{"id":214604,"date":"2016-10-07T17:39:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T21:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/10\/07\/drive_bys_trash_trump_softball_town_hall_but_ignore_hillary_s_staged_events\/"},"modified":"2017-01-06T10:48:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T15:48:49","slug":"drive_bys_trash_trump_softball_town_hall_but_ignore_hillary_s_staged_events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/10\/07\/drive_bys_trash_trump_softball_town_hall_but_ignore_hillary_s_staged_events\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-Bys Trash Trump “Softball” Town Hall, But Ignore Hillary\u2019s Staged Events"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The AP has a story here. Trump did a town hall. He has a big debate coming up Sunday night and a lot of people have a lot invested in the debate.  The Trump supporters hope that Trump is different.  They wish he would go prepare; they wish he would rehearse. Trump is saying, “Screw it! I\u2019m not gonna rehearse, not gonna have somebody pretend to be Hillary. I\u2019m just gonna do what I do.” He\u2019s not listening to advice.  He never has really.  He\u2019s confident in who he is and how he does things. <\/p>\n

And he\u2019s got these advisers that advise, but it doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s gonna listen to \u2019em.  And the word I get is that he doesn\u2019t listen to most of it anyway, which frustrates the advisers, which I kind of like.  I mean, if you really know your stuff why would you need…? I don\u2019t need an adviser to tell me what I think about things.  Can you imagine I run for president one day and I get this cadre of advisers? You\u2019re gonna say, “Why do you need \u2019em? You ought to be telling the advisers what to think!”<\/p>\n

Exactly right.  If you\u2019re really into this why you need advisers?  Now, maybe advisers for strategy and all that, but not to tell you what you think.  And Trump doesn\u2019t need \u2019em and doesn\u2019t use them.  So he\u2019s claiming he\u2019s not gonna do anything special. In fact, he\u2019s saying he\u2019s not even gonna bring up Bill Clinton and the he then parade of bimbos.  He\u2019s made a point.  Which I find strange, \u2019cause Trump\u2019s out there ripping to shreds everybody that\u2019s telegraphing our plans, say, in Syria; telegraphing our plans against ISIS.<\/line><\/p>\n

He said, “Why would you telegraph your military op?”  Well, why would he tell Hillary what he\u2019s not gonna talk about, unless of course he is.  But the headline of the story the AP: “Trump Gets Softballs at Townhall Ahead of Clinton Showdown,”<\/a> and it\u2019s by our old favorites at the AP, Jonathan Lemire and Julie Pace.  “It had the trappings of a town hall debate. There was a moderator. The audience members had questions. There was a two-minute countdown clock for answers. And Donald Trump carried a microphone while patrolling a small stage.<\/p>\n

“But the similarities between what Trump faced Thursday night in New Hampshire in a warm-up town hall and what he\u2019ll see Sunday night in St. Louis versus Hillary Clinton end there,” which is true.  Because on Sunday night the moderator will be a Hillary supporter.  The moderator is gonna be from the State-Controlled Media.  Trump is gonna be two-against-one like it was last time.  It\u2019s gonna be two-against-one this time.<\/p>\n

At his little town hall in New Hampshire, there wasn\u2019t a Hillary supporter as the moderator.  So he\u2019s gonna be facing that. In fact, there\u2019s two moderators on Sunday.  It\u2019s Martha MacCallum and Anderson Cooper.  So you\u2019re gonna have two Hillary supporters from State-Run Media, which Trump didn\u2019t face in his town hall.  And all the questions were not aimed discrediting Trump in New Hampshire, like they will be on Sunday night. <\/p>\n

And the questions that Trump did in New Hampshire were not scripted by the Hillary campaign or some other Democrat operative like her town halls are.  The AP says, “Trump didn\u2019t actually interact with the audience, instead only conversing with a friendly moderator who read the questions — nearly all softballs submitted from the invitation-only crowd.” Okay, fine.  That\u2019s in the AP.  Can I share with you the details of another story about another candidate who\u2019s also preparing? <\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton the last two days have been doing her own public appearances in her own town hall-type things.  This week, she was given all the questions she would be asked while being interviewed by Steve Harvey, the comedian, who\u2019s also one of these great defenders of the state.  Steve Harvey, comedian, was given all the questions.  By the way, there\u2019s no dispute.  I\u2019m not telling you something they don\u2019t want known.  There is no dispute that Hillary was given all the questions by Steve Harvey that he was gonna ask. <\/p>\n

This the guy that does Family Feud TV show.  That\u2019s the hardball moderator Hillary\u2019s rehearsing with.  Then there was a little girl who asked Hillary a question in the forum concerning “body shaming.”  What was she, 15?  There was a little fifteen-year-old girl who asked Hillary a question concerning “body shaming,” and Trump, something along the lines of, “What can young girls all over the country do when Mr. Trump is making us ashamed to be little girls by making fun of our bodies?”<\/p>\n

