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RUSH: You know, that has the makings of an actually quite good question. What do you think the answer is? Because there is an answer to that.<\/p>\nRUSH: Cedar Rapids. This is Ken. It\u2019s great to have you, and I appreciate your patience. How you doing?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush, great to talk to you. Three generations of my family have been listening to your show, so very cool here. I\u2019m just confused, Rush, on the establishment Republicans and Mitch McConnell\u2019s play on Roy Moore. I mean, what is he doing? If it\u2019s like the Franken situation and the worst-case scenario is, you know, they boot Franken and the governor appoints a new Democrat, how is that any different with Roy Moore? Why are we risking a write-in, you know, campaign or something of that nature when we could just let Roy in, let the people of Alabama have their say, and do an investigation? If he\u2019s a creep, boot him and the governor puts in a new Republican. It doesn\u2019t make any sense to me.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know, that has the makings of an actually quite good question. What do you think the answer is? Because there is an answer to that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I don\u2019t know. But, I mean, you think Bannon has something to do with it?<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, no, no, no, no, no. Well, well, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Mitch is that mad at Bannon that he\u2019s like, you know —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That\u2019s not the main reason. That\u2019s an ancillary reason. Mitch McConnell gets to send the signal to Steve Bannon, “Oh, you really think you\u2019re gonna get rid of me, buddy? Ha-ha. Watch this.” But there\u2019s another reason why. They would be doing this even if Bannon hadn\u2019t chosen Moore, even if Steve Bannon hadn\u2019t identified Moore as his guy. And the answer is what it always is: The Republicans are scared to death of the media.<\/p>\n
And so at the first allegation of Roy Moore, whatever he is, the Republicans have been so condemned for so long that I think they\u2019ve got PTSD about this. I think they think that everybody believes what the media has said about Republicans for years and years and years. So they think they have to speak up often and loud to try to convince voters that they\u2019re not anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-black, anti this.<\/p>\n
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So the Roy Moore situation happens, the news is reported, and the Republicans think they have to be first to the microphones to condemn it in order to show the media is wrong about who they are. It\u2019s totally defensive. This move is entirely defensive. It\u2019s aimed at trying to dispel conventional wisdom about Republicans that they think the media has succeeded in convincing people.<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s just disappointing, Rush. You\u2019d think these guys would learn that, you know, from all the people we\u2019ve put in office, from all the voting that\u2019s gone down, all supported for Trump and everybody else, you\u2019d think these guys would learn to stand up to what the media keeps pushing. It just goes to show how influence these guys in the media actually are.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They don\u2019t want to be at war with the media. They don\u2019t want to be at war with the media like Trump is. They want to get along with the media. We\u2019re talking establishment personalities here. We\u2019re talking about people that live and work in Washington and no matter what party they\u2019re from, they all want to work together, get along with each other. They want the media to like them. They don\u2019t want to be at war with the media.<\/p>\n
They really don\u2019t even want to be at war with the Democrats, if you get right down to it. The whole notion of being on offense and attacking is not what they want. And so it could be Roy Moore; it could be anybody else. When there are allegations of this kind of thing that surface, the Republicans are gonna be the first to condemn it, thinking that if they don\u2019t, that voters are gonna think they support it and that all Republicans are like Roy Moore. The simplest, most concise answer to your question is this is what happens when you are constantly playing defense.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Judge Roy Moore in Alabama has hit Mitch McConnell. This is interesting. “Al Franken admits guilt after photographic evidence of his abuse surfaces. Mitch: ‘Let\u2019s investigate.\u2019 In Alabama, ZERO evidence, allegations 100% rejected. Mitch: ‘Moore must quit immediately or be expelled.'”<\/p>\n
These are tweets from Roy Moore. You have to say he\u2019s got a point. Al Franken admits it. There\u2019s a photograph. He doesn\u2019t dispute it at all. And Mitch says, “We need an ethics panel.” Everybody knows that\u2019s a year. A year! And an election year to boot, an ethics panel? That means nothing\u2019s gonna happen to Franken.<\/p>\n
