{"id":263382,"date":"2018-02-07T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=263382"},"modified":"2018-02-08T16:24:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T21:24:26","slug":"the-russian-meddling-meme-is-democrat-misdirection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/02\/07\/the-russian-meddling-meme-is-democrat-misdirection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian Meddling Meme Is Democrat Misdirection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: It\u2019s Kathy in Alamo, Texas. It\u2019s great to have you with us.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, my gosh. I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m talking to you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I\u2019m glad that you are. It\u2019s great to have you here with us.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, thank you so much. My mother got me listening to you back in the early nineties.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: God bless her. She also from Texas?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, no. We\u2019re from Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: But I\u2019m a snowbird right now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-263405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FB-002-020718-Russian-Flag-Hack-Data.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FB-002-020718-Russian-Flag-Hack-Data.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FB-002-020718-Russian-Flag-Hack-Data-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, so you still live in Pennsylvania but you\u2019re escaping the weather?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Gotcha.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: But she also got us listening to Mannheim Steamroller because of you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh! Do you still like them?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Good.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Absolutely. But here\u2019s my question that I just don\u2019t understand. I\u2019m hoping that you can explain it to me, because I\u2019ve never really heard it explained anywhere else. Of course that\u2019s with the regular media. But I don\u2019t understand why they\u2019re all talking that the Russians were trying to get Trump elected by tampering with our election instead of Hillary. It seemed to me that it makes more sense that they would rather have Hillary, had Hillary as president, because she would continue to do basically nothing to stop Putin from any of his activities and also because of the original beauty pageant story in the hotel room and everything.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Beauty pageant story? What\u2019s the beauty pageant story?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, when Trump was there with the beauty &#8212; in Russia and then had the hookers in the bedroom and &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wait a minute. You don\u2019t believe that, do you?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, no, not at all. Not at all. So that\u2019s why I thought making that up would want them to discourage people from voting for Trump and to vote for Hillary. And so then &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right. Okay, let me tackle this. Because this is actually an interesting question, and it\u2019s come up on many previous occasions. Who would the Russians really prefer? And like you, I think that if this were a factor &#8212; and I don\u2019t think it is &#8212; I mean, the Russians may prefer somebody, but that doesn\u2019t mean anything. It doesn\u2019t have a thing to do with who\u2019s gonna win. This is how easy people are falling into this whole Russia inclusion business.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-263391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FB-002-020718-Hillary-Russians-Hack-Election.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FB-002-020718-Hillary-Russians-Hack-Election.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FB-002-020718-Hillary-Russians-Hack-Election-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>I don\u2019t mean to be harping on you out there, Kathy, don\u2019t misunderstand. But if anybody\u2019s gonna ask, &#8220;Well, gee, wouldn\u2019t the Russians really rather have Hillary,&#8221; it means that you have accepted the premise that the Russians can determine who wins our elections, and I\u2019m sorry, folks, but I don\u2019t buy the premise! It just isn\u2019t true. The whole thing is bogus!<\/p>\n<p>But it still is an interesting academic exercise to examine if they could determine who or president is, who would they prefer to be in the Oval Office? And like you, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any question they\u2019d rather have a rank amateur pushover who may not even be healthy, named Hillary Clinton in there, with her backup being the eyebrow, Tim Kaine.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I don\u2019t want anybody to misunderstand. There is no question the Russians tamper, apparently. Everybody is saying this as though it\u2019s conventional wisdom. Of course the Russians interfere, and we\u2019ve gotta get to the bottom of it. I have yet to have anybody tell me how.<\/p>\n<p>They hacked the DNC server. Okay. They tried to hack the RNC server. And they\u2019re always trying to commit cybercrimes. Correct. But there\u2019s nothing new about that. The way it\u2019s being presented to people, though, since this election is that the Russians can determine who win our elections, and they definitely wanted Trump, and so it happened! So in a lot of people\u2019s minds, the election is already tainted, when the Russians didn\u2019t do anything new, anything they haven\u2019t been trying to do for as long as you and I have been alive.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, the Russians have had more success infiltrating our education system than they have our electoral system. The presidential electoral system. The Russians, who knows how many agents they have as tenured professors at many of our institutions of higher learning. Who knows how many professors are not agents but are avowed communists who had great respect for the Soviet Union? How many of them are teaching our kids now? There\u2019s a plethora of them. The Soviet Union has infiltrated American institutions in a number of ways successfully, always clandestinely.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s only been this year that we finally heard about the Russians apparently having the ability to determine who wins the presidency. And I\u2019m just gonna guarantee you that in future years, whenever a Democrat is elected, we\u2019re never gonna hear a word about what the Russians wanted, unless they revive it during a campaign to try to besmirch the Republican candidate, which they probably will do. But there\u2019s no way these elections can be tampered with in advance.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why&#8230; Did you note on election night there was an hour and a half from midnight Eastern to 1:30 where the &#8220;total&#8221; board didn\u2019t change? They could have called the race for Trump then, but nobody did. There was an hour and a half where there were no precincts anywhere reporting, and the Drive-By Media gave us the reasons. &#8220;Well, is a late problem here in this county and that precinct. You know, they\u2019re, uh, usually late counting over there Susquehanna County,&#8221; and they all talk about these precincts like they\u2019re intimately aware of them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-239187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-32.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-32.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-32-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-32-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>So I\u2019m asking, &#8220;What\u2019s goin\u2019 on here? Nobody has counted a single vote and reported it in 90 minutes anywhere in this country?&#8221; So I asked some people that I thought would have some insight on this, and they said, &#8220;It\u2019s because the Democrats were trying to figure out where they could get votes from to pull this off.&#8221; I said, &#8220;Really?&#8221; They said, &#8220;Yes! How do you think they did it for JFK in 1960?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They waited and they found out what they needed out of Cook County and West Virginia, and they found it. In these Democrat precincts and states, it\u2019s exactly what happened.&#8221; Okay, well, if they\u2019re waiting until midnight to 1:30 toward the end of the counting process, then what about all these Russian efforts to rig the thing before the election? If the Russians rigged it before the election, why is everybody waiting until midnight to see what kind of votes they need?<\/p>\n<p>This whole thing, to me, is a giant misdirection play and is designed to make Americans think that their presidential election can be determined by the Russians and by Vladimir Putin. In truth, I don\u2019t think Putin cares. It\u2019s not gonna change his attitude to the United States. He\u2019s still gonna consider us an enemy. I think in case of Hillary, he would consider her an easier person to dupe because she is a liberal and Putin knows them backwards and forwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Folks, the Russians have had more success infiltrating our education system than they have our presidential electoral system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":263391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Russian Meddling Meme Is Democrat Misdirection - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/02\/07\/the-russian-meddling-meme-is-democrat-misdirection\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Russian Meddling Meme Is Democrat Misdirection - 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