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<\/p>\nRUSH: Now, Andy McCarthy was on Fox moments ago with Ed Henry. And Henry said, “The chase has taken some weird turns. You think General Flynn\u2019s finally won this thing?”<\/p>\n
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MCCARTHY: My only advice to the people who\u2019ve won today is let\u2019s not spike the football. I mean, it\u2019s perfectly fine to come out and say what\u2019s been said so far. But I think they ought to give Judge Sullivan a little bit of space and a little bit of grace. I think the worst thing they can do if they don\u2019t want any more trouble here is to look like they\u2019re sort of dancing on his grave.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know, I have been there, and I have done that, and I have rethought this.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Grab sound bite number 22 again. Here\u2019s Andy McCarthy suggesting how we behave today in the aftermath.<\/p>\n
MCCARTHY: My only advice to the people who\u2019ve won today is let\u2019s not spike the football. I mean, it\u2019s perfectly fine to come out and say what\u2019s been said so far. But I think they ought to give Judge Sullivan a little bit of space and a little bit of grace. I think the worst thing they can do if they don\u2019t want any more trouble here is to look like they\u2019re sort of dancing on his grave.<\/p>\n
RUSH: If they don\u2019t want any more trouble. Meaning, if you or anybody else who wants to celebrate the right thing happening here, be very careful if you don\u2019t want any more trouble, if Flynn doesn\u2019t want any more trouble. Flynn didn\u2019t do anything. Top to bottom now, Flynn didn\u2019t do anything. But if Flynn and his supporters don\u2019t want any more trouble, they better not provoke the judge. The judge is the guy that doesn\u2019t have the law on his side. The judge is the guy standing in quicksand.<\/p>\n
But I mentioned I\u2019ve been there, done that. Midterm elections 2002. George W. Bush first midterm elections, I was invited to do election night coverage and analysis by Tim Russert on NBC News. And I was on set with Russert and Tom Brokaw two or three times during that night. And what happened in those midterms was unprecedented. The Republicans gained seats. You know the rule about midterms. President gets elected. The first election\u2019s two years after that always result in the president\u2019s party losing seats in Congress, in the House and the Senate.<\/p>\n
That didn\u2019t happen. The reason it didn\u2019t happen was the Wellstone memorial. The Wellstone memorial turned everybody off toward the Democrats. So that night at NBC in their studios in Washington they were stunned. They couldn\u2019t believe it. They couldn\u2019t believe that George W. Bush had actually gained seats. So they brought me in and they asked me why, and I told them why. I said it\u2019s no mystery. It\u2019s the Wellstone memorial.<\/p>\n
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They were in shock. And they were a little irritated that they had invited me. The last thing they wanted to happen was, A, the Republicans pick up seats, and of all people to be there to talk about it, me. But you know what I did? They asked me what advice I would give to Republicans. And I said, “Don\u2019t gloat. Act like you\u2019re not surprised. Act like you expected this to happen. Act like you\u2019re used to winning. Don\u2019t gloat. Don\u2019t brag.”<\/p>\n
When I got back to work the next day a bunch of you who\u2019d sent me emails and called me on the phone, “What do you mean, don\u2019t gloat? We sure as hell need to gloat. What are you talking about?” People wanted to celebrate. And they interpreted me as saying don\u2019t do it. And I have revised my thinking. I think they were exactly right. I think “don\u2019t gloat” was the wrong piece of advice. Because it certainly was something to celebrate and to brag about and to make a point of.<\/p>\n
But I was trying to be bigger. You know, we need to be bigger. Of course, they on the other side, they don\u2019t ever contain themselves. They never behave with manners the first consideration. They never take politeness or — and they\u2019re certainly not worried about getting in more trouble with us. So I understand what Andy\u2019s saying. “Look. Don\u2019t gloat. This guy\u2019s a good judge, a good guy, he\u2019s off the reservation on this one, but don\u2019t sit there and dance on the grave. It\u2019s just gonna make it harder for the judge to give up the case and so forth.”<\/p>\n
Andy is speaking as a lawyer who might, although he won\u2019t in this case, but as a lawyer he might have to face the judge again. In that case, you shouldn\u2019t gloat. If you\u2019re a lawyer still active and you might end up in this guy\u2019s courtroom someday then, yeah, you wouldn\u2019t. But I\u2019m sorry. This case, Michael Flynn deserves to be celebrated as much as anybody can, personally, as a human being for the triumph.<\/p>\n
Because he has been put through absolute hell by his own government. He has been put through hell by the Obama administration. He even had Joe Biden, sitting vice president, wanting to use the Logan Act to get the guy. Biden\u2019s gonna have to answer for this. (imitating Biden) “Does the hair smell good? That\u2019s all I was interested in that night.” He got away with that. He cannot get away with acting like he doesn\u2019t know what this is about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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