I do the job that most anchormans ought to be doing.
I tell you what's going on out there that you don't know about.
I'm not into advancing an agenda here.
And certainly not the Democrat Party's agenda.
That's all the news media.
It isn't even in media anymore.
Do you realize that?
It isn't even media.
I sent a friend of mine a fairly long treatise.
If I were a doctoral candidate, this would be my thesis.
There is no media anymore.
I was watching the gaggle of reporters seated in the White House pressroom awaiting a press briefing last week.
It might have been Josh Ernest coming out or Obama.
I don't remember.
But it was a side view of all the reporters sitting there in their chairs in the White House pressroom waiting for the reporter to come.
It just struck me, and it's not anything new, by the way, this realization, but they're not media.
We call them the media, and they work for companies everybody assumes is media.
They work in, but they're not media.
They're not news reporters.
Nobody's digging things up anymore.
Everything's a result of press release sent via fax or email.
Everything is the daily soap opera, the narrative that's established by somebody every day, somewhere, White House, New York Times, or what have you.
But there really isn't, in terms of the White House Press Corps or the Washington Press Corps, there really isn't any media.
And it's always struck me, and we just accept it because it's what it is and there's no way to change it.
But we have the Republicans and the Democrats.
And isn't it routine that on no matter what issue, no matter what piece of legislation is being debated, no matter what is being talked about, the media is always, understandably, people accept it, is referred to as an obstacle for the Republicans.
Everybody admits it.
Everybody knows the media is yet another obstacle for the Republicans to overcome.
Well, how in the world can that be media?
This is not about the media being biased.
This is not about, which of course it is.
That's too cliched.
The fact of the matter is, there really isn't media.
They just call themselves that, and they get to live off the idea that they're reporters.
They get to live off the idea that what they tell us is news, but it isn't.
What they tell us is designed to shape your opinion about things, not inform you.
Now, that may be cutting it a little bit too close because shaping your opinion does include informing you, but they inform you of certain things a certain way.
It's all designed to get you thinking and concluding things.
It's not about informing you and letting you make up your own mind.
And I don't mean to sound polyanish and Civics 101 about it.
And it's more a pet peeve than anything anyway.
But they're not media.
They are something else.
They are branch office of the Democrat Party.
They're the stenno pool for the Obama administration.
But they're not media.
We don't have a media when you get right down to it.
We've got pockets of it.
We've got I mean, you probably have some media in your local town digging up stories on sewage problems and stuff, but or how to bake a carrot cake recipe for the holidays.
But even that is a stretch.
There really isn't any media.
Now, the reason this is important is because so many people on our side are still waiting for the moment when the media all of a sudden becomes fair.
And they're not going to ever think positively about themselves.
And they're not ever going to think that we're winning until the media sees it our way.
And the media is never going to see it our way because they're not about seeing it our way.
They're not us.
And I'll tell you another way this manifests itself.
My good buddy Andy McCarthy had another brilliant piece on Saturday at National Review Online on stopping Obama.
Now he's written a book on impeachment.
And he's made the case that impeachment's a political thing and you can't proceed until the political circumstances are right in the country.
It's not so much a legal or constitutional proceeding, rather, it's a political thing.
The Republicans have judged that they have no prayer of ever succeeding, so they have said publicly that they're never going to do it.
They have announced that impeachment's off the table, which, as far as Obama's concerned, is a license to do whatever he wants to do whenever, because he's just been told that his political opponents have no intention of stopping him.
Now, why aren't the Republicans going to proceed with impeachment?
It's not because of Obama's race.
It's not because of Obama.
The Republicans are not proceeding with impeachment because of one thing: the media.
It is the media that's going to call them racists.
It's the media that's going to try to destroy them.
It's the media that's going to make mincemeat of them.
It's the media that they're afraid of.
Therefore, we're not dealing with media here.
We're dealing with something else, but it isn't media.
And it's not journalism.
Now, the same media and journalism have come to mean the same thing, but they're not.
The media, journalists, are every bit the enemy and opponent of Obama and the Democrat Party.
In fact, the media has more to do with paralyzing Republicans than the Democrats do.
