{"id":15733,"date":"2012-05-10T16:37:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T16:37:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-05-10T16:37:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T16:37:37","slug":"the_alternate_media_universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/05\/10\/the_alternate_media_universe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alternate Media Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This is gonna be fun. This is the alternate universe. This is where this is the most momentous media appearance since Churchill, perhaps! Last night on CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper 14, he spoke with Republican strategerist Alex Castellanos — Republican strategerist, inside-the-Beltway Republican strategist — and Cooper said, “How do you think Obama\u2019s announcement on gay marriage…? How think it plays out there, Alex?”<\/p>\n

CASTELLANOS: There are some Reagan Democrats out there, some guys with names on their work shirts who, uh, are gonna think the president\u2019s culturally different from them. He\u2019s putting, uh, something on the line there for something he believes he\u2019s come to believe in, and that\u2019s important. More downside than upside politically for the president. You\u2019ve gotta admire him for that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why do we have to admire him? What…? Let me translate what Alex said here. When he says, “There\u2019s some Reagan Democrats, guys with names on their work shirts,” these are union guys. They\u2019re blue-collar people with the name “Bud” over the left pocket, and they\u2019re not gonna dig this. Alex is saying these people, these real men of America ain\u2019t gonna dig this. But Obama, “He\u2019s putting, uh, something on the line there for something he believes he\u2019s come to believe in…”<\/line><\/p>\n

So Alex buys this “evolution” garbage. Alex, says (translated): “Oh, man! He\u2019s finally come to believe it. You know what? We have to applaud Obama for doing something that\u2019s going to hurt him politically.” All right. (clapping) I\u2019m applauding Obama for doing something to hurt himself. (clapping) What a courageous act. (clapping) I told you I\u2019m in a foul humor today. Let\u2019s applaud! What a courageous act. He only got… What did he get, a million dollars in the first 90 minutes? Let\u2019s go back to timeline. It\u2019s one of the reasons I\u2019m cynical about this.<\/p>\n

Look at the timeline here. We know the New York Times has been obsessed for years with promoting the gay agenda, particularly gay marriage. It\u2019s their number one cause, bar none. Gay rights, number one cause, New York Times. Nothing even close. Then out of the blue, a couple of weeks ago the New York Times\u2019 public editor warned Obama (and we told you about it when it happened) that they were going to take a hard look at him. The Times was gonna take a hard look at his record.<\/p>\n

They ran a story saying, “Four years ago we didn\u2019t vet you. We\u2019re gonna vet you now.” We laughed at it, we made fun of it here, but they still published it. They published a warning to Baraka Hussein Obama! Mmm! Mmm! Mmm! that the Times was gonna take a hard look at his record. That\u2019s a couple of weeks ago. Then two days, a couple of days ago, the Washington Post pointed out that 20%, one out of five of Obama\u2019s top bundlers are openly gay — and that they are withholding donations because of Obama\u2019s stance on gay marriage.<\/p>\n

So 20% of Obama\u2019s money was on the sidelines, 20% of the people raising money were on the sidelines just two or three days ago because of Obama\u2019s stance on gay marriage. The Washington Post also reported how one of these bundlers, who is also the head of the most militant gay activist organization, the Human Rights Campaign, buttonholed Biden over his position on gay marriage. And it was that exact conversation that Biden had with the militant gay activist guy, one of Obama\u2019s bundlers…<\/p>\n

It was that conversation that Biden later related to NBC when he said he was comfortable with same-sex marriage. New York Times story two weeks ago: We are going to vet you. Washington Post: 20% of Obama\u2019s bundlers are gay and they\u2019re withholding their money and they\u2019re not raising money. Biden ends up somewhere with one of those bundlers, who is a militant gay leftist activist, and he basically warns Biden that the community isn\u2019t happy. Biden goes on NBC and says, “You know, I\u2019m happy, I\u2019m comfortable now. I think there\u2019s no problem here.”<\/p>\n

