He admits that the latest email dump really proves nothing except there is nothing here to see as I wrote in an earlier post.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/09/media-declares-cheryl-mills-big-winner.html
I suggested an interesting paradox with the emails: the more we see the less there is to this whole Emailgate Truther scandal.
Now even Rush sees that the newly released emails are a whole lot of nothingburgers. So he explains that the media has deliberately cherrypicked which emails we get to see. The good stuff is what we're not seeing.
"And this drip, drip, drip. I'm sorry, folks, I was wrong. This drip, drip, drip is not Obama trying to destroy Hillary. The drip, drip, drip is trying to bore the American people. They get tired of hearing about it because nothing happens. It's not interesting other than this inside-the-Beltway gossip stuff. There's some tantalizing things in there, some titillating things that are supposed to make everybody go, "Ooh, ooh, ooh," like David Brock trying to talk her into impeaching Clarence Thomas. Or Sidney Blumenthal asking her to promote his idiot son's ranting against Israel. Or the fact that Tim Geithner's lousy with document curation, which we already know, but none of it is about anything that matters, and accordingly, nothing happens here."
"The drip, drip, drip is designed to bore people and to make them think there's nothing to it. Compare it A-B, side by side, Hillary e-mail, original news stories, particularly in conservative media. "Wow. She's dealing in classified information. She's dealing with super-secret stuff. Oh, my God, we could all be at risk. Did she know? Did she not know? Is she competent?" Then the drip, drip, drip happens, and what do we get? Boehner is an alcoholic. Blumenthal thinks his kid's a great, smart guy when he rants against Israel. David Brock trying to convince Hillary to impeach Clarence Thomas. Nothing about anything classified. But more importantly, nothing happens."
"The drip, drip, drip continues, but nobody makes a move on Hillary. Nobody, and, more importantly, nobody in the Republican Party is making a move. Nobody's trying to force any action. Nobody's trying to cause anything to happen as a result of this drip, drip, drip of the e-mails. And so, the target of all this, our favorite group, the low-information voters, they keep hearing about this, but nothing ever happens, so there must be nothing to it. And after a while, the low-information people are gonna be just like me, "Latest Hillary e-mail dump, okay, big whoop. What's this say? Okay, fine." And then they get tired of it."
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/09/01/hillary_s_drip_drip_drip_e_mail_strategy_how_can_we_bore_em_today
This strategy of boring everyone to death by the fact that there is no evidence of anything wrong has historical antecedents Rush explains. This is how Bill beat Ken Starr.
"'ll give you exact historical demonstration of this. This is, ladies and gentlemen, exactly how the Clintons beat Ken Starr. The drip, drip, drip just enervated everybody because it was not accompanied by calls for action, so it just became ho-hum news. In fact, they even set us up one day. It was the day that Clinton had to go testify under oath in a super-secret room at the White House. When his testimony was over they leaked a story that he had blown his gasket over a question about the cigars and the dress or something."
"So everybody got, "Oh, man, okay, cool, Clinton blew a gasket. We must be getting somewhere now." And then a couple days later they release the videotape of the testimony and get to that moment in time where he blew his stack, and he didn't. He rolled his eyes and that was it. We were clearly being set up. And by the time the Starr report came out nobody cared anymore, they were bored silly because all that happened was drip, drip, drip, little new here, little new there, nothing monumental, nothing earth-shattering, but more importantly, nobody did anything. "
Now if you went back into the archives of Rush's show then I'm sure you'd find that he was promoting the alleged Clinton blowup as much as anyone.
"Hillary response to it, by the way, was, "Oh, my God, I'm so sorry to hear this," dripping with sarcasm. So these e-mails that we're learning about are the e-mails that she turned over. She wants these seen. She wants these e-mails published. She wants them talked about 'cause they're meaningless, and they're about as far away as you can get from classified data as you could get. They're as far away from what everybody thinks the target of all this is as you could possibly get. "
Ok, good. I mean that's progress: Rush admits that what we've seen so far is meaningless and none of it in even the most fevered daydreams of the biggest email Truther is even remotely classified or deserving of being classified.
Of course, Rush thinks there are classified emails out there out there somewhere in the ether.
So where are they and how do we get to those, Rush?
It's a great theory or though another theory that fits the facts pretty well is that these emails are so boring because what Hillary and her folks said all along is the truth: she didn't pass along anything remotely like classified information. Maybe there's no evidence that she did anything wrong because: she did nothing wrong.
I'm sorry to be this counterintuitive.
