{"id":348143,"date":"2020-05-11T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=348143"},"modified":"2020-05-12T16:05:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:05:14","slug":"it-was-more-than-fake-news-it-was-an-attempted-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/05\/11\/it-was-more-than-fake-news-it-was-an-attempted-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"It Was More Than Fake News. It Was an Attempted Coup."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I got a question for you. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1259687971650973696\">Mollie Hemingway has tweeted something that we\u2019re all asking<\/a>. In fact, I\u2019ve asked myself this question since I\u2019ve been hosting this show. Let me read her tweeted pregunta to you. &#8220;What is the appropriate remedy or response for the years of fake news being peddled by most of major media?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1259687971650973696\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-348098 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-051120-Tweet-Mollie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-051120-Tweet-Mollie.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-051120-Tweet-Mollie-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-051120-Tweet-Mollie-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They\u2019ve caused major damage to domestic health and foreign relations. They are continuing the fake news even now. What can be done? What should be done?&#8221; I\u2019d like to go further in characterizing this. The mainstream media is not media. It is a political activist organization which somehow has finagled First Amendment protections.<\/p>\n<p>They are not media. They disguise themselves as journalists. They claim the work they\u2019re doing is journalism, but it isn\u2019t. Stop and think. Victor Davis Hanson\u2019s point in his piece today is this is so outrageous &#8212; the crimes that are occurring around this by our government and by our political class, by the bureaucracy, by the administrative state, by foreign countries.<\/p>\n<p>The crimes are so massive that we can\u2019t possibly get our arms around it. We can\u2019t comprehend it. We don\u2019t know what to do about it. And in the case of this&#8230; Look at what they\u2019ve done. She doesn\u2019t quite get to the nub of it. This is more than fake news. This is a full-fledged&#8230; The only way to describe this is to call it what it was: This is a coup attempt.<\/p>\n<p>This was an attempt hatched in the Obama Oval Office to sabotage a duly elected president. And the primary tool for disseminating and executing this coup was the U.S. media. The DOJ can be doing all they wanted. The intelligence community could do all they want.<\/p>\n<p>But if the media weren\u2019t willing to spread their lies, if the media were not willing to openly attempt to destroy people, then it would have taken a little bit longer. The DOJ could have done it by themselves, but without the media legitimizing it? How does a fake organization like today\u2019s news media legitimize anything?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-303775\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-032519-Russia-Hoax.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-032519-Russia-Hoax.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-032519-Russia-Hoax-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But they do, because, what, statistically half the people in the country don\u2019t recognize the media for what it is and what it isn\u2019t? It isn\u2019t media. It isn\u2019t journalism. It isn\u2019t anything you think it is. It exists for one another reason: Advance the cause of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>Whether that\u2019s socialism or communism or fascism or Marxism or whatever it is, that is their objective because that is who they are. And, of course, there are ancillary objectives. To do that requires the destruction of the enemies of the Democrat Party or the communists and socialists or what have you. So the American media routinely sides with Communist China.<\/p>\n<p>Because that\u2019s the preference for the Democrat Party, because the objective, the immediate objective here and for the last two and a half years has been to get rid of Donald Trump. And whatever news event has happened or whatever event that has happened that they haven\u2019t orchestrated or that they have has been in service to that objective.<\/p>\n<p>So the coronavirus is the latest &#8212; we\u2019ll give \u2019em the benefit of the doubt. We\u2019ll say this thing just happened. Pandemics happen. Viruses happen. They come up. They spread. In this case the American left has taken full advantage of it and is willing to cause pain and suffering to literally hundreds of millions of people in service of their political objective, getting rid of Donald Trump. Her question, what\u2019s to be done? We now know &#8212; and, by the way, where is the outrage?<\/p>\n<p>The American people should know they\u2019ve been lied to for three years. The American people were set up. The American people were promised that Donald Trump stole the election, he\u2019s a Russian agent, that he colluded. They were told this over and over again. The people that listen to mainstream media could not doubt it. The Mueller report comes out, &#8220;Sorry. We didn\u2019t find anything.&#8221; Why does the media have any reputation left? But beyond that her question is what\u2019s the remedy, what\u2019s the accountability?