{"id":298438,"date":"2019-02-01T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=298438"},"modified":"2019-02-04T15:44:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T20:44:55","slug":"the-real-reason-libs-are-turning-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/01\/the-real-reason-libs-are-turning-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Makes Libs Turn on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here we are back at it, folks. Open Line Friday. Rush Limbaugh, wrapping up a busy broadcast week. Let\u2019s just keep going here.<\/p>\n<p>JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yes, siree, Bob, focusing on phone calls today, folksL 800-282-2882. Don\u2019t worry. I\u2019m not gonna slack off on the other elements of the content portion of the program. We\u2019re loaded here today. In fact, let me get started with some of this stuff now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-298452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-052318-Trump-Twitter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-052318-Trump-Twitter.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-052318-Trump-Twitter-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a fascinating story here from the Associated Press. Tell me if you\u2019ve heard somebody talking about this recently. The headline: &#8220;Some Journalists Wonder if Their Profession is Tweet-Crazy.&#8221; A bunch of editors are starting to say they\u2019re getting worried about all these reporters just being lazy as they can be and relying on Twitter, a bunch of invisible, anonymous, we have no idea who they are, people acting as representatives of national public opinion when they tweet on any story. And they tweet and they get included in a story as though they are source people that journalists have interviewed.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s destroying things. Twitter is a cesspool. Twitter is the refuge of human debris. I\u2019m not saying everybody there is human debris, but the human debris that we have in America seeks refuge and prominence and recognition on Twitter. A bunch of anonymous people seeking to give their lives meaning, but they don\u2019t want to have so much meaning that people know who they are. They want to hide behind anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it says here: \u201cIf Twitter is the town square for journalists, some are ready to step away. That\u2019s happening this week at the online news site Insider \u2014 by order of the boss. Reporters have been told to take a week off from tweeting,\u201d themselves. And they\u2019ve been told to take a week off from reading Twitter on their computer screens. \u201cThe idea of disengaging is to kick away a crutch for the journalists and escape from the echo chamber.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/share' class='twitter-share-button' data-count='vertical'>Tweet<\/a><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js'><\/script><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-297395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-012319-Rush-Twitter-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-012319-Rush-Twitter-002.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-012319-Rush-Twitter-002-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Boy, nothing could be more true than this Insider editor\u2019s complaint. It\u2019s worse than a cesspool, actually. I mean, they have a story, doesn\u2019t matter what the story is, then go to Twitter and find the most inane, radical comment, and publish it! As though it is representative of public opinion! And what they generally try to do is find tweets that back up their own personal agendas rather than what the details of the story is on. When they stop quoting tweets in everything they write, people then begin to notice how horrible Twitter is. And it\u2019s been especially bad for journalism.<\/p>\n<p>But I actually think there\u2019s something else going on here \u2018cause I don\u2019t believe these people as far as I can throw them. I think all these journalists that are talking about eliminating Twitter from their stories, guess who the most prolific and famous tweeter in America is? Exactly. Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>This emphasis of deemphasizing Twitter is really, I think, nothing more than a disguised effort to have journalists start ignoring Trump because if it weren\u2019t for Trump\u2019s tweets, his viewpoint on things would never be reported. Nothing but lies about Donald Trump would be in the news, as they are.<\/p>\n<p>The only antidote is Trump himself. And so I don\u2019t for a minute believe that the emphasis here on eliminating Twitter has anything to do with helping journalism. It\u2019s everything to do with wreaking havoc and damaging Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Guess who the most prolific and famous tweeter in America is? Exactly. Donald J. 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