{"id":12926,"date":"2013-03-19T17:27:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:27:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-19T17:27:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:27:01","slug":"dr_carson_s_theory_on_the_media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/19\/dr_carson_s_theory_on_the_media\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Carson\u2019s Theory on the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/48473\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Dr. Benjamin Carson has taken the world by storm. Dr. Benjamin Carson from Johns Hopkins University took CPAC by storm. He was on Hannity last night. Anytime he speaks, he just dominates. Everybody loves Dr. Carson, and the reason they love Dr. Carson is he is able to articulate and explain conservatism in a way that is persuasive without raising his voice at all. He sounds like your dad talking to you &#8212; or not your dad, your best buddy talking to you at the table, or in a bar, or whatever the most-nonthreatening place you can be is.<\/p>\n<p>You know, people throw out the idea of him running for office, and he\u2019s not discouraging that. He said, &#8220;Well, you know, I am gonna retire in 130 days, two hours, five minutes, and four seconds. So who knows?&#8221; I think Dr. Benjamin Carson has probably got everybody in the Democrat Party scared to death. It\u2019s gonna be really hard to demonize this guy &#8212; really, really hard &#8212; partially because of his race, but not just because he\u2019s African-American.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/120468\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s because you can call this guy all kinds of demonic names; he just doesn\u2019t fit the bill. You can say he\u2019s all these horrible things; then you hear him, see him, and listen to him, and it doesn\u2019t click. He saves children. He saves children with his hands. He saves their little brains. He saves lit-tle children! He\u2019s a ped-i-a-tric neu-ro-sur-geon. He saves the children, and he probably doesn\u2019t exude the signs of overt wealth. There\u2019s not a character in the TV series The Bible that looks like him.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, this is funny. Don\u2019t tell me that this outreach to the low-information clowns isn\u2019t working. Grab sound bite number ten. Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy Fallon, NBC last night. It goes by pretty fast, but here it is. It\u2019s audio sound bites number ten.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_74236\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fallon_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>FALLON: The guy who plays Satan on The Bible looks like President Obama. Even Rush Limbaugh was outraged. He was like, &#8220;How can you do that to Satan?&#8221;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>AUDIENCE: (laughter)<\/p>\n<p>FALLON: You know he thought about it. You know he thought about it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8220;How can you do that to Satan?&#8221; (laughing) See, we can laugh at ourselves here. Jimmy Fallon. So, anyway, Dr. Carson said something interesting. He was on with Hannity again last night, and he said, &#8220;If ever the mainstream media reaches a point where they recognize that, if we destroy this nation\u2019s economy, they too will be destroyed, I think at that point they\u2019re gonna start asking the tough questions and helping to move the population in the right direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Carson did something fascinating in his CPAC speech. He said, &#8220;I\u2019m gonna put myself in the Oval Office for a second here, and let\u2019s pretend. What would I do if I wanted to destroy this nation?&#8221; (interruption) Well, I\u2019ve said it. But, see, he\u2019s insulated. He\u2019s come outta nowhere, for one thing. I mean, in terms of the mainstream. He\u2019s always been doing what he\u2019s doing, and he\u2019s always had an audience for what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s shown up at the prayer breakfasts, for example. People know who he is. But <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13259\">he broke out this year at the prayer breakfast <\/a>because he took it right to Obama, although nobody even thought that\u2019s what he was doing (which is my point). He basically, in a figurative sense here, just slapped Obama upside the head at the National Prayer Breakfast, but nobody saw it that way. All he said was, &#8220;On health care, you know what I would do?&#8221; and he offers a prescription that\u2019s the exact opposite of what Obama is doing.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody took it as an insult to Obama. Everybody took it solely within the universe of Ben Carson. So he did the same thing at CPAC. &#8220;Let\u2019s pretend I\u2019m in the White House. If I wanted to destroy this nation, what would I do?&#8221; and he proceeded to list everything Obama has done. His point was, as not very many others have said, that this nation is being purposely destroyed. Now, I\u2019ve said it. I said it on Fox News Sunday. I\u2019ve said it any number of places. I\u2019ll be honest with you about this: I have not gotten any reaction to that at all.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ffxk_yEuoL4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, Snerdley, you back me up on this. Chris Wallace came down here and I did a Fox News Sunday interview. I went through the economic policy, I went through all the stuff, and I said to him, &#8220;Chris, I think it\u2019s being done on purpose.