But now we\u2019re being told that Biden forced Obama\u2019s hand. Everywhere you look today, that\u2019s the template. That\u2019s the lie. That\u2019s the spin. And they can get away with it because it is something that Biden would do. He\u2019s known as Mr. Gaffe. You remember Biden in St. Louis. There was an elected official, Chuck somebody. Chuck was in a wheelchair. Biden looks at him sitting and says, “Stand up, Chuck! Let\u2019s hear it for Chuck! Stand up. Oh, my God. God bless you, Chuck. Oh, yeah, what a great guy! Chuck can\u2019t stand. Let\u2019s everybody else stand up for Chuck.”<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s entirely understandable that Biden could go on Meet the Press and go rogue, and that\u2019s the story today. (But that\u2019s not what happened.) They say Biden goes rogue, and then the pressure is on and the media starts asking the spokeskid, “Well, what\u2019s Obama\u2019s position?” The spokeskid stumbles around and hems and haws and doesn\u2019t know what to say. And we\u2019re told that Obama\u2019s really, really struggling with this (psssht!) Obama\u2019s really, really been wrestling with this! Oh, he\u2019s just agonizing over this. What Biden did, the whole question!<\/p>\n

<\/a>Not agonizing over the loss of money, not agonizing over the fact the bundlers are sitting on it and not raising any money, not agonizing over the real issues. No. He is agonizing over a position on gay marriage. Oh, it\u2019s so stressful. It\u2019s all that\u2019s on his mind! It\u2019s the only thing he can think about. He\u2019s pressured. He knows he hasn\u2019t had enough guts up \u2019til now. He knows that he has to come to full evolution. That\u2019s the story that was put out. When in fact this whole thing is a script that was written a couple weeks ago that has been, I\u2019d have to say, pretty much flawlessly executed.<\/p>\n

Then Obama puts out this emergency call to ABC: “Send me your toughest journalist. Uh, no, no. Send me Robin Roberts. She\u2019s good friends with Michelle. They trade recipes. We can work with her.” And there\u2019s a story out there that actually says that. They wanted Robin Roberts \u2019cause she\u2019s easy. And, meanwhile, Robin Roberts is taking kudos, “What a get, babe, what a get.” They picked her because she\u2019s easy. Can you imagine? Tom Brokaw, he wouldn\u2019t go. His generation news guys, leftist though they might have been, if he found out that some president picked him because he was easy, he\u2019d send somebody else. So woulda Jennings. Even Dan Rather would have. Certainly Cronkite. But now it\u2019s kudos. What a get, Robin. I have to tell you, great, great, great performance, babe, oh-ho, you really hit a home run there. Kudos all over the place. <\/line>(interruption) Robin? She should enjoy being a celebrity. I mean if you can\u2019t take advantage of your friendship with the first family, what good\u2019s the job? <\/line><\/p>\n

Anyway, so she goes up there and works hard. It takes all of five seconds to get that tough answer out of Obama, in which he doesn\u2019t say anything different, nothing new, and my God, folks, the orgasms that happened last night and today over nothing.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back, by the way, Rush Limbaugh here on the cutting edge, having more fun than human being should be allowed to have. <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t misunderstand me. I really like Robin Roberts. I\u2019ve known her for years. She interviewed me way back in the nineties. She was still at ESPN, and she came into the city, interviewed me after my television show once. And I remember she was genuinely — I mean, she didn\u2019t really know who I was. I mean she had the public image of conservative, so that meant to her racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. She had no idea of my passion for and knowledge of sports, and she was pleasantly surprised. And she\u2019s invited me to be on Good Morning America, Kit could tell you, H.R. could tell you, I don\u2019t know how many times in the last two years. I just don\u2019t accept any of the invitations. But I\u2019ve got nothing against her.<\/p>\n

You know, I live in Realville, and we\u2019re in the middle of this giant spin thing, and there isn\u2019t any journalism anymore. It\u2019s just a bunch of celebrities. Some of them are on the top rung. Some of them are on the next rung, and some of them are on the lower rung and they\u2019re all trying to get to the top rung of the celebrity ladder, not the journalism ladder. Honestly, there are these additional reasons why they chose Robin Roberts. Jake Tapper, ABC, not an enemy network, it\u2019s Robin Roberts\u2019 network. Calls her “woman of the hour.” The Politico says a producer at ABC told them the White House went with Robin Roberts because of her personal rapport, their friendship, past interviews, but also her race and her age. <\/p>\n

