Rush Limbaugh 04/30/08 *Must Read - Rush argues the media isn't suppose to be oriented in truth!!!
This post will remain at the top for a week or so because it is imperative that Talk Show Listeners read this and see that Rush Limbaugh argues that the Media does NOT have to be based in reporting truth. This belief makes Limbaugh the biggest Useful Idiot this ALL POWERFUL Enemy Within Private Sector Sorosist Media could ever have.
CALLER: Raymond from Potomac, MD
"Rush, now that Hillary has Operation Reverend Wright working on her behalf I believe it may be time to command your operatives in Indiana to vote for Obama. I think there's at least a tiny chance we can beat Obama because he's so well wounded, thanks to Operation Chaos. But, Rush, I really worry about this Media. They've become so blatant with their efforts to undermine our democracy. They seem to be more powerful than all of Conservative Talk Radio, all of our elected Republicans in Congress and President Bush combined."
RUSH:
"No, they're not. No, they're not! Wait a second. They are not. I must stop you. I know why you feel that way, but they are not. If our side... sadly we don't have it, so temporarily, I mean, you might have a point. If we had some leadership on our side [see (a) below], they could be nullified. I'm talking about elected leadership at the party level. We don't have that right now. You go back and look at the 1980s. Ronald Reagan rammed through practically everything he wanted and defeated the liberals' best friends in the world, the Soviet Union, without any friendly media except National Review magazine. It can be done [see (b) below]. Even when they had their monopoly it could be done."
RAYMOND:
"Yes. I agree with that, Rush, but you gotta remember this is different media now. Ever since Bill Clinton was in office, he unleashed a media that's now out undermining our democracy in ways that the media didn't do under the Reagan administration."
RUSH:
"Yes, they did. They have always done it. How old are you?"
RAYMOND:
"I'm 45."
RUSH:
"Forty-five. Well, you're old enough to remember. The media... You have to go back to the Kennedy era and start forward, but even after World War II during the FDR administration, this media has been sycophantic and in the tank. They have been liberals, and they have had an agenda. They always have. Go back to what they did to Richard Nixon. I mean, there's really nothing new. The only thing that's really new now, and this is what you are perceiving, back in those days, they would deny the allegation that they were liberal or had an agenda. Today, they don't care to deny it so much, and they're much more blatant about it. But it's always been there. In fact, they're smaller [see (c) below]. Their newspapers are losing circulation, newspapers are losing advertising revenue. Their television outlets, their nightly newscasts are losing viewers. Take a look at the advertising in the Nightly News cast - it's Preparation H stuff. It's people that don't have computers and don't pay attention to news during the day. They have an aging, elderly demographic that reads newspapers and so forth. So progress is being made here. I don't want you to get depressed on this."
RAYMOND:
"Well, I agree with that, Rush, but you're the person that gives the truth on the radio every day and we all know that. If the mainstream media was giving the same truth that all conservative talk radio is doing - which they're supposed to do because they're journalists charged with the incredible honor and importance of giving the truth to the people. You guys are just entertainers. You don't have to give the truth. If they were giving the same truth you were, Rush, these liberals that are controlling the Democrat Party wouldn't be in office, they couldn't be reelected. So the problem is the media. Why are you not leading a charge to stop this media?"
RUSH:
"Well."
RAYMOND:
"You're doing nothing!"
RUSH:
"Uhhhh, pfft, who's, who, who - of course we're doing something. I'm losing you here. Where do you get the idea the media is supposed to be oriented in truth?" [see (d) below]
RAYMOND:
"Rush! The Founding Fathers told us that we couldn't trust our elected officials. They gave the media constitutional protection in the constitution."
RUSH:
"Right. But they didn't say anything about truth." [This statement is pure asinine - unbecoming to Rush's typical excellence]
RAYMOND:
"But they were the only private sector entity that was mentioned in the Constitution in order to be our Watchdogs!."
