{"id":13229,"date":"2013-02-13T19:32:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:32:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-13T19:32:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:32:34","slug":"compliant_media_is_key_to_obama_strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/13\/compliant_media_is_key_to_obama_strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Compliant Media is Key to Obama Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Have you seen the number of people that go on food stamps every day? There are 11,629 new food stamp recipients every day in this country. That\u2019s right, and President Obama is trying to fix that. President Obama is appalled by that! It\u2019s the Republicans who don\u2019t care enough to have people eating properly, and President Obama\u2019s appalled by that number and doing everything he can to fix it.<\/p>\n

(This is how this works.)<\/p>\n

Now, remember, none of this would be possible without a complicit media. None of it could\u2019ve happened. I mentioned that dictators are perceived by their people as great saviors, great revolutionaries. They are never blamed for the circumstances under which people live. Mao. Fidel. One of them is Stalin. Now, what did Stalin do? (interruption) Well, yeah, he staved his own people, but how did he do it?<\/p>\n

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He sent the farmers either to the gulag or to the grave. There was no means of production. It wasn\u2019t that there was a shortage of food. It\u2019s that there was no means to produce it! He literally found ways to get rid of the all the farmers. (interruption) Of course! That\u2019s my whole point! He had a compliant press. You had a guy in the New York Times named Walter Duranty, who won a Pulitzer Prize for talking about the great humanity of Stalin in trying to save his people.<\/p>\n

But it was Stalin killing the farmers, the kulaks — or tulaks, whatever they were. I\u2019m having a mental block on their name, but he either put \u2019em in jail or killed them. They went to the grave. There was no means of farming! There was nobody to produce food. People died by the millions. Big famine. Walter Duranty of the New York Times received awards for writing stories about the great humanity of Josef Stalin, and all Stalin was doing was punishing the rich.<\/p>\n

He killed off everybody — farmers, businessmen — to punish the rich, and Walter Duranty of the New York Times wrote a glowing series about it. (They were the kulaks. That\u2019s what the farmers were called.) He wrote a glowing series of stories about it and won big time awards. None of this is possible without a complicit media. It\u2019s why optics are all that really matter to Obama. It doesn\u2019t even matter what he says or does so much if he can create and maintain the proper optics.<\/p>\n

The proper optic is the perception that Obama\u2019s fighting for us against the rich and the selfish. Here we are into the fifth year, and Obama\u2019s not president. He\u2019s a revolutionary. He\u2019s a crusader. He\u2019s fighting powerful forces that don\u2019t care about global warming, that don\u2019t want illegals to become citizens, that don\u2019t want people to be treated humanely. “They\u2019re not worried about global warming. They\u2019re not concerned about gun violence.”<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s not the president. I mean, he is but he\u2019s not governing. He\u2019s fighting these powerful forces! He\u2019s not responsible for anything. This is why you can have a story in the New York Times today that polls show dissatisfaction with country\u2019s direction, but massive support for Obama\u2019s agenda. There\u2019s no relationship, as far as a majority of people who vote in this country are concerned. Obama\u2019s agenda has nothing to do with the country\u2019s direction. Obama\u2019s agenda\u2019s about trying to stop it.<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s agenda is trying to create jobs. Obama\u2019s agenda trying to stop this bad economy. Obama\u2019s agenda is trying to fix the climate. Obama\u2019s agenda is trying to stop gun violence. Obama\u2019s agenda is that he cares about all of you — and after eight years of an Obama presidency, if he pulls this off, he will not have governed one day! The purpose of the perpetual campaign now is the 2014 midterm elections.<\/p>\n

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He wants the Democrats to win the House, therefore ending all this talk of bipartisanship. He doesn\u2019t want bipartisanship. He doesn\u2019t want compromise. Yet he talked about it last night, and the people in the focus groups say they love hearing about this working together. They want people to work together and like to hear Obama talk about it. They support it. The last thing Obama wants to do is work together, because there\u2019s no area in which the Republican belief system allows him compromise.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not one aspect of what we believe that he can accept.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no compromise possible, and there will not be. When Boehner gave Obama everything he wanted in one of these debt-limit deals, Obama raised the stakes and walked away. He could not risk having a deal, because agreeing to a deal would mean sharing responsibility for what comes next, and there will not be any of that. Above all else, there will be no responsibility borne about Barack Obama for current circumstances in this country. He is all about fighting them.<\/p>\n

I now know, by the way, what John Boehner meant when he said that Obama doesn\u2019t have the guts to stand by what he believes. When I heard Boehner say that, I liked it because it was, I think, properly… Eh, I\u2019ll say “confrontational.” I think it probably was, but I didn\u2019t quite understand. Now I do. Now that I have had this intellectual revelation, I understand exactly what he meant maybe more than Boehner himself understands. I understand exactly what he was saying.<\/p>\n

