{"id":17509,"date":"2011-11-04T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-11-04T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T16:16:00","slug":"media_shifts_to_damage_control_as_politico_smear_fails_to_take_out_cain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/11\/04\/media_shifts_to_damage_control_as_politico_smear_fails_to_take_out_cain\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Shifts to Damage Control as Politico Smear Fails to Take Out Cain"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I am starting to sense it. I am starting to see it. When I sense it, when I see it, it is probably true. That\u2019s been my track record. I think I detect the media heading into damage control on the Herman Cain story. A lot of media are. This day five now, and still nobody knows what he did. Not a single media outlet can report what he did! Some are even suggesting that The Politico had no business running this story. These are other journalists who are beginning to say this. … The media is also in damage control over the Occupy Oakland riots <\/a>the night before last. I mean, yesterday the media was trying to pretend the Oakland protests were peaceful; the very model of a love fest, but now the truth is coming out along with some of the pictures and they\u2019re switching over to damage control mode — and they\u2019re doing the same thing in the Herman Cain story. <\/p>\n

Really, folks, five days now, and nobody knows what he did. Think of all the news stories there have been, think of The Politico and how they got this ball rolling, and after five days there has yet to be a report what he did. Nobody knows still. Five days! As Wes Pruden, former editor-in-chief of the Washington Times, points out when he ran the Washington Times newsroom: If somebody like The Politico reporters would have brought this story to him, he woulda thrown \u2019em down the steps — and if they survived that, he would have fired them. (paraphrased exchange) “You\u2019re telling me you want my newspaper to publish this rotgut? What do you got? There\u2019s nothing here! I want names, places, activities, things that happened. There\u2019s nothing here!”<\/line><\/p>\n

“No, we want to run this, and we want Cain to respond to it. We want him to provide the information.” A lot of even seasoned journalists don\u2019t like this. I\u2019ve got sound bites you can tell they\u2019re getting edgy because they\u2019re getting all upset at me playing the race card in reverse on these guys. The reverse race card works every time it\u2019s tried when I play it and it\u2019s got them all ticked off. So we\u2019ve got that to do. Here\u2019s Washington Post, ABC poll: “70% of Republicans say the Cain allegations don\u2019t matter.” Can I tell you…? Folks, behind the closed doors of the mainstream media outlets, that poll (because it\u2019s in the Washington Post) I can\u2019t tell you how that ticks \u2019em off! This was supposed to destroy Herman Cain, and I\u2019ll tell you something else.<\/p>\n

It was supposed to destroy every other Republican by shifting the focus to all of them in this matter; getting them to comment, to not comment, to pile on Cain or what have you. I\u2019ll tell you what: There\u2019s a question out there that I really think needs to be asked, because the way the media is doing their backtrack on this — the way they\u2019re doing damage control — is the same thing as yesterday. They\u2019re starting to focus on how “poorly” Herman Cain is handling this, which of course we (on the cutting edge) were on that aspect of the story yesterday. “He\u2019s doing such a lousy job handling this.” How about a poll on how good a job Obama\u2019s doing handling the economy? What do you think a poll like that would look like? Well, we already have that poll, and it\u2019s called, “What do you think of the direction of the country: good, bad, worse, horrible, what?”<\/line><\/p>\n

Only 16 to 30%, depending on the poll, think the country\u2019s headed in the right direction. So on what do you want to judge a candidate or a political person\u2019s qualifications? On how he\u2019s handling a no-name, no-information, empty “scandal” (with quotation marks around it), or how he\u2019s handling the US economy? As I said yesterday: I don\u2019t care, folks. No matter what happens here, every Republican candidate for the nomination — every one of them — is so superior to Barack Obama, it\u2019s laughable. Of course the Drive-Bys know that, and Democrats know that. But when you have the Washington Post and ABC News in their joint poll saying that 70% of Republicans don\u2019t care about the Herman Cain allegations, what that can be translated to is the following:<\/p>\n

“Politico, you failed. You attempted, along with others in the mainstream media, to take out the guy, and you failed. Your influence isn\u2019t what you thought it was. Alana Goodman at Commentary magazine writes, “Basically, the entire Washington media could have collectively called in sick all week, and it wouldn\u00c2\u2019t have made a difference \u00c2\u2013 at least not for 70 percent of Republicans. The latest Washington Post\/ABC poll, one of the first to be taken post-scandal, reports: ‘Seven in 10 Republicans say reports that [Herman] Cain made unwanted advances toward two employees when he was head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s — allegations which have been stiffly rebutted by Cain\u00c2\u2019s campaign — do not matter when it comes to picking a candidate.'”<\/p>\n

