Posted on 07/11/2017 11:32:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Man, oh, man. I watch this corrupting obsession that the anti-Trump forces all over this country, highlighted, of course, by the Drive-By Media, have. And it’s everything I can do to avoid laughing and feeling snarky and so forth. I feel like I’m watching people — and I do watch this in the daytime. I don’t watch cable news at night, as you know, but I watch this and I actually think I’m watching people lose their minds. This is what it looks like.
If you have had the occasion, sad occasion in your life to witness a friend or family member lose their mind, this is what it is. This is a collective. This is a joint effort to lose a collective mind. And it is, I don’t know, breathtaking and stunning to watch. No, none of it frightens me. None of this scares me, especially this
The latest story, Donald Trump Jr. and his email from that Russian honey trap was in June of last year, so we call this a year. And think of all of the bombshells there have been in this past year. Think of all of the stories based on all of the leaks from unnamed sources in the intelligence community, former government officials, high-level U.S. officials, however they have been characterized.
The Washington Post in one story in the past year actually referred to the fact that they had as many as 15 of these kinds of sources informing them on one story. All told, I think the Washington Post has actually cited 30 different unnamed sources. I can’t recall them off the top of my head, but just remember, if you will, generic sense, all of the bombshells — and it seemed like for the last six months there has been one every day.
And for a period of a month there was a bombshell every afternoon at five o’clock. It was guaranteed to make the nightly news. There was carryover that night into cable programming and to set the stage for panel discussions the next morning on cable TV. Think about all of those bombshells. You don’t even have to remember the specific bombshell. All you have to remember is that each one was treated as the smoking gun, the answer.
Every one of those stories was treated as the gotcha, this is it, we’ve got the goods on Trump. Every one of those stories, if you read down far enough, had to include a sentence or maybe a short paragraph acknowledging no evidence for the allegations has yet been found, but suspicions remain high, or some such thing. Think about all of these bombshells, all of these reports, all of the time spent.
Media Research Center, our buddy Brent Bozell and his gang at NewsBuster>our buddy Brent Bozell and his gang at NewsBuster actually chronicle the usage, and they found in the — I forget what the universe was, nightly news or cable news, whatever, 353 minutes was devoted to anti-Trump stuff like this and 45 minutes was devoted to stuff that was not critical of Trump. I mean, the balance here has been so out of whack and out of proportion.
But again, try, if you can, search your memory and remember all of the days — and there are many — there are more than a hundred days of news stories featuring a conclusion or a supposition or a good likelihood or whatever that this was it, we finally have come across the bit of information that’s gonna nail Trump. This is it. This is what proves the collusion, every day for I don’t know how many days.
Now, after a year, not a single one of them has panned out, from the golden showers dossier on down, not a single one of them has panned out. And how do we know this? Because of the way this little email chain and meeting between Donald J. Trump and a Russian honey pot is being portrayed. This is it. The bottom line is, this is all they’ve got. Everything that came before is obviously inoperative. It has been forgotten.
None of it is being linked, none of this Trump Jr. stuff is being linked to anything that’s happened in the past. Michael Flynn’s name does not appear in this story. Michael Flynn, which was the focus of the original bout of these stories, is long gone by now. The proof is wide open here, that they’ve got nothing. After a year they are going bananas over this. And they’re going bananas because after a year of nothing, they think this is it.
This is the story that’s gonna get Trump thrown out of office. This is the story that’s gonna cause an uprising among the American people. Except they have done that practically every day for the last year, and certainly for the last six months. Every day for the last six months we have been treated to a version of what we have gotten the past two days. And in every instance prior, it has led to what? Absolutely zilch, zero, nada. And the proof that it is zilch, zero, nada is how much they have invested in this latest.
They’ve got nothing. They never have had anything, on this collusion business, on the Russians working with Trump to steal the election from Hillary. They’re not taking this story and adding it to all these previous stories and trying to sell a cumulative pile of evidence. This is a standalone. Some stories I’ve seen have featured the terminology, “Finally we have the evidence we’ve been looking for,” admitting that they haven’t had any evidence they’ve been looking for prior to this iteration of the story.
