{"id":236535,"date":"2017-06-12T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=236535"},"modified":"2017-06-13T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T19:54:06","slug":"dan-rather-wanders-into-a-tv-studio-looking-for-a-national-guard-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/06\/12\/dan-rather-wanders-into-a-tv-studio-looking-for-a-national-guard-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Rather Wanders Into a TV Studio Looking for a National Guard Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Speaking of relics, Dan Rather was in Manhattan on Monday night. He was wandering around. I think that he was looking for a National Guard office. I think he\u2019s still following leads on the George W. Bush story. He ended up at a TV network, and they were so excited to see him at the TV network that they put him on the air. It was Friday night. They were ecstatic! Here\u2019s Dan Rather wandering the streets of Manhattan looking for a National Guard office, and he wanders into a TV network\/cable news network. They put him on the air, and they asked a couple of questions.<\/p>\n<p>The first question: &#8220;Is it a big enough scandal that there\u2019s uncertainty about the future of this presidency and our political volatility as a country?&#8221; Does that question make any sense to any of you? I\u2019ll read it again: &#8220;Is it a big enough scandal that there\u2019s uncertainty about the future of this presidency and our political volatility as a country?&#8221; This is a question wandering aimlessly in search of common sense. Anyway, it must have made sense to Rather, because while looking for a National Guard office and instead stumbling into a TV network, he answered.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Jy8YRNo_Y4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RATHER: Your question was are we in a situation in real peril. I would say the Trump presidency is in peril &#8212; and because it\u2019s in peril, we are in some danger ourselves, because there\u2019s a lot that needs to be done in the country. But, you know, there\u2019s so much talk about Trump and Comey who\u2019s telling the truth and isn\u2019t telling the truth. I think it\u2019s really important for Americans to understand the big question and how this all started and how it&#8230; Really, the direction it should go. The question is: What did the Russians do? Because here you have a situation, the Russians pulled off what I call a psychological Pearl Harbor &#8212; a surprise attack that was devastating to the confidence of our whole system of elections and therefore our whole system of government.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Do you believe this? They can\u2019t let go of it. Comey admitted that he told Trump three times Trump was not a target. They\u2019ve moved on from the collusion. There isn\u2019t any evidence. Nobody has any. There won\u2019t be any. The Russians didn\u2019t collude with anybody to affect the outcome of the election. They didn\u2019t tamper with vote machines. The Democrats in the media have even let go of that. They have now moved on to obstruction of justice as a means of getting Trump. But here\u2019s Dan Rather saying the Russians tampering with our election is the equivalent of &#8220;a psychological Pearl Harbor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. So here\u2019s the next question for Dan Rather Friday night. &#8220;Okay, you look at recent history, Dan. You see Russia do the same thing to small countries and other countries in their geographic, ideological orbit &#8212; you know, former Soviet states, small countries on their borders. But it was a shock and it was a surprise to us because we thought, &#8216;Hey, we think of ourselves as a country that\u2019s protected by our oceans. But also we think of ourselves as the great power in the world, as the sole surviving superpower in the world, someone who would never be susceptible to the kind of tactics that would work against these smaller countries that Russia has been influencing.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-236555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-061217-Rather.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-061217-Rather.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-061217-Rather-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>RATHER: If they tried it, it wouldn\u2019t work against us. In our hubris &#8212; if you want to use that word &#8212; we were too confident. We were over confident. &#8220;Listen, the Russians ever tried that here; it never would work in America.&#8221; Well, it worked, as I say, to devastating, if not catastrophic, and I called it &#8220;a psychological Pearl Harbor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This has gotten so far out of hand. You know, the question here, if I may translate: &#8220;Dan, we\u2019re the lone superpower in the world. We\u2019re so big, the Russians would never penetrate here. It could never happen. It happens to all these smaller countries that the Russians bully and so forth but it would never happen to us.&#8221; And Rather said, &#8220;Yeah, you would think that. You would think that. But no, it was the Pearl Harbor, the psychological Pearl Harbor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what it is, ignorance or if it\u2019s just stupidity. But the idea that these people don\u2019t have any idea what the intelligence community actually does all day when they\u2019re doing their job? The Russians have been infiltrating all levels of American society for decades. This isn\u2019t anything new. The fact that they are constantly trying to do this? So are the Chinese, and so are the North Koreans and so are the Israelis are constantly trying to spy on us, and vice-versa. It isn\u2019t anything new.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Speaking about foreign countries and their intelligence agencies hacking the United States, do you remember the Office of Personnel Management, OPM? The Office of Personnel Management is basically the agency that handles compensation for federal employees. It\u2019s the human resources division, if you will. It does a lot of things. In fact, it was the OPM that Obama used to cover every federal worker with Obamacare. When Obamacare was originally written, federal workers were not automatically covered by it, and a bunch of them raised hell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/health-care-reform\/report\/the-office-personnel-management-power-player-americas-health-insurance\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-236590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ObamacareCapitol3Reid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ObamacareCapitol3Reid.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ObamacareCapitol3Reid-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a>A bunch of federal workers, government workers claimed they couldn\u2019t afford it. They couldn\u2019t afford the premiums. They raised holy hell. So Obama maneuvered them over to the Office of Personnel Management because he had some &#8220;funding,&#8221; shall we say, opportunities there, and that\u2019s where federal workers ended up being granted their coverage under Obamacare. It\u2019s different from the House and Senate. They have a whole different arrangement. They are exempted in total (snorts) from Obamacare. But, anyway, that\u2019s who the Office of Personnel Management is.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese successfully hacked 22 million personnel files there during the Obama administration, and it made news, but that was about it. There wasn\u2019t a big kerfuffle over it. There wasn\u2019t any outrage. There wasn\u2019t any allegation that Obama might have colluded with the ChiComs to help them hack 22 million people and their privacy and their personal records. The Chinese easily hacked the Office of Personnel Management. This happens all the time. Now, I don\u2019t know if in the case of your average cable news anchor on analyst, your average journalist out there or your average Democrat, they know.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what this. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s ignorance or stupidity or if they\u2019re acting when they act outraged that the Russians, for the first time ever, managed to find their way into an American election. The Russians are constantly attempting to infiltrate and have succeeded. Why do you think there\u2019s so many leftist college professors in America? Soviet infiltration, communist infiltration. They have succeeded. They\u2019re all over the place. This is not conspiracy talk. It\u2019s not even arguable. It\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thirty years ago, if you talked like this they would accuse you of being a conspiracy kook. But it is one of the most effective infiltration programs any nation has ever run. And they\u2019ve succeeded wildly. Even after the Berlin Wall fell, the Russians didn\u2019t go away. The idea that the Russians successfully hacked an election? I just&#8230; It frustrates me to no end because as I say I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re being stupid, genuinely stupid (which is a problem), if they\u2019re ignorant (which is an equal problem), or if they all know this is BS and are just acting it.<\/p>\n<p>But either way, it\u2019s disingenuous, and it\u2019s creating a picture that is totally fake and totally phony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here&#039;s Dan Rather saying the Russians tampering with our election is the equivalent of &quot;a psychological Pearl Harbor.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dan Rather Wanders Into a TV Studio Looking for a National Guard Office - 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