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April 16, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 16, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What day is it?
I think I slept nine hours over the weekend.
Big bash at my place.
But I'm here, folks, and I couldn't be happier.
Excited for another break of broadcast excellence here on the Rush Limbaugh program.
The telephone number, if you'd like to join us, is 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
We've got lots to do today.
We are soundbite-loaded.
By the way, I want to thank Tom Sullivan for sitting in on Friday here on the EIB network.
And a hearty welcome to all of you watching on the DittoCam today at www.rushlimbaugh.com.
Look at this headline.
With April 15th nearing, this story was published on April 13th on Friday.
With April 15th nearing, Bush's and Cheneys do their taxes too.
Now, what the hell is behind that headline?
As though Bush and Cheney would normally be expected not to do their taxes and not to pay their taxes.
Bush and Cheney are going to pay their taxes too?
Cheney, by the way, paid too much.
He had an overpayment in there.
He's going to apply it to next year's return.
And as many of you people know that I am single.
I'm not prowling, and I'm single.
And I run across these stories during show prep about dating and theory and so forth.
Like there's some story, Drudge got some story up there that chocolate is far more heartwarming and exciting and thrilling and satisfying than kissing.
These things pop up here every now and then, but the Washington Post today has a story in the new dating scene, the new dating scene, capital N, capital D, capital S, the attraction is a beautiful mind.
Ha!
How many times have we all heard this?
The attraction's the personality, the attraction is the mind.
Now, here's just one little excerpt.
In this story, instead of dinner and a movie, the new dating scene says, catch a debate on modern feminism or join a late-night museum crawl.
Now, in my mind, you can get both of those at the feminism lecture.
You can get the feminism lecture on modern feminism and a late-night museum crawl, the same thing, because both are antiques.
Anyway, I just wanted to throw that out.
Our condolences go out today to the family of the popular Hawaiian singer and entertainer Don.
He passed away this weekend.
And all of us here at the entire staff at the EIB network offer our heartfelt sympathies to the family.
For those that can't say this word, you know, the popular Hawaiian singer, Tiny Bobo, can't say it.
Can't say it.
Everybody, those eagle eyes are out there, the Eagle Ears, they're all monitoring us out there, trying to make us into the next scapegoat for this.
So I can say popular Hawaiian singer Don.
I mean, I'm saying it, but you're not hearing it.
Passed away.
For those of you in Rio Linda, Don, that surname is awaiting clearance from the Reverend Sharpton and Jackson.
And the same thing, you know, Santa Claus comes down the chimney.
Can't say any of this anymore without clearance.
In fact, I went to the cigar dinner on Thursday night at the Four Seasons in New York, and I was asked up to the podium to speak, as I always do.
And I walked to the microphone and said, ladies and gentlemen, I'm not allowed.
My remarks have not yet received clearance from the Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton.
To tell you a true story, Arnold Schwarzenegger was there.
Came by after a fundraiser, and he was seated at table one, our table, and Louis shared a cigar and so forth and relived the magic moments.
I want to do your show again.
I want to come back on your show.
It was cool, it was fun.
I said, well, you're welcome to come back anytime.
Rudy Giuliani was there, but there was nothing political about the night.
It was all a fundraiser for the Michael Milken Prostate Cancer Foundation.
And it was just always, this was our 15th annual, and I have made each and every one of them just had a great, great time.
Marvin Shankin and his excellent staff and crew of people at Cigar Aficionado have put this on, and he really is the driving force behind it.
Julian Nicolini, who is the owner and operator of the Four Seasons, puts on a great thing.
We get a one-night exemption from the smoking ban in New York.
You apply to the Board of the Health, you can get an exemption.
And for the second year in a row, they said, well, you know, you can smoke, but not until after dessert.
So we serve dessert first.
I mean, here you've got a thousand people, and they're showing up, and the express purpose is to smoke cigars.
You said, well, you can't smoke them in there until after dessert.
They did allow smoking in the reception, cocktail hour, prior to that over in the bar, but not in the pool room, which is where the grill room is where the reception was.
