{"id":323326,"date":"2019-09-26T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=323326"},"modified":"2019-09-27T15:49:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T19:49:23","slug":"democrats-in-media-and-democrats-in-politics-collude-to-create-another-fake-scandal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/09\/26\/democrats-in-media-and-democrats-in-politics-collude-to-create-another-fake-scandal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats in Media and Democrats in Politics Collude to Create Another Fake Scandal!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So, I\u2019m sitting here, my friends, all morning long experiencing deja vu because we\u2019ve been here and we\u2019ve done that, and we\u2019re doing it over and over and over again. And I think the Democrats\u2019 plan is to have one of these phony scams, slash, scandals every month up until the next election.<\/p>\n

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This is as — what\u2019s the word? — baseless as the whole Russian collusion story was baseless. This whole whistleblower thing. You know who I think the whistleblower is? I think it\u2019s Fusion GPS. I think it\u2019s the same players. I think it\u2019s the same playbook, and it\u2019s the same play. Rather than Russian interference, now it\u2019s Ukraine, regardless, the president is meddling in the election. He meddled in the 2016 election, except that he didn\u2019t, except that there is no evidence, there never was any evidence.<\/p>\n

Every attempt to manufacture believable evidence failed. That\u2019s the key. Every effort to manufacture believable evidence failed. And yet here they are again. They did Kavanaugh version 2.0. We know that Christine Blasey Ford\u2019s best friend didn\u2019t even believe her original story. It was politically motivated. Here we are now.<\/p>\n

The way to look at what\u2019s happening today with this whistleblower report, compare the whistleblower report either to the Steele dossier or to Christine Blasey Ford coming forward. The whole thing\u2019s been manufactured. It has been planned and orchestrated between the Democrats in politics and the Democrats in media.<\/p>\n

Adam Schiff has had the whistleblower complaint since August. They have been waiting for what they think is the opportune time to unveil this because this phone call with Ukraine happened some months ago. And so this is all tied to the House deciding, Pelosi deciding to try to convince everybody that she has actually convened impeachment proceedings, which she hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m sitting here wondering, how do we deal with this? My preference would be just to ignore it and to say the Democrats are running another scam today, folks. Pay no attention to it. But everybody does pay attention to it. Everybody reacts. The three networks broomed their soap operas today in order to cover this stuff live. The whole thing is coordinated between the Democrats in the media, the Democrats in politics. Well, I should say elected Democrats and Democrats in the media.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re using the same theme, that Trump\u2019s cheating, that Trump is meddling, that Trump is a traitor, that Trump is unfit. They are prosecuting the same case over and over again, and there isn\u2019t a shred of evidence for anything they are alleging.<\/p>\n

This is what happens when you lose the House. When you lose the House, the Democrats run the House, they can run these carnivals and these parades and these scams. And the Republicans have to go along with it. And since the aggressor in any conflict sets the rules you gotta play by the rules the Democrats set.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s frustrating for somebody like me who knows exactly what this is. This is as phony as the Trump-Russia collusion story was phony. And, you know, I always ask myself, what is mainstream America thinking about this? I ask myself, does mainstream America even know about this? Is all mainstream America knows is they think Trump has been impeached?<\/p>\n

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I still believe that mainstream America, people I\u2019m talking about, people who make America work, I think that they are seething with rage out there. I think there is anger that is growing at all of this, because even people who pay moderate amounts of attention to this know that the Mueller report came up empty.<\/p>\n

Trump is still president. They did everything they could. They promised people for two years that Trump had colluded, that there was evidence, that Mueller was gonna nail him. And then, of course, nothing. That didn\u2019t happen in a vacuum. The American people know full well that there was no evidence that Trump colluded.<\/p>\n

Now, the partisan left is not mainstream America, as far as I\u2019m concerned. So they\u2019re out there thinking that Trump did collude and the Democrats are just a bunch of idiots and haven\u2019t yet found the evidence. And so they applaud scams like this that are underway to just continue the same theme.<\/p>\n

The Democrats are continuing the same theme, believing that with their coordination with Democrats in the media, that just the overwhelming amount of news on the subject that Trump cheats, that Trump colludes, that Trump meddles, that Trump tries to arrange phony outcomes to elections, they are hoping that enough of that consistently enough will finally convince enough people that Trump did it, even though there isn\u2019t a shred of evidence that Trump has done anything.<\/p>\n

In fact, the meddling that was done in Russia was done by the Democrats, and the meddling that was done in Ukraine was done by the Democrats. The Democrats, three Senators in January 2017 or 2018 asked Ukraine to look into Trump colluding with Russia! The Democrats have done everything they are alleging that Trump has done.<\/p>\n

