{"id":221866,"date":"2017-02-16T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=221866"},"modified":"2017-02-17T16:47:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T21:47:01","slug":"the-new-york-times-quotes-me-but-leaves-out-what-i-was-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/02\/16\/the-new-york-times-quotes-me-but-leaves-out-what-i-was-talking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Quotes Me But Leaves Out What I Was Talking About"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The New York Times had a story that ran I guess it was yesterday or maybe last night. I heard about it last night. “Conservative Talk Radio Stands by Trump Despite Turmoil.<\/a>” I didn\u2019t see the story. Snerdley sent it to me. “Between the resignation of his national security adviser and the revelation that his campaign aides and other associates had repeated contacts with Russian intelligence officials, it has been a tough week for President Trump.<\/p>\n

“But if his supporters on the right were beginning to doubt him, there was no sign of it on conservative talk radio, where Mr. Trump\u2019s contention that he was a victim of leaks and entrenched Washington insiders lit up phone lines around the country.” Then this. They quote me, but it\u2019s a selective quote and they leave out the crucial thing in it<\/a>, and that is what I was talking about! Here\u2019s the quote that they published: “‘There is no evidence for the primary assertion that is driving this entire attack on Trump,\u2019 Rush Limbaugh, the prominent … radio host, said …<\/p>\n

“‘This attack is coming from the shadows of the deep state, where former Obama employees remain in the intelligence community.\u2019 In another accusation, [Limbaugh] said, ‘They are lying about things, hoping to make it easier for them and the Obama shadow government to eventually get rid of Trump and everybody in his administration,'” and that\u2019s it. So they quote me saying, “There is no evidence for the primary assertion that is driving this,” but they never mention what I identify as “the primary assertion.”<\/p>\n

So the reader is left to assume — and how many people reading this stuff actually stop and ask, “Well, what\u2019s ‘the primary assertion\u2019?” They\u2019re just gonna read it and absorb it — absorb it. “There is no evidence for the primary assertion that is driving this entire attack on Trump.” So the reader is free to fill in the blank whatever they think “the primary assertion” is. What I was talking about is this. This is a purposeful omission. It has to be purposeful. The primary assertion that I dispute is that the Russians and Trump hacked the election causing Hillary to lose.<\/p>\n

That is a fraudulent, phony assertion.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no evidence, there has never been any evidence.<\/p>\n

\"\"They have looked. It turns out Obama has been investigating Trump since before the election on this stuff! Why, by the way, was he doing that, if they thought Hillary was gonna win in a landslide? Why were they investigating Trump? But they were! We\u2019ve learned that in a news story. Obama was investigating Trump and ties to the Russians as far back as early October! The point I made yesterday was: There is no evidence. The primary thing that fuels this — the energy that\u2019s fueling all of this stuff on Flynn — is that the Russians hacked the election and cheated and determined the outcome guaranteeing that Hillary lost.<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s kind of important, New York Times, if you\u2019re gonna quote me, to put what I\u2019m talking about in the quote.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jeff in Kansas City. Welcome, Jeff. Great to have you. How are you doing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m fantastic, Rush. Thanks for takin\u2019 the call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve spent a lot of years listening.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, just telling… You were talking earlier about how you were quoted in the press in regard to them not having any evidence against Flynn in regard to calls that he had made. I think the one important thing you missed was that they also did not point out that you were quoting the New York Times when you did that.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: That\u2019s an excellent point. That is a superb point. He\u2019s exactly right. What he\u2019s talking about… Thank you, Jeff. I\u2019m being short here \u2019cause Trump may come out at any moment. The New York Times has a story, “Conservative Talk Radio Stands by Trump Despite Turmoil,” as though we\u2019re it. Trump\u2019s got nobody else but me and a couple other hosts. That\u2019s it. Everybody\u2019s abandoned Trump. Trump\u2019s got nobody left — except, of course, me. Damn it.<\/p>\n