Do you think the media need the Democrats calling Republican racists to do it?
No, the media will do it themselves.
That's not media, folks.
That's not journalism.
That's something else.
And that something else is its own political entity that is itself the Democrat Party or a branch office of, or what have you.
Now, they try to tell us they're media.
See, people just like them on the right.
I'm one, for example, but I don't pretend to be media, and I don't pretend to be a journalist.
I'm an activist, in a sense.
But more than anything else, I'm an advocate.
Well, so are they.
They're not media.
They are advocates.
They are advocates for one side.
But they never, ever admit that.
They hide behind the fact that they are the media.
And it is an absolute joke to watch these people seated in the White House press room.
That was Obama and David Cameron coming out.
It was going to be a joint press conference.
It's an absolute joke to think those people are actually there to try to ask incisive, burning questions, given who they participate.
Now, if it were a Republican president, they would become media all of a sudden.
And they would be doing everything they can to prove the Republican president is full of it and is lying.
And they would try to take down powerful people like we're told the media's job is, speak truth to power and all that.
But I looked at this gaggle of people sitting there, and the last thing they were was reporters.
The last thing they were there for is to find out something that people didn't know about what Obama and Cameron were going to do and then report it.
The only reason they were there was to protect Obama.
Now, that's not media.
And when you have an entire political party that's paralyzed because of the media, that's also not the media.
And that is really, really quite telling.
And I think we do.
We have a Republican Party in certain ways it's paralyzed.
In other ways, they don't disagree with Democrats.
But still, there are enough areas of disagreement that like impeachment or whatever.
They just will not voice what they really think about a whole bunch of things.
Not because of what Obama's going to say about it.
Not because of what Harry Reed says.
It's what the media is going to say.
And again, the media doesn't need to wait for what Obama says in order to call Republican names.
They can do it themselves.
Classic example here is what's being done to the movie American Sniper.
And by the way, I don't think this is any big revelation.
To me, words mean things.
The definition of words mean things.
And I must also, I'm having greater and greater trouble communicating with people just in a day-to-day basis.
I communicate primarily by email and text because I hate the phone.
I don't mind FaceTime audio.
I can hear that.
But I've gotten to the point where when I'm telling people, I have to not only say what I want to say, the next sentence I explain what I mean.
And I send it to it twice because I'm finding out people, like I help a lot of people with their problems with their iPhone or their iPad or their Mac.
You know, I'm the guy in my group of friends and family that I have the answer.
I'm the go-to guy if you need something fixed.
It's amazing how many times I have to explain one thing.
It is amazing.
I'll write it.
Here's what is going on.
I'll be as expressly clear as I can.
And I'll wait for a question that has totally ignored what I've written.
I have to explain it again.
Communication is a very difficult thing to pull off.
And then trying to understand what others, somebody sent me an email today, I had to write her back three times today.
What are you really trying to tell me here?
Took me three times because I didn't want to assume what she meant.
And it was about this, the Muslim call to prayer at Duke.
So words mean things to me.
I mean, it's a very big, big, big deal.
And I am a literal guy.
I am the mayor of Realville.
I am profoundly literal.
And most people aren't.
That's not a criticism.
It just puts me in a frustrating circumstance a lot.
I say exactly what I mean and as clearly and as directly as I can.
And then to have to repeat it two or three times because it's glossed over, not read carefully, or not understood kind of frustrates.
But that's no big, that's just personal stuff.
But my point here is, to me, media is a word that means things.
Media means they're in the news business.
They're in the bus of gathering news that nobody knows about.
In the process, they tell us things that we don't know, and that's how we become informed.
It's not what they are.
But yet that's how they're looked at.
It's really important.
Most low-information people, they watch the news thinking they're watching the news.
They're not watching the news.
They're not watching media.
They're watching the Daily Democrat Party devotional or whatever else you want to call it.
And the reporters seated in the press room eagerly writing down what is.
They're not reporters.
They're advocates.
They're not interested in informing people what they don't know.
They are only interested in shaping people's opinions about what happens to be in the daily soap opera script that particular day.
Today, what everybody's doubled down on is Obama's tax cuts that are going to be announced in the State of the Union show and why they're being announced and what their purpose is.