Audio soundbite time, despite the fact I have been away for three days, this was Saturday at an event in a home in New Hampshire.
Mrs. Bill Clinton on the microphone.
I give people a chance to judge me on who I am, not on who Drudge or Limbaugh or somebody else says I am.
Well, let's see.
Why am I continually on her mind?
I guess it's election season, so she's going to give people a chance to judge her on who she is, not on who Drudge or Limbaugh or somebody else says she is.
Now, that sounds grim.
I mean, that's a great thing.
Everybody ought to have that attitude.
I don't care what you say about me.
I ought to be who I am.
But I don't know what the question was.
I don't know if there was a question, if this was just in the midst of a speech.
And then suddenly now, on ESPN, on the sports reporters on Sunday morning, they have their little roundtable discussion there, or it's for a half hour and they do three or four topics.
And Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News said this.
I didn't think Rush Limbaugh should have lost his job on this network for what he said about Donovan McNabb, which isn't in the same thing.
It's the same thing.
What were they talking about about the whole IMA situation?
What I said about McNabb was, well, that's crazy.
I was talking about the media for crying out loud.
Now, in Lupica's defense, when that McNabb-ESPN situation happened, he did write a piece excoriating me for being a coward, for quitting, and not showing up on the following Sunday and facing the facts and dealing with it and trying to explain my position.
And I wrote him back.
I said, I would have been happy to have been there, but Tom Jackson told ESPN it was either him or me.
He had people coming up to him where he lives in Cincinnati asking him if they could be in the NFL now that Limbaugh made these comments.
I told everybody I got out of there because I liked past tense, the guys in that show, and I wasn't trying to cause them any trouble.
But, you know, Ima's big friend, Lupica's a big friend of Imas, and I think that's, you know, trying to equate what I said about McNabb with all of this.
I'm going to talk about this at much greater length as the program unfolds today, folks, because there's, you know, I don't intend to let this go.
There are stories out there.
Salon.com has a little funny piece on how everybody thinks that talk radio, conservative talk radio is next, and they're making fun of us for thinking that we're next in the crosshours.
And the reason why we all think this is because we already are in the crosshairs.
And this organization, let me make a quick point about this as sort of a tease before we get into this on a full-fledged basis.
And it is this.
Let me just ask you a question.
Did America, did this country hear what Don Imus said on the IMUS show?
They didn't.
When Imus said what he said, was there a national uproar?
Forget the fact his ratings are insignificant and tiny, which that fact is now starting to trickle out.
The fact is, guests on the show, people who listen to the show, nobody said a word.
Nobody could have cared less.
Wasn't any big deal.
America didn't hear it, and America didn't hear what he said on the IMAS show.
No, you know where America heard it?
They heard it on YouTube.
And they heard it on moveon.org, and they heard it on cable TV, and they heard it on network TV.
They had it on the early news, the evening news, the late news.
A combination of all these places said what Imus said thousands of times more than he said it.
And that's where America heard it.
The Imus audience couldn't have cared less.
I don't care how small that it is.
So these pretenders.
And by the way, all of this was set up by Media Matters for America.
And everybody thinks of this group as a liberal media watchdog out there surveying the media airwaves and making sure that those who say these so-called outrageous things are held to account.
It's nothing more than a Democrat Party front organization.
It's George Soros funded.
It is staffed by people who've used to work for elected Democrats.
It's nothing more, and it's tax exempt.
It's a tax exempt, but they're purely political, and all they are is an arm of the Democrat Party.
They're part of the Democrat machine.
One of the things that make the IMAS situation so ironic is that they took out one of their own.
Imus is backing Kerry.
He's opposed to the war in Iraq.
He's gave all these libs, all these platforms and so forth.
And he took out one of their own.
There's a lot to learn about this, folks, in the way people get information in this country and the way certain people get information.
I mean, these pretenders, all of these holier than thou repeating what Imus said thousands of times more than he said it, are a bunch of hypocrites.
I mean, if it was so offensive, why did they air it in the first place over and over and over again?
