Conservative Media Savages Trump

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | June 17, 2015 | Rush Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

RUSH: You look at the conservative media and what they're doing to Trump. If the conservative media would hit Hillary with one-tenth of what they're hitting Trump with, it might matter!

It's incredible. Hillary Clinton gets more respect than Trump gets from the conservative media. Now, look, I understand some of it. Krauthammer is out there... (laughing) I mean, Trump's out there calling Krauthammer and George Will "losers," and they don't know what they're talking about, have never been right about anything. (chuckles) It's all a good show.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: You know, here's how crazy it is. Here you have Bernie Sanders. Let's look at Bernie Sanders. Here's a guy who not only mocks and makes fun of rape victims, but he wants to bring the ideology of Stalin and Saddam and Mao Tse-tung to the United States, and he's perfectly normal as far as the media's concerned, and over here is Donald Trump and he's the clown.

The reflex, the willingness that we have, I guess, to let the media select our candidates for us is just incredible. By the way, before I get to this National Review piece... Well, wait. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, here it is. Ah. I thought I'd misplaced it, but I haven't. Well, let me just get straight to this. I'm looking at the clock and the time is really zipping by here. This is Kevin Williamson. Kevin Williamson is a great guy.

Kevin Williamson is one of the stars at National Review, National Review Online. Kevin Williamson's one of their smart guys. But, man, does he have an animus to Donald Trump. I'm gonna read some of this verbatim to you. The headline... Are you ready? "Witless Ape Rides Escalator." That's pretty ruthless. Donald Trump, "witless ape" on an escalator. You ready for this? I like Kevin Williamson; I wish Kevin would write something like this about Hillary.

I wish some in our conservative media would let go with some of this stuff for Democrats. Donald Trump may be the man America needs, having been through four bankruptcies, the ridiculous buffoon with the worst taste since Caligula is uniquely positioned to lead the most indebted organization in the history of the human race. That's the United States, by the way, if you're wondering. The Trump conglomerate is the Argentina of limited liability companies, having been in bankruptcy as recently as 2009.

"Now, to be sure a lot of companies went bankrupt around then. The Trump gang went bankrupt in 2004, too, and in 2001. Before that Trump was in bankruptcy court back in 1991 when his Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, the nation's first casino cum strip club, an aesthetic crime against humanity that is tacky even by the standards of Atlantic City turned out to be such a loser that Trump could not make his debt payments. Did you hear how he just described Trump's casino? Let me run through this again.

"This is one of these pieces that when you read it grammatically and all the punctuation makes sense, but reading it, sometimes you get lost. So it takes a professional like me with great interpretative reading skills to bring the printed word alive, which I'll do again here. Trump was in bankruptcy court back in 1991 when his Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, which, by the way, was the nation's first casino, slash, strip club, an aesthetic crime against humanity that is tacky by the standards of Atlantic City also turned out to be such a loser that Trump couldn't make his debt payments.

"The closing of that casino has been announced at least twice. It was supposed to shut its doors in December, but it limps on. Donald Trump, being Donald Trump, announced his candidacy at Trump Plaza, making a weird grand entrance via escalator -- going down, of course, the symbolism of which is lost on that witless ape. But who could witness that scene -- the self-made man who started with nothing but a modest portfolio of 27,000 New York City properties acquired by his millionaire slumlord father, barely out of his latest bankruptcy and possibly headed for another one as the casino/jiggle-joint bearing his name sinks into the filthy mire of the one US city that makes Las Vegas look respectable, a reality-television grotesque with his plastic-surgery-disaster wife, grunting like a baboon about our country’s 'brand' and his own vast wealth -- and not see the peerless sign of our times?

"On the substance, Trump is -- how to put it gently? Oh, why bother! -- an ass. Not just an ass, but an ass of exceptionally intense asininity. China? 'China’s leaders are like Tom Brady, and the US is like a high-school football team,' Trump says. And so, we should do what?" Call Bill Belichick, I would say. "Trump’s is a fill-in-the-blanks agenda: He claims to have a plan for defeating ISIS, but he cannot say what it is for reasons of operational security for the mission that exists only in his mind."

By the way, coming up later our old buddy Ron Fournier does have an idea on how to defeat ISIS, and wait 'til you hear it. (laughing) Wait 'til the Millennials hear it. I hope the Democrat Party adopts his idea of how to defeat ISIS. It would cause the biggest mass exodus to the Republican Party you have yet seen, but we'll get to that in due course. I want to finish this National Review piece on Trump. You still with me? Here we go.