There isn't any real information being provided.
There's no digging into this.
There is simply the media bending and shaping and flaking and forming and reporting all this in such a way as to accomplish two things.
Smooth saving for Obama.
Boy, it's great that he wants to do it.
It's compassionate.
It's fair.
It's equal.
And the other half of it is that no matter what the Republicans say, it's mean-spirited, extremist, and benefits the rich.
And that's how it's all being prepped today.
So even before the Republicans say a word in response, the media today is telling consumers that the Republicans oppose it because they favor the rich.
They like the rich getting rich.
They like the rich staying rich.
They don't like the rich having to give up any money.
They don't want you to make any more than you have.
They love income inequality.
That's part of the quote-unquote reporting?
No.
They're shaping the story to help Obama.
The reason why Obama now is faced with a Republican House and Republican Senate.
And in the normal ebb and flow, Obama's proposals don't stand a prayer.
So it's time to shame the Republicans and go out and find the weak-need, linguine-spined Republicans, shame them and embarrass them into defending the rich or for defending the rich and maybe turn them.
That's what's going on here.
There's no reporting.
There's no news.
There isn't any media taking place here.
They're not media.
And as I say, the same thing with American Sniper.
The primary criticism of American Sniper ran in the New Republic, and it's what's feeding all the other criticism.
The criticism in The New Republic is written by a guy named, what's his name? Dennis Jett, and he admits he's not even seen it.
He hasn't even seen it.
The criticism of American Sniper.
Quint Eastwood has written and directed a movie that's celebrating a murderer, a racist, bigoted murderer, Chris Kyle, who murders innocent Iraqi brown people.
And we in America, by going to see this movie, are celebrating barbarism.
We are celebrating murder.
We are celebrating a sociopath.
And how dare Eastwood do this and how dare we fall for it?
And that chorus is being joined by more and more people, particularly in Hollywood and on the left.
After all, folks, it's about a redneck from Texas who is better using a gun than anybody ever has been.
What is there for Hollywood to like about that?
It's everything Hollywood hates.
Rednecks, Texas, guns.
Add to it, war, Iraq, wrong, immoral, because of Bush.
What's the guy doing?
Killing innocent Iraqis, a murderer.
No wonder America is hated in the world.
This movie demonstrates why.
That's what they're doing to American Sniper.
And they're just getting started.
There are now offshoots.
There's even feminist criticism of the movie, American Sniper.
Let me take a break.
I'll tell you what that is when we get back.
Don't go away.
Never mind this feminist take on American Sniper.
It's not what I thought it was.
It's just a bunch of idiots upset that fake babies were used in the movies that are real babies.
Eastwood, it's silly.
It may even be a satire piece.
But the point is that the latest complaint about Chris Kyle now is that he's a coward, too.
Yeah, that's right.
Michael Moore, that's a coward.
Yes, snipers are cowards.
They're long distances away.
They're hidden.
Nobody can shoot at them.
Nobody can see them.
A bunch of cowards.
So don't anybody doubt Hollywood's liberal bona fide, despite what this mess is with film.
It's intact.
Here's Rich and White Plains in New York.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Thanks for waiting and welcome.
Thank you, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Would you like to talk a little football?
Yeah.
Are you familiar with that passage of that poem, How Do I Love The Let Me Count the Ways?
Yeah, I never played, but I'm familiar with it.
Well, I'm watching the Packers.
It's how do I screw up a game?
Let me count the ways.
It was two red zones in the first, at the beginning of the game.
They failed to score a touchdown.
Then, you know.
Now, that's big.
I have to, you know, you get down fourth and one on the half-yard line.
You're the Green Bay Packers.
You're in a championship game.
You've just intercepted a couple of passes.
You've got Seattle on the ropes, and you kick for three points.
Even if you don't make it, you still show you've got the guts to pound the ball at them.
Sure.
They should have had 14 points instead of six after the first 10 minutes of that game.
Yep.
And the guys doing the game were even saying how this was out of character for the Packers, the head coach, that he usually goes for it.
Well, I can't hear the audio on a football game, so if the closed captioning gets in the way, I take it off.
