{"id":217188,"date":"2017-01-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=217188"},"modified":"2017-01-16T16:47:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T21:47:35","slug":"theyre-trying-to-destroy-trump-before-hes-inaugurated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/13\/theyre-trying-to-destroy-trump-before-hes-inaugurated\/","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019re Trying to Destroy Trump Before He Takes the Oath"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The inauguration\u2019s one day from today, and we\u2019re gonna be doing something special on Inauguration Day. We\u2019ll have details coming up later, but basically we\u2019re gonna start the program early on Inauguration Day, and we — (interruption) what did I say? I said it\u2019s a day away? Well, everybody knows I meant that it\u2019s a week. Everybody knows the inauguration\u2019s not tomorrow. Well, I take it back, there might be some low-information people out there that I shocked. Sorry. Verbal dyslexia.<\/p>\n

The inauguration is a week from today. I\u2019m trying to save time by eliminating syllables, and, instead of saying a week from today, I said it\u2019s today. Or tomorrow or next day or whatever. You all know when it is, January 20th. All right. So this next week, if this past week\u2019s been any indication, next week is going to be panic filled because I think you need to seriously consider that the left is still seriously trying to prevent Trump from being sworn in. They are trying to stop him. They are delusional. They have lost their minds. But they are still engaged in that effort. And they are not going to stop. They have, I think, lost all grounding.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s not just the left, folks. It\u2019s anybody in the Washington establishment. You\u2019ve got Republicans in this group. You\u2019ve got intelligence community people in this group. You\u2019ve got all the various cabinet departments. I mean, they\u2019re populated still with a bunch of Clinton and Obama people in there. You have elements of the military scared to death that Trump is coming in. I mean, the left has populated the bureaucracy, the judiciary for decades with career appointees.<\/p>\n

The media is just the face of it, but the entire anti-Trump or the Never Trumper brigades, which are found everywhere, are still at this very moment devoted to the concept of stopping his inauguration. I have no idea how; scandal, the media being able to shame him into resigning or his cabinet refusing to be seated because he\u2019s such a liar. Who knows what they\u2019re thinking. Let me show you what I\u2019m talking about audio sound bite-wise. Start here at number two. This is on CNN today. CNN is really involved in this effort, by the way. CNN exists now to get rid of Trump.<\/p>\n

In fact, there\u2019s a New York Times story. Don\u2019t worry, I will not lose my place. Our old buddy Jim Rutenberg, who\u2019s also losing his mind. You know, Rutenberg at the New York Times, we used to like him. Well, I still like Jim Rutenberg, and, even in all this, Rutenberg has still not treated me unfairly. Rutenberg is one of the few people in the Drive-Bys that\u2019s actually quoted me correctly, consistently, and in context. But Rutenberg is the guy who wrote the piece in the New York Times last August that all journalism now is over as we\u2019ve known it. Journalism must throw out everything it\u2019s ever been and must unify around the concept of denying Donald Trump the presidency.<\/p>\n

And that was a front page New York Times story. And, since it was the front page of the New York Times, it was a clarion call to the rest of the media to get rid of all the objectivity — as though there still is any — get rid of the objectivity, get rid of the fairness, and totally devote yourself to opinion journalism, the purpose of which is to deny Trump the election. And so they did. But he still won.<\/p>\n

So now it\u2019s the same thing. And Rutenberg is back, has a piece: “As Trump Berates News Media, a New Strategy Is Needed to Cover Him<\/a>.” So what we\u2019re reading here is that the previous strategy announced, I think it was last August, that all great journalists, all journalists of good faith must abandon everything they\u2019ve ever learned at journalism school, forget the who, what, when, where, why, forget objectivity, forget fairness, forget impartiality, Jim Rutenberg of the New York Times urged media to devote themselves entirely to stopping Trump.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In other words, all opinion, all the time. If you have to make it up, make it up. Getting rid of Trump is so important that anything we do is warranted, anything we do to get rid of Trump is justifiable and okay, whether it\u2019s journalism or not. It obviously didn\u2019t work. “As Trump Berates News Media, a New Strategy Is Needed to Cover Him.” And the story goes on to explore various techniques the media might now try to stop Trump. Now, this headline: “As Trump Berates News Media, a New Strategy Is Needed to Cover Him.” That\u2019s a misleading headline. They\u2019re not interested in covering Trump. The objective is to destroy Trump.<\/p>\n

