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RUSH:  This fake news stuff going on out there.  You know what this fake news stuff is?  Just a distraction.  The fake news is the Drive-By Media!  The fake news was all of the polling going into this election.  The fake news is all of the misreporting on Trump.  The reason why there is any fake news is because the mainstream media has lost its credibility.  Do you realize if there was any news entity out there — call it the mainstream media, call it anything. <\/p>\n

If there was a news entity that had credibility and was trustworthy, then fake news would be spotted immediately, and it would not succeed.  But there is no authority anymore.  The Drive-By Media announced that they were getting rid of objectivity.  They announced that they were going partisan.  They did it on the front page of the New York Times in a piece by Jim Rutenberg<\/a>, and they said they had to abandon the principles of journalism because the possibility of Donald Trump being elected was so outrageous and unacceptable they had to pull out all the stops and do anything they could to defeat him. <\/p>\n

Which meant bye-bye journalism.  Now, I understand that the Drive-Bys have not been practicing real journalism for a long time.  But in the eyes of many, including low-information crowd, they still had credibility.  If the New York Times said it, if CBS, ABC said it, the tendency was to believe it.  That\u2019s gone!  Nobody believes anything they hear anymore.  Nobody trusts anything.  The mainstream media has abandoned the very things which gave it credibility, which provided its authority — its moral authority, everything else.  <\/p>\n

As such, there is not a news industry today that has credibility and authority and believability, and that is why this so-called fake news has sprung up and has become so widespread.  And now the fake news is practiced by the mainstream media.  Hillary Clinton was a purveyor of fake news!  Barack Obama originated fake news when they came up with this theory that it was a video responsible for the terrorist attack in Benghazi, and the Drive-By Media picked it up and ran with it — and everybody knew it was untrue! <\/p>\n

From Obama to Hillary on down, they knew it was untrue but they were trying to make people believe it.  Fake news has always been around.  It\u2019s been called satire.  It\u2019s called parody.  We are among the greatest practitioners of it and have been for the entire history of this program.  But everybody wants to get in the act, and so all kinds of people are trying their hand at it now.  The Drive-Bys can raise holy hell, and they can point fingers of blame, but they had better be looking right at themselves, because they are the reason fake news exists.  <\/line><\/p>\n

They are the reason you can\u2019t tell anymore what\u2019s fake and what isn\u2019t.  But you know what?  Audiences know.  Audiences trust Donald Trump.  You in this audience trust me, and that is something I have always known and never take for granted.  And I make certain that if I engage in what I call parody or satire — and if I do it wrong, and you get the wrong impression — if you\u2019re not laughing at it, if you\u2019re not in the on the joke, then I have to go make it right at some point.  But there\u2019s a lot of news out there. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s no single, industry-wide entity that\u2019s believed anymore.  That\u2019s why fake news.  I mean, how ironic is it?  Grab audio sound bite number one.  Brian Williams.  You remember Brian Williams?  Brian Williams used to be the anchor of the NBC Nightly News until it was found out that he was literally lying and making up stories about the events he had covered and inserting himself in the stories, and telling the audience that he was there when something happened and knew the people involved. <\/p>\n

It was totally exposed as a made-up lie — and NBC, people inside, were actually trying to save him and his job.  He went on an extended leave of absence, and they finally brought him back, and put him on MSNBC in charge of breaking news.  Brian Williams Tuesday night was on his show called The 11th Hour with Brian Williams. Here\u2019s a portion of his report about Trump\u2019s transition team firing the son of national security adviser nominee Mike Flynn for passing on a fake news story on Twitter. <\/p>\n

WILLIAMS:  Another former general in the Trump circle is receiving new attention.  His national adviser designate, Mike Flynn.  Flynn\u2019s son was fired by the Trump transition today for passing on fake news stories via Twitter. But his dad, the retired Army three-star general, has passed on some gems himself.  Here are a few: Clinton is involved with child sex trafficking and as secretly waged war on the Catholic Church — <\/p>\n

