{"id":349604,"date":"2020-05-26T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=349604"},"modified":"2020-05-27T16:07:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T20:07:04","slug":"why-trump-punches-down-at-joe-scarborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/05\/26\/why-trump-punches-down-at-joe-scarborough\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump Punches Down at Joe Scarborough"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Everybody\u2019s jumping all over Trump. I got a headline here on Drudge:<\/p>\n

“Twitter Apologizes for Trump Tweets.” This is about Trump tweeting that Scarborough murdered somebody, and a lot of people say, “What is Trump doing? Why is he punching down? Why is he wasting time on Scarborough?” I have no idea, folks, but I\u2019m just gonna tell you something: Everybody\u2019s acting so outraged that Trump would accuse Scarborough of murder.<\/p>\n

What about what Trump\u2019s been accused of for three years? Treason, being a traitor, lying about all kinds of stuff. Flynn! What they have done to Donald Trump and his family! Maybe Trump\u2019s just dosing out some medicine. “Okay, Joe, how does it feel?” ‘Cause Scarborough\u2019s been one of the guys on that network that has been promising and assuring everybody that Trump\u2019s a traitor, that Trump is a Russian agent.<\/p>\n

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And if Scarborough didn\u2019t say it, here comes an endless parade of guests who would be happy to say it. I don\u2019t know why Trump is doing it. You know, Trump is Trump. But these people in the media act like they have a free ride. They can say whatever they want about anybody, but don\u2019t you dare be critical of them. Don\u2019t you dare respond to it! Don\u2019t you dare impugn them.<\/p>\n

And then, if you do, they\u2019re gonna come after you. Trump is not the kind of guy that just sits there and takes this stuff. Yeah, I wish he wouldn\u2019t punch down. I wish he didn\u2019t care. But he does. So he\u2019s gonna do what he does, and, if you take a little time, you can understand it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, there\u2019s Kayleigh McEnany. Kayleigh McEnany, the new White House press secretary, is getting beaten up by the media for simply doing her job well! You know, the media has behaved like a bunch of kindergarteners, a bunch of spoiled brats, and nobody complains and talks about how childish they are, how damaging they are, how unprofessional they are. All she does is throw it back at them, and she throws it back at them politely.<\/p>\n

She has a velvet-glove way of nuking them. So now they\u2019re out there saying, “What she\u2019s doing is outrageous. What she\u2019s doing is damaging. I have never seen anything as counterproductive as Kayleigh McEnany.” All that means is that she is as effective as she can be. (interruption) Well, no. I was the featured speaker, keynote speaker at one of Brent Bozell\u2019s events. This must go back three years, maybe four. It was in Washington. It was his awards dinner where they hand out awards for the wackiest leftist clips from the Drive-By Media, video clips.<\/p>\n

\"\"They have all kinds of people up there introducing them, and I was keynote. This is the event where, you know, they\u2019re all watching these video clips of all these wacko libs in the media doing and saying what they\u2019re saying, lying through their teeth. They\u2019re just having the biggest time and the audience laughing. I walked up there and I said, “You know, you guys, you\u2019re laughing, but they believe this. You had better take this seriously.<\/p>\n

“This is exactly what they believe,” and was insane. I wish I could give you examples. It was things that Chris Matthews has said or take your pick of any outrageous leftist anchor or news correspondent. Look, I\u2019m fine with comedy and people laughing at things, and it is funny. But it\u2019s also I cautioned, “You guys, they believe this stuff, and it means that you can laugh at \u2019em all day long and you\u2019re not gonna shame them. You\u2019re not gonna get \u2019em to stop.<\/p>\n

“You\u2019re not gonna get \u2019em to change the way they\u2019re doing their jobs. You can laugh at \u2019em all you want, but they believe it.” Anyway, I met Kayleigh McEnany at this. She was there, and she came up to me. She was so sweet, so nice. She credited me for her conservatism and knowledge of conservatism. She was a young girl and she was driving around in her dad\u2019s truck with her dad, and her dad had the Rush Limbaugh program on, and she absorbed it. She was really, really nice.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s a class act, and she\u2019s excellent at what she\u2019s doing in this job as press secretary.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So early on in the program somebody asked me what I thought of Trump punching low and going down and focusing on Joe Scarborough as a murderer. I said, “Well, I wish he wouldn\u2019t do it. I don\u2019t know why he concerns himself with gnats, why he concerns himself with Chihuahuas yipping at his ankles. But he does.” I said, “I need you to consider something. Who is Scarborough? Scarborough is a guy who used to love and suck up to Donald Trump like you can\u2019t believe.<\/p>\n

\"\"“He would show up at Mar-a-Lago begging to be let in on New Year\u2019s Eve after Trump wins election. Scarborough had Trump on his show during the campaign and made it look like he was for Trump,” and then, all of a sudden, Joe Scarborough becomes one of the lead purveyors of the Russian collusion mess. And, folks, as you all know now, there was never anything to that. There was never any evidence.<\/p>\n

All they had was the Steele dossier. It was made up. It really is pathetic. There was not a shred. It was all made up. None of it was true. Not a single word you read in the New York Times for three years was true. Ditto, Washington Post. Not a single word you saw, not a single thing you heard on CNN was true. It\u2019s astounding — and right in there is Joe Scarborough spreading all of it.<\/p>\n

Now, what if you\u2019re Donald Trump and you\u2019re fed up with it, and this guy was alternately sucking up to you, trying to be your best buddy, showing up at your club asking to be let in, and then joining this cabal of people trying to wipe him out? I said, “What about the possibility that Trump is simply giving Scarborough a taste of his own medicine? ‘Hey, Joe, let\u2019s see how you like being accused of murder.'”<\/p>\n

You know, the media\u2019s out there talking, “This is outrageous! This is silly. This is stupid. This is inexplicable what Trump is doing.” No! What\u2019s inexplicable is three years of allegations that Trump was a traitor, that he sold out the country as a Russian agent of Vladimir Putin. There hasn\u2019t been one apology. There hasn\u2019t been one mea culpa. Scarborough is right in there leading the charge by putting all these New York Times and Washington Post reporters on as guests.<\/p>\n

So Kayleigh McEnany was asked a question by Jonathan Karl today. “Trump\u2019s president. He\u2019s accusing somebody of murder. What\u2019s going on, Kayleigh?”<\/p>\n