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RUSH: Now, I want to go back to the audiotape. We\u2019ve got some audiotape here, and again, any time I have a chance to prove this, I\u2019m going to take it. Let\u2019s go all the way back, just to show you, this is about nine years ago, my television show, this is back in October of 1995, and this is what I said to my TV studio audience and TV audience as well about journalism.<\/p>\n

RUSH TV SHOW ARCHIVE: Look at who goes to journalism school today. Go into any major U.S. university journalism school and just pick your average student there and say, “Why are you here?” and they\u2019ll say something like, “Because I want to make the world a better place.” Want to make the world a better place? “Yes. I want to rid the world of social injustice.” Well, what are you doing here? That\u2019s not what journalism is. You\u2019re supposed to look at things that happen and either write \u2019em down or tell other people what happened. You\u2019re not supposed to go and save the world.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Dan Rather at the New York public library on Saturday, New Yorker magazine writer Ken Auletta moderating a panel discussion with Brokaw, Jennings, and Rather. Auletta said, “What\u2019s the most frustrating and also the most exhilarating thing about your job, Dan?”<\/p>\n

RATHER: I think most of us got into journalism because in some way, somehow, we wanted to contribute to the well-being of the country, well-being of our fellow man — if that doesn\u2019t sound too overarching — and so when you feel that you\u2019ve done it, in even the smallest of ways, that\u2019s the best of times.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mean, they just continue to prove everything I say: Went in there to improve life for our fellow man. You look at Dan\u2019s recent body of work and ask how that\u2019s happening, and you don\u2019t find a whole lot of evidence. I have a different theory. You want to get to Dan Rather\u2019s level in journalism. You\u2019re a journalism student out there and you\u2019re walking through the halls of some sacred journalism school and you\u2019re thinking, “I\u2019m here because I want to get rid of social injustice like Three Dog Night. I\u2019m here because I want to make the world a better place.” Screw that. Just admit you are there to destroy people, and the sooner you go about doing a profile of somebody that utterly destroys them, you will get noticed by the Washington Post, Newsweek, TIME, New York Times, ABC, CBS, NBC.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll pick you up in a second. The more people you can destroy… I mean, far better shot at making it big than going out there and feeding the poor in Africa, which is also what journalism is not about. Here, moving on. Peter Jennings had some things to say. He had a couple things to say at this. No, let\u2019s do #4. Yeah, we\u2019re going to stick with the order I gave you. We\u2019ll do #4, then we\u2019ll go to five and then eight. So here\u2019s Rather. Now, at the end of this Jennings, Peter Jenning\u2019s chimes in, and Auletta says, “Dan, recently CBS made a mistake.” (Laughing.) “If I were a young journalism student and I came to you, Mr. Rather, and I said looking back with the benefit of hindsight, what was the biggest mistake that CBS made on September the 8th?”<\/p>\n

RATHER: I appreciate the question and I\u2019ve tried to address that at least in part previously, but we have an independent review underway now, and I\u2019ve been asked by the president of the news division while that\u2019s underway not to say anything more and so that\u2019s the way — that\u2019s going to be my answer for the moment.
\nJENNINGS: One thing I feel quite strongly about and I\u2019ve this said to Dan, I say it to everybody else. I don\u2019t think you ever judge a man by only one event in his career. So — (Applause.) So now we know this is a blue room. (Laughter.)<\/p>\n

BROKAW: Never thought of New York as a red state.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, what is that? I mean, here\u2019s Dan Rather taking the Janet Reno excuse. “There\u2019s an investigation underway and I can\u2019t comment,” but then the room applauds after this one-mistake comment and Jennings says, “Well, now, I guess we\u2019re in a Blue Room.” (Brokaw) “We never thought of New York as a red state.” So he admits that they\u2019re involved. Admitting it: “Okay we\u2019re in a Blue Room.” Democrats, New York, Democrat, blue state. They just… They just… I don\u2019t know. I think that it\u2019s now gotten to the point where they\u2019re getting close to admitting certain things, but they won\u2019t admit the key thing about them and that is that they personally are biased. This business that if somebody “will just apologize,” we never go after somebody who just apologizes; we judge a man by one event in his career? Are we not judging Bush by one event in his career, war in Iraq? Is that not what these guys are doing is judging Bush by one event in his career? What is this notion of apologizing? You know, Kerry is still running out there, “He\u2019s stubborn.” Kerry says, “He won\u2019t admit he made a mistake.” They\u2019re still trying to goad him into that for that sound bite, folks, trying to get him to admit that he made a mistake. One more from Peter Jennings, Ken Auletta said, “Peter, do you think the CBS situation has had a chilling effect?”<\/p>\n

