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I\u2019ll tell you, Glenn Reynolds makes a persuasive case in this — and, even if he hadn\u2019t made it, it\u2019s a scary thing. You know, I don\u2019t like monopolies, and I really hate government intervention, but this social media stuff is getting totally out of hand, especially, folks… There\u2019s now polling data. I forget where. I\u2019ll find it just a second. It\u2019s a credible polling unit. Do you know that 42% of the American people believe that the Russians meddled with votes in 2016? This has been one of the most successful hoaxes that has ever been run in politics.<\/p>\n
This has been one of the most successful disinformation campaigns ever, the fact that the Russians and Trump colluded to steal the election. There isn\u2019t any evidence! In fact, in announcing the latest series of indictments, Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, made it clear that in none of the indictment that Mueller has announced is there any allegation or evidence that a single vote was tampered with! Yet you read newspaper accounts of this or watch cable news accounts, they don\u2019t even mention that that has been acknowledged and admitted by the government.<\/p>\n
They continue with the myth that not only did Trump and the Russians collude, but the Russians tampered with vote totals. It did not happen, and yet 42% of the American people believe it largely because of the media — and social media, which is one of the biggest promotional groundswells for that point of view. You talk about misinformation and disinformation? This is profound. There is no evidence that any of this happened!<\/p>\n
Now, I still today, I cringe every time I\u2019m watching television news and I see somebody refer to Russian collusion and the elections, \u2019cause I know it is totally manufactured and make up — and so do these people in the media. Then I have to stop and ask them, do they? Or are they part of the brain-dead bunch that\u2019s bought into it because of the blinding and hate-filled partisanship they have?<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Now Glenn Reynolds and his USA Today column today. Donald Trump must bust up Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google. There\u2019s now an acronym for this, FANG. Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google. They have become monopolies. But more importantly, they have become monopolies of information. The old Drive-By Media, old mainstream media had a monopoly on the news, and it was a profound monopoly, three networks and all the newspapers.<\/p>\n And because they are monopolies, not just financial monopolies, although that\u2019s true, too, Glenn Reynolds here, law professor, University of Tennessee, is suggesting that Trump, if he\u2019s gonna get reelected in 2020, had better start doing a Teddy Roosevelt here and bust \u2019em up. We\u2019ll explore this after a break.<\/p>\n Facebook, do you remember or are you aware that Friday, last week, the New York Times ran a hit piece on Facebook like nobody\u2019s ever seen. And do you know what the primary offense Facebook committed? They didn\u2019t stop the Russians from meddling. Folks, there wasn\u2019t any. This is the extent to which this hoax has permeated our society.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Glenn Harlan Reynolds: “Donald Trump Must Bust Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google Monopolies Like Teddy Roosevelt.” He starts here by suggesting, mentioning that he just finished reading a book by a law professor Columbia named Tim Wu. It\u2019s on antitrust and the name of the book is “The Curse of Bigness, and my biggest takeaway is that President Donald Trump has an opportunity to follow in former President Teddy Roosevelt\u2019s footsteps. …<\/p>\n “Big monopolies aren\u2019t just an economic threat: They\u2019re a political threat. Because they\u2019re largely free of market constraints,” because they don\u2019t have any competition, “they don\u2019t have to put all their energy into making a better product for less money. Instead, they put a lot of their energy into political manipulation to protect their monopoly.” These are people who are uber-leftists. Whether you\u2019re talking Amazon, Netflix, Google, Facebook, they are all uber-leftists, and they are not just setting up their systems here to make money.<\/p>\n They\u2019re setting up their systems to influence public opinion.<\/p>\n It is punitive toward those ideas. It basically is eliminating them, and there\u2019s nothing anybody can do. Conservatives can appeal, conservatives can ask, conservatives can request, and they are laughed at — and then they\u2019re told that they\u2019re imagining things. “There isn\u2019t any bias! There\u2019s no such thing as bias, there\u2019s no such thing as media bias, and there\u2019s no such thing as Facebook or Google bias. You\u2019re just paranoid.” Yet do a Google search on any subject that involves conservatism and see where they send, see what they\u2019re saying about you.