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Drive-Bys Attempt to Smear Trump with More of the Usual Crap, Fail Miserably
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | July 28, 2015 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 07/28/2015 4:09:34 PM PDT by Kaslin

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RUSH: They tried to get Trump, the Daily Beast, claiming that he raped Ivana, and they were foiled when Ivana came out and endorsed Trump. She talked about how much she loved Trump and they worked together raising their kids and so forth and it didn't happen. Now, Trump's lawyer went out there -- and Cohen, Michael Cohen -- and said that (summarized), "Well, there's no rape in marriage anyway. A spouse can't rape another spouse." So, that guy's been flogged, and Trump has straightened that out.

But The Daily Beast, you will hear... The Daily Beast's source of the Trump-raped-his-wife story -- which broke last night just around 8:30. You will hear a writer from The Daily Beast admit they wrote the story because Trump insulted Mexicans and called them rapists. So, this was payback. It didn't matter whether it was true. Just get it out there and force everybody into denial mode. It didn't matter whether it's true. They don't understand. They're just gonna keep propelling Trump, the more of this usual crap they try to pull.

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RUSH: Okay, here's the story from The Daily Beast. The headline, "Ex-wife: Donald Trump Made Me Feel Violated During Sex." This became "Trump raped his wife!" last night by 9 p.m. "Donald Trump introduced his presidential campaign to the world with a slur against Mexican immigrants, accusing them of being 'rapists' and bringing crime into the country. 'I mean somebody's doing it! ...Who's doing the raping?' Donald Trump said, when asked to defend his characterization.

"It was an unfortunate turn of phrase for Trump -- in more ways than one. Not only does the current frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination have a history of controversial remarks about sexual assault, but as it turns out, his ex-wife Ivana Trump once used 'rape' to describe an incident between them in 1989. She later said she felt 'violated' by the experience. ... Ivana Trump's assertion of 'rape' came in a deposition -- part of the early '90s divorce case between the Trumps, and revealed in the 1993 book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump.

"The book, by former Texas Monthly and Newsweek reporter Harry Hurt III... 'It's obviously false,' Donald Trump said of the accusation in 1993, according to Newsday. 'It's incorrect and done by a guy without much talent… He is a guy that is an unattractive guy who is a vindictive and jealous person.'" You know, one thing you can say about Trump: He's consistent. That's how he responded to the allegation by the author back in 1993.

From the New York Daily News: "Ivana Trump Rejects Rape Allegations, Says She and Donald Trump Are 'the Best of Friends' -- 'I have recently read some comments attributed to me from nearly 30 years ago at a time of very high tension during my divorce from Donald. The story is totally without merit,' Ivana Trump told CNN, referring to a Daily Beast report published Monday night..." The Daily Beast is a left-wing extremist rag, folks, disguised as a respectable website. It was founded by Tina Brown, and then she sold it.

I don't know who owns the thing now. It once was in the hands of Barry Diller, part of the Newsweek disaster. I don't know who runs the place now. But I'll let Trump deal with properly characterizing them when and if he does. But Ivana went on to say, "Donald and I are the best of friends and together have raised three children that we love and are very proud of. I have nothing but fondness for Donald and wish him the best of luck on his campaign. Incidentally, I think he would make an incredible president."

Well, Juanita Broaddrick never did a 180 like that on Bill Clinton. She stuck with the story. You know what I'm referring to? Juanita Broaddrick, one of the women that alleged Clinton had raped her, and as he's leaving the room, he said, "You might want to put some ice on that lip." She has not changed her tune. By the way, Camille Paglia. This is another thing coming up today. Camille Paglia has a typically brilliant, excellent piece detailing the similarities to Bill Clinton and Bill Cosby. Which, of course, I mean... No brag, no brag. But it was right here on the EIB Network that we first raised that comparison.

Paglia goes on to say that Clinton got away with it in the nineties because Gloria Steinem was running the feminazis back then. Gloria Steinem, as all feminists were then and now, they're loyal to liberalism first and whatever their cause is second. In this case, women is their cause. Or actually, anti-male is their cause. When you got right down to it, feminist movement is the anti-man movement. But, anyway, she said the only reason Clinton survived it is because Gloria Steinem and the leadership back then maintained a double standard.

Clinton could get away with anything he wanted with women because he was pro-abortion, and a Democrat president of the United States who was defeating right wingers. So he had a pass. Paglia says she doesn't know that that would fly today if he did the same thing, because young feminists are not nearly as tolerant as their mothers were back in the nineties. And in some cases their grandmothers (chuckles) were in the nineties. (interruption)

Why are you frowning, Mr. Snerdley? Do you...? (interruption) Oh, he's screening calls. Somebody on the phone has Mr. Snerdley irritated. So, anyway, here goes another story about Trump, just, "Poof!" into the ether. We go to the audio sound bites, and on CBS This Morning they interviewed The Daily Beast correspondent, Tim Mak. M-a-k, by the way, is how he spells it. He's one of the coauthors of the article accusing Trump of raping his wife. Norah O'Donnell said, "Why did you decide to look into this allegation?"

