{"id":238689,"date":"2017-06-27T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=238689"},"modified":"2017-06-28T16:42:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T20:42:45","slug":"could-donald-trump-be-the-end-of-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/06\/27\/could-donald-trump-be-the-end-of-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Donald Trump Be the End of CNN?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Could Donald Trump be the end of CNN? What a legacy that would be. We will answer that question, or we will explore it, on today\u2019s excursion into broadcast excellence hosted by me, America\u2019s Real Anchorman, Rush Limbaugh. Here we are at 800-282-2882. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n<p>We may have found out exactly why &#8212; and once again some great, great journalism is being done here <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2017\/06\/27\/real-journalists-uncover-the-fbis-vendetta-against-michael-flynn\/\">by John Solomon at Circa<\/a>. We may have found out why the Obama administration and the intelligence community and the FBI have been going after Michael Flynn. And it has nothing to do with what you have been told it has to do with. It\u2019s personal. It involves sexual harassment and Flynn attempting to identify some FBI people having maybe have engaged in it. I will have the details for you as the program unfolds today.<\/p>\n<p>Three CNN members of the new investigative unit have resigned, i.e., been fired. One of them is a guy named Thomas Frank. This for the fake news, the bogus story on Anthony Scaramucci supposedly having a link to a Russian bank system, colluding with them to help Trump doing whatever. It turned out to be total BS, like everything else that CNN has reported with this Russian story.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-238773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-062717-FNN-CNN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-062717-FNN-CNN.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-062717-FNN-CNN-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>Eric Lichtblau, who, they got this guy from the New York Times, a Pulitzer Prize winner. He leaves the New York Times going from print to the big screen of TV and is now out. I\u2019m sure the Times will take him back with open arms.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Frank, who wrote the story &#8212; the name might ring a bell. This guy wrote a book way back when called What\u2019s the Matter With Kansas or What\u2019s Wrong With Kansas? He is an active, uber-leftist. He despises conservatism, and his book about What\u2019s the Matter with Kansas, What\u2019s Wrong With Kansas, was his befuddlement over how middle class Americans in Kansas would vote Republican and thereby vote against their own self-interest.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This Jim Acosta guy, little Jim Acosta, CNN, guy that lost his cookies yesterday with the press briefing when the cameras weren\u2019t turned on. We got the audio coming up. I\u2019ll tell you what this guy reminds me of. Have you ever had a cat, pet cat, and got one of these red laser pointers. You point it at the floor, and the cat tries to catch it. You point it up against the sofa, cat runs into the sofa. You point it against the wall, cat runs into the wall.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/1XIhycQivVTpK\" width=\"480\" height=\"271\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I think that\u2019s what the Trump administration is doing with many in the media. They\u2019re like cats. He\u2019s got this little red laser light and is just causing them to make fools of themselves and everybody\u2019s laughing at \u2019em as they\u2019re crashing into walls, the sofa and the floor. And that\u2019s what little Jim Acosta had happen to him yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, we mentioned at the top of the program that three employees of the brand-new investigative unit at CNN were let go and fired or they resigned or what have you. They published a totally fake story about a Trump aide, Anthony Scaramucci, supposedly meeting with the Russians to collude with them about the election. It contained erroneous element after erroneous element. There was nothing in it that was true, and it was sourced by one anonymous individual. CNN pulled it. It was about Scaramucci having a relationship with a Russian banking unit, and the Russian bank unit went public and denied everything that CNN was saying. The details of the banking unit, the fact that Scaramucci had done business with them, none of it was true.<\/p>\n<p>So CNN pulled it, and they did so in somewhat of a public manner, and then they announced yesterday that these three guys, these people in the investigative unit were gone. One of them was a guy named Thomas Frank, who wrote a book about What\u2019s Wrong With Kansas or What\u2019s the Matter With Kansas, and it\u2019s why the people of Kansas, in his mind, kept voting against their own self-interest by voting for conservative Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>He couldn\u2019t figure out why they wouldn\u2019t be voting liberal Democrat. Big, long book. He\u2019s also had a couple treatises on the inherent failures and faults in conservatism. Another reporter is somebody named Eric Lichtblau from the New York Times. CNN stole him from the Times. He\u2019s a Pulitzer Prize winner, and there was a third person.<\/p>\n<p>So they\u2019re gone, and now we\u2019re told that brand-new procedures have been implemented at CNN to make sure something like this can\u2019t happen again. The president has tweeted, &#8220;What about all the other mistakes CNN has made?