The Rush Limbaugh Weekly Show Thread, Mon-Fri, 12-3PM, WOR-AM, June 26-30, 2017.

The EIB Network ^ | June 26, 2017 | Rush Limbaugh

[Enterprise]

Bump for CNN fake news and disinformation. Project Veritas RULES!

[Political Junkie Too]

Rush,

I posted this about Jim Acosta back on January 25, 2017:

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Each White House MSM correspondent is motivated by only two things:

First, which is the second priority, is to attack Trump with a gotcha question.

Second, and most importantly, is to give their respective networks the footage of their correspondent's question to be the center point of their nightly 22-minute national news broadcast.

By denying the correspondent the question, he upsets their entire nightly broadcast formula. By making them go last, they lose the opportunity to be the first to ask the question and receive a fresh answer. If they go last and ask the question for now the third time, they lose the momentum in Spicer's answer, and they just look petty for not letting a subject go.

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CNN was left to discuss how Jim Acosta was snubbed, because they didn't have the footage of Acosta asking a question.

The formula would have been this: Wolf Blitzer introduces a story, and then throws it to Acosta. Acosta sets up the background and then cuts to a clip of him asking his question and then Spicer giving the answer. When the clip ends they cut back to Acosta who "explains" Spicer's answer. Blitzer then asks Acosta a "smart" follow-up question and Acosta talks about what comes next from the Trump administration on this topic, or how the Democrats disagree. Blitzer then wraps up the segment with small-talk like "Thanks, Jim. We'll just have to see what happens tomorrow..."

The formula doesn't work if you're snubbed by the press secretary.

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Acosta wanted his clips for the nightly news broadcast, not to cover the White House and report it.

-PJ

[Enterprise]

Great observations and analysis. It’s like Rush is saying, Acosta is heckling, not asking. Keep the pressure on him and watch him go even further off the edge.

[Enterprise]

Jim Acosta - CNN’s rage boy.

[Political Junkie Too]

I heard Alex Marlowe talk about this on Breitbart Radio this morning.

Marlowe said that the problem with Acosta is that he doesn't do real journalism, he doesn't "break" stories like other CNN reporters do. All Acosta does is make a scene at the White House Press Briefings and then make YouTube videos about it.

Marlowe said that Acosta was all about his YouTube hits, and he's mad that Trump is denying him the camera time, which other White House correspondents don't seem as incensed about.

Acosta needs the cameras to be on, because he doesn't have anything else.

-PJ

[Enterprise]

"Acosta needs the cameras to be on, because he doesn't have anything else."

I hope that President Trump's team understands this and has begun to undermine his antics. I hope more though, that they will use his latest outburst to revoke his press credentials.

[upsdriver]

I still don’t think he gets the “cheese in the maze,” where Trump throws stuff out just to occupy the fake news media while he does real work.

Rush got pretty close to your "cheese in the maze" theory today. I don't think he quite gets the layers of intricacy in Trump's strategy though.

[LS]

I was listening, but had to do my own radio interview w Janet Mefford to air July 10.

[Qiviut]

Rush just posted this on FB today (6/27/17) - I think he's catching on to the concept of the "cheese in the maze", just using a different way of describing the behavior:

Have you ever had a pet cat and one of these red laser pointers? You point it at the floor, and the cat tries to catch it. You point it up against the sofa, cat runs into the sofa. You point it against the wall, cat runs into the wall. I think that's what the Trump administration is doing with many in the media.

[humblegunner]

I was listening, but had to do my own radio interview w Janet Mefford to air July 10.

Thanks for pointing that out, it would suck if nobody knew how important you are.

[LS]

Thanks for pointing out how important I am. Doing another interview in 10 minutes, then one an hour after that, then one an hour after that.

I knew you’d really want to tune in, since you troll me on every thread.

[humblegunner]

“Every”?

Check yourself.

And break a leg, kick plenty of ass where you’re able.

[LS]

Just checked. I’m still here.

Most of these are sympathetic radio hosts, so not too much ass-kicking required.

[Agamemnon]

I think he gets Trump probably about 95%. I still don’t think he gets the “cheese in the maze,” where Trump throws stuff out just to occupy the fake news media while he does real work.

I think Rush has a kind of variation of your cheese illustration here.

Check this out from his program on 6/27:

"RUSH: This Jim Acosta guy, little Jim Acosta, CNN, guy that lost his cookies yesterday with the press briefing when the cameras weren’t turned on. We got the audio coming up. I’ll tell you what this guy reminds me of. Have you ever had a cat, pet cat, and got one of these red laser pointers. You point it at the floor, and the cat tries to catch it. You point it up against the sofa, cat runs into the sofa. You point it against the wall, cat runs into the wall.

"I think that’s what the Trump administration is doing with many in the media. They’re like cats. He’s got this little red laser light and is just causing them to make fools of themselves and everybody’s laughing at ’em as they’re crashing into walls, the sofa and the floor. And that’s what little Jim Acosta had happen to him yesterday."

Do you see a similarity?

FReegards!

[LS]

He’s definitely warming to it.

BTW, I think the whole “no cameras” stuff was pure cheese in the maze.

[LonePalm]

Bonjour y'all! Happy TRUMP Day.

In with the

"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Enterprise]

Look, here comes Jim Costa. Someone get the laser pointer.

[Carriage Hill]

[BigEdLB]

Meough

[SamAdams76]

Covfefe