{"id":215145,"date":"2016-12-12T17:08:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T22:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/12\/12\/this_is_how_fake_news_becomes_the_narrative_russia_hacked_the_election_\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T10:20:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:20:36","slug":"this_is_how_fake_news_becomes_the_narrative_russia_hacked_the_election_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/12\/12\/this_is_how_fake_news_becomes_the_narrative_russia_hacked_the_election_\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is How Fake News Becomes the Narrative: “Russia Hacked the Election”"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH:  Folks, we are living in the midst of a giant teachable moment.  This is how it happens.  This is how fake news takes root and becomes the narrative, becomes the daily script of the inside-the-Beltway soap opera written by the Drive-By Media.  This whole business of Russia hacking our election is fake news with the imprimatur of intelligence agencies and the CIA, and it\u2019s brought to us by the same newspapers that took out, tried to take out Richard Nixon.  And if I didn\u2019t know better, I would say they are trying to relive the moment and “Watergate” Donald Trump. <\/p>\n

Greetings, great to have you, Rush Limbaugh here behind the Golden EIB Microphone, looking forward to having you hear what I have to say today.  And I\u2019m looking forward to hearing what you have to say.  The telephone number is 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.  We\u2019ll check the email as well.  That address, if you want to reach out via email, ElRushbo@eibnet.us<\/a>. <\/p>\n

This is exactly how it happens.  All weekend long I was doing what I always do.  I combine leisure and work and I\u2019m doing show prep while engaging in leisure time activities and so forth.  Well, I will even, on the golf course, do show prep.  If you\u2019re playing with some slow people, have time to check the phone, maybe see something, print it to the printer at work, and you\u2019re done. <\/line><\/p>\n

As I got here today and began to assemble everything I\u2019ve collected over the weekend, I ended up with two stacks.  Sometimes I end up with four stacks, and each Stack is organized by either news type, be it hard news, heavy news, lighthearted news, or subject.  In this case the two stacks are organized by virtue of subject and everything else.  Because the everything else only has four or five pages in it. And the other Stack, which is the CIA and the Washington Post, New York Times saying that the Russians hacked the election, is 90% of everything I printed over the weekend.  <\/p>\n

I got here and I started organizing it, this is it.  This is exactly how it happens.  Even though Trump has won, even though Hillary has been vanquished, even though the left has suffered defeat after defeat after defeat, the Drive-By Media is still there, and they\u2019re still acting as they always do.  They are setting the agenda.  They are setting the narrative, establishing it, and they are determining what everybody talks about. <\/p>\n

And today, because of this, I found myself asking myself, should I play this game today or not?  Should I treat this the way I\u2019ve been treating it for all the years I\u2019ve been doing the program?  And that is to react to it, to go on defense, to explain how the lies stack up here, to explain the BS.  And I think I\u2019ve got no choice, and I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a problem or if it\u2019s just the way it is. <\/p>\n

Fake news is the order of the day.  Fake news, a story first on Saturday and then on Sunday, Washington Post and New York Times, that intelligence sources, it turns out to be unnamed, a couple people, we don\u2019t know who, no specifics, alleging that the Russians left fingerprints as they hacked the 2016 election. <\/p>\n

<\/a>We\u2019re also told that the Russians hacked both the RNC and the DNC, and one of the controversies is, why didn\u2019t WikiLeaks use any of the stuff they got from the hack of the Republicans?  And that is being used to suggest that the fix was in from Russia against Hillary, because they had equal data on the Republicans and they just decided not to use it. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s one problem with that.  And we have audio sound bite support on this coming up as the program the unfolds.  The RNC says it was not hacked.  Reince — sorry — Reince Priebus — you know, I got a little lazy pronouncing his name on Friday and I had two or three people I\u2019m certain who are in Reince\u2019s orb send me an email saying, “No, no, no, no, it\u2019s pronounced Reince, not ‘Rinse.'”  I know.  I know.  I know it\u2019s Reince.  In speaking quickly it just came out “Rinse.”  I was not trying to be funny or insulting.  I like Reince.  He\u2019s come by here, we\u2019ve had some chats.  So, no, no, don\u2019t misunderstand. <\/p>\n