&#8221; In fact, I think we\u2019re gonna call \u2019em FNN here, Fake News Network. You know, people call \u2019em the Clinton News Network, but that\u2019s kind of outmoded and outdated.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So CNN gets rid of these guys, new procedures making sure this never happens again, Trump starts tweeting, what about all the other mistakes CNN\u2019s made? Because there are legions. Nothing in the Russian story is true, folks. There hasn\u2019t been any collusion and there probably isn\u2019t even any obstruction. None of it is true, and yet these three guys are made to pay the price for the whole network.<\/p>\n<p>Now we come to James O\u2019Keefe, James O\u2019Keefe Project Veritas, a secret video. O\u2019Keefe got into CNN and secretly recorded a CNN producer who has admitted that there\u2019s nothing to the Russian story, that they don\u2019t have any evidence, that they don\u2019t have any proof. But they don\u2019t care, because the narrative is all that matters because their ratings are going up and they\u2019re earning more money and everybody at CNN knows the story is not true.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jdP8TiKY8dE\" width=\"650\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>In the video, the guy that\u2019s referenced here, we have the sound coming up, his name is John Bonifield. &#8220;Bonifield says that CNN leadership regularly axes coverage of other newsworthy stories to shift coverage back to the Russia story. He provided as an example of the network\u2019s coverage of President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accords &#8212; which he is seen saying in the video lasted less than two days &#8212; before management deliberately shifted coverage back to the Russia scandal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He says on the video: &#8220;&#8216;My boss, I shouldn\u2019t say this, my boss yesterday we were having a discussion about this dental shoot and he goes and he was just like I want you to know what we are up against here. And he goes, just to give you some context, President Trump pulled out of the climate accords and for a day and a half we covered the climate accords. And the CEO of CNN said in our internal meeting, he said good job everybody covering the climate accords, but we\u2019re done with it let\u2019s get back to Russia.\u2019 When asked by the Project Veritas investigator if it was the CEO of CNN &#8212; according to O\u2019Keefe they were referring to CNN president Jeff Zucker &#8212; who made that determination, Bonifield is heard saying: &#8216;Yeah.\u2019 &#8216;So, even the climate accords, he was like a day or so it\u2019s okay but we\u2019re moving back to Russia.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s go to the audiotape on this. CNN producers know that the Russia coverage at the Fake News Network is nothing more than ostensibly for their ratings and feeding their base and hopefully increased ad revenues as a result. An unidentified Project Veritas journalist speaking here under the cloak of secrecy to CNN senior producer John Bonifield about the network\u2019s coverage of the Russia election meddling story. The journalist says, &#8220;So you believe the Russia thing is a little crazy, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BONIFIELD: Even if Russia was trying to swing an election, we try to swing their elections, our CIA do (bleep) all the time. We\u2019re out there trying to manipulate governments. You win because you know the game and you play it right. She didn\u2019t play it right.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019KEEFE: Then why is CNN constantly like Russia this, Russia that.<\/p>\n<p>BONIFIELD: It\u2019s ratings. Our ratings are incredible right now.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is a senior producer at the Fake News Network admitting, hey, even if the Russians were trying to swing an election, we try to swing theirs. Our CIA\u2019s doing stuff all the time. We\u2019re out there trying to manipulate governments. You win because you know the game, you play it right. They know. The bottom line is, what you see on the air at CNN is not representative of what they know behind the scenes. What you see at CNN is trumped up acting.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it\u2019s not all acting because all the people on CNN want this Russia story to be believed. They\u2019re trying to convince you that it\u2019s true because they want to take Trump out, but they know that there\u2019s nothing here. They know they\u2019re being ordered to do this for ratings and what have you. They know, in other words, that whatever\u2019s happening here with Trump and Russia, that it isn\u2019t unusual, that it happens all the time. This next exchange is somewhat interesting.<\/p>\n<p>BONIFIELD: The CEO of CNN said in our internal meeting, he said, &#8220;good job, everybody covering the climate accords, but we\u2019re done with it. Let\u2019s get back to Russia.&#8221; They gotta do what they do to make their money. I think that there are a lot of liberal CNN viewers who want to see Trump really get scrutinized. And Trump is good for business right now.<\/p>\n<p>P.V. JOURNALIST: But honestly, you think the whole Russia sh*t (bleeped) is just bullsh*t (bleeped), right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BONIFIELD: Could be bullsh*t. (bleeped) I mean, it\u2019s mostly bullsh*t (bleeped) right now. Like, we don\u2019t have any big giant proof. I think the president is probably right to say, like, look, you are witch-hunting me. Like, you have no smoking gun, you have no real proof.