{"id":228243,"date":"2017-04-05T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=228243"},"modified":"2021-05-21T11:06:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:06:10","slug":"the-media-doesnt-have-to-coordinate-because-they-all-think-alike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/05\/the-media-doesnt-have-to-coordinate-because-they-all-think-alike\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Democrats an Arm of the Media?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Mike, Columbia, South Carolina. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But heavens to Murgatroyd, would you please help me make up my mind? Let me explain. Over the years, you\u2019ve repeatedly said — and I always nod my head in agreement — that the “alphabet” Drive-By Media is the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: But I believe I heard you say in your opening segment that that role is actually reversed, that the Democrat politicians are merely the placeholders and the executors of the agenda, that the media is actually the one that\u2019s setting policy. So who\u2019s the tail and who\u2019s the dog?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I actually think that that may be true. I have revised my thinking on that in just the past two to three weeks. I\u2019m considering the structure, that it is the Democrats that are an arm of the media, not that the media is an arm of the Democrats. In other words, the foundational base of the progressive movement is in the nationwide media. The Democrat Party are the elected hacks who enforce and introduce politically and legislatively — and oppose the things that the Republicans put forth — in a political sense. But the constant, always-there of progressivism and liberalism is the media.<\/p>\n

The Democrat Party itself is an extension of that, as opposed to the media being an extension of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

I say this because the Democrat Party lost the presidential election, and the Democrat has been losing elections since 2010. The media hasn\u2019t lost anything. Well, that\u2019s not true. They\u2019re losing viewers and advertisers and so forth, but they haven\u2019t acquiesced to that change. They haven\u2019t subjected themselves to it. They are the… I think they are the fuel. They provide the backup and the energy and the support for the Democrats to do what they do. Look, it may be six of one, a half dozen of the other when you get right down to it. Why does it matter to you? Why is it such an important thing to you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it kind of struck me. I\u2019m willing to entertain that change, but, you know, another thing that you\u2019re always pointing out — especially with your montages<\/a> — is that the media always seems to be so coordinated.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They use the same words, the same phrases. They pursue or don\u2019t pursue the same stories. Historically we\u2019ve just thought, “Well, you know, the Democrats are feeding them those talking points, and that\u2019s the direction that they go.” But if it\u2019s the media that\u2019s actually formulating and pushing the agenda for the Democrats and others in the establishment, then who\u2019s running the media? How can they be so coordinated, unless… I mean, they\u2019re not just all getting together. Something or someone…?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>RUSH: This is the thing. I guess… You know, in my never-ending quest to explain the left to people — and, folks, I\u2019m gonna be doing this until my last day here. It\u2019s a never-ending quest, believe me. My mind changes over the years on certain things that I believe, as I learn more about it. But my point is there doesn\u2019t have to be coordination because they\u2019re all of similar mind-set. They\u2019re… In terms of coordinating the term “gravitas” or “looks bad,” much of that is taught in journalism school. But they have their own private chat rooms.<\/p>\n

Journalists have their own private chat rooms where they get together and chat with each other about just these kinds of things. It could well be that they\u2019re gathered in a bar after work consuming adult beverages and one of them happens to come up with a phrase. And they all like it and they all start using it and it spreads. But the point is they\u2019re all so like-minded, they\u2019re all so identical, it doesn\u2019t take coordination. Like, Lois Lerner did not have to get a memo to know to screw around with conservative groups seeking a tax exemption, because she\u2019s of a mind-set to deny them anyway. Because in her mind, they\u2019re illegitimate.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not leftists.<\/p>\n

The conservative groups are not liberal; therefore, they\u2019re illegitimate.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t deserve a fair break.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t deserve anything that might help them compete against liberals.<\/p>\n

So she didn\u2019t need a memo. There wouldn\u2019t be a smoking gun memo. She doesn\u2019t need instructions. Susan Rice did not need to be told to do what she did. Even though she may have been, she didn\u2019t need to be. Evelyn Farkas did what she did on her own and owned up to it. It\u2019s just who they are. This is my never-ending quest. You\u2019re looking for who is the grand pooh-bah? Who\u2019s the wizard behind the curtain issuing the marching orders? In the case of the media, there isn\u2019t one. But they all have the people who hire the underlings in positions of power, and they\u2019re all identical.<\/p>\n

