Posted on 11/02/2017 2:22:50 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: There is also continuing testimony, which nobody is hearing about up on Capitol Hill, by the lawyers for the tech companies, Google and Facebook. In addition to what was learned yesterday that we passed on to you, the Facebook lawyer said that the Russian involvement, the buying of ads on Facebook, that happened after the election and it was oriented toward damaging Trump. The ads that ran on Facebook happened after the election, and their purpose was to do great damage to Trump after he won, the exact opposite of what people have been told that Trump colluded with Russia in order to screw Hillary.
What were learning in this Donna Brazile book, we are learning that it wouldnt have mattered who did what. Hillary had guaranteed that she was going to lose this race because of the rotten campaign she ran, and Donna Brazile doesnt hold back on that.
Tim Cook, the Apple CEO. Now, you might be saying, Oh, no, not Apple. No, no. Wait. This guy issues a tweet after every public event, a terror attack, Trump pulling out of Paris, whatever, this guy issues a tweet, an official statement on his opinion of it all. And its almost like the guy is proposing to run for president himself. And he did it again yesterday.
The iPhone X is going to be released tomorrow. So the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, was on NBC Nightly News being interviewed by Lester Holt, and Lester Holt threw him a softball. (paraphrased exchange) Look, youre a big tech company CEO. We got lawyers from Facebook and Google up there testifying. What about all this collusion? What about all these ads that were run on Facebook and Twitter designed to help Trump and hurt Hillary?
Tim Cook said, Thats irrelevant. Those ads Those ads, they dont affect anybody. Maybe 1%. Maybe one-tenth of 1%. Those ads are irrelevant, Lester. Those ads had nothing to do with it. The real problem, he said, is the fake news that is dividing our country, the fake news that is manipulating people and dividing our country. Now, the second part of that well deal with later. The first part: Here is yet another tech titan saying that the conventional wisdom that Russians were running ads on social media to hurt Hillary and push Trump were worthless.
Irrelevant, meaningless, and didnt have any impact whatsoever. Then theres additional Remember all of the protests against Trump after the election. We have learned something else: A story that Twitter hid almost half the tweets about the DNC and the Podesta emails that WikiLeaks posted for the last two weeks of the campaign. We have news today that the supposedly Russian ads that were bought on social media
Do you know what they actually did? They were promoting anti-Trump rallies such as the giant one right after the election at Union Square New York City. What we have learned today is that those ads that Russia was running were responsible for the turnout of all of the anti-Trump protests in New York City and elsewhere after the election. Now, I remember after the election the immediate aftermath Remember all of those protests everywhere?
They were all over New York City, various neighborhoods of New York City, all over San Francisco, all over Chicago. Massive protests. Philadelphia. The Drive-Bys were all over it, and I remember telling you at the time, Folks, this is bought and paid for. This is too coordinated. I suspected George Soros. But this is just This does not seem spontaneous, and then when the travel ban was announced, the first one, and we had massive protests after the travel ban, I suspected the same thing.
I said, These are a bunch of bought-and-paid for protesters sitting around waiting for the go phone call. Well, it turns out that was right! All of these protests were organized on social media. News today that the Russians bought ads, even promoted anti-Trump rallies such as the giant one right after the election. But theres more. The AP reported today and I quote The hackers who upended the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clintons campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, U.S. defense contractors and thousands of others of interest to the Kremlin
The AP even supplied a list of those people that were hacked, including John Kerry, Colin Powell, Wesley Clark and even an emissary for the pope. These hacking and phishing attacks started years ago, and they hit all kinds of people, all of which undermines a carefully crafted narrative that the Russians have been doing all of this meddling just to help defeat Hillary. This has been going on for years, which people have said. The Russians have been trying to meddle.
Anyway, all of this news is being discovered while people are focused on Mueller, people are focused on the terrorists attack, people are focused on the tax proposal Whatever it is, this stuff is not being reported, which is why Im spending time here at the beginning of the program to lay it all out for you.
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RUSH: When I say, These supposedly Russian-bought ads, its because we dont know! These ads on social media that created, that organized, that promoted all of these anti-Trump protests after the election? There were ads on social media organizing these protests. We assume they were Russian bought, but we dont know. So it could well be George Soros. It could well be any number of people.
