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<\/p>\nRUSH: You see, folks? Do you see how this works? For ad infinitum — ad infinitum, for those of you in Rio Linda — we begged, we cajoled, we asked the Republicans, would you push back? Would you stop taking this and push back? And then they do! And then what happens? \u201cOh, my God. I wish they hadn\u2019t done it that way. Oh, no! I wish they hadn\u2019t stormed into the SCIF! Oh, no! I wish they hadn\u2019t done a stunt.\u201d<\/p>\n
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It wasn\u2019t a stunt, and they didn\u2019t storm into the SCIF, and they didn\u2019t take their cell phones in there. I know it\u2019s tough to stay the course, folks. But it actually isn\u2019t. I do it every day. How hard can this be? All you have to do to do this is know exactly who the Democrats are, and the left is, and let that guide you. Yeah, we got all kinds of, \u201cOh, I wish they hadn\u2019t stormed into the SCIF.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schiff is doing this charade of his in a room two floors below the street level. By the way, guess what the upshot is? You want to tell me this didn\u2019t work? Now the Democrats are saying, \u201cYou know what? We might make this public sometime around Thanksgiving.\u201d Really? You think that would have happened without this so-called “stunt”?<\/p>\n
This was not a stunt, folks. We got these Republicans and these Never Trumpers — Lindsey Graham even fell for it. He fell for the way it was characterized by the left and had to walk back his tweet. (paraphrasing) \u201cI\u2019m sorry. I misunderstood what happened. They did not storm the room and they did not behave like children,\u201d or whatever the hell it was.<\/p>\n
In one way you can\u2019t blame some of these Republicans because they are cajoled and they are urged to fight back, push back, then they do it and their own party has some people in it that betray \u2019em or rip \u2019em to shreds. It\u2019s like this business, so many Never Trumpers, oh, so many Republicans, so many in the Drive-By Media so distressed; so upset because Donald Trump happened to say that Republican Never Trumpers are a bunch of scum. \u201cOh, my God! Oh, my God! The president called some Republicans scum!\u201d<\/p>\n
Stop and think what Trump has been called. Stop and think of what you\u2019ve been called. You\u2019re called a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe every day for 30-plus years. You\u2019re called all kinds of horrible, rotten stuff every day by the media and so are the people you elect and so are the people you represent. Donald Trump has been called a traitor, he\u2019s been called a pig, he\u2019s been called an ogre, and he calls people who betray him scum. \u201cOh, my God! Oh! God! Country may not survive! Oh, my God!\u201d<\/p>\n
This is not beanbag, folks. This is the big time. This is for the real thing, and everybody getting \u2013 you know what I saw today before the program started? I\u2019m sorry to be all over the ballpark he here but I get so worked up, I\u2019ve been chomping at the bit here for a half hour and I\u2019m trying to unload a day\u2019s worth of thought here in 10 minutes so stand by.<\/p>\n
So I\u2019m watching CNN. Forgive me. It\u2019s the job. I\u2019m watching CNN, and there\u2019s an infobabe on there who has, over the years, begged me to do interviews. She\u2019s always been a big fan, and She\u2019s a Never Trumper. And I tried to figure out, there\u2019s a disconnect there. How can you like me and hate Trump? I mean, at the same time. And I finally figured it out. And I can\u2019t tell you why, but I finally figured it out.<\/p>\n
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Anyway, guess what? Guess what, folks? Oh, yeah, the testimony of Bill Taylor, this Never Trumper ambassador who came out of retirement, Sally Yates Jr., \u201cYeah, you know, his testimony, oh, my God, folks, it\u2019s reverberating. (gasping) It\u2019s reverberating! This may be it! This Taylor test, it may be the walls closing in.\u201d<\/p>\n
So I was hooked. I mean, this guy, Taylor, he may have had had everything they\u2019ve ever wanted to nail Trump. So I was riveted as she led up to what it was that he had that so reverberated. And you know what it was? And I\u2019m gonna imitate her. She\u2019s looking at the coanchor and she said, “And he confirmed he gave the best indication yet that there was a quid pro quo.”<\/p>\n
You talk about a letdown. I said, \u201cWhere\u2019s the cliff I can jump over? That\u2019s it?\u201d This guy finally had a quid pro quo. Do you know what foreign policy is, folks? Foreign policy is a quid pro quo. Foreign policy is where you cajole, you pay, you manipulate other countries to do good things for you. You pay \u2019em, you exchange ideas, any number of things. But the idea is you want quid pro quo.<\/p>\n
