{"id":222480,"date":"2017-02-21T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=222480"},"modified":"2017-02-22T16:12:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T21:12:30","slug":"drive-by-media-conniption-over-my-comments-about-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/02\/21\/drive-by-media-conniption-over-my-comments-about-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-By Media Conniptions Over My Comments About Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Elements of the Drive-By Media are still having conniptions. They\u2019re going nuts over some of the things I said on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace<\/a>. Among those things they\u2019re having conniptions over, my observation the First Amendment does not give the media immunity from criticism<\/a>. They are shocked anybody thinks this. They are stunned that anybody would say this. They simply cannot believe it.<\/p>\n

\"\"But at the top of the list, virtually every media person that has commented, that I\u2019ve seen, anyway. I\u2019ve seen it all. I\u2019ve got audio sound bites of some of this to show you, to play for you, to demonstrate for you. But I\u2019m sure it\u2019s more than what I have here. But I think virtually every Drive-By Media person who\u2019s commented on it is just acting flabbergasted that I actually believe that the media is working to destroy Trump! They think it\u2019s insane. What gives me the right to say that and how is it that I have 20 million listeners? I mean, that just doesn\u2019t make sense. They can\u2019t figure it out.<\/p>\n

And, folks, let me double down on this today because there is no question that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s going on here. None whatsoever. I\u2019ve got two really, really brilliant pieces today to share with you, excerpts from them to back this up. One is by Michael Walsh at PJ Media.<\/a> The Walsh story focuses on the deep state intelligence guys and the Obama holdovers and the effort there to unseat Trump. And now both Michael Walsh, who\u2019s a great writer and we\u2019ve cited him many times over the years, both Walsh and Victor Davis Hanson<\/a> make no bones about it: There is an ongoing effort to replace Donald Trump, to get him out of office. That is what all of this is about.<\/p>\n

Now, the media may not be leading it, but they are complicit in it. The actual effort to undermine Trump is occurring in what we lightheartedly here refer to as the deep state. You can basically find it in the halls of Congress, people in Congress who don\u2019t want Trump. You can find people in various federal bureaucracies who do not want Trump. You can find people at the CIA, the various intelligence agencies that do not want Trump. And they are leaking. They\u2019re illegally wiretapping phone calls and they\u2019re leaking what they\u2019re hearing to the media. The media is complicit by eagerly reporting this stuff rather than calling the leakers out. It\u2019s all illegal and they\u2019re all playing the game together.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is — and I don\u2019t want you to misunderstand here. I don\u2019t want to say it\u2019s common, I don\u2019t mean that, but it\u2019s not anything that hasn\u2019t happened before. There have always been efforts to undermine the chief executive by elements of the government who do not support, do not believe for various reasons throughout our history. So this is not unprecedented. It\u2019s just that this one happens while we\u2019re alive, and this one happens while the guy we elected to be president and who won is the target. And we have a vested interest in preventing this effort to unseat Trump.<\/p>\n

Now, you might say, “Well, what\u2019s the process?” It\u2019s not really a process. I mean, you might have impeachment charges brought at some point, but it\u2019s about paralyzing Trump. It\u2019s about seeing to it that none of Trump\u2019s agenda is implemented. It\u2019s about making Trump quit or give up or just raise his hands in futility and show up but not try to irritate anybody. There are many, many different methods here. There are all kinds of different objectives. If they could get Trump literally out of office, make no question, no question they would do it. But that is at the far end of the extreme in terms of possibilities.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There are other ways to render Trump ineffective or neutered and to dispirit his supporters, and it\u2019s all happening at full speed ahead here. And I think one of the greatest indications of how I\u2019m right is notice how anybody involved in this reacts when they are accused of this, and I\u2019m thinking primarily here the media. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a charge, it\u2019s not an allegation; it\u2019s a statement of fact. The media doesn\u2019t like Donald Trump and is doing what they can to undermine his presidency. They\u2019re doing what they can to discredit him.<\/p>\n

