{"id":363939,"date":"2020-09-14T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=363939"},"modified":"2020-09-15T16:36:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:36:37","slug":"the-drive-bys-admit-they-dont-have-the-power-to-shame-trump-out-of-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/09\/14\/the-drive-bys-admit-they-dont-have-the-power-to-shame-trump-out-of-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Depressed Admits They Don\u2019t Have the Power to Shame Trump Out of Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: To the audio sound bites. I want to go back — let\u2019s start with me, myself, last Thursday on this program. I made a comment that I think a lot of people in America have reached what I call scandal absorption level. Let me play the sound bite and then we\u2019ll see if I need to add anything to myself.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: I think the American people have reached what I call their absorption level. Every day it\u2019s something new. When\u2019s the last time, ladies and gentlemen, you saw a good story? When\u2019s the last time you saw a positive story about Donald Trump in the Drive-By Media? You haven\u2019t. They haven\u2019t done one. Do you think the American people don\u2019t notice this?<\/p>\n

Do you think the American people aren\u2019t aware of what\u2019s going on? I think they\u2019re far more sophisticated and aware than what people want to acknowledge. But I realize there\u2019s a lot of people on our side like Mr. Snerdley who think this stuff is gonna work because, in their minds, it has worked. It\u2019s gotten rid of certain Republicans in the past or it succeeded in damaging others. But I think Trump\u2019s a different ball game.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, because this has been every week. I mean, folks, literally for four years now, you\u2019re gonna go back and you have to include the campaign months in 2016 — you know, Trump wasn\u2019t inaugurated \u2019til 2017. But the campaign in 2016, they were running the coup then. They were doing everything they could to set Trump up. They were spying on him. That\u2019s when they had the FISA warrants, illegally. That\u2019s when they were trying to embed people in the Trump campaign. Their informants and spies.<\/p>\n

\"\"So they\u2019re going on for four years, and the news media, it seemed like every day, minimally every week there was something new. Now, on the Trump-Russia scandal, it wasn\u2019t so much something new as yet another source that had come forth unidentified with even more information to prove, slash, confirm that Trump indeed was a Russian agent, that Trump was a traitor, that Trump was running for Vladimir Putin or whatever. The point is that every week it was something new.<\/p>\n

Now we\u2019ve had four years of every week something new and nothing in it has stuck. And I have a theory that a lot of Americans are beginning to ask, how does Trump get away with all of this? These are the smartest people in Washington. How come they can\u2019t catch the guy? We really have the world\u2019s foremost accomplished criminal as president?<\/p>\n

I think these are legitimate questions that people would ask because if you\u2019ve been told every day, every week for four years all of these assertions, all of these criminal assertions, all of these allegations, such as that Trump is going to jail when he leaves office. That New York state, the Southern District of New York, Manhattan, they\u2019re gonna be prosecuting Trump for all of these financial crimes that he\u2019s committed, all of this stuff, and yet none of it ever amounts to anything.<\/p>\n

The Drive-By Media, CNN, New York Times have devoted themselves to getting rid of Donald Trump for four years. They\u2019ve got nothing to show for it. At some point the American people reach their absorption level. They just don\u2019t believe the next allegation. But there\u2019s something fundamentally key in all of this, and that is that every new allegation happens as though nothing was said about anything else the previous day. For example, Trump-Russia collusion. That was a story that is lasted three years. But every week, every day there was a new element added to it.<\/p>\n

And the new element was to lead people to believe that it was true. Still anonymous sources, still nothing provable, but the very sheer volume of the number of stories and allegations was supposed to convince people that Trump was guilty, that he had done this, that he had cheated, stolen the election. Then something else happened. The phone call, for example, to the president of Ukraine. And immediately Trump-Russia collusion is dropped. It ceases to exist. And the Drive-By Media is off and running on Trump deserves to be impeached because of this phone call.<\/p>\n

