Rush Limbaugh said today on his radio show that the media is going full Palin on Trump now, suggesting that the video ‘mistake’ Trump made is being trumpeted far louder than the fact that Obama paid the Iranians a ransom for hostages:
“The media has gone all Palin on Trump now. They’ve gone all Palin.” Folks, there’s no doubt what is going on. The media is trying to take Donald Trump out. And I’ve told this story a number of times. Please indulge me as I tell it one more time, because there are new listeners not just every day. There are new listeners every half hour on this program. We have the data to document that.
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So we know an airplane with $400 million in cash currency landed in Iran, that that pallet was offloaded and given to the ayatollahs. We know that that happened! Trump says he saw a video of it. Turns out, he was mistaken. He saw a video of something on Fox News but it wasn’t this. What is the news today? What is the news? In the Drive-By Media, what is big story today? It is that Donald Trump lied about seeing a video of $400 million being paid as ransom to the Iranians for the release of hostages.
Trump tweeted it out. He’s since… I don’t know if he’s apologized or he’s admitted that he saw something else. He was mistaken in what he saw on Fox News. But regardless, we know that it happened. The big story of the day is Donald Trump mistaking a video on Fox News as the Obama plane delivering Obama’s $400 million in hard currency ransom. The big story is not Obama paying ransom for hostages, because the big story is Donald Trump mistakenly saying he saw a video.
The big story is not even Obama denying that it was ransom, even though it was. The big story is not Hillary and John Kerry and the press secretary all lying about it. They’ve all said, “It wasn’t ransom!” They’ve all said, “There’s nothing to see here.” They’ve all said, “It wasn’t nefarious.” But that wasn’t the big story. The big story is that Trump tweeted out that he actually saw a video of this happening. The big story is not that one of the hostages says that their plane didn’t take off until after the money plane had landed.
I mean, the hostage has reported that they were on a tarmac, they were ready to leave, and the Iranian strongmen said, “You can’t leave until the plane arrives.” “Why?” “Well, you just can’t. There’s a plane coming in here for us. It has something on it. And until we get that something off of it for us, you can’t leave.” That’s not the big story. The big story is Donald Trump saying he saw a video of all of this happening.
The big story is not Barack Obama using the plural “payments” at the Pentagon yesterday. What, payments? This was not ransom, but it was part of payments? Payments for what? Did Congress authorize these payments? Is this the $1.7 billion in total, and is this part of or in addition to the $150 billion that we have unfrozen for them? Regardless, that’s not the story. The big story is that Donald Trump claims to have seen a video of what we know happened.
The big story is not asking where Obama got the $400 million. The big story is not asking how Obama laundered the $400 million and turned it into Swiss and Euro currency. There seems to be no interest in any of that. The big story is that Donald Trump mistakenly saw a video of all of this happening. The big story is not that anybody else who found a way to launder money and use it this way, would have already been charged with something and maybe in jail. No, no, no! Of course not. That’s not the story. Don’t be ridiculous.
The big story is Donald Trump says he saw a video.
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That’s the big story of today and is offered as further evidence of why Trump is unfit to be president.
Well yes, the media does care more about attacking Republicans than it does attacking Democrats, especially during an election contest. But to say the media is going all Palin on Trump is to suggest that the media is pushing a smear campaign on Trump, as they did Palin, and that simply isn’t true.
Is nothing Trump’s fault here?
Trump is making mistake after mistake, continually giving the media ammo to fire at him. From attacking, if you will, Khan’s wife to refusing to endorse Paul Ryan to claiming he’s seen a top secret video that doesn’t even exist (saying it even after his campaign said the video didn’t exist). And that’s just this week!
Not to mention his weird comments on the purple heart and all the news about the Trump intervention!
Yes, the media is giving Hillary a pass on the lies she told last week on her email scandal. And yes, the media loves reporting bad news about Trump.
But this isn’t like what happened to Sarah Palin in 2008. Not even close.