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RUSH: This is Jenny in Rockford, Michigan. Hi, Jenny.<\/line>CALLER: Home schooling dittos, Mr. Limbaugh.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/line>CALLER: I have to disagree with you, and I never thought I would do that, but I have to disagree with you. I think that the reason why we\u2019re having the discussion that we are today is because there is no consequence for reporters in their reporting, when it\u2019s a lie, when it\u2019s inaccurate, when it\u2019s supposition, when it\u2019s nothing more than a whim or a poke at a balloon. They want to get a rise out of somebody. They want to just get printed because it\u2019s controversial. There is absolutely no consequence, and when there\u2019s no consequence, they\u2019re not going to change anything.<\/line>RUSH: I know —<\/line>CALLER: They\u2019re not going to change their behavior.<\/line> RUSH: It\u2019s a fine line. In the case of Judith Miller and Matt Cooper, the law is the law. I know. If they go to jail it\u2019s going to be because they refused to follow a court order. A court has ordered them to turn over a list of their confidential sources, and that is the law. I understand. You know, I said earlier the Valerie Plame thing is no big deal. It isn\u2019t in the big scope. It was when it first happened. You have to remember why. The Democrats were hoping it would result in Karl Rove going to jail.<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: The Democrats hoped they were going to be able to tie this back to Rove. The White House called for this investigation since they were accused here, high levels of the administration, but there have been no charges of anything. I understand reporters, they face all, like everybody else. The court order says, “You\u2019ve got to tell us who your sources are.” They say, “No.” “Okay, you\u2019re in contempt of the court.” And they\u2019ve had plenty of time to think about it, so it\u2019s a fine line here. I know if the situation were reversed these people couldn\u2019t wait to see me go to jail.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: And the problem with me is, I really don\u2019t think it\u2019s a fine line. I think that if you\u2019re a conservative, you have to toe the line. You\u2019re constantly justifying yourself, and justifying your argument, and backing it up with evidence and backing that evidence up with evidence. And if you\u2019re a liberal, you have this carte blanche ability to just throw anything out there, if it sticks, it sticks, and if it doesn\u2019t, it doesn\u2019t, and if it sticks, well, then look, it stuck, and it\u2019s a story, and it might have led to something, but if it doesn\u2019t, then we can just push that under the rug.<\/line>RUSH: I try not to personalize these things. I really do. But in this case I have to respond personally. You are not telling me anything I don\u2019t know.<\/line>CALLER: I know. I don\u2019t know that.<\/line>RUSH: You are not telling me anything I\u2019ve faced personally all of this unsourced, anonymous sources, and sources close to this, or sources close to that. And you wouldn\u2019t believe the amount of BS that\u2019s out there, and they can hide behind it, and they can —<\/line>CALLER: And they wrap themselves in the First Amendment as though they have —<\/line>RUSH: I know.<\/line>CALLER: — carte blanche.<\/line>RUSH: I know what you\u2019re saying about there being no consequences. You make a powerful point. I will admit that. You know, when you come down to it the law is the law on this.<\/line>CALLER: That\u2019s why we read the Limbaugh Letter<\/a> and at least we know the truth when we read it.<\/line>RUSH: It points out one of the problems. If the press wants to understand the problem they\u2019ve got, and I don\u2019t think they do, I think it\u2019s not just the press, it\u2019s the whole left. I think there\u2019s such an arrogance and a condescension there, an elitism, if you will. We\u2019re smarter than anybody else, we\u2019re better than everybody else, we\u2019re more important than anybody else. There is a little of, “Hey, you can\u2019t hold us accountable to these laws — you all are peons. Hey, we\u2019re defenders of the Constitution here.” No, no, the defenders the Constitution are in Iraq and Afghanistan, if you want to get down to it. <\/line><\/a> But this constant use of unnamed, anonymous sources, look where it got Newsweek and look how the media circled the wagons to protect Newsweek after that, and they circle the wagons any time any of their cherished members do something wrong. They\u2019ll circle the wagons and try to come out with stories to prove that their wronged member of the club was actually right, which is what all this Club G\u2019itmo<\/a> stuff is about, folks. All this reporting of Club G\u2019itmo<\/a> about how it\u2019s a torture chamber down there, it\u2019s all because of the Newsweek story. I told you it was going to happen. They\u2019re circling the wagons trying to make sure that Newsweek is ultimately proved right, because they do think that if Newsweek goes down it\u2019s bad for all of them. That\u2019s another thing that makes it unlike real-life America, in this sense. If, in a normal business setting, you\u2019ve got TIME and US News that compete with Newsweek, okay? So Newsweek does something wrong. In the business world, you\u2019d have TIME and US News exploiting this to the end of the earth trying to destroy Newsweek, to get its advertisers, to get its readers, and to grow your publication. When a competitor makes a goof-up like this — oh, no, no, no. Not in the mainstream press. <\/line>It\u2019s circle-the-wagons time, because even though they right for TIME, they write for Newsweek, or they write for US News, doesn\u2019t matter where they work; they all have the same template. They all have the same agenda. They all have got the same view of things, and so they\u2019re all Indians in the same tepee. And if that tepee is attacked, they\u2019ve all got to go and circle the wagons, the buffalo or whatever, and protect each other. And it ought to go to show you I don\u2019t think there\u2019s much competition, particularly in the elite print media. Look, they circled the wagons around Dan Rather. They did everything. They had all kinds of honorary dinners for him and gave him the Peabody Award for great news coverage on Abu Ghraib. It\u2019s not just the print side. But the notion that there are no consequences for their mistakes, that\u2019s a powerful point, because other than losing audience — but they don\u2019t seem to care about that. I mean they are losing audience, but they don\u2019t seem to care. It\u2019s the most amazing thing that they don\u2019t even care about that. They say, “Well, the audience is too stupid. We don\u2019t want those people if they\u2019re not smart enough to know how good we are.” It boggles the mind. I wouldn\u2019t have survived. If I had that attitude you people would have never heard of me.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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