RUSH:  Stand by. <\/p>\n

WILLIAMS:  — as well as charges that the president is a jihadi — <\/p>\n

RUSH:  Stand by. <\/p>\n

WILLIAMS:  — who laundered money for Muslim terrorists. <\/p>\n

RUSH:  Listen! <\/p>\n

WILLIAMS:  As we talked about here last night, fake news played a role in this election and continues to find a wide audience. <\/p>\n

RUSH:  Stop the tape!  “Fake news flayed a role in this election and continues to…” For Brian Williams to announce it?  He was fake news!  In fact, he may be the poster child for it.  You know, I\u2019m not comfortable saying this \u2019cause I know the guy.  I\u2019ve met him in the old days when I went over to MSNBC when they were in Fort Lee and I would make the mistake of appearing over there, and I\u2019d run into him in his office. He was as funny as he could be, could do stand-up if he wanted to. But I\u2019m sorry to say, he\u2019s the poster child for fake news. <\/p>\n

And here he is telling everybody that fake news played a role in this election?  Fake news, my a–. Here, you want some fake news?  “MSNBC Host Falsely Accuses Fox News of Holding Christmas Party at Trump\u2019s Washington Hotel — MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle claimed that Fox News had held its Christmas party at President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s recently opened Washington hotel. There\u2019s just one little problem. [Fox News] hasn\u2019t even had its party yet.” Fox News has not had a Christmas party, and it\u2019s not gonna be at Trump\u2019s hotel.  They just make it up, and that\u2019s what MSNBC does.  <\/p>\n

And now Hillary\u2019s out there shooting off her mouth about it as though fake news is why she lost.  <\/line><\/p>\n

She lost because she\u2019s unappealing as a candidate!  <\/p>\n

She lost because she didn\u2019t work hard at it.  <\/p>\n

She lost because she has no idea how to relate to average, ordinary Americans.  She called half the country deplorable, and she\u2019s continuing that characterization by virtue of her behavior in the postelection aftermath.  But I\u2019m gonna tell you this, folks.  It redounds to our benefit.  The more the Democrats remain in denial about why they lost, the deeper in doo-doo they\u2019re gonna be and the harder it\u2019s gonna be for them to extricate themselves.  <\/p>\n

The longer they lie to themselves about why they lost and why they\u2019ve been losing since 2008, the better off for everybody who\u2019s opposed to them.  There\u2019s a great thing happening out there right now, folks.  Low-information voters and people all over the country are finally seeing — they\u2019re not being told — they are seeing, they are witnessing who and what liberals and liberalism is.  <\/p>\n

They are seeing the extremism.  They are witnessing it firsthand.  Nobody\u2019s telling them.  We\u2019ve already done that.  I\u2019ve spent my life here explaining liberalism and defining it to people.  Some believed it, some took it under advisement, some it didn\u2019t matter.  But now this hysteria, this unhinged lunatic behavior, they are demonstrating it to everybody.  And the more they do, the better off everybody is.  <\/p>\n

The more people that understand just how unhinged, unrealistic and divorced from reality liberalism is and how damaging, how hurtful that it is, the better everybody is, better off everybody.  Another point that has to be made here, it\u2019s all happening not because commentators are telling people.  It\u2019s not happening because of so-called arbiters of conservatism who\u2019ve been telling people and warning people for decades about the dangers, it\u2019s not because of that.  It\u2019s not because of me.  It\u2019s not because of anybody.  <\/p>\n

