{"id":300364,"date":"2019-02-20T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=300364"},"modified":"2019-02-21T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T21:29:00","slug":"what-andrew-mccabe-is-doing-used-to-be-called-mccarthyism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/20\/what-andrew-mccabe-is-doing-used-to-be-called-mccarthyism\/","title":{"rendered":"McCabe\u2019s McCarthyism Tour Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I have to tell you, folks, I\u2019m about at my limit of being able to absorb all of this and remain civil with this Andrew McCabe situation. This is so beyond the pale. This is just not right. And nothing, apparently, is being done about this. McCabe is still appearing on every cable news and infotainment television show that will have him, even though he is disgraced, completely, totally disgraced.<\/p>\n

He was fired from the FBI for lying to any number of sources for illegally leaking. He is at this moment being investigated by the Department of Justice for lying to the FBI. There is an inspector general report, another one, an investigation going on right now, Mr. Horowitz. That\u2019s gonna be revealed in April. And all of this raises the question, why hasn\u2019t McCabe been arrested? Why hasn\u2019t McCabe been put in solitary confinement?<\/p>\n

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What is Manafort doing in solitary confinement? What are any of these other people doing having their lives destroyed for having so-called lied to the investigators when Andrew McCabe has done exactly that and far worse? And now he is permitted to write a book furthering these lies, amplifying these lies, being given media assistance in amplifying these lies, and profiting from all of this for which any other person would have been arrested, would have been subjected to a grand jury, may have been convicted already, and put in jail.<\/p>\n

Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, any number of others that Mueller has targeted have been financially ruined over having done absolutely nothing that had anything to do with the so-called original claim here: Trump-Russia collusion, stealing an election. It is just outrageous! How come Andrew McCabe is allowed to have a Kickstarter fundraiser page? How does he get book deals? How does he get a book tour? Well, we know the answers to these questions.<\/p>\n

Most of all, why hasn\u2019t McCabe been forced to turn state\u2019s evidence and sing? Why hasn\u2019t Andrew McCabe been put under the hot lights and been forced to explain the absolute truth of what everybody has done here? Who else would be in a better position to rat on the other members of this attempted coup against Trump? We\u2019ve got Comey, John Brennan, to James Clapper, to Rod Rosenstein, to Peter Strzok Smirk, Lisa Page, Sally Yates. Why not use his process crime to put the screws to him for what surely is the biggest political crime and political hoax in U.S. history?<\/p>\n

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But, no, Andrew McCabe is being feted as a hero all over American journalism. He is allowed to profit. He was given a book advance. He\u2019s now out selling this book. And he is continuing to tell lies and defame the reputation of the president of the United States. Andrew McCabe is still out there on cable television saying, “I still think Donald Trump could be a Russian asset.”<\/p>\n

\"\"You know there\u2019s a name for this. There\u2019s a name for falsely accusing people of these kinds of crimes and activities. That term is McCarthyism. And supposedly the left hated McCarthyism, and they hate McCarthyism to this day except when it works for them. When McCarthyism works for them, look how eagerly they get behind it. Look how much they push it. Look how they promote it.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll defame anybody. The Covington High School kids<\/a>. They\u2019ll defame people that do not believe people running a hoax, like Jussie Smollett<\/a>. They\u2019ll defame anybody who did not believe Smollett\u2019s hoax from the get-go. Mueller has been doing the same thing. There hasn\u2019t been a crime indicted, a person indicted for anything having to do with what Mueller\u2019s original investigation was ostensibly all about.<\/p>\n

Now James Clapper is out on TV (imitating Clapper), “Well, you know, I can see where Trump could still be, yes, a Russian asset, but I think the Mueller Report\u2019s not gonna say that,” Clapper said, “And I think it\u2019s gonna be rather anticlimactic.” So, wait. Mueller doesn\u2019t have the goods, Mueller never has had the goods \u2019cause there aren\u2019t any goods to have, but McCabe could be right, Trump could still be a Russian spy. He could still be a Russian asset. Mueller doesn\u2019t have the data on this, but we still think that this is all possible.<\/p>\n

How is it that Andrew McCabe is free to go on TV and declare that even to this day he thinks Trump may be a Russian spy? And in the very same breath he goes on to say that Trump has undermined faith in our public institutions? Trump. Trump has undermined faith in our public institutions? This guy has single-handedly destroyed the reputation of the FBI. This guy has single-handedly called into question the fairness and the justice at the very Department of Justice. This guy is an obvious sleaze weasel when you watch him on television. He knows he\u2019s getting away with this. He knows the media is not gonna call him to account. He knows that nobody else is, either.<\/p>\n

