Posted on 07/29/2015 1:09:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: I'm looking at this Trump campaign. You know, every day, the Trump campaign... What's the way to put this? Every day the Trump campaign gains a little more substance in the eyes of observers. What I mean by this is before Trump even got in the race, the smart money said, "He's not gonna run. He's just gonna tempt people with it and tease people, raise ratings for his TV show and this sort of thing. He'll never release his financial data on that form they all have to fill out." Then he did all that.
Then it became, "He's not serious. He's doing this. He's a bloated, bigot egotist. He's gonna do this just for his own personal aggrandizement, and he's gonna get out long before he's a factor." Well, he stayed in longer than anybody thought. And then the smart money said, "He's gonna implode. He's gonna step in it. He doesn't have the discipline. He's not a serious politician, like we are. He's not a serious candidate. He's gonna say something and step in it."
Then he said something. He said of John McCain (paraphrasing), "Yeah, he's a war hero, but I actually don't have a lot of respect for guys that get captured. I'd rather honor those that don't." The smart money said, "That's it! That's it! It didn't take long. We knew it, Trump's out of there. No way he survives that." Not only did he survive it, he thrived because of it. It actually contributed to his growth and increase in polling numbers.
Then the smart money said, "Well, this just can't go on. It's a circus act. He's a clown. I expect he'll get tired of it. And by the time the kids start going back to school, that's when we'll be finished with Trump. He'll be out of it with the first debate. He'll show up at the first debate, and something will go wrong."
The smart money has been wrong every stage here, and at every stage the Trump candidacy has gained. People take it more and more seriously each and every day. And now the smart money is starting to analyze. Now, they're starting to get worried, and now they're starting to try to analyze it. "Why is Trump working? Why do so many people like Trump? Why is this happening?" And it's made me think about things in this regard, too, although I always have, but focusing on a story not long ago that I found.
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RUSH: Okay, now, a couple things on this Trump story. Let me just continue this meme here for just a second. And then some great sound bites coming up here from Ash Carter, secretary of defense, and John Kerry. Did you hear what Kerry did? Did you hear what he said? John Kerry admitted before a congressional committee yesterday that with the new sanctions money that the Iranian, yes, they could kill Americans. Yes, they could kill Israelis. We're gonna be monitoring this.
Yeah, they could kill 'em.
At any rate, staying focused and on subject. The Trump campaign every day people are becoming more respectful of it. I'm talking about the political experts. I'm not talking about you people, the voters. You're already in. And many of you who are siding up with Trump, you understand why, and you know why you're doing it, and you have your reasons. And, you know, there's a phenomenon happening with Trump, by the way.
It's something that usually only happens with leftist politicians. Trump is so personally likable that to a lot of people, it doesn't matter what he believes. It's the fact that he believes something and is willing to stand up for it that has drawn people. Not everybody, of course, because it takes a full cross section of personality and people types to make up a support base, but there's some people who don't care what he thinks. It's just that he's so different, so unique, and so real that they're happy to support him for now.
But within the political class there is abject fear, because every -- well, not every, but many of the articles or items of conventional wisdom that inform them that a guy like Trump has no future and is gonna implode. It's not happening yet. Every prediction they've made has fallen flat about Trump's campaign imploding or Trump himself imploding. I mean, look at what happened here with this rape attempt. How many people do you think could survive this?
Let's us dissect this for a second. Yesterday this sleazy, cheesy, second-rate little website, The Daily Beast runs a story that Trump raped Ivana when they were married, and they admitted later on TV they did it simply to get even with Trump because he accused Mexicans of being rapists. So it was time to see if Trump could take a dose of his own medicine. There was no news value here. There was no truth to it.
But this is the kind of thing that usually happens to Republicans. And when it does, the usual thing that happens is the Republicans cave. But in the case of Trump, not only did he not cave, but the woman he supposedly raped stood up and said, "No, he didn't, and I still love the guy, and I think he'd make a great president." But even if she hadn't done that, it wouldn't have hurt Trump because it wasn't believable.
He doesn't fit the profile, if you will, of somebody behave that way. He's not somebody that has to commit crimes in order to have intimate relations with women. People just instinctively understand this. So it was a flailing attempt, a failed attempt, and it was an attempt to capitalize on another phony meme that the media has attempted to establish, and that there is a male-dominated "rape culture" in America, primarily on America's campuses.
