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RUSH: Well, you know, folks, it\u2019s just real simple here. From a purely analytical point of view — from a purely analytical point of view — the media prove time and time again they cannot be trusted to report the truth or the facts. We can\u2019t count on them anymore. First there was Katrina. We got forged documents, lies about the law regarding the NSA program; now this terrible mine accident. Time and again they report false information and spin. They rely on rumored sources. Somebody shouts out a rumor, they run with it. They take it to the air. The new standard in the media is: a guy runs up and tells you something. You don\u2019t know who your sources are. You don\u2019t know your source\u2019s name. You don\u2019t know anything about him but you report it as news, and then when it\u2019s all proven to be untrue, you get, ‘Oh, how awful,\u2019 but there\u2019s never any official taking of responsibility. There\u2019s never any accountability. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got this awful mine accident and these miner families. I don\u2019t know, how about you? I went to bed last night; right before I went to bed about midnight here comes the flash: ‘Twelve of thirteen miners found alive.\u2019 I said, ‘Wow, this is a miracle. This is cool.\u2019 I go up, get in bed. I get up this morning, find out it wasn\u2019t true<\/a>. Greetings and welcome, ladies and gentlemen. You are tuned to the award-winning, thrill-packed, ever-exciting, increasingly popular, growing-by-leaps-and-bounds Rush Limbaugh program, and we are here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. The telephone number is 800-282-2882. The e-mail address is Rush@eibnet.com<\/a>. I know, ladies and gentlemen, that I often chide many of you for wanting to call here and complain about what you saw in the media, because I say, ‘It happens every day. It\u2019s not news anymore.\u2019 There are days like this, I just get so disgusted and I just get some frustrated about it that — and I\u2019m allowed because I\u2019m the head honcho here, even I want to break my own rule. I mean, let\u2019s take a look at the media. This is an industry that supposedly trades on facts, supposedly trades on truth, and if it can\u2019t be trusted how is it any different than Enron or WorldCom? <\/p>\n

We are the consumers of this information, and if the information is repeatedly <\/emphasize>unreliable then the product is defective and those people selling it are dishonest, and I have made this observation countless times. The news, you have to look at it the same way you look at any retail product on the shelf at your favorite store. It\u2019s product. It\u2019s packaged. It\u2019s assembled. It\u2019s marketed. The news today is not what happened. The news today is what reporters want <\/emphasize>to happen. The news today is propaganda. The news today is agenda-oriented. You take a look at this Abramoff scandal. It\u2019s all Republicans, and we don\u2019t know anything about it yet. It\u2019s supposedly all Republicans. Let\u2019s see… (shuffling papers) I can\u2019t believe I would have put this in the bottom of the stack because I was going to talk about it at the top. Look at all the various differences there are in the number of people the Abramoff scandal could touch and reach. Well, I\u2019ll find it here in just a second. I\u2019m actually getting a little bit ahead of myself. (Oh, look at that. Lynn Swann going to announce for governor of Pennsylvania today.) At any rate, the difference is I don\u2019t hold myself out as a journalist.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t pretend to be a journalist. For one thing, I smile <\/emphasize>too much. For another thing, I\u2019m happy too often. For the third thing, I\u2019m optimistic. You know, I\u2019m not looking <\/emphasize>for doom and gloom. I\u2019m not looking <\/emphasize>for the horrible aspect of anything. I\u2019m not looking to do any of that. I am a conservative. I have certain beliefs. My beliefs are based on tradition, history, values, and principle. But the media? The media pretend not to be influenced by any of this. They pretend to be merely the conduits through which fact and truth flow. They simply say they\u2019re objective. Why, they have no agenda — and look at this guy, Risen from the New York Times yesterday in his appearance on the Today Show. We played the sound bites from it. This guy\u2019s become an advocate. He\u2019s a pure, nothing-but advocate. He\u2019s not a journalist of any kind. While they pretend to be merely the conduits through which fact and truth flow, we know this to be false — and I\u2019ll tell you something. It\u2019s time for a serious debate in this country about the proper role of the news media. <\/p>\n

