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Everybody Working at CNN Has Lost It: Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show
Posted on 6/9/17 at 8:58 am
Posted on 6/9/17 at 8:58 am
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quote:
RUSH: During the break right before the conclusion the previous hour, I did something I seldom do.
I actually turned on the audio here during a break. I was listening to CNN. They had a roundtable discussion. Comey’s testimony had just ended so they go into closed session. Yeah, closed session, where the real juicy stuff can be thrown out there for Richard Burr to slurp up and whatever else! I’m watching Toobin — Jeffrey Toobin, the supreme legal analyst at CNN — and he’s acknowledging that it was true that Comey had said Trump was not a target three different times, but now he is.
“Today we know that there is a criminal investigation of Trump.” I went, “What? What criminal investigation of Trump?” Are you aware of any new investigation of Trump that’s criminal? Seriously, now. Have I missed something? Well, he said it! He said, “Yeah, Trump was not a target, but we know today — right in June of 2017 — that there is an investigation of Trump.” And then they went to this Jim Sciutto guy (who I think Trump personally called out as fake news once in a news conference) and this guy says, “That’s right, Jeffrey!
“That’s absolutely right, and the investigation…” That’s how they identified it. They said the criminal investigation of Trump is his comment to Comey “I hope you can let the Flynn thing go…”
CNN now says that that comment from Trump has opened a personal, new investigation of Trump. I didn’t hear Comey say that, but I do know this. When Comey was asked, “After Trump said all this, why didn’t you resign? I mean, if it’s such a great affront — if Trump saying, ‘Gee, I hope you could find a way to let this Flynn thing go.
“‘You know, he’s a good guy,’ and you, Comey, said, ‘Yeah, he’s a good guy.’ Why didn’t you quit, and why didn’t you report this to the attorney general? Why didn’t you go out and immediately tell your colleagues at the FBI?” Comey says, “I guess I just wasn’t courageous enough,” and then he said, “I didn’t want to taint the investigation.” How in the world can the FBI director “taint” the investigation by announcing new information? Bottom line: I don’t believe that this investigation of Trump is about the Flynn comment.
They’re just lying through their teeth about this — and then Jim Sciutto went on and said, “You know, Anderson…” Anderson Cooper was hosting. “You know, Anderson, this famous dossier, the golden showers dossier that everybody says there’s nothing to? I’m told that there might be something to it, Anderson. I’m told… You heard Comey wouldn’t answer about this in open session, and I’m told that there may be that this is not discredited fully, that it’s not fully off the table, that there might, in fact…” It is fully discredited!
It was made up. It was admittedly manufactured like a novel. It is total fiction, this golden showers memo. But there’s CNN now claiming that Trump is under investigation as of today, despite Comey saying that he was not a target three different times, and that dossier? That’s still active. There may, in fact, be something there! This is why I don’t want you to get caught up in this stuff because you’re just gonna get frustrated. You’re just dealing with people who have… CNN’s gone total pathological now. CNN is clinically, psychologically off kilter.
Something’s happened over there and everybody working there is lost, and I mean this in the greatest sincerity. They have been so overtaken by whatever it is, the hate that governs them. You know, hate is a poison. The longer you hate and the longer you hold on to it and don’t let it go, the more poisonous and destructive it becomes. And these people have forfeited all presence in reality. They’re off on a dangerous, dangerous pathological trail now: Openly, wantonly lying about Trump being under investigation and this memo now.
This post was edited on 6/9/17 at 11:43 am
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:03 am to cajunangelle
quote:
hate is a poison. The longer you hate and the longer you hold on to it and don’t let it go, the more poisonous and destructive it becomes. And these people have forfeited all presence in reality. They’re off on a dangerous, dangerous pathological trail now: Openly, wantonly lying about Trump being under investigation and this memo now.
nailed it
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:03 am to cajunangelle
Once you set course for Extreme Fail, there is no going back. CNN is just too far down the rabbit hole to come up for air. On the bright side, while they are down there making evil potions to hex Our God Emperor with, maybe they will find that missing Malaysian airliner .
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:04 am to cajunangelle
I know one thing, CNN is impossible to watch.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:07 am to CharlesLSU
You actually asked a question. So you didn't really say anything
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:16 am to Midget Death Squad
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Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:17 am to cajunangelle
Best part was the back and forth with Dershowitz and Toobin:
quote:
DERSHOWITZ: He could have said to Comey, “Stop this investigation. I am now pardoning Flynn.” That’s what President Bush did. In the beginning of the investigation of Caspar Weinberger — which could have led back to the White House, to the first President Bush — President Bush, on the eve of the trial, pardoned Caspar Weinberger; pardoned six people. And Special Counsel Walsh said, “This is outrageous! He’s stopping the investigation.” Nobody talked about obstruction of justice. You cannot have obstruction of justice when the president exercises his constitutional authority to pardon, his constitutional authority to fire the director of the FBI, or his constitutional authority to tell the director of the FBI who to prosecute, who not to prosecute. So let’s get out of the weeds.
