Trump Starts Doing the Job the Media Won't Do on the Clintons' Tawdry PastMay 24, 2016
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RUSH: So Trump has gone there. Trump has gone to all of this Clinton conspiracy stuff. And I got people saying, "Why is he doing this, Rush? Why doesn't Trump just stick to the issues? He's got this Make America Great theme going, he's got the wall and Mexico, why is he deviating from it?" I want to remind you, I predicted this.
I have nothing to do with the Trump campaign. Zilch, zero, nada. A lot of other people do, but I don't. And I told everybody way back when that Trump's gonna go where nobody else goes with the Clintons. He's gonna go there. And it's not unusual for Trump to rely on tabloid data for his attacks. He's been doing it since the campaign began. You gotta remember there's lots of people that read those things. There's lots of people that think those things are gospel. I mean, it is what it is.
It may not make you happy. It may make you disappointed for the future of our human race and so forth, but it's not unusual: tabloids. It's no different than E! Entertainment Television or TMZ or what have you. I mean, they have various locations on the strata, but that kind of gossip, what have you, it's always gonna have a big audience. And Trump is getting to it, I think, early for a reason. He's getting it out there. He told everybody he was gonna get it out there, and he's getting it out there. Nobody else will touch it. Nobody else has wanted to touch this stuff ever, any of it.
You know, I had a story in the Stack yesterday, I suspect that somebody was in here monkeying with my desk last night, because I left a whole Stack of Stuff from yesterday's show that I didn't get to, as I do every day, I left it there and there's a Stack there, but it's from two weeks ago, it's not from yesterday. I said, "What the heck happened?" The cleaning crew is not engaged enough to -- I can't lay it off on them. Anyway, I remember there was a story in the Stack -- I don't remember where it was from. I'm not sure of the source, but it was a substantive Drive-By Media house.
The point was that at this stage of the presidential campaign, there is always a staple that is part of the campaign that is not part of this one, and that is criticism of the sitting president. Evidence: Go back to 2008. The entire Obama campaign was about how rotten George W. Bush was. Remember that? I mean, it was incredible. Everything Obama stood for, he told us, was the opposite of George W. Bush, from the Iraq war, to the War on Terror, to the economy, the economic collapse, you name it, George W. Bush and his Regime were the entire campaign of 2008. Obama ripping into it, McCain trying in various different ways to defend it.
Now, as I say, that's not unusual. It's a staple of campaigns. And, in fact, the Democrats had spent the last four years of Bush's two terms doing nothing but. It's soft selling it to call it criticism. They were engaged in political manslaughter, I think what they were doing to the Bush administration. I mean, for four years, the body counts in Iraq, the never ending "Bush lied, people died," Bush-Hitler, movies on how to assassinate Bush, books on how to assassinate Bush the media told us were important works of art that we needed to read, we needed to understand the rage.
There has been none of that about Obama at all in eight years. The Republican Party won't go anywhere near criticizing Obama. The point of the story yesterday was that they won't even do it now, that Obama is still hands off now and due entirely to one thing: his race. There is such fear, so much fear, lingering fear of Obama's race and being called a racist that nobody, Trump, nobody's going there, nobody on the Republican side. And in fact, the entire reason that we have Trump leading this campaign right now is precisely because of what Obama has done in the last seven and a half years.
Now, Trump is focusing on Hillary, admittedly, she is the opponent, will be, and that makes total sense. And he's focusing on things that Hillary did while she was secretary of state and so forth and things Hillary did when her husband was president, but strangely missing is anything about Obama. And I have to admit, it's frustrating to me. I don't care what color he is or gender or trans, he's president of the United States. The guy has attempted to subvert the US Constitution every day of his presidency, it seems like, and nobody's willing to go there, very much. Trump does some, but it's amazing how insulated the Obama presidency is.
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