{"id":10072,"date":"2014-02-24T17:31:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:31:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-02-24T17:31:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:31:22","slug":"the_press_has_relinquished_its_freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/02\/24\/the_press_has_relinquished_its_freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Press Has Relinquished Its Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: The story about the FCC monitoring<\/a> is back. “FCC Backs Off Newsroom Study.” You know, there are two things happening with this. A, they never back off anything. They just set it aside for a while where they can bring it back when nobody\u2019s looking. When they propose something like this that gets a lot of pushback, then they shelve it, and they bring it back at a time when nobody will know it\u2019s happening, or when they think there won\u2019t be any pushback. <\/p>\n

<\/a>And the way they\u2019re trying to mask this is, “Wait a minute. You all are misunderstanding this. This was not about monitors in newsrooms for content. If you go back and look at what The Steak was actually saying, ‘Filet\u2019 Mignon Clyburn, she really is concerned about minority ownership. That\u2019s all this was.” Right. The questions about story selection and why and why not has to do with minority ownership. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not about minority ownership at all. The thing, again, that is really cockamamie about this is the media\u2019s already thrown in the towel. Monitors are not needed, folks. There are no monitors needed in most of the newsrooms in this country. Television, newspaper, radio, most of the places monitors are not needed. The media has already chosen sides. The media\u2019s all-in already. The media has given up any pretense of accountability. <\/p>\n

The media has chosen the narrative that they wish to support every day. They are all-in for the agenda. These monitors aren\u2019t needed. The guidance isn\u2019t needed. The media is very predictable. You get a Democrat administration, you\u2019re gonna get a media which promotes it and attacks its critics and makes excuses for it. Whatever it has to do to advance the agenda.<\/p>\n

You get a Republican and you\u2019re gonna have nothing but constant accountability, constant lies, constant misrepresentation, constant pounding — and everything is gonna happen to make sure the American people hate and despite whoever the American president might happen to be. That\u2019s the game. That\u2019s already happened. You know it as well as I do. That\u2019s why I get frustrated.<\/p>\n

I admit it to you when I get phone calls here, “Rush, somehow we gotta get the media.” The media\u2019s gone, folks. It\u2019s not even the media anymore. There is no news. I know I\u2019m sounding broken record on this. But there is no news media, per se. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Politico has a story on this FCC backing off the idea of having newsroom monitors from the Regime. Right here it is. They say, look, it was never what all the critics said. It was just a market study to find out “how and if the media is meeting the public\u2019s ‘critical information needs\u2019 on subjects like public health, politics, transportation and the environment,” and to encourage minority ownership. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Look, I\u2019m gonna keep looking for ways, different ways to make the point. I mean, it\u2019s one thing to say the media is not about reporting news, anymore, that they just exist for the advancement of the liberal agenda. If you look at any Sunday morning show, with that framework in mind, and you\u2019ll see what I\u2019m talk about.<\/p>\n

But there are other ways of explaining this as well, and I\u2019m going to be exploring those in an attempt to be persuasive. But you could say they\u2019ve chosen the narrative and they\u2019re all-in, folks. There\u2019s no doubt. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s even any pretense at being “The Media” anymore, and there\u2019s no question that there\u2019s still a couple places where if they could get some monitors in there to intimidate people, they would put them in there.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me try it this way. I\u2019m chomping at the bit here to come up with a way to explain this in addition to what I said. There\u2019s nothing wrong with telling you there is no news anymore, that there\u2019s nothing left but the advancement of the agenda. That was perfectly clear, I understand that, but there\u2019s something more to it. You remember when this thing was first announced? You remember last week when it was first announced that the Regime wanted to put monitors in the newsrooms?<\/p>\n

The FCC, that\u2019s the Regime, wanted to put monitors in the newsroom. I read the questions to you. They were gonna examine what stories were reported, what stories weren\u2019t. They were gonna want to know why certain stories were reported and others weren\u2019t. It went on and on and on — and do you remember, I made the point that there was no outrage from the mainstream media. There was none. <\/p>\n

Not only was there no outrage. I predicted it. If you\u2019ll also recall, Snerdley came in and when I told him about it, he said, “This is it. This is the last straw. You\u2019re gonna see these people erupt,” and I said, “No, you\u2019re not. They are not gonna erupt. In fact, they are already doing it. There\u2019s already supportive. They\u2019re not gonna be upset at all,” and I gave \u2019em a couple reasons why. The First Amendment grants “freedom,” by the use of that very word, to the press. <\/p>\n

Free speech. Free press. <\/p>\n

They have given up their freedom, is the point. They have tossed it away. They\u2019ve chosen something other than a free press. They have chosen sides. In fact, they didn\u2019t even have to choose. It\u2019s just who they are. You would probably be surprised to learn of the marriages that exist between people in the media and people in government, people in media and people in elective office, or at various cabinet bureaucracies or wherever. <\/p>\n

I mean, it\u2019s quite an incestuous revolving door. But the media is not really engaging in a free press — and even when there\u2019s a Republican president, what they\u2019re doing is not exercising freedom of the press. They are in the process of protecting the agenda at that point. When you\u2019ve got a Democrat in office, it\u2019s advance the agenda — and, of course, cream and attack the opposition. <\/p>\n

When the opposition happens to overpower you and win the presidency, then it becomes time to protect the agenda and to trash and destroy the people who are in power, and that\u2019s the only time they will do it. It\u2019s been that way for quite a while. As such, if the press… The Founding Fathers were brilliant people. They knew that a free and independent press was crucial to a representative republic remaining free.<\/line><\/p>\n

Once the media becomes state-run or state-controlled, the Founding Fathers knew what the various levels of intellect and intelligence were among the population, paying attention. They knew how important it was. We\u2019re reaping the benefits… Well, not the benefits. We\u2019re seeing the results here of what happens when a free press isn\u2019t free. Susan Rice, I guess, is good example yesterday. <\/p>\n

