{"id":256211,"date":"2017-11-29T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=256211"},"modified":"2017-12-04T00:44:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T05:44:25","slug":"establishment-gobsnmacked-lauer-joins-ash-heap-of-democrat-sexual-predators-and-trumps-still-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/11\/29\/establishment-gobsnmacked-lauer-joins-ash-heap-of-democrat-sexual-predators-and-trumps-still-standing\/","title":{"rendered":"Establishment Gobsmacked! Lauer Joins Ash Heap of Democrat Sexual Predators — and Trump\u2019s Still Standing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Looky here, folks, from a website called DC Whispers, the headline: “Members Of Congress And Media ‘Stunned\u2019 That Trump Is Still Standing And Fighting Back.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

By the way, did you see the economic growth? 3.3%. Did I not tell you yesterday it was gonna exceed 3%? And that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg of the great economic news. So members of Congress and the media are stunned that Trump is still standing and fighting back. Robin Roberts on Good Morning America today was in tears, “Why does Trump still have his job and all of us are losing ours?”<\/p>\n

And then Wolf Blitzed over on CNN: have Democrats lost the moral high ground on sexual harassment<\/a>? I am gonna explain all of this. I\u2019m gonna answer every question anybody has about this today. And, as an added bonus, I\u2019m gonna keep adding to the reasons for getting rid of net neutrality.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re gonna continue the burial process of Fauxcahontas and her little financial bureau here that they tried to set up as a private little money-laundering operatio<\/a>n, And of course the sad tale of what happened at NBC today with Matt Lauer. The latest details on the Matt Lauer situation, these things have a life span, “Oh, my God, we didn\u2019t know! Oh, no! This just came out of the blue! We didn\u2019t know!” And then we start hearing from the people who knew.<\/p>\n

\"\"Well, actually a lot of people knew about this for a long time, began to trickle out in various tweets and blog posts. And it turns out a lot of people knew about this for a long time. The particular complaint against Matt Lauer is three years old, goes back to the Sochi Olympics. According to the New York Post Page Six<\/a>, the sexual misconduct allegations against Matt Lauer go back to the Sochi winter Olympics in 2014.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s true, it means that NBC sat on this for three years. They\u2019re claiming they only found out about it on Monday, which is two days ago. But it happened three years ago. That\u2019s even longer than NBC said on Juanita Broaddrick\u2019s rape allegation against Bill Clinton. Oh, speaking of which, folks, the DNC has asked us to help them get the word out. They are issuing a pre-apology for whatever happens between now and the end of the year during the holidays. Bill Clinton has been enlisted for this pre-apology, and we have it for you here.<\/p>\n

ANNOUNCER: Now a holiday pre-apology from former President Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

CLINTON: To save all the hassle and embarrassment of a public apology after the fact, the Democrat National Committee has asked me to deliver this seasonal pre-apology to you, the women of America. Long before you head off to that holiday party where you may be groped, assaulted, or worse by one of our leading icons, powerful media allies, or just Al Franken, so here it goes.<\/p>\n

\"\"We, the powerful men of the Democratic Party, are truly sorry for any of our words or actions that may have caused you to feel any pain. Please understand that we never, ever intended for it to be taken that way. But if you had just gone along with the program, you could have had some fun and maybe moved up in the world. Better luck next time, baby.<\/p>\n

ANNOUNCER: After signing a release holding us harmless of any alleged assault, please accept a heartfelt holiday gift, your choice of either a copy of Leaves of Grass or a 10-pound bag of ice to keep the swelling to a minimum.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Democrat National Committee pre-apology to any women who will be harassed, groped, or abused during the holiday season, very thoughtful pre-apology delivered by Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

Okay, now, back to Matt Lauer for a minute. The New York Post Page Six says the sexual misconduct allegations against him go back to the Sochi Olympics 2014. And again, NBC says they only found out about this, Andy Lack, on Monday. But if that\u2019s not true, they sat on it for three years.<\/p>\n

Page Six — this is worse yet — Page Six says that Matt Lauer\u2019s firing only came on Tuesday because of rumors that several news outlets were working on stories of Matt Lauer\u2019s alleged sexual misconduct. The New York Times was working on one, and there were a couple of other news organizations that are sniffing around this.<\/p>\n