RUSH:
"They just said a free and open press. They didn't talk about the truth [see (e) below]. I'm trying to help you understand here, because your blood pressure is going up! The media has never been about the truth. The media is about balance, the media is about fairness [see (f) below], but it's not about truth. It's not even really about accuracy. It's not about truth. The Drive-By Media today is not about that. They are totally agenda-oriented. And they always have been. Media, journalism, attracts liberals because it is inexorably linked to government [see (g) below], and that's where liberals go. Liberals are trained to get their tentacles into every nook and cranny of government, control it for the rest of their lives. And media is considered to be an arm of government [see (h) below], because the people in the media and the people in government, it's a revolving door. Chris Matthews used to work for Cuomo, used to work for Tip O'Neill. Now he's at NBC. Now he's thinking running for the Senate against Arlen Specter in 2010. Tim Russert used to work for elected officials. It's a revolving door. There's no mystery about who they are. Their impact is blunted routinely. You wait. If it weren't, if there were no conservative talk radio, as you say [see (i) below], and if there were no alternative media there would be no Reverend Wright controversy because Reverend Wright would not have found himself on television. He would not have found himself on TV. Nobody would know who he is. You wouldn't have had anybody willing to play the videos of Reverend Wright's sermons, were it not for the Internet, were it not for Fox News and a bunch of people who were first out with this stuff. It wouldn't have happened. There has been major, major progress. The Democrats are in a state of chaos and tumult here, as are the Drive-By Media. And they're not in good financial shape. The CBS Evening News has got the lowest audience in its history since Edward R. Murrow was allowed to smoke cigarettes while on camera!"
COMMENTS:
(a) Rush, we don't have the elected Conservative leadership on our side because this Media is NOT reporting truth. And why should they when the Nation's Conservative Voice doesn't even expect them to? Aren't you the guy who preaches have the highest expectations of others as they will strive to meet them?
(b) Rush, Ronald Reagan getting a lot accomplished despite the Media is a ridiculous argument that is your favorite argument to use to try to distract your listenership from the reality that the Media today isn't the same Media that was in place twenty-eight years ago! Reagan followed one of the worst presidents in American history, if not the worst. Even the Media could no longer argue that we shouldn't try economic ideas that were in opposition to Carter's - including cutting taxes! Just compare that to President Bush following the President that this ALL POWERFUL Enemy Within Private Sector Anti-Capitalist Media has done everything in their unbalanced power to convince the American People that he was the greatest president - including allowing him to take credit for policy that was implemented by a Republican Congress that led to the economic success that he took credit for.
Do you remember all of the visits by Clinton with the heavy hitters in Hollywood? Do you remember all of the Hollywood heavy hitters that he allowed to stay at the White House Rush? This Media - during the Clinton Administration learned it could blatantly do everything within it's unbalanced power to destroy Conservatives and elect Liberals and that being exposed for doing so by Conservative Talk Radio Hosts to Conservative Talk Radio Listeners who were literally ALL voting Republican anyway would not balance the positive effect of brainwashing enough Americans to vote for Liberals.
(c) Yes, Rush, the readership of newspapers and news magazines are down today compared to when Reagan was in office. Yes, Rush, the number of viewers of network news is down now compared to twenty-eight years ago. This ALL POWERFUL Enemy Within Private Sector Anti-Constitutional Media continuously strategizes on how they can become more and more effective at undermining our democracy - they're not static! They're not satisfied with where they currently are on their journey to transform our equal ownership to their elitist pig controlled socialist utopia.
You have to imagine the half dozen Media Empires being controlled by people who are on the exact political ideological page as George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Michael Moore, Algore, Rob Reiner, and John Kerry. Do you honestly think people that hate Capitalism as much as these six people wouldn't be doing everything in their power to become more and more effective at using their cameras, microphones, and printing presses to destroy Conservatives and elect Liberals Rush? I'm embarrassed by this sophomoric attitude that you have about this Media not being a juggernaut for the advancement of Socialism today compared to nearly three decades ago. The Powermongers who have built Mega Media Empires during the past thirty years through acquisitions and mergers of many independent Media companies are now controlling over 90% of the information that seeps into the American Mindset today.
They are losing consumers to their news products, but they are mind controlling people now from shows like 'Good Morning America', 'The View', 'The Late Show', '60 Minutes', the 'John Stewart Show', etc. in ways that didn't occur three decades ago.
