{"id":253343,"date":"2017-11-02T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=253343"},"modified":"2017-11-03T16:17:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T20:17:14","slug":"weve-been-fed-a-bunch-of-fake-news-about-russian-election-meddling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/11\/02\/weve-been-fed-a-bunch-of-fake-news-about-russian-election-meddling\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Learning We\u2019ve Been Fed a Bunch of Fake News About Russian Election Meddling"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: There is also continuing testimony, which nobody is hearing about up on Capitol Hill, by the lawyers for the tech companies, Google and Facebook. In addition to what was learned yesterday that we passed on to you<\/a>, the Facebook lawyer said that the Russian involvement, the buying of ads on Facebook, that happened after the election and it was oriented toward damaging Trump. The ads that ran on Facebook happened after the election, and their purpose was to do great damage to Trump after he won, the exact opposite of what people have been told that Trump colluded with Russia in order to screw Hillary.<\/p>\n

\"\"What we\u2019re learning in this Donna Brazile book<\/a>, we are learning that it wouldn\u2019t have mattered who did what. Hillary had guaranteed that she was going to lose this race because of the rotten campaign she ran, and Donna Brazile doesn\u2019t hold back on that.<\/p>\n

Tim Cook, the Apple CEO. Now, you might be saying, “Oh, no, not Apple.” No, no. Wait. This guy issues a tweet after every public event, a terror attack, Trump pulling out of Paris, whatever, this guy issues a tweet, an official statement on his opinion of it all. And it\u2019s almost like the guy is proposing to run for president himself. And he did it again yesterday.<\/p>\n

The iPhone X is going to be released tomorrow. So the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, was on NBC Nightly News being interviewed by Lester Holt, and Lester Holt threw him a softball. (paraphrased exchange) “Look, you\u2019re a big tech company CEO. We got lawyers from Facebook and Google up there testifying. What about all this collusion? What about all these ads that were run on Facebook and Twitter designed to help Trump and hurt Hillary?”<\/p>\n

\"\"Tim Cook said, “That\u2019s irrelevant. Those ads… Those ads, they don\u2019t affect anybody. Maybe 1%. Maybe one-tenth of 1%. Those ads are irrelevant, Lester. Those ads had nothing to do with it. The real problem,” he said, “is the fake news that is dividing our country, the fake news that is manipulating people and dividing our country.” Now, the second part of that we\u2019ll deal with later. The first part: Here is yet another tech titan saying that the conventional wisdom that Russians were running ads on social media to hurt Hillary and push Trump were worthless.<\/p>\n

Irrelevant, meaningless, and didn\u2019t have any impact whatsoever. Then there\u2019s additional… Remember all of the protests against Trump after the election. We have learned something else: A story that Twitter hid almost half the tweets about the DNC and the Podesta emails that WikiLeaks posted for the last two weeks of the campaign. We have news today that the supposedly Russian ads that were bought on social media…<\/p>\n

Do you know what they actually did? They were promoting anti-Trump rallies such as the giant one right after the election at Union Square New York City. What we have learned today is that those ads that Russia was running were responsible for the turnout of all of the anti-Trump protests in New York City and elsewhere after the election. Now, I remember after the election the immediate aftermath… Remember all of those protests everywhere?<\/p>\n

They were all over New York City, various neighborhoods of New York City, all over San Francisco, all over Chicago. Massive protests. Philadelphia. The Drive-Bys were all over it, and I remember telling you at the time, “Folks, this is bought and paid for. This is too coordinated.” I suspected George Soros. “But this is just… This does not seem spontaneous,” and then when the travel ban was announced, the first one, and we had massive protests after the travel ban, I suspected the same thing.<\/p>\n

I said, “These are a bunch of bought-and-paid for protesters sitting around waiting for the ‘go\u2019 phone call.” Well, it turns out that was right! All of these protests were organized on social media. News today that the Russians bought ads, even promoted anti-Trump rallies such as the giant one right after the election. But there\u2019s more. The AP reported today<\/a> — and I quote — “The hackers who upended the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, U.S. defense contractors and thousands of others of interest to the Kremlin…”<\/p>\n

