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<\/p>\nRUSH: We also have this Facebook mess. I\u2019m gonna put that in perspective and make an offer today. I really don\u2019t think — and, by the way, I realize this offer is going to be rejected. It\u2019s not even gonna be acknowledged, but I\u2019m gonna make it anyway. It is abundantly clear — I just saw a picture of the two Facebook employees that are in charge of determining what\u2019s permissible. They don\u2019t even look like they\u2019re eating solid foods yet. They still look like they\u2019re on the Gerbers. They\u2019re simply not old enough to have lived long enough to have any significant life experiences.<\/p>\n
The future belongs to the young; we all know this. We were all young once and everything was about us. Advertising. I mean, every generation — the Millennials are having their turn at it now — you have 25 to 35, 25 to 40, the world is all about you. Everybody needs you, everybody wants you because they want you to establish your habits that you will then practice for the rest of your life that have to do with how you spend your money and how you live your life so that those patterns can be exploited for financial gain. It\u2019s all good.<\/p>\n
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But once you get past the age of 50, they don\u2019t care about you anymore. Because the next group of young people coming up is the focus. And that\u2019s all well and good. We\u2019ve all had our turn in the light. We\u2019ve all had our share. The problem is — I was thinking about this the other day, and I think about it a lot. We\u2019re coming up on 30 years of having done this program, and occasionally people will ask me, “Do you think the program\u2019s gotten better, or do you think that it\u2019s not as good as it used to be?”<\/p>\n
I said, “That\u2019s not the way to look at it. It depends how you want to define the terms.” But what I can tell you is this. I have never been more prepared to do this program every day than I am today. I\u2019ve never had more knowledge to use in doing this program every day. I\u2019ve continued to amass life experiences that I simply didn\u2019t have 30 years ago when I was 37 years old starting this. Just not possible. When I was 37 I thought I knew enough, I thought I knew everything. And I did know enough to make it work and so forth.<\/p>\n
My only point is that you keep growing and you keep learning, there\u2019s no question that somebody who is in their sixties is far more knowledgeable and has lived far more to have many more practical life experiences than somebody in their twenties. Now, that\u2019s not to say that person is smarter than somebody in their twenties; that\u2019s a whole ‘nother thing too. You start adding things like arrogance and hubris, you think you\u2019re great, you don\u2019t need to learn anymore, you think everybody else is stupid.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a new trend among Millennials — I\u2019ve got it in the Stack — a number of 30-year-old Millennials are claiming they\u2019re burned out and they can\u2019t work anymore. They\u2019re tired of having to work from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. They\u2019re throwing away six figure jobs \u2019cause they can\u2019t handle the pressure. They\u2019re saying they get up in the morning and they think, “Is this my life? Oh, my God. I\u2019m gonna doing this PR business and this sales representation for another 30 years. No way, man.”<\/p>\n
And they\u2019re quitting. And they\u2019re taking what little money they have left and they\u2019re going to beaches and they\u2019re going to volcanoes and they\u2019re just sitting there. Right or wrong, good or bad, they simply are refusing to fit into the multigenerational patterns.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve always told you that every four or five generations one is gonna come along that\u2019s simply gonna reject what it finds as status quo when it matures and becomes adults. And it looks like our Millennial generation is it. But I think some of these people at Facebook are clueless. They literally do not know what they don\u2019t know. And that is a crucial thing. To not know what you don\u2019t know. To think you know everything.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m looking at pictures, I\u2019m looking at Zuckerberg, I\u2019m looking at some of these people, they simply have led lives that have been way too sheltered. They all are socialists, but they\u2019ve never lived under it. They\u2019re all socialists, but they\u2019ve never visited a socialist country. They\u2019re all socialists and they love it but they\u2019ve never actually ever seen it. They\u2019ve never actually had it properly taught to them.<\/p>\n
