{"id":216587,"date":"2017-01-10T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=216587"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T21:26:31","slug":"a-viewer-fed-up-with-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/10\/a-viewer-fed-up-with-fox-news\/","title":{"rendered":"A Viewer Fed Up with Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here is Joe in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania. Great to have you, Joe.\u00a0 How you doing, sir?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Hi, Rush.\u00a0 They told me to get right to it.\u00a0 Fox News.\u00a0 My wife and I have been loyal viewers, but it\u2019s getting harder and harder to watch it.\u00a0 Megyn Kelly, never watched her after that debate question, even Bret Baier a couple weeks before the election referred to Donald Trump\u2019s sexual assaults and Bill Clinton\u2019s affairs.\u00a0 If I didn\u2019t love my TV so much, I\u2019d have put my shoe through it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 What kind of TV do you have out there, Joe?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 It\u2019s a Samsung smart 55-inch.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 You should have thrown a shoe through it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Just kidding!\u00a0 Samsung makes good TVs.\u00a0 I\u2019m just kidding. I have a couple of them here that were bought for me.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 The anti-Trumpers, you know, the Stirewalts, the Goldbergs, the Steve Hayes, I felt like the entire preelection I was being insulted.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Well, now, wait a minute.\u00a0 Those guys work at Fox, they\u2019re analysts, they\u2019re Fox contributors.\u00a0 This may be a thin line of differentiation, but they all work elsewhere.\u00a0 Hayes is the Weekly Standard.\u00a0 Goldberg at National Review.\u00a0 Now, Stirewalt works there, you\u2019re right, Chris Stirewalt.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 He\u2019s their digital guy.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Are you happy, for example, then, that there have been some staff changes over there?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Oh, I love Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 You like Tucker?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Oh, yeah, he\u2019s great.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Okay, well, then.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Megyn Kelly, you know, no loss there.\u00a0 George Will.\u00a0 I gotta be careful what I say on the air.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Are you thinking of going profane on us here?<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/59PVlHcGUpw\" width=\"650\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nCALLER:\u00a0 Yeah, I could get real profane with some of those people.\u00a0 I quit watching O\u2019Reilly, for instance, like a year ago.\u00a0 I listen to you every day, and what he comes up with is three, four days old.\u00a0 It\u2019s like he\u2019s phoning it in.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Oh, jeez.\u00a0 You know, this is tough for me.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Well, you know \u2019em all.\u00a0 I understand.\u00a0 Chris Wallace.\u00a0 Look at the people he has on, on Sundays.\u00a0 (Unintelligible) The week before last, gave her the lead-off and let her jump all over Karl Rove, who didn\u2019t say a word.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if you\u2019re gonna ask me what I thought about all this, but if you were, you forgot and now we\u2019re out of time.\u00a0 I\u2019m really sorry.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad you called, though.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Oh, man, is the email going crazy out there.\u00a0 &#8220;Why won\u2019t you talk about Fox? Why won\u2019t you mention Fox? Why won\u2019t you answer the guy\u2019s question about Fox?&#8221; He didn\u2019t ask me anything about Fox.\u00a0 The call ended before he got there.\u00a0 Nah, I\u2019ve gotta address this. &#8230; You know this Fox News stuff and the personnel changes going on over there, I almost feel like Sessions needing to recuse myself. \u00a0I look at that and say, &#8220;Okay, what could I possibly&#8230;? What is there to gain by getting into this?&#8221; &#8216;Cause I do know a slew of people there.\u00a0 I know people that used to work there.\u00a0 I have inside knowledge of what goes on in some areas there.<\/p>\n<p>And to opine on it is just very, very tough. I\u2019ll tell you what, folks. It\u2019s one of the reasons why I have not made an effort to get to know personally all these people in Washington or anywhere else that I might end up talking about, \u2019cause once you get to know them, it does change.\u00a0 That\u2019s one of the problems with all the incestuousness inside the Beltway, anyway. They all know each other, media and otherwise, and believe me: It makes it more difficult.\u00a0 Not just be critical, but to be honest.\u00a0 Because there\u2019s always fallout, personal fallout.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RushFoxNews.