RUSH: Let me tell you the truth about something. Every one of these Drive-By Media hypocrites that are going on and on and on about conflict of interest regarding Sean Hannity would be the first people to accept an up-close and personal relationship with Barack Obama any day of the week, Hillary Clinton any day of the week, and they wouldn\u2019t have any problem covering it up.<\/p>\n
They would all brag about it. They all strive, they all wanted to impress Obama, they wanted to be in Obama\u2019s inner circle. What the hell does it mean when you write that, “When I saw the crease in his slacks, I knew this guy was gonna be a great president”? What does that really mean? That was David Brooks, a so-called conservative.<\/p>\n
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So now, all of a sudden, everybody knows that Sean Hannity and Donald Trump are good friends and they go way back. And everybody knows that Sean Hannity believes in Donald Trump. And there\u2019s not a single thing in the world wrong with that. And everybody knows that Sean Hannity is eager for Donald Trump to succeed, just like over half of the country is. And there\u2019s nothing wrong with that.<\/p>\n
Sean Hannity has not withheld anything from anybody about anything that he\u2019s doing here. Sean Hannity is more honest, three times as honest as anybody you can pluck from the Drive-By Media doing their jobs each and every day. Each and every day they are engaging in deceit to try to hide from you the close ties that they all have with each other. Washington, D.C., is an incestuous revolving door. And Sean Hannity is not part of the Drive-By Media, Washington, D.C., establishment.<\/p>\n
Sean Hannity is an advocate for Donald Trump. And in this day and age, advocates for Donald Trump are no different than Trump in that they have to be destroyed, they have to be targeted, they have to be held up for ridicule because it\u2019s all about getting Trump. Every bit of this is about getting Donald Trump. The Washington establishment cannot allow for Donald Trump to succeed. He\u2019s an outsider.<\/p>\n
The establishment has established norms for the American people to believe and accept, and that is that Washington really doesn\u2019t work, while making you think that they\u2019re trying to fix this problem or that problem. But in the 30 years I\u2019ve been doing this program, the number of things that actually get fixed, the number of things that actually improve because of the political process in Washington you can count on one hand. They can\u2019t allow for some outsider to come in and in one year or two fix things that they have been obstructing, essentially, for 30 years or longer.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s the great threat that Donald Trump poses. The threat to expose that the Washington establishment is not the best qualified to actually lead this country forward and fix things for the people who make this country work. It\u2019s no more complicated than that. And so anybody that is openly on Trump\u2019s team is going to be targeted, as we see here. I mean, pick your name of any avowed Trump supporter, and they will have been targeted for some kind of damage or embarrassment since the Trump campaign began.<\/p>\n
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Now, one of the claims that the Drive-By Media\u2019s trying to sell everybody is that Hannity was engaging in a gigantic conflict, that he didn\u2019t tell anybody that he was tight with Trump\u2019s lawyer. Okay. So let\u2019s unpack this. The Drive-Bys think that Trump is dirty. They think Trump is a criminal, not just because he colluded with Russia, but just in general, he\u2019s a thug. Therefore, his lawyer has to be one. Wasn\u2019t John Gotti\u2019s? Can you name John Gotti\u2019s main lawyer? I\u2019ll give you a first name hint: Bruce.<\/p>\n
Bruce Cutler. Before Cutler was finished, everybody thought he was in the mob too. They think Cohen\u2019s in the mob. So, Hannity\u2019s name gets thrown out in court yesterday as a client, quote, unquote, of Cohen\u2019s. “Oh, my God, Hannity\u2019s a thug, too!” is what connection they want you to conclude. Cohen\u2019s a thug representing a thug, fixing things for the thug, and there\u2019s his tight buddy, Hannity, whoa, whoa, what the hell?<\/p>\n
They think they have a new discovery. Isn\u2019t it interesting that every bombshell discovery they\u2019ve had for the last year and a half designed to get rid of Donald Trump has fizzled out to absolutely nothing. They don\u2019t have anything that they\u2019ve been looking at. Even James Comey\u2019s book doesn\u2019t have anything new in it. And just as I predicted as an aside, Comey is already starting to suffer slings and arrows and criticism from people he thought would be his allies.<\/p>\n