You don\u2019t give people money for nothing. You don\u2019t loan \u2019em money for nothing. You don\u2019t do things for them for nothing. You always do it for a reason, U.S. national interests. It\u2019s called a quid pro quo. Now all of a sudden we\u2019re gonna impeach Trump because Bill Taylor maybe has the goods that there was a quid pro quo. And this quid pro quo is all about something that\u2019s been demonstrably disproven, and that is that Trump is withholding aid to Ukraine until the president of Ukraine dug up and made up dirt on Biden.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s so old. It was CrowdStrike<\/a>. I guess that didn\u2019t go so now they\u2019re back to Biden. And, in the meantime, \u201cI wish the Republicans hadn\u2019t pulled that stunt. You know, staging stunts like that, that\u2019s just\u2026 I don\u2019t know.\u201d I sit here and I may be somewhat culpable here because I\u2019m one of the leaders of the gang asking the Republicans to do things. And then they go do it yesterday. And, “Ah, such a stunt.”<\/p>\n Such a “stunt”? What do you think this whole thing the Democrats are doing is? All of this is a stunt! It\u2019s an illusion! Do you realize from the Steele dossier forward to the Mueller investigation, all of this is a stunt? This stunt, this fake news, this nothing burger is driving cable news ratings.<\/p>\n The worst thing that\u2019s happening here is that fake news is creating an audience for cable news networks and newspapers and so forth. They\u2019ve got every incentive to keep faking news because of how this is working out for \u2019em. And they\u2019ve got a twofer because they think their fake news is gonna get rid of Trump. We\u2019re smack-dab in the middle of a stunt that is actually a coup designed to overturn the presidential election in 2016. “I wish the president hadn\u2019t said scum, ohhh no.”<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in Dallas or Texas, do you realize there\u2019s a divorced couple — I\u2019m gonna paraphrase this. I hadn\u2019t intended to mention this \u2019til the third hour. I\u2019m just gonna show you the things that are happening out there and we\u2019re upset over scum or stunts walking into the SCIF.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a divorced couple out there. The woman is a pediatrician. The husband is a \u2019til lug reprobate man. They have a 7-year-old, son. The mother says he\u2019s showing signs of wanting to be a woman. He wanted the Barbie dolls and he wanted to wear dresses. The father said he didn\u2019t want to do any of that when he was with me.<\/p>\n So guess where it is? It\u2019s in a court! And the judge assigned an LGBTQ therapist or whatever to look at the kid. The point is, the government is going to determine, not these two parents, the government, the state of Texas, and the governor Greg Abbott has spoke out against it.<\/a> The state is now going to tell, more than likely, this father has no right to participate in the raising of his child, he has nothing to say about it. So if the wife wants to turn their young son into a woman, there\u2019s nothing the father can do about it.<\/p>\n How does that sit with you? \u201cWell, Rush, you know, these things happen, custody battles, and you go to court, so forth.\u201d I know, but you want the state — this is the kind of stuff that\u2019s happening out there and it\u2019s all over. I\u2019ll give you something else. The left, for as long as we\u2019ve been paying attention, the left wants no pipelines for natural gas or for oil. They wanted to no pipelines from Alaska. They wanted no pipelines in Middle West.<\/p>\n Governor Cuomo wanted no pipelines, wanted no way to move fossil fuels into the state of New York. Guess what? There is a shortage of fossil fuels in the state of New York. There is a shortage of fossil fuels in California. Prices are rising because the left has gotten what it wanted. Limited distribution of fossil fuels. Now Governor Cuomo\u2019s trying to blame everybody but himself for the fact that they don\u2019t have adequate supplies of fossil fuels \u2019cause there\u2019s nothing but fossil fuels to power the needs of individual Americans. There\u2019s not a battery you can put on the back of a 737 Max 8 and have it fly.<\/p>\n So we\u2019re in the midst here of the left literally destroying the infrastructure of the country, the culture of the country. \u201cI wish they hadn\u2019t stormed. Oh, my God. Makes it so hard to defend. They stormed into this SCIF.\u201d What is a SCIF? Do you even know what a SCIF is? \u201cWell, I watch 24. I think I do. I wish they hadn\u2019t taken their cell phones in.