They have a totally skewed definition of what it is. Facebook… Mr. Snerdley, let me ask you. Do you think, for example, the website Infowars and the Fox News website are identical? Facebook does. The people that run Facebook think there\u2019s no difference in an Alt-Right website or Fox News or Infowars because they have a warped, bigoted, and prejudicial opinion of conservatives and conservatism — and where have they gotten that? It has been taught to them. They haven\u2019t lived it.<\/p>\n
They clearly haven\u2019t lived among any conservatives or they could not possibly believe what they believe. Now they see the Facebook stock tumbling, and there\u2019s a whole lot of reasons for this. It\u2019s not just due to one thing. But it is due to the fact that they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing! They have a customer base that could be the biggest in the world and they\u2019re willing to write off half of it — stupidly and arrogantly — by claiming that conservatism is where fake news is, that conservatism is where hate speech and all that is.<\/p>\n
So my offer… I know that Zuckerberg has had meetings with several so-called conservatives. But he hasn\u2019t met with me, and I am offering right here. I will meet with Zuckerberg or anybody on the Facebook executive panel and explain conservatism to them. Now, they will not take me up on it. They will not even acknowledge that the offer has been made. I understand that. But it\u2019s ridiculous. It is literally ridiculous to have an enterprise this big run by people who are so ignorant.<\/p>\n
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They think that they\u2019re screening out hate.<\/p>\n
They think they\u2019re screening out racism and bigotry.<\/p>\n
They are practicing it! They are practicing hate, they are practicing prejudice, and they are practicing bigotry, and it\u2019s catching up to \u2019em. The greatest example, Cambridge Analytica. Everybody involved thinks that Facebook deserves to suffer because they got in bed with Cambridge Analytica. What\u2019s Cambridge Analytica? Cambridge Analytica happens to be one of a gobsmack bunch of sites that tries to use social media to advance its political ideas. They just happen to have a relationship with the Mercers!<\/p>\n
They just happen to relationship with conservative fundraisers. Is Facebook unaware of all of the left-wing bots that they are sponsoring and promoting that are destroying American businesses? Cambridge Analytica? But it\u2019s like showing Dracula the cross. To every leftist Millennial in journalism, in tech, in the world, “Cambridge Analytica! That\u2019s why Facebook deserves to die. That\u2019s why Zuckerberg deserves to be canned by the board, Cambridge Analytica.”<\/p>\n
Cambridge Analytica is no different than any other special interest group that tries to get space and use it on Facebook to influence or raise money or what have you. But because they happen to be tied to the Mercers — which means Breitbart, which means Bannon — that means Cambridge Analytica got in there and somehow fooled and tricked Facebook, and Facebook got used like a stupid bunch of tools by a conservative.<\/p>\n
And while this is going on, all of the left-wing nonprofits, all the left-wing bot-generating phony baloney accounts are running wild sponsoring and promoting all of his bigotry, hate, prejudice and so forth, and nobody\u2019s concerned and nobody cares. There\u2019s a genuine ignorance — and maybe it\u2019s not. Maybe I\u2019m giving them too big a benefit. Maybe they know exactly what conservatism is and they just hate it and don\u2019t want any part of it.<\/p>\n
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But I will still maintain they don\u2019t know any conservatives. They couldn\u2019t possibly! They couldn\u2019t possibly have hung around any. They couldn\u2019t possibly have gotten to know any. They couldn\u2019t possibly have had any interaction with conservatives at all and have the opinion of conservatism that they do, and I don\u2019t think they have. I think these people wall themselves off and not just Facebook, but everybody on the left does this. They hide behind walls.<\/p>\n
They build cocoons. They live in them and they do not interact with people who make \u2019em feel threatened or challenged or what have you. So I\u2019m volunteering. I\u2019ll have a meeting. I\u2019ll take the meeting for as long as it takes. I\u2019ll answer any question about conservatism. But if these people think that some of these, you know, conspiracy-oriented websites are no different than Fox News — and they do. Obviously! You can read what these people are saying. They think there\u2019s no difference.<\/p>\n
