{"id":231756,"date":"2017-05-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=231756"},"modified":"2017-05-02T16:15:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T20:15:02","slug":"pathetic-nerd-prom-proved-press-cant-do-without-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/01\/pathetic-nerd-prom-proved-press-cant-do-without-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathetic Nerd Prom Proved Press Can\u2019t Do Without Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, the media had their big nerd prom on Saturday night, otherwise known as the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner. Trump wasn\u2019t there. He was in Pennsylvania doing a rally — a sold out, overflowing crowd \u00a0— where he specifically targeted the media. And the media specifically targeted him. You know what\u2019s funny?<\/p>\n

\"\"They had a banner at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner protecting or something the First Amendment, and these people want to act like Donald Trump poses the single greatest threat to freedom of the press and free speech than anybody ever has since the country was founded. And it is an absolute joke! Barack Hussein Obama did more to curtail press freedom than any president in this nation\u2019s history, and they looked the other way. They couldn\u2019t care less because they\u2019re in the same camp. There\u2019s not one bit of criticism…<\/p>\n

Well, I take it back. Some reporters have, in isolated examples, referenced how Obama hated the media, disrespect the media, and it hurt their feelings. They were Obama\u2019s gang! They wanted to be on Obama\u2019s team. They wanted to Obama to think they were on the team. They hoped Obama thought of them as equals. And Obama is like every other progressive leader; the press is just a bunch of tools to be used. If you have to patronize \u2019em, patronize \u2019em. But they\u2019re not your friends. You only want to make them think that you are.<\/p>\n

He tried to intimidate any number of reporters. AP… What he did to the Associated Press, and they looked the other way at it? And James Rosen of Fox News. The intimidation tactics — and yet here they are with that banner, “Protecting free speech,” or “the First Amendment” or whatever. I can tell you this: I have never had the Drive-By Media defend my First Amendment rights, and I\u2019m in the media. I\u2019ve never once had them defend them. In fact, just the exact opposite. I\u2019m in that part of the media that these media we\u2019re talking about would stamp out if they could.<\/p>\n

If they could, they would deny me my First Amendment rights. And if they could they\u2019d deny Fox News its First Amendment rights. So this bunch of hypocrites gathers up there and be acts like they\u2019re being put upon by Donald Trump. This gigantic breathing monster\u2019s about to destroy them! So they did a little dinner party Saturday night praising each other and talking about how worthwhile they are and how important they are and how cherished and all that they are. It was an exercise in narcissism. Here\u2019s a story from the AP:<\/p>\n

\"\"“Absent Glitter and Trump, Journalists Honor Press Freedom<\/a>. Prominent Washington journalists, if not Hollywood stars, celebrated the First Amendment during the [nerd prom], an event that lacked the glitter,” lacked glitter? “of past years because of the absence of the president of the United States”? It lacked glitter because Hollywood stars didn\u2019t show up! This ought to depress these people in the media. They\u2019re not enough to attract Hollywood stars.<\/p>\n

So Trump\u2019s not there, the president isn\u2019t there, and so no A-list Hollywood people showed up. No A-list sports celebrities showed up. So it turns out the Drive-By Media is not big enough to attract A-list celebrities to its nerd prom. They can\u2019t do it on their own. The A-listers couldn\u2019t be bothered to show up if Trump wasn\u2019t gonna be there. And the reason that they didn\u2019t show up is \u2019cause their pinata wasn\u2019t gonna show up. If their punching bag, i.e., Trump wasn\u2019t gonna be there, why should they be bothered to be there?<\/p>\n

“The stars of the night were Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who recounted what they learned about journalism from their reporting for The Washington Post that helped lead to President Richard Nixon\u2019s resignation more than 40 years ago.” I don\u2019t remember where I saw this. Some female sportswriter has written a piece. She\u2019s leaving the business and she\u2019s going to some journalism think tank or school or some such thing. She writes about how hard it was when she first had to go into a male locker room and how she had a jockstrap thrown at her and how she had to suffer all kinds of indignities.<\/p>\n

Her piece is a paeon to journalism and it\u2019s wonderful, and it\u2019s greatness, and its importance, and its relevance. And you know what every example she cites is? It\u2019s how they\u2019ve destroyed this person or that person or that business or this entity, how they exposed this hypocrite there. It was incredible to me. This woman writing of the virtues of journalism and how wonderful it is and how important it is, and her resume and her example of the greatness of journalism is a list of people and things that journalism has destroyed, in their world, taken down or exposed or what have you.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I\u2019ve always said, if you work for the Wabash Gazette and you want to work for the Washington Post, learn to destroy people that live in Wabash. And they\u2019ll notice you. So here, they\u2019re honoring Woodward and Bernstein for taking out Nixon 40 years ago, as examples of great journalism. Yes, this is what we do. And this is why we\u2019re important. And this is why they\u2019re great. And this is all the pretext for what they\u2019re trying to do now, is take out Trump.<\/p>\n

What I thought was hilarious about this in addition to all this stuff, the headliner, the entertainment headliner was somebody named Hasan Minhaj, or Minhaj. I don\u2019t know how he pronounces it. He\u2019s at the Daily Show. Is this the only show that liberals can go find comedians from, the comedy network, Comedy Central? What could be more appropriate than having a fake news anchorman from a fake news show from a comedy network headline the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner? How prophetic.<\/p>\n

Anyway, we go to the audio sound bites. Here\u2019s Trump. First we\u2019re gonna start with Trump on Face the Nation yesterday. John Dickerson, a massively left-wing progressive, is hosting the show and interviewing Trump. Question: “Did President Obama give you any advice that was helpful?”<\/p>\n