I know they have constitutional mention and protection, and I don\u2019t in any way favor government policing the media the way the media favors government policing of political speech, by the way. I mean, the media is all out there in favor of the government policing political speech because they know they\u2019re immune to it. They are immune from any changes that are made, but it is clear that self-policing isn\u2019t working, either. There is no accountability. Where are all the editors? Where are all the levels in this miner story, for example? We keep hearing that you can\u2019t trust talk radio. ‘You can\u2019t trust Matt Drudge. You can\u2019t trust the Internet, because there aren\u2019t any filters! It\u2019s just a bunch of wackos doing what they want to do, advancing their own agenda.\u2019 How is that really any different from what the mainstream media, the old media, is today? Where are the filters? Who are the filters? Well, the filters are no different than the reporters. They got the same agenda. They have the same purpose. But they deny <\/emphasize>it. The last thing they\u2019re interested in is fact. The last thing they\u2019re interested in is truth. They don\u2019t report what happened. They report what they want to happen.<\/emphasize> I mean, I don\u2019t even think it\u2019s professional anymore. The level of professionalism in the mainstream media has sunk now to new lows — and you know why people enter the media today? <\/p>\n

Go into any journalism school. I\u2019ve told you this. Walk down the hall at your favorite journalism school, ask some budding, young, nubile, little journalism student, stars in his or her eyes, ‘Why are you here?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Because I want to change the world!\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Well, that\u2019s not what you\u2019re supposed to do in journalism. Journalism is standing on the corner and telling the people who aren\u2019t there what happened there, if something noteworthy does happen there.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘No, no, no. I want to change the world.\u2019<\/p>\n

was all about and All that means is they don\u2019t go into journalism to report the news anymore; they go into journalism to influence policy. That\u2019s what James Risen is all about at the New York Times. That\u2019s what Dan RatherMary Mapes. That\u2019s what all these reporters who covered Katrina were all about. It was all about attacking Bush and his policies. Vanity Fair magazine? It\u2019s got this puff piece coming out on the ‘prosecutor\u2019s prosecutor,\u2019 Patrick Fitzgerald. They don\u2019t give a damn <\/emphasize>about Patrick Fitzgerald. They\u2019re using it as an excuse to attack Bush. The media don\u2019t care about John Murtha. He can\u2019t keep himself off the news. He\u2019s become addicted to his camera time, face time, and his 15 minutes of fame times ten. They don\u2019t care about John Murtha personally, and they never did care about Murtha, until he became their useful idiot and started allowing them to advance their agenda. We know now, for example, the death toll resulting from Hurricane Katrina was not only smaller <\/emphasize>than originally reported but that it was not disproportionately minorities who died from the hurricane and the flooding. <\/p>\n

We know that just the opposite <\/emphasize>of what was reported happens to be true. Katrina, that hurricane, was just another event that was used through lies and shabby reporting to attack Bush, to accuse him of racism, incompetence, lack of compassion and all that — and the media are in the midst of losing respect, and they deny it. They\u2019re living in utter denial. They\u2019ve created this false universe, this alternative reality in which they live. They have become disreputable. They pretend they\u2019re reporting news when in fact they first and foremost promote their own agenda. In fact, I don\u2019t think they give a damn about the news at all. I think they use events in this country to try to promote their agenda. The news doesn\u2019t mean anything to them. The miner story was — you wait. It won\u2019t be long before we get stories on, ‘Why didn\u2019t Bush care? Why does Bush not want to change this mining?\u2019 They don\u2019t know there are stories out there how there have been improvements in mine safety. You wait, in order to get the attention of their disastrous reporting of last night off the front pages and off everybody\u2019s focus.<\/p>\n

You wait, in order to get the attention of their disastrous reporting of last night off the front pages and off everybody\u2019s focus, they\u2019ll find a way to turn this into an examination of Bush policies, how Bush doesn\u2019t care about union people. I don\u2019t know how it\u2019s going to manifest itself, but it will at some point, because every event that takes place in this country is used to promote their agenda. Every event is an opportunity to lecture us about some social policy or take sides politically. They are propagandists. I mean, look it how the revelation of Valerie Plame\u2019s name and this current leak are treated. In one case whoever leaked Valerie Plame\u2019s name, ‘Why, why, we\u2019ve got to put those people in jail! Why, that\u2019s outrageous, giving up a covert agent\u2019s identity!\u2019 It never happened! She wasn\u2019t covert. How many times does this need to be reported? If she wasn\u2019t covert, no crime has been charged — and yet <\/emphasize>the real scum that leaked this NSA story are being portrayed as whistleblowers and heroes and the New York Times has an editorial today saying: We must understand the difference between whistleblowers and leakers, and these whistleblowers must be treated with great care and great respect. <\/emphasize><\/p>\n