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-348127\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-051120-Rush-News-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-051120-Rush-News-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-051120-Rush-News-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-051120-Rush-News-1-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>They have First Amendment protection. In terms of business, the coronavirus is wiping out a lot of journalism. It\u2019s wiping out publication journalism. It\u2019s wiping out news magazines and newspapers of all sizes. Advertising revenue is way, way down. It doesn\u2019t seem to be causing any problem. They\u2019re losing audience in a lot of places. It doesn\u2019t seem to be a factor.<\/p>\n<p>So I don\u2019t pretend to have the answer. I don\u2019t know what the accountability is. Can\u2019t put \u2019em in jail. They\u2019re protected by the First Amendment. They can say whatever they want. They are free press. But they\u2019re not media. They work for organizations that we think are media &#8212; ABC News, NBC News, CBS News. But that\u2019s not what the American people get.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on where you look today, depending on what network you watch, depending on what Web page you visit, you could be forgiven if you, at the end of the day, think that the world is about to end and it\u2019s about over, that everybody\u2019s gonna lose everything by the end of the month. You have no hope of surviving this. Even though we\u2019re gonna keep your economy locked down and shut down to protect you from it, there\u2019s no way you\u2019re gonna be protected from it. You\u2019re not gonna survive. You\u2019re gonna get sick, you\u2019re gonna die. If that doesn\u2019t happen, you\u2019re gonna lose everything else you\u2019ve got. This is the narrative. This is the tone. Of the news.<\/p>\n<p>There ought to be a price paid for this, but what would the price be?<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Folks, here\u2019s a minor example, very minor example of what I\u2019m talking about with the media. This story, by the way, today is intended &#8212; it\u2019s a New York Times story &#8212; it\u2019s intended to shock and scare everybody. The headline of the story: &#8220;U.S. to Accuse China of Trying to Hack Vaccine Data, as Virus Redirects Cyberattacks &#8212; The F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security are preparing to issue a warning that China\u2019s most skilled hackers and spies are working to steal American research in the crash effort to develop vaccines and treatments for the coronavirus. The efforts are part of a surge in cybertheft and attacks by nations seeking advantage in the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The State Department on Friday described a Chinese Twitter campaign to push false narratives and propaganda about the virus. Twitter executives have pushed back on the agency, noting that some of the Twitter accounts that the State Department cited were actually critical of Chinese state narratives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-289894\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-102518-Rush-BIG-VOICE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-102518-Rush-BIG-VOICE.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-102518-Rush-BIG-VOICE-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t news, that the Chinese try to hack our computer networks and systems? Nothing about this is news. And we are constantly trying to hack them. And the Soviets, the Russians are constantly trying to hack us. &#8220;U.S. to Accuse China of Trying to Hack Vaccine Data, as Virus Redirects Cyberattacks.&#8221; So the Chinese are working to steal our research. And you\u2019re supposed to be scared because you\u2019re supposed to think the Chinese are gonna get away with it because Trump is such an idiot, that Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing, that the Trump administration is gonna sit there and be made fools of. The ChiComs are gonna come in and they\u2019re gonna steal all of our research.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese, the North Koreans, the South Koreans, the Israelis, the Iranians, the Russians, the Cubans, take your pick, we are cyberattacked by nations every day, countless times. It\u2019s an ongoing &#8212; and we\u2019re doing the same to them. There\u2019s nothing newsworthy about this. And yet this is a gigantic above-the-fold story that is supposed to frighten you. I can\u2019t even figure out why they think this is gonna scare people, but maybe it\u2019ll come to me.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Tom, Tom in Providence, Rhode Island. Great to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thanks for having me.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Rush, you just said 43 million?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s 43.5 million, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay, 43.5 million. I hope they\u2019re all listening, because earlier you said that we cannot go after Obama? We have to go after Obama. We have to get on the news. I\u2019m listening to Graham and these other guys. They\u2019re all mushy. We have got to address this thing. Do not let Barr and Durham\u2019s work go for naught. That\u2019s what I wanted to say.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Well, I appreciate the call. A lot of people are of that opinion, that somehow we have to hold these people accountable. But a lot of people are asking, in the case of the media, &#8220;How?