And yet with no evidence and in fact a bunch of now false allegations against Judge Moore, Mitch says he\u2019s gotta quit, we gotta not count his nomination. If he\u2019s gets elected we\u2019ve gotta decertify the election.<\/p>\n
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And he\u2019s got a point. By the way, grab sound bite number 8. There\u2019s a story — you know, I can\u2019t explain this other than to chalk it up to instincts. I\u2019ve had people in the studio here, “How come you\u2019re not mentioning the mall, the mall, that\u2019s what made me convinced he was guilty, when the mall banned him.” And for some reason it just didn\u2019t make sense to me.<\/p>\n
Folks, I so distrust everything I see in the media at first. That\u2019s my starting point is not to believe any of it when it\u2019s about us. I don\u2019t care what it is, I don\u2019t believe it, the first shot out of the gun. So here is Barnes Boyle. He is the manager of the Gadsden, Alabama, mall that supposedly banned Roy Moore. And this was on WBRC-TV Tuesday in Birmingham, Alabama.<\/p>\n
BOYLE: Sure, it\u2019s part of the job. Yeah, we did have written reports and things. So — but to my knowledge, he was not banned from the mall.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So, “Yeah, we had reports that he was running around chasing skirts and stuff, but not to my knowledge he was banned from the mall.” Well, how much of the story has been based on the fact that he was? And then we have the parking lot behind the diner that doesn\u2019t exist. And now we\u2019ve got the likely forged signatures on the yearbook. It turns out that one of assistants signs his name a lot of times, and she puts her initials, D.A.<\/p>\n
When she signs his name, she draws a little slash and puts D.A., and everybody thought that that was Roy Moore being an egomaniac signing his name, slash, district attorney. That\u2019s not. It was his assistant or somebody else signing for him and signifying that she was signing and not him. And the accusers, one of the accusers is saying, yeah, yeah, he signed it, look, he\u2019s such an ego freak he put D.A. next to his name for district attorney. No. It means he didn\u2019t sign it, your yearbook.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, the Roy Moore situation, the accuser, one of the accusers is Beverly Nelson. On her divorce dismissal Moore\u2019s assistant, Delver Adams, put her initials D.A. next to a signature stamp that she used for Moore, stamped the signature, and she put her initials. Her name is Delver Adams to signify that she had stamped the signature and it wasn\u2019t his. The D.A. in the yearbook looks like the divorce decree. Beverly Nelson in this yearbook, it looks like the same thing.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s out there claiming that Moore signed the yearbook and so forth but in the yearbook it\u2019s the same stamp with the D.A. next to it. Moore presided over Beverly Nelson\u2019s divorce from her then husband in 1999. She failed to mention this at the press conference.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Eric in Ambler, Pennsylvania. Welcome, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you so much. It\u2019s good to talk to you and I\u2019m glad to get there. I\u2019ve got a serious topic I want to speak about with Judge Moore, a little bit different take than what most people have been talking about. I had a stepdaughter. She injured her neck when she was 14 years old and was not allowed to take physical education classes after that but had to go to the person who was considered as the athletic trainer of the school.<\/p>\n
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And one day while he had her on the table, he stuck his tongue down her mouth, and he grabbed her breasts and felt her up. She never said a word about this for four years and finally she came home right before her mother and I got married, and she told her mother about what had happened. Her mother went back to the school, talked to the superintendent, “Well, it\u2019s her word against the teacher\u2019s word.” So nothing.<\/p>\n
Well, this went on through the years. She had good days, she had bad days, she\u2019d take two steps forward, three steps back, two steps forward, two, three steps back. Never could get control of her life. And at age 48, she took her own life. She never regained from it. Now, the point of this call is that what about these women who are claiming that Judge Moore did similar type things to them? How have their lives been? Have they been picking themselves out of the sewers every other day and trying to make something of their lives?<\/p>\n
You know, it\u2019s easy to just come forward if you always say it\u2019s the seriousness of the accusation. So, you know, we lived through counseling, sitting around a table talking for hours and hours and hours and hours to try to help her through this. And she could never could regain her own dignity. It was taken away from her.<\/p>\n