So I\u2019m Robin Roberts and the president wants me \u2019cause I\u2019m 51, I\u2019m black, I\u2019m friendly. Basically I\u2019m being summoned to be a foil, to act like a journalist when really what shoulda been done is a press conference. Why bring a journalist into this scam? But she wanted to be part of it, and in her world, in the world of journalism in America today, this was a big coup to be picked by the White House because, what, you\u2019ll be easy? You know, I\u2019ll tell you something else. One of the strongest demographics opposing same-sex marriage is black women. There\u2019s a bunch of strategery here in picking Robin Roberts. Here, we could squeeze this in. George Stephanopoulos says to her: “When the president speaks out for the first time like that, Robin, like he did with you, why, Robin, you were there, it\u2019s history.”<\/p>\n

ROBERTS: And let me tell you, George, I\u2019m getting chills again, because when you\u2019re sitting in that room and you hear him say those historic words, it was not lost on anyone that was in the room like that.<\/line><\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS: And you didn\u2019t know going in.<\/p>\n

ROBERTS: No.<\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS: You knew he was gonna address this, but you didn\u2019t know exactly what he was gonna say? <\/p>\n

ROBERTS: You never know what —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Come on.<\/p>\n

ROBERTS: — he\u2019s actually gonna say until you ask him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Give us a break. Didn\u2019t know why you were summoned? This is why you guys are losing. You want us to believe you didn\u2019t know why you were summoned, what the subject was? You didn\u2019t know he was going to say nothing new about gay marriage? <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have Cookie tracking down this little sound bite blurb. I\u2019ll read to you again here quickly. We\u2019ll throw it in with the rest of the excerpts, the outtakes from this hard-hitting, wide-ranging, tough-to-get interview Robin Roberts had with Barack Obama yesterday, but he said… She\u2019s asking him about Biden, and Obama said: Well, Joe did get “out a little bit, uh, over his skis,” meaning: Yeah, Joe\u2019s off the reservation. He\u2019s out there cavorting with Elizabeth Warren, and he forgot where he was for a minute.<\/p>\n

This is what Obama said to Robin Roberts: “I had already made a decision that we were probably going to take this position before the election, before the convention,” meaning that same-sex marriage should take place. That\u2019s all he said yesterday, by the way. I can\u2019t emphasize that enough. All you people writing checks<\/a>, you might want to call the bank. Well, I\u2019m just trying to help. All he did was say that the states have sway over this. Nothing has really changed. You people writing checks to Obama, you ought to read the New York Times lead editorial today.<\/line><\/p>\n

They know.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not happy with what happened yesterday.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Obama says, “I had already made a decision. We were gonna probably take this position before the election, before the convention.” Well, now, wait a minute. I thought he was “evolving.” I thought he was in the White House sitting in a room there evolving. They painted this picture of Obama deep in thought, struggling — a mental struggle! “Should I or should I not come out for gay marriage? Should I or should I not?” For days. For days on end! Finally, he consulted with his two daughters. (What they know about it, I don\u2019t know.) He consulted with Moochelle. (What she knows about it, I don\u2019t know.)<\/p>\n

But whatever they told him…<\/p>\n

This is the story he tells Robin Roberts yesterday, and it went over her head or through her head or whatever. The whole point of the interview yesterday was to make this big announcement. He\u2019s telling her, “Yeah, we\u2019d made up our minds we were gonna announce this at some point.” You know, the real thing you people writing checks to Obama today should ask? You should have one big question: “Where the hell were you, pal, before North Carolina? If you\u2019d already made up your mind you were gonna say this, why not say it before North Carolina and maybe try to impact the outcome there, instead of giving up and letting that state reaffirm its ban on gay marriage?”<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just trying to help. All of you writing the checks had better really ask yourselves what you expect to get and what you have gotten in this regard, on this issue. Because today from yesterday, there\u2019s no change, other than a bunch of media people saying history has been made. If this is how you make history, I never knew it was so easy. A president comes out and says something… We\u2019ve got, by the way, the Obama timeline. Politico has actually categorized and has links here of all Obama\u2019s flip-flops, Obama\u2019s positions on gay marriage.<\/p>\n

