Posted on 03/09/2016 3:57:47 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: There's an audio sound bite I want you to hear. Now, last night Trump had his victories, a big one in Michigan. And he was scheduled to do another victory press conference, not a victory speech, but a victory press conference with many of the audience consisting of members of the golf club in Jupiter where the event was held. And, as the media noted long before it began, the podium was flanked by samples of Trump products.
There was Trump water. There was Trump Steaks. There was Trump wine. There were other Trump things there. They were obviously there as placeholders. But I think it was used to refute Mitt Romney's claims that all of those Trump businesses have gone belly up or kaput. And Trump, as he says, you hit me, I'm gonna hit you back, and so it was time to hit back on these allegations that his businesses are either underwater, bankrupt, broke, or what have you. It was a one-hour-plus press conference, stream of consciousness appearance, tour de force, whatever you want to call it.
I have a lot of e-mails from people who think this is the most hilarious, this is the best, this is the whatever. I've never seen anything like this kind of press conference. I actually thought Trump has been better than he was last night. There was something about last night that was a little off to me, not that it wasn't good, and not that it wasn't funny, but I don't know. I can't explain it, other than to say I was just a bit mildly surprised at the rave reviews people sent me when it was over. And again, it's a minor point, and it's really not the point at all. But I want to share with you a sound bite of Dr. Krauthammer on the Fox News Channel when the thing was all over. Bret Baier brings Dr. Krauthammer on to analyze what we've just seen.
KRAUTHAMMER: I don't think I've ever heard such a stream of disconnected ideas since I quit psychiatry 30 years ago. That was quite a performance, and it was very weird. That was a performance, that was live television, that was reality television, and that nobody can do, and that has its appeal. I think that's gonna be really dangerous, 'cause he often can go off the reservation comparing himself to, what was it, Abe Lincoln, his number two, in how presidential he is. That's a little bit weird, but he's been able to carry it off. I think people have a sense of humor about him, which is good because otherwise they'd be terrified. And that's what has been carrying him through. In the end it will be a one-on-one and it will get a little more serious.
RUSH: So that's a funny line. "I haven't heard such a stream of disconnected ideas since I quit psychiatry 30 years ago." That may be one of the lines of the campaign. But these guys are clearly flummoxed in trying to understand this. I mean, you've got people saying this is a sacred process, the presidential race, the election for president is a sacred trust, and this guy, he's just soiling it, he's just making a mockery of it.
And then here's Mitt Romney over there on Jimmy Kimmel Live reading mean tweets and everybody is trying to figure why it is that the American public is not repulsed by this, why they're not worried. This is a presidential campaign, and it is a personal reality show. And everybody's trying to figure out why the American people are unbothered by it, and I can explain it to you. As a member of the media and as a student of the media, I can explain it to you if you want, but I'm not gonna take a whole lot of time to do it now because it really doesn't matter. The bottom line is people are not bothered by it, a number of people aren't. Some people are, is the point.
Mitt Romney Reads Mean Donald Trump Tweets
But can you think back, who was the last president -- seriously, now -- who was the last president you can think of who treated the office and everything about it with utmost reverence and respect? Who was the last president you can recall that did not mock the process, the job, the position, the behavioral manner, the level of decorum, everything about it, who was the last president you can think of who treasured, loved, and adored the office of the presidency and would not do anything he thought would bring dishonor to it?
That president is George W. Bush. And maybe if you want to go back, his dad, George H. W. Bush. And then you go back to Ronaldus Magnus. I wouldn't put Obama in that discussion. I wouldn't put Bill Clinton in that discussion. I wouldn't put any single Democrat in that discussion. My point is this. The only one of those presidents, when you answer that question that's relevant right now, is George W. Bush, demographically, generationally.
What did it get him? And remember, now, I'm asking the question in the context of everybody wringing their hands over what Trump is doing to damage the sacred trust. Trump is making a mockery of it, how Trump is lowering it and it now is no different and no better than a reality show on TV, and this is not what presidential campaigns are supposed to be. It's in that context that I ask the question.
George W. Bush treated the office of the presidency with reverence. George W. Bush told me over and over again, whenever I had a chance to be with him, I would constantly ask him, why aren't you pushing back on all this stuff they're saying about you and your administration and people in your administration? They're destroying your judicial nominees. They're out there destroying you. They're claiming you lied, people died. They're claiming you knew there weren't any weapons of mass destruction.
And when he would talk to people privately, he would hit back at 'em and you would think, "My God, the guy gets it," and you wish this guy would show up on TV. How many times have I told you this? But yet when it came time to go public, none of that. And what George W. Bush told me was that he refused to take the office of the presidency down to the political gutter by reacting to obvious political chatter and cheap criticism. He told me he had too much respect for the office to take it there. And he couldn't avoid taking the presidency there because he was president.
Okay, fine and dandy. Whatever you think of that, the bottom line is what did it get him? He treated the office with great reverence and great respect and refused to do anything to sully it. It didn't help him a bit. The American people did not have any pride. The media, the Democrat Party was able to convince a majority of Americans that Bush was rotten, that Bush was a liar, that Bush was incompetent, that Bush was stupid, and all of the reverence that he showed for the office didn't matter.
Now, my point is, when you're trying to understand why aren't people disgusted over what Trump is doing to the office and the campaign and the reverence? We've seen now in recent years that we live in a different generational era, particularly in our pop culture. And there are people, and probably an increasing number of people, who don't find anything wrong -- in fact, not only do they not find anything wrong about it, they think it's refreshing. They think it's refreshing that a real guy who talks like real people -- i.e., like they do -- is not acting all heady and lofty and uppity over them and is just behaving like anybody else would, like they would if they were in the same shoes.