&#8221; Now, as for Barr and Durham&#8230; See, I mentioned a moment ago that I think Barr is serious about this. I think he\u2019s serious about eradicating the assaults on religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-347970\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ObamaOvalAPP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ObamaOvalAPP.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ObamaOvalAPP-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ObamaOvalAPP-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>But I think Barr is probably more motivated to expose and to hold accountable the people that participated in this coup than anybody probably understands. Now, there\u2019s a story here from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/durham-moving-full-throttle-on-russia-probe-review-with-top-federal-prosecutors-involved-sources\">Fox News: &#8220;Durham Moving &#8216;Full-Throttle\u2019 on Russia Probe Review, Top Federal Prosecutors Involved,&#8221;<\/a> and let me give you a couple of pull quotes from the story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two sources told Fox News that Jeff Jensen, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri who was tapped by the Justice Department in February to review the case of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn,&#8221; his work is done there, &#8220;is continuing to help with Durham\u2019s investigation even after the DOJ\u2019s move last week to drop the case against Flynn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sources told Fox News that interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Timothy Shea is also assisting with components of the investigation.&#8221; Another pull quote from this story: &#8220;The Justice Department declined to comment on Jensen and Shea\u2019s involvement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any indication that Durham could be building a case against anyone involved in the original Russia probe, however, is sure to inflame tensions between the Trump administration and congressional Democrats &#8212; who already are ramping up accusations that these Justice Department reviews have become politicized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You know, the first thing that needs to happen is stop worrying about what the Democrats say. It\u2019s predictable! We know what they\u2019re gonna say. We know we\u2019re gonna object to it. We know they\u2019re gonna oppose it. We know they\u2019re gonna mischaracterize it. Just ignore them! (grumbling) &#8220;Well, yes, we know, Rush. The Democrats are already &#8216;ramping up accusations\u2019 that these reviews have become&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2020\/05\/11\/f-chuck-todd-purposely-lied-about-bill-barr\/\">Like Chuck Todd tried to do to Barr?<\/a> Believe me, that\u2019s only gonna egg Barr on more. &#8220;&#8216;Barr talks to Durham every day,\u2019 one source recently told Fox News. &#8216;The president has been briefed that the case is being pursued, and it\u2019s serious.'&#8221; Yeah, I know what you\u2019re all thinking. The perfect time for all this to drop would be sometime in October, for these indictments to be announced right before the election.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-330156 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120319-Barr-Durham-x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120319-Barr-Durham-x.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120319-Barr-Durham-x-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But even if the timing is not what you want it to be, I know that everybody is demanding that there be accountability for this, \u2019cause it really was a coup. There was an effort to reverse the election results, and it was based on nothing true. It\u2019s just scandalous. I think Barr is the perfect guy to be running this show because I think he\u2019s dead serious about it &#8212; and, by the way, that\u2019s been proven out over time.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Dave in Allentown, Pennsylvania. You\u2019re next, sir. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: How you doin\u2019, Rush?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Pretty good. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Good. Just real quick &#8212; I know I have to get to my point, but &#8212; the people here, the conservatives in the Lehigh Valley, are all praying for you; they love you. I hear it all the time in the morning shows.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-348216\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-051120-Grqab-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-051120-Grqab-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-051120-Grqab-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-051120-Grqab-3-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>CALLER: On a personal note, that blue shirt you\u2019re wearing looks great on you. But, anyway, getting to my point.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/join-rush-247\/\">He\u2019s watching on the Dittocam<\/a>, for those of you wondering how he can know on a radio show what kind of shirt I\u2019m wearing.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes. It\u2019s the only way to listen to your show, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You like the matching watchband here?