Posted on 03/06/2018 12:16:52 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Man, oh, man. Its getting even more embarrassing. Its getting stupider and dumber and more embarrassing to watch our media on a daily basis. It is getting to the point for me of defying description of what the Drive-By Media is actually doing and perpetrating. I mean, I know what theyre doing and everybody else knows what theyre doing. But its gone beyond the realm of what anybody would consider polite sanity.
CNN yesterday actually sent a reporter to Bangkok to interview that honey pot thats in jail who claims to have 16 hours of recorded phone conversations implicating Trump and Russia. This was after this fiasco with this sad-sack have you ever seen by the way, this Nunberg escapade yesterday, the spectacle, is a classic illustration of the definition of Drive-By Media.
Greetings, my friends. Great to have you. Rush Limbaugh at 800-282-2882, and the email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.
So the big news of the day you know, before I get into that, I want to remind you of something and the way to watch this, if youre gonna endeavor to watch it. These people in the media, you know, you can argue about whether they believe this or whether theyve become poisoned by their own hatred or whether its all an act and they know its an act and theyre perpetuating a myth knowingly. You can argue about that.
What you cant argue about is that they have no concern and no awareness of how they look to the audience. And that means they dont care really what their audience thinks of this. All of this is being done for the audience that is inside Washington, inside the Washington establishment. And there is a singular focus throughout that establishment, and I dont care where you go, if you go to the intelligence community, the House, the Senate, if you go to the various cabinet-level bureaucracies, the objective there is to get rid of Donald Trump.
Its pure and simple, and thats all it is, and that is the order of business every day. Pure and simple, plain and simple, thats the focus, that is the objective. There isnt any news anymore. There isnt even any reporting of news anymore. There is simply the daily agenda of getting rid of Trump and everything that happens that could be related to that that would move that objective forward.
So the big news of the day yesterday, supposed to be about some person that none of us ever heard of. A sad-sack, clearly disturbed, unbalanced individual by the name of Nunberg. When I saw this, remember these OJ Simpson movies, the parodies on police, Police Squad or whatever. He played this idiot cop named Nordberg. Thats all I could think of when I kept seeing this guys name Nunberg. I thought I was watching a comedy. I thought, Im watching a comedy movie here.
Sam Nunberg. Nobody ever heard of Sam Nunberg and thats why Sam Nunberg is a basket case. He wants desperately to be heard of like every other Millennial out there, desperate to be known, desperate for everybody to know who he is, desperate to have his life have meaning, desperate to be famous. But your life is never gonna have meaning if you dont have any responsibility, and this guy clearly doesnt have any responsibility, and that agitates him.
He was fired I think from the Trump campaign three times. He was sued for $10 million for violating an NDA, a nondisclosure agreement. But were supposed to all be breathless and speechless at the things this guy was saying, even though hes been fired three times, at least. He had low level staff jobs. I mean, the real question, if you want to really explore this, is what the hell was this guy doing anywhere near a campaign? You know, how did that happen?
But to think that this guy has the goods? These people, they go to bed at night dreaming of waking up with the magic bullet piece of evidence that Trump and Putin are friends and colluded and stole the election from Hillary. They dream of waking up with that story dropping right in their lap. That is how they begin every day. They begin every day thinking its gonna happen, praying its gonna happen. Well, I dont know about praying. Hoping its gonna happen.
Believing that it is happening, when some lunatic like this shows up Im sorry when some disturbed individual crying out for attention shows up and starts saying exactly what they want to hear, a guy who never worked on Trumps general election campaign, a guy who never worked at the White House, again, exclamation point, on the fact that this means nobody has anything if this can become the news cycle.
This guy was on more shows than Susan Rice went on to deny what happened in Benghazi. This guy was on any show that would take him, and they kept him for 45 minutes. Nobody gets 45 minutes, especially when they smell adult beverages on his breath. So this guy is the news cycle. He has no direct knowledge of anything, which means Mueller doesnt have anything, which means the Drive-Bys dont have anything, which means there isnt anything.
