{"id":286325,"date":"2018-09-28T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=286325"},"modified":"2018-10-01T16:42:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T20:42:04","slug":"kavanaugh-beat-back-the-smear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/09\/28\/kavanaugh-beat-back-the-smear\/","title":{"rendered":"Kavanaugh Beat Back the Smear!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Yeah, so everybody went to bed last night and got up today thinking that the Senate committee was gonna vote at 9:30, vote the nomination out to the full Senate. Then we heard that Senator Flake decided to vote for Kavanaugh. That made it a done deal, 11-10, and then we find out the vote\u2019s not gonna be \u2019til 1:30, and it\u2019s clear that everybody wanted the biggest audience possible for it; so they waited to do it during my show.<\/p>\n

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JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

RUSH. And we are more than happy to accommodate them here, folks. If they want to conduct the the vote after four hours of speechifying Democrats, “Wah! Wah! Wah! We still want to complain about FBI more! Wah! Wah! Wah! Kavanaugh is a sloppy, fall-down drunk and I want to show pictures of his calendar, and I want to… Wah! Wah!” So Grassley said, “Well, okay.” So the vote\u2019s gonna be at 1:30, after a bunch of speechifying here. Greetings and welcome. Rush Limbaugh at 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.<\/p>\n

\"\"The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us. And it is Open Line Friday; so if you\u2019re tired of all of this and want to talk about something else, you can. That\u2019s what Open Line Friday\u2019s about. (interruption) Snerdley is shaking his head in there. Are you protesting to have…? (interruption) You…? (interruption) Let me tell you something. (interruption) Let me tell you something. There\u2019s a lot of stories out there that have nothing to do with this.<\/p>\n

Do you know that the iPhone is now a misogynist device? The iPhone, the iPhone XS Max is said to be anti-woman because it\u2019s too big. I\u2019m not making this up. There are feminist groups disguised as Apple customers complaining that the big iPhone… Even though there\u2019s all kinds of different sizes, the big iPhone is too big. It\u2019s discriminatory because it doesn\u2019t fit women\u2019s hands. (interruption) Yeah, of course you can find it in your purse easier and you can see it better.<\/p>\n

(interruption) I\u2019ve never heard of women complaining about something that they hold in their hand being too big, but they\u2019re doing it about this. That\u2019s my whole point. That news is out there. I\u2019ve been holding that news. Anyway, I\u2019m just saying if all of this has you frustrated and bored and you want to bring something else up, you can. That\u2019s what Open Line Friday is all about. I don\u2019t expect much of that. But if you want to, you can.<\/p>\n

In getting started, I want to go back to the very end of the program yesterday and I want to replay something I said. Rather than just tell you I said it, I want to go back to the program archives from yesterday and I want to play it. I got an email note from a journalist friend of mine. Actually, more than one. But at the time, I got this one. It frosted me. The email, very quickly, said, “Well, tell me what you think privately?<\/p>\n

“I think he\u2019s toast. I think… I think he\u2019s toast. I just do.” Internally, I just exploded. That kind of fatalism and defeatism is what I hate about politics. Kavanaugh had not testified yet. All we had had was Blasey Ford and her testimony and the Democrats\u2019 reaction to it, and there are already people willing to give up. “I think he\u2019s toast,” and I\u2019d heard it throughout the day. Even before Blasey Ford\u2019s testimony, I heard, “Kavanaugh\u2019s toast,” and it just made me livid.<\/p>\n

Really. I can\u2019t… I… It\u2019s not that I can\u2019t relate to it. Everybody can relate to fatalism, defeatism and that kind of thing if you get depressed about certain circumstances and how they\u2019re unfolding. But this, to me, was no time to give up, and it\u2019s certainly no time to lose faith in Kavanaugh. So this is pretty much how the program ended; therefore, many of you may not have heard it<\/a>. So I want to replay it.<\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just got an email from a guy, a journalist friend. He said, \u201cI think Kavanaugh\u2019s toast, don\u2019t you?\u201d I wrote back, \u201cNo, I do not think Kavanaugh\u2019s toast. We didn\u2019t learn anything new! We still don\u2019t know what, when, where, why.\u201d The people involved that she named all deny it in a sworn affidavit!<\/p>\n

Brett Kavanaugh can deny all this with far more certitude than she can assert it! You know, not knowing where or when supposedly makes it tough for Kavanaugh to deny it because how do you say you were never at a place that she isn\u2019t even able to name? You watch. If this were me under all these allegations, I\u2019d be livid at this. I\u2019d be livid that anybody believed it, given this many holes and given this lack of corroboration, this lack of evidence.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know where it happened. I don\u2019t know how I got home. I don\u2019t know when it was. I don\u2019t know what I told people afterwards. I\u2019ve got a bunch of Democrat lawyers offering their services to me for free.\u201d We\u2019ve got the Democrat Party running this operation! It\u2019s a shame that the Republican prosecutor didn\u2019t pull that off. That\u2019s what she was trying to do. It didn\u2019t work. So now it\u2019s up to Kavanaugh, and it\u2019s up to what two or three Republican senators think.<\/p>\n

I definitely believe he can beat this back. I don\u2019t have any doubt that he can. Whether he will, you know, that\u2019s a pressure-packed moment. But I think he can. Against this? Some say, \u201cWell, Rush, it\u2019d be a lot easier if she had named a place \u2019cause he could prove\u2026\u201d He could already prove he wasn\u2019t in the general neighborhood with his calendars! \u201cWell, that doesn\u2019t prove it, Rush.\u201d She doesn\u2019t have any either is the whole point.<\/p>\n

Do you think Kavanaugh should cry? Noooo. Some people do. Ladies and gentlemen, despite \u2014 despite all \u2014 he can beat this back. I firmly believe that. I don\u2019t think anything\u2019s over yet. I\u2019m a one of those people, I used to fall prey to my initial reactions of what I thought and felt after seeing something on TV. But I\u2019m older and wiser and far more suspicious, and I live in a current set of beliefs that the American people are wiser than normal over what they see on television. I could be dead wrong about that. But I\u2019ve got faith.<\/p>\n

END ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is why… If I may say so, that is why people listen to this program, \u2019cause when this program was over yesterday there are a lot of people who thought Kavanaugh was toast. Those intelligent, learned, experienced in following these kind of things thought he was toast. Everywhere in the Drive-By Media, they were pre-celebrating — Kavanaugh is toast — and I didn\u2019t see it at all. I didn\u2019t, and I knew that Kavanaugh could come back from this. So I simply said so. And what did we get when Kavanaugh sat down?<\/p>\n