I find it's a fascinating... maybe not dichotomy, but it's clearly a dilemma. It's like so many conventional wisdom rules that have always worked in the past are out the window and not working now. I go back to this Wall Street Journal headline today: "Angry White Males Propel Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders." This, to me... I could be wrong about this because there's been so much media over the course of years of this program, but best of my recollection is "angry white males" has always been an epithet used by Democrats to describe Republican voters who don't buy into the Democrat Party.
Well, now all of a sudden we have a supposedly Republican oriented publication, Wall Street Journal, is now calling Republicans angry white males, and now there are allegations that angry white males are now voting in the Democrat side, too. And I think this is just the establishment trying to comfort itself to explain what's happening to itself, because they can't figure any of this out. It violates so much of what they thought they had put in place and had total control of. And that's really the nub of this, the panic they feel at having lost control.
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That ended during the 1990’s.
The office of president should be respected, but it was never intended to be revered like a king. Considering that the press wanted Obama worshipped as a demigod, this is a good thing that the office is being set back to something more normal.
Exactly. The debates have not been about policy for the most part. The thing that comes through to the viewer is personal denigrating attacks cloaked as humor and Trump is so much better at that. The first thing that comes to mind when you think of Cruz and Rubio is “lying Ted” and “little Mario”. The on line exchanges are beyond disgusting. This is a contest for the presidency.
This sort of political exchange is nothing new, it’s been around since surrogates for our founding fathers engaged in it. However, it’s no longer in the background, it’s ninety percent of the exchange between the principals. Rubio destroyed himself when he engaged in it front on. He probably won’t be able to get a job as a convenience store clerk anymore. Trump is the master and his misrepresentations are excused or defended by his supporters.
At this point reverence for anything having to do with the Federal government is about shot through.
BJ playing his sax on a late night show.
Before that, Richard Nixon and ‘sock it to me’ on Laugh In.
“Trump is not individually responsible for the circus and the degree of reverence.”
Precisely. My wife asked me why I laughed when I read that word “reverence” applied to our politicians.
Full Definition of reverence
1: honor or respect felt or shown : deference; especially : profound adoring awed respect
2: a gesture of respect (as a bow)
3: the state of being revered
4: one held in reverence —used as a title for a clergyman
We’ve received nothing but disrespect from our hired hands for about 25 years.
Trump is promising to do what they should be doing, but aren’t, and to stop those things that they have no business doing.
He is reflecting our contempt for the Uniparty prostitutes—whom Rush apparently thinks we might revere—and their TV, newspaper, magazine and, yes, radio stooges.
Some would say it started with Nixon resigning in 1974.
Recall that Ronald Reagan never ever entered his oval office unless he was fully dressed in the accouterments of his office . . . and he never even once put his feet up on his desk. He honored his office.
In Canada, and the other 15 nations of the Commonwealth Realm, we “revere” the Monarch as “Head of State”, who serves as the symbol of the Realm and the various nations within. The various Prime Ministers (Heads of Government) are seen as just the politicians they are — and treated accordingly. If they perform well, they have a high approval rating — if not, they are turfed out of office, as befits a democracy. The Office of the Prime Minister has power and authority — but neither the office, nor the incumbent are ever “revered”.
The U.S. President is both “Head of State” (deserving of reverence as a symbol of the country) and “Head of Government” (who must earn any respect given). When you have a President, who’s a disaster as “Head of Government”; things become confusing. How can you “revere” the Office of the President”, while detesting the incumbent?
Notice how Rush gives this soliloquy of Bush, then it is announced that Jeb! is calling a meeting of all the non-Trumps?
Apparently “lapsed Christians” just sort of started happening when Trump announced this past June.
Dat ole debbil got em. LOL
“The office of president should be respected, but it was never intended to be revered like a king. “
Exactly. There is a cult of the presidency. An example is the claim that the office is such a heavy labor that it visibly wears them down physically. Its the kind of thing that was often said about Hitler or Stalin, that they sacrificed their very health because they work so hard for the nation.
The truth is that any male of presidential age shows the same aging across 8 years. They are pampered, get vacations every few months that a normal citizen only dreams of once in a lifetime. Their amazing food is prepared by celebrity chefs anytime they wish. Massages, exercise, detailed examinations by doctors, sex from Hollywood starlets if they wish, etc.
It’s a miracle they survive the 8 years/s
There is nothing more classy than LBJ on the phone as president, belching and ordering pants. ;-)
LBJ Orders Pants - Aug 8, 1964
https://youtu.be/nR_myjOr0OU
That is shot in the bulls eye.
Don’t know about what JFK did but Clinton and “I didn’t have sex with that woman in the Oval Office” did.
I’m going to have to start listening in, because if he is this bad on open mic, good grief.
He is smart enough to realize what Trump is all about, and yet I feel like I need to pull the guy aside and slap some sense back into him.
I wish Secret Service agents could do an expose of their dealings with Presidents of the past 40 years.
Would be revealing of what the agents have to put up with. If a President or his family does not respect those SS agents, then those are the ones that have diminished the office they hold.
Thank you MileHi.
When did being Christian enough become such an issue for the voter
Carter was a deacon at Plains Baptist
Now that sure worked out
I’d vote for a secular Jew who thought like I do in a heartbeat if one was running
If he respected Christendom as his ally would be all I ask
How? Easy, you don’t “revere” a monarch, head of state, pope, preacher, or any fat farting potentate.... ever. They put their underwear on the same way you do. They go to the toilet in the morning and wipe their butt. Look at them like that and lose that respect. They are an employee, nothing more. Look at them with the same suspicion you would at someone who owes you money, or the way you would a probationary employee.
You don’t ever “revere” -any- human being beyond that which they personally earn. That is the road to all evil.
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