These people are free to engage in all this because they are confident nobody is gonna do anything to them. And they have done this. This has been one of the things that has propelled them since this entire Mueller farce and all of the crap that happened before the Mueller farce got started. They have sat there arrogant and confident that there\u2019s nobody that can stop them and nobody who will stop them.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll give you evidence of this. McCabe is now claiming that he briefed the congressional leadership, the Gang of Eight, which included the GOP leadership, Devin Nunes, and Paul Ryan. McCabe claims that he briefed them on the FBI\u2019s investigation of the Trump-Russia collusion, and he says that none of them objected, none of them had any problem with it whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Now, Trey Gowdy\u2019s all over Fox saying, “That\u2019s not true.” We\u2019ll have the audio sound bite of that coming up. But I want you to think about something. I think this is entirely possible, except for Nunes. I think this is entirely possible. I think in the early days of this McCabe goes up there and he talks about this Russia investigation with Trump. And, don\u2019t forget, for the first six to nine months of Trump\u2019s first year — remember how the Republicans were not helping Trump in anything. He wanted to repeal and replace Obamacare. There was talk about shoring up border security. Trump wasn\u2019t getting any assistance whatsoever.<\/p>\n

And I remember going on Sean Hannity\u2019s television show, other TV shows and on this program observing that if we could just get three months, just get three months of the Republicans supporting Trump\u2019s agenda we\u2019d be off and running! And there wasn\u2019t any. I later learned about September of 2017 that the Republicans in Congress believed all of this. They believed that Trump was not long for the office. They believed that he had colluded with Russia. They believed the media. They believed all these FBI people. They believed Comey.<\/p>\n

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All these people had impeccable reputations. Comey before all this began was considered only number two to Mueller as having the most integrity and honor of any human being in that wretched town. So I can totally believe there might not have been any pushback from the early Republican committees when McCabe waltzes in and tells them that he believes Trump colluded with Russia. People forget after Donald Trump won this election, there was so much shock and dismay, it was heart attack creating kind of shock. Nobody expected Trump to win.<\/p>\n

I remember on the Friday after the election, Reince Priebus came in here<\/a> (well, we had him on the phone), and the first thing out of his mouth… “Okay. Okay. We get it. We get it here. No more excuses. No more excuses.” What he meant by that is, “Okay. We — we — we get it. We can\u2019t we can\u2019t blame the Democrats anymore. We\u2019ve got to accomplish things now. Our guy won. We have the Congress. We have the House. We have the Senate. We have the White House. No more excuses.”<\/p>\n

Yeah. Well, that was the Friday after the election. But it wasn\u2019t until after September of 2017 that some of the Republicans in Congress finally figured out this whole thing was a hoax. Why did it take \u2019em that long? At the center of every one of these outrageous moments in history is the media. The media is to blame, the explanation. The media is who is feared, media reaction is feared, and so media malpractice is allowed to happen day in and day out with nobody pushing back on it because they can\u2019t!<\/p>\n

The media can defame public figures all day long. The media can destroy the lives of public figures all day long. Because of a Supreme Court case, there\u2019s nothing public figures can do other than try to prove that what the media is doing is with absolute malice — meaning they are intending to destroy careers and lives — and that\u2019s a very difficult thing to prove. So most people never even try because it involves discovery and the revealing of secrets in people\u2019s lives they don\u2019t want known that may have nothing to do with the particular case.<\/p>\n

So the media has a free rein to systematically target and destroy anybody they want.\u00a0\u00a0Do you realize Sarah Palin is still being blamed on prominent websites today for the shooting of Gabby Giffords?\u00a0\u00a0Sarah Palin is still being blamed.\u00a0\u00a0I am still being held up for ridicule in so many different ways.\u00a0\u00a0I may be the most targeted, ridiculed private citizen in this generation.\u00a0That may be a bit of it contest.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m sure there are some other private citizens here regularly defamed and libeled.<\/p>\n

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But, regardless, there\u2019s nothing anybody can do about it.\u00a0\u00a0So here\u2019s McCabe running around, “Oh, yes.\u00a0\u00a0I re…” The guy is an admitted liar!\u00a0\u00a0He has no business profiting from anything that he\u2019s done.\u00a0\u00a0And he\u2019s just the first.\u00a0\u00a0Comey.\u00a0\u00a0He had a book; he\u2019s out.\u00a0\u00a0He made some money off his book.\u00a0\u00a0There will be others as this unfolds.\u00a0\u00a0But back, you know, when McCabe was first briefing Congress on this thing, why wouldn\u2019t they believe McCabe?\u00a0\u00a0At that point, the FBI was very trusted. The FBI was considered to be impeccable.<\/p>\n