This Media today doesn't report on Senators attacking the Commander In Chief during a War in a way that is detrimental to this behavior - as a matter of fact they're only doing these types of things because they already know the Media will not crucify them.
Rush, your arguing that this Media is the same Media that was here three decades ago is about as stupid as saying that the Schumers, Levins, Durbins, Pelosis, Kerrys, Leahys, and Kennedys are static and not trying to become more and more effective at grabbing power any damn way they can!
(d) Does the following statement even deserve a comment? "Where do you get the idea the media is supposed to be oriented in truth?"
I believe this may be the dumbest thing I have ever heard Rush say on the radio - and I've listened to 99.9% of every word he has uttered since the summer of 1990.
It wasn't that long ago that Rush had several callers calling to say he wasn't doing enough - that he needed to do something about this Media. He would state that he could fill his show every single day with callers who are hell bent about what the Media is doing to this country. Rush does not want to deal with this Media because he is in partnership with companies that are a part of these Media Empires that are being controlled by Evil Heathen Bastards who are destroying our country.
Do you not think the highest level number crunchers who are controlling these Media Empires do not know why the Mainstream Media is steadily losing market share while Rush Limbaugh isn't? These people who are running these Media Conglomerates hate Capitalism every bit as much as does Bill Clinton. They are fully aware that Rush's success is a result of their Mainstream Media companies turning on their responsibility to report unbiased objective truth without regard to political favoritism to do everything in their power to undermine our democracy through the manipulation of truth. Rush's success is responding to our demand for truth that is no longer provided by our Watchdog Press. These Heathens who control the Media know this and they also know the critical role that the journalists are suppose to play in our ability to sustain the limited government ideals that our Constitution is based upon. They are willing to allow their news divisions to manipulate truth in order to elect Liberals even at the cost of losing revenue in their news divisions - that's how bad they want to take over this country and make it a country that will be dictated by them as they strive for a One World Socialist Utopia that can only be realized with the destruction of Capitalism and self governance by way of equal ownership of the rule of law we currently live by.
(e) Rush, our Founders were very clear - they did not have faith that elected officials would not attempt to grab power. They made it clear that this was the example that could be taken anywhere you looked in societies anywhere throughout history. Their answer was to give us a Watchdog Press. My God, Rush, how can you argue that our Founders didn't expect a private sector Watchdog Press who was protected by the United States Constitution to report truth without repercussion from our Representatives who they would be reporting on????
(f) Rush, how is the Media about fairness when they've continuously made the double standard between Liberals and Conservatives much more drastic as time goes on? Is it fair that they are doing everything within their unbalanced power to help Democrats, even worse, Liberals, to elected office over Republicans - and especially over Conservatives who would actually love to uphold ALL of our Founding Principles?
(g) Attn: Ditto Heads - don't buy this! This is complete garbage! Yes, Liberals are attracted to journalism because they want to transform us to a Socialist society, but there are also Constitutional Loving Conservatives who are attracted to journalism as well. It is just that Anti-Capitalists are the ones who are hand picked to be promoted to positions that reach larger and larger audiences. It is this deliberate process of appointing like minded journalists, those who despise Capitalism, to positions of more and more influence helps the Scum who are controlling these Media Empires to achieve their goal of couping our country.
This is exactly the same thing as Bill Clinton appointing Anti-Capitalists in every possible career appointed position within the federal government. This is how we ended up with so many people in places like the D.o.D., the State Department, the Department of Commerce, the F.B.I., the C.I.A., and everywhere else that career appointed employees have been undermining President Bush during this War on Terror.
This is the same thing as Saddam Hussein appointing people around him that helped him meet his objectives.
(h) Media is considered to be an arm of government Rush? By who? By people like you who are trying to condition those who are willing to stand up against these Bastards to do absolutely nothing while they take our country? Our Founders certainly didn't consider our Watchdog to be an arm of our government that was to be as limited as it possibly could - this is total bunk!
(i) Rush, this guy never said that there wasn't an alternative media - he said the you aren't doing enough to stop this Media! Conservative Talk Radio is entertainment talk radio - it's not professional journalists who are charged with reporting unbiased objective truth about what is going on in our society.