{"id":222270,"date":"2017-02-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=222270"},"modified":"2017-02-21T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T21:16:13","slug":"its-preposterous-to-think-the-russians-determined-the-outcome-of-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/02\/20\/its-preposterous-to-think-the-russians-determined-the-outcome-of-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Preposterous to Believe the Russians Determined the Outcome of the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I appeared on Fox News Sunday yesterday with Chris Wallace<\/a>. It was a 12- to 13-minute segment, and I have always suggested to the Fox people, “You know what you really ought to do is have my segment and have it go as it goes and then near the end of the program in your roundtable bring me back for the roundtable to analyze what I said. That has never been done.” And of course they\u2019ve never taken me up on it.You know what I thought I\u2019d do, I thought I\u2019d do it today right here on this program. Play the sound bites that we\u2019ve chosen from my interview with Chris Wallace and then analyze \u2019em and talk about what was good, what was only so-so, what could have been better, whether or not I disagree with what I said, today. (laughing) Anything can happen. So we\u2019re gonna do that.<\/p>\n

Media today, major theme of the program as I started separating things and organizing everything I had put together, there is a sizable media Stack<\/a> here that we\u2019re going to spend some time on as well as other substantive news. I just want to give you an example of how the media — and I\u2019m long past being mad about this, \u2019cause it\u2019s just the way they operate and nothing is going to change them. So the way we deal with this is to point out the purposeful mistakes they make — well, if they\u2019re purposeful, they\u2019re not mistakes. The purposeful things they do that occur in editing and in writing.<\/p>\n

Now, for example, yesterday, under intense grilling from Chris Wallace on Fox News I made a point. You\u2019ve heard me make it here, but I\u2019m telling you I don\u2019t see the point made on TV so I hope you don\u2019t mind that I was a bit redundant. But I think it\u2019s absurd and preposterous to assert and to believe that the Russians affected voting, that the Russians hacked the election and that meant that they changed the results.<\/p>\n

That did not happen and nobody has alleged it, but they want you to think that\u2019s what they mean when they say, “The Russians hacked the election.” The hacking, if there was any, was of computer networks, the RNC and the DNC, and the RNC, the penetration didn\u2019t work. Republicans have a lot of successful condoms on their networks, and the Russians were not able to penetrate. But the Democrats, their security had holes in it, and whoever it was (if it was the Russians) was able to hack. They got Podesta\u2019s emails.<\/p>\n

And the media is doing their best — and I, by the way, made it a point of defining “the media” yesterday on this program. Not just everybody. It\u2019s the old monopolists. When I think of Drive-By Media, it\u2019s ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times. Maybe throw USA Today in there. That\u2019s the media. It\u2019s not meant to include everybody, certainly not every blog, not every website. But those are the elements that I mean when I describe media. And the Drive-By media, clearly, in their reporting, want viewers and readers to believe that the Russians determined the results of the election.<\/p>\n

That is their mission.<\/p>\n

\"\"The point that I made yesterday was it was preposterous to assert this. It\u2019s ridiculous and absurd to think that the Russians could do it. And, by the way, folks, nobody has alleged it. And, furthermore — as I also said yesterday — the New York Times has run two stories on this whole thing (one last October, one last week) and they\u2019re essentially propaganda pieces. They\u2019re not news pieces, and in both of these pieces, both these stories — if you read deeply enough — the New York Times clearly states that none of their unnamed sources has any evidence the Russians did anything.<\/p>\n

All of this is supposition and conclusion of the nameless analysts, most of them in the deep state, working for Obama and Clinton (their holdovers in there) and those are the people talking to journalists, and that\u2019s why I say the journalists are joined the deep-state Obama operatives in trying to destroy the Trump presidency. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt that they\u2019re trying to do this. They will deny it left and right, but there\u2019s no doubt they\u2019re trying to do it. Just — and I\u2019ll tell you what: They destroyed Nixon.<\/p>\n

And ever since that they\u2019ve been trying to destroy every other Republican president. If not get them out of office, ruin their presidency. Take a look at every one of them! George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Ronaldus Magnus. Now they\u2019re trying it on Trump. They never make one move of this kind toward any Democrat president. They spike news that could harm Democrat presidents. There\u2019s no question about this. The idea, however, that the Russians affected voting? Nobody in the mainstream media is even asserting that. They wouldn\u2019t dare.<\/p>\n