\u201d<\/p>\n They didn\u2019t take their cell phones in. The media is lying to you about what the Republicans did. But there\u2019s an even bigger bug — by the way, Matt Gaetz who was one of the guys that stormed the SCIF in this unseemly stunt, went to the belly of the beast last night to PMSNBC and explained everything about this, including the testimony of now Mr. Bill Taylor.<\/p>\n It\u2019s stunning to me. First there was Christopher Steele and the Steele dossier. And then we had all of the others, we had Manafort and all these other things, all these other criminals, all this horrible stuff, Papadopoulos, all these things represented Trump corruption, Trump collusion. Where\u2019s it all now? Bye-bye, see ya, it\u2019s in the rearview mirror.<\/p>\n Now Bill Taylor, a retired brought back-to-life Never Trumper, ambassador to Ukraine, Bill Taylor has the goods on Trump? Bill Taylor had the testimony that\u2019s gonna destroy Trump? Yeah, because he reverberated out there with really close evidence of a quid pro quo. We\u2019re gonna impeach somebody over a quid pro quo.<\/p>\n You know, one of my big bugaboos for the longest time has been Twitter. Not just the fact that it is the political sewer of our country, but how it has been misappropriated and used by the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n See, in the early days of journalism, there were rules that journalists were taught at school. If you\u2019re gonna destroy somebody, make sure you get quotes from people who like the person, put a couple of those in there so they can make the story look fair. If you\u2019re gonna destroy somebody, make sure you present both sides, just a couple of sentences supporting the guy you\u2019re destroying, and you\u2019ve accomplished the mission.<\/p>\n So journalists would leave the office and go out and they would talk to people and interview them and they would make sure to find people are gonna say what they wanted \u2019em to say. They never went out to learn anything. They went out to confirm what their objective was before they even sat down to write the story. Then the fax machine was invented, and the journalist never had to leave the newsroom.<\/p>\n You could have a couple of skeletons, a couple of cadavers build themselves a logo and start sending out faxes about coconut oil, call themselves the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the media would anoint them as a leading health advocacy group in America that nobody had ever heard of. They\u2019re nothing but a bunch of leftists who want to determine who can eat what.<\/p>\n And so they became big and famous, and they literally were anorexics. They may have passed away. They may be walking cadavers now, and they\u2019re still accredited by the media and any number of other organizations sprung up. All it needed was a fax machine to fax a newsroom the latest news releases with the latest lies and statistics and facts, climate change, whatever.<\/p>\n Then social media came along, and that was even better because you know what social media is, that\u2019s not special interest groups. That\u2019s the public. And so Twitter has become a stand-in for majority public opinion. How many times do you read a story on the web or a in a newspaper, if you still do, and sprinkled in the story is a tweet or two maybe from somebody you\u2019ve heard of, but more than likely somebody you haven\u2019t?<\/p>\n It\u2019s just that whoever tweeted supposedly was really pithy. I was not talking about urination there. It\u2019s an actual word, folks. P-i-t-h-y. I don\u2019t want to have what happened to the guy who used “niggardly” talking about budgeting. Something very clever, something very, very brief and clever, and if it fits the journalist\u2019s preconceived notion, they use it even though you don\u2019t know who it is. And it\u2019s made to look like all of the country thinks the same way.<\/p>\n Twitter has become a stand-in for lazy journalists. Well, not just lazy, but biased, activist. Twitter has become a stand-in for majority public opinion. Twitter is now used by journalism to convey that what they think is the majority and that what you think is so tiny and small that nobody even ever tweets what you believe.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-011618-Anchorman.jpg\")
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<\/a>Well, the Pew Research has gone out and done some research on Twitter. You want the headline data? \u201cAlmost All Political Tweets Come from Just 10% of Twitter Users.\u201d By the way, we here at the EIB Network know all of this. We have had a lot of experience with this phony sponsor boycott stuff that\u2019s run by five or six people that use algorithms to make themselves look like tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people. It\u2019s another gigantic fraud. We\u2019re in the middle of another stunt, if you will, perpetrated by the left and the media.<\/p>\n