Don’t Believe a Thing the Media Says About Trump
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We’ve got a couple stories today which document media behavior. This is unprecedented. I don’t think in my lifetime I have ever — and I’ve lived through the hatred of Richard Nixon and the hatred of Ronaldus Magnus and the hatred of George W. Bush. I have never seen this. I have never seen the out-and-out lying, knowing lying, the purposeful lying, mass lying that has been the namesake of the Drive-By Media since the election.
A lot of people have been documenting a whole lot of things the media’s been saying and comparing them to what Trump actually said. How many of you think Trump said that there were nice people, some fine people in the Alt-Right and Antifa? Do you know he never said it? He never said it. He never said any of the things that have been reported and rereported and recycled, literally things made up out of whole cloth.
It would really be wise for all of you to not believe a thing anybody in the media says about Donald Trump if it is the slightest bit critical. What they’re on today is, “Trump doesn’t care. Trump doesn’t care about people. Trump doesn’t love people. Trump doesn’t have empathy.” They’re just making it up. There isn’t any evidence. Trump has not been aloof. He has not been off-putting. They’re just making it up. They are literally making it up as they go.
They are making it up according to the stereotypes they have established that are supposedly attached to Republicans or conservatives, right-wingers or whatever. They’re just making it up. And I don’t know how this is dealt with. Trump, in his speech, in his Phoenix rally, tried to deal with it for 30 minutes. He ran through, he had it written down in front of him. “Here’s what I said,” and he castigated CNN and the New York Times, and he was dead right. He was a thousand percent right in what he said.
And look how they treated that? They of course, “This man is insane. This man is unfit for office. This man is unhinged. This man is delusion.” It’s the media that’s insane. It’s media that’s deranged. It’s the media that’s unhinged, and it’s the media that is just out-and-out lying. They’re not even trying to be subtle about it and they’re not trying to be trickery about it and using any trickery or any deception. They’re just blatant in-your-face lying, and they are counting on the fact that most people are not gonna know and are not gonna find out.
They’re not even being subtle. They’re not even trimming things around the edges. They are just bold-faced making it up, in case after case after case, particularly Trump’s comments after Charlottesville. There’s also a great piece today in The Federalist. These are all long pieces. I mean, they print out to 15 pages. I can’t go through all of it. But there is a tremendous summary at TheFederalist.com on how there is to this day not a single shred of evidence that there was any collusion between Trump or anybody on his team with the Russians having to do with the election in 2016.
To this day, there is not a shred of evidence.
I’ll tell you what I actually think. There’s a lot of hope here, I will admit. But I think that the media is setting itself up, as are many groups on the left, for a backlash that they’re not gonna see coming.
What I mean by this, there’s already growing fatigue with everybody under the sun being a racist. I mean, it’s more than growing fatigue. There is genuine repulsive anger. People are fed up with it. And I’m talking about people who are not accused of it. I’m talking about average, ordinary Americans watching the news, listening to everybody in the world be called a racist or a neo-Nazi or a white supremacist, they’re fed up with it. The point is they’re not believing it.
Not that a backlash is gonna stop them. See, that’s the thing. Nothing that happens is gonna stop the media from doing what they do. So they’re always gonna have some degree of effectiveness because there’s always gonna be a certain percentage of the population which, for whatever reason, is gonna believe everything they see, read, or hear in the media. But it’s gotten to the point here that more and more people are questioning it. More and more people are beginning to have problems with it because it’s just every day. It’s Trump did this, Trump’s doing this, Trump’s horrible here, Trump’s horrible there, Trump doesn’t care about people.
At some point, even if you hate Trump, you run out of your ability to soak it all up and believe it. People who hate Trump will have a lot bigger reservoir for it than people who are ambivalent. And people who like Trump are gonna have no patience for it whatsoever. And the number of people that like Trump is not shrinking, contrary to what the Drive-Bys would like you to believe.
Let me get to these examples of the media literally making it up about Trump. The New York Times has had to issue four blatant corrections. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
John King at CNN reacting, I think — you heard this montage — it was just a never-ending drubbing of Trump and his lack of empathy. This afternoon at CNN on Inside Politics, I had to read this transcript twice, because this seems so out of place for CNN. And it made me wonder, does John King know that his days there are numbered? Listen to this and see what you think.
KING: It was striking to me that even in the middle of this visit to Texas, to go to a state in the middle of a disaster, if you look at social media and elsewhere, Trump is in the eye of the beholder. There was this big political debate even before he hit the ground. As they were leaving the White House, whether it’s Melania’s shoes, the president’s hat, and then what he said, did he show enough empathy. Can there not be a “the president went. It was appropriate for him to go. He stayed out of the way, which is the smart thing to do. He got a briefing. He knows more today than he did yesterday”? Why do we get immediately into the muckety-muck?
RUSH: Whoa! That obviously wasn’t on the teleprompter. Nobody at CNN would have put that on the prompter, so that was from John King’s mind and heart. “Can we just not report the guy went, he stayed out of the way, he got a briefing, he knows more now than he did — can we just do that? Why do we have to get into the muck?” Wow. Of course, they could ask themselves that every day, but the fact that it was asked on CNN, hmm.
I’m telling you, there’s some things going on here, if there’s anybody in the media that’s responsible — and that’s a big if — but if there is, folks, there have to be some people troubled by what this business or industry is doing, led by the New York Times starting with this whole Russian-Trump collusion story that there is no evidence of, zilch, zero, nada. I mean, there’s not a shred after all of this time.
The outright lies the media told about what Trump said after Charlottesville in his three separate statements, they lied about all three.
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