An Ideological Prism Would've Helped Trump Avoid the Khan Controversy

RUSH: Every day is going to be like this. No matter what Trump does, no matter what Hillary does, every day is going to be like this. The stakes are too high, the stakes are too great. The Democrats and the media, no matter what they may look like in this episode right now, are still bamboozled, and they're not quite sure how to deal with Trump because the things that usually take out nominees have not taken him out. And yet they're continuing to try. And that's what this was starting with the selection of this couple to even appear at the Democrat National Convention.

And in saying that, all of this was so avoidable. And a lot of people are saying that Trump stepped in this because he's an amateur and that Hillary is obviously a political professional, and her entire operation is political professionals, whereas Trump is an amateur, he's not been in politics before, and his staff doesn't have a whole lot of professional experience, and that's why this happened.

And that's not why this happened. This is not why this happened. I'll tell you exactly why this happened. And I've been bleating about this since last fall. I have been trying to get through -- only here. I don't call people; I don't talk to people. But if Trump does not start seeing things through an ideological prism, he will never understand the method, the motive, and the how and why these attacks against him happen.

He doesn't see liberalism, and because he doesn't see liberalism, he can be outfoxed by it every day. He's not an ideological person. And a lot of people aren't. You know, Trump will see Hillary Clinton or Chuck Schumer and he won't think liberal, he won't think progressive, he won't think statist. He'll think other things about them, whatever his personal opinions of them are, but he will not -- 'cause he just isn't that kind of guy.

So we need somebody who is. And he needs somebody who will listen to him. I'm sorry. Somebody he will listen to who is, because Trump is not ideological, because he doesn't see things that way, he missed the real point of this strategic move by Hillary and the Democrat Party. He misread. He saw something that was irrelevant and he decided to make a comment about it because he thought it dovetailed with his message on Islam and the lack of freedom and integrity and human rights that women in Islam have, so he goes after the mother on the stage wearing the hijab not saying anything.

She's not the target. And Mr. Khan is not the target. Hillary Clinton is always the target. The Democrat Party should always be, and Hillary Clinton should always be the target, not this guy. This guy is every bit the foil that Cindy Sheehan was for the Democrats. This guy was plucked out of a universe that may include a law firm that does Hillary's taxes. There's still people trying to find out who Mr. Khan actually is, besides what is known. But it's clear that he and his wife were put on that stage as props, disguised as the Democrats being thoughtful and compassionate and understanding and all that.

And the fact that he wasn't seen as a prop I think is owing to the fact that people just don't look at Hillary and the Democrats, at least in the Trump campaign, through ideological eyes. The real story, if you want to boil this down, the real story here is the way Democrats treat parents of war heroes and victims versus the way they treat Republican parents of war heroes. I mean, the comparison here from the moment Mr. and Mrs. Khan stepped on stage was instant.

At the Republican convention, we had a mother of a fallen hero of Benghazi. Her name was Pat Smith. What did the Democrats do? With the assistance of the media, the first thing they did was trash her. Then they fact checked her. Hillary Clinton lied about Benghazi. She lied to everybody about the video being responsible for this. She was telling the story of the video being responsible for this in public for two weeks while at the same time telling everybody privately the video had nothing to do with it. She told the parents when the bodies came back that she was gonna get the guy who did the video that caused all this.

So Pat Smith reports all this at the Republican convention, they attack her. Because they're not gonna let Hillary Clinton be harmed by anything. They have a wall, they have a cordon around Hillary Clinton, and they're gonna make sure that whatever incoming toward Hillary bounces off. And it doesn't matter. On one year, Cindy Sheehan can be made a hero and be followed around by the Drive-By Media because she's hounding George W. Bush. George W. Bush is responsible for her son dying. The Democrats are trying to make Trump look responsible because of his insensitivity. When in fact if you want to start assigning responsibility, who voted for the war in Iraq where the Khan's son got killed?

It was Hillary Clinton. She voted for it. You would never know this if you listened to the Drive-By Media. The real focus of this whole episode should not be the Muslim couple but rather the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton, especially the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton's treatment of Patricia Smith and others, the parents of others. They were lied to directly. The media does not fact check Hillary. Hillary continued this lying throughout the entire Chris Wallace interview yesterday. It was breathtaking.

Practically every assertion Hillary Clinton made, she lied. But she also did this. "My heart goes out to them." The Pat Smiths, the parents of the fallen at Benghazi. So she covers her bases, and that's what they see. A political professional will always do that. A political professional will express compassion and sorrow and understanding, and then lie. The compassion and the sorrow and the understanding then makes the lie acceptable, because the sorrow and the compassion had been expressed -- and Trump didn't do that.