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-216668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RushFoxNews.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RushFoxNews.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RushFoxNews-300x103.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s different when it\u2019s professional fallout.\u00a0 I\u2019m like everybody else.\u00a0 I have opinions on things that are going on not just there, but anywhere else in the media.\u00a0 And it\u2019s just&#8230; (interruption) No, I\u2019m not afraid. That\u2019s not&#8230; What makes you think I\u2019m afraid? It\u2019s not afraid of anything.\u00a0 It is&#8230; (sigh) &#8220;Afraid&#8221; is not the word.\u00a0 It\u2019s just&#8230; I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I\u2019ll think about it.\u00a0 The best I can come up with is that I\u2019m so close to it I think I need to recuse myself.\u00a0 (interruption) Why&#8230;? I did.\u00a0 I like Carlson.\u00a0 I thought Tucker\u2019s show was one of the hottest things Fox had done in a while because of the way Tucker does it.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker does everything everybody else does on Fox, they take on the left. But the way he does it is genuinely unique within not done anywhere else, the way he does it.\u00a0 I saw fit to mention that.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not deriding anybody else.\u00a0 I mean, that\u2019s not ripping anybody else.\u00a0 Megyn\u2019s decision to leave and go to NBC? Of course I\u2019ve got professional thoughts on that but, you know, these are things I should tell her if she were to ask, which she didn\u2019t.\u00a0 And not that she should or would.\u00a0 Look, it\u2019ll all come out in the wash in time. All these things.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not&#8230; (sigh) As it is&#8230; (interruption)\u00a0 I don\u2019t even to want say I was I was gonna say.\u00a0 Just trust me on this, folks, that you can call here is and say whatever you want and it isn\u2019t a problem. Good, bad, whatever, indifferent.\u00a0 I understand that Fox produces a range of emotions largely because of what people think it is, what people thought it was when it started.\u00a0 But&#8230; (interruption) Okay, see, they won\u2019t let go of this. (sigh) &#8220;What do you think of Tucker at nine o\u2019clock?&#8221;\u00a0 Good for Tucker.\u00a0 Congratulations.\u00a0 Congratulations.\u00a0 I hope it works.\u00a0 I really do. I have a wait-and-see attitude about a lot of media shifts and changes and so forth.\u00a0 (interruption)<\/p>\n<p>What do I think of Greta and PMS? I think it\u2019s a good move for PMS and a good move for her, and I think if she can inspire PMS&#8230; (laughing) Well, now wait a minute.\u00a0 If she can inspire MSNBC. (I don\u2019t want her to spread PMS.\u00a0 That\u2019s not what I meant.\u00a0 If she can inspire MS to make some changes over there that would improve them, I think that\u2019s a good move for her and for them.\u00a0 She\u2019s a hard worker.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t run into anybody that works any harder than Greta Van Susteren does.\u00a0 I can attest to it.\u00a0 She\u2019s the biggest pest I\u2019ve ever run into.\u00a0 She\u2019s relentless, and that\u2019s to her credit.<\/p>\n<p>As I say, folks, all this stuff\u2019s gonna come out in the wash.\u00a0 Just be patient.\u00a0 It\u2019s all gonna find its own level and&#8230; (interruption) I don\u2019t know what that even means.\u00a0 Here\u2019s Snerdley, Mr. Stir-the-pot in there, asking what do I think of O\u2019Reilly doing stories three or four days a week.\u00a0 Is that what the guy\u2019s point was? (interruption)\u00a0 I didn\u2019t understand him say that.\u00a0 I have no thoughts on it.\u00a0 You know look, folks, I do not talk about &#8220;competition.&#8221; I come from the old school where they don\u2019t exist, you don\u2019t mention \u2019em, and that hasn\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a formative belief from my way, way back.\u00a0 I mean, I\u2019ve been doing this since I was 16, and I\u2019m 66.\u00a0 Is that right?\u00a0 Can it possibly be right?\u00a0 It is. It\u2019s 66 this week.\u00a0 Holy smokes!\u00a0 Anyway, and my belief, well, there is no competition.\u00a0 You don\u2019t mention them.\u00a0 Of course, I think I may be the only person that still subscribes to that philosophy today. I don\u2019t care what they are, radio, TV. They don\u2019t exist in my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: To opine on it is just very, very tough. I&#039;ll tell you what, folks. It&#039;s one of the reasons why I have not made an effort to get to know personally all these people in Washington or anywhere else that I might end up talking about, &#039;cause once you get to know them, it does change.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[47,12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Viewer Fed Up with Fox News - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/10\/a-viewer-fed-up-with-fox-news\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"A Viewer Fed Up with Fox News - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: To opine on it is just very, very tough. 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