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I love it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Look at that. Yeah. Stylish. Stylish is what that is. I care. I care. Most people, in the morning, they throw it together. Most radio people are slobs, \u2019cause they know nobody\u2019s gonna ever see \u2019em, but I can\u2019t afford that since there\u2019s this camera here.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (chuckles)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So I have to be stylish.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right. (chuckling) But, anyway, they went way out of their way to keep Candidate Trump from getting to the presidency. They went out of their way so far that they put a general in jail. So my question is, &#8220;How far on the other side did they go to hide the corruption of Hillary Clinton?&#8221; because it goes hand in hand. If they did one, they had to do the other.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, but we kind of know how far they went to exonerate Hillary.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right. But now it\u2019s not just speculation; everyone knows it. Now what are they gonna do about it?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, what do you mean, &#8220;they&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well the Justice Department!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s&#8230; So you mean Barr, what\u2019s Barr gonna do?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Barr. What are they gonna do? I mean, they know what they did. They know.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, they\u2019re investigating it all. They\u2019ve got a grand jury going. I think the effort is to hold them accountable.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I hope so. I really do. They can\u2019t get away with it because these people think they are above the law.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is the point. I don\u2019t mean to be a downer here. They have gotten away with it. That\u2019s why everybody\u2019s so ticked off. They did get away with it. Even though they got caught, we all know what happened. They\u2019re still lying on TV every day about there being collusion. They\u2019re still on TV lying about Trump stealing the election. They got caught. Yet, \u2019cause everybody knows what happened, but half the country doesn\u2019t if they believe mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-299837\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021419-Silent-Coup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021419-Silent-Coup.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021419-Silent-Coup-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>But these people screwed up who knows how much. We lost the midterms. They caused bunch Republicans to retire and resign, which led to us losing the House in 2018. Who knows the damage they\u2019ve done to the Trump agenda, the Trump family, who knows what. I mean, I don\u2019t care what you think of Trump and how tough he is, this is inhumane what this family has been put through, and it\u2019s still going on. It\u2019s still taking place. Just substitute coronavirus for Trump-Russia collusion, the way it\u2019s being dealt with and the way it\u2019s being handled.<\/p>\n<p>So they have gotten away with it. That\u2019s why everybody\u2019s ticked off. We now know what happened, and they\u2019re still roaming free and they\u2019re still on CNN lying through their teeth every night about what they did. And they\u2019re basically laughing in our faces over it. And people are rightfully asking, &#8220;What good is a justice system that looks the other way and exonerates those at the very top of that very system who have politicized it and used it to advance their own political objectives while ruining fellow citizens who hadn\u2019t done anything wrong? If they can get away with it with no accountability, what good is the system of justice?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If the American people collectively think that people in the Washington political class in the administrative state are gonna get away with whatever they do, then you\u2019re gonna have a steady erosion that\u2019s just gonna snowball. Lack of interest in government, lack of concern for it, lack of belief in it. I think this has been going on for a while even before this kind of thing hit.<\/p>\n<p>As I say, remember, while all this was going on, all of this lying, stinking collusion stuff, there were Republicans who knew for the last year that Democrats and the intelligence people were testifying that they had never seen a shred of evidence. And yet were going on television every night lying about it. There wasn\u2019t one leak. There wasn\u2019t one Republican who dared point out and dared try to stop it. Not one. So people are saying we can\u2019t even depend on our own party to defend us or itself. The frustration here is mounting over all this. And, &#8220;Justice Department\u2019s gotta do something.&#8221; Right. The Justice Department did do something. They ran the coup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: This was an attempt hatched in the Obama Oval Office to sabotage a duly elected president. And the primary tool for disseminating and executing this coup was the U.S. media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":289894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It Was More Than Fake News. 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