If it's so offensive.
And then they repeated it.
And they repeated it.
And they repeated it.
This happened on April, Wednesday, what?
April, when did it happen?
4th or 14th?
I don't, whatever the date.
It happened about 6.15 in the morning.
And he uttered a tasteless, offensive phrase.
It included the word, can't say it.
I'd rather not repeat it.
And all the sound and the fury from the media, how many heard what was said on the IMAS show?
Look at it.
It's a low-rated show.
It's lowest-rated time segment from 6 to 6.30 in the morning.
The Rutgers team didn't hear it.
They weren't listening.
They even said they didn't know who he was.
So I just want this to form sort of the backdrop for the direction that I want to take this as we meld it with all the other exciting things on the big program today.
By the way, a couple Arnold sound bites I have here on the roster.
He was last night on Hannity's America on the Fox News channel.
And I'm guessing that he taped this because I don't know if Arnold was still in New York.
I think he taped this.
I was with Arnold on Thursday night, and he keeps talking about, yes, I'm going to have Snook Stoggy with Rush.
You're good friends.
That's just what I want you to hear.
Hannity's question.
You had a big brouhaha with Rush Limbaugh.
Said he was irrelevant.
You went on the show.
Are things better now?
Oh, no, perfect.
You know, the bottom line is that I have nothing against Rush Limbaugh.
You know, he and I, we are friends, and we have a lot of things in common.
It's just that the things that he's talking about on the show is about his philosophy, and the things I'm talking about is getting things done.
Two different objectives.
So, Hannity said, well, look, is it fair to say now that you went on the show, that you're friends again, and you made up?
He understood what I was saying, that his opinion of what he's saying is not going to tie to what I'm doing at the show.
So those two things have absolutely no relationship.
I enjoy his show.
I've talked to him many times.
I'm going to see him most likely tonight again at this fundraiser for cancer, prostate cancer, and all this.
We smoke a stogie together.
I mean, all of those things.
But I mean, so we are fine.
The media made much more out of it than there was really there.
Well, I told the story again on Thursday night, and I said, you know, I know, I know exactly what happened here.
He goes on all these shows, and every time he goes, I like this one.
And my name gets brought up.
And he gets sick and tired of hearing, you know, Limbaugh thinks you've fallen out.
You're not a conservative.
You're a traitor.
You know, you've sold against hearing about us.
He finally blurted out, Rush Limbaugh's irrelevant.
They're all irrelevant.
And I knew exactly what he meant.
He said, well, I don't care what anybody thinks.
I got a job to do here as Governor of California.
I'm going to do it.
What I think needs to be done, how it needs to be done.
I don't care what anybody thinks.
That's all.
Limbaugh's irrelevant to what I'm trying to do as Governor of California.
And given what he's trying to do as governor, I'm glad I'm irrelevant.
But all that, there was no feud or any of this.
See, these things get their lives and they just don't go away.
Story has a life.
He's going to be asked about this.
How's the feud with Limbaugh?
There's no feud.
Anyway, a quick timeout.
We'll get to your phone calls today, as well as many, many other things, a multitude of things here to wet your whistle, all coming up after this.
Ha!
How are you?
Welcome back, El Rushball, the cutting edge of societal evolution, America's real anchorman.
We're waiting on a new commercial from the Justice Brothers.
We don't have one.
They're running two spots in the rotation.
And I thought by the time the weekend had gone by that there'd be a lot to celebrate from the Justice Brothers, at least in their point of view.
We have not gotten a new copy for their or actually new recording of their spot, so we can only continue to play the two that we have in the current rotation, and they are coming up.
Now, this Imus affair, folks, it's so much bigger than Imus.
And I would like for you, in thinking about this, to put Imus out of your mind.
Don't let that whole circumstance of situation get in the way, because there's so much that this episode illustrates, and it indicates a problem that is, well, it's a problem.
It's just a new fact of life in the country today in terms of how people hear about things, how people get their news.
One of the things that this whole Imus episode illustrates is it shows why liberals are anti-war.
