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<\/p>\nRUSH: Tim in Salem, Oregon, as we go back to the phones. Great to have you here, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, I would like to know — or have a better understanding — of the Associated Press. I would like to know who controls the Associated Press, and do they have a bias?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: (mock coughing fit) Excuse me. I think the president of the Associated Press is a woman right now. I don\u2019t know her name. But she runs it. They\u2019re graduates from some of the most renowned journalism schools in the country. If you want to know who controls American journalism, I\u2019d have to say Columbia University School of Journalism. I\u2019m being dead serious. That\u2019s who controls it, the Ivy League journalism schools. Maybe the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Throw them in there, too.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s where the farm is. That\u2019s where these little liberal reporters are produced. Now, bias? You know, it\u2019s an interesting question. Are they biased? I don\u2019t know that it\u2019s bias. Clearly they are, but it\u2019s more than that, Tim. They all think alike! They all think alike because they\u2019ve all been trained the same way. They don\u2019t look for “the news.” They look for “the narrative” to construct that will advance their agenda, which is that of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n
Tim, if I were you, I wouldn\u2019t look at them as media anymore. They are “Democrats with bylines.” They are not journalists; they\u2019re not reporters. Their job is no longer to go out and find out what happened and tell everybody about it. That, basically, is what journalism is: What happened that people didn\u2019t see, and you tell \u2019em about. That\u2019s not what\u2019s going on here. (pause) Oh, it\u2019s not a woman anymore.<\/p>\n
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\nIn April 2012, Gary Pruitt took over as the CEO of the Associated Press. It\u2019s a collective, Tim. Think of it as a commune. Think of it as the kids of the sixties have grown up, and they live and work in the same place. Look — a collective, a cooperative — there are any number of ways to describe it. Gary Pruitt also headed McClatchy news. Did you know that? Yeah. Gary Pruitt headed McClatchy news. I used to work for McClatchy.<\/p>\n
Yeah, essentially they are the same guy. It\u2019s like when I grew up. There was a newspaper, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It was actually the St. Louis Globe (chuckles) Republican because it was conservative. It needs to be the New York Times-Democrat, the Boston Globe-Democrat, the Washington Post-Democrat, LA Times-Democrat, USA Today-Democrat. They all need to add “Democrat” to their name.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s a journalist.<\/p>\n He\u2019s teaching journalism.<\/p>\n And his criticisms of me are every cliche that every other liberal has: racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, mean-spirited, extreme, whatever the list is. He just ran right through \u2019em. And Zev eventually asked: Have you ever listened the guy? “No, I don\u2019t have to. I — I — I know what Limbaugh\u2019s all about. All I have to do is read Media Matters. Media Matters will tell me everything I need to know about Limbaugh.”<\/a><\/p>\n By the way, Media Matters? Fox News is reporting this. I don\u2019t know who uncovered this. Media Matters has been working with the Department of Justice. Now, they\u2019re a nonprofit, tax-free organization, and they\u2019re working with the Department of Justice to spin news coming out of DOJ.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Going back to the news archives, Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites.<\/p>\n Oh, by the way, it\u2019s The Daily Caller that uncovered the link between Media Matters for America and the Department of Justice. Daily Caller uncovered the Media Matters-DOJ connection. The Daily Caller has been on Media Matters\u2019 case for some time. Now, Media Matters is George Soros funded, and that is where, by the way… Ah, you know this. That is where members of the media find out what happened on shows like mine.<\/p>\n They don\u2019t listen to this show.<\/p>\n Well, they might turn on the first ten minutes on a day like this, but routinely during the day? Nope. They wait for Media Matters or other “liberal media watchdogs” to shape, misquote, and take out of context things that were said here — and then report that. The Daily Caller has found “internal Justice Department e-mails which show staffers helping Media Matters target news outlets that were reporting on DOJ scandals, including Operation Fast and Furious.”<\/p>\n So DOJ was going to Media Matters for help on getting news out about that and how to slant it and other things. So DOJ, Eric Holder at the Department of Justice, was basically trying to suppress news outlets. Of course, there\u2019s no outrage over that because they\u2019re all in it together. The truth is, DOJ doesn\u2019t have to call Media Matters. They could call Bob Schieffer. They could call Brian Williams. They could call Scott Pelley. Just say, “How do we play this?”