Take your wildest conspiracy website that you know, and I\u2019m telling you the people that run Facebook think it\u2019s no different than Fox News and probably no different than this radio show. So… (sigh) Big, big, big plummeting loss of value. Zuckerberg himself on paper loss over $16 billion in an hour and a half, and it all happened after their earnings call yesterday when they… I mean, they finished the day up. They finished the day around $217 stock price and (chuckles) 90 minutes later after their quarterly conference call to report earnings they were down to a stock price around $173.<\/p>\n
I mean, it was 24% loss of value, and it was all because of the content. It was because Facebook said, “Yeah, you know what we\u2019re gonna do? We\u2019re gonna tighten down on our privacy. We\u2019re gonna really get tough on privacy. This means we\u2019re gonna lose about 2.5 million users.” Well, they\u2019ve already got… Facebook at one time, one way or another, reached 2.5 billion people. How can a…? Can you imagine if this program had an audience of 2.5 billion? Can you imagine us reporting a loss? How do you do that? You reach 2.5 billion people, and you lose 24% of the value of your enterprise?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: And here\u2019s the answer to the other question. You can\u2019t say, “Is the Rush Limbaugh program today better than it was in 1988, 1995.” You know why? Because the program\u2019s never the same. You cannot hear the same program twice on this show. You understand that? I mean, do you realize how incredibly profound that is, that you cannot hear the same program twice?<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s how different it is each and every day. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve always said it takes new listeners at least six weeks of steady listening to understand what happens here, how it happens, and keep things in context. So it\u2019s an impossible comparison to make because the program and I adapt.<\/p>\n
Now, Facebook and Twitter. Facebook and Twitter were supposed to take down Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Facebook and Twitter are just two in a long line of organizations that have failed to do so. The FBI leadership was trying to take down and was supposed to. Barack Obama and his intelligence community was supposed to take down Donald Trump and thus the Republican Party with him.<\/p>\n
The Department of Justice, certain people there, certain people at the FBI were supposed to take down Donald Trump and, with him, the Republican Party. They were supposed to deny Trump the Republican nomination. Then they were supposed to make sure that he did not win the presidency. After he won the presidency, they were supposed to then take him out and get rid of him within the first six months.<\/p>\n
Facebook and Twitter were also part of the cabal — I\u2019m not saying they\u2019re part of the conspiracy, but they were part of this giant group of leftists that were devoting everything they could to getting rid of Donald Trump. Donald Trump has survived everything they\u2019ve thrown at him. Donald Trump has survived the best and the brightest. He has survived honest attacks. He has survived cheating attacks.<\/p>\n
He has survived some of the most outlandish schemes and plots that originate at the Obama DOJ, travel through the DNC, the Hillary Clinton campaign, to a law firm and then to a retired MI6 agent in the U.K., who then talks to Russian operatives. He writes up this phony dossier that was used to get a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. The man who signed off on the last FISA warrant renewal application is now the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, and he is in charge of the investigation against Trump! And even using a bogus piece of evidence in front of the FISA court!<\/a><\/p>\n They have been unable to get rid of Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is continuing to reassert the United States on the world stage. We are reassuming our position of dominance and leadership under the guise of being the good guys. We are the good guys. We are the solution to the world\u2019s problems. Donald Trump is reasserting that prominence. He\u2019s doing it against an opposition few Republican presidents have ever seen mounted against them. Facebook and Twitter were part of the cabal.<\/p>\n They had the best and the brightest that were writing algorithms and creating bots that would cleverly silence and impugn those who were supporting Donald Trump. They would ban them by the technique on Twitter of shadow banning. Facebook would simply close them off and not allow any of their posts to be seen or read by anybody. They did their part. But like all of these organizations that have pooled their resources to get Trump, it is they who end up suffering.