{"id":235928,"date":"2017-06-07T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=235928"},"modified":"2017-06-08T16:22:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T20:22:01","slug":"drive-bys-hype-comey-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/06\/07\/drive-bys-hype-comey-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-Bys Hype Comey Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Okay, Comey. Congressional hearings. If I\u2019m not mistaken — and this is just a sense — for the past couple of days — well, actually it\u2019s been longer than that — the media has been unable to contain itself with its anticipation and excitement. It\u2019s almost like kids on Christmas Eve and through the whole month of December. So excited. So hyped up, so amped up, so eager to see what new cool presents are gonna be under the tree. They\u2019ve done this with Sally Yates, previous Comey testimony, John Brennan.<\/p>\n

There has been an endless parade of Obama-era embeds that have been called to testify before the Senate and House intelligence committees, and every one of these witnesses has been expected to blow up the Trump presidency. Every one of them has been expected and it has been widely hoped that they contain the bombshell news that will blow up the Trump administration and forever prove that Trump worked with the Russians to sabotage the Hillary campaign and win the presidency.<\/p>\n

\"\"And since nobody has offered anything like that — now, see, I\u2019m reminded of something I want to say here, and it\u2019s a little bit off point. I referenced something yesterday. When this NSA leaked document from Serenity Fields — what is her name again? Yeah. Why do I have a name block? Yeah, but I\u2019m a broadcast professional. I ought not have a block on remembering this name. Reality Fields? Reality Winner. Why do I think it\u2019s Serenity somewhere? I\u2019m not thinking of serenity anything. I can\u2019t remember this babe\u2019s name. I need to just scribble it in front of me.<\/p>\n

At any rate, when we discussed this yesterday, I referenced something, because something really struck me. Didn\u2019t Obama assure us a couple of times in 2016, both before the election and after it, that nothing of the sort could happen. It was Obama who told us that there was no way the Russians or anybody outside could tamper with the actual process of casting and counting votes. Obama also told us that he called Vladimir Putin and told him to cut it out back in March and that Putin was scared. And when Obama told him to cut out, that Putin did cut it out.<\/p>\n

Then this document comes along and indicates the Russians were in fact attempting to hack into voter databases. I think it\u2019s targeting voter registration. Anyway, all of this Obama assured the country it couldn\u2019t happen. And now today people are writing about that and remembering it as I did. The reason to me that it\u2019s important, Obama said it twice at least in 2016. He said it once before the election.<\/p>\n

Now, in that instance it would make sense that Obama would pooh-pooh any idea of the Russians affecting it because they all thought Hillary was gonna win in a landslide. And so there would be nothing in it for them to start kowtowing and bellyaching, complaining about Russian involvement. They wouldn\u2019t want anybody thinking Hillary\u2019s win was tainted. So whenever the subject came up, Obama just blew it away. “No, no, no, it\u2019s not possible. I\u2019ve talked to Vladimir about it. I told him to cut it out.”<\/p>\n

Then he talked about it, he said the same thing after the election, in December, during the Trump transition period when everybody was all hepped up about Flynn and all this other stuff, Obama assured everybody this wasn\u2019t possible. Now, at that point it would have been advantageous to allude to possible Russian involvement because they were trying to make that case in the American people\u2019s public mind.<\/p>\n

\"\"But now this document comes along and contradicts what Obama told us. So the question arises, did Obama lie? Was Obama lying to us? If so, why? Did Obama not know? Anyway, the anticipation for Comey is building, because whatever has happened, there isn\u2019t enough to go anywhere near proof. There just isn\u2019t any evidence. Even this leaked NSA document that was reported on yesterday is not evidence.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t any evidence that Trump or his people worked with the Russians to screw Hillary out of the presidency. There just isn\u2019t. And yet every new witness that troops up there, the media cannot contain themselves. And they are convinced that every new witness is gonna come up with the bombshell. And Comey is due tomorrow. And the networks all over the world are brooming regularly scheduled programming in order to cover the Comey testimony live. They\u2019re brooming everything. I think in even some countries they\u2019re brooming coverage of soccer. You do not know how big that is.<\/p>\n