RUSH: Dershowitz is frustrated. I think he used to appreciate going on CNN, but I’m convinced… I don’t want to put words in the professor’s mouth, but he has to be bothered watching this network, especially if he’s lined up as a guest. Because he’s hearing things from these people that are asinine. And that’s why he says something so simple. Nobody talked about obstructing justice because the president cannot obstruct justice when he behaves constitutionally and pardons somebody. There is no obstruction. The president has the constitutional power to pardon — and if he does it, he’s not obstructing justice. And CNN wouldn’t let it go. CNN says he’s obstructing justice when he hasn’t even done anything. The next thing that Dershowitz said: He can fire the director of the FBI. It is his constitutional authority to tell the FBI director who to prosecute. In other words, Dershowitz was saying if Trump had actually told Comey to drop it on Flynn, he could have! There’s no crime. The president is the executive branch. The president runs it. The FBI director works for the executive branch; therefore, the president. If the president wanted to tell Comey to drop the Flynn thing, he could have, and been constitutionally in bounds. But he didn’t. So Dershowitz is watching CNN manufacture things out of clean air, thin air, that have no relationship to the Constitution. That’s why he finished: You gotta get out of the weeds here, you people. You’re making fools of yourselves. So up next to prove it was Jeffrey Toobin. Cooper said, “Jeffrey, what’s your take on Professor Dershowitz’s recent argument here?”
TOOBIN: I could not think Alan is more wrong, and the simple response is: Watergate. I mean, under Alan’s theory —
DERSHOWITZ: (interrupting)
TOOBIN: Let me finish! Under your theory, the president… Since the FBI works for the president, he can tell ’em to do anything they want. Well, in Watergate, the president — Nixon — and his… They conspired. They made an agreement to stop the FBI investigation of Watergate. Was that a constitutional authority?
DERSHOWITZ: Absolutely. Absolutely.
TOOBIN: No! It was a crime. Several people went to jail and the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach President Nixon over it.
DERSHOWITZ: Impeachment is very different.
TOOBIN: So, yes, he could pardon him but he cannot obstruct justice.
RUSH: All right, so Toobin thinks that he’s just destroyed Dershowitz. Dershowitz sat there patiently waiting for Toobin to make his point. He says that Nixon made an agreement to stop the FBI investigation of Watergate. That’s not… These guys have been so consumed with their hatred, they don’t even remember what Watergate’s about. In fact, I defy nine out of 10 people today to tell you what Watergate was. “Well, yeah, that’s when Nixon was impeached, man! I remember.” No, Nixon wasn’t impeached. “Well, he resigned.” That’s right. But why? Nine out of 10 people cannot tell you, including those that work at CNN. So here’s Dershowitz picking up after Toobin says that the Watergate affair set the precedent for the president being impeached for obstruction of justice for exercising his authority.
DERSHOWITZ: Impeachment is political. There is no judicial review of impeachment. You can impeach a president for jaywalking, and nobody can review that. I’m talking about was there an obstruction of justice. He didn’t commit an obstruction of justice. You, Congress, you can impeach him if you don’t like what he did, if you think obstructionist-ish —
CNN WOMAN: (giggling)
DERSHOWITZ: — or would be an obstruction if he wasn’t the president. But you cannot say it’s a crime. It’s simply not a crime for the president to exercise his constitutional authority to pardon, to direct the FBI. It wasn’t a crime when Thomas Jefferson directed the attorney general what to do. It wasn’t a crime when Lincoln did it.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:19 am to cajunangelle
I don't think Rush has room to tell anyone they've lost it, even if he's right this time.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:20 am to CharlesLSU
I don't listen to Rush every day. Only when Zach starts a thread saying he is interesting on such and such day... or Stein is hosting sometimes.
If I was a daily fan what does that make me exactly?
Do you want me to send someone to meet you at Sonic, or what?
If I was a daily fan what does that make me exactly?
Do you want me to send someone to meet you at Sonic, or what?
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:21 am to cajunangelle
Holy sheep shite, batman. We knew they would spin it, somehow, but this???? frick me man. People are lost...
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:23 am to cajunangelle
CNN hasn't had any integrity for 2-3 years.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:34 am to CharlesLSU
The rush haters on here are hilarious. They act like anyone who listens can't think for themselves and that rush is doing nothing but lying but they can never refute anything about what he says. Throw in some drug abuse jokes and that's all you ever get from them
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:35 am to Pelican fan99
I agree, they are stuck in 1990's talking points...
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:41 am to Lsupimp
Posted on 6/9/17 at 9:54 am to cajunangelle
Evan, Evan, Evan, Evan, Evan, Evan...can we get a fact check on the fly?
Posted on 6/9/17 at 10:06 am to member12
CNN is in complete Groupthink. They have no voice to say hey - are we really going to say this?
Posted on 6/9/17 at 10:12 am to cajunangelle
You want a prime example of how Rush works? Go try to find the clip from CNN that Rush is quoting and see how accurate Rush's quotes of what was said actually are. The few times I've listened to Rush I've notices this is his favorite propaganda strategy. He puts bullshite words in "liberals" mouths and then argues against those made up words.
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