{"id":12652,"date":"2013-04-18T16:37:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T16:37:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-04-18T16:37:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T16:37:23","slug":"somebody_fed_the_media_bad_information_yesterday_but_i_should_have_known_better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/04\/18\/somebody_fed_the_media_bad_information_yesterday_but_i_should_have_known_better\/","title":{"rendered":"Somebody Fed the Media Bad Information Yesterday, But I Should Have Known Better"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I finished yesterday\u2019s program<\/a>, and I can\u2019t tell you how embarrassed I was. I realized that I didn\u2019t originate any of the news yesterday. I simply repeated what I heard everywhere else in the Drive-By Media. And I know better. Yesterday we heard dark-skinned. We heard light-skinned. We heard a male-looking female. We had a gay-looking transgender. I mean, every possibility was thrown out, in terms of the suspect. We were told there are pictures. We were told there\u2019s video. We were told about a Saudi national who had been questioned and released. There\u2019s more stuff being pumped out today about the Saudi national. <\/p>\n

At any rate, I know better. Every day I sit here and I chronicle for you — this is not a matter of opinion — every day I chronicle for you the bias, the lack of professionalism, the agenda, the preferences of everybody in the mainstream. A day like yesterday comes along and they report something, and I just repeat it as though it\u2019s gospel. I know better. Whatever they say isn\u2019t gospel. Whatever they say is agenda-oriented. Whatever they report and whatever their objective is, it isn\u2019t news anymore. <\/line><\/p>\n

I got to thinking about this last night. There really isn\u2019t any news. I\u2019ve said this before. People call the media. But it\u2019s not news gathering. It\u2019s not really the media. For example, yesterday I said that the two big things being pushed were immigration and gun control, and they rotate and they alternate. One day it\u2019s one, the next day it\u2019s the next. You look at polling data on both of those issues. Gun control, 4% of the American people support the president\u2019s idea of gun control. Ninety-six percent don\u2019t. And yet, if you look at television news every day, it is the most important issue going, you would think that that\u2019s all anybody cares about. <\/p>\n

Now, to the extent that people care about, it\u2019s stopping it, preventing it, and pretty much the same thing on immigration. Four percent of the American people support the whatever number of illegals here being granted citizenship. Four percent support, 96% don\u2019t. So you could say that while the media is out pushing both of those stories, as though they\u2019re the only thing that matter to people when in fact what matters to people is what they\u2019re not covering: jobs, the economy, debt, what\u2019s happening to the country, in a general sense. That doesn\u2019t get covered. And what does get covered is whatever the Democrats want to happen every day. That\u2019s what gets covered. <\/line><\/p>\n

I think everything has to be looked at through that prism. I know this each and every day, but yesterday I got caught up in it. It\u2019s hard not to. It\u2019s hard not to, because it smothers us. The media\u2019s everywhere and smothers us. The point is, we don\u2019t know about the Boston bomber, or if they do, they\u2019re not telling us. You know, where we are now, there are so many different — there\u2019s a vacuum. People want to know who, people want to know why. There hasn\u2019t been an official answer. So all kinds of things are out there now filling that vacuum, some of them wacko, some of them sound very sensible and believable, but we don\u2019t know. And they didn\u2019t know yesterday. And yet I repeated what they were saying as though I worked for them, or worked there, and I of course don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard all the things that you\u2019ve heard. I\u2019ve heard about the Saudi national. I\u2019ve heard about him being deported. I\u2019ve heard about him being a prime suspect. I\u2019ve heard about the cover. I\u2019ve heard all that. I don\u2019t know whether that\u2019s true. I\u2019ve heard the New York Post is running a picture of two suspects. It turns out that those two guys are on a high school track team. Now, I don\u2019t have the picture in front of me. I don\u2019t remember what they\u2019re wearing, but they\u2019re two young guys. They look like Middle Eastern guys, but they\u2019re high school track team guys, one\u2019s a coach. They\u2019re in a picture of possible suspects.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m being sent a note. “Rush, don\u2019t apologize. You were simply passing on media reports yesterday to show their agenda was affecting their reports.” I know that. I know that. But I still passed it on. I don\u2019t think I did a good enough job. (interruption)<\/p>\n

No. No, no. No, no. I\u2019m not supposed to ignore it. No, no, no, no, no, no. I\u2019m not supposed to ignore it. But I don\u2019t know. I think I could have done a better job. I\u2019m not saying it wasn\u2019t a good job. Obviously I do a good job by breathing, but I think I coulda done a better job of explaining. For example, poor old John King. Let\u2019s look at John King at CNN for just a second. John King and Fran Townsend are out there, and John King\u2019s (muttering), “They got the guy out there, and it\u2019s very sensitive.<\/p>\n

<\/a>“We have to be very, very careful! It\u2019s a dark-skinned guy. I can\u2019t say anymore, Wolf! I can\u2019t!” Now, somebody told him that. I know that John King and CNN are part of the pro-Obama, pro-Democrat Party agenda, but somebody told him that. He didn\u2019t just make it up out of thin air. Somebody that he believes, somebody that he counts on as a source, told him that — and then, after telling him that, they pull it back. And after telling Fran Townsend what they told her, they pull it back.<\/p>\n

And then after all the media\u2019s out there reporting all these different things, then what happened? The Feds start bleating about irresponsibility. It\u2019s the local authorities that were telling all these media people what they were working on, what they had found, what their suspicions were. After everybody had reported all that, it\u2019s the Feds who then tell everybody, “Hey, you know, you guys? None of this is happening. There hasn\u2019t been an arrest.” I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on, but you guys had better pull it back.<\/p>\n