So I, on Fox News Sunday, authoritatively confront them on this, and I point out that it\u2019s absurd and preposterous to think so. So here we go to The Politico. The Politico has a little brief story on this, and the headline of The Politico piece is, “Limbaugh Dismisses Russian Influence on Trump\u2019s Election as ‘Preposterous<\/a>.'” Well, yeah. I guess you could say dismissed it. It\u2019s like kind of like saying “claimed” or “concludes.” But “Limbaugh dismisses,” as though Limbaugh\u2019s out on an island all by himself that\u2019s shrinking because of climate change and Limbaugh\u2019s dismissing this. Now, here\u2019s what they write:<\/p>\n

“Rush Limbaugh says he doesn\u2019t buy the notion that Russia influenced the election of President Trump.” Not what I said. It is not what I said. Next paragraph. They quote me: “‘It is preposterous to believe the Russians had any influence on the election,\u2019 the conservative radio talk show said on Fox News Sunday.” It\u2019s not what I said. What I said was the Russians had no effect on the outcome. The Russians had nothing to do with votes. They don\u2019t even mention this in the story. So The Politico is positioning me as a contrarian.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re positioning me as saying the Russians didn\u2019t do anything, when I have acknowledged that the Russians hack, the ChiComs hack, we hack. Everybody hacks everybody; it\u2019s part of espionage. I\u2019ve never denied that. What I am authoritatively stating is that the Russians had nothing to do with who won this election. Nothing whatsoever. We\u2019ve even got polling data of voters who said that what was revealed and released in the Podesta emails was interesting but it wasn\u2019t a large factor determining who people voted for. It made for interesting news.<\/p>\n

\"\"By the way, nobody\u2019s ever denied any of the contents of the Podesta emails. Not a shred of it. Not a word of it\u2019s been denied. But it\u2019s a big leap to say “Limbaugh dismisses Russian influence” and not reference what I\u2019m actually talking about. This is how they do it. So people who didn\u2019t see the interview, read Politico: “Limbaugh Dismisses Russian Influence on Trump\u2019s Election as ‘Preposterous.'” What I said was, what I “dismissed” was that Russia determined the winner. Russia did not determine the winner of the election!<\/p>\n

And I\u2019ll tell you, this is important because that is the one thing driving everything else the media\u2019s doing. That one assumption, unstated. The media\u2019s never stated it. They leave it for you to conclude. “Russia hacked the election! Russia influenced the election!” They don\u2019t say the outcome. That\u2019s why I\u2019m challenging them on it \u2019cause they\u2019re leaving it to conclude. They\u2019re repeating over and over “Russians hacked! Russians influenced!” The Russians did not determine who won the election, but that is what is driving every bit of this.<\/p>\n

Because when you say that the outcome of the election — or when you imply the outcome of the election — was determined by the Russians, then you\u2019re halfway home to declare the Trump presidency illegitimate, the result of fraud, the result of cheating. And that then justifies everything else you do to take Trump out. If Trump benefited because the Russians helped him win, if Trump benefited because the Russians made sure Hillary lost, then that alone in the media world justifies everything else they do to destroy Trump.<\/p>\n

Because they think they\u2019re preserving democracy. No. ‘Cause all this is a joke. They know this isn\u2019t true. This is the insulting part of this. They know they\u2019re making it up. They know they\u2019re extrapolating. They know exactly what they\u2019re doing. They are misleading. They are using misdirection. They\u2019re using assumption. They\u2019re using nameless sources that supposedly are authoritative in their own right because they come from “intelligence community sources” and so forth and so on. But, you see, if Trump is not a illegitimate winner?<\/p>\n

Well, then his presidency is not legitimate, and therefore his agenda is not legitimate, and therefore his agenda ought not sail through. And therefore none of what he wants to do should happen because he wasn\u2019t really elected. And that\u2019s the foundation for everything else they\u2019re doing. It is the justification for everything else they\u2019re doing. The attacks on Trump, the attacks on Trump\u2019s supporters, the attacks on Trump\u2019s cabinet, the attacks here, the delay of Trump\u2019s cabinet. Everything! Everything that\u2019s being done to stymie and stop trump is taking place top of the foundation that it\u2019s all necessary \u2019cause Trump shouldn\u2019t have even been elected.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the great unspoken thing that is providing the fuel for every other assertion of scandal or incompetence or what have you. And that is why I tried to make a big deal out of it yesterday. And the fact that the media here — at least The Politico — did not even quote me accurately, I think makes my point and the fact I haven\u2019t seen anybody else in the media when they\u2019ve reported on this quote me accurately, either. And, by the way. I\u2019m not complaining. Don\u2019t… I\u2019m not whining. I\u2019m informing you.<\/p>\n

