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<\/a>Why does the New York Times have any credibility left at all? They\u2019re not journalists anymore. They\u2019re nothing but left-wing activists. Even Andrew Sullivan has had to sadly come to this realization. There\u2019s no journalism at The New York Times. The New York Times is nothing more than activism leading the Democrat Party.<\/p>\nAnyway, greetings, folks, I\u2019m glad to have you here. See, I\u2019m gonna have trouble with this. Snerdley came in today, \u201cRush, I grew up reading the New York Times. I can\u2019t believe what they did.\u201d I looked at him, \u201cYou can\u2019t believe what they did? This is what they do every day! There\u2019s nothing unusual about this. They lie about us. They lie about conservatives every day. I predicted when Kavanaugh was confirmed that this was gonna keep happening. I\u2019ll go back and play you the sound bite if you want.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, why would the New York Times risk their reputation?\u201d Their reputation is not damaged on their side of the aisle. You think CNN is gonna stop reporting what the New York Times says? You think any editor at MSNBC, Washington Post, LA Times, you think they\u2019re gonna doubt the New York Times going forward? Hell, no! Whatever the New York Times says they\u2019re gonna repeat it! And if the Times has to correct it, then fine, let \u2019em correct it, we\u2019ll move on.<\/p>\n
As far as I\u2019m concerned, all bets are off. This two and a half year coup that the New York Times led in conjunction with Obama administration officials has eliminated any possibility on my part that I will ever be surprised by what they do. Now, if you have been living in a cave and don\u2019t know what this is about, it\u2019s not complicated.<\/p>\n
There are a couple people with a book, and they want to sell the book. And in the book there\u2019s somebody that remembers that Kavanaugh did some bad sexual stuff to a woman, just happens to remember it. So they\u2019re running with it as though it\u2019s a brand-new, actually proven story. They knew that the woman about whom this story is can\u2019t remember it. The woman has no memory of it happening. This is in the book that they\u2019re promoting, and the New York Times knew it. They just left it out of the story.<\/p>\n
Now they\u2019re trying to say, \u201cOops. We screwed up. We\u2019re sorry.\u201d They didn\u2019t screw up anything! They\u2019re trying to destroy the man like they\u2019re trying to destroy Donald Trump, like they\u2019re trying to destroy everybody in opposition to the American left today. Have any of the presidential candidates who glommed onto this story, have they pulled back on it? Have they said, \u201cOops, sorry, we didn\u2019t know the Times story was false?\u201d<\/p>\n
No. They\u2019re still running with it. They\u2019re demanding that Kavanaugh be impeached. Because this is mission accomplished. I knew it was bad. I knew it was bad when I started getting emails from friends of mine, \u201cRush, even Morning Joe is ripping the New York Times.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Morning Joe is our barometer now? It\u2019s worse than I thought. A show that nobody outside Washington watches is our barometer now? So if Morning Joe is criticizing New York Times, we somehow are winning? Count me out. We have got such a screwball definition of winning. When one irrelevant media outlet criticizes the New York Times we think progress?<\/p>\n
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I got another note from a friend. \u201cRush, even with our low expectations for the Times, this is really amazing what they did to Kavanaugh.\u201d No, it isn\u2019t! It is not amazing. It\u2019s predictable! It\u2019s not amazing. It isn\u2019t surprising. It should have been expected and greeted when it happened accordingly.<\/p>\n
My friend says, \u201cImagine a story so shoddy and suspect that even the Washington Post wouldn\u2019t touch it.\u201d Well, how many times has the Washington Post done stuff like this that the New York Times didn\u2019t touch? They trade off. The point is that Brett Kavanaugh is a rapist, a serial rapist, a sexual abuser is out there now. And lest anybody not have figured out what this is all about, let me tell you.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s about two things. The word “impeachment” because now the Democrat presidential candidates are demanding Kavanaugh be impeached even though the Times has, quote, unquote, corrected their story and they have included the fact that the woman doesn\u2019t even remember it. But are the Democrat candidates pulling back on their call for impeachment of Kavanaugh? No. They\u2019re demanding another investigation because it\u2019s got the word “impeachment” in it, and that leads to Trump.<\/p>\n
