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<\/p>\nRUSH: I want to ask you a couple of questions to ponder just as human beings here. Take politics out of it as much as you can when dealing with my questions. It\u2019s impossible to totally do it, but I just want to ask: How many of you, as human beings, are capable of doing what this woman in Northern California has just done? For example and specifically, you\u2019re minding your own business. You\u2019re living your life. You went to high school with people. You worked with people and all that.<\/p>\n
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You are a renowned left-wing activist. You wear vagina hats on your head when Donald Trump\u2019s elected president. No, in fact, let\u2019s not do that. You\u2019re just an average, ordinary person. You don\u2019t do any of that, even though this woman did. My first question is: How many of you would knowingly attempt to derail the life and career of someone you peripherally knew 35 years ago? How many of you would do that? Now, I don\u2019t know what the law of averages is. I\u2019m sure with as many people in this country as there are that there\u2019s a lot of creeps and a lot of vindictive people.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not saying it isn\u2019t possible, but how many of you would…? Do you realize how often this happens with the Democrat Party and conservative judicial nominees? But how many of you would do it? You didn\u2019t know somebody well. You didn\u2019t date them. They didn\u2019t break your heart. They didn\u2019t do anything to you that you can really… I mean, you can\u2019t remember where it happened. You can\u2019t remember even specifically what happened.<\/p>\n
This person that you are actively trying to destroy has been in public life for years, and not once in any of those occasions where his name has been mentioned publicly have you done anything to try to stop or derail it. But then this man happens to become a Supreme Court nominee. How many of you would do this? How many of you would either make up a story and send a letter? Which leads to my second question. My point is decent people just…<\/p>\n
This is not how people act. This is not how people think. I know there\u2019s a lot of vindictiveness and I know there\u2019s a lot of people that seek revenge. But that usually derives from knowing somebody well enough that whatever they did genuinely angered you or hurt you or harmed you. But this is peripheral. What kind of person does this — and then after doing it, doesn\u2019t want to follow it through? I\u2019m now seeing excuses being made for the fact that she doesn\u2019t want to appear at the hearing that Grassley has invited her to speak to.<\/p>\n
“Well,” the excuse is, I, “look, I — I wouldn\u2019t want to appear. I wouldn\u2019t want to have to face those questions. I wouldn\u2019t want to have to face those klieg lights. I totally understand this woman not accepting the invitation,” I\u2019m hearing people say,” and just because she doesn\u2019t accept the invitation appear doesn\u2019t mean that she\u2019s lying and making it up.” Okay. So we\u2019re told by this woman\u2019s lawyer that she does not have to corroborate her allegation. It\u2019s not up to her.<\/p>\n
We have got to prove she\u2019s lying. She does not have to prove she\u2019s telling the truth. That stands justice on its head. The next thing we\u2019re being told is “It\u2019s perfectly normal for an accuser to not want to be part of the process of getting rid of her accused. It\u2019s perfectly normal that she wouldn\u2019t want to appear before these senators! It\u2019s perfectly normal she wouldn\u2019t want to appear. I wouldn\u2019t,” they\u2019re saying. “I wouldn\u2019t want to do.” Well, not only would you…<\/p>\n
How many of you would get yourselves involved in this situation in the first place, unless you are a dyed-in-the-wool political activist? My second question is a little bit more basic. Is it really this easy? Is all you have to do to derail the career of an acknowledged-as-great human being and justice…? Is all you\u2019ve got to do is send a letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein? Is that it? It\u2019s that easy?<\/p>\n
We\u2019re to believe that all somebody has to is sent a letter, an anonymous letter — well, a letter requesting anonymity — to Senator Dianne Feinstein, and that alone can derail the life and the reputation and the career of a decent human being? Is it really that easy? Do we want it to be that easy? Not only is all you have to do is send a letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein, but that you will automatically be taken seriously and that you will automatically be believed. If that\u2019s all it takes, we could start a letter writing campaign to Senator Feinstein today!<\/p>\n
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Could we not?<\/p>\n
I mean, we\u2019re being asked to really swallow a lot here, folks. We\u2019re being asked to believe quite a bit. These kinds of things just don\u2019t happen in the real world except when Democrats are involved and the Supreme Court\u2019s involved. And, by the way, you know, there\u2019s a dance everybody\u2019s doing to avoid hitting the bull\u2019s-eye here. (interruption) What do you think the bull\u2019s-eye really is here? What do you think has the Democrats so paranoid, so frightened, so agitated, so animated and motivated to stop this guy? What is it?<\/p>\n
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Well, yeah, but why? I know they don\u2019t want him on the court. It\u2019s one word. It begins with an A. This is all about abortion. It is about nothing else as far as the left is concerned. They want to be able to continue uninterrupted with their behavior when it comes to abortion. Sex without consequence, life without consequence. They are scared to death that a Republican or a conservative majority is going to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Now, there are other concerns too. I mean, just the fact that a majority conservative court is enough.<\/p>\n
Nobody\u2019s talking about it. That\u2019s how you know that that\u2019s what this is really about. They cannot allow anything to happen to Roe v. Wade — and it won\u2019t. That\u2019s what\u2019s crazy about it! It won\u2019t. But is it really just this easy? That\u2019s all you have to do. A letter from somebody that can\u2019t even remember where or when or for sure with who some allegation, some activity happened. That\u2019s all it takes. How many of you would do this? My point is, this isn\u2019t normal, folks. This is not how the normal segment of the people in our country live and operate.<\/p>\n