The word courage is not in their vocabulary.
No courage, no spine, no backbone.
It was Don Ivis who made these guys famous, made them celebrities.
And it was, and many more of them are coming out.
Animarie Cox and a number of others have come out and said, yeah, I wanted my elite media merit badge.
That's where I thought I had to go to get in the club.
So to these people, whether it's true or not, to these people, it was perfectly fine.
And not only that, it was often mandatory that if you wanted to be in the elite media, you had to go on this show.
Now, I don't care what you think.
I think that's frankly absurd, but that's what they thought.
So we deal with that.
He gave them celebrity.
He promoted their shows.
He promoted their stupid books, their TV specials, their magazines.
He promoted their political campaigns, their issues, their very careers.
And what happened?
He gets into trouble.
They run for the hills.
All they could think about was their own lily white rear ends.
All they could think about was their backside.
They couldn't have cared less.
Couple of them tried to hang in, but they weren't part of the media elite.
A couple of them did, but I mean, they were running for cover so fast.
If you want to know why liberals are anti-war and if you want to know why liberals have been cowed by feminists and become these linguine-spine crowds, just look at this episode.
It also illustrated why liberals will never, never help inner city blacks and any city girls.
They demanded his head.
They charged that he insulted our youth and damaged their psyches with possible lifelong consequences.
And they fired him for that.
Yes, they did.
Well, the teachers' unions have been doing this for years.
The teachers' unions have been screwing up the public school system for years.
Don Imis never held one inner city kid back.
Quite the contrary.
He never got in the way of any inner city kid learning anything.
And yet we fire a radio guy that no inner city kids ever even listen to instead of firing a school system that all inner city kids go through.
In New York, you've got the dropout rate approaching 50%.
The demonstrated failure of the public school system, particularly in inner city areas, is profound.
It is well known.
You go to Washington, D.C., and it is the minority community there that is begging for vouchers so that they can get their kids into better schools.
Well, there's no radio guy that has created this problem, and there's no radio guy that's dumbing down half the population.
There's no radio guy that's standing in the way of, and yet who is it that's gone here because of this?
And this is a classic, folks, because the left, when they want to focus on, and I know Imos was one of them, which is the deep irony here, but when the left wants to focus on people they think are mean-spirited, extremist, rotten to the core, and so forth, they have this amazing ability to avoid and ignore their own real failures.
And they focus on words and offensive words, words offensive to them.
And they say, we've got to rid our society of this rot.
Maybe we do, but we've got to rid our society of a whole lot of rot that the liberals are running, that the liberals have had control over for years, that is actually destroying futures, actually destroying lives, giving people no hope whatsoever, not preparing them for reality in any shape, way, manner, or form, and yet they are immune.
They are not subject to the same analysis or criticism that they meet out, and that they have no standards.
Whatever standards they assign to everybody else, they exempt themselves from.
They are irrelevant from any standard code of conduct.
A man, a living legend, a way of life.
I am Rush Limbos serving humanity simply by showing up.
Look at this: 21 people, at least 21 people dead at Virginia Tech, 19 of them in one dormitory.
The gunman is now also dead.
This is the second shooting incident, I think, in a year at Virginia Tech.
Beyond that, I don't think anybody knows what it was that spurred this.
But of course, we'll keep a sharp eye out.
And when this is explained, if it is, we will pass it on to you.
By the way, we have our microphones, our cameras, our listening devices are everywhere, ladies and gentlemen.
And since last Tuesday, actually, Don Imus has been trying to get a hold of his friends, the people he made, the people he awarded media elite merit badges to, the people whose books he promoted, whose TV shows he promoted, and so forth and so on.
He's trying to reach Tom Brokaw here.
Oops, no answer there, I guess.
How about he tried Andrea Mitchell, too?
No answer from Andrea Mitchell.
Up next in Imus' list was Frank Rich of the New York Times.
Hmm, not meeting much sh...
Surely Howard Feynman will pick up the phone.
Come on, give this a couple more.
Refinement certainly would pick up the phone.
Well, Imus having no luck here.
this.
