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Feb. 21, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 21, 2014, Friday, Hour #2
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And we're back, El Rushbo on Friday, my friend.
Here we are.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
Open Line Friday, where the callers choose what it is we talk about.
When we go to the phones, telephone number is 800-282-2882 and the email address, Elrushbo at EIBNet.com.
Okay, so let me refresh my memory on this.
I want to get this right.
Who was it?
It was that's right.
It was Andrea Tarantula, who was talking to Lanny Davis filling in for Hannity last night.
And she said, your good friend Hillary Clinton admitted recently that the regime is losing the information war.
And then asked him, is this why you guys want to put monitors in newsrooms?
What is losing the information war?
Who in the world is Obama losing the information war to?
Me, Fox News.
So it ended up doing an exhaustive search.
And here are the fruits of that labor.
It's actually from almost a year ago, January 27, 2013.
Hillary Clinton, America is losing an information war to Al Jazeera.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham appeared before U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities Committee yesterday, stating, this is a year ago, stating that counter to our history, we are now losing an information war to other countries.
Clinton told a committee that private media isn't up to the task of fighting the information war.
Private media isn't up to the task.
Here's her quote.
Our private media cannot fill that gap.
In fact, our private media, particularly cultural programming, often works at counterpurposes to what we truly are as Americans and what our values are.
I remember it, she said, I remember having an Afghan general tell me that the only thing he thought about Americans is that all the men wrestled and the women walked around in bikinis because the only TV he ever saw was Baywatch and the WWE.
So Hillary is an Hillary's in Afghanistan.
He's talking to Afghanistan general who actually told him, remember now, Hillary's been told a lot of things by a lot of people.
And remember, Hillary has had to dodge Snipper fire.
Remember, Hillary had to corkscrew land one time into Afghanistan to avoid Snipper fire.
It turned out that there wasn't.
She'd made it up.
But, well, why did my cue sheet said Snipper or the news report, they had a typo instead of sniper called Snipper.
Somebody, whatever.
So I just found it funny, and I just ran with it because that's how it was printed.
Snipper, Sniper, Snipper.
It's Dick Gephardt that has the invisible friend who's rich and wants his taxes raised.
But Hillary's got a bunch of those too.
Hillary's got people that tell her things.
And so now there's an Afghan general.
The only thing he knew about Americans, one thing he thought is that all the men wrestled and the women walked around in bikinis watching them.
She also mentioned that while the U.S. did a great job in getting America's message out during the Cold War, after the Berlin Wall fell, we stopped and we're paying a price for that.
And as a result, the emphasis on cultural programming has led to other countries beating us at our own game.
So she's saying here that our private media cannot cut it compared to Al Jazeera.
She's also talking about the entertainment media, not even the news media.
I mean, Baywatch and the WWE are not even the news media.
This is really nonsensical.
When you get down to it, our private media is losing the information war.
Our private media cannot fill that gap.
Our private media, particularly cultural programming, often works at counterpurposes to what we truly are as Americans and what our values are.
Man, oh man, you know, if I were one of Hillary's acolytes at ABC, CBS, or NBC, I would have been righteously indignant and offended if I'd heard that.
Because Hillary is saying here that her friends are doing a lousy job in getting the true story of America out there.
And she's been saying this, something like this, since 2011.
So Andrea Tarantula was asking Lanny Davis, is this why the regime wants monitors in there to make sure that the stories that are told help America's image abroad?
What's the Secretary of State supposed to do?
What did she tell the Afghan general after he ended up saying, this is, I don't know, folks, these people are just absolute wackos.
All right, let's get to this Bob Beckle business, House of Cards star Robin Wright.
Certainly, you do watch the show, but you're just wrapping up on season one.
Oh, you're reviewing last season, so you remember where it left off so that you're up to speed when it picks up.
Well, yeah, it says I've got all 13 episodes up there right there at Netflix.
They're all one hour.
They're all, I think the last one might be 63 minutes.
They're all 58, 59 minutes.
If you want, you can speed the open.
The open's about two minutes.
But the open doesn't actually open.
You can't really do that because the show opens cold with actual content.
Then the open comes up in a couple.
But whenever the open starts, two minutes, speed through it.
So he's catching up with it.
Well, Robin Wright plays, you know, a lot of people.
What do you think of this?
If you watch the show, some people think that Kevin Spacey's character and his wife, Robin Wright, are actually depictions of Bill and Hillary.
They're not president.
He ends up being, well, no, spoilers.