Now, stop and think of this. Here\u2019s Comey writing a book, and he\u2019s obviously aiming this at Hillary supporters. That\u2019s who he wants to make him rich, which is what this book is about. The problem is half of Hillary supporters hate the guy\u2019s guts still. And they\u2019re not happy with any of this. So I don\u2019t think this is gonna turn out for Comey the way he is dreaming or envisioning. But that is a bit of an aside that I want to circle back to later.<\/p>\n
Every day, folks, for the last year and a half, what kind of things do we learn? We learn that Donald Trump, Trump Tower, his campaign, his transition illegally wiretapped, incidentally, by the way, to go get a FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page or they\u2019re spying on the Russian ambassador, whoa, Nellie, look what we found here. Why, a guy talking to Mike Flynn. Whoa, Nellie, look what we find here, Carter Page is talking to X.<\/p>\n
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So we get this incidental spying, by design, on Trump people, illegally wiretapped, entrapped, friends and attorneys being harassed, in some cases, ruined. Massive improprieties within the FBI, massive improprieties and corruption throughout the Justice Department, a Russia investigation that is a bogus scam! We have had major lapses in national security while the Obama administration was busy trying to protect his legacy and hurt Trump. And the people doing this never, ever get punished. They never get called out.<\/p>\n
They have yet to be arrested. They have yet to be indicted, convicted, or jailed. They\u2019re not even spoken about in critical terms in the mainstream media. Now all of a sudden Sean Hannity provides a criminal link to Donald Trump? Sean Hannity provides a criminal link to Michael Cohen? The Drive-Bys can\u2019t get enough of this. And they\u2019re harping all over Hannity and his conflicts. Well, let\u2019s talk about Washington conflicts.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s talk about all the conflict of interest that exist just in Washington, D.C., and all the conflicts of interest that you haven\u2019t been told about. They say Hannity should have disclosed. Well, should F. Chuck Todd disclose? Should Ben Rhodes disclose? Should Bruce Ohr have disclosed? Should Peter Strzok have disclosed? Should McCabe have disclosed? Should Comey have disclosed? The conflicts throughout the Washington establishment and the Democrat Party in this project to get Trump are legion.<\/p>\n
They are many. And we\u2019re gonna review some of them, because many of them you probably don\u2019t know. Well, we\u2019re gonna go through the list, and I want to start it. We put together a montage of audio sound bites here of the Drive-Bys slamming Fox for conflict of interest while every one of these people that you\u2019re going to hear has a conflict of their own or is in an incestuous relationship politically that they never disclose. So this is our first stab at this. Here\u2019s the montage…<\/p>\n
JACKIE KUCINICH: Why didn\u2019t Hannity disclose this on his show?<\/p>\n
JAKE TAPPER: (haltingly) Never did he disclose that Michael Cohen had… He had some sort of professional relationship with him.<\/p>\n
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JEFFREY TOOBIN: That is sort of Journalistic Ethics 101. That if you have some sort of relationship with someone you\u2019re reporting about, you let your viewers, your readers know about it.<\/p>\n
MATTHEW MILLER: He\u2019s going to have to answer questions about why he didn\u2019t disclose that relationship.<\/p>\n
GLORIA BORGER: He\u2019s not really a journalist!<\/p>\n
ARI MELBER: He was out there criticizing the DOJ, the FBI raid on Michael Cohen all the while hiding the fact that he hired Michael Cohen.<\/p>\n
JOHN HARWOOD: Obvious conflict for a journalistic organization…<\/p>\n
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Boldface lying to not disclose that he is a third client of Michael Cohen.<\/p>\n
