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RUSH: So yesterday we were sitting here, and I was watching CNN in the morning and they were breathless all over again. They couldn\u2019t contain themselves. They were so excited because you know what happened? They discovered a new audiotape, yes, surrounding the gentle giant shooting in St. Louis. And you know what it was? Some guy was having a sex video chat with some babe, sitting at his computer, and they had the tape, they got the tape, and they had audiologists on all day long.<\/p>\n

They did say, “We are trying to authenticate it.” And after they said, “We are trying to authenticate it and the FBI is trying to authenticate it,” they then spent the rest of the day reporting it as though it was real. They had experts come in, and they had analysts come in, and they wondered what this new development might mean. And it turns out that today CNN is worried that the new audiotape is a hoax. <\/p>\n

Now, to refresh your memory, we played the audio ourselves on this program yesterday. We got it off of CNN. It\u2019s some guy who\u2019s chatting with some babe and he\u2019s telling her how beautiful she is and how much he loves her, and then all of a sudden six, what sounds like gunshots, ring out. (bullet sounds) And this guy is unfazed. There\u2019s a two-second gap, and then he keeps telling this babe what he wants to do, either to his computer keyboard or to her. <\/line><\/p>\n

He keeps salivating and keeps telling the babe whatever, and then four more shots come out after a two-second gap, and this guy is totally unfazed by any of it. He\u2019s close enough for his computer microphone to pick up gunshots, and he\u2019s not fazed. Here it is. We have the audio. This is what CNN played yesterday. They did a very, very low intensity disclaimer, said they just got it. They\u2019re trying to authenticate it, haven\u2019t yet. The FBI is looking at it. We don\u2019t really know, but! And then they ran with it all day long as though it\u2019s real. And this is it.<\/p>\n

MAN: You are pretty. (shots) You are so fine. Just going over some of your videos. (shots) How could I forget?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mean, there\u2019s gunshots all around this guy, supposedly. And he doesn\u2019t miss a beat. He doesn\u2019t react to them at all and nobody at CNN seems to make that connection yesterday. Nobody seems to stop and say, “Wait a minute. This guy is in the middle of whatever he\u2019s doing and there\u2019s 10 gunshots and he doesn\u2019t react at all?” So let\u2019s go to the audio sound bite. This is Don Lemon last night on The Situation Room discussing the alleged audio of the Ferguson shooting.<\/p>\n

LEMON: The person had seen us out in the field, CNN. He does not want publicity. He was involved in the chat, which many red-blooded American men do with their sweethearts or women, with their sweethearts.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second, stop the tape, stop, stop, cue this back. So now (laughing) this is great, CNN. Here we\u2019ve got a guy involved in a — what do you call it, sexting? Here\u2019s a guy involved in a sex chat, and he happens now to be a CNN source, so of course the first thing we have to do is say, “Hey, hey, nothing strange here. A lot of red-blooded American men do this. Ain\u2019t no big deal, audience. So don\u2019t discredit our new source because you might think he is a reprobate. No, no, no, no, no. We even have some people at CNN that do this.” Well, he didn\u2019t say that, but that\u2019s how — (laughing) and they tape themselves doing it, too. It\u2019s just so common, nothing to see here on that score. Don\u2019t be negatively affected by the fact that the guy is doing whatever he\u2019s doing to his computer. Okay, here it is again from the top.<\/p>\n

LEMON: The person had seen us out in the field, CNN. He does not want publicity. He was involved in the chat, which many red-blooded American men do with their sweethearts or women, with their sweethearts, “How are you, honey? Will you send a selfie,” or do whatever, so he\u2019s a little bit embarrassed about that. I don\u2019t see why he was embarrassed because any — everybody, not everybody, but many people do that. He was trying to get in touch with someone who he thought was an authority figure, but most people don\u2019t just know how to pick up the phone and call the FBI.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, is that why it took over a week, the guy didn\u2019t know who to call? CNN\u2019s probably walking by the house every day. How many media people were there? This guy is close enough to hear the shots, right? He and his computer are close enough for his computer to pick up the shots, and he can\u2019t find a media person. He doesn\u2019t know who to call. He doesn\u2019t know how to reach them. He apparently can\u2019t look out the window that picked up all these shots and see an army of media people out there. He didn\u2019t know what to do. So somehow the guy finds CNN. <\/p>\n

Now, we love Don Lemon here. Don Lemon, I mean, this guy\u2019s a gem. We love him here. I hope nothing ever happens to him. <\/a>He is the one reason I would never ban audio sound bites from CNN. He\u2019s the guy who asked if a black hole might have swallowed up that missing Malaysian airline flight<\/a>. I mean, it\u2019s just a gold mine. But the pressure is on me to start banning audio sound bites from CNN because they want the same thing to happen to them that\u2019s happened to MSNBC. We stopped highlighting things there, MSNBC dropped off the radar. Not that they were ever really on it. <\/p>\n

So Don Lemon says, “Hey, nothing to see here. Everybody, I mean, not everyone, but a lot of people.” Let me ask you a question. Let\u2019s say it was Mitt Romney who was engaging in a sex thing on his computer and CNN got hold of a tape of it, do you think that they would say, “Hey, hey, hey, don\u2019t judge Mitt Romney, all kinds of red-blooded American men do this kind of thing. It\u2019s nothing, there\u2019s nothing to see here. Don\u2019t judge our source on the basis of that because, hell, everyone, well, not everyone, but a lot of people do it.” <\/p>\n