He's a high-ranking member of Congress.
She runs non-profit think tank.
But the depiction, some people are saying this.
Actually, I don't know if you people know this.
House of Cards, the original is Brit.
It goes way back to the 90s.
It was a four-season extravaganza.
Is it on Netflix, the original House Card?
You have.
You've watched that one twice.
Now, that one is there is that episode, that's not Bill Clinton, and his wife is not Hillary.
But this is the adaptation.
Some people are saying that.
Robin Wright, anyway, made waves in Washington this week when she said she had it on good authority for an unnamed Obama regime official that reporters really do sleep with their Capitol Hill sources, just as characters in this show do.
And Becko said, oh, yeah, it happens all the time.
On the audio soundbites, this is the five.
Eric Bowling is co-hosting.
And he mentions what Robin Wright said about sources and journalists sleeping with each other in D.C. He's acting kind of dubious of it.
And Beckle weighs in.
Are you kidding me?
I was in Washington for 30 years.
I can tell you.
I don't have to guess.
I can tell you specifically.
I know of one female reporter from a particular newspaper chain that slept with at least two members of Congress.
I know of a lobbyist, a female lobbyist who slept with probably eight members of Congress.
I know when I was in the administration, well, anyway, to answer your question about female members of Congress, that's been done.
Yes, it happens all the time.
Well, it's worth season out of it.
Now, it then came up.
Well, no, wait a minute.
Everybody is assuming that the journalists are all women and it's female journalists sleeping with their sources.
And Beckle said, no, it's not just women, yeah, but I know male journalists sleeping with their sources.
It's not just fee.
Now, is any of this shocking to you?
I mean, we could watch, we could watch a White House press conference when Clinton was president.
We could name the women who wish they were in bed with him just by watching their attitude with him.
We've had female journalists actually offer in print Bill Clinton free Lewinsky's in gratitude for his support on abortion.
Nina Burley at the time at Time Magazine offered Clinton in writing a free Lewinsky as thanks.
I mean, you could see it in their eyes.
When the Lewinsky scandal hit, you can see some of these journals.
Why not me?
Speaking of abortion, if I may get solemn and serious, as this requires, there is shocking news.
I don't know how shocking it is, but it is really bad out of New York that, and it's Cybercast News Service, but the actual source of this is the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
So this is a city source.
In 2012, the most recent year for which we have data, there were more black babies killed by abortion, 31,328, in New York City than were born there, 24,758.
So out of a possible 36 or yeah, 36,000 black babies, 31, no, a possible 56,000, 31,000 were aborted.
Out of a possible 36,000 black babies in New York in 2012, 31,000 were aborted, 24,000 were born.
The black children aborted or killed comprised 42% of the total number of abortions in New York.
This is shocking.
Let me run these numbers by you again because I know they're tough to follow on radio, and I screwed up the edition.
So there were, there were 56,000, give or take, black pregnancies in New York City 2012.
56,000 black pregnancies.
31,000 of the 56,000 were aborted.
25,000 were born.
The 31,000 aborted was almost 50% of the total number of abortions.
But the African-American population is only, what, 11 to 13%.
These are striking numbers.
And this is, and dare I go there?
Yes, I do.
This is exactly what Margaret Sanger had in mind when she came up with the whole notion of Planned Parenthood and eugenics.
It was, I have always been amazed that the white liberal elites championed Margaret Sanger when it wouldn't take anything from the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharpness to go back and figure out who she really is and what she really wanted and how in the world there is any support for whatever Margaret Sanger attached her name to is beyond my ability to comprehend.
Well, no, it's not because I know that the left is not abortion is the sacrament to them, but this is just I mean these people that are relying on the Democrat Party to protect them,
to take care of them, to guard them against whatever extremism might be coming their way from conservative Republicans are wiping themselves out at the with the support of and the recommendation of the Democrat Party, which makes abortion, puts abortion in top two of the most important issues going.
It's just amazing here.
And when you look at the reality of this and then you understand who it is they blame for their lot in life and their plight.
The report is entitled Summary of Vital Statistics 2012, the City of New York Pregnancy Outcomes.
And it was prepared for the, or by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Office of Vital Statistics.
Now, you'd have to say this is shocking news.
And you've got Democrat Party advocacy behind it.
You've got Democrat Party identity behind it.
And if you add all the other abortions that other Democrats are having, you may have a little bit better understanding why they are so eager for amnesty.
