{"id":14842,"date":"2012-08-14T18:16:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T18:16:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-08-14T18:16:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T18:16:11","slug":"why_nobody_watches_cnn_soledad_o_brien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/08\/14\/why_nobody_watches_cnn_soledad_o_brien\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Nobody Watches CNN: Soledad O\u2019Brien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: It wasn\u2019t just Debbie &#8220;Blabbermouth&#8221; Schultz who got in trouble on CNN. It was also Soledad O\u2019Brien, twice in two days. Last night, Soledad O\u2019Brien (substituting for Anderson Cooper) was interviewing Barbara Comstock. She\u2019s a well-known Republican consultant and strategerist, consultant and so forth. She\u2019s a good conservative and all that. She\u2019s now an elected official in the Virginia House of Delegates.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/soledad-cheat-sheet.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And all during the questioning of Barbara Comstock, Soledad O\u2019Brien was consulting pieces of paper. Eagle-eyed viewers did a start\/stop, expanded, zoomed in, and found out that she was actually questioning Barbara Comstock with talking points from a blog called The Talking Points Memo &#8212; a well-known, left-wing blog. She was reading &#8220;The Myth of Paul Ryan the Bipartisan Leader,&#8221; from that blog. She never cited it. She just used its contents.<\/p>\n<p>She claimed to be reading a direct statement from Ron Wyden\u2019s office. Ron Wyden is out there trying to distance himself from Ryan. He was the co-sponsor of <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14846\">Ryan\u2019s<\/a> budget, including the Medicare reforms. But now he\u2019s out there under orders from the Democrats to distance himself from it and to say he never signed on to this. No, he never did. So Soledad O\u2019Brien was giving it up that there was no journalism going on. She doesn\u2019t even know what she\u2019s talking about. She\u2019s got blog posts and questions being posed for her by these blogs.<\/p>\n<p>When she talks to a Democrat, she has no pieces of paper. She needs no guidance, no assistance, no help whatever. Then today, this morning on her own show, she had Sununu on. And they were talking about <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14847\">Medicare <\/a>and Obama. She said to Sununu, &#8220;You know, I understand that this is a Republican talking point because I\u2019ve heard it repeated over and over again. But these numbers have been debunked, as you know&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" width=\"585\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/115921\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SUNUNU: I have Congressional Budget Office report right here.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019BRIEN: (snickering)<\/p>\n<p>SUNUNU: It\u2019s reduced revenue.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019BRIEN: I can tell you what it says!<\/p>\n<p>SUNUNU: Yes, it cuts a reduction in the expected rate of growth, which you know.<\/p>\n<p>SUNUNU: No, ma\u2019am!<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_65933\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/SoledadObamaBumperSticker2.jpg\"\/><BR\/>O\u2019BRIEN: Not cutting budgets to the elderly. Benefits will be improved.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>SUNUNU: He gutted it.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019BRIEN: The focus is on hospitals. The focus is on health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>SUNUNU: He gutted the program by $711 billion &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019BRIEN: (scoffs)<\/p>\n<p>SUNUNU: &#8212; and the fact is he reduces services.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019BRIEN: The expected rate of growth is being cut!<\/p>\n<p>SUNUNU: Soledad, stop this! All you\u2019re doing is mimicking the stuff that comes out of the White House and gets repeated on the Democratic blog boards out there.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019BRIEN: (snorts) I\u2019m telling you what FactCheck.com (sic) tells you.<\/p>\n<p>SUNUNU: If you\u2019re going to mouth what comes out of the White House, put &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019BRIEN: I\u2019m gonna&#8230; I\u2019m telling you what CBO tells you.<\/p>\n<p>SUNUNU: Put &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019BRIEN: I\u2019m telling you what &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>SUNUNU: Put &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019BRIEN: &#8212; CNN\u2019s independent analysis does.<\/p>\n<p>SUNUNU: I\u2019ve got the CBO report right here!<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019BRIEN: And I\u2019m telling you what it says.<\/p>\n<p>SUNUNU: Put an &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019BRIEN: I\u2019ve read it several times.<\/p>\n<p>SUNUNU: Put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead when you do this.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/SoledadObamaBumperSticker.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8220;Put an Obama sticker on your forehead when you do this.&#8221; She\u2019s been nailed twice. This is another reason their ratings are in the tank. CNN, if you want to know why nobody\u2019s watching, here it is. You want the names? Candy Crowley. Soledad O\u2019Brien. What makes you think that people want to watch them? You want to make the claim that you guys are objectively in the middle? Soledad O\u2019Brien\u2019s doing McCarthyism, Charlie McCarthyism. She is a puppet. She\u2019s mouthing for somebody. She doesn\u2019t know what to ask unless she goes to a liberal blog for guidance. She has to print it out and use it on the air, and she\u2019s one of their &#8220;stars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Of course, Sununu was dead right and Soledad O\u2019Brien had no clue what she was talking about, because she was reading from a biased, bloated blog. The Congressional Budget Office, July 24th of this year, just a month ago: &#8220;Obamacare Includes $741 Billion in Cuts to Medicare.&#8221; That\u2019s the Congressional Budget Office, and that\u2019s what Sununu had and was reading to her. She was clueless. Talking Points Blog did not say that, so it couldn\u2019t be true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: It wasn\u2019t just Debbie &#8220;Blabbermouth&#8221; Schultz who got in trouble on CNN. It was also Soledad O\u2019Brien, twice in two days. Last night, Soledad O\u2019Brien (substituting for Anderson Cooper) was interviewing Barbara Comstock. She\u2019s a well-known Republican consultant and strategerist, consultant and so forth. She\u2019s a good conservative and all that. 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