{"id":280663,"date":"2018-07-30T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=280663"},"modified":"2018-07-31T16:17:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T20:17:58","slug":"your-host-compared-north-korean-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/07\/30\/your-host-compared-north-korean-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Host Compared to North Korean Propaganda!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Grab audio sound bite No. 3. This is funny. There is a leftist author out there. His name is Thomas Frank. And he has written for a number of liberal publications and he\u2019s written a couple of books. He\u2019s got a new book out called Rendezvous with Oblivion. His first famous book was What\u2019s the Matter with Kansas? The premise of What\u2019s the Matter with Kansas? was, “Why is it,” he asked, “that all of these Americans are voting against their own self-interests?”<\/p>\n

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In his view, voting against Democrats, voting against Big Government, voting against Santa Claus is voting against your best interests, and he couldn\u2019t figure out why. Kansas was literal and metaphorical at the same time. He didn\u2019t just mean Kansas. He meant the Midwest, and he meant wherever there are pockets of voters who he thought would be voting Democrat, but don\u2019t. It befuddled him. So he\u2019s got a new book out now called Rendezvous with Oblivion, and he appeared on C-SPAN2 Book TV. This is part of the interview that I wanted you to hear. There\u2019s no question here. This is just an excerpt on C-SPAN2 over the weekend.<\/p>\n

FRANK: What you see in a place like Wichita, Kansas, or wherever…? You know, I keep using Wichita as my example. I\u2019m going there next week to do this same talk. But in a place where someone would have been part of the Farmers Alliance or one would have been part of a labor union, and those organizations would have helped them understand the world around them. Those are gone today. Those have disappeared from everyday life in a place like that, and what has taken their place is Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, and you get into the car and Rush Limbaugh is on and he\u2019s constantly… It\u2019s like, you know, in North Korea how they have a loudspeaker? They don\u2019t have radio; they have a loudspeaker. It only plays one channel. In vast parts of this country, that\u2019s what it feels like to me when you\u2019re there, that you have this voice that is constantly explaining your relationship with the world to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s been 30 years! It\u2019s coming up on 30 years, and they still do not understand why this program is a success. If after 30 years they can\u2019t understand this program and the relationship between me, the host, and you, the audience, they\u2019re never gonna figure out Trump and Trump voters. But, I mean, is this not great, comparing this program to North Korea? You\u2019re driving around and the only voice you can hear is mine — except people are choosing my voice, Mr. Frank. By the way, it\u2019s not just Wichita, Mr. Frank, and it\u2019s not just Kansas.<\/p>\n

\"\"You can go to any state and when this program is on you would find this very same thing happening. Our audience today — and I wasn\u2019t gonna mention this. I\u2019m just gonna mention it. Our audience today is higher, it\u2019s larger than it\u2019s ever been. Who would have figured that? You figure if you got a 30-year career that the peak is gonna be somewhere. I don\u2019t know where, but it\u2019s certainly gonna be somewhere between the start and the end.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019re continuing to peak. Same thing with membership at RushLimbaugh.com<\/a>. We\u2019re looking at record numbers there, record audience, ratings and so forth, and it\u2019s evidenced by (chuckling) things like this. Although this is a first. I\u2019ve never been compared to North Korea propaganda. So, I mean, that\u2019s a new one. You know how you\u2019re in North Korea? You\u2019re driving around, they got loudspeakers, that\u2019s all you can hear. And I think that\u2019s true, by the way. It is true.<\/p>\n

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I think even in North Korea, whoever has television, at something like seven or 8 o\u2019clock at night there is a mandatory, you-must-watch address from Kim Jong-un or somebody in his regime. But there, you have no choice. But people in Wichita, Mr. Frank, are choosing to — and, by the way, they must the windows down in order for Mr. Frank to be able to hear what\u2019s on their car radios. Mr. Frank, it\u2019s not just in cars. It\u2019s in restaurants and it\u2019s in people\u2019s homes — and it\u2019s, as I say, not just in Kansas. Still bugged.<\/p>\n

You know what bugs \u2019em? What bugs \u2019em is they still have this view — and the same view they have of Trump people — that you\u2019re basically mind-numbed and you tune to this program every day to find out what to think because on your own, you don\u2019t know. It\u2019s not that you\u2019re stupid; it\u2019s just that you don\u2019t have any confidence. You know, you\u2019re unsure of yourself, and so you tune to this program to find out what you should think, and you tune to this program to find out what is going on from your perspective, how it relates to you.<\/p>\n

They haven\u2019t slightest idea why people listen to this program, and in the process of trying to explain why you listen to this program, we get a little bit of an insight into the way they view their own audience. If anybody is preaching propaganda and if anybody is treating their audience as a bunch of dummkopfs, it\u2019s the Drive-By Media. Honestly, folks, one of the hallmarks of this program over the years is my belief that you are vastly intelligent and that you are able to understand and curious and want to understand the intricacies and the ins and outs of any number of issues that come along.<\/p>\n

\"\"They don\u2019t treat — and they have the same view of Trump people — stupid, mind-numbed, cliched, bigots, racists, all of that — and that basically I and Trump are just pied pipers. We are Svengalis. You\u2019re getting up every day to get your marching orders. You\u2019re getting up every day to figure out what it is you think and so forth. It\u2019s inconceivable that you could think what you think without somebody telling you to.<\/p>\n

It is a product of the arrogance and the condescension. It\u2019s not just these guys. It\u2019s throughout the Democrat Party. It\u2019s throughout the American left. It\u2019s throughout their political consultants. In fact, there\u2019s a companion story that works here. The headline, Fox News: “Top Tennessee Dem Party Official Snubs ‘Reaching Out\u2019 to Trump Voters, Calls Them ‘Idiots\u2019 — A top Tennessee Democratic Party\u2019s communications official made disparaging comments about President Donald Trump and lashed out against a suggestion to reach out to his voters, describing them as ‘idiots,'” or, in Hillary Clinton parlance, “deplorable.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Chris in Toano, Virginia. Great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I\u2019m so glad to talk to you. I just wanted to let you know I\u2019m 86 years old, and those people who say we turn our radios on to be told how to think? That isn\u2019t the case. I don\u2019t listen to you to agree with you. When —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know but you can\u2019t help it most of the time.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles) I know it, but, see? The thing about it is, is that you agree with me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s the key.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles) And as for Trump, we love him no matter what, are loyal to him because he loves this country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, so much is wrapped up in here, and I thank you. She\u2019s acknowledging that she believes what she\u2019s always believed. I came along and validated what she believed. She was already thinking it. You know, I just buttressed it — and then with Trump, there\u2019s nothing anybody can do to separate her from Trump. Nothing. And the more they try, the more solid her support. And she\u2019s not alone. Everybody is gonna be just like that. I appreciate the call so much, Chris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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