Look at how the media won\u2019t even report honestly about the travesty that is the Tom DeLay case. Look at how history completely is ignored — Abraham Lincoln, FDR and others — when accusing Bush of seizing power. He has, actually, refused to do that. Bush didn\u2019t seize all the power that he inherently has. Go back and look at what Lincoln did, FDR did. Do you know that FDR — I was going to mention this yesterday — FDR actually had every letter from soldiers sent home opened and read and censored and monitored? Yes, FDR did this during the World War II, if not every letter, quite a few of them. Soldiers\u2019 letters home were opened and read. You never knew who might be sending in what. We were at war. Can you imagine <\/emphasize>if something like that were happening today? Can you imagine the outcry? But the historical perspective on all this is lost, just like, ‘Bush lied about prewar intel and weapons of mass destruction.\u2019 We have documented countless times. I don\u2019t know how many times on this program alone. All the things back in 1998 uttered by Bill Clinton and every Democrat that\u2019s in the Senate today that was in the Senate then, we\u2019ve gone back and chronicled for you what the New York Times, the Washington Post, the magazines and networks all said back then. It\u2019s identical <\/emphasize>to what\u2019s being said about Iraq leading up to our war, but you would not know it if you watched the big media because history began for them in 2001. What happened in the past — I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s Lincoln; I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s FDR or as recently as 1998 — they don\u2019t care. It doesn\u2019t fit the agenda. They\u2019re not reporting news. They\u2019re not giving perspective. They are advancing an agenda. They are propagandists.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you look at the media with the economy, they jump all over Bush when the economy has slowed. They pay minimal attention to the great economic indicators today. We have a credibility gap, and I can calculate the credibility gap because I know numbers and I know economics. We have an economy right now that in any other time with a Democrat president, you go out and take a poll on the economy today and the people of this country rate the economy good or great by a tune of 65, 70%. Mainstream media gets hold of that today, shakes their questions, shakes their sample, you get an approval number of 45% — in a booming economy! Look what happened yesterday. They got hold of some leak notes that the Federal Reserve\u2019s going to stop raising rates, stock market spiked yesterday, huge bump-up, all the indexes did. I mean, it\u2019s terrific out there. Unemployment is down. Home buying has never been easier for most people in the country — Snerdley excluded — and yet the reporting on this is that the economy is dismal. There was a story that I saw today that some ‘expert\u2019 somewhere is predicting a recession! <\/p>\n

This is just utterly irresponsible! So you can find one pointy-headed academic elitist who wants to be first in line to predict bad news, and there you, hear, ‘Oh, we got a guy predicting bad news. Why, he\u2019s our hero today! Let\u2019s go out and report this. Let\u2019s go out and make the central economic story the fact that there\u2019s a recession lingering <\/emphasize>in the future here.\u2019 Look how they report liberal demagoguery when oil and gas prices go up. They repeat the lies about ‘windfall profits\u2019 when there aren\u2019t any. Barely a word, though, when prices go down as a result of supply and demand. In fact, it\u2019s even worse than that. Prices will develop 50 cents, 75 cents a gallon, no reporting on it. After that drop has taken place they\u2019ll jump up two or three cents and we\u2019ll get a story about how gas prices are rising with no reporting on how they came down — because of supply and demand, because of the great American economy, because of capitalism. No news: zilch, zero, nada. Look how they focus on the homeless when a Republican is president.<\/p>\n

They all but disappear when a Democrat is president. There aren\u2019t any homeless. There\u2019s no homeless problem when a Democrat\u2019s in the White House. Now we got a story in the stack today. Somebody is actually suggesting if you give the homeless a bunch of booze it will make their lives more enjoyable. The Canadians. The Canadians say, ‘Oh, yeah. Give them some sherry and give them some wine and you\u2019ll improve their quality of life,\u2019 and this is touted as revolutionary. Revela<\/emphasize>tionary! This is touted as advance and elitist and ahead of the curve. Look how they slobber all over the Clintons. Bill Clinton never received a majority vote of the people of this country. Hillary hadn\u2019t even been nominated yet. They may as well be king and queen of this country, as far as the media is concerned. They\u2019re trying to nominate McCain on the Republican side with endless fawning coverage of his ‘independence,\u2019 and they only like McCain\u2019s independence because that\u2019s independence from the president and the conservative agenda.<\/p>\n

