{"id":234306,"date":"2017-05-19T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=234306"},"modified":"2017-05-22T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T20:06:09","slug":"the-ignorant-reaction-to-the-passing-of-roger-ailes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/19\/the-ignorant-reaction-to-the-passing-of-roger-ailes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ignorant Reaction to the Passing of Roger Ailes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The reaction to the <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2017\/05\/18\/the-roger-ailes-i-knew\/\">passing of Roger Ailes yesterday morning<\/a> has created some of the most nonsensical, uninformed, wild guess, bigoted analysis that I\u2019ve seen. And some of it is among the most vicious I\u2019ve ever seen. And among the most virtue is out there on Millennial blogs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-234045\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Roger-Ailes-325x325.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Roger-Ailes-325x325.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Roger-Ailes-325x325-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Roger-Ailes-325x325-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>Such things as, &#8220;The worst thing that ever happened to America was that Roger Ailes lived, and wherever the ass of this nation is that gave birth to him needs to be eliminated.&#8221; Stuff like that. It is just wholly, totally despicable, reprehensible stuff. I would say that no matter who it\u2019s written about. And I&#8230; Folks, I don\u2019t care what you want to say: This kind of stuff wasn\u2019t widely disbursed in our culture that long ago. I think the people have always been there.<\/p>\n<p>I think reprobates have always been out there. I think scum have always been out there. They\u2019ve just never had a way of being seen or heard. Now they have mechanisms to be seen or heard, and I can\u2019t help but think that it over all coarsens our entire culture. There are no limits. There are no boundaries. There\u2019s no remorse. There\u2019s not even the slightest hint that these people think they are way beyond propriety and decency. But worse, it\u2019s irrational.<\/p>\n<p>These young little clowns don\u2019t even know Roger Ailes, never knew him, have no idea what they\u2019re even talking about. They are simply products of the hate that they\u2019ve been taught.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, here we go. This is last night on CNN. Anderson Cooper 319 speaking with Brian Stelter, who is media whiz bang at CNN, knows everything there is to know about the media and the people in it. And is eminently qualified to render opinions and judgments on anybody and everybody in the media. Little Brian. And he does. So Anderson Cooper said, &#8220;On conservative media it\u2019s deny, deflect, downplay. That\u2019s basically what the coverage is in conservative media these days, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>STELTER: All about providing the counternarrative. Uh, the Trump White House helps do this, but really it\u2019s pro-Trump media that help do this, provide a counternarrative for people to share on their Facebook pages, to share on Twitter and to discuss with their friends. I think we all feel more and more we\u2019re in these echo chambers. We\u2019re in these filter bubbles where people are sharing views they agree with. Fox is an unusual situation right now. The reins are quite soft by Fox standards. This is about providing the customers what they want. They may not be the best thing (snickers), though, in a democracy to be so focused on what the customers want as opposed to news consumers &#8212; or more importantly, voters, viewers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/212546\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, right there, that last part of this comment is the thing I want to focus on. My entire career I have noted and observed that everybody is a customer. News is a business &#8212; and the watchers, the viewers, are customers. It\u2019s the only business when the customers complain, they\u2019re told they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about. You heard the old adage, &#8220;The customer is always right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the news business, when you complain about editorializing or unfair bias, you\u2019re told one version or another of you\u2019re too unsophisticated to know how they do what they do, and they don\u2019t really care. They don\u2019t care whether their customers are happy or not, because they\u2019re not doing the news for their customers. CNN\u2019s proven this for I don\u2019t know how many years. They don\u2019t have any! They\u2019ve got alternative ways of making money like cable subscriber fees and advertising agents that buy time simply for liberal loyalty and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>But they\u2019re not buying a big audience. CNN doesn\u2019t have it. Now, they supposedly look at the audience as viewers or as voters, and I think this is an important distinction for you to understand them. They have their narrative and they\u2019re allowed to have their narrative, and their narrative is the only one. If somebody comes along with an alternative narrative, they\u2019re fake, they\u2019re phony, they\u2019re playing games, they\u2019re lying. It\u2019s routinely said and believed that the Fox audience is dumb and stupid and is a bunch of mind-numbed robots.<\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re being toyed with and played with by master manipulators who understand how to use emotion and manipulation to hook people into false narratives that aren\u2019t true. They haven\u2019t the slightest idea what Fox News does. It\u2019s the most amazing thing. Fox News, up until recently, was running rings around everybody in the news business, ratings-wise. And rather than these people trying to figure out why it was happening, they demeaned it, they impugned it, and said it wasn\u2019t real.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2017\/05\/18\/the-roger-ailes-i-knew\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-234342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ailes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ailes.