Trump Manipulates Media into Touting the Economy
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RUSH: Now, I mentioned some amazing things that were happening on the Sunday shows. The Drive-By Media… Let me set this up by pointing out the economy is roaring. The economy is doing so well. African-American approval for President Trump is like 40%.
The Drive-Bys have been trying to downplay it because they think it’s such an important factor. They think it would be such a boon to Trump and the Republicans that the economy’s doing well. They would look at it as a huge obstacle for their buddies, the Democrats, to overcome. So they have been ignoring it. Until this past weekend. Mike, I’m gonna switch up on you here. I need to find a sound bite here.
What happened was that Tom Perez started talking about how, “It’s no big deal this economy. This economy you…” Jake Tapper took him to task on it. Let me see if I do have it here. Jake Tapper… (interruption) What was that? (interruption) No we don’t have it. Jake Tapper started laying into Perez. “You can’t… You…” He didn’t let him get away with it. He didn’t let him get away with running down the economy.
I said, “Whoa. Something’s up here,” and something indeed was up. The Drive-Bys have all of a sudden decided to start praising the economy. Here we have a montage. …
RUSH: I cannot tell you, I cannot overemphasize how incredible this is. They have been avoiding talk like this for a year! They have been making it a point to not talk about the economy this way. In fact, they’ve done their best to downplay the economy roaring along. And these people — by the way, this was media-wide. This was ABC, Fox News, NBC, CNN, and CBS. There was a coordinated effort all throughout the Sunday shows to start touting the economy while asking why Trump isn’t.
Why isn’t Trump touting the economy? Do you realize what genius this may well be? Trump has been touting the economy. If you listen to his rallies, which apparently these people don’t. At every Trump rally, he extols imprecise improvements of the economy. And he explains why, not just that his administration deserves credit; he gives the policy reasons for unemployment falling, wages increasing, new jobs coming back, businesses expanding.
And then all of a sudden the Sunday before the election the Drive-By Media is singing the praises of the economy like nobody has been.
What changed here? Why hasn’t the media been talking about this for the past year? Why haven’t they even been worried about it? They haven’t been worried about it because of his they haven’t been telling people about it. And in their world, if they don’t tell anybody about it, then nobody will know it even if they’re living it. The Drive-Bys think, unless they tout anything, nobody will actually know it or think that it’s happening.
But now all of a sudden …
Here’s what’s going on, folks. Immigration. The media and the Democrats know immigration is the issue. It was the issue in 2016 that got Trump elected. It’s the issue that is going to service Trump’s continuing success in the midterms.
They’re desperate to get Trump to stop talking about it. They want Trump to start talking about the economy. They actually think they can bait him. This is what’s amazing. They literally think… This is what they think they are. They think they have the kind of power, they say they want you to start talking about X, that you will think, “Ooh. Wow. The media thinks I should be talking about this. Maybe I better.”
The media want him to drop all talk of immigration because it’s death for the Democrats.
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