{"id":232602,"date":"2017-05-09T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=232602"},"modified":"2017-05-10T15:55:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:55:31","slug":"yates-and-clapper-bomb-out-but-the-media-narrative-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/09\/yates-and-clapper-bomb-out-but-the-media-narrative-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Yates and Clapper Bomb Out, But the Media\u2019s Flynn Narrative Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: All right, look, folks. To be quite honest with you, this Sally Yates business and Clapper up there, it bores me. After all of this, I still don\u2019t even know what Flynn did! What is the one definitive thing that Flynn did that\u2019s causing all this? And the answer is, nobody can tell you. That\u2019s number one. Number two, she\u2019s the second… Well, not the second. She\u2019s like the fourth or fifth official (the others have been judges) to determine that what Trump\u2019s executive order wanted to do should not be done because of what Trump said during the campaign rather than what was in the executive order.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s a leftist hack, and the whole thing yesterday was a big bomb. It is amazing to me that the media — and remember (and we\u2019re gonna demo it again today) the media is running this show. I\u2019m gonna add one perspective to this, because there\u2019s some people — not many, but there are some people — emailing me that they know what I\u2019m trying to say about the media actually leading the progressive movement; Democrats are an arm of it.<\/p>\n

\"\"But they think that I\u2019m missing the fact that the Democrats don\u2019t run the show, and I want to ask you to think about it this way. I have made the point ad infinitum (or “ad infin-i-tum,” depending on how you pronounce it) that the Democrats have been losing elections left and right. It\u2019s an established fact. There\u2019s no argument about it. I\u2019ve also made the point that despite that, the left doesn\u2019t the look like it\u2019s lost anything. If you watch the news every day, you\u2019d think they\u2019re still running the show, that Trump is a pretender.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a fraud — that most people realize it and wish he was gone and have regrets and so forth. So the picture being painted every day in the Drive-By Media is that the left still dominates. They\u2019re still the majority of thinking in the country and we\u2019re somehow up against some dark forces that have thwarted them. The Democrats… I was thinking about this last night. The Democrats themselves, the elected Democrats themselves are acting like they\u2019re the minority. They are acting like losers. When they speak, when they react, they do know that they are the minority.<\/p>\n

They do know that they\u2019ve lost elections. They do know they\u2019ve lost the White House. They do know they\u2019ve lost the Senate. They do know they\u2019ve lost the House of Representatives. And if it weren\u2019t for the media carrying the water, the image every day would not be that they are dominant, that they are the majority, that they have won and Trump\u2019s a pretender. So I think it buttresses my theory even more that — take your pick — Schumer, Pelosi (chuckles) Maxine Waters (the left made her a hero, a star; it\u2019s unbelievable) no matter where you go, elected Democrats are assuming the posture of minority.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the media, my friends, which is providing the counterweight. It\u2019s the media that sets the tone, establishes the notion that they do represent a majority of thinking, they are the majority of thinking and all this other stuff. But what it relates to as far as Sally Yates is concerned, is Sally Yates did what she did when? Back in January? This is May. From January to May, apparently nobody on the left talked to Sally Yates about what she knew or about what she was gonna say.<\/p>\n

Because when they had that hearing yesterday, the media portrayed this as there was gonna be a bombshell. “We\u2019ve got a bombshell! Finally, Sally Yates is gonna show up and testify, and we\u2019re gonna get Trump. We\u2019re gonna prove the Russian connection! We\u2019re gonna prove that everything was stolen from us. Sally Yates!” Could they not determine in the five months since Sally Yates had her 10 minutes of fame, between then and now, that she didn\u2019t know anything? She had nothing to offer. There was…<\/p>\n

\"\"It was a nothing burger. There was nothing added to anything. The only real questions that were not answered was: Who\u2019s doing the unmasking. Who in the Obama apparatus is unmasking Flynn and unmasking all of these people? Who\u2019s doing the leaking that got all of this started? And right in the center of that, once again, will be the media. But I found it pleasing, very satisfying, that once again — and it happens frequently, more frequently than I think it should.<\/p>\n

The media — the Democrat media-political complex — portrayed Sally Yates\u2019 appearance yesterday as an upcoming bombshell. “We\u2019re gonna finally get to the bottom of it all! Sally Yates is the one who knows everything, and she\u2019s gonna drop the bomb.” This is kind of like lawyers granting immunity to somebody without knowing what they\u2019re gonna say, and then putting them on the stand and finding out they don\u2019t know anything or they may even be counterproductive to your case.<\/p>\n

Why in the world would they bring her up to testify if that\u2019s all she had? And the answer is so as to be able to continue this phony, false narrative, that there is no evidence for. And it was announced yesterday again. (paraphrased exchange) “Uh, General Clapper, do you have any evidence that Trump colluded with the Russian?” “Not at this time.” “Did you have any evidence last week?” “No.” “Did you have any evidence back in December?” “No.” “Have you ever had any evidence?” “No.” “Do you expect to see any evidence?”<\/p>\n