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RUSH: Listen to this audio sound bite. This was this morning on Washington Journal on C-Span. Brian Lamb is the host today, and he was talking to the chief White House correspondent for ABC News, Martha Raddatz. We talk about the Drive-Bys all over the place. One of the points I made to you about the Drive-Bys is they still carry this illusion, put forth this delusion, <\/emphasize>that as far as they\u2019re concerned, that they are objective. They are objective — and, of course, that\u2019s one of the big problems, because everybody knows they\u2019re not, now. Everybody knows that they are agenda-driven and for the most part they\u2019ve thrown in with their buds in the Democratic Party. So a caller from South Bend, Indiana calls into C-Span and asks Martha Raddatz, ‘I would like to know if your guest this morning, if she is a Republican, Democrat or independent. <\/p>\n

RADDATZ: We don\u2019t talk about those things! We don\u2019t talk about those things at all.<\/emphasize> I\u2019m an objective reporter. We don\u2019t really talk about that. I wouldn\u2019t talk about that! I\u2019d like you to find a reporter that does. <\/p>\n

C-SPAN CALLER: Could you tell me the last time that you voted for a Republican? <\/p>\n

RADDATZ: I\u2019m not going to tell you anything about how I vote, when I vote and who I\u2019ve ever voted for! I am here as a journalist<\/emphasize>. I am not here as a political representative of either party. I am a journalist and that is my job, to try to maintain objectivity. I\u2019m not calling in on a call show to tell you what party I belong to. I\u2019m…a journalist! <\/p>\n

C-SPAN CALLER: But if you were truly objective, it wouldn\u2019t make any difference, would it? <\/p>\n

RADDATZ: There\u2019s an appearance of conflict of interest, you know. If I came out here and said something like that, there would be people saying, ‘A-ha! See? She\u2019s not objective.\u2019 <\/line> <\/line>RUSH: See, it\u2019s sort of funny listening to all this. They twist themselves into pretzels trying to maintain this premise of objectivity. You know, folks, let\u2019s talk about objectivity for a second. This is an object lesson. Thinking, informed, engaged human beings — and Martha Raddatz is one and so are most of the members of the Drive-By Media, as are all of you, and as am I. I\u2019m probably the king of the Engaged, Informed and Thinking Individuals out there. As such, we care. Why would you be engaged? Why would you be thoughtful? Why would you be someone who endeavors to learn about things if you didn\u2019t care? So the fact that you care means, furthermore, after that, that you\u2019re going to have an interest in outcomes. See, I think it is humanly impossible to be uncaring or uninterested in the outcome of an event, whether you\u2019re a journalist or anybody else, if you are a thinking, engaged, involved person. So this whole concept of objectivity has always been a strange one for me. I think it\u2019s a fall-back position and it\u2019s used to camouflage and hide what real thinking and engaged people are doing. The Drive-Bys are the classic illustration of this.<\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: We played this sound bite in the previous hour from Martha Raddatz. She was on C-Span\u2019s Washington Journal today. She got a call from a guy in South Bend, Indiana who tried to pin her down if she\u2019s Republican, Democrat or an independent. She said, ‘I would never discuss that. No journalist ever would. We\u2019re objective. I would never discuss it.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Could you tell me if you ever voted Democrat or Republican? <\/p>\n

‘I would never tell you that. No journalist would ever say anything like this at all. Not going to call talk shows and go on talk shows and tell you how I voted.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The caller said, ‘Wouldn\u2019t it just cement your objectivity? You say you vote Republican or vote Democrat, but you\u2019re still objective.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘No, no. No journalist would ever talk about that.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Those of you who call C Span, I want to help out here. You\u2019re never going to get the answer you want if you ask these journalists if they\u2019re Republican, Democrat or independent, or how they voted. You\u2019re going to get the runaround. The next time that Brian Lamb or anybody at C-Span has a journalist on when they\u2019re taking phone calls, here\u2019s what you call and ask them: Do you support life? Are you pro-life or pro-choice? Do you support gun ownership? How do you feel about tax cuts? Are you in favor of America winning the war on terror? Do you support drilling for oil in ANWR? <\/p>\n

Ask them specific, issue-related questions. They\u2019re not going to answer those either, but the way they\u2019ll squirm out of those will be even tougher. ‘I can\u2019t answer that question.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘You mean to tell me as an American you have no interest in whether the country wins?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Well, as a journalist I can\u2019t compromise my standards. I\u2019m really not allowed to choose sides.\u2019 <\/p>\n

You\u2019ll hear stuff like that. Of course, that\u2019s when you will know that it\u2019s all BS, because, of course, every American has opinions about this. These types of people do, the thinking and engaged types. So this is a great illustration of the kind of learning that happens and is available to you from the Limbaugh Institute For Advanced Conservative Studies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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