McCain thinks they like him personally just like Murtha thinks they like him personally, just like Fitzgerald is going to end up thinking they like him personally, when it\u2019s not personal all! It\u2019s about their agenda. <\/emphasize>It\u2019s about their propaganda. <\/emphasize>It\u2019s about turning these people into useful idiots, and they just willingly, almost sycophantly go along with it — or sycophantishly, whatever the correct word is. I could go on and on here, and I intend to go on and on. My point is not that we should or should ignore the media. The point is that we should take note of the fact that the media are not what they say they are. They are not journalists seeking the truth and seeking facts. That is false advertising. They have a defective product. They are losing the respect of the public. They\u2019ve lost it in West Virginia now. They are losing credibility, the way any dishonest company and profession does. I mean, you go to bed thinking 12 miners are alive only to wake up the next day to find out that all but one of them is dead. It\u2019s shocking. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s stunning. It\u2019s completely irresponsible. It was unnecessary. But some guy comes running up, ‘They\u2019re all alive! They\u2019re all alive,\u2019 bam! The pressure is on to be first with the news so that the TV blogs on the Internet will credit you with being first. Forget that your audience is the American people. No, your audience is other journalists. Your audience is other networks. Your audience is a bunch of dumb, stupid bloggers on the Internet who are reporting on what you do. So now, in the face of this crisis in West Virginia, what will the media do? Well, I\u2019ll predict to you we\u2019ll get another panel discussion of Harvard, or at the Kennedy School, at the Shorenstam Center, or wherever. Marvin Kalb will moderate. He will lament how bad the news media is — not the news media, the new <\/emphasize>media. He will lament that all this pressure is brought about by people like me and Matt Drudge and talk radio, because there is not time to do instant checking anymore. The old media\u2019s ways are just gone. <\/p>\n

‘We don\u2019t have time because they\u2019re constantly under assault.\u2019 So the focus will be on how the new media is causing the old media to make mistakes. We\u2019ll hear about how full of professionals the old media. We\u2019ll hear all about checks and balances and all the rest of the baloney and they\u2019ll pat themselves on the back, with the usual arrogance and sanctimony we\u2019ve come to expect. They\u2019ll tell everybody <\/emphasize>how they try to do what\u2019s right, how they try to report the news, but they\u2019re not perfect — and of course with all this pressure being brought to bear by these irresponsible hacks on the radio and on the Internet who have no filters, why, it\u2019s tougher than ever! Why, Dan Rather comes out with a perfectly good story on documents saying Bush never went to the National Guard and, lo and behold, Dan Rather is attacked! ‘Why, Dan Rather became the news and we haven\u2019t faced this before and this is something we don\u2019t know how to deal with. Dan Rather should not be part the story.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Ignoramuses!<\/p>\n