And you might understand why the U.S. birth rate is now dipping below replacement levels, which has all kinds of bad connotations to it, not the least of which is economics.
And back to the phones to Ellen in Texas, somewhere in Texas.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
By the way, you've got to say Texas.
It's not Texas.
Texas is a northern pronunciation.
It's not preferred.
It's Texas.
Right?
Well, I have a child in the Principles of American Journalism class at the University of Missouri right now.
Oh, no.
Yes.
And so I contacted her yesterday and asked if they had spoken about it yesterday, and there was no mention made at all.
But they have been talking about whether or not Twitter is journalism.
Really?
Yes.
So not one.
Now, it is, it's only been around a year.
Give them time to get to it.
And it only did really reach prominence yesterday.
So you need to stay in touch with your daughter, did you say?
Yes.
And because at some point, I really would be fascinated to know how this comes up, if it does at some point.
Well, it's actually interesting.
I floated around on the journalism school websites because they run a radio station, a television station, and a daily newspaper.
It's part of the Missouri Method, which is the most incredible way to learn journalism.
But on the television website for the television station, they have a section which gives justifications for the newsworthiness of the stories that they have run.
So it may already be taking place informally in some of these newsrooms.
Well, it is, but there's a big difference now.
I'm not going to be splitting hairs here.
But if there is a representative of the federal government at the University of Missouri J School helping to determine these stories, then yeah, if it's just a professor judging how the students are choosing and reporting news, that's entirely a different matter.
Can you hang on to the break here, Ellen?
Oh, sure.
Yeah, good.
Don't go away.
Back to Ellen in Texas.
Ellen, thank you for waiting.
I appreciate your patience.
What year is your daughter at the University of Missouri J School?
You know, I'd rather not say.
Okay, okay.
I understand totally.
Your illustration that the TV station, you go to the website and they're already grading or passing judgment on which stories are reported, that's all fine.
And Dandy is part of the teaching of the instruction of journalism.
The problem then begins with who's doing the teaching and what is their agenda?
What is their purpose?
Right.
Oh, I completely agree.
I also attended the J school.
And Missoula?
I did, yes.
And I don't work in journalism now, but, you know, we were taught it's who, what, where, why, and how.
But then also that you should move to tell people what it means to them.
But I've always thought that shouldn't people be able to figure that out on their own for themselves?
And I think that, you know, when I was there, everybody wanted to be Woodward and Bernstein or Jesus.
That's exactly.
I was going to ask you, why does your daughter want to be a journalist?
Well, it just so happens her program falls under the School of Journalism.
She does not want to be, you know, a daily journalist at all.
But the way things are divided up into schools, her program falls into the J school.
Now, what did, let's go back to, in your era, everybody wanted to be Woodward and Bernstein.
What did that mean?
It meant digging for truth, wherever it was.
We wanted to be Nellie Bly.
We didn't want to be Walter Duranty.
And, you know, some down would have been declared Stalinist from the get-go.
Wait a minute now.
You're really firing my brain off here.
I could ask you a question after practically every word.
You and your fellow students did not want to be Walter Duranty.
What were you taught about Walter Duranty?
That he pretty much whitewashed the Soviet era.
He wasn't.
He was a Nobel Prize winner.
He wasn't treated as a hero.
Back then he was, but, you know, as more and more things came out, you know, people woke up to the fact that, you know, it was potentially a lot of people.
I'm talking about when you were in your student days.
How was Duranty portrayed to you as when you were a student there?
Honestly, I don't recall him being mentioned at all.
But I do want to say that while I was at Mizzou, I took a criminology class, and we were taught about the true Margaret Sanger.
And that is?
And that was that she wanted to rid the world of undesirables.
And we were also taught about the forced sterilization.
Right.
And who were the undesirables?
Experiments on African Americans, the syphilis testing.
We were taught about all of that.
You know, no, no spin.
And who were the undesirables in her world?
Well, you know, the lower classes, the immigrants.
It was.
The unders.
It was the stupid.
The minorities, basically.
They did assume that African Americans were dumb and stupid, and the world would be better without dumb and stupid people.
Well, and it was also Italians and Irish.
Right.
It was the immigrant group.
And, you know, there was a belief in phrenology, the bumps on the head, you know, the size of your skull could tell you if you were a criminal or not.
I mean, it was just insanely unscientific back then.
Yeah, but she wasn't alone, by the way.
She had some of the so-called brightest thinkers alive who were supporters of hers.
They were fellow travelers in this whole eugenics movement.
I want to go back to Woodward and Bernstein.