The AP even supplied a list of those people that were hacked, including John Kerry, Colin Powell, Wesley Clark and even an emissary for the pope. These hacking and phishing attacks started years ago, and they hit all kinds of people, all of which undermines a carefully crafted narrative that the Russians have been doing all of this meddling just to help defeat Hillary. This has been going on for years, which people have said. The Russians have been trying to meddle.<\/p>\n

Anyway, all of this news is being discovered while people are focused on Mueller, people are focused on the terrorists attack, people are focused on the tax proposal… Whatever it is, this stuff is not being reported, which is why I\u2019m spending time here at the beginning of the program to lay it all out for you.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: When I say, “These supposedly Russian-bought ads,” it\u2019s because we don\u2019t know! These ads on social media that created, that organized, that promoted all of these anti-Trump protests after the election? There were ads on social media organizing these protests. We assume they were Russian bought, but we don\u2019t know. So it could well be George Soros. It could well be any number of people.<\/p>\n

\"\"The point is that we have learned today, via the AP, that none of this was genuine. I mean, some of the people that showed up to protest might have literally been angry. But they didn\u2019t show up out of self-motivation. It was something that was organized, and it was made to appear generic. It was made to appear as though everybody who showed up was individually angry over the outcome of the election. The bottom line, folks, is that I think it\u2019s safe to say that a majority of the anti-Trump news that we have all seen since the election and…<\/p>\n

Well, even before, obviously. But I\u2019m just speaking about the stuff afterwards. I shudder to think how much of it is genuinely fake, how many of it is all part of a campaign that the media is part of, that they are complicit in — and all of this is reported as though it\u2019s real news. I keep using this example because it works: The Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Remember the media coverage of that, the universal outrage made to look like people all over this country were fed up and hated Indiana and hated Mike Pence and thought that was the absolute worst thing?<\/p>\n

That was manufactured. All that hate supposedly and all that energy, anti-sentiment toward Indiana? It was all ginned up and made up, and a lot of this Trump stuff is the same thing. It\u2019s all manufactured and made up. I don\u2019t doubt that an element of it is true, but the size of the supposed group of people that are angry and the organization they have, it\u2019s all concocted, just like the Trump rallies during the campaign. Those were bought and paid for. We know that.<\/p>\n

A guy named Robert Creamer working for Hillary in the DNC organized those anti-Trump rallies and hired people<\/a>, and he was caught on hidden video. It\u2019s important to keep reminding people of this, because to this day we\u2019re still affected by this. They get away with manufacturing narratives, manufacturing massive displays of public protest, massive displays of people supposedly who hate Trump, don\u2019t want Trump, are angry with Trump. It\u2019s way blown out of proportion to what\u2019s real.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is last night on the Nightly News, the Apple CEO. Now, this is not about Apple; it\u2019s not about the iPhone. This guy is showing up and tweeting every time there\u2019s any kind of a public issue and laying down his opinion on it — and he is a classic civil rights, human rights, extreme radical leftist, okay? ‘Cause he thinks that\u2019s what America is. So Lester Holt talks to him about social media companies being a little late to acknowledge how they were used by those trying to influence the election: The Russians.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s what this Capitol Hill hearing stuff is all about, and Lester is part of the Drive-By Media cabal that\u2019s totally misinformed and uninformed. He doesn\u2019t even know what they\u2019re testifying to up there. Facebook and Twitter officials, Google lawyers are all saying the Russian involvement was scant, it was minuscule, and it happened after the election! But old Lester thinks that they\u2019re up there providing evidence that Trump and Russia colluded!<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s only a matter of time before Mueller zeros in on it. Ken Starr, by the way, who the Clintons turned into a sex pervert selling cigarettes to your kids during the Monica Lewinsky investigation… Ken Starr says that Mueller is actually investigating the Clinton campaign now, that that\u2019s where this investigation is taking him, which I found it interesting sidelight. Anyway, here\u2019s Tim Cook talking to Lester Holt about Russian use of social media to elect Trump.<\/p>\n