Could it be…? In determining why this result is what it is, you could say, “Well, maybe people don\u2019t care as much about sexual harassment anymore. Maybe people recognize what it\u2019s always been: A tool for advancing liberalism,” or maybe people are just fed up with the media in its modern incarnation, particularly Republicans. We know that\u2019s true. We know that most Republicans, even if they\u2019re RINO Republicans, are fed up with the way the media is going about conducting business these days. Herman Cain\u2019s manager, Mark Block, was on Fox this morning, American Newsroom. He was on there with Martha MacCallum and he said this is the last day he\u2019s gonna talk about this. He said the media and everybody has turned Washington into a cesspool, and we are not going to swim in that cesspool anymore. We are not gonna play by the rules that the media has established. <\/p>\n

Block said, “The fact of the matter is The Politico article if it was held up to the same standards as the code of ethics — of the code of ethics for journalism the people involved would be fired.” This is Mark Block, who is a target of the media this week as being the architect of the guy who\u2019s “mishandling” this; who\u2019s advising Cain poorly, making Cain look like an idiot. This Block guy, he\u2019s the guy that puffed on a cigarette in the TV ad. They hate the guy! So he finally has awakened. He also said that the Cain campaign\u2019s “considering its legal options and may sue Politico over the as yet unsubstantiated allegations,” and that\u2019s what they are. Five days now, folks. Do you realize, in one day we knew what Clinton had done with Lewinsky — and we knew that Newsweek spiked the story and that the estimable Matt Drudge ran it. <\/p>\n

We knew on day one what Clinton did, and he was advised to go out there and lie about it, and it didn\u2019t work. Five days running, and we still don\u2019t know what Herman Cain did and there doesn\u2019t appear to be anybody in the media who can tell us. The media is openly begging for the women to “come forward and tell their stories.” Wait a minute, don\u2019t you know? How could you run the story without knowing what the women were gonna say? You need the women to come forward and tell the story? Why can\u2019t you just report it, if you know it? Why is it incumbent upon the women — who don\u2019t want to come forward, apparently? So that\u2019s where we are on that story.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Politico with another story. I\u2019ll tell you, this bunch is the most sex obsessed people I\u2019ve seen since I don\u2019t know when. Imagine if Ken Starr had been this obsessed! There\u2019s a big, long story here by Kent Vogel and Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns (three people), and I can tell you what it says in six words: More anonymous Cain details from The Politico. More anonymous details. This bunch is positively sex obsessed, and now it\u2019s in damage control mode. “Herman Cain flatly denies the most serious allegation facing him … but POLITICO has learned new details making clear there were urgent discussions of the woman\u00c2\u2019s accusations at top levels of the National Restaurant Association within hours of when the incident was alleged to have occurred.” What\u2019s new about that? We all knew that. <\/p>\n

“The new details — which come from multiple sources independently familiar with the incident at a hotel during a restaurant association event in the late 1990s — put the woman\u00c2\u2019s account even more sharply at odds with Cain\u00c2\u2019s emphatic insistence in news media interviews this week that nothing inappropriate happened between the two.” What “new details”? We still don\u2019t know what they are! I\u2019m not kidding when I say “anonymous details.” Not anonymous sources. We\u2019ve got anonymous details now make up the bulk of a story! If I didn\u2019t know better I would say journalism had created a new standard. Anonymous sources has now morphed into anonymous details. “In recent days sources … have offered new details of the incident.<\/p>\n

<\/a>“The woman in question, roughly 30 years old at the time and working in the National Restaurant Association\u00c2\u2019s government affairs division,” we know all that, “told two people directly at the time that Cain made a sexual overture to her at one of the group\u00c2\u2019s events, according to the sources familiar with the incident. She was livid and lodged a verbal complaint with an NRA board member that same night, these sources said,” but still we don\u2019t know what! Remember, the Duke lacrosse case? Seasoned reporters hounded those kids, based on no evidence — none, zero. “Seasoned reporters,” and many of the faculty at Duke signed all kinds of whatever they were, supporting the accuser, condemning the lacrosse team members; and remember how that turned out?<\/p>\n

It was a total, fabricated, made-up story that was believed simply because it fit stereotypes of the left, it fit the narrative, it fit a template — and then there\u2019s this. This is back to The Politico, from Jonathan Martin. This scandal now, folks, really intensifies. “Joel Bennett, the attorney for one of the women who complained about Herman Cain at the National Restaurant Association said Friday that his client\u2019s settlement was dated in September of 1999 and signed by the trade group\u2019s general counsel but not Cain. Cain had already left the organization by then, before his three-year term was up…” So when was the settlement signed? 9-9-9! September of \u201999! <\/p>\n

What will the media make of this? The settlement date, September of 1999, equals “9-9-9,” the same name of Herman Cain\u2019s economic plan. Somebody needs to call the dethroned Dutch sociologist and have him make something of this for us. To the audio sound bites we go, and we are… What did I tell you, start number five? Starting at number five, last night on PMSNBC Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson was on to discuss the Americans for Herman Cain ad. And he was asked, “Okay, obviously that was Limbaugh\u2019s voice, and they\u2019re calling it ‘a high-tech lynching.\u2019 They\u2019re playing the race card on this. What do you think of this, Gene?”<\/p>\n