I mean, it\u2019s unique in the sense that you wouldn\u2019t find any behavior like this at all relevant to Barack Obama or to Bill Clinton, but you will find similar actions have taken place against George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and so forth. As I say, it\u2019s not unprecedented, but it\u2019s serious, and it is real. And when the media is accused of having this desire and working toward the ultimate end of dethroning Trump, they act like stuck pigs. I mean, if it\u2019s ridiculous and if it\u2019s insane and if it\u2019s lunacy, act that way, you know, start laughing at it, start chuckling about it, having fun with it. But, no, no, no, no, no. They\u2019re reacting like stuck pigs.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Shadow government, deep state, whatever. I\u2019m convinced there is a shadow government. There\u2019s an Obama shadow government. It\u2019s not my idea, by the way. I\u2019ve seen it referenced by others. I happen to believe it, and they\u2019re just the Obama holdovers. And they\u2019re organized. I mean, that\u2019s the whole point about the difference in the Democrats and Republicans. The Democrats organize for things like this. They plan for losing elections and making sure that their lifetime appointees are active organizers, not just placeholders.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I went back and forth on even playing this, \u2019cause this is just absurd. But I decided to play it because it\u2019s an illustration of just who the media is and how off the wall and unobjective and unaware that they are. And it also demos what their agenda is. Now, you may have heard that the CPAC people had invited Milo Yiannopoulos to keynote the CPAC convention which starts this weekend.<\/p>\n

And there was an up furor mainstream conservatism over this. Many were just curious, angry. “How in the hell could this happen? Who thinks that Milo Yiannopoulos is mainstream conservatism?” So, anyway, a videotape was uncovered of Milo talking about things that could be construed to be pedophilia. CPAC pulled him. They yanked his appearance. Simon & Schuster has now canceled the book contract they had with him. So he\u2019s not going to be there. This is red meat for the media, and it was actually served to them. They didn\u2019t have to make this up. CPAC actually gave them this one. But I want you to listen. This is Alisyn Camerota. Now, Alisyn Camerota used to be at Fox.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019ve only met her a couple times. She\u2019s nice as she could be, and she asked me I don\u2019t know how many times… She was the weekend host of the Saturday edition of Fox & Friends, the early morning show. She politely asked me over and over to appear on the program, and ultimately I said, yes, I would do it. It was a phoner. She was perfectly fine, she was perfectly nice, and she knows who I am. She knows what I do and who I am. But you\u2019d never know it listening to this sound bite. She\u2019s talking with Chris Cuomo, who thinks communism is about elevating economic standards for people.<\/p>\n

He really gave the Cuban dictators a piece of his mind. He said, “When are these communists gonna understand they\u2019re gonna have to start improving living conditions for people?” I saw that and I said, “What? When has communism ever done that? That\u2019s not what communism does.” Anyway, he thinks it is. He\u2019s the son of Mario “The Pious,” the late Mario the pious, former governor of New York and just would be… Oh, my God, they couldn\u2019t wait for him to be elected president. But it never happened. So they\u2019re talking about Milo and CPAC canceling his appearance.<\/p>\n

\"\"CAMEROTA: Provocateurs have taken the place of conventional leadership because it\u2019s juicier and it\u2019s more headline grabbing and you can build more blogs around it and you can you can build more websites around it, and —<\/p>\n

CUOMO: The only major one is Trump! When you say “provocateurs, “I mean, really, he filled the entire space —<\/p>\n

\"\"CAMEROTA: (snickering)<\/p>\n

CUOMO: — in terms who\u2019s succeeded on that. I mean, this guy… To compare this guy from Breitbart to Trump is insulting to Trump.<\/p>\n

CAMEROTA: Well, I\u2019m not comparing him to Trump. I\u2019m comparing him to Rush Limbaugh and to other right-wing radio hosts.<\/p>\n

CUOMO: It\u2019s even insulting to those guys.<\/p>\n

CAMEROTA: I get it, but I think that what your point was is that people who sort of say the most outlandish things right now — and, as we know, they don\u2019t necessarily have to be fact based — get a lot of attention.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. So Alisyn Camerota has decided that I am Milo Yiannopoulos. Now, how absurd — and she knows better. She\u2019s not it\u2019s not even close. It\u2019s ridiculous. It is preposterous. And yet there she is on CNN drawing the comparison on the basis that I don\u2019t mean what I say. I\u2019m just a provocateur. I\u2019m just saying what I say to attract attention to myself. If I wanted to attract attention to myself, I\u2019d be doing television every day. If I wanted to attract attention to myself, I\u2019d have a PR firm and you\u2019d be seeing nothing but stories about me in the media every day.<\/p>\n

I do not want any part of that. I\u2019ve been there, done that, and it\u2019s phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 roll. I\u2019m not into that at all. I\u2019m not into being promoted. I just tell people what I think, and it used to be things that she agreed with. So this is an example where the media thinks everybody over here is off-the-charts false, untrue, saying things just to get noticed. And she doesn\u2019t even see, nor do any of the others in the media. They have no sense of self-awareness. (chuckles) They really don\u2019t. They haven\u2019t the foggiest idea why people are angry at \u2019em.<\/p>\n

You know something?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve said it before.<\/p>\n

