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Feb. 9, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 9, 2015, Monday, Hour #3
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Man, these Brian Williams, these uh details keep just adding up.
And by the way, I I made a prediction last week that one of the things that the NBC news bosses are going to do.
They're going to try to find examples of this committed by others.
Because in in our convoluted world now, it can't be that bad if everybody's done it.
It can't be that bad.
Can't be our exclusive problem if it's happening elsewhere.
It's kind of like, did you see over the weekend Jerry Rice, who's nothing less than the best ever wide receiver in the NFL, admitted that he used Stick'em on his gloves.
Stick'em was banned in 1981.
Freddie Bolitnikov of the Raiders used to use so much of it.
It was that orange goose stuff that was on his socks.
And he reached down, put a clump of it on his hands, and the ball practically stuck to his hands like a magnet.
And they outlawed the stuff in 81.
In 84, uh receivers started going to gloves because you could spray stick'em-like stuff on the gloves, and nobody knew it.
And it it made catching pass either.
And then Jerry Rice said, yeah, I used to stick them.
And then he came out later when there was an uproar.
I didn't know it was illegal.
I didn't know I didn't know, but everybody did it, everybody did it.
Bring it paper, everybody did it.
Everybody did it, has become a legitimate defense.
Look at folks, the standards in our culture, you know as well as I do, they're heading down the toilet, they're down the drain.
All kinds of standards are on the on the wane, and it's not new.
And it's it, I tell you it's all once again, it's it's rooted in the idea it's unfair to penalize people, because not everybody is gonna have such high standards.
This is not fair to penalize those who can't or don't have the same morality as others, because morality shouldn't be a constant.
You know, liberalism says that morality is defined by individual choice.
Whatever's right for you is perfectly okay.
Whatever's wrong for you, perfectly, but you don't have any right to say what's right or wrong for anybody else.
And that's been trending for quite a while.
So NBC News is trying to find examples on other networks and in their own network where others have embellished, like Brian Williams has.
I don't know.
For example, they've named uh uh Lester Holt to sit in for Brian Williams during this trip to the monastery.
This you know, pretty soon you know what's gonna happen.
There's gonna be rehab for lying.
And uh some enterprising entrepreneurs are gonna open up a liar's rehab center, pathological lying rehab center.
Who knows?
But what if NBC can find that Lester Holt has made some stuff up?
What if they can find out that Andrew Mitchell, NBC News on Washington, made some what if anybody that they think that'll mitigate, it won't make them look even worse.
It will not look as bad.
Not only does our lead anchor do it, look, and did you see where Ben Sherwood is the news director at ABC has launched a task force investigation to find other examples of Brian Williams making it up?
That's new.
I have to tell you, I I was wrong about.
I thought the drive-bys would circle the wagons around Brian Williams, and that really hasn't happened like it did with Dan Rather.
Jennings and Rather, uh Jennings and Broker were not gonna let Rather go down.
They were not gonna let the news suffer.
But this current crop, um they're not circling the wagons like I thought.
So I was wrong about that.
But I guarantee you, they're looking to find other examples of this.
Not to punish them, but to allow them to say, hey, you know, this is actually part of the business now.
Uh why does what?
Uh you mean, like, why is ABC doing this task force?
Why do they want Brian Williams scalp?
I don't know.
I I I don't even know what the ratings are in the nightly newscast.
I don't know who's leading and who isn't.
I I I I don't know.
Um, that that is a different fraternity than it used to be.
Those guys, the Rathers and the Jennings and the Brocos, they had gone to anchor school.
They had hosted the Today Show.
I mean, they had worked at their networks for decades before they got the anchor gig.
Some of these anchors now get the anchor gig right out of the modeling agency.
You know, right from the Calvin Klein underwear ad Billboard on Times Square, you go to the anchor desk at ABC News or whatever.
So it's a it's a different route.
And there's a it's a it's a different fraternity.
And it may be more prone to human uh emotions, such as jealousy and envy.
The one thing about Rather and Broquan Jennings, they really did not consider each other competitors.
I mean, they all wanted to be number one in the ratings.