So I'm just watching.
So I didn't hear them say that.
Another important football point, more important Rush.
You got five seconds.
I don't think you can do it.
I've got five seconds.
I'm sorry to do that to you.
It's one of these breaks that there it goes.
It even cuts me off.
Don't feel offended.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back.
Rushlin Boy, half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
And this is Neil in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
Hey, Neil, great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Megadittos, Rush, longtime fan.
Great to have you here, Neil.
My comment is about the Patriots' drubbing of the Colts.
The Patriots' drubbing of the Colts.
That's what happened.
Yeah, how they were complaining about the football issue?
I don't know where that comes from.
I guarantee you.
Well, I kick it.
My guess is the Colts are probably embarrassed as hell.
Somebody there probably said something.
A reporter overheard it, and a big thing's been made of it.
But I guarantee you, the Colts do not think they lost that game because of the condition of footballs.
And now this thing's blown up, and the NFL's investigated.
And I'll bet you the people inside the Colts are a little embarrassed about this.
I think they were just outplayed, and the media is just making up an excuse.
Uh, the media?
Possibly.
You think this started with the media?
Possibly.
For who?
For the local media in Indianapolis.
Why in the world would you want to make it?
I mean, it's not as though they lost by one point and a deflated foot.
They were blown out for the fourth time the two teams have played.
The Indianapolis Colts have lost by margins of 28 to 3440 points in each of the last four times they've played the Patriots.
They haven't even gotten close.
You know what else is interesting?
All day yesterday, it was being reported by quote-unquote the media that the Indianapolis Colts were in the process of reworking Andrew Luck's contract to make him the richest and the highest paid player in the league, guaranteed $25 million a year.
Now, what was unique about that was that that idiot that owns the team has a policy.
And that is rookie quarterbacks, don't laugh, he is a policy that the rookie quarterback, rookie players play out their full contract before they get a second one.
In other words, there's no extension or renegotiation.
He didn't do that with Peyton May.
Peyton Manning had to play out every contract before he got his new one.
And if they had, Luck still has a year to go.
If they had indeed made Luck $25 million a year player guaranteed, richest in the league a year early, that would have been a precedent.
Well, today, the guy that owns a team is being quoted as saying, why not?
I'm not even thinking about Andrew Luck's contract.
I mean, that's the farthest thing from my mind.
Now, somebody had to put it, somebody had to tell somebody in the media about this $25 million, unless they just made it up.
Hell, you know, with the media anymore.
Who knows?
But I just find it fascinating.
Yesterday, the news was that the Colts were prepared to just make Andrew Luck the highest played payer in the league a year early, and then they get blown out last night.
And the owner today is saying, nah, I'm not even thinking about Luck's contract.
What are you kidding?
What are you talking about?
It's not the last thing on my mind right now.
But this football business, well, no, I don't know who the highest played player is because every contract's different.
The guarantees and the salary cap hits and all that make it.
I don't, I was, I mean, when the story said that Luck would be the highest paid player in the league at 25 million, it had to be guaranteed.
There are a lot of guys that claim to be, you know, 17, 15 million, but it's not guaranteed.
So I don't know what the quarterback, highest quarter.
It was on my, maybe Romo.
Don't think it's Romo.
I'm not sure.
It's not Brady because Brady's reworked his deal a number of times.
Well, the best, that's that's subjective.
The best quarterback in the league?
How are you going to determine that?
You know, depending who you talk to, some say Aaron Rodgers.
Well, he may still be.
You could say, well, he did have a good game.
Yes.
Well, he did have the plays called for him yesterday.
They would have made him look good.
Jay, don't give me a break.
Jay Cutler.
Jay Cutler.
Oh, Jay Cutler, highest base salary.
Yeah, but that's needs not.
What is it?
Does it say?
Okay.
Yeah, but how much of it's guaranteed?
$126 million.
How much of it's guaranteed?
That's all I need to do.
The rest of it's superfluous.
But well, but he's still playing his rookie contract.
So he's nowhere near in the richest yet.
Russell Wilson, he's perfect for that team.
The quarterbacks are.
In fact, we got soundbite.