So much so that the media feels comfortable reporting and supporting a totally false story such as frat boys running wild and raping whenever they want on campus at University of Virginia. Except it didn't happen. The Drive-By Media reaction was, "Well, okay. It might not have happened here, but we know it's happening! We know it's happening, and this was a great story to raise awareness." Wait a minute. There was no truth. "That doesn't matter! We did our job. We raised consciousness."
Rolling Stone magazine is who did that, and they're back here today. "What the Trump and Cosby Allegations Reveal About Rape Culture." What the Trump and Cosby allegations...? Anybody ever heard of Bill Clinton? If you want to start relegating people to side-by-side status, you don't put Trump next to Cosby on this. You put Clinton. There's a big story out today, by the way, in the Drive-By Media just destroying Cosby's wife, Camille, as an enabler -- that she knew it.
She knew that her husband was getting hold of Quaaludes and essentially date raping all these babes into submission. She knew it, she let it happen, she enabled it, and then when it was discovered, she tried to defend her husband from it. They're just excoriating her. I'll find the story in a minute. Does that remind you of anybody? Does it remind you of Ivana Trump? Does it remind you of Melania Trump?
Does it remind you of any Trump woman, or does it remind you of maybe Hillary Clinton? Who ran the bimbo eruptions unit in the Clinton campaign and the White House to deal with women who came forward and claimed that Bill Clinton had sexually abused them? Hillary was right in there with Betsey Wright running the bimbo eruptions unit, the purpose of which was to destroy the women who came forward with the allegations about Bill Clinton, to threaten them, to intimidate them, to maybe bribe them.
But it was clear what they would do.
Who still reads Rolling Stone?
The Stone Cold Face of Journolism today.
Rolling Ston’d
Druggies?
Keep in mind "Rolling Stone" fabricated lies about rapes on the Univ of Virginia campus and when caught in the lie, didn't fire the the so-called "author".
In a sane world, some enterprising journalist would ask Hillary about Bill Cosby. Does she believe the accusers? Does she believe Cosby? Not an academic question. Once she commits one way or the other with Cosby, the follow up questions virtually write themselves. Unfortunately, we do not live in a sane world.
That rag has some f’ing nerve to still even touch on the subject of rape.
Rolling Stoned...
Lawsuit?
Please, does anyone here still believe that the RAG “ROLLING STONE” is a “FAIR” news paper? If there is even one person out there that still believe this, must be living in their basement and rarely goes outside to breath fresh air.
"I am ninety seven years old." Jann Wenner
Rolling Stone??? The same magazine which runs puff pieces about the Boston Marathon bomber????
Rolling Stone??? The same magazine which runs puff pieces about the Boston Marathon bomber????
In a sane world, some enterprising journalist would ask Hillary about Bill Cosby. Does she believe the accusers? Does she believe Cosby? Not an academic question. Once she commits one way or the other with Cosby, the follow up questions virtually write themselves. Unfortunately, we do not live in a sane world.
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Hillary is very carefully shielded from any reporter who would dare ask her such a question and any reporter who managed to break through some how and ask her any potentially embarrassing question would be quickly vilified by Hillary’s sycophantic press followers.
Just what I was thinking, yet they can’t seem to stay away from the topic. Makes me wonder what kind of mentality those people have-they are so gratuitously focused on rape.
Ha! Funny you should ask. I was in the Ophthalmologist’s office yesterday and there it was, Rolling Stone! Just a shadow of its former self. Small (maybe 9x12), thin, and completely uninformative. Reviews of movies, TV shows and a maybe some music — nothing more. The cover was screaming about an article about Amy Winehouse, but was a 3-paragraph review of the movie. No meat.
There will only be pictures and no words.
Time and Newsweak will probably beat them to it though.
RS stepped in it now ... Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, made it pretty clear that these charges are libelous and outrageous, so .... wouldn’t be surprised at all if RS has another mega-lawsuit on their hands real soon.
This mistake will cost ‘em a lot.
I DO NOT CARE what ANYONE says about this Michael Cohen I LIKE HIM, Trump has some true FIGHTERS on his team!!!!! He laid into that little twerp of a so called reporter!!!! GO DONALD AND TEAM keep the gloves on!!!!!!
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