{"id":280430,"date":"2018-07-26T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=280430"},"modified":"2018-07-27T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T20:24:55","slug":"fox-news-stands-with-cnn-on-rude-infobabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/07\/26\/fox-news-stands-with-cnn-on-rude-infobabe\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Stands with CNN on Disinvited Infobabe"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: There\u2019s another controversy that happened yesterday, and that is the White House told a CNN infobabe, Kaitlan Collins, that she was disinvited from a Rose Garden event, the reporter claiming it was because the White House didn\u2019t appreciate the inappropriate questions that she asked.<\/p>\n

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The White House decision came after Kaitlan Collins of CNN called out several questions of President Trump following an Oval Office photo-op with President Trump and the European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker. As the photo-op was coming to a close and the press was being escorted out, some of the reporters, including Kaitlan Collins, began screaming questions at Trump. They sounded like braying jackasses. The look on Juncker\u2019s face as this took place was priceless.<\/p>\n

And, by the way, these situations, these Oval Office photo-ops, they are traditionally no questions. I actually think, folks, I think CNN and all of the rest of them, I think they\u2019ve actually wanted to get a White House reporter kicked off the detail. I think they\u2019ve been angling for it. I think it\u2019s a great story for \u2019em. I think they\u2019ve been trying to get kicked out. I think Jim Acosta has been trying to get kicked out. I think they\u2019ve been trying to behave in such a way as to get kicked out so that they would have that story and be able to run with that story.<\/p>\n

And they do. They now have it. Kaitlan Collins was called into the meeting with Bill Shine, now the director of the comms shop, where she was told, “Sorry, you\u2019re being disinvited.” Now, the White House said we didn\u2019t disinvite CNN. We disinvited her. We said anybody else that you want. Well, this led to a statement of solidarity being issued by Fox News. Fox News issued a statement of solidarity with CNN, and with reporters in general, condemning this action by the White House communications office. That happens to be audio sound bite number 15.<\/p>\n

This is Ellison Barber, and it was last night on Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream<\/a>. Also Bret Baier issued a statement of solidarity with CNN claiming Fox stood with CNN on this, didn\u2019t approve of the White House action. This is correspondent Ellison Barber reporting about banning Kaitlan Collins and CNN and all that. Here\u2019s that.<\/p>\n

BARBER: As per Fox News, we stand with Kaitlan Collins and CNN on this. In a statement Fox News president Jay Wallace said, quote, “We stand in strong solidarity with CNN for the right to full access for our journalist as part of a free and unfettered press.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, fine and dandy. I can imagine a number of you are a little mad at Fox for running so fast here to join CNN and so forth. You understand it, don\u2019t you, or do you not understand it? (interruption) You understand why Fox was so quick to do this? You…? (interruption) You…? (interruption) You…? (interruption) Well, what\u2019s the theory, then? Tell me what do you think.(interruption) Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. (interruption) All right. Okay. As a professional courtesy, the theory is that they have to do this, that Fox is already embarrassed that they\u2019re the president\u2019s network.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re already embarrassed that Fox is the president\u2019s favorite network, and if they don\u2019t stand up in solidarity with this banned CNN infobabe, this is gonna really look bad. Maybe so. I\u2019ll just tell you this. Even though Fox thinks they\u2019ve done the right thing, and even though they\u2019ve issued this statement of joint solidarity, it isn\u2019t gonna change the way CNN reports on Fox an iota. It isn\u2019t gonna change a thing about the way the rest of the Drive-Bys report on, look at, and discuss Fox! Now, I don\u2019t know if the intention was to change that, but it isn\u2019t going to.<\/p>\n

But, ladies and gentlemen, there is another side to this story. I want to go back to the archive, to the Grooveyard of Forgotten Sound Bites. This was June 15, 2012, just a little over six years ago. It was in the Rose Garden, interestingly enough. President Barack Hussein O, The One, was president, and this was a no-questions-asked availability. Obama was speaking about the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s announcement that it would stop deporting illegal immigrants who come to the country at a young age. Everybody in the press pool was told, “No questions, no questions, no questions.” But that didn\u2019t stop Neil Munro of the Daily Caller, who shouted a question to Obama.<\/p>\n

Here it is…<\/p>\n

OBAMA: This is a temporary stopgap measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven, patriotic young people. It is the \u2014<\/p>\n

MUNRO: (interrupting)<\/p>\n

OBAMA: (angrily) It is the right thing t\u2019do!<\/p>\n

MUNRO: Is it the right thing to do for American workers?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: (angrily) Excuse me, sir. It\u2019s not time for questions, sir. (stammering)<\/p>\n

MUNRO: Are you going to take questions?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Not while I\u2019m speakin\u2019!<\/p>\n