But I can understand Rush's consternation. With these released emails it's impossible to see how this scandal machine keeps whirring. Maybe it will on pure fumes for awhile but even the Very Serious People in the press other than maybe at the NY Times now admit that there doesn't seem to be any there there.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/09/media-declares-cheryl-mills-big-winner.html
I suggested an interesting paradox with the emails: the more we see the less there is to this whole Emailgate Truther scandal.
Now even Rush sees that the newly released emails are a whole lot of nothingburgers. So he explains that the media has deliberately cherrypicked which emails we get to see. The good stuff is what we're not seeing.
"And this drip, drip, drip. I'm sorry, folks, I was wrong. This drip, drip, drip is not Obama trying to destroy Hillary. The drip, drip, drip is trying to bore the American people. They get tired of hearing about it because nothing happens. It's not interesting other than this inside-the-Beltway gossip stuff. There's some tantalizing things in there, some titillating things that are supposed to make everybody go, "Ooh, ooh, ooh," like David Brock trying to talk her into impeaching Clarence Thomas. Or Sidney Blumenthal asking her to promote his idiot son's ranting against Israel. Or the fact that Tim Geithner's lousy with document curation, which we already know, but none of it is about anything that matters, and accordingly, nothing happens here."
"The drip, drip, drip is designed to bore people and to make them think there's nothing to it. Compare it A-B, side by side, Hillary e-mail, original news stories, particularly in conservative media. "Wow. She's dealing in classified information. She's dealing with super-secret stuff. Oh, my God, we could all be at risk. Did she know? Did she not know? Is she competent?" Then the drip, drip, drip happens, and what do we get? Boehner is an alcoholic. Blumenthal thinks his kid's a great, smart guy when he rants against Israel. David Brock trying to convince Hillary to impeach Clarence Thomas. Nothing about anything classified. But more importantly, nothing happens."
"The drip, drip, drip continues, but nobody makes a move on Hillary. Nobody, and, more importantly, nobody in the Republican Party is making a move. Nobody's trying to force any action. Nobody's trying to cause anything to happen as a result of this drip, drip, drip of the e-mails. And so, the target of all this, our favorite group, the low-information voters, they keep hearing about this, but nothing ever happens, so there must be nothing to it. And after a while, the low-information people are gonna be just like me, "Latest Hillary e-mail dump, okay, big whoop. What's this say? Okay, fine." And then they get tired of it."
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/09/01/hillary_s_drip_drip_drip_e_mail_strategy_how_can_we_bore_em_today
This strategy of boring everyone to death by the fact that there is no evidence of anything wrong has historical antecedents Rush explains. This is how Bill beat Ken Starr.
"'ll give you exact historical demonstration of this. This is, ladies and gentlemen, exactly how the Clintons beat Ken Starr. The drip, drip, drip just enervated everybody because it was not accompanied by calls for action, so it just became ho-hum news. In fact, they even set us up one day. It was the day that Clinton had to go testify under oath in a super-secret room at the White House. When his testimony was over they leaked a story that he had blown his gasket over a question about the cigars and the dress or something."
"So everybody got, "Oh, man, okay, cool, Clinton blew a gasket. We must be getting somewhere now." And then a couple days later they release the videotape of the testimony and get to that moment in time where he blew his stack, and he didn't. He rolled his eyes and that was it. We were clearly being set up. And by the time the Starr report came out nobody cared anymore, they were bored silly because all that happened was drip, drip, drip, little new here, little new there, nothing monumental, nothing earth-shattering, but more importantly, nobody did anything. "
Now if you went back into the archives of Rush's show then I'm sure you'd find that he was promoting the alleged Clinton blowup as much as anyone.
"Hillary response to it, by the way, was, "Oh, my God, I'm so sorry to hear this," dripping with sarcasm. So these e-mails that we're learning about are the e-mails that she turned over. She wants these seen. She wants these e-mails published. She wants them talked about 'cause they're meaningless, and they're about as far away as you can get from classified data as you could get. They're as far away from what everybody thinks the target of all this is as you could possibly get. "
Ok, good. I mean that's progress: Rush admits that what we've seen so far is meaningless and none of it in even the most fevered daydreams of the biggest email Truther is even remotely classified or deserving of being classified.
Of course, Rush thinks there are classified emails out there out there somewhere in the ether.
So where are they and how do we get to those, Rush?
It's a great theory or though another theory that fits the facts pretty well is that these emails are so boring because what Hillary and her folks said all along is the truth: she didn't pass along anything remotely like classified information. Maybe there's no evidence that she did anything wrong because: she did nothing wrong.
I'm sorry to be this counterintuitive.
But I can understand Rush's consternation. With these released emails it's impossible to see how this scandal machine keeps whirring. Maybe it will on pure fumes for awhile but even the Very Serious People in the press other than maybe at the NY Times now admit that there doesn't seem to be any there there.
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