In fact, according to CNN — did you see CNN? (laughing) CNN is boycotting the White House media Christmas party. (laughing) Did you see Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweet?<\/a> (paraphrasing) “Happy holidays. There\u2019s at least some good news. CNN\u2019s not showing up at our party.” Do you not love this?<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s CNN all over their high horse (imitating CNN), “Well, harrumph, harrumph, because of the mistreatment of our brave journalists the world over we are not gonna attend the White House Christmas party on Friday night.” And Sarah Sanders (paraphrasing), “Good. We\u2019ll miss ya!” (Laughing) They are gobsmacked. They don\u2019t know what hit \u2019em.<\/p>\n

They did think they would have dispatched Trump by now. They thought they would have dispatched Pence by now. They thought by now that by hook and crook of the Constitution they would have gotten Hillary back in there or Crazy Bernie. They are gobsmacked, folks.<\/p>\n

Anyway, CNN says that reporters for the New York Times have been investigating Matt Lauer for several weeks. So the implication is that NBC might have covered up for Matt Lauer forever if it weren\u2019t for these other investigations. That\u2019s not my implication. That\u2019s not my inference. That is from Page Six and CNN claiming that the timetable here was moved up by NBC because they found out other news organizations were looking into this.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, I want to take you back, folks, and explain some things here. Take you back to the Access Hollywood video that was released sometime in October 2016. And I\u2019m sure you all remember this. Now, this comes under the rubric here of members of Congress and media stunned that Trump is still standing and fighting back. And I\u2019m telling you that they are being truthful when they admit to this. And it\u2019s not just members of Congress, media. It\u2019s Republicans. And it is conservative Never Trump media types.<\/p>\n

Believe me, the entirety of the Washington establishment literally is in a state of stunned disbelief over the fact that not only have they not gotten rid of Trump, they haven\u2019t dented him. When you get right down to it, they haven\u2019t even put a dent in him. He\u2019s not just still standing; he\u2019s dominating. It\u2019s not that he\u2019s just barely hanging on and teetering on the edge.<\/p>\n

He is dominating. He is authoring, if you will, the daily narrative. He is totally controlling the media, whether they know it or not. And one of the reasons that they\u2019re shocked is because they were convinced that the Access Hollywood video back in 2016, back in October, would spell the end of Donald Trump. It didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Now, I want to play for you what I said about this back then. This serves a dual purpose. It will remind you, but will also illustrate for you my prescience and complete understanding of the lay of the land, because there is something that the swamp dwellers — the establishment, the media, Never Trumpers — Republican and Democrat alike still do not understand about their own country.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s something they still do not understand about the people who voted for and continue to back up and support Donald Trump. It\u2019s something they still do not understand. I\u2019ve explained it numerous times, and I\u2019m gonna explain it again. But first, here is an audio recap of me, October 10th, 2016. This is our first show after the NBC Access Hollywood video was released, and that\u2019s the Billy Bush video where Trump and Billy Bush are chatting with one another about the power of celebrities and what that power allows celebrities to do with women.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the video that had the Trump comment, “Yeah, yeah, they let you grab their” bah bah bah, and that just sent shocks of outrage and disbelief… I mean, it was reverberating, ricocheting throughout every sector of the Drive-By Media, and they thought Trump was toast. And I dare say, many in the Trump campaign probably thought he was toast. I want to admit something here, but first here\u2019s the audio of what was said by me on this program. Listen to all of it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: [T]his whole release of that tape \u2014 and I\u2019m not excusing what\u2019s on it, but he\u2019s not the only person to ever speak this way. He\u2019s not the only person to ever seek office. He may have said these things, but the Democrats have nominated and elected and celebrated people who do these things. And where is the outrage over it? You know, I find it ironic that the Democrat Party wants to throw down the morality card. The Democrat Party, which is responsible for the dissolution of morality in this country.<\/p>\n