See next try Jonathan Alter of Newsweek.
Oh, this is embarrassing.
Still, none of these people.
That's it.
That's it.
David Gregory, this is when he tried to call him.
He's just looking for some support.
He's just looking for some help from people that stood by him and that he made, in a sense, in their own words.
Evan Thomas of Newsweek next on his list.
He even tried to call a couple of politicians.
Joe Biden, presidential candidate.
And you see here, ladies and gentlemen, nobody picked up the phone.
Nobody offered any assistance whatsoever.
It was all about them.
They couldn't hang in.
They just had to run for the tall grass, which is ironic because they knew all of this was going on, this and more, and some would say worse, for years and years and years.
And the interesting thing about that to me is that these are the same people who are scouring this country for any sign of racism or any sign of bigotry, any sign of homophobia.
And when they find it, they pounce on it.
They have shown themselves to be insincere hypocrites.
They have shown themselves to be agenda-oriented here.
They have shown themselves to only care when certain people say these things.
Because you see, even Sharpton and his gang are out there now supposedly targeting the rap industry.
But let me ask you a question.
When's the last time they picketed an urban radio station?
When's the last time they picketed Viacom, which owns MTV?
When's the last time they picketed Hollywood for putting out movies with these kinds of characters and lyrics?
They have zero, Zilchnada.
And you know why?
Because they're minorities and they don't have hate in their hearts.
Only right-wingers, only conservatives have hate in their hearts.
They couldn't contain the Imus thing.
Remember, what happened on Imus' show took two days for it to much like what I said on ESPN.
There was no outrage for two days after my ESPN comments until the Philadelphia print media, all of them, all five or six, have the same column on the Tuesday following the Sunday.
And that's when people who were supposedly outraged and offended.
By the way, the same thing happened in that case.
Well, worse thing happened, what I said was totally distorted.
I was making comments about the media, not Donovan McNabb whatsoever.
And yet it got totally Michael J. Fox, the same scenario.
And there is this group.
And the only reason for last week, you know, Sharpton, these guys are out there supposedly targeting rap music, but that's just to give themselves some street cred.
Everybody's asking about that now.
So if they go out and they target rap music and say they're going to try to clean it up and they got urban radio stations that play it and all these corporate interests that broadcast it and produce it, they hope to have street cred for the next talk radio guy they go after, which is, believe me, their aim.
That's their desire.
The only reason for last week is that it is an excuse to assault conservative talk radio.
Even though conservatives had nothing to do with what happened last week, even though talk radio is far cleaner than urban radio, far cleaner than television, far cleaner than movies and books.
This is a politically directed attack by the Democrats and their media outlets.
Everybody's saying, how come Sharpton and Jackson are the final arbiters here of what's good and just?
Sharpton and Jackson, folks, you have to understand, are nothing were it not for the Democratic Party elevating them to these positions.
They both have seats at the Democrat power table because they deliver votes and they're on the team.
They're in the part of the Democrat machine.
That's why they are with this power now.
Everybody's asking me at the cigar deal, how come Sharpton?
Well, hey, I don't know if you're a Democrat or not, but if you are, you're partially responsible.
Because those guys never get criticized for anything they say or anything they do.
The Democrat Party is the party that has made them viable and has made them powerful.
And now you can say that Sharpton runs CBS and NBC, given the way everybody was cowering in there when he showed up.
The ironical thing about this is, or ironic thing is, that Imus is no conservative.
Most of his guests were liberal, but he was critical of Hillary.
And so he had to go.
So election year, Clinton Inc., you get on their case, they're going to take you out.
They're going to do what they can to marginalize you or do whatever.
And I've seen a couple stories I was reading over the weekend that the Clinton team saw their opportunity.
And when I say the Clinton team, I include Media Matters for America, this supposed tax-exempt media watchdog group.
It's just an arm of the Democrat Party.
They have an agenda.
They are tax-exempt, and they're doing nothing but advancing a political agenda.
And they are George Soros funded.
This is clearly part of the Democrat Party machine.
