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<\/p>\nRUSH: Now, we\u2019ve been through all of this from the standpoint of how the New York Times isn\u2019t journalism and this proves it.<\/p>\n
In fact, I\u2019m looking for the Bret Baier sound bite. Something tells me it\u2019s number nine. No, it\u2019s not number nine. Keep looking. It\u2019s number 19. I knew there was a nine in there. It\u2019s Louie Farrakhan\u2019s favorite number, number 19. Grab number 19. Brit Hume last night with Chatsworth Osborne Jr. Question: \u201cAs a piece of journalism, how do you assess this story in the New York Times about Brett Kavanaugh?\u201d<\/p>\n
HUME: This is a story that should never have gotten anywhere near print. It isn\u2019t even a firsthand account. So right there you got a huge strike against you if you\u2019re trying to get the story into print in the old New York Times, right? I can only imagine what would have happened back in my newspaper days if I went to an editor, \u201cThis is what I\u2019ve got.\u201d (laughing) I can just see him picking up the copy and throwing it across the room and you couldn\u2019t get anywhere near — this is nowhere near publishable. It\u2019s not even remotely close.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, all that notwithstanding, I don\u2019t buy this notion that it was just a few years ago you could take this story to the New York Times and the editor would throw it across the room in the trash. It\u2019s been a lot longer ago. You\u2019ve gotta go back to when Abe Rosenthal was the editor of the New York Times to find anything close to what people think journalism is. And we\u2019re going back 25 years.<\/p>\n
Ever since Jill Abramson took over as executive editor and her buddies and pals in there, this paper has not been about journalism. It\u2019s been Democrat Party activism. Its mission has been to destroy Republicans or conservatives both policy, personalities, that\u2019s been the mission. I just don\u2019t think this is anything new! This is what I keep getting frustrated by. I don\u2019t think this is new for the New York Times. It\u2019s classic! It is what they have become.<\/p>\n
So the Kavanaugh story, what is driving it, aside from the need to destroy Kavanaugh? ‘Cause they failed the first time. Blasey Ford failed the first time. You know there\u2019s another story out there on this, and I\u2019ve mentioned this two days running and it still hasn\u2019t gotten picked up. Her best friend, Leland Keyser, has been quoted as saying any number of places that she never believed her story.<\/p>\n
\u201cLeland Keyser, a high school friend of Christine Blasey Ford, cast doubt on Ford\u2019s claims of being sexually assaulted by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at a high school party in the 1980s. \u2018I don\u2019t have any confidence in the story,\u2019 Keyser told New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly in their new book.\u201d Her best friend never bought the story! It\u2019s in the book! Did they ever think to report this during the actual Blasey Ford time under the klieg lights?<\/p>\n
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Her best friend didn\u2019t buy it because it didn\u2019t happen! Neither did this other thing happen. So they failed to get Kavanaugh the first time. Blasey Ford bombed out. So they\u2019re coming back for another try at it. But — aside from the desire to destroy him — why? It\u2019s because of Trump\u2019s most lasting success. What is Donald Trump\u2019s most lasting success? Not necessarily legacy, although it could be.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump\u2019s most lasting success is why they are still trying to destroy Kavanaugh and everything about him. Of all the planks of Donald Trump\u2019s campaign platform in 2016, there was one thing that united conservatives, Libertarians, Republicans, and independents. It did not unite the Never Trumpers because they\u2019re a bunch of spoiled-rotten narcissists when you get down to it. But it united everybody else. And that was Trump\u2019s promise to nominate judges who respect the Constitution as it was written, the old original intent theory of judicial interpretation.<\/p>\n
This is the one… The left has used the judiciary to rewrite the laws of America when they lose elections. They use the judiciary to stop… (interruption) Leland Keyser\u2019s female? I\u2019m sorry. You know what? With names and genders these days, can you blame me for thinking that Leland was a guy? I\u2019ve never known a female Leland. So excuse me. It was not done on purpose. Snerdley\u2019s yelling at me, “Leland Keyser\u2019s female!” It makes it even better. Her best female friend — her best female BFF — didn\u2019t believe the story.<\/p>\n
Okay, I\u2019m sorry. I know a bunch of Lelands and none of them are women. Do you know a female Leland? Pardon me for the assumption. Of all the things Trump has done that infuriates the left, it\u2019s his judicial appointments. Folks, he nominated and had confirmed — and you need to credit the Turtle for this. The Turtle has made this happen. McConnell. After thirty-two months in office, Trump has succeeded in confirmations of more than 152 judges.<\/p>\n
And they are for life. And they are the direct counter to the left\u2019s attempt to take over the country via the judicial branch. ‘Cause you know as well as I do, the judicial branch is the last word. “Whenever a court says something on anything, that\u2019s it! That\u2019s where we go! That\u2019s the final arbiter.” The left has known this for years. They\u2019ve been happy for the interpretation of laws not to occur in Congress but on the judiciary level because they have opted it. And Trump is not even done.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s just into his third year. These nominations are gonna continue. He has seriously changed the composition of the dreaded Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which the left used to own hands down. We\u2019ve got more conservative judges on that court than we\u2019ve ever had. This is driving them crazy. You\u2019ll never see a Democrat-in-the-media news story on this. They do not do stories on their weaknesses or what\u2019s bothering them, other than when other Democrats let \u2019em down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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