At the top of his eponymous syndicated talk radio program on Wednesday, conservative icon Rush Limbaugh was at his best in demolishing the media’s insistence that President-elect Doanld Trump’s transition team is collapsing when it’s really “the media” (including “little Brian Stelter”), ObamaCare, and the Clinton empire that are all “imploding.”
Limbaugh pointed out minutes after the start of the show that “[t]he greater conniption the left” and media have when it comes to Trump’s appointments, “the better the decision is.” As for the news about infighting at Trump Tower, Limbaugh hyped that they are “not imploding, folks” but “set to kick ass.” [Listen to the audio below]
“You would think the media would learn. But they're not going to. What do you think the media thinks it's in for? Wrong way to put it. What do you think the media thinks they have to gain by continuing to treat Trump the way they did during the campaign? What would they do? Wha.t do they expect to change,” Limbaugh astutely explained.
He continued by noticing the inability for the media to accept the fact that 70 percent of the American “think they cannot trust the mainstream media” but “continues to behave in ways that warrant that distrust, that earn it, so they're trying to make hay out of the fact that Trump doesn't know what he's doing.”
Based on how the media have behaved since the election, Limbaugh made sure his listeners knew that it was not only the liberal media that has been struggling but so many other aspects of the left as well:
What's imploding is the media. The media is imploding. What's imploding is ObamaCare. What's imploding is the Democrat Party. What is imploding is Clinton Inc. That's what's imploding out there. Trump won in part because of the media's hysterical deceit, their hysterical partisanship, their hysterical abandonment of what they claim are their own definitions of their job. The media is a front group for Democrats like environmentalists are a front group for radical leftists.
In Wednesday’s example of liberal hypocrisy when it comes to lecturing conservatives to watch their words carefully, Limbaugh noticed this Associated Press (AP) spin when it came to how Trump ditched the press to go out to dinner on Tuesday with his family:
And so the AP — you know how the AP wrote about this today? “We were there when JFK was assassinated. We were there when Ronald Reagan was shot.” Meaning: “We want to be there if something happens to Trump. This is our job to chronicle when something bad happens to Trump.” And they're livid that Trump...He didn't sneak out. He just didn't tell 'em he was going anywhere. He took his family; went to 21. He didn't hide. There were people in there taking pictures.
He began winding down the first segment of his 12:00 p.m. Eastern hour by proclaiming that “[i]t’s a new day where everybody in the administration doesn't first take into account what the media is going to say or do before they do or say anything” while the media’s been losing their minds at the reality of his presidency led by folks like “[l]ittle Brian Stelter at CNN, all these people are just fit to be tied.”