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-237766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CNNFakeNEws-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CNNFakeNEws-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CNNFakeNEws-1-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>RUSH: Senior producer at CNN. Were you able to hear all that? Okay. See, without the transcript, I would not have known what the guy said. I\u2019ve got the transcript. I know what he said, I\u2019m just saying if I had not had the transcript here I would not have been able to pick out the voice from all the other voices in that thing. It sounded to me like they\u2019re in a submarine and the sonar was going crazy.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, &#8220;Yeah, yeah, do you think this whole Russia story could be BS?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, it could be BS. I mean, it\u2019s mostly BS right now. We don\u2019t have any big giant proof. I think the president\u2019s probably right to say, &#8216;Look, you\u2019re witch hunting me, like, you\u2019ve got no smoking gun. You have no proof.\u2019 The president\u2019s right about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They know. Folks, I\u2019ve thought they know all along. I think everybody in the Drive-Bys knows. I think they know exactly what they\u2019re doing. This outrage over Russia-Trump colluding, it\u2019s mock outrage. These people have been around too long to know what regularly happened all over the world. Look, Washington, D.C., is the most powerful city in the world, and it\u2019s the wealthiest. Washington, D.C., routinely collects $3 trillion of revenue every year, taxes, arms sales, you name it, $3 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>It is the capital city of the only superpower in the world and everybody is there trying to influence what happens. And everybody, more than you can count, is there trying to get their hands on as much of that three trillion as they can. From lobbyists, to elected officials, you name it, foreign governments, the State Department and its foreign aid budget, everybody there is trying to get as much of that three trillion as they can get. And they\u2019re trying to influence what happens in that town. It isn\u2019t news! And everybody there knows it. The New York Times knows it. The Washington Post knows it. All of this is totally manufactured. Even the outrage is manufactured.<\/p>\n<p>Now, at some point I think, if you act it for a certain length of time, you are gonna fall into the trap of the acting is gonna become your reality. And I have no doubt that they long ago crossed the line here at CNN and a number of these other places. But as you see here by the evidence of the testimony, shall we say, of the executive producer, whatever is news is not the determining factor of what CNN covers. They\u2019re going for ratings; they\u2019re going for money.<\/p>\n<p>How often do they criticize other people in the media for doing what they do for ratings, as opposed to the purity of journalism and so forth? So this is a big expose, and it isn\u2019t gonna surprise anybody that is regularly attuned. Now, there might be some low-information voters that hear this and will be properly outraged, if they do hear about this. The Fake News Network will not cover this of course, obviously, neither will the Washington Post, neither will PMSNBC. So it\u2019s gonna have only a certain percentage of American media making it known.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Jim Acosta, little Jim Acosta went nuts. He lost it yesterday at the press briefing because once again cameras were not permitted. Little Jim is a White House correspondent for the Fake News Network, CNN. He was literally heckling a reporter, the White House correspondent ended up heckling the press secretary, Sean Spicer, about the fact that the cameras were not turned on.<\/p>\n<p>And I think Trump is driving these people crazy. My analogy holds. I have a little cat, and I love to get that little red laser dot pointer and play with it. It fascinates me to watch this. I point that red dot anywhere on the floor, and the cat goes berserk trying to catch it. If you move it around real quickly, the cat\u2019s head will try to move as quickly as it can to follow it. You slowly move the laser pointer to the wall, and the cat follows it and will jump into the wall trying to catch the red dot. Then you do it on the sofa, and it will jump onto the sofa trying to catch the red dot.<\/p>\n<p>It will look around, slap at it with its paws and look around puzzled like it\u2019s inexplicable why can\u2019t I catch this thing. And it looks at me plaintively, &#8220;What\u2019s wrong?&#8221; And like me in my cruelty continue to point the red dot somewhere else until I finally give up and say I\u2019m through tormenting my little cat. The cat loves every moment of it, don\u2019t misunderstand. But I think that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing to many members of the media. I think Trump has got the laser dot pointer, and he\u2019s forcing these people to crash into the walls as they try to catch him.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, I was afraid of this. I know that there are two Thomas Franks, and I asked somebody to find out for me today, I was in a time crunch, and I said, &#8220;Find out for me if the Thomas Frank at CNN is the same Thomas Frank who wrote the book on Kansas,&#8221; and they came back, &#8220;Yes, same guy.&#8221; But I know there\u2019s a second one out there.<\/p>\n<p>So now Snerdley is getting Drive-By calls saying it\u2019s a different Thomas Frank. The author who wrote the book on Kansas is not the Thomas Frank who was on the CNN investigative unit and got blown out, fired, canned, resigned, what have you. So my bad. I thought I had nailed that down. There are two of \u2019em. One of them may be Franks, the last name may be Franks, Thomas Franks and Thomas A. Frank, I\u2019m not sure which, but I know there are two of them. And I thought they were the same.