So here comes the next one as though what happened the day before didn\u2019t happen. But it did. The Drive-Bys can\u2019t erase the years and years of failure here. Failure to prove anything. Failure to have the goods. And I think more people than you know — I\u2019m talking about voters — more people than you know, and maybe people that are not even Trump supporters, are getting fed up with it simply because they\u2019re getting tired of it. It never amounts to anything. Four years of allegations, at least one of these they ought to be able to have the goods on him. They ought to be able to prove one of the things, but they can\u2019t in four years. And yet they keep adding new ones.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. This is number 6. This is Meet the Depressed yesterday hosted by F. Chuck Todd, and he\u2019s got Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic who ran the fake news story. Four anonymous sources claiming that Trump — I\u2019ve even forgot — what did The Atlantic, what was their claim? (interruption) Oh, yeah. See? I\u2019ve already forgotten the allegation. That he called dead soldiers losers and jokers. Honestly, I had forgotten it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Jeffrey Goldberg has admitted, “Well, I think my sources might have been wrong.” He still nevertheless, even though he has admitted that he got caught running a story filled with lies, he\u2019s still the guest, the lead guest on Meet the Depressed with F. Chuck Todd of NBC News. And F. Chuck says to Goldberg, “We all underestimated how to cover this president and how to cover his mischaracterizations and lies.”<\/p>\n

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GOLDBERG: Usually, until this presidency, when a president is called out for lying, they usually trim their sails a little bit or they apologize or they explain. And what you have here is a new phenomenon for all of us, and we\u2019re not sure what to do.<\/p>\n

TODD: The only way to understand this is to realize, he doesn\u2019t have shame about it. And when we lose our ability to shame a politician, we lose a lot of our power, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, my God. Folks, do you understand what F. Chuck just admitted here? He just confirmed that your host, El Rushbo, nailed them. F. Chuck Todd, Jeffrey Goldberg admit they have lost their power to shame a president out of office. F. Chuck Todd: The only way to understand this is to realize he doesn\u2019t have shame about it. And when we lose our ability to shame a politician, we lose a lot of our power, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n

Why should he have any shame? He didn\u2019t do it. He didn\u2019t collude with Russia. He didn\u2019t call dead soldiers losers and jokers. He didn\u2019t do anything in the phone call with the new president of Ukraine that would warrant impeachment. He didn\u2019t do anything that he is alleged to have done. Nothing that he was alleged to have done in the Steele dossier is true. It was all made up.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

So, Chuck, why do you think you should be able to shame Trump? He didn\u2019t do any of the stuff you\u2019re accusing him of doing. The truth is that Trump is probably smiling and happy that you guys are so damn frustrated. ‘Cause what Chuck is really saying here is, “We don\u2019t have the ability to lie a president out of office. At least not with this guy.” ‘Cause remember how Goldberg starts. “Usually, until this presidency, when a president\u2019s called out for lying, they usually trim their sails a little bit or they apologize or they explain. And what you have here in Trump is a new phenomena for all of us, and we\u2019re not sure -” yeah. Well, you\u2019re trying to railroad a guy that didn\u2019t do any of what you say he did.<\/p>\n

Why should he have any shame? Why should he have any embarrassment? He didn\u2019t do it. He didn\u2019t do any of it. “Well, what do you think about COVID-19?” That\u2019s a Woodward allegation. He didn\u2019t do anything. The things that Trump has done have revived a failing U.S. economy. He has rebuilt the United States military. He brought jobs back to America that Barack Obama said would never come back. He established an all-time record low for African-American and Hispanic unemployment. What do you mean, he\u2019s got nothing to be ashamed of.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Besides, Donald Trump is not the kind of guy that runs around acting ashamed of himself. And you guys can\u2019t make him act ashamed of himself and you certainly can\u2019t do it with allegations of things that are not true, but look what they admit. Chuck Todd: the only way to understand this is to realize Trump doesn\u2019t have shame about it and when we in the media lose our ability to shame a politician, we lose a lot of our power.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s for sure. Hey, Chuck, why do you want shame politicians anyway? Chuck, who\u2019s the last Democrat you tried to shame? Chuck, have you ever tried to shame Chuck Schumer? Have you ever tried to shame Nancy Pelosi? Have you ever tried to shame Barack Obama? Have you ever tried to shame Joe Biden?<\/p>\n

When\u2019s the last time you ever tried to shame a Democrat? Can\u2019t remember. Why do you want to do it anyway? They are used to being able to literally making it up about any Republican and sooner than later that Republican is gonna resign. Sooner or later that Republican is going to apologize even if that Republican didn\u2019t do what he\u2019s being accused of doing by the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

But Trump has no shame. Trump is not ashamed of himself. Chuck, Trump loves himself. Trump loves himself more than you like yourself. And you\u2019re ever gonna be able to get Trump to hate himself. Trump and self-loathing are never, ever gonna go together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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