RUSH LIMBAUGH TRANSCRIPT […] This is amazing, because it’s their business to know this! It is striking to me how it is that so many of these people in high executive positions in both parties — in the consultancy of both parties, in the media — do not understand the relationship that Trump and his audience, supporters, what have you, have with him.
Either they are purposely ignoring it, being stubborn or they know it and don’t want to admit it because they’re jealous. But the idea that they don’t understand that Jorge Ramos…?
To everybody who watched that press conference, Jorge Ramos was the villain. Jorge Ramos was the bad guy, and Trump was the biggest hero that these people have seen in a long time because they have desired to see somebody stand up and fire back at a journalist who’s being unfair, on purpose — who has an ulterior motive, on purpose. And rather than stand there politely and deal with it, Trump tells the guy to get the hell out of the room, wait his turn, and come back.
And if they don’t understand that being applauded, if they don’t understand why people look at that and cheer, then they’ve got a long way to go before they’re gonna ever be able to put together a campaign for their candidates that’s gonna get them victory.
This is the most amazing thing in the world. I’m serious. It’s amazing to me that so many people do not understand this. Where is it written that a candidate for high office has to sit there and take a daily dose of excrement from people just because they’re journalists?
Gobs and gobs and gobs of the American people are fed up with that arrangement, and they think it’s about time the excrement started flying the other way. And with Trump, it is. And I don’t mean this in a way that’s devoid of substance. Now, I know some people listening to me gonna be shocked. “Are you really, Mr. Limbaugh, suggesting that this kind of disrespect for the media should be applauded and supported?”
No. I think you’re missing the point that the media has not been showing Republicans and conservatives respect for our lifetimes, and we’re tired of it. This respect business goes both ways. We’re sick and tired of the first thing being asked, “Are you racist, are you sexist, are you bigoted? Do you want to apologize for saying this? Do you wish you hadn’t done that?” Every first question is based on somehow we have to justify why we’re even alive, or why we think the way we think.
Meanwhile, the people who are destroying the country are treated as heroes. We’re fed up with it. So it’s, for me, very easy to understand this linkage. It’s very easy for me to understand why Trump is engendering the support that he is. It’s based on much more than just the way he’s dealing with the media, by the way. But I’m talking specifically about people who think that Trump’s behavior with Jorge Ramos should cause him trouble.

It’s not gonna cause him trouble. It’s causing Jorge Ramos trouble. Jorge doesn’t know it, but it’s causing him trouble. Jorge is the one that didn’t look good. Hell’s bells, even the New York Times TV critic had to admit that. But it goes beyond this.
It’s far deeper than just people wanting to have years and years of frustration being dealt with, because this ends up mattering. It matters because this type of arrangement is how we end up with despicable, destructive things like Obamacare and the horrible Iran deal and an economy that is an embarrassment for a country of this stature.
This kind of arrangement is why we have an entire Republican Party that appears too afraid of its own shadow. So it goes much deeper than just the way journalists are treated. It has to do with what ends up resulting in policy because of this. And again, I think it really… You know what it comes down to? It comes down to the fact that there are people in both parties that obviously — especially in the Republican Party inside the Beltway — who simply do not understand the idea that people think the country’s in crisis.
They really think that’s a kook view.
“That’s Tea Party wackiness! The country endangered? Losing the country? What? Ah, that’s silly,” they say. And therefore they don’t take people seriously who think that, who are worried about it. Meanwhile, there have been two landslide elections in 2010 and 2014 of people showing up at the polls desperately asking the Republican Party to save this country by stopping the advance of the Democrat agenda, and they’re not doing it. And they then profess to not understand why somebody coming along telling them they will stop it gets supported?
That is senseless to me. (read more)

Yup !