ROBINSON: It\u2019s interesting that people like Limbaugh who always accuse the likes of me of playing the race card (chortling) when I write about racism and its continuing presence in American society are awfully quick to play that same card, duh, when they think it\u2019s to their advantage. Uh, I assume that means that Rush is now gonna change his position on affirmative action, on a whole lot of other things in this race that\u2019s involved. I guess not. I guess probably not.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: What is he babbling about? Does somebody want to translate that for me? They can\u2019t handle it when their own technique is thrown back at \u2019em, when their own technique is turned on \u2019em, they just can\u2019t stand it. “It\u2019s interesting that people like Limbaugh who always accuse the likes of me of playing the race card when I write about racism are awfully quick to play that same card when they think it\u2019s to their advantage.” I\u2019m doing nothing based on any advantage whatsoever. I\u2019m simply describing what I see, and there\u2019s no question that this is being done to a black conservative and that the left doesn\u2019t like black conservatives. The left doesn\u2019t like Hispanic conservatives. The left doesn\u2019t like minorities who are conservative, who show an ability to rise to the top of any organization they\u2019re in. <\/p>\n

The left doesn\u2019t like it. (interruption) Well, that\u2019s right. I have crossed a line because the charge of racism is theirs exclusively to make. No one\u2019s allowed to make that charge, and here I come making the charge, and they can\u2019t deal with it. It hits \u2019em right upside the face and they don\u2019t know what to do, except call foul. “You can\u2019t do that! That\u2019s what we do. You\u2019re not allowed to do that! You can\u2019t call us racists! You\u2019re the racists! You can\u2019t do that especially now \u2019cause it\u2019s true. You can\u2019t call us out like that. You\u2019re gonna blow up our whole game if you keep doing this. You gotta shut up! We\u2019re gonna start trying to make fun of you and now maybe say you\u2019re in favor of affirmative action!” What an odd connection to make there, but it didn\u2019t stop. Different show, MSNBC, Lawrence O\u2019Donnell talking to a Politico writer (sigh), Maggie Haberman about me. <\/p>\n

The question: “Rush Limbaugh\u2019s out there saying these women are lying.”<\/p>\n

I have not said that. Has somebody produced to me where I\u2019ve said that? I have never said the women are lying. All I\u2019ve said is, “We don\u2019t know what happened,” and on day five we don\u2019t know what happened because the accusers in the media have not told us what happened. I did say, “What if there\u2019s another version of this?” I have pointed out instances where women have lied about this, but I didn\u2019t accuse these women of it. So, anyway, the premise of the question is flawed, but nevertheless the question was asked. “Rush Limbaugh\u2019s out there saying these women are lying. Rush Limbaugh — who doesn\u2019t know who they are, who believed every single word of every <\/line>female accusation ever sent the direction of Bill Clinton or any Democrat for that matter but especially Clinton — firmly believes these unnamed women are lying.”<\/line><\/p>\n

HABERMAN: In terms of the Rush Limbaugh piece of it, I think that you\u2019re seeing, you know, generally a lot of rallying in the conservative media around Herman Cain. There has been a lot of criticism about the fact that this was reported on; uhhh, a lot of defense of Herman Cain, a lot of insistence that it couldn\u2019t be true. Some of his loudest support has come from that direction.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not support of Herman Cain, by the way, although I can see where the media might think that. It is not support of Herman Cain so much as it is we\u2019ve all had it with your tactics in the media. We\u2019ve had it with the double standard. We\u2019ve had it with people like you elevating Bill Clinton to superstar status. We\u2019ve had it with you looking the other way during the Tawana Brawley lies. We\u2019ve had it with you in the Duke lacrosse story. We\u2019ve had it with you trying to cover up for John Edwards! We\u2019ve had it with you lionizing Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd, of “waitress sandwich” fame at La Brasserie in Washington. We\u2019ve had it with you holding up as national heroes reprobates like this, and we\u2019ve had it with you trying to take out our people on the basis of no knowledge whatsoever. <\/p>\n

We still don\u2019t know what you think Cain did — and until you can tell us, as journalists, with incontrovertible proof, we\u2019re gonna doubt you because you have given us every reason in the world to not trust your reporting, because it is biased against us and our side and our people. That is inarguable! That is as obvious and honest as the sun comes up. Even Clinton has given up trying to deny the accusations against him. Clinton doesn\u2019t even deny them anymore. He knows he doesn\u2019t have to. You\u2019ve made him a hero, and you continue to make him a hero by telling us that Cain is not handling this the right way, and we know who you think did handle it the right way: Slick Willie! <\/p>\n