But even when Rather was pulling up, I mean the stakes in the last place, and he was there for a long, long, long time.
Um, he was treated as an equal with uh with all the all the other.
That's another bit.
Rather was allowed to sit there in the cellar for years at CBS.
It's a different world.
And it's it's it's changing, and now more than ever.
The network news used to be where many Americans first found out what had happened that day.
I mean, it was that important, but now everybody knows already.
Except the uh except the uh the preparation age demographic.
And people that are afraid of computers, people afraid of wireless devices, afraid of tech, and they still rely on TV, and some of them don't even have cable.
They don't trust that.
They don't trust a wire coming in them, so they've got the rabbit ears or whatever.
Nightly news is probably the first news for the smallest percentage of people ever since its inception.
But by by 6 30, 7 o'clock every night, most everybody you would want in the audience already knows what has uh what has happened.
Or you say, how do you how do you change the broadcast to accommodate for that?
And that's where all this inserting in the story and become emotionally invested and uh having a stake in the uh in the outcome.
That's I think that's one of the reasons why the news has undergone these drastic changes, because now it's just another entertainment program that's still trying to survive under the old rubric of it's the encyclopedia Britannica of news.
It's not the world book.
It's not Wikipedia, it's the Encyclopedia Britannica.
That's what they're trying to hold on to.
But look at here's some of these headlines from Breitbart.
Brian Williams from Heard of to We Watched Katrina Superdome Suicide.
Brian Williams' Katrina tale appears to have evolved somewhat dramatically over the course of just one year.
In 2005, Williams reported in a documentary that he had heard the story of a man killing himself in a superdome.
The following year, during an interview with Tom Brokaw at the Columbia Journalism School, Brian Williams said we watched, all of us watched as one man committed suicide.
Folks, believe me, there are people that are watching footage like you can't believe.
They're looking for any and every example like this they can find.
By the way, Brian Williams went on to win a prestigious Columbia Journalism Award for his coverage of Katrina.
But here's the thing if they all watched, here's the thing.
If they all watched the same thing with the body floating face down in the river in the French quarter, and which didn't flood, wouldn't you think you'd grab your cameraman and say, shoot that, get a shot at it?
It's a dead guy floating face down, get video.
By the same token, if all of us, we watched, all of us watched as one man committed suicide.
Why isn't there footage of it?
Why if they got their camera in there, if they've got their tech people in there, why didn't Brian Williams, hey, hey, there's a guy committing suicide over there, why don't you get foot?
In fact, why didn't they try to stop it?
Another Williams Chopper Tail, NBC Anchor claims Hezbollah rockets buzzed his helicopter during the Israeli war.
Completely separate from the 2003 Iraq helicopter incident, Brian Williams confessed to lying about this week.
We now have a 2007 video of Williams claiming he was involved in a hairy wartime incident involving a different helicopter during a different war.
According to him, during the war with Hezbollah in Israel a few years back, there were Katucha rockets passing just beneath the helicopter I was riding in.
And it gets me to thinking, he said, I've been very lucky the way my life has turned out.
I've been very lucky to have survived a few things that I've been involved in at a perception a few minutes ago.
I was remembering something I tend to forget, the war with Hezbollah in Israel a few years back.
There were Katushka rockets passing just beneath the chopper we were in.
But in the NBC report in question, neither the video or written report references anything close to rockets passing just beneath the helicopter.
And then Brian Williams, I once saved a puppy from a burning house.
That's another one that they have discovered.
Another tall tale from the New York Post.
Brian Williams' alleged encounter with the Christmas bandit.
Long before he was caught lying about his helicopter coming under fire at Iraq, he claimed he'd stared down the barrel of a bandit's gun as a teenager in Red Bank, New Jersey.
Interview 2005 with Esquire Magazine.
Williams said a three a thief drew on him in the 1970s, leaving him looking up at a thug's snub nose 38.
This kind of dovetails with Brian Williams saying he looked down the barrel of an RPG.
Remember that one?
And there's another one in here.
I thought I printed this out, but let's see if it's an explosion.
No, there's he somehow was involved in the Princess Diana death.
Or Brian Williams' heroic stories included Princess Die and Hurricane Katrina.
