{"id":27185,"date":"2007-10-17T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:50:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:50:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:50:08","slug":"how_can_we_trust_senate_liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/17\/how_can_we_trust_senate_liars\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can We Trust Senate Liars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><embed\/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Dave in Gurnee, Illinois, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey, Rush. I wanted to tell you how I use your Harry Reid smear letter. I use it as the official Rush Limbaugh Senate scorecard. And what I do is I have it next to the TV so when I have C-SPAN on, watching the Senate, I can put the face to the name to how they actually find out information about legislation before they sign it. Because they signed a letter that they did not have full information on, and knowing the full story myself, if they\u2019re so flippant that they can put their signature on something where they did not have the full story, how can we trust anything that they\u2019re going to present?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, you know, we\u2019ve heard these stories a lot that some of these bills are so massive that it\u2019s not possible for anybody &#8212; well, it is possible, they just don\u2019t read it all. They occasionally assign some staff to read it, but it really isn\u2019t true. The real question that I would have for you, David, is, do you really think that Dingy Harry and his gang didn\u2019t know the truth when they wrote and signed that letter?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, no. I believe that they knew the truth, but they knew that this was a way to bring attention and get you mentioned on the Senate floor in a bad light where it\u2019s going to get national attention. It is such a smear. Knowing the full truth, I remember when I was listening to you that day, and I\u2019m going, &#8216;Whoa,\u2019 you know, I mean, just listening to the conversation, and then to hear Chris Matthews come on Hardball and one of the first things he said is how you called the troops phony, that was his first line on Hardball &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I know.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I actually called MSNBC and left a message saying, &#8216;How can I trust even Chris Matthews on reporting a story, if he doesn\u2019t get the full facts?\u2019 Or, you know, present them the right way. And, you know, basically to kind of take away the credibility that he professes to have.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/How_Can_We_Trust_Senate_Liars__-10_17_07.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: Well, look, it\u2019s an excellent question to ask. How can you trust anything these guys say in the Senate anymore when you now know they\u2019re willing to lie, when they\u2019re willing to put their signature to a lie, and the same thing with a lot of other &#8212; you can go beyond Chris Matthews and a bunch of other Drive-By journalists and ask the same thing, and the answer to it is, &#8216;You shouldn\u2019t, because they\u2019re advocates.\u2019 They\u2019re activists hiding behind either the title of journalist or even commentator and so forth, but they have agendas. And, of course, everybody does. It\u2019s not that they\u2019re committing some sort of professional malpractice by having an agenda. Thinking, engaged human beings can\u2019t help but having a preference for certain outcomes, issue by issue. It\u2019s always been absurd to me, it\u2019s always been ridiculous to expect that functioning, thinking, engaged human beings, within journalism or whatever, to not care about the outcome of the things they\u2019re reporting on. Of course, they do! The big lie has always been that they don\u2019t care, that they are objective and that they are unbiased and nonpartisan. And the lid\u2019s been blown off that. <\/p>\n<p>Everybody knows they\u2019ve got agendas; everybody knows they care about the outcome of events they cover and others. They maintain that they don\u2019t. They maintain that they\u2019re just reporters; they\u2019re just doing their jobs. And they\u2019re not. Not as reporters. Everybody is an activist and an agenda-oriented person today that\u2019s in media, news media particularly. Some admit it and some don\u2019t. The ones that don\u2019t admit it are the ones that get the most heat. Like, for example, Matthews. If Matthews would just say, &#8216;Look, this Limbaugh guy has been a thorn in our side, Limbaugh this, Limbaugh that, he came out here and he said this about phony soldiers, he may be right, he may be wrong, but he shouldn\u2019t have said it in this context and created a confusion,\u2019 but they don\u2019t do it that way. They have to lie because circular route goes back to the theme: liberals, liberalism cannot flourish without a monopoly. They don\u2019t allow debate, they don\u2019t allow competing facts. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, they\u2019ll establish their own set of facts that aren\u2019t, in an alternative universe. They don\u2019t care if they advance their cause on the basis of lies. We do. We don\u2019t want false success; we don\u2019t want an agenda or a mandate that\u2019s based on the fact that we\u2019ve lied to people. They couldn\u2019t care less because it\u2019s not the people they\u2019re interested in. The people\u2019s relevance and worth to liberals only goes so far as getting their votes, and after that, couldn\u2019t care less. Ask any minority group that votes en masse for Democrats, have they not been complaining about the same misery that the Democrats have been promising to fix for 50 years? Dirty little secret is, Democrats don\u2019t want to fix it. They want them kept miserable so they keep blaming Republicans and racism and all these things for it that are not relevant. <\/p>\n<p>END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Dave in Gurnee, Illinois, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello. CALLER: Hey, Rush. I wanted to tell you how I use your Harry Reid smear letter. I use it as the official Rush Limbaugh Senate scorecard. 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