{"id":256271,"date":"2017-11-29T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=256271"},"modified":"2017-11-30T16:11:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T21:11:37","slug":"what-went-through-matt-lauers-mind-when-he-asked-these-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/11\/29\/what-went-through-matt-lauers-mind-when-he-asked-these-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"What Went Through Matt Lauer\u2019s Mind When He Asked These Questions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: You just wonder what they think. &#8216;Cause you know when they\u2019re doing a story on like an O\u2019Reilly or any other Republican or conservative, in their minds, they love it! They love reporting on it. They love the raised eyebrows. They love doing it.<\/p>\n<p>But when it\u2019s one of their own, what is really going through their minds? We\u2019ll never know, because we never know. But I would still like to. So Little Brian says they all knew, and it\u2019s true. The New York Times is working on a story &#8212; and apparently, folks, the worst is out there and is known and it is only a matter of time before it drops. But no detail on what the worst is. Let\u2019s go through some flashbacks here with Matt Lauer. Here he is back on October 14th, 2016, interviewing the vice presidential nominee, Mike Pence, about the Access Hollywood tape of then-host Billy Bush and &#8220;real estate mogul&#8221; (chuckling), as he was called then, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-256282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-112917-Lauer-Orielly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-112917-Lauer-Orielly.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-112917-Lauer-Orielly-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>LAUER: One week ago today, we heard Donald Trump in his own words brag about making unwanted (sic) sexual advances on women, and now we have six women who\u2019ve come forward saying, in fact, that was more than bragging. He did those things to them. You\u2019ve heard what they\u2019ve had to say. You &#8212; you\u2019ve read it. Do you believe these women?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, we don\u2019t have the Pence answer. We just doing flashbacks \u2019cause we\u2019re asking, &#8220;What\u2019s going through Matt Lauer\u2019s head as he\u2019s asking the question?&#8221; No, seriously! If you\u2019re in the situation, if you have done (chuckles) what you are asking somebody about in an accusatory way, what goes through your mind? Here is Matt Lauer. This is the announcement that Billy Bush was not good enough person to appear on the Today show, \u2019cause Billy Bush hosted Trump on that Access Hollywood video. Billy Bush was supposed then come to the Today show but they put the kibosh on that.<\/p>\n<p>LAUER: NBC News announced last night that Billy Bush would be leaving the Today show be effective immediately noting that he was a valued colleague and longtime member of the broader NBC family. A statement Billy released separately last night read in part, &#8220;I look forward to what lies in ahead.&#8221; And, of course, all of us here at Today wish Billy the very best.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8220;And we hope he keeps quite about what he knows about us.&#8221; I mean, really, you gotta report on this stuff knowing full well? Here is Matt Lauer grilling Bill O\u2019Reilly.<\/p>\n<p>LAUER: You were probably the last guy in the world that they wanted to fire, because you were the guy that the ratings and the revenues were built on. You carried that network on your shoulders for a lot of years. So doesn\u2019t it seem safe to assume that the people at Fox News were given a piece of information or given some evidence that simply made it impossible for you to stay on at Fox News?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-256283\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-112917-Lauer-Today.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-112917-Lauer-Today.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-112917-Lauer-Today-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>RUSH: And Bill, the same thing\u2019s gonna happen to me in a year or two. Just wait. Well, what\u2019s going through his &#8212; (interruption) What? This is exactly my point. &#8220;So, is it safe to assume the people at Fox were given a piece of information or some evidence that simply made it impossible for you to stay on at Fox News?&#8221; Wink. &#8220;And Bill, by the way, NBC, they know the same stuff about me, but I\u2019m still here and you\u2019re gone, ha-ha-ha!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What goes through his mind when he asks these questions? &#8220;We got you, Bill, we got you, you might have been the thing Fox was built on. We got you. And I\u2019ve been doing everything you\u2019ve been doing, Bill, and I\u2019m still here, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.&#8221; But not now. I\u2019m sorry, folks, I\u2019m not apologizing. This is what I wonder about. We have any more of these? Yes, we do. Matt Lauer asking Jon Stewart about Louis C.K..<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-256308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LauerStewart-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LauerStewart-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LauerStewart.jpg 692w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>LAUER: Your good friend and colleague, Louis C.K., has been accused of and has admitted to some lewd acts involving women. What was the impact on you when you heard not only the accusations, but his admission?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And what will you think, Jon, about me when it is revealed what I\u2019ve been doing which makes what Louis C.K. did a piker? How do you do this? Can you imagine being a bank robber and asking a guy that just got caught, and nobody knows you\u2019ve ever robbed banks and you\u2019ve gotten away with it, and you have to sit there and ask these reprobates, they got caught doing what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: If you&#039;re in the situation, if you have done (chuckles) what you are asking somebody about in an accusatory way, what goes through your mind? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":243903,"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>What Went Through Matt Lauer&#039;s Mind When He Asked These Questions? - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/11\/29\/what-went-through-matt-lauers-mind-when-he-asked-these-questions\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"What Went Through Matt Lauer&#039;s Mind When He Asked These Questions? 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