Trump just went after the woman on stage for not speaking because she's a Muslim and probably wasn't allowed to speak 'cause she's wearing a hijab. This was a setup because you know that the woman's gonna speak -- which she did, on the Today show today. She's speaking all over the place now. Look, hindsight is easy. I understand that 20/20 hindsight's easy. But this was standard operating procedure from the Democrat Party. It should be ignored -- or, if you're gonna talk about this, you need to indict the Democrats for how they use people, how they use people and their sorrow.

And then you need to point out how the Democrats don't care about certain parents of certain victims such as those who died in Benghazi. But I know what Trump was doing. He's got this message about Islam. He has a message about Muslims. And, by the way, his message is not to ban all Muslims. He just wants to improve the vetting process to keep potential terrorists out. It's another thing that everybody continually lies about here. That's what Trump wants to do.

And so he's got this focus, and he believes that he has a certain level, degree of support because of that view, those views, that comment, about vetting Muslims, and about being the candidate who's unafraid to be critical of Islam, militant Islam, which the Democrats will not do and so I'm sure Trump thought that he was scoring a few points -- with his base by trying to remind people that in Islam it is women who are indoctrinated and subjugated, and the evidence is looking at Mrs. Khan.

She's up there, she's in her hijab, she doesn't say anything. That's what he saw. That's what he decided to comment on. That's what he decided to score points on, all because he didn't see what this really was because he doesn't see ideologically. And he's not going to. That's just not who he is. He needs somebody in that team that sees these things and knows the Democrats inside and out. It's like George Stephanopoulos.

If you agree to go on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, you essentially have accepted an invitation to be interviewed by Hillary Clinton. George Stephanopoulos worked for the Clintons in their war room back in their 1992 campaign. George Stephanopoulos and Carville and Begala, these guys all remain in total support and loyalty to Hillary Clinton. It was Stephanopoulos asking questions of Mitt Romney that created in faux, phantom Republican War on Women that still survives to this day.

The Democrats still play that card. So if you go on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, you have to understand you're going on a program that's essentially being scripted and performed each Sunday for the benefit of Hillary Clinton, because that's who Stephanopoulos is. He is a partisan. He can't... It's very difficult -- humanly difficult -- to all of a sudden, after being so inspired, so motivated, so paid, so highly paid by the Clintons...

He ran their campaign with Carville, ran the war room, which was all about destroying "the bimbos," destroying anybody that came up and wanted to say anything negative about Clinton. The war room was to go out and destroy them. To all of a sudden expect him to become Mr. Objective and to drop all those passions the minute he gets hired by ABC to do Good Morning America or the Sunday show is ridiculous. Yet our people continue to go on that show.

I guess they're gonna continue to go on that show 'cause I guess people think you have to do that if you're running for president. You have to go on these Sunday shows. You have to do it. But Trump -- and I know Trump wants to 'cause it's free media. Trump's very confident of himself when he goes on TV. He thinks he can handle anything thrown at him being impromptu or improv or what have you. But it would certainly help if...

I mean, Trump's instincts are right about Hillary and the kind of president she would be. But somebody has got to beat into him that the things everybody fears and the things he instinctively opposes in Hillary are rooted in the fact that she is a huge liberal. Huge. And the Democrat techniques, the way the Democrats use people, the way the Democrats make pawns out of victims and parade them before the public, it's well known.

It can be spotted a mile away. But what Mr. Trump saw was an Islamic woman wearing a hijab, not speaking on stage, and he immediately zeroed in on the Islamic treatment of women as a way of scoring points. Again, because that's what he thought his base would respond to. Because many people fear religion, militant Islamist supremacism, and there the Democrats put it right on stage. I'm sure this is what Trump was thinking.

"My God, they've done me a favor, putting exactly what I'm talking about on stage! All I've gotta do is comment on it." But the focus on the rest of this campaign has to be on the Democrats. It has to be on Hillary, who they really are, how they do what they do, why they do what they do, how they're gonna get it done and the fact that it's almost incalculable the frequency with which Mrs. Clinton lies.

That appearance yesterday on Fox News Sunday is a glaring example, which we will go through here.

RUSH: Well, one thing Hillary said was that she's not responsible for what people do or do not remember from Benghazi. An attack on the parents. Now, I've got people suggesting, "Rush, you're wrong. We need to go after this guy Khan 'cause this guy Khan's a hypocrite." It goes like this: "Trump is opposed to letting radical Muslims into the US. The Khans' son was in Iraq to stop radical Muslims, to kill them. Sadly, Khan's son was killed by radical Muslims." So, it goes, "Shouldn't the Khans be on Trump's side?

