Going After the Media and Counting on Clinton Scandal Fallout Doesn't Work

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | August 15, 2016 | Rush Limbaugh

[Chgogal]

Trump's foreign policy speech was good. Special Report was absolutely disgusting. I could only watch 3 minutes of the show before changing. I listened to Trump's the whole speech. The MSM’s interpretation is beyond disappointing. NBC local news used one partial sentence of Trump's speech and then hammered him via clips of Clinton and Biden for about 2 minutes.

Does anyone have a link to Trump's speech. I need to send it to my friends. : (

[timestax]

[crusader71]

Don’t like the tone of the Rush transcript at all. Fatalistic.

This thing is far from over — the polls are not coming close to measuring the grassroots movement Trump has created, a huge percentage of which is people who don’t normally vote in elections.

The race will tighten in the public polls in the coming weeks, and whatever the final polls are, add +3 to Trump. He over-performed his polls the entire primary process and will do so in the general.

Even with the unforced errors and lack of focus, this race is still Trump’s to lose.

[Arm_Bears]

Trump going after the media is what propelled him to the front of the pack early in the primary season.

Turned Limbaugh off after the first 30-minutes today as I thought he was way too negative.

[Fantasywriter]

As of now, the transcript of Trump’s speech is the top post at The Treehouse. The speech itself—video—is two posts below:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com

[Chgogal]

Thank you for allowing me to be lazy. : )

[Alcibiades]

I agree completely. Attacking the media in the Republican primary is a viable strategy. The top two, Cruz and Trump, who went after the media were well rewarded for it, and if Trump generates massive turnout it will be in large part driven by hate for the MSM.

[Lysandru]

I just was talking with a retired OR nurse at the swimming pool where I was working out today.

She told me flat out that Hillary has had a stroke--because a neurologist friend of a friend worked on her.

[Billthedrill]

Don't forget, Rush is the media, at least in a singular sense. I disagree with him here for a couple of reasons. First, that he is applying the usual rules to the candidate/media dynamic, in which no matter what, the media always win. The assumption that that rule set may not be broken at will is, in my opinion, a very shaky one. No such dynamic is permanent or written in stone. At some point a candidate who challenges it with sufficient skill will break it.

Second, that at this point Trump can't afford NOT to challenge the media. These have plummeted into the most hysterical, reckless, and provably inaccurate hate campaigning I have seen in a lifetime of watching American politics, so much so that it has become self-parody. It's so over the top that even they have noticed. Nor does it appear that they're backing off on it. Game on, then, because to try to take the high road got Sarah Palin absolutely buried in filth and that's what they're trying to do to Trump. Trump, however, is a very different target from a young western Governor. He knows them to the soul. It is difficult to imagine any current political player with the insider knowledge and the celebrity to withstand this avalanche and give it back in kind.

The time for dignity and fighting like gentlemen and ladies is long past. Trump can bring it by the shovel full and I'll be applauding him the entire time.

[Fantasywriter]

Bol!

[TwelveOfTwenty]

All that may be true, but it doesn't work. It has never worked. I mean, people have tried it.

It worked for Buckhead.

[ncpatriot]

How many people like the media. None. Therefore, Trump gets support from everyone for attacking them! Makes sense to me.

[TakebackGOP]

It’s worked pretty well until the DNC Convention.

[ground_fog]

Exactly he is holding back until after labor day.

Hillary is clearly very very sick

[AC86UT89]

Trump’s communications plan consisting of rallies and Twitter is not going to work for the general election. It worked fine in the primaries because only those interested in GOP primaries were paying attention. Also, most importantly, the DNC MSM was friendly toward him.

That’s all changed now. Does Trump understand that yet? The media are cherry picking sound bites from the rallies and tweets and pounding him. Meanwhile the lying criminal is running anti-trump TV ads in the key states PA, NC, OH, VA, FL etc. So the mass of people he needs in the general election on the key states are only getting anti-trump propaganda and nothing else. The low info voters are not getting any truth about the lying criminal.

Trump needs to stop just complaining about the DNC media and do something about it. Go over their heads with TV and radio advertising to advance his several key issues and most importantly pound away at the lying criminal for a change. Put her on the defensive in vehicles that can’t be hijacked by the DNC media. He is relying way too much on insider baseball tactics. He needs a mass media approach in the key states.

Unfortunately as long as he waits to do this he is falling farther behind - and there are now more “key states” than ever - including some traditional GOP strong holds.

Donald come on man shaming the media is not going to work. They are your enemy. They want you lose and are lying to make that happen. Use the vehicles that go around them and go straight to the people.

[yawningotter]

Attacking the media will not convert Hillary voters, but it does keep Trump voters, who know how biased the media is, fired up and on guard. Getting your voters madder than Hell enough to vote in large numbers is very important when turnout is the key.

[sargon]

Boy, you've completely bought into the phony media narrative. They've got you right where they want you: wringing your hands and criticizing a candidate who is holding up better than any candidate in history against a relentless campaign of slanted character assassination.

There's not a single candidate that I can think of since I was born over 51 years ago that could possibly weather such an all-out Media assault. What the Media tried on Reagan is nothing compared to what's being done to Donald Trump this cycle.

And you're (apparently) basing your whole conception on 100% phony, agenda-driven polls. The polls with any kind of reasonable methodologies are showing a very close race, and that's in the face of the aforementioned Media onslaught, as well as considering the fact that Trump hasn't spent a dime on TV ads, and also the fact that Hillary has already spent tens of millions of dollars. Why? To be 3-5 points ahead in the real polls.

So, with all due respect, put the Media-packed crack pipe down and get a grip.

Trump is doing amazingly well. The push polls that have you all in a tizzy are reeking sh!t, and when the debates happen and the TV ads from Trump start coming, Hillary isn't going to know what hit her.

Furthermore, a campaign that raises 80-100 million dollars over the last 60 days, almost without trying, certainly isn't imploding. That money is going to get spent when and where it counts most, not when your abject fears would dictate.

So your entire set of presumptions is wrong, Trump and crew know exactly what they're doing, and I'm sure you're hysterical advice is being given all due consideration by the campaign.

If you're capable of reading between the lines and objectively assessing the the actual state of this race, you'd realize that Trump is going to win this. Nothing Hillary has done has either helped Democrat enthusiasm, or damaged Trump supporters' enthusiasm (except, apparently, in hysterical cases such as your own).

I'm presuming that, despite your negativity, you'll still crawl over broken glass to vote for Trump in November. If that's true; if even the defeatists still show up on Nov. 8th and VOTE, then Hillary doesn't stand a snowball's chance in Hell...

If things still look exactly like this in 3-4 weeks, I'll begin to share some of your pessimism, but in the context of the current facts as I see them, I'm still feeling quite confident in ultimate victory.

Furthermore, I believe God is on our side. If He's not, all the strategy and tactics in the world won't help us win. And if He is on our side, then all the weapons of the Enemy will be of no avail against us.

Vote Trump!

[BethforAmerica]

Original thinking and very impressive!