RUSH: You know who didn’t get mentioned last night? Robert J. Mueller III. The Mueller report? Not a syllable was mentioned of the Mueller report. Robert Mueller himself did not get mentioned. Now, don’t be disappointed. I mean, they’ve got plenty of video for campaign ads. But, in the debate where candidates are trying to get the Democrat nomination, the number one issue as far as the Drive-Bys have been concerned the last 2-1/2 years, didn’t even make the debate.
What do you make of that? There’s also a companion story. Rachel Maddow, who was the queen of the Russia con… Her audience has now dwindled to the point she is in fifth place. She used to be in first place in her hour. Her audience has dwindled so much. Now, I’m not mentioning this to rip Rachel Maddow ’cause I don’t do this inside-baseball-feuds-with-other-people-in-media stuff. What it means to me is that whole network was built on the fake news promise that Trump was going to jail.
This proves a point that I have been trying to get people to acknowledge and digest. That network — every night, every day, all day — promised their viewers that Trump was guilty, that Trump was going to jail, that Trump was gonna be impeached, that Trump had committed treason, that he was a Russian agent. And then the bottom fell out of that, and there is and was no Russian collusion. None of it was true. In the time since the Mueller report came out, the Democrat Party has attempted to keep the issue alive.
They have attempted… They got Mueller in a press conference. They got Mueller to testify last week. They’ve done everything! They’re doing impeachment hearings. But what happened to the MSNBC audience? It did not hang around for any of that. You get one shot at it, and if you betray the audience — if you build ’em up and if you promise things that don’t happen — they’re gone, and the MSNBC audience is continuing to drift away.
Meaning the Democrats are failing in their base at keeping that issue front and center, which means they’re failing at keeping impeachment front and center, and that’s why there was no mention of Robert Mueller or his report in the debate last night. It’s a good indication the issue is done, it’s over, it’s finished. The Democrats bombed on it. The primary Democrat voter base is not demanding that the Democrats keep going. The Democrats are keeping going despite their best self-interest because they hate Trump.
They are poisoned with their rage and hatred. They’re not letting it go, to their own detriment. It’s not because their base is demanding it. Another big myth that we can blow sky-high: Their base isn’t demanding it. Some of them probably are but the mass of the base is abandoning the issue. They don’t want to be lied to again! They don’t want to be built up and promised that Trump is going to jail for it not to happen again. So they’re not watching it anymore. I find it fascinating.
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CNN’s Zucker Blames Trump for Network’s Demise
RUSH: You know, you can tell CNN knows that last night was a disaster. You know how I know that? They’re not saying a word about it. They are doing nothing but promoting tonight’s version of the debate with the A-Team. You got Kamala Harris, you’ve got Plugs. Who else we got up there? We got, uh, we got, uh, well, I say the A-Team. It actually isn’t. You got Plugs, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, de Blasio. This is not the A-Team. I’m sorry. There isn’t an A-Team! Last night wasn’t the A-Team either! There isn’t an A-Team. But they’re not saying a word about last night! Not even to promote tonight!
You would think that if last night was great, they’d be saying, “And they’ve got their work cut out for ’em tonight, folks, because such-and-such was so on fire last night that Biden’s gonna have –” But they’re not saying a word about last night. Well, Kamala and Biden could go at it. Biden has promised everybody he’s not gonna be nice this time. Not only is he gonna be carrying that torch, he’s gonna be torching people with the torch.
Now, Jeff Zucker — you ready for this? — Jeff Zucker, who runs CNN, is an official Kamala Harris supporter! He’s done a fundraiser for her! CNN puts a guy on as a moderator who actually asked a former secretary of transportation if the missing Malaysian airliner could have been swallowed up by a black hole. You know, that’s not just a talking point joke, although it is.
Don Lemon in CNN’s endless coverage over — it was pre-Trump, of course — endless coverage over what happened to missing Malaysian airliner, he literally asked if it was possible it could have been swallowed up by a black hole or something. And this guy’s moderating the debate. And Jeff Zucker has done fundraisers for Kamala Harris, and he’s running the network that’s doing this debate tonight!
Now, that story hit yesterday. So Zucker has to do some deflecting. So you know what he’s doing? Jeff Zucker has blamed Trump and Fox News for hurting the image CNN has among Republicans. “Washington Post media reporter Sarah Ellison filed a story on CNN boss Jeff Zucker after following him around on July 24, Mueller Hearing Day. She apparently asked what happened to CNN among Republicans.” It was a question about bad ratings.
CNN’s in the toilet. MSNBC has gone from number 1 to number 5 in some day parts. They’ve lost everything. They’re still above CNN. So she’s asking, what happened to CNN? You guys used to own the whole genre of cable news. And Jeff Zucker blamed Trump. He blamed Trump. He didn’t give any credence to the fact that CNN’s content might be a factor.
“At a recent Trump rally in Greenville, N.C., a teenage rock band played its rendition of a frequent rally slogan, ‘CNN Sucks.’” Can you believe a rock band actually sang a song called, “CNN sucks.” Zucker said, “I think Trump has hurt our perception among Republicans to some degree. I think it’s incredibly unfortunate. You can’t have the most powerful man in the world with his megaphone slamming the network every day and not have it have an effect.”
Mr. Zucker, let me tell you something. This is what you’re missing. You don’t have a bond with anybody in your audience. If I can make this personal, just to illustrate the point, for over 25 years various elements of the left-wing media have been attacking me equally as bad, if not worse, than what Trump has done with CNN.
Trump has been attacking CNN for two or three years. There have been people going after this show on the left for 25 years, and it has not resulted in any loss of audience. Now, it is preventing people that don’t listen from taking a chance. I’m not denying they haven’t hurt, but it’s not the case that Trump is keeping CNN’s numbers down.
CNN is responsible for CNN’s numbers. CNN’s content is a direct result of CNN editorial and management choice. CNN is choosing to oppose Donald Trump and everybody that voted for him. CNN is giving nobody who voted for Trump a reason to watch them. It’s the exact opposite. And this is what Zucker doesn’t get.
It’s really low ball and it’s lazy to blame the president for why you don’t have an audience. They could overcome that tonight. CNN could triple their audience in a week with just a couple of tweaks to their programming. But they’ll never do it. They won’t do it because they would catch hell from the social justice warriors on the left.
I mean, if I were Zucker, I would be embarrassed over this. To start whining and moaning about how — how come all of Trump’s rants didn’t hurt MSNBC, Jeff? Trump’s beating up MSNBC the last two and a half years same as he’s beating up on you, and they were doing okay. They were all-in on the Russian hoax. They were promising people Trump was going to jail, but Trump was not able to drive their audience away. Robert Mueller did that.
This is really lazy. When I see media people start blaming people that have nothing to do with their programming for their problems, it’s lazy. It’s childish. It’s defensive. But that’s Zucker’s story and he’s sticking with it.
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