<\/p>\n Facebook\u2019s news digest is a daily contemptible hit piece on conservatism featuring lies and misrepresentations, and they are… They have no competition. They\u2019re buying up the competition. Facebook buys up WhatsApp. Facebook buys up Instagram. They control virtually every aspect of it. Mr. Reynolds\u2019 point here is that in a monopolistic circumstance like this, we are way beyond the concept of fairness and unfairness here. The idea of a free press is being stood on its head here.<\/p>\n There isn\u2019t a free press. These on itself are monopolizing against a free press and eliminating the opinions and thinking and thoughts of well over half the people of this country. They are financially bankrolling Democrat after Democrat after Democrat after leftist cause after leftist cause, from wacko environmentalism to transgenderism to any number of left-wing issues. They are, at the same time, denying such participation to any opposing point of view while being destructive at the same time.<\/p>\n “Wu notes, ‘the more concentrated the industry, the more corrupt we can expect the political process to be,'” and concentrated it is. It\u2019s to the point that if a Facebook employee happens to be a good friend of Brett Kavanaugh and shows up at the Kavanaugh hearings to show support, Facebook employees demand that he be fired. We\u2019re talking about an executive at Facebook was told to stop going or he would lose his job. This is the employees demanding this of management.<\/p>\n Even if the employees were not demanding it of management, management would be so inclined. So Reynolds concludes, “Today, things look a lot like Teddy Roosevelt\u2019s era,” with Standard Oil and J. P. Morgan. “A few monopolies occupy much of the tech world: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google … They gobble up potential competitors, as Facebook did with WhatsApp and Instagram. One need only look at the recent multicity scramble for Amazon\u2019s second headquarters to see how much power these companies wield:<\/p>\n “Jeff Bezos, the world\u2019s richest man, nonetheless managed to get the state of New York to build him a helipad,” and to give him a tax break of nearly $70,000 per employee. “[T]hese new tech monsters,” writes Glenn Reynolds, “have a one-two punch that Standard Oil [didn\u2019t have]: Not only do they control immense wealth and important industries, but their fields of operation … give them direct political power that in many ways exceeds that of previous monopolies” of the Teddy Roosevelt era.<\/p>\n This is exactly right.<\/p>\n They should be busted up.<\/p>\n They are monopolies controlling the flow of information.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/APP-111918-Tearaway-USA-Today.jpg\")
<\/a>The evidence that we have indicates that it was Hillary Clinton that colluded with the Russians to create opposition research to destroy Trump campaign! It was the government, the Obama DOJ, that colluded in order to spy on the Trump campaign and then the Trump transition and then the Trump presidency. Nobody knows this, other than you who listen to this program. Stop and think of this. Forty-two percent of the American people believe the Russians tampered with vote totals, i.e., tampered with voting machines!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-012618-Fakebook.jpg\")
This is far more dense. The tentacles of this monopoly are woven much more deeply into the grain of our culture and society. And they are every bit as partisan as anything ever has been. They are exclusionary. Anything to the right of Karl Marx is obliterated, is not permitted. It is simply eliminated from Facebook, Google, search results, you name it, and the impact that it is having on our culture is deleterious.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/facebook.jpg\")
Chuck Schumer\u2019s daughter just got married over the weekend. It turns out what we learn is that Chuck Schumer\u2019s daughter works at Facebook. Chuck Schumer\u2019s daughter makes six figures at Facebook. Facebook donated 50 grand to Chuck Schumer\u2019s campaign. That\u2019s just one example. Facebook, Google. Twitter is not part of this, but they ought to be. They\u2019re all part of an online monopoly that controls the flow of information, that controls the flow of opinion, that is openly restrictive to Republican and conservative ideas.<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s nothing free about the press or the media in any which way. Let me give you an illustration of this. It\u2019s kind of connected.