RON BROWNSTEIN: The idea that in any normal newsroom you could go on and do that having this kind of relationship with the person you\u2019re talking about and not disclose to it your audience, you know, is just extraordinary.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Give me a break! This is such rank hypocrisy. That last voice was Ron Brownstein. The other voice that you might have sat up and noted was Ari Melber. He said, “He was out there criticizing the DOJ, the FBI raid on Michael Cohen, all the while hiding the fact that he hired Michael Cohen.” Okay, let\u2019s go through this. The first voice was Jackie Kucinich. Not gonna call this a conflict, but you should know that she\u2019s the daughter of former Democrat congressman Dennis Kucinich. She\u2019s in the Drive-By Media: The Daily Beast.<\/p>\n
Jake Tapper was the next voice. Jake Tapper, 1992 served as campaign press secretary for Democrat congressional candidate Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, who is — wait for it — the more than likely of Chelsea Clinton. In 1997, Jake Tapper was a spokesman for Handgun Control, a gun-control advocacy group. CNN and Tapper failed to disclose Tapper\u2019s anti-gun activism in advance of the town hall that he hosted with the Parkland students. Did any of you know any of this?<\/p>\n
Why wasn\u2019t Tapper forced to disclose that he holds an anti-gun bias while hosting a town hall made up of anti-gun bias? Jeffrey Toobin was the next voice you heard. Jeffrey Toobin is the son of former NBC News infobabe Marlene Sanders. Toobin worked for the Iran-Contra special counsel Lawrence Walsh. Toobin is a lifelong friend of Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan. And Toobin was a member of the infamous JournoList<\/a>. JournoList was started by a wunderkind at the Washington Post at the time, Ezra Klein. It was a list.<\/p>\n It was a chat room in a secret enclave of the internet made up of Washington journalists who strategized each and every day and night on how to move forward the Democrat Party agenda in their jobs. That\u2019s what JournoList was. A bunch of… We wonder how these montages we put together happen with 25 different people saying Dick Cheney brings “gravitas” to the campaign? Well, one of the ways is they all talk to each other. JournoList was shut down when it was discovered, but others have revised elements of it.<\/p>\n He\u2019s also worked for Senator Robert Menendez and the 2004 John Kerry presidential campaign. How many people watching CNN that know Matt Miller was Holder\u2019s spokesman, former communications director for the group that elects Democrats to the Senate and for Robert Menendez (recently on trial for corruption charges), and worked on the John Kerry presidential campaign? That\u2019s a lot to disclose. I don\u2019t think Matt Miller disclosed any of it.<\/p>\n Gloria Borger. She was next. This is not really anything other than curiously interesting. Her son Evan is married to Mary Anne Huntsman, daughter of politician Jon Huntsman Jr. Ari Melber. This is the guy saying, “He was out there criticizing the DOJ, the FBI raid on Michael Cohen all the while hiding the fact he hired Cohen.” Ari Melber has worked for Democrat senator Maria Cantwell for John Kerry\u2019s presidential campaign. He is divorced from fellow reporter Drew Grant, reporter for the New York Observer.<\/p>\n Has he disclosed his ties to the Democrat Party, to the John Kerry presidential campaign? Anderson Cooper. He\u2019s a Vanderbilt. His mother was Gloria Vanderbilt. His father was Wyatt Emory Cooper. Just that he has links to the elite, of course. Nothing scandalous there. John Harwood. John Harwood is a noted anti-Trumper and anti-conservative. He\u2019s been at the New York Times, the Washington… I think the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n Harwood\u2019s father was a reporter for the Washington Post at age 11. Harwood appeared in a 1968 RFK for President ad. When WikiLeaks dumped John Podesta\u2019s emails, John Harwood was all over \u2019em sucking up to the Clinton campaign. Mika Brzezinski. She is the daughter of Zbig Brzezinski, the late Zbigniew Brzezinski, and former national security adviser for Jimma Carter. She was married to TV news reporter Patrick Hoffer and is now engaged to Scarborough.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know if they got married at all. But she didn\u2019t disclose that she was dating Scarborough while everybody watching the show knew it. And Ron Brownstein. Ron Brownstein was the last voice you heard. “The idea that in any normal newsroom you could go on and do that having this kind of relationship with the person you\u2019re talking about and not disclose to it your audience, you know, is just extraordinary.”<\/p>\n Brownstein worked for Ralph Nader. Uber-leftist Ralph Nader. His first wife was Nina Easton of Fortune magazine. Brownstein\u2019s current wife is Eileen Nicole McMenamin, the former communications director for Senator John McCain. There\u2019s a whole bunch, and that doesn\u2019t even… We haven\u2019t even gotten to the conflicts on the Mueller team and at the DOJ and on the Comey team, and wait \u2019til you hear those.