Does anybody remember the last episode like this one? It only lasted a couple of days because it was a nothing burger. Let me refresh your memory. There is a now-deceased — he was 81 years old when he passed away — former Republican operative named Pat Smith. And Pat Smith claimed to have had contact with someone over here that knew someone over there that might be the smoking gun that everybody’s been looking for to prove that Trump colluded. And the media went nuts over this guy, even though he had passed away.
Jonathan Chait, writing for wherever he writes, had a big story: Finally we have the payoff. Finally we have now the evidence we’ve been looking for. And it was this 81-year-old guy who had nothing, there was nothing to his story. They backtracked it, they found there was nothing to it. They did it for a couple days and it was abandoned, it was dropped, because there was nothing to it. Just like everything that’s come before this.
You ask, how long can this go on? It can go on as long as they want it to. I think now that this has become a way of life. I think getting up, if you’re a modern-day American journalist working in Washington or New York — well, hell, in the Washington establishment. LA Times reporters there would suffice as well. I think this become a lifestyle now.
This is not just a story that people are pursuing; this is a lifestyle. This has become a mechanism whereby these people state their identities. They are now defining themselves on the basis of the pursuit of this story. They can’t stop it. They cannot help themselves. They will never get to the point, even if there is ever incontrovertible evidence that it didn’t happen, they are not going to be able to accept it; they are too invested.
And it’s not professional investment; this has gone now into the psychological. It has gone to the personal. And it is an erosion of principles; it is an erosion of objective; it is journalism consuming itself. It’s journalism eating itself. And you know what happens after you eat enough; you have to go to the bathroom. And that’s where all of this stuff is headed. And it is breathtaking to watch this.
And I look at all the people who have been corrupted, every guest, other than the assigned Trump supporters on every cable channel, every expert guest, I don’t care who, have also bought hook, line, and sinker into the story. Some people say they’re doing it because it’s good ratings. Some people think they’re doing it because it’s a way to differentiate themselves. It may have been that at some point, but now it’s gone beyond business. It’s gone beyond pursuing ratings or any of that.
There is literal self-worth tied up into this, as far as the people that are engaging in it. And they’re in a competition. All the analysts are competing with all the other analysts to come up with the unique take on every story that will focus everybody’s attention on that particular analyst. Everybody’s trying to be the smartest guy in the room, the most perceptive guy in the room.
There is no legitimate trail of news here. There’s no legitimate pursuit of facts or evidence. There is a theory. There is a result. There is a narrative. And the outcome has already been implanted in all of their heads, and now they’re pursuing whatever they can do to make that true, the exact opposite of what journalism’s supposed to be.
And as I say, I’m watching this, and I’m looking at these people literally lose their minds. And I like it. Don’t misunderstand. I think it’s fun to see. This is a self-immolation that is happening here, and they’re not even aware of it because they fool themselves into thinking that they represent the majority of thinking in America. They believe if they believe something, everybody else does. Call that hubris or arrogance or what have you.
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RUSH: You know what this whole thing reminds me of? The way the dossier was pitched. You may not remember, but the dossier — the golden showers dossier — was pitched to the media in an email-type message. It was reviewed and it was highlighted, what it contained — and it was designed to be seductive. And this has much the same ring to it. This babe calls Trump Jr. under a false premise, claiming she’s got dope on Hillary Clinton, and they take the meeting ’cause who wouldn’t want to get oppo research on your opponent?
That’s standard operating procedure in political campaigns. And then the woman shows up. “No, no, no, no. You misunderstood! I’ve got this Magnitsky Act or something I want you to do something about.” The whole thing smacks of a setup. The one thing here: If this meeting was about collusion, what was the collusion? And that remains the question in every story that we have been dished for the past six months. What is the collusion? What was the hack? Two separate questions. But what was the collusion here involving Donald Trump Jr.?