And then they quote me as saying, “There is no evidence for the primary assertion that is driving this entire attack on Trump. This attack is coming from the shadows of the deep state, where former Obama employees remain in the intelligence community.” They never identified what I was talking about. What I was talking about was this idiotic assertion that the Russians and Trump worked together to hack the election, guaranteeing that Hillary would lose. Jeff\u2019s point is, that\u2019s the New York Times story. It\u2019s the New York Times story that I was objecting to and disagreeing with and blowing up.<\/p>\n

And they quote me talking about it, but they never mention I\u2019m reporting on their story, commenting on their story — and they left out the central thing I was talking about. When I say, “There\u2019s no evidence for the primary assertion driving this entire attack on Trump,” they don\u2019t identify what I was talking about. So whoever reads this really doesn\u2019t know what I was talking about. I was talking about “the primary assertion” in all of this investigating going on — the excuse for all of this — is that the Russians hacked the election and that Trump was working with them, and they\u2019ve been investigating this maybe since before October.<\/p>\n

And so I\u2019m gonna ask my question again. All of this time, October, early part of November, September, they thought Hillary was gonna win. They had their own polls. They believed every poll that they produced that showed Hillary was up by five, up by six. They were ignoring every bit of evidence that Trump was doing well, and they literally thought this election — even nine o\u2019clock on election night they still thought and Hillary thought she was gonna win.<\/p>\n

So in the midst of this confidence they\u2019re gonna win the election, why in the world were they investigating Trump? What is the point? There has to be a reason why they were doing it, and I\u2019ll… The fact that they\u2019re liberals and they want to destroy political opponents, that\u2019s a big factor. Investigating Trump and coming up with something to ruin him sends a signal to any other Republican or anybody else that might someday think about running against the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

Here is Josh in Brick, New Jersey. Hey, Josh, I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thank you for taking my call. I have a quick question for you. You said during the transition that we\u2019re living in very precarious times and Trump can\u2019t go out and knock Obama personally. Now with all that\u2019s been revealed and as you\u2019ve pointed out this Obama shadow government — which is beyond leaks; it\u2019s deeper than that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — do you believe it\u2019s time for Trump to take off the gloves and go after Obama personally?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not until they can actually find Obama fingerprints. You know it\u2019s Obama, you know that he\u2019s there, you know that he\u2019s got these 250 organizations, you know George Soros. But if you\u2019re gonna do that, that\u2019s akin to going after the king. Not that Obama\u2019s still president, but you\u2019re going after the guy running the Democrat Party. You better be able to have without doubt evidence. You better have conclusive evidence. There\u2019s another way of doing it, though, without doing it that way. But the one thing…<\/p>\n

My buddy Andy McCarthy of National Review<\/a> wrote a huge piece that has a central theme, and it is this: That Trump should release the transcript of the phone call between Flynn and the Russian ambassador. ‘Cause I\u2019ve got two more stories here today at the top of my Stack, of the Flynn Stack — two more stories, NBC and NPR — both quoting intelligence officials admitting they have no evidence to support the “fact” that Trump was working with the Russians. They have no evidence that the election was actually hacked.<\/p>\n

They have evidence that the Russians were trying, they have evidence that the Russians were meddling, but they don\u2019t have any evidence that the Russians had anything to do with the outcome of the election, and they don\u2019t have any evidence. And they\u2019ve heard the call. Officials who have heard the call, according to NPR and NBC, are saying that there is no evidence that Flynn discussed the lifting of sanctions. It\u2019s not even clear who made the call. Some say that the Russian ambassador made the call. NSA was monitoring him \u2019cause these are the Russians; the NSA monitors our enemies.<\/p>\n

I mean, they\u2019re tapping and monitoring his phone calls, and that\u2019s how they heard about this, and what it looks like is that the Russian ambassador kept bringing things up and Flynn didn\u2019t commit to anything. But they were able to say Flynn was “discussing” with the Russian ambassador. This whole thing, folks, is just dirty, filthy. But they own the narrative on it. They\u2019ve been able to create this narrative, but now in the aftermath, here come these two news reports: No evidence that this happened. No evidence here.<\/p>\n

Release that tape!<\/p>\n

If they release the transcript of that tape and everybody can read it and hear it and discover that there was none of what has been alleged, that would be the same as exposing, not maybe Obama, but the shadow government, people that are out there doing what they can to undermine Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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