What if it were Karl Rove? Better yet, what if Dr. Krauthammer was sexting on his computer and this happened and CNN got hold of it? Would they treat it as, “Hey, don\u2019t be judgmental here”? (Laughing), folks. Anyway. The news is from Breitbart: “Even if the audio ends up being authentic, the fact that CNN is now concerned over its authenticity and laying the groundwork to claim they were always skeptical, tells you how irresponsible the network is. The prejudicial audio never should have been aired prior to authentication. But this is exactly the kind of incendiary behavior we have come to expect from the news network that disgraced itself more than any other during the George Zimmerman affair.” I don\u2019t know about that. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how you outdo what NBC did, doctoring the 911 call in the Zimmerman story. But, anyway, the details of this are that CNN is now worried that that audio is a hoax. When they first broadcast the unverified audio of the shooting of the gentle giant, it was with all the Sturm und Drang of breathless breaking news. The audio led almost every hour, all day.<\/line><\/p>\n

It was just like when George Bush\u2019s poll numbers hit 36 and Wolf Blitzer could not tell people enough times. CNN could not overdo this yesterday; it did lead almost every hour. It was the biggest story of the day yesterday. They had an endless parade of audiologists, forensic audiologists and other experts come in, listen to it, analyze it, and expert it, and then offer the kind of commentary CNN wanted to hear. <\/p>\n

But now it\u2019s today, and it\u2019s a different day, and now CNN hosts (such as Michaela Pereira this morning) are asking, “Do you think it\u2019s authentic?” She asked two different law enforcement people, and both of those law enforcement people at CNN today think it was a hoax. But, you see, I don\u2019t know that CNN is really worried. They got what they wanted out of this yesterday. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s so much involved here. This is trying to save the story, trying to tamper with a grand jury. There\u2019s a lot going on with this report of this tape yesterday, and they did this on purpose. They jumped the gun on this on purpose. Is not “unprofessionalism.” It\u2019s not “inexperience.” It\u2019s not “youthful mistakes.” This is agenda-driven decision making on the part of CNN to air this inauthentic or unauthenticated tape. It was an agenda, not news-related decision. <\/p>\n

Because it\u2019s not going their way in St. Louis. It\u2019s not going their way in Ferguson. And there\u2019s a couple of other things that are tied up into this, just the zeitgeist\/the spirit of the times and trying to keep their audience happy and stay in good vibes with one segment of the audience. But it\u2019s just typical of what\u2019s happening in the Drive-By Media these days. It\u2019s just a glittering, glaring example. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go back, in fact.<\/p>\n

Thursday, August 14th, 13 days ago, almost two weeks ago<\/a>. This is Don Lemon on CNN\u2019s Newsroom. This is after… Remember this. The chief of police there, Tom Jackson, had a press conference. He named the officer, Darren Wilson. They then released the video of the gentle giant strong-arm robbing the convenience store, and remember how that caused everybody to blow up.<\/p>\n

Because the media said (angrily), “What\u2019s this? Why are you releasing this today? Why didn\u2019t you release this earlier in the week? How long have you had this?” All the while, the Department of Justice, Eric Holder, had ordered the local cops to suppress it and not release it. But, anyway, remember this from Don Lemon?<\/p>\n

<\/a>LEMON: Some of us had heard about it earlier, the possibility of a videotape of a robbery, and believed to be Michael Brown. We did not get confirmation from police on that, so it — it was not reported. That was just a rumor. But now we\u2019re finding out from the Ferguson police chief that they do believe that they have video, and they think that in that video that it is Michael Brown, um, stealing cigars, punching the store clerk.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, wait a minute, now. Wait, wait, wait. Hold it just a second. So Don Lemon, two weeks ago told us, “Oh, yeah, yeah. We in the media, we heard about that tape. We knew that video existed. We\u2019d heard rumors about that. We couldn\u2019t authenticate that, so there\u2019s no way we were gonna report it.” <\/p>\n

Really? You heard about that audiotape of the gentle giant holding up the convenience store, but you couldn\u2019t authenticate it so you weren\u2019t gonna run it. But here you have a sex-video chat audio with 10 shots — something no autopsy has even shown — and you don\u2019t wait for it to be authenticated like you did the videotape of the gentle giant robbing the convenience store?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

\"original\"RUSH: I just got a note from Koko up at RushLimbaugh.com, and he said if CNN really wants to authenticate this sex-chat tape, they need to have Anthony Weiner come in and listen to it, because if there\u2019s anybody who is an expert in that, it\u2019s Anthony Weiner. There\u2019s another thing about this, though. The guy is sex chatting, or video sex chatting, with… Well, we assume it\u2019s a woman. He said, “Baby, you look great,” or whatever. <\/line><\/p>\n

There are 10 gunshots that the guy\u2019s computer clearly picks up (I mean, if it\u2019s real), and the babe doesn\u2019t once ask, “Hey, honeybunch, what\u2019s going on where you are? What\u2019s happening? Are you okay?” I mean, if you were sex video chatting with a guy and you heard gunshots on his end of the connection, would you would you react and ask, “Hey, hey, hey! Are you okay out there?” <\/p>\n

But this guy\u2019s babe and this guy (chuckles) didn\u2019t even pause.<\/p>\n

They did not have one shred of a reaction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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