{"id":215180,"date":"2016-12-15T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/12\/15\/the_left_s_election_was_hacked_lunacy_masks_hillary_s_historic_electoral_loss\/"},"modified":"2017-01-03T12:46:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T17:46:56","slug":"the_left_s_election_was_hacked_lunacy_masks_hillary_s_historic_electoral_loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/12\/15\/the_left_s_election_was_hacked_lunacy_masks_hillary_s_historic_electoral_loss\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left\u2019s Election-Was-Hacked Lunacy Masks Hillary\u2019s Historic Electoral Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH:  They keep trying to suck us into this, and, folks, I got no choice. I gotta get sucked in.  I gotta let the suckers succeed here in order to obliterate what they\u2019re talking about, but I still resent it.  This whole election-was-hacked thing is a full-fledged joke.  And get this.  There\u2019s a new poll out from the Fox News Channel.  Fifty-nine percent of the respondents said that all of this had no impact on the election. <\/p>\n

The Democrats are gonna look at that and they\u2019re gonna start pulling their hair out because everything is boomeranging on \u2019em.  You realize that?  While it may look to you like the Democrats are carrying the day here because they\u2019re defining the narrative and what everybody\u2019s talking about, don\u2019t forget who won the election and who lost!  And don\u2019t forget who was rejected!  And don\u2019t forget who was repudiated:  Obama, Hillary. <\/p>\n

It was an Electoral College landslide, folks.  She was sent packing, as was Obama and his agenda.  And that hasn\u2019t changed, the American people\u2019s minds haven\u2019t changed, they don\u2019t regret the way they voted.  So all this stuff the Democrats are doing is really boomeranging on \u2019em.  The media is aware of it but trying to hide that, and they\u2019re getting more angry by the day that what they\u2019re trying to do isn\u2019t working so they\u2019re intensifying the effort, and that\u2019s where we are. <\/line><\/p>\n

Greetings and welcome.  It\u2019s great to have you.  Rush Limbaugh here at the EIB Network.  Another three hours of broadcast excellence. <\/p>\n

Something\u2019s wrong, folks.  Something is terribly wrong.  Mr. Snerdley brought me the evidence today.  I\u2019m holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a printed copy of a story from TheHill.com.  The headline:  “Limbaugh: No One Can Prove Russia Hacked Election<\/a>.”  I said, “What\u2019s the big deal about this?” <\/p>\n

He said, “They reported it accurately.  There\u2019s no snark.  They don\u2019t refer to you as conservative blowhard.  They don\u2019t refer to you in any kind of derogatory term.  They really just quote what you say, and that\u2019s it.” <\/p>\n

I said, “Let me see that.”  So I grabbed it and I looked at it and I\u2019ve got it right here.  And Snerdley\u2019s right.  This is not good, folks.  I mean, they\u2019re reporting on me accurately.  This is not normal.  There is no snark.  There is no reference or there are no allusions to how I am off on a wacko conspiracy theorist tangent.  All they do is report me and quote me accurately.<\/a>  But I pointed out nobody\u2019s alleged that the Russians actually hacked the election.  To hack the election, they would have to do one of two things.  They would have to hack the way people voted or hack the way the votes were counted.  That\u2019s how you hack an election, if you even can. <\/p>\n

But nobody\u2019s alleging — we\u2019ve had three recounts, and in all those recounts the original count was pretty much concerned.  There isn\u2019t any evidence whatsoever to suggest there was any kind of fraud.  Jill Stein, bye-bye.  Hillary Clinton, bye-bye.  Now, what they\u2019re alleging is, ladies and gentlemen, that the Russians stole the election.  That whole narrative hinges on the preposterous supposition that millions of people voted for Trump instead of Hillary because of what they saw in the Podesta emails. <\/p>\n

Now, never mind at the time when the Podesta emails were being reported on, and the Drive-Bys did, they reported on \u2019em, I mean, it was too juicy not to.  But while they were reporting on the contents of the Podesta emails, the Drive-Bys, the media was assuring everybody there was nothing to see here, there was nothing new, that the Podesta emails revealed nothing of any real importance. <\/p>\n

Let me do a little pop quiz.  How many of you, if I had you on the phone right now, could answer a question, what do you remember that was in the emails?  You got 10 seconds.  Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.  What do you remember?  Can you cite for me one thing you remember?  Well, Snerdley you can \u2019cause you\u2019re a nerd.  What do you remember?  Okay, how they diss their own donors, made fun — yes, yes, of course.  But my point is that not enough of that could have happened for the election to be elected by it. <\/p>\n

<\/a>The latest news is that Putin was directly involved.  Yeah, it came all the way from the Politburo.  It came all the way from the Kremlin.  Putin himself was involved.  And now Josh Earnest, White House press secretary — oh, is the media in a dizzy over this.  Remind me, press briefing, that\u2019s all you gotta say.  Josh Earnest is out there saying, “Trump was in on it.  Trump knew.  Trump was urging Putin to hack the Democrats.”  It\u2019s a laughable joke. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure many of you remember, but what happened was Trump cracked a joke in a debate about the missing 33,000 Hillary emails.  There were 33,000 that she had deleted of the 60,000 that were on her server. She told us there\u2019s nothing to see there, Chelsea\u2019s wedding and yoga classes and the wedding reception and the registry, there\u2019s nothing to see there. <\/p>\n

But late in the campaign there were all kinds of allusions to the fact that somebody had those 33,000 emails and was gonna release them, but it never happened. So during the debate Trump cracked a joke, “Maybe the Russians can find them.”  That\u2019s all they\u2019ve got because people are humorless.  The people on the left have no sense of humor. They are supposedly the greatest comedians in the world and the finest minds in the world, but they have no sense of humor, and particularly if you\u2019re laughing at them or mocking them. <\/p>\n

So Trump comes out, “Maybe the Russians can find them.”  So immediately the Drive-Bys translate that into Trump urging Putin to continue hacking the Democrats.  There\u2019s no way.  Trump was making a joke about it.  The White House is now running with it. That is the source, that\u2019s the Trump comment that Josh Earnest and all the Democrats are using to say that Trump knew about the hack and was encouraging Putin to do it. When the truth of the matter is — and we revealed this yesterday — Barack Obama knew the hack was going on all the way back in September of 2015. <\/p>\n