{"id":217936,"date":"2017-01-18T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=217936"},"modified":"2017-01-19T16:22:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T21:22:59","slug":"putin-hacked-the-pardon-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/18\/putin-hacked-the-pardon-process\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pardon Process Has Been Hacked!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So I guess it\u2019s safe to say that Putin has hacked the pardon process. I mean, how else would you explain it? This Manning clown, used to be Bradley Manning, now — not Peyton, what is it? Chelsea, now Chelsea Manning — committed treason, leaked a bunch of Defense Department and military documents to WikiLeaks, the dreaded WikiLeaks, and he was sent to prison for treason. Obama just commuted his sentences. He\u2019s only gonna serve 80% of it. So now what it means is that this guy who gave our private documents to the dreaded WikiLeaks, which everybody knows now is Putin who hacked the election.<\/p>\n

I guess it\u2019s safe to say now that Putin has hacked the pardon process, and even some of the Drive-Bys are worried about the apparent conflict here. Because on one hand you have Obama joining the chorus of people claiming the Russians hacked the election because of their association with WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. And yet here is Obama pardoning somebody who committed treason using WikiLeaks and Putin, and it makes it look like — as far as Obama\u2019s concerned — it\u2019s okay if an American soldier leaks documents to WikiLeaks that end up in Russia.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s fine! No problem with that. But if those same Russians hack our election and cause Democrats to lose, well, we can\u2019t have that. Some in the media here worried about this, trying to understand it. We, as you know, make the complex understandable here at the union EIB Network, and that\u2019s what we\u2019ll do.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This Chelsea Manning here, who used to be Bradley Manning — obviously a confused individual.\u00a0 I guess what it means now, ladies and gentlemen, is that it\u2019s okay to leak confidential information to WikiLeaks.\u00a0 This is what this clown did.\u00a0 In fact, this is how WikiLeaks came to fame.\u00a0 This how. I mean, WikiLeaks had been there and doing what they do on a small-scale basis. But here came then, Bradley Manning, a very confused and angry member of the U.S. military and who had become a good liberal by becoming convinced the United States was the problem in the world.
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So he stole a bunch of military documents, defense department documents, government military secrets, and he gave them to Julian Assange at WikiLeaks.\u00a0 And Obama just commuted his sentence!\u00a0 Obama just pardoned a guy who committed treason by giving a bunch of data to WikiLeaks, which I guess now it\u2019s okay to have confidential information leaked to WikiLeaks.\u00a0 I guess it\u2019s perfectly fine to have WikiLeaks involved in the American judicial process.<\/p>\n

I guess it would be safe to say that Ashley… No, what is it? What is it? (interruption) Chelsea.\u00a0 (You know, I actually keep wanting to say Peyton Manning and I know it\u2019s not Peyton.)\u00a0 Chelsea Manning has hacked the pardon process.\u00a0 But, apparently, it\u2019s okay. It\u2019s okay.\u00a0 He hacked the pardon process to get a pardon.\u00a0 It\u2019s perfectly fine: Just like Putin hacked the election, Manning hacked the pardon process.\u00a0 I don\u2019t see the difference, folks.\u00a0 I really, really don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay, since I\u2019ve talked about it, this is gonna be a sound bite here on this Manning business. The Drive-Bys having trouble understandings why Obama would side with Assange on Manning and why he would pardon Manning, because that pardons WikiLeaks and the fact they love WikiLeaks, but of course WikiLeaks is a big enemy number one now.\u00a0 So we have a montage of people from CNN and a couple other places on this.\u00a0 Give a listen…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>MARK PRESTON: (outdoor noise) It\u2019s just a very bizarre situation that we\u2019re in right now.\u00a0 Democrats, who are the law-and-order party, political party when it comes to the Russians, the Republicans, when it comes to Chelsea Manning. Very bizarre.<\/p>\n

SARA MURRAY: (outdoor noise) This is a person who is not liked by many Democrats.<\/p>\n

GLORIA BORGER:\u00a0 (outdoor noise) It\u2019s quite controversial.\u00a0 A hard case for the president to make.<\/p>\n

EVAN PEREZ:\u00a0 The Obama administration has made a big deal of the fact that the WikiLeaks served as an arm of the Russian intelligence services, which stole documents from Democrats and then released them through WikiLeaks in order to harm the campaign of Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 A lot of people were surprised by this decision.<\/p>\n

GLENN GREENWALD:\u00a0 Six years later, everything is pretty much reversed.\u00a0 Democrats almost universally despise WikiLeaks, uh, and view Julian Assange as a traitor.\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot of support on the right now for WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t call it support on the right for WikiLeaks.\u00a0 The left is the focus here because all of these people in the media are exactly right; their heads are spinning.\u00a0 Because they have been conditioned, over the last year and a half, to hate WikiLeaks, to hate Julian Assange, to link him with Putin as agents of defeat for Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 But you go back, WikiLeaks used to be a hero!\u00a0 Assange was a hero, because they made it possible for this Manning character to leak American secrets, and they celebrated it all.<\/p>\n

And now here comes Obama pardoning this guy who committed treason and built WikiLeaks up, and they\u2019re confused.\u00a0 They don\u2019t know why Obama did it.\u00a0 Because this makes WikiLeaks look like an ally!\u00a0 It makes Manning look like an ally and WikiLeaks look like an ally.\u00a0 Obama\u2019s got some explaining to do.\u00a0 He is gonna explain why he did this.\u00a0 We know why he did it!\u00a0 Of course, we know why he did it.\u00a0 But he\u2019ll never say.\u00a0 I mean, whatever his explanation is is not gonna be the real reason why he did it.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is I guess it\u2019s okay to leak confidential information damaging to the United States to WikiLeaks. (phone ringing) Because we\u2019ve pardoned the guy who did it.\u00a0 (ringing) And in the same process, we\u2019ve sort of pardoned Assange, and… (ringing) Let me… Hang on.\u00a0 Let me decline that. (ringing) It\u2019s a wrong number.\u00a0 Nobody ever calls me.\u00a0 And then on the other side of this we would have to say that this guy WikiLeaks has now hacked the pardon process.\u00a0 I love it.\u00a0 I absolutely love all this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Chelsea Manning has hacked the pardon process. But, apparently, it's okay. It's okay. He hacked the pardon process to get a pardon. It's perfectly fine: Just like Putin hacked the election, Manning hacked the pardon process. I don't see the difference, folks. 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