Everybody\u2019s always thought that about the FBI.\u00a0\u00a0It wasn\u2019t until much later in 2017 that some of these people in Washington began to see the truth.\u00a0\u00a0But you know what?\u00a0\u00a0For even a lot of Republicans, the truth of what the FBI had done, the DOJ and Obama\u2019s people, still didn\u2019t matter.\u00a0\u00a0They hated Trump more than they hated any of that.\u00a0\u00a0Now, at some point, if there\u2019s any justice left in our legal system, if there\u2019s any justice left in our culture, someone\u2019s gonna have to shut McCabe up.<\/p>\n

Somebody on their side — Clapper, Brennan, somebody. I don\u2019t know who. Somebody\u2019s gonna have to call McCabe and tell him to shut the hell up because he is incriminating himself as a conspirator in an attempt to overthrow the government!\u00a0\u00a0He\u2019s justifying it!\u00a0\u00a0He\u2019s out there on television veritably admitting that that\u2019s what he was doing because he had reason to believe it was necessary!\u00a0\u00a0I guarantee you his co-conspirators are watching this and they\u2019re sweating.<\/p>\n

Something like this can always go wrong.\u00a0\u00a0You never know when somebody\u2019s gonna see something and considers it a big misstep, or McCabe is gonna make a misstep that people can\u2019t paper over.\u00a0\u00a0But the arrogance is plain to see all over the guy\u2019s face and in his speech and the way he speaks.\u00a0\u00a0And he is in the process of actually admitting and incriminating himself in all of this.<\/p>\n

You know, folks, the last 25 years, last quarter century of our lives, what have you, I actually see the United States in a sort of life-and-death struggle for its existence as we knew it.\u00a0\u00a0I know you\u2019ve heard me reference this a thousand times.\u00a0\u00a0I thought after the eighties — I thought after two terms of Ronaldus Magnus — that we\u2019d literally won.\u00a0\u00a0How could we not have, in my mind?\u00a0 We had just had two years of the most conservative administration ever.<\/p>\n

We had had an economic boom.\u00a0\u00a0We had wages way up; interest rates were plummeting.\u00a0\u00a0Virtually every economic mistake Jimmy Carter made was fixed.\u00a0\u00a0There were more people working than ever before.\u00a0\u00a0The Berlin Wall came down shortly after Reagan left office.\u00a0\u00a0We defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War.\u00a0\u00a0We had rebuilt our military.\u00a0\u00a0I figured, “People lived through this.\u00a0\u00a0They\u2019re going to finally see it, they\u2019re gonna see it, they\u2019re gonna trust it.”\u00a0\u00a0So why didn\u2019t that last?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve asked myself countless times, “How in the world can you have eight years where everybody alive knows that massive tax cuts led to all kinds of prosperity for everybody…? Why didn\u2019t that last?”\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ll tell you why it didn\u2019t last.\u00a0\u00a0That is when the left began to import millions of foreign nationals via illegal immigration.\u00a0\u00a0Simpson-Mazzoli 1986 granted amnesty for 3.6 million of \u2019em, and that opened the floodgates, and that\u2019s why the eighties are not remembered.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that they\u2019re not remembered; they\u2019ve just been overwhelmed and outnumbered now by people who were not alive here.\u00a0\u00a0They were living somewhere else.\u00a0\u00a0They\u2019ve been imported by the left via illegal immigration.\u00a0\u00a0Do you know that one-out-of-four citizens in California was not born in the United States?\u00a0\u00a0Twenty-five percent of the California population was not born in the United States.\u00a0\u00a0You wonder what happened to the Republican Party in California?<\/p>\n

There you go.\u00a0\u00a0The electorate has been changed.\u00a0\u00a0The makeup of our culture has been changed by way of illegal immigration, brought to us by the Democrats and a bunch of clueless Republicans who thought that all these people from Latin America, because they were Catholic, were gonna end up voting conservative. And so they were on the bandwagon for keeping borders open, for their own reasons.\u00a0\u00a0Gigantic miscalculation.\u00a0\u00a0And then Obama, in his eight years, finds ways to expand on that by making every damn person in this country who wants to be a victim.<\/p>\n

And we find ourselves where we are.<\/p>\n

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RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Here we go.\u00a0\u00a0Last night, Anderson Cooper 210 interviewing former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe.\u00a0\u00a0Cooper says, “So, do you still believe the president could be a Russian asset?”<\/p>\n