JENNINGS: I don\u2019t think this has had a chilling effect at all. I do think that the attack on CBS has been brought on by some people and some have taken an attack on us all, an attack on the establishment media, an attack on what people regard as the liberal media, which is in itself a whole other area for discussion because it\u2019s so often wrong but I think each — each of us I\u2019m sure feel quite strongly about the investigative teams in our unit. We have a fabulous investigative team at ABC. It works all the time on a variety of subjects. You know, when you get caught, you apologize.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you can look at this one of two ways. I mean, it was sort of a slam at CBS there, wasn\u2019t it? Our unit, when you get caught, you apologize. When you get caught. Not when you make a mistake you apologize, “when you get caught.” “We have a fabulous investigative team at ABC, works all the time on a variety of subjects, when you get caught, though, you apologize.” Blue Room, it\u2019s okay. You don\u2019t have to get caught in the Blue Room because they\u2019ll excuse you.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve got two more sound bites. Our old buddy Tina Brown, ladies and gentlemen, I want to go back and before playing you the payoff sound bite, the setup sound bite, last Sunday on her CNBC show that nobody watches, I mean it\u2019s got like a .1 out there, it barely rates, it\u2019s barely above John McEnroe. She had a roundtable discussion out there with the writer Susan Cheever, Christopher Buckley, David Remnick and Stanley Crouch and they\u2019re discussing bloggers and how they influence the Dan Rather story and this is what Tina Brown had to say about it.<\/p>\n

BROWN: What bothers me slightly, though, about the way the bloggers have almost become like the media mujadean, you know. I mean, everybody feels so chased by them. I mean, look what happened in a sense, CBS had the same kind of campaign for that — for that Janet Jackson Super Bowl debacle, and for the Ronald Reagan miniseries. I mean, this is the third time in a sense that CBS management has been completely kind of, you know, harassed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I heard about this, and I had a little response. I said, “CBS has been harassed? CBS was using forged documents and it took the new media to ferret this out! If it weren\u2019t for the new media, a fraud would have been committed against the President of the United States,” and, you know, Jennings is out there demanding an apology for Rather because, you know, nobody\u2019s career is “judged by one mistake.” Nobody is demanding that Rather apologize to Bush. Kerry is out there demanding that Bush apologize for Iraq. But you can do whatever you want to a president, we never have to apologize to a president, he\u2019s got to be spending his whole life apologizing just to please Kerry and the rest. Anyway, I said all this and Tina Brown decided on her Topic A with Tina Brown show to respond to it last night to what I said. This is what she said.<\/p>\n

BROWN: This week\u2019s viewer mail comes from the unlikeliest viewer of all, Rush Limbow [sic Limbaugh]. He took time out of his daily nine-hour show [sic three hour] to send me this love note over the air in response to comments that I made last week about the mob mentality of bloggers. Take a listen.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: If you want to know who defines media elitism in New York, it\u2019s Tina Brown and her husband Harry Evans. No, no, Tina. It\u2019s not that CBS management blew it, or that CBS management was wrong, and not — and extends down even below management. No, this all happened because they got caught, and she\u2019s mad they got caught.<\/p>\n

BROWN: Well, Rush, you certainly know how to flatter a girl, but what I take away from it is this. Who knew you were watching?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tina, I hate to tell you, I don\u2019t watch; I pay people to watch. (Laughing) I\u2019m embarrassed now. She thinks I watch her show. (Laughing.) Yeah, somebody is watching the show, a couple people, maybe, but it isn\u2019t me. (Laughing.) What am I, Dawn? I\u2019ve what? (talking to staff member) Being very what, to her? I\u2019m not! What do you mean, being rotten to her? Dawn says I\u2019m being rotten to her? Dawn is our transcriber here, ladies and gentlemen. I\u2019m not being rotten. I don\u2019t watch the show. I pay people to do it. I couldn\u2019t tell you what time it\u2019s on, but still, I mean as a comeback, once again, doesn\u2019t discuss the substance of what I suggest. But there\u2019s that word “caught” again, CBS got caught. Isn\u2019t this interesting?<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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