I have no idea what the interviews are like. I don\u2019t know how they find, what the procedure is in interviewing applicants, say, for a correspondent at NBC News. What do you have to do to get that gig? In some cases, all you have to do is, in a small market, do a profile that destroys somebody, a powerful figure in your town, and you\u2019ll get noticed.<\/p>\n

But it all starts in journalism school. All this stuff starts in school. All of it starts in the educational system, the propagandizing, the indoctrination, it all starts there. And by the time these people are finished with their finishing schools called the Ivy League and they come out wearing the same kind of clothes, same kind of shoes, ready to get hired, they already have mastered the thought process, which is not even really a thought process. There is no thinking involved here. There\u2019s simple loyalty. Loyalty to the cause. And once you spot a loyal member of the movement, then you bring \u2019em on and you hire \u2019em.<\/p>\n

So I don\u2019t think a whole lot of coordination is required because there\u2019s not that much diversity of thought in this group of people. You don\u2019t have competing intellectual arguments inside the left. You either have acceptance or heresy. And if you\u2019re a heretic, they throw you out. They treat you like a member of the opposition, and you\u2019re done for. And that\u2019s when you end up at Fox or somewhere else. I\u2019m not saying that every leftist at Fox has been thrown out of the movement. There\u2019s some saboteurs in there too. Don\u2019t think that\u2019s not going on.<\/p>\n

\"\"But you don\u2019t see the saboteurs at Fox. If there are any saboteurs, they\u2019re editors, they\u2019re producers, people that are never on camera. The assignment editors, the people that define how a segment\u2019s gonna be discussed, what the questions are gonna be based on who the guests are. These people have it all covered, folks. Because this is not just a movement; it is a way of life. It is a religion.<\/p>\n

This is why I\u2019m on this never-ending quest — if more people understood this — look, I\u2019m gonna stop saying that. I\u2019m sure you\u2019re bored hearing me say that too. But I\u2019ve always believed that trying to find a way to convert more people to ideological understanding would be the greatest anti-leftist weapon we could develop.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Now, to maybe further illustrate my possible theory that it\u2019s not the Democrats that lead the way, that it\u2019s the media. That it\u2019s the Democrats very arm of the media, not that the media is the arm of the Democrats.  Let\u2019s take a look at it two things.  Let\u2019s take a look at the resistance movement.  Okay, so reverse things and say Hillary won but the Republicans are behaving like the Democrats are today, refusing to accept it, resisting everything. There are Republicans in Hillary\u2019s bureaucracy leaking details about all the criminality and so forth, what do you think the media would be doing?<\/p>\n

The media would not be supporting it.  The media would be ripping the Republicans to shreds for failing to accept the results of the election. They would be calling them bad sports, and they\u2019d be setting out trying to destroy them because they\u2019re not behaving in a mature way. They\u2019re threatening the Constitution. They\u2019re threatening the government. They\u2019re threatening the country. And they would be ridiculing everything they would be supporting the Democrats doing today and that\u2019s the difference.  The Democrats engage in this resistance, the election didn\u2019t happen, it\u2019s illegitimate, and the media does what?  Promotes it, legitimizes it, justifies it.<\/p>\n

Gorsuch, on this filibuster business, imagine that it was the Republicans stopping an Obama appointee that had been nominated, not like Garland and had a hearing, and doing all this, the media would be creaming the Republicans, but they\u2019re not doing that to the Democrats.  They\u2019re guiding them, they are amplifying, they\u2019re supporting, and they are running interference for the Democrats on this.  And that\u2019s important to understand in the whole context here of what is really going on.  There is no acceptance of the outcome of the election.  There is nothing but a focused effort to delegitimize everything that happened.<\/p>\n

And whatever it takes to do that is fine.  Whatever it takes to do that is supported and promoted.  And when the objects of this, when the Trump people, the Republicans, when the targets of this attempt to defend themselves, that is called proof of criminality.  And the question still remains:  When does this stop?  What stops it?  Because what we\u2019re in the middle of is indeed a battle for the control over the Constitution of this country and what it is going to say and how important and relevant it is going to be.  Make no mistake about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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