RUSH: This happened to her when she was 14 and —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Fourteen.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — injured and had to get sort of her phys-ed training from the trainer because she couldn\u2019t participate in actual class.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So she was alone with this guy.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And you\u2019re saying she committed suicide at 48, and she really never recovered from it, in terms of her self-esteem and dignity, right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Never.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So what you\u2019re asking is, are any of the women leveling similar charges against Judge Moore, were they similarly affected?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know. Here\u2019s what we\u2019d have to know in assessing something like this. We would have to be able to say with some sort of statistical certainty that incidents like this that happen to 14-year-old girls do result — in other words, the results or the effect on your stepdaughter are common. I don\u2019t know that we know that. But still it\u2019s a good question. You\u2019re looking at these women, they don\u2019t appear to be adversely affected by it. I\u2019m guessing that\u2019s what you\u2019re saying or you wouldn\u2019t —<\/p>\n
CALLER: My point is that the press could easily gather information about them, but have they looked into their past to see what — if a girl was sexually assaulted when she\u2019s 14, she doesn\u2019t get over that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, but they\u2019re not gonna do that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, no, certainly, but they should. That\u2019s who\u2019s gonna be responsible.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, but, see, the problem, not everybody probably reacts the same. I\u2019m not — don\u2019t misunderstand. We would just have to know that if that kind of abuse at that age is something that lasts a lifetime or takes a lifetime of effort to overcome, there probably are, depending on who you talk to, there are people able to get past it and function normally and others who never are able to. But I don\u2019t know that there\u2019s a standard that you could say —<\/p>\n
CALLER: No. I mean, she would go for a period of time and just — she was a registered nurse, and she would be outstanding and all of a sudden her life would fall apart again.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. Did she ever get married?<\/p>\n
CALLER: She married twice.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Twice. And so are you at all curious about these women because of the experience you witnessed here, are you —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. And so are you inclined to question these women\u2019s stories because of what you saw in your own family, that you\u2019re not necessarily seeing any signs of in these women and so you\u2019re maybe doubting them?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Bingo. You got it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. You\u2019ve got it, right there. And, you know, it\u2019s easy to come forward, “He did that.” And, you know, that\u2019s that. But what is their lives — how they live their lives?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, the one thing that we\u2019re told — I mean, look, you\u2019ve got a point here, because we are told that this kind of abuse and taking advantage of young girl at that age, 14, does have lasting effects.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: We\u2019re told that — there\u2019s enough evidence that the quote, unquote, experts tell us this, it\u2019s one of the things among many that\u2019s very bad about it is that the long-term negative impact it has on the victims.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Correct. Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, one of the women that appeared with Gloria Allred this week was unloading tears throughout the entire appearance. She even had tears in her nostrils. I saw that referenced in a news story as evidence that they were real. Well, that\u2019s a tough thing. That\u2019s gotta be even tough for you to call here and talk about that. It\u2019s a legitimate question too. People want to see evidence in allegations like this. I mean, I guarantee you people that are gonna vote for Roy Moore want to know whether this is true or not. Others don\u2019t care whether it\u2019s true or not. They just want it used to get rid of him. But people that are gonna vote for this guy or intending to would like to really know if this stuff\u2019s on the up and up or not.<\/p>\n
They didn\u2019t care about Paula Jones or Juanita Broaddrick, I guarantee you. That\u2019s his point here. When there\u2019s no political point to be made, like they purposely ignored Juanita Broaddrick and pooh-poohed her allegation that Clinton raped her, and Paula Jones is just the result of what you get dragging a dollar bill through a trailer park. They\u2019ve politicized so much of this stuff, Eric, that it\u2019s difficult to ever get the really down to the truth of it. But I really appreciate your call. I understand your doubts. I totally understand the way you\u2019d be looking at this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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