{"id":258903,"date":"2017-12-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=258903"},"modified":"2017-12-22T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T21:15:58","slug":"tom-brokaw-fox-news-on-jihad-to-protect-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/12\/21\/tom-brokaw-fox-news-on-jihad-to-protect-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brokaw: Fox News on Jihad to Protect Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now looky here, folks. Tom Brokaw has declared jihad on Fox News. That\u2019s right. Fox News is on a jihad to protect Trump, and, as such, we are at war here with Fox News, and it\u2019s gonna be sorted out in the final analysis. Brokaw says once Shepard Smith finishes, once his three o\u2019clock show is over, Fox is on a jihad to protect Trump and therefore we gotta go at war against Fox. Tom Brokaw. Journalist versus journalist here.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Tom Brokaw, legendary anchorman for NBC, took a hard swing against Fox News this morning on PMSNBC. Now, we have a ban on PMSNB, so I\u2019m not gonna play the audio there. Brokaw said that Trump watches Fox News because it &#8220;reinforces what he believes,&#8221; citing how they\u2019ve handled the Russia probe as an example.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been on the air with Brokaw on a night the Democrats lost a bunch of elections they thought they were gonna win. The 2002 midterms. I was on election coverage with Brokaw and Tim Russert. And I\u2019ve been at a couple of social functions. He\u2019s a nice guy. He was very unassuming and all that, but this is just caca. Fox News is the only place where the truth of the Russian investigation is being reported, and that is there isn\u2019t any evidence of any!<\/p>\n<p>You know, you guys are supposedly so interested in the truth and reporting the news. Where is the evidence for this, Tom? Where is the evidence? They\u2019re now calling the Trump dossier, by the way, the Steele dossier? Have you noticed that little change? &#8216;Cause that\u2019s the guy who wrote it. No longer it\u2019s the Trump dossier because all of these investigations have cast enough doubt on this thing that people are now asking was this bogus piece of political opposition research actually used to seek a warrant from the FISA court? Was something the Clinton campaign made up out of whole cloth actually used to seek a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign?<\/p>\n<p>If that is ever proven and established, that is a bigger injustice that you could possibly imagine. All the while people in the Drive-By Media, including Brokaw, are trying to ram down your throat that Trump colluded with the Russians and cheated, even if and even while there isn\u2019t any evidence. But Fox News has gotta go because they\u2019re not falling in line. Fox News has to go because they\u2019re not joining the fray.<\/p>\n<p>Brokaw said, &#8220;Fox News, after Shepard Smith, in the late afternoon, is on a jihad right now on the whole question about whether there is a fairness about this or not. The whole assault is on the institutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_jPQPUjzhmE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What institutions? Oh, the deep state? You mean Trump\u2019s conducting an assault on the FBI? Trump\u2019s conducting an assault on the Department of Justice? Why shouldn\u2019t he? They\u2019re trying to ruin him. Mr. Brokaw, what do you think? That people who are targeted are just supposed to sit there and take it, as though they\u2019re being profiled on 60 Minutes or something, just sit there and take it?<\/p>\n<p>Is that somehow the rule of the establishment? When the establishment singles you out, you just sit there and take it? Once the establishment has decided to single you out, they have already pronounced the verdict and you\u2019re just to sit there and take it and then slink away? I thought you were a journalist. I thought you questioned things. I thought you were suspicious of things, especially people in power. I thought you doubted things.<\/p>\n<p>But they\u2019re just sopping it up. They\u2019re just lapping this up like a bunch of sponges. Actually, they\u2019re not. It\u2019s worse than that. They\u2019re promoting a bunch of lies. And they\u2019re calling it news. They are promoting a hoax. They are promoting a bunch of fraudulent allegations, a result of Hillary Clinton bought and paid for opposition research, treating it as legitimate intelligence? What about the damage you are doing to institutions, Brokaw, by believing in this stuff, by promoting this?<\/p>\n<p>The FBI is being damaged. The Department of Justice is being damaged. The FBI\u2019s reputation for blind justice is being damaged to the max here. And it\u2019s Trump\u2019s fault because he just won\u2019t sit there and take it? Those days are over. And note the language here. Brokaw using this term &#8220;jihad.&#8221; Fox is on a jihad right now? You know what a jihad is? A jihad\u2019s a holy war.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-225958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-008.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-008-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-008-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>Brokaw says, &#8220;We\u2019re at war here, and it\u2019s gonna be sorted out in the final analysis.&#8221; And Brokaw\u2019s attacking their opinion programs! But even these opinion programs have real journalism in \u2019em. Bret Baier comes on after the Shep Smith afternoon show is over. Bret Baier\u2019s being tarnished in this. They just can\u2019t stand it. They can\u2019t stand that Fox is outrating them. They can\u2019t stand that Fox charges more for advertising on their rate card than MSNBC or CNN.<\/p>\n<p>I finally found out, Fox gets &#8212; this is kind of embarrassingly low, if you ask me, but they get $8,500 for 30 seconds. If we ever got down to that we\u2019d have to pack it in. We couldn\u2019t make our &#8212; But of course we have to do everything in three hours, they have 24. So that\u2019s a factor too. I\u2019m halfway joking here, folks, but that is their rate, $8,500. If we ever charged $8,500 it\u2019d be a misprint on the rate card and somebody\u2019s head would roll.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s around $5,000 and MSNBC\u2019s less than that, for 30 seconds. (interruption) What are you laughing at? What, you can\u2019t &#8212; (laughing) They can\u2019t believe I\u2019m divulging this. Well, I\u2019m just telling you, as my initial reaction. But again, they\u2019ve got a 24-hour broadcast day. We have a three hour broadcast day. And we only have five commercials an hour that are ours to sell. There are mitigating factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Tom Brokaw, legendary anchorman for NBC, took a hard swing against Fox News this morning on PMSNBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":258916,"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>Tom Brokaw: Fox News on Jihad to Protect Trump - 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\/12\/21\/tom-brokaw-fox-news-on-jihad-to-protect-trump\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tom Brokaw: Fox News on Jihad to Protect Trump - 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