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RUSH: The EIB Network made HBO\u2019s show The Newsroom last night. Yeah, yeah, we made it. And I know why we made it. Sorkin puts me in there so that I\u2019ll play clips from the stupid show, and then promote the stupid show and so forth. I know how it works. That\u2019s what they all do. All these networks mention me hoping and praying that I will play sound bites of them mentioning me, which will then incite curiosity for the network at large. People then tune in to listen. (interruption) Oh, yeah, they disparaged me, said a couple things that aren\u2019t true. <\/p>\n
I\u2019ve got two DVRs, but I made a mistake and I set three to record two programs at one time. I set it up to record three shows at ten o\u2019clock last night. One is this new Sigourney Weaver “I\u2019m Hillary Clinton” show on the USA Network called Political Animals, and then Breaking Bad, the season premiere at ten o\u2019clock. And then this The Newsroom thing airs on HBO. So at about 9:58 the TV says, “Uh-oh, you got a conflict here. You got two programs slated to record here at ten o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n
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You watch this show and you hate everybody in it. (chuckles) But it\u2019s one of the best shows on TV. Joel Surnow told me about it. I had never heard of the show. Joel Surnow told me about it. In the middle of the second or third season of the show, he said, “You ever watch Breaking Bad?” I said, “No, I never heard of it.” He said, “It\u2019s the best show on TV.” I said, “How is it the best show on TV if I\u2019ve never heard of it?” “It\u2019s the best show on TV.” So I got the DVDs, watched the first couple episodes of the season, and said, “This is horrible.”<\/p>\n
It\u2019s about a high school chemistry professor who gets cancer. He\u2019s diagnosed with terminal cancer. He doesn\u2019t have any money so he gets together… I\u2019m really shortening this. He gets together with one of his reprobate high school students who runs a meth lab, and together they create the greatest crystal meth in the southwestern United States, including Mexico. This guy\u2019s brother-in-law is a DEA agent, and now we\u2019re in season five, and the DEA agent is no closer to knowing his brother-in-law is the new Scarface kingpin.<\/p>\n
The show has chronicled this guy starting out as the meekest, anybody-can-walk-all-over-him chemistry professor, to now he\u2019s the biggest crime lord in the country. It\u2019s fascinating. And his reprobate partner is some high school ne\u2019er-do-well punk kid. They\u2019re all hateful characters. They\u2019re all hateful. Even this guy\u2019s wife is hateful. They\u2019re all hateful, even the kid! Everybody in it. It\u2019s the first show I ever watched where nobody is likable, which is unique. Most shows have at least one or two lovable characters to identify with.<\/p>\n
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BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
Now, back to The Newsroom. I have become product placement. Essentially, ladies and gentlemen, I am the new product placement. Product placement is the stuff that movies stick on their sets like a bottle of Coke or an iPhone or whatever, for which the movie companies charge an exorbitant fee… product placement… except I, El Rushbo, am not being paid, even though I\u2019m product placement, because fair usage. Now, let me tell you what The Newsroom is. The Newsroom is a fake television news network, every ten o\u2019clock on Sunday night on HBO. And the technique, it\u2019s Aaron Sorkin, who wrote The West Wing, which many liberals thought was the actual White House when Martin Sheen was president. They fantasized about it. <\/p>\n
The technique of this show is to live in the past. For example, the opening episode dealt with the BP oil spill and how the news networks should have covered it and how they shoulda zeroed in on BP and how they shoulda destroyed that company and how they should not have let \u2019em up to breathe. So what Sorkin is doing is going back to news events that have already happened and writing a television show about this fictitious news network and how it should have been covered if the news was being done the right way at the time. So on last night\u2019s episode, we have a portion here. This is the anchor, Will McAvoy, played by the actor Jeff Daniels, and they\u2019re doing a report on media coverage of Obama\u2019s trip to India in 2010. Sound bite 26 first. Here we go.<\/p>\n
DANIELS: Radio host Rush Limbaugh has repeatedly warned his listeners to go out and buy guns before President Obama outlaws them all.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, stop the tape. I shoulda asked somebody to go to the archives before the program started. I don\u2019t remember ever doing this. Now, I know there were people who were doing this. I didn\u2019t tell people to go buy guns before Obama outlaws them all. I don\u2019t think I did that. But, see, I\u2019m Xerox. I am talk radio. I am product placement. Recue that thing to the top. I mean, it\u2019s gonna be hard to prove a negative here, but we\u2019re gonna search the archives. I\u2019m gonna find out if I actually was the one urging people to go out and buy guns before Obama outlawed \u2019em all. I remember people doing it. I remember talking about it, reporting it. It\u2019s not something that would ever occur to me. I am more careful than that. But, see, it doesn\u2019t matter. I still get blamed for it. Here\u2019s the bite now in its totality.<\/p>\n
DANIELS: Radio Host Rush Limbaugh has repeatedly warned his listeners to go out and buy guns before President Obama outlaws them all. The result? In November 2008, the month Mr. Obama was elected, there was a 42% spike in gun background checks as compared to the same month the year before. In spite of Governor Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the Director of the NRA telling us emphatically that Barack Obama has a secret plan to get our guns, here is the president\u2019s report card. Background checks? F. Gun trafficking? F. These grades would indicate that President Obama is the best friend the NRA has ever had in elected office, to say nothing of the Oval Office. Why are Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the head of the NRA so colossally lying to you? I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
RUSH: This is a news show. This fictitious newsroom is an HBO show. And as I say, they\u2019re going back, they\u2019re taking events in the past and re-covering them on the show as Aaron Sorkin thinks that the news networks back then should have. I wonder if Aaron Sorkin has ever heard of Fast and Furious. I wonder if Aaron Sorkin has ever heard of the story that Obama and Eric Holder did everything they could to get AK-47s into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels for the express purpose of ginning up anti-Second Amendment fervor among the American people. <\/p>\n
I wonder if Aaron Sorkin is aware of the fact that the Justice Department will not release documents that would tell us the truth of the program. So not only does he report that I\u2019m out there telling everybody to go buy guns before Obama outlaws them. Now he\u2019s saying that Obama\u2019s the best friend the NRA ever had. It\u2019s an absolute crock. Snerdley is sending me a little note here, it says, “Thanks for the clip. You\u2019ve just insured I\u2019ll never watch or pay any attention to The Newsroom.” Well that\u2019s only the first bite. The actor, Jeff Daniels, as the anchor Will McAvoy, continued.<\/p>\n
DANIELS: On November 2nd of last year the website for New Delhi TV quoted an anonymous official of the Maharashtra government saying that President Obama\u2019s trip would be costing $200 million a day. The Drudge Report posted a link to the story believing it to be possible, or not caring that it isn\u2019t. Rush Limbaugh knows this figure can\u2019t possibly be right. But Mr. Limbaugh runs with it anyway.<\/p>\n
RUSH ARCHIVE: 507 rooms at the Taj Mahal, 40 airplanes, $200 million a day this nation will spend on Obama\u2019s trip to India.<\/p>\n
DANIELS: I think people who willfully, purposefully and gleefully lie to the American people in order to damage someone\u2019s reputation should, like a registered sex offender, be required by law to come with that warning label for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n