Dan Rather has made himself a part of the news since the day he get in the business. Dan Rather has been the news. That\u2019s the whole point of any television journalist today is to be the news. Ask yourself when you look at a TV ad promoting some new anchor or new show. The focus is always on the personality, not the fact that you get the news factually or truthfully or best but there\u2019s some anchor out there that\u2019s going to dazzle you and wow you and get you all excited to watch their network. Meanwhile, we don\u2019t know what credentials the anchor has. We don\u2019t know what experience he has, other than he cried good on TV during Hurricane Katrina. He looked like he really cared and he was really tough on the government — the Bush administration government! They pat themselves on the back, all the arrogance and sanctimony that they can imagine, tell everybody how they try to do what\u2019s right but in the end they take no responsibility at all<\/emphasize> for what they do. Michael Isikoff reports they\u2019re flushing Korans down the toilet at Guantanamo Bay, takes no responsibility whatsoever. They just complain about sourcing and debate, whether we need one, two or three unnamed or named. Yip yip yahoo.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sue from Los Angeles. Welcome, Sue, to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Hi. Can you hear me?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I hear you fine, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. I was watching. Long after you went to bed I was watching CNN and Fox \u2019til three in the morning, because I was looking for the source of the news that they were all alive, and finally the source came on, and it was announced. They said that the mining company officials had gone into the church and told them that they were all alive. So they\u2019re actually the source of the information, not the media. You\u2019re totally right about the media, and I hate to see your point discredited or discounted because of this one issue.<\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m not. I\u2019m not going to be discredited on this one issue. But, see, if I turn out to be wrong I have no problem admitting it, and I\u2019ll take responsibility for what my mistakes are, and I\u2019ll be accountable to myself.<\/line>CALLER: Okay.<\/line>RUSH: But there are ways to avoid this. Let\u2019s listen to this. We\u2019re not talking about what happened three hours later. Three hours later, that\u2019s enough time to get it right in the first place. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites, shall we, ladies and gentlemen? Let\u2019s go audio sound bite number — and I don\u2019t mean to pick on anybody here. It\u2019s just this who we have: Anderson Cooper. This is last night around ten minutes to 12 noon on CNN.<\/line>COOPER: Wow. The families, we are told, that are screaming — some family members screamed that twelve people were found alive. That is, uh… A number of people have been yelling and screaming, ‘Twelve alive! Twelve alive.\u2019 Sir, what have you heard? Please come tell us!<\/line>RUSH: All right. So yelling and screaming, a bunch of unnamed sources, unconfirmed sources, yelling, “They\u2019re alive. They\u2019re alive. They\u2019re alive.” Well, now, everybody wants to hear that news. That\u2019s the news everybody was waiting and hoping to hear. But this is how it gets reported: a bunch of people running around the street, and Cooper snags this one guy. It turns out his name is Terry Goff. He\u2019s a friend of the trapped miner Terry Helms, and here\u2019s that exchange.<\/line>COOPER: You\u2019re a friend of Terry Helms. Terry was ? What have you heard?<\/line>GOFF: They just come out of the mines. We got 12 alive.<\/line> COOPER: Where did you — who told you that?<\/line>GOFF: They just come out of the mines. And saying official now, said we got 12 alive.<\/line>COOPER: That is incredible news<\/line>RUSH: Okay, now some of you might say, “Ah, Rush, what are you going to do? It\u2019s breaking news.” When you are in the truth business, when you are in the truth-and-fact business, you\u2019re supposed to be immune to all these be-first-with-it pressures and so forth, and just standing around the streets waiting for people running through the streets to tell you what they <\/emphasize>have heard — and then reporting it as fact is where they got into trouble. If now three hours later it finally is found, “Well, these people were told by an official from the mines,” what happened three hours later is simply, “Okay, well, here\u2019s our excuse. There\u2019s our excuse. It took us three hours to run it down,” but it still was premature. It was not true what was reported, and the sourcing on this, folks. It\u2019s no different than the kind of stuff that gave us the reports coming out of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Continuing on with the theme about the mainstream press being nowhere near a truthful, factual business anymore. Continuing on with the theme that the media today reports the news as they hope <\/emphasize>it turns out rather than reporting the news as it is. We went back. H.R. found some interesting stuff from the January 10th, 2005, Newsweek<\/a>. “It was just a little after seven p.m. on election night 2004. The network exit polls showed John Kerry leading George Bush in both Florida and Ohio by three points. Kerry\u2019s aides were confident that the Democratic candidate would carry these key swing states. Bush had not broken 48% in Kerry\u2019s recent tracking polls. The aides were a little hesitant to interrupt Kerry as he was fielding satellite TV interviews in a last get-out-the-vote push. Still the seven o\u2019clock exit polls were considered to be reasonably reliable. Time to tell the candidate the good news. Kerry had slept only two hours the night before. He was sitting in a small hotel room at the Westin Copley, in a small irony of history next door to the hotel where his grandfather, a boom-and-bust businessman, shot himself some 80 years ago. Bob Shrum, Kerry\u2019s friend and close advisor couldn\u2019t resist the moment. ‘May I be the first to say “Mr. President,”‘ said Shrum.”<\/line>Well, we came to learn later that the libs had stacked their own exit polls! The libs had sent people out there to participate in exit polls, and they stacked them, and they did this for the express purpose of demoralizing people who hadn\u2019t yet voted and they wanted the reporting of these early exit polls starting at two o\u2019clock and then the updates at four, 4:30, to depress Bush vote turnout, and then when the actual returns, when the actual votes started being counted and the exit polls showed no relevance, the media was beside itself. They were stunned. Not just the Democrats, but in a clear-cut example of reporting the news they hoped would be, they forgot that votes are what\u2019s counted; not exit poll tallies. Then after that, if you remember, some Democrats demanded an investigation of the real <\/emphasize>vote because of the disparity in the exit polling results. That was the first conspiracy they seized on. “Well, this has to be something wrong with the actual vote count. We know Republicans steal elections,” and don\u2019t forget the psychological disorder of projection: Democrats accuse us primarily of things they do themselves. They\u2019re out there alleging and charging vote fraud, and it was, absurd. It was patently absurd. <\/line>The media picked it up and ran with it. “Yes, this is a reasonable story. We\u2019re going to run with this; we\u2019re going to explore this. The great disparity between the exit polls and the actual votes is so great that we must examine the actual votes,” and the exit polls, anybody can come out and tell you anything they want to. They can lie to you. You know, lying to exit pollsters is a fun thing to encourage people to do. Just to screw these people up. The real vote is what counts. But, no, since it didn\u2019t show Kerry winning, they had to find some reason to find fault with the real vote and assume the exit polling was accurate. All right, let me go back to the audio sound bites. We have two more bites here. Both are from CNN, and we shared with you the first two. The first reports about 11:50 last night, CNN — and they all did it. We just have audio from CNN. I\u2019m not picking on just one here. Miners are alive! Miners are alive! People are running through the streets, ‘Miners are alive!'” It gets reported, bammo. Then a friend comes up to Anderson Cooper, “Yeah, yeah! They just came out of the mines. We\u2019ve got twelve alive.”<\/line>“There you have it: the miners are alive! Happy New Year, da-da-da-da-da. Let\u2019s all sing Amazing Grace.” <\/line> Now it\u2019s 2:47 this morning, Anderson Cooper live from West Virginia, speaking to an unidentified woman, and she had this exchange with him.<\/line><\/p>\n