Let's see, what's the Princess Die business here?
Oh yeah.
Get this.
Brian Williams once bragged about abandoning a dying friend to cover the death of Princess Diana, but said it was worth it because it won him worldwide fame.
He was speaking to Alec Baldwin in a March 2013 interview on the 30 Rock Actors Here's the Thing Show on the radio in New York.
Brian Williams said, Yeah, I lost a very good friend to Agent Orange related cancer.
I was in the hospital room with him.
It was a Saturday night.
I'd just done nightly news and my pager went off.
Diana, car accident, Paris.
I called the office and they said, You better get in here.
I had no idea that I'd be announcing to what was then, I mean, they they plugged us into cable all over Europe.
I have people wherever I go to this day say I was with you the night Diana died, Williams said.
Folks, this is seriously um.
This is seriously.
This is seriously troubled.
I was with you the night Diana died.
He says people all over the world come up to it.
I was with you the night Diana died.
Uh yeah.
In fact, remember back then that that Princess Died, the funeral, and uh the whole story.
It seemed that there were tens of thousands of average citizens on the street trying to get close, uh, flowers along the funeral procession route and so forth.
And everybody was trying, what is this all about?
Was this woman this popular?
And we figured out that's not what it was.
It was that everybody wanted to be in the story.
It was the biggest thing that had happened in a long time, and everybody wanted to be able to say they were there.
When Princess Dye passed away.
And even Brian Williams.
Yeah, I left my buddy in the hospital who was dying of cancer.
I had to get in there, and they plugged us into feed coverage All over the world, and I got people over the world now telling me I was with you the night Diana died.
Snurley, why why'd you uh put June 6th this D-Day up here on the uh on the uh uh uh on the interstudio display?
I said June the seventh.
I was thinking December 7th, Pro Harbor.
June 6th D Day, right, okay.
See what I mean?
It's a burden being right.
You make the slightest little not even an error.
I just misspoke.
This is not a lie.
What's in it for me to make up the fact?
See, not even you you got it wrong.
It's June 6th.
You said June 7th.
I'm telling you folks, it's a burden.
Being right all the time.
You're not allowed to make any mistakes.
And by the way, here's one one other point that I want to make.
You know, everybody.
Well, relatively speaking, everybody is curious and either angry or amused or offended.
Everybody is affected somehow by Brian Williams making it up, but when Obama does it, barely a ripple.
And Obama lies about really important things like the economy and the unemployment numbers and ISIS and health care.
Obama told you 23 times you keep your doctor if you like him.
Obama told you 23 times keep your policy if you like it.
Lied to your face twenty-three times over two years.
Ho hum, let's twiddle our thumbs.
Big whoop.
And that's just one of countless examples that I, El Rushbow could come up with.
Obama has told some whoppers.
I mean, from how many jobs would be created to when the recovery would uh start, when the recession would end, uh to the any any number of how many jobs are going to be created.
He's just one whopper after another, and where is the proportionate anger at that compared to all these people just livid over Brian Williams making up the fact.
I mean, he didn't make up events, I mean, he just put himself in them.
I mean, he was at Katrina, Katrina happened.
There wasn't a dead guy that floated down the street in uh the French quarter, and there probably wasn't a suicide in the superdome that he saw, but it at least Katrina happened.
He's all he did was take events that took place and insert himself in there.
For the express purposes of mattering, he wanted to have an impact on the outcome.
Obama just made things up out of whole cloth and deceived you for the express purpose of getting your vote.
Benghazi for crying out loud.
There has been real pain and suffering associated with Obama's lies.
And it's it's it's greeted with a ho-hum.
Anyway, here's uh here John in Melbourne, Florida.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
John, are you there?
I am here.
Can you hear me?
Yes, sir.
Yes, I am a former employee of NBC News.
I was with the network for 22 years.
And I started on the RCA.
And back when RCA owned uh NBC, the news division always operated in the red, meaning that it never made a profit.
None of them every independent.
No, none of them did.
When G purchased us, and we became on that corporate entity, news then was required to be profitable.
Thus the infotainment began to come more and more and more.