There is no evidence, and theyre grasping at every little bit of excrement somebody throws on the wall hoping that it will stick. And its even worse than that because the Drive-Bys knew that this poor soul had an axe to grind against Trump. Again, fired by the Trump campaign at least three times, even sued for $10 million, violating nondisclosure agreements.
But the Drive-Bys seized on this guy, Nunberg, because he leaked a subpoena to the Washington Post, which is seeking documents related to Trump and nine other people. So this guy got a subpoena to show up and said Im not gonna show up. Im gonna rip that subpoena up, Im not giving Mueller, Im not going. So he became an immediate get. And he claimed that he knew that Mueller has something on Trump.
He knew, he said, he knew Trump had to have done something, Trump must have done something. Thats all it took. And these guys in the media were like flies on a corpse. They just could not be dissuaded to stay away. And its that last thing that really set off the feeding frenzy. They thought at long last, at long last they had somebody from the Trump campaign who would say that Mueller has the goods on Trump because this guy had the goods on Trump and he told Mueller.
So the media put this guy on every program they could. He ended up doing six cable news interviews. And they were breathless and they were excited and the Drive-Bys kept trying to draw him out. This guy was either toying with them or inebriated or a combination of things but, man, if he was playing them along, he was doing it like a Stradivarius.
But it all backfired. It backfired when Nunberg contradicted himself and basically melted down on TV, which immediately threw cold water on all the medias hopes and dreams of finally having proof that Trump had colluded with the Russians. And by the end of the day, Nunberg ended up basically denying he ever thought there was any evidence of collusion.
So all day long, all afternoon this guys on television everywhere, Yeah, I know that Trump did something with the Russians, and Mueller knows it, too. And he was feeding the beast, and they were soaking it up, they were eating it, they were swallowing it, they couldnt get enough of it.
And then at the end of the day the guy owns up and contradicts himself while melting down, dashing all of their hopes.
By the end of the day, Nunberg ended up basically denying he ever thought there was any evidence of collusion. So all this ended up being was a perfect example of a media feeding frenzy that completely failed its objective.
You know, Mike Allen writing at Axios said, This is why people hate the media. This is only part of where why people hate the media, but its a good example. So now instead of presenting Nunberg as their prime proof of Trump collusion, the media (laughing) Get this! The media is now trying to salvage something from this fiasco by saying that Nunberg just proves that Trump surrounds himself with lunatics and that theyve done a great job ferreting that out.
They, the Drive-By Media, have once again exposed yet another fraud working for Trump, and this is supposedly evidence that proves that Trump surrounds himself with nut jobs, and so the sliming continues unabated. It was Erin Burnett of Erin Burnett OutFront Heres a little thought experiment for you. This Nunberg media circus ended with Erin Burnett asking Nunberg if he was drunk. She even said she smelled adult beverages on his breath.
Now, as a thought experiment, ask yourself if Ms. Burnett would have asked this question if Nunberg had followed through. If Nunberg had continued to claim that Mueller has something on Trump, would they have ever referenced that the guy was consuming adult beverages in the greenroom? They would have never mentioned it. We would never know that Nunberg might have been showing up while inebriated, but the media had to get that out when he started imploding and contradicting himself and backtracking off every claim that he had made.
There would be no questioning of Nunbergs sanity or his drinking or drug use if he had continued to stay on message and affirm that Trump colluded with Russia. In fact, if he hadnt backtracked, if he hadnt melted down if he hadnt, at the end of the day, contradicted every assertion that he made today there would be nothing but praise for the courage of a former Trump aide coming forward with this important information. As it turns out, its beyond description how useless and worthless this is.
But look at the time and the attention this guy got. There wasnt any checking. There wasnt any confirmation. They didnt hold this guys TV appearances while they tracked down what he said. They didnt do any checking on this guy at all. All it took was somebody from the Trump campaign dumping on Trump saying there had to be collusion between Trump and Russia. That was enough. Put him on the air! Six different times. He was on with Erin Burnett, I think, for 45 minutes. Did I see that? Forty-five minutes?
