{"id":213666,"date":"2016-05-25T23:21:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T03:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/05\/25\/what_liberals_think_happens_here_isn_t_what_happens_here\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T10:45:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T14:45:26","slug":"what_liberals_think_happens_here_isn_t_what_happens_here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/05\/25\/what_liberals_think_happens_here_isn_t_what_happens_here\/","title":{"rendered":"What Liberals Think Happens Here Isn\u2019t What Happens Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Now, the New York Times: “As Donald Trump Pushes Conspiracy Theories, Right-Wing Media Gets Its Wish,” by Jonathan Martin, formerly of The Politico. “Ever since talk radio, cable news and the Internet emerged in the 1990s –” Sorry, Jonathan. I emerged in the eighties, and everything else came after. Let me just read it as it\u2019s written. “Ever since talk radio, cable news and the Internet emerged in the 1990s as potent political forces on the right, Republicans have used those media to attack their opponents through a now-familiar two-step. Political operatives would secretly place damaging information with friendly outlets like The Drudge Report and Fox News and with radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh –” There are no hosts like Rush Limbaugh. But we continue. “– and then they would work to get the same information absorbed into the mainstream media. Candidates themselves would avoid being seen slinging mud, if possible, so as to avoid coming across as undignified or desperate.” Vast right wing conspiracy again. So it was me and Drudge and Fox News that came across as undignified or desperate and thereby protecting our candidates who didn\u2019t have to do that.<\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t know what Martin is talking about here. “Political operatives would secretly place damaging information with friendly outlets like The Drudge Report and Fox News,” and with me. Ever since I read this I have been — 27 years is a long time to be doing this — and I\u2019ve been trying to think from whom have I taken phone calls from people planting information for me. This just doesn\u2019t happen. I don\u2019t talk to anybody. I really am a hermit. I do not have networking relationships with any of the people.<\/p>\n

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Look, I\u2019ve gotta know a few of them over the years, but — I got a call from Greenspan once about a Mexican blackout. Newt urged him to call me thinking it would help if I knew what was going on. But I don\u2019t get calls from people trying to plant information. I get calls from people wanting to appear to sell their books or what have you, but the left has always thought that this is what happens. That there\u2019s this cabal of operatives out there, and that they would be consorting with people like me and Drudge and Fox News to plant news, we would hype the news and then somehow the Drive-Bys would pick it up and that\u2019s how we got stuff in the mainstream. That is strange as it can be to me. I have no memory — Snerdley, help me out here. Well, okay, okay. That\u2019s right. Okay, good. That\u2019s right. The White House twice sent emissaries down to get my mind right on immigration. But that wasn\u2019t to plant information. They were out saying what they were saying themselves. And I was disputing it. They wanted to get my mind right on it.<\/p>\n

I can tell you this. I have never gotten a call from somebody at a website that I don\u2019t know saying, “Hey, we got a story coming and it\u2019s gonna be really right up your alley!” I have friends who post things– not very many, but I have friends who post things — at websites who tell me… (interruption) Oh, the phony soldiers thing? (interruption) Oh, yeah. There was… In fact, there was a guy in Las Vegas who got hold of John Hinderaker at Power Line, and he said, “I will only tell my story to you and Rush Limbaugh.” His story was that he knew who it was that beat up Harry Reid. He knew why Harry Reid was showing up with black eyes and all this over the holidays one year, a couple years ago. And this guy would not use his real name with us, but he would only talk to us, because he only trusted Hinderaker and me to get the truth out. It was a total setup. The guy tried to tell us it was Dingy Harry\u2019s brother who had beat him up over something, and the guy later admitted he was just running a scam to see if he could get this done, if he could plant false information and we would run with it. And it didn\u2019t happen. As I say, I\u2019ve got friends that post things at websites who will send me what they\u2019ve posted, but they never say, “Hey, would you run this? Would you hype this?” They just keep me informed. I don\u2019t… I\u2019m not part of any networking. I don\u2019t call anybody and ask \u2019em what they\u2019re doing, and they don\u2019t call me. I am an acknowledged hermit on this stuff. My friends are not in this industry that I spend a lot of time talking about here. On purpose. By design. Over the years, I\u2019ve gotten to know some people.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this is one of these things that… It\u2019s another one of these myths that the left has concocted because all of the stories that Jonathan Martin\u2019s talking about here probably are stories that the Drive-Bys would not cover on their own for a reason. You know, not covering a story can be just as biased as how you cover a story. You know, selecting what people hear about and what they don\u2019t hear about, that\u2019s every bit as part of bias as flavoring the story. So the New Media, the alternative media came around. All we did was talk about things that we learned that they ignored. So they had to devise a theory to explain how this happened, and it could have been that we were actually working and digging and finding things. No! It had to be that there were political operatives — partisan political operatives — that were planting false information with us and we were then running with it, forcing it into the mainstream media. And, of course, I\u2019m mentioned in this \u2019cause I am the Mister Big (and always have been the Mister Big) of the vast right wing conspiracy. Anyway, here\u2019s the next paragraph: “Yet by personally broaching topics like Bill Clinton\u2019s marital indiscretions and the conspiracy theories surrounding the suicide of Vincent W. Foster Jr. … Donald J. Trump is again defying the norms of presidential politics and fashioning his own outrageous style — one that has little use for a middleman, let alone usual ideas about dignity…” Whereas, of course, respectable newspapers like the New York Times don\u2019t bother with middlemen. They dream up their own smears against Republicans and they put \u2019em on the front page. Politico does this.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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