{"id":237932,"date":"2017-06-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=237932"},"modified":"2017-06-22T16:44:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T20:44:44","slug":"cnn-stuck-chasing-russian-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/06\/21\/cnn-stuck-chasing-russian-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Stuck Chasing Russian Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Yeah, okay, in light of last year\u2019s election, I\u2019m watching CNN right now, and they cannot let go of this Russia thing. Jeh Johnson showed up today to another House committee, and he testified (paraphrasing) “Yep, there\u2019s no evidence. The voting had no changes to it. The Russians did not change, tamper with, or affect the voting in any way. Not the casting of ballots, not the counting of ballots.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, in the real world with rational people, that would end this. The whole quest here has been to prove to people — by the way, which people? To whom are they trying to prove this? I mean, the media and the Democrats. They\u2019ve been trying to prove that Trump\u2019s election was illegitimate, the result of Russian cheating and that Trump colluded. No evidence for over a year. It did not happen. And they admit that that didn\u2019t happen. And yet there\u2019s a graphic, “Jeh Johnson: Russians definitely attacked U.S. elections last year.”<\/p>\n

Wait a minute.<\/p>\n

Do these people not realize they are dangerously close here to journalistic malpractice? This is part of the reason why their voters, Democrat voters are going insane. For a year they have been told Trump\u2019s election\u2019s illegitimate. Well, since November. They have been told the Trump campaign was illegitimate for a year. So eight months, Trump\u2019s election illegitimate. In these eight months there hasn\u2019t been a shred of evidence to prove that there was any collusion at all. In fact, there\u2019s no evidence that the election was affected in any way, the votes, and that\u2019s the election, affected in any way.<\/p>\n

And yet they keep looking at, and they\u2019ve got a guy from the Obama administration, Jeh Johnson, comes up there today says, “No question the Russians attacked our election.” Wait a minute. He just said this morning that there\u2019s zip, zero, nada evidence of tampering with votes, with ballots, casting or counting, and yet there is CNN quoting him as saying, “No question the Russians attacked our election.”<\/p>\n

If I were a Democrat voter, if I were a CNN viewer, and I bought into all this, I would be going crazy about now. I tune in every day waiting for the bombshell. I tune in every day, I tune in to MSNBC, I open the New York Times and the Washington Post, I read my local paper, I\u2019m turning every page, I\u2019m looking at Web pages, I\u2019m trying to find it, every day I just know that they\u2019re gonna get the evidence that Trump cheated and that Hillary should be president. And every day they get no closer to that than they were the day before, than they were eight months ago.<\/p>\n

\"\"They keep doing hearings. They keep doing testimony. They keep reporting leaks from faceless, nameless people. And every day the readers and the viewers of these networks are desperately searching for the bombshell. And with each new day of testimony and each new witness, it is felt without doubt that that bombshell is coming, and every time there\u2019s no bombshell. And it happened again today. Yet another former Obamaite: No way the Russians affected our election, they did not tamper with the votes, there\u2019s not a shred of evidence.<\/p>\n

And in the next breath, the guy says, “There\u2019s no question the Russians attacked our elections.” Now, what he means is cyber attacks. What they\u2019re trying to go for here, folks, is really, really in the weeds. What they\u2019re now trying to say is that the Russian cyber attacks, the leaking of Podesta\u2019s emails and all of this other stuff then created false news. Voters were fooled because of Russian hacking, and voters were tricked into not voting for Hillary because of Russian hacking. They can\u2019t prove the voted was hacked and tampered with so what they\u2019re now trying to say is that Russian hackery resulted in people being misinformed, voters! And because of this misinformation, they elected Trump!<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not what your CNN viewer wants to hear, and that\u2019s not what your New York Times reader wants to hear. Your CNN viewer, your New York Times reader is about going insane right now because it\u2019s been eight months, and the promise has been there every day, and they want the news, they want the data that Trump cheated. They want Trump frog-marched into jail. They want Hillary put in the White House. And every day that doesn\u2019t happen, the insane asylums need to start building new wings to house all the new residents.<\/p>\n

This is journalistic malpractice what these people are doing here. “There\u2019s no way the Russians tampered with our vote process. There\u2019s no way, it didn\u2019t happen, there\u2019s no evidence, nobody\u2019s seen any.” In the next breath, “There\u2019s no question the Russians hacked our election.” They\u2019re driving people crazy. And in the process they are positioning themselves so far out of the American mainstream. It\u2019s no wonder they can\u2019t win elections. It\u2019s no wonder they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. It\u2019s no wonder they are so filled with entitlement to power.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear to me now, you know, this headline, “$23 Million Loss Shows Dems Have No Idea How to Win in the Age of Trump<\/a>.” You know why? You know what that means? The media hasn\u2019t found a way to destroy Trump. When the media can\u2019t destroy the Republican, the Democrats can\u2019t win. The Democrats can only win when the media can destroy the Republican, like they did Mitt Romney and like they tried to George W. Bush and finally did destroy him, too late, though. It was after he had been reelected in 2004. They tried to destroy George H. W. Bush. They tried to destroy Ronaldus Magnus.<\/p>\n

They haven\u2019t been able to destroy Trump, and they have shot every weapon they have at him. They\u2019ve had to go to the nuclear arsenal, and that hasn\u2019t had any effect on Trump. No wonder they\u2019re going nuts. And when they can\u2019t destroy the character or the reputation of a Republican opponent, they can\u2019t win. I\u2019m talking about national presidential races. They\u2019re lost. No idea how to win in the age of Trump.<\/p>\n

\"\"What is the age of Trump? Well, the Republicans swerved into nominating a guy who can\u2019t be destroyed by the usual playbook of the Democrat Party. By the way, this is not to any special credit of the Republicans. They happen to be hapless recipients and beneficiaries of whatever Trump is. But the Democrats are totally lost. The media, can you imagine the powerlessness they\u2019re feeling? Can you imagine the powerlessness they\u2019re questioning? I mean, they\u2019re able to destroy whoever they want in the drop of a hat. They haven\u2019t been able to do it.<\/p>\n

But this that I\u2019m seeing today, “Russian hackers potentially targeted 21 states.” They can\u2019t let it go. They just can\u2019t let it go. And there\u2019s no “there” there. By the way, when it comes to hacking state elections, it was Obama, my friends, that did it. I hate to tell you. It was the NSA going after states like Indiana, which would not allow — Obama and his regime wanted to have control over state elections. It\u2019s unconstitutional, they made a move. Twenty-one states refused the entreaties of the Obama administration desire to have some control over state elections or the elections, period. And all of those states experienced hacks by the NSA, not the Russians. We had the story three or four weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Now Russian hackers potentially targeted 21 states. It\u2019s becoming pathetic. And if you put yourself in the shoes of your average CNN voter, New York Times reader, you can understand why they might be thinking about going and getting a gun. I\u2019m just kidding, but they\u2019re driving \u2019em crazy, Mr. Snerdley. They\u2019re building up these expectations. Every day they\u2019re building up expectations that there is evidence that Trump cheated with Putin! And that they\u2019re on the verge of producing that evidence, and every day there isn\u2019t any.<\/p>\n

Imagine if your parents told you Santa Claus was coming tomorrow morning for six straight months and there was nothing there but a bunch of coal when you got up every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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