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RUSH: I have a theory about how news becomes news. Have you ever noticed — and stick with me, here. This is a little roundabout way of getting where I want to go.<\/p>\n
I have mentioned to you that there is no news anymore. You turn on “the news;” it\u2019s not what you\u2019re watching. You\u2019re not turning on the news to find out, “Okay, what happened today that I don\u2019t know about?” That\u2019s not what it is anymore, particularly now, at this time of year and at this time of the political cycle. The news today is all agenda oriented. It\u2019s all propaganda, oriented toward reelecting Obama, pure and simple — except for most of Fox. But even on Fox there are those who have that as their agenda. More and more — and I noticed this when the website Media Matters kicked up. When that website first went online, they put together a long list of “charges,” allegations against me with examples of some of the most outrageous stuff I\u2019d ever said.<\/p>\n
Media Matters listens to this program, will take something out of context, and later that night or the next day there\u2019s MSNBC with their version of it. It\u2019s just a pipeline, and it\u2019s the latest example of reporters not reporting, just being lazy. They just consult websites, blogs; and it doesn\u2019t matter how obscure the blog, doesn\u2019t matter how unheard of the blogger is. It doesn\u2019t matter the resume or the experience of the blog. Doesn\u2019t matter. As long as it\u2019s published somewhere, the printed word is all the weight that is needed. Doesn\u2019t matter who prints it, doesn\u2019t matter who writes it. As long as it\u2019s on a website that has a professional-sounding name to it or a logo or whatever, it becomes qualified. Well, the reason I\u2019m mentioning this is because there is an obscure — I don\u2019t even remember the name of it.<\/p>\n
A friend of mine sent it to me today. There is an obscure sports blog or website out there with a story today. I\u2019m gonna make a prediction to you. I never heard of this guy; you haven\u2019t, either. He\u2019s probably somebody who never gets out of his underwear sitting in his bedroom writing about this stuff, but because it\u2019s published and because it\u2019s on the Internet, it has instant credibility — and his point is that Tim Tebow has become “the most polarizing figure in America,” and particularly American sports. Now, what I want to see is how many days is it going to take before that shows up in USA Today\u2019s sports section, or Sports Illustrated, or ESPN\u2019s website, or someplace that people would think is a credible news outlet.<\/p>\n
Now, let\u2019s look at this: Tim Tebow, the most polarizing figure in sports. It is manifestly untrue. There\u2019s nothing polarizing about Tebow. What is “polarizing,” if anything, is the reporting on Tebow. What\u2019s “polarizing” is the media saying — alleging, accusing, whatever — various things about Tebow. “He can\u2019t play! He\u2019s too much oriented to God! His throwing motion is way too long! He can never be a pocket passer,” all of these things. In fact, everything that they said he couldn\u2019t do he did yesterday — and he did it against the league\u2019s number one defense, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Everything they said he couldn\u2019t do, he did. There\u2019s nothing polarizing. Everybody in Denver loves him. Except for some of the Broncos management.<\/p>\n
Where\u2019s the polarizing? I\u2019ve always said, you know, they refer to me as “Rush Limbaugh, the controversial…” What\u2019s controversial? Everybody in this audience loves me. Everybody in this audience agrees with me. Where\u2019s the polarizing? There\u2019s nothing polarizing about Tebow. I don\u2019t even think this little guy, this blogger (I don\u2019t know who he is) who wrote this knows what the word means. What\u2019s “polarizing” about Tebow? Tebow has the whole country pulling for him! He hasn\u2019t split the country down the middle. Tebow\u2019s not inspiring a bunch of hate other than in the media (and places in the Broncos front office, but that\u2019s another story). So let\u2019s just see: How many days does it take before the so-called mainstream sports media picks up this theme — Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow is the most polarizing figure in sports? And then we\u2019ll get a poll: “Is it Tebow or is it LeBron James or is it Derek Jeter” or throw a name out there, whoever.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll just see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: I have a theory about how news becomes news. Have you ever noticed — and stick with me, here. This is a little roundabout way of getting where I want to go. I have mentioned to you that there is no news anymore. You turn on “the news;” it\u2019s not what you\u2019re watching. You\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n