It\u2019s because of liberals themselves in defeat, unhinged, in denial, incapable of accepting the reasons why they lost.  So now they\u2019re out there in this childlike behavior blaming everything and everybody else, and it\u2019s free and clear for everybody to see just who these people are.  And Hillary Clinton and Obama are leading the charge.  <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH:  You want to know what fake news is?  Fake news is “hands up, don\u2019t shoot.”  And that fake news lasted for two years coming out of Ferguson, Missouri.  There was no “hands up, don\u2019t shoot.”  It didn\u2019t happen.  You know more fake news?  “I can\u2019t breathe, I can\u2019t breathe,” Eric Garner in New York supposedly choked by policemen.  He didn\u2019t.  He had a heart attack.  There was no “hands up, don\u2019t shoot.”  Michael Brown was not running away from the cop. He wasn\u2019t surrendering. His hands weren\u2019t up, but everybody was lying about it.  <\/p>\n

You want fake news?  The left owns fake news!  I\u2019m sorry to get so agitated about it here, but I\u2019m about at my wits\u2019 end on this.  The latest batch of fake news is that the Russians are responsible for Hillary\u2019s loss because they wanted Trump to win so they hacked voting machines.  They have down recounts in three states.  Trump is picking up votes in two of the three states.  The entire recount is fraud.  There was never any fraud that could be measured in terms of any hackery.  <\/p>\n

The Russians didn\u2019t have anything to do with it, but the Democrats are telling themselves that\u2019s why they lost, big time fake news.  And CNN has breaking news that Obama has ordered a full review of 2016 election hacking by the Russians.  The news comes from Lisa Monaco who is an adviser to Homeland Security counterterrorism.  <\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s this.  “Republicans Ready to Launch Wide-Ranging Probe of Russia, Despite Trump\u2019s Stance.”  What do you think when you hear that headline?  Well, are you still confused?  Well, don\u2019t be.  Because the headline makes it look like “the Republicans in Washington are going to look into this business of the Russians hacking.”  It isn\u2019t the Republicans.  Lindsey Graham and McCain.  Senator Lindsey Graham said he plans to spearhead legislation to hold a series of investigative hearings, and McCain joined him.  That\u2019s it.  The headline, “Republicans Ready to Launch Wide-Ranging Probe.”  <\/p>\n

So now Obama\u2019s gonna run around (imitating Obama), “You know what?  The Republicans realize it\u2019s a problem too, \u2019cause they have decided to join me in this investigation.”  The Republicans haven\u2019t decided to do anything!  A couple of people that wish Trump weren\u2019t president on the Republican side, McCain and Lindsey Graham, are doing this!  It\u2019s fake news!  The fake news is the everyday news you see on any network you choose to listen to or watch or any newspaper you care to open.  <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:  You want another example of fake news?  I\u2019m gonna… Folks, this is starting to really irritate me because of the lifespan this stuff is getting.  Fake news… When you rip it apart and you strip it down, fake news is actually that which exposes the fraud that is mainstream news today, and that\u2019s really what they are upset about.  Anything that exposes how they are fraudulently reporting and lying to you, they call “fake news.”  They have lost their moral authority.  They\u2019ve lost their source authority.  They have lost their credibility.  <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why any of this is happening, and they know it, and so they are attacking anything other than them as a means of trying to reclaim that authority that they\u2019ve lost.  But remember the “white Hispanic” George Zimmerman and the event that ended in the death of Trayvon Martin.  Remember that?  There was a 911 call.  Zimmerman called 911 after the event, and the EMS people — the operators at 911 — are asking him questions, and they\u2019re asking him to describe Trayvon Martin.  So Zimmerman describes various aspects, and then the people on the 911 end of the call ask, “Is he black? Is he white? Is he…?”  <\/p>\n

And he says, “No, he\u2019s black.”  <\/p>\n

NBC edited that call. They edited the 911 call and omitted Zimmerman being asked to describe Trayvon Martin, and the 911 call that they aired made it look like the first thing Zimmerman said about the guy was that he was black. And that allowed NBC to claim that Zimmerman was a white racist, as a “white Hispanic,” who had killed Trayvon Martin only because he was black.  Fake news par excellence.  Fake news.  It\u2019s no different than when NBC blew up a pickup truck on Dateline NBC to make it look like manufacturers were selling defective vehicles that could blow up on you.  <\/p>\n