Now theyre trying to spin their failure with this. You see, they had hoped that Nunberg was gonna finally give em proof of Trumps collusion, but instead of admitting they made fools of themselves by giving this whack job all of this wall-to-wall coverage, the media is now claiming that Nunberg cracked under the pressure of (laughing) Mueller closing in on Trump. All of this happened yesterday because Muellers getting close! Muellers getting close to Trump and that means Nunberg was feeling vulnerable.
Nunberg might be caught up in all of this, so he had to go out there and somehow protect himself. In the real world, nobody knew who the guy was! He was fired three times, sued for $10 million. The guy was a nonfactor. Can somebody explain something to me, by the way? Why is Carter Page still running around free? Well, no. The reason I ask this is cause he was the reason they got the FISA warrant. Carter Page. Where are the charges against Carter Page?
Carter Page was the reason for the first step they took to try to establish that Trump was colluding with Putin and Russia. Now, the FBI and everybody in the Drive-Bys say, No, no, no, no! It wasnt Carter Page. You are wrong. It was Papadopoulos. Oh, really? Papadopoulos? Well, guess what weve learned about that? This Australian lawmaker, whoever he was ambassador that Papadopoulos started running off at the mouth to? Guess where that guy used to work? Hes a donor to the Clinton Foundation!
Hes a 25- to 50-million-dollar donor to the Clinton Foundation, the guy that Papadopoulos ended up making a drunken comment to! The Clintons are everywhere in this story. They are everywhere, and theyre being ignored. Theyre being exonerated; theyre being passed by. So on one hand, it was Carter Page was the reason that we got the FISA warrant to spy on Trump. Yet hes walking around free as a bird. No charges, no plea deals, nothing!
Meanwhile, people that havent been named, people that werent involved in the FISA warrant are either pleading guilty or being charged. Then after the Carter Page thing blew up, Adam Schiff and the Democrats and their precious little response memo are trying to say, It wasnt Carter Page that got this all started. It was George Papadopoulos! Well, they didnt know about Papadopoulos until six months into this.
And Papadopoulos is another bit player that Trump has never met on the fringes of the campaign. You know, a campaign in politics is like a rock tour in music. There are groupies and there are hangers-on, and the band doesnt know 90% of em. They trust the unit managers and all that to keep the creeps and the groupies away. Unless the band, you know, wants a night with a groupie; then thats arranged. But other than that, the wackos are kept out.
So Papadopoulos is talking to an Australian ambassador some such thing, and hes had too much to drink one night, and he starts talking about Trump and the Russians. And little Adam Schiff says, Thats what got the FISA warrant going. Thats exchange. Its not Carter Page. Well, thats BS. It was Carter Page. It was all Carter Page. Papadopoulos is a fallback position because the first attempt at getting this FISA warrant was bogus.
Now we find out that the guy Papadopoulos was mouthing off to is a big-time donor to the Clinton Foundation, and you know what that means. Hes a big-time investor in the Clinton political fortunes. Everywhere you look, the Clintons are involved here. And theyre being ignored. Theyre being given a big pass. Theyre being exonerated, in fact. Comey exonerated Hillary, and Im telling you: The Clintons and their widespread universe is really the focal point. Its Ground Zero for all of this crap.
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RUSH: You know, I have to You people in the Drive-By Media, you need to be embarrassed. At some point, you need to fess up. There has to be some semblance of maturity and responsibility. Are there no adults left anywhere in the media? Im being serious. Are there no adults? Walter Cronkite would never do this. Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, the legends that our present Drive-By Media seek to someday be the people they respect, the people they emulate. Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor.
These guys would never put somebody obviously drunk and inebriated on six different shows for 45 minutes each! Well, maybe a Kennedy, but outside of that, they wouldnt put this guy on. I mean, this guy Nunberg Weve got a little montage of some of the things he said coming up. He called Sarah Huckabee Sanders a fat slob, and they did not admonish him over that, by the way. He told her to shut her big, fat mouth. The guy had no credibility. He wasnt credible. He wasnt under control. Yet this guy drove the coverage for hours for hours! because these people in the media are obsessed.
