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RUSH:  I can\u2019t tell you the number of times over the years — and some of you may be even guilty of this — some of you may know who you are when I recount this story.  I can\u2019t tell you the number of times over the many years of broadcast service here, the EIB Network, that I have fielded calls, I can\u2019t tell you the number of times that I\u2019ve been on the golf course — I can\u2019t tell you, no, because it\u2019s too many times.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t tell you the times, there\u2019s too many to count, I can\u2019t tell you the times that I have been at a soiree, at a party, I can\u2019t tell you the number of times I\u2019ve been out there doing anything where people have come up to me, “We gotta go after the media. When are we gonna go after the media? The media\u2019s killing us. The media is the story, we gotta go after the media.” <\/p>\n

Now you\u2019re seeing what happens when you go after the media.  It doesn\u2019t work.  But no matter how unbalanced, no matter how biased, no matter how unfair, no matter how a bunch of cheaters they are, no matter what a bunch of slavish pro-Democrat creeps they are, it never works going after them if you are the candidate.  It makes you look small.  Besides, despite what many people think, the media isn\u2019t on the ballot. <\/p>\n

Greetings, my friends.  We start here on an upbeat note, the EIB Network.  Excuse me.  Rush Limbaugh, 800-282-2882 if you want to join us, and email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not kidding.  I can\u2019t count the number of times I\u2019ve had people tell me, “We gotta go after the media. The media\u2019s unfair, bias and unbalanced. People hate the media and the people that don\u2019t hate the media have gotta be told.”  Maybe so.  All that may be true, but it doesn\u2019t work.  It has never worked.  I mean, people have tried it. <\/line><\/p>\n

Trump was in Fairfield, Connecticut. Number one, what\u2019s Trump doing in Connecticut?  There are maybe 10 Republicans there, and only five of them will admit it.  He\u2019s in Fairfield.  I go to Fairfield every summer to play in the member-guest golf tournament at the Country Club of Fairfield.  And I\u2019m telling you, folks, it\u2019s a foreign country.  What is Trump doing there?  I have no idea, but when he was there, he told them in the rally, he said to heck with running against Crooked Hillary. We\u2019re not running against Crooked Hillary. We\u2019re running against a crooked media.<\/p>\n

What ticked him off, I guess the New York Times had a story on his chief campaign guy Manafort being involved in some scandal in, where is it, Ukraine or Manafort supposedly benefiting from some policy in Ukraine.  It doesn\u2019t look pretty.  And the Wall Street, folks, the media today is just — I\u2019ve never seen this.  I have never seen what I am witnessing. (laughing) It\u2019s gotten so bad, I\u2019m actually wondering if there\u2019s gonna be a backlash to this.  I\u2019m not wishful thinking here.  I long ago gave up wishful thinking, on anything, not just this, I mean, just anything. <\/p>\n

But I\u2019m looking at this, this is so unprecedented.  It is just unlike anything I\u2019ve ever seen.  I just wonder if there will be a backlash, and not a sympathetic backlash, don\u2019t misunderstand.  I know a lot of people think that people feel sorry for Trump because he\u2019s being mistreated.  No, no, no, no, no, no.  I don\u2019t mean sympathetic backlash.  I doubt it.  But I still have never seen anything like it. <\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal has given Trump an ultimatum<\/a>: You get out by Labor Day or we\u2019re through with you, and I didn\u2019t know they were ever with him.  (laughing) Sorry to be laughing, but what else are we gonna do here?  The editors of the Wall Street Journal are saying that Trump needs to change his tack or drop out and give the nomination over to Mike Pence.  The Journal editors gave Trump until Labor Day to submit to their ultimatum.  I really don\u2019t know what they\u2019re gonna do if Trump does not submit to their ultimatum. I don\u2019t know what else there is they can do. <\/p>\n

In the good old days Labor Day was when campaigns really began. In the good old days, like four years ago and eight years ago, Labor Day actually marked the official — well, not the official.  But everybody\u2019s back from vacation, everybody\u2019s back to school, people getting up at normal times, going to bed at normal times and routine, post-summer vacation sets in, and that\u2019s traditionally when the majority of people start paying attention to campaigns. <\/line><\/p>\n