And so there are numerous cases that can be cited where there were these kinds of uh uh journalistic integrity issues with NBC, going back to when Dayton first started.
I don't know if you recall blowing up the truck.
When uh there was a there was an incident where where there was an incident where uh Dateline added incendiary devices to a vehicle in order to make the program more sensational.
Well, now wait a minute.
Listen, but they they accused the manufacturer of making faulty gasoline tanks that cars are blowing up randomly, and they rigged One to blow up.
They rigged one to blow up to try to create the impression.
And so when they were caught, well, yeah, yeah, we made it up, but it happens.
We just wanted to show that it happened.
No, no, it doesn't happen.
You made it up.
That's what you're talking about, right?
That's what I'm talking about.
Um we had a recent situation with the Zimmerman case where there were one of the editors uh edited out some some key information in terms of making uh the case more sensational as well.
That was the 911 call that they made it look like George Zimmerman was a flaming racist.
That is correct.
That's correct.
And and and you know, and the other assumption that people are having with all of this, too, is that Brian Williams uh uh has a journalist degree.
Brian Williams never attended college.
Well, he did for a very short period of time.
I think he completed about 18 credits, but he didn't come up to the ranks.
He holds the position as editor in chief of NBC News over there, managing editor.
But Brian Williams did not uh obtain a journalism degree.
Um he came up uh, you know, reading the teleprompter.
He's no different than anybody else who has one.
Mm-hmm.
I don't mean prompter, I mean degree.
But they're right.
They're they're prompter readers now.
You can say they're actors.
You gotta have the really concerned face, the really, really concerned face, the panicked face, the scared to death face, the sympathetic, the compassionate face, the raised eyebrow.
If you can do that, you've got the job.
Yeah.
But you're correct, Rush, when you say, I mean, we've somehow lost the we're losing our way.
We continue to lose our way when it comes to the honesty and integrity of what's going on here.
It's just it's an overall decline in standards everywhere.
It's happening and has been for uh quite a while.
The number of frauds exposed that still teach on University Campai, for example.
There was a story in the UK telegraph uh yesterday.
The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever.
It's by Christopher Booker.
When future generations look back on the global warming scare of the past thirty years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records were systematically adjusted to show the earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.
Two weeks ago, under the headline How We Are Being Tricked by Flawed Data on Global Warming, I wrote about a guy named Paul Homewood, who on his not a lot of people know that blog had checked the published temperature graphs for three weather stations in Paraguay against the temperatures that originally been recorded in each instance.
The actual trend of sixty years of data had been dramatically reversed.
So the cooling trend was changed to one that showed marked warming.
And this was only the latest of many examples of a practice long recognized by expert observers around the world, one that raises an ever larger question mark over the entire official surface temperature record.
Grab audio sound by what is it, number uh three, number six.
Grab some by number six.
Um, this this story, I have to admit to you, I read this story, and it's a little thin in in terms of its sourcing.
It does quote Paul Homewood, but it doesn't tell us how Homewood got the data.
It just makes it sound like it's easily obtainable.
The real temperature data from all of these weather stations around the world, it makes it look like anybody, if you wanted to take the time and knew where to search, could find the truth about how temperatures have been lied about in reverse.
Now, I don't frankly doubt the substance of this.
I mean, I just there's this this is the this is one of the greatest hoaxes in science.
There are others.
But you talk about a place where standards have declined.
Boy, science may be at the top of the list.
It'd be a tight close race with politics.
Science is supposed to be infallible.
And if you follow the scientific method, it is, because there is no opinion in science.
And there certainly cannot be a consensus.
Science is not up to a vote.
Science is not up to what a majority of a hundred scientists happen to think about anything.
Science uh whatever concept in science you're trying to establish, it either is or it isn't, or you don't know.
It can be proved or it can't be.
And if it can't be, then it isn't.
And that's science.
You talk about something that's been corrupted, and it's been corrupted by politics, specifically the money.
Here you have a bunch of white coated laboratory specimens called scientists, and they don't make much money.
But they're given grant after grant after grant after grant to research climate change.
Big, big important issue to Democrat Party and the left.
You essentially pay them for the result you want.