And by the way, I'm not setting you up for any of these questions.
I'm not trying to.
Oh, no, I don't think you are.
Okay, okay.
Because when I asked you, what did it mean to a journalism student to say, I want to be the next Woodward and Bernstein, you said, to get to the truth.
That's not what I think it was.
I think Woodward and Bernstein brought down a Republican president.
Let's just leave it at present.
Woodward and Bernstein brought down a president.
Journalism can destroy people.
And that is, and it wasn't just Woodward and Bernstein.
Others that went to J school back in that era and still to this day want to be 60 Minutes.
You can walk down the hall at your average J school, doesn't matter where it is, and ask them, why are you here?
The students, I want to change the world.
I want to make the world a safer place.
I want to make a difference.
And of course, the answer was that you're in the wrong place.
What do you mean I'm in the wrong place?
Journalism is about world peace.
Journalism is about making the world a better place.
Well, yes, it is.
Journalism is not about social justice.
Journalism is about telling somebody who wasn't there where you were what happened.
That's all it is.
But that's not what that the agenda of journalism today is all about the narrative and who sets it.
Doesn't matter whether it's true or not.
The narrative is related to the agenda.
The agenda is what everybody in the journalism department cares about supporting.
That happens to be liberal causes today.
And so journalism is about advancing the agenda of the American left.
And I think journalism students today, to one degree or another, are propagandized or brainwashed.
But at the same time, it may not be necessary because many of them arriving may have already figured out that that's what it is.
If you look at how journalists are rewarded and climb the ladder, a profile on a powerful person in a small town that holds them up to ridicule and destroys them, that's a resume enhancement.
The who, what, when, where, why, whatever you mentioned, that's first-year stuff.
That's boilerplate, satisfies the requirements of the curriculum, and then they get serious after they've glossed over that.
But you stay in touch with your daughter because I would love to know what the reaction in her classroom is when this whole idea of government monitors in newsrooms is discussed.
It'll be interesting to see what the discussions are like.
Make sure you tell her that it was two journalism schools that came up with the idea: University of Southern California, Annenberg School, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Journalism School.
Those were the two places that devised this test, this study, at the behest of Mignon Clyburn.
Thank you, Ellen, very much for the call.
Official Program Observer has a question.
What's the question?
Yes.
What would the old guard do what?
Oh, Snerdley thinks he's asked me a brilliant question, folks.
He makes a brilliant question.
See, because Snerdley is convinced that a real journalist, be they the biggest communist on the face of the earth, would want nothing to do with the government monitoring them, directing them, observing them, directing them, none of that.
There's no real, no matter how leftist they are.
So he's asking me, what would Klondike's reaction be?
What would John Chancellor say if he were alive today?
What would, you know, Garrick Utley just passed away, 74 of them.
What would Garrick Utley say?
What would he ask me?
Well, what about Eric Severod?
I'll tell you, if you want to get the answer, go ask Bill Moyers.
He's one of them, and he's still alive and kicking at PBS.
And I will bet you that Bill Moyers will find a way.
I don't want to prejudge it.
Because Bill Moyers will say whatever he has to to make me wrong.
So I'm not going to predict what he would say.
But what you want me to say is, because what you believe is that Cronkite wouldn't have none of this.
He wouldn't stand for it.
Whoever in any administration, if it was the Johnson administration, which he loved, if the Kennedy administrative Camelot said, we want monitors in there, we want to make sure that you're covering the news right.
We want to find out what you're leaving on the cutting room floor.
We want to find out what isn't making the news.
We want to find out what is.
The war in Vietnam's going on.
And Kennedy administrative, we're going to send Bob McNamara over, in fact, to find out why you're telling all this rotten news about our bad luck in Vietnam.
And you think you are convinced that Cronkite would stand up righteous indignation and kick them out of there and would not want any part of it, right?
You believe that the old line journalists, be they as commie-lib as they might have been, wouldn't put up with this.
But you are willing to concede that the current crop, the heirs, if you will, of Cronkite, who are they?
Dan Sawyer, who are the nightly news people?
Scott Pelley, Brian Williams, they have Chuck Todge.
You still don't believe that I'm right, that they would not have a problem with it.
You think they, I know that because Moyers was one.
Moyers was when he was doing commentary.
He took over for Severat.
When Moyers was doing commentary in the CBS Evening News with Cronkite, he came from the Johnson administration.
He was a monitor.
He was in.
These are revolving doors.
