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<\/p>\nRUSH: Now, the Comey book. You know, folks, the Drive-Bys are breathless about this, \u2019cause there\u2019s only one reason for this book. There\u2019s only one. This book is… Just consider it from the same arsenal as the Mueller investigation.<\/p>\n
The purpose of this book is to get Donald Trump. There\u2019s another purpose of this book, and that is to portray James Comey as an egotistical savior of not only the country, but of the presidency and so forth. This is the most self-absorbed, narcissistic exercise from someone we\u2019re told is not any of that. Just like we\u2019re told Mueller is the epitome of integrity. I don\u2019t know whether you know this or not, but Comey had the same kind of reputation for years, going back to when John Ashcroft was the attorney general and Comey was his deputy.<\/p>\n
Comey had an impeccable, unassailable reputation — and as I grow older, I\u2019m finding that most people about whom that is said are people who have cultivated it. They want that said about them, and so they\u2019ve lived their lives to get that assessment about them, rather than just live and do what they do and let the characterizations follow. These are people who manufacture these reputations as their objective, and that\u2019s what this book is. It\u2019s to kill Trump and to lift Comey up as Mr. Everything.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I haven\u2019t read the Comey book yet \u2019cause I don\u2019t even have a copy, but I can tell you, folks: After, quote-unquote, “study” today, this thing… I\u2019m already getting Comeytose. It\u2019s just… And you know, this is just the beginning. This guy\u2019s got a month of sales, book signings and tours and TV interviews. You\u2019re gonna be so sick of this guy, and he has miscalculated this like you can\u2019t believe. This guy obviously, from the parts I\u2019ve read… Some of these things are literally incredible what he\u2019s saying!<\/p>\n
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I can\u2019t believe that he\u2019s this brilliant, wise, high-integrity guy. Some of this stuff is so petty, some of it is so easy to poke holes at that I\u2019m beginning to think this guy has bought all of his press clippings. Except he\u2019s forgotten when the Democrats used to hate his guts and wanted him fired and wanted him frog-marched into jail for what he did to the Hillary campaign. Now all of a sudden they love the guy, because they think he is the best instrument of the moment to get Trump. This guy is gonna… I predict he is going to regret this.<\/p>\n
I bet that it\u2019s not gonna take long before even some of the people who he expected to be his staunchest allies in the media begin to pause and start wondering, \u2019cause this is not what they thought they were gonna get. Do you realize there\u2019s not one thing… I shouldn\u2019t say. There is so little that\u2019s actually new in this book, and the Drive-Bys were looking for revelation after revelation after revelation, because they are convinced that Mueller and Comey and Brennan and all these Obama people are sitting on dynamite powder kegs of information, and they\u2019re just waiting!<\/p>\n
Mueller already knows it, and when Mueller announces the end of his investigation and issues his report, they all think that it\u2019s gonna have bombshell after bombshell after bombshell that nobody could survive. So here came the first phase. This was supposed to be the first set of bombshells, and there\u2019s nothing in it that the Drive-Bys haven\u2019t already reported! The things that set it apart are Comey\u2019s petty little opinions about Trump. (summarized) “His tie was too long.” “His face was orange with little half-moon cutouts over his eyes where the tanning goggles obviously were.”<\/p>\n
“His hands were very small, and he\u2019s much smaller in stature than I expected.” This is not how you drive Trump from office. It may satisfy some of the lunatic fringe out there, but this is not bombshell stuff that\u2019s gonna get rid of Donald Trump, and I predict that in these people… Some people have paid 50 to 75 to 200 bucks for a seat at a Comey book signing where he\u2019s going to supposedly make remarks. This guy has become so full of himself, you have…<\/p>\n
This is why, on one hand, I am grateful the media\u2019s always hated me. ‘Cause I think the big danger of having the media on your side is that you very quickly can mistakenly assume that you\u2019ve become somebody you\u2019re not. That you\u2019re big. That you\u2019re important. That everybody cares about you and that everybody is waiting for every word you utter. And clearly that\u2019s where Comey is right now. Comey thinks the world is waiting for this book. Comey thinks the world and the people of this country are itching — they\u2019re dying — to read this book because they know that James Comey is a man of truth and honor and whatever else.<\/p>\n
And the truth is that, like practically everybody else, even at the highest levels of fame, at the end of the day nobody cares, \u2019cause everybody else is busy living their own lives. And they have their own challenges and their own concerns. And it\u2019s very few people who actually live their lives through the lives of others. But Comey has obviously drank the Kool-Aid. He\u2019s read the press, he\u2019s watched the media, and he\u2019s bought it. He thinks he\u2019s the big guy. He thinks he\u2019s cool. He thinks that he is universally loved and believed — and this, to me, is a setup for a backfire.<\/p>\n
And I, frankly, think that we\u2019re already seeing the early signs of it. For example, on America\u2019s Newsroom today, “Chris Wallace, the anchor of Fox News Sunday, described … Comey\u2019s forthcoming book as ‘bitchy,\u2019 adding there weren\u2019t any new bombshells in the book and instead a lot of ‘unpleasant\u2019 opinions.” Wallace is one of these guys that says, “[W]hat strikes me, is how little new there is in the book.” Of course there\u2019s little new in the book, and what Comey admits to in this book — and I\u2019m gonna break it down, the things that I think are just mind-blowingly shocking.<\/p>\n