Susan Rice, in a normal political world, would have been embarrassed and ashamed to show up, after having previously appeared on five Sunday morning shows and lying repeatedly about Benghazi and the reasons for it and what happened. But instead, what happened? She shows up and she\u2019s celebrated! She shows up and she\u2019s applauded. She shows up on these Sunday morning shows and is regaled as a conquering warrior.<\/p>\n

Because what really happened was they brought Susan Rice back, and the media joined in an on-air celebration of her survival against attempts by the opposition to get rid of her, or to humiliate her or to diminish her. She survived. The Regime survived. The narrative on Benghazi survived. “Let\u2019s bring Susan Rice back and we\u2019ll have an on-air celebration that is disguised as a Sunday morning news show,” and that\u2019s what it was. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ve surrendered their freedom, just like a lot of people have. You\u2019ve heard the old stories. Benjamin Franklin, I think, was the one who warned of it. Be very worried about people who will surrender a little of their freedom for a little security here, surrender a more freedom for a little security there, because after a while you\u2019re not gonna have any freedom anywhere. <\/p>\n

Well, they\u2019ve surrendered it, and the reason they\u2019ve surrendered it is because they have been made to believe that they are ranking members of the elite. Their assignments happen to be as journalists. Others are assigned to be in elective office. Others are assigned positions in the bureaucracy. Others are assigned positions of professor at institutions of higher learning. Others are assigned positions of community organizer. <\/p>\n

There is no independent media, certainly not in Washington. But I\u2019ll give you example. Algore. Here we are in the midst of record cold, record ice at the North and South Poles, record ice in the Great Lakes. I just saw a satellite photo of the nearly totally frozen Great Lakes. I think Lake Michigan is the only one that has a little free-flowing water on the surface. It\u2019s an amazing picture. So Algore goes to Kansas City over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The Kansas City Star<\/a> does a news story on Gore coming in, and there\u2019s not one syllable of skepticism of Algore\u2019s message in this report. Algore walked into Kansas City\u2019s Crown Center Hotel there, a big ballroom. I\u2019ve been there many times. He predicted that the Dust Bowl is on the verge of returning, and the Kansas City Star dutifully reported that the Dust Bowl is gonna soon be returning!<\/line><\/p>\n

The Dust Bowl of the thirties, by the way, devastated Kansas. It was a very hot, and it was a very dry summer. There\u2019s only one problem. What caused the Dust Bowl 80 years ago? There weren\u2019t any SUVs, so it couldn\u2019t have been CO2 buildup, because that wasn\u2019t an issue back then. So what caused the Dust Bowl? What was man doing 80 years ago that caused the Dust Bowl?<\/p>\n

Whatever it is, we\u2019re still doing it. Algore marched into Kansas City to predict that the Dust Bowl is about to return. Here\u2019s how it begins: “Al Gore has been known for his climate change warnings since the 2006 film ‘An Inconvenient Truth.\u2019 But the former vice president, speaking Saturday in Kansas City, cited many more recent examples how heavy use of fossil fuels is contributing to extreme weather events and trends, in his view.<\/p>\n

“Gore filled a Westin Crown Center ballroom with a 90-minute presentation, using photos and videos to illustrate a litany of floods, wildfires, torrential rains, droughts, dust storms, rising sea levels and increasing world temperatures. To those attending the Folk Alliance International conference, he noted examples of flooding in locations both remote and closer to home, such as in Manitou Springs, Colo. … <\/p>\n

“He cited the possibility of how flooding in Pakistan could destabilize that country, a nuclear power, and the possible effect that continuing drought in California might have on the world\u2019s food supply.” He didn\u2019t mention that the drought in California is manmade, not caused by global warming but by water policy.<\/p>\n

The drought in the California Central Valley has been caused not only by the US Fish and Wildlife Service but state environmental agencies who are diverting water from agriculture to what are said to be endangered species. It isn\u2019t new, but as a result there is a drought, not because of global warming or manmade climate change, but rather manmade decisions on the distribution of water. <\/p>\n

Anyway, it goes on. The Kansas City Star dutifully reports everything. There\u2019s not one word of skepticism. There\u2019s not any challenge. There\u2019s not even any doubt about it — and this is what I mean. So people in Kansas City are not clued in. They get up, read the Kansas City Star on Sunday, hear about Gore\u2019s message, and now sitting there worried, scared to death — in the middle of a frozen tundra — about the returning Dust Bowl. <\/line><\/p>\n

They\u2019ve given up their freedom as a constitutional entity and instead have chosen acceptance by the elites as a fellow member of the club. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s essentially what\u2019s happened here. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Rick in South Bend, Indiana, as we head back to the phones. Rick, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. Hey, Rush, I\u2019ve been listening to you for a long time, before the Clintons came in. But I was going back to your thing on the FCC where they\u2019re trying to monitor the content of what everybody\u2019s saying. I would like to see \u2019em, like, before every show, people come on, that they would do what you do when you say your accuracy rating is 99.7%.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s an opinion audit, which is a much different thing than an accuracy rating. But I get your drift. You think they ought to be subject to the same thing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I think person that comes on and has a news show should say that, you know, so people know exactly where they stand.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They wouldn\u2019t dare. Rick, let me tell you something. This is not an exaggeration. One of the traits now, just short of being a hallmark, is how much the so-called mainstream media get wrong. It\u2019s incredible how much they report that actually is wrong. It\u2019s almost become standard operating procedure, and it\u2019s because they\u2019ve thrown objectivity overboard. To be objective… Evan Sayet, conservative lecturer, made the point: To be objective is to be a bigot, and they\u2019ve thrown it away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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