The next thing that\u2019s gonna happen — well, there\u2019s two — one of two things, maybe both. They\u2019re trying to scare, intimidate Kavanaugh into voting with the libs on the court as a means of stopping this, which will not work. More than likely what\u2019s gonna happen here, the purpose of this is to discredit everything Kavanaugh does from this day forward on the bench. Let me explain to you how that\u2019s gonna happen.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court has a ruling on guns, the Supreme Court has a ruling on abortion, the Supreme Court has a ruling on anything, and the majority is conservatives, and Kavanaugh joins the conservatives. Every story about Kavanaugh, “Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Supreme Court justice who sided with the majority here, is often accused of sexual abuse and rape over the course of his college life.” That\u2019s gonna be in every story reporting on Kavanaugh\u2019s every ruling. Mission accomplished, is what this is!<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t embarrassing for the New York Times! They\u2019re in their editor\u2019s newsroom rubbing their hands together and saying, “We did it again!” Have they lost any subscriptions? Have any left-wing, lunatic base members been so outraged and offended by what the New York Times did to Brett Kavanaugh that they\u2019re canceling? “No, Rush, no, but what about their reputation?” Their reputation! Can you tell me why do they still have one after 2-1\/2 years of lying through their teeth every day about Trump colluding with Russia?<\/p>\n
Reputation? When did they last care about that? They\u2019ve been living off a representation they don\u2019t deserve for at least 2-1\/2 years if not longer, and they\u2019re not bothered by it. Have they apologized for getting any of that wrong? Have they apologized for misleading their audience, their readers into believing that Trump colluded with Russia? No! They\u2019re still trying to find evidence for it. Okay. So Mueller bombed out; the Obama DOJ and FBI guys bombed out.<\/p>\n
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Now Nadler\u2019s trying to get it. They haven\u2019t given up on any of this. They don\u2019t feel sorry about it. They haven\u2019t done a mea culpa. They haven\u2019t asked forgiveness. They haven\u2019t tried to correct the record. As far as the New York Times is concerned, Trump is still not fit to be alive, certainly not fit to be president — and they\u2019re gonna not stop until they are able to get him out of office, one way or the other. They\u2019re also sending a signal to any other conservative judge, “You don\u2019t want this. You don\u2019t want us reporting on you.<\/p>\n
“Don\u2019t accept the nomination. When Ruth Bader Ginsburg passes away and there\u2019s an opening on the court and Trump calls you, don\u2019t accept it, \u2019cause this is what we\u2019re gonna do to you.” This is all part of a plan that is designed to intimidate, scare, frighten conservative judges into not taking the gig. It\u2019s all about making Kavanaugh maybe even want to quit the gig. It\u2019s all about destroying Kavanaugh like they\u2019re trying to destroy Trump each and every day, and there aren\u2019t very many people who have as thick a skin as Trump does who could put up with this.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sorry, folks. I can\u2019t join the chorus of people shocked and saddened by what the Times has done here \u2019cause I\u2019m not shocked by any of it, and I\u2019m not saddened by it. I\u2019m ticked off that everybody seems to think the Times screwed up here! It just tells me how hard the job going forward is going to be in continuing to educate people about the media, who they are today, what their objective is, and how they don\u2019t do news. There isn\u2019t any news in journalism today because there isn\u2019t any journalism in the upper echelons of Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n
This is just absolutely classic. All over CNN, “Democrat Presidential Candidates Demand Investigation of Kavanaugh…” Wait, wait, wait, wait. The New York Times has issued a correction. The woman involved doesn\u2019t know. They can\u2019t confirm the story. “Doesn\u2019t matter! Kavanaugh is still a reprobate. We need him out. We need a further investigation.” They\u2019re doubling down on it. They got the original report, which is all that matters. The “correction,” as you know, nobody pays attention to it. Nobody hears it. It doesn\u2019t have nearly the weight as the original story.<\/p>\n
The New York Times knows this. They\u2019re selling a book, and it worked like a charm. I got up yesterday morning, I look at the Drudge Report, and there it is. “Kavanaugh raped somebody else,” whatever the details were. I didn\u2019t even click on the link. I knew exactly what it was. Bogus, made up. They\u2019re still ticked off that Christine Blasey Ford blew it! They can\u2019t believe that they were on the way to getting Kavanaugh kicked out, making sure he wasn\u2019t confirmed, and Blasey Ford blew it by trying to act like a 16-year-old when she was on the witness stand. (impression)<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m so… (mewling) I\u2019m so… I\u2019m so… I can barely see the sunlight (sobbing) the way I\u2019m feeling! (wailing) Bret Kavanaugh\u2019s…” It didn\u2019t work, and so they\u2019re back at it again. And you know what? Can I tell you what\u2019s even crazier? I haven\u2019t commented on this \u2019cause I\u2019ve been holding it in reserve, but Kavanaugh\u2019s had a couple of rulings here that have been with the left. Kavanaugh\u2019s had a couple of you Supreme Court rulings that joined the liberals, and it caused a lot of people to raise their eyebrows. Not me, \u2019cause I know what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n