The media is the only business in the world where the customer is always wrong. If you\u2019re a news consumer, if you\u2019re a customer, and you complain to them, they will tell you that you are not sophisticated enough to understand what they do, and they\u2019re tell you to go listen or watch somewhere else. They\u2019re not even really doing the news for you. They\u2019re doing news for other journalists and other people in government because that\u2019s their real audience, as evidenced by CNN\u2019s ratings. They don\u2019t have any compared to other news organizations, and they don\u2019t seem to be bothered by it at all. They don\u2019t seem to be doing anything to try to change it at all, or very little.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Today CNN\u2019s “New Day,” Michael Smerconish, who used to host the morning show on our Philadelphia affiliate, and I\u2019ve met him. I went in, I did a Rush to Excellence appearance there at Philadelphia. What a great room it was. It was on the campus of the University of the Arts. Camille Paglia teaches there. It was just a beautiful room, sold-out crowd, big. Backstage Smerconish\u2019s father was there, said he was a big fan, and Smerconish was very nice, very complimentary. So here he is on CNN\u2019s “New Day” today, and he\u2019s with Chris Cuomo, and they\u2019re talking about Milo Yiannopoulos being canceled by CPAC.<\/p>\n

\"\"SMERCONISH: Donald Trump is the embodiment of a 30-year trend in the making, an embodiment of empowering Rush Limbaugh, the Drudge Report, Fox News, Breitbart, NewsMax. They exert control over primary voters in a way that the traditional conservative leadership used to do. And that\u2019s why Milo Yiannopoulos would even be extended an invitation to come to a gathering like CPAC. But the problem is that that comes at the expense of reaching a much more middle of the road audience than you need in a general election.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We just won. What in the hell are these people talking about? But I have another question. Who the hell empowered me? What does that mean? And who empowered Fox News? And who empowered Matt Drudge? Who are these mysterious forces that are empowering us? Who is it setting the table so that we can come in and dominate the way we have? Who made that happen? “Donald Trump is the embodiment of a 30-year trend in the making, an embodiment of empowering Rush Limbaugh, the Drudge Report, Fox News.”<\/p>\n

Well, I don\u2019t even understand if I define these words, as I know their meaning, this doesn\u2019t make any sense. Who empowered me, Mr. Snerdley? What does this even mean? What is he trying to say? No, no, no, he\u2019s not trying to say I earned anything at all. That\u2019s the whole point. I did earn it. Nobody empowered me. You know, women talk about empowerment, feminists talk about empowerment. What do they mean by this? It\u2019s like I told my friend when he asked me, “Are they gonna give Trump –” No, he\u2019s gonna have to win it. He\u2019s gonna have to beat everybody. He\u2019s gonna have to earn it.<\/p>\n

What is this empowerment stuff? And what is the embodiment of empowerment? They probably understand it at Harvard or Brown, but it doesn\u2019t make any sense. And who empowered Drudge? I mean, who is this all-powerful empowerer who is sitting up there deciding who\u2019s gonna succeed and who isn\u2019t? I\u2019ll tell you who it is: It\u2019s the American people. If I\u2019m empowered by anybody, it\u2019s the American people. But that\u2019s not how this works.<\/p>\n

\"\"Anyway, the point is they\u2019re sitting out there, and, of course they\u2019re at, as Trump would say, “the failing CNN,” and they\u2019re looking at all these other things, and it can\u2019t be explained in their world. It can\u2019t be that I am legitimately the most listened to talk show. It has to be somebody\u2019s made it happen. There\u2019s a sinister something or other going on out there that is empowering me and Drudge and Fox News.<\/p>\n

Now, Smerconish was a conservative when he was on the radio in Philadelphia. Well, he used to be. One more. This is little Brian Stelter, the media guy at CNN, yesterday talking to Brooke Baldwin. They\u2019re just beside themselves here over the fact that I said that the media didn\u2019t make Trump so they can\u2019t destroy him, and they\u2019re beside themselves that I said that they have a blueprint, that the Democrats and the media have a blueprint for destroying Republican political officials. I said it\u2019s not gonna work on Trump because the media didn\u2019t make Trump, they couldn\u2019t break him. That\u2019s what they\u2019re talking about here.<\/p>\n

BALDWIN: This is a guy who has like tens of millions of listeners. It just makes me wonder how many people believe that.<\/p>\n