The point is that we have learned today, via the AP, that none of this was genuine. I mean, some of the people that showed up to protest might have literally been angry. But they didnt show up out of self-motivation. It was something that was organized, and it was made to appear generic. It was made to appear as though everybody who showed up was individually angry over the outcome of the election. The bottom line, folks, is that I think its safe to say that a majority of the anti-Trump news that we have all seen since the election and
Well, even before, obviously. But Im just speaking about the stuff afterwards. I shudder to think how much of it is genuinely fake, how many of it is all part of a campaign that the media is part of, that they are complicit in and all of this is reported as though its real news. I keep using this example because it works: The Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Remember the media coverage of that, the universal outrage made to look like people all over this country were fed up and hated Indiana and hated Mike Pence and thought that was the absolute worst thing?
That was manufactured. All that hate supposedly and all that energy, anti-sentiment toward Indiana? It was all ginned up and made up, and a lot of this Trump stuff is the same thing. Its all manufactured and made up. I dont doubt that an element of it is true, but the size of the supposed group of people that are angry and the organization they have, its all concocted, just like the Trump rallies during the campaign. Those were bought and paid for. We know that.
A guy named Robert Creamer working for Hillary in the DNC organized those anti-Trump rallies and hired people, and he was caught on hidden video. Its important to keep reminding people of this, because to this day were still affected by this. They get away with manufacturing narratives, manufacturing massive displays of public protest, massive displays of people supposedly who hate Trump, dont want Trump, are angry with Trump. Its way blown out of proportion to whats real.
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RUSH: This is last night on the Nightly News, the Apple CEO. Now, this is not about Apple; its not about the iPhone. This guy is showing up and tweeting every time theres any kind of a public issue and laying down his opinion on it and he is a classic civil rights, human rights, extreme radical leftist, okay? Cause he thinks thats what America is. So Lester Holt talks to him about social media companies being a little late to acknowledge how they were used by those trying to influence the election: The Russians.
Its what this Capitol Hill hearing stuff is all about, and Lester is part of the Drive-By Media cabal thats totally misinformed and uninformed. He doesnt even know what theyre testifying to up there. Facebook and Twitter officials, Google lawyers are all saying the Russian involvement was scant, it was minuscule, and it happened after the election! But old Lester thinks that theyre up there providing evidence that Trump and Russia colluded!
And its only a matter of time before Mueller zeros in on it. Ken Starr, by the way, who the Clintons turned into a sex pervert selling cigarettes to your kids during the Monica Lewinsky investigation Ken Starr says that Mueller is actually investigating the Clinton campaign now, that thats where this investigation is taking him, which I found it interesting sidelight. Anyway, heres Tim Cook talking to Lester Holt about Russian use of social media to elect Trump.
One-On-One With Tim Cook | NBC Nightly News
COOK: I dont believe the big issue are ads from foreign government. I believe thats like .1% of the issue. The bigger issue is that some of these tools are used to divide people, to manipulate people, to get fake news to people in broad numbers and so to influence their thinking. And this, to me, is the number one through 10 issue.
RUSH: So what does the Apple CEO care about that for? I mean, I think the guys got plans beyond the CEO position at Apple, is my point. But now lets look at the substance of what he says here. I dont think the issue is these ads from foreign governments. Thats like one-tenth of 1%. The bigger issue some of these tools, I guess he means Twitter and Facebook and so forth, are used to divide people, to manipulate people, to get fake news to people. Whats the fake news thats out there right now? Tim Cook doesnt mean this, by the way.
The fake news out there is that Trump colluded with Russia. The fake news is that Trump hired prostitutes to urinate on the bed Obama and Michelle slept in while in Moscow. The fake news is that Trump somehow worked with the Russians or any number of other people and cheated Hillary Clinton out of the presidency. Thats the fake news. Now, Tim Cook doesnt think that. He thinks the fake news is that thats out there from the conservative side of things.