You think preempting The Guiding Light is bad. When they preempt soccer over there, that means they really think that it is big and they are preparing to do this all over the world. Since expectations have been built, Democrats are trying to walk back Trump being impeached because their left-wing lunatic bases have been led to expect it.<\/p>\n

Same thing\u2019s happening here. They\u2019re getting worried. What if Comey doesn\u2019t have a bombshell? What if Comey doesn\u2019t say Trump asked him to impede the investigation? What if Comey doesn\u2019t say what we\u2019ve been led to believe Comey is gonna say? So Comey and the media are trying to dial down expectations for the Comey testimony, even while they\u2019re hyping it.<\/p>\n

\"\"They\u2019ve got these countdowns. Look at CNN: 20 hours, 15 minutes, 57 seconds. Stupid countdown clocks. Fox has got one. The Comey hearing: 21 hours, 15 minutes, 28 seconds. It\u2019s ridiculous. I mean, if we don\u2019t see the countdown clock, we won\u2019t know when the testimony is. So while they\u2019re tamping down expectations, they\u2019re dialing them up and hyping it with all these countdown clocks.<\/p>\n

Now, ABC and CNN and the AP are all now saying that Comey is not going to say that Trump tried to obstruct justice. So why is he up there? I know. This is what the media wanted him to say. The media all wanted Comey to say that Trump tried to obstruct him and thus obstruct justice. But this is what I mean about trying to tamp down expectations because they put it out there that Comey is not going to say that.<\/p>\n

xIs Comey worried about anything? I mean, the media\u2019s practically promised to make him the hero of the century if he\u2019ll just nail Trump. The media has let it be known, they\u2019ll look past whatever Comey does. If it crosses the line, they\u2019ll ignore it. They\u2019ll celebrate Comey as the hero of our generation if he\u2019ll just nail Trump. And yet Comey\u2019s still backing away from it, via his surrogates.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You may not know this. Just three days ago James Comey refused to answer any of the questions submitted to him by both Democrats and Republican senators in written form before his hearing scheduled for tomorrow. And there wasn\u2019t any outrage from the senators or the media when Comey refused. He was asked seven very straightforward questions about who he had discussed things with and his memos. He refused to answer a single one of them. We still have no real evidence that there are any Comey memos, for example.<\/p>\n

And so ABC News has been reporting that Comey is not going to say that Trump impeded the investigation. Now, I don\u2019t doubt that Comey is going to say things that will imply that Trump made him nervous, that he didn\u2019t feel comfortable being alone in the same room with Trump. I can see how that would go. You know, you\u2019ve seen the story already that Comey has reportedly said to somebody, “Don\u2019t leave me in the room alone with him.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Well, who knows what that\u2019s about, but I can tell you how it\u2019s gonna be conveyed. Comey was so afraid that Trump was gonna pressure him. Comey was so afraid he was gonna be challenged. Comey did not want to enter that room, he did not want to undergo the intense pressure of the president to compromise, even though nobody knows that was what was gonna happen. It was all made up. These people have built up expectations for Trump being impeached. They have built up expectations that there is voluminous evidence that Trump conspired with the Russians. And there isn\u2019t any.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fascinating, actually. There\u2019s not a morsel, there\u2019s not a shred of evidence anywhere that any of these things that have been alleged happened. It doesn\u2019t matter. They\u2019re not gonna let this go. They\u2019re not gonna let this go to the midterms of 2018. This is their campaign issue, that they were robbed in 2016. It was Jeff Sessions, supposedly, that Comey said, “Don\u2019t leave me alone with him in that room!” The source for this is anonymous too. We don\u2019t know who it is that reported this to the Drive-Bys. That Comey supposedly said to Jeff Sessions, “Don\u2019t leave me alone with him, no, no, no.”<\/p>\n

Get this, folks. Washington, D.C., bars, places that dispense adult beverages, are opening early tomorrow for the Comey televised testimony. I\u2019m not kidding you here. Some Washington, D.C., bars are going to open at 9 a.m. tomorrow in order to host viewing parties. They\u2019re gonna have food. They\u2019re gonna have adult beverages. They\u2019re probably gonna have pinatas, pin the tail on the donkey, dartboards, whatever else. They are recruiting and inviting customers to come in and consume adult beverages at 9 a.m. as the Comey testimony. This Super Bowl of politics is how this is being hyped, set up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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