Why We Distrust the Media

They have made me suspicious, and all of you. That attempt, this ongoing attempt to destroy Donald Trump, to overturn the election results of 2016 — and it was codified (epitomized, if you will) in what they’ve tried to do to Brett Kavanaugh. It’s no different. And they aren’t going to stop. I don’t need to be told or reminded how fit-to-be-tied enraged they are over their failure to get rid of Trump.

It’s a shame that the highest levels of our government have gotten to the point where distrusting them is a common-sensical thing to do. But they’ve brought this on. All of these nameless, faceless, anonymous sources with all of this utter BS. “Every day for two years, New York Times, CNN (impression), “Intelligence community sources and former American intelligence officials tell the New York Times that” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Every day, sometimes many times a day for a year, two years. Stuff made up out of whole cloth — news stories literally made up — all to advance the agenda of essentially canceling the election results from 2016 and finding a way to get Donald Trump out of office.

So here we are two weeks before the midterm elections. wo weeks out a bunch of bombs start showing up in places that the media can then say that they are being received by “Trump targets”? I’m sorry. I didn’t fall off the turnip truck ever, and certainly not yesterday, and the world of October Surprises coupled with all the other realities I just exposed, and I think it only makes sense to be suspicious and demanding of proof for whatever we’re gonna be told.

But the fact remains here that despite everything, the media is hell-bent on politicizing this or anything that will assist them in creating an anti-Trump sentiment heading into the midterms. And that’s how they first report these things. Like I say, this tragedy at the synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh… I mean, after reporting as many of the details that were known, we’re off to the races on how Trump is responsible and how Trump may benefit or may get hurt by this, and we hope that it changes people’s minds as they head to the polls in a couple of weeks or what have you.

They can’t help themselves.

RUSH: When it comes to Israel. It’s the Democrats Who Pal Around with Anti-Semites!

They’re not gonna get on Obama for hanging around anti-Semites like Farrakhan or Reverend Jackson or Al Sharpton.

They’re busy promoting all those people! They feel sorry for ’em. When you get right down to brass tacks, they feel sorry for ’em. They think that because of the ancient history of America with slavery, discrimination, all that kind of thing, that really we can’t hold them accountable. They have excuses. You know, we gotta look the other way. I’m not exaggerating on that.

But the point still remains that Obama was chummy with Farrakhan — and Al Sharpton and the Reverend Jackson are as well. There was Farrakhan standing right next to ’em all at the Aretha Franklin funeral, and none of them seemed to not want to be the in photo with him. Many Drive-By news organizations cropped Farrakhan out of the photo when they sent it down their news wires. So they know.

The first instinct they have is to try to find a way to link whoever committed the bad deed to the Republican Party or the so-called conservative movement. And, of course, now it’s blame Trump. Everything — everything at all, whatever it is, blame Donald Trump. Blame me. Blame you. Blame anybody that supported Donald Trump. And, frankly, I’m worn out with this reaction. I have had it! I am fed up with it!

It’s been this way for years. There were shoot-ups during the Obama administration, there were mass murders, and at no time did the Drive-By Media ever try to link any of it to Obama. And yet people have forgotten. Was it inflammatory to say that Republicans were gonna be responsible for millions of deaths if Obamacare was not passed into law? Anybody remember that? I sure as hell do because I was fed up with it then!

NBC News… “NBC: If Americans Are ‘Fed Up’ and ‘Mean It,’ They’ll Vote Against Trump/GOP — The day after an anti-Semite killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a week of political violence, NBC’s Sunday Today exploited the opportunity by trying to tie it all to President Trump. On top of that, [NBC] suggested that the only hope to stop the violence was to send Trump a message at the ballot box by voting against him and the GOP.

“After reporting on the anti-Semitic hate crime in Pittsburgh, NBC shifted over to complaining about Trump for not bowing to the man’s hatred. ‘On Saturday, he continued with his midterm campaign commitments despite that tragedy,’ chided anchor Willie Geist, while White House correspondent Kelly O’Donnell huffed about how the ‘President’s response to this tragedy has been to speak extensively about all aspects of it while not giving up his midterm fight.’”

This is unseemly. “ABC: Trump ‘At the Center’ of All the Political Violence Right Now.”

That was George Stephanopoulos on This Week yesterday. “After giving a rundown of the violence of the week, he declared it all occurred ‘against the backdrop of the ugliest political climate in modern times,’” and, of course, “at the center” of it is Donald Trump. No. (chuckles) No! At the center of it is the media, the media and their reporting on Trump.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Across social media, hate speech and anti-Semitism are rampant and on the rise, all against the backdrop of the ugliest political climate in modern times. At the center, an unapologetically incendiary president untrammeled by traditional norms of civility.

RUSH: “Traditional norms of civility”? They do not understand. Trump is a reactionary. He’s reacting to the way they treat him. Now, there may be blame to go around on both sides here, but for the media to totally claim they’ve got nothing to do with this is absurd.

Now, they’ll tell you they see the human suffering, consequences, and so forth. But I’m telling you, when events like this happen… Like when the pipe bomb thing started being delivered, I guarantee you there were some people on the left and in the media rubbing their hands. “Oh, man! If this works out, this is gonna be a real benefit to us.” They see politics in everything. Go back and look during the eight years of Obama.

Every, every news story, every event — wherever it was, domestic, international — was reported on with the premise of how it helps or can help Obama or how it could hurt Obama. But mostly, it was all about, “What does this mean for Obama?” Remember when the Egyptians were in the throes much rid of Hosni Mubarak and the Muslim Brotherhood was in there, the Arab Spring?

I maintain to you, as I said in my opening monologue of the program today, that we get up every day and we see people and institutions that we admire and respect under attack. I mean, every day the left is politicizing everything, including mass murder wherever it happens. They are politicizing the weather.

The mainstream media is extremism, if you ask me. That’s what they’ve become. Daily media reporting has become extremism. It certainly isn’t factual, it certainly has an investment in the outcome of events

Trump himself is accusing the media of stoking great anger.

You want to talk about a guy not standing down? If you want to talk about somebody who is pushing back and does so with no apology, try this tweet from President Trump. This was last night at 9:12. “The Fake News is doing everything in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred that has been going on for so long in our Country. Actually, it is their Fake & Dishonest reporting which is causing problems far greater than they understand!”

The next tweet… Actually, the next one here came before it. “There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly.

“That will do much to put out the flame of Anger and Outrage and we will then be able to bring all sides together in Peace and Harmony. Fake News Must End!” Stop and think for a moment if it did. Stop and think if the news media were not so blatantly associated with the destruction of one party and president. Stop and think how American day-to-day life would be different if there wasn’t any hate routinely reported as news in the Drive-By Media. That’s Trump’s point.

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