MAK: I think it was important to look into, especially since Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign making insults about Mexican immigrants, saying that they were, quote, "rapists." So it was a little bit relevant to look into his past and see exactly what might have been said about him on that topic in his personal life.

RUSH: So, you see, this is how it works. Thank you, Mr. Mak for helping to illustrate to the low-information crowd how it is you so-called journalists go about your so-called business. So Trump accurately portrays, not all, by the way, but some of the illegal immigrants... We know because they do it. There are rapes being committed! You know, Trump said, "Somebody is doing the raping," because somebody in the media got into an argument with him about numbers and so forth.

Trump said, "Look, I don't care what they are. Somebody is doing the raping." I think the media tried to say no, what's happening is that they're being raped in transit. Women immigrants are being raped in transit. Trump said, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You cannot do it that way. Illegal aliens are coming to America and committing crimes -- among them, rape." So this little writer for the Daily Beast said, "Hmm, okay. Trump scored some points here, so we've gotta go out and discredit Trump."

There isn't any news about Trump raping anybody, so they had to go start Googling and searching and doing whatever they could hoping to find something. They were shopping, folks. This is exactly what happened in Indiana after the imposition of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. An infobabe reporter for some TV station in South Bend, started knocking on the doors of small businesses all throughout the state asking, "Would you cater a gay wedding?" Never mind that none of the business she knocked on the doors of had ever commented on it.

She just kept knocking on doors until she found some innocent, naive young proprietor of a pizza shop who answered her question, and bammo! We had a news story. We had a crisis. Why, we had a business in Indiana that was bigoted and racist and homophobic to boot. And it was all manufactured. It was shopped. So Mr. Mak here admits that's exactly what he did! Well, he might as well have said (impression), "Mr. Trump really scored some points against our side, ah, characterizing illegal immigrants the way he did.

"So we had to do whatever we could to discredit Mr. Trump and the best way we found to do that is to go out and find evidence that all these big time conservatives leveling allegations have done the same thing!" He might have added, "And even when we can't find evidence we'll say we did and just make them deny it and create a story out of it anyway!" This is how modern day Drive-By journalism is done. This is exactly what it is. This is Drive-By journalism. You show up, you lob a grenade, and you head on down the road.

You take some accolades from your buddies at CBS or CNN, and then move on down the road waiting to throw the next grenade someplace. But we're not through here because Mr. Mak, it turns out, is not happy that Trump hit back. See, this is another classic point. The leftist media has become conditioned to the following scenario: Hit a conservative with an allegation, true or false (but false is even better). You just hit 'em with allegation and then watch them squirm and watch their fellow Republicans attack them and demand that they apologize and go away.

And you watch their fellow conservatives denounce them and distance themselves from your vic, from your victim, your perp. But Trump doesn't apologize and slink away, and it doesn't matter to him that others may distance themselves. He fights back, and the left media isn't used to that. They have become accustomed to their targets whimpering, begging for forgiveness, apologizing to anybody who will listen. They have become accustomed to the friends and associates of attacked conservatives denouncing them along with the media.

This is how they notch their belts.

Take out a Republican, notch your belt, get a raise and maybe even get a promotion. Get noticed by the Washington Post, New York Times. Except Trump doesn't play the game. Now Huckabee's not playing it that way, either. Trump returns fire on the reporter and the network or his publication and does so with three times the effectiveness of the original allegation by the reporter. So on CBS This Morning, after Mr. Mak said (impression), "Yeah, we wanted to go find if Trump had raped anybody since he accused the illegals of rape, so we just... We thought it was a bit relevant to look into his past, see if he had any similar history." Norah O'Donnell said, "Well, how did Mr. Trump's lawyer respond when you asked these questions?"

MAK: He descended into insults and threats. Threats of lawsuits, telling me to tread lightly, and to say that whatever lawsuits that they might file against me would be disgusting. It devolved pretty quickly. I've dealt with a lot of campaigns. Very rarely does it get this acrimonious and so quickly. I've never reached out to a campaign looking for comment on a story and heard back from the lawyer.

RUSH: Yeah, he sounds a bit upset there, upset that Trump's campaign hit back and hit back hard. They're just not used to that.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; donaldtrump; drivebymedia; election2016; mediasmear; mediasmears; newyork; rushlimbaugh; smear; trump
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1 posted on 07/28/2015 4:09:35 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

“Drive-bys” is a really nice softball term.