Bimbo eruption teams! Send Carville and whoever else out to destroy Ken Starr as a sex pervert, to destroy Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey as nothing but a bunch of trailer park trash. You supposed feminists in the media loooved Bill Clinton and wished he would come to your bedroom at night as he trashes these women who made these true allegations about him; and you come along with innuendo and five days of smears, and we don\u2019t even know what he\u2019s guilty of! We\u2019re standing up for our side. We are standing up for each other. We\u2019re circling the wagons around us. If you people were trying this against any of the candidates with the same lack of information that you\u2019ve got, it would be the same thing. <\/p>\n

I sit here and I wonder — you heard her sound bite — is she really this closed off and insulated from what this is all about? Does she really think this is just the conservative media defending Cain because he\u2019s a conservative? Does she really think that even if Cain did it, we\u2019d still be treating this the way we\u2019re treating it? Sometimes I wonder. I see evidence every day that leads me to believe these people are closed off and walled off in a little small area that they\u2019ve called their own reality, and it\u2019s as distant from the real world as anyplace you could get. So it could well be that Ms. Haberman is clueless, genuinely clueless about what this is all about — which is to our advantage, by the way.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I even remember one time even defended Janet Reno, and Bill Clinton (hero to the left) told a joke at the White House Correspondents Dinner and said (impression), “Hey, did you hear? Huh huh. Did you hear Rush defended Janet Reno on his program the other night? It\u2019s only because she was being attacked by a black guy.” The media in the room did two things. There was a (gasp!) and then wild laughter as the president of the United States went racist. They applauded it. Ms. Haberman, we don\u2019t know the details of this story because you refuse to publish the details, and I\u2019m beginning to think the details of the story might get in the way of the rest of your agenda. So the details are gonna remain anonymous in the Herman Cain story. Here is a montage of the Drive-By Media going full bore on Cain\u2019s real problem.<\/p>\n

PIERS MORGAN: Is Herman Cain handling this very badly?<\/p>\n

JONATHAN KARL: …Cain handled this so badly.<\/p>\n

CHUCK TODD: (outdoor noise) This is a campaign that is falling apart. Not ready to handle this at all.<\/p>\n

LARRY O\u2019DONNELL: How to handle one of these stories?<\/p>\n

CLARANCE PAGE: Not the way to handle this kind of situation.<\/p>\n

J.C. WATTS: He didn\u2019t handle it right.<\/p>\n

JOHN KING: (outdoor noise) …how a candidate and his team handle pressure, handle crisis.<\/p>\n

ERIC BOLLING: It\u2019s no way to handle this.<\/p>\n

RICHARD STENGEL: Voters are looking at how candidates handle matters.<\/p>\n

DANA PERINO: You have ten days to get ready for something like this; this is how you handle it?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s Dana Perino, by the way, joining in from the Bush team, jumping all over Herman Cain. I wonder how many of these journalists could take 30 seconds of what they dish out? It\u2019s happened now and then and they all start crying wolf. “Wait a minute, you can\u2019t do it! Who I am doesn\u2019t matter! I\u2019m not the story! I\u2019m the journalist, I\u2019m the reporter. You — you can\u2019t — you can\u2019t delve into my life and find out how many affairs I\u2019ve had and whether I\u2019ve smoked dope, You can\u2019t do it!”<\/p>\n

Oh, we can\u2019t? Well, we\u2019re gonna do that.<\/p>\n

“You can\u2019t! I\u2019m the journalist! You can\u2019t! It doesn\u2019t matter! I\u2019m not the story!”<\/p>\n

They can\u2019t handle 30 seconds of what they dish out. Jan Crawford, Early Show, CBS today, is stunned that Cain continues to do well.<\/p>\n

CRAWFORD: People are really sticking behind Herman Cain, his supporters are. That\u2019s reflected in a lot of the reporting that we\u2019ve been doing, talking to voters, particularly out in Iowa; where supporters of Cain say they just think this is going to fade away. They think these charges are, quote, “sketchy,” one person told us, and it\u2019s just not really that pertinent; and, interestingly, the campaign is still — still! — raising lots of money. And then, finally, I think look at talk radio. I mean you know that is very important with conservative voters. The conservative talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, they are really rallying to his defense, and that could end up being a huge help to him if they stay with him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, folks, I apologize. That bite I did not read the entire transcript. I did not know I was also mentioned in that bite. I don\u2019t… (interruption) Well, I know it\u2019s my show, but I\u2019m not playing these sound bites just \u2019cause they mention my name. I just didn\u2019t read the transcript far enough to know that she did. Where are the calls for the Restaurant Association to release the results of their investigation, which Cain says cleared him? You know, the media will not even mention that? The media won\u2019t even join this call for the NRA to release the results of the investigation. They just want the women to come forward and the women don\u2019t want to. I wonder what\u2019s up with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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