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-238809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LittleJimAcosta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LittleJimAcosta.jpg 603w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LittleJimAcosta-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Anyway, audio sound bite time. Jim Acosta at the White House press briefing yesterday. These are like kids in the kindergarten, folks. They\u2019re more out of control than Trump and Spicer or any of that. And there are kids in kindergarten who have more maturity than Jim Acosta. He threw a fit in the briefing room because it was audio only.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed the Constitution was imperiled. He claimed that the nation was hanging on the precipice because Spicer and Trump wouldn\u2019t let the TV cameras be turned on yesterday. Spicer was calling on other people and Acosta kept interrupting. He was heckling him. We put together a montage for him.<\/p>\n<p>ACOSTA: (crosstalk) Maybe we should turn the cameras on, Sean.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Jen?<\/p>\n<p>ACOSTA: Why don\u2019t we&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Jen?<\/p>\n<p>ACOSTA:&#8230;turn the cameras on?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Jen?<\/p>\n<p>ACOSTA: Why don\u2019t we turn the cameras on?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Jen?<\/p>\n<p>ACOSTA: Why not turn the cameras on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Jen?<\/p>\n<p>ACOSTA:&#8230;Sean? They\u2019re&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Jen?<\/p>\n<p>ACOSTA:&#8230;in the room, the lights (crosstalk) are on.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Doug?<\/p>\n<p>ACOSTA: Why are the cameras off, Sean?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Trey?<\/p>\n<p>ACOSTA: Why are they &#8212; why did you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Trey?<\/p>\n<p>ACOSTA:&#8230;turn them off? Can you just&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Trey?<\/p>\n<p>ACOSTA:&#8230;give us an answer to that? Can you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Trey?<\/p>\n<p>ACOSTA:&#8230;tell us why you turned the cameras off? Why are they off? It\u2019s a legitimate question.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Trey?<\/p>\n<p>ACOSTA: Can you at least give us an explanation as to why the cameras are off?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: There\u2019s no camera on, Jim.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-229286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/650-041217-Spicer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/650-041217-Spicer.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/650-041217-Spicer-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>RUSH: No camera, Jim. We\u2019re not gonna turn the cameras on, Jim. Can you get through your head no cameras. (imitating Acosta) &#8220;Why don\u2019t you turn them on, John? Why don\u2019t you turn them on?&#8221; Out of control. Then after the briefing Acosta got his face time to complain that the White House is blackballing CNN by not calling on \u2019em to answer or ask questions. I think CNN\u2019s lucky they\u2019re still in there. I wouldn\u2019t object if Trump pulled their credential after all this.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Ana Cabrera, the anchor on CNN talked to Acosta &#8212; do I have enough time? No, I\u2019m not gonna have to time to get this in \u2019cause the question\u2019s as long as the answer. So we\u2019ll have to take a brief break here and I\u2019ll get Acosta\u2019s answer in. He was asked on CNN, &#8220;What do you what do you think of what happened there, Jim? In the press briefing, they wouldn\u2019t let you turn on the cameras and so forth?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m telling you, we\u2019ve seen reporters ask questions, but this was heckling. And I think all this is getting to CNN, frankly. I mean, you have these three guys in the investigative unit canned, have to retract a story and delete it and apologize for it, and it\u2019s essentially a bogus story on Trump colluding with Russia. I think the pressure may be getting to some of them.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: By the way, CNN\u2019s report on this press briefing yesterday &#8212; and we\u2019re getting back to the phones here just a second &#8212; it was audio only, and the audio was not released until after the press briefing. It was not covered live and that\u2019s why Acosta was going nuts. He was claiming the White House was escaping accountability.<\/p>\n<p>And CNN\u2019s report &#8212; you\u2019ve heard Acosta, you heard him act like a heckler, you heard him. He was out of control. He was heckling the press secretary about the cameras. CNN\u2019s report on this says, &#8220;CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta confronted White House press secretary Sean Spicer on the administration\u2019s decision to ban cameras from the briefing room on Monday.&#8221; It\u2019s not all what happened. Their reporter lost control. Their reporter made a fool of himself, pent up rage.<\/p>\n<p>Put yourself in position of CNN, New York Times, Washington Post for a moment. You know the momentum on all this is shifting. They haven\u2019t damaged Trump. Let me take that back. They may think the they. They haven\u2019t got rid of Trump. The objective is to get rid of Trump. The objective is to make Trump so frustrated he just wants to quit. The objective is to frustrate Trump. The objective is to cause Trump to break and break down. The objective is for Trump to explode. The objective here is for Trump to realize you can\u2019t beat them and to slink away.