But hes right in the sense that fake news is all over social media and it is being used to manipulate and its used to divide and a lot of it is robots, a lot of it is computer bots. So there is fake news out there. The fake news thats dominating is 100% fake because its totally wrong. Now, lets go back to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism hearing on Russian advertising on social media during the election. Facebook vice president and general counsel Colin Stretch testified again.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina, asked, In terms of volume, Mr. Stretch, how many volume meaning how many Russian ads, what kind of saturation here are we talking about, sir?
STRETCH: About approximately 90% of the volume we saw on the ad side appears to be issues based, primarily. A much smaller proportion were directed at particular candidates. In terms of the total volume of material on the site, its a very small percentage. We estimate that the Internet Research Agency content was approximately 0.004% of the content in newsfeed during the time in question.
RUSH: You couldnt get a better definition of insignificance! You couldnt better define irrelevant and nothing to see here than that admission. Approximately .004% four one-hundredths of a percent of the content in news feed was Russian ads. Which makes sense. They only spent a hundred grand or so buying the ads. You cant win an election with a $100,000 no matter where you spend it. Hillary spent $143 million and still lost an election, and now they want us to hear and believe that the Russians spending a hundred grand on Twitter or Facebook sent the election in Trumps favor?
So this Facebook guy is literally admitting 90% of the volume we saw on the ad side was issues based, not Trump based, not Russia based, primarily. A much smaller proportion directed at particular candidates But even so, all of it together, four one-hundredths of a percent of all the content that was out there. Fake news! What have they tried to make people believe the past three weeks? That the Russians were buying ads all over social media and that they were doing this to further the election of Donald Trump.
And what weve learned is that Russian involvement before and after the election was aimed at Trump. There was no helping Trump. There was no assisting Trump. There was every effort to damage Trump, as in organizing all those postelection protests. So here you have Tim Cook who may be thinking of running for president; I dont know. Thats just my wild guess. I dont know. Im not basing that on anything I think is subs. Im wild guessing.
But even if hes not running for president, he weighs in on every one of these issues, and he said, Hey, ads are irrelevant, one-tenth of 1%! The Facebook guy says even worse: Four one-hundredths of 1%. Now, just compare that to what youve been told. Compare that to what youve seen reported, and then it only makes common sense to extrapolate that throughout every media story that you see about Trump and people hating him, people not liking him, people opposing him, people objecting to him.
This is one of the biggest scams that many of us in our lifetime may have experienced, been privy to, witnessed, seen, been part of. It is relentless, and it is every day, and it has been relentless and every day since the election. And even before that it was relentless and every day during the campaign. And no matter what the media has done, they havent stopped Trump; they havent really damaged him. I dont even believe these polls numbers, approval numbers have him in the high thirties.
It doesnt makes sense with other polling data that is calculating the opinions of a majority of Americans on issue by issue by issue. If Trumps approval numbers are in the thirties, then all these other upbeat opinions the American people are expressing dont make any sense, unless Trumps approval numbers are in the thirties simply cause people dont like that he tweets or they dont like his personality.
But weve been shown that that doesnt matter because Trump won the election with the same personality then that he has now. So why, all of a sudden, would Trumps personality start turning people off when it didnt before the election? I really think that were being scammed to a degree none of us have even contemplated. Weve thought that some stories are made up and bogus and biased or what have you. I think we dont have an idea of the grand scope that this has been and continues to be.
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RUSH: Heres Donna in Sayre, Pennsylvania, as we head back to the phones. How are you doing?
CALLER: Im good, Rush. How are you?
RUSH: Im fine and dandy. Thank you.
CALLER: Im honored to be on your show. I truly view you as a voice of reason.
RUSH: Well, I appreciate that very much. Its great to have you out there.
CALLER: I have a question; please forgive my ignorance. This Russian dossier. I dont understand what prostitutes urinating on a bed has to do with Russian collusion. I dont I mean, we all know its fake, but even if it did happen, what
RUSH: No, no, no. Hold hold hold it!
CALLER: I dont understand how theres more to this dossier
RUSH: Hold it.
CALLER: than just that.
RUSH: She cant hear me. In 30 years, we havent been able to fix this. To a lot of people, Donna, it isnt fake.
