{"id":214706,"date":"2016-10-19T17:52:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T21:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/10\/19\/play_the_media_debate_game_with_me_what_must_trump_do_at_the_debate_\/"},"modified":"2017-01-05T12:21:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T17:21:44","slug":"play_the_media_debate_game_with_me_what_must_trump_do_at_the_debate_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/10\/19\/play_the_media_debate_game_with_me_what_must_trump_do_at_the_debate_\/","title":{"rendered":"Play the Media Debate Game with Me: What Must Trump Do at the Debate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Let me go back to the question I asked at the end of the previous hour.  We\u2019re told that this campaign is like every other presidential campaign, that people are making up their minds and changing their minds frequently.  People were gonna support Trump and all of a sudden the Access Hollywood video came out and people that were supporting Trump decided to abandon Trump. But Trump can get \u2019em back, yeah, somehow Trump can get \u2019em back. He had \u2019em in droves last fall during the primary, and then something happened and they started dwindling away, they started bleeding away from Trump.  Every debate Trump lost some in the middle of the debate, gained some back in the middle of the debate, remember how they analyzed these things. <\/p>\n

So now we\u2019re down to, Trump has one last chance.  He\u2019s got to do X, Y, or Z or all three during the debate tonight to somehow get back to where he was in May and June and early parts of July.  I don\u2019t accept that premise, by the way.  That\u2019s the conventional wisdom premise that the media\u2019s presenting each and every day, that that\u2019s how fickle voters are, that they change their minds maybe two or three times during a debate.  They can be all for Trump and then he\u2019ll say something that embarrasses them about Mrs. Clinton and they vanish. The next time a pollster shows up, they admit they can\u2019t vote for Trump. <\/line><\/p>\n

And then after the debate something else will happen and they\u2019re back to Trump.  “Oh, my God, he\u2019s changed his mind,” and they\u2019re all back on board again.  It\u2019s really hard to believe that people change their minds this fluidly and often, but that\u2019s the message.  So what does Trump have to do tonight?  It\u2019s the last debate, it\u2019s the last chance he\u2019s got.  So what\u2019s his objective and how should he do it, as we play the media\u2019s game.  <\/p>\n

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RUSH:  Okay, look.  I don\u2019t want anybody to be confused here by things I\u2019m saying. I\u2019ve not changed my attitude or mind on anything.  I\u2019m just phrasing questions here based on how the media wants us to think.  So there\u2019s nobody confused, let me tell you what I think is going on, and then you go ahead and answer my questions as I have asked. <\/p>\n

Trump is hemorrhaging support, is the narrative of this week.  It is because this is the last debate and this narrative sets up, is supposed to set up the theme or a couple of themes for the debate tonight.  So I think all of this, or much of it, is what I would call psychological warfare and that the Democrat Party and its allies, the media and everybody, are waging psychological warfare on Trump and his supporters.  It is carefully coordinated — White House, media, all of the scheming, this incestuous liberal network that\u2019s being exposed in this WikiLeaks dump.  It\u2019s incredible!  It\u2019s all there for people if they would just accept it, it\u2019s all there. Everything that we are up against and have been for years is out there.  It\u2019s being paraded right before our eyes. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Let\u2019s look at the things that have handed here.  The release of Trump and that three-page tax report where he took a near billion-dollar loss.  Then next came Alicia Machado, the Miss Universe. Then came the hot mic tape from Access Hollywood. And now there\u2019s a tsunami of supposed groped women out there.  These having coordinated and released at specific times in this campaign designed to suppress Trump\u2019s support, to weaken Trump\u2019s own resolve.  Each of these dropped at precisely planned campaign moments, many of them around or near debates in order to create lead-ins for the moderators. <\/p>\n

For example, the hot mic tape.  That happened to come out at the same time the first WikiLeaks dump happened and just enough prior to a debate to provide that as the opening subject.  Now, this is the last debate.  I don\u2019t think any of this has affected Trump\u2019s support.  What it has done, or what it\u2019s designed to do is freeze the minds of the so-called undecided.  The people who are undecided are supposed to now stop and take stock and they\u2019re supposed to think, “Oh, my God, this guy Trump, I can\u2019t, I just can\u2019t.”  That\u2019s the purpose. <\/p>\n

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RUSH:  Let me go through this again.  I don\u2019t want anybody confused.  I\u2019m not adopting the Drive-By way of thinking.  I\u2019m asking you why you might be, or why anybody else is, \u2019cause I think all of this is contrived.  But, folks, I don\u2019t know, I mean, I\u2019m not saying the polls are wrong.  I\u2019m not in any way going there.  I\u2019m not even touching on that.  Because what\u2019s happening, the polls are just a part of it.  We are all being played.  But it\u2019s common; we are played every election year. <\/p>\n

Every presidential election year we are played.  The Democrat Party, made up of its various constituent groups, which this year includes the White House and every federal bureaucracy and the media, and even some weak conservative media, is all aligned for one outcome, and that is Donald Trump losing. <\/p>\n