\"\"STELTER: Well, certainly somebody like Rush Limbaugh\u2019s been trying to erode trust in the mainstream press for a long time, for decades. Part of his appeal is that he\u2019s anti-media, and we\u2019ve seen that across the board. Trump is tapping into that. Trump is picking these fights because the media is powerful. In some ways he\u2019s going after the media instead of the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party is pretty weak right now and Trump needs an enemy. It\u2019s part of a broader issue for this White House. That\u2019s why there\u2019s been aggressive coverage. It\u2019s not because a journalist is trying to take down the president. It\u2019s not because they voted against him or for him. It\u2019s because we\u2019re continuing to hear this series of false statements.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? Trump wants this. That\u2019s right, folks, Trump needs an enemy. He needs it. And of course I, my appeal is anti-media, and I have been eroding trust in the mainstream press for a long time, for a decade. I\u2019ve been eroding trust in nothing. You people in the media have been doing it. All I do is tell people what you do and why. I mean, I play audio sound bites of you people saying what you say.<\/p>\n

Anyway, so this is what happens when you become a victim. This is exactly what happens when you become a victim, and when you become a liberal victim to boot. You lose your mind. “Yeah, Trump, yeah, the Democrats, they didn\u2019t win anything,” which is true and they\u2019re in big trouble. “So he can\u2019t go after the Democrats. He needs an enemy,” like Trump wants this.<\/p>\n

Anyway, and of course that\u2019s why there has been aggressive coverage because Trump is — what did he say? Trump is tapping into the embodiment of empowerment that led to me, I guess.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Imagine if Ted Cruz had won the Republican nomination and had become president. Imagine if Ted Cruz is elected. Do you think the media would be any different substantively than they are with Trump? The intensity of opposition and smearing would be identical. It might be focused in different areas or ways, but do you think there\u2019d be any honeymoon with Cruz? Maybe with Jeb there would have been. Maybe with Romney. No, no, no, they\u2019d go back to destroying Romney, too. It\u2019s the same, doesn\u2019t matter who, folks. That\u2019s the point.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bob, great to have you on the EIB Network. How are you doing today?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Doing well, Rush. How you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine and dandy. Thank you much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. Great to talk with you again. Hey, this press that puts themselves out as the defender of democracy and checks and balances and all this other stuff, when did they become immune from a check and balance? You know, you\u2019ve been doing a wonderful job of pulling the curtain back and showing what\u2019s going on, you and others, and now we have a president who is pulling the curtain back and their only response is: how dare you question the great and powerful oz. You know? You would think that if they\u2019re so worried about checks and balances, that they would welcome this, for people to scrutinize —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no. (laughing) No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let me tell you something. I myself asked the same question you\u2019re asking. I don\u2019t have time to tell you the whole story, but a journalist was preparing a smear hit piece on me back when I was doing the TV show. And he was gonna lump me in with people that I had nothing in common with. It was a definite hit piece.<\/p>\n

So we said, “You know what? We\u2019re gonna do a profile of you. We\u2019re gonna do go out and ask everybody you went to school with who you are, how many DUIs you\u2019ve had, and do you have any similarities to Larry Flynt. We might expose how you\u2019re just like Larry Flynt.” The guy blew up. “You can\u2019t do that, I\u2019m a journalist! This is not about me, you can\u2019t do that.”<\/p>\n

\"\"So I said, “Why can you do it to me? I\u2019m just a guy on TV. I can\u2019t raise your taxes. I can\u2019t do a damn thing to you. Why are you doing it? I\u2019m just a guy on TV. Why are you treating me this way?”<\/p>\n

“Well, I\u2019m a journalist.”<\/p>\n

For the longest time, Bob, I asked why they have this attitude. And it was only last week that I finally got the answer. It started with this guy at CNN asking Trump, “Don\u2019t you think, by criticizing the media, that you are undermining the First Amendment?”<\/p>\n

I said, “What? Undermining the First Amendment?”<\/p>\n

Then F. Chuck Todd came along with a tweet. I\u2019m paraphrasing the tweet. Chuck Todd at NBC News said that this is un-American. You just you can\u2019t undermine the media like this. The media has constitutional designation.<\/p>\n

And I said, “There it is.” And so Bob, the answer, the honest, serious answer, which you aren\u2019t going to really believe anybody could think, but they do. I think they\u2019re taught this. You know, everybody\u2019s a young skull full of mush at some point, and then there\u2019s people that fill that skull full of mush up with gibberish or brilliance. And these people have gone to journalism school, they\u2019ve been indoctrinated with liberalism all their lives.<\/p>\n

They really believe that if you criticize journalists, you\u2019re undermining the Constitution because they have constitutional immunity since the press is mentioned, the freedom of the press is mentioned, you attack them and you\u2019re attacking the Constitution. You\u2019re attacking America. Well, then if it\u2019s the case, why can anybody in government be attacked? But that\u2019s what they think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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