The Democrat Party which is for all these progressive new attitudes in our culture, and now all of a sudden acting like a bunch of prudes, acting like, \u201cOh, my God, I have never been this outraged. Oh, this is just beyond the pale.\u201d These are the architects of this kind of stuff. If Trump were a Democrat, they\u2019d be covering it up and privately inviting him to parties and yukking it up. But the reason this happened \u2014 and it\u2019s gonna happen again \u2014 they can\u2019t afford. Folks, this is what it looks like. I kept telling people over the weekend when people were asking my opinion on it, I said, \u201cThis is what it looks like when you take on the establishment. This is exactly what it looks like. It isn\u2019t gonna be pretty.”<\/p>\n

END ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you something. I may have told you that I did this on a previous occasion but I don\u2019t remember. I seldom… In fact, I could count on one hand the number of times I have called a campaign or a candidate in the midst of a campaign to either react or even request an interview. I just don\u2019t do it. It\u2019s not an active thing. It\u2019s something in my subconscious. I just don\u2019t do it. It\u2019s not my bailiwick. It\u2019s not my level of expertise. I don\u2019t pretend to know how that business operates. But this time I did. This time I called and I emailed people in the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not gonna tell you who because that doesn\u2019t matter. What I told them is what matters, and I said, “Whatever you do, do not overreact and grovel. Do not fall prey to this. Do not go on the defensive because of this.” I said, “The one thing that you may not understand,” I\u2019m telling them in the Trump campaign, “is the American people are fed up.” This was an October Surprise. This tape had been in possession of people for years. The Washington Post actually revealed this tape. They\u2019re the ones that released it. NBC had been sitting on it for a while.<\/p>\n

\"\"Everybody knew about this, and nobody had cared, and nobody had released it, and nobody had even talked about it because there was no way that it was useful for them in damaging Trump. But now all of a sudden, he\u2019s running for president, and this is what they do. In fact, this is what the Democrats primarily do; the Republicans also engage in their own versions of October Surprises. But I told the Trump people, “Your voters are not gonna abandon Donald Trump over this. What you need to know is that Trump voters are fed up with this kind of stuff determining who wins and who loses elections.”<\/p>\n

I said, “What you need to know and never forget…” And I\u2019m sure they did know it. I was not taking any chances. I wanted to make sure. But I\u2019m sure they got it. “…your voters are supporting you because of serious things and issues in this country. Your voters think we\u2019re down to the last chance. Your voters think that this country is on the precipice of being transformed into something it was never intended to be, and Donald Trump stands as the one guy who can stop it, and his voters are not gonna abandon him over this. They\u2019re not gonna abandon him over tweets.<\/p>\n

“They\u2019re not gonna abandon him over the traditional and typical ways that Democrats and the media try to take out and destroy Republican candidates. So don\u2019t think that you\u2019re in trouble with your own voters over this.” I made a point of saying, “It\u2019s not that they don\u2019t care, and it\u2019s not that they\u2019re not gonna have second thoughts about you. But they\u2019re not gonna let this kind of thing — this kind of typical, last-minute political trick… They\u2019re not gonna let it work this time. They\u2019re fed up with it,” and I told them to be confident that they\u2019re not going to lose any support from their base because of this.<\/p>\n

The reason I went out of my… Well, it wasn\u2019t out of my way. The reason I made the point is because this was an earth-shattering thing and it\u2019s the kind of thing that can trip up a campaign and cause defections and lack of confidence or loss of confidence, and I wanted to make sure that that didn\u2019t happen. Because the American people — as we now know, a majority — who voted for Trump, firmly believed this country was in crisis. The people in Washington D.C. do not. They never have thought that the country is on the precipice of becoming something that it was not intended to be because their lives are fine.<\/p>\n

They live in the financial capital — they live in the power capital — of the world, Washington D.C. Life for them, circumstances for them do not mirror the circumstances for average Americans who do not live in Washington. Open borders, this never-ending stream of people coming into the country and not assimilating, threatening the very fabric — social, economic, financial — in this country. People are just fed up. They\u2019re angry. They\u2019re angry at the Republican Party for not listening to them. They\u2019re angry at the Republican Party for pretending to hear them on the campaign trail but then abandoning them after they get elected and not implementing policies they promised to.<\/p>\n