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RUSH: Joe in Falls Church, Virginia, nice to have you, sir. Welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, what a privilege and an honor. Dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. Very nice of you to say, and I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Look, I was flipping through channels this morning, and came across Scarborough Country, and I think it\u2019s Bob Abrams who was filling in for Joe Scarborough.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That would be Dan Abrams. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Dan Abrams?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, there\u2019s not a Bob Abrams at PMSNBC.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But the reason I stopped it is because there you were with Barack Obama with the frequency spectrum superimposed on the bottom of the screen playing ‘Barack, the ‘Magic Negro,” and you talk about arrogance, Abrams is… argh!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, let me explain it. I didn\u2019t see it last night. I had enough people tell me about it that I went and got a transcript of it, and I appreciate your getting upset about this. Here\u2019s what is amazing to me about this. This is the thing to learn. Their report last night was actually a thing that was spawned by a Today Show report that aired yesterday, and the Today Show report and what happened last night exposes the total dishonesty and lack of professionalism that is creeping into NBC News. When the Today Show called us Friday afternoon and said they wanted to do this, we sent them reams, we gave them a special website link that they could go educate themselves on everything about this from beginning to end. We gave them the sound bites of Al Sharpton saying no big deal, Barack Obama saying it was dumb, we gave the original column from the Los Angeles Times where the term ‘magic negro\u2019 was thrown into the public domain. They ignored it all. They even went out, they talked to Michael Medved in Seattle to get one voice opposing their take on it, and they didn\u2019t use any of the interview that they conducted with him. <\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s what gets me about this. This whole thing came from this website called Media Matters for America. The Drive-By Media, NBC, Dan Abrams, the Today show people, everybody, CNN, they rely on this religiously to ‘find out\u2019 what happens on this program. They don\u2019t listen to this program. Dan Abrams didn\u2019t listen to this program. He doesn\u2019t know what happened here. His source is Media Matters for America and maybe a couple newspaper columns. Dan Abrams knows, and so does everybody else at NBC and CNN, that Media Matters is a Hillary, George Soros, DNC front group. They know it has no intellectual integrity. They know that it exists to smear people who question the Democrats, and yet they bring on one of its hacks to talk about a conservative with little or no exposition about the hack. The hack is presented as an expert. The Media Matters guy is an all-knowing expert. Nobody\u2019s ever heard of him. He\u2019s never accomplished anything. He\u2019s just a hack working for a front group for the Democrat Party and they know this, and yet they continue to do this. It underscores completely their dishonesty. They were not interested in our take on this. And our take is the take! I mean, we are the record on this. I am the record on the whole ‘Barack, the ‘Magic Negro” parody and why and how it came about. That\u2019s ignored. I am the record. They try to rewrite the record and make the record what Media Matters says, and they know that this has happened, and yet they do it. It underscores how completely in the back pocket of the Democrat Party that Dan Abrams and MSNBC, anybody who works there or at CNN is. They are totally in the back pocket of the Democrat Party. <\/p>\n

There was nothing professional about this thing. It was kind of funny as I\u2019m reading the transcript, John Fund was on there, and Dan Abrams said, ‘Why is Limbaugh getting away with this? Is he too big to bring down on something like this?\u2019 And Fund kept saying, ‘Well, where is the outrage? There\u2019s no story.\u2019 This is two and a half months old. What\u2019s your peg? There\u2019s no story. There\u2019s no outrage. Where\u2019s the outrage? There never has been any outrage over this, and that\u2019s what this piece was about, is trying to drum up some outrage. They\u2019re trying to create the outrage that doesn\u2019t exist so that they can maybe take somebody else out and put a notch in their belt, and they\u2019re doing this fully knowledgeable that they are working hand in hand with a Democrat Party front group. This Media Matters bunch is practically the producer for all of MSNBC. If it weren\u2019t for Media Matters, MSNBC would lose 80% of its programming. Now, the difference is, when I comment on MSNBC, or when I comment on CNN or comment on the New York Times, I watch it. I don\u2019t read a conservative website to tell me what happened there. We don\u2019t read some media watchdog site, find out what somebody else heard or read in the New York Times or on one of these cable networks. I watch this stuff. It\u2019s painful, but I watch the stuff. <\/p>\n

Do you think they listen to this program? If they had listened, if they\u2019d gone to my website that we gave them, if they\u2019d read 10% of what we gave them they would have known there was no story. But they wanted to do the story. It was written before they called us; the story was produced before they called us. They\u2019re hacks. The Drive-By Media has become a full-fledged partner with the Democrat Party. It was sort of laughable last night. Where\u2019s the outrage? There\u2019s no story here. Fund kept trying to tell \u2019em, ‘You guys, there\u2019s no story.\u2019 And finally somebody said to the Media Matters hack, ‘You think Limbaugh ought to be fired?\u2019 ‘No, but I think Vice President Cheney should stop going on his show. And I think high-ranking government officials should stop appearing on his show. The man is a racist and a pig,\u2019 and this sort of stuff. They didn\u2019t even understand that the parody is about Al Sharpton. They didn\u2019t even understand it\u2019s a riff on Sharpton. John Fund tried to tell \u2019em that and that kind of silenced \u2019em for a while. Well, didn\u2019t silence them, you could see it surprised them a little bit. The whole thing has been misconstrued and misunderstood. These people are dense, they really are dense. They\u2019re totally guided by their ideological templates, and their templates right now are ‘destroy conservative talk radio.\u2019 Because it is the most democratic forum out there, and it\u2019s effective \u2019cause we connect with you. You are more informed and, by the way, there are Pew Research surveys to show this. <\/p>\n

You, in this audience, are the most informed audience in media, by virtue of what Pew Research says. You have more knowledge of what\u2019s going on out there, because you listen to this program, because so many different things are discussed, things that never appear in the Drive-By Media. I guarantee you, outside the San Francisco Chronicle, which reported it, nobody else will do a story on John Edwards taking 55 grand from UC Davis, a public institution, for a speech on poverty. The story we shared with you coming out of Baghdad, boy tortured by Al-Qaeda, you\u2019re not going to hear that story anywhere, doesn\u2019t fit the template. You\u2019re not going to learn what bad guys the enemy happen to be. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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