And when I say destroy, I mean destroy his presidency, destroy his political career, destroy whatever he hopes to accomplish. Prevent that. They\u2019re not interested in covering Trump at all. In the story, our buddy Jim Rutenberg refers to Trump as a “master manipulator.” Trump didn\u2019t manipulate anything. It was BuzzFeed with the assistance from CNN and Senator McCain that manipulated facts, made up facts, and exploited a libelous fiction.<\/p>\n

Trump did not manipulate anything. They call him a master manipulator because they can\u2019t figure out a way to destroy him. Every technique they have ever used successfully on any Republican they\u2019ve tried to take out doesn\u2019t work on Trump. Therefore in their world Trump is a masterful manipulator. In their world, taking out a Republican is as easy as getting up and deciding to do it because Republicans traditionally cower and cave. If you accuse them of something, they\u2019ll probably resign or they\u2019ll stop being a problem. They\u2019ll tone down their criticism of Democrats and Obama or what have you.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been easy to manipulate and control Republicans. And they\u2019ve tried tried-and-true techniques that have always worked against Republicans and they don\u2019t work on Trump. And so since they\u2019re the smartest people in the room, and since they\u2019re the brilliant ones, and since they have all the power, it must be they can\u2019t be failing, just like Hillary didn\u2019t lose the election, therefore Trump has to be this master manipulator.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What\u2019s Trump manipulating? He\u2019s manipulating the minds of news consumers. Trump is actually enabling trickery. Trump is tricking people into not believing what the media says about him. Can you believe that? The audacity. Don\u2019t you know that when the media attacks you you\u2019re supposed to sit there and just absorb it. When the media attacks you, that\u2019s the rule. When the media attacks you, you use the time-honored decorum of decades and accept it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the way it works in the establishment. Media comes after you, well, you take it. Trump fights back, and in their world, Trump is now convincing people to not believe the media and to do that you have to be using tricks. So he\u2019s a master manipulator. It wouldn\u2019t ever occur to them to actually try to cover Trump with honesty and integrity and objectivity and accuracy. It would never occur to them.<\/p>\n

Why does it never occur to them? This is the second attempt from Rutenberg at the New York Times to revise journalism, to redefine how it\u2019s done and in neither of these two, shall we say exposes, in neither of these two instructional documents is it ever suggested that journalists try honesty, try integrity, try objectivity, and try a little accuracy. No, those are the things being thrown out. Those are the things being discarded. Those are things that are said to be the problem. We cannot engage. When you start throwing out traditional journalism, that\u2019s what it is.<\/p>\n

Folks, I have to tell you, and I don\u2019t want to jinx anything here, but it\u2019s been a long time I\u2019ve had this much fun reading and watching the news. They\u2019re a bunch of Wile E. Coyotes. Everything they try blows up in their face. They\u2019re calling the Acme bomb company, they\u2019re calling the Acme scandal company, and whatever Acme is delivering them, it blows up in their face. And I love watching. I love having Trump say, I love seeing Trump say to Jim Acosta, “No, no, you\u2019re not getting a question. You\u2019re fake news.” I love it because it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

I spent a little time yesterday asking<\/a>, “Why should these people be afforded respect, these time-honored protocols and the decorum and the principles? Why? Why should the victims of this kind of bullying, lying behavior sit there and take it and be nice about it and accept it? What\u2019s wrong with that?” It\u2019s like the same situation with L.L. Bean. You have a woman that donates to Trump. A bunch of sniveling, pajama-clad leftist bloggers organize a boycott against L.L. Bean.<\/p>\n

So Trump decides to help L.L. Bean, and the Washington establishment erupts by saying, “You can\u2019t pick winners like that! That\u2019s not presidential. Presidents don\u2019t mention anybody!” It\u2019s not picking winners and losers. It\u2019s defending a supporter against a boycott, for crying out loud. Since when did a boycott become something that\u2019s untouchable, unapproachable, and you can\u2019t resist it? Every technique they try is being exposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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