And Hillary said, “That is such a serious and great question, and it\u2019s time this kind of bias and sexism come to a screeching halt.” Ah, this 15-year-old is an actress and her father is a lifelong Democrat<\/a> political operative and officeholder who coached her. But nobody was told that.  People watching this thought that it was a random-selected 15-year-old girl in the audience who came up with that question on her own. <\/line><\/p>\n

The reason I think Trump ought to unload, is I don\u2019t think there has ever been a more coddled and comforted candidate in the history of time, short of Obama, than Hillary Clinton. It\u2019s why the first 30 minutes of the first debate, Trump owned them.  She was reduced to her robotic, politically tainted\/oriented answers to everything.  She clearly had deer-in-the-headlight eyes.  And why he changed pace and dropped the energy, I don\u2019t know. But she\u2019s not used to it.  None of them are.  Hillary\u2019s not used to it; Obama\u2019s not. <\/p>\n

These people couldn\u2019t stand one day of the kind of media treatment Republicans get.  It\u2019s softballs here and there, because it\u2019s all they\u2019re all on the same team and they all have the same objective.  In a companion story from the… What is this website?  This is Academia.org.  Of course, an institution of higher learning is the academy, academe.  The headline: “Trump Baffles Academics.”<\/a>  Like that would be hard.  “The ‘best and the brightest\u2019 in academe…”<\/p>\n

This by Malcolm A. Kline, just to give you a byline here.  “The ‘best and the brightest\u2019 in academe have been trying to unravel the Trump phenomenon for about as long as this election season has run. Martin Kich of Wright State University devotes about three blogs a week to the subject on the academe blog maintained by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).  Here\u2019s a clue: You can only convince people that we have a good economy if they actually have jobs.<\/p>\n

“A pair of scholars of fairly diverse backgrounds has figured this out: They are, of course, a minority in academe. We have written about the phenomenon today in which more budding businesses fail than succeed. It turns out that we aren\u2019t the only ones who noticed. ‘Nowadays, more businesses die each year than are started,\u2019 Angelo Codevilla writes in The Claremont Review of Book<\/a>s. ‘In this century, all net additions in employment have come from the country\u2019s 1,500 largest corporations.'” <\/p>\n

Now, while all of this reality is going on, academics — the pointy-headed, super-educated — can\u2019t figure Trump out.  They don\u2019t know why people lining him.  They can\u2019t figure out what his appeal is.  He\u2019s an embarrassment.  He\u2019s a clod! The guy\u2019s a bull in a china shop.  He\u2019s coarse.  He\u2019s bombastic.  He\u2019s rude.  He\u2019s crude.  Why would anybody like him?  They can\u2019t understand; so they are delving deep within each other\u2019s blogs to try to explain why Trump is succeeding. <\/p>\n

And they don\u2019t understand why Trump is selling this trade that\u2019s making him popular and all this other stuff on the economy because, to them, they all have jobs.  They\u2019re working in universities and no matter what, they have jobs, and they can\u2019t… They\u2019re the ones that can\u2019t relate to people that don\u2019t have jobs. They\u2019re the ones that can\u2019t relate to people that do not think the economy is just chugging right along, because if their world — which is the only world they ever experience, they never venture outside it — everything\u2019s fine! <\/p>\n

The alumni continue to donate. The football team continues to sell out. The money\u2019s flush at the university. What do you mean we\u2019ve got a bad economy? <\/p>\n

And they claim to be the smartest in the room.  <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number 15.  Bob Schieffer from the Jurassic Park of the Drive-By Media recently retired. They brought him back for the campaign.  He\u2019s journalist emeritus, and he was on CBS This Morning with Charlie Rose, and they were talking about the second presidential debate on Sunday.  Charlie Rose said, “Look at the dynamics, because it\u2019s a different style of setting here.” They\u2019re gonna be sitting having this debate. It\u2019s a roundtable forum or whatever they call it, roundtable type.  They\u2019re not standing up there in podiums, I don\u2019t believe. <\/p>\n

So here\u2019s what Schieffer said about it…<\/p>\n

SCHIEFFER:  Yes, it is.  And I\u2019m not sure who that favors.  Climbing up and down off those high stools that they\u2019re gonna be sitting on presents certain challenges, I suppose.  I\u2019ve never liked this format, to be quite honest about it.  Remember Algore getting up in George Bush\u2019s face? It just goes off in all directions, so heaven knows what\u2019s gonna happen this time around.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Who in the…? Who\u2019s he referring to here getting on and off a stool?  You know he\u2019s not worried about Trump getting up and down. (impression) “Eh, climbing up and down off those high stools? Ahhhh, I don\u2019t like this.” He\u2019s obviously worried about the effect it\u2019s gonna have on Hillary. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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