Is the Media in a Death Spiral?
Sep 19, 2018
RUSH: I have spent many, many moons on this program detailing for you what I think is an actual crackup of the deep state and the media over this totally phony investigation into Trump and collusion with Russia.
I’ve done my best to express how genuinely outrageous and beyond that it is, how unprecedented it is in terms of arraying the forces of the federal government against a singular person and presidential campaign and then presidency. We’re in the middle of it. We follow it each and every day; so the impact may be not as great as it should be. But this is a genuine abomination what is happening here, what has happened to Donald Trump for the past two years. I have a story here — actually, a column.
It’s by Julie Kelly at AmericanGreatness.com, and the title of her piece: “Media Continues its Slow Suicide,†and her opinion is that despite the appearance, despite how it looks on television every day that the media and their partners — their willing accomplices — are in the process of destroying themselves. They are destroying respectability. They are destroying their own credibility. They are in the process of literally a death spiral because of their contempt for Trump and their efforts to destroy a duly-elected president.
I realize a lot of you are not buying it. “That’s crazy. The media is not destroying itself! The media is only destroying Trump, only destroying Republicans. The media isn’t hurting itself.†I know it’s hard to see, and I know it doesn’t feel like the media is losing anything, and I know things look depressing. That’s by design. But the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party are on the same desperate mission, and it is a death spiral fight for survival for them right now.
They are slashing, splashing, smashing out, doing everything they can to save themselves. They do not run Washington. Donald Trump does. They are beside themselves that they haven’t been able to take him out. They’re beside themselves they haven’t been able to drive him out. They’re beside themselves that they have not been able to split you away from him, and they’re going more and more insane over their failures each and every day. The Woodward book. The Omarosa stuff!
All of this has come out and Trump is still there, and he’s still leading, and he’s still dominating, and has a still triumphing. These questions got themselves talked into this business that they’re gonna win the House, they’re gonna win the Senate, they’re gonna impeach Trump. Today they’re gonna impeach Kavanaugh! If Kavanaugh gets confirmed, if they’re not able to stop him… This is from Eric Swalwell from California. (paraphrased) “If Kavanaugh gets confirmed and as expected, the Democrats win the House and Senate, then we’re gonna impeach Kavanaugh as well as impeach Trump!â€
They are convinced that what they are doing is lauded and being supported and applauded by the vast majority of the American people. They continue to conduct and publish what I think are crazy polls that they end believing, just like Hillary believed the polls that she was gonna win in a landslide. The latest polls that I saw is from Reuters/Ipsos and you know what it says? The American public is losing faith fast in Brett Kavanaugh.
The American public may not support Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court! Well, that doesn’t matter, number one. But No. 2, I just refuse to believe that. I refuse to believe that a majority of the American people are watching what’s happening here and supporting it and applauding it. I think that there is so much disgust out there, I think there is so much outrage, I think people are livid at what they’re watching being done to Kavanaugh!
After having seen it happen to Clarence Thomas and Robert Bork and after having seen this… Kavanaugh’s only getting now what Trump gets every day. Trump gets this every day and d I think people are fed up with it. I think a lot of people are fed up with it. I know the polls are out there, Democrats are gonna sweep this and that. But then something got in the way, folks. I don’t know if you’ve heard about this, but there was a shocking special election win by a Republican last night in Texas.
Voters elected political newcomer Pete Flores to the Texas Senate on Tuesday, flipping a Democrat district red for the first time in 139 years and bolstering Republicans’ supermajority in the chamber ahead of November elections. Wait a minute. I thought Beto, whatever his name, was gonna beat Cruz, that the Texas Republicans were gonna lose Texas, the Senate, everything else, and Texas was on the verge of becoming a blue state! Why, that’s what all the polls say.
Texas is in the middle of going like California and New York and so forth. And then this happened. This is a district that Hillary Clinton won. I forget the majority here,
but it’s 73% black and Hispanic. It’s 23% white privilege, and they elected a Republican for the first time in 139 years. “A retired game warden, [Pete] Flores defeated former state and U.S. Rep. Pete Gallego for the Senate District 19 seat after receiving backing from some of the state’s most prominent politicians, including Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and U.S. Sens John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. …
“According the secretary of state’s website, Flores won with 53% of the vote, Gallego at 47%, there 44,487 ballots cast.†This wasn’t supposed to happen. Remember, Texas is going blue! This is a blue district in Texas that the Democrats have held for 139 years, and a Republican won it. How in the hell does that happen? Now, my overall point with this is that I think that Julie Kelly has a point. But I have to take a break, as always. We see right… And I really just get revved and ready and I get right to the sweet spot; then I look at the clock and go, “Damn it.â€
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: I have cited the work of Lee Smith several times. He’s worked at a website called, I think, Tablet. His work has appeared a lot of places. He’s done some of the best investigative work along with a lot of other people in uncovering the hoax and the scam that is the Steele Dossier, Papadopoulos, the entire lies, series of lies that Trump colluded with Russia.
He has written a piece called “Extinction Level.†Well, it’s not what it’s called, but he describes in this piece what he says is an “extinction-level event†for the media. And it consists of much of what he has been reporting on, text messages between Strzok Smirk and Lisa Page; just the general collapse in trustworthiness that people have for some of these law enforcement institutions, DOJ, FBI, the intelligence community, and so forth.
But Smith believes that the media’s in the process of literally crashing and burning here and sacrificing every bit of credibility and reputation they’ve ever had in service to the advancement of agenda, and that more people than ever before are now seeing what the media is and what it’s becoming. And as that continues to expand, they lose more and more credibility and believability. I know it’s hard to believe, but there are people out there actively who think this.
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