And if they, like any welfare recipient, if they are dependent for what ends up being a great lifestyle, on certain outcomes being part of their data report, then you're going to get it.
And if the people giving you the money want there to be global warming, you're going to give it to them.
You're going to learn how to fake ice core sample temps.
You're going to learn how to go to obscure places in Siberia and dig 30 feet down and find an age-old tree trunk that's been buried but's got tens of thousands of years of temperature data in the bark.
You're going to come up with all kind of hockey stick theories left and right.
You're going to find any number of ways to make your claim that the average Joe couldn't refute.
And then you're going to get with PR people and sell it with phony pictures of polar bears on little thin strips of ice made to look like melting glaciers.
And you sell it.
And the reason you want to sell global warming because it advances government, it grows government, and it gives government more power over people to raise taxes, to guilt trip them into supporting policies that they have ultimately caused, i.e.
climate change.
It's it's almost an automatic biggest slam dunk is national health care is for gaining control over a population.
And but the the thing that's interesting here is there are more and more stories now.
You see them everywhere, popping up, not arguing with the global warming data.
That used to be one of the things I must tell you, I you know, I know some climate scientists, and I used to get frustrated at them, because they would they would accept the premise of the global warming crowd, and then, as is their want, dig into it intellectually and trying to try to refute it.
Scientifically.
And I would tell them you guys are missing the boat here.
You are falling for the trap by accepting the premise.
And they would all say to me, we only can refute their premise if we accept it.
I said, but that's not science.
They're making this up.
And of course they wouldn't listen to me because I'm not a scientist in the traditional sense.
But I say, you're falling for a trip.
You're wasting so much time refuting a false scientific premise.
And what they would do, all the climate, they did some great work, Pat Michaels, and of course our official climatologist here, Dr. Roy Spencer, they did some great work, but they accepted the premises of these people.
When these people have been political from day one.
And if a premise is filled with made-up data and false data, yeah, you can set out to try to disprove it, and they've done that, but it's been on the playing field of the hoaxers.
And I always thought what needed to first be asserted is this is a hoax.
You guys are making this up, and there's no way what you're claiming can ever be known.
And then set out prove that.
But accepting the premise and going to every ice core sample or the hockey stook or whatever, I just it got so esoteric and deep that the average person wasn't able to keep up with it.
So those people became known as the deniers.
The climate deniers, the people that didn't care whether the polar bears were dying, and the people that didn't care whether big business was polluting the sky so much that the North Pole and the South Pole were melting.
If the North Pole melts, where's Santa Claus going to go?
That kind of crazy crap.
And so this may be thinly sourced or what have you.
I have no doubt.
I've known from the from the beginning, just because I know liberals that this whole thing has been a hoax.
And it's It's been fascinating to watch it play out.
And now there are more and more people like the story in the UK telegraph that are now beginning to just stand up and say they're lying.
Rather than accept their premise and try to disprove it scientifically, they're just standing, they're lying.
They're making it up, and this is a big and they're starting to use the word hoax now, some of them are.
Listen to this.
Audio soundbite number three.
This was on NPR Friday afternoon, the Leonard Lopate show.
He spoke with the Center for Investigative Reporting contributor Mark Shapiro, and they're talking about climate change and had this little exchange.
Is the debate over climate change mostly scientific, economic, or political?
Because many conservatives are saying that the environmental movement is like a watermelon, green on the outside and Marxist red on the inside.
Wow, I haven't quite heard that one.
Oh, you should check out so many people.
Rush Limbaugh, there are a couple of books about it.
Yes, there are books about the we call them the climate denialists.
See, they call the climate denialists or the climate deniers.
Now this joke that environmentalists, green on the outside, red on the outside, and this guy Shapiro, who talked about the climate, he said, claims he hadn't heard the joke.
That joke is at least 30 years old.
I first heard that joke from a timber company in Humboldt County in California when I went out there to try to help him save the day.
Back when I was wearing my Brian Williams hat.
No, no, no, no.
I just I went out there and I did a speech, the Rush to Excellence tour, and I met.
No, there were no dead owls floating in the river.
You know, the the spotted owl we saw, the only one we saw was living in the K of the Kmart sign.