You know, Russell Whistle broke down after the game.
I mean, the emotion just overcame Russell Wilson.
And it's understandable.
He was going to be the GOAT of all GOATs of the week if they had lost.
Four picks, turned the ball over, eight yards passing the first half.
He was going to be the GOAT.
And the last three minutes of that game, big-time turnaround.
Grab audio soundbite number six.
This is Russell Wilson.
He's speaking on Fox with Aaron Andrews after the game.
And this is when you barely understand what he's saying here.
He's crying.
God is so good all the time, man.
Every time.
These guys on this team are unbelievable, man.
The fight, the fight, the relentless fight over and over again.
People used to doubt, man.
We're just excited to be on this team.
We're excited to play with the guys.
Got to give credit to the Packers.
They had an unbelievable season.
And it's just honor, man.
Just honor, just blessed to be on this team.
Russell Wilson's all God all the time, by the way.
That'll hold him back in the media in time.
The media.
In quotes, the media.
But I can understand, he was totally overcome with emotion.
He went from the lowest you can beat, playing the worst game of his professional career in the NFC championship game at home.
And that turnaround in the last basically three minutes, four minutes.
Stunning.
That's well, here's the thing.
I finally found out what happened on that.
That Brandon Bostik, number 86 for the Packers, who botched the on-side kick.
It turns out that poor Brandon Boskin is not a member of the so-called hands team.
Normally, a team puts their hands team out on on-side kicks, people that are used to catching the ball, touching the ball, holding on to the ball.
He's a blocker.
Brandon Bostick, so it's told, was out there to block and cover for Jordy Nelson and others behind him who were supposed to field the on-site kick if it was a pop-up.
And instead, he jumped for it.
Instinct, he jumped for it rather than let it go.
And he's not used to touching the ball as much as totally.
That still stuns me.
That just the ball, it's slow motion.
It's right in front of you and how it goes through your hands.
That guy, he's going to carry that the rest of his life.
That kind of thing is just, because that's the game right there.
Despite every other mistake Green Bay made, if he recovers that kick, game's over.
Despite every other play call that was wrong, despite all the conservatism, despite all the playing not to lose, all those things could have been covered with the recovery of that on-side kick.
The emotional ups and downs in a game like that are profound.
Here's Alan Boise.
Idol.
Hey, Al, great to have you.
EIB Network.
Hello.
Yeah, thanks.
My one football thing is to say way to go, Broncos.
But my thing is, at the airport, I'm an employee at the airport, and we heard that Obama's coming in Wednesday, and I'm wondering why in the world is he coming here.
I mean, right now I'm sitting in a store, and I just saw two guys with guns on their side, and everyone here has a concealed weapon, and they have flags flying on their cars, and, you know, why is he coming to Boise, Idaho?
He's going to speak at Boise State, but what's he going to say?
Well, it's a good question, actually.
Even though, Al, you're trying to be funny with the Broncos comment and some of your other side comments about concealed weapons, you actually, whether you know it or not, asked a good question.
And so I'm going to endeavor to honor your call by actually answering your question.
Why is Obama going to Boise?
It's not why is he going to Boise, although, because Al means that this is a conservative place.
Why would Obama be coming here?
Obama's going a lot of places.
The State of the Union timeline is being totally reversed this year.
Normally what happens, the president does the State of the Union show, and there are a couple of leaks in the days leading up to it about what he's going to say, but not all.
And then after the State of the Union, which is, by the way, State of the Union is not State of the Union anymore.
State of the Union is Santa Claus announcing who's been good and who's been bad and what who has been good is going to get.
That's all the State of the Union is.
Santa Claus actually speaking.
State of the Union is not about the State of the Union.
It's not a report to Congress.
It's not a report to us about the state of the country.
Obama dared.
If he had to be honest about that, he wouldn't even want to tell us.
What this is, is Santa Claus announcing who is on the good list and the bad list and who on the good list is going to get what.
And normally you do the speech and then you travel for a week to various parts of the country, explaining, detailing, giving examples of what you meant, who's going to get what.
What Obama's doing this year, and they're doing that before the speech.
He's announcing what Santa Claus is going to give to who before the speech and then at the speech.