In 1996, Obama was for it. He was not an elected official. He was reading Saul Alinsky or studying Saul Alinsky or whatever. He was agitating. In 1998, he announced he was undecided on gay marriage. And there\u2019s a link to it here. Just don\u2019t doubt me. This is all Politico stuff here. In 2004, quote, “I am not a supporter of gay marriage.” Why was this statement yesterday even necessary? Because all of his public statements leading up to yesterday were that he was opposed to it.<\/p>\n

So he had to come out.<\/p>\n

He was “evolving,” you see.<\/p>\n

So in 1996, he\u2019s for it. In 1998, he\u2019s undecided. In 2004, he\u2019s not a supporter of gay marriage. In 2006, “he was reminded to remain open to the possibility that his unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided.” He was “reminded to remain open to the possibility that his unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided” in 2006. In 2008, he said, “Marriage is a sacred union between a man and a woman.” That\u2019s April of 2008. In November 2008, “he said he was ‘not in favor of gay marriage.'” “In 2009, he was for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act.”<\/p>\n

And by the way, he made a statement yesterday about DOMA, and he mispronounced it. I don\u2019t know if he did this on purpose. He called it “the Defense Against Marriage Act.” He did. He called it the Defense Against Marriage Act yesterday. It could have just been a Freudian slip. In 2009, “Obama was for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act.” In 2008, “He was not in favor of it.” And in 2010 he “admitted to an ‘evolving\u2019 attitude toward same-sex marriage.” The point is he\u2019s been all over the board on this issue.<\/p>\n

See how easy people get played?<\/p>\n

See how easy the media narrative or template is to create and have everybody follow?<\/p>\n

All these people writing checks today do not know that he\u2019s been all over the ballpark on this. And for the most part, in 2006, he said he was for it. He\u2019s nothing but a John Kerry. “I was before it before I was against it.” Here\u2019s the bite. It\u2019s on Good Morning America today. He wants to have it both ways. This is the question: “Vice President Biden\u2019s revelation he was absolutely comfortable with same-sex marriage. Did he jump the gun a little bit there, Mr. President?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: (haltingly) I had already made a decision that we were gonna probably take this position before the, uhh — before the election, and before the convention. Uh, he probably got out a little bit, uh, over his skis. Uhhh, but out of generosity of spirit.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If I had been conducting the interview and if I had my wits about me… A lot of people interviewing the president, sometimes they\u2019re in awe and they get dazzled. Let\u2019s admit it. People are people and the president\u2019s the president. The Office of the Presidency is the Office of the Presidency. They\u2019re in there in the Oval Orifice, and you know what\u2019s gone on in there, and you\u2019re walking the grounds and the cameras are there and so forth. So you are there. You\u2019re there. You have been summoned as the preferred journalista.<\/p>\n

You have been summoned because you\u2019re a friend of the family. You\u2019re black, you\u2019re 51… This is Politico. I\u2019m not saying this. Politico is quoting an ABC producer as to why the White House wanted Robin Roberts. She\u2019s 51, she\u2019s black, and she\u2019s a friend of the family. So it would not be a challenging interview. So you know you\u2019re there. You\u2019re there and history is going to be made! (Gasp!) For the first time ever, the president of these United States is gonna say he\u2019s in favor of gay marriage. But he hadn\u2019t said it. That\u2019s why you\u2019re there.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the biiiig announcement.<\/p>\n

