There Are No Coincidences in Politics
Oct 5, 2020
RUSH: This is unbelievable now. This is straining credulity, isn’t it? Kayleigh McEnany has now tested positive for COVID-19. Still can’t find a Democrat that’s been infected. (interruption) Well, I don’t know, folks. I just don’t believe in coincidence.
But greetings and great to have you. Rush Limbaugh at 800-282-2882 if you want to call into the program today. If you want to send an email, it’s ElRushbo@eibnet.us.
Also this afternoon — I set this up last week before all of this blew up over the weekend. So we’re gonna go ahead and do it. Conrad Black, who is a longtime friend of mine, one of the biggest advocates for Donald Trump in the world, is gonna be with us at 2 o’clock this afternoon, the beginning of the third hour. He has an update to a book that he wrote two years ago, “A President Like No Other: Donald J. Trump and the Restoring of America.â€
The paperback version is out and Conrad’s gonna be with us in the third hour today to discuss his thoughts on Trump, the president, Trump the man. He’s known him for years. He’s been one of his number one advocates, has never wavered during anything, and it will be great to get Conrad’s take. Conrad’s in Canada. He’s a former publisher, media titan, real estate raconteur, and one of the most brilliant in Mensa IQ terms people that you will ever encounter. A dry wit. He had just a tremendous book some years ago now called Flight of the Eagle about the early days of the United States, a tribute to George Washington and some of the founders. Just a great title, a great book and he’ll be with us.
I’m gonna be fascinated to pepper him with questions about his take on what all is happening here, ’cause, folks, what do we have here? We’ve got the president and the first lady. We’ve got two senators on the Judiciary Committee, two Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee, and now everybody, “Oh, we gotta cancel the hearings, oh, we can’t go forward, oh, we gotta delay it.†You know, they haven’t made a big deal about Amy Coney Barrett, the Democrats haven’t, other than the standard, traditional opposition to any Republican nominee.
But, folks, I have to tell you, I’ve been looking for ways to describe how the fait accompli confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, it will undo decades of work these people have done, to turn the Supreme Court into a 6-3 on balance conservative tilt is just — I can’t describe for you how horrible that is to them, how they cannot permit that to happen, how they will not permit that to happen. I don’t care how cavalierly they appear to be dealing with it. It is as unacceptable to them as Trump being elected president and then being reelected.
And they will pull out every weapon they’ve got to stop Amy Coney Barrett being confirmed. And that’s what we were in the middle of here. That’s what this is all about. As far as they are concerned, as far as the left or the Democrats are concerned, there’s some ancillary benefits to this.
And that is, all these Republicans being infected with COVID, which now allows the Democrats and the left, who are not religious, to start invoking biblical terms to explain what’s happening, like God and the Bible are finally getting even with Trump because Trump wouldn’t pay attention to COVID. He wouldn’t pay attention to the masks. He wouldn’t go along with shutting down the country’s economy.
And now God, who they don’t even acknowledge exists, is now coming back to get Trump. Maureen Dowd had a column rooted in that belief. It is maddening. These people are invoking things they don’t even believe in order to spread their glee. They are happy about this. They can’t contain their happiness. They’re trying. They’re trying. They’re trying to act like they’re prayerful, but they can’t contain their glee over all of this.
But I’m telling you I, for one, you know me, I have been saying ever since the nineties and the Clintons that there’s no such thing as coincidence in politics. It’s not a new philosophical belief of mine. And I don’t think there’s a whole lot of coincidence going on here. But look, I’m sure you want to weigh in on this as well. And we will do that. We’ll get to your calls at the regularly appointed time, which nobody knows. We’ll just get there when I happen to feel like starting on the phones.
Kayleigh McEnany tests positive for coronavirus. She’s asymptomatic. She’s not feeling any symptoms. She announced it in a statement earlier today, posted to Twitter. She said that she had tested positive this morning, is experiencing no symptoms of the disease. Do you know that she has had — I’m not betraying any privacy here. Do you know that Kayleigh McEnany has had a double mastectomy? And she did it because she has a genetic marker indicating that she’s likely to have breast cancer in her life because of genetics and other things.
So she had the double mastectomy as a precautionary, an advance move to take that risk down. And so she’s medically up to speed and aware of things. “After testing negative consistently, including every day since Thursday, I tested positive for COVID-19 Monday morning while experiencing no symptoms. No reporters, producers, or members of the press are listed as close contacts by the White House medical unit.†That’s her way of saying if you came in contact, don’t worry about it. “Moreover†– the press is harping on this next one — “Moreover, I definitively had no knowledge of Hope Hicks’ diagnosis prior to holding the White House briefing on Thursday.â€
Now, the press is harping on that because their regime right now is to just rip Trump and rip the administration for hiding the diagnosis. They think Trump tested positive on Thursday despite not announcing it until early, early Friday morning. They think Trump knew he had it but he went ahead and did fundraisers, and he went ahead and came in contact with people, and he was irresponsible about it, and they found out Hope Hicks had it, didn’t tell anybody for a while.
Now, Kayleigh’s saying she didn’t know that Hope Hicks had been diagnosed prior to the White House briefing is a way of saying had she known about Hope Hicks, she would have altered her behavior on Thursday and Friday. Hope Hicks experienced symptoms last Wednesday night, tested positive for the virus on Thursday morning.
McEnany held a briefing with reporters on Thursday, which she conducted without wearing a mask as they gratuitously toss in, raising questions about when she knew that a colleague was sick. She’s made it clear that she did not know that Hope Hicks had been diagnosed when she had.
