of being a low-information person. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to do, admittedly.  But I try to think as somebody other than what I am.  I\u2019m deeply enmeshed and involved in all this, and I try to ask myself, “Okay, if I\u2019m minding my own business — I\u2019m playing Pokemon, or I\u2019m out there playing Xbox One, I\u2019m playing whatever — and I\u2019m watching E! Entertainment TV, and all of a sudden I see a news story that Donald Trump, Republican presidential candidate, hates babies. I just can\u2019t imagine automatically believing it.  I can\u2019t imagine sitting there going, ‘My God, this guy\u2019s a reprobate! He hates babies! Mabel, did you hear that?  There\u2019s a guy running for president who hates babies.  We — we — we gotta stop it!'”<\/p>\n

I know there are people that react that way, but I just cannot fathom it. (sigh) (interruption) Well, I know, it\u2019s the same thing whenever I hear, “Did you hear that, Mabel? Donald Trump is out there and he hates… He literally hates! He hates Muslims and he hates the Mexicans. Do you believe that?” And people go, “Oh, man.” There\u2019s no suspicion in these people minds. There\u2019s no curiosity. There\u2019s no, “That sounds over the top.” <\/p>\n

<\/a>But they… I guess they succeeded in that narrative that Trump hates babies. (interruption) Well… (sigh) (interruption) Well… (interruption) Nah, I… (interruption) That\u2019s… (interruption) See, Snerdley just said something to me, and I don\u2019t believe that.  Snerdley said to me that even the journalists who didn\u2019t see it believed it. (interruption) He did?  Ron Fournier apologized?  Holy smokes!  Ron Fournier apparently believed the story was right that Trump hates babies, was kicking babies out of his appearances, and turned out to be wrong, and so he apologized on Twitter for believing…? (interruption) For assuming that it was true. <\/p>\n

Well, then he hadn\u2019t seen the story, just assumed it was right.  Well, then he\u2019s a low-information voter. (groans) That just boggles my mind. But, see, I know it is a reality, even though I can\u2019t relate to it and that\u2019s so sad, that you can make people believe this garbage.  Here\u2019s the case of an informed Drive-By reporter.  I saw something else here. It was on CNN.  Trump\u2019s speech to the Economic Club of Detroit is finished, and they had some guy from Wall Street on there.<\/p>\n

He looked like he was a billionaire, eminently successful guy from some investment house or some such thing — and he was about 60, it looked like — and his complaint was that Trump didn\u2019t say anything about the minimum wage.  And my reaction was, “The guy knows the minimum wage is a phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 roller, do-nothing issue! He has to know it,” and then I got to thinking: “How many of these people know that what they\u2019re promoting and what they\u2019re saying is abjectly wrong?”<\/p>\n

Everything people think about the minimum wage is wrong. It actually raises standards of living? It doesn\u2019t do anything of the sort, and I maintain they know it.  But I may be wrong.  Even though they might be billionaires or millionaires, it\u2019s just as likely that they\u2019re just as stupid and think things that are dead wrong about economics, even though they somehow have succeeded.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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