{"id":13029,"date":"2013-03-06T17:47:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T17:47:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-06T17:47:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T17:47:38","slug":"republicans_allow_themselves_to_be_imprisoned_by_media_lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/06\/republicans_allow_themselves_to_be_imprisoned_by_media_lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Allow Themselves to be Imprisoned by Media Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: I sit here and I think it would be the easiest thing in the world today to be a Republican. I think this is one of the easiest things to oppose. This would be one of the easiest presidents to identify. But there doesn\u2019t seem to be any desire on the part of any Republican anywhere to do it. Instead, they\u2019re sitting around wringing their hands over why they lost the election, and they\u2019re all focusing on the wrong things. And they\u2019re all prisoners to the daily media narrative.<\/p>\n

This is a fascinating piece here about Twitter. The Pew Research Center did a year-long study. They wanted to find out who\u2019s there. They wanted to find out who\u2019s using Twitter, who\u2019s really spending time there. Who are these people? And the reason they did is because more and more, if you pay attention to normal, everyday Drive-By Media stuff, you see them report what they see said by somebody on Twitter. They report trends on Twitter, and it is done to create an impression of where the country is, because Twitter is thought to be made up of just average Americans tweeting their thoughts, anonymously, yeah, but still we\u2019re getting an idea of where the country is. <\/p>\n

So the Pew people were curious about it because Twitter is used by national reporters to gauge immediate public opinion of news events like the sequester, like Obama\u2019s election, like the state of the economy. And it turns out, according to Pew, that a majority of the people who tweet are young Democrats who are there executing a political strategy. A majority of the people who tweet are young Democrats having been given marching orders from somewhere, and this gives Twitter the appearance of being unbalanced. It gives the impression that the makeup of the country and that the country\u2019s national attitude is identical to that of the Democrat Party and of Obama<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Reaction on Twitter is much more negative than what public polls find out. Take the reception to Obama\u2019s reelection, as an example. The Pew people said that polling found 52% of the public was happy and 45% unhappy with Obama\u2019s reelection. On Twitter, nearly 88% were happy. So the universe that is Twitter has been corrupted, so to speak. It is an outfit that has been taken over by young political activists who are there to create an impression of public opinion that doesn\u2019t really exist. The short version of this would be to say that the Democrats\u2019 astroturf army has taken over Twitter. They\u2019ve taken over Facebook. They\u2019ve taken over the social media and they\u2019re doing this to create the illusion that the vast majority of the country is them. That the vast majority of the country agrees with them, and it\u2019s not the case. <\/p>\n

But it doesn\u2019t matter if you don\u2019t know this, if you\u2019re not aware of this. You\u2019re Republican, for example, you\u2019re exposed to this, and you think, “My gosh, I mean, nobody agrees with me. My gosh, I\u2019m in the tiniest minority. My God, I gotta find some way to make these people like me, so I better not criticize Obama, and I better not criticize any of Obama\u2019s policies and I better moderate in my view on illegal immigration.” It\u2019s all being done to manipulate public opinion, which, give \u2019em credit, they\u2019ve succeeded. They are successfully manipulating public opinion. They are eliminating all opposition to Obama, and the thing is the Obama team telegraphed that this is what they were gonna do all the way back in the 2007, 2008 campaign. <\/p>\n

Twitter, for example. It\u2019s huge in Washington. Reporters are all over it. They\u2019re constantly tweeting. Even the sports media tweets left and right. They have created the impression, if you think Twitter is America, that therefore America is totally comfortable with all of this that\u2019s happening in Washington. On Twitter, the public and the country are totally satisfied with everything that\u2019s going on. And to the extent that they\u2019re not, they don\u2019t blame Obama for it. They don\u2019t blame his policies at all.<\/p>\n

Nah. It\u2019s those mean, extremist Republicans!<\/p>\n

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But then Pew found something. They found that Washington\u2019s actually a rarity. In the nation\u2019s capital itself, most people don\u2019t use Twitter. Just 13% of adults say they ever use Twitter or read Twitter. But that\u2019s not the point. Nationwide, the illusion has been created that Twitter is simply a microcosm of America, and it\u2019s been exposed here by the Pew people that it isn\u2019t. This is probably the case with much of social media, which is how their activists attempt to succeed.<\/p>\n