WOMAN: There\u2019s only one. There\u2019s only one made it out alive. <\/line>COOPER: What? Wuh? What?<\/line>WOMAN: I think the name was Randall Ware. The governor is in there. This big in charge CEO of the mine is apologizing, and it\u2019s all — they did nothing but — I don\u2019t know how this information had come out.<\/line>COOPER: Where..? Where…? Where?<\/line>WOMAN: There\u2019s one person alive and he\u2019s en route to the hospital.<\/line>RUSH: So this morning a West Virginian decided to lecture the media on what they did. This is a woman who doesn\u2019t live in the media bubble like I was talking about yesterday. Just like they did in Hurricane Katrina, big media, totally out of control here. What happened to their editors, where were all these filters that we\u2019ve been lectured about and told that we don\u2019t have? We\u2019re not responsible. We can\u2019t be trusted. We don\u2019t have editors. We don\u2019t have filters. We don\u2019t have people making sure that rumors are not true. We don\u2019t have people checking our sources. Where is all that these days in the mainstream media? Why didn\u2019t they need two or three sources on this last night?<\/line>WOMAN: What doesn\u2019t seem fair is, sure, there might have been this miscommunication error, but why did it get broadcasted all over the world, why didn\u2019t somebody stop it? When we came in they were sing Amazing Grace right here in front of the church and I\u2019ll Fly Away. You know, for three hours. Put everything through this. It\u2019s unbelievable how — I mean, where\u2019s the compassion in that? That went on for three hours. Children — young children, obviously —<\/line>COOPER: Mmmn.<\/line>WOMAN: — young children, just — you know. It\u2019s a small — it\u2019s a small community. How could nobody have compassion to say, “Just hold on for a minute.” Something — there\u2019s — there\u2019s an error and the survivors or something. It\u2019s unbelievable.<\/line>RUSH: No, madam, it\u2019s not unbelievable. It\u2019s commonplace. This is the exact kind of thing that happened in Hurricane Katrina, the aftermath there. Same exact <\/emphasize>kind of thing, same exact kind of thing we get in too many stories these days. I think it\u2019s symptomatic of the lack of professionalism and attention to detail. This is a business which is failing <\/emphasize>its consumers, and of course now the excuse today? What is the excuse today? Well, the story is what, Mr. Snerdley? That somebody, the original error is somebody overheard someone? A foreman of a mine overheard a conversation and called a family member in a church, and that started this whole snowball. So a foreman overheard a phone call between a family member and somebody, spread the word in the church over what he thought <\/emphasize>he had heard, and that became the source, the genesis of this story that the miners were alive and that 12 of the 13 had survived and had been rescued. <\/line>Now, I\u2019m surprised it hasn\u2019t happened yet. You may be more informed than I. Are you sure some mine <\/emphasize>executive is not being blamed. (interruption) Oh, this guy, the foreman (interruption). A foreman was in the command center, and he heard a company executive? (interruption) Ah, okay. So you got a guy listening in on a conversation, one side of a conversation. He\u2019s not on the phone himself, because he\u2019s overhearing a phone conversation, one guy. One guy. Yeah. (interruption) Overheard. Okay. All right. Figures. I mean, that\u2019s how news ends up being reported these days. You might say, “Well, Rush, what actually is wrong with this?” because everybody wants these people to be alive. Yeah, no question about it, but (sigh). You might just say, “Okay, we\u2019ve heard what we want to hear. Let\u2019s run with it.” But it clearly wasn\u2019t verified. That\u2019s the bottom line.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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