Don't you understand these journalists are in effect part of these administrations?
That's what people can't get their arms around.
Journalism in Washington is not in a cocoon.
A journalist will leave and go work for a congressman.
Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, used to work at Time magazine as a columnist, editor, writer, left there, went to work for Biden, from Biden, went to Obama.
Tim Russert used to work for a member of Congress.
Moynihan, right?
What's his face?
Chris Matthews worked for Tip O'Neill.
It's just, it's an incestuous pool, a revolving door.
I mentioned the other day that I saw this babe, Jew Doherty, that's how she used to pronounce her name.
Jew Doherty, CNN, Moscow.
Now she's at the Kennedy School.
So are they journalists or are they members of the administration?
Are they journalists?
I happen to know a CNN info babe whose husband is on the staff of Jane Harmon, Congresswoman of California.
They're just, what's his name?
David Gregory, meet the depressed.
His wife is a big lawyer over at Fannie Mae.
You wouldn't believe it's to say that journalism inside the Beltway is in a cocoon and those people have no relationship with the people they cover and they're doing it objectively.
They go back and forth.
They're all liberals.
And one thing you, people ask me all the time, how can a liberal Jewish person be so critical of Israel?
It's because they're liberals first.
Liberalism, if a liberal is a liberal, that's the most important self-identifying characteristic.
Whatever else they are, feminist, Jewish, I don't know, take your pick, liberal is first.
They are always liberals first.
And that is what unites them, and that is what animates them.
So whether they're in journalism or working on the Hill or over at the White House or clerking for a Supreme Court justice or what have you, they're liberals first.
And that means they are advancing the, if they're in the bowels of the EPA writing regulations denying farmers in the Central Valley water in order to protect a snail dart, they are liberals first.
And that person, the EPA, might someday be hired by CBS to be a producer, an editor, or it's just incestuous.
They go back and forth.
So to say that journalism is made up of people who are insulated from, you hear them, I can't get too close to my sources.
I must be able to remain objective.
That's out the window.
I don't know how long ago.
And Kennedy and those old guys back then, everybody in the media during Camelot would have paid to be hired to be in the Kennedy White House and Orb.
It was like being part of the Beatles.
It was like, I don't know, just getting in on the hottest thing at the time and whatever they had to do to be part of it.
Back to the phones to Indianapolis.
And hello, Ben.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
I appreciate that.
You bet, sir.
Hey, have you seen or are you familiar with the pranks here recently that Jimmy Kimmel pulled on the media using the Olympics?
Tell me about it.
I think I might have read.
I didn't see it, but I might have read something.
What happened?
Well, he was in cahoots with Kate Hansen, and he was making a prank about the athletic village.
He had built a mock athletic village at his studio and then filmed what looks to be a wolf walking down the hall and then got onto Kate's Twitter account with her permission, and then he posted that saying, look what I'm seeing down my hall.
And then all the news outlets picked it up like it really happened.
They had commentators on talking about debating if it was a wolf or if it was a dog and all this crazy stuff about it on all the newscasts when the whole thing was just a prank.
And it goes to the bottom.
Gosh, I'm so.
I am so envious.
If I'd have done something like that.
Let me see if I understand.
So they set up a fake Olympic village with fake athletes walking around and they got a wolf in there and they videotaped the wolf supposedly walking the Olympic Village.
They ran it on this babe's Twitter account and the rest of the drive-bys picked it up and ran it as real.
Everybody did.
I even saw it on Fox, ESPN.
Actually walked, you know, it wasn't, it was like at night.
Can I ask?
I asked a stupid question.
What was newsworthy about it, that there was a wolf in the Olympic village at Sochi?
That was enough to make news?
Well, exactly.
That's the point of why I was calling from your first hour.
There is no news.
And whenever they put stuff like this on, they don't even check to see if it was real.
Well, that's, by the way, that's exactly how Center for Science and Public Interest became an accepted, accredited nutrition outfit.
They released news one day what they thought of monosodium glutamate and coconut oil.
And they end up now, they are the last and foremost authorities on what people should eat.
And they're fraudsters.
I'm not fraudsters, but they're just little liberal anorexic activists.
Well, it's nuts.
And then the other thing that's nuts was telling your call screener is how, I mean, that tricked me.
I mean, I accepted, geez, there's a bunch of wolves walking around with athletes.
I mean, you know, how easy it is to get the whole population tricked.
Well, but the wolves could have just been the male athletes, too.
I mean, it depends on how you look at this situation.
It is cool.
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