RUSH: I want to thank F. Chuck Todd of NBC for opening my eyes to this. For the longest time I\u2019ve been genuinely curious why it is that media people think that they cannot be criticized.<\/p>\n
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And they really do. They really think they can go out and research people and they can dig up dirt from anybody they want, their pasts, and they can broadcast it all over. And if somebody\u2019s life, somebody\u2019s marriage, somebody\u2019s relationship, somebody\u2019s kid gets destroyed or ruined, fine and dandy.<\/p>\n
They can do all of that they want, but you turn it around and you start investigating your favorite journalist to find out how many illegitimate kids he or she might have had in college or how many DUIs they had, you know, or how many communist sympathizer meetings they went to, then all hell breaks loose and they start squealing like stuck pigs, “You can\u2019t do that! We\u2019re journalists!”<\/p>\n
I said, “Where does this come from?” It\u2019s more than just hubris. I finally found out. You know what it is, Mr. Snerdley? These clowns actually believe that since they are recognized in the First Amendment that they have constitutional immunity.<\/p>\n
Criticizing them is attacking the First Amendment. They really believe this. Criticizing them is akin to attacking the Constitution, and that\u2019s un-American, and that\u2019s why you hear these journalists say. “It\u2019s un-American to criticize. It\u2019s un-American for Trump to be destabilizing. It\u2019s un-American for Trump to be going out there and trying to do damage to the media. We\u2019ve got First Amendment protection.”<\/p>\n
Well, so does the president, and the president happens to be mentioned in the Constitution before the media. The president\u2019s mentioned in Article 2. The media doesn\u2019t make it \u2019til the First Amendment. But yet the media thinks there\u2019s nothing bad about running around and trying to attack political figures and destroying them.<\/p>\n
This is what it is, folks. They are so far gone, they really think that they are the last line of defense between freedom and democracy and tyranny. And attacking them and challenging their reputation is no more and no less than attacking the Constitution and trying to destroy America and democracy. That\u2019s what they think. That explains why you can\u2019t go after them.<\/p>\n
Anyhow, let\u2019s take another brief break here.<\/p>\n
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RUSH:\u00a0 Look, the only thing the First Amendment does for the press is the same thing it gives everybody else. They can say what they want to say.\u00a0 That\u2019s essentially what the First Amendment says for the press like it says it for you and me. It singles them out and references them in terms of their importance, a free and unintimidated, whatever, unattached media.\u00a0 And nobody objects to that, but it does not grant them immunity from criticism.\u00a0 It does not grant them freedom to be disagreed with. It does not grant them freedom from opposition.<\/p>\n
They seem to think that it does.\u00a0 And I think it all falls under the notion of how really poorly constitutional education, American history education\u2019s been for decades in this country. Not to mention the kind of poison that\u2019s injected into the young skulls full of mush populating journalism schools all over the United States.\u00a0 But really, folks, it\u2019s the one thing that, as far as the media\u2019s concerned, justifies what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n
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Now, as I say, you won\u2019t even get them to admit what they\u2019re doing.\u00a0 You won\u2019t even get them to admit they\u2019re trying to destroy Trump.\u00a0 They come up with some, “No, no, no, no.\u00a0 It is the job of the media to hold powerful people accountable.”\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 Why doesn\u2019t that apply to powerful Democrats?\u00a0 And don\u2019t tell me that it does, because everybody knows you give \u2019em a pass. Each and every time something comes up with \u2019em, you cover for \u2019em.\u00a0 It\u2019s a joke.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Lee in North Branford, Connecticut. Welcome. Great to have you here. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, it\u2019s a pleasure to be talking to you, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I just want to… My issue is Chris Matthews (sic) yesterday. Yeah, Chris Matthews threw you a softball and I thought you kind of swung on it and missed. He talked about Trump saying the media was our enemy. And my simple simplified answer to that is, you know, you get a working guy, works all day, comes home, him and the wife sit down to eat after they sit down and watch television. And they watch one of the talking heads, whoever it might be. So they get the IRS; nothing to see here. They get Benghazi; wow, that\u2019s a little bit, but that\u2019s a ho-hum. Ben Rhodes? They probably don\u2019t know who Ben Rhodes is. Jonathan Gruber is another one. Not a clue who Jonathan Gruber is. To me, that makes \u2019em an enemy. They\u2019re not telling us the truth, they\u2019re telling us half-truths, and they\u2019re ignoring half the facts.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, but I… I\u2019m sorry I swing and missed at a “Chris Matthews” softball. I wasn\u2019t on the field when he tossed it, so I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t swing and miss when Matthews throws, wild pitch or not. The reason I wanted to take your call is the Trump quote, “The press is the enemy of the people,” is not what he said. You know, here\u2019s… Again, I guess this comes from my having a very good understanding of Donald Trump. He was talking about a subset of the media. If Trump had been talking about the whole media as the enemy of the state, that\u2019s not what the Trump quote said.<\/p>\n
He specifically was referring to the outlets putting out misleading themes about election hacking. You can\u2019t take these comments out of context! You have to look at what he said before he said this. So when he calls “the press enemy of the people,” what was he talking about before it? He was talking about those elements of the media that continue to report things that aren\u2019t true, and that is there is no evidence that the Russians hacked the outcome of the election! There is no evidence because it didn\u2019t happen. There\u2019s no evidence that the Russians determined the winner of the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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