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RUSH: I\u2019m gonna make a prediction to you. You\u2019re gonna think this is really wrong and totally erroneous and late and everything else. But it wasn\u2019t that long ago — and don\u2019t doubt me on this — it wasn\u2019t that long ago where, in the case of the mainstream media, they really did not want the anchors and reporters to become news. <\/p>\n

They really didn\u2019t want them to ever become part of the story or to be the story. Today that\u2019s out the window. They all love it now. It\u2019s a major change. And my prediction to you is they\u2019re gonna come to rue the day where they allowed that to happen. It\u2019s just a gut instinct feel. I can\u2019t predict something solid. I can\u2019t tell you, “And here\u2019s what\u2019s gonna happen as a result of –” although they already are losing respect. I\u2019ll tell you what it is. Illustration. I\u2019ve always believed, because I\u2019m a profound advocate of the Constitution. The Constitution granting a role to the media is very, very important and serious. None of this was a game to the founders. The founding of this country, the writing of the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, none of it, the Revolutionary War, none of it was a game. It was dead serious. <\/p>\n

They were about the creation and the maintenance, creating and maintaining forever a country governed by the Constitution. And I think when the lines blur and when the media becomes no different, when the media becomes part of the establishment, when the media is the story and when the management of media likes their journalist becoming part of the story, it actually creates a breakdown in credibility, moral authority, believability, and similar related things. It\u2019s always bothered me, and I\u2019m not proficient, I\u2019m really not good at explaining this. I\u2019ve tried explaining it any number of ways. <\/p>\n

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You remember, there was an incident in the World Series where Dusty Baker, his son or grandson was a ball boy, bat boy, ran out onto the field and nearly got killed, and he had no business being there. He was too young, and a player in the game had to forget what he was doing and scoop up the manager\u2019s five-year-old, four-year-old son away from home plate to make sure the kid wasn\u2019t killed in a play at the plate. And everybody, “Oh, this is so wonderful, look how cute.” And I said, “This is not wonderful. Kid shouldn\u2019t have been there.” The baseball field is a stage, and you don\u2019t let rank amateurs on the stage. There\u2019s a reason people are in the audience and the performers are on the stage, and you don\u2019t mix the two. The audience is always the audience. <\/p>\n

And once those two things mingle and mix, then the arrangement\u2019s blown to smithereens, and this is what\u2019s happening in not just the media, but in almost every walk of life, where all these reality shows exist because so many average people just desire fame and fortune and define their whole happiness by having fame, which is a corrupting influence. I\u2019m getting far away from the point that I really want to make with this. The bottom line here is that the media has become the story. In the old days, Cronkite becoming part of the story would have been a profound embarrassment and they would have done everything they could, CBS would have, to get him out of the story. There was a definite line of demarcation. The media was never the story. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now the media is the story, and people from the media end up going to government. It\u2019s a revolving door back and forth to the point now that there\u2019s no distinction between the two. The media is no longer the media, particularly the Washington media. They\u2019re just a branch of the Democrat Party in government. It\u2019s had a corrupting influence, and it\u2019s not good, and it\u2019s created this low-information phenomenon. Because they\u2019re advocates. And they\u2019re advocates of a party and position that requires people not knowing very much but voting all the time, dumbing down kids in the education system so they really don\u2019t know the roots and the history of this country. They don\u2019t know how great a place that they inhabit. They don\u2019t know what their citizenship responsibilities are to maintain this country. The subject isn\u2019t even broached. In fact, that kind of thing is laughed at and made fun of. It\u2019s kind of square to look at the country in that way.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not good. It\u2019s attacking all the traditions and institutions that have defined this country\u2019s greatness, it\u2019s blurring them and it\u2019s subtracting what was special about things. Everything\u2019s becoming average, nothing\u2019s remarkable, nothing\u2019s noteworthy, nothing that used to really be important and matter is, and now stuff that is inconsequential and is worth a laugh or two at best becomes life-alteringly important. And the real important stuff has been so watered down, so diluted and untaught that it has led to people investing in totally inconsequential things as substance, in their lives, in the country itself, country\u2019s future. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s led to incredible phenomena you and I have to really stop and think to understand, such this phenomenon that 55 to 60% of the American people oppose everything Obama\u2019s doing and reelect him because they don\u2019t associate what he\u2019s doing, his policies, with what\u2019s happening in the country. How is that possible? How in the world is that possible? Well, the explanation is because he doesn\u2019t own it. He\u2019s constantly campaigning. He\u2019s constantly running against all these problems. Yeah, I understand he\u2019s created that impression, but how uninformed and detached do you have to be for that to work on you, is my point.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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