http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/10/21/teachable_moment_the_unhinged_establishment_reaction_to_trump_s_answer_on_accepting_the_election_resultsTeachable Moment: The Unhinged Establishment Reaction to Trump's Answer on Accepting the Election Results
October 21, 2016
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RUSH: I just checked the email. "Rush, how do you know Trump didn't mean it?" Come on. How do I know Trump didn't mean it? There's not a moment in time, a shred in my body, there's not a molecule, there's not an atom in my body that ever, ever thought when Donald Trump said what he said meant that he was going to refuse to accept the outcome of the election.
It's not what he said. That's what they want people to think he said, but they must be afraid of something. The next day, this is my point about them, no sense of humor. Trump goes out and how does he react to the controversy? There's a number of ways you can react to this. After the debate when everybody in the media, I mean, everybody! Even people you think are friendlies are just practically having cows over this. You can go back to your hotel or get on your airplane and fly away, start wringing your hands, "Oh, my God, oh, geez," and you maybe think you call a press conference, "Hey, you guys misunderstood. I didn't say that. I didn't mean that." You can do that.
You could sleep on it and then do a press conference the next morning. What did Trump do? He waited 'til his next rally and he went out and confirmed what he said. "I want to pledge to you, lest there be any he doesn't understand what I'm talking about, I pledge, I promise, I will accept the results of the election on November 8th -- pause -- if I win." The crowd gets it, laughs uproariously. That was Trump tweaking 'em. That was Trump sticking it in a little further. He's toying with them.
They don't get it. The lack of sense of humor, being wound so tight to not understand satire, parody, or to not understand somebody's personality. We all have different personalities. I understand Trump from the day he came down that escalator. And it's not because I've played golf with him a couple of times. I know the way he thinks and I way he says things to people, talks to people, the way he makes points, the way he tries to tell people what he thinks, the way he tries to be persuasive. It isn't hard.
But it's, as I say, a teachable moment for me because they don't understand. For example -- talk about myself for a minute -- when I do this program, there's a whole heck of a lot of it here where I'm just trying to be funny, outrageously funny, a little over the line funny, push the envelope, that's where they lose it. We're not allowed to push the envelope anymore, not allowed to cross the line of propriety that they define. There isn't anything funny. There isn't anything funny about whatever it is I'm talking about.
So they take things that are intended as humorous comments or a joke and they attach serious political meaning to it and then proceed to get profoundly, deeply outraged and say it's unacceptable, this is intolerable, this will not stand. And they're doing the same thing to Trump, or trying to. But his supporters all get it. "But, Mr. Limbaugh, it's not his supporters that are the problem. Trump must engage in outreach and try to explain to the people who don't get what he's trying to say." Well, I understand all that, I understand that thinking. But that isn't my point.
My point is that all of this near unanimous, belief in something that genuinely is -- you talk about unhinged, to believe Trump said what you think he said when he didn't say it. Didn't even say it. To go out then and believe he said it or try to convince other people he said it, convince yourself what he really meant, it's unhinged. If these people had been around in the 1700s we'd have never had a revolution. They would have never tolerated the Founding Fathers' objections to King George.
They would have wanted to put in jail people like James Madison and Patrick Henry because they dared speak out against the establishment. We'd have never had the revolution if the people in the Democrat Party today had been ruling the roost in the media back then.
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