And this is even further evidence theyre not gonna give this up.
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RUSH: By the way, this guy Nunberg left the Trump campaign in 2015. Well, thats when Trump announced. Trump announced on June 16th of 2015, and this guy was gone not long after. The guy doesnt know anything. He remained Im told he was a loud advocate for Trump, but he had no pass. He was not part of the campaign apparatus. He was not an employee. He was actually fired three different times. A nonentity. A total nonfactor.
This guy actually fleeced and maneuvered Americas Drive-By Media. The entire media industry basically self-immolated. They set themselves on fire simply because some guy that nobody ever heard of came along and claimed that he knew or thought that Trump had colluded with Russia. Now, does this not do something very significant? Does this incident not fully discredit every story they have run beginning in November of 2016 with all of these deep-state sources? Remember all of these Washington Post and New York Times and CNN stories with multiple reporters.
And all of these anonymous sources that we were told were from various elements of our defense and intelligence apparatus? We had people from the intelligence community were sourcing. We had people from the defense department. We had people from the State Department. All of these people were anonymous and all of them were claiming that Trump and Russia had colluded one way or another. They were stating it; they were implying it.
Every damned one of them was anonymous, and yet every one of those stories there might have been a couple, three exceptions. But every one of the stories had a little line in it somewhere that to date, there is no evidence of these allegations, but the officials weve spoken to are certain that it will soon be forthcoming or some such thing. Well, given what we saw of how they used this guy, I think we have to call into legitimate question just who were all of these anonymous sources? Did they really even exist, or were they just made up by these reporters?
Its a serious question. If theyll take a guy that they dont even know and they know that hes drunk they can smell adult beverages on his breath and theyll still put him on the air, six different shows (45 minutes in one interview), knowing hes drunk, knowing he was fired in 2015 Theyll put him on the air simply because of what he says that they dont check, they dont verify, they dont corroborate, just like they didnt check or corroborate or verify anything that Christopher Steele said in that stupid dossier.
So tell me: Just what value has any of the reporting on this had? If you ask me, this escapade yesterday serves to disqualify every story the media has run on this. The only thing different about this guy was we actually saw him, and we have a name. But all of these others anonymously sourced the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, take your pick we dont even know who they are, and we dont even know that they really exist.
And we do know that whatever they said was hokum. We do know that everything they implied and everything that they intimated turns out to be totally 180-degrees wrong. This episode yesterday, as far as Im concerned, disqualifies every story these people have run to date, because the way this happened yesterday is proof positive of the way this whole story happens each and every day. The way the media is dealing with this and reporting this and treating it every day, we saw it.
There isnt anybody yet that has any evidence. We have a year and a half of reporting on this now. Theres not a single person with a shred of evidence! The evidence, in fact, points straight to the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democrat Party, and it is being studiously, purposely ignored.
Mueller is scraping the bottom of the barrel with this Nunberg guy. Talk about a nothing burger.
And Trump continues to allow these very ( cough ) Newscasters into his residence. Why? Would you allow people that despise you and are working to destroy you in your home?
Second: No he doesn't
Hilarious, the media morons putting a drunk on the air and giving serious time to his inebriated ramblings. Then again, they all voted for a drunken witch for president, so no surprise really.
Rush spent a lot of time dwelling on this topic today. He was wrong. He completely missed the point.
Although he knows full well, he would not consider the fact of the importance of Hillary winning the popular vote. There are more of them than there are of us. Thet means there are lots and lots of them.
Them is who the Drive bys spew their garbage to . Their audience is not Rush Limbaugh or any of us. They produce the drivel to attract an audience that will attract advertisers. They have an audience and thus plenty of advertisers.
It is just business
They’re getting desperate out there, folks......
Isn’t nunberg short for nothing burger?
“Isnt nunberg short for nothing burger?”
That works for me. Hahahaha
The Swamp is gonna be real surprised when they wake up one morning and a few million Deplorables have over-run the city, along with truckloads of old tires for the traditional South African marshmallow roast...
She is not even a Russian national.
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