And then the president says, “Yeah, I\u2019d already made a decision about this a while ago. I don\u2019t know when. It could have been the day before, two weeks ago, whatever, but I already made a decision that we were gonna take this position before the election, before the convention.” Now, stop and think of those words: “take this position.” So he told Robin Roberts, “Yeah, you\u2019re here for me to announce gay marriage, but, you know what? I decided it already. I just haven\u2019t told the public yet. You\u2019re here to help me spin this.”<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t say that to her. He didn\u2019t say, “Yeah, I\u2019ve evolved! I\u2019ve really thought about it, and it\u2019s in my heart, Robin. I think we\u2019ve been discriminating against these people for way too long. It is time. I\u2019m gonna do everything I can to see to it that all these restrictions on gay marriage are lifted and gay people get married. It\u2019s a matter of federal law!” He didn\u2019t do that. He didn\u2019t do that at all. He said, “Yeah, we decided that we\u2019re probably going to take this position.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a calculation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a pure calculation.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Stephanopoulos. Let\u2019s keep going with the sound bites because these are funny. This is Stephanopoulos, Diane Sawyer on World News Tonight last night. Diane Sawyer said, “[Recycliiiiiiiiiing!] We heard what the president told Robin. How about it? Did the Vice President really freelance on this? It wasn\u2019t really a plan?” History was made, George! How about it? Did the vice president really freelance on this, though? It wasn\u2019t really a plan, George? It wasn\u2019t really a plan? George, you would know. I know you work here, but you ran Democrat campaigns, so you would know. Did Biden really freelance or was it part of a plan?<\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS: (snidely) Oh, this was NOT a plan! There\u2019s no way this was a plan. If… This is a matter of core conviction the president said today, and, uh, duh, um, a key issue where his — his thinking has evolved. You wouldn\u2019t send someone else out to make that decision. But I do think what it did is show how the president\u2019s position had been untenable, that you couldn\u2019t seem to be evolving through an election campaign where this is gonna come up at the convention —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve heard enough. None of this matters. Obama just said in the interview, “We\u2019d already decided to take this position before the election.” George, I know I\u2019m not the only one that hears these things. No, it couldn\u2019t have been a plan. There was no way, Diane, no way this was a plan. You just heard Obama say, “We had already decided to take the position before the election, before the convention.” George, was your birth control question to Mitt Romney back on January 7, was that a plan? Or did that just happen? Stephanopoulos asked Romney, (paraphrasing) “Do you think states should ban conception?” Romney said, “What? I thought you were gonna ask me about my high school pranks. You\u2019re asking me about contraception? Nobody\u2019s talking about contraception.” “Well, I am, and I want to know. Because there\u2019s a plan here to trip you people up on it.” Okay. So it couldn\u2019t have been a plan, folks, it couldn\u2019t. Stephanopoulos, no way, Obama said on their own air they\u2019d already decided to take the position. The next bite yesterday afternoon, CNN newsroom. This is a montage of the infobabe Brooke Baldwin reporting about Obama\u2019s pronouncement about gay marriage.<\/p>\n

BALDWIN: Breaking news here. The president is now speaking up. His evolution has finished when it comes to equal rights and marriage. Breaking news. President Obama supports full equality when it comes to marriage. Breaking historic news now. We\u2019re hearing that the president officially finished his evolution. Stunning news today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you believe this?<\/p>\n

BALDWIN: President Obama making a historic statement here today with respect to same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He finished his evolution. What does that look like? Let me tell you something. So Obama says, “Well, in the White House, I\u2019m still evolving.” Okay, so the news media, okay, he\u2019s evolving, evolution. It\u2019s reported that way. So the White House sends up the pink smoke coming out of the chimney there in the White House. The media gets the message, “He\u2019s finished evolving. We\u2019ve got a position.” It\u2019s like a butterfly now. “We have a position! Oh, hallelujah! Say what it is!” Flip Wilson\u2019s church of What\u2019s Happening Now. We\u2019ve got a decision, breaking news, the president has officially finished his evolution. What a bunch… I can\u2019t be the only one. Do you realize the trained seal you have to be to report that, to put it on the prompter that way for an anchorette to read? Let\u2019s keep going. Shep Smith, Shepard Smith over at Fox News yesterday afternoon, Studio B, Shepard Smith, during a discussion about Obama\u2019s completed evolution on gay marriage.<\/p>\n