{"id":260186,"date":"2018-01-11T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=260186"},"modified":"2018-01-12T16:27:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T21:27:28","slug":"okeefe-blows-up-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/01\/11\/okeefe-blows-up-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Keefe Blows Up Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, moving on to Twitter. James O\u2019Keefe, Project Veritas<\/a>… You know, we\u2019ve had O\u2019Keefe on the phone here before, but I met him three weeks ago. He was down here in early January, middle of January. There was a conference. What was it, three? (interruption) Turning Point USA. How many kids were there? (interruption) There were 3,000 student activists. It was actually over at West Palm Beach, and this is a group that has been put together and operates under the auspices of Charlie Kirk, right?<\/p>\n

\"\"Who is a… You\u2019re gonna be hearing that name if you haven\u2019t. He\u2019s an up… Charlie Kirk, let me just tell you. Let me just tell you. I don\u2019t want to jinx him. But I\u2019m just gonna tell you. They brought Charlie Kirk to the golf course to meet me about a month ago. He was in town to set up this Turning Point thing, and they brought him to the golf course to meet me. It was during… We were getting ready for a 8:45 a.m. start, and they brought him out while I was getting ready to go to the range and loosen up, and I spoke with him for about a half hour.<\/p>\n

He told me how he grew up in a home where my program was on all the time. He was just effusively complimentary to me — which I, of course, understood and told him he\u2019s very wise. His family\u2019s very wise. He chuckled; he laughed. This is the kind of guy that, you know, you can see really becoming big in politics as he gets older. He just has the carriage, the personality, the charisma. You may think this sounds weird, but I remember when Bill Clinton became president.<\/p>\n

There were all of these stories about Bill Clinton at Oxford and Bill Clinton at Yale and Bill Clinton here and all these people that went to school with him. There was story after story after story where people were saying that they just knew Bill Clinton was gonna be president someday. In college! He just had that kind of ambition, and he impressed people in a way that he could. Peggy Noonan even told me this. Peggy Noonan went to one of these weekends the Democrats do before we concocted it for ourselves, the Restoration Weekend that Horowitz does. The Democrats had one of those long before we did, and Peggy Noonan went to one.<\/p>\n

And this is before 1992. This is before Clinton got the nomination. She came back extolling this guy\u2019s virtues to me, the governor of Arkansas. Of course, I was kind of leery \u2019cause here\u2019s Peggy, a supposed conservative, singing the virtues of this Arkansas Democrat governor. In fact, that was the first time I had heard anything significantly positive about Clinton. It was from her. I\u2019m telling you, people are saying the same things about Charlie Kirk. Well, anyway, they had this big… What was I saying before I got into the sidetrack?<\/p>\n

(interruption) Oh, that\u2019s right. O\u2019Keefe was in town for the Turning Point USA thing and he asked to come by and say hello. I\u2019d only talked to him on the phone. I had not met him. So he came by and he told me… He didn\u2019t give me any details but he said, “In a few weeks, we\u2019re gonna be blowing the door down on Twitter,” and he wanted to talk to me about how you deal with being the target for destruction. He wanted to know the best ways to deal with people trying to wipe him out.<\/p>\n

\"\"So we talked about that for a while. And of course O\u2019Keefe, Project Veritas<\/a>, is a 501(c)(3). They exist with donations and so forth, which is not my bailiwick. You know, I\u2019m not in the fundraising circle. But I still… He asked me some questions about that, and I told him what I thought. But he gave me… The bottom line is he gave me a heads-up on this Twitter project that he had going. He didn\u2019t give me any specific, but he said that it\u2019s gonna shock a lot of people. I said, “Why is it gonna shock \u2019em?”<\/p>\n

“Because you wouldn\u2019t believe the number of people that think Twitter is just straight up and up, no politics to it, there\u2019s liberals there, there\u2019s conservatives, there\u2019s anarchists, but nobody thinks about the people that police it.” And he said, “People are gonna be shocked.”<\/p>\n

Well, anyway, he released the tape and the accompanying transcript, the secret tapes that he had made with current and former Twitter employees. And he has indeed blown the place up.<\/p>\n