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MCCABE:\u00a0\u00a0I think it\u2019s possible.\u00a0\u00a0I think that\u2019s why we started our investigation, and I\u2019m really anxious to see where Director Mueller concludes that.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0All right.\u00a0\u00a0Now, before I comment on that (time is precious here) here\u2019s Clapper next on CNN this morning.\u00a0\u00a0Alisyn Camerota: “When you hear McCabe say it\u2019s possible the president is a ‘Russian asset,\u2019 what is your reaction?”<\/p>\n

\"\"CLAPPER:\u00a0\u00a0I would — and have — added the caveat “whether witting or unwitting.”\u00a0\u00a0And, uh, I think that\u2019s an important distinction.\u00a0\u00a0You consider Putin\u2019s background as a trained, experienced KGB agent and how he would approach somebody that he is trying to co-opt or influence or gain leverage over. In that sense, in that context is, uh, what I think of when, uh, I mean potential unwitting asset.\u00a0\u00a0I think that the hope, uhhh, is that the Mueller investigation will clear the air on this issue once and for all.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m really not sure it will, and the investigation, when completed, could turn out to be quite anti-climactic and not draw a conclusion with that.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Well, why would that be?\u00a0\u00a0Because there isn\u2019t any evidence of it!\u00a0\u00a0There never has been any evidence of it!\u00a0\u00a0So these guys… Even the Mueller report… They\u2019re leaking here. This is the next one that is not gonna have anything in it.\u00a0\u00a0This has got Adam Schiff saying, “Okay, well, then we\u2019re gonna do our own.”\u00a0\u00a0They\u2019re not gonna accept the Mueller investigation.\u00a0\u00a0They\u2019re gonna use… If it\u2019s not revealed, if there\u2019s no report, they\u2019re gonna continue to leak from it and so forth.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Andy McCabe is on television lying his head off, admitting to this conspiracy but not admitting how it started.\u00a0\u00a0He will not dare go there, because the answer to the question, “When did your investigation begin?” is the Steele dossier.\u00a0\u00a0And not even McCabe is gonna call our attention to that because everybody now knows that that was a hoax.<\/p>\n

Everybody knows that was Hillary Clinton opposition research.\u00a0\u00a0So, instead, Andy McCabe is on television saying, “I think it\u2019s possible. I think Trump is still a Russian asset.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s why we started our investigation.”\u00a0\u00a0No, it is not.\u00a0\u00a0You started your investigation because you were afraid the guy was gonna get elected.\u00a0\u00a0You intensified your investigation after he got elected.\u00a0\u00a0You knew, McCabe. You know he\u2019s not a Russian spy!<\/p>\n

You know who might have been, if we\u2019re gonna talk about that? Let\u2019s go back to Clapper.\u00a0\u00a0Clapper\u2019s covering his rear end.\u00a0\u00a0“Well, I we must include ‘unwitting\u2019 in here.”\u00a0\u00a0‘Cause even Clapper knows that Trump is not a Russian spy.\u00a0\u00a0But he can\u2019t expose McCabe.\u00a0\u00a0So he\u2019s gotta say, “Well, we got an unwitting spy,” meaning, “Trump is such a buffoon.\u00a0\u00a0He\u2019s such an idiot.\u00a0\u00a0He wouldn\u2019t even know that Putin is using him.” That is the extent of Clapper\u2019s comment.<\/p>\n

“Oh, you have to consider he\u2019s unwitting.\u00a0\u00a0Putin\u2019s a very, very smart guy, former chairman KGB.\u00a0\u00a0Nobody ever leaves the KGB.\u00a0\u00a0The KGB never gets disbanded and so forth.\u00a0\u00a0Putin knows how to recruit people who don\u2019t even know they\u2019re being recruited!”\u00a0\u00a0So Trump is this idiotic buffoon, has no idea what\u2019s happening. Trump is being used by Putin.\u00a0\u00a0You know who\u2019s a bigger unwitting dupe of Putin than Trump could ever be? It would be none other than Barack Hussein O.<\/p>\n

Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton. They were the ones that were dazzled by Putin.\u00a0\u00a0They were the ones that bent over backwards to accommodate Putin.\u00a0\u00a0Here\u2019s Obama with an open mic shortly before the 2012 election talking with the Russian foreign minister or somebody — vice president, whatever — Dmitry Medvedev and he says, “You be sure and tell Vlad I\u2019ll have a lot more flexibility after the election.”<\/p>\n