You see, it boils down to an unarguable truth: The left, or the Democrat Party, cannot survive in the arena of ideas. Their ideas are still opposed by a majority of people in the country. The way they succeed is through intimidation. They scare people into not opposing them. They scare people and corrupt things into making people believe that a majority of people do agree with them. But they never debate ideas. All they do is set out to destroy the character and the reputations of people who oppose them.<\/p>\n

In my case, none of these people who rip me or criticize me ever say I\u2019m wrong about anything. They just characterize me as some mean-spirited, extremist you-know-what. It\u2019s the same with everybody else that they oppose. They never ever want to get into a debate on ideas. They just have to mischaracterize. Look what they did to Romney. “Romney doesn\u2019t mind when guy\u2019s wife dies with cancer! Romney doesn\u2019t like his dog.<\/p>\n

“He puts his dog on the roof of his car! Romney is a mean-spirited guy. He got all of his money in the Caymans. He doesn\u2019t care about the war,” and it worked because Romney never responded to it because Romney said, like everybody else, “Nobody\u2019s gonna believe this.” But they did, and they believe it because it never ends. These people are pummeled with it day in and day out, and that\u2019s why the perpetual Obama campaign.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: As I said yesterday, folks: In all seriousness… I\u2019m not trying to be funny. You know, over the years, I\u2019ve seen all the criticism: I lie just to advance my cause. I lie. I get things wrong on purpose to cover up embarrassing things on what is supposedly my side. Now, what am I doing here? I\u2019m doing a radio show, and I have several reasons for doing this program. I\u2019ve got the business reasons, I\u2019ve got the programming, and I\u2019ve got the country as a reason. I just want there to be… I\u2019ve always believed in the idea… Maybe it\u2019s Pollyannaish anymore.<\/p>\n

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But I\u2019ve always believed that the most effective way to have a functioning, thriving, great country is to have as many educated, informed, confident, happy citizens pursuing excellence as possible. So all I have ever sought to do is inform people. It doesn\u2019t benefit me to lie to people. It does not benefit me to fill people\u2019s heads with a bunch of things which aren\u2019t true. They\u2019re eventually going to find out, and then where am I? If it\u2019s ever thought that I am purposely lying just to advance something…?<\/p>\n

What good is the cause if it can only be propped up by lies? It isn\u2019t any good. That\u2019s the problem with liberalism and socialism. It has to be propped up by lies. It has to be propped up with optics and false images and perceptions. I\u2019m not into that. I want all this to be genuine. I may make mistakes, I may get something wrong, but it\u2019s never on purpose, and I certainly don\u2019t lie to anybody about anything. It doesn\u2019t as you need my purpose here at all.<\/p>\n

It would be very harmful, in fact. I\u2019m not here to use you for anything. I look at the opportunity to do the show every day as just that: An opportunity to affect the kind of things I think are good. What\u2019s wrong with an informed, educated bunch of people? A growing group of people who are informed, educated, and want to learn more — happy, content, eager to spread their own happiness and contentment to other people? That, to me, is the objective here. See, it doesn\u2019t help me at all to have anything here built on untruths.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not that way with the left.<\/p>\n

For example, this Twitter business. My source for this is Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner. But there\u2019s a quote here from the Pew Research Center, which actually did exhaustive work for a year to find out who\u2019s on it, who\u2019s using it. Pew, by the way, is no conservative bunch, as you well know. “Twitter users are not representative of the public.” That\u2019s not me saying it. It\u2019s not Paul Bedard saying it. It\u2019s not the Washington Examiner. That is from the Pew report.<\/line><\/p>\n

“Twitter users are not representative of the public. Most notably, Twitter users are considerably younger than the general public and more likely to be Democrats or lean toward the Democratic Party.” It\u2019s simply Obama\u2019s action army which has overpopulated the thing, and in the process they\u2019ve corrupted it. It\u2019s those people that are into presenting false impressions, optics, to make you think one thing is true when it isn\u2019t. It is they who are lying to you and trying to fool you about things, and they succeed.<\/p>\n

They have, of course, the willing accomplices in the mainstream media spreading it around, and that\u2019s the point. The media quotes Twitter. The media quotes all kinds of tweets, because the media is treating Twitter as simply a microcosm of America. Now we know that it isn\u2019t. So just keep that in mind the next time you\u2019re watching the news or reading something and some reporter tells you what he just saw on Twitter or a trend that\u2019s on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Understand that there\u2019s a good chance it\u2019s totally manufactured for your consumption. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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