"Trump’s is a fill-in-the-blanks agenda: He claims to have a plan for defeating ISIS, but he cannot say what it is for reasons of operational security for the mission that exists only in his mind. He assures us the plan is 'foolproof,' but whoever coined that word had never met a fool like Donald Trump. Immigration? Build a wall and force the Mexicans to pay for it. How to do that?

"The one thing worse than Trump’s vague horsepucky is his specific horsepucky, i.e., his 1999 plan to impose a one-time tax -- everybody knows how good Washington is about 'one time' uses of power -- on the wealth of all high-net-worth individuals and institutions." That's who he wanted the one-time tax on.

"A 14.25 percent tax, he calculated, would retire the national debt. And what about institutions that don’t have 14.25 percent of their net worth in ready cash -- to take a totally random example, let’s say a poorly run real-estate concern with a lot of illiquid assets and unmanageable debt payments eating up all its ready cash?" Like Trump's, where's he gonna get the money to pay his own tax?

"Trump says that he cannot discuss the details of his agenda because of -- his word -- 'enemies.' Who are these enemies? Perspective? Trump predicted that we may be heading toward a stock-market crash worse than the one in 1929, but: 'I remain extremely optimistic about Atlantic City.' We’ve been to this corner of Crazytown before. If we’re going to have a billionaire dope running for the presidency, I prefer Ross Perot and his cracked tales of Vietnamese hit squads dispatched to take him out while Lee Atwater plotted to crash his daughter’s wedding with phonied-up lesbian sex pictures."

That, by the way, is why Perot got out of the race, in case you've forgotten. (laughing) You still with me on this? This is in National Review. Have you ever read anything in conservative media written like this about a Democrat? Anyway, it is true, Perot got out of the race because he heard that Lee Atwater, who's Bush's hit man, Bush 41, was plotting to crash his daughter's wedding with phonied-up lesbian sex pictures, and he announced that.

"I have a theory," writes Kevin D. Williamson. "I have a theory about Trump and his delusions, based, I’ll admit, on pure superstition. There’s an ancient belief, one that persists into our own time, that our names exert occult influence on our lives. And Trump’s name, while potentially comical -- 'Don-John' -- doesn’t offer much in the way of scrying. But his father’s middle name was -- true fact -- Christ. Fred Christ. Obama’s arrival was announced by a man called Emanuel, but The Donald was brought into this world by Christ himself -- Fred Christ. How could a man like that not have a messiah complex?

"Of course, when Trump sings 'How Great Thou Art,' he sings it in a mirror. The problem with messiah complexes is that there’s no way to know whether you are going to rise on the third day unless somebody crucifies you." Whoa. hee-hee-hee. "Trump has announced, and I say we get started on that." Kevin D. Williamson, National Review's roving correspondent.

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RUSH: Last night on the Fox News Channel, The Five cohost Kimberly Guilfoyle was speaking with Juan Williams about Donald Trump's announcement he's running for president. Kimberly Guilfoyle said, "Trump is not afraid to answer a question. He has ideas, he has passion, he's got enthusiasm. He's not gonna be afraid or intimidated to debate people. I want to hear what Trump has to say."

WILLIAMS: If you said to me, "You know what? Rush Limbaugh should run for president," I'd say, "Come on, Kimberly! What is this about? Are we running for talk show host, conservative right-wing talk show host?"

RUSH: What does that mean? I'm not running for president. Why throw me into this? I'll tell you why throw me into this. 'Cause every time Juan Williams mentions my name, I get the sound bite (laughing) and we end up airing it. Juan's a smart...? Is he a black guy? Now I'm confused. Smart guy. But this is not smart. "If you said to me, 'You know what? Rush Limbaugh should run for president,' I'd say, 'Come on, Kimberly!'" She didn't say I should run for president. They're talking about Trump. Trump is not a talk show host. There isn't a talk show host running for president, not that I know of. But then, after that, Juan Williams continued.

WILLIAMS: He came into the Fox building the other day and came over to say hello to me. And you know what? The people who work in this building, the people who let us in, the people who clean the building flocked to him.

RUSH: Wait a minute, now. Wait just... Did you hear what he said? He said, "The people who work in this building, the people who let us in, the people who clean the building..." Does that not sound a lot elitist to you? I mean, here's Juan Williams, Fox News star, talking about the little people. The custodians, the doormen, people who let them in. Those people, the little people, flock to Trump.

People had better be very, very careful here because what Trump is saying, even with the humor, is gonna resonate with a lot of people, just like Perot did. In fact, I posited this just yesterday on the program. I warned people to be on the lookout: "Remember what Perot did '92 campaign." Here's Chris Cuomo on CNN this morning.

