Posted on 12/18/2019 12:26:18 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: The Drive-By Media today wanted this to be a grave day very grave, historic and solemn. They wanted people to stop what they were doing and to get very, very serious and solemn, and to understand how desperately needed and important it is to get Donald Trump thrown out of office so as to save the world. But they havent pulled it off. They wanted to be the priests! Well, not really because they dont like God/religion.
But they wanted to be the equivalent of the father-confessor. But they know its BS. They know its all politics. They know its not grave. They know its not solemn. They know that you have not fallen into line. Heres F. Chuck Todd this morning, NBC special coverage. Lester Holt says, Pause for this moment in time, if you will. Impeachment. Its a stain, its a mark of shame, something that will be noted in history.
TODD: I was struck both just last night and this morning how unremarkable today has suddenly felt suddenly feels. And I say that because it is remarkable whats happening, it is historic whats happening, and yet it feels like Lets be honest, Lester. It feels like were coming on the air dealing with a government shutdown threat, not impeachment. And the reason I say it that way is because that is how numb I think our politics is to what were facing. I mean, this should be a moment where the whole country is basically having their own gut check, where we are having a national conversation trying to figure this out. The fact that were not having it just tells you how numb we are to the politics that we participate in.
RUSH: No, Chuck. No. Its a testament to how ineffective your coup has been.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: We told you yesterday CNN has an impeachment poll in which the support for impeachment fell among Democrats from 90% to 77%. Democrat support for impeachment in the CNN poll fell from 90% to 77%. In addition, CNNs latest poll found that support for impeachment overall was down 9% since the hearings in the Schiff basement hearing room began.
In addition to that, the presidents approval number has either held steady or in many polls it has gone up. And, in fact, theres a story today from one of the Drive-By analysts wringing his hands. He said, I cant believe it. There hasnt been a president in our lifetimes with an approval number thats been this rock solid ever. And its true. Trumps approval, no matter what poll you look at, has been anywhere from 43 to 45%. Over at Rasmussen he hits 50, 51. Well, they dont count Rasmussen. Its an outlier to them in the Drive-By Media.
And the reason it was causing hand wringing is they havent moved it. They havent moved Trumps number down. Look, they were able to get George W. Bush down to the 30s. Now, it took em about six years. It didnt happen overnight. You know, George W. Bush was in the 50s after 9/11 and then the high 40s and the mid-40s and low-40s and finally in the 30s. It took a little time and it was a long trend line.
They havent even been able to create the downward trend line for Trump. And theyve thrown everything theyve got at him, every allegation treason, stealing an election, colluding with a foreign I think, you know, Chuck Todds worried that this isnt remarkable. I think the American people are fully aware of how outrageously remarkable their charges have been, and the American people are very clear on the fact they havent seen any evidence for any of it, starting with the Mueller report, but even before that. Theres no evidence for anything. These charges are so outrageous and over the top, I dont think anybody really believed them to begin with in a serious majority sense.
You talk about overreach, and its classic overreach, done by people who keep failing. Its kind of like in the old days, the old comedians, the shock comedians. It used to be in a Victorian era that manners and politeness and no curse words and all that stuff was the rule of the day. And at some point, as culture matured and various generations came along, people went over the line, and they started saying damn it instead of darn it, and they started saying hell.
Then they started saying other things that were a little bit worse than that. And it just kept going. Now on primetime TV you hear common, everyday slang words that just 10 years ago you wouldnt hear, and nobody says a peep about it. Well, thats what the Democrats have done. Theyve thrown everything theyve got, started out, nothing stuck, nothing stuck. They kept adding to it, kept adding to it to the point now that theyre just ridiculous with the things that theyre alleging.
They couldnt make the first thing stick. These things have no hope of sticking, beyond the Democrat base that will believe whatever they are told about things. Remember the objective has not been the Democrat base. The objective has been to separate Trump voters from Trump. So CNNs poll comes out yesterday. Seventy-seven percent of Democrats oppose impeachment, down from 90%. Jeffrey Toobin was on CNN this morning (paraphrasing), I dont believe it. He said, I dont believe that poll for one second. The 90 to 77%. I dont believe it. It makes no sense that number would change like that. David, that poll is wrong, just because I said so. Hes talking to the political director, David Chalian. Thats not right. Just cant be.
Now, David Chalian is the guy that does the poll. Hes the political director. Thats who Toobin is saying, I dont believe your poll. And Chalian, of course, has gotta defend his poll. He said, Well, I dont know whats not to believe. You call people on the phone, you get their information, you pop out a survey. Thats what weve polled. Thats what the people we talked to told us.
Toobin says, I dont believe it. I just dont believe it. Isnt it great, they are now disputing their own polls. Here is Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, this morning on NBC special coverage of the House impeachment vote. Lester Holt says, Talk about the weight of history on Nancy Pelosi shoulders. Give me a break, Lester, see, this is where you people are losing. The weight of history on Pelosis shoulders? Its the weight of history on her guilt, on her conscience. Pelosi knew that this was the wrong thing to do from the get-go. She did it anyway. But heres Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington.
MITCHELL: Nancy Pelosi has been a remarkable figure in all of this. She is completely maligned and dismissed and attacked in this extraordinary letter, this six-page letter that the president obviously had a great hand in writing and was aided with Stephen Miller, one of his most hardline domestic advisers. Nancy Pelosi has been dignified and really straightforward. She understands the politics. They could lose control of the House.
