{"id":239178,"date":"2017-06-29T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=239178"},"modified":"2017-07-05T16:15:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T20:15:08","slug":"i-just-got-favorable-coverage-on-headline-news-and-it-makes-me-nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/06\/29\/i-just-got-favorable-coverage-on-headline-news-and-it-makes-me-nervous\/","title":{"rendered":"I Just Got Favorable Coverage on Headline News — and It Makes Me Nervous!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I have a sound bite here; I was just made aware of it. You know, I was trying to tell somebody this morning — it was Mr. Snerdley — I don\u2019t know how to behave when I get favorable press. I almost get nervous. This is hard to explain. My experience with the press is that it\u2019s always negative, cutting, attempting to damage. It\u2019s unfair. Most of it\u2019s untrue. But it\u2019s always an attack. I have just grown accustomed to it. Like, I would never be comfortable as a liberal getting fawning press. It just wouldn\u2019t seem natural — and when I do get it, it\u2019s very, very rare. And when it happens, I feel… I don\u2019t know. It doesn\u2019t feel genuine.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t quite know how to explain this. It\u2019s not that I have been so conditioned to only… It\u2019s that fawning or positive coverage, for some reason… It\u2019s not… I was going to say it embarrasses me. That\u2019s not what it is. But, anyway, it happened here on CNN on Headline News. One of their commentators is John Phillips, and Erica Hill is the host of this particular segment on Headline News. She was speaking with this guy, John Phillips, one of their contributors, about Trump\u2019s tweets about Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. She says, “This is not about politics. This is not about presidential behavior. At the end of the day, John Phillips, this is about behaving like an adult. Full stop. … Is he behaving like an adult?”<\/p>\n

\"\"PHILLIPS: I would dispute the description of Mika Brzezinski as a “news anchor,” which is what I\u2019ve been hearing all morning. She\u2019s a liberal talk show host, and politicians attack talk show hosts all the time. Let\u2019s not forgot, Al Franken wrote a book called “Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot.” President Obama told Republicans to turn Rush Limbaugh off if they want to get along with him. Harry Reid called him “unpatriotic.” So throwing bombs at talk show hosts that come from the opposite side of the political spectrum is not something that\u2019s new, even when looks are attacked as we\u2019ve seen with Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s exactly right, and the Harry Reid thing is what\u2019s really fascinating, that whole phony soldier thing. I don\u2019t have time to detail it here now for those of you don\u2019t know what it is. But he\u2019s exactly right. I have been talked about by presidents and senators the way Trump is talking about Mika and Joe, and nobody… All the others, they piled on and applauded. They applauded Obama. They applauded Franken. This guy has a good point.<\/p>\n

It still makes me nervous.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, let\u2019s not forget the big one. How about when Bill Clinton accused me of being responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing? Do you remember that? How many people called Clinton out on that? There was nobody. The Drive-By Media was all supportive, ran the story. They might not have promoted it, but they didn\u2019t condemn it — and, of course, it was absurd. And he did it in a speech at a memorial in Oklahoma City. (impression) “Angry voices on the right are speaking out about Big Government and you see what happens!”<\/p>\n

\"\"And when he was called about it later said, “Oh, I wasn\u2019t talking about Limbaugh! I was talking about the Michigan militia shortwave network.” So I\u2019ve even forgotten these things. When something like this happens, these Trump tweets, I don\u2019t even remember these things until people call my attention to it. Although I did remember the day Obama was telling the Republicans to stop listening and talking to me, that\u2019s not how things get done. (chuckling) What Obama didn\u2019t know was they weren\u2019t listening to me.<\/p>\n

They wouldn\u2019t have been in trouble if they had been. But Obama\u2019s one of these classic leftists that think that talk radio is running the Republican Party, or was. But, yeah, I\u2019ve had every insult you can imagine thrown my way, and whenever there\u2019s anybody who comes along and chastises the president or the senator, whoever does it — Harry Reid and that phony soldier business? Boy, did we turn that around on them. That\u2019s one of the highlights of this program. But, look I don\u2019t have time to get into it now, there\u2019s too much going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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