{"id":13269,"date":"2013-02-08T19:45:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T19:45:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-08T19:45:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T19:45:33","slug":"why_democrats_get_away_with_lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/why_democrats_get_away_with_lying\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Democrats Get Away with Lying"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: This is Jason, Orange County, California. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I\u2019m a Rush Baby. I\u2019m thrilled to talk to you today. Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you very much. Great to have you with us here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have a question. I\u2019m hoping you can explain something for me. I don\u2019t understand how Harry Reid is able to lie almost every time he gets up there and makes a statement, not just about Romney, not just about a budget, but it\u2019s constant, and it drives me crazy.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, the overall answer to this is the same answer to why the Democrats get away with everything they get away it — and you\u2019re talking about getting away with it with a certain group of people, what we call the low-information voters. Most people in this country — well, not most. A majority of people never hear that Harry Reid told a lie. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What Harry Reid says is never characterized as a lie or as being wrong or as an untruth in the media. It\u2019s just never said. You\u2019re right: Every day he is filled with outrageous insults and untruths, but he\u2019s never called on it. No Democrat ever is. They are allowed to lie. Harry Reid\u2019s purpose is to defeat Republicans, and whatever he has to do in that quest is permitted by the Democrat Party and by the media. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s under no scrutiny whatsoever. The Republicans could call press conferences every day and accuse him of it, offer the quotes, demand an explanation, and the news would be that the Republicans are a bunch of spoiled kids who can\u2019t take it. “You\u2019ve gotta grow up. Politics is tough. Get used to it.” It\u2019s like anything else: Until a majority of the people are made aware and understand, this stuff is gonna continue to happen. So your challenge is to not let it frustrate you to the point of ruining your day. <\/p>\n

I have been there, and I\u2019ve let that stuff happen. I mean, I\u2019ve gone home from work just literally livid over what these people get away with. For 25 years, I thought, “How in the world can we change this?” I know exactly how you feel. People lying — arrogantly, condescendingly, blatantly — is one of the most irritating things in terms of a person\u2019s character, characteristics or personality traits that irritates me. <\/p>\n

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All you can do is contradict it to people and tell \u2019em that he\u2019s not telling the truth. But there\u2019s another factor, too. When Harry Reid says, for example, that Mitt Romney didn\u2019t pay his taxes, what\u2019s Romney to do? When Romney challenges him on it, then that\u2019s just opening the door. The media\u2019s gonna demand proof. We\u2019re in a situation where whatever allegation a Democrat makes is taken as truth. The accusation then becomes the responsibility of whoever he\u2019s accusing to prove that he\u2019s wrong. <\/p>\n

You\u2019ll note that Harry Reid never had to provide evidence of that charge that Romney wasn\u2019t paying his taxes, or hadn\u2019t paid them. Nobody ever demanded Harry Reid prove it. Not in the media, anyway. He got away with saying, “Well, I know somebody who told me.” What that became was, the media going to Romney and demanding that Romney prove that Reid was wrong! So here\u2019s Romney forced with proving a negative. It\u2019s a phony, false assumption. <\/p>\n

The worst thing you can do is behave in such a way as to allow that to be accepted. So what Romney had to do was basically ignore it, but then there was pressure from the Republicans. A bunch of Republicans in the media, in Washington, got nervous and were urging Romney, “Go ahead, release your tax returns! Just do it and get this out of the way,” just like the same Republicans said, “Go ahead and sign the fiscal cliff and we\u2019ll deal with Obama on the debt limit. <\/p>\n

“Let\u2019s just get taxes off the table.”<\/p>\n

We keep giving things away. They wanted Romney to release his taxes to get rid of the issue. It didn\u2019t get rid of the issue! It wouldn\u2019t get rid of the issue! All the Democrats wanted was page after page after page of Romney\u2019s tax returns so that they could have a data-mining operation, so they could find anything in there that would look suspicious to low-information voters, and Romney did the right thing in denying it to them. That was the purpose of the allegation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a stacked deck, and we\u2019re holding the short end, for now.<\/p>\n

But it won\u2019t be forever.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You want to hear Harry Reid\u2019s latest lie? I mean, they happen every day. I don\u2019t even talk about them anymore. Harry Reid was on This Week this past Sunday, and the subject was the sequester. Now, he didn\u2019t say this was gonna be cut by the sequester. This number that he used was independent of the sequester. He said, “The American people need to understand it\u2019s not as if we\u2019ve done nothing for the debt; $2.6 trillion already we\u2019ve made in cuts, and all those cuts have come from non-defense programs.”<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t have the guts to say that on the floor of the Senate, but he said that on This Week, and he was not challenged by anyone. There are nowhere near $2.6 trillion in cuts! Folks, there have not been any cuts in anything — defense, non-defense, discretionary spending — zilch, zero, nada! He went on to repeat that lie to George Stephanopoulos. He said, “I repeat: $2.6 trillion already, all coming from non-defense. If we\u2019re gonna have a sequester, defense is going to have to do their share.”<\/p>\n

We have not cut $2.6 trillion! If we had cut $2.6 tillion, Barack Obama would not have been reelected. That\u2019s just an out-and-out lie, folks. It\u2019s not even close to anything in reality. Now, what would you do? Not one reporter challenged him. If he\u2019s not gonna get challenged on this stuff, it\u2019s gonna survive and live on in the ether out there. He does it every day. It\u2019s pathological. I don\u2019t know how you compromise with such a pathological liar. I don\u2019t know how you talk with one. <\/p>\n

This is guy that\u2019s gonna be putting a budget together? <\/p>\n

Big whoop! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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