And yet it defines, shapes, influences the way Washington, D.C., works. And it\u2019s just another add-on as to why so many people are so fed up and disgusted because all it takes is a letter that Dianne Feinstein didn\u2019t even act on immediately. And then when she did announce it, she announced it because her colleagues were gonna leak it, and the person that wrote the letter supposedly didn\u2019t want her name used, didn\u2019t want anything done with this? Well, then why send the letter in the first place?<\/p>\n
Do you think they have given one iota\u2019s thought to the impact this is gonna have on Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s life, his wife, his two kids, all of the people with whom he comes in contact? He coaches little girls in softball and basketball or whatever. He does incredible amounts of charitable work for the needy and the homeless. You think they have the slightest concern over the fact that they are trying to destroy a career and a life and a future? I can tell you right now it\u2019s not even crossed their minds.<\/p>\n
Except to the extent that if that happens, it\u2019s justified because this guy\u2019s a conservative judge, and he deserves it! He deserves to have an excrement sandwich as his life every day. That\u2019s how they look at all of this. But it really got me today when I found the woman\u2019s lawyer claiming, “It\u2019s not up to us to corroborate our charge.” (chuckling) It\u2019s not? “No! We don\u2019t have to corroborate anything!” As I said, this is just textbook. This is Harry Reid calling the press and saying, “I have a friend that told me that Mitt Romney hasn\u2019t paid his taxes in 10 years.”<\/p>\n
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And the press said, “Well, who\u2019s your friend? Where\u2019d you get this? How long ago?”<\/p>\n
Reid got mad at them. Dingy Harry got mad. “What do you mean? What are you asking me for? You need to go ask Romney why he hasn\u2019t paid his taxes in 10 years!”<\/p>\n
The press said, “Oh, yeah! You\u2019re right,” and they did.<\/p>\n
They left Harry Reid and they started chasing down Romney, wanted to know why he hadn\u2019t paid his taxes in 10 years. All it took was somebody, a phantom, anonymous letter to Harry Reid claiming that Mitt Romney hadn\u2019t paid taxes in 10 years — when, in fact, he had. Now we\u2019ve got a letter to Dianne Feinstein that arrived this past July. Nothing was done with it because the Democrats tried to keep Kavanaugh off the court using everything but it.<\/p>\n
But now it\u2019s desperation time.<\/p>\n
Plan B.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: I just checked the email. Many of you are very concerned. Let me read a sample here. We had, “Dear Mr. Limbaugh. When you just said, ‘We\u2019ve all done this. We\u2019ve all done this since high school and so forth and so on,\u2019 you better clarify what you mean. I know you were talking about underage drinking and playing spin the bottle and playing around. Yeah, but you didn\u2019t mean that we\u2019ve all held girls down against their will like this.”<\/p>\n
Of course because I don\u2019t believe that happened. That\u2019s the whole point here. We\u2019re just supposed to believe what she says because she said it and she doesn\u2019t have to corroborate it? Well, I\u2019m gonna choose to believe Kavanaugh, folks, that it didn\u2019t happen! That he doesn\u2019t remember it happening, that he thinks it\u2019s a case of mistaken identity. I don\u2019t believe it happened! That\u2019s what\u2019s driving me on this.<\/p>\n
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Of course, I do not mean to say that everybody that I knew in high school practiced habitually holding women down trying to kiss \u2019em in high school. I don\u2019t believe that happened. I was not even referring to that! I\u2019m talking about what happens when high school kids and even junior high — I don\u2019t care today or back then — had parties. We all remember things, the hormonal rages, the coming of age. But I don\u2019t believe the allegation! So I\u2019m not even talking about that.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s what happened. Maybe… I got another email. “Rush, have you stopped to think that maybe this woman really liked Kavanaugh and felt rebuffed and she\u2019s simply taking all this time to get back at him for rejecting her?” Oh, gee. How can we possibly know any of this? And if she doesn\u2019t have to corroborate any of it, then she can allege anything, and we\u2019re supposed to accept it and try to disprove what she\u2019s saying.<\/p>\n
And then she will not accept the invitation to come talk about it. Now, I don\u2019t even think that I have to make this clarification because this is my point. None of you would believe that I would come here and admit to engaging in behavior such as that charged by this woman. But we all, in high school, did things. We drank when we shouldn\u2019t. We snuck around our parents. This is part of growing up — and I\u2019m talking about the innocent kind. Don\u2019t anybody confuse things here.<\/p>\n
Kavanaugh didn\u2019t do what she\u2019s alleging. That\u2019s what I choose to believe — using intelligence guided by experience, by the way. Let me ask this. Why is it not controversial to believe what she says but very controversial to believe his denial? ‘Cause that\u2019s what I choose to believe here — and if nobody has to prove it, then what is the point? I take it back. He has to prove that it didn\u2019t happen. Do you realize how impossible that is? That\u2019s why our criminal justice system does not require that the accused prove it didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n
You accuse?<\/p>\n
You allege?<\/p>\n
You have to prove it or you\u2019re gone.<\/p>\n
Now, in the real world, as I pointed out — in court — a strategy might be, because juries are juries. Your lawyer might say, “We\u2019re gonna have to find out who really did this and we\u2019re gonna have to prove they did it as a means of getting your innocence. Even though they don\u2019t have a case beyond circumstantial, we may still have to do this \u2019cause juries are affected by prosecutors.” I understand all that. But under the rule of law, the accused has to prove. And for them to come out and say that she doesn\u2019t have to corroborate anything? Fine. I\u2019m gonna choose to accept Kavanaugh that this didn\u2019t happen because that\u2019s not what decent do.<\/p>\n
Pure and simple right?<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: So there\u2019s this Looney Toon on ABC, Matt Dowd, Matthew Dowd. He used to be a strategerist for George W. Bush. Now he\u2019s gone left. He said, “If Republicans don\u2019t believe a thousand scientists on climate change, why would they believe one woman from Palo Alto?” (laughing) These people… What a strange way to try to get people to believe you. This is absurd. All of it\u2019s absurd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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