Political frauds and deceitful liars are a much more applicable description.


2 posted on 07/28/2015 4:14:13 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Kaslin

So if this guy graduated University in 2009, in Canada, what’s he doing being Senior Congressional Correspondent?


3 posted on 07/28/2015 4:19:31 PM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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To: Kaslin

Trump is not playing by left wing rules. Left wing piss ant so called journalists, swipe at him and he crushes them......................It’s just not fair, dang it!


4 posted on 07/28/2015 4:23:54 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Kaslin

There must be a story that sticks to Trump out there. After all the vermin have to eat also.


5 posted on 07/28/2015 4:25:34 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: dragnet2
It's become so obvious that establishment pols, both political parties, those who've spent good money to own their votes, and the media have gone more than a little crazy trying to take down Trump.

It's reached the point where, whatever the next story is, my attitude is "get over it".

Can't wait until Trump has at it cleaning out the DC sewer.

6 posted on 07/28/2015 4:25:52 PM PDT by grania
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To: Kaslin
It didn't matter whether it was true. Just get it out there and force everybody into denial mode. It didn't matter whether it's true.

Ban their BBQ's and then force feed them crap like this.

7 posted on 07/28/2015 4:26:04 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: BlackAdderess

Yeah


8 posted on 07/28/2015 4:27:21 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; z taxman; sf4dubya; elhombrelibre
You take some accolades from your buddies at CBS or CNN, and then move on down the road waiting to throw the next grenade someplace. But we're not through here because Mr. Mak, it turns out, is not happy that Trump hit back. See, this is another classic point. The leftist media has become conditioned to the following scenario: Hit a conservative with an allegation, true or false (but false is even better). You just hit ‘em with allegation and then watch them squirm and watch their fellow Republicans attack them and demand that they apologize and go away.

And you watch their fellow conservatives denounce them and distance themselves from your vic, from your victim, your perp. But Trump doesn't apologize and slink away, and it doesn't matter to him that others may distance themselves. He fights back, and the left media isn't used to that. They have become accustomed to their targets whimpering, begging for forgiveness, apologizing to anybody who will listen. They have become accustomed to the friends and associates of attacked conservatives denouncing them along with the media.

Gee, it sure sounds familiar. Do you recognize yourselves?

9 posted on 07/28/2015 4:30:59 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: grania
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10 posted on 07/28/2015 4:32:04 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Chgogal

yep


11 posted on 07/28/2015 4:43:25 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: dragnet2
Frauds and liars is more to the point and more precise.

I like "Pretorian Press", an expression that Mark Levin and I seem to have arrived at simultaneously. The only problem with it is that the troglodytic morons of the Left won't have the foggiest idea what it means, but so what? They don't understand anything else either.

12 posted on 07/28/2015 4:51:28 PM PDT by Savage Beast ("You can, in fact must, shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theater. It just has to be the truth." J.Goldberg)
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To: sf4dubya
Rape was not mentioned in those two paragraphs.
14 posted on 07/28/2015 5:45:59 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: BlackAdderess
So if this guy graduated University in 2009, in Canada, what’s he doing being Senior Congressional Correspondent?

Because he "works" for The Daily Beast where commitment to far left ideology is all that matters. The capability for facile dishonesty is a plus also.

15 posted on 07/28/2015 5:56:02 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: dragnet2

‘“Drive-bys” is a really nice softball term.

Political frauds and deceitful liars are a much more applicable description.”

The term, “drive-bys” connotates gang members doing a drive-by shooting of their intended victim just as the media gang shoots down anyone they don’t like. I think it is a softball term for the media these days.

I would call them ‘political terrorists’ since they love to lob bombs at anyone that disagrees with them just like Muzzies on jihad.


17 posted on 07/28/2015 7:17:06 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: sf4dubya
You did NOT read the paragraphs proving that you are a duplicit left wing tool as described by Rush.
18 posted on 07/29/2015 1:32:03 AM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: sf4dubya; Chgogal
"The media loves Republicans who lose, folks. They are, for some reason, really attracted to Republicans that lose, or are going to lose. So, the media doesn't understand. Trump did not have to survive some sort of McCain controversy or weather any kind of a storm. He gained support because of what he said. And not just on McCain, but on other things, too. You people in the media, understand:

The Republican base is not like you. The Republican base is tired of accords and associations with Republicans who are going to lose."

~Rush
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19 posted on 07/29/2015 2:00:08 AM PDT by onyx (PLEASE Support FR - GO MONTHLY - Join CLUB 300 - God bless FR's Donors!)
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To: Chgogal

You remind me of the Obamarobots who think their candidate cannot and should not be criticized, vetted, or discussed unless it’s in a fawning manner.


20 posted on 07/30/2015 7:55:35 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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