RUSH: (Gasping) Talk about burying the lead. They could lose control of the House. And thats supposed to tell us how serious Pelosi is, how dire this president and his consequences are, how unacceptable. Why, its even worth losing the House over.
No, it isnt. There isnt a thing in the world that would make Nancy Pelosi say, even if it costs me the House Im gonna do it. Theres nothing that matters more to her. Now, some of you might disagree with. Rush, youve said it yourself. Their hatred of Trump is irrational. Everything about them with Trump is irrational. Its entirely possible that Pelosi would indeed throw away House leadership and Democrat control just to get Trump.
Maybe. But I dont think thats what this means. You see, you need to be able to read between the lines. You need to be able to see the stitches on the curveball. And theres nobody better at that when the Democrats are throwing the pitches than me. And what this sound bite means, she buried the lead. They could lose control of the House. What does that mean?
It means this is bombing out. It means there is no reason to do it. It means they know they do not have anywhere near public support for this. Doing this is gonna cost them the House? Thats the shocking reality, and theyre too far in, theyre too deep, they cant recall it, they cant call it back. When Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, says at the very end of the bite they could lose control of the House, it means they know they have failed.
Their dream was to do this and bring millions and millions of Americans along and they wanted accolades and they wanted appreciation, they wanted support, they wanted people thanking them for saving America from this ogre, Donald Trump, and they wanted to be swept into landslide victory after landslide victory next November. They know that isnt gonna happen.
So in the midst of doing the most important thing theyve ever done, in the midst of doing their constitutional duty, theyre faced with losing the House. If youre gonna lose votes doing this, it means that you have made a grave error in judgment.
Heres Doug Schoen, a Clinton pollster back in the nineties, big-time Democrat strategist and analyst on Fox. He was asked by Bill Hemmer today, How does all this affect the Democrats? What is your sense, Doug, based on the polling or people to whom you have spoken?
SCHOEN: This is not helping the Democratic Party. When you look at swing states and swing voters, theyve had it with this impeachment and, frankly, for voters who really dont care a lot about the intricacies of the House process, theyre turned off. This is the most partisan process I think weve ever seen. I was part of Bill Clintons defense team in 1999. There was some sense that this was a bipartisan process even if people disagreed. Theyre not gonna win the next election on this Ukraine issue or on impeachment.
RUSH: Right, and they havent run on anything else other than Donald Trump sucks. Now, meanwhile, theres the record Donald Trump has amassed and the Republicans and the story Donald Trump has to tell about the total reversal of economic circumstances in this country alone and they dont have a counter, because they havent even been on that field. They have been on one playing field, and theyve been on it alone, and that field is the hate Trump field.
Dec 7, 1941 and Sept 11, 2001 were historic days also. Calling something “historic” does not make it good Fake News.
You don't fail until you quit and give up.
The media is not achieving its objective, but it is not going to quit or give up trying.
Hence, it has not yet failed.
The media didn’t drive W Bush’s numbers down. W drove them down by behaving like a democrat. He ran his own base off.
It’s not a historic day, it is a day of shame for Democrats.
Yep, they sure did. If the GOP hadn’t screwed the pooch during the 2018 election cycle, none of this would be happening.
Maybe my memory is faulty, but when Clinton was impeached (he committed perjury — a real crime) I don’t recall the media doing much of a “gut check”. They basically were attacking the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy and declaring how unfair the whole thing was.
In some respects, not that different from today. Except now the media is on the losing end and professing shock.
First thing Trump needs to do after 2024 is write a book.
That brings to mind a line from an old movie that predicts what will happen in the next 11 months. It's a line from "Tora, Tora, Tora"..after the attack..I think it's from Admiral Yamamoto...standing on the bridge of one of the Japansese aircraft carriers. ...He says: "I am afraid we have awakened a sleeping giant".
That is what I think will happen in the November elections.. a sleeping giant has been awakened with this sham impeachment.
Through out time generations will see them for the corrupt yet petty party they really are.
Cheaters, liars and crooks.
Rush’s analysis is very naive. He still thinks media bias is simply a result of spontaneous liberal group-think.
The MSM does not operate independently. They are directed to spout their lunacy by their corporate bosses who themselves take instructions from the globalist puppet masters. In addition, many of these reporters have a direct pipeline to deep state operatives who feed them talking points - for which they are financially compensated.
Anyone who is unfamiliar with it, look up Project Mockingbird.
Spot on.
It’s like the FBI making “mistakes”. No. No, they didn’t. It was all intentional, and ordered from the top.
And the Leftwing media isn’t engaging in group-think. They are following orders.
The media didnt drive W Bushs numbers down. W drove them down by behaving like a democrat. He ran his own base off.
______________________________________________________________________________
What you said. And by not fighting back. And by invading Iraq.
Hey - I just realized that rhymes. *LOL*
Yep. Bush made a conscience decision to remain mute when faced with withering criticism of him and of conservative values and policies. It was as if he was embarrassed and ran away from Conservatives.
In the end, Conservatives ran away from him. There is no other statistical explanation as to how a president get into the 30s without losing their base. Bush clearly abandoned his base and they returned the favor.
Who is issuing the orders?
CIA / Soros / China / some people within Saudi Arabia
Some combination of the above.
Historic, because the Dems are doomed to be damned by history.
As of tomorrow, President Trump's name will never be uttered or written in the MSM without the designation "impeached."
I was 4 month and one day old in December 7, 1941
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.