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ailes-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>This would be like an AAA baseball team talking about the New York Yankees as though the Yankees haven\u2019t the slightest idea who they are, what they\u2019re doing, and that the Yankees are the frauds. And the AAA baseball team is really the answer to what\u2019s going on in baseball. And MSNBC does the same thing, and the New York Times. All their media analysts look at Fox News as though it\u2019s not news. It\u2019s something else because it doesn\u2019t do what the Drive-Bys claim is news.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the most amazing psychological circumstances that they set up to justify the fact that Fox was killing them. They had to tell themselves, &#8220;Well, no, Fox is not killing us because Fox doesn\u2019t do what we do. Fox doesn\u2019t do the news. Fox doesn\u2019t do honesty. Fox simply is manipulating customers.&#8221; You heard it here: There\u2019s disdain for the idea customers or consumers in news. And yet it\u2019s a business. Here\u2019s the next bite. Anderson Cooper says, &#8220;Well, look at Roger Ailes. His death was announced today. He created Fox News. The blending of entertainment and journalism was something he pushed forward and made pretty big.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>STELTER: I was speaking with a Fox source today who said, &#8220;Ailes understood President Trump\u2019s base long before there was a President Trump, long before, uhhh, Trump even entered the race.&#8221; Ailes understood there was a disaffected portion of the country to program to, and that\u2019s what Fox continues to do but nowadays &#8212; uh, partly Ailes created Fox &#8212; it\u2019s been joined by many other conservative media outlets that all reinforce this counternarrative.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, he\u2019s got his timeline a little out of whack. We started here in 1988, then Rush Limbaugh the TV show that Ailes exec produced from \u201992 to \u201996, and then a bunch of other radio talk show came and Fox went on the air in 1996. But that notwithstanding, the idea that Ailes knew Trump\u2019s base before Trump did? It\u2019s just a great little open window into how they see you, if you\u2019re a Trump voter, if you\u2019re the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you don\u2019t watch CNN &#8212; if you don\u2019t watch MSNBC or CBS, ABC, or any of the big media &#8212; you are something of an aberration. They don\u2019t even want you in their audience, because you\u2019re&#8230; I mean, you don\u2019t believe the truth, you don\u2019t believe the right narratives &#8212; and of course, the disaffected portion of the nation he described is automatically illegitimate and not worthy of listening to.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Just one more thing about this second bite that we played. You notice how little Brian continues to believe that CNN represents the majority of people in the country and that Fox and conservative media represent the disaffected portion? You look at a map. Look at a map of counties any way you want to look at it, states in this Country, and you gonna find out where the majority actually is and why we\u2019re so frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re winning elections. We\u2019re doing everything we can at the ballot box. We are the majority in this country, and it\u2019s evidenced over and over election-wise. It may not be apparent in pop culture, in places like this where the left owns. But we\u2019re continually marginalized over here the disaffected this and that. It\u2019s CNN that doesn\u2019t have any audience, relatively, and yet they sit here and they tell themselves that they\u2019re ruling the roost and the king and queen of whatever. It\u2019s a serious misjudgment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-234363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AilesHWBush-768x514-1-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AilesHWBush-768x514-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AilesHWBush-768x514-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>You know, I remember talking to Ailes all during the four years of Rush the TV show. When he left, when we shut down the TV show&#8230; He went over to CNBC, and created what is now MSNBC. It used to be called America\u2019s Talking. It\u2019s where he met his wife, Beth. She was a programmer there. And he was attempting with&#8230; He ran CNBC for a while and created a whole new channel for NBC called America\u2019s Talking, which eventually became MSNBC when Microsoft got involved.<\/p>\n<p>But he had run-ins with executives over at NBC because even there he was trying to slowly transform the network into a semblance of balance. He wasn\u2019t trying to go all conservative, all the time on it. And he was frustrated by some of the roadblocks that were in his way. I remember going to Patsy\u2019s (we went to dinner at Patsy\u2019s more than anywhere else, West 56th between 8th and Broadway) and talking about the possibility of a conservative-oriented cable network.<\/p>\n<p>He told me one day after he had had his first initial conversations with Rupert Murdoch that he thought was actually possible. He was thinking about it long before, of course, it actually went on the air. But it was a pet project and a dream that came true. And as I say, he met his wife when he was over at NBC. This would be around \u201995 and \u201997. He was doing the NBC stuff while executive producing Rush Limbaugh: The Television Show, which was, you know, a forerunner to much of what you see on TV. Think Comedy Central and all of that.<\/p>\n<p>But I have to tell you a little bit about &#8212; just a short little bit about &#8212; Elizabeth, especially in light of recent news. I have to tell you, folks, there is&#8230; Roger Ailes was one of the luckiest men on earth. I have never seen a woman more devoted and more loyal and more supportive. The only reason I mention this&#8230; I\u2019m not trying to embarrass anybody, but part of the coverage yesterday from some of these &#8220;biographers&#8221; and others was that they were separated and that Roger was suicidal, and I can tell you unequivocally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They only live a half mile from me. I can tell you unequivocally that there is literally nothing to any of that. Zip, zero, nada. Roger\u2019s death is not to do with any of the pressures of what had happened and the aftermath. He never cracked. He was still thinking about the future. So many people are wanting to have other people think that they are so close to people who end up being principals in news stories. I mean, it\u2019s just amazing. Princess Di. Remember when she passed away and there were all these people showing up to place flowers at the memorial and all the people in the parade?