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Let me finish the quote, because that\u2019s not the nut quote, the nut ‘graph. The nut ‘graph is coming up — and the Limbaugh Echo. (Rare Pinch impression): “We continue to care deeply about the world and its many problems, and we passionately believe that we believe that we have the ability to change humankind\u2019s destiny and include our collective quality of life.” What a bunch of pap! What a bunch of absolute regurgitated crud! Okay, so here you have it from the — What is he? — the publisher of the New York Times admitting what I\u2019ve always said.<\/line>Go into any journalism school out there, folks. Walk down the hall. First year, second year, third year, doesn\u2019t matter. Grab a student, any student, male, female, gay, straight, bi, transvestite, doesn\u2019t matter. Ask \u2019em why they\u2019re there, and eventually, if you stick with \u2019em long enough what you\u2019ll hear them say is, ”Because I want to make the world a better place. I want to correct the social injustices of the world!\u2019 To which we say, ”Well, then you\u2019re in the wrong profession. Go get elected and get yourself either on the staff of some politician or become a politician or become an officeholder. That\u2019s where policy gets made and changed. You\u2019re just supposed to stand on the corner and tell people who aren\u2019t there what happened. That\u2019s all <\/emphasize>you\u2019re supposed to do.”<\/line> It\u2019s just that simple. The problem is you show up on the corner and what normally would happen changes, because people know you\u2019re there and they\u2019re trying to influence what you see and they know you bring a bias to it. So your very presence on the scene alters normalcy, especially if you have a camera with you.'” Oh ho! Ask Lady Diana about that. Well, you can\u2019t. She is dead. The media “was just trying to get the story.” What story? So she was running around with some playboy; they just had scrambled eggs in the hotel. Yippee! She\u2019s dead. So they just “want to improve the lot of humankind,” right? Right, and they\u2019re optimists? Pinch better hire somebody knows what they\u2019re doing with that paper, soon.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>My friends, I\u2019m not through with this story on that Little Pinch that went out to Manhattan. It was funny how this happened. The PR person at the New York Times went to him and said, “Hey, we got a request here for a speaking engagement. The Alf Landon Lecture Series.” He said, “Where is that?” “It\u2019s out there in Manhattan somewhere.” “Oh, that\u2019s close by! We\u2019ll go.” So they put him in the car, took him to the airport. “I thought you said it was in Manhattan?” “Yeah, Manhattan, Kansas<\/emphasize>.” That\u2019s how Pinch ended up out there. So after he ends up saying (Pinch impression), “We passionately believe that we have the ability to change humankind\u2019s destiny and improve our collective quality of life.” <\/line>Somebody go back and find whoever invented journalism and see if that\u2019s in the syllabus. Look it up on the Internet. Find out who invented journalism. They\u2019re responsible for all this. But then he went on and said this (Pinch impression): “‘Some people,\u2019 he said, ‘view news as little more than another form of reality programming.\u2019 He criticized talk radio for too often having a trial-by-insult format. He then credited television programs that provide little more than barroom chatter and authors who increase book sales by becoming more shrill in their writing.'”<\/line><\/p>\n

You mean like Maureen Dowd? You mean like Bob Herbert? You mean to tell me that the only safe news institution is newspapers? That\u2019s what that Little Pinch is saying: Can\u2019t trust talk radio. Trial by what<\/emphasize>? Trial-by-insult format? You know something? I\u2019ll bet you something. I\u2019ll bet you something. I\u2019ll bet you the people that listen to this program are more positively inspired and more genuinely happy each day than the people who read the New York Times. I will bet you that the people who listen to this program have more self-confidence; they have a great attitude, more self-respect. <\/line> I\u2019ll betcha they have a far greater confidence of success and prosperity. I\u2019ll bet you they feel much more positively about their country than do the readers of the New York Times. What is this trial-by-insult format, Pinch? Take a look. Seriously listen to this program someday and compare what\u2019s in your newspaper, and you tell me which is doing more to “positively impact the human condition” as you\u2019ve so carefully said you\u2019re interested in. This is what bugs me. You know, it\u2019s exactly what Bozell says in his book, &lt;a target=new href=”http:\/\/service.bfast.com\/bfast\/click?bfmid=2181&amp;sourceid=38461944&amp;bfpid=1400053781&amp;bfmtype=book”> Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media&lt;\/a>.<\/line> In his last chapter he says their criticism of me, to him, was the sign that they\u2019re cracking up. Because when they can no longer consider people with opposing ideas as equals in the arena of ideas, and instead have to engage in character assassination or destroy other people\u2019s credibility, it was the end of them. It was a great book. I mean, Bozell\u2019s book, he\u2019s chronicled all of kinds of this…whatever. “Liberal bias” doesn\u2019t quite touch it, but it\u2019s a great read. Here\u2019s the final Pinch quote. He said, “We are starting to pay a high social price for this form of cheap entertainment.” Cheap entertainment. Talk radio, television and books: cheap entertainment. What we need is the continuing 50-cent newspaper<\/emphasize>. The media on which it\u2019s printed ends up collecting excrement from animals! That\u2019s what we need. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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