Shouldn't they want to keep radical Muslims out of the US?" Maybe so, but that's a rabbit hole. Going down that, you're not gonna persuade anyone. That's not the way to do this. 'Cause Mr. and Mrs. Khan are not the targets here. Contrast this with what happened at the Republican convention. Are you aware of some of the comments made after Pat Smith (the Republican version of the Khans) spoke? She was fact checked! The Washington Post fact checked her; others in the media fact checked her.

Was Cindy Sheehan ever fact checked? Were the Khans? Were the Khans ever fact checked? And then beyond that, Chris Matthews called her comments against Hillary "a gross accusation" and said," I don't care what that woman felt. I don't care what Pat Smith felt after the death of her son. She's falsely accusing Hillary." She not falsely accusing Hillary. Hillary told her they're gonna get the guy that did the video! That's the contrast needs to be made.

I disagree. I am not sure this is all that ideological at this point. This is just about the Dems trying to hang onto power by any means necessary.

I think that there is a lot of truth in what Rush is saying. However, there are some people who believe that the Khan issue is good fro Trump. If they are right, then Trump should continue to push this issue.

Let’s face it, the Clinton campaign, and their media lapdogs cooked up this whole Khan Job non-troversy, and they would be hammering it hard even if Trump had ignored it. Instead of asking about his response, they would be asking why he hadn’t responded, and taking a non-response as an admission of some sort of wrongdoing on his part.

This is just another smoke screen thrown up to shield lying Hillary Clinton, from the close scrutiny that she really deserves.

I don’t know, it seems the Dems are successful at getting Trump sidetracked and off focus on Hillary. They are running out the clock and trying to get Trump bogged down and make it all about him and not Hillary.

IMHO Trump will sink himself if he doesn’t quickly learn to NOT respond to every distraction the democrats create.

He is like a dog that just cannot resist chasing the spinning car tire.

IMHO Trump’s way to victory is to pound on the issues that got him through the primary - terrorism, immigration, the Obama economy and add Hillary’s criminality.

Where Clinton is weak, Trump is strong.

That is why she tries to distract him with meaningless side trips.

8 posted on 08/01/2016 10:50:46 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")

I don’t know, either, but it seems like Trump has wanted to pursue this issue and I assume he thinks that it favors him. He may be right.

It is difficult for me to believe that Trump would ever think that the MSM interviewers, especially George Stephanopoulos, would ever ask an honest question, a question that was not a trap, or a question that is not setting up a trap. Or a question that is not setting up a false narrative, or a question that was not an accusation. They invite Trump on, and before the interview, they all huddle and plan a strategy in an attempt to trip him up.

Insufferable dribble from Rush today, he just drones on and on and on....his point was lost as he talked in circles.

Screw it - Kahn a plant and any thinking person knows it.

In the meantime, any word on Turkey? After 10’s of thousands of turkish/germans marched in favor of Erdogon yesterday, I’m watching to see how this unfolds.

It makes me wonder if they are setting up Hillary for something in the emails. This guy Khan supposedly has ties to the Clinton Foundation...but....that seems like some deep 3d chess to pull off.

I like your reference to 3D chess, but I really wonder if what we have been seeing from either side in this election would qualify as competent checkers. ;-)

I don't know what to think sometimes.

I am so glad that Rush Limbaugh didn’t call Sandra Fluke a slut.

Note to Rush: Donald Trump is better at this than you are. Accept it and learn from The Donald. Spend your time figuring out why Donald Trump does things, and explaining that to your dwindling audience. Maybe some of us would come pack.

“I don’t know, either, but it seems like Trump has wanted to pursue this issue and I assume he thinks that it favors him.”

Rope-a-dope, yet again, I suspect. It makes the hostile Press work for him.

Rush is fine on this, and screw the Kahns. If they get a Mexican who saves a bus load of kids, I still don’t want 30 million illegals, either.

I don’t want America to become a Muslim Nation. Period.

>>Screw it - Kahn a plant and any thinking person knows it<<

Unfortunately, there aren’t enough Thinking People to get Trump Elected.

The Die is Cast and some GOP Senators and the VFW are going right along with it. It isn’t going away anytime soon.

Don’t discount the damage this is doing.

>>>I don’t want America to become a Muslim Nation. Period<<<

Agreed, but you’ll have to get Trump in the White House to stop it. This situation is not helping that to happen.

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