The transcript of the call between Trump and the president of Ukraine has been released, and it\u2019s a nothing burger. There\u2019s nothing to it. The whistleblower desperately trying to remain anonymous. Doesn\u2019t want anybody to know who he or she is.<\/p>\n

I think the best way to illustrate what this is, is by actually using some sound from the hearings today. Pencil Neck Schiff is the committee chairman that is running this sham of a hearing\/investigation today. He\u2019s a congressman from California. He is the guy that colluded with comedians who called him pretending to be Russians<\/a> and told him that they had evidence on Trump. They told him they had “kompromat.” Schiff fell for it hook, line, and sinker! He sets up a meeting with these guys.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>They\u2019re nothing but a couple of comedians running a scam on him. He was more than willing to collude with them in order to dig up dirt on Trump. The man is unqualified. The man is a disgrace. He is an embarrassment. He is so literally poisoned with hatred for Donald Trump that he has lost all grounding and any pretense of substance. I want to just play a couple of audio sound bites from the hearing this morning. Now, to set this up, there\u2019s some things that you have to know. Yesterday we had a summary (kind of like a book report), a memo of the phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian president.<\/p>\n

Remember how the original reporting on that was that Trump was supposed to have talked about Biden eight times. This is what the Washington Post and the rest of the media reported. There was supposed to have been an explicit quid pro quo offered. Trump was said to have threatened Ukraine, that if they didn\u2019t dig up dirt on Biden and his son, that Trump was gonna withhold already promised American aid to Ukraine. They reported that! They reported that Trump said, “Hey, Ukraine, investigate Biden or you\u2019re not gonna get any military aid money.”<\/p>\n

All of that, the media said, came over the whistleblower; then we learn the whistleblower never heard the call! The whistleblower was told things by somebody who may have heard the call. So we have again secondhand, thirdhand, Steele dossier-type stuff here. Totally made up! What the original reporting was, was not to be found on the original summary. Then we got a transcript of the call — and again, none of what was said to have been said in that call actually was said. It was made up!<\/p>\n

We have a fake whistleblower delivering fake news for a fake impeachment investigation for fake news ratings boosts. It is deja vu all over again! We just left this party after Mueller testified. And all this phony hysteria, frankly, to me, is a little bit exhausting. But I have to deal with it. Okay. So back to the subject. The original reporting had all of these allegations that turned out to be lies, folks. The transcript of the Trump phone call with the president of Ukraine had none of the actual allegations the whistleblower made and the media made.<\/p>\n

It was all complete BS, and the media supposedly “fell for it” again. The media didn\u2019t fall for anything. The media is in the middle of it. The media is orchestrating this — and again, I think the whistleblower, you\u2019re gonna find, has ties to Fusion GPS or some organization or group related to Obama or Hillary. The same people that ran these scams: Christopher Steele, Christine Blasey Ford. Same bunch. It\u2019s why the whistleblower is desperately trying to remain anonymous. And the media?<\/p>\n

\"\"The media knew all this was not true, and they ran with it anyway, and they knew today that it was untrue, and they\u2019re running with it anyway. So now the media is reduced to reading between the lines, and now they\u2019re saying, “Well, in order to find out what Trump really said, you have to know the code that Trump uses when he speaks.” Ah, ladies and gentlemen Donald Trump doesn\u2019t speak in code. He hits you right between the eyes with what he thinks. He doesn\u2019t hide anything. He doesn\u2019t use deception.<\/p>\n

There is no codebook that you have to have to translate or decode what Trump is saying to you. This is just their attempt to cover for the fact they got caught. They got caught literally lying and making it up! They went ahead and ran this. They ran the lies of the supposed content of the phone call, and they didn\u2019t care whether it was true or not because the point is the original report is what carries the weight, what makes the first impression.<\/p>\n

Journalism is so gone, it\u2019s so out the window. There isn\u2019t any, and there certainly isn\u2019t any anywhere to be found in this story. Okay. So nothing that the whistleblower said is true; nothing that the media reported about the phone call is true. Let\u2019s go to Adam Schiff. This is actual audio of Adam Schiff\u2019s actual words in his actual opening statement today, which was televised on all three cable networks and all three broadcast news networks. Listen to this…<\/p>\n

SCHIFF: And so what happened on that call? Zelensky begins by ingratiating himself, and he tries to enlist the support of the president. He expresses his interest in meeting with the president and says his country wants to acquire more weapons from us to defend itself. And what is the president\u2019s response? Well, it reads like a classic organized crime shakedown. Shorn of its rambling character — and in not so many words — this is the essence of what the president communicates: “We\u2019ve been very good to your country, very good. No other country has done as much as we have. But you know what? I don\u2019t see much reciprocity here. I hear what you want. I have a favor I want from you, though — and I\u2019m gonna say this only seven times, so you better listen good.”<\/p>\n