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: How often does ABC News divulge that George Stephanopoulos was a member of the Bill Clinton war room, among other things designed to destroy any woman who came forward alleging that Clinton had had an affair with her or some kind of sexual dalliance, working with James Carville? I mean, the guy never went to journalism school. He\u2019s not a journalist. He\u2019s a political activist and consultant disguised as a journalist. How often does ABC disclose it?<\/p>\n Via connections awarding stock options to Zucker\u2019s 14-year-old kid! Claire Shipman, senior correspondent ABC News, is married to Jay Carney, Obama\u2019s White House press secretary and Biden\u2019s before that. Virginia Moseley, CNN vice president, Washington bureau chief, is married to Tom Nides, deputy secretary of state under Barack Hussein O. And then there is David Rhodes and his brother, Ben Rhodes, and that\u2019s relevant as we get into the Mueller conflict.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: More than 30 so-called journalists left their profession to go to work in the Obama administration or on one of his presidential campaigns, according to the Media Research Center<\/a>. That\u2019s Brent Bozell\u2019s invaluable group. More than 30 journalists eagerly, because they\u2019re all looking at Hannity and his relationship with Trump and they\u2019re jealous in some ways. They would love to have been as close to Obama as Hannity apparently is to Trump. They would have craved it. They would have bragged about it while remaining journalists at the same time.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s see. Who else. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Oh, we have lots. CBS News President David Rhodes. CBS News president David Rhodes is the brother of Ben Rhodes. Name is spelled R-h-o-d-e-s. Ben Rhodes was a top foreign policy adviser to Barack Hussein O while his brother is the president of CBS News.<\/p>\n Ben Rhodes, the brother of the president CBS News, was the man behind the Benghazi cover-up and the disastrous Iran nuke deal, and it was Ben Rhodes who often bragged about how easy it was to mislead people, including the media, into believing the Iran deal was something that it wasn\u2019t! Well, how hard would it be to deceive the news media when your own brother runs CBS News?<\/p>\n Martha Raddatz is an infobabe at ABC News. She often serves as a moderator for presidential debates. She did moderate a Trump debate. I don\u2019t recall if it was during the primaries or during the presidential campaign. But she went toe-to-toe with Trump. She fashions herself a foreign policy expert. She\u2019s a journalist. But she\u2019s tight with the State Department and foreign policy specialists, because it\u2019s incestuous.<\/p>\n They all have the same agenda, the same goals where the United States and the world and global government is concerned. And I remember Martha Raddatz just giving Trump all kinds of hell based on the fact that in her mind he was stupid and naive and ignorant, didn\u2019t know what he was talking about. Because he was criticizing the Obama administration for announcing days in advance military operations. And Martha Raddatz could not believe that Trump would dare criticize the great Obama.<\/p>\n And so Martha Raddatz is saying (paraphrasing), “Well, you don\u2019t understand the way certain things work, Mr. Trump. Maybe they were psychological ops. Maybe Obama was trying to scare people.”<\/p>\n Trump came back (paraphrasing), “I don\u2019t care. It\u2019s stupid to announce an actual day you\u2019re gonna do something or a day you\u2019re gonna leave somewhere.” She was fit to be tied. She was flustered, frustrated, really, really angry. She couldn\u2019t believe that Trump was actually in a debate that she was moderating. Well, anyway, Barack Obama attended her wedding. Yes indeed.<\/p>\n Now, let\u2019s move on to some of the conflicts that we have been advised of, the things that we\u2019ve learned about the campaign, or I should say the investigation, the Mueller investigation and the entire DOJ, FBI, intelligence community, deep state operation to run this silent coup on Trump based on this bogus allegation that he stole the election working with the Russians.