I know what Washington conservatives do. They sue for peace. Okay, the media, the left, Washington establishment tried to destroy Kavanaugh. He doesn\u2019t want that. He wants these people to least accept him! So he throws them a couple of bones, rules with them, and it may have been his genuine legal thinking anyway. But it didn\u2019t matter, did it? The fact that Kavanaugh has ruled with the libs twice still hasn\u2019t gotten that Washington Post Style section puff piece, has it? No! The New York Times is out trying to destroy him again.<\/p>\n
“Hey, Rush, did you see that Morning Joe\u2019s even ripping the New York Times?”<\/p>\n
“No, I didn\u2019t see that. That\u2019s big, huh? Morning Joe\u2019s ripping the New York Times?”<\/p>\n
“Well, yeah, it means it\u2019s really bad.”<\/p>\n
“Really bad, eh? Really, really bad out there, eh?”<\/p>\n
Again, I ask… This is outrageous what they did to the guy and what they\u2019re doing to him. But this is, what, a one- or two-day thing? It\u2019s been 2-1\/2 years, folks, of flat-out lying, making it up — false, phony quotes from anonymous, probably nonexistent sources — assuring the people of this country that their last presidential election was illegitimate because Russians meddled in it and succeeded in reelected Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
There isn\u2019t any media accountability. I don\u2019t know how you do it, other than cancel the subscription to \u2019em and they don\u2019t care about that. The New York Times is sitting there with an audience you could put in a thimble and it\u2019s not changing the way they go about their business. So how do you hold the media accountable? One of the ways you hold \u2019em accountable is to wake up and understand that it isn\u2019t media. It\u2019s left-wing Democrat Party activism!<\/p>\n We\u2019ve got audio sound bites to back some of this stuff up, quotes from all kinds of people saying, “This is really bad. Kavanaugh\u2019s gotta go,” even after the New York Times issues its, “Oh, I\u2019m sorry. We failed to include that the woman doesn\u2019t remember anything like this.” If the woman doesn\u2019t remember anything, how did this become a story? Well, because some “credible source” told the New York Times it had happened to her. Fine. But the New York Times knows that she doesn\u2019t remember it.<\/p>\n Therefore, she can\u2019t confirm it. Therefore, it didn\u2019t happen, in the world of journalism. But in the world of left-wing activism where all you need\u2019s an allegation? Why, it happened! So the New York Times is not apologizing for the story. They\u2019re apologizing for leaving out something that may not even be relevant as far as they\u2019re concerned. The woman involved can\u2019t remember. “That\u2019s how bad it was! That\u2019s how traumatic it was. She can\u2019t even remember it.” That\u2019s gonna be the play going forward.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: The guy behind this story is a guy named Max Stier<\/a>. His name is spelled S-t-i-e-r. The Washington Post, when they get around to writing about that, mentions that this is the impetus. Max Stier is the guy behind the story. He\u2019s behind the whole thing. And guess what? He was at Yale with Kavanaugh. (Gasp!) “Wow, Rush, he must have inside information.” Well, let me tell you what nobody is reporting, even though they know this. The New York Times knows this. The Washington Post knows this.<\/p>\n Max Stier, who is behind this latest bogus attempt to paint Kavanaugh as some serious sexual abuser, was working for Clinton when Kavanaugh was on the Starr investigation. So Ken Starr is investigating the Lewinsky thing, which led to Clinton losing his law license because he was lying under oath and suborning perjury (trying to get other people to lie). Max Stier, who went to Yale with Kavanaugh, was working for Clinton during the Starr investigation on which Kavanaugh was an investigative member. You think there isn\u2019t a little payback going on?<\/p>\n I mean, there\u2019s clear enough evidence to do so. But the media is “the media,” and everybody\u2019s grown up thinking that what\u2019s in the newspaper is the truth. Journalists are playing off that, living off that for I don\u2019t know how long. All I can tell you, folks, is that I am not surprised. I\u2019m not disappointed. I\u2019m not in the group that thinks, “Why would the New York Times do this? Why would they knowingly print something so egregiously wrong, knowing there was evidence?” Because the point is not whether it\u2019s true! The point is whether it works as a smear!