&#8221; He responded, &#8220;Aw, Rush, Rush. &#8221; I said, &#8220;No, I mean it.&#8221; He said, &#8220;Are you for real?&#8221; I said, &#8220;I really do. I think it\u2019s being done on purpose.&#8221; That hasn\u2019t been criticized. I mean, for all the things I get criticized for saying and for the way I say it, nobody\u2019s touched that one.<\/p>\n<p>I would think that would be made to order to characterize me as some wacko nutcase fruitcake that\u2019s not worthy of being listened to. &#8220;Ha-ha! This guy thinks Obama is doing this on purpose!&#8221; Now, they criticize me for a bunch of other things, don\u2019t misunderstand, but that one hasn\u2019t been touched &#8212; and Carson hasn\u2019t, either. When Ben Carson did his CPAC routine and essentially illustrated&#8230; Not accused. This is a key point: He illustrated how Obama is destroying the country.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody said to him, &#8220;How dare you accuse a sitting president of trying to destroy the country!&#8221; Nobody has said that, and I found it fascinating. He\u2019s done it here again in this little clip, this little statement he made with Hannity last night talking about the media. If ever the mainstream media reaches a point where they recognize that if we destroy this nation and destroy the economy, they, too, will be destroyed&#8230; So, once again, he\u2019s making no bones about what he thinks is happening.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hNvIfCZWCtQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not by quirk of fate that this stuff is happening; it is by design. He clearly believes that Obama\u2019s policies are designed to destroy the country as founded. There\u2019s always gonna be a country, don\u2019t misunderstand, but destroy it as founded. Nobody\u2019s calling him on that. Nobody\u2019s saying, &#8220;That\u2019s really, really below your dignity. That\u2019s beneath your dignity, doctor, to accuse a sitting president of destroying the country.&#8221; Nobody\u2019s saying that.  I find it fascinating. <\/p>\n<p>But what about the other point he\u2019s making here?  That the mainstream media will come around once they realize, too, that Obama is doing what he\u2019s doing?  &#8216;Cause what he\u2019s saying here is, right now the media doesn\u2019t get it.  Right now it\u2019s his opinion.  The media really doesn\u2019t see yet what\u2019s going on.  They don\u2019t see the economy being destroyed right in front of their eyes.  And when they do, that\u2019s when they are going to change because that\u2019s when they realize they will be destroyed, economically as individuals.  They\u2019ll start asking the tough questions and helping to move the population in the right direction.  That\u2019s what he predicted last night. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_74239\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushCarsononFOx.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Now, Snerdley,\u2019s in there shaking his head, &#8220;No, it\u2019s never gonna happen.&#8221;  I\u2019ve mentioned this to a lot of other people, &#8220;Nah, never gonna happen. The media is never going to turn on Obama, no matter what.&#8221;  I myself attach myself to that theory.  I don\u2019t think they\u2019re gonna turn.  I think some sort of event is gonna happen that\u2019ll make the country turn.  It\u2019s not gonna be the media that turns the country.  I don\u2019t think that\u2019s gonna happen.  I don\u2019t mean a hurricane kind of event. I\u2019m not talking about a natural disaster.  I\u2019m talking about a political event inconceivable right now.  But something like the Cyprus business. If Obama were to ever just, &#8220;You know what, I\u2019m taking 10% of your bank account.&#8221; Something like that, folks.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Okay.  I was gonna conclude with the Ben Carson thing and his belief the media will eventually see the light once they realize that they are being destroyed, too, economically. That they will do a 180 and start asking tough questions and help move the population of the country in the right direction.  Most everybody I know disagrees with that. They think the media\u2019s in the tank for Obama forever, for a host of reasons, and it\u2019s logical to think that.  The mainstream media is already going down the tubes, and they don\u2019t seem to mind.  They\u2019re losing advertising dollars. They\u2019re losing subscribers in their dead tree edition, the newspapers.  They can\u2019t figure out how to monetize the Internet, so they\u2019re giving away the product there, for the most part. <\/p>\n<p>Other than banner ads they don\u2019t know how to make any money from it.  They\u2019re losing viewers on the Nightly News.  The New York Times is way, way down.  So this economic disaster is in place for the mainstream media.  But most reporters are not management and as such they don\u2019t care.  Most reporters and editors resent management and think they ought to be exempt from bottom-line concerns anyway because it\u2019s a badge of honor.  The news business, the news division should lose money.  As a matter of course it should lose money so we can show that we\u2019re not motivated by evil corporatist profit.  We only care about the objectivity of our presentation and all that rotgut. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Dr. Benjamin Carson has taken the world by storm. 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