CUOMO: Donald Trump. Could he play the spoiler? Is he the Ross Perot of 2016?

RUSH: This is how it happens. They don't give credit, folks, but this show many days shapes the rest of the media. And there you have it.

[MHGinTN]

I can’t get my mind to agree that there even IS a conservative media. Even Limbaugh has been compromised.

[Paladin2]

Trump is a good thing to whopp the others upside the head...

[cripplecreek]

You look at the conservative media and what they're doing to Trump. If the conservative media would hit Hillary with one-tenth of what they're hitting Trump with, it might matter!

And Trump says he doesn't have any respect for the other candidates but says he would have a great relationship with Putin.

[odawg]

That theory Williamson cites at the end of his hit piece, about Trump’s name, is so utterly lame and pathetic that it smears him back and makes him look like a petty, pissy fool.

[SpaceBar]

It is now fair game to ask (insert your guy/gal here) if they likewise would build a border wall and get Mexico to pay for it as well.

[CatherineofAragon]

"It is now fair game to ask (insert your guy/gal here) if they likewise would build a border wall and get Mexico to pay for it as well."

How is Trump going to get Mexico to pay for it?

Did he give any details on that? Any kind of plan?

[dowcaet]

I gave up a long time ago on the National RINOview.

[SpaceBar]

Did he give any details...

Irrelevant. He said it. Now let's see how the others react.

[Paladin2]

No one of the GOPee or to the right is about building a wall.

'Cept for the bloviation of Trump. May he prevail....

[donna]

1992
William Jefferson Clinton
Votes: 44,909,326 (43.0%)

George Herbert Walker Bush
Votes: 39,103,882 (37.4%)

Henry Ross Perot
Votes: 19,741,657 (18.9%)

[donna]

He could start deporting the Mexican criminals back to Mexico.

[djf]

Man, I’m really starting to think if the conservative media hates him, and the liberal MSM can’t stand his guts, then there might really be something there!

[TNMOUTH]

Perhaps Conservative media hammers Trump because, gasp, he ISNT Conservative

[mrs ippi]

The first large public rally for Trump (I’m talking 200,000, will blow the lid off this country. I fully expect him to rent Cowboy stadium or the Rose Bowl soon ( with his money— not lobbyist) very soon. Get out of the way. He is coming. It won't be pretty fpr the PC world.
Lets find him a great VP!! Palin? West? Carson? Fiorina? Paul? Cruz? He will blow our minds with his VP!! ( nope, Oprah was a joke). Let's make America GREAT again. Build THE WALL !!!!! . This is over. Trump rules!!

[Georgia Girl 2]

I was listening to Rush today and glad he mocked that moron Williamson.

The frenzy over Donald Trump running for President is insane. The GOPe and their little RINO pundits and fellow travelers don’t know whether to chit or wind their watch. Byron York looked absolutely constipated on Greta tonight. Well he usually does but worse tonight. He was beside himself. The thought that some regular person might run for President and not be controlled by the club is driving them to hysteria. I am loving it.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

What “conservative media”? At best we have some in media that are a little less liberal than the rest.

Trump won’t win the nomination but he will stir the drink a bit. He can say things that the rest of them don’t have the guts to say, forcing them to acknowledge and take a position. And the GOP-e won’t be able to shut him up.

[Alex Murphy]

RUSH: "I have a theory," writes Kevin D. Williamson. "I have a theory about Trump and his delusions, based, I’ll admit, on pure superstition. There’s an ancient belief, one that persists into our own time, that our names exert occult influence on our lives. And Trump’s name, while potentially comical -- 'Don-John' -- doesn’t offer much in the way of scrying. But his father’s middle name was -- true fact -- Christ. Fred Christ. Obama’s arrival was announced by a man called Emanuel, but The Donald was brought into this world by Christ himself -- Fred Christ. How could a man like that not have a messiah complex? "Of course, when Trump sings 'How Great Thou Art,' he sings it in a mirror. The problem with messiah complexes is that there’s no way to know whether you are going to rise on the third day unless somebody crucifies you." Whoa. hee-hee-hee. "Trump has announced, and I say we get started on that." Kevin D. Williamson, National Review's roving correspondent.

ROTFL

[xzins]

GW Bush was respected by Putin. Not because GW saw into his soul, or however he worded that, but because GW wasn’t afraid to use force.

Trump won’t be afraid to use force. Nor, in my opinion, would Walker, Cruz, Fiorini, Huckabee, Graham, Christie, Rubio, Perry, Santorum

Jeb would, Paul would, Kasich would hesitate, Carson would hesitate

[CatherineofAragon]

"Irrelevant. He said it. "

LMAO!