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RUSH: You mentioned Jeff Flake in your talk with Mr. Snerdley.<\/p>\nRUSH: Seth, Greencastle, Indiana. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. How you doing?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks so much for taking my call.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Super awesome to be on with you. You know, as I think about it, I think the greatest fear of the liberal media, liberals in general, is absolute truth. It\u2019s why they hate you so much. In a political sphere you\u2019re like the commander-in-chief of truth, and you\u2019ve been launching assaults on them now for decades. They hate that. And really back in November of 2016 we, the people, launched an atomic truth bomb into the heart of Washington, D.C., named Donald Trump, and it\u2019s been flying in their faces ever since, and they can\u2019t stand that.<\/p>\n
It makes me think of an argument that my brother and I had back when I was 7 years old. He was trying to convince me that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, that they weren\u2019t real. And that\u2019s exactly how I see these folks. They\u2019re convinced of something, but just because they\u2019re convinced of it, doesn\u2019t make it true. I ignored all the facts, I got angry with my brother. I flew off the handle because I didn\u2019t agree with what he was saying, even though what he was saying was the truth. And that\u2019s kind of what I see when I look at the liberal media.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You mentioned Jeff Flake in your talk with Mr. Snerdley.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You said when you heard Flake\u2019s speech today —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — that what he was fighting was this absolute truth.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Explain that. What do you mean by that?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, whenever I think of absolute truth, it\u2019s why they hate the Bible. I\u2019m a preacher, and I believe in the Word of God being an absolute truth. And that\u2019s why they hate the Bible because it\u2019s absolute truth. That\u2019s why they hate what you say \u2019cause it\u2019s absolute truth. You know, Oprah Winfrey is known as saying that what\u2019s true is what\u2019s true to you. That\u2019s one of her —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — statements that she genuinely believes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They all have a moral relativism of that sort. How you feel —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — is how you are.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. Exactly. But the fact of the matter is, there\u2019s absolute truth, and that\u2019s what the liberals are afraid of. When I watched Jeff Flake I was thinking about that 7-year-old illustration. I was watching a 7-year-old who believed in Santa Claus and believed in the Easter Bunny getting all upset because what Donald Trump is doing flies in the face of what he thinks to be reality. And that\u2019s why he\u2019s so upset, that\u2019s why the liberals are so upset. They\u2019re convinced of something even though the something they\u2019re convinced of is dead wrong, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I think you\u2019re on to something with the idea that a certain, definable, inalterable truth in anything will set them off. I do believe that that\u2019s one of the problems they have. Now, about Flake — and I watched a little bit of the Flake speech, and I\u2019m having a little trouble plugging Flake into the context in which you\u2019re speaking because Flake was on offense and attacking Trump as an abject liar and somebody, if he\u2019s not stopped, doing unfixable damage to our institutions.<\/p>\n
He compared Trump to Josef Stalin, who mass murdered tens of millions of Russians. A New York Times reporter knew about it and ignored it and was given a Pulitzer Prize for ignoring it. And I try to figure, okay, what is Flake really bugged about? I think all these people protesting the damage Trump is doing to our morality, protesting all the damage Trump is doing to our civility, I think that\u2019s caca.<\/p>\n
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If you want to start talking about people doing damage to our civility and damage to our overall moral turpitude, you don\u2019t have to look at Donald Trump to get there. There are so many predecessors of Donald Trump. I mean, you could focus on Hollywood if you wanted to. You could focus on television shows and movies, in some cases music. You could focus on previous presidents. You could have fun with Camelot and what people have come to learn about that, the moral degradation that has occurred in our country by simply refusing to fight certain kinds of crime because we can\u2019t stop it, so we just normalize it and move on. Defining deviancy down.<\/p>\n
The idea of focusing on Trump for this, there\u2019s something else behind this. For example, the Never Trumpers on the Republican side, I think one of the things — and there are many — that have them discombobulated is that — and it really is — they are beside themselves that policies they hold dear have been implemented by this lug, by this reprobate, and that they\u2019re working offends the hell out of them because their policies are only really understandable by a select few intellectuals.<\/p>\n
Another thing — and this may be a bit petty — but I think many of them dreamt of a day when they would be working in government when all of these things for the good are happening, and they have been left out, and they\u2019re nowhere near it. They\u2019re not in the light of success and so forth. They\u2019re outside shouting at it. And there\u2019s more to it than this, but regardless, it\u2019s psychologically deep and it is surprising a lot of people who thought that they were unalterably on our side and we find out how flimsy their support for what we believe in always has been.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I want to get to sound bite 24. Sarah Sanders. This is the daily press briefing. And John Roberts, Fox News, asked Sanders what she thought of Jeff Flake denouncing Trump from the Senate floor today, and McCain\u2019s statement saying that Trump should stop attacking the medial. That\u2019s basically what Flake said. Flake said this is just beyond the pale. We don\u2019t attack the institution of the media. That\u2019s what authoritarian regimes like Stalin did. We don\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n
And McCain sent a letter out basically backing up everything Flake said and attacking Trump for daring to attack the great institution known as the press. So John Roberts wanted to know what Sarah Sanders\u2019 reaction was. This is what she said.<\/p>\n
SANDERS: In response to Senator Flake specifically, I found it quite interesting that he is coming out to attack this president considering he\u2019s one that was recently defending an actually oppressive regime. He went to Cuba a few weeks ago and served as a mouthpiece for the oppressive Cuban government. He\u2019s not criticizing the president because he\u2019s against oppression. He\u2019s criticizing the president because he has terrible poll numbers and he is, I think, looking for some attention.<\/p>\n