Some of them actually want Hillary to win, but most of this is energized by the objective or concept of Trump losing, and of course the Democrat Party winning.  But it\u2019s specifically focused on Trump losing because of who he is and what he is.  He\u2019s an outsider.  He has no business doing this.  He has no business getting close.  He has no business winning.  He needs, and every other outsider, needs to be taught a lesson. That if you try this yourself, this is what\u2019s gonna happen to you, this is what\u2019s gonna happen to your family, this is what\u2019s gonna happen to your career. <\/p>\n

<\/a>This is serious, serious stuff.  We\u2019re not engaged here in junior high, middle school civics 101 where they teach you about civics and government.  We are so far beyond that.  This is about the powerful unifying and organizing and behaving according to script to protect what is theirs, which, in a human nature sense, is fine. <\/p>\n

Many people have no concept that that\u2019s what\u2019s going on.  Many people think that this is just another election and that there are people campaigning, and that we\u2019re up for votes, and there people are being campaigned for, people running ads and so forth. But the nature of the campaign, the timing of the release of news stories, people don\u2019t even think about it.  It\u2019s just what\u2019s happening, even though it happens every four years. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I have secretly been hoping that at some point there\u2019s a backlash because it\u2019s always predictable.  The Republican nominee, and only the Republican nominee, is going to face surprise after surprise after surprise allegation, things that nobody had heard before, nobody knew before.  And as the allegations are made and made public, there is mock outrage and anger and shock from the people releasing the information, the Democrat Party and Clinton campaign.  It\u2019s all scripted, the timing of all of this is scripted. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go through this again.  Today, the day of the last presidential debate, the narrative throughout the media, no matter where you go is that Trump is hemorrhaging support.  It\u2019s just what\u2019s happening.  And because of the news that\u2019s been reported in previous days, it\u2019s supposed to all make sense.  Trump should be hemorrhaging support.  It makes sense, given what we have learned about Trump, quote, unquote, in the recent past. <\/p>\n

That Access Hollywood tape.  NBC\u2019s had that since 2005.  Billy Bush has been loose mouthed for I don\u2019t know how many years working at NBC.  All of a sudden now he\u2019s gotta go because they have to carry out with this shock and surprise.  “Look what we found.  Why, why, look at what Trump said on the lot at one of our shows 11 years ago, oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh.”  Then they found Billy Bush, they tried to protect him at first.  They couldn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

NBC hires these people in the first place to do this kind of stuff!  NBC, however, is acting shocked and outraged that this kind of horrendous personal behavior could have occurred in anything that they have anything to do with!  And yet they hire people like this, potty mouths, foul mouths, you name it.  They\u2019re all over the place.  But when it comes to the presidential campaign, all of a sudden it\u2019s totally unacceptable. <\/line><\/p>\n

So the meme, the narrative right now is Trump is hemorrhaging support.  You\u2019re not supposed to ask the questions I\u2019ve been asking, how can this be?  People supported Trump during the Republican primaries.  Why would they be hemorrhaging support?  Trump does not represent a standard, ordinary, everyday politician.  Trump\u2019s got support precisely because of things about him that have not changed.  Trump is still an outsider, he\u2019s still campaigning the same way he did during the primaries.  He\u2019s still objecting to the same things. He\u2019s still announcing the same things, gonna pay for wall, Mexico gonna pay for it, gonna stop the immigration.<\/p>\n

Nothing has changed that resulted in Trump being supported in the first place.  Trump has not given his supporters reason to abandon him because of substantive things, and yet we\u2019re told that he\u2019s hemorrhaging support.  Just happens to be the narrative in the early days of the week where we are having the final presidential debate.  It\u2019s all psyops, psychological operation, the script carefully coordinated amongst the Clinton campaign, the Obama White House, and the media. And the whole scheming, corrupt, incestuous mess is there for all of us to see in all of these WikiLeaks email dumps. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s all there.  The incestuous, corrupt collaboration of all of these groups and people on the Democrat side is there for anybody to see.  So let\u2019s take a look at some recent events, suggest their timing.  Trump\u2019s 1994 taxes.  “Oh, my God, look what we just found.  Came out of the blue, didn\u2019t it?  Some friend of a friend just found the first three pages of Trump\u2019s tax return, and Good Lord, what does it show?  Why, he took a nearly $950 million loss!  Do you know what that means?  That means Trump was probably able to escape paying taxes for 20 years!” <\/p>\n

Same kind of concept that they rolled out against Mitt Romney.  Harry Reid says a friend of his told him that Romney hadn\u2019t paid his taxes in ten years. So here comes that version on Trump. They roll that out, Trump\u2019s a tax cheat, Trump not paying his fair share, typical rich Republican.  And then during the debate where this is being discussed and Trump\u2019s tax returns, Hillary drops Alicia Machado, a former Miss Universe pageant when Trump used to own it. And something that\u2019s totally irrelevant to Trump\u2019s support, it literally doesn\u2019t matter to the people that support Trump, ends up being the dominate discussion.  Trump doesn\u2019t help by thinking that he\u2019s got to nuke this woman.  That\u2019s his personality, and they play on that. <\/p>\n