So that\u2019s still two weeks away, so the Drive-Bys at the Wall Street Journal have declared that Trump — at least three or four times they\u2019ve declared that he\u2019s already lost the election.  So it\u2019s amazing.  Trump\u2019s changing a lot of things.  He\u2019s changing the electoral calendar, he\u2019s changing any number of things, and now he\u2019s lost the election, here we are on August 15, with a newspaper actually giving him an ultimatum to get out.  They don\u2019t say what they\u2019re gonna do otherwise. <\/p>\n

The New York Times has a story<\/a> about 20 anonymous Trump insiders who say that he can\u2019t be controlled, that he\u2019s depressed, that he\u2019s down in the dumps, that he\u2019s sullen. He\u2019s inconsolable that none of this is working out the way he thought it would work out.  There are people ostensibly — ostensibly, it\u2019s in New York Times — close to the Trump campaign who say that Trump really thought he\u2019d been able to win over the media with his charm and with his public appearances and with the charismatic nature of his personality and so forth, much as he did during the primaries. <\/p>\n

And, I mean, not to get too serious here (chuckling), folks, \u2019cause I don\u2019t know that called for, but does anybody think this was gonna be easy? What are we doing here?  What did this election really turn out to be about?  It turns out to be trying to take away all of the reins of power and all of the perks and everything associated with being a member of the establishment.  Did anybody think that the establishment — be they Republican, Democrat, Martian, communist, whatever — were just gonna sit around and leave that up to the democratic process? (chuckles) They are not. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re not just gonna sit there and wait \u2019til November whatever the election date is and then throw their fortunes to the great unwashed on Election Day.  So they\u2019ve taken all these — and the media is part of the establishment, and there are many Republicans in it.  Practically anybody in Washington is in the establishment, so they were not gonna be won over.  They were not going to be persuaded to abandon their club or their organization.  You could look at it as globalist versus nationalist.  You could look at it as populist versus conservative. <\/p>\n

You could look at it as whatever it is, but it is the powerful versus the powerless, and the powerless were never gonna win this. (interruption) Well, now, wait a minute.  You have to let me finish the sentence.  I don\u2019t want to leave it there. The powerless were never gonna win this in a contest where the nominee tries to persuade the powerful to give it up.  “But, Rush, what about the emails? “What about…?” The emails, the shmemails! Folks, there\u2019s nothing that\u2019s gonna happen with the emails.  I don\u2019t care what\u2019s found in them.  We should know that by now. <\/p>\n

No matter what\u2019s found of them, there isn\u2019t any…<\/p>\n

<\/a>Besides, the Republicans are not serious about investigating any of this stuff on Capitol Hill, and so absent that, the media isn\u2019t gonna do it.  I\u2019m sorry.  I love these people.  I love Tom Fitton and all the people at Judicial Watch, but they can\u2019t do this by themselves.  They simply cannot call attention to Hillary\u2019s emails.  They can request them. They can do all this, and they can provide the results, but they\u2019re not gonna go anywhere because there\u2019s no official… The courts are not gonna pursue it.  The DOJ has made it clear they\u2019re not gonna pursue anything, and now Leon Panetta…<\/p>\n

(interruption) No, I haven\u2019t forgotten about Milwaukee.  I can tell you what happened in Milwaukee in 30 seconds. It\u2019s just a repeat of all kinds of things.  I\u2019ll get to Milwaukee in a second.  But I\u2019m waiting actually on a sound bite \u2019cause the sheriff up there had the best sound bite of all this, right about — oh, I forget what it was — an hour ago. I\u2019m waiting for that bite to be put together, and I want to build off of that. So I haven\u2019t… I\u2019m not ignoring it. <\/p>\n

Back to Panetta.  Panetta was on  This Week.  Now, Panetta is part of the Clinton war room.  He was Bill Clinton\u2019s chief of staff. When Panetta was leaving as Clinton\u2019s chief, I\u2019ll never forget this.  There\u2019s things in politics that I remember. I, who consume practically everything I see, remember most of what I see and read; it\u2019s an amazing feat.  I don\u2019t have to practice it. It just happens.  Some are born with good brains; some aren\u2019t.  I am.  I\u2019ll never forget Panetta and his resignation day as chief of staff. <\/p>\n