And then there will be another series of travel events after the speech.
But what's new this time is before the speech going out and setting it all up.
And one of the reasons for that is the ratings for the State of the Union speech are way down.
Just as a matter of course, in the past number of years, not just Obama, but during Bush.
Because the State of the Union speech is not State of the Union.
It's just, it's a announcement of a bunch of, gee, I really want to do these kind of things.
It's how I'm going to buy your vote.
90% of it's never going to happen.
90% of it never have a chance to happen, but that's not the point.
The point is he wants you to think he's going to give you the moon.
Well, since the numbers are down, the ratings are down, and fewer and fewer people are watching, Obama is making the State of the Union a multiple-day event rather than a one-night speech.
So each place he goes to make an appearance about the upcoming State of the Union, it's going to be covered.
It's going to be talked about.
It's going to be reported on.
And he's going to go to places like Boise, which are not particularly favorable.
He's going to go to places where big Democrat areas, too.
But this is all about getting the message out outside of the night itself with the Republican response.
This is actually, as it says, State of the Union being a one-night affair, Obama's turning it into a 10-day affair.
That's really what it is.
And you can think it's good politics or not.
That's the answer to the question.
By the way, not as just a little sideline.
This is going to be Obama's first ever visit to Idaho.
He has never been there before, never been up in there.
He's going to be up in up in Boise.
There are three other states he's never visited.
They're all red states.
South Dakota, Utah, South Carolina.
And the State of the Union ratings last year, Obama's TV ratings, State of the Union, were the lowest since Clinton in 2000.
So that's why all of these pre-State of the Union show appearances, basically announcing what's in the speech before the night of the speech.
Here's Ron in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
I've been waiting many years to say this.
Major mega dittos, Rush.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Love the show.
I just wanted to comment.
I feel bad for the young gal, Nicole, I called earlier.
My suggestion to her is to give her a little inspiration, Rush.
Maybe you should quote some founding fathers, some quotes from John Locke, guys like that black film, maybe John Adams to help her out, but she should rent the movie God's Not Dead.
The kid in that movie kind of went through the same thing.
She's going through.
I don't think she needs any help.
I think that you're talking about Nicole.
We had two.
Yes.
We had a 9- and a 14-year-old or 11 and 14-year-old call.
The first two calls of the day.
And Nicole, I mean, she didn't need any inspiration.
She's loaded for bear.
She's ready to go.
She took it to that teacher.
Yeah.
Well, Rush, my question is to you.
I've been wanting from you a book.
I love the revere books for my young kids, but I have a teenager in high school, and I'd love for you to write a book mainly for these teens.
They're so easily influenced by these teachers at that education level.
And me as a parent, I really need a tool, and I'd love a tool from you to compare the differences between a conservative mind and a liberal mind and some of the programs that the conservatives believe in and the liberals believe in, all the way.
Something that I can give a kid or my child to give them that information.
Well, now, it's interesting you say that.
Let me tell you about the Rush Revere books.
And we purposely left expressed politics out of the books.
It's there, but it's not identified.
Those books are about freedom.
Those books, the Rush Revere books, are about liberty and how the United States is the lone outpost for it in the world and how that came to be.
And it's a mission to teach young people without putting obstacles in their way.
Here's the truth, kids.
This is how your country came to be.
This is who made it happen.
This is what they believed in.
This is the thing.
These are the things that happened along the way.
These are the struggles that they overcame, the adversity they faced, and who were the enemy.
And explaining all of this, it's all obvious without pounding political terminology at them.
So there's by design, there's no politics in these, but we didn't want the books to become targets in any way, shape, man, or form.
So they're strictly devoted to the truth of the founding of this country and what it was about.
Liberty and freedom, human dignity, the power of the individual, and his role versus with his government.
Pure and simple.
Now, your idea about a book for parents or teenagers that explains the differences, liberalism and conservatism issue by issue, that's not a bad idea, actually.
Well, it's not a bad idea.
You know, it's just, and I know I'm not working near-hard enough, I'm sure.
Okay, the truth about Obama's tax cuts, or tax increases, rather, and the way the Republicans need to change the way they react to this.