{"id":214683,"date":"2016-10-17T18:40:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T22:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/10\/17\/reporter_shocked_at_trump_rally\/"},"modified":"2017-01-06T10:23:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T15:23:20","slug":"reporter_shocked_at_trump_rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/10\/17\/reporter_shocked_at_trump_rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter Shocked at Trump Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: There is a story at TheHill.com.  Lane Filler is the writer.  “Donald Trump Looks Different When You See Him.”  So we have a writer here for The Hill who went to a Trump rally who was expecting to see a bunch of people from Deliverance missing their two front teeth, drinking cans of three-3-year-old beer, unchilled, hunting caps on, pickup trucks in the parking lot, gun racks in the back window, people that say “git” and see a journalist and start shouting epithets. <\/p>\n

And it turned out that this reporter didn\u2019t see anything that he expected to see.  “Donald Trump Looks Different When You See Him In Person.”<\/a>  This guy\u2019s a member of the Newsday editorial board.  I said The Hill.  It\u2019s Newsday, the Long Island newspaper.  He\u2019s a member of the Newsday editorial board. <\/p>\n

“Trump estimated the crowd at 7,000 — New Hampshire police said it was closer to 3,000 — and there wasn\u2019t a whit of ‘deplorable\u2019 behavior. No racism, no sexism, no xenophobia, not even any nasty T-shirts, at least by current standards. Nor was there a surly or aggrieved mood coursing through the pack. Folks were upbeat, there to have a good time. What inspired the 300-mile drive Friday night from Long Island toward a noon rally up north was the sense that after a week of ‘Access Hollywood\u2019 tape replays and sexual assault allegations, Trump might finally be ready to completely blow his stack, start roaring and foaming and biting the heads off of members of the media.”<\/line><\/p>\n

So I wanted to go up and see it. <\/p>\n

“What transpired was foundationally different: Most of Trump\u2019s speech focused on specific problems facing the people of New Hampshire and the United States, and the steps a Trump administration would take to address them. The Republican presidential candidate spoke at length about the opiate addiction ravaging New Hampshire. He called for lifting the limit on prescriptions for medication-assisted treatment drugs doctors can write, an important, intricate fix. He also decried the way Chinese drug manufacturers are moving deadly fentanyl into and around the United States.<\/p>\n

“But at the root of the rally was the kernel of an idea that made his campaign catch fire when few thought it would: It is not going well for you, in terms of jobs, addiction, security, family structure, retirement or your feelings about the future. It is not your fault. The people in power do not care, and, in fact, have benefitted from the situation. None of the ‘politics as usual\u2019 people from either party, having caused the trouble or allowed it to happen, can be trusted to fix it, he said.”<\/p>\n