<\/p>\n Well, look at the New York Times op-ed babe. The former budget guy for Obama, Peter Orszag, is now occasionally a columnist for the New York Times. He wrote a piece and submitted it, and the op-ed babe sent it up to the White House for approval and correction before they printed it. So I don\u2019t know why they need to use Media Matters. They\u2019ve got direct pipelines to all these news cabals.<\/p>\n Just call the editor of the Washington Post and say, “Look, we\u2019re DOJ and we got a problem with kooks out there trying to make something out of Fast and Furious. So we want to steer this a different direction. How would we do it? How should we publish it in a way that you would print what we say in favorable light?” And I\u2019m sure the Washington Post would tell \u2019em. For crying out loud, folks, we\u2019ve got Jan Crawford and some guy from NPR trying to create a narrative last week on how to make Romney look bad on his statement following the uprisings in the Middle East.<\/p>\n You remember Nina Burleigh?<\/p>\n Does that name ring a bell? Come on, Snerdley! I can\u2019t believe that you have forgotten! Of all journalists, I can\u2019t believe you would have forgotten Nina Burleigh. Nina Burleigh at TIME Magazine once publicly wrote that she would give Clinton a Lewinsky simply thanking him for keeping abortion legal. Anywhere, any time, she would give Clinton a Lewinsky. Well, she\u2019s now a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism.<\/p>\n What did we see the other day? Just yesterday, the day before. There is a math teacher, I think here in Florida, who gave students a pledge form. Maybe it was a junior college or whatever. They had to promise for vote for Obama. A math teacher somewhere here in Florida gave students this pledge, and it was tied to getting a grade or whatever. They found her, and she\u2019s in trouble (ostensibly).<\/p>\n You know, journalism and education, it\u2019s all the Democrat Party. They really aren\u2019t professions anymore. The school teachers in Chicago? Honestly, now, folks. What is the number, 80% do not have eighth grade reading proficiency in the Chicago public schools? And the teachers want a 16% raise or more, and they\u2019re on strike. Whatever\u2019s happening there, it isn\u2019t teaching. Whatever is going on in the schools, it isn\u2019t learning.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not the expansion of the mind. It\u2019s obviously propagandizing going on. How can that be? What is it, 50% of the graduates in Chicago don\u2019t read? The dropout rate in the New York public school system is 50%. These aren\u2019t teachers in these areas. This is not an indictment of all. I\u2019m just telling you: Teaching, journalism, pop culture? These professions are… What\u2019s the word I\u2019m looking for? The word I\u2019m thinking of is “shield.” That\u2019s not what I mean.<\/p>\n They\u2019re a distraction. They\u2019re just Democrats. They\u2019re party activists that hold these jobs. And they are disguised as teachers, they\u2019re disguised as journalists, they\u2019re disguised as entertainment reporters. They\u2019re just Democrats or liberals (one and the same). Here it is: “Professor Sharon Sweet at Brevard Community College allegedly told students to sign a pledge that reads: ‘I pledge to vote for President Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket.'” Sharon Sweet, Brevard Community College.<\/p>\n What is that, Titusville? Is that Space Coast? (interruption) It\u2019s Melbourne. Melbourne area. Melbourne, Fort Pierce. (interruption) Okay. Well, it\u2019s close enough to the Space Coast. To heck with that! Don\u2019t go getting that way on me. It\u2019s still in Florida. What the hell does it matter? You know, I wish you people would hold Obama to the same standards of accuracy that you hold me. And that wasn\u2019t even a mistake.<\/p>\n It\u2019s just that I wasn\u2019t quite sure. I don\u2019t know the counties. I know Palm Beach and that\u2019s it. Well, I know Miami-Dade and (pause) Broward. Yeah, I couldn\u2019t think of it there for a minute. (chuckles) I\u2019m so seldom there. Hee-hee-hee. (interruption) Port St. Lucie? Of course I do. Absolutely! Port St. Lucie, St. Lucie County and Martin County, I go there. (interruption) Well, yeah, because there are golf courses that I play in those counties.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushArmyofone.jpg\")
<\/a>Commune, collective, cookie cutters produced by J-schools. Columbia University J-School, that\u2019s the biggie. You wouldn\u2019t believe it. This guy that wrote the great, great book on me, Zev Chafets<\/a>… I can\u2019t remember if this is in the book. He went to either the dean or some high-ranking prof at the Columbia University J-School, and this guy — a journalism professor, now! This guy is launching on me to Zev, and ultimately admits he\u2019s never even listened to me.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/HolderFastFurious_585.jpg\")
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<\/a>Think of \u2019em as patronage jobs. A teacher job is a patronage job. A journalism job is a patronage job. By the way, all of these people (not the teachers, but the journalists) come from the Ivy League. They\u2019re all farmed by the Ivy League. There\u2019s a network. They all exist there. They go to school and it\u2019s how they get to know each other. They network, they come out, and they all either go to government or to journalism.<\/p>\n