And I had some people say, Russia, are you going to talk about this today?
Are you going to ignore it and let it go?
And I said, no, because the main point I want to make about this is that this is a Democrat operation.
This Democrat operation ignores large swaths of entertainment and media.
We didn't hear about Bill Clinton's abuse of women from people outraged by that.
That was a personal matter.
It was sex.
It was none of our business.
In fact, when the Clintons took out after those women as trailer trash, we all chuckled and laughed and we got treated to James Carville talking about what you get when you drag a dollar bill through a trailer park.
Where was the outrage over that?
Where were the media watchdogs?
This was coming from the office of the president of the United States.
There's somebody who has genuine power.
Hillary was bad-mouthing the Bill Clinton women, unleashing the war room against them.
That was okay, too, because that showed her strength.
That showed her devoted loyalty as a wife.
That showed she's not going to stand by and let her man be impugned and so forth.
So whatever they do, that's fine.
They've got a built-in excuse.
They can't hate.
They don't hate their liberals.
They have no evil intentions in their hearts.
Only right-wingers are guilty of that.
And of course, you know, in the case of the Clinton women and the women he'd abused, it was right-wingers that were calling attention.
The right-wingers have hate in their hearts.
So the right-wingers are just trying to take out our printer.
We're going to circle the wagon around our president.
I don't care what he did.
It's a bunch of right-wingers trying to take him out.
This is nothing but politics.
It's a pure political agenda driven by the Democrat Party machine.
You can bash Christians.
You can compare the president and the military to Nazis.
If you're Robert Byrd, you can use the N-word on Fox News Sunday.
And all of that is okay because they're wiser.
And they don't say their words with hateful intent.
You've got corporations making millions, tens of million dollars from rap.
That's okay.
You've got liberal talk show hosts using some of the most demeaning hate speech in the world, not even worthy of recording or commenting about in the big media.
All we get about liberal talk radio is the next chance they're going to try to be successful.
They keep waiting and waiting and waiting for liberal talk radio to amount to something.
It never will because liberals don't like to argue.
There is no argument.
There is no alternative view in their point.
And they don't want to be public about what they really think because they know they're wrong anyway.
So you've got Hollywood, you got the rap industry, you got the record industry.
It's all part of the Democrat machine.
And they don't apply any standards to themselves.
Those who propped Imus up all these years pay no price.
NBC gets away with this.
We are so sad.
We are so shocked by what happened.
But we've done the best we can.
We've fought long and hard, and we've made the chance.
They knew what was going on in that show for decades, and they're out there selling advertising to it, and they're loving and yucking up every minute of it.
And the same way with the NBC and MSNBC simulcasting the thing.
They pay no price at all for this whatsoever.
They're the ones that provided the studio and the air that made all this possible.
And they get off scot-free.
Who paid his salary?
They're getting off scot-free as well, CBS and NBC.
They act like they knew nothing of his past until they denounce it.
Oh, we're shocked.
We can't believe it.
It's just, it's pathetic.
But I'm going to tell you something, folks, because there are literally tens of millions of us who are going to fight these people on the left every step of the way when they attempt to destroy the new media.
And that includes talk radio.
It includes the internet.
It includes Fox News.
It includes conservative blogs.
This is an election season.
It's only going to intensify.
The left knows they can't win in the arena of ideas in debates on this show or anywhere else.
So it's time to take them out.
And they got a trial run here with this Imus thing, and they're feeling their oats.
I'm certain and make no mistake, other people are in the crosshairs and are targets.
And it's a Democrat Party machine operation that is getting this done.
I look at this and I say this is my country too.
And I'm not going to let the Democrat Party or the left or some lackey watchdog group or a couple of race hustlers dictate my speech.
It's just not, I'm not going to let it happen.
They don't get to use the power of government to silence conservatives, which is their real purpose.
These are totalitarian tactics that they are employing here.
It's the liberal constituency that repeatedly and daily demeans people, black, white, in between.
I don't care.
We don't play rap music on this show.
We're not demeaning people on this program in any way.
