{"id":294355,"date":"2018-12-11T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=294355"},"modified":"2018-12-11T17:18:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T22:18:27","slug":"how-the-media-covers-for-steph-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/12\/11\/how-the-media-covers-for-steph-curry\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Media Covers for Steph Curry"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, I want to give you a lesson in how the media protects and shields their chosen members, how they go out of their way to protect Democrats who may say or do things that are just flat-out weird and dumb. The example here is Steph Curry, the NBA star for the Golden State Warriors, and we start with an audio sound bite. This is yesterday on Winging It with Vince Carter and Kent Bazemore. It\u2019s a podcast, and Steph Curry is the guest. He\u2019s the Golden State Warriors point guard, and during the Q&A here are Steph Curry, Vince Carter, and Kent Bazemore and a co-host Annie Finberg talking about the Moon landing.<\/p>\n

\"\"CURRY: We ever been to the moon?<\/p>\n

BAZEMORE: Nope.<\/p>\n

CARTER: Nope.<\/p>\n

CURRY: They gonna come get us.<\/p>\n

HOSTS: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CURRY: I don\u2019t think so either.<\/p>\n

FINBERG: You don\u2019t think so?<\/p>\n

CURRY: Mmm-mmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Steph Curry doesn\u2019t believe we\u2019ve been to the Moon. Steph Curry, star forward for the Golden State Warriors, doesn\u2019t think we\u2019ve been to the Moon. Therefore, he believes that the entire Moon landing thing is a hoax, made up. But Steph Curry cannot be humiliated in the media. Anybody else who would publicly disavow the truth of the Moon landing? Why, the media would humiliate them, the media would expose them, the media would mock them, the media would laugh at them, the media would embarrass them.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t do that to Steph Curry! Steph Curry is African-American. He\u2019s a sports star. He\u2019s a big hero. He\u2019s a huge Democrat, a huge Democrat vote-getter and supporter. So we have to shield Steph Curry. So how do we do it? That\u2019s what today\u2019s lesson is. In the San Jose Mercury News: “Stephen Curry Said the Moon Landing Was Faked, But Let\u2019s All Pretend He Didn\u2019t<\/a> — Stephen Curry says he does not believe humans have been to the moon…” By the way, several months ago, Steph Curry accused President Trump of being a racist.<\/p>\n

After Steph Curry said that, Trump tweeted, “LeBron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made LeBron look smart, which isn\u2019t easy to do. I like Mike.” So they\u2019re out there jumping all over Trump for being his usual racist self. So LeBron has called Trump divisive and a bum. Trump and LeBron don\u2019t agree on much. So naturally Trump is accused of being a racist.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how Democrats operate. It\u2019s how Democrat media operates. Now, to Steph Curry. For his smear of Trump, Curry was treated as an Ivy League graduate with a doctorate degree in human behavior. When Steph Curry comes out and called Trump a racist, he was applauded, he was celebrated, he was hoisted up on a pedestal. This is a great guy! This guy gets it! This guy is exceedingly intelligent.<\/p>\n

He understands Donald Trump. Athletes, actors, musicians are treated as geniuses when they bash Republicans, especially President Trump. But when they reveal, proudly, when they proudly shout and reveal their ignorance, well, then they\u2019re given a little kiss on the cheek.<\/p>\n

And so the headline in the story: \u201cStephen Curry Said the Moon Landing Was Faked, But Let\u2019s All Pretend He Didn\u2019t.\u201d It\u2019s the actual headline. \u201cStephen Curry says he does not believe humans have been to the moon, a stance which is clearly unsupported by facts and hopefully just a joke,\u201d says the Mercury News.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurry made the proclamation on The Ringer\u2019s podcast \u2018Winging It\u2019 with teammate Andre Iguodala and hosts Vince Carter and Kent Bazemore; you can hear the exchange around the 46-minute mark.\u201d And later in the story in another attempt at covering for Steph Curry the story says, \u201cIf he\u2019s serious, Curry is hardly the only person to question the moon landing. It\u2019s one of the most popular and enduring conspiracy theories in American popular culture, and research shows belief in conspiracy theories is one way people attempt to make sense of a chaotic world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"So, see how this works? Steph Curry proudly proclaims that the Moon landing is a hoax. He doesn\u2019t believe it. The San Jose Mercury news, “Oh, no! Oh, no! How do we save Curry?” So we do it with the headline, \u201cStephen Curry Said the Moon Landing Was Faked, But Let\u2019s All Pretend He Didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then later in the story, “If he\u2019s serious, he\u2019s hardly the only guy to question the Moon landing. He\u2019s not alone. In fact, lots of reasonable people question the Moon landing. Why, it\u2019s one of the most popular enduring conspiracy theories in American pop culture. And, in fact, we have research which shows that belief in conspiracy theories is one way people attempt to make sense of a chaotic world.\u201d<\/p>\n

And why is our world chaotic? Because of Donald Trump. And so you really can\u2019t blame Steph Curry. He\u2019s like anybody else in America today, totally confused, totally spent, totally just depressed as he can be because Trump is president and ruining it for everybody. And so he can be excused and forgiven for probably joking about the fact that he doesn\u2019t believe we landed on the Moon, \u2019cause we cannot have it be that one of our prominent, genius athletes buys into a conspiracy hoax.<\/p>\n

No. We reserve that categorization for people on the right, for right-wingers. And that\u2019s how they do it, folks. That\u2019s how they protect their own. Great illustration of media bias here in the San Jose Mercury News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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