<\/p>\n The Drive-By Media has lost audience. The Drive-By Media has lost subscribers. They\u2019ve lost circulation. If it weren\u2019t for forced monopolistic viewing in airports, CNN would not have an audience much larger than a couple of phone booths. Everybody that takes Donald Trump on has bruises to show for it.<\/p>\n So whether it\u2019s Facebook\u2019s skewed news feeds where they claim they\u2019re getting rid of fake news or whether it\u2019s Twitter\u2019s shadow banning, these social media giants were on a mission with the American deep state to pick America\u2019s winners and losers because that\u2019s what the left considers power to be. You get to pick the winners and losers, not the American people.<\/p>\n A funny thing happened on the way to the high-tech extermination of Trump and the right, both Twitter and Facebook were taken to the woodshed for past sins. Their algorithmic bigotry now has to take a backseat for the time being. Even at this, I\u2019m willing to offer myself to help out Facebook.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Just a couple of more things on this. There\u2019s a bunch of people, an outfit trying to fire Zuckerberg or break up his role as chairman and CEO. Facebook “[s]hareholders are trying to fire Mark Zuckerberg as chairman of Facebook because of the social media giant\u2019s ‘mishandling\u2019 of recent scandals, including the Cambridge Analytica data saga, Russian meddling in the U.S. election and fake news.<\/p>\n “Investment company Trillium Asset Management, who has about $11 million in Facebook stock, filed a proposal on Wednesday to break up Zuckerberg\u2019s role as both chairman and CEO, Business Insider reports.” It\u2019s a bunch of cliches! This is just astounding to me. “‘[M]ishandling\u2019 of recent scandals … Cambridge Analytica.” It\u2019s not a scandal to anybody except a bunch of nincompoops on the left. See, these people think Cambridge Analytica was part of the Russians stealing the election.<\/p>\n You know, I\u2019m not gonna put the picture up on the Dittocam because I don\u2019t want single these two out, but what I\u2019m looking at is the head of global creative strategy and the vice president of video at Facebook. I\u2019m telling you, these two people don\u2019t look any older than the high school students who went marching across the country for gun control this past spring. They literally look like they\u2019re still eating Gerber\u2019s.<\/p>\n They are the president of video (what gets on and what doesn\u2019t) and the head of global creative strategy, and neither one of them are anywhere near old enough to have any kind of life experience to properly judge what might be interesting to people or not. It does matter. As I say, I know life is for the young; don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not some old guy on the front lawn shaking my fist at the sky about this. Because I, ladies and gentlemen, am still young at heart.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/RushSocialMedia-B.jpg\")
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Combined with “Russian meddling in the election and fake news.” So all these people claiming that Zuckerberg didn\u2019t do enough to keep the Russians off and to keep the other colluders off, and he didn\u2019t do enough to keep the fake news outlets away. (chuckles) Yet every leftist news organization whose news reports make up the Facebook news feed is the fake news! They haven\u2019t the slightest idea. I just find it amazing how cliches and Zuckerberg\u2019s failure to stop all these imaginary devils is causing all this, and the picture I was talking about…<\/p>\n
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Anybody who thinks that some of these extreme conspiracy sites and Fox News are the same is just ignorant, a complete idiot. Anyway, that\u2019s that. I remind you of my offer which I am fully aware will not even be acknowledged, much less accepted. And let me add something to it. I\u2019m not proposing that this be done in public. This is not a publicity stunt in any way, shape, manner, or form. I am sick and tired of all these so-called smart people not having slightest idea who I really am and who anybody else on the right really is.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Zuckerberg-1-300x232-1-300x232.jpg\")
I\u2019ve gone round and round with them, and simply because they\u2019re knives, they are therefore weapons and therefore I cannot advertise. So that\u2019s gotta be hurting their revenue as well, and if they\u2019re cutting off people like me and losing even more market. And plus they\u2019re showing their ignorance of even how the world works, if they can\u2019t understand the difference between a tool and a weapon.<\/p>\n