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RUSH: Look, there are other things happening out there in addition to the IRS <\/a>and Benghazi. We\u2019re all over both, and I want to get into some of these other things because I\u2019ve always had the practice of never being sidelined or deterred. You\u2019ve heard the idea. There\u2019s a theory out there now that the only reason the IRS stuff was acknowledged and admitted to was to cover up Benghazi, to get the press attention off of Benghazi because that\u2019s what\u2019s really damaging.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had people… Everybody tries to tell me how to do this job every day. Even now, during the break, they\u2019re saying, “Rush! Rush! You\u2019re being buffaloed! You\u2019re being used! You\u2019re talking about this IRS thing! Everybody understands that. Stay focused on Benghazi. You\u2019re falling for the trick!” I\u2019m not falling for any tricks. We cover everything top to bottom, inside and out, sideways to sideways here. That\u2019s why there are other things happening out there that I want to touch on.<\/p>\n

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For example, Scott Pelley of CBS News, in the midst of receiving an award recently, admitted they don\u2019t get anything right. “CBS\u2019s Scott Pelley at Quinnipiac Luncheon: ‘We Are Getting Big Stories Wrong, Over and Over Again.'” Our buddies at NewsBusters had this story. “Scott Pelley deserves grudging credit for recognizing something obvious at a Friday luncheon in New York. Readers tempted to go beyond that point would be advised to visit the archive of Pelley-related posts at NewsBusters on his brand of so-called journalism…<\/p>\n

“At said luncheon, Pelley received the 20th annual Fred Friendly First Amendment Award from the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University. In his acceptance speech,” who is the anchor for the CBS Evening News, by the way, for you low-information listeners, “Pelley spoke of journalistic failures during the past few months.” When you hear what he had to say and what it implies, it becomes clear that he\u2019s concerned with the falling reputation that the mainstream is engaged in now, and he says, “We are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.”<\/p>\n

Now, the story here, I have it from the Weekly Standard, and their coverage of the Scott Pelley is fascinating. I just find it fascinating. He\u2019s in the midst of getting the Fred Friendly Award, and he admits how wrong he was on something and how wrong his industry is. Now, admittedly, he\u2019s worried about it. We\u2019ll grant him that. But still, he\u2019s getting an award, folks, which is what the left does for itself and its ranking members.<\/p>\n

When things are going very wrong, when one of them\u2019s in deep doo-doo, they give \u2019em an award for what they do. Now, to me what\u2019s newsworthy about the Weekly Standard story is how disingenuous it is. Yes, the networks keep getting stories wrong over and over again. But in my mind, the problem is not how they get details of breaking stores wrong because of their desire to be first with the news. That was his point: You know, we need to be more restrained.<\/p>\n

He cited all the errors he made in the original reporting of the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. He wasn\u2019t the only one. Everybody was wrong. I mean, everything that happened the first three hours of that story was wrong, no matter who you heard it from. He claims that it\u2019s about, well, everybody wants to be first and so we\u2019re not properly restrained when checking sources and so forth.<\/p>\n