What did the Russians get out of it? Nobody got anything out of this meeting! The Russian honey pot didn’t get anything she wanted. The Trump campaign did not get what they thought they were gonna get. It’s a big nothing. Now, some Never Trumpers simply can’t bring themselves to admit that. To them, it’s a smoking gun. “There may not be a lot of smoke, but there’s a lot of smell to the smoke that we can’t see, and it deserves further investigation.” But nobody got anything out of this meeting. The whole meeting took place under false premises.
Nothing changed because of the meeting. Not a single thing changed! In fact, my friends, there is more evidence that this Russian lawyer was working with Fusion GPS to discredit Trump than anything else. That’s the same outfit that did the golden showers dossier, and that’s why I think there’s a similarity. I think all of this was aimed at getting Trump, if you want to know the truth — and the way the media’s covering it I think proves that.
Fusion GPS is the same Fusion GPS who funded the phony Trump dossier, which surfaced around this very same time. The only thing that came out of this meeting was the meeting itself and how inattentive… Manafort kept looking at his iPhone. Jared Kushner got up and left after a couple of minutes. Remember my theory on how the golden showers memo became news? ‘Cause there’s nothing to it. It’s all lies; it’s totally made up; it’s outrageous. Remember how it became news? They showed it to Trump. Once that happens, then it’s become a news story. Doesn’t matter true or false, it’s a news story.
The same thing is happening here.
El Rushbo - RIGHT AS ALWAYS!
I hope their brains explode.
Only liberals. Oh, wait one, they don’t have a mind of their own. Forget I mentioned it. When God was handing out brains liberals said “No thanks, we don’t need one”
I know a couple libs who see Russia as bullsh*t. Dems are pretty stupid to keep pushing it.
Rush nails it as usual.
This was likely the tool used to justify spying (unmasking) on Trump and his campaign.
MSM is treating it like a smoking gun with impeachment proceedings starting next week. Month after month of this. They’ve staked the entire MSM credibility (what’s left of it) on the Russian Conspiracy Theory.
The MSMLSD crowd does too; I guess it’s a slow news month or something.
Need to correct El Rushbo....
losing (what’s left) of their minds.
NY Times had to put this out to cover the uproar about Comey memos containing classified information.
This is their big gun, the one they’ve been holding back, and it’s less than nothing! How pitiful and pathetic they are. I almost feel sorry for them at this point.
Comey was fooled by the ‘golden showers’ dossier.
But this seems to be what they’ve gone all in on — Tim Kaine calling it ‘treason’ already today.
Dems seem to still be in the denial stage of grief. With their media, deep state allies, RINO turncoats, they’re convinced they can take Trump out. This is a soft coup attempt.
The media has become a laughingstock, comedy central, constant barrage of fake corrupt anti-Trump activist rants.
They live in a bubble, they don’t know everyone is laughing at them, except for 30% of the rabid Hillary/Obama lovers. So they play to this 30% and forget the 70%, not a good business model.
And that pencil neck geek Congressman, Shiff?, he's walking around with "The end is near" signs like in the comic strips.
I disagree, Rush. They have to have minds first in order to lose them.
They continue to cry “Wolf!” and in the long run it is to our benefit.
Dumb bastards.
You have stupid people who hate Trump trying to find something - anything, that will finally drive him from office.
So far they haven’t found an impeachable offense. They will never stop because they want Trump’s scalp.
The fake news media and the Democrats are convinced Watergate is around the corner and this is the ticket to the Democrats’ getting back in power.
Get used to this stuff for the next 8 years.
Yep, completely insane.
Comey wasn't "fooled" by anything except his own hubris. James Comey is and always was a Clinton shill, dating all the way back to Whitewater. No matter how baseless, the "Trump-Russia" narrative will be pushed as long as possible to keep the focus away from the very real "Clinton-Russia" relationships -- which put $500,000 in Bill's pocket for a speech and over $100 million into the "Clinton Foundation" slush fund in exchange for one-fifth of America's uranium. Comey found himself in deep feces after Hillary lost.
In fact, my friends, there is more evidence that this Russian lawyer was working with Fusion GPS to discredit Trump.
Ooooops media turns red starts new story they must have a lot of Hollywood writers working with them.
There are some on our side that would gladly turn the majority over to the rat side, believe it or not.
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