He said that Obama doesn\u2019t have the guts to stand up to his own party. It\u2019s actually a little different than that, because I know what you\u2019re asking. I know what you\u2019re shouting at the radio. “Okay, Rush! Okay. We finally understand it, but how do you oppose it? What do we say?” Well, the first thing that comes to mind (and probably, therefore, is not the best thing to do) is… Look, folks, it\u2019s unquestionably true. Obama doesn\u2019t have the guts to put his name to anything here.<\/p>\n

Obama doesn\u2019t have the guts, the courage to have his name tied to current policies, to current aspects of the country\u2019s direction. He doesn\u2019t dare want his name associated with anything that\u2019s happening in jobs or immigration. He\u2019s president, but he doesn\u2019t want the responsibility that comes with it. He\u2019s asking to be exempted from any responsibility of governing, and the media is granting it to him. He is essentially saying, “Look, I want to be president, but I don\u2019t want to be.<\/p>\n

“I want to hold the office, but I don\u2019t want any of the responsibilities that come with it. I don\u2019t want to ever be perceived as being responsible for things that aren\u2019t going right. I only want to be seen as a great savior to fix these things.” As such, you can say he\u2019s either a brilliant political tactician or he doesn\u2019t have the courage to be president. (interruption) Why are you frowning? How can you possibly disagree with that intellectually?<\/p>\n

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He doesn\u2019t want to be president! He wants the office. He doesn\u2019t want any of the responsibilities. He wants the perks. He wants all the fun that goes with it. He loves the compliant media. He loves the perpetual campaign. He also loves not being held accountable. As an Alinskyite, he is that smart. It\u2019s all there. It\u2019s all in Rules for Radicals. It\u2019s all about how you stir up the pot. It\u2019s all about how you totally create revolution and end up having others blamed for it!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s about how to make yourself seen as the great equalizer, the great force for good, the problem solver, while you are creating the chaos. In fact, folks, it is why the more chaos, the better if you\u2019re not held accountable for it. I think we can all agree, the media isn\u2019t holding Obama accountable. There\u2019s nobody holding Obama accountable for anything happening in this country. There\u2019s nobody holding him accountable for anything that happens as a result of his presidency.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s either all George Bush\u2019s fault or it\u2019s the Republicans\u2019 fault or Fox News or me. It\u2019s not him. So I understand what Boehner meant when he said that Obama didn\u2019t have the courage to stand up to his own party. Matt Lauer, by the way, asked Boehner about that. Matt Lauer was incensed that Boehner questioned Obama\u2019s guts. This was today on the Today show. Matt Lauer said, “When you say that he doesn\u2019t have the guts to stand up to his own party, Mr. Speaker, couldn\u2019t you face the same accusation from the Democrats?”<\/p>\n

BOEHNER: Listen, I\u2019ve had my troubles with my own party. There\u2019s no question about it. But it was never about the courage, uh, to step up and do the right thing for the country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, and he\u2019s claiming Obama doesn\u2019t have the courage to attach his name to whatever it is he\u2019s trying to do to the country. Look, this recovery that we\u2019re in, this economic recovery? This is worse than Bush\u2019s recession. This “recovery” that we\u2019re in is worse than Bush\u2019s recession, and this “recovery” that we\u2019re in has lasted far longer than Bush\u2019s recession. Who is holding him accountable for that?<\/p>\n

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Absolutely nobody! This man has been the architect of an economic recovery that is so bad, it\u2019s worse than a recession. To this day, after four years-plus and counting in office, he is still not held accountable by the people the Constitution grants the power and the authority to do so: The media, the press. That\u2019s freedom of the press. Oh, they\u2019ll go out there and they\u2019ll challenge the LAPD every damn day, and they\u2019ll challenge me or Fox News.<\/p>\n

The media will go out there and they won\u2019t believe a thing Marco Rubio says or George Bush says. They won\u2019t accept anything the public information officer from the San Bernardino Sheriff\u2019s Office says. But whatever Obama says is gospel. They don\u2019t question one thing. They don\u2019t hold him accountable for one thing. Nothing that has happened has anything to do with him. There\u2019s been not one question, “Mr. President, your stimulus. Do you think it might have exacerbated the debt problem and the resulting loss of jobs?”<\/p>\n

Not even a question for Obama to deny!<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, folks, one other thing necessary to pull something like this off, in addition to a compliant and slavish media, I mean, you couldn\u2019t do one of these operations overnight. In order for Obama to pull this off, he needs a compliant media, but he also needs a majority of Americans believing that members of the opposition party are racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes, and mean-spirited extremists who don\u2019t care about people. <\/p>\n

When you have the Democrat Party and the media who have been pounding those cliches for as long as I\u2019ve been alive, certainly since Barry Goldwater, since 1960, \u201964, \u201965, without any effective rebuttal to it other than eight years of Ronaldus Magnus, then it\u2019s much easier to pull this kind of thing off. If you\u2019re going to blame this imaginary bogeyman or bogeymen, these imaginary people, these mysterious, invisible, powerful forces opposing you at every turn as you try to do good things filled with justice and fairness, you can\u2019t pull that off without a compliant media and a public that has been propagandized into believing certain things about that opposition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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