<\/p>\n In this list of people we\u2019ve got James Comey; we\u2019ve got Andrew McCabe; we have James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence for Obama; we got John Brennan, CIA for Obama, who I think is the guy that ran this whole show, by the way, but that\u2019s a little bit of an aside. We have Loretta Lynch and her meeting on the tarmac in Phoenix with Bill Clinton that we were told was just a coincidence.<\/p>\n Yes, ol\u2019 Lorettie arrives, she gotta do something out there, and, lo and behold, Bill Clinton\u2019s taxiing in. And air traffic control told Clinton\u2019s crew that Lorettie was on the ground at the FBO. So Bill said (doing Clinton impression), “Hey, hey, whatever, we\u2019re using that FBO. Head on over, I need to talk to Loretta, and Loretta got off the plane. We talked about golf and grandkids, it was a wonderful time.”<\/p>\n Right in the middle of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. None other than James Comey has said that Loretta Lynch doing this threw a monkey in the wrench and she should have recused herself and so forth. A little self-serving. We know of Andrew Weissmann, one of Mueller\u2019s lead investigators. Bruce and Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr, FBI, Nellie Ohr, wife working at Fusion GPS. Samantha Power, U.N. ambassador for Obama in the closing days of his administration.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s go through some of the conflict. Imagine this, folks. Ben Rhodes and David Rhodes, brothers, one of them runs CBS News and one of them is working to advance Obama\u2019s Iran deal and other foreign policy things. As Victor Davis Hanson write<\/a>s, imagine, “What if both ABC News and CBS News were now running mostly favorable news accounts about Donald Trump\u2019s administration, rather than the media\u2019s 90 percent (on average) negative coverage.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Jeffrey-Toobin.jpg\")
Toobin was a member of the JournoList, and it was reported not too long ago that Toobin had an extramarital affair and a child with a lawyer named Casey Greenfield who happens to be the daughter of journalist Jeff Greenfield. Matt Miller. Matt Miller was the voice here who said, “He\u2019s gonna have to answer questions about why he didn\u2019t disclose the relationship.” Matthew Miller, Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder\u2019s spokesman, former communications director for the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-102617-Cuck-Todd.jpg\")
F. Chuck Todd! F. Chuck Todd\u2019s wife is a Democrat activist. He\u2019s the host of Meet the Press, NBC head honcho. She makes lots of money working on the Bernie Sanders campaign! Jake Tapper back then, his wife was a regional field manager for Planned Parenthood, in addition to Jake\u2019s anti-gun activism. CNN regularly reports on Senator Cory Booker. Do you know Jeff Zucker, who runs CNN, has a 14-year-old son who was awarded stock options potentially worth millions from Cory Booker, a United States senator?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-011718-Combat-Drive-By-Media.jpg\")
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Yeah, that\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re telling you. They didn\u2019t think it was any big conflict. McCabe\u2019s wife, who wants to be elected to the Senate, is taking money from the Clinton machine to get elected — 700 grand — while he is investigating the head of the Clinton machine! You want to talk about a conflict? And why weren\u2019t we told about Peter Strzok and Lisa Page when they were demoted and left the investigation team?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HillaryBillFusion.jpg\")
He met with people working on putting together the dossier! Bruce Ohr “did not disclose that meeting to his superiors” at the DOJ. “His wife, a Russia expert, had been hired by Fusion GPS to help find damaging information about Donald Trump. Ohr deliberately — and probably unlawfully — hid that fact on a federal disclosure form.” As Mr. Hanson asks, “Who thought up that trick?” You want to talk about collusion? You don\u2019t even get close to it when talking about Sean Hannity. You don\u2019t even know…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/650-051817-Rush-Mueller.jpg\")
She was another Mueller attorney who represented somebody deeply involved in a recent Clinton scandal. Are you ready? She recently represented not only the Clinton Foundation, but also Obama\u2019s deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, during the 2012 Benghazi terror attack and Clinton\u2019s role in creating the conditions for that attack and then covering it up.<\/p>\n