This is all part of the class on how to understand and analyze the media, and it is a classic teachable moment. Because if you take away the idea, if you take away the belief, if you take away the assumption, take away the conclusion — if you eliminate the fact that Trump\u2019s election was illegitimate, that Trump\u2019s victory shouldn\u2019t have happened; it was fraudulent — if you take that away, then the basis on which the media does nothing but attack and try to destroy Trump is taken away.<\/p>\n

This (that the Russians influenced the election), meaning the Russians determined that Hillary lost, that justifies whatever they need to do to get rid of Trump. And sure as shooting here comes old Carl Bernstein, the father of the reporter who called Melania Trump a hooker, is now saying that this guy\u2019s worse than Nixon. Trump\u2019s worse than Nixon. See, Watergate is it to these people. Watergate\u2019s why half the journalism business went into the business. “Wow, you mean as a journalistic destroy Republican presidents? Where do I go sign up?”<\/p>\n

That became, in the modern era, one of the things that good journalism becomes known for: taking Republican presidents out. And it has been attempted. Now, ever since 1988 when this program came along and the media had their monopoly blown up, they have been on a mission to prove that they still have the juice that they had when they were a monopoly. They\u2019re on a mission to prove they can still bend and shape public opinion and make it as easily as they did when they were a monopoly.<\/p>\n

And that has led and created this partisanship and this partisan divide that exists out there with the media now an active political player.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Steve in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey! Hi, Rush. How you doing? Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That last call I had a lump in my throat<\/a>. God bless that woman.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Isn\u2019t it amazing?<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: And thank you. You\u2019re quite a role model to help her out like that. My question to you, Rush, was basically going back to the Russians “hacking” the election — and I get confused on that. If the Russians wanted to hack the election, why did Hillary won the popular vote? I just don\u2019t understand that. If they\u2019re gonna hack something, they\u2019re gonna hack it all the way and completely wipe the slight clean and just take the whole win. Why would they let partial victory?<\/p>\n

RUSH: In fact, I made that very point in a slightly different way. I made it yesterday on TV and I\u2019ve made it here too. I pointed out that if the Russians wanted Trump to win and the Russians were hacking the election, then why did Hillary win the popular vote? If the Russians hacked the election and Hillary got more votes than Trump, why doesn\u2019t everybody run around claiming that the Russian hack succeeded? Because it comes to the Electoral College there\u2019s no way to hack that. The Electoral College and knowing what states are gonna be needed and what candidate\u2019s gonna need which states and to go out and…?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I say this whole thing and what your question is illustrate, it\u2019s impossible. It would be impossible to… You couldn\u2019t even hack the machines. The machines are not connected to the internet! But even if you did that, there is no way that anybody could — hack” is the word here, but — sabotage the outcome of casting and counting ballots in all of these different states that are relevant. The idea! That\u2019s why I say it\u2019s preposterous. It\u2019s beyond preposterous. It is insane to believe that a foreign government could actually, by virtue of technoespionage tamper with the casting and counting of ballots.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why nobody is alleging that that\u2019s what\u2019s happened. That\u2019s why they\u2019re using a linguistic ruse. They\u2019re saying Russians “hacked” the election; Russians “tampered” with the election. They want you to fill in the blank. They want you to think that means the Russians didn\u2019t want Hillary to win. They want you to believe that Trump\u2019s election is fraudulent and illegitimate — and that, again, is the founding for every other attack that comes after that. Every assault on Trump\u2019s agenda is justified by the fact the Russians tampered with the election.<\/p>\n

“Russians tampered with the election” is translated into “Trump should not have won.” That\u2019s the conclusion they want you to draw. If the Russians tampered with the election and everybody\u2019s unhappy with the outcome, it must mean everybody wanted Hillary to win and everybody expected Hillary to win, and the polls said that Hillary was gonna win and then all of a sudden Trump wins and sizably. So here comes the story: Russians tampered.<\/p>\n

We got two New York Times stories quoting unnamed sources confirming that the Russians tampered with the election. But they never say the Russians had anything to do with votes, casting \u2019em or confounding them. They want you to fill in that blank. And if they can sell that, then they can sell as justified and worthwhile every other assault on what Trump wants to do because he shouldn\u2019t be the one doing it. Therefore it\u2019s unjustified — illegal, even maybe — and unwarranted.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I did not say it\u2019s not possible to steal elections. I said that you couldn\u2019t do it by hacking. You can\u2019t hack the counting process. You can\u2019t hack with computers the voting process. You can certainly steal elections. Talk to Al Franken about it. Find votes in the trunk all of car. That\u2019s not what they\u2019re alleging with the Russians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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