{"id":284800,"date":"2018-09-17T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=284800"},"modified":"2018-09-18T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T20:15:34","slug":"what-frosts-me-about-this-kavanaugh-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/09\/17\/what-frosts-me-about-this-kavanaugh-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"What Frosts Me About This Kavanaugh Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I checked the email during the break. “You don\u2019t sound mad about this.” (Snort!) My friends, I spent the first part of hour telling you how mad I was back in 1990 when George Bush appointed Clarence Thomas. Look, I don\u2019t want to be too redundant here. I realize people are in and out all day long. But back when the Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill stuff happened, remember, this program — and don\u2019t misunderstand me here. This is not ego speaking. I\u2019m trying to give you the factual, historical lay of the land. This program was it.<\/p>\n

\"\"There were some other conservative talk show that had come up on radio, but Fox News had not started yet. The blogosphere was not anywhere near what it was gonna be. This was 1990! People were still using CompuServe for crying out loud or AOL. CNN is the only cable network with the three networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) and the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times. It was a full-court press to do exactly what\u2019s being done to Kavanaugh right now: Destroy Clarence Thomas. And, believe me, I was absorbed.<\/p>\n

I did nothing but refute everything the Democrats were saying every day of those confirmation hearings. Notice none of this that we\u2019re hearing about could have an has happened during any of it testimony, any of the confirmation. This woman did not come forward then. They dragged Anita Hill out of wherever she was. It was Paul Simon\u2019s wife and Howard Metzenbaum. They got together and they yanked her out. They had to talk her into doing it. Everybody denies that today \u2019cause they want to make it look like she was this committed activist back in 1990.<\/p>\n

They had to drag her out and they had to coach her and prepare her for testimony and so forth. But at least she testified, and Clarence Thomas got a chance to react to it with the famous “high-tech lynching” speech that he gave that put everybody in the Senate on this committee in their place. This is happening after all the testimony. I\u2019m livid about this. I\u2019m livid that decent people don\u2019t seem to have any kind of option dealing with this. You can\u2019t… Just in the essence of decency, you won\u2019t find any more decent human being today than Brett Kavanaugh or his family.<\/p>\n

They are a threat to nobody. They haven\u2019t threatened anybody. They\u2019ve not destroyed anybody. The left could not defeat Kavanaugh during the constitutionally enumerated period of time to do so, and that would be the confirmation hearings. They struck out, they bombed out, and so now they\u2019re dredging this up from the abject sewer. Of course I\u2019m livid about it! I\u2019m somewhat a little frustrated by the fact that it works. This stuff, in a sane world, the American people would be rising up in indignation and outrage over what Dianne Feinstein is attempting to pull here.<\/p>\n

I think they did when they elected Trump, by the way. How come the Access Hollywood video didn\u2019t destroy Trump? How come none of those usual Democrat attempts to destroy Trump destroyed him? He still won. He got elected. But this is it, this is their playbook. They go back to it over and over and over again, and their playbook involves destroying people. It has me so mad, I can\u2019t see straight. But just coming here and acting mad isn\u2019t gonna get anything done because it is actually happening. So I find it despicable.<\/p>\n

\"\"I\u2019m outraged that more people in Washington don\u2019t. To people in Washington, this is the game! In the news business, man, this is exciting! This is ratings today. Never mind the fact that a man and his family returned the guillotine and subject to being destroyed simply because he has achieved enough in his life that he\u2019s qualified to be on the U.S. Supreme Court. In Washington today, that means it\u2019s open season to try and destroy the guy. Now, you might say, “Well, he knew that, Rush. They know.”<\/p>\n

Sure everybody knows it. Does that make it right? There isn\u2019t any indignation. In fact, if you go to a lot of places in conservative media and you\u2019ll find people making sure that we\u2019re not unfair to the accuser and that we\u2019re open-minded and that we really understand that she can be telling the truth. “And it\u2019s a horrible thing if she is, and we must get to the bottom of it. But…” And then they go on with what they really think. But they feel it necessary to make sure nobody gets the wrong idea, that they think Kavanaugh should be sent packing if any of this is true.<\/p>\n

If any of this is true. They\u2019re asking us to believe one heck of a lot for this to be true. And if this woman wants to come testify, it\u2019s got to happen now. The Republicans run this show, and they need to make this happen pronto.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s grab audio sound bite No. 8. This is Chuck-You Schumer. He was on The View today speaking with Maude Behar<\/a>, and they\u2019re having a discussion about Kavanaugh and what to do about all this.<\/p>\n

SCHUMER: I believe Professor Ford. I think she\u2019s credible, and I think when the investigation is finished and when she testifies and Judge Kavanaugh testifies, I think a majority of senators will find her credible, and I don\u2019t think… I never thought Kavanaugh should get — get appointed because he was picked by a president who said, “I\u2019m only gonna pick someone who repeals Roe v. Wade” (sic) and vetted by a group whose mission was that. The president said, “I\u2019m only gonna pick someone who repeals health care,” (sic) and he was vetted by another group, the Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n

MAUDE: Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

SCHUMER: So I said he shouldn\u2019t be on the bench before this, but now we got get to the bottom of this.<\/p>\n