{"id":214691,"date":"2016-10-18T16:22:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T20:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/10\/18\/this_is_what_it_looks_like_when_a_brawler_fights_back\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T20:17:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T01:17:48","slug":"this_is_what_it_looks_like_when_a_brawler_fights_back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/10\/18\/this_is_what_it_looks_like_when_a_brawler_fights_back\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What It Looks Like When a Brawler Fights Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: This remains an important point, too.  In the second hour of yesterday\u2019s program something set me off, and I don\u2019t know what it was. It might have been an email. It might have been a discussion about Trump and how he\u2019s fighting back and it\u2019s looking bad. If you were listening you knew that I got fired up, and I made the point, folks, it doesn\u2019t matter who the Republicans nominate, this is always gonna happen. <\/p>\n

Every Republican nominee is going to be destroyed.  They\u2019re gonna make up things about \u2019em. Look, if they can make a walking Satan out of Mitt Romney, they can do it to anybody, and they have tried.  They did it to John McCain.  They tried with George H. W. Bush, certainly did it to George W. Bush. They tried over and over again with Reagan.  There isn\u2019t a Republican nominee that they are not gonna demonize.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s different here is that Trump is fighting back, and this is what it looks like. It\u2019s very important for people to understand, this is the first time anybody on our side\u2019s ever fought back against any of this, and this is what it looks like.  And the next sound bite, Steve Doocy, he happened to be driving around, he\u2019s Fox & Friends, he happened to be driving around yesterday afternoon and heard it and a light went off.  This is why it\u2019s important.  It doesn\u2019t automatically occur to people that what Trump is doing is fighting back.  A lot of people think Trump\u2019s making himself look bad. Trump\u2019s doing a response that\u2019s not helpful and so forth, and that\u2019s not the way to look at this. <\/line><\/p>\n

The Republican primary voters had grown weary of nominating and electing people that were not gonna fight back against any of this defamation and slander and libel against all of us, and Trump is, and that\u2019s why his supporters are not abandoning him.  If you\u2019re gonna get into a battle with the establishment and you\u2019re going to try to beat them, this is what it looks like!  It looks like a brawl.  It must look like a brawl because that\u2019s what it is.  The only way we have any chance to fight back against this stuff is to literally fight back against it, which is what Trump\u2019s doing. <\/p>\n

You may not like the way he chooses to do it. You might think he goes out of focus now and then, but he\u2019s still fighting back against all of it.  He doesn\u2019t take any of it, which is what Republican primary voters and general election voters have maintained they have wanted for three election cycles now. So here\u2019s a guy doing it.  And even though it\u2019s obvious, it isn\u2019t.  It needs to be said so that people remember because the Drive-Bys have the ability to characterize what this is as an unhinged guy who has no business being in politics, it\u2019s embarrassing, it\u2019s untoward, it\u2019s just, ewe, how low have our politics gotten. <\/p>\n

No, no.  This is what it looks like when you fight back against people slandering you, and you fight back against people libeling you. When you fight back against people who are trying to destroy you, this is what it looks like.  So Doocy was among the millions driving around and I just wanted to share his reaction with you.<\/p>\n

DOOCY:  I was listening to a little of Rush Limbaugh yesterday when I was driving home, and he was making the point mainstream media is gonna beat up whoever the Republican nominee is, and has historically.  This is the first time the nominee, Donald Trump, actually is fighting back.  If somebody\u2019s gonna put something out there that he says is not true, he\u2019s gonna fight back, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH:  Right.  But that\u2019s not what people are seeing.  People are seeing, because the media\u2019s telling them what they\u2019re seeing, some unhinged, unqualified, doesn\u2019t belong in this place lunatic, is what they\u2019re trying to say that Trump is.  This is what anybody would look like fighting back.  Look, the Democrats take this to the sewer.  The Hillary campaign, the American left, they take the campaign to the sewer, and if you are going to respond, that\u2019s where you\u2019re gonna be.  You know the old argument don\u2019t get into an argument with a fool because after a while people won\u2019t be able to tell the difference.<\/p>\n

But Trump chooses to respond.  This is what it looks like.  He could do one of two things.  Trump can campaign and not respond to any of it and people get mad that all this defamation goes by unanswered, or Trump reacts to it.  I think it\u2019s classic to demand a drug test.  I think it\u2019s classic.  Everybody else thinks, “Oh, my God, oh, my God,” like Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, you know how he\u2019s reacted to that?  “Yeah, well, it makes sense, Trump snorted his way through the first two debates.” <\/p>\n

The drug test business is just Trump\u2019s way of saying everybody knows this woman is not healthy and they\u2019re doing something to get her vertical for 90 minutes at every one of these debates.  This woman has seizures. This woman can\u2019t get into a van by herself. This woman is not healthy. She\u2019s had concussions, wears Coke bottle glasses.  It\u2019s his way of trying to rile her up.  It\u2019s his way of trying to impugn her.  Hey, they do this kind of stuff all the time and nobody says anything about it, other than, well, it\u2019s biased media won\u2019t examine, but when Trump responds in kind, “Oh, this is so horrible.” <\/line><\/p>\n

But this is what it looks like.  It\u2019s what it\u2019s always gonna look like, and if you don\u2019t have the stomach for this, then you really may not have the stomach for fighting back against the establishment.  Now, are there better ways it could be done?  Probably.  I don\u2019t know.  But nobody else has tried. <\/p>\n

Can you name for me anybody else that\u2019s really tried to hit back over any of this criticism?  Romney never tried to hit back.  McCain never tried to hit back.  Bush never tried to hit back.  George H. W. Bush never tried to hit back.  None of the other Republicans that have been assaulted have ever tried to hit back.  This is the first.  Lee Atwater.  And they hated him too.  <\/p>\n

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RUSH:  Many of you have probably forgotten this, some of the things they tried on Romney.  One of the things Romney did, just to show you how pathetic this was, Romney went out and was a garbage man for a whole day to find out what the job was like.  Why did he do that?  Because they had been saying that Mitt Romney was a rich guy who didn\u2019t care about little people and when little people that worked for him wives got cancer and died, Romney didn\u2019t care. He didn\u2019t care about the family dog. So Romney went out and acted as a garbage man for a day. <\/p>\n

You know what the media did?  The media found the garbage truck that actually worked Romney\u2019s house, and they found the guys that drove the garbage truck and they interviewed \u2019em.  “Does Mr. Romney ever come out of the house and hug you?  Has Mr. Romney ever tipped you?  Has Mr. Romney ever come out of the house just to say hi?  Has Mr. Romney ever thanked you?”  And of course the answer to every question was “no.” <\/line><\/p>\n

So the media says, so Romney obviously working as a garbage man is a phony effort to make you think he\u2019s one of you when he\u2019s not because his real garbage men he\u2019s never even talked to, he\u2019s never tipped them, he\u2019s never this.  Now, you tell me, how does any of that matter and to whom have they ever tried stuff like that on the Democrat side?  Never. <\/p>\n

So part of hammering Trump, I\u2019m telling you, part of hammering Trump and never letting up on it is if he loses, and if he loses big, they want to send a message, this is what happens if you fight back.  They\u2019re trying to make sure nobody ever tries this on them, the Democrats, ever again.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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