But Priebus, he was on Meet the Press with F. Chuck Todd yesterday<\/a>, and he had to almost scream at Chuck Todd threes before Chuck got it. (paraphrasing) “Chuck, we were not hacked.  We weren\u2019t hacked, Chuck,” and Chuck kept going and finally Reince, said, “What are you not getting about this?”  And Chuck said, “It\u2019s not about me.” “Chuck it is about you, and it\u2019s about everybody else in the media.”  This story is totally about you. It\u2019s about the New York Times. It\u2019s about the Washington Post. It\u2019s about everybody appearing on any cable network that\u2019ll take \u2019em from either of these newspapers or sympathetic to these newspapers pushing this false narrative. <\/p>\n

One element of the story, a major element has proven to be untrue.  The Republicans were not hacked.  If you find a serious element of the story that isn\u2019t true, the rest of it ought to be held at arm\u2019s length and viewed with lots of suspicion.  But it\u2019s uncanny, folks.  The media is behaving according to type.  The media is doing the only thing they know how to do.  They are doing everything they can do to take Trump out. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what this is about, folks.  And for those of you who think that the recount effort and the intimidation of electors is sort of a screwball bunch of people, it may well be, but they are trying to prevent Trump being elected.  There was nothing half-hearted about this as far as their desires and purpose is concerned.  They\u2019re seriously trying to do this. <\/p>\n

When I throw the word Watergate Trump out, I\u2019m not doing so casually.  This is exactly what the Washington Post — and Carl Bernstein<\/a>, by the way, of Watergate fame is back in the mix now saying that Trump is even worse than Nixon.  Well, that\u2019s like a dog whistle.  That\u2019s like code language, \u2019cause Nixon is the worst, and everybody supposedly agrees.  Nixon was just ew, yuk.  Trump\u2019s worse than Nixon, according to one of the revered respected Watergate journalists. <\/line><\/p>\n

The other Watergate journalist, Bob Woodward, is who broke the story in the Washington Post about the intelligence agencies claiming that they have evidence that the Russians attempted to interfere in the United States election.  So the linkage to Watergate and its modus operandi is clearly established. <\/p>\n

The two primary journalist players are actively engaged now, as is their newspaper, the Washington Post and their compatriots at the New York Times.  The question is: How many people are gonna see this for what it is?  It\u2019s not gonna slow Trump down.  The one different factor here is that Trump is not the Republicans, and Trump is not acting scared.  Trump tweeted last night.  He watched the NBC Nightly News and he tweeted it was embarrassing, it was horrible, it was bad.  Trump is not going to be deterred.  He\u2019s not gonna be stopped. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s not gonna be intimidated. He\u2019s not going to be affected by this, in terms of the way it makes him behave.  There\u2019s so much going on out there.  They\u2019re upset about Rex Tillerson. They\u2019re upset about the fact… Really, what this is all about is they can\u2019t yet accept that they lost.  All of this is based on that.  It really… I mean, there are degrees of depth in terms of their anger and dissociation and unhinged derangement.  But it\u2019s all about that.  They cannot believe they lost.  They all believed themselves when they cited their polling data and read their stories that Hillary had this in a lock. <\/p>\n

And so it\u2019s something that they just can\u2019t accept, so there has to have been some cheating.  Because the American people would not have voted them down.  The American people were loving Obama and were loving what Obama was doing, and the American people love the Democrats and illegal immigration and love the Democrats. Love. This should not have happened.  But as we will attempt to establish as the program unfolds — and I\u2019m not gonna ramrod this through you, folks.  I\u2019m gonna take some time going through this. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got worked up a number of different ways to express my thoughts on this, plus we have support audio sound bite-wise.  The Washington Post and the New York Times on Russia\u2019s interference in the election is total BS, and it is the definition of “fake news.”  Some hack somewhere in the intelligence community… It may not even be the CIA. There\u2019s a number of different intelligence agencies. There\u2019s CIA. There\u2019s the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency. The State Department has its own little group of people. <\/p>\n

There are intel people all over the place, so we don\u2019t know.  But one of them decided to call Bob Woodward and fill old Bob\u2019s head full of notions.  So the Washington Post writes a totally anonymously and anemically sourced story that the New York Times immediately follows up, and it becomes a huge story that attempts to delegitimize Trump\u2019s win, delegitimize the election.  And now you\u2019ve got all of these Washington Post people populating cable news networks downplaying the FBI\u2019s conclusion there\u2019s no evidence Russia did any such thing. <\/p>\n