<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: This guy Max Stier, my friends, he won\u2019t even publicly say what he supposedly has told others. He\u2019s living out there in the world of anonymity. You have to look long and hard to find out that this guy has a direct connection to Kavanaugh from the old Starr Report days. PJ Media has it,<\/a> but CNN\u2019s not gonna be talking about it, and the Washington Post isn\u2019t gonna be talking about it. You have to dig that out yourself.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: I want to stick with the Kavanaugh stuff here for just a few more minutes and we\u2019ll get to your phone calls. I want to take you back to October 9th of last year. October 9th, 2018.<\/a> This is the day that Kavanaugh took the oath as a member of the Supreme Court of the United States.<\/p>\n RUSH ARCHIVE: Normally when you get to the ceremonial swearing-in, you follow the script and all of that is in the past. It\u2019s not to be referenced again. The fight is over; everybody acknowledges that the result is the result and we\u2019re moving forward. Except that\u2019s not the way it is anymore! The Democrats are not stopping.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-FEDERALIST-TEARAWAY-091619.jpg\")
<\/a>For 2-1\/2 years! Where is the outrage today over that? You know, Mollie Hemingway and some people over at The Federalist<\/a> website had a great piece today on this whole Kavanaugh thing saying the media must be held accountable for what they are doing to Kavanaugh. They must be held accountable for all of it, for lying about Trump putting kids in cages, for lying about Trump and his travel ban, for lying about Trump on virtually everything they report on the guy.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RushStack-Newspaper-Reading.jpg\")
And the media knows this. But they don\u2019t report that because they purposely do not want any of their readers to think that Max Stier might be motivated here by something other than truth, other than the facts of the story. And then we come to find out that the woman cannot even remember the event. I tell you, this is totally a media story. It\u2019s completely a teachable moment, and it does reinforce for me maybe how impossible it is to finally achieve the level at which people just instinctively doubt what the New York Times says.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The fight\u2019s not over to them. The Democrats are openly promising to impeach Kavanaugh. They\u2019re openly promising to continue to investigate Kavanaugh. They are openly talking about the packing the court if they win the House of Representatives, to nullify the power Kavanaugh has as the fifth so-called conservative justice on the court. They\u2019re not pulling back at all. This isn\u2019t anywhere over.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/APP-092718-Blasey-Ford-009.jpg\")
I don\u2019t detect any embarrassment. I don\u2019t detect any concern. I don\u2019t detect any one of these people worried that they are spreading fake news. No, because the objective has been met. The New York Times ran a story trading off their credibility as journalists, which they\u2019re not anymore. But not only was Christine Blasey Ford right, but there were other women that are just now being learned about and coming forward, except they can\u2019t remember anything.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-100918-Kavanaugh-Trump-Swearing-In.jpg\")
RUSH: So you see, the plan has already been formulated. They\u2019re gonna impeach Kavanaugh if they win the White House. They\u2019re just gonna get rid of him. This is all part of that! I mean, here\u2019s Ron Brownstein, Democrat in the media. “Oh, yeah, if the Democrats win the House, the presidency, and maybe even the Senate? Yeah, yeah! Damn right. The guy perjured himself,” which he didn\u2019t, “and we\u2019re gonna impeach him!” So this New York Times story is all part of a previously conceived strategy, folks.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ZZ-APP-Rush-SCOTUS-013.jpg\")
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HIRONO: What do we do now, is what I called for, which is for the House to begin an impeachment inquiry. So during the time of the Kavanaugh hearings when these allegations came to light — especially the one of, of course, Dr. Ford, but Debbie Ramirez, her attorneys let the FBI know that there were 25 potential corroborating witnesses, none of whom the FBI talked to in their so-called supplemental — what I call sham — investigation. These are not normal times. So I would ask the House Judiciary Committee to begin impeachment inquiry so that we can get to the bottom of whether or not Kavanaugh lied to Congress, specifically to the Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/APP-091818-Kavanaugh-22.jpg\")
But he\u2019s got no evidence for it. So all these Democrat candidates are now demanding that Kavanaugh be investigated and impeached. Investigated? That\u2019s all there has been ever since Blasey Ford came forward! The FBI has done background checks after background checks. So you see, this isn\u2019t… As was the case with Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, this is not about the nature of the evidence, folks. It\u2019s about the seriousness of the charge.<\/p>\n