It wasn't in an old growth tree.
There was a spotted owl and a Kmart sign.
Anyway, I did meet with some timber company executives after the Rush to Exos Tour.
This is when they were being bombarded and under assault by Earth First, and they had no idea what to do.
They had never encountered this.
Their integrity, their business was under assault.
And the timber guys, you know, we pl for every tree we cut down, we plant ten.
I don't know what these idiots are talking about.
Our business is timber.
We go out of business if there isn't any.
We're not destroying forests.
We're planting forests.
And they were really frustrated.
And I I tried to tell them, you guys are missing the boat.
This is not about specifics.
They're attacking you because you are capitalist.
If you want to defend yourselves, you can certainly talk about how you plant ten trees for every one you cut down, and that would be valid.
But you better understand why they're after you.
It's not that's just a smokescreen, the trees that you cut down, they're after you because you're capitalists.
And they are socialists and they hate capitalism.
And they're they're going to come up with ways of attacking you to make you look like you don't care about average people.
That you don't care that you would just as soon put somebody you'd cut down a red tree, uh redwood tree, and save a baby's life.
They they're going to demonize you that you guys are going to be the biggest boobs on the face of the earth.
And they cle they 30 years ago, nobody knew how to deal with this.
It was, it was uh, well, for the individuals involved, it was unprecedented.
The leftist attacks on institutions have been around forever.
But to these guys, they didn't know how to defend it.
They didn't know how to react to it or how to respond to it.
Because it was ideological.
This is the bottom line.
The attack on the timber industry, the whole spotted out, all that was ideology, ideological leftist ideology, liberalism.
And if these guys were not active committed conservatives, there was no way they were going to understand what they were up against.
And they didn't.
And even after I tried to explain it to them, they were a little bit better off, but they they couldn't get past the idea that they could defeat the environmentalists with real world statistics.
No, we don't destroy forests.
We plant ten trees for every tree we cut down.
Doesn't matter.
You're still cutting down a tree.
And a tree has a life.
And a tree provides life for a spotted owl.
A tree provides life for whatever you, and you're cutting it down.
You're mean spirited extremists.
You're just cutting down Everything in your sight.
And then what do you do?
You're selling it for money.
You're profiting off the destruction of the earth.
And they said, they really look at us that way.
I said, damn right they look at you that way.
The same way they look at the oil companies.
You're polluting, you're destroying, you're any number of things.
I'd say, even now, that a number of people under assault by the left still don't know how to deal with it.
And I guess that would include the Republican Party.
Brian Williams and NBC News won a Peabody Award for their coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
Even though it was all made up.
Well, why do you think they won the?
Because I guarantee Brian Williams, he looked so suffering and pained when he reported the dead body floating down the street.
And that's why they won the Peabody.
And now that's all up in smoke.
Susan in Camden, South Carolina.
You're next.
It's great to have you with us on the program today.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
I was an infobe for almost 30 years, and I cannot get my head around what Brian Williams has done so often, evidently.
There must be some kind of a serious mental or character or moral law there.
Because that is just not normal behavior on the part of either Brian Williams or Barack Obama to lie like that.
It's not like anchor people don't get it.
Yeah, I know, but you're not.
Susan, it's not just Brian Williams.
Everybody at NBC knew he was doing it, and they even facilitated.
They made promos out of these lies.
Yeah, and I can't grasp it.
I can't grasp it.
I don't know who these people are.
Well, let me ask you, you say you've been in infobabe for 30 years.
You'd be fired, would you not, from your infobabe job if you hadn't been caught doing this.
Fired, humiliated, destroyed.
I I can't even get my head around it, Ross.
It's unbelievable.
There's something mentally, morally.
You know what?
The main Susan, the amazing thing to me about this is that being the NBC nightly news anchor apparently wasn't enough.
In a in a self-esteem way of thinking, it wasn't enough.
Had to make these events up.
Uh in order to think highly of himself, I guess.
I don't know.
I'm not a psychologist or chiatrist, so not quite sure I understand it, but you're right.
Uh, in most cases, Sayanara.
Adios.
See you later.
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