{"id":266728,"date":"2018-03-06T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=266728"},"modified":"2018-03-07T01:54:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T06:54:52","slug":"jane-mayers-bs-on-trump-romney-and-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/03\/06\/jane-mayers-bs-on-trump-romney-and-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Mayer\u2019s BS Story on Trump, Romney and Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: One other point that I need to make on this Jane Mayer 15,000-word piece. If you\u2019re just joining us<\/a>, the left has decided they need to rehabilitate Christopher Steele, and the effort has begun with a 15,000-word article in The New Yorker by Jane Mayer, who has written books trying to do great damage to Clarence Thomas. She has tried to do great damage to the TV show 24 and its creators for inspiring torture at Club Gitmo and Abu Ghraib. She also did a seek-and-destroy book on the Koch brothers. And now she\u2019s out with this massive article rehabbing Christopher Steele.<\/p>\n

\"\"And she makes an assertion in this story that Donald Trump wanted Mitt Romney as his secretary of state but that Vladimir Putin put the kibosh on it because Putin has blackmailable data on Trump. In other words, she is claiming that Trump is essentially a sleeper agent for Putin, for Russia. Or that he is under Putin\u2019s thumb. That Putin helped Trump get elected, Putin has blackmailable information, and that Putin didn\u2019t want Romney anywhere near the secretary of state position. As though Trump was ever gonna pick Romney. But, anyway, that\u2019s beside the point.<\/p>\n

The way to kind of nuke this, the story lays claim to the fact that Putin\u2019s real concern with Romney was that he was going to slap sanctions on Ukraine and other related Russian satellites and that Putin wanted no part of that. And so Putin insisted that Trump not put Romney in that position so as to avoid these sanctions.<\/p>\n

Well, okay. Let\u2019s look at Trump administration policy in that regard. Are you aware that Donald Trump has kept the Russian sanctions over what they did in Ukraine? Trump has not lifted the sanctions on Russia over Putin\u2019s mistreatment of Ukraine. The sanctions are still there and Romney was never secretary of state. So if the story is true that Putin nixed Romney because he didn\u2019t want any sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, then why are there still sanctions, and why hasn\u2019t Putin released the blackmailable information on Trump?<\/p>\n

\"\"This is all so much BS. But you know, the problem with all of it, it remains the same old problem and it ties in with what I was just saying about education, how we don\u2019t have much of that going on anymore. Recent graduates of universities are not critical thinkers. They\u2019re sponges. They just soak all this stuff up. Social media, just soak all this stuff up.<\/p>\n

So this Jane Mayer piece gets heralded and celebrated all throughout the Drive-By Media. And a bunch of sponges all over the country soak it up and believe it to be true. It won\u2019t be long before you\u2019re gonna be able to take your camera out on the street and ask your average, ordinary college educated Millennial, “Do you think Trump did not name Romney because Putin warned him not to?”<\/p>\n

“Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I saw it in the news.” Without any stopping to literally, critically think about it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ralph\u2019s in Tampa. Welcome to the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush, mega south sunny Florida Second Amendment dittos, man.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>CALLER: I\u2019ve been listening since 2006. I had the pleasure of meeting you in 2008, and I\u2019ve been raising two Rush Babies<\/a> ever since. And I can\u2019t tell you how much I want to thank you for everything you do for me, for our country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I wish it could be more. I really do, but I appreciate it that. I really do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. Well, I was calling to see if you had the opportunity to watch this two-hour special on The History Channel called America\u2019s Greatest Threat: Vladimir Putin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. America\u2019s greatest threat is not Trump, it\u2019s Putin?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think they did a pretty good job of tying the two together. I turned this on with the intent of really getting to know Vladimir Putin, why he was our enemy number one. And within the first 15 minutes I just couldn\u2019t believe it, but they had done a really good job of tying the entire election of Donald Trump to Putin. And at this point my wife kind of gave me one of these, “Oh, no” type deals. She knew I was gonna throw something at the TV, but I decided to stick with it and bear through for two reasons.<\/p>\n

One, I really was interested to see who Vladimir Putin was and what made him tick; but, two, I figure you\u2019re a busy guy and I was gonna try to do some show prep for you. So the next hour they did a really good job of identifying Putin and who he was, how he was raised, and kind of what made him tick. And then the last half hour they really brought it full circle, went back to the foreign intelligence and ex-employees of the intelligence agencies and they really tried to bring it back to Putin and Trump and the whole conspiracy theory that\u2019s being pushed by the mainstream media. And I really had eight main takeaways from this. And if you have a second —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t have time for eight, but give me a couple.<\/p>\n