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-234364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ailes156389853-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ailes156389853-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ailes156389853.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/>We\u2019re asking ourselves, &#8220;What in the world is going on here? This woman&#8230;&#8221; We knew she was popular, but what we concluded was that it was just a lot of people wanted to be in the story, that the cameras were on that place where everybody\u2019s dropping flowers all the time, and you could get on TV by being in the story.<\/p>\n<p>So a story like this happens like the death of Roger Ailes, and there are a lot of people who start calling the media, &#8220;You know, Roger was my best buddy. Roger and we sat around and&#8230;&#8221; It\u2019s a fascinating thing about ego, particularly performers\u2019 egos. And then people start making things up that they don\u2019t know. And there\u2019s always gonna be somebody willing to listen and reprint some of that stuff if it\u2019s salacious.<\/p>\n<p>One more of these, and then I\u2019ve got two other things I want to run by you. One of them involves Andrew Cuomo. No, Chris Cuomo. This guy saying some stupid stuff. I mean, when I say &#8220;stupid,&#8221; I\u2019m talking about IQ stupid stuff. Newt Gingrich has a great idea about Trump and the Washington press corps. But here, the last audio sound bite here on Ailes and television.<\/p>\n<p>It was on Charlie Rose, CBS This Morning, and Charlie is talking to the NPR, National Public Radio, media expert, whose name is David Folkenflik, and Charlie Rose &#8212; who admitted to never understanding who Obama of any or what he was all about in an appearance with Tom Brokaw &#8212; said to Mr. Folkenflik (whispering), &#8220;What was it that Roger Ailes knew about television?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ROSE: Was what it he knew about television, though? What did he understand that enabled him to do what he did and be as to work like George Bush 41, Richard Nixon, and others?<\/p>\n<p>FOLKENFLIK: It\u2019s a question about messaging. It\u2019s a question about identifying storylines, both as a campaigner and as a guy on the air. He said, &#8220;You know, we know who the heroes are gonna be and the villains are gonna be. We know who the victims are gonna be and who the saviors are gonna be. We\u2019re gonna give a story every day that people can latch on to and hold on to. As a newsman, it might not be the most important journalistic story to follow &#8212; might, in fact, ultimately prove shaky or even be based on a conspiracy theory. But if it\u2019s something that our can latch on to, that\u2019s gonna be something that our people can stay with us and know they can turn to us for the kind of news they want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. That doesn\u2019t even come close to describing Roger Ailes or anybody else in management at Fox view of the news or journalism. It\u2019s just wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. It\u2019s not complicated at all. You people in the mainstream media all do the same story the same way. There\u2019s always something about the story you do that is slanted and biased, and there\u2019s always a bunch of stuff you leave out. All we do is talk about the stuff you don\u2019t talk about. We don\u2019t make it up! We don\u2019t create heroes and villains.<\/p>\n<p>The heroes and villains are there. We just point \u2019em out. We don\u2019t manufacture anything. You are the people that manufacture these things. You\u2019re the people that create and assign status as heroes and villains. All we do is focus on the stuff you ignore &#8212; and when we do it, we don\u2019t do it exclusively from any point of view. I spend as much time explaining the liberal view of whatever I\u2019m talking about as I do my own view, so that I can compare mine to the liberal view as I try to persuade people.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-234374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/650-051917-Fox-Ailes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/650-051917-Fox-Ailes.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/650-051917-Fox-Ailes-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>I understand what these liberal journalists do better than they do. They are the least curious people among us. They don\u2019t need to be curious. They already know everything. Such as Trump is a crook, such as Trump colluded with the Russians, despite there\u2019s no evidence for it. So when we&#8230; That\u2019s a good example. When we don\u2019t follow that narrative, that there\u2019s collusion, what are we doing? Why, we are toying with the minds of disaffected people and we\u2019re creating a false villain!<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not creating anything.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re just doing the stories you people ignore.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not combining campaign messaging with journalism or anything of the sort. We\u2019re filling a vacuum that you people left. It\u2019s amazing. All these mainstream media outlets, television networks, cable networks, newspapers, and no matter where you go on any of \u2019em, you get the impact same story and the exact same take on it. That leaves all kinds of opportunity for those of you who are actually trying to get to the truth. You people deal in &#8220;narratives,&#8221; which means you\u2019re creating a reality you want people to believe. We don\u2019t do narratives.<\/p>\n<p>We just report what we see and comment on it.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t create narratives.<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s got time to do that?<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t collude, either, so it\u2019s not possible to create a narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The reaction to the passing of Roger Ailes yesterday morning has created some of the most nonsensical, uninformed, wild guess, bigoted analysis that I&#039;ve seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Ignorant Reaction to the Passing of Roger Ailes - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/19\/the-ignorant-reaction-to-the-passing-of-roger-ailes\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Ignorant Reaction to the Passing of Roger Ailes - 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