CALLER: Oh, okay.
RUSH: To a lot of people, its as real as the NBC Access Hollywood tape. To a lot of people, they think Trump really did it!
CALLER: (laughing)
RUSH: They think Trump really hired the prostitutes and had em come over and urinate on the pedestrian that poor Obama and Michelle had slept on. Now, its not collusion. What theyre trying to do with that is to show that Trump is a pig, that Trump is a reprobate, that Trump is pond scum and not fit to be president. That somebody who would hire prostitutes to come take a leak in unison on a bed in a five-star hotel should not be in the White House.
CALLER: (laughing) Okay and I have a little minor bone to pick with you, if I could.
RUSH: A minor bone?
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: All right.
CALLER: On one of your shows I had just bought a brand-new Android phone, and on your show you had mentioned having an Android phone was kind of like representative of Democrats whereas iPhone is representative of Republicans. So now I have to buy an iPhone because I cannot carry a phone
RUSH: Wait a minute.
CALLER: that is a Democrat.
RUSH: No, wait a minute. I dont think Ive ever said that Android is Democrat and iPhone is Republican. What it is, is Android is cheap. I dont care. iPhone is premium, aspirational, state-of-the-art. Now, to the extent that that can be further segregated by Republican and Democrat, thatd be up to you. But I have never, ever described it that way. Ive never said Android is a liberal Democrat phone.
CALLER: (chuckling) Well, now I have to carry an iPhone. (chuckling)
RUSH: You ? (laughs) Wait. You mean you have to go get an iPhone because of what I said about Android?
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: You had an Android; now I have embarrassed and humiliated you so now you have to ? Well, I tell you what. You know, Apple is releasing a new phone tomorrow. Its perfect timing for you. Its the iPhone X. I dont have any yet. Nobody does. (interruption) Yeah, they say they get there early for the line. Yeah, theyre gonna have some stores that are gonna have the phones. Well, your timing couldnt be better. But Im sorry.
Somebody had to tell you that, Donna, because I have never, never
I dont even think that! I dont even think that Android versus Apple is Republican versus Democrat. Look, theres simply too many iPhones out there. People of all political persuasions, sexual orientation, sexual preferences, cisgender, transgender
Its just the demographics too widespread to say that the iPhone has a political attachment to it.
Smelled it months ago. Not hard. It's the Lying Left after all. If you're a Lying Leftist you lie. It's what you do.
Actually, if you want to find out what lies, corruption, and treachery the Left is up to, just follow the Lying Left's accusation against the Right. That's because the Left are not only liars, they are also hypocrites.
Scott Adams did a great teardown of the “Russian Facebook ads” today: https://t.co/KnNY5puKvU
I do remember seeing such ads: they were HORRIBLE, _stupid_, MoRoNiC things obviously concocted by people who had little understanding of American culture. Attributing “Russians meddled in the election!” to those ads is really scraping the bottom of the barrel for _anything_ that could be construed as remotely damaging to Trump. You’ll notice that, when discussing the allegations, Leftists _never_ show the ads in question - N-E-V-E-R - for a reason.
Some of us have known the entire Russian/Trump narrative, which was being peddled by leftist Democrat stooges, was fraudulent from the very beginning.
This is based on the fact Trump is an extremely public individual and has been for many decades. If there were any deep “secrets” surroundings Trump he would have never ran for the presidency. Only a moron who was illegally investing in and or colluding with the Russians, would even consider a run at the presidency.
Of course they are, that’s nothing new.
I am shocked to hear this. Simply shocked.
In other words, it doesn’t take a senior investigator to figure out if a very successful, very wealthy person was involved in illegal activities, the last thing they would ever do would be to subject themselves to 24/7 scrutiny, especially when both parties were their political opponents.
“Smelled it months ago. Not hard. It’s the Lying Left after all.”
It’s actually astounding, because there are so many on the left who are oblivious to reality and who will accept pretty much anything that validates their belief that they are on the side of ‘good’ and Republicans are evil.
To paraphrase Churchill, ‘Never before in the course of human history have so many been so deluded’.
Thanks Kaslin.
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