We don't air South Park.
We don't air MTV or Comedy Central on this show, and the rest of talk radio doesn't either.
Now, look at Sharpton and Jackson.
You've got two liberal Democrats who ran for president who are bowed to by the likes of Hillary and other Democrats despite their long history of anti-Semitism.
Anti-Semitism is a problem festering in the Democrat ranks, not in the Republican Party.
These constantly unrelenting, demeaning attacks on minorities come from liberal entertainment outlets.
I watched the movie last night, and there's a care.
I'm not going to tell you what the movie doesn't matter.
And there's some black characters in it, and they're made out to be criminals, drug dealers, pimps, whatever.
We on talk radio do not do this.
We do not perpetuate these stereotypes.
We do not offer these roles to blacks to go out and play these kinds of demeaning characters.
It's the entertainment industry that's done it and that is doing it.
And they're getting a free pass on all this.
And they are profiting from it at the same time.
And when somebody says, well, how come this be, they don't have hate in their hearts because they're good liberals, you see?
And it's impossible for a liberal to hate.
I got to take a break.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Look, folks, you know this.
We all know this, but I'm going to say this again.
The drive-by media in this country are part of the Democrat machine now.
I mean, as the rise of the new media has occurred and new media has gained more and more power, Bush has won two elections, Fox News, the most popular cable network.
They have thrown much of the pretense to objectivity out the window.
They still maintain it that they're not liberal with this, but their agenda-driven aspects are just obvious.
They've chosen sides.
It's a partisan battle.
The media is now in battle with everybody else.
They're not trying to inform people.
They're advancing an agenda.
They are part of the Democrat Party machine.
And that's why they give a pass to their own constituencies and to their sponsors.
That's why they target conservative talk radio in hopes of destroying it.
And that's why liberals get away with virtually everything because the presumption is there's no hate or evil in their hearts.
So whatever they say is not trying to hurt, is not trying to be bigoted or anything.
They're allowed to do this because they are special.
They're protected.
They're elitists.
They're a better class of people.
You know, they fired IMS.
Why not the journalists who repeatedly appeared on his show?
Weren't they facilitators?
Weren't they enablers?
Didn't they sit there and laugh at this stuff?
How is it they have any credibility left either?
They're supposedly the arbiters of taste and decency under the tenets of political correctness.
Yet they get a total pass here.
Didn't they compromise their standards beyond repair by sitting there year after year after year after year, laughing at it and begging to go back on that show?
I mean, I look at this and I marvel.
You know, the mainstream media, they're populated with Democrats who used to work for Democrat politicians or come from prominent Democrat families.
And the media make no apologies for it.
You've got the Kennedys and the Cuomos all over the media.
You've got Matthews, who used to work for elected officials.
Stephanopoulos worked for Clinton.
Bill Moyers worked for LBJ.
I'm not talking about the guests.
I'm talking about so-called journalists.
You know, and I'll tell you who's out there doing all this monitoring and then reporting things out of context.
And that's our old buddies at Media Matters for America.
If you want to know what the liberal media are going to report as news, ask them.
90%, it seems, of what is said about me in the drive-by media does not come from them hearing me say it.
It comes from where they read it on these watchdog websites.
They don't listen to this program.
The latest example of this was good old John Harris at the Politico, who was told by people that I'd compare to him and a buddy of his that left the Washington Post of the Indianapolis Colts.
Never even talked about the Indianapolis Colts and the subject when it came up about the Edwards press conference and all of that.
They don't listen to our shows.
They go to these websites, which are part of the Democrat Party machine, and that's where they hear what was said.
And they believe everything they see on these websites and everything they read.
That's where they get their talking points.
And they're taking direction, in essence.
They are taking their talking points in their direction from Democrat fundraisers, George Soros, Hillary, the DNC, because that's who it is that's telling the rest of the country who don't hear what's said on this show what wasn't said as it was.
All right, first hour in the can, headed over to the museum, housing artifacts, and a future Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.
We'll be back.
I promise I'll get to some of your phone calls in the next hour.
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