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RUSH: Jeff Zucker, as was expected, looks like he\u2019s gonna get the CNN gig. Now, I\u2019ve often believed that the best resume enhancement you can have as a liberal is to fail. They move you to the top. And they do it for a reason. They will never allow their ideology to be blamed for anything that goes wrong anywhere, in the country, within their party, or anything else. So Jeff Zucker basically — and I don\u2019t know Jeff Zucker, I don\u2019t dislike him, I don\u2019t like him, I don\u2019t know him. All I know is that when he ran NBC Universal, he ran them into the ground. You take a look at what once was the NBC primetime behemoth, and you have to go back to the past to find it. He\u2019s now gonna run CNN. <\/p>\n
I can\u2019t tell you how frustrated I got when I would run into average Republican voters, people not in politics, is what I mean by average voter, just citizens that vote Republican. “We gotta get rid of Palin.” <\/p>\n
“Why?” <\/p>\n
“Well, look what the media\u2019s done to her.” <\/p>\n
“Oh, so you just want to sit there and let the media destroy our people?” <\/p>\n
“Yeah, well, that\u2019s a test for me. If they can\u2019t survive the media, they don\u2019t deserve to be…”<\/p>\n
“Oh, okay, so the media can determine our candidates, is that what you\u2019re telling me?” And they essentially said, yeah. They weren\u2019t willing to even speak up in defense of her because they thought it would make them sound stupid, too, since that\u2019s what everybody thought of Palin, since that was the image that was created for her, that she was stupid, not bright, that anybody defending her would be tarred the same way, and they didn\u2019t want that. So, okay, I\u2019ll throw her overboard. <\/p>\n
I\u2019ve always been in a fight mode when it comes to the media. To not let them define us or determine who our champions are or any of that because their objective is to destroy all the quality people on our side, and to have our people acquiesce to it, I can\u2019t tell you how it bummed me out. Dan Rather, a total career embarrassment with the George Bush National Guard story. What happened? Tom Brokaw and the late Peter Jennings created a brand-new award, some lifetime achievement in plagiarism award or whatever it was, and they gave it to Rather at a big dinner that got all kinds of publicity, after Rather embarrassed himself, because they had to save their industry. And they were willing to do it. They were willing to save the news business, as it exists, they were willing to save Rather to do it.<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t matter if it looked like they were embarrassing themselves, they didn\u2019t care. They were saving liberalism, their ideology, saving their business, the news business, and they were saving Rather. What do we do? We don\u2019t try to save any of ours. Look at the consultants, the Republican consultants who want to throw every conservative media person overboard now. So Jeff Zucker, who did succeed with the Today show, but then they moved him into the presidency of NBC Universal, didn\u2019t go well, and now he\u2019s been hired to fix CNN, which is in the toilet. They protect their failures. They elevate them because they\u2019ll do whatever is necessary to save liberalism or socialism or whatever you want to call it.<\/p>\n
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By the same token, look at Oprah. I have a story here from the New York Times: “Oprah at a Crossroads.” The Oprah is scared. ‘Cause you know what\u2019s happened? The Oprah had her afternoon talk show, and it was thought that The Oprah owned America television. Nobody was close to The Oprah, her ratings, business, revenue, all of that. And then The Oprah decided, what was it, after 25 years that she\u2019s gonna move on, and she retired from the show. She started her own cable network called the OWN network, and you need a magnifying glass — hell, you need a telescope to find it. They\u2019re doing everything they can to save The Oprah. <\/p>\n
“It\u00c2\u2019s not easy to find a fresh way to photograph Oprah Winfrey. That\u00c2\u2019s why the editors of O, The Oprah Magazine, recently tried to create a shot that recalled the glory days of Ms. Winfrey\u00c2\u2019s syndicated talk show. They arranged to photograph her for its April 2013 issue as she stepped onstage to speak to 5,000 attendees at the magazine\u00c2\u2019s annual conference, a New Age slumber party of sorts for women held at the convention center here last month. When Ms. Winfrey confidently strode out dressed in a sea foam green V-neck dress –” Sea foam green. That\u2019s a color I\u2019ve always wanted to see people in “– and a pair of perilously tall ruby red stilettos, the audience collectively leapt to its feet and shrieked at the sight of her. ‘I love you, Oprah,\u2019 some women shouted, while other fans brushed away tears. ‘I love you back,\u2019 she responded in her signature commanding voice.<\/p>\n
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“Ms. Winfrey, who used to receive this kind of applause from fans five days a week, has had fewer such receptions since the talk show she hosted for 25 years ended 18 months ago. The cable network OWN, which she started with Discovery Communications, is emerging from low ratings and management shake-ups. And without a regular presence on daytime network television, she cannot steer traffic to her other products as easily as in the past. Her magazine, in particular, has experienced a decline in advertising revenue and newsstand sales since the talk show finished. ‘She\u00c2\u2019s still Oprah. But she\u00c2\u2019s still struggling,\u2019 said Janice Peck, an associate professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Colorado who wrote the 2008 book ‘The Age of Oprah.\u2019 ‘I think she\u00c2\u2019s scared, even though she\u00c2\u2019s very, very rich and she\u00c2\u2019s always going to be very, very rich. The possibility of failure, it\u00c2\u2019s quite scary.'”<\/p>\n
So this whole New York Times piece is how The Oprah is not doing well in all of her ventures these days. But, because she is a liberal, a liberal woman of color, she is being saved. And she\u2019s being hyped as the most wonderful that\u2019s ever been. Folks, I\u2019m telling you, the OWN network, when I say you need a telescope to find it, I am not exaggerating by much. They\u2019re out doing everything they can to save The Oprah because in saving The Oprah, they save liberalism, and they save the movement and say —<\/p>\n
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What, Snerdley, what\u2019s the question? How come Obama\u2019s not stepping in?<\/p>\n
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