<\/p>\n<p>None of that has happened. Can you imagine their frustration? They think they\u2019ve got the guy dead to rights ever since the NBC Access Hollywood video. They think it\u2019s just a matter of time. And what they\u2019re discovering is that they are living daily in the reality of their own relative impotence. Their objective of getting rid of Trump has not been advanced. They\u2019re no closer to it than they were on Inauguration Day.<\/p>\n<p>And you, in their shoes, have got to imagine how frustrated they are, because they\u2019ve shot everything they\u2019ve got. They are breaking every rule of journalism and being applauded for it. They\u2019re using anonymous sources, sometimes only one. They are acknowledging that they\u2019re publishing things that aren\u2019t true and that they\u2019re engaging in what they\u2019re doing just for ratings. But as far as the talent is concerned, the objective is to get rid of Trump. They are failing, and it\u2019s got to be frustrating them to no end, and we had one of them boil over yesterday, Acosta.<\/p>\n<p>So after it all happened, he goes back to CNN for his live shot, and the infobabe says, &#8220;Hey, Jim, it sounds like it was really rough in there. It sounded like Spicer was ignoring your questions.&#8221; Now, you heard the bit, right? He wasn\u2019t asking questions. He was heckling. &#8220;Hey, Jim, it sounds like Spicer was ignoring your questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-235049\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DriveByCombat-Drive-Bys-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DriveByCombat-Drive-Bys-3.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DriveByCombat-Drive-Bys-3-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>ACOSTA: Sean Spicer has refused to take questions from CNN for weeks now. It has been going on for some time. You know, he may have taken a question here or there over the last couple of weeks, but we\u2019ve largely been just blackballed during these briefings. We\u2019re just not getting questions to the White House press secretary. That would not have happened in previous administrations. Fox News always got a question every day at the briefing under President Obama. This is a new thing that this White House is doing to us here at CNN and to a couple of other news outlets as well.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And America is applauding, Jim. The way you\u2019re treating Trump, you\u2019re treating him with disrespect, and you have been from the get-go. CNN being treated this way is exactly what Trump voters supported and are applauding. And, by the way, this appeal for sympathy that you\u2019re making, isn\u2019t gonna happen. I mean, the irony of the Drive-Bys asking for sympathy over the way they\u2019re being treated. Let the Drive-Bys focus on you, and you ask them for understanding and sympathy, see how far that gets you. Put that in the story, that you\u2019re a weakling, that you can\u2019t handle the big leagues, you\u2019re begging CNN to cancel and not do the story. That\u2019s how they would treat it if you asked for sympathy.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Getting back to the phones here just a second. So the Republican health care bill in Colorado: 120,000 people will die over the next 10 years. Folks, anybody tell off the top of your head: What is the mortality rate in America? What is the American mortality rate. Google it and see what you get. In the meantime, George, Vero Beach, Florida, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir, great to have you with us.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey, be with listen, breaking news! It sounds like the Fake News Network is gonna drop Russia and drop health care to cover this thousand&#8230; This is according to a unnamed cat, but this Thousand Cat March to protest the red lasers that people are using &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (chucking)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-238847 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/688961569-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/688961569-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/688961569.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>CALLER: &#8212; to make these little kitty cats run back and forth and crash into walls and, of all things, get concussions, Rush.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah. Guy is&#8230; You may have a point. In the old days, without Trump, this could have ended up being a conspiracy. Not a conspiracy, but it could have been a big story. The media could have decided to do a story on me and cruelty to cats with my red dot laser pointer story. But the problem is everybody who has a cat plays with \u2019em that way. When I describe the cat running into the wall, the cat doesn\u2019t go flying into the wall head first. It stops in time. But it\u2019s still fun to watch. (laughing) It does! It tries to catch that red dot with its paws, with its mouth. It\u2019s just funny. And it never catches on. It never catches on.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been doing it for years. My cat\u2019s three or four years old, and the cat still falls for it. It just&#8230; You know, I expect at one point the cat to look at me and say, &#8220;Let\u2019s try something else. I\u2019ve got this figured out and I\u2019m tired of it and I\u2019m smarter than you. So go back to the drawing board.&#8221; But the cat falls for it each and every time. The